SAW-MILL.

"Mr. Broadacre and all of them pretend to be delighted with the country and all they see. Mr. Broadacre always did bear other people's troubles with the most provoking philosophy; but in attempting to make up the fire this evening he found his match in an obstinate chunk. He persevered with it until he smutted the carpet all over, burned his boot, and pinched his thumb, and when I took advantage of the opportunity of advising him to keep cool, he threw the tongs out of the window and left the room.

"Please write without delay, and direct to Knoxville. Give me all the news about the weddings, and how they were dressed, and whether that match we spoke of when I last saw

dees? Then he habitually pours his coffee into you is likely to come off. Love to all.

his saucer, blows it furiously to cool it, and makes rings on the table-cloth with his cup, and has a most peculiar and abominably unfashionable way of blowing his nose. But, after all, it is better to support our trials with fortitude, and I humbly trust I shall have strength to do so. I am consoled here with the idea that the people won't observe these peculiarities, for they dine without napkins or finger-bowls, and use twopronged forks with one prong broken off.

"As we were coming from Bristol to this place in the stage Leonore accidentally broke her camphor-bottle, when the man who sat in front of her hastily raised the curtain and thrust his head out into the rain. The odor was rather excessive, but not unpleasant; however, we opened the windows, and, wishing to say something apologetic, Leonore asked her vis-à-vis if he liked the smell of camphor. 'No, ma'am, I don't,' replied he, with a polite bow-'I'd as lief smell a skunk-hit's flung me into a darned sweat-but hit's no matter, ma'am.'

"Very affectionately yours,
"BETTY BROADACRE."

LABOR IN VAIN.

From Blountville our travelers started in the that covered the coach, and who looked, for all stage-coach for Jonesborough, twenty-one miles the world, like a great West India turtle listdistant. Through torrents of rain and unfath-lessly peering from his shell at a dull wishyomable mud the smoking horses slowly toiled washy world in which he felt no sort of interalong, while the crowded, cramped, half-suffo- est. cated inmates of the vehicle were as merry as if they really enjoyed themselves. Bob Larkin, who, despite the rain, still kept his seat with the driver, managed to make a little dry fun out of a dripping negro who occasionally poked his head from beneath the water-proof canvas

The country through which they passed contained nothing particularly worthy of remark except the light wooden bridge across the Holston and its picturesque surroundings. Our travelers were, therefore, well pleased to hear the coachman and his horn as they descended into

the venerable and famous town of Jonesborough.

The higher clergy and the nobility, with a few exceptions, clung firmly together during these conflicts. Finding themselves, however, defeated, first in their endeavor to prevent the meeting of the States-General, and then in the effort to secure its division into three chambers, they now resolved, as their last and desperate measure, to gather the standing army of France

The first impressions of Jonesborough were generally satisfactory. It had an old-fashioned, substantial air, as if the people who built it intended to live there for the rest of their days. The town is snugly and modestly nestled in a deep hollow, while the adjacent hills are crowned with neat private residences, and several acad-around Paris and Versailles, and thus, overawemies of some architectural pretension. It contains about fifteen hundred inhabitants, and is the oldest town in East Tennessee.

But we must not forget our newly-arrived travelers. Passing by the stage-office, because the Squire observed the windows were all broken, they found quarters at the Eutaw House, and in due time were comfortably bestowed in their rooms. They then partook of a hearty old-fashioned supper of steaks, sausages, preserves, batter-cakes, and biscuits, and very soon after went to sleep.

ing the people, to disperse the Assembly by military force. Rumors of approaching violence filled the air, and the public mind was every day becoming more deeply excited. Squadrons of cavalry and regiments of infantry and artillery were on the march from the frontiers toward the menaced city; troops were continually accumulating in the streets of Paris and Versailles, and early in July an army of fifty thousand men had been assembled in the vicinity of the Court awaiting its orders. This army was placed under the command of Marshal

When they awake the world may, probably, Broglie, one of the most haughty of the nobles, hear more of them. and a very determined opponent of popular reform.

