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THs! INDSFH9DSHOE OS' THE SOUTH.
T\V<» DOLLARS PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
ATHENS, CLARK COUNTY. GEO. JANUARY 29. 1862.
VOLUME XXX—NUMBER 47.
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HERN BANNER
l'lUi.!S!IEl> WEEKLY,
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POETRY
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WILLIAM CL DliSbXV,
AUorwry ;»1 Ii»av,
0*V. i*o*i Itrnaii •i'rof i, nv«*r ilie store of 1. M. I
Kenney, Athens.Cia. March 15-if. j
T. M. DANIEL,
ITrOBXKVAT t. AW.—Athens, O.-orgia, ;
A w ill practice in the eonntiosof Clarke,Walton, 1
,/;e Us.in, Madison. Hart, Elbert, Oglethorpe !
From tlie San Antonio Herald.
PRAYER, THE VICTOR.
All day long the restless throbbing
Ufa"sick and tortured brain,
Through the night a ceaseless sobbing
From a brensl o'erchargod with pain.
Phantoms weird, and grim and ghastly,,
Flit liv through the midnight gloom ;
Ghosts of hopes and joys ioug past lie
Like pale corpses in the room.
These all speak of 60tllcd sorrow.
Such ns soon must Madness biing.
That dread demon, who tomorrow
May o'ercloud me with bis wing.
llark ! the rustling of his pinions
Through the stagnant, fetid air:
Here Indore him lly hit minions,
Grief and Woe and gaunt Despair,
Many strange, unhidden fancies
Dart across my troubled mind:
Fiends now mock me v illi fierce glances:
Serpents 'round my 1 inn are twined.
Strains of wild, cncnrtMy laughter
Peal forth from my livid lips;
Mirth succeeds to tears, hut after
Comes tlie soul’s sad, dark eclipse.
O'er a mind Hitts fiercely shaken.
Well might pitying angels weep :
r.ut good gunii have lorsaken
Tlie blest watch they used to keep.
Guardian angels now are flying
From my troubled soul away :
Faith has tied and Hope is dying .
Love will scarce a moment stay.
God of Love! Tim it wilt not leave me,
Hopeless, helpless, bowed by giief:
lathy shelt'ringarms receive me,
Grant my aching heart relief!
Prayer dissolves the spell of c\ il,
11 leaks the mad magician's wand ;
Gone is every phantom devil:
\\ liite robed angels near me s;attd.
At jir.iyer s summons. Faith returning
I* i'ls my soul with new- born fttiengtb;
l’.hls me upward glance, discerning
Tiuii the morn has come at length.
As tlie rosy light fills o'er me.
Hope roi ives to greet the day.
Su btly makes to pass In-fore me
Future joys in bright array.
Now- my bliss i- past all lolling,
For the gentle, spotless dove
Nestling in my breast is dwelling,
Pure, divine, eternal Love.
himself under every conceivable cir
cumstance; not to mention a variety of
bills for the improvement of tlie roads
and markets, the erection of a town-
hall, and the reform of the systems of
watching, paving, lighting, &c., the
brick-kiln ; but there’s no dust—not
the least in the world—for I never al
low tlie windows to be opened ; alto
gether, there can’t be a pleasanter
situation than it is.”
The stranger, it must be owned,
important and consequential little town ! seemed less sensible of all these ad
vantages than he ought to have been ;
how’ever he engaged the apartments :
it was but for a short time, as lie had
come there about some business con
nected with the election ; and as Miss
Joanna had so particularly recom
mended him to the lodging, he did not
like to disoblige her. So the bargain
was struck : the maul received orders
to provision the garrison with biead,
butter, tea, sugar, &c., whilst the gen
tleman returned to the inn to dispatch
Boots witli his portmanteau and car
pet-bag.
