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ATHENS, G-.A.. -WEDNESDAY, FEB. 27, 1861.
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The question came from the Vermillion
lips of a young girl at a fancy hall in Paris,
during the reign of Louis XIV. She was
a brilliant, brunette, with abundant raven
hair, and wore the Spanish veil and man
tilla, which she had assumed for the occa
sion, with all the grace of a daughter of
Andalusia. Her companion, a noble Scotch
earl of some two or three and twenty, ar
rayed as a warrior of Mary Stuart’s, in
Scotch plaid anti Highland bonnet and fea
ther, had been pursuing the fair unknown
all the evening with protestations of love
and eternal fidelity. His answer was
prompt and unhesitating.
“ Yes, I swear it. If I die I will dream
of you in tho sepulchre, and a thrill of joy
will welcomo you if your foot but pres3 the
grass over my head.”
“And if I should die?” inquired the
young girl, in a sad tone.
“ If you should die, I will bo as faithful
to you dead as living; and if you should
be permitted to visit me, I will kiss your
cold hand with as much love as at this mo
ment,” and he pressed to his lips the little
white hand of the beautiful Spaniard.
“ Ah, well; I permit you, then, to love
me. Wc shall sec if you will be constant.
Farewell! we shall meet again.”
“But where?—when?” demanded the
earl, anxiously.
“ I cannot tell. Perhaps here—porhnps
elsewhere—but you will see mo,” and with
a gesture which forbade him to follow her,
she disappeared in the crowd.
Two years passed, during which Earl
Ralph Morton sought vainly at Marley,
at Versailles—in every place of public re
sort—for his beautiful unknown. 11c was
a Scotchman by birth, and, like many of
his countrymen, had entered the service
of tho King of France. But a Court life
did not comport very well with his slender
fortune; and ho became, ere long, deeply
involved in debt.
“ You must find some rich heiress,” said
his sympathizing friends—it was the usual
resource of embarrassed gentlemen of that
day. But the Earl had not forgotten the
bewitching Andalusian, and was in no mood
for the search. He was spared tho trou
ble, however. His uncle, who was arch
bishop of an Assyrian city destroyed by
the Romans, informed him, one day, that
it was lime for him to marry, and that ho
had found a wife for him.
“ Is she rich ?” inquired Ralph. “ I do
not ask if she is pretty—it is all the
to me.”
“Very rich,and very pretty.”
The Earl thought of his unknown, and
sighed ; then thought of his creditors, and
consented. The uncle arranged everything,
and when all was settled he gave tho ne
phew his benediction and two hundred pis
toles aud sent him off to Burgundy to pay
his respects to Mademoiselle de Roche Noire
whom he was to marry in a fortnight.
A gloomy journey of several days’ dura
tion brought him at length to the ancient
feudal manorhouse of Roche Moire, situ
ated in the heart of a forest, on a lofty
rock, from which it derived its name. He
was expected. The grand door of the man
sion was open, and an aged servant met
him at the threshold, and conducted him
to a large hall, at the extremity of which
sat an old man and a young girl. The
former, whom he divined at once to be the
Baron of Roche Moire, rose at his entrance,
and, saluting him in the somewhat formal
fashion of tho day, presented him to his
daughter Herminie. The latter had the
voluptuous beauty of the flower which has
unfolded under a southern sun. She was
E ale, with fair hair, and eyes of the deep
luo of an Italian sky. Her figure was
rich but graceful, her hands exquisitely
shaped, and transparent as alabaster. So
much the Earl saw as ho bent low before
his betrothed, and in spite of his professed
indifference, ho iuwardly congratulated
himself on his good fortune.
The Earl and Baron exchanged the usual
reciprocal compliments and inquiries.—
Ralph was accustomed to society, and un
derstood well the art of making himself
agreeable; the Baron, spite of his seventy
winters, had not forgotten how to be a
courtier; and Herminie had the simple
grace, the dignity, tho modesty without
jrudery, of a young girl of high birth, re-
IgiouBly educated, but without any rigid
ity. The conversation soon became ani
mated and sparkling, while Ralph watch
ed ilerminie, and now and then murmured
to himself, “ She is charming! Blessings
on my uncle for finding me a wife at once
so protty and so rich.”
When supper was announced he offered
his band to tho young girl, who accepted
it with a blush, while the Baron led the
way to the dining-room. It was a lofty
apartment, furnished in the massivo style
of Louis XIV, and upon the walls were
suspended ancient family portraits. As
Ralph’s eye glanced over these, it was at
tracted by one whoso freshness formed a
striking contrast to the smoky canvasses
of the defunct Barons of Roche Moire. It
represented a young girl of dazzling, but
“ The elder sister ofMudemoiselle Hermi
nie.”
