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young men. On fleeing them, she stopped
and stared curiously at them, as a young
deer, that hud never been bunted, may be
supposed to stop tiod regard the-first stran
ger that enters tho forest. Iter bright,
speaking face, as she thus stood, graceful
ly arrested, was not less beautiful, iu its
way, than l)er little figure.
“ My dear,” said the last speaker, “would
yon like to bo mado into a picture? )ly
friend here is a painter, and will give yon
a dollar, if j’ou will let him sketch you.”
Tho child looked from the speaker to
his friend. Something in the latter's face
seemed to restore the natural confidence
which the free and easy air of the other
lwd, for the moment, shaken. She drove,
coyly, up to him, as if for protection.
•*J have road of pictures,” said she. gaz
ing up into his face, “but never saw one.
Is it a real picture of me you will make?”
The artless, appealing manner of the
child went to the young man’s heart, lie
would ns soon have joined in bantering her
as in bantering a sister. Ho took her hand,
as he replied,
“I will make ns good a picture of you
as I can, if you will let mo. A picture like
one of these.” .*
And he opened his portfolio, which con
tained various sketches.
“Oh! how beautiful!” cried the child.
It was evident that a now world had open
ed to her. She gazed, breathlessly, at
sketch after sketch, till the last had boon
examiued, and then heaved a deep sigh.
“ Please, sir,” said she timidly, at last,
“ will you give mo my picture when you
have painted it?”
“No,” interposed tho other young man,
“ but we will give you a dollar.”
She turned on tho speaker, let go the
hand she had been holding, and drew her
self up with sudden haughtiness.
“ I don’t want your dollar,” she said,
with proud delicacy.
“She was turning to escape, when the
artist, recovering her hand, said, soothing-
ly,
“ Never mind him, my dear. I will paint
two pictures, and give you one. Como,
will that do?
Beassured, the child took tho position in
dicated to her, and. Clarence Harvard, for
that was the youn^ artist’s name, began
rapidly printing. Before noon, two hasty
sketches, in oil’ wore finished.
“ There,” he said, drawing a long breath,
“ j-ou have been as quiet as a little mouse;
and I'm a thousand times obliged to you.
Take that homo,” and he banded her the
sketch, “and maybo, aomo of these days,
you’ll think of him who gave it to you ”
“That I will, all my life long,” artlessly
said the child, gazing rapturously on her
new possession, with an enthusiasm partly
born of the artist soul within her, and part
ly the result ot a child's pride in what is
its own especial property.
“Oh! yes,” interrupted tho other youth,
AiDbmnnes.. iiy 0U »|| promise to be his wife some day,
won’t you, Miss Cobwebs ?”
The child's eyes Hashed as she turned on
the speaker. Her instinct, from the first,
had made her dislike this snoering man.
She stamped her pretty foot, and retorted,
saucily;
“ I II never bo yours, at any rate, you
old snapping turtle,” and, as if expecting
to have her ears boxed, if caught, she dart
ed away disappearing rapidly down the
path whence she had come.
Clarence Harvard broke into a merry
laugh, which, after a moment of anger, his
companion joined him.
“Yon deserved it richly,” said Clarence.
“ It's a capital nickname, too. I shall call
j*ou nothing else, after this, than snapping
turtle.”
“ Ilang the jade!” was tho reply. “ One
wouldn’t think sho was bo smart. But
what a shrew she’ll make! I pity tho clod
hopper she marries; she’ll heh peck him
out of all peace, and send him to an early
grave.”
Nothiug more was said, for, at that mo-,
ment, a dinner-horn sounded, and the
young men rose to return to the roadside
inn whore they had stopped the night be
fore. Their timo was limited, and that
evening, knapsack on back, they were miles
away from the scone of the morning. A
week later they were both home in the
city, Clarence hard at work perfecting
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himself in art, and his companion delving
at Coke and Illackstone.
