Year: 1859

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The New 1ork correspondent of the Charleston
Courier tells a pretty story about pretty maid
servant which we copy, proem and all:


Almost everybody that is anybody is now out of
town. The business streets are less crowded than
usual, while the fashionable ones are entirely de-
serted, The young men in the downtown whole
sale stores have nothing to do but to loaf read the
papers, and try to keep cool. The splendid resi-
dences IN the Filth avenue and other similar streets
are barred and bolted, and even a procession with
band OF music brings no one to the windows as it
passes, but the servant girls who remain at home


They have good time playing the lady while
their mstresses are dancing at Saratoga and bath
ing at Newport. But would have YOU know that
some of the maid servants here are a very good
looking and well-behaved class. most amusing
illustration of the attractiveness of certain people


and OF the lntauaton of Others occurred the other
day. young man from one of the interior States
having come to town, thought it but right and
proper that he should pay his respects to family
with whom some members of his own had been we'll
acquainted. He got himself up regardless of ex-
pense, and having shaved and been shampooued at


Phalon's and having dined at the st. Nicholas, he
started to call upon his aristocratic but unfamiliar
friends Ringing the bell, a very handsome younp
woman came to the door and let him in. Upon in
quiry as to whether the "folks were at home" he
was informed that they were not, but that they


hnd been out OF town some time, aEd would be alb
sent all Sumner. The young man was fresh from
the country and could distinguish the lady from
the ladys maid. Having heard his sister describe
Miss b, he made up his mind that the person be-
fore him was none other than whom he had called
TO see The maid servant denied the soft impeach-
ment, but he would have that she was only PLAYING
OF. He had night two before been to see f'She
Stoops to Conquer" at one of our theatres. The


MAID servant finding 1T impossible to undeceiye the
young man from the country, invited him into the
parlor. They spent the evening very pleasantly
together, the ready and spirited conversation of
the servant convincing her visitor that she had


been playing an assumed part He thought that
she was intelligent and handsome enough to be the
daughter sha nOt
der this conviction, he went to this hotel, not
however, until he had assured her that he would
call again, and his sleep was of course sweetened
by pleasant dreams. His visits were frequent and
constant. And although he has since satisfied
himself that the young woman whom he saw was
maid servant, and not the young lady of the house


hl' interest in her has increased to such extent
that he has formally proposed marriage. He is
honest in his intentions, and we-to do in the
world, and of course she will have him. This mar
rage will or should create quite as much talk as
that soon to take place between the millionaire
Spaniard and the daughter of a gentleman late
Lieutenant in the Navy.


How TO CURE Fruit SrEAIERs.-One great hin
drance to fruitgrowing in the neighborhood of
towns, and one of the greatest hindrances to per-
severance in its culture is its exposure to be stolen
One may send to a distant nursery for a rare and
expensive kind of fruit, may watch and nurse
1t Tor several years. and then, when his eyes are
gladdened by its first productions some ragged
loater may enter his grounds by night and devour
them. Nay, some loafers not ragged but profess
edlv genteel, may rob him of his treasures, and
then chuckle over their success first-rate Joke
why should not our Legislature give US law
punlshing fruit-robbing with heavy penalties
Better that thief enter our. barns and carry off
oats or corn than enter our gardens and strip our
pear trees and grapeyines of their delicious bur-
den We wish, too, that public sentiment Wis
tied the robbery with greater reprobation and dis


grace. But until such good time comes, every
man must guard his own castle in the best way he
lnlOhhOr Mill uioi ifarc
to dose they don't relish. For example: When
his early Sweet Bough apples are being nightly
stolen, he takes several fine specimens and immerses
them In weak solution of ipecacuana, and scat
ters them again on the ground; first marking them
tnat his own family shall not eat them by mistake.
he treats few of the ontsde hills of his strawberry
patch In the same way. 1t affords him no little
amusement to learn, privately, that the doses take
effect where they were designed to do so, his father


"a djctor, being sent for by suppected persons to
prescribe fer their disordered stomachs and unac-
countable nausea This gentlemans fruit garden
lies on the bank of canal, and the indigestbilty
oil his fruit is we'll known to the canal drivers all
along that route -Rural American, July %.


AN UNKNOWN SHIP BURNED AT SEA-The British
ship James Yeo, which arrived at this port yester-
day, reports having seen steamship on fire on the
2oth OF June. in latitude 47o 30 and longitude 23o
O5'. The Captain of the James Yeo went near
enough to the burning vessel to discover that she
was DESTROYED to the waters edge, that there was
no name left upon her hull and for some reason or
other to infer that she was American steamer


But an American steamship she could not have
been, as there is no steamer plying between this
country and Europe, which is out of time or miss
ing 1t was most likely the hull of the cotton


laden ship Stalwart, which was destroyed by fire in
the latter part OF June in about the latitude in
which the supposed steamer was seen. The crew
OF the Stalwart were rescued and carried to Eng
land, and an account of the disaster has already
been published in our columns,--N. Y, Times.