“ But she is dressed in Spanish costume.”
“ Yes, her mother was a Spanish lady.”
“ And Fnlmen, where is she now ?”
“ She i3 dead,” said the old man, solemn
ly. “ She lies at the left of tho altar in the
chapel of the castle.”
*******
Fatigue had no power that night to
bring sleep to Ralph’s eyelids. It was in
vain that he extinguished the candles, and
buried his head under tiie biaukets; the
image ofFulmcn still pursued him. Mow,
it was Fulmcn radient with beauty, as she
was represented in the picture, and as ho
had seen her at tho fancy ball; again, it
was Fulinen pale and cold, extended in her
coffin under the pavement of the clmpel.—
Then lie remembered his oath, to love her
as well dead as living, and a cold sweat
bathed his brow. At that moment a light
at the opposito extremity of the apart
ment attracted his attention; a door,
whose existence lie had not suspected,
turned noiselessly on its hinges; tho can
dles relighted themselves spontaneously,
and a figure, draped in a winding sheet, en
tered tho room and approached his bed.—
It advanced slowly; the most acute ear
could have detected no sound of footsteps.
Brave as he was, the Earl trembled at the
apparition. When the figure was within
a few feet of the bed the vvindingsheet was
thrown back, and revealed a young girl
dressed in Spanish costume.
Fulinen!” he murmured; “tho picture
has descended from its frame!”
It was indeed Fulinen, just as sho was
painted, save that the lips were pale, the
eyes mournful, the whole expression un
speakably sad.
“Fulinen!” repealed the Earl with a
tone of terror, in which was mingled a
sort of feverish joy.
It is I,” she said. “Do you remember
your oath ? They have told you that I
am dead.’,
Tho teeth of Ralph chattered; but the
voice was so pure, so melodious, that it
aided him to shake off tho torpor which
wus creeping over him.
“Mo, you are not dead,” he exclaimed,
with an effort.
“I have been dead a year,” replied Ful-
men, sadly. “They buried me in the chap
el. You can read my epitaph on the mar
ble slab, the third from the high altar.”
Ralph could not detach his eyes from the
singular creature, whose marvellous beau
ty counteracted in some degree tho terror
which tho apparition would otherwise
have caused.
“Alas!” resumed the spectre—draping
the shroud about her form with all tie
self in a chair by his side. Her face had
the cadaverous paleness of tho tomb; her
eye was sad; her step was painful; yet
her exquisite beauty exerted the same
fascination over Ralph as when sparkling
with life and vivacity.
“Fulinen, I love you,” he repeated, gaz
ing at her with admiration.
‘Yet if my hand should touch yours,”
she replied, with a sad smile, “you would
utter a cry as you did last night; the dead
are always cold.”
“Give me your hand, and you will see,
said Ralph, extending resolutely his own.
Sho took it, and again there came over
him the same terrible sensation as before;
but he had self-control enough to conquer
it, and again to repeat, “I love you!”
A bright smile illuminated the features
of Fulinen.
Select lljisfetlanii.
Sleepy Dave; or, The Tin Peddler’s Rose.
The following story is an old one, but
it is “ sich a good ’un,” that it will bear fre
quent repetition.
“ It was this day throe years ago, on this
spot that I entered my horse * Southern’
for a purse of two thousand dollars. In
short, be was the best horso at that time
in South Carolina. There were, to be sure,
two other horses, and very fine ones, too,
entered against him, but they were no
touch to the Southern, and I was as sure
of winning as I am-that I am sitting here
this moment—when who should come
along but a Yaukee with a tin cart.
“ He had the shabbiest, worst looking
horso I over put tny eyes on. He was a
“My poor friemd,” she said, “I would I l J n ’ .^-sided, crooked-legged rough-hair.
• . .. on oinffon no oroi* tronf nn fnnr ioin If^
8111110 coquetry with which a living belle might
wrap an opera cloak around her—“I am
T W. WALKER, Attorney at Law,
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MondoviHe, Broad street.
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ALMADGE, STARK & HEINS,
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• Fuio Cutlery, Mimical Instruments, Sheet Malic,
•cvratr of College Aecnueaod Clayton Athens,
V ^ Y L E R, Resident Dentist,
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Atlit nr. Ga. Boom* on Broad itrevt; entrance
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Wm. L. MAULER, Attorney at
LAW. Jefferson, Jacksou county, Ga.
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John H. Newton and J. n. Clirtity,
W-M G. DELON Y, Attorney at
L“'u, LAW, AiJicju,(lx, willnUeudpromptly wall
*»,. r to hi* ears.
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foreign beauty, such as is only found under
southern skies. A more brillii
iant daughter
of Spain never danced the bolero in the per
fumed gardens of the Alhambra. The eyes
of Ralph wore fixed immovably upon the
canvass; the first glance had told him that
dead, really dead, at seventeen; when life
was full of light and perfume and music;
when tears, even, were so sweet that they
resembled smiles, when tho present was so
happy that the future was quite forgotten.
And then, I loved you. I trusted in your
oath ; but you did not care for me. You
have come here to marry my sister.”
“Fulmcn!” murmured Ralph, who felt
a pang of remorse at his heart; “1 have
loved you; I love you still.”
She shook her head.
“Tho dead are never loved,” she said,
sadly.
Ralph trembled. Ho felt his blood cur
dle in his veins. Hereinemberedliisoath.
Yet Fulmen did not complain. Sho did
not overwhelm him with reproaches. She
seemed resigned. He saw her lean her
head upon her hand; a tear shone in her
eye, and a shiver passed tUrough her frame.
‘•I am cold,” she said, and, rising from
the chair in which she had seated herself,
she approached the fireplace, and bent as
if to warm herself by the half extinguished
brands. “The dead are always cold,” she
murmured.
“Heavens,” exclaimed Ralph, “you are
not dead; but, dead or living, you are
beautiful, more beautiful thau any living
woman, and I love you as on tho day I
first saw you.”
“The dead are never loved,” sho repeat
ed, mournfully.
“But you are not dead. The limbs of
the dead are rigid; the flesh corrupt; they
are insensible; they cunnot walk; they
cannot speak; you are not dead—it is im
possible."
“I am dead,” repeated Fulmen,4n a tone
of authority which admitted of no ques
tion—“dead, and yet I suffer.”
“Yes, Because I died with a guilty
thought in my heart. I remembered the
ball where I met you. It was earthly love,
not penitence, that engrossed my last
hours. "Yet if you who are alive can love
me still, God will perhaps pardon me, and
I shall suffer no .longer.”
“I do love you,” cried Ralph, gazing at
the young girl s<> beautiful in her sadness.
Yet a secret voiee said within him, “Ah, if
she were only alive!”
A pate smile passed over the face of the
phantom. It rose and advanced towards
him. Ralph involuntarily shrunk back
at its approach.
“You see,” she said, mournfully, it is al
ways so. The living fear the dead.”
“Mo, no,” said he, eagerly, ashamed of
tho momentary terror; “no, Fulmen, my
beloved, come.”
She extAdcd her hand, and took that
of the young man. Ralph uttered a cry.
His hand was pressed, by the cold, clam-
fingers of a corpse. She let his hand
it was his long-lost unknown of tho fancy
ball.
White & ritch, who
« Come, my dear Earl,” said the Baron,
“lot us be seated.”
Ralpn started and obeyed, then turned
his eyes from the portrait to Horminie.—
In contrast with that glowing beauty she
appeared to him utterly insipid. He made
someromavk about the pictureg) The Baron
did not reply, but a cloud passed over his
face, and Horminie turned pale, and sat si
lent with downcast eyes. A chill seemed
(o be thrown over tlieso three persons, just
now talkiug so joyously. Brief remarks
were made occasionally, in a constrained
tone, and the supper ended almost in si
lence. At its close tho Earl made the fa
tigue of his journey an excuse for retiring
early. As the servant was conducting him
tohis apartment, they pat-ted again through
the
my:
fall.
•Mo,” she ropoated in a half suffocated j
gladly believe you, but if your love would
end my sufferings, it must be so profound,
so ardent, that it can conquer even the de
sire to live. A tomb with me must have
attractions for you. And you are but
tweuty-fivo, Ralph. At your age life is
sweet.”
The Earl shook his head.
“To live without you is death—to be
united to you, even in the to nib, would be
life.”
“Take care, my friend.”
“Of what, dear Fulmen?” exclaimed
Ralph, over whom the smile of the young
girl seemed to exercise an overpowering
fascination.
“Dop’t yon know,” she said, “that if you
utter such a wish, God may hear your
prayer?”
“Ah, if he would! An eternity by your
side would be infinite happiness.”
