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ASHEViLIE, N. THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1850. WOLE NoTTosT Tbe JDiamoHcl Ureas fpin. "It will cost two bumred dollars, Anna said George Blackley tohis young, proud, and extravagant wife. Tbe tone in which he said this, showed tint her request had startled him, "I knowit will.

But what are two hundred dollar for a diamond pin Mrs. Blackley's voice wis half contemtpuous. "Mary Edgar's dittaonds cost over a Defeat of the Postal Ap wropriaiion 0I1K A LETTER SENATOR CLINGMAN. ATS CnJLMTJKR. VfmwJk 1fltA Gentlemen; You have doubtless been ap.

prwed era this that the 1M making appro ajmtions Tor the support of the postal of the United States was lost at the late session of Congress. It is due to my constituents that they should be informed of the causea of this extraordinary occurrence, and request the use of your columns to enable me to present a short statement of the fact. Under the ru4es aud usages of the two house of Congress, the annual appropmtioo bill have invariably been onrinaLad in lKa n. of Representatives, and, after passing thro' that thejr have been acted oh in the Senate, and such amendments made to them as a majority of tha Senate thought proper urw. Auey were men returned to the House, and if a majority of that bodv awreed to the amendments of the Senate, no tnrth action was necessary to the hftUKflflra nF tit a bi Ha.

If, however, the Houm vv.u IV any of tbe Senate amendments, on that fact being communicated to ihe Senate, it might recede from such arueudmenU, and on ito sO dtr lrffcsv a passed. It often hap pened, however, that the Senate insisted on some of its amendments, and asked for a committee of conference to coiuider jibe disagreeing vote of the two house. This was agreed to bjrthe House, and there was a joint committee composed of members of both houses, who on consultation, decided which amendment should stand and which be given up. When their report was agreed to by the house, the bills were considered as passed. This has been the courae of proceeding at every session of my service in Congress.

The Post Office approprialloti bill came from the House to'ihe Senate at the present session in the. usual mode. It made appropriation! to the extent of above twenty millions of dollars, of which a little less than four millions was to pay off deficiencies or debts due before the Stub of June next, and the remainder for the postal service of the coming year Tbe bilr was carefully considered by the Seuate for several days, and as usual a number of amendments were made. Among them was one abolishing the franking privilege of senators and representatives, and another raising the postage of letters from three to five cents, drc. It was sent oacK to tne no use tor concurrence in these amendments.

For some rime after it reached that body, the majority refused to consider it, though repeated attempts, were made to take it up. At length, on the last nicht of tne session it was taken up, but inhtead of its amendments being considered as usual. and agreed to a resolution -was moved declaring in substance that the Senate had violated the constitution in propo sing to increase the rates of postage, andjdi- recting the Clerk of the House to cany back the bill and amendments to tbe Senate with a copy oT their resolution. This motion was' made by Mr. Grow, a noteo abolitionist from Pennsylvania, and tbe candidate at the lu Congress of the black republican party for all the members of that party, by certain individuals belonging to the late know nothing or American organization, and by several democrats, and was therefore passed.

As this was a violation of all parliamentary usages, of all legislative proprieties, and a course insulting to a co-ordinate branch of the Congress, its supporters doubtless thought that the Senate could not consistently with its own self respect Take any notice of the matter, and thus the bill be suffered to die quietly to the detriment of the public service. When the message was brought in by the Clerk, however, the Senate, feeling that the public interest ought to be of paramount consideration, determined to overlook the insult, however gross it might be, and sent back a respectful message to the House requesting a committee of conference to consider the disagreement on the bill. This was acceded to, and a joint committee was raised. When it assembled, however, the members from the House refused to consider this bill in any Had they dons so, the Senate, I feel confident, would have receded from all its amendments rather than let the bill fail. Iu accordance, however, with the views of tbe House, they would have nothing to do with this bill, but that the Senate branch of the committee should accept, instead of it, an entire new bill, which was represented to be similar to the one which had originally come from the House.

The Senate branch of the committee, seeing that nothing else could bo done, agreed to report this bill to the Seuate for its consideration. Their report was accordingly made to the Senate on the last day of tbe session, just forty minutes before 12 o'clock, the period at wbich by the constitution the session was necessrially to terminate. The bill was announced and read by its title only for the first time. A call was then made fbr the reading of it through; but it was said that there would not be time to read it ever before tbe period of the adjournment. It was a new bill to the Senate.

