Springfield Weekly Republican, 1855-11-03

derman Solomons, a Jew, ha* been elected Urd mayor of London by a large majority. - Mis* Courts, the homelv woman who fell fn love with Mario, the opera singer, and fol'owed him around tins world, U worth a million pounds and y«l 1* loved by nobody. Somelxxly ought to love her at that price. Cattle Shaw m WooUieM. W- dnesday was an anspielons da* for the inaml eattle show at Weatfield, of the Western Hampdt n agricultural societr Tbe weather was clear, sunny and mild, and the good people of our trar.gl Connecticut towns, gathered in considerable mm mmbers - bers mmbers to their annual autumnal festival. ' positive positively - ly positively the last of the season.' The society, not ytt organized by legislative decree, is in a healthy and prosperous condition, and at Its recent meet- W'ewield, president: n Ticc PraiJent I anti H. B. Lewis secretary, together with the following board of directors,ah of whom except those otherwise designated reside in Westarid: Fred Fowler, Wm. Phelps, Geo. Taylor, Alvan Fowler, J. H. Watson, Ira Teamans Jr. B. D. Bancroft Lewis D. Fowler, f Southwick), N. D. Parks. (Rnsscll), J. W. Freeiove, 'Feeding Illite). Seth Bush, Henry Pease, and H. Harrison. A leading feature of Wednesdav's exhibition was, as might be expected, the cattle. And al although - though although no attempt was made to fndnee the farm farmers - ers farmers to send in town strings a worthy collection and a good show was made. Seth Bush ro-orc ro-orcdnred - dnred ro-orcdnred his ' big oxen,' the veterans of an hundred shows and recipients of the first premium at Bos Boston - ton Boston last week, and these, without anv hesitation, exhausted the first premium. The Westfield town oxen were also present, with well developed proportions and massive strength, and thev and their compeers belonging to Charles Fowler and Lyman Loomis, lore away the remaining re rewards. - wards. rewards. In fowls a good but meager ahow was made, as was the case at ail the preceding exhi exhibitions - bitions exhibitions of Western Massachusetts, this year. Charles King brought some beautiful Po Polands, - lands, Polands, and the other varieties were of Bolton Greys, Bantams, Cochin Chinas, and Chit tagongs. The Horse show going on at the same time with other exhibitions, was worthy of WestfieH and Western Hampden, and the premium list shows the respective merit* of the various horses and pairs of horses exhibited. The hall, where fancy articles, vegetables, and home manufactures were arranged for examination, was also an attractive feature of the day, as were the many attractive features therein collected. All in all, the day, the occasion and the number? present, conspired to render the exhibition an honorable one for our Westfield neighbors. At half past twelve o'clock Rev James Rich Richardson - ardson Richardson Jr. of Albany, delivered the address at Rev Dr Davis' church, on the joys and sorrows, the labors and the rewards of a fanner's life. He treated the subject at some length, and at about half-past two the procession re-formed and went to dinner at the Woronoco House; where, after partaking of a model dinner, and, not to put too tine a point upon it, one of the best we ever sat down to, the society listened to speeches tram its president, William G. Butes, Dr Abbott, Mr Brewer of this city, president of the Hampden society, Rev Mr Richardson and others, and heard the reports of committees read. The following are some of the premiums report reported, - ed, reported, though not all that were awarded; rmnrirxs. Farm horses - Elijah Owen. F Sackett; carriage horse* in pairs - Elijah Owen. O. P. Squires: eeldings - A. Bradley of Bussell. John Avery, mares - John R. Smith of Russell. Caleb Dewey; trial of speed - George Moseley. Philo A. Rockwell of Springfield. Steer* - 4 years old, Marin Gowdy of Russell. Dea At Atkins; - kins; Atkins; 3 years old. B. P. Searle of Holyoke, Sbem Loomis of Southwick; 2 years old. B. P Searle of Holyoke. Edwin Stearns of Stall hwick Fowls - JF Harris, Thomas Lewis, Jr. Oxen - 6 rears old Bar Barnum - num Barnum Perr-v. town of Westfield. Erman LOonus. Samael Fowler. Lyman Shnrtletf of Bussell William Morse C. T. Foot of Southwick Fat cattle for the slaugh slaughter - Seth - ter - Seth slaughter - Seth Bush Ist and 2d. Charles Fowler. Moeh cows - William G Bates, Albert J. Smith. Swine - Addison Gage. John Harris. Fancy articles - lamp mats. Miss Mary E. Sackett. Miss Frances Grant: pic