“You were only just in time, sir,”
observed Miss Cecilia, as they decend-
ed the stairs, “for I expected a gentle-
of B-
A short time previous to tlie first
election—an event which was antici
pated by the inhabitants w ith the most
vivid interest—one of the candidates,
a country gentleman who resided some
twenty miles oft, look a lodging in the
town, and came there with his wife
and family, in order, by a little courte
sy and a lew entertainments, to win
the hearts of the electors and their
friends ; and his first move was to send
out invitations for a tea end card party,
which, in due time, when the prrpara-
i lions were completed, was to be follow
ed by a ball. There was but one mil
liner and dressmaker of any consider
ation in the town of B , and it
may be imagined that on so splendid i who, I am sure,
an occasion her services were in great lodgings.”
request—so much so, that in the mat
ter of head-dresses, she not only found
that it would be impossible, in so short
a period, to fulfill the commands of her
customers, but also that she had neith
er the material nor skill to give them
satisfaction. It was, therefore, settled ! commodated elsewhere.’
that she should semi off an order to a | “Oh dear, no, sir; dear me ! I
house in Exeter, which was the conn- j wouldn’t do such a thing for the world !”
ty town, for a cargo of caps, toquets, exclaimed Miss Cecilia, who had only
turbans, See., fit for ullages and faces thrown out this little inuendo by way
—“such as were not disposed of to be 1 of binding her lodger to his bargain,
returned ;’’ and tlie ladies consent ?d lest, on discovering his mistake, he
would have taken care she should
never have seen it at all,’’ &c., &c.,
&c.,—all of which the reader may be
lieve, if he or she choose.
As for Miss Cecilia, she was impla
cable, and she flounced out of tlie
house, and through the streets, to her
own door, in a temper of mind that
rendered it fortuna’e, as far as the
peace of the town of B was con
cerned, that no accident brought her in
contact with Miss Charlotte on the way.
As soon as she got into her parlor
she threw off her bonnet and shawl,
and plunging into her aim-chair, she
tried to compose her mind sufficiently
to take a calm view of the dilemma,
and determine on what line of conduct
to pursue—whether to send an excuse
to Mrs. Hatraway, or whether to go to
the party in one of her old head-dresses.
Either alterna'ive was insupportable.
To lose the party, the game at loo, the
distinction of being seen in such good
would have taken the
“I should be sorry to stand in tlie
way,” responded the stranger, who
would not have been at all sorry for an
opportunity of backing out of the bar
gain. “Perhaps you had better let
him have them—I can easily get ac-
IStil.
M E11LIN.
M ISCELLAX Y
'Light and Darkness," liy Catherine
, Author Hi'“Tin- Night Side of Nature,''
to wait, with the best patience they
could, for this interesting consignment,
which was to arrive, without fail, on | that it was a mistake : Miss Joanna of
the Wednesday, Thursday being the Bath was Miss Charlotte's first cousin,
day fixed for the party. But tlie last j and, hating Miss Cecilia, as she was in
coach arrived on Wednesday night ! duty bound to do, would rather have
man to call at twelve o’clock to-day, j society—it was too provoking; besides,
’ very likely people would suppose she
had not been invited; Miss Charlotte,
she had no doubt, would try to make
them believe so. But then, on the
other hand, to wear one of her old tur
bans was so mortifying—they were so
very shabby, so unfashionable—on an
occasion, too, when everybody would
be so well-dressed ! Oh, it was ag
gravating—vexations in the extreme!
She passed the day in reflection—
chewing the cud of sweet and bitter
fancies; recalling to herself how well
she looked in the turban—for she had
tried it on ; figuring what would have
been Miss Charlotte’s mortification if
she had been the disappointed person
—bow triumphantly she, Miss Cecilia,
would have marched into tlie room
with the turban on her head—how crest
fallen the other would have looked;
should think himself at liberty to annul
the agreement. For well she knew
without tlie expected boxes ; however, i sent her a dose of arsenic than a lodg- j and then she varied her occupation by
i I .'liter
»r ab.»
L<»ngs' Druji-itore
.1. & \V. T. Mil. LI (AN,
^TTOI.’N'EYS AT LAW—Will pr.-uii.
AT
riviF.
in flu
Western Circuit, timl tin
Klln-tt. and Hurt, of tin
j WM. T. MILLIGAN,
Carneevifle, Gn
HI LL & I.’ILLY Eft.
TORNEYS AT LAW.
Vi;■ i : 1*."7 v'.n^a,;r5ociated !ht*in'*«*!vcs
•vtr .a in-* :*r/i*-!i«*t* of law, win attend
■\i! i.i il*f? WcsVru (..’in nir. and
:r i • ; ; v- .attention to all bu?*in* s.s
[From
(bov
Ac. *Ve.]
