Locomotive, Volume 44, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1858 — Page 1

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INDIANA POT J S, . THE BRIGHTON COACH. .... . . t: , . i BY- THEODORE HOOK, i , ' I as one (lay the autumn of 1829, just as the pavilion clock was sti-iking three, that I stepped into Mr. Goodman's coach. In it, I found already a thin .stripling enveloped in a fur pelisse, the only distingiiwuiiig maris, or wiiose sex was atuit ot moustache on his upper lip. He wore a travelling can on his iipart. girt with a golden band, and he eyed me and his other fellow-traveller as though we had been of a different race ot Doings trom himself. . i That other fellow-traveler I took to be a small at torneyw He was habited in a drab great coat, which matched his round, fat face in color, his hair, too, was drab, and his hat was drab, his features were that of a young pig ; recreation which ho perpetually kept helping himself from a neat, white paper parcel of the lus cious commodity which he had placed in the pocket of uie coacn winuow. , .. There was one other passenger to take un. and T be. gan wondering what it would be like, and whether it would be male or female, old or young, handsome or ugiy, wnen my speculations were speedily terminated by the arrival of an extremely delicate, pretty woman, attended by her maid. The lady was dressed in the extreme of plainness, and yielded the palm of gaiety to her soubrette, who mounted bv the side of Mr. (iondman, at the moment that her mistress placed herself iibai, my pig-iaceu inena ana opposite me. The lady in question cast a hasty glance round her, merely, as it should seem, to ascertain if she was pereuiKuiy nuijuiuuiuu wira any oi ner companions. She evidently was not ; and her eyes sank from the enouiring gaze round the party, upon a black silk bag which lay on her lap. . She was about four or five-and-twen-ty ; her eyes were blue and her hair fair; it hung care lessly over her forehead, and the whole of her costume gave evidence of a want of attention to what is called " setting one's self off lo a best advantage." She was tall thin pale ; and there was a sweet expression in her countenance which I shall never forget, it was mild anu genue, ana seemea to be iormed to its plantive cast by suffering and yet why should one so lovely bo unhappy? As the clock struck we started. ! The sudden turn of the team round the corner of North street and Church-street brought a flush of color into her cheeks; she was conscious of the glow which I was watching ; she seemed ashamed of her own timidity. She looked up to see if she was observed ; she saw she was, and looked down again. . : All this happened in the first hundred and seventv yards of a journey of fifty-two miles and a half. My pig-faced friend, who sucked his barley-sugar sonorously; paid little attention to anybody or anything, except himself; and, in pursuance of that amible ten derness, pulled up the window at his side. The lady, like the beau in the fur coat, laid her delicate head back in the corner of the coach, and slept, or seemed to sleep. i :. The horror I felt lest my pic-face friend should con sider it necessary to join in any conversation which I might venture to originate with mv unknown beauty opposite, kept me quiet ; and I " ever and anon," looked anxiously towards his vacant features, in hopes to see the two grey unmeaning things which served him for eyes, closed in a sweet and satisfactory slumber. But no ; although he spoke not, and if any one may judge by countenance, thought not, still he kept awake, and reaay, a. it should seem, to join in a conversation winch he had not the courage to begin. And so we traveled on, and not one syllable was exchanged until we reached Crawley. There my heart was much relieved. At hands-cross we had dropped the coronet with the tufts ; horses were ready to convey him to some man's house to dinner ; and when we were quitting Crawley, I saw my excellent demolisher of barley-sugar mount a regular Sussex buggy, and export himself to some town or village out of our road.. - I here made a small effort at ice breaking with my delicate companion, who consorted with her maid at the end of the room, while I, with one or two more sensualists from the out side, was refreshing myself with some cold fowl and salad. I ventured to ask her whether she would allow me to offer her some wine and water. . Hang it, thought, I, if we stand upon gentility in a stage coach journey, smart as the things are, we shall never part sociably. She seemed somewhat of the same opinion, for she smiled. I shall never forget it ; it seemed on her placid countenance like sunshine amidst showera she accepted my poffered draught " I rather think," said I, " we shall travel alone the rest of the journey our communicative friends have left us.". - . ., She made no answer, but from the sort of expression which passed over her features, I was very sorry that I bad made the remark. I was in the greatest possible alarm lest she should require the presence of her maid to play propriety. But no she had no such notion. A summons from Mr. Goodman soon put the party in motion, and in a few moments we were again on our journey the dear interesting creature and myself te te-a-tete. : " Have you been long at Brighton ?" said I. . " Some time," replied the lady " some months, indeed." . ... Here came a pause. 