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TALLY had, as often happens. survived tho
change and il became now his most interest.
ing problem, TO determine whether the recip-
roc0lseniimcnt had continued to exist. The
problem, il is unnecessary 10 say, did not
require many days Cor its solution.
TIE CONCLUSION.
We cannot conclude this little history better
than by transcrbing tho following letter from
Frances TO her friend and sister in law, dated
| Il few moths since.
QUEENSTOWN, N. C. Feb. 1887.
Nv dear Anna:
] received your letter last Thursday.
aid was very glad to learn hat you had
| recovered. and tha, your little Robert was
40 promising. NV husband bids me say
tia he is very much Indebted to you and
| Frederick for naming your child after BIN;
and that he hopes soon TO return the com
pliment.
You ask me. if i am more reconclled
to my situa,ion'-to which am happy to
answer in the affirmative. You know how
unfortunate | thought it at first. when
Roberts friends here persuaded him TO re-
turn among them and be their candidate
for congress. | pictured TO myself q
thousand horrors, particularly in conncc
ton with slavery and the climate, which !
find now do not exist. A southern resi-
dence seems TO agree with my constitu'
ton exceedingly wells the heat is moi,
oppressive except in the middle of summer
and then we have a delightful little cot
tsge in the upland country TO retreat TO-.
| wish you would take n journey here next
fall and pass the wn'er-w,'h us-l think
I could promise yor~1'ue!igbful spnson.
Yon say thGr a great scarcity of money
ia felt in Boston. and that people are begin
ing to speak IN forebodIug. tones Of the
rimrs to come. You cannot'I believe, hca
more Of it, than 7 do;-juat now. all who
call upon us, (and from my husbands siiua
ton they are not few) can talk ofno, hing
else. There ere. of course. various opu.
lons as to he causes and probable ex,on'
Of he pressure; bu' those respect mos,
are Mr. RaIls'on's; (he you know. was the
Representative to Congress before my
husband, and visits us very frcqnen,iv-he
ia an excelcn, old gcnl'emaD-a Robert
says, warm hearted and clear minded
He tells mo, TINT when he was last q,
Washin2' on he examined with grent care
tho accnun's Of tho snles Of pubic lands
ard compared a. tho same time. the
amount of our imports, as SGT forth By 'h'
government, with that Of our expoNs-nnt
the conclusion which he came to, was, TIM
f'hcrc was not within year an a'mos
universal bnnk'upcy- Commcrcla
"a Il ilonai,n + IT'D TT would b. n,
80, uo0ccountublc phc,o".~-~-,, =, puiit.
cal economy, he had ever heard of. Ant
though. he enid, he knew i. was an even
which would produce great and genera
suffering, to himself as we'll as others. We
he could not say he deprecated it;--h'
looked upon it as, necessary calamity, I,
rid our country Of The plague fever Of spec
ulalion- jus, MS thunder storm was rcuuir
, I'd 70 Gear up an unhealthy atmosphere
and ,hus, its final influences, like that Of a
= events produced by The operations Of nat
: ural laws must tend TO the common good
! This may be all very corrcc, and We
: Anna when think Of my pour lathe,
! KILLED bv n former blow Of his nature an
v your own driven by his sufi'erings amos
TO distraction, cannot but hope that Their
I Is some error in his calculation. As 60
u the iipal good effects which may rcsu
from such an event, think that You and
. have sOme little to speak on the subject.
u Apropos Of this have Just receive
!
S Duples,is in S.. Louis. lie was Stable
Q in a cellar by drunken associate. wi:
u whom he had quarrelled al the gambin
: table. lis father who had become eno'
J. mously nch by specnla'ng in eastern lant
J. was so much agialcd by the sight Of tn
o dead bodv that he fell into kind of If
n sanity, believing himself to be suffering b
d the judgement Of Gods and soon after be
= coming convert oflhe mormon doctrine
u which have deluded osmany Of the ignora,
western population, he made over to tt
e sect his entire wealth. which. Of cours
e was soon dissipa'cd. He is now, they sa
rnIng elder among the Mormons.
James Duplcssls, you remember, was
= classma'o of Robert and Frederick
I" College. VIVA, striking moral lessor
e the course of the three in after life pr
5 sents! II almost vcrlfes he curious adaa
IL OF the old writer, which mas been so ofic
IS conirover,ed, that Fortunes first gift
J. her favorires is Poverty
Rober, bids me remember him TO yor
he would write himself, but Just now h
- time is so completely engrossed with bus
n ness, that hardly see him myself, exceI
y at meals. Tell Frederick he saws, 'une
y" he makes haste to get into Congress, ih'
u ] shall be in the Senate before him. +,
my own part, believe he will, not becau,
d ! am partial in my judgement Of his powt
~ but because the arenas on which they cor
u tend are so different. You norlhcr
"a people look much less TO the mere taller
~ of candidate than we of the south, an
more to experience and public servic
= the consequence is that your represent;
is tives are less vehement and forward-ar
l. in the wtole, perhaps, less eloquent tina
Is ours,but when they do speak, their opinion
~ are more deliberate and have create
e Weichi in decldnn q nncsiinn This va