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MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1843.
[NO. 33.
GltlEYE Sc OB9IE,
editors and proprietors.
terms.
jjecordeR is published weekly, in the Ma-
" ,i ] at Three Dollars, per annum, payable in
f n * a nr Four Dollars, if not paid before the end
s jva!!'' _ j ja p er> in any case, sent out of the State,
ofthe J bein" first paid for in advance; or any new
'»' tir “ ta ken for a less period than one tear, unless
’"'Tf r'at the rate of Four Dollars per annum in
* -tisements conspicuously inserted at the usual
^ ' 'rjajse sent without a specification ofthe number
rR,r ' *• w ji| be published until ordered out, and
accordingly.
c „ i _ f i, a nd and Negroes, by Administrators, Exe-
fjunrdians, are required by law to be held on
CJ '°r' T iesday in the month, between the hours of ten
the hr=- no0 o and three in the afternon, at the Court-
e nfthe county in which the property is situate.—
-'of these sales must be given in a public gazette
davs previous to the day of sals.
fur the sale of personal property must be giv-
,| e manner, forty days previous to the day of
\ ice to the debtors and creditors of an estate
dso he published FORTY days,
re that application will be made to the Court of
fur leave to sell Laud or Negroes, must be
lied for FOUR MONTHS.
moss for Letters of Administration, must be pub-
V/orty days for dismission from administration,
fix months—for dismission from Guardianship,
n s for foreclosure of Mortgage must be pnhlished
Yfar four months—for establishing lost papers,/or
twice of three months—for compelling titles from
' or Administrators, where a bond has been
hv tiie deceased, the full space of three months.
lications will always be continued according to
the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered.
siness ; n t j,e fine of Printing, will meet with
t attention at the Recorder Office,
teks on business must be post-paid.
Our subscribers in req iestiugthe direction of their
rhanved from one Post-Office to another, are de-
iu every instance, in making such requests, to in-
s as we l] ofthe name of the Post-Office from which
i sire it changed, as that to which they may there-
Hers'
Notice
Sixty
roust
No
Ordir
I*laid do 31 to 50 els.
irmture Calico, 11 yaids for $1.
^ dtf do 124 to 25 cts
JUST RECEIVED
At the New Boot & Shoe Store,
2,000 pr. Negi oes thick Black and Russet Brogarfs,
Also, a further supply of Ladies and Gent’s
1 Case Ladies finest Philadelphia Kid Slips,
1 Do do do New York do do,
Ladies fine Drab French tie Kid Slips,
Do thick sole spring heel Kid Slips,
Do fine French Morocco Fr. tie Slips,
Gent’s finest French Calf Boots,
Do. do do do Philadelphia Brogans,
Do Velvet, Goat and Kid Slips,
And numerous other kinds and styles of Ladies and
| Gent’s Shoes, which will he sold low for Central
money. E. ALEXANDER.
Milledgevile, May 16. 1843. 18 tf
mail arrangement.
northern A Augusta IMnil, via WarrenlM.
V)n Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 11 a. m.
Closes Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 10 A. M.
Uncoil nut Coiainbna Jlntl.
fj CE dailv (Sunday excepted) at 10 A. M.
Closes daily “ “ “ 12 M.
Narannah mail.
Die daily (Monday excepted) at 10 A. M.
Closes daily, (Saturday “ ) “ 12 M.
Katonton mail.
Di e Monday, W ednesday, and Friday at 7 P. M.
Closes “ “ ’ “ “8 p.m.
Jlonticello mall.
Die Thursday and Sunday at 8 p. At.
Closes Monday and Thursday at 8 P. M.
Florida mail.
Closes Monday, Wednesday,and Friday at 11 A. M.
n aw Uinsville mail.
Closes Sundays, Tuesdays, and Ihursdaysat 11a. m.
E. DAGGETT, P. 31.
July 22, 1843. ;
C1IABUES J. H1LLIA3IS,
.Ittorney at Law,
1.I1LLSDGEVILLE, GEORGIA
Office in the Dutien Bank Building, West of Mr.
\I'Comb's Hotel.
February 7,1843. 4 tf
JOliJr JYUTT,
•Mitorney at M*atr 9
Jacksonville, Telfuir County, Georgia.