picture - ture picture frames. Miss Clara Bancroft. Miss Lucy A. Ely: moss stand, Miss Josie Noble, Izetta Harrison. Ah Ha! Oh Hal From the Northampton Courier.) A few Facts aboft the Hosfitae. - The supporters of Gov Gardner in Northampton, are appealing with great earnestness, and with some effect, to the voters here, to sustain the governor, . because, as they affirm, it is to him that we are indebted for the location of the hospital in this town! TAcy say that it was Governor Gardner who selected Northampton as ths place far the hospi hospital, - tal, hospital, and the commissioners were but the instruments to carry mit ms trlshcs'. These statements are openly made in our streets by citizens of this town, and voters are appealed to " to sustain the hand that feeds them." From what we have heard during the pendency of the Hospital location, we are free to say, that we have no doubt that what these men now af affirm, - firm, affirm, is substantially true. While the Commis Commissioners - sioners Commissioners were visiting sites in other towns, and at t'ue very commencement of their visits, Senator Hawks'was telling our citizens that the Hospital was to be located here. Said he, " I KNOW it is to come here; and if I wasat liberty toteU you why I know, you wouldoe as positive mst it as I am." These :;r substantially the words he used in con conversation - versation conversation with ourselves about this matter, and there are fifty nan in Northampton to whom he used the same language. It was well known to our citizens, that Gfare the Commissioners made their Inst visit to Pittsfield, they had derided upon Northampton! went up there." said one who qpoke for the commissioner* with the air of "by authoritysimpiy because they had premised to go. We feel that we are doing no injustice to any of our citizens, in making these matters appear in public print. It is the men who have undertaken to appeal to the mercenary feelings of our voters, who are responsible for these revelations. If Gov Gardner forestalled the action of the commission commissioners - ers. commissioners - as his friends say he did, - it is proper that people abroad shoulel know it. We are as de desirous - sirous desirous for the prosperity of Northampton as any other man, bnt we do not wish to secure anything to enhance our interests by any other than tair and honorable means. If the hospital is to be used as a means of buying voters, - if we are to be influenced bv the debauching appeal "to sustain th f hmd that feeds us." we say it were far better for Northampton had the hospital been located elsewhere. We want no such source of corrup corruption - tion corruption here. It is degrading to our natures, and in insulting - sulting insulting to our characters, to be appealed to "ft» sas sastnio - tnio sastnio the hand that trie's SLAVES only re res; - s; res; . nd to such app.als - FStfau SKVSk! The schooner Kitty Grant was eaj-sized on Lake Michigan, opposite Racine, Wis., during a heavy gale a week ago. Four out of five passen passengers - gers passengers who were bound for Milwaukee, were drown drowned. - ed. drowned. and the remaining passenger with the crew, six in number, were rescued by a passing vessel, after having clung to the wreck for thirty-six hours. The names of the lost passengers are not known, - A second class female passenger on the New York Central rattroad, in attempting to get upon the train while it was in motion at Omida, on Fridav, fell beneath the wheel and had her leg completely severed below the knee. - A man named G 'orge A. Homer was picked np in Alba Albany - ny Albany street, Boston, a night or two since, supposed to be drunk. He was taken to the watch-house and thence to the hospital, where it was discover discovered - ed discovered that his skull was fractured, an injury of which he subsequently died. No elue has been discov discovered - ered discovered as to the manner in which the injury was re received. - ceived. received. A car on the Augusta railroad, in which was a party of emancipated slaves eu route for Liberia via Baltimore, was crushed near Charles Charleston, - ton, Charleston, S. C., on Saturday last, and several of the occupants seriously irvured; on Thursday of last week a la<lv from Chicago named Roach, was killed at Dunkirk, N. Y., in attempting to jump from a moving train, and on Friday Volney Con Connor - nor Connor a brakeman on the Buff alo and Erie road, was knocked off a freight train by a bridge, near Dunkirk and killed.