’ Clarence Harvard had
' * co. His pie-
tie fashion
turned over
tld como upon
laugh-
liild; and
©r what
young artist’s attention; but it had failed
to satisfy the higher aspirations of her na
ture ; aspirations which had been born in
her blood, and which came of generations
of antecedent culture. The first occasion
on which these higher impulses had found
congenial food was when sho had met the
young artist. She carried her sketch home,
and would never part with it. His refined,
intellectual face haunted all her day dreams.
From that hour a new clement entered
into her life; she became conscious that
there were other people beside the dull,
plodding ones with whom her lot had been
cast; she aspired to rise to tho level of
such; all her leisure hours were spent in
studying; gradually, through her influ
ence, her uncle’s household grew more re
fined; and finally, her uncle himself became
ambitious for Nelly, and, as be had no
children, consented, at his wife’s entreaty,
to send the young girl to a first-class board
ing school.
At eighteen the bare footed rustic, whom
the young artist had sketched, had dawn
ed intosi beautiful and accomplished young
woman, who, having carried off the high
est prizes at school, was the belle of tho
country town near which her uncle’s pos
sessions lay. For, meantime, that undo
had been growing rich, like most prudent
farmers, partly from the rise in the value
of lands, and partly from the judicious in
vestments of savings.
“Are 3*ou going ito tho hall next week?”
said one of Nolly's friends to her. “They
say it is to be the most splendid affair wo
have ever had. My brother tells me that
Mr. Mowbray, the eloquent lawyer from
Philadelphia, who is in the great will case
hero, is to be present.”
“I expect to go,” was tho answer. “But
Mr. Mowbraj’ being there won’t be the in
ducement.”
“Oli! 3*ou are so beautiful, yon can af
ford to be indifferent. But all tho other
girls are dying at the very thought.”
The bali came off, and was rcul!}- supci’b.
Mr. Mowbray was there, too, with all his
laurels. The “great will case,” which had
agitated the country for so mftr.3- months,
had been concluded that very day, and
been decided in favor of his client. No
such speech as Mr. Mowbray’s, it was uni
versally admitted, had ever been heard in
the court house. Its alternate wit and ar
gument hud carried tho jur3' ly storm, so
that they had given a verdict without
leaving the box. The 3'oung lawyer, at
that hall, was like a young hero fresh from
tho battle-field. A hundred eyes followed
his form, a hundred fair bosoms beat quick
er as he approached. But ho saw only
one in all that brilliant assembly—and it
was Nellj’. Her graceful form, her intelli
gent lace, her stylo and beaut3" arrested
him, the moment he entered; ho saw that
she had no peer in the room; and ho had
devoted himself to her, almost exclusively,
throughout tho evening.
Nor had Ncll3* ever shone so brilliant^-.
She could not but feel that it was a great
compliment, to be thus singled out from so
man}*. But she had another motive for ex
erting herself to shine. At the very first
glance she half recognized, in Mr. Mowhra}',
the companion of the artist who had sketch
ed her eight 3'oars back. In hopes to hear
something of his friend, she turned tho con
versation upon art, theoity,.childhood aud
ovciything else that sho thought might bo
suggestive; but in vain. Sho could not bo
more definite, because sho wished to con
ceal her own identity, for it was evident
Mr. Mowbray did not know her; besides,
her natural delicacy shrunk from inquiring
about a perfect stranger.
The next day, as soon as etiquette allow
ed, Mr. Mowbray was seen driving up to
the farm. Nolly appeared, beautifully at
tired in a neat morning dress, and looking
so fresh and sparkling, in spite of the late
hours of the night before, that it conld hard
ly he considered flattery, when her visitor
assured her that she looked lovelier than
her loveliest rose3. Mr. Mowbray was full
of regrets at the cruel fat©, which, he said,
compelled him to return to the city. Ho
could not conceal his joy when Nelly’s
aunt, inadvertent!}’, and to Nelly’s secret
annoyance, let out the fact, that, in tho.
fall, Nelly wms to pay ti visit to an old
school mate in Philadelphia, Miss Mar}*
Stanle}*.
