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Or 'I‘oii‘s< ssw Mas-i-la, ‘Ann VAIIOUI oriixa inr- rir.s.s—liistory ofst. Clare-—Disappointed Love —‘I'he Ideal of a Wife—-New England Farm- house-—0phelia St. Clare—Miss Ophelia's Duties.

SINCE the thread of our humble hero's life has

now become interwoven with that of higher

ones, it is necessary to give some brief intro- duction to them.

Augustine St. Clare was the son of a wealthy planter of Iouisiana. The family had its origin in Canada. Of two brothers, very similar in temperament and character, one had settl on a Iourishing farm in Vermont, and the other

me an opulent planter in Louisiana. The stine was a Hu enpt French

Ind , whose family had emigrate to Louisiana

during the days of its early settlement. A s-

tine and another brother were the only chil ren

of their parents. Having inherited from hi mother an exceeding delicacy of constitution, he was, at the instance of physicians, durin

iuany years of his boyhood, sent to the care 0

his uncle in Vermont, in order that his consti-

tution mi ht be strengthened by the cold of a

more brac rig climate.

In childhood he was remarkable for an ex- treme and marked sensitiveuess of character, more akin to the softness of woman than the ordinary hardness of his own sex. Time, how- ever, overgrew this softness with the rou h bark of manhood, and but few knew how liv rig and

fresh it still is at the core. His talents were of the very rst order, althou h his mind showed

a ferencs always for t e ideal and the msthetih": and there was about him that repuguance to the actual business of life which is the common result of this balance of the faculties. Soon after the completion of his college course, his whole nature was kindled into one intense and ssionate elervescence of romantic passion. lie hour came-—the hour list comes only once ; his star rose in the hori- son—that star that rises so often in vain, to be remembered only as a thing of dreams ; and it rose for him in vain. 'l‘o dro the li re, he saw and won the love of a high-min ed and beautiful woman, in one of the northern states, and they were ailla He returned south to make arrangements for their marriage, when, most unex tedl , his letters were returned to him by mail, wit a short note, from her uar- dian, stating to him that era this reach him the lady would be the wife of another. Stung tomisdness, he vainly hoped, as many another has done, to iling the whole thing from his heart by one desperate efort road to supplicate or seek explanation, he threw himself at once into a whirl of ihshiouable society, and in a fortnight from the time of the fatal letter

the accepted lover of the reigning belle of

the season ; an soon as arrangements could

be made, he became the husband of a line llgure,

a pair of bright dark eyes, and a hundred thou-

sand dollars; and, of course, everybody thought him a happy fellow.

The married couple were enjo °ng their

d outsrhinin a bril iant circle

villa near Iake

ting. It was handedto him while hewas in full tide of gay and successful conversation, in a whole room~full of coinpan . He turned deadly pale when he saw the writing, but still - ed his co‘i:Iosure. and iinished the play 1 war- bre of ‘as which he was at the moment arrying on w th a lady opposite ; and, a short time after, was missed from the circle. In his room, alone, he opened and read the letter, now ;::ehthan idle ant]! useless to It tvivas

er, ‘Vin a on account apersecu on to’whleh ii» End begin e b her ar- dian's fitail , to lead her to units one with his son; a e related how, for a lon time, his lettsrshbd‘ '1.-eased I) arrive; how e had written time an again, till she became weary

Ind ‘l0“b“Il': w her health had failed under ho? Inliotlfils how, at last, she had disco- vered the whol III which had been actised on than - lefir ended wl expres- sions of hope and t essions

I of emotion, which were more bitter than ’ to the unhappy young man. He wrote to her immediately :4-— '-

“I have ved ours-button late. I believed all I card. I was desperate. I am married, and al is over. Only flirgek-it is all tbt remains for either of us. ' _

And ended the whole romance and 1%, of life hir Augustine St. Clare; but the remained--the reel, like the hat, bare, oory :3... ll, when the blue sparkling wave, with all its csinpana i boats and white-winged ships, ts mas o of cars and chiming waters,

down, and there it lies, ilst, slimy,

ha y res . Of course, In novel, ple‘s hearts break, die. the

ASZARWS

E'AhMEdS° common, AME conzmnncnnn. Ah‘iTEm.'Ij§E;;ll.i

Charlottetown, Prince Edward island, Wednesday, March 30, 1853.