It had never beeo printed; but I suppose that tbe Secretary could probably have read it over once before 12 o'clock, though there was certain 1 uo time to consider its provisions. J- It was said that we must pass it without reading it even once or not at all. A debate sprung up which exhausted the re-, maining minutes, and the bill was then left unacted on: Ought the Senate to have passed this bill without its being read over once to let the senators know what sort of a measure it was Remember that by tbe rules of the houses all bills must be read three times ia each house; and this is done unless waived by genera! consent of aHtbe members. Ought a legislative body ever to pass a bill with out at least reading it once to ascertain what sort ofa measure it was This, however, was represented to be a bill appropriating twenty millions of money. Few persons realize bow large a sum this is.

The taxes in our State are considered high by many of our citizens. The amount raised last year I think was about five hundred thousand dollars. It would therefore require forty years of such taxation as tbe people of our State are paying to raise the sum equal to what this bill was said to appropriate. If it existed in the shape of silver coin it would require for" hs "transportation three hundred wagons, each carrying four thousand pounds, land making a train perhaps three miles long. THOM AS W.

ATEIH EDITOR. ASHEVILLE, Thursday, flrfc 1 1859, DEMOCRATIC MEETING. There will be a meeting of the Democratic party of Buncombe county, at the Court House in Asheville, on Tuesday of April Court, to appoint Delegates to a District Convention to nominate a candidate for Congress. MAN DEMOCRATS. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

The members of the Buncombe County Agricultural Society ace hereby notified that Shore will be a meeting of the 8ociety on Wednesday of April Court next, at the Court House lu Asheville. Business of importance will be brought before the Society, and tis earnestly hoped that very citizen who feels an interest in the Agriculture of the cotfflty will be present. CHA3. MOORE, President. gwTbe earnings of the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad for the month of January, 1858, amounted to $18,631 06.

For month of January, 1859, 23.t05 83. Increase, $4,974 77. Pretty fair increase, that. 3T The sum of $450 was realized the University of North Carolina for Mount Vernon, on the 22 by the lecture of Hon. H.

W. Miller. gS" Cuba contains a population of aboatl 1,000,000, which is nearly equally divided between whites and slaves and free blacks. Evidence of Civilization. The Minnesota papers say that the Indians in part of the country are being rapidly civiliaed, all those in the neighborhood of the settlements drinking whisky, ohewiog tobacco, lying, stealing and swearing equal to white men; aud the other day a young squaw committed suicide by hanging herself on a tree, on ac count of disappointment in love.

In Beonettsville S. on the' -24th three men named Jno. W. Graham, An-nanias Graham and John 13. McCollum were killed from the effects of poison, supposed to have been in whisky.

John C. Terrel has been arrested and lodged in jail on strong circumstantial evidence. New Fillibuster. A letter frdto San Antonio, signed by Boone G. Brady, and published in the Louisville Journal, says that the old party of Ilenuiogsen, Col.

Frank Anderson, and the rest of 'hem are rendezvousing at that point for a raid on Sonora. Counterfeiters on trial. The Newberry Conservatist says The counterfeiters Stewart and Wright were, on Thursday last, brought before Uni ted States Commissioner Knotts, and upon a bcarinsr bein lad Wright was discharged. Stewart was offered bail, and upon his fail ure to give it, was remanded. S3T Elections will take place in four States this Sring, viz New Hampshire, March 8th; where the contest will be-between the Republicans and Democrats; Connecticut, April 6th; Ilhode Island, April '6th, and in Virginia, May 2kh.

In each of these States a Governor is to bo chosen, and also mem- bers of the next Congress. Twelve Miles an Hour on Skates. The N. Examiner says, that a small party of t.sitfents of lately ska- ted from that place to New burg in hve hours and five minutes, distance sixty-nine miles. Isaac D.

Moses, Grand Worthy pa triarch of the Sons of Temp, of East Tennessee, died at Kooxville, on Monday night last. Carolina Spartan. The Carolina Spartan closed its fifteenth volume with its last issue. It says 'We now. enter upon sweet sixteen, and are open to all those tender advances incident to that tender period.

AH sorts of pro posals invited for subscriptions, advertising and job printing. Mysterious Vault. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer at Jackson, Ohio, gives an account of a subterranean vault discovered there, in which the air was so impure that it was impossible for any one to go down into it. By means of a rake, human bones of gigantic size have been raised, and a small chain qf silver, with coins attached to each end. Died Returning From a Ball.