“ Ah ! indeed,” cried the visitor, and his
face flushed with pleasure. “ I am so de
lighted. I have tho honor to know Miss
Stanley. You will bo quite nt home in her
set,” lie added, bowing to Nell}*, “for it is,
by common consent, tho most cultivated
in the city.”
Nelly ho wed coldly back. Her old dis
trust in thespeaker revived again. Through
all tho polish of his manner, anil in spito of
his defcroutiul admiration, she recognized
tho same sneering spirit, which believed in
nothiug true or good, from which she had
shrunk instinctively when a c-hild. Dur
ing tho interview, she was civil, but no
more. Sho couhl not help being beautiful;
nor could she help speaking with the in
telligence and spirit which always charac
terized her conversation ; and so Mr. Mow
bray went away, more in love than ever.
A few months later found Nolly domi
ciled for the winter, in Philadelphia. Hard
ly had she changed her travelling dress
when her friend came into her chamber.
“ I want you to look your prettiest to
night,” said Miss Stanley, “ for I expect a
crowd of beaux, and among them, Mr. Mow
bray, the brilliant young lawyer, and Mr.
Harvard. Tho former claims to have met
you, and raves©very where about your beau
ty. The latter,* who is the great artist,
and very critical, laughs ut his friend’s en
thusiasm, and says he’d 6ot you’re only a
common rustic, with cheeks lilco peonies.
So I wish you to contort tho heretic.”
“ Only a common rustic,” said Nolly to
herself, heartilv; and she resolved to be as
beautiful as possible. Perhaps, too, there
was a half-formed resolve to bring tho of
fender to her feet, in revenge.
A great surprise awaited her. When
she entered the dnr
the first stranger si
cal Clarenco, who
bare-footed little gi
great artist, who
tnously ofhcrcha
correct, fin* Miss
vnneiog, present, d
Mr. Harvard. ;A 1
assured her that lie 1
: and then she turned a
Uansf
tions of Mr.
There were conflictin K feelings at war
evening.jfAil her old
remarks and at his present indifference.—
For he had made no attempt to improve
his introduction, bat loft her to the crowd
of other beanx, prominent among whom
— ' *
hiabdly
was Mowbray. Piqued and excited, Nelly
was even more beautiful and witty than
usual. Late in the evening she consented,
at Miss Stanley’s request, to play and sing.
She first dashed off on some brilliant waltzes;
then played bits of a few operas; an:l, at
last, at Mr. Mowbray’B solicitation, sang
several ballads. Few persons had such a
sympathetic voice, and Clarence, who was
passionately fond of music, drew near, fas
cinated. After Binging “ And are ye sure
the news is true?” “Bonnie Dundee,” and
others which had been asked for, Clarence
said:
“ And may I, too, ask for my favorite ?”
“Certainly,” she answered, with the least
bit of hauteur. “ What is it ?”
“ Oh ! too sad perhaps, for so gay a com
pany ! ‘ The Land of tho Dead.’ I
dare hope you’ll consent.”
It was her favorite also, and her voice
slightly trembled, as she began. From
this, or some other cause, she sang as even
sho had never sung before; and, when she
finished her eyes were full of tears. She
would have given much to have seen Cla
rence’s faco, but sho could not trust her
self to look np; and partly to conceal emo
tion, partly by a sudden impulse, she struck
into tho miserere of “ II Trovatoro.” No
body there had ever before realized the full
tragedy of that saddest, yet most beautiful
dirge. Even the selfish heart ot Mr. Mow
bray was affected. When the last chord
died away, ho was the first to speak, and
was profuse iu his admiration and thanks
But Clarence said nothing. Nelly, at last
looking towards him, saw that his eyes had
been dim as well as her own. She felt that
his silence was the most eloquent of com
plimcnts, and from that hour forgave him
for having called her a “ common rustic.”
