The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1850-03-08
SIGHs THROUGH A KEY-HOLE.

OlSElc~l E7HOCGa ~ NE 1"t1OLD'
Many years ago, Oh! very many years
ago, enjoyed a week full of North Caro-.
lima hospitality. which was then as now.
cordial, genuine and altogether sincere.
By the way, Arthur, never understood
why hospitality is so generally. indeed,
almost universally marked as southern
characteristic, so distinguished as 10 inn
ply that the virtue hardly exists elsewhere.
Now have found warm hearts in many
cold corners Of New England. just rs warm
as in any hot State down towards the gulf,
and Pennsylvania Dutchman has enter-
tanned me, in his wav, just rs royalty as
! ever d,d-aa T. 7. VI, ,hiar. Thc hncri
can people are very hospi'able; and in he>
ing so they are rather obedIen' to an every
day feeling than to an impulse: feeling
which has nothing to do W ilh Northern or
Southern calorIc. Curse this geography IN
America.
"Uncle tell me your story''
We'll, fell IN love, as you used 10 say.
with girl, Just seventeen, and the sweet
est. lovliest-
Yes, ! know said I, Il have seen
SUCH
But Ellen, I tell you, was nonparIel.
modest, retiring -don't interrupt me-rnd
she loved me. and loved her, with love
so true, that it is no wonder indeed the
course didn't run smooth.
Soon after our engagement, Git was ear
ly in Augnst.) Ellen and went to visit
Col. L.. friend of her father, in the coun-
try. We found there half dozen, yes
more, young ladies', and real devils they
were too, so different from my Ellen. Our
Colonel was delighted with the noise we
made. of gayety and fun. he was as fond
Of fun, and as gay as any Of them. We
had glorious dance.
Here my uncle stopped; he was busy
with memories too sacred to be disturbed
by any thoughtless speech o! mine. Blu.
at length he resumed
INV host showed me 10 my room. ]
was faligued with my riding and dancing,
and was soon asleep and dreaming. The
ladies left the drawing room, or rather the
dancing room, before did-a half dozen
Of them huddled together in one large
chamber, as I afterwards discovered.
suppose there were plenty Of beds in it;
but as Tor that neither know nor care.
Col. C. came 10 my room and awakened
me.
sJumr up quick said he; 'and ri show
YOU some fun. Come with me, no ones
here. Now look through the key-hole.'
! had noticed that the door was ajar-
bu, peeped IN. BY the Lord. the girls
were searching for tleas, in their sacred
linen.' and my Ellen was among them,
six of them by the Lord Harry.
had no sooner seen this and suggested
the thought that Ellen might be in better
business, than that same Colonel gave me
a push, and in twinkling was in the
room on nv hands and bare knees before
all those girls.
think went and dressed myself.
Col. l.. did not sleep in the house that
night. had letters which required me to
leave very early, before breakfast. re-
ccived letter from Ellen two days after
wards, and never have seen her since
RATHER PREcocIous.-A "young lady,"
fcurte en- years Of age, is practising the
game Of swind'ing IN St. l.ouls, getting
goods and having them charged 10 cus-
toners.
An editor OF newspaper actually re-
| turned from California by the last steamer
with a fortune Of one hundred thousand
dollars. What consola,ory event! We
had always thought tha, editors. ike Eng
lish postboys, never got rich and never
died, but lhinned gradually of, both in
person and purse, and then somehow
event away, and were missed" Here
is an instance, however. o! fortunes dis
posi,on 10 favor the race, and we owe her
debt OF gratitude for it thar we shall feel
il our duty TO pay when-we pay that OF
nature, at any rate.-.N. Y. .Nrs.
The Placer Times, OF December 8. pub.
lished at Sacramento, SAYS:
The Ojd.Fellows are quite numerous
in this city. Since the middle of August
they relieved twen'y-,hree sick Old-Fel-
lows at Doctors Deal and Martins Hospi-
tai; forty have been relieved in their tents.
Ou, of this number, but. two have died.
A remarkable discovery, il is said, has
been made in New York. viz: that porih
| and ,cealth are not ALWAYS synonymous.
| a Union meeting, without distinction oil