“Ralph, my friend," interrupted Ful
men, while a smile ot celestial jov shone
in her face, “take care—yob will die if
you love me.”
“I wish to die,”
“But you are betrothed to my sistor.
An exclamation of anger escaped him.
“1 hate her,” ho said vehemently.
“Why?”
“Because sho is alive, whilo you arc
dead. What has she done that she should
enjoy tho light of the sun, the perfume of
flo were, the inelody of birds ? Was sho any
younger or more beautiful ?”
“Ralph, you are unjust. My sister had
no control over her destiny or mine.”
You are right, perhaps; but I swear to
you that I will never marry Herminie.
wish to be yours, and only yours, forever.”
“Yon are mad, my friend; I eanuot ac
cept happiness at such a sacrifice.”
She rose slowly.
“Adieu, Ralph. Marry Herminie, and
pray for me.”
“Fulinen, Fulmen!” exclaimed Ralph
falling on his knees at her feet. “Do not
abandon me—I love you!”
“But your love is death.”
“It is happiness! It is life!”
His tone was so earnest, so touching,
that the young girl hesitated.
“Let me live eternally with you,” ho
persisted.
“Listen, my friend,” she said at length,
as if she could no longer resist his entreat
ies. “In this casket,” pointing to a rich
ly-carved box which stood upon the table,
“there is a phial containing a dark liquid.”
“And this liquid ?”
“Is death!”
“Is happiness!” exclaimed Ralph, seiz
ing the casket.
Fulmen stopped him by gestures.
“Not yet,” she said; “by and by—at
midnight—but first reflect!'’
Immediately the candles were extin
guished, and he found himself in complete
darkness.
If Earl Ralph had been a Frenchman, as
soon as Fulmen disappeared, he would have
opened tho window and let the cool night
air play upon his brow. Then, the fever
fit being over, he would have said to him
self, “Ail this is folk. I am twenty-two
years old, an officer, in the king’s service,
and am about to marry a young girl,
blond as a Madonna, fair as a lily, who. will
bring me an income of a hundred thousand
livres. I have only to be quiet and let
things take their course
After which he would have slept quietly
and demanded no more of Fulmen. But
Ralph was a Scotchman, with an imagina
tion as susceptible of exaltation as most of
his countrymen of the land of mountain
and mist. As 60on as tho phantom van
ished li9 relighted tho candle by the aid
of a half-extinguished firebrand, and opening
the casket, ho took out tho phial
“Fulmen ! Fulmen ! wait for me ! .1 am
coming!” he murmured, and swallowed the
contents at a draught.
For a moment he experienced a strange
and inexplicable sensation; a coldness in his
chest, a heat in the head; then bis eyes
became heavy; then his limbs trembled; an
extreme langour crept over him and he
sank upon the floor, still murmuring faint
ly, “Fulmen, wait for me—I love you.”
When Ralph swallowed tho contents of
the phial, he expected to awake in the
other world. He was mistaken ; tho phial
contained only a narcotic; and he was
very much astonished on opening his eyes
to find himself in bed, aud to see the sun
shining through tho curtained windows.
A lady sat by the bedsido. It was Fulmen
but no longer the pale, sad Fulmen, with
livid lips and form enveloped in a wiuding-
sheet; but Fulmen, fresh, radiant, joyous,
in’ the samo costume which she wore at
the fancy ball
Tho readoar will understand the cxpla-
voice, “you see it cannot be; I shall suffer t nati j on 0 f a fi this more readily than tho
A 1 ***** 1 ^ i . _ _ I. n l. ..A.I J.*! I I
always.” _ j young Earl, whose head was still somewhat
And she fled; while Ralph was so over- j (confused from the effects of tho narcotic,
whelmed that he had no power to speak j yoang girl had wished to put the sud
or move. The candles went out suddenly; . jgn passion of her ball-room lover to the
,est; and, with some difficulty, she had
! -0&s CLOTHIBR8 anJ MSRCH
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STATIONER,
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silence reigned again in tho chamber—the
phantom had vanished.
* * * *--- > * *
The next day dawned bright and beau
tiful. The Baron do Roche Toire, who
did not appear to notice tho pallor and
abstraction of his guest, proposed a hunt. !
The day was spout in the opeu air; and if, ’
amid the excitement of the chase, the Earl |
thought of the occurrences of the last j?
night, they seemed to him only as a be J
wildcring dream. But with the return oi
darkness, and especially at tho sight of the j
picture, the apparition again seemed to j
him u wnnlifT* <in«l Ka ffo.ffirminod tn f
jorsuaded her fond ofd father and her
1 Cousin Herminie to lend themselves to
nystification. A little ingenuity, some
uvisible assistance, a transparent glove of
; erpent skin, aided by the native supersti-
; iou of the young Scotchman, were all that
vere necessary to the success of the
i cheme.
Wo need not say that the Earl, when ho
i ecovered his senses, was very glad to ex-
: :hauge his phantom bride for a living
me.
JtSrDuring an examination a medical
; to the ]
‘ Spe
1 It is the pi
su,” said the old n
1 And who is she :
jfily “Fulmen, Ful
j answer.
I love yon
• ad.
lately the candles were ro-iight-
Fulmen again appeared. She
her wiudingshcetaud seated her-
ed critter as ever went on four legs. Ho
stood all the time as if he was asleep—in
fact his owner called him ‘Sleepy David.’
In short, sir, lie was just such a horse as
would not have brought twenty dollars.
“ It was near tho hour of starting, when
the peddler, whoso exterior corresponded
marvellously with that of his horse, and
who said his name was Zadock Berbe, to
the astonishment of all, intimated the wish
to enter his horso with tho rest.
“ Your horse!” exclaimed I—“ what,
that sleepy looking devil? You’d hotter
enter him for the buzzards.”
“ Mot as you know on, Mister,” resumed
the Yankee with a show of spirit. “ To be
sure the critter looks rather sleepy, and
on that acoouut I call him Sleepy David;
hut he’s a jo-fired good hoss for all that.—
He’s like a singed cat, a darned sight better
nor he looks. I'd like to try him against
some of your South Carolina bosses. To
be sure I don’t come all the way from home
on that purpose; but as I was cuming out
this way with a load of tin and other notions,
I thought I might time it to kill two bixxls
with one stone; for, thinks I to myself, if
I can win the purse, and peddle off notions
at the same time, I shall make a good spec.
But I had to hurry on like the nation to
get here in time; and that’s one reason why
my hoss looks so shabby and out of fix
this morning. But for ail that he’ll per
form a day’s work I tell you.”j
Supposing he had no idea of running his
horse, and that all ho said was merely to
gratify his propensity for talking, I hade
him begone and not trouble me with bis
Yankee palaver.
“ Why, Mister,” said he, “ this is a free
country, and a man has a right to talk or
let it alone, just as ho can afford. Mow,
J’ve taken a great deal of pains to git here
this morning, in order to run Sleepy David
agin some ofyour southern bosses. I ain’t
joking, sir; I'm in airncst. I understand
there is a purse of two thousand dollars,
aud I should like amazing topick it up.”
“Y!ou talk of picking up two thousand
dollars with that bit of carrion ot yours!
Away with j’ou, and don’t trouble me any
further.”
“ Well, if I can’t run, T suppose I can’t,
but it’s darned hard anyhow fora man to
take so much pains as I have to come up
to the races, and then can’t run after all.’
“ It’s too late now; by tho rules of the
course the horso should have been entered
yesterday; however, if you’ll plank the
entrance money, perhaps you may get iu
yet.”
I said this by way of getting rid of the
follow, having no idea that he could com
mand a fourth part of the sum required.
How much might the entrance money
be?” drawing out a purse containing a few
shillings in silver and a few pence in cop
per. “ If ’taint more nor a quarter dollar
or so. I'll plank it on tho nail.”
It is two hundred dollars.”
Two hundred!” exclaimed the Yankee.
“ By gauley, what a price! Why they
axed only tweuty-iive cents to see the hull
caravan in Mew York. Two hundred dol
lars! Why, you must be jokiug, now;
bless me! my hull load of tinware, boss,
wagon and all wouldn’t fetch that. But,
Mister, don’t you think I could get in for
ten dollars?”
“Nothing Bhort of two hundred, and
that must bo paid in five minutes.”
Wo now thought we had got rid of the
fellow, hut he returned to the charge, and
asked if fifty dollars wouldn't do, then
seventy, and then a hundred, and finding
he could not make a bargain for less than
the regular sum, he engaged to give it, pro
vided he could find any one to loan the mo
ney, for which he would pawn his wagon
load of notions, and Sloepy David to boot.
He asked one, and then anothor to accom
modate him with a loan—declaring that if
ever he took the purse, tho money should
be returned, and he would give a dozen tin
whistles into tho bargain. He, however,
got tuoro curses thau coppers, until some
wag, who had plenty of cash, and liked to
see the sport go on, lent him the two hun
dred out of sheer malice. It afterward
turned out that tho Yankee had plenty of
mouey about him, and was merely playing
possum all the while.