Foreign Gleanings and Gossip. Nothing is known of the plan of operations in the Crimea for the future. The allied forces were at last accounts moving to cut off the communi communication - cation communication of the Russians in North Sebastopol with the interior, but it was doubted whether their forces were adequate to the undertaking. There were rumors that the supplies of the Russians had become so nearly exhausted that they were kill killing - ing killing their horses for food. The opinion at Con Constantinople - stantinople Constantinople was that active operations iu the Crimea were over for the season, and that both parties would be satisfied with fortifying their present positions. - The destruction of Sweaborg in the B;Utic is said to have been effected by shells charged with a liquid combustible, the invention of Hutton, the English chemist. The same de destructive - structive destructive projectiles were to be use-1 against Odessa. Mr Hutton professes to Lave discovered another preparation for charging bombshells, of a nature so fearfully destructive to human life that he has resolved not to divulge it. - The immense losses of the Russians in the- bombardment and successful attack upon Sebastopol, may be esti estimated - mated estimated from the statement of Gortschakoff. the Russian commander, that during the thirty days' bombardment he lost from 500 to 1000 men daily - an aggregate lass, at the lowest figure,of 15,000 previous to the immense slaughter that attended the final assault. Such a destraction of human life is absolutely appalling. - Desertions, once very rare among the Russians, have become so fre frequent, - quent, frequent, that the government has been com compelled - pelled compelled to adopt special measures of prevention. New and more fearful punishments have been threatened to deserters and special rewards prom promised - ised promised to those that remain in the service; in the distribution of the honorary rewards of the army, the Cz#r has declared by a recent ukase, "Every month of actual presence in the garrison of Se Sebastopol - bastopol Sebastopol on the north side and in the forts shall be considered equivalent to a year's service." Commodore Kogers of our surveying squadron in the north Pacific, had a slight brush with the Japanese officials at one of the Loo Choo islands, where he was refused supplies and the services of a pilot. He immediately landed with 200 sailors and marines, with field pieces and small arms, and marched to the house of the governor, with whom the formidable array made negotiations very easy and the supplies were obtained. The commodore afterward partook of a banquet with Isava, 'Princa of Iduz.' The Russians and Americans at Simoda had a grand banquet tn the temple of Y'okum, but they took the pr-ciutiontotum all the gods with their sac s toward the wall, lest they should l>e shocked bv looking on the profsnity of a dauci or gallopade. Danmark has submitted the question of the Sound -lues to a congress of the states interested, to be held about the middle of November. It docs not appear that the United States has any connection with the congress or has agreed to abide its decision. The last steamer brought toour government an invitation to refer the difficulty to the decision of this congress. A large amount of the Sound dues goes into private pockets, the col collector - lector collector having a salary of #16,000 per year and the clerks from SIOOO to SBOOO each. Ibc amount ex extorted - torted extorted from vessels passing is vfry much increased by extra fees,such ns sl7 to the boatman who takes the captain of the vessel a few yards to the col collector's - lector's collector's office, and exorbitant pilot fees, both of which are farmed out for the benefit of the Dan Danish - ish Danish government. At Calcutta, India, two Englishmen have been heavily fined for ejecting from the railroad cars a native three-fourtli* naked,'whose unctuous pres presence - ence presence was disagreeable to the ladies present. The c mrt ruled that a native's ideas of decency were the criterion, and that civilized visitors mnst not attempt to enforce compliance with their preju prejudices. - The - dices. - The prejudices. - The big six-wire telegraphic cable, weigh weighing - ing weighing eight tons to the mile, which was being laid down across the Mediterranean from France to Algiers, has met with an accident similar to that which befel the Newfoundland table recently; forty miles of the cable had been laid when a gale of wind compelled them to cut and abandon it. It was insured in London for 8300,000. Mrs Perry, wife of the late secretary of the United Slates legation in Spain, lies seriously ill at La Granja, which is the excuse of Mr Perry for delayin' his return to the United States. - The London Times