THE TWO MISS SMITHS.
— 0—
In a certain town in tlie West of
England, which shall be nameless, there
dwelt two maiden ladies of the name!
the coachman brought a message for
Miss Gibbs, the milliner, assuring her
that they would be there the next
morning without fail.
Accordingly, when the first Exeter
coach rattled through the little street
of B , which was about half-past
eleven, every head that was interested
be seen looking
er, any day. She had used every pre | resuscitating all her old turbans, buried
caution to avoid the accident that liao
happened, by writing on a card, “Miss
Charlotte Smith, No. 1G, High street,
B== , opposite the linendraper’’s shop
but the thoughtless traveler, never
dreaming of the danger in which he
stood, lost the card, and, trusting to his
memory, fell into the snare.
.Miss Cecilia bad been so engrossed
by her anxiety to hook this fish before
her rival could have a chance of throw-
I of Smith; each possessing a small in-i' n ^ ie freight was to
I dependence, each residing, with a sin- anxiously out tor the deal boxes; and,
! g!e maid-servant in a small house, flic I sure enough, there they were—three
! drawing-room floor of which was let, i of them—large enough to contain caps
j whenever lodgers could be found ; each j for whole town. Then there was i ing out a bait for him, that, for a time,
hovering somewhere about the a»-e of, a rush U P stairs for their bonnets and j she actually forgot Miss Gibbs and the
! fifty, and each bating die ether wall) a I shawls; and in a few minutes troops
i restless and implacable enmity. Tin* | °I ladies, young and old, were seen
imlia i:
M.«mif.
1 \.
WM.ll. HULL,
Athens, Ga.
M. M. PITTMAN,
AM
TT<iit.VEY *'t Law,.Jefferson, Jackson conn-
Gn.,wih g. .cpntir.ptattention toany bu.
\ :t:,toil to lus cave. January 21 —l'-iin
JOHN II. HULL,
TToKXHY AT LAW, Augusta, Ga., will
i, .wl promptly to ail business entrustedtu
r.iro liiltll. 8.
11. A. LOWRANCE,
Resident DENTIST,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
OITTGH—College Avenue, Athens, Ga.
Oct H.
MR. UM. KINti.
I h > );i rroprJ h ic 1V/ )/s / n </ n,
I I i:i:s hi-* j ttuWxioiml M*rvi»*os to the fit
ns an l \ u-init v.
>rnor of
origin of this aversion was the similari
ty of their names; each was Miss C.
Smith, the one being called Cecilia,
the other Charlotte—a circumstance
which gave rise to such innumerable
mistakes and misunderstandings, as
were sufficient to maintain these ladies
in a constant state of irritability and
warfare. Letters, messages, invita
tions, parcels, bills, were daily missent,
and opened by the wrong person, thus
exposing the private alfairs of one to
the other ; and as their aversion had
long ago extinguished everything like
j delicacy on either side, any informa-
■ tion so acquired was used without j wore turbans, and each was afraid
' scruple to vheir mutual annoyance.— ; that the other might carry oil the iden-
hurrying toward the market-place,
where dwelt Miss Gibbs—the young
in pursuit of artificial (lowers, gold
hands, and such like adornments—the
elderly in search of a more mature or
der of decoration.
Amongst the candidates for finery,
nobody was more eager than the two
Miss Smiths ; and they had reason to
be so, not only because they bad neith
er of them anything at alt fit to be
worn at Mrs. Hanaway’s party, which
was in a style much above the enter
tainments they were usually invited to,
but also because they both invariably
turban; but now that her point was
gained, and she felt sure of her man,
her former care revived with all its
force, and she hurried along the street
ioward the market-place, in a fever of
apprehension lest she should be too
late. The matter certainly looked ill;
j for, as she arrived breathless at the
o
Presents, too, of fruit, vegetables, or
other delicacies from the neighboring
gentry, not unfrequently found their
way to the wrong house ; and if unac
companied by n litter, which took
..r Alin
,at M
tical turban that might be most desir
able for herself. Lirged by this feeling,
so alert were they, that they were each
standing at their several windows when
the coach passed, with their bonnets
CL
t Ifli.
Miiv'.l.-
away all excuse for mistake, they were and cloaks actually on—ready to start
-lv.
