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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. T.l SOU HERN BANNER l'lUi.!S!IEl> WEEKLY, '.!><; 17 & REESE POETRY axdehson w. nr.F.sr . htHlors and Proprietors. Ol 1 1< 1'. I I’-S FAIRS, No. 7 Giiamtk Row TERMS r TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. IN ADVANCE ’In club, remit tin" Sill in ml'iiuce, copte* will :,c neat. Anj xnbAi-r.ber i ulin » to "ive notifo of bis de t'.r. t.. disronS.iiUf bis Milm-riptiount tin- cxidr.i- tion of tit! time for ivbioli if Uss boon paid, will be iinidoiod as wisbino to contimu* it, and held 1 •d ns wisbi liable in ordini'lv. tV^No paper will be discontinued (except at the opt;..,, ( ,f the edil jrs.j until all •wvt.iraj'es are to square , and tillv s of ADVERTISING. i, istin" of twelve lines small lent. One Dollar or the first its for each weekly .out inn can i ■ mu !" for veavly adver- i-.l at Otlil-I he usual rates Five Dollars ably i ert.si iml.d in, i r bid, and s have the desired upon them when . il l>e published till lil'SlNESS DIRECTORY. lit tin 111 111 11 mid Hnstn. ■d limb r tills* It e Dollars for a •lien eau have id, for one year, ai d of not inore is for eacbaddi- A j A M A M (’Ol \]\ ATTOHNEV AT lAW t MACON, geo. ( Ti rit i: on .'./nil ? A. M. Hlieksl ■ o Will ]>v I! .11 ton. . over the store in ltoardniiin s •lice in llibb. I ■icon. Twifres. Xov ',* • If Crawford, Dooly, Wort’.i, and Srmter. 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.
