New-York daily tribune., 1856-07-17

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TO the bed where the invalid lag, and stoOping
down over her, Her weak wasted arms we're
thrown around bic neck, and abe said, with sudden
animation,
30, you've come at Last! thought should
die without seeing you"
40, you ant agoDg to die, Sis Why, what
! TALK said he, chuckiDg her under the chin
"Wby, your checks are as red a. roees!"
"Pa, see the baby said Little Teddy, who,
having climbed over the bed, opened the flannel
bundle
"Ahi Sis, I call that ar tolersble fair stroke
of business WE'LL tell you what, I've done ups
trade now that will set US up, and no mistake Be-
| side which, I've got something now in my coat
pocket that would raise a dead cat to life if she
was lying at the bottom Of pond with stone
rouno her neck See here! Or. Puffers Elixir
Of the Water of Life warranted to cure janders,
tootL.sche, ear-ach., scrolaa, spepsa, sumption,
and everything else that ever / bearn Of A tea
spoonful of that ar morn and hight and in a week
you II be round agn, as pert as a cricket"
II was astonishing TO see the change which the
| entrance of this man had wrought on the invalid.
All her apprehensions seeued to have vanished
She sat up on the bed, following his every move
m4nt with ber eyes, aud apparently placing full con-
fdence in the new medicine, as it it were the first
time that ever universal remedy had been pro-
posed 10 her. 1t must be noticed, however, that
Tiff, who had returned, and was building the fire.
INDUCED himself now and then, when the bick Of
the speaker was turned by snufing at him in
particularly contemptuOus manner. The man WAS
a thick. set and not i'll looking parsonage, who
might have been forty or fOrty-hv years Of age.
| His eyes, of clear, lively brown, his clOse.
curling hair, his high forehead, and a certain
devil may.care ankDess of expression traits
not disagree able, and which went some way to
| account for the partial eagerness with which the
eve Of the wife followed him.
~ af utri hPiaa 10 fnlI 40 uvan
| the son of small farmer of North Carolina. His
father having been so unfortunate as to obtain pos
| session of few negroes, the whole family became
ever after inspired with an intense disgust for all
kinds of labor; and John, the oldest son, adopted
for himself the ancient and be nOrable profession of
| loafer To lie idle in the sun In front OF some
small grogshop to attend horse,races, cockhshts,
and cander- r-pullngs to flout out occasionally IN
new waIstcOat, bought with money which came
| nobody knew how, we're pleasures to him all sat
| isfactory. He was as gultjess of all knowledge
| of c0nmOn school learning as Governor Berkley
could desire and far more clear Of religious train
| ing than MOhammedan or Hindoo.
| In one of bis rambling excursions through the
country, be stopped night at worn-out and
brOb en- down OLD plantation, where everything had
run down, through many years Of mismanagement
and waste. There he stayed certain days, playing
cards with the equally hopeful son OF the place,
| and ended his performances by running away one
night with the soft-hearted daughter, only fifteen
wears of age, and wDO was full as idle, careless,
| and nptaugbt, as he.
Ibe ia pily whom poverty could not teach to
forget their pride were greatly scandaIzed at the
marriages abd had there been anything left in the
| WORKOUT estate wherewith to portion her. the
bride, nevertheless, would be pOrtionless. The
sole piece Of property thar went out with her from
| the paternal mansion was one, who, having mind
and will of his own could not be kept from follow
| ing her The girls mother had come from dis
taDt brmch of one of the most celebrated families
| in Virginia, aud Tiff had been her servant; AID,
with q heart forever swelling with the remem-
brances OF the ancestral greatness OF the PeytOus,
| be followed his young mistress in her mesalliance
| with long. suffering devotion. He even bowed his
neck 70 far as to acknowledge for his master
| man whom he considered by position infinitely his
infelisr for Tiff, though crooked and black, never
seemed TO cherish the sli. htest doubt that the
whole force OF the Peyton blood cOursed through
bis veins. and that the PeytOn honor WAS ntrusted
| to bis Keeping. His mistress was Peyton. her
children were Peyton children and even the LITTLE
bundle Of flannel in the gumtree cradle WIS
Peyton; and as for him, he was Tiff PeytOe, and
| this thought warmed and cOnsvled him as 10 fbl-
lowed his poor mistress during all the steps of her
downward course in the world On her husband
he looked with pstrObizing, civil contempt lie
| wished him we'll; he thought it proper to put the
| hour, Tiff would solnetimes raise his spcctacles
| emphatically and give it out, as his own private
opinion, g that dere could not be mnch 'spected
| from dat ar scription Of people"
| In fact the rowing and unsettled nature OF John
Crippss avOcations and locations might have Justl-
| fed the old fellows contempt. His industrial!
| career might be defined as comprising little OF
| everything, and great deal of nothing. he had
begun successfully, 70 learn two or three trades;
bad half made horse shoe, and spoiled one or
two carpenters planes; had tried his hand at
stsge.driving; had raised lighting cocks, and kept
| dogs for hunting negroes. But he invariably re-
treated from every one Of his avocations, in his
| own opinisn much. abused man. The last device
that lad entered his head was suggested by the
success of sbrewd Yankee peddler, who. having
d lot of damaged and unsalable material to dis.
pose Of talked him into the belief that no pos
sessed yet all undevel"ped talent for trade; and
poor John Crpps, guiltess of multiplication ar ad-
diiion table, and who kept his cOck-hghiing sc-
counts on his fingers and by makog chalk marks
behind the doors, actually was made to believe that
lie had at last received his true vocation.
! In fact, there was something in the constant
restlessness Of this mode of life that suited his
rowing turn and, though he wac constantly buy
ing what he could not SELL and losing on all that he
di0 SELL yet somehow he kept up an Illusion that
he WAS doing something, because stray cOos now
and then passed through his pockets and because
the circle of small tave in which he could drink
and loaf was considerably larger. There was one
resource which never failed him when all oher
streams went dry and that was the unceasng In
gepuity and fidelity Of the bondmsn Tiff.
Tif in fact, appeared TO be one of thO'e COM
Portable old creatures who retain such good un.
! derstandiDs with all created nature that food
is never denied them. Fish would always