His next object was to borrow a saddle.
In this he was also accommodated, and tak
ing Sleepy David from the tin cart, scram
bled upon his place on the race course.—
You never saw a fellow sit on a horse so
awkward in your life. Every one said ho
would fall before he had gone a hundred
yards, aud some, out of couipassion, urged
him to withdraw.
“Mot by a durned sight,” exclaimed he.
“Do you think I’m a darned fool to pay
two hundred dollars and then withdraw,
and not run arter all!”
Others who wanted to see the sport,
though it would cost some broken bones,
encouraged him to proceed, saying,as they
laughed aloud, they had no doubt he would
carry oft’ the purse.
“ That’s what I mean to do,” said be;
“ ain’t come here for nothing, I can tell
you. Wake up, Dave, and look abont you;
you must have your eyes open to-day.—
It’s no time to be suoozing when there is
money at stake.”
The horse, as if he understood his mas
ter, pricked up his ears, aud actually began
to show signs of life. HfSraPu'j
The signal was given to start. Away
bounded Southern, with the speed of light
ning, and leaving Sleepy David far in the
rear, tho peddler verging from oue side to
the othei*, as if ho was just ready to fall
.off. / .‘7.
But they improved as they proceeded,
“ The fellow’s a fool,” said one.
“He don’t know which side of his bread
is buttered, or el9o he wouldn't bet any
money on so desperate a stake.”
“He is safe enough there,” Baida third;
“ for he has no more to risk.”
Here, however, all were mistaken again,
for the peddler hauled out a greasy old
f urse, and planked the thousand dollars,
t was covered, of cotfrse. But I confess 1
now began to be staggered, and suspect the
Yankee was, after all, more rogue than
fool. I had no fears, for the purse. South
ern was not a horse to be distanced by such
a miserable devil as Sleepy David.
The second heat was now commenced,
and if I had felt confidence in the entire
superiority of my noble Southern, that con
fidence was strengthened as I again saw
him coming in ahead of the rest. I con
sidered tho purse as my own property. In
imagination I had grasped it and was
about to put it in 1113- pocket, when, lo!
aud behold ! the peddler’s horso shot for
ward as if the devil had kicked him, and
stretching his neck like a crane won the
heat by a head.
Everybody was astonished.
“That lioise must be the devi) himself,”
said one.
“ At least ho has the devil to back him,”
said another.
“ I was sure he would play some Yankee
trick before he got through,” said a third.
Such wore the observations that passed
from mouth to mouth.
The Yankee in the meantime offered to
take another thousand dollar bet, but no-
bodj- felt disposed to bet with him, and it
was well they didn’t, for the third heat
Sleepy David not only distanced every
horse, but came in a full quarter of a mile
ahead of Southern himself.
“ There, l>3* gauley,” said the Yankee, as
he dismounted, “ I’ll take that purse, if you
f lease, and the other cool thousand, tew!
knowed well enough that your Southern
bosses couldn’t hold a candle tew old Sleept’
Dave.”
interest would invite them in good will
and kind offices. If, however, passion or
the lust for domiuion should cloud the
judgment, or inflame the ambition of those
Slates, we must prepare to meet the emer
gency and to maintain, by the final arbi
trament of tho sword, the position which
we have assumed among tho nations of
tho earth.
Wc have entered upon tho career of
independence, and it must bo inflexibly
pursued. Through many years of conlro-
versy with our late associates, the Nor-.h-
ern States, we have vainly endeavored to
secure tranquility, and to obtain respect
for the rights to which wc were entitled.
A* a necessity, not a choice, we have resort
ed to tho remedy of separation, and hence
forth our energies must be directed to tho
conduct ofourown affairs and thoperie'.uit}'
of the Confederacy which wo have formed.
If a just perception of mutual interests
shall permit ns peaceabty, to pursue oar
separate political career, my most earnest
desire will have been fulfilled. But, if this
be denied to us, and the integrity of our
territory and jurisdiction be assailed, it
will but remain for us, with firm resolve,
to appeal to arms and invoke the blessings
of Providence on a just cause.