1 ' " You reside in London, I presume," said I. " In the neighborhood," replied the lady ; at the same time drawing the glove off her left hand, (which, by the way, was as white as snow) to smooth one of her eye brows, as it appeared by what she actually did with it but, as I thought, to exhibit to my sight the golden Dacige winon encirclea ner third hnger. " And," said I, ' have you been living alone at Brighton so long ?' " Oh no," said the stranger, " my husband has only left me during the last few weeks, and has now summoned me home, being unable to rejoin me on the coast." -..-...-.'.. ; : -" Happy man !" said I, " to expect such a wife." Now there did not seem much in this common-place bit of folly, for I meant it for littlo else than jest, to summon up a thousand feelings, and excite a thousand passions to raise a storm, and cause a flood of tears. But so it was. . My companion held down her head to conceal her grief, and the big drops fell from her beautiful eyes. " If," said I " you will so far trust me as to confide your sorrows to me, I pledge myself to secresy, and even to procure any course which you may suggest for relieving them." " My story is brief," said my companion ; " promise me not to refer to it at any future period during my life that is if we should ever meet after to-day, and I will trust you. Here the pressure of the hand was unequivocal ; and by a corresponding, yet perhaps more fervent token, I sealed the compact between us. -. " I am t he daughter," said she, " of a general officer, who with my exemplary mother resided chiefly in Somersetshire. The cares and attention of my parents were affectionately devoted to the education and improvement of their only child, and I became as they have a thousand times said, the blessing of their declininsr years. I was scarcely seventeen when I lost my father, and his death produced not only a change of r iMHiiim.lnnnn. . a... (nn.i1n lull 1 flll'lTliril tf MGnnnn ' ii imi3, in uui icium, uu u tiiiuiv vj. . viipui,c. My mother and myself removed to Bath. There we resided until we were induced to visit the continent, where I am ashamed to go on a nobleman became my avowed admirer, and made me an offer of marriage. His rank was exalted, his fortune large, but I could not love him ; was I wrong in refusing to marry him?" "I loved another, a being all candor, openness, honor, and principle ; talanted and accomplished, gay, full of feeling and generous to a fault. His name my

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mother would not hear me mention. She expelled him from our house, excluded him from my society. What then ? trick and evasion on my part supplanted obedience and sincerity. , The house of a friend afforded opportunities for our meeting, which my own denied -my youthful spirit could not bear restraint we eloped and were married." - f ; " And thus you secured your happiness ;" said I. : " Happiness 1" said my companion ; and never shall I forget bitterness, sorrow, and remorse which animated her countenance as she pronounced the word, " Miserymisery beyond redemption ! My mother died two years after my illf ated union witli the man of my choice: ...... u.cu miuum iorgiving me my saa error. 1 SSo, said my angry parent ; she has chosen her course and must follow it, and when I am in my cold grave she will repent, and I hope to be forgiven." ' But how were your prospects of happiness blighted?" said I. - . . " Ah !" said my companion, " there is the pointthere is the story which I dare not tell. Can I betray my husband ? Can I accuse him ? Can I commit him to a stranger ?" . ...-.. . , - " Being to a stranger," said I, " and one who, according to your own commands, is likely to remain a strang er to nun always, you surely may.", " Then hear me," said the lady : we had scarcely "u """iieu uiree years wnen, Dy some tatality to me wholly unaccountable ho became infatuated by some woman woman I must call her who led hiin into gaities without his wife ; who fascinated by his agreeablo qualities, became the monarch of his affections, the controller of his action, and who, not satisfied with oth ers attracting hini from home and all its tics, excited in his breast the fiercest jealousy against me." " But," said I, you arc now returning home ?" I am," replied the lady ; because the rival I am doomed to bear with is no longer in London, and because the avocations of my husband will not permit me to live in Taris, whither she is gone. He thinks I am ignorant of all this, and thinks that I am a dupe to all his artifices ; and why should I undeceive him " This rival," said I, " must be a very potent personage, if you are unable to break the charm which fascinates your husband, or dispel the influence which she has over him. You must have the power, if you have the will to