methodical, unmoveable very much opposed to anything having the appearance of an innovation upon his square rules of business. Mcarstrow finds him in just the mood to interpose all the frigid peculiarities of his incomprehensible nature. The colonel has known him by reputation he knows him now through a different medium. After listening to mcarstrows request, and comporting himself with all imaginable dignity, he runs his fingers through his hair, looks at mcarstrow vacantly, and well nigh rouses his temper. Mcarstrow feels, as southern gentlemen are wont to feel, that his position and