<;. L. Met LESKEY, M. IL,
1 I 'VIXG per,
B I mnM.Ui'iti • p
* “? J K. -iili
AI boa '.'lnu-e
l'ljutl.
w
f. It . & SI. U. J. LONG,
niOLESALE ami retail DnigK'wtu, Athens
Gn. | Jan.:*
appropriated without remorse, even
when the appropriating party felt con
fident in her heart that- the article was
r-irCu-ei^MeflDineiinii'iw^’er 1 ' ! 11 °‘ intended fur her; and this was not
timt m i ntiv m-i-npioii by Mr. 1 from greediness or rapacity, hut from
tin. at iu.mo, -*-;^;mav ; b, | ^ a bs 0 lute delight they took in vexing
each other.
It must he admitted, also, that this
well-known enmity was occasionally
played upon by the frolic-loving part of
the community, both high ami low; so
that over and above the genuine mis-
I takes, which were of themselves quite
I enough to keep the poor ladies in hot
j water, every now and then some little
practiced upon
them, such r.s fictitious love-letters,
anonymous communications, and so
forth. It might Lave been imagined,
THURMOND & NORTH,
_A.ttarneys at Law,
W ILL in-set ice in copartiiorsliip in the conn-
tion iil'Ginrk. H’nlton. Jackson, Gwinnett,
in antique hand-boxes deep in dust,
and trying whether it were possible,
out of their united materials, to con
coct one of the present fashionable
shape and dimensions. But the thing
wjs impracticable: the new turban
was composed of crimson satin and
gold lace, hers of pieces of muslin and
gauze.
When the mind is very much en
grossed, whether the subject of con
templation be pleasant or unpleasant,
she thought it would be as well to set
off at once, for fear of accidents, even
though she lingered on the way to fill
up the -time, for every moment the
danger • augmented ; so she called to
Susan to bring her cloak, and her ca
lash, and her overalls, and being well
packed up by the admiring Sue, who
declared the turban was “without ex
ception the beautifulest thing she ever
saw,’’she started ; determined, howev
er, not to take the direct way, but to
make a little circuit by a back street,
lest, by ill luck, she should fall foul
of the enemy.
“Susan,” said she, pausing as she
was stepping oil the threshold, “if any
body calls you’ll say 1 have been gone
to Mrs. Hanaway’s sometime; and,
Susan, just put a pin in this calash to
ke< p it back, it falls over my eyes so
that I can’t see.” And Susan pinned
a fold in the calash, and away went
the triumphant Miss Cecilia. She did
not wish to he guilty of the vulgarity
of arriving first at the party; so she
lingeretl about till it wanted a quarter
to eight, and then she knocked at Mrs.
Hanaway’s door, which a smart foot
man immediately opened, and, with
the alertness for which many of his or
der are remarkable, proceeded to dis
engage the lady from her external cov
erings—the cloak, the overalls, the ca
lash ; and then, without giving her
time to breathe, he rushed up the
stairs calling out “Miss Cecilia,Smith;”
whilst the butler, who stood at the
drawing-room doqr, threw it open, re
iterating, “Miss Cecilia Smith;” and in
she went. But* O reader, little do
you think, and little did she think,
where the turban was that she imagin
ed to be upon her head, and under the
supposed shadow of which she walked
into the room with so much dignity
and complacence. It was below in
the hall, lying on the floor, fast in the
calash, to which Susan, ill-starred
wench! had pinned it; and the foot
man, in his cruel haste, had dragged
them both off together.
With only so.ne under-trappings on
her crani um, and altogether unconscious
of her calamity, smiling and bowing,
Miss Cecilia advanced toward her host
anil hostess, who received her in the
most gracious manner, thinking, cer
tainly, that her taste in a head-dress
was peculiar, and she was about the
tine flies with inconceivable rapidity;' most extraordinary figure they had ever
and Miss Cecilia was roused from her! beheld, but supposing that such was
meditations by hearing the clock in the
passage strike four, warning her that it
was necessary to come to some deci
sion, as the hour fixed for the party,
occording to the primitive customs of
B , was half-past seven, when
/Ull, lPUjua. White. Franklin, Hanks, HaWr
*lmm liftin' Western Circuit; ai-J Hart nn<l M'ui- hoax WAS got Up and
i-nn of tin- AYrtlif-rn C’ircuit: ami will frivo tln-tr - ...
juliv it! 11:11 am! joint attention to all business* cn-
.i listed to them'. The eolleetion of debts will re-
-. iv.- tironio! and ■■arelu! attention. „„
SAM 1. l\tll!Tv*M»>XP. JOIIX R. NOKTH, .
over 1.0 1— urn,, store, Jefferson,Jnckaon co a s they w’ere not answerable for their
OeilS tf ) 7 ,t.