Miss Laura Stratton, a young girl while on her way home Tuesday night from a military ball given in Baltimore, became so ill that she was forced to seat herself on a doorstep. Her brother ran for a physician, but on returning with one found her dead in her ball attire. She died of congestion of the heart. Decidedly Cool. Boston is a cool place certainly, but the coolest thing there is a medicine vender in that city, who askspub-lishers of newspapers in the 'United States and elsewhere," to copy an advertisement of his warea "editorially," and then take their pay in medicines.

One of the ladies at a fashionable ba'l in Washington is said to have worn $100,000 worth of jewelry, and yet her husband, who Urea io this city, does not pay the baker, butcher, and others who feed the family and supply it with necessaries. New York Ledger. before a hYgfter ooe, and she was grace. tribunal left to than an earthly poverty and dis- The story is one of everyday life. George Blackley is the representative of a class.

Not all of them rob banks, or defraud their employers; but all of there to rapport idle, extravagant wives in costly establishments costly is comparison with their means spead more than their earnings or profits, and fail in the end to pay their just obligations. i. modern young lady, fashionably educated and with modern notions of style, fashion and domestic equipments, is altogether too costly srh article for a young man of small means or a moderate salary. LHaAond pirrs, rich silks and laces, rosewood furniture, six, seven, eight or ntne hundred dollar bouses, operas, balls, fashionable parties, Saratoga and Newport, and success io business, are altogether out of the ques tion. If young men would unite the latter and matrimony, they must look into another drele for wives.

A girl who is inde-pendert enough to earn her own living as a teacher or with the needle, a wife worth a score of such butterflies of fashion; and a rising young man, who has ony his industry to rest ipon for success of life, is a fool to marry any other. Useful industry is always honorable, and difference of set makes no difference in this particular. The Washington Tragedy. There a moral in this cast which ought to impress itself upon the community, and particularly the so-called fashionable community, far nd wide. It is oily when such scenes as these occur, that we lealize how far society has rifted from thos sound and stable maxins of morality, which are too often, Dow-a days, looked upol as stiff and precise.

Tie prevalence of the detestable doctrines of? "women's which tend to absolve the wife from her allegiance to her husband, is the source of tea thousand domestic sorrows, which culminate in divorce suits or dordestic tragedies, to the shame and disgrace of ihe age in which we live. Nothing is more common in "fashionable society" thab for wives to accompany geutle-men, other their husbands, to theatres, ball, parties, excursions, or for gentle men to call the absence of husbands upon their wives. Indeed, these aie common occurrences in "society," now a-days, and yet they are pernicious customs, founded upon loose principles of moral obligations, and hence can only tend to produce domestic difficulties. Nearly trir A', aucn causes and they only to show that we had actually better go back to the prim ness of real Puritanism, than tc allow such laxity of manners and such freedom of inter-course to break up the very safeguards of society. Iu this respect, we tonceive Mr.

Sickles to be greatly to blame. lie has allowed his wife, it would seem, free latitude to go out with Ar. Key, who escorted her to the theatres, rid'ug excursions, That such improprieties siould finally culminate in her downfall is rot the most surprising thing in the World, aid they will go far to ttfke from Mr. Sickles tlat sympathy which otherwise would have bem quite universal. The victim of the fearful tragely at Washington or rather one of the victims, we should and perhaps the more fortunate of all we understand, the brother of the gifted Mrs.

K. Blunt, the ooetess and reader, who gave two entertainrrimts in this city last summer. New York Dap BooTc. Tt is not fair to charge Washington with all the vice and crimes that are seun there. Adultery and murder are not peculiar to the national seat of Government.

13.it the state of society there, during the session of Congress, are such as to provoke to sin and stimulate to crime. American hotel life, where there is none of the privacy, the purity, or the ssnctity of home, is most vividly seen at Washington. The member ol Congress who takes his Wife to Washington, and while he iB engaged for half the day at tie session, or at a caucus, or among the Departments, leaves her in a big public bouse, crowded with adventurers, males and females, from all parti of the country, runs a great risk of being dishonored. The routs, hops, receptions, dinners, and general eicitements at Washington bring women into contact with many dangerous companions; tie natural modesty of the sex is soon worn off in such scenes, and when modesty begins to fall, virtue finds no lack of tempters. The wretched woman, whose fall is said to have led to this last tragedy, was not at all a peculiar instance of sin in fashionable circles.

Her singularity consists' in her having been detected. Her penalty is that ber lover is dead, ber husband is a and herself disgraced. Hundreds of others, who have done as she did, still flourish in Washington, and doubtless in other cities, also. Philadelphia J5 eening' Bulletin. A Protest os Tick.