do so." , " No," said she my power is gone his heart is lost to me, and is inaccessible by me ! Oh you little know the treatment I have received from lam ! from him whose whole soul was mine, but whose mind is steeled and poisoned against me ! No human being can tell what I have suffered what I do suffer." - , ' 1 The moment arrived, and we reached the Elephant and Castle. The sudden check of Goodman's took my poor Fanny by suprise and threw her forward so as to bring her somewhat in contact with myself; but the lamps of the coach had been lighted at Smither's bottom, and we were in the dark, compared with objects without; and never shall I forget the hurried scramble into which she "righted herself," as her eyes glanced on a countenance outside the carriage, brightly illuminated by the lamp on that side she seemed thunderstruck. ' "My God!" said she "here is Charles !" ', ' "Who the devil is Charles!" said I. " Hush ! my husband, "; replied the lady ; " he's coming: I'm so glad these people are In the coach." . The door opened and a hand was introduced. "Fanny l"said the master of that hand in a soft tone of endearment. . . . ., .,; .. "Here I am love," said my companion. ' "Alone what quite full ?" said the husband. ': "You, dear," said the wife, "and so tired. I never was so glad to get out of a coach in my life." In a moment I thought I recognized the voice of the husband. I coiled myself into the corner. She would have got out without my being betrayed, if she had not dropped her glove. Why the deuce had she taken it offl A light was sent for, and the moment it came I beheld, in the object of all my indignation, and the cause of all her sorrow the oldest friend of my life Charles Franklin. "Why," exclaimed he, the moment he recognized me, "is this you ! fellow-traveler with my wife, and not known to each other ? this is curious 1" . "Franklin 1" said I, in a sort of tremor. "Do you know my husband, sir ?" said the lady "how very strange I" Yes, thought I, I wish it were impossible. ; ' "I have not seen you these ten years," said Franklin. " Come home with us you must and shall I " i "Indeed," said I "I " .. "Oh come, come" said Franklin; "vou can have no engagement you shall have no engagement to supersede this. I rejoice in having found you after so long a separation" and then Mr. Franklin introduced me to his wife in due form, much to the astonishment of our fellow-travelers at the other side of the coach; who concluded by what they had seen, as indeed they had snown by what they had said, that we were, if not actually man and wife, two of the oldest and most intimate friends. , . , , , We left the coach my trip from Brighton being periodical and frequent, I had no luggage, and we proceeded, with the maid and the band-boxes, to my friends' house of course I shall be excused mentioning the locality but it was one of the prettiest bijoux I ever saw; good taste predominated in every part of tile decorations, and I soon discovered by certain drawings which were pendent on the walls, that my fair companion was an artist, while the piano forte and harp bespoke her, (as she had herself, indeed, informed me she was,) accomplished in other sciences. " After a suitable delay of preparation, such as taking off things, and refreshing, and all that, our dinner was served nothing could be nicer or neater. " "Fanny, dearest," said Mr. Franklin; "let me give you this wing, I know my life, you like it." "No, Charles, dear, not a bit more, thank you," said Fanny. '. "Come love, a glass of wine with me," said Charles; "tis an old fashion, but we have been apart some weeks, so our friend yvill excuse it. "To be sure he will said Fanny," and they drank to each other with looks admirably suited to the action. ' . ' "How strange it is," said Franklin, "that after so long a separation, we shouid meet in this extraordinary manner, and that Fanny should not have found you out, or that you should not have discovered her!" " Why, my dear Charles," said Mrs. Franklin "strangers do not talk to each other in stage coaches." "Very true, my angel," said Mr. Franklin; "but some accident might have brought your name to his ears, or his to yours." While this was going on, I sat in a state of perfect amazement. About this period Fanny retired, and proceeded to the drawing room, cautioning us, as she departed, "not to be long. Charles flew to the door; and opened it for his departing fair he accompanied her beyond its threshold, and I thought I heard a sound sometliing very like a kiss as they parted. "How strange it is,"v said he; resuming his seat and pushing the wine towards me, "that you should have thus accidentally fallen in with Fanny ! she is very pretty; dont you think so 1" "More than pretty, surely," said I; "there is an intelligence, an expressive, manner about her to me quite captivating." ' "If you were present when she is animated;" .said her husband, "you would see that playfulness of countenance, of rather, the variety of expression to advantage: her mind lights up her features wonderfully ; there is no want of spirit about her, I can assure yon."

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"I was quite surprised when I heard of your elopement," said I. "Her mother," said Charles, "an old woman as proud as Lucifer, was mad after a title for her, and some old "broken down lord has been wheedled, or coaxed, or cajoled, or flattered into making her an offer, which she would not accept and then the old lady led her such a life, that she made up her mind to tho step that made her mine." , . - , "And ensured your happiness," said I. . "Why yes," said Franklin, "ujon my word, taking all things into the scale, I see no cause to repent the step. : Between ourselves of coui-se I speak as an old friend Fanny has not the best temper in the world, and of late has taken it into her head to be jealous. An old acquaintance of mine, whom I knew long before I was married, has been over here from France, and I have been a good deal about with her, during her stay, and as I did not think her quite a person to introduce to Fanny, she took huff at my frequent absence from home, and began to play oil a sort of retaliation, as she fancied it, with a young lieutenant of lancers of our acquaintance. I cut the matter very short; I proposed an excursion to Brighton to visit my mother, to which she acceded, and when I had settled her out of reach of her young hero, and under the eye of my mamma, I returned to fulfill my engagement in London. And now that this fair obstacle to her happiness has returned to the continent, so I have recalled my better half." "Yon seem, however to understand each other pretty well," taid I. . "To be sure," replied Charles, "the only point is to keep her into a good humor, for inter nos her temper is the very devil once know how to manage that, and all goes well, and I flatter myself I have ascertained the mode of doing that to a nicety." Whether it was, that Fanny was apprehensive that under the genial influence of her husband's wine, or upon the score of old friendship, I might let slip some part of the day's adventure I know not, but we were very early summond to coffee, and, I confess, I was by no means displeased at tho termination of the conversation which every moment I expected would take some turn that would inevitably produce a recurrence to the journey, and, perhaps, eventually, tend to betray the confidence which the oppressed wife had reposed in me. We repaired to the drawing room. Fanny was reclining on the sofa, looking as factinating as ever I saw a lady look. "Charles, dearest," said she, "I thought you would never come up; you and your friend must certainly have had something very interesting to talk about to have detained you so long." "We did not think it long, Fanny," said Charles, "because we really were talking on a very interestinosubject we were discussing you." "Oh, my dear Charles!" exclaimed the lady, "you flatter me; and what did he say of me ?" said she, addressing me. - . "That," said I, "I cannot tell you; I never betray anything that is told me in confidence." Her looks explained that she was particularly glad to hear me say so, and the smile which followed was gracious in the extreme. " Now, " said Charles, "that you have thus strangely found your way here, I hope we shall see you often." v ' "And I hope so, too," said Mrs. Franklin. "I realy believe sometimes that things which we blind mortals call chance are pre-ordained. I was not coming by the coach inwhich I met you, nor should I have been in it if the other coach had not been full and then " " I should have lost the pleasure, " said I, " of seeing an old friend enjoying the delights of domestic happiness." . . Here Fanny gave me a look expressive of the perfect misery of her condition; and Charles, whose back was turned towards us at the instant, in coming up the room again, while her back was turned to him, made a sort of face,, something between the sorrowful and the grotesque, which I shall never forget, but which indicated, most unequivocally, what his feelings were on the subject. Shortly after this the happy pair began to be so excessively kind and tender to each other that I thought it was quite time to beat a retreat and accordingly took my leave, earnestly pressed by both parties to repeat my visit as often as I could and let them see as much of me as possible. I returned them my warmest thanks for their kindness, but named no day for my return, and wished them good night. I have not been there since. I called, indeed, once, and Charles called on me, but I have been little in London during the last season, and they have been much in the country. I could not have equitably maintained an intimacy with them, for I felt neutrality would be quite out of the question; thus, although the recurrence of my old friendship with Charles Franklin has been productive of no very satisfactory results, as relating to ourselves personally, it has given me an additional light in my path through the world, and now, -whenever I see a picture of perfect happiness presented to my eyes, affection on one side and devotion on the other, assiduity met by kindness, and solicitude repaid