Lo

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

BY JOHN S. C. ABBOTT.

Their

In Paris all business was at a stand. The poorer classes, entirely out of employment and literally starving, had nothing to do but to gather in groups to hear the news from Versailles. ten miles distant from the metropolis. only hope of any change which might rescue them from poverty and misery was in the action of the Assembly; and they trembled in view of that violent dissolution of the Assembly, which would hopelessly rivet their chains. The spacious garden of the Palais Royal, surrounded by the most brilliant shops in Europe, was the general rendezvous of the multitude. Often ten thousand men were assembled in the garden, where impassioned orators harangued them upon their rights and their wrongs.

OUIS XVI., in his endeavor to appease the universal discontent which pervaded France, had convened the States-General, to be composed of the three recognized orders of the realm, the Clergy, the Nobility, and the Third Estate. The two privileged classes were greatly alarmed at this movement, and did every thing in their power to prevent the meeting. They were, however, unsuccessful, and the StatesGeneral was convened at Versailles on the 5th of May, 1789. It was composed, in round numbers, of three hundred of the Clergy, three hundred of the Nobility, and six hundred of the Third Estate. As all the pastors of the churches, and several of the most illustrious of the nobles, like Lafayette, were earnest advocates of reform, and would vote with the representatives of the people, it was manifest that if the States met in one chamber the people would have the majority. It was equally evident that, if the States met in three chambers, each chamber having a vote, the people would be ever in a minority, having both of the privileged chambers against them. Thus there would be no hope of reform. The first great question to be de-estate in the army as well as in the state. cided, of course, was whether the States should officers were nobles, but the common soldiers meet in three chambers or in one. For more were from the people, and were with the people than a month this conflict was prolonged. All in all their sympathies. The French Guards, France, fully recognizing the issues at stake, looked on with intense interest.

The Duke of Orleans, with his enormous wealth, encouraged every insurrectionary move

ment.

He was willing so far to renounce aristocratic privilege as to adopt a constitution like that of England, if he, as the head of the popular party, could be placed upon the throne, from which he hoped to eject his cousin, Louis XVI. The Palais Royal became the sleepless eye of Paris, ever vigilant to note the march of events.

It soon became evident that there was a third
The

consisting of three thousand six hundred picked men in the highest state of discipline and equipment, were stationed at Paris. They began to echo the murmurs of the populace. The De

At last the people, mainly aided by the working clergy, who have ever been in the front ranks in the battles for freedom, gained the victory. The National Assembly was organ-lic clergy at the time the Revolution broke out. They ized, where all the deputies of the three orders met in one chamber, and where the majority of votes, of course, carried the decision.*

"I doubt whether on the whole, even taking into account the startling vices of some of its members, the world ever saw a more remarkable body than the Catho

were enlightened; they were national; their private vir

tues were not more striking than their public qualities: and yet they were largely endowed with faith, sufficient to bear them up against persecution. I began to study the Old Régime full of prejudice against the clergy. 1 have ended my task, and feel nothing but respect for them."-The Old Régime and the Revolution, by ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE, p. 144.

The people were still disposed to love their King. They instinctively felt that his sympathies were with them. Thus far they desired It was very evident that the Court was enonly reform, not the overthrow of the monarchy.deavoring to foment disturbances in Paris, that The Court, however, was instructed by these an appeal to the military might be necessary. scenes that it could not rely upon the French The leaders of the Revolution, on the other Guards to execute the bloody mandates which hand, were doing every thing in their power to it was about to issue. Hence vigorous meas- keep the people calm. A very able pamphlet ures were immediately adopted to concentrate was circulated through the city containing the in the metropolis an efficient force of foreign following sentiments: mercenaries, Swiss and German troops, who would be less scrupulous in shooting down and trampling under iron hoofs the French people.