objects to the proposed match be between - tween between prince Frederick William, heir presump presumptive - tive presumptive to the Prussian throne, and the eldest daugh daughter - ter daughter of queen Victoria, on account of the inter intertwinement - twinement intertwinement of the Prussian and Russian royal families - " why place a daughter of England in a position iu which devotion to her husband mu-t be treason to her country ?" - lt is gossipped that count Nesselrode, the veteran Russian minister of state, is in bad odor with the czar and will retire from office. He is even accused of sympathizing with the enemy and rejoicing at the checks winch his government has riceived. - On the morning after the reduction of Sebastopol, Simpson, the English commander, called on Peiissier, the French general-in-chief, to congratulate him ou hUspk-ndid victory. The latter, wlio is very stout, fat and greasy, took the former, who is thin, small and stooping, to his breast with a vig vigorous - orous vigorous ling, kissed him on both checks, and ex exclaimcd, - claimcd, exclaimcd, " Malakoff' we took well; it was the will of Go J; it was The English general is r- parted to have expressed great disgust at this unceremonious familiarity, and to have used cer certain - tain certain emphatic words not sanctioned bv the deca decalogue. - The - logue. - The decalogue. - The viceroy of Egypt, Said Pasha, lately started in his steam vacht for a tour in Europe, but returned to port in two days, haring changed his mind because attacked by sea-sickness! - Al-

THE BAY PATH. A TALE OF EARLY LIFE UPON THE CONNECTICUT. CHAPTER XXI. The prominent feature of which is th* capture of Peter Trimble, by a widow and her children, whom he bad undertaken to protect. During the tedious period of Miry's sickness - its long days of watching and its longer nights - Hugh hoard many strange things; and, although he knew that Mary was deranged, her words seemed informed with a peculiar significance, us if they were warnings or prophecies of some aw awful - ful awful event in the future. There was one object - invisible to Hugh - of which she was always en endeavoring - deavoring endeavoring to obtain a view, and her trials all grew out of the presence of other objects which ob obstructed - structed obstructed her vision. Sometimes Hugh stood be between - tween between her and tbc object she sought, and when, at her command, he stepped aside, Mr Moxon ap appeared; - peared; appeared; and if Mr Moxon at last retired, some one, or some thing, almost always took his place, and still left her wandering imagination unsatis unsatisfied - fied unsatisfied and distressed. It was strange to see how a peculiar mood of mental being and action had leaped over a barrier of sane and hearty life, to join itself to a similar mood far back in the past. As Mary lay upon her bed, tossing in feverish restlessness, the fa familiar - miliar familiar vision of her mother's eyes came back to her. She recalled a long conversation with her father when he asked her if she could not see them; and their sweet and loving expression arose upon her memory, and soon dawned, upon her distempered fancy, with the old semblance of reality. She sought for them through clouds and darkness, and when, at times, site felt their influ influence - ence influence upon her aching head, and no intervention prevented their soft and soothing light from fall falling - ing falling deep down into her heart, a smile so beauti beautiful - ful beautiful and heavenly irradiated her pallid face that Hugh's fainting heart throbbed with a new hope, and gushed with a long unwonted delight. But each smile was brief. Some phantom face or form - some grim enemy - some distant cloud or clinging mist - came between her and those bless blessed - ed blessed eyes, and often she struggled with these ob obstructions - structions obstructions through whole nights, and waked in the morning only for a brief hour, to enter again into the unsatisfying and tormenting quest. Nor did these fancies leave her as she slowly recovered a portion of her strength. Those eyes were al always - ways always above her, in her dreams, and, as life fresh freshened - ened freshened its pulses, she sometimes slept in their light through whole nights, - as still, and white, and placidly beautiful as the earth beneath the moon in early spring-time. At other times, great ghost ghostly - ly ghostly clouds swept over her, and tangling shapes of darkness twined their dim forms above her, and rustling folds of gloom closed around her, through the rifts of which those eyes, at long intervals, looked in upon her spirit with a spell of peace, as the moon sometimes looks from the clouds tlirough openings towards which it has waded in their deceitful depths for hours. During all these long