Athens, Gn.
JUKSOX & HUTCHINS,
V TTOR N KYS AT LAW.—Will practice
in the i mintio* of t
s in. Hid Mall.of the W.
names, and as they were mutual suffer
ers by the similarity—one having as
much right to complain of this freak
'leXanflVbe ! coun J ty r Of I of fortune as the other, that they might
Fo.-ivtn of tlie Hlue Uidae Circuit.
,1MKH J.tCKSO.X, I X. L. HUTCHINS, Jr..
.tthenn, Gn. j Lawrenceville,Ga
1*. S.—Wnrino Mr. JhoKsoii'h absence froai Geor
gia. buidne.-i iettera “hould btr addressed to the
I.rm at Latvroncevilio. Sept 30-tf
Pit. It. M. SMITH,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
drugs, M EDI OINKS, PERFUMERY,
PMXTS, OU.S, DYE STUFFS,
MVDICtXAl. It^VNDV AND WINK, &.C., &C., ATC.
I S NOW receiving and openingn large Htoek of
“ selected in the Northern Market* by him
-lit'V, i:h great cine.und which he confidently recom
mends to the public ns being pure
Athens, J une 'J. lC.i9.
J. F. O’KELLY,
FJIOTOdliAPIl AND AM 11 HOT! PE
ARTIST.
iad ai d Spring street: ,
store of Jobe It. Alai thews, Athens, Ga.
jj >«»O.AIN oil Itrond at d Spring streets, oyer tlie
DR. II. LILLELAND, DENTIST,
W ATKINSVILLE G a ,rcspcetfully solicit*thc
patron age of the surroundinj' country.—
Full satisfaction will begiveu in their profession.
Am it 5K.
B. LOMBARD.
TEORGIA; Rooms in
‘ tlirtPotl Office, Col-
Feb fl—’y.
have entered into a compact of for
bearance. which would have been
equally advantageous to either party;
but their naturally acrimonious dispo-
sion^ prevented this, and each contin
ued as angry with the other as she
could have bet-n if she had a sole and
indefeasible right to the appellation of
C. Smith, and her rival had usurped it
in a pure spirit of annoyance and oppo
sition. To be quite just, however, we
must observe that Miss Cecilia was
much the worse of the two; by judi
cious management Miss ObailoHe
might have been tamed, but the malice
of Miss CeciUa was altogether inexor
able.
By the passing of the Reform Bill,
the little town wherein dwelt these bel
ligerent powers received a very con
siderable accession of importance; it
was elevated into a borough, and had
a whole live member of itself, which,
with infinite pride and gratification, it
sent to parliament, after having ex
tracted from him all manner ol pledges,
and loaded him with all manner of in
structions as to how he .-hould conduct
for the plate!—determined to reach
Miss Gibbs’s in time to witness the
opening of the boxes. But “who
shall control bis fate ?’’ Just as Miss
Cecilia was stepping off her threshold,
she was accosted by a very gentleman
ly looking person, who, taking off his
hat, with an air really irresistible, beg
ged to know if he had “the honor of
seeing Miss Smith”—a question which
was ot course answered in the affirma
tive.
“I was not quite sure,” said he,
“whether I was right, for I had lorgot-
ten the number; but I thought it was
sixty,” and he looked at the figures on
the door.
“This is sixty, sir,” said Miss Ce
cilia; adding to herself, “I wonder if
it was sixteen he \» as sent to ?” for at
number sixteen lived Miss Charlotte.
“I was informed, madam,” pursued
the gentleman, “that 1 could be ac
commodated with apartments here—
that you had a first floor to let.”
“That is quite true, sir,” replied Miss
Cecilia, delighted to let her rooms,
which had been some time vacant, and
doubly gratified when the stranger add
ed, “I come Irom Bath, and was re
commended by a friend of yours, in
deed probably a relation, as she bears
the same name—Miss Joanna Smith.”
“I know Miss Joanna vety well,
sir,” replied Miss Cecilia ; “pray, walk
up stairs, and I’ll show you the apart
ment* directly. (For,” thought she, “I
must not let him go out of the house
till he has taken them, for fear he should
find out his mistake.) Very nice
rooms, sir, you see—everything clean
and^omfortable—a pretty view of the
canal in front—-just between the baker’s
and the shoemaker's; you’ll get a
peep, sir, if you will step to this win
dow. Then it’s uncommonly lively;
the Exeter and Plymouth coaches, up
and down, rattling through all day
long, and indeed all night too, for the
matter of that. A beautiful little bed
room, back, too, sir—Yes, as you ob
serve, it certainly does look over
door, she saw groups of self-satisfied
faces issuing from it, and, amongst the
rest, the obnoxious Miss Charlotte’s
physiognomy appeared, looking more
pleased than any body.
“Odious creature!’’ thought Miss
Cecilia ; “as if she supposed that any
turban in the world could make her
look tolerable !” But Miss Charlotte
did suppose it; and moreover she had
just secured the very identical turban
that of all the turbans that ever were
made was most likely to accomplish
this desideratum—at least's© she
opined.
Poor Miss Cecilia! Up stairs she
rushed, bouncing into Miss Gibbs's
little room, now strewed with finery.
“Well, M iss Gibbs, I hope you have
something that will suit me ?”
“Dear me, mem,” responded Miss
Gibbs, “what a pity you did not come
a little sooner. The only two turbans
we had are just gone—Mrs. Gosling
took one, and Miss Charlotte Smith the
other—two of the beautifulest—here
they are, indeed—you shall see them ;”
and she opened the boxes in which
they were deposited, and presented
them to the grieved eye of Miss Cecilia.
She stood aghast! The turbans
were very respectable turbans indeed ;
but to her disappointed and eager de
sires they appeared worthy of Mahomet
the Prophet, or the g^and Sultana, or
any other body, mortal or immortal,
that has ever been reputed to \year
turbans. And the consummation of
perfection site bad 1 >st! lost just by a
neck ! missed it by an accident, that,
however gratify ing she had thought it
at the time, she now felt was but an
inadequate compensation for her pres
ent disappointment. But there was no
remedy. Miss Gibbs bad nothing fit to
make a turban of; besides, Miss Ce
cilia would have scorned to appear in
any turban that Miss Gibbs could have
compiled, when her rival was to be
adorned with a construction of such
superhuman excellence. No! the only
consolation she had was to scold Miss
Gibbs for not having kept tne turbans
till she had seen them, and for not hav
ing sent for a greater number of tur
bans. To which objurgations Miss
Gibbs could only answer “That she
had been extremely sorry indeed, when
she saw the ladies were bent upon
having the turbans, as she had ordered
two entirely with a view to Miss Ce
cilias accommodation; and moreover
that she was never more surprised in
her life than when Mrs. Gosling desired
one of them might be sent to her, be
cause Mrs. Gosling never wore tur
bans ; and if Miss Gibbs had only
foreseen that she would have pounced
upon it in that way, she, Miss Gibbs,
the knell of the clock was followed by
a single knock at the door, and the
next moment her maid walked into the
room with—what do you think ?—the
identical crimson and gold turban in
her hand!
“What a beauty !” cried Susan, turn
ing it round, that she might get a com
plete view of it in all its phases.
“Was tiiere any message, Sue ?”
inquired Miss Cecilia, gasping with
agitation, fc r her heart was in her throat.
“No, ma’am,” replied Sue ; “Miss
Gibbs’s girl just left it; site said it
should have come earlier, but she had
so many places to go to.”
“And she’s gone, is she Susan ?”
“Yes, ma’am, she went directly —
she said she hadn’t got half through
yet.”
‘Very well, Susan, you may go;
and remember, I’m . not at home if
anybody calls; and if any message
comes here from Miss Gibbs, you’ll
say I’m gone out, and you don’t ex
pect me home till very late.”
“Very well, ma’am.”