even see that they had been broken. As before stated, she consisted of a fine are, a pair of splendid eyes, and a hundred thousand dollars ; and none of these items were recisely the ones to minister to a mind diseased]? When Augustine, pale as death, was found lyin on the sofa, and pleaded sudden sick- hea ache as the cause of his distress, she re- commended to him to smell of hartshorn ; and when the paleness and headache came on, week after week, she only said that she never thought Mr. St. Clare was sickly; but it seems he was very liable to sick-headaches, and that it was a very unfortunate thing for her, because he didn‘t enjoy going into company with her, and it seemed odd to so much alone, when the were just married? Augustine was glad in is heart that he had married so undiscerning woman : but as the glosses and civilities of the honeymoon were away, he discovered that a beautiful! young woman, who has lived all her life to be caressed and waited on, might rove quite a. hard mistress in domestic life. arie never had possessed much ca bility of affection or much sensibility;.and t e little that she had mer d into a most intense and uncon- scious se iishncss ; a selfishness the more hope- less from its quiet obtuseness, its utter ig- norance of any claims but her own. From her infancy she had been surrounded with ser- vants, who lived only to study her caprioes: the idea that they had either feelings or rights had never dawned u ii er, even in distant pore ctive. Her fat or, whose only child she ad lilien, had never denied her anything that

, lay within the compass of human possibility;

and when she entered life, bcnutiful,accom- plished, and an heiress, she had, of course, all the eligibles and non-cligibles of the other sex sigliing at her foet,and she had no doubt, that Augustine was a most fortunate man in having obtained her. It is a great mistake to suppose thata woman with no heart will be an easy creditor in the exchange of nflbction. There is not on earth a more merciless exactor of love from others than a thoroughly selfish woman; and the more uulovely s e_ owe, the more jealously and scrupulously s e exacts love, to the uttermost farthin . When, therefore, St. Clare began to dro 0 those gallantries and small attentions whic flowed at first through the habitude of courtship, he found his sultana no way read to resign her slave; there were abundance o tears, utings, and small tem- pests; there were iscontents, pinings, u‘p-

raidings. St.Clnre was od-natured and se f- indul nt, and son htto uy oil‘ with presents and atteries; an when Marie became mother to a beautiful dau htes, he reall felt awakened for a time to someltghin like ten eruess.

St. Clare’s mother ad been a woman of un- common elevation and purity of character, and he gave to this child his mother's name, fondly fancying, that she would rove a reproduction of her image. The thing ad been romarked with tulant 'ealousy by his wife, and she re- gurdese her bus nd's absorbing devotion to the child with suspicion and dislike; all that was

iveu to her seemed so much taken from herself. cm the time of the birth of this child, her

health adually sunk. A life of constant inac- tion,bo ii and mental—the friction of ceaseless ennui’ an discontont, united to the ordinary

weakness which attends the period of maternity —in the course of a few years changed the bloom- ing youn belle into a yellow, faded, sickly woman, w ose time was divided among a variet of fanciful diseases, and who considered hersel , in every sense, the most ill-used and sudering person in existence.

There was no end of her various complaints ; but her principal forte appeared to lie in sick- headache, which sometimes would confine her to her room three days out of six. As, of course, all family arruii inents fell into the hands of servants, St. (‘lire found his menage anything but comfortable. His only daughter was excecdiiigl delicate, and he feared that, with no one to look after her and attend to her, her health and life might yet fall a sacrifice to her mother's inelliciency. lie ha taken her with him on a tour to Vermont, and had rena- ded his cousin, Miss O hclia St. Clare, to return with him to his sout oru residence : and they are now returning on this boat, where we have introduced them to our readers.

And now, while the distant domes and spires of New Orleans rise to our view, there is yet time for an introduction to Miss Op{helia.

cover has travelled in the ow England States will remember, in some cool village, the lar farm-house, with its clean-swept ‘grassy yaise, shaded by the dense and massive oliuge the supr-maple: and remember the air of order and stillness, of perpetuity and unchsu ing repose, that seemed to breathe ove the who e place. Nothin lost, or out of order, not a pick- et loose in the ence, not a particle of litter in the turfy yard, with its clumps of lila_c-bushes owing it under the windows. Within, he will remem r wide clean rooms, where nothing ever seems to be oing or going to _ _ one, where. everything is once and for ever rigidly in place, and where all household arrangements move with the punctual exactness of the_old clock in the corner. In the family “ keeping- rocm," as it is termed, he will remember the skid, respectable old bookcase, with its glau

doors where Rolliu’s History, Milton‘s Paradise Inst, liunyau's Pilgrim’s Progress, and Scott's ( or r, with multitudes of 0 or books, equally so and table. There are no servants iuths house, 1 M ‘u _ spaotac , si sewin ever a noon am herodslilgliters, as ifsncthidg ever haq or were to £0 t F apddher 'rs,nsoue ‘ ttea rs o es}. in. .9“ .... "".. .. at uwou see an: ilnis “ done up.¥’“fiis,'.old Ifitcheii-floor ns_ver seems stained or spotted: the tables, the chairs or disorde : aiougbthree and some- ‘tlllllss four meals a da ed? sad ugh pounds of butter and cheese ass, in some. silent and mysterious manner, this

Family Bible. stan side b side in decorous M‘ “u ut the lady in the snowy cap, w he done-sh theissrl. ,_ fer the rest of the time, and the various , never seem an ggtlisre, faialgowashing and main‘ thereperforim brought late stance. Oasushs gm lamb shosound-hilly.

Miss Ophelia had spent a quiet existence of some forty-five years, when her cousin invited her to visit his southern mansion. The eldest of a large family, she was still considered by

er father and mother as one of“ the children, ’ and the proposal that she should go to Orlmns was amost momentous one to the fauiil circle. The old grey-headed father took down lorso’s Atlas out of the bookcase, and looked out the exact latitude and longitude; and road Flint.'s Travels in the South and West, to inako up his own mind as to the nature of the countr .

The good mother in uircd, anxious y, “ if Orleans wasn't an awful wicked placc ;" saying, “ that it seemed to her, most equal to going to Ehe Eandwich Islands, or anywhere among the

cat en."

"It was known at the minister's, and at the doctor’s, and at Miss Pcnbody‘s millincr‘s shop, that Ophelia St. Clare was “ talking about going away down to Orleans with her cousin ; and,of course, the whole village could do no less than help this very im ortunt process by talking about the matter. he minister, who inclined strongly to Abolitionist vicws, was quite doubtful, whether such a step might not tend somewhat to‘encouruge the southcriicrs in holding on to their slaves; while the doctor, who was a staunch Colonisutionist, inclined to the opinion that Miss Ophelia ought to go, to show the Orleans eople that we don't think hardly of them, a ter all. IIe was of opinion, in fact, that southern *0 le iicedcd encourag- ing. When, however, tlili li’t.ct, that she had rc- so ved to go, was fully before the public mind, she was solemiil invited out to too by all her friends and neig hours for the space of a fort- night, and her prospects and lans duly canvas- se and inquired into. Miss osel ,wlio came into the house to hel to do the dyressmaking, acquired daily accessions of im rtancc from the developments with re rd to liss ()phcliii.’s wardrobe which she had icon enabled to make. It was crediblyuscertaincd that Squire Sinclure, as his name was commonly contracted in the neighbourhood, had counted out lift dollars, an given them to Miss Ophelia, an told her to buy any clothes she thought best; and that two new silk dresses, and a bonnet, had been sent for from Boston. As to the propriety ‘of this cxtraordinar outlay, the public mind was divided ; some a rmin that it was well cnough, all things considered, or once in one-‘s life, and others stoutly uilirming, that the money had better have been sent to the missionaries; but all parties agreed, that there had been no such

rasol seen in those rts as had been sent on in New York, and t t she had one silk dress that might fairl be trusted to stand alone, whatever might said of its mistress. There were credible rumours, also of a hum-stitched ket-handkerchief, and re rt eveniweut so Elfin to state that Miss Ophelili had one pocket- udkerchief with lace all around it——it was even added t t it was worked. in the corners ; but this latterdpoint was never satisfactorily ascertained. an remains, in fact, unsettled to

t s .

Missytlphelia, as you now behold her, stands

fore you, in a very shining brown linen travel- ling-dress, tall, square-formed, and angular.

ce was bin, and rather sharp in its out- lines ; the lips compressed, like those of a person who is in the habit of niakin up‘her mind defi- nitely on all subjects; while it.» een, dark eyes had a pecu iarly searching], advised movement, and travel ed ov_er cveryt ing, as if they were lookin for something to take notice of.

1 er movements were sharp, decided, and energetic ; and, thou h she was never much of ii talker, her words were remarkably direct and to the purpose when she did spcak.

In her habits she was a living impersonation of ordcr,method,and exactness. in um-tuulity she was as inevitable as a clock, an as inexor- able as a railroad en inc; and she held in most decided contomptau abomination anything of a contrary character.

The great sin of sins, in her cycs-—thc sum of all evils-—was expressed by one very common and important word in her vocabulai-y—“ shiftlcse- ness.” Her finale apd ultimatum of contempt consisted in ii very emphatic ronunciatiun o the word “ shiftless;" and by t iis she character- ised all modes of rocedurc which had not a direct and inevitab e relation to accomplishment of some pur then definitely had in uiind. People who 'd nothing, or who did not know exactl what the were going to do, or who not take t e niost irect way to accom lish what they set their hands to, were objects.o her entire contempt: a contempt shown lcss frequently-_ by anything she said than by a kind of stony grim- neu, as if she scorned to say anything about the matter.

As to muhl cultivation, she had a clear, -strong, active mind, was well and thoroughly read in history and the older English classics, and thought with peat strength within certain narrow liiaits. Her theological tenets were all made up, labelled in the most positive and dis- tinct forma, and put by, like the bundles in her patch trunk ; there were just so many of them, and there were never to be any more. So. also, were her ' with re rd to most matters of

raotiml life-—-such as ousekcoping in all its branches, and the various political relations of her native vi . ,underly' , deeper tlmn anything e se. hi and br er, lay the strongest principle of or being-—oonsoientious- nus

s. cwhsrs is conscience so dominant and all-absorbiu as with New-Ii‘-nglsnd women. It is the to formation, which lies deepest, and rises out, even to the tops of the highest mountains.

Miss Ophelia was the absolute bond-slave of “sis ." Once ilakehercerlla that the “ path o duty," as she commonly phrased it, lay in any given direction, anghlfire aapdwatp; hvo wen we

strai down into a well, or up -to a aunouis lioali,-if she were only quite sure that path is . -Her shudsrd of right was an al -embracing, so minute, and ‘few sense-ions to huumn frailty, gh sheetrove with heroic ardour to reach it, she never actually did so, and of course with I assistant and often harass- . his gave a severe and

somewhat gloomy cast to her religious cha- racter.

But how in the world can Miss Ophelia get along with Augustine St. Clare—gu. , easy,. unpunctuul, unpructical, sceptical,-—in short, wa king with impudcnt and uonchalant frscdoin over_evcr one 0 her most cherished habits and opinions.

To tall the truth, then, Miss Opholia loved him. When a buy, it ha ieen rs to teach liii_n his catcchisiii, mend his clothes. comb his hair, and briii r him up generally in the we. lie

- should go ;.uu her heart having a warm in etc

it, Augustine had, as he usually did with most pc fplu, iuonopohsod a lar share of it for him- scl ., and therefore it was t int he succeeded very easily in persuading her that the “path of duty ’ lay in the direction of New Orleans, and that she must go with him to take care of Eva, and keep everything from going to wreck and rum ‘during the frequent illnesses of his wife. The idea o a house without anybody to take care of_it went to her heart: than she loved the lovely little girl, as few could helpdoing ; and though she regarded Au ustine as very. much of ii heathen, yet she love him, hiughed at his jokes, and forbore with his failings, to an extent which those who knew him thou ht perfectly incredible. But what more or o or is to be known of Miss Ophelia, our reader must die- cover by a personal acquaintance.

THINGS TALKED OF IN February, I858. Tris a proach of the vernal equinox is reviving the su ject of emigration—that is, if a subject said to have died which has n from time to time galvanized by news of the arrival of ships with tons of gold on board, not such more handfuls of ounces as used to be considered great prizes in the days of the old Spanish gul- leons. The exploits of the huoanecrs read tame, now that we are tiimiliarised with the re-

LONDON.

sults of the di ins, and have a promise of their .13

continuance. sides five new gold-fields, a number of diamonds have been found; and if report speak truth, ld has been discovered ' New Zealand also. resent indications shew, that the numbers willing to try their fortune in Australia will not be smaller this year than the . At Southampton. a capacious lodging- house has been fitted u by the commissioners for the acoomodiition o emigrants while wait- ing their departure; and due eoautions are taken to preserve health and moralit . If si- milar esta lishments, equall well loo ed after, could be promoted in other r ports, the be- nefit would be extremal great, or there is a dark as well as a bright si e, to the prospect of the golden antipodes. ‘ ' ve arrived in us ' portswitlia ossoffrom50toal00 y death from over crowding during re rts not less fatal have s ip spoken on the pas- sage. So there seems to be as little limit to die stowage of a ship as to that of the pit ofa the-