The Arkansas banner., 1843-10-07

end of the voyage, and walked the deck with his nostrils dilatcd.
 : Every body looked at Martin. There was | no help for it. TheAruth must out. came over in e same ship as the Gen eral,n said Martin, V but not in the same
 cabin. It being necessary for me to observe strict encouomy, took my passage in the steeage."
 If the General had been carried up bodily to a loaded cannon, and required to let 1t of
 that moment, he could not have been in
 state of greater eonsternation than when he heard these words. He, Fladdock-Flad-
 dock in full militia uniform, Paddock the General, Paddock the caressed of foreign noblemen--expect to know a fellow who
 had come over in the steerage of a line-of- [ packet ship, at cost of four pound ten and meeting that fellow in the very sanctuary of
 New York aristocracy He almost laid his
 hand upon his sword.
 A deathlike stiffness fell upon the Nor risses. If this story should get wind, their
 country relation had, by his imprudcnce, for
 ever disgraced them. They were the bright
 peculiar stars of an exalted New York sphere. There were other fashionable spheres above them, and other fashionable spheres below, and none of the stars in any one of these spheres had any thing to say to the stars in any other of these spheres. But thro' all the spheres it would go forth, that the
 Norrises, deceived by gentemaniy manners and appearances, had, falling from their high
 estate, < received' dollarless and unknown
 man. o guardian eagle of the pure republic,
 had they lived for this
 " You will allow me-" said Martin, after
 a terrible silence, < to take my leave. feel
 that am the cause of at least as much en-
 barrassment here as l have brought upon
 myself. But am bound, before lgo, to ex-
 onerate this gentleman, who, iii introducing me to such society, was quite ignorant of my
 unworthiness, assure you.''
 With that he made his bow to the Nor risses, and walked out like man of snow, very cool externally, butpretty hot within.
 "Come, come," said Mir. Norris the father, looking with pale face on the assembled circle as Martin closed the door, < the young man has this night beheld refinement of so- cial manner, and an easy magnifcemce of so- cial decoration, to which he is stranger in his own country Let us hope tmay awake a moral sense within him.'
 II that peculiar transatlantic article, a moral sense-for If native statesmen, orators, and pamphleteers, are to be believed, America quite monopoizes the commodity--if that peculiarly transatlantic article be supposed to include a benevolent love of all mankind, certainly Martins would have borne just
 then deal of waking for as he strodc along the street, with Mark at his heels, his im-
 mortal sense was in active operation prompt- ing him to the utterance of some rather san
 guinary remarks, which was well for his own credit that nobody overheared. He had
 so far cooled down, however, that he began to laugh at the recollection of these incidents, f when he heard another step behind him, and
 turning round encountered his friend Bevan, quite out of breath.
 l He drew his arm through Martins, and f cntreating him to walk slowly, was silent for some minutes. At length he said l "l hope you exoneratc me in another sense !'
 "IIow do you mean p asked Martin. i ssi nope you acquit me of intending or , foreseeing the termination of our visit But
 scarcely need ask you that.o ss Scarcely indeed,n said Martin. ssI am , the more beholden to you for your kindness,
 when find what kind of stuff the good citi- e zens here are made of
 : "I reckon,'' his friend returned, ss tha,
 they are made ofpretty much the same stuff as e other folks, if they would but own it, and
 not set up on false pretenses.o e 's In good faith, that's true,n said Martin. q s l dare say,' resumed his friend, you V might have such scene as that ill an En. l, glish comedy, and not detect any gross i'm. e probability or anomaly in the matter of it !" ,, C Yes indeed !o
 !, ss Doubtless it is more ridiculous here thar e anywhere else," said his companion but oul
 professions are to blame for that. So far a. l. I myself am concerned, l may add that 2 was perfectly aware from the first that yol : came over in the steerage, for ] had seen the . list of passengers, and knew it did not com l. prise your name.o
 = ss l feel more obliged to you than before,' 2 said Martin.
 " Norris is very good fellow in his way 2 observed Mir. Bevan.
 2 ss Is ne :'' said Martin dri!y
 1 'Oh yes there was a hundred goot points about him. If you or anybody els II addressed him as another order of being, ant e sued to him in forma paupcris, he would b,
 all kindness and consideration.o r. s I needn't have travelled three thousan'
 miles from home to find such character a e ttat," said Mir. Martin. Neither he nor hi t. friend said any thing more on the way back n each appearing to find sufficient occupation > in his own thoughts.
 '' The tea, or the supper, or whatever els
 they called the evening meal, was over whe n, they reached the Majors; but the cloth, or n- namented with a few. additional smears an y stains, was still upon the table. At one en ID of the board Mrs. Jefferson Brick and tw le other ladies were drinking tea--out of tb s, ordinary. course, evidently, for they wer Is, bonneted and shawled, and seemed to hay
 just come home. By the light of three fla e, ring candles of different lengths, in as man
 candlesticks of different patterns, the rooi sr, showed to as little advantage as in broad da. 's- These ladies were all three talking togeth'