ill endure it no longer. Good
evening, sir.'

Hiram flung himself out of the room. He was not at all angry, though he
affected to be. Things were working heavily against him, and he saw no
way to retreat except to fly in a passion or appear to do so. Once out
of the house, he breathed more freely, and hastening home, he without
delay set about the labor of reconstruction. He had uphill work, but
difficulties brought out his resources.

His first step was to make a written request for a letter of dismissal,
on the ground that he was about to remove to the church of the Rev.
Dr.----.

The request for a letter was refused, and Hiram's course thereon is of a
character so important that it deserves to be treated of in a separate
chapter.

* * * * *

Meanwhile Emma Tenant is safely across the Atlantic, and, amid new and
interesting and romantic scenes, which she is already beginning to
enjoy, she tries to forget her heart's first grief.

She will succeed. To aid her, she has her woman's pride against her
woman's weakness; a constant succession of fresh and novel incidents,
agreeable society, absence from old associations, the natural buoyancy
of youth, and a hopeful nature.

Over this host of fortunate circumstances presides that unconquered and
always successful leader--TIME.

JEFFERSON DAVIS AND REPUDIATION.

This article, published in our August issue, has awakened so wide
an interest in the community, that the Editor of THE CONTINENTAL
deems it expedient to place before its readers the additional
matter contained in a _later_ edition published in England, where
it has circulated by thousands. We regret that this edition did not
arrive in time to appear at large in our August number; but as it
did not, we herewith offer the additional matter so arranged that
our readers will have but little difficulty in fitting it in its
appropriate place.

Addition 1st.--August CONTINENTAL, page 219, after line 23 from the
top, viz.: 'and the countrywomen of the Mother of the Lord,' read:

Mississippi was the _first_ repudiating State; A.G. McNutt, the _first_
repudiating Governor; and Jefferson Davis, the _first_ repudiating
Senator. As another evidence of the incredible extent to which the
public sentiment of that day was debased, I quote the following passage
from Governor McNutt's message of 1840, proposing to repeal the bank