One of ur Louisville leading bouses sold a bill of goods to an Indiana customer on credit. A settlement by note at four months was requested, to which, the Hoosier debtor willingly assented. "But, suppose I don't pay this note waen it falls due inquired he. "Then," replied our merchant, "your note will be protested and your credit destroyed "How nuch will that cost?" said Indiana. "Doiar and a half," tremulously answered otw friend.

"Then look here, old fellow, just include that amount in the note, and pay it for me when you get the note protested." A leading merchant collapsed and was seen at church for a month, though a very strong protectant. Louisville Courier. 'j The man that struck Billy Patterson, was found drunk, the other day, ridisg the At lantic Uabie. He Died Rich," People said this everywhere, when the morning papers announced the death of John Russe I 'residen of tbe bank. They said it on Wall street, where they count wealth by hundreds of thousand, and tbey said it in elegant par ore, and by luxurious breakfast tables, all over the squares and avenues of the great city; they said it, too, in dark alleys, and in squalid homes where ail his thousands could not buy back to the millionaire one hour of the life that was to them a burden and i misery.

Everywhere it was the same story "He died His family and bis' friends thought to, as tbey gathered around the bedside of the dying man; and you, reader, would have thought ft too, if jyou could have looked Around that chamber, into which death was entering with his dumb footfalls and his ghastly presence, jph, it was a princely room Rare pictures flushed tbe walls, that winter day, with the 'glory of Arcadian Summers; I he fairest blossoms of Southern May were piled thick the costly carpet; and the daintily embroidered drapery fell in soft, crinkled clouds from the massive bedstead. And the owner of all this magnificence lay there dying; and through all his Iifedf more than three score years he had toiled and struggled for this to die rich He had a. I 1 ii i uougui ianas, ana sola mem; ne had sent richly freighted ships to foreign ports) he had owned shares in railroads, and stocks in Banks, and now Ah I there was an angel who stood at the bedside of John Russe! in that dvin? hour. and the man had nothing out of all his life to give mm; no generous, noble, self sacri ficing deeds, which would have been as gold, and precious jewels in the hand of the angel so he wrote down at the close of the last chapter of John Russell's life, "He died poor." A 1 1 If 1 auu touD ausseii saw me words as ins soul followed tbe angels on that journey which sooner or later we must all take, and he knew then for the first time that all the labor, and toil, and struggling of bis life on earth, had only brought him this verdict at the bar of the Kingdom of Heaved, "He died poor." "He died poor." A very few persons said this of an old man who lay in a back chamber of a small dilapidated building, whose solitary window looked out on the back garden of John RussePs residence. The floor was bare, and there was only a few chairs, a table and a low bed in the room.

By its side stood au old black woman, whom the dying man had occasionally faruihhed with "an armful of WOod, Or a Ic" bratiI K.Ua 1 1 coiu lip with water, or held the tallow candle close to his dim eyes, so that he might see once more the light of this wovld. He had not a dollar upon earth; his fortune had taken wings and flown away; his wife and his children had gone before him, his friends had deserted or lost sight or mm, and now none remain to watch with the old man till death called him, but the gratefal old black woman whom he had saved from starvation. But the angel with the book stood there, too, and looking over that old man's life, he. saw how many good, and gentle, and ffener ous deeds brightened every year; how he bad been to the suffering, and forgiven such wrongs as mae men friends, aud striven, through all the trials and temptations of his long, sad life, to be true to God and himself. So the angel wrote under the last chapter of this old man lite, and every letter shone like some rare setting of diamonds, "He died And the old man knew it too, when he stood at the silver portal of tbe Eternal city, and they led him into the gate and showed him the inheritance to which he was heir.

There was the bouse not made with hands, with its columns of pearl, and its ceilings of jasper, with its pleasant rooms, and its lofty halls, and its mighty organs from which peal torever the notes of praise to our (Jrod. There, too, was the pleasant landscape, with its green avenues, its golden pavillions, Us trees waving in the joy of the eternal leaves, and its silver meadow lands sloping down to the river of eternal waters. He was heir to all theso things, and be took tbe title deeds from the hands of God's angels, and entered into their possession, while they were saying pityingly on earth, "'He died poor," Ah, reader! how unlike it is the things there. All the wealth of this world cannot buy One acre of the soil "on the other side the river," nor one title deed to its pleasant homes or its fountains of sweet water; but only live so that when you sail out on the great sea of death, you shall bear with you to the golden ports those blessed words of the angels, "He died rich," and you shall be satisfied with your inheritance in the "kingdom of Heaven." Troubles op a School Teacher. One of those very useful members of society, engaged in teaching, or trying to teach, the "young idea how to shoot," gats into trouble, and reports progress, as follows "George, what does CAT spell "Don't know, sir." "What does your mother keep to catch mice "Trap, sir." "No, no I what animal is very fond of milk "A baby, sir." "You dunce, what was it scratched your sister's face "My nails, sir." "I am out of all patience.