Clarenco soon became a constant visitor
at Mr. Stanley’s. But, he always found
ill*. Mowbray there before him, who 011-
deavored in every way to monopolize Nel
ly’s attention. Deserved, if not absolute
ly haughty, Clarence left tho field general
ly to his rival; and Nelly, half indignant,
was sometimes tempted to affect a gaiety
in Mr. Mowbray’s company which she was
far from feeling. Occasionally, however
Clarence would assert his equal right to
share the society of Miss Stanley's guest,
and at such times his eloquent talk soon
eclipsed that of even tho brilliant advocate
As Nelly said in her secret heart, it was
Rnskin against Voltaire. And tho more
Ciarence engaged in these conversations,
tho more ho felt, that for the first time
his life, he had met one who understood
him
One morning tho footman came np to
tho little, panuelicd boudoir, where Nelly
and her friend were sitting, saying that
Mr. Mowbray was in the parlor and solicit
ed a private interview with the former.—
Nelly rose at once, for she foreboded what
was coming, and was only too glad to have
this early opportunity of stopping attun
tions which had become unendurable to
.her.
Mr. Mowbray was cvidontlyrimbarrassed
an unusual thing for him. Bat he rallied,
and came directly to the purpose of his vis
it, which was, as Nelly had suspected, to
tender her his heart and hand. Ho was
proceeding, in a strain of high flown com
pliment, when Nelly said, with an impa
tient wave of the hand :
“ Spare mo, sir. You did not always
talk so.”
lie looked his* astonishment.
“ Many years ago I answered you th
same question which you now ask.”
Ho colored up to tho temple. “ I surely
do not deserve, lie said, “ to be mado
jest of.”
“ Neither do 1 make a jest of you. Do
you not mo ?”
“ I never saw you till this summer.
“You saw mo eight years ago. You
and a friend were 611 a pedestrian tour
You met a little bare-footed girl, whom
your friend mado a sketch of aud whom
you jeered at and then nick named.” And
ising she mado a mock courtesy, for she
saw sho was now recognized. “ I am Cob
webs, at your service, sir.”
Tho discomfited suitor never forgot tho
look of disdain with which Nelly courtesiod
to him. His mortification was not lessen
cd when, on leaving the house, ho met Cla
reneo on the door-steps. Ho tried, in vain
to assume an indifferent aspect, but he felt
that he had failed, and that his rival sus
pected his rejection.
Nelly could not avoid laughing at tho
crest-fallen look of lior old enemy. Her
whole manner changed, however, when
Clarence entered. Instead of the triumpl;
ant saucy tormentor, she became tho con
scious trembling woman. Clarence, who
had longed for, yet dreaded, this interview
took courage at once, and in a few, manly
words, eloquent with emotion, laid his for
tunes at Nelly’s feet.
Poor Nelly felt more like crying, with
joy than, anything else. But a little of the
old saucy spirit was still left in her; she
thought she owed it tp her sex not to sur
render too easily; and so sho said, archly
glancing up at Clarence:
“ Do you know, Mr. Harvard, whom you
are proposing to? Iam no heiress, no high
born city belle, but only—lot me see—wli
was it ?—only a common country rustic,
And she rose and courtesicd to him
For Heaven’s sake, don’t bring that
foolish speech np against mo!” ho cried
passionately, trying to take her hand,
have repented it a thousand times daily
sinco the unlucky momeut I was betray
into saying it. I never meant it to be per
sonal.”
“ Well, then, I will say nothing more
that matter. But this is only a* whim
yours. How is it, that having known me
so long,you only now discover my merits?
“ Known you so long?”
“ Yes, sir,” she said, demurely.
“Known you?”
“ For eight years?”
“ Good heavens!” he
13,
Two months later there was a gay wed
ding at St. Marks. A month aftur that,
the bridal pair returning from the wedding
tour, drove to a handsome house in one
of the moBt fashionable streets in Philadel
phia. As Clarence led Nelly through the
rooms, in which his perfect taste was seen
everywhere, she gave way to exclamation
after exclamation of delight.
At last, they reached a tiny boudoir, ex
quisitely carpeted and curtained. A jet
' !»as, burning in an alabaster vase, diffus-
a soft light through tho room. A soli-
taiy picture hung on the walls. It was
the original sketch of her, taken eight
years before, and now elegantly framed.
The tears gushed to Nelly’s eyes and sho
t hrew herself into her husband’s arms.
“ Oh ! how I love you !” sho cried.
Nobody, who see3 that picture suspects
its origin. It is too sacred a subject for
eithor Nelly or Clarence to allude to. But
was only the other day that a celebrated
leader of fashion said to a friend :
“ What a queer pet name Mr. Harvard
has for his beautiful bride. Iu any body
except a genius it would bo eccentric.—
But you clon’t know how pretty it sounds
from his lips.”
“ What is it ?”
“ Cobwebs.”
face re-
ogniz
, __ r *, - Ptnfter I
ghly courtesy, to receive the eager 1'c-
ero were cont
r bosom that
irst his whole faco lighting. “
the have been ! Why did I not
^tlftlsil ftoettg.
LAND OF TIIE SOITII.
BY II. a. JACKSON.
Laml of tho South—imperial land!
How proud tliy mountains riso—
IIow sweet thy seenc? on every baud—
How fair thy covering skies!
But not for this—oh, not for these,
I love thy fields to roam—
Thou hast a dearer spoil to mo—
Thon art my nativo home!
Thy river? roll thy wealth
Unequalled to tho sea—
Thy hill? and valleys bloom with health,
And green with verdure he!
But not for thy bright ocean streams,
Nor for thy nrure dome—
Sweet, sunny South—I cling to thee—
Thou art my native heme!
I've stood beneath I folio’s clime,
Beloved of tale and ?ong—
On llclvey’s hill?, proud and sublime,
Where Nature’s wonders throug;
By Tempo’s (.lassie sunlight streams,
Where gods of old did roam—
But ne'er hare I found so lair a land
As thou, my uatirc home.
And thou hast prouder glories, too,
Than Naturo ever gave;
Peace sheds o’er thee her geuial dew,
And Freedom’s pinions wave—
Fair Seienco dings her pearls around—
Religion lifts her dome.
These, these endear tl.co to my heart—
My own love l native home.
And “Heaven’s host gift to man” is thine—
God bless thy rosy girls;
Liko sylym flower?, they sweetly shine—
Their li .arts as poru as pearls!
And grace and goodness circle them,
Where’er their footsteps roam ;
How can l thou, whilst loving 11;cm,
Not love my native home?
Land nf tho South—imperial land !
Then here's a health to thee
Long a? thy mountain barriers stand,
May?t thou be blest aud free !
May dark dissension’s banner no’or
Wave o'er thy fertile loam :
But, should it come, there’s one will die
To save his native home!
pledge of the proceeds of the State Road
(now netting at least $100,000. por annum
above expense) to the redemption of the ades,” To the
interest and notes would bo a security so ! transfer tl
fall and unquestionable that the notes’ *
would be readily taken if' not eagerly
sought after. A sinking fund from the pro
fits of the lload could be so arranged as to
meet tho notes as they fell due, aud thns
taxation for this purpose avoided.^ Should
a much larger amount bo required, tho
Road itself (now entirely unincumbered)
could bo pledged to their redemption, ami
its proceeds to tho payment of interest.—
Can any reasonable doubt bo entertained
that notes so issued and protected would
bo taken and circulated at par, affording
at once a means of meeting an extraordi
nary expenso, avoiding heavy taxation
and furnishing a circulation of undoubted
solvency for tho people?
It is true that the proceeds of tho State
Road are at present appropriated to tho
great cause of public education, and wo
have been an earnest advocate of their np
plication to that object. But the present
emex’gency isone greater aad more pressing
than even tho educational needs of the poor
children of tho State, and the lesser neces
sity should yield to the greater.
Wo are satisfied that the State of Geor
gia can in this way (and perhaps it is her
only certain way) raiso even four or five
millions of dollars, if needed, without op
pressing her people; and wo regard it as
of the first importance that, in a timo and
a crisislike this, oppressive taxation should
not be resorted to to maintain a position
of the State which requires tho ready sup
port of all her citizens.
Other States that have seceded have no
such valuable and unincumbered railroad
or other improvements to pledge as secu
rity for their “ promises to pay” and thus
place them at par value. But all of them
except South Carolina have public lands
which they may hypothecate, and thus,
aided by the patriotic ad .’ttneo of their own
citizens, raise nil the means which they or
the new confederacy may require.—Colum
bus Enquirer.
ed policy, in the gravo orcr which the
Black Republicans hav.o iurlod a once hon
ored flag, never more, perhaps, to wave
over the Union as it was. We shall do this
cheerfully; we shall not give to indepen
dent Louisiana, or the confederacy to which
sho consents, a reluctant or divided sup
port. The South says to every child of
hers, “Son, give me all your heart,” and
the South asks no moro than she has a right
to, and no more than sho will receive.
*
Judcct ^HisccUaui;.
pringy step j romance
. » t Il.i ,ll . wl t lw\ ' lw,»
ibont
“ Cobwebs,” sfiid Nelly,
out of his mouth, her whole faco sparkling
with glee; and sho drew off and gave an
other sweeping courtesy.
Before she had recovered herself, how-
co
Nelly, all along, had had a half secret fear, nation of
that, when her suitor knew the past, lie ?20, 8200,0C
might not be so willing to marry the bare- hearing 0 or 7
The Coolest Thing 011 Kecord—An Incident
or the Mexican War.
As General Scott’s army was marehing
triumphantly into tho City of Mexico, says
an exchange, a procession of monks emerg
ed from .tho gate of a convent situated on
the eminence at the' right, and advanced
with slow and measured tread until they
met the army at right angles. The guide
>r leader of the procession was a venerable
priest, whose hair was whitened with the
frost of many winters. lie held iti both
hands a contribution box, upon which
there was a lighted candlo, and when with
in a few feet of the array the procession
halted. As the army proceeded, many a
true believer in St. Patrick dropped some
small coin or other into tho old priest’s
box. And, when it was obsei’vod that a
soldier was searching in his pockets for
something to bestow, t'no old priest would
step forward and hold his box to reeeive
the donation.
Ultimately there came along a tall,
gaunt, limber-sided, gander-looking Yan
kee, who, on seeing the poor priest, thrust
his hands into tho very depths of his bree
ches pockets, as if in search of a dime, or
something of the kind. The priest,, ob
serving this movement, advanced, as usual,
while Jonathan, holding forth a greasy-
looking roll of paper, commenced very de
liberately unfolding it. The old priest an
ticipated a liberal donation, and put on an
air of the most exquisitie satisfaction.—
Jonathan continued to unroll piece after
piece of tri-twisted smoking tobacco. He
next thrust his hands into another pocket,
and drew forth a clay pipe, which, with
the utmost deliberation, ho proceeded to
fill by pinching off small particles of the
tobacco. When this was done, having re
placed his tobacco in his breeches pocket,
ho stopped forward and lighted his pipe
by tlio old priest’s candle, and making an
awkward inclination of the head, (intend
ed perhaps for a bow,) ho said, “Much ob-
leeged to ye,’Squire,” and proceeded on.—
Nashville Patriot.
How the Means Can bo Uaiscd.
We believe that wo are making hut a
modfcrato estimate in assuming that the
State of Georgia, to meet all the exigencies
of her new position and to perfect a secure
aud well regulated Government (cither in
dependently or in the confederation with
the other secoding States), m ist incur an
extraordinary expense ot at least one or
two millions of dollars—perhaps much
more. It becomes, then, an important
question to consider how this largo amount
can be raised without oppressing a people
hitherto unused to heavy taxation for tho
expenses of tho State.
The old Federal inhf*'"
sion of bills of credit b;
ger binding on
jsiie
Georgia couM 1
lions of dollars
ample and
readily ta'
Monts and
A Lion’s Lave for a Tisress.
The lUiilideiph >1 North American re
cords the following singular case.
“In one compartment of the case in
which the animals perform at Van Ain-
burgh’s beautiful menageri*, in Chestnut
street, is a huge tawny Asiatic Lion. His
room-mate is a black female tiger. The
riger is small, compared to the regal lion,
but is highly valuable ns a zoological cu
riosity, and the only specimen of the black
tiger in this country. She was purchased
by Mr. Van Amburgh some two years ago,
and has lived with the lion ever since.—
The attachment between the two 1 is some
thing remarkable. When other animals
ire in the same cage, and any affront is
offered to the little tiger, she runs undei
the belly of the lion, qnd woe he to the
animal that dares appvoach her.
No matter how hungry he maybe, the
lion never touches his share of their daily
meat until his little chum has selected her
share, and even this he never entirely con
sumes until certain that she has had enough.
All the animals are as fat as moles, but
this black tigress is uldermanic in her pro
portions, and no remedy exists for the mat
ter. She has been twice removed from
the lion, but until she returned the goner
ous beast would not take food nor rest, while
the frantic manner in which ho dashed at
the bars was a sufficient warning that the
further detention of the tiger would be »
dangerous matter. Should his mate die,
the lion would probably pine to death.—
Ouce when she was taken away a lioness
was substituted. The lion instantly fell
upon her, and at a single bite broke her
spine, and crushed some of her ribs. Cave
i'ul nursing saved her life, and she is stili
living, but with her hinder parts immova
bly paralyzed.”
Women Keeping
A new doetriuo is being promulgated by
All the Year Round. Hear it: “We
laugh at tho women’s tongno aud wonder
when a woman keeps a secret, but every
true woman keeps a box of choice resefvds
for her own private indulgence. Thu
man’s mysteries are not hers; if lie cannot
keep them to himself, lot him expect them
to lie blown abroad. Her own secrets of
love, of loss, of self denial, of unsuspected
suffering, no woman exposes altogether,
evon to her nearest friend. There never
lived a husband happy in tho true love of
his wife, who l'airly know all the depths
of her mind about him. Every: man proi-
its stupidly by the wise perception-! except
in deeds, of which we vaguely ascribe tho
titnesss to a special faculty called woman's
tact. Women,in short, keep to themsel ves
four-fifths of the secrets of society, an l do it
with a winning air of frankness all their
own.
A man with a secret will ho stone.y or
pretentious, or provokingly suggestive;
ho will keep his mouth ostentatiously. A
woman is too absolutely secret to set up a
public sign over whatevor may lie buri
ed in her mind. Sho gossips, prattles,
with such an air of unreserved simplicity
that mankind is mystified, and says in
friendly jest,‘a woman only hides what
sho don’t know.’
Among tho uneducated poor this dif
ference between the womau and the man
is most conspicuous.
The powers of her sex place her at oneo
upon an eminence which man can only
reach by education. She must often bo
tied to one in whom there is hot tho grain
ot understanding requisite to the forma
tion of true sympathy. By far the grea
ter number of the wives of unskilled la
bourers and mechanics live more or 1
happily, and more or less conscious of the
hidden life within thorn, having such a y
seal upon their minds and heart.”
From the Now Orleans Picayune, Jan. 23th.
IT IS FINISHED.
