Before Richmond became a mart in the modern sense, the Gannat mansion, set far back among the trees of a noble grove, was a shrine to the tradition loving citizens, for, beyond any Southern city, save perhaps New Orleans, Richmond folk cherished the memory of aristocratic and semi-regal ancestors.

"A bankrupt, a prodigal, ... that used to come so upon the mart; let him look to his bond." as a diplomat.

The Ptolemies and the Antiochi for centuries fought for Gaza, whose inhabitants had a greater taste for the mart than for the sword, and when the Maccabees were carrying a victorious war through Philistia, the people of Gaza bought off Jonathan, but the Jews occupied the city itself about a century before the Christian era.

They told me the story of the "dead city": that it had been a notable manufacturing and commercial mart, sheltering over twenty thousand persons; that they had waged war with its inhabitants for several years, and had been finally successful only a few days before my visit, in an action fought in the ruined suburb; after which, they had driven them forth at the point of the sword.

There were present the curious citizen in his, cloak and cap, bare-legged laborers in wondering awe, the circumspect Hebrew in his gaberdine and beard, masked gentlemen, and many an attentive stranger from among the thousands who still frequented that declining mart.

It was an anomalous happening, this lunching together, of a poor young man with a rich old one, who had refused a daughter's hand; but such things occur in the grotesque, huge Western money-mart.

Yesterday she was a slave, sold in a Circassian mart, and freedom to her is so new and strange that she is unfamiliar with her environment, and she does not know what to do with it.

But I am disposed, especially from the rivers mentioned, to consider Zapage as Pegu; and that Malacca, Sumatra, and Java, were the dependent islands; and particularly, that Malacca, as the great mart of early trade, though actually no island, was the Cala of Abu Zeid.

To-day, New Orleans is perhaps best known as the second largest cotton mart in the world, some 2,000,000 bales of the product of the Southern plantations being received and shipped out every year.

O Pietas! Mart.

"Of the 217 sheep sold at the Sunderland Mart, yesterday, there was a very large percentage of heifers and bullocks.

These shops, for the first two or three years did not answer the expectation of the founder, for such was the force of habit, that the merchants, notwithstanding all the inconveniences attending Lombard-street, could not be prevailed upon to avail themselves of the new mart.

And then the court-house was in a way the mart of the whole region, especially for the sale of horses.

Standing midway between two great tracts of sheep country, it was the natural mart for this important trade and therefore prospered and became rich.

Abradas, the great Macedonian pirate, thought every one had a letter of mart that bare sayles in the ocean.

Desert street, and quiet mart; Silence is in the city's heart; And the social taper lighteth Each dear face that HOME uniteth; While the gate the town before Heavily swings with sullen roar!

Or, to come nearer home, go into your London city, and watch the working of your London mart.

The busy mart let Justice still control, Weighing the guerdon to the toil!What then? A god alone claims joyall joy is his, Flushing with unsought light the cheeks of men.

SEE Sutherland, Robert L. WOODWARD, MART DODGE.

AUSTIN, MART.

Jupiter, Venus & Mart; Broadway

On this side is the inscription AD ASTRA REDIIT D. XXII MART.

high, used to children, coming 5 years, and Swiss governess and brown harness; can be seen any time, a miniature lot; £25."The Bazaar, Exchange and Mart.

In the auction-mart taste is pretty steady.

I shun the other gate that stands Beyond the crowded mart I need but glance that way to feel Cold fingers on my heart!