weeks of weakness ami confinement, Hugh nnd Mary could hardly have been better cared for, had a special miracle been wrought for their benefit every day. Morning after morning Hugh found at the door some choice bird, or fish, or piece of venison, which left him at perfect liberty to devote all his time to the care and comfort of his wife. Further than that these timely gifts came from the same gen generous - erous generous hand that supplied their earlier stores, Hugh knew nothing; but he became so much accus accustomed - tomed accustomed to find at the door just' what he wanted, that he was disappointed whenever the resource failed him. Occasionally, neighbors called in to see how Mary was getting along, or from some motive of curiosity, and, as they frequently came in at meal times, and saw what excellent fare Hugh enjoyed, and was able to spread before Mary, they asked many awkward questions in re regard - gard regard to the mode of its procurement. It became known nnd notorious, at last, that though Hugh did not step his foot out of doors to obtain any kind of food, he was always supplied with the best .game in the forest, the best fish in the river, and the best meal from the mill. Every effort made by the gossips of the place to ascertain who sup supplied - plied supplied him, was without avail. The matter was discussed at quilting parties, in family circles, and even among the grave and important men of the plantation. As a natural consequence, the gen general - eral general belief ran in the old channel, and infernal agency received the cre.lit of more Christian charity than existed in the whole settlement; or, perhaps, more properly, of fulfilling the terms of a bargain to which Mary, or Hugh, or both, were parties. Mr Moxon always formed one link in the chain of gossip that reached around the neigh neighborhood, - borhood, neighborhood, and was the receiver and careful treas treasurer - urer treasurer off every idle story concerning the ill-fated pair; for his children were still afflicted, and with all his circumspection he was unable to discover any one, except Mary, who could safely be charg charged - ed charged with being their tormentor. Every circum circumstance - stance circumstance in the unfortunate woman's life seemed fated to feed his suspicions concerning her. If she exhibited anger, she was under the influence of the devil. If she won a friend, it was through Satanic wiles. It' she was fed in her helplessness, it was by the power of sorcery. Even the insani insanity - ty insanity of In r sickness was regarded as demoniacal possession; and her sickness itself as nothing less than the prostration of her bodily powers before a super-natural occupation.

That's jest the way yon served me before. You're always putting me out nnd breaking me down in the wrong place! Land abend! there wouldn't anybody think, to look at you, that you was up to that sort of thing.' 'Do you mean the widow Tomson?'inquired Mary, with marked curiosity. ' No,' replied Peter, very positively. ' Well, who do you mean ?' - ' I mean,' replied Peter, charmed with his own ingenuity, 'a woman that looks so much like her you can't tell them apart.' ' Do you mean to say that you are going to mar marry - ry marry widow Tomson ?' said Mary. ' 1 can if I'm 'a tnind to, - l know that,'respond, ed Peter, rising to his feet proudly, and looking down upon Hist legs. Marv saw that there was really something se serious - rious serious in the matter, and that Peter thought he was about to secure a prize. She therefore re refrained - frained refrained from any remark that would injure his feelings, and asked him to tell her how the affair was brought about. 'Well,you know Tomson left her in rather a tight place, don't you ? - six children and a cabin to keep them in, but nobody to do the work for them, and stay in the house nights. One morn morning, - ing, morning, as I was going by, she called to me, and said she, 'Peter, I was almost scat to death last night. I know, jest as well as I want to know, that an Indian tried to get into the house, and I haven't got a bit good flint in my gun.' Well, I knew what that meant. She knew I always carried flints - everybody is always losing a flint, you know, and nobody has one - and so I went into the house, and put the best flint into the lock I had in my pocket, and jest drew the old charge, and snapped it two or three times, to let the chil children - dren children see the tire roll. Byme-by I looked up, and there stood the widow, crying. Says I, 'what's the matter?' Says she, 'I was thinking how Tom Tomson - son Tomson used to snap that same gun, with the children all standing around him. Says I, 'Goody Tom Tomson, - son, Tomson, there is no use in crying for spilt milk.' Says she, 'I know it, but what'll become of the chil children - dren children ?' Says I, 'can't you put them out to live?' Says she, 'I don't know how I should get places for them, for I can't leave them a minute.' Says I, 'perhaps you'd like to have me try for yon.' Says she, 'Peter, that is jest what I've been want wanting - ing wanting to ask you to do for me for a long time.' Says I, 'l'll do it.' Well, I made a good beginning, and got rid of one child the first evening; and you'd better believe I told a pretty good story. The next evening I got rid of another, and then the widow said I could jest as well have their bed as not, and she should feel so much better with a man in the house. So I've been there to sleep ever since, but it took me nigh about a week to get off the third child. You see they grow small smaller - er smaller as you get along down, and people are scary about taking Them because they can't pay their way. Now there's one more that'll do to be sent off - don't you want a little tot, Hugh, to be skiv skiving - ing skiving round the cabin here, and making a fuss, and learning to do things, and full of fun? By George! Hugh, she's as lively as a little squirrel, and I think she's the prettiest one of the lot. Land ahead! I hadn't thought of you before.' Hugh and Mary were both disposed to decline any portion of the widow Tomsou's dividends, and Peter, having satisfied himself on that point, proceeded. 'Ono night, after I'd come in, and wo was both feeling pretty well, to think how nicely we'd got along with the children, says Goody Tomson to me 'what do you s'pose folks think, because you're hero so much, and have done so much in getting my children put out ?' Says I, 'I don't know, nor I don't care. Whose business is't? says I;' says she, 'you men don't feel such things as we women do. We don't have anybody to take care on us, and stand up for us - we that have been left alone - and then she put her handker handkerchief - chief handkerchief up to her eyes, and I should think she cried for half an hour.' As the memory of this afflictive scene came back to Peter be rose from his chair, and walked across the room, and then returned and dropped himself into his scat.

Mr Moxon saw that a fit was actually upon her, and that RebeLali was rapidly approaching her usual sympathetic condition, and, fairly tear tearing - ing tearing Murtha away from the spot, in spire of tears and entreaties, he hurried with both of bis chil children - dren children homewards. Arriving there, the minister who had begun to feel hopeful in regard to his children, was again plunged into despair by their continuance in the paroxysm which had come upon them. All day long, Martha had the blue cat, of the years long gone, with nnd abont her. She folded her in her arms with childish fondness, and was offended that neither her father nor mother could hear her purr, or feel her as she rubbed against their garments. During the day, Mr Moxon was informed by a neighbor of the birth of Mary Parsons' child; and heard the an announcement - nouncement announcement with a sigh so deep as to startle bis informant. He regarded the event as the acces accession - sion accession of another baleful influence to the number of those which had for years been operative against him, and his family, and as he turned to the con contemplation - templation contemplation of his childrenbe exclaimed, from the depths of a heart bursting with distress, 'bow long, 0 Lord, how long!' Little did Mary and Hugh imagine, while they Were laughing over Peter Trimble's story of his somewhat remarkable courtship, that they should be indebted to the good natured widow Tomson for some of the kindest and most important offices, of friendship. Mary, for weeks and months after the birth of her child, saw not one sane day, or hour. Hugh, in the midst of his perplexity, called upon his friend Pefer to help him; and Peter, with Ins uniform policy, was ready to lend the services of anything he had in the world - even those of the self-devoted Esther, And Esther came, with her hearty baby at her breast - the youngest of the Tom-ons - and after doing what she could in the cabin, and ascertain ascertaining - ing ascertaining that Mary's child would have to be kept away from her, took the puny little creature to her own home, and cared for it, and nursed it as tenderly as if it had been her own. Many a long fight of words did she have over the strange baby; for two days had not passed, after its birth, before the story of the peculiarity of its tone iu crying, and its effect upon the Moxon girls, had la-come notorious throughout the plantation. All the gossips of the town visited the widow's cabin for the purpose of seeing the baby that cried like a cat. Little girls came to the window, and looked in, and then ran away to tell the story to their mates. The child bad a great deal