with smiles instead of feeling, my heart glows with rapture at the beautiful scene before me, I instantly recollect that I once traveled to London in the Brighton Coach. EARLY TRIALS OF A NEW YORK MERCHANT. The correspondent of the Boston Journal, writing from New York, furnishes the following: I was much interested the other day listening to an account given by A, T. Stewart, of the marble palace, of his early trials, and the foundation of his business success. He commenced his business directly opposite where his present store stands, on Broadway. It was a little affair, twelve feet front only, and separated from his neighbor by a thin partition, through which the conversation could be heard. It was difficult to obtain credit in those days there were no banks, and but little accommodation. Men had to rely upon themselves. He was his own book-keeper, salesman, dustman, and errand-boy. He bought cautiously, but well. He attended to his business from fourteen to eighteen hours a day. He adopted two or three simple rules, from which he has never deviated. He resolved that the purchaser should have the exact thing he bought. If he purchased an inferior article, he would find it so on getting home. If he bought a first-rate article, he would find it a first-rate article. That simple principle has underlaid all his success. When he purchased the estate near the Park on which his store stands, he bouoht against the judgment and earnest opposition of his friends, who did not wish to see him make a fool of himself. The"y said the price he paid for the land was extravagant. That it was so far up town that he never would do a successful business there, and that if the other considerations didn't ruin him, the fact that his store was on the "shilling side of Broadway" , would seal his fate. His own judgment was that the price paid for the land was low, and the investment was a good one. That his store would soon be located in the center of trade, and that he would create such a business that he would compel the Fifth-avenue and other fashionable quarters of the city to pay homage to the "shillino; side of the street." I need not say that his success has borne out the correctness of his own judgment. And during the crieis through which this community has just passed Mr. Stewart has not been obliged to borrow one dollar. . He outrode the tempest with the same ease that the Adriatic would outride a blow off Sandy Hook.

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THE HOOSIEIt AND THE SALT TILE. BY DANFOIITH MAKBLK. ; " I'm sorry," says Dan, as he knocked the ashes from Ins regalia, as ho sat in a Bmall crowd over a glass of sherry, at Florence's, New York, ono evening, "I'm sorry that the stages are disappearing so rapidly ; 1 never enjoyed travelling so well as in the slow coaches. I've made a pood many passages over the Alleghaniea, and across Ohio, from Cleveland to Columbus and Cincinnati, all over the South, down East, and up North, in stages, and I generally had a good time. " When I passed over from Cleveland to Cincinnati, the last time, in a stage, I met a queer crowd such a corps, such a time, you never did see ; I never was better amused in my life. We had a good teamspanking horses, fine coaches, and one of them drivers you read of. Well, there was nine 1 insider?,' and I don't believe there ever was a stage full of Christians ever started before, so chuck full of music. . " rMT.e wa? a ueaut'ful young lady going to one of the Cincinnati academies; next to her fat a Jew pedlcr for Cowes and a market; wedging him in was a dandy blackleg, with jewelry and chains around about his breast and neck enough to hang him. There was myself, and an old gentleman, with large spectacles, gold-headed cane, and a jolly, soldering-iron looking nose ; by hiin was a circus rider, whose breath was enough to breed yelJer fever, and could be felt just as easy as cotton velvet ! A cross old woman came next, and whose look would have given any reasonable man the double-breasted blues before breakfast ; alongside of her was a rale back-woods preacher, with the biggest and ugliest mouth ever got up since the flood. He was flanked by the low comedian of the party, an Indiana hoosier, 1 gwine down to Orleans to get an army contract' to supply the forces then in Mexico with beef. " ' " We rolled along for some time, nobody seemed inclined to ' open." The old aunty sot bolt upright, looking crab apples and persimmons at the hoosier and the preacher ; tho young lady dropped the green curtain of her bonnet over her pretty face and leaned back in her seat, to nod and dream over japonicas and jumbles, pantalettes, and poetry; the o'ld gentleman, proprietor of the Bardolph ' nose,' looked out at the ' ' corduroy' and swashes ; the gambler fell off into a doze, and the circus covey followed suit, leaving the E readier and me vis-a-vii, and saying nothing to noody. ' Indiany,' he stuck his mug out at the window and criticised the cattle we now and then passed. ' I was wishing somebody would give the conversation -a start, when ' Indiany' made a