No article of trade, however petty, that he thought himself able to make a few dollars by, was passed aside unnoticed, while he would sell from the paltry amount of a pound of flour to the largest quantity of merchandize required.

Like all persons who are suddenly elevated, from comparative dependence, to wealth, he had become purse proud and ostentatious, as he was humble and cringing before the war.

In this display of the mushroom, could be easily discovered the vulgar and uneducated favorite of frikle fortune.

Even these displays could have been overlooked and pardoned, had he shown any charity to the suffering poor.

But his heart was as hard as the flinty rocks against which wash the billows of the Atlantic.