And yet, we were informed, that more than quadruple this product could be sold by the extensive house of Floyd, Lawson, Lee, & Co.; and that all that stood in the way of creating a magnificent fortune out of cotton bales, was the lack of productive facilities.
During this winter I saw more than usual of Mrs.Dewey.She came up from New York with her nurse and child, a babe not quite a year old, and spent over six weeks with her parents.

She had lost, in the two years which had passed since her marriage, nearly all those beautiful traits of character which made her once so charming.

Fashionable city life seemed to have spoiled her altogether.

Her mind had not grown in the right direction.

She had wholly abandoned that tasteful reading through which intellectual refinement comes; and to all appearance, no longer cared for anything beyond the mere sensuous.