“And I say, Susan, if they send here
to make any inquiries nbout that tur
ban, you’ll say you know nothing about
it, and send them away.”
“Very well, ma’am,” said Susan,
and down she dived to the regions be
low.
Instead of four o’clock, how ardent
ly did Miss Cecilia wish it was seven.;
for the danger of the next three hours
was imminent. Well she understood
how the turban had got there—it was
a mistake of the girl—but the chance
was great that, before seven o’clock ar
rived, Miss Charlotte would take fright
at not leceiving her head-dress, and
would send to Miss Gibbs to demand
it, when the whole thing would be
found out. However no message
came; at five o’clock, when the milk-
boy rang, Miss Cecilia thought she
should have fainted ; but that was the
only alarm. At six she began to dress,
and at seven she stood before her glass
in full array, with the turban on her
head. SI e thought she bad never
looked so well; indeed, she was sure
she had not. The magnitude of the
thing gave her an air, and indeed a
feeling of dignity and importance that
she had never been sensible of before.
The gold lace looked brilliant even by
the light of her single tallow candle ;
what would it do in a well-illuminated
drawing-room ! Then tlie color was
strikingly becoming, and suited her
hair exactly—Miss Cecilia, we must
here observe, was quite gray; but she
wore a fronlet of dark curls, and a little
black silk skull-cap, fitted close to her
head, which kept all neat and tight
under the turban.
She had not far to go; nevertheless,
the fashion she chose to adopt—the
less astonished or inclined to suspect
the truth, from having heard a good
deal of the eccentricities of the two
spinsters of B . But to the rest of
the company, the appearance she made
was inexplicable; they had been ac
customed to see her ill dressed, and
oddly dressed, but such a flight as this
they were not prepared for. Some
whispered that she had gone mad ;
others suspected that it must be acci
dent—that somehow or other she had
forgotten to put on her head-dress;
but even if it were so, the joke was an
excellent one, and nobody cared
enough for her to sacrifice their amuse
ment by setting her right. So Miss
Cecilia, blessed in her delusion, tri
umphant and happy, took her place at
the whist table, apxiously selecting a
position which gave h£f a full view of
the door, in order that she might have
the indescribable satisfaction of seeing
the expression of Miss Charlotte’s
countenance when she entered the
room—that is, if she came; the proba
bility was, that mortification would
keep her away.
But no such thing—Miss Charlotte
had too much spirit to be beaten out of
the field in that manner. She had
waited with patience for her turban,
because Miss Gibbs had told her, that,
having many things to send out, it
might be late before she got it; but
when ha 1-past six arrived, she became
impatient, and dispatched her maid to
fetch it. The maid returned, with
“Miss Gibb’s Aspects, and the girl was
still out with the things; she would be
sure to call at Miss Charlotte’s before
she came back. At half-past seven
there was another message, to say that!
the turban had not arrived ; by this
time the girl had done her errands, and
Miss Gibbs, on questioning her, dis
covered the truth. But it was too late
—the mischief was irreparable—Susan
averring, with truth, that her mistress
had gone to Mrs. Hanaway’s party
some time, with the turban on her
head.
We will not attempt to paint Miss
Charlotte’s feelings—that would be a
vain endeavor. Rage took possession
of her soul; her attire was already
complete, all but the head-dress, for
which she was waiting. She selected
the best turban she had, threw on her
cloak and calash, and in a condition of
mind bordering upon frenzy, she rushed
forth, determined, be the consequences
what they might, to claim her turban,
and expose Miss Cecilia’s dishonorable
conduct before the whole company.
By the time she arrived at Mrs. Han
away’s door, owing to the delays that
had intervened, it was nearly half-past
eight; the company had all arrived;
and whilst the butler and footman were
carrying up the refreshments, one of
the female servants of the establishment
had come into the hall, and was en
deavoring to intiodi ce some sort of
order and classification amongst the
mass of external coverings that had
been hastily thrown off by the ladies ;
so, when Miss Charlotte knocked, she
opened the door and let her ir, and
proceeded to relieve her of her wraps.
“I suppose I’m very late,” said Miss
Charlotte, dropping into a chair to seize
a moment’s rest, whilst the woman
drew off her boots; for she was out of
breath with haste, and heated with fury.
