the twin. The Evansville Academy was established before the day of free schools in Indiana.

COUNTRY HOME.

The pleasant Morton estate, of Ellerslie, N. Y., was bought from the Indians in 1686, in the time. of Governor Dongan; for a long time it was in possession of the Kip family, who sold it in 1814 to Maturin Livingston, husband of the only child of Governor Morgan Lewis. It was Livingston who erected the former mansion, which Mr. Morton has recently removed.

In 1841 the grounds belonged to William Kelly, of New York, who paid $42,000 for 400 acres of the property, and made it the centre of a park of 500 acres.

As the general reader may like to know what are the impressions of a bright new place like this, I will say that the main house is architectural, but in tone exceedingly quiet, verandas enclosing nearly three sides of the villa, and on two sides these verandas have a circular extension opposite circular bays in the walls.

The principal feature is probably the hall, which is twenty-five feet wide, and it is ribbed above with twenty-seven black oak beams, and wainscoted in oak to a considerable height.

Upon this hall open nearly all the apartments of the first floor, consisting of a library which communicates with the dining-room, and is Mr.

Morton's place of study and work; a drawingroom, which has a more private salon at its angle, a billiard room at the corner, and two offices for clerks or visitors.

The stairway is recessed from the hall, and is very easy of ascent and correspondingly roundabout; and opposite the stairway is a fireplace, to make the hall sprightly in dark or coolish weather.

Wood is liberally used throughout this house for wainscotings, and the dining-room is wainscoted to the height of perhaps twelve feet, in oak panels.

The second and third floors are built quite open, with a large area at the centre of the house, on which open doors to each room; the general finish of the walls is in hard, white plaster. The external woodwork and verandas are painted of a dark, brownish red.

Close by is a laundry in a separate building,

and the stables.

Work is being done upon the roads and grounds constantly. By the aid of a lake or pond, water is forced into a tank in a bit of woods, and thence carried into the buildings.

As I was riding to the station, after spending a night at Ellerslie, I remarked to the coachman that Mr. Morton seemed to be an equal tempered man.

"Yes," said he; "I have been with him for nine

years, and I have never seen him out of temper, or complaining, or sick yet."

Mr. Kelly aforesaid did a great deal of work on Ellerslie Park, and showed good taste in preserving the clumps of trees, and sowing wheat between them, so that as one looks out from the southern windows of the mansion, where the best breeze enters, he can see roundish spots of forest arborage and the wheat and corn, with their yellow contrasts; the line of the river is strongly indented in capes and headlands, and in the distant middle ground is an island and a lighthouse, whilst the rift of the Highlands, which separates the West from the East, gives access to the great city and the ocean.

Twenty years ago Hudson river property was rather out of fashion, from the tendency of families of means to come to the city and to spend their summers at hotels. Under the good influence of more recent times-the Americans having visited foreign countries and concluded that their own was the best-this river property has come into not merely fashion, but affection.

The woodwork throughout Mr. Morton's house is representative of the American forest-from the California red wood and black walnut to antique oak, white pine, ash and cherry.

DIGRESSION.

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