June 0.1843. 21 Cm
Central Kail Road from Savannah to Maron, Cco.
T HIS Road is open for the transportation of pas
sengers daily (Sundays excepted) from Savan-
j nah to McCall’s, a distance of 1874 miles. The dis-
j tance from McCall’s to Macon is 24 miles. The whole
I fine will be opened in the month of October next.—
The mail and passenger trains leave Savannah ami
j McCall’s at 6 o’clock, a. m. and run through in twelve
! hours. There is a tri-weekly line of Steamers between
I Charleston and Savannah, leaving Charleston on Tues-
! days, Thursdays and Saturdays at 9 a. m. and leaving
j Savannah on the same days of the week after the ar
rival of the Cars. There ate two fines of Steamers
from Savannah to Florida, arid three regular lines of
Backets to New York.
Fare from Savannah to McCall’s in Passenger
Car, $8 00
I In Baggage do. 5 00
Children under 12, half price.
Savannah, Entrust 15. 1843. 31 lit
Antrim 1, 1843.
jrou.v if*, n.fffr.r,
Commission Merchant,
Harannah, (Georgia.
29 221
HAMILTON, HAKDEM.iM & Co.
L ♦ JS Factors k General Commission Mercbants,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
Savannah, July 25, 1343. 23 tf
FLEMING & GOOLSBY,
Commission Merchants,
Satanumlt, Georgia.
August 1, 1843.
29 lOt
NOBLE A. HARDEE, & CO.
SAVANNAH,
GEORGIA,
T AKE this method of informing their friends and
the public, that they still continue to transact a
general Factorage A Commission Bu
siness. Uidcrs for Bagging, Buie Rope, family
supplies, or other communications, addressed to them,
either winter or summer, will meet with faithful and
prompt attention.
August 1, 1843. 29 6m
IV*. A. 1«. MACON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
STARKVILLE. Lee Co.,Ga.
Will atiend the courts of the Southwestern Circuit.
October IS, 1842. 40 ly
A. C. SCOTT
tYFILL PRACTICE LAW in the several counties ofthe
TT Klintcircuit. Office at Jackson, Butts county, Ga.
September 13,1842. 35 tf
KKE8E & JIcHESRY,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
MADISON, Morgan County, Oa.
April 26,184-2.—15 if
LAW NOTICE.
undersigned hasopened an office in this place,
-I and tenders his legal services to his friends and the
public. All business confided to him,willbe attendedto
with promptness and fidelity.
He will attend the following Courts regularly : Bald
win, Morgan, Greene, Putnam, Wilkinson, Jones and
Jasper, of the Ocmulgee circuit; Twiggs,of the South-
p ni, and Hancock, of the Northern circuit; and, during
the recess of thecircuit,other counties not toodistant,in
tbe arrangement ofclaiins placed in his hands.
JOHN GRIEVE McHENRY
REFERENCES.
Hon.George R.Gilmer,Col.Joseph H.Lumpkin,Lex
ington, Geo.
H m. William C.Dawson, Greensborough ; Geo.
Hon. E . A. Nisbet, Macon. Geo.
James McDow all, Esq.,EgbertB.Beall,Esq ,Augus-
ta, Geo.
Hmi. James M. Wayne, Andrew Low & Co., James
Anderson &. Co.,Savannah, Geo.
^ ilev,Lane& Co .Charleston, S. C •
Leroy M. Wiley & Co., New York.
Milledgeville,Geo., Jan. 19,1841. 1 tf
.1UGVSTUS C. WAITES,
•Httorury at
W ILL i practice in the Counties of the Cherokee
n Circuit, and tenders his legal services to his
frifnd- and the public. All business confided to him
"lii be attended to with promptness and fidelity.
Office at Spring Place, Murray County.
July 4, 1843. 25 12m
New Clothing Establishment.
■ f B1UE subscriber has made extensive arrangements
BL tor a superior lot of ready made Clothin_e:, the
cmrdng Fall. It is now being made in New York by
clW, expressly for this market. He has employed
*^ r * J- Doles to take charge of the Clothing establish
ment. so that persons can be fitted with a suit ready
ttade, or one made to order on short notice. Mr.