of hair upon its head, and tliis fact, with its miniature features, won for it among a few imaginative individuals the reputation of resembling a cat, so that a week had not passed by before the belief had become general that the child was a monster, having a human body and a cat's head and voice. The matter was a subject of mirth and anger, in about equal proportions with the kind hearted Goody Tomson, She was very angry when bera berated - ted berated by her neighbors for burdening herself with a little imp. who proved very conclusively that 1 Its mother had had dealings with the devil, an<i I particularly vexed when, in undressing the child, j she found upon its skin the marks of pins that had been thrust into it by visitors who were either anxious to n-certain whether it had any feeling, or to establish the trnth of the story touch touching - ing touching the peculiarity of its voice. Bnt when they asked her if she wasn't afraid to nurse it, and propounded a thousand foolish quo-lions con concerning - cerning concerning the appearance of its lx>dy,:ind its habits of life, she could not restrain her laughter, and very heartily told them that they were simple simpletons. - tons. simpletons. It would be difficult to account fully for tl e peculiar gloom that settled upon the town durii g

At long interval*, Mary's old mistress - who also suffered from ill health - went to visit her. The meeting was always a sad one, for each saw in the other the cruel havoc made by disease and cure. There was not one In all Mr Pynchon's family who had felt the wounds inflicted on that gentleman's reputation so keenly as Mary Hol Holyoke, - yoke, Holyoke, andons his trials came upon him when she was weak with indisposition, the intelligence wrought upon her, with a terrible power. Her mental organization was so fine and her physical powers so exquisitely adjusted that, irritated by the harsh influences of a new settlement, oppress oppressed - ed oppressed with maternal cares and hardships, destitute of medical advice or aid, asd shocked by the treat, ment dealt out to the father whom she still loved and honored with more than the devotion of child childhood, - hood, childhood, she could not retrieve her falling strength, or shake off the sorrow that lay heavily upon her heart. Yet her lips dropped only kindness, and, however irritable and petulant Mary Parsons might bo, as she entered the cabin, the serene carriage of her friend, the sweet words of comfort which she spoke, the manifestation of true friend friendship - ship friendship which she never failed to make, sootbed the poor girl's wounded spirit, and filled her with gladness and gratitude that gave life almost its only sweetness through many after days. It was a joyous day for Hugh when his wife sat in her chair once more, with a favorite dress upon her, and her hair neatly parted and tied up in the way she used to wear it when he learned to love her. He was as playful as a child, and quite as happy; and as lie drew the table to her side, and pressed Iter with the viands he had prepared, and heated the rough plank for her feet, and kissed her pale cheek, and lavished upon her the thou thousand - sand thousand little attentions and caresses that naturally sprang from his gratitude for her recovery, and his wish to make her as happy os himself, it seem seemed - ed seemed a pity that Mr Moxon could not be a spectator of the scene - that so he might receive an impres impression - sion impression of the artlcssness and innocence of the un unfortunate - fortunate unfortunate pair. As Mary slowly recovered her strength, a new care, which, during her insanity, had been forgot forgotten, - ten, forgotten, asserted the leading place in her mind. She was, within a few months, to become a mother. The thought thrilled her with a strange, sweet pride, that quite subdued her natural fears and apprehensions; and the first work to which she turned her long unused hands was bestowed upon the preparations for the advent of the promised comer. One evening, three or four weeks after she had commenced this work, and sat pleasantly talking with Hugli in regard to it, she brought out for exhibition the store of clothing she had rapidly prepared - the little shirts, the little dress dresses, - es, dresses, the little caps and socks, and the hundred-and hundred-andone - one hundred-andone little things that make up humanity's first wardrobe. One after another these were held up, and then laid down upon the table, until that article of furniture supported such a spread as it never had before, and presented quite the ap appearance - pearance appearance of a museum of curiosities. In the very midst of this display, the cabin door opened, with without - out without the slightest warning, and gave ingress to Pe Peter - ter Peter Trimble.

but, meanwhile, new anxieties descended upon both. Mary, Instead of recovering her accus accustomed - tomed accustomed health, ns thno passed, relapsed into a strange nnd very miserable state, nnd, during much of the time, betrayed the most positive and painful symptoms of mental alienation. These were frequently necompanied by a very decided aversion to the presence of her husband, nnd the acceptance of nny offices of kindness nnd affec affection - tion affection at his hands, - u condition which filled him with the deepest perplexity and distress. A' the spring advanced, there arose another disturbing cause, which, though harmless In Itself, became, in her imagination, charged with terrible evils. Mr Moxon had received advice concerning his children from an eminent medical gentleman at the Bay, which required him to see that they were thoroughly exercised for an hour every morning, in the open air; and as the best walk passed by Mary's cabin, the passage of the minis minister, - ter, minister, with a daughter at each hand, became a mat matter - ter matter of daily recurrence. They never passed by the cabin, however, without instituting the closest scrutiny of everything around it, and if the door or window happened to be open, of everything within it. This daily inquisition became, at last, so intolerable, that every symptom of Mary's disease was aggravated by it, and it frequently gave rise to whole days of excessive nervous irri irritation - tation irritation and mental distress. Thus passed away the spring and the summer; and a sad, weary time was it for poor Hugh. Through many a warm summer night he sat sleepless at Mary 's bedside, endeavoring to soothe her heated fancies. Hour after hour, she lay upon her bed, gazing upwards with her large, lustrous eyes, and brushing away with her white and spectral hands the long succession of filmy shapes and shadows that interposed between her own, and those eyes whose loving and gentle gaze was all for which her soul seemed to long and labor. Sometimes, she asked him for assist assistance, - ance, assistance, and was vexed at his awkwardness. Some Sometimes, - times, Sometimes, he was the' obstruction, and fled before a wild burst of her impatient temper. Then, after laboring ineffectually for hours, she would re renounce - nounce renounce the essay, and sink into a long fit of hys hysterical - terical hysterical weeping and sobbing. One morning in tbc early part of autumn, only a day or two after Mr Pynchon's departure for the Bay, as recorded in the preceding chapter, Mr Moxon and his children were taking their ac accustomed - customed accustomed walk by the cabin, gazing intently at it during their slow progress, when a feeble wail fell upon their cars, but of a character so pecu peculia - liar peculia - coming as it did very faintly through the closed door ami windows - that they paused in blank stillness and astonishment. The wail was again and again repeated; and Mr Moxon, on looking down upon his children, saw that it was producing upon them a very marked effect. Mar Martha - tha Martha listened with a pleased and most interested smile upon her face, and. at last, reaching out het hethand - hand hethand , exclaimed 'poor pussy! poor pussy! Then she stooped to the ground, as if she saw the ob object - ject object she had named approaching her, and was readv to fold it in her arms.

'I aint a'going to tell you the rest of it. You botli of you look jest as full of Cain as you can hold,' said Peter, as he caught the expression upon their faces, on resuming his chair. 'Oh! go on! .go ou!' exclaimed both, Mary adding with peculiar significance, 'wo were not laughing at yon.' 'I shan't do it,' replied Peter, with a dim sus suspicion - picion suspicion that ho had been humbugged, and a slight feeling of shame at revealing the tender passages in his acquaintance with the widow. 'lshan'i do it. You know how them things are got aiong with. Anyhow, we came to nn understanding, and I tell you she's a good deal more of a woman than she has the credit of being, and she aint but thirt} years old either. Now you wouldn't have thought that, would you ?' 'So you arc really' going to marry the widow Tomson, are you Peter?' said Alary affirmatively and interrogatively together. I shan't say that lam nnd I shan't say that I aint,' replied Peter, 'but I do say,' continued he with an extremely intelligent look, 'that such traps as you had on the table when I came in don't scare me. Land ahead! I'll bet I've dressed and ondressed that baby of Goody Tomsou's - Esther she want's me to cnll her - more than twenty times.' This statement was too much for the gravity of bis auditors, and Hugh, exclaiming 'ah! Peter you nrc. in for it,' burst into a hearty laugh, in which Mary joined hint. Peter began, at last, to think there was something extremely funny in the matter, and laughed louder than cither of them, until ho wished to stop, and managed to effect his object by seizing Hugh by the shoul shoulders, - ders, shoulders, and exclaiming, 'Say! what are you laugh laughing - ing laughing at ? I only did it for fun.' Peter's friends finally found breath to congrat congratulate - ulate congratulate him on his success, as well in getting rid of the children of the bereaved Esther, as in secur securing - ing securing her and the balance of her family; an I Peter closed the interview by informing them of the exact value of the widow's cabin, the number of acres in her possession thnt had liecn planted with corn, nnd the general desirableness of the match, in a worldly point of view. Assuring them, with a feeling of complacent exultation that almost choked his utterance, that he began to feel as If he was 'one of them,' he retired to the widow Tonison's cabin, to lend the protection of his presence to its inmates, and to dream of the time when, with all its contents nnd environ environments, - ments, environments, it should become hts own. Long conversations, between Mary and Hugh, upon th all absorbing sutject were of th quent occurrence, during the months which followed,