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Euzs had been brought up by her mistress, ff0ll|.gII'IIl00d, as a potted and indulged fa-,

vourite. .

The traveller in the south must often have 0 remarked that peculiar air of refinement, that : softness of voice and manner, which seems in many cases to be a particular gift to the quad- rooii and mulatto women. These natural graces in the quadroon are often united with beauty of tlI0|ln0It 'nd,sndinalinosteveryca.u, wit i a rise a rance re essin and agreeahlg. Elizu.,p£iibh as wb hiiiigca desoxribed her, is not a. fancy sketch, but taken from re- membrance, as we saw her years age in Ken- tucky. Safe under the protecting care of he? mistress, Elin had reached maturity withou those temptations which make beauty so fatal an inheritance to a slave. She had been married to ii. bright and talented young mulatto man, who was a slave on a _noi hbouring estate, and bore the name of Geor Iiarris.

This young man 59 been hired out by his master to work in a bagging factory, where his adroitness and in nui caused him to con- sidered the first nd in the lace. He had invented a machine for the clean ngcf the hemp, which, considering the education and circum- stances of the inventor, displayed quite as much mechanical genius as Whitney's Cotton-gin.‘

e was possessed of a handsome rson and pleasingcinanners, and was a genera favourite in the. tory. Nevertheless, as this youn man was in the eye of the law not a man, but a t ing, all these superior ualifications were subject to the control of .a vu gar narrow-minded tyranni- cal master. This same. tlsinan, having heard of the fiimc of George s invention, took a ride over to the boto to seewhat this intelligent chattel had been a ut. lie was received with great enthusiasm by the ginployer, who can- gratulated him on possessing so valuable a s ve. .

IIc was waited u over the factory, shown the machinery liy ieor , who, in high spirits, talked so fiucntl , hold imself so erect, ooked so handsome an manly, that his master began to feel an uneas consciousness of inferiority. What business ad his slave to be marchin round the country, inventing machines, an holding up his head amen gentlemen‘! He'd soon put_a stop to it. lied take him back, and put him to hoeiug and di ing, and “ see if he'd stop about so smart." ccordingly, the manu- fuctuifet and all hands concerned were astound- ed when he suddenly demanded George's wa es, and announced his intention of taking im home. " V

“ But, Mr. Harris," rcmonstrzitcd ufiicturer, “ isn't this rather sudden!

“ What lfit is! Isn't the man mime .7"

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" No object at all, sir. any of my hands out, unless I'ye a mind to.”

" Bat, sir, he seems peculiarly adapted to this bii'siuess.’.’

“ Dare say he ma be ?)(:Ihp0IAetI(f0 anything Lliiit 1

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“ But only think of . his inventing this ma- chine," interpo one of the workmen, rather

l k'l . un“u('lli|, ‘yes l-a machine for savin work, isit? He'd invent that, I'll be bound; et a nigger alone (Jr that, an time. They are all labour- savingniucliincs themselves, every one of ’em. No, he shall tram !‘_‘

corp had stood like one transfixed, at hear- ing his doom thus suddenly pronounced b a power that he _knew was irro_sistiblc, lie old- ed his arms, tight pressed inhis lips,--but a lvyohole volcgnc of bitter f00.l;' bphrnedsiin his som,._an sent streams rs rou is veins. lie bi-_eath_ed short, and his la_r dark §’.".’:.f‘.1’2.':.°.“-".5.°.'.§1;’.‘?i’;‘.'.‘.,i..?.3‘i£‘i‘i..hl...: "i‘.‘.'3 2 In , not the kiadl manufacturer touched him on the arm,und ,inalowtnne--—h ! h

“ Give way‘ ‘Gear ;, with im ort c re- sent. Wc’ll E; an yet.” P

Tohp rant ohservcah whis d r, and con?- tnr its import 0 , co not hear w t was said; and he inw y,. strc thened him- self in his dswnpinatiou to power he possessed over his victim. - « .

(ileor was taken liouie,und at to the mean- est dru gory of the fa . _ been able to re rose di tful word; hit the flash- ing eyel-tiie gloom and troubled brolw, were part are natural ngiisge that con! not be rep_i-eased--dndubitablc at s, which showed too p‘IiinW’:IfldTlIIIlh. tllieuiisom d (‘if hiiiploy. merit in the" ry, it)?» had seen and married hiswifs.‘ During tha ‘ riod—being much trusted and fivoured by h s employer- be had fies Ilfilfiyildollt and go std sci-scion. The siasi-lags -was approved 9 by Mrs. .Shelby,’rwh_o, with a I

; never was much set him about, I'll

womanly mm in match-‘skid -Ht plussd touiiltchsr some hvuisrifi oaslof -her -own obnwho seemodin ever way suited to her‘: ahd sothsy were in Ins! ‘s great prlcur ai be‘; .. ‘adorned tl:“brhls’dl uti ‘ wdfirwdpfllfimnl ' over it the eiliisi veil which hosiiiim wozg; .0“ I . I ' 3.°'..'°.i.a.u.iis .,i.m."""