Doles is now in New York selecting a superior lot of
Clothe, Cassimere, Vestings, Trimmings, &c. Ibe
* ell known reputation of Mr. Doles as a lailor, the
*’ijscril>er hopes will ensure him a profitable business
»»this line. E. W. BANCROFT.
Milledgeville, August 22, 1843. 32 tf
Great Reduction in Prices.
c riipquence of the great improvement in Cen-
tmi funds, we aie now ready to offer greater in
ducements than ever before, to purchasers of Dry
G °oJs. Now offering
3- 4 brown Homespuns, 44 cents.
4 bleached do 5,cents.
4- 1 (heavy) brown Sheeting, 9 to 12 cts.
4-4 do bleached do 10 yards for $1.
® licking, 10 yards for $1.
do do 12A to 25 cts.
•Soil pieces Calicoes, 20 yards for $1.
200 do do 10 to 124 cts.
4-4 French do 31 cts.
Georgia Nankeens, $1 a piece.
Bnnvn Cotton J Hose, 10 pair for $1.
^ bite Cotton Hose, 8 pair for $1.
do do 20 to 50 cts.
®iuck and Slate Hose, 16 to 374 cts.
Linen Cambric Handkerchiefs. 25 cts.
do 374 «> I 1 50 -
)-1 Cotter, Diaper, 6 yards for $1.
an J ] Linen do all prices.
4 White Jaconet Muslin, 31 to 50 cts.
J -4 do Cotton Cambric, 6 yards for $1.
do 25 to 50 cts.
Storage and Commission Ware-House.
The undersigned, late of Eutonton,
Ga. respectfully informs bis friends
nd the public generally, that he has
aken a Ware-House in Savannah for
the purpose of conducting the business of a Factor and
Commission Merchant. 1 rum bis long and intimate
acquaintance with the interests of the Farmers and
others of the interior, he flatters himself he under
stands, and pledges himself that he will use his most un
tiring efforts to promote them, so far os they may be
confided to him. He gives the most unqualified assur
ance that be will not engage or be concerned in specu
lations in cotton or other produce, in any way. The
usual advances will be made on produce in Store.
He will be at bis post in Savannah by the 20th of
September, and will from that time be pleased to re
ceive and forward goods, receive, store and sell cot
ton, and execute any other commissions that maybe
entrusted to him in his line of business.
JEREMIAH CLARK.
August 8, 1843. 30 I7t
Comiulssiou Business.
SA VAXXAH, GA.
T HE undersigned have formed a partnership for
the transaction of a Factorage and Commission
| Business in the city of Savannah, and will open an of
fice oil ti e first day of August next. They intend giving
I their personal attention to the business, and hope to
' merit, and if so, to receive a liberal share of public
' patronage. JOHN L. SW INNEY , &. Co.
Partners, )
John L. Swinney, >February, 1843. 7 tf
James H. Burnet, S
JOHN UUTIIERFOItD,
Commission Merchant,
Huramcah, Ga.
FORMERLY OF MACON,
| rpAKES this occasion to say that his purpose is
X fixed not to speculate in Cotton. He has the ex
perience of near four years in a general Shipping and
Commission business in the city of Baltimore.
August 22. 1843. 32 3m
0CP The Columbus Enquirer and Albany Courier,
will please copy three months inside.
T 1
WAREHOUSE
and
Commission Business.
leased the Fire-Proof
buildings situate on the corner of McIntosh and
Bay streets, at present occupied by Gon. 1 homas Daw
son, and known as Musgrove’s Warehouse, will take
charge of them on the 1st of September next.
This establishment is centrally located, and for con-
I venience to business and security against fire, is un
equalled by any other in the city.
They will be prepared to make reasonable advances
on produce and merchandize in store, and hope by
strict attention to all business consigned to their care,
| to merit a share of public patronage.
BUSTIN’ & WALKER.
32 6t
ta, Ga. August 22, 1843.
tton Stripes, 10 yards for $1.
p'ack Bombazine, $1 to $2.
' 1 Black Net Shawls, 5 to $8.
Kn h Black and White Net Lