Year: 1859



 stated ill New York that he felt satisfied Morphy could play as many games as him. self. The latter is considerably stronger blindfolded than Paulsen, and some of his battles are surprising examples of brilliant strategy.

 Mr. Morphy is about five feet three in- ches, and his slendeness of figure is such as to give him remarkably youthful ap- pearance.-London Ffeld.

 Second Marriage-A Widow in Trouble.

 A friend of ours, who does business on Main street in this city, was travelling few weeks ago in Arkansas, some fifty or sixty miles below Memphis. As night came on at the conclusion of long days travel, he arr ed at solitary house, where, it appeared, the residents within were al ready preparing to retire to rest. He knocked at the door; head was protruded from a window, and, in reply to a question from the owner of the head, he said he wished to stay for the night The head was withdrawn, and a consultation appa- rently took place with some one within, and after a little delay the head was again advanced, and our friend was asked his name. We will not give the name stated that of :" FuIkerson' will answer the same purpose. " Fulkerson. repeated the man with the head out of the window, as If surprised, and not agrceably so e Yes, John Fnlkerson," was the reply, in q tone that had an expression of impatience about 1t; for the traveller was hungry as well as tired, and not being priest, fasting never smoOthS his temper. The head was again withdrawn at this announcement. as rapid ly as an lrishman once withdrew his, when he knelt and took a drink out of one of the boiling springs of the State in which the adventure we are relating took place. Sometime now elapsed; the night was cold and our hungry friend found his quarters ln front of the solitary house not at all to his mind. At length he hammered violently at the door several times, and uttered a se- ries of ejaculations, more indicative of flexible tongue than of profound piety- lie then took look around the premises, to ascertain if possible, the reason of this unaccountable delay He discovered man stealing silently away in the rear, who jumped over the fence and set off in run, that spoke well for his agility, in the direc- ton of the timber The front door was opened at this moment, and negro girl called to him to come in.

 On entering he could discover nothing suspicious; good supper was set before him and he wa, attantivcly waited upon.- He noticed, however, that the n,gro waiter was very cute in her replies to isquestions, and that when he asked anything about the inmates of the place she manifested all emotion that looked like alarm. He re- tired to bed. too greatly fatiguel to reflect much upon the singularity of this conduct he slept well, and in the morning was at an early hour eating his breakfast, when he observed a pair of eyes intently gazing at him from chinl in the wall that divided the room in which he sat from an adjoining passage. Determined to know the mean ing of the singular behaviour he had ob- served in the pacc-ior every individual about 1t, whom he had accosted answered him with trepidation in the lewest possible number of words, and then hurried away from him as if in tear-he rushed into the passage and catching hold of the man whose eyes had been so busily engaged he de- manded the reason of his singular scrutiny The man appeared overcome with agita- ton, and asked-in voice the interroga- tor at once recognized as the same he had heard on the previous night-if Mir. Full kerson intended to stay? No, Mr. Fulker- son would go as soon as he had finished his breakfast and paid his bill, but he in sisted upon knowing why so much spying and whispering were going on? "Why, are you not Mir. Fulkerson that owns this house?" asked the man. C No, I never saw the house before," was the reply. In moment look of intense satisfaction beamed from the mans face, which had before worn troubled expression, and without another word he rushed up stairs, three or four steps at time, and quickly returned, bringing with him portly look ing dame, whose eyes were red, as if with weeping, and who exclaimed in a tone of joyous surprise as soon as she caught sight of our bewildered friend, who could not for the life of him guess what had bewil- dered the folks-.' It is not John''

 An explanation then ensued, from which it appeared that the house in which our friend had spent the night, had formerly been the property of a man of the same name as himself This man had been absent some years. As nothing had been heard of him during all that time, his better half the lady who appeared so much pleased that he was not " John" had resolved to take another husband, and the new knot was to be tied that very evening. On the previ- ,ous evening her intended second husband was paying his last attentions as lover when the announcement of the name of "John Fukerson'' from onr friend, in moment sptead dismay and consternation where all had been joy and sweet anticipa- tion. The lover stole off the back way, to be beyond the reach of danger; the lady had spent the night in weeping; .once she had mourned her husbands absence, now she grieved over his return. The quietness of the unexpected and unwelcome guest had, however, somewhat reassured the distressed couple; the lover had cautiously returned to the house and was making his observa- tions, when our friend so unceremoniouslv seized him. The tidings were quickly spread, and laughter and mirth soon filled the dwelling that had been doleful with dis appointment and sorrow. The traveller was heartily invited to stay and partake of the wedding supper; his bussiness called him away, however, but he has since learned that the marriage took place without any outward interruption. If the real John Fulkeison of Arkansas, should be alive and see this, let him take warning and never approach the home he as deserted, for he is most emphatically not wasated. We assure our readers that the occurrence we have re- lated is strictly true.-Appleal.