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'—-of admiring guests to praise the bride’s beau- gy, and her mistress’s indulgence and liberality. or a year or two,‘ Ella saw her husband fre- uently, and there was nothing to intorrupt ibcir happiness, except the loss of two infant children, to whom she was passionately attach- ed, and whom she mourned with 9. grief so in- tense as to call for gentle remonstriince from her mistrcss,'who sought, with maternal anxltftfl. to direct her natural y P0-88I0!I,i|I_I4J.f0|lllDgIW|l - in, the bounds of reason and religou. After the birth of little Ilsrry, however, she had gradually become ttanquilised and settled: and every bleeding tie and throbbing nerve,onoc more entwined with that little life, seemed to become sound and healthful: and Elisa was a happy woman up to the time that her husband was rudely torn from his kind c_m loyer, and brought under the iron sway of his cgal owner. The niiinufacturer, true to his word, visitcd Mr. Harris,c.- week or two after Geor had been

occasion had passed awn . and tried every pos- sible indueeinent to lea him to restore him to his former eiuployiaczit.

“ You needn't trouble yourself to talk any longer," said he, doggedly; “ I know my own usiness, sir.” ' _ _

“ I did not presume to interfere with it, sir. I only thought that you might think it for your intcrest,to- let your man to us on the terms pro-

sed.

“ Oh, I understand the matter well enough. I saw your winking and whispering the day I took him out ofthe factory; butyou don‘t come it over me that way. It’s a free country, sir; the man's niinc,’ and I do what I please with

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him—tluit’s i .

And so fell George's last he ; nothing be- fore him but a life of tell an drudgery, ren- dered more bitter by every little smarting vera- tion and indignity which tyrannical ingenuity could devise.

A very humane jurist once said, “ The worst use on can t a man to is to hang him.” No! there is aiiot or use that a man can be put to t .

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Mrs. Shelby had gone on her visit, and Eliza stood in the verandah, rather de'ec , looking after the retreating carriage, w on a laid on her shoulder. She turnodmnda bright- smile lighted up her fine e as.

“ Gear , is it you! w you frightened mo! . We ; I am so lad you's come! Missis is no to s nd then toi-noon; sooome intomy litt e room, and we’ll have the time all to our- selves.”

Saying this, she drew him into a neat little apartment opening on the verandah, where she generally sat at her sowing, within call of her

mistress.

“ How glad I am !—wh don't you smile !- and look at IIarry—how e owe !" The he stood shyly regarding his other through his curls, hol ing close to the skirts of his mother's dress. “ Isn the beautiful!” saidElisa, lifting his long curls, and kissing him.

“I wish he'd never been born !" said George, biltftcrly. “ I wish I'd never been born my- se '"

Sur rised and fri htencd, Eliza sat down,and Ieanc her head on husband's shoulder, and burst into tears.

“ There now, Eliza, it's too bad for me to make you feel so, poor girl!“ said he, fondly, —“ it s too bad. Oh. howl \\'ISll you never had seen me—you might have been happy !"

“ George ! (ieorgi-l how can on talk so? Wlfiut drea'dful thing has llll[)p(l3)l10 , or is going to II) 11. am sure we've een vor his i till i..‘.l?i',.v ’ P”

“ So we have, dear," said George. Then drawing his child on his knee, he gored intently on his lorious dark eyes, and passed his hands througi his long curls.

“ Just like you, Elisa ; and on are the hand- somcst woman I ever saw, an the best one I ever wish to see ;' but, oh, I wish I'd never seen

me .’ eorgc how can you?" ‘ .