break . . . " ' This ain't no great stock country,' says he to the old gentleman with the cane. " ' No, sir,' says the old gentleman. ' Ther's very little grazing here, and the range is pretty much wore out.' ' " Then there was nothing said again for some time! Bimeby the hoosier opened agin ' j " ' It's the d- est place for simxnon-trees and turkey-buzzards I ever did see !' " The old gentleman with the cane didn't say nothing, and the preacher gave a long groan. The young lady smiled through her veil, and the old lady snapped her eyes and looked sideways at the speaker. , " Don't make much beef here, I reckon,' says the hoosier. " No,' says the gentleman. " ' Well, I don't see how in h 11 they all manage to get along in a' country whar thar ain't no ranges, and they don't make no beef. A man ain't considered worth a cuss in Indiany what hasn't got his brand on a hundred head.' " ' Yours is a great beef country, I believe,' says the old gentleman. " ' Well, sir, it ain't anything else. A man that's got sense enuff to fbller his own cow-bell with us ain't in no danger of starvin. . I'm gwine down to Orleans ' to see if I can't git a contract out of Uncle Sam, to feed the boys what's been lickin them infernal Mexicans so bad. I s'pose you've seed them cussed lies what's been in the papers about the Indiany boys at Bony Visty.' "'I've read some accounts "of tho battle,' says the old gentleman, ' that didn't give a very flattering account of the conduct of some of our troops.' " With, that, the Indiany man went into a full ex-' planation of the affair, and, gittin warmed up as he went along, begun to cuss and swear like he'd been through a dozen campaigns himself. The old preacher listened to him with evident signs of displeasure, twistin' and groanin' till he couldn't stand it no longer. " ' My friend,' says he, ' you must excuse me, but your conversation would be a great deal more interesting to me and I'm sure would please the company much better if you wouldn't swear so terribly. It's very wrong to swear, and I hope you'll have respect for our feelin's, if you hain' no respect for your Maker.' "If the hoosier had been struck with thunder and liphtniu', he couldn't have been more completely tuck aback. He shut his mouth right in the middle of what he was sayin', and looked at the preacher, while his face got as red as fire, " ' Swearin','says the old preacher, ' is a terrible bad practice, and there ain't no use in it, no how. The Bible says, swear not at all, and I s'pose you know the commandments about swearin' ?' " The old lady sort of brightened up the preacher was her ' duck of a man the old fellow with the 'nose' and cane let off a few ' umph, ah 1 umphs ;" but ' Indiany' kept shady, he appeared to be cowed down. "'I know," says the preacher, ' that a great many people swear without thinkin', and some people'don't ' b'lieve the Bible.' , And then he went on to preach a regular sermon agin swearing, and to quote Scripture like he bad the whole Bible by heart. In the course of his argument, . he undertook to prove the Scriptures to be true, and told us all about the miracles and prophecies and their ' fulfilment. Tho old gentleman with the cane took a part in the conversation, and the hoosier listened, without ever opening his .head. " ' I've just heard of a gentleman,' says the preach- , er, ' that's been to the Holy Land, and went over the Bible country. It's astonishin to hear what wonderful things he has seen. He was at Sodom and Gomorrow, and seen the place whar Lot's wife fell !" : . . , " 4 Ah !' says the old gentleman with the cane. , 41 ' Yes,' says the preacher, ' he went to the very spot ; and what's the remarkablest thing of all, he seen the pillar of salt what she was turned into !' " 4 Is it possible !' says the old gentleman. " 4 Yes, sir ; he seen the salt, standin' thar to this day.' " ' WliatP says the'hoosier, 'real genewine, good salt?' "'Yes, sir, a pillar of salt, jest as it was when that wicked woman was punished for her disobedience.' 44 All but the gambler, who was snoozing in the corner of the coach, looked at the preacher, the hoosier with an expression of countenance that plainly told that his i mind was powerfully convicted of an important fact, " ' Right out in the open air ?' he asked. " ' Yes ; standin' right in the open field, whar she fell.' " ' Well, sir,' says 44 Indiany," 4 all I've got to say is, if she'd dropped in our parts, the cattle would have licked ' her up afore sundown P " The preacher raised both his hands at such an irreverent remark, and the old gentleman laughed himself into a fit of asthmatics, what he didn't get over till he came to the next change of horses. The hoosier had played the mischief with the gravity of the whole party ; even the old maid had to put her handkerchief to her face, and the young lady's eyes weie filled with tears for half an hour afterwards. The old preacher hadn't another word to say on the subject ; but whenev- ' er we came to any place, or met any body on the road, the circus man nursed the tiling along by asking what was the price of Silt."