There, do you see that animal on the fence "Yea, sir." "Then tell me what A soelis." Kitten, sir. To Preserve Eggs. Eggs are perfectly preserved for mouths, by putting them in corn meal, and setting away io a cool cellar. No other method it so effectual. Counterfeit Economy.

The Washington Union says: There is nothing more catching than cant. A few years ago, when inflate! importations of foreign merchandise and Urge sales of public lands during the rage of speculation and land fever in the West, were overflowing the national coffers with treasure; when Congress, too, catching the fever of extravagance, were voting preposterous sums of money to every conceivable object of public expenditure, the magnitude of the country and the wealth of Uncle Sam were the favorite subjects of cant with the great herd of third-rate politicians. At the time when the question was 'how to spend the public and each man's wits were exercised in the invention of schemes for squandering portions of it in his own locality, he was the 'egislator of true courage who thea raised hit voice against the reigning extravagance, and denounced with burning indignation the ruling vice of the hour. lie was the true friend of econ- oroy, wno, witn tne pover to grapp large sums, turned from the tempting treasure and contended with manly and patriotic firmness for economy. Then, the few were for re- trenchmenl; the many for expenditure.

The circumstances of the treasury are changed since the times we have described. Importations have fallen down to the mini mum figures of pressure and hard times. Land sales have subsided with the abatement of the western fever, and only one dollar comes into the treasury from their proceeds now, wnere rive did before, laus mere, is no money is the treasury to vote away upon i a i i mi extravagant" and useless projects cf expendi ture and economy has become rampant. There being no longer any treasure to dis tribute, extravagance and expenditure have become horrid bugbears, and all the cant is for economr. lie is the bold man now who stands up against this cheap mania for re trenchment, and contend for te of administering the government of a great and free'eotistry on a scale of expenditure appor- tioned to its magnitude and accordant with the wishes of a proud and' liberal people.

Now, the few are for a just and liberal scale of expenditure, and the many fur a meau tuid aanow cwuuizir ttUicu costs tuem nothing but long yarns of cant, "spun by the hour. The only subject in tegarcl to which the extravagance of past years is persisted in at present by the advocates of an economy which now costs them nothing, is that of the public lands. The treasury is empty and nothing can be obtained from that source Hurrah therefore, for economy. But vast tracts of land lie a tempting booty in he West; these may be voted to grateful constit lor, next alter money in me nara i A I cash, the masses are most covetous Of fond. It has thus happened that amidst the most tremendous din and clamor tor bills have been voted during the present sea donating land to the amount of hun dreds of millions of dollars worth.

Nor is this all. Although there is no money -in the treasury at present, there will ertainly be goodly sums of it hereafter, and a mortgage upon its future resonrces would not be a bad idea. So a pension bill has been partially passed mortgaging the funds of the treasury for twenty years to come for instalments of ten or twelve millions per annum Nevertheless, the cant cry for economy Btill goes on. Cut down present expenditure it any sacrifice to the public interests; pilt up future charges against the treasury, mountain high. Such is the new economy! 0h Liberty, what crimes are committed in tly It was the liberty of the guillotine, the fu silladest and the noyades, against which Madam Holand ex laimed.

nat shall we say of the Economy which gets ready for whittling down expenditures by voting away $150,000,000 of public lands and $100, 000,000 of pension gratuities at a couple of strokes Four Negroes Killed. Wilson, N. Feb. 24. A sad accident happened oi the plantation of Gen.

Singletary, of Pitt county, day before yesterday. The General had put several of his hands to digging mtrl, and while dicing the pit, being small ind deep, the walls fel or caved in, covering and killing four of the negroes and somevhat injuring three others. i Singular Cattle Disease in Ohio. A disease, called by some "hoof ail, and by others "black is making lerious havoc with horned cattle all over Ohi. It commences in the hind foot, and extends upwards, paralyzing the hind parts so that the creature comes to the ground on its hind quarters; the appetite is destroyed and the eyes grow dim.

