The Arkansas banner., 1843-09-30
MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT.
 BY CHARLES DICKENS, ESQ.
CHAPTER xvI.-Continued.

FThe colonel knocked at this house with he air of a man who lived there; and an
 bh girl popped her head out of one of the sR windows to see who it was. Pending @ journey down stairs, the pigs were joined
 two or three friends from the next street H company with whom they lay down so- nbly in the gutter.
 Els the major indoors D inquired the col lel as he entered.
 ' Is it the master, sir D returned the girl nth hesitation which seemed to imply mt they were rather flush of majors in that Establishment.
 f. The masterp' said Colonel Diver, stop iDg short and looking round at his war cor espondent
 "0h The depressing institutions of that
 British empire, colonelp' said Jefferson Brick
 Master n'
 ]" Whats the matter with the word;n asked fartin.
 K"l should hope 1t was never heard in oul puntry, sir, that's all,o said Jefferson Brick. Except when it is used by some degraded Help, as new to lhe blessings oi our form ol Government, as this help is. There are no haser's here''
 All 'owners,' are they D said Martin
 Mr. Jefferson Brick followed in the Rowdv pmnal's footsteps without returning any nswer. Martin took the same course, think
 as he went, that perhaps the free and in-
 pendent citizens, who in their moral ele- Nlon, owned the colonel for their master. 8ght render better homage to the goddess, HAbefty, Tn nightly dreams upon the oven of Russian Serf.
 2fhe colonel led the way into room at n back of the house upon the gromd-hoor, Nht and of fair dimensions, but exquisitely Incomiorable; having nothing in it but the 0pr cold white walls and ceiling, mean EEapet, EEa dreary waste of dining-table reach He from end to end, and bewiIderine col ton Of cane-bottom chairs. In the further
 non of this banqueting-hall was a stove,
 nlshed on either side with a great brass
 Pttoon, and shaped in itself like three little en barrels set up on end in a fender, and &ned together on the principle of the Sia- fse Twins. Before it, swinging himself in |focklng chair, lounged large gentleman lth his hat on, who amused himself by spit 2g alternately into the spittoon on the right 3nd of the stove, and the spittoon on the
 t, and then working his way back again in
 same order. A negro lad in soiled hte jacket was busily engaged in placing ~ the table two long rows of knives and pks, relieved at intervals by jugs of water Ad as he tray velled down one side of this ktve board, he strengthened with his dirty Ends the dirtier cloth, which was all askew, nd had not been removed since breakfast. |he atmosphere of this room was rendered nl!ensely hot and stihing by the stove; but fFlhg further favored by sickly gush of Rup from the kitchen, and by such remote Hggestons of tobacco as fingered within the zazen receptacles already mentioned, it be-
 me to strangers senses, almost insupport- he gentleman in the rocking-chair having Ii pack toward them, and being much en- tsea In hls intellectual pastime, was not Il are ar of their approach until the colonel tiAihg up to the stove, contributed his mite swafd the support of the left-hand spittoon, f' as the major-for it was the major-bore Rwn uponlt Major Hawkins then reserved | hre' and looking upward, said with a pe- silar ar of quiet weariness, like man who snu been up all night-an air which Martin
 already observed both in the colonel and Nj. Jefferson Brick
 We'll, colonelp'
 ;, here a IS gentleman from England, ma Rr', the colonel replied, "who has con- kuded to locate himself here if the amount
 compensation suits him.o
 - am glad to see you, sir,'' observed the ssalor' shaking hands with Martin, and not oslng a muscle of his face. 'sY ou arc |Fetty bright, hope;''
 ! r Neser better," said Martin. ou are never likely to be-" returned ro !aa]or. "1ou will see the sun shine }. l tnlnk remember to have seen it shine t1llie, sometimes,o said Martin, smiling
 lhnk not" replied the major. He sait < t;, wi'h stoical indifference certainly, bu Plii m tone of firmness which admitted O V od 'ar'her dispute on that point. When ht F"u nus settled the question:, he put his Ina