“ Yes, Eliza, t‘s all misery, misery, misery! My l'fo is bitter as woriplwood ; the vcr life is })lll'llIdllg&)|lIi oflmei. “’m]a plopr, inist;ira ilc, fat

0!‘! , ru ; s in on ig you own wit me, thathigilll 'liut's ic use of our tryin v to do any thing, tryin to know any thing, tryin to be anything? t's the use of living! I wish I was dead!” '

“ Oh, now,di-ar George, that is really wicked! Ihknpw how youdfioel iilhout lo;in'gd your plnceb in t e actor ; iin on iuve II. a master; ut prp‘yPbe'pd’ti'opt, tlgltli perhpps-so‘i.iictlIiingfi.u in I 'I)tel(llII‘t['l|ti‘(?Iit 1m']')i'd i'.'i'i'_»; .'i"v'io'i.i whcnalld came and took me away, for no earthly rcnson, from the place yvhere everybody was kind to

. I'd paid him truly every cent of my carn- ings: and they all say worked well.“ “ Well, it is dreadful,“ said Elisa, “ but,

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after all,,_he is r masts-r, you know..’ “ My master. and who made him iuy master! That's what I think of—-what right has he to me? I‘m a man as much as he is; I am a bet- ter man than he is ; I know more about busi- ness than he does; I am ii better manager than heis; I can read better than he (sin - can Write i seem hand; and I've iemoii It all I if, and no the to hiin--Pvelearned it in sp to of him ; and now whatright has he minute a drsy-bolfle of me !—te take me from things I can do and do better than he can and put me k that an horse can do! lie tries to do

it; he aayI,hil' bring me down and humble me and he puts me to just the hardest, meanest,and

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I thought I could do my work well, and keep on quiet, and have some time to road and leai-n,out of work—hours; but the more he sees I can do, the more he leads on. He says that, thou li I doiift say anything, he sees I ve got the den in me, and he means to bring it out ; and one o these days it will come cut—-in it way that he won’t like, or I’in mistaken.”

“ Oh, dear, what shall we do!" said Eliza, mournfully.

“ It was only yesterday," said George, “ asI was busy l0u.(.lin stones into a cart, that oung l\Ias’r Toin stoo there, slashing his w iip so near the horse, that the creature was frighten- ed. I asked him to sto , as pleasant us Ii-ould; he just kept right on. be «red him ii 'il.ill,l1n(I then he turned on me, and icgnn slxi ing me. I held his hand; and then he’ screamed, and kicked, and ran to his father, and told him that I was lighting hiui. lle caiiie in a rage, and siiid iie'd te:i.c‘.i we wlio was my master; and lie tied me to a tree, uud cut switclies for ynun v master, and told him that lie iiiigiit vvliipiiic til he was tired ; and he did do it. IfI don‘tiiiiike

im remember it some time !"

And the brow of the young man grew dark, and his eyes burned with an expression that made his young wife tremble.

“ Who made this man my master-—that’s what I want to know I” he said.

“ Well ” said Eliza, niournfully, “ I always thought t at I must obe my master and mis- tress, or I couldn't be a liristiun !”

“ There is some sense in it in your case : they have brought on up like a child—fcd you, clothed you, in ulged you, and taught you, so that you have a good educution,—that is some reason why they should claim you. But I have been kicked, and cufibd, and swoi:n at, and at the best only let alone : and what do I owe . I've paid for all my keepin a hundred times over. I won‘! bear it-'—no, won‘I.”’ he said, clenching his hand, with ii. fierce frown.

Eliza trembled, and was silent. She had never seen her husband in this mood before ; and her gentle system of ethics seemed to bend like ii. read in the sur s of such passions.

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“ You know oor little Carlo, thiit you ve me!" addc eorge; " the creature as Ll about all the comfort that I've bad. He has

slept with me nights, and followed me around days, and kind 0 locked at me as if be under- stood how I felt. Well, the other do. I was ' st feeding him with a few old scraps pickc u

by the kitchen door, and Mas‘r came along, an

sai was feeding him up at his expense, and that he couldn’t 0rd to have every nigger keeping his do , an to tie a stone to his neck, and throw him in the pond."

“ Oh, George, on didn't do it!‘

“ Do it !—not ; but he did. Mas‘r and Toni

lted the poor drowning creature with stones.

oor thing! he looked at me so mournful, as if he wondered why I didn't save him. had to ta a ogg-in because I wouldn’t do it myself. I don't care; Ias’r will find out that I am one that whipping won't tame. My day will come yet, if he on’t look out.”

“ What are you goin to do! Oh, George, don't do unythiii wickc : if you only trust in God, and try to 0 right, he'll deliver you."

“ I an't ii Christian, like you, Eliza; in heart's full of bitterness; I can't trust in Go . Why does He let things be so !"

“ Oh, George, we must have faith! Mistress says that, when all things go wrong to us. we

must believe that God is doing the very bcsl."

“ That's easy to say, for people that are sit- ting on their sofas, and riding in their carriages —but let ’em be where I am, 1 ess it would come some harder. I wish I coul bogood ; but my heart burns, niid.can't be l'CO0I.|t'llt‘tI anv how. You couldn't in my plaice; "on can t now, ifl tell you all I've got to say. 'ou don't know the whole yct.”

“ What can be coiiiiiig now 1"

“ W;-ll, late-;y Mii.s'r has been saying, that he was a 001 to ct inc mzirr ' olftlio ‘ilIr'<'.; that he hates Mr. Sliclby mid al his trilbe, liccaiisc they are proud. and hold their heiids up iilmvv him, and that I've got proud notions from you ; and he savs he won’t Int me come he any inurc, and that I sliiill tiikc ii wife and settle down on his lsoc. At first he only s('ol<lcd and rum- ble tlicse things: liutycsterilny he told me that I should take Minn for a wife. iin scttlc down in a cabin with her, or he would sell me down ‘r’ 'cr."

“ Why, but you were married to me by the ininistcr, _3sFiliiiich pa yf you’d been ii white man, sai . iza, sun i .

Tl“ Don't you I(il()Wl Ill iiliivc CIl.'Il’Ii be iiinrricd?

icrc is no aw in t iis covuntr' or that: [can't hold you for my wife, if he c iooscs to pairt us. That's why I wish I'd never seen ou—wb_v I wish I'd never been born ; it woul have been better for us botb—-it would have lI(‘l'll butter for this poor child if he hncl never been born. All tliiirinay happen to him yet !"

“ Oh, but iiiiister is so kind!"

“ Yes, but who knows! hcniny die; and then he may be sold to no_boily knows who. What pleasure is it that lie is liiiiplsoiiic, and smart, and bright? I tell you, Eliza, that a sword will pierce through your spul_ fiir every good and pleasant thing your child is or has-—it will make

in worth too much for u to kec .”

The words smote hcavi y un I-llizn. s heart; the vision of the tra r came before her s es, and, as if some one had struck heraiieadly glowgshe turned pale and gasped for breath. She looked nervous out on the verandah, where the boy, tired of he grave conversation, had retired,and where he was ridin triumpliiintl upand down on Mr. Shclb ‘ii wal ing-stick. blie would have s ken to tel her husband her fears, but check-

lierself. .

“ No, no, he has enough to bear. poor ‘fol- low!" she thought. ‘f o, I_wo _tcll,hus; besides, it anft truc; missiswy i _ E."

"80, l.1isa,'niy girl," " d e hu d, incurnfullyd “ bear up, now, A ; for

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“ I won't be taken, Elisa-I'll die first ! I’ll be free, or Pll die!”

“ You won‘t kill yourself ?”

“ No need of that ; they will kill me fast enough ; they never will get me down the river alive.”

“ Oli, George, for my sake, do becareful! Don't do anything wicked; don't lay hands on yoiirsclf. or iiiiybod else. You are tempted too iiiuoli—-too inucli ; at don‘b—go you must- but go carefully, prudently; pray God to help

ou.”

" Well, then, Eliza, hear my plan. Mas'r took it into his head to send me right b" iierc with a note to Mr. Symmes, that lives a mile piist. I believe he expected I should come here to tell you what I have, It would lease him, if he thought it would aggravate ‘ Shelby's folks,’ as he calls ’ein. I'm going home quite resigned, you undei~sto.'-id, as if all was over.

We got some nrepariitions made, and there are those that will help me, and, in the course of a wee or 80, mini] be among the missing some day. Pray for me. Eliza : perhaps the good Lord will hear _i/oii.’

“ ()li, pray yourself, George, and go trusting in Him ; then you won’t do enytliing wicked.”

“ Well, now, good 1'»!/P,” said George, Holding Elizzi’s hands, and gaziiig into her eye’, without moving. They stood silent ; than more were last words, and solie, and bitter weeping--such purtin as those may make,whose hope to meet again is as the spider’s web ; and the husiiand and wife were parted.

THINGS TALKED OF IN LONDON. December, 1852.

Wiismviiii other topics have been talked about, that of the wciitlier forces itself in everywhere. What with storms and inundations, to say no- thing of eartlilyuakes, it seems as though the times were get ing out of joint; and we ave the melancholy certainty that, if the wind eta s where it is at present,t (9 weather will never ie otherwise. Is the Atlantic too full, that the south-westers continue to brin us such an over- wlieliiiing tribute of water? is a question on which meteorological statistics will throw a lit- tlc light ii month or two hence. For the mo- ment, we must rest satisfied, with what the Re- gistrar-gcncral’s Report tells us of the summer quarter. From the beginning of July to August 5, the temperatiirc was five degrees above the annual average ; it was one degree below, from the Zld to the 6th of August, and after Septem- ber 11. Takin the three months, June, July, and August, e temperature of more than one anda half degrees above the ave- rage of eighty years, and the rain-fall exceeded b three inches the average of thirty-seven years.