This malady is attributable to ergot in the grain, Ac. As wet weather is favorable to its development, many suppose its appearance lately is attributable to that cause. Bribery Offering you a pair of. lips for a kiss. Justifiable Corruption Taking the bribe.

thousand dollars." "Just one thousand dollars mote than her husband could afford to pay for them," said Mr. Blackley. "He's the best judge if that, I presume," retorted his -wife. "But that dosen't signify. You cannot Anna." "What do you do with your money prayf" The young wife turned sharply upon her husband, and her word and tone stung him into a rather harsh But this only aroused her anger and aade her more Unreasonably persistent.

0very well," said hir too yielding husband at last, "go to Qrafield'8 to morrow and get the pin. Tell him to send in the account on the 1st of January, and it will be paid." 9 Mrs. Blackley was in earnest. There was not one of her fashionable acquaintances but had a diamond ring or breastpin, aud until she was owner of ne or both, she could no longer bold up hr head in society. Her husband was receiving-teller in a bank, at a salary of fifteen huuered dollars per annum, when he was married, wbich was about the year before, and be still occupied the same post, and at the same income.

For a young roan in -his position, he had not married wisely. Thk handsome face and captivating manners ofa dashing belle bewildered his fancy. He poposed in haste, was promptly accepted, and led to the marriage altar, not a true wonao, to be transformed into a true wife, but weak, capricious, vain creature, incaptble of genuine love, and too selfish and nnrrow minded to feel the influence of honorable principle. An extravagant love for -ess and ornament characterised her from the beginning, and she would hearken to none of her bus-hand's gently offered reraonstttnee. Nearly half his income she spent daing tbe first year of their marriage, in dies and jewel- Tbe demand for a two bindred dollar breastpin, coming upon younj Blackley as it did, ai a time when he had'Wst made the unpleasant discovery of a defiat iu his in come, when compared with his expenses, of several hundred dollars, saiy disheartened Dui tie was Hot rjraVieuvmi'h to meet the exigency, and, therefore, weakly yielded to a demand that should have been met bt an unflinching refusal.

The first of January found Blckley short of funds by considerably more than the price to be paid for the diamond Jin. Cam-field's bill came in, and must belettled. It would not do for him to hold bck in the matter of payment, for the was an acceuaintHtice of more than ontof the directors of the bank, and question might be asked and inferences drawn prejudicial to bis standing. In anvil hour.inder distress of mind aud strong temptatio, the young man made a false entry whicbenabled him to abstract two hundred dollrs from the bank. This toas only the heginninf of a series of defalcations, which ran throuyi many years, hefore the exposure came whik always follows such a crime.

It was easier now to supply the extravagant demnds of his wife whose annual wardrobe, and fills for jewelry, for which she had that paiion which is characteristic of weak reached tfthe full amount of his salary. But the end came at last. One morning, seven years from the day of iheir marriage Mr. and Mrs. Blackley were tboat leaving tar the opera, when the bell tis rung violently.

Mr. Blackley startedind turned pale with a sudden presentiment evil. "What's the sked his wife, who saw the singular chants in his countenance. Mr. Blackley did not anwer, but stood listening at the door.

Men' voices were now heard, and the tread of hear, feet along the passage. There was a sta and a hurried movement by ftiackley; the he stood still, as if rivited to the spot. "Who are they, what is the meaning of this asked Mrs. Blackley in alarm. At tbe same moment two icn entered the room.

"You are arrested," said ne of them, "on a charge of defalcation." Mrs. Blackley shrieked jjbut her husband stood still and statue-like, ts face of an ashen hue. "George, George, this isialse exclaimed Mrs. Blackley, recovering herself. "You could not stoop to crime "It is true," he answeredin a low and de-sparing voice.

Then laying one of his fingers on the diamond pin Uat glittered on her bosom, he added, spealng to her alone: "You gained that at the price of your husband's dishonor 1 You formnded it. I remonstrated i and said that I ould not af ford so costly an ornament. I Tou repeated your demand, and weak jfol that I was, permitted the contraction if a debt that could only be canceled by cshonest means. 1 thought when I married yu, that I bad obtained a wife whose virtes might help me upward to Heaven, but hn have proved only a tempting fiend, dragging ma daily nearer and nearer tbe brm over wbich I now fall to I have robbed the bank, destruction, less ruin. it was for you he said, io a Then turning to the oi calm voice I am at your service." The words of her husband had stunned Mrs.

Blackley. She never kw him afterwards. That night he passedo his account EBcel.