“I believe everybody’s come, ma’am. "
said the woman.
“I should have been here some time
since,” proceeded Miss Charlotte, ‘'but
the most shameful trick has been
played me about my—my—Why—1
declare—I really believe—” and she
bent forward and picked up the turban
—the identical turban, which, disturbed
by the maid-servant’s maneuvers, was
lying upon the floor, still attached to
the calash by Sukey’s unlucky pin.
Was there ever such a triumph 5 —
Quick as lightning, the old turban was
of! and the new one on, the mam with
bursting sides ass sting in the opera
tion; and then, with a light step and a
proud heart, up walked Miss Charlotte,
and was ushered into the drawing
room.
As the door opened, the eyer of the
rivals met. Miss Cecilia’s feelings
were those of disappointment and sur
prise. “Then she has got a turban
too! IIow could she have got it?"—
and she was vexed that her triumph
was not so complete as she had ex
pected. But Miss Charlotte was in
ecstasies. It may be supposed she was
not slow to tell the story; it soon flew
round the room, and the whole party
were thrown into convulsions of laugh
ter. Miss Cecilia alone was not in the
secret; and as she was successful at
cards, and therefore in good humor, she
added to their mirth, by saying that she
was glad to see everybody so merry,
and by assuring Mrs. Hanaway, when
she took her leave, that she had spent
a delightful evening, and that her party
was the gayest she had ever seen in
B .
“I am really ashamed,” said Mrs.
Hanaway, “at allowing the poor woman
to be the jest of my company ; but I
was afraid to tell her the cause of our
laughter, from the apprehension of
wliat might have followed her discovery
of the truth ”
“And it must be admitted,” said her
husband, “that she well deserves the
mortification that awaits her when she
discovers the truth.”
Poor Miss Cecilia did discover the
truth, and never was herself again.—
She parted with her house, and went to
live with a relation at Bristol; hut her
spirit was broken; and, after going
through all the stages of a discontented
old age—ill-temper, peevishness, and
fatuity—she closed her existence, as
usual with persons of her class, unloved
and unlamented.
Marrying Disabilities Removed.
From the title in the captions of the
Acts which we published soon after
the adjournment of the Legislature, we
did not suspect that the “Act to relieve
certain persons from the pains and pen
alties of a judgment of divorce,” was
general in its operation, or wo should
have so informed our readers. Mr.
Waters was also deceived by the title,
and omitted to include the act in his
pamphlet of the public laws. In a
note to tha Federal Union explaining
the circumstance, he gives the act as
follows :
Section 1. The General Asscnihh/
of Georgia do hereby enact. That all
persons who have had a judgement of
divorce rendered against them, shall
have the right and privilege ol enn-
tiacting marraige again after the lapse
of one year from the time of the render,
ing of the final judgement in tho din
vorce case.
Sec 2. Repeals conflicting laws.
Assented to Dec 12, 1861.
About the time we noticed the pass
age of tho bill, some of our exc nugo
papers condemned it as bad policy, ami
expressed the hope that it would be
vetoed by the governor. The objec
tion, we presume, was founded on the
belief that the bill was intended to ap
ply to cases which might a-ise in fn
tuie. as well as those already decided.
It will be seen, however, that the act
admits of no such construction, and
tin refore the public morality is not n-
dangered by the temptation to discor
dantpartners by conniving at their own
disgrace in order to furnish legal
grounds for a final divorce. Future
defendants will labor under tho for
mer disabilities while the plaintiffs in o
living.—Milledgevillc Recorder.
Rank in tbe Army.
Wo have been told an anecdote on this
often embarrassing point, which we
think too good to bo lost. It is ns
follows:
A private and a captain were enga
ged playing cards—the latter beVn;r
considerably under the influence of
stimulants. A dispute arising, the
captain denounced tho private, and nt
tbe same time announced his personal
responsibility, saying, that bo would
waive his rank and fight him according
to the code. The private replied that
bo would, not waive rank with him.—
Tho indignant officer replied, "You
waive rank—don’t I know you are
nothing but a private "Y'es,” replied
tbe private, “and that is tho very
reason. Pat a strap on a Yankee's
shoulders and give him high pay, and
even be will fight; but it takes a gen
tleman to fight for eleven dollars a
month.’’ Not bad logic.