The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-07-01


Margaret Maria said the squire, dashing
on, without regard to ceremony, "thlsis Mrs.
jenkins, as good neighbor as ever wish to
live by, and here are the Crank girls, and
you know 'em all" Susy cor
daily greeted her young friends, and tried to
make them feel at ease. sleigh-load after
sleigh-loads came, and all the back way. Every
piece of poplin and delaine at the dry goods
store at the Corners was represented that
evening, Never was Margaret Maria so puz-
geld to play the hostness. The young men
ranged themselves on one side of the room,
the girls on the other, and there they stood as
for spelling school. The old women hud-
died togetherin the corner and then unrolled
their knitting works, while Martin entertained
the men On the favorite subject, wmlls.-
He hired four or five more lumber men, and
paid off ascore of old debts that evening. Mar
garet Maria thought Of the gayeties of A., and
gave Sigh for Harry Blake. Refreshments
were served up early, as several suggested
it was about time they was going home. The
table was arranged with exquisite, taste, but
the guests were too much frightened TO eat, all
except the widow Crank, who drew off a long
sceTof each kind of cake and then stepped
up to the, bride, and said, "Well, | used to
think the. squire's first wife was the best cook
ever did see, but I declare, you beat her en-
tirely." Margaret Maria smiled a plying
smile, as much as TO say, 'you poor heathen."
When they returned to the parlor. Susy
proposed music, at which the singing master
at the "Corners'' lnstinctively drew out his
pitch pipe and was just ready to strike Baer-
ma when all at once, he observed piano IN the
room. Susy asked her mother to play, She
seated herself at the instrument, and running
her jewe:ed fingers over tie keys, began one
of Mozart sublime compositions. And as she
played, a truant tear fell unbidded from her
eye and lay on her diamond ring. That dia-
mond ring! what misery had it brought her,
That night, when all were gone, she laid
her head on Susy's neck and wcpt. Sorrow
had softened her heart. "susy,' said she,
'tyou must go away from here. These may
be good people, but they are not fit associates
for you Not many weeks AFTER Susy was
sent to fashionable boarding-school in the
city of A., Margaret Maria's native home
MILL" as she mentally christened her hus-
band. .Susy had been away year, and then
there came news. 1t was contained in a little
note which read thus:
"Dearest father and mother, do not chde if
l. yonng girl, have learned to love, but Har-
ry Blake is noble and worthy of my affection.
He is not rich, but fast rising to eminence.--
| half wish be were poor, that | might show
him how entirely love him for his own sake.
Enclosed is letter, in which be asks you to
give me away to him. Dear father, the
same kind hand that has guided me ever since
nv own mother went to rest, is with me still.
Your 1ovinr SUsY.'
ssThe good child" said the old man, unfold
ing Harry's letter. Margaret Maria could
bear no more, and retired to her own room.
Sadly she took out the faded bouquet and press
ing it to her lips, murmered, '3Alas! married
for money" and then, as If a demon had en-.
I tered her heart, she exclaimed, 'tand money
I'll have, and not be cooped up here either
The last that was seen Of her, she was making
tour to Europe, and her husband was by he1
side, talking to her necessarily of saw mills.
It is a common opinion that climate alone i
capable of producing all the dversities of.eom
plexion so remarkable in the human race
very few facts may suffice to show that sucl
cannot be the case. Thus the negroes of Val
Diemen's Land, who are among the blackes
people on earth live in climate cold as that O
Iceland; while the Indo Chinese nations, wh>
live in tropical ASIA are of a brown and div,
complexion. 1t is remarked by Humbold
that the American tribes of the equinoxial re
gion have no darker skin than the mountalneer
of the temperate zone. So, also, the Puel
ches iof the Madeanic plains, beyond the ff
tv-fifth degree of south latitude, are absolute
ty darker than AbIpones, TOBIAS, and othe
tribes who are many degrees nearer the equa
+ tor A gain, the Charruas, who live south Q
the Rio de la Plata, are almost black, while th'
Guatacas, under the line, are among the fair
est of the American tribes Finally, not tt
multiply examples, those nations Of the Cauca
sian race which have become inhabitants of tht
torrid zone in both hemispheres, although thei
descendants have been for centuries, and II
Africa for many centuries, exposed to the mos
active influence of the climate, have never, II
solitary instance, exhibited the transforma
ton from Caucasian to negro complexion.
A QUEER ELoPEmENT.-The Baltimore Re
publican tells good story of An elopemen
which recently occurred in that city. It seem
that d young fashionable geIs, becoming smit
ten with the charms Of a young lady whom h
had seen at a May ball, procured an introduc
) ton, and solicited the honor of another inter
view. The young lady, in reply, informed hin
that she was the daughter of wealthy ship
! ping merchant residing on Broadway, Fell!
Point; but, in consequence of her father bein!
opposed to the visit of any admirer of hers, i
would be impossible for him to make the eve
ming visit for which he so ardently longed Fl
nal!y, after pressing entreaties, she gave he
gracious consent for him to call at her residence
on tbe following Sunday evening, between th'
hoars Of eight and nine o'clock when her faith
er and mother, she alleged, would be absento ol
theirregular visit to church. On the appointed
evening the love stricken swain was, of course
puuctualin in attendance and was received in tn
kindest and most atfectionate manner by his la
dy! love.
The upshot ofthe matter was that an elope
ment occurred and the parties were married
After marriage the bridegroom proposed tha
they should return home and procure tile faith
er's pardon. Judge then of his dismay, whel
with trembling voice, she informed, him tha
although she possessed the name of the gentle
man in question, she was not related to him il