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UNCLI rors’s CABIN;

cur. xiv. Evanunr.iirs.—’I‘om finds Grace with

Scripture Comforts.—Evangeline.——Tom's Ex- ploits.--Toni’s good Qualities.—A Bill of Sale.

“ A star ! which shone

2"? liIk::po sweet as in‘;-gedisr such ve ,ecnr-cely ‘ it

A

wand, have its scenes been aha

Chateaubriand wrote his prose-poetic

tion of it, as a river of mi bty, unbro

tndes, rolling amid und;

ve table and animal existence. ut, as in an hour, this river of

wild romance has emerged to a reality scardely less visionary and splendid. What other ‘ts bosom to th

of the world bears on i

the tropics and the poles! Those turbi

hurrying, foamin , tearin elon ,ana tresem- K tifie of husinelds which

blance of that headlong is poured along its wave b on

saw. Ah ! would

ra ers 0 poor, ignorant hearts to 8ody—uuknown, u

re th"'

ea .

The slanting light of the setting sun quivers se of the river; the silve

cypress, hung wig

wreaths ofdark, funereel moss, glow in the gold-

en ray, as the heavily-laden steamboat marches

on sea-like ex canes, and the‘ m 1, dark

onwe . Piled with cotton-bales from many tiun,_up over deck and sides,’ till she

the distance a square, massive block of grey, she moves heavily onward to the nearing mart. We must look some time among its crowded decks before we shall find again our humble friend Tom. High on the upper deck, in a little nook among the everywhere predominant cotton-bales, hi

at last we may find in

Partly from confidence inspired b Mr. Shelby’s

y from o remarks quiet character of the man, Tom had insensibly won his way far into the confi-

represeutations, and pa inoflrnsive s

deuce even of such a man as Hale .

At first he had watched him nariihwly throu m_tosleep|tuig t

the day, and never allowed hi unfettered ; but the uncom '

it come and

of honour, being on the boat.

where he p

Ever quiet and obliging, and more than read

to lend a hand in every emer

occurred among the workmen beow, he had won the good opinion of all the hands, and spent hours in helping them with as hearty a will as ever he worked on a Kentucky

arm. When there seemed to be nothing forjrim to do he would climb to a nook among the cotton- bales of the u per deck, and busy himself in ' s Bible-and it is tluare we see

man

studying over ' him now. For a hundred

traveller from the deck of the steamer, as from some floating castle-top, overlooks the whole country for miles and miles around. therefore, had spread out full before plantation after plantation, a map of the

which he was a ‘pr

n . He saw the istsut slasves at their

saw ahr their villages of hats, gleaming out in long rowsou many a plantation, distant born the shtel mnuions eanre-gro

1 and the IIIII‘ and as tho heart woul turn war to the-, Isntuc firm, with shadowy beeches-to

overgrown with the

There he seemed to ace fimfluf

continuance. Advertisements sent without limitation, willha continued

itssweatol Isnvasystfclded." Tu: Mississippi! How, as by an enchanted

reamed wonders of

ocean the wealth and enterprise of such another country! —a country whose products embrace all

y a race more vehem- and energetic than any the old world ever that the did not also hear along a more fearful frei t, the’ tears of the oppressed the sighs of the helpless, the bitter

wn

_ unseen, and silent, but who

will yet “ come out of his place to save all the r

iuing patience and

apparent contentment of om's manner led him

gradually to discontinue these restraints, and

or some time Tour had :p'oyed a sort of parole . . '0

or more miles above New

log back- ts old the master's house, with Wide. °00l hi-lll. Ind, user by, the little cabin,

in! re and bignonia.

Haley.-

, since dcscri ken so i-

river

between d waters,

a planta- seems in

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so freely

y whic

Tom, him in life to toil; he

unds of on,

it

“ Let-—not—your-—lieart—be—troubled. In- my—Fether's —house—aro-—mauy—mansions.

I—go—to— re-a- lace- Licero, whriiplie buriedp daughter, had a heart as lull of honest ief as poor Tom’s—perhaps no fuller, for be were onl men ; but Cicero could use over no such sub ime words of he , and ook to no such fu- ture reunion; and if he had seen them, ten to one he would not have believed—he must fill his head first with a thousand questions of an- thenticit of manuscript, and correctness of transln on. But to poor Tom, there it la_, just what he needed, so evidently true and - vine, that the possibility of a question never en- tered his simp e head. It must be true; for if not true, how cou 've.

As for Tom's Bible, though it had no anno- tations and hel in margin from learned com- mentators, sti it had been embellished with certain way-marks and guide-boards of Tom's own invention, and which helped him more

the most learned expositions could have done. It had been his custom to get the Bible read to him by his master's children, in perti- culer by young Master George; and as they read, he would designate, by bold strong marks and dashes, with pen and ink, the which more particularl tified his ear or abcted his heart. His Bib e was thus marked through from one end to the other, with a va- riety of styles and designations ; so he could in a moment seise u ii his vorite *3, without the labor 0 spelling out what lay tween them ; and while it lay there before im, every passage breathing of some old home scene, and recalling some past-enjo ent, his Bible seemed to him all of this life at remained, as well as the romise of a future one.

Among spa rsontlieboatwase young gentleman of fortune and famil , resident in New Orleans, who bore the name 0 St. Clare. He had with him a daughter between live and six years of age,together with a lady, who seem- ed to claim relationship to both, and to have the little one especially under her char .

Tom had often caught glimpses of ' little girl, for she was one of those busy, tripping creatures that can be no more contained in one lace, than a sunbeam or a summer breese ; nor was she one that, once seen, cou be easily

tten. er form was the perfection of childish beau- ty, without its usual chubbiness and squarsness of outline here was about it an undu.la.tiug_ , such as one mi ht dream 0

and aerial grace for some mythic and allegorical ing. Her face was remarkable, less for its rfect beauty

of feature than for a singular an dreamy earn- cations of expression which made the ideal smrt when they looked at her, and by which the dullest and mopt literal were impressed, with- out exactly knowing why. The aha of her head and the turn of her neck and net were uliarly noble; and the long, golden-brown

ir that fioated like a cloud around it, the doc , spiritual gravity of her violet blue eyes, a by heavy fringes of gplden-brown—all marked her out from other c 'ldren, and made every one turn and look after her, as she glided hither and thither on the boat. Nevertheless, the little one was not what you would have cal- led either a grave child or a end one. On the contrary, an airy and innocent playfulness seem- ed to flicker like the of summer leaves over her chidish face and around her buoyant gfigure. She was always in motion, always _with a lmlf smile on her rosy mouth, fi g hither and thither, with an undulating an cloud-like -tread, singing to herself as she moved, as in a happy dream. Her father and female .were incsssan y busy in pursuit of r, but when caught, she melted from them again like a summer cloud : and as no word of chiding or reproof ever fell on her ear for whatever she chose to do, she pursued her own we all over -the boat. Always dressed in white, s e seemed to move like a shadow through all sort of laces, without contracting s t or stein; an there was not a corner or noo , above or below, where fairy footsteps had not glided, and that gsoipeuiary golden head, with its deep blue eyes,

a on .

The fir-emEn, as he looked up from his sweaty toil, sometimes found those eyes looking wou- derinply into the ragin depths of the furnace, and earfully and pityingly at him, as if she thought him in some dreadfu danger. Anon the stsersman at the wheel paused and , as the picture-like bead gleamsd through the window of the round-house, and in a moment was gone again. A thousand times a day rou h voices blessed her, and smiles of unwanted so t- ness stole over hard faces, as she passed; and when she tripped fearlessly over dangerous laces, rough, sooty hands were stre bed in- volplilntarily out to says her, and smooth her

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“Tom, who had the soft impreuible nature of his kindl race, ever yearnin toward the sim le and chll -like, watched the ittle creature w th daily increasing interest. To him she seem something almost divine ; and whenever her ldcn head and deep blue eyes peered out upon him from ‘behind some dusky cotton-bale, or looked down u is him over some ridge of k- eges, be half llevod t he saw one o the a step out of his New Tesmment. flen an often she walked mournfiilly round the place where Haley's pug of men and we- men set in their chains. She would glide in among fliern, and look at cm with an air of 110?) and sorrowful earueshiem ; a tlln she would lil\ their chains with her slou- dor hands and then sigh woefully, as she lded

sway. Several times she a red In enly

among them, wifi her hands of undy, nut,

and crops: which she would diswlbute joy‘- to , and in

Mia than be gone age . m watched & little lady a great deal be- fore he ventured on overtures towards ae-

fiu-aintanceship. l!e‘.Lew an ab

preaches o and he lved to play his rt right my. lIe'c°:uld out canning ttle baskets out , could make tesqne those on I nub, p:

odd, jumpln£Egures out of elderly , and

1'?'.il.‘i‘.‘.‘i..a.l'l."f' ‘ii-"‘m‘..’.‘.‘.‘?li'i":l

‘time, turnin his eyes towards a group on the t.

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miscellaneous articles of attraction, which he had boarded in do of old for his master’s children and whic he now produced, with

one, as overtures for acquaintance and frien -

its little one was shy, for all her busy inter- est in everything going on, and it was not eas to tame her. or a while, she would perc like a canary-bird on some box or package near

much!" mockiili d ver wi o in commendable prudence and economy, one b are always running olf, stealing raising the devil generahliygd to

if it war-n’t for his character; but I can show recommends ll-om his 'master and others, to

said the youn man, with the seine smile playing afiout his mouth. “ Ne- ’e world. Your smart fellows horses, and I think you’ll have take of a couple ofhun for his srnartness.” “ Wal, there might be something in that ar,

rove he is one of your real picus—the most

TOD» While my in the little arts aforenamed, umble, prayin’, ions critter ye ever did see.

“id 33030111 him. with a kind of ve basb- Why, he s been mlled a preacher in them parts

fulness, e little articles be oh . But at he came l‘rom.”

lllt they got 911 quite confidential tcrlpl. “ And I mi ht use him for a famil cho lain, " What s little mlssy’s name l ” .said Tom at possibly," ad ed the young man, dry. “ hat’s

last, when he thought matters were ripe to push such an en uiry.

“ Evange ine St. Clare," said the little one, “ though papa and everybody else call me Eva. Now, what's ur name! "

“ My name a Tom ; the little chil’en used to call me Uncle Tom, way back thar in Kentu ."

“Then I mean to call you Uncle Tom, ceusenlypu see, I like you,” said Eva. “So, Uncle m, where are you going! "

“ I don't know, Miss Eva."

I am going to be sold to somebody.‘

quite an idea. article at our hou

warrant him for is mined by any syn eve;

t at all this banter was sure, in to turn out a cash concern, he might have been somewhat out of patience; as it was, down a

ligion is a remar bly scarce se. ’

“ You’rejo_king, now.” “ How do you know I am! Didn't you just reucher! Has he been exa- or council? Come, hand your papers." . I the trader had not been sure, by a certain -humour-ed twinkle in the lar blue eye, ta; long run,

he laid greasy pocket-book on the cotton holes,

I don't.know who.’ and began anxiously studying over certain -

“My pa canbu ou," said Eva, uickly; “ and ilPh‘e bu s you’: goo will have goo times. I mean to ask im to, this very day. '

“ Thank on, my little lady," said Tom.

The boat ere sto ding to mks in wood and vs, hearing her father's voice, bounded nimbly away. Tom rose up, and V0113 forward to oflar se in wooding, and soon was bus among the hands.

Eve and her b er were standing together b the railings to see the boat start from the lau - mg-place, the wheel had made two or ee revo utions in the water, when, by some sudden movement, the little one suddenly lost her bal- gnce, and fell sheer over the side of the boat c into the water. Her father, scarce knowing what he did, was plun 'n in after her, but was held back by some beliin him who saw that more efilcient aid had followed his, child.

Tom was standin just under‘ her, on the lower deck, as she fe l. He saw her strike the water and sink, and was after her in a moment. A broad-chested, strong-armed follow, it was nothing for him, to keep afioat in the water,

, in a moment or two, the child rose to the surface, and he caught her in his arms,an swimming with her to the boat-side, handed her “P. Ill dripping, to the yes of hiindreds of hands, whic ,as if they hadall belonged to one man, were stretched eagerly out to receive her. A _few moments more, and her father bore her, dniainns _and senseless. ’ ca ' , where as is usual in cases of the kind there on- sued a very well-meaning and kind-hearted strife among‘ the female occupants generally as to who s ould do the most things to make a dis- turbance, and to hinder her recovery in every weiy possible. _

t was a sultry close day, the next day‘, as the

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pay," whis r package, snide putting her arm around ther's neck.

I want him.”

0 der ; “ but then thei?s’s I_know there's dilferences in religion. Some kinds is mis’rable : there's our meetin’ pious: there's your singin’, roarin’ pious; them ar an't no account, in black or white: but these rayly is ; and I've seen it in ni rs as often as» any, your rail softly quiet, stidfze that the hull world couldn't

pers in it, the young man standing by the whi e, coking down on him with an air of careless, easy drolle

3) bu him! it's no matter what you Eva softly, getting up] on a

er iii- “ You have money enough,Iknow.

SK Papa,

“ What for, pussy! Are you going to use

him for a rattle-box, or a rocking-horse, or what! ‘

“ I-want to make him happy."

. “ An original r son, certainly."

Here the trader iided u a certificate, sign- dby Mr. Shelb , which t£e young man took

with the tips 0 his long lingers, and glanced over carelessl .

“ A gentlemanly hand," he said,“ and Vvell It, too. Well, now, but I'm not sure, after

a , about this religion,” said he, the old wicked expression returnin to his eye ; “ the countr is almost ruined wi pious politicians as we have just be ore elections —such pious church and state, that a fellow does not know who'll cheat him next. about religion’s bein now. I have not loo ed in the papers lately, to see how it sells. How man hundred dollars, now, do on put btzn for this re igion .

pious _white ople ; suc

ings-on in all departments of

I don't know, either, up in the market, just

“ You ik to km’, now," said the tra-

sense under all that ar.

y, honest pious, tempt ’em to do

s or drew near to. New _ gene- nothing that they thinks is wrong; and ye see ral bustle of exgctntion _and pre ‘ration was in this otter, what Tom's old master says about spread through c boat; in the ea in, one and him.”

mother were gathering their things together “Now,” said the young man, steeping grave- and arran _ them ipreparatory goin lypver his book of bills, " if you can assure me ashore. The steward s_nd chnnibermaid, _an t t I really can buy this kind of pious, and 3“r'°r9 busily enga incleaning,furbishmg, that it will be set down to my account,in the and arranging the sp nd-id boat, preparatory to book u above, as something belonging to me, I Dd mlree I woul 't care ifl did go a little extra for it.

_ n the lower deck set our friend Tom, with his arms folded, and anxiously, from time to

other side 0 the boa There stood the fair Evangline, a little paler than the day before, but o erwise exhibiting r no traces of the accident which had befalleu her. ceful, ele ntly-formed young man stood by er, carele y leaning one elbow oua bale a cotton, while a lar pocket-book lay open fore ‘ . It was quite evident, at a glance, s that the gentleman was Eva's father. There plan the sap: noble eels‘: of ‘head, ll]: same lei‘-go ue eyes, e earns en- rown ir; ct e expression was whollo dillsrent. In theylarge, a clear blue e es, thong in form and color exact- ly similar, w_as wanting thatmistygdreamy i..°.l},‘i.l‘.,°il..‘Z‘.‘.’.-’2’i?".I"'ii‘,,£l’ .Il.‘.‘.'li;".‘3?'.’i.;. .553? the beautifully out mouth had a road and somewhat sarcastic expression, whi e an air of e free-end-easy su riority set not _un acefully h

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with delig t; and ullin he proceeded to til out it ill of sale, which, in

How d’ esa 1"

“ Wa , rad , Ican’t do that,” said the trader. I'm a ’ ing that every man '11 have to on his own book in them nr quarters." ther hard on a fellow that pays extra on

eligion, and can't trade with it in the State

where he wants it most, an’t it now 1” said the young man, w of bil s

ho had been making out a roll while he was s kin .

“There, count your money, old boy!” he dded, as he handed the roll to the trader. “All ri ht,” said Haley, his face beamin out an old inkhorn,

few moments, he handed to the

young man. “ I wonder, now, if I was divi

ed up and

invenloried,” said the latter, as he ran over the paper, “ how much I might bring. So. so much 0

r shape of my head, so much for a igh fore-

head, so much for arms, and bands, and legs,

nd then so much for education, learning, talent, onesty, religion! Bless me! there would be

mevery turn up movement of his a form. small charge on that last, I'm thinkin . But l_le WIO.lll wi_t agood-htimoured neg- come, Eva, ' he said: and tiikin the hand of £39“ 5": hllf °0ll|l0, he f cont.emp_tu<_>us, to his daughter, he stopped across e boat,and, 1°]: V_Vll0 was very_ volubly expatiatrng on careless y putting the tip of his finger under the quality of the article for which they were Tom's ch‘ said -humourcdly, “ Look up, Tom, and see how