The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-07-11

nifcent scenery of the western States, and a
new life seemed revealed in the vastness and
solitude of these impressive Precints. In the
companionship of so fair. and intellectual a
creature, Clayton learned to appreciate the
present, and to consider with regret the future
now close at hand-when he was to relinqulsh
her to the tyrannic uncertainty of callous and
sordid persecution. Fanny read his thoughts
and longed to have him speak. The magic IN
fuence by which' the wishes of two devoted
hearts are made known, soon gave their lips
utterance and they were decided as to their tu-
ture course.
The following day, the party now about to
return, were startled by the announcement that
Fanny and Clayton would continue their tour
to the Canadas, and leave the other party to re-
turn without their attendance. They accord
ingly departed alone, and quite regardless Of
any semblance of imprudence which their ac-
tons might give rise to. Many were the con-
! lectures and surmises of their friends, but they
were doomed to carry back to B. Bumps, esq,
the intelligence, but nothing beyond the bare
fact was communicated. Her father consd
cred it some freak of Clayton's and was rather
pleased than otherwise at this 81 On Of what he
considered growing attachment About a
week after the arrival Of the party at home,
the following brief episte was received, which
explained the mystery.
DEAR PAPA: You know / always disliked
parade, and being fully aware Of your favorable
opinion of Mr. Clayton, and not wishing 10 give
you any reason to complain of my disobedi-
ence, accepted his proposal to extendour tour
to Canada where we have been united to part
trust, no more on earth. This you may con-
slider rather a precipitative step, but after our
conversation, lad made up my mind to fol-
low strictly the desires of a parent who is so
much more capable of acting for the welfare of
his child, than his obedent and affectonate,
FANNY CLAYTON.
1t would have been feast for any lover of
the Iudicrous to have watched the face of Bumps
during the reading of this letter. The man
whom he had been praising for a heightened
period was now too great villain to be human.
He declares that neither she, nor her husband
should ever enter his doors again, and so he
lives alone in misery and neglect, occupying his
time in studying perhaps, chow to marry an
heiress.'
What need Harry and Fanny care for the i'll
natured men, for they find within their hearts
that happiness, which ever ensues from mar
rage made for love alone,-an their virtues
have drawn around them many friends, of whom
the scrbblcr of this article claims to be one
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DEATH OF MnL1oSA1RE GAMBLEn.--A rich
man died in Paris week before last. The funeral
was gorgeous pageant. Silver and velvet,
cyphers, mahogany, were lavished. He left his
heir above two millions of dollars, and his mis-
tress good many jewels and 100000 in
ready money. The hotel he occupied exceeds
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doubt if any of the private mansions OF the
bloated wealthy equal in extent or decorations
its salons, capable of receiving with ease 5000
guests, adorned each with 90 candeabra of gilt
:. bronze costing not less than $4,000 piece, and
the costliest Japan vases, and gliding and mir
rors, and carving, or its waiting rooms and
smoking room hung in old and valuable COLDER
fowered leathered, or its staircase not un.
worthy the Tuileries or the Louvre, or its buffet
adorned with gold and blue grand feu sevres
dessert service, which cost $4,000, Or its bed
chambers, and garden and two conservatories
The garden with its vistas of lindens, and its
numberless statues, fountains and cascades,
must go to Versailles before it can find anything
worthy to be compared with it. This Croesus
died at the early age Of SO years. What, reader
do you suppose was the occupation of"this
powerful man-for the lord of $3.50, 600 year
is indeed powerful man-how think you he
passed away his time?
He had no other delight to pass away his
time-thls Crane or Schuyler yet trembling on
the border of the locus penltentia between
temptation and crime-but contending against
the vicissitudes of chance, but following the
fortunes Of cards. His nearest "fricnd" was a
veteran gamester, wonderfully, not to say sus-
picously, adroit in all games of chance, and
we'll adapted to represent the tenacity Of for
tune. If rumor may be credited, his favors
were costly, it is said he won $4,000 of this
millionaire, who left, too, an annual deposite
on the gaming table of Hamburg of never less
than $4,000. This wealthy person found SO
little pleasure from his possessions, he had not
visited the splendiepalons above his bed cham
Der these seven years, he lived on the ground
floor of his mansioh, waited on by thirty meni-
ais, never receiving company, neither glutton
nor wine-blbld r-poring over cards with the
patience Of a benedictine. His name was
William W. Hope, he was the son of "Anlasius'
Hope, and grandson of the great Amsterdam
banker and brother of the gentleman with the
same name who figured as a plaintiff IN erin. con-
suit of Hope VS.. Aguado. At the sale Of his
stable, the other day, it contained sixteen blood
ed horses-the auctioneer announced with the
usual turgdity of his profession, the horseup-
fine blooded nag-for which Mr.. Hope gave
| $30O-was the especial favorite of She de-
ceased, his constant Gding horse, and one of
the surest-footed, gef,lest animals in the world.
There were a good many elderly millionaires
present, who are enamored of life, they bid
against each other until the nag fetched s 1900.
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A very pleasing application Of centrifugal
force, is that adopted by Mr.. Masters, in Eng
land, in making ice for confectionery purposes.
One apparatus of large size is capable of freez
ing upwards Of one hundred quarts of liquid
into ice in a quarter of an bour-six different
kinds of ice being produced in the machine at
one time. Not only can the machine make
dessert ice, such as raspberry ice, lemon ice,
&c, but it can as readily produce large, hol-
low cylindrical blocks of ice, into the hollow
of which may be placed decanters of water or
bottles of wine to be cooled. Some of these
cylinders are made in ornamental forms, and
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