Tho deed has been dono. “ We breathe
deeper and freer” for it. The Union is
dead; and with it all the fears which divi
ded and agitated our people. It was 1
great, a glorious fabric; but its timbers had
retted at the, heart. Without showing any
symptoms of decay, it has fallen liko a
cedar falls. No government ever rose as
she did; none has ever so perished. From
the cradle to manhood was a single bound
from manhood to tho grave a shifted scone
It grew up in the night liko Jonah’s gourd
and next aay withered as it did. It went
through none oi’ tho convulsions that mark
ed the decline of other peoples. It was
not overthrown by hostile invasion like
Greece, nor overran by Vandal hordes as
Romo was. Neither did it perish of inani
tion liko Egypt, nor was it conquered as
Saxon England was. It was without pro
cedent in its growth, without example in
its fall. Peerless alike in its progress ami
in its prostration, it furnishes another me
mento to the many funereal monument:
which gives a somber interest to the high
way of time, upon which history, in aitei
ages, will write its own inscription.
But th© world was made for the living
and not for the dead. With the last chime
of the requiem which telis the passing away
of what was once the cynosure of nation.-
and the idol of tho American heart, wil
end the allegiance which invested the eon
federation with tho attribute of indostruct
ibility. It was a dream. It is gone; th*
illusion is past, and whilst every heart con
fesses to feeling, or .having felt, a pang at
the separation, % -there is no remorse to ein
bitter the regret. There is no ’
our hands, there is no
the escutcheon of
her deed.
To Prevent Skippers in Hams.—In a
communication to the Cotton Planter, Mr.
W. McWilio says: “There is, according
to my experience, nothing easier than to
11 void tho skipper and ail worms and bugs
that usually infest and desti’oy bacon, it
is simply to keep your smoke house dark,
and the moth that deposits tho egg will
n'ovcr enter it. For the past twenty-livo
years 1 h&vo attended to this, and never
bad my bacon troubled with any insect.
I have now, hanging jq my smoke-house
hams one, two, and three years old, aud
the oldest are as free from insects as when
first hung up. I am not aware of other
exceptions of my bacon from insects, but
simply the fact that my smoke-house is
ihvays dark. Before adopting this plan,
l had tried many experiments, but always
jitlier without success or with injury to
the flavour of my bacon. I smoke with
?reeii hickory; this is important, as tho
flavour of bacon is utterly destroyed by
imoking it with improper wood.”
The National Convention.—Mr. Cor
win of Ohio, has received tho following
dispatch from tho Governor of Rhode Is
land :
‘The Legislature of Rhode Island to-day
appointed Commissioners to the Washing
ton Convention. God give success to thqS
movement.”
Jcorgia Convention—Standing Committees.
Committee on Foreign Relations.-^
Coombs, A. II. Stephens, Colquitt, Hill
lohnson of Jefferson, Poo, Briscoe, Flem
ing, Warner, Hun soil, Douglas, Chastain,
Davis of Putnam.
Committee on Constitiition.-Cobb, Clarke,
Stephens of Hancock, Ramsey of Musco
gee, Crawford of Greene, Hill of Troup,
vJlcna of Fulton, Reese, Tripp, Fouoho,
Kenan, Rice, Lamar of Lincoln. —’
Committee on Commercial and Postal
Arraagemeiits.-Audei’SoiqHarrisofGlynn,
Boll of Forsyth, B tily, Hudson of Hari is,
Alexander of Fulton, French, Hood,' Cal
houn, Shropshire of Floyd, Dabney,’ Sim9,
Committee on Miiitan*.—Rartow, Tid
well, Brown of Marion, Robertson, Mont
gomery, Giles, Saffold, Burch, Smith of
Talbot, Strickland, Rutherford, Mar
Elbert. ‘
Committee on Relations with tho I
holding States' of North America.—Den
ning, Poullain, Alexander of Upson. Haw-
kink Wofford, Lamar of Bibb, Langme.de,
Spencer, McDaniel, Means, Cannon' of
egy^Capt. Elzey, wi'h some eightv Unit
ed States - - --
Arsenal a
surrender
irrived in
was marred by | footed girl as the
•aid ruddy check which hail attracted tho her indignation, as a belle, at his slighting this was now gone
but all