As a consequence of our new condition
and with a view to meet anticipated wants,
it will be necessary to provide for the speedy
and efficient organization of branches -.•£*
the Executive Department, having special
charge of Foreign intercourse, Finance,
jnd be determined to ascer-
Pleading a headache lie ( q a dent being asked tho question, “when
and.cxtinguishiug^the ; logy mortification ensue? replied,—
“When you pop the question, and are
jnrtilrtflflKL - ■ , .k ■-vy,*'.,' . . ,,
1 j was now thought the Yankee had enough
...An exchango paper begins a forcible ] of the race, aud would withdraw the heat,
tppeal to its delinquents with this touch-; Contra^- to all expectations, however, he
mg sentence,— : persevered, and offered to bet one thousand
“We must dun or we must be done.” 1 dollars cu tho issue of the race.
mi’GUKlL AUDKESS OF Mil. DAYI8.
Gentlemen of the Congress of the Confederate
States of America ;
Friends and Fellow-Citizens:
Called to the difficult and responsible
station, of Chief Executive ot tho Provis
ional Government, which you have institut
ed, I approach the dischaige of the du
ties assigned to me, with an humble dis
trust of m3' abilities, but with a sustaining
confidence in the wisdom of those who are
to guide and aid me in the administration
of public affairs, and au abiding faith iu the
virtue and patriotism of tho people.
Looking forward to the speedy establish
ment of a permanent government to take
the place of, and which by its great moral
and physical power will be better able to
combat with the many difficulties which
may arise from the conflicting interests of
separate nations. I enter upou the duties
of the office to which I have 'been chosen,
with the hope that the beginning of our
career as a Confederacy, may not bo ob
structed by hostile opposition to our enjoy
ment of the separate existence and inde
pendence which we have asserted, aud 1
with tho blessing of Providence, intend to
maintain. Our present condition,achieved
in a manner unprecedented in the history
ofnations, illustrates the American idea,
that governments rest upon the consent of
the governed, and that it is the right of
the people to alter or abolish governments,
whenever they' become destructive of the
ends for which they were established.
The declared purpose of the compact of
the Union from which we have withdrawn
was to establish Justice, ensure domestic
tranquility, provide for the common de
fence, promote the general welfare, and se
cure the blessings of liberty to ourselves
and our posterity, and when in tho judg
ment of tho sovereign States, now compos
ing this Confederacy, it had been perverted
from tho purposes for which it was ordain
ed and ceased to answer the ends, for which
it was ordained, a peaceful appeal to the
Ballot Box declared, that so far as they
were concerned the Government created
by that compact should cease to exist. In
this way they merely asserted a right,
which the declaration of Independence in
1776 had defined to be inalienable. Of the
time and occasion of its exercise, they as
sovereigns were the final Judgoe each for
itself.
The impartial and enlightened verdict of
mankind will vindicate the rectitude of our
conduct, and Ho who knows the hearts cf
men, will judge of the sincerity with which
we labored to preserve the Government of
our fathers, in its spirit. Tho right solemn
ly proclaimed at the birth of the States and
which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in
the bills of rights of States subsequently
admitted into the Union o‘‘ 17S9, undenia
bly recognize in the people the power to
resume the authority' delegated for the pur
poses ofGovernment. Thus the sovereign
States hero represented proceeded to form
this Confederacy and it is bv an abuse of
language that t heir act has been denomi
nated a revolution. They h ve farmed a
now alliance but within each State its Gov
ernment has remained. The right of per
son and property have not been disturbed
Tho ageut through whom they communi
catcd with foreign nations is changed, but
this does not necessarily interrupt their in
ternatioual relations.
Sustained by tho consciousness that the
transition from the former Union to the
present Confederacy has not proceeded
from a disregard on our part ot just obliga
tions, or any failure to perform every con
stitutional duty—moved by no interest or
passion to invade the rights ofothers—anx
ious to cultivate peace and commerce with
ail nations, if we may not hope to avoid
war, we may at least expect that posteritj-
will acquit us.of having needlessly- engaged
in it. Doubly justified by the absence of
wrong on our part, and by wanton aggres
sion on the part of the others, there can be
no cause to doubt that the courage and
patriotism of the people of the-Confedorate
States, will bo found equal-toany.measures
of defence, which honor and security may
require.
An agricultural people—whose chief in
terest is the export of a commodity re
quired in every manufacturing country—
our true policy is peace and the freest
trade which our necessities will permit. It
is ali ko our interest and that of all those
to whom we would .sell, and from whom
we would buy, that there should be the
fewest practicable restrictions upon the - v
interchange of commodities. There can
lie but lit; ie rivalry- hot w eon ours and any
manufacturing or navigating o nnmuni'^y,
such as the States of the American Union.
It must follow, therefore, that a mutual
Militarj- affairs and the Postal service.
For purposes of defence, the Confederate
States ma3', uuder ordinary circumstance ',
rei3 T raainl3 r upon their militia, hut it is
deemed advisable, in the present condition
of affairs, that there should he a well in
structed and disciplined army, more numer
ous than would usually bo required on a
peace establishment.
I also suggest that for the protection of
our harbors and commerce, on the high seas,
a navy adapted to those objects will be re
quired. These necessities have, doubtless,
engaged the attention of Congress.
With a Constitution differing on^- from
that of our fathers in so far as it is explana
tory of their well known intent, freed from
the sectional conflicts which have interfer
ed with the pursuit of tho general welfare,
it is not unreasonable to expect that the
States Irom which yvo have recent^’ parted
may- seek to unite their fortunes with ours,
under the Government which . we have in
stituted. For thisyour Constitution makes
adequate provision, but beyond this, if I
mistake not the judgment and will of tho
people, a re-union with the States front
which we have separated is neither prac
ticable nor desirable.
To increase the power, develop the re
sources, and promote the happiness of a
Confederacy, it is requisite that there should
he so much of homogeneity, that the wel-
are oi every portion shall be the desire oi
the whole. Where this does not exist, an
tagonisms are engendered which must an .l
should result in separation.
Actuated solely- by a desire to preserve
our own rights and promote our own wcl-
are, the separation oi the Confederate States
as boon marked by- no aggression upon
others, and followed by no domestic con
vulsion; our industrial pursuits have re
ceived no check; the cultivation of our
fields has progressed as heretofore; and
even should wo be involvod in yvar, thore
would be no considerable diminution in
the production of the staples which have
constituted our exports, and in.wbich the
commercial yvorld has an interest scarcely
less than our own. This common interest
of the producer and consumer can only- he
interrupted by an oxterior force which,
should obstruct its transmission to foreign
markets, a cours'^of conduct which yvouid
be as unjust towards us, as it would be det
rimental to manufacturing and commercial
interests abroad. ShouUr reason guide the
action of the government from which wo
have separated, a policy so detrimental to
the civilized world, the Northern States
included, could uot be dictated by even the
strongest desire to inflict injury upon us,
but otherwise, a terrible responsibility will
rest upon it, and the suffering of millions
will hear testimony to the folly- and wick
edness of our aggressors.
In the meantime, there will remain lo
us, besides the ordinary means before sug
gested, the yvell knoyvn resources for re
taliation upon the commerce of an enemy.
Experience in public stations of subor
dinate grade, to this, which your kindness
has conferred, has taught me that care, and
toil, and disappointment, are tho price of
official elevation. You will soe many er
rors to forgive, many deficiencies to tole
rate ; hut you shall not find in me either
want of zeal or of fidelity to the cause that
is to mo the highest in hope, and of most
enduring affection. Your generosity has
bestowed upon mo un undeserved distinc
tion—one yvhich I neither sought nor de
sired. Upon tho continuance of that sen
timent, and upon your wisdom and patriot
ism I rely, to direct and support mo in tho
performance of the duty required at my
iiauds. We have changed the constituent
parts, but not the system of our govern
ment. Tho Constitution formed by oar
fathers, is that of these Confederate States
in their exposition of it, and in the judicial
construction it has received, we have, a
light which retreats its true meaning.
Thus instructed as to the just interpreta
tion of the instrument, and even remem
bering that all offices are but trusts held for
the pcQple, and that delegated powers are to
be strictly- construed, I will hope by due
diligence in the performance of my duties,
though I may disappointyonrexpectations,
yet to retain when retiring, something of
the good will and confidence which wel
comes my entrance into office.
It is joyous, in the midst-of perilous
times, to look around upon apooplo united?.:
in heart, where one purpose ol' high resolve
auimates and actuates the whole—where
tho sacrifices to be made are not weighed
in the balance against honor, and righ^w
and liberty, and equality. Obstacles may
retard, they cannot prevent the progress,
of a movementsanotitied by its justico, and
sustained by a virtuous people. Reverent
ly Ict us invoke the God of our lathers to
guide ami protect us in our effort to per
petuate the principles, which, by His bless
ing, they' were able to vindicate, establish
and transmit to their posterity, and with a
continuance of His favor, ever gratefully
acknowledged, we may-, hopefully look for
ward to Sucee.-.s, 1b peace and to prosperity.
...•• Jo.-cy,” said a little urchin of our ac-
q laiiUanee, as lie stood by the bedside of
a sick.brother, Josey, if you die. father
will havo to get up and build tho fires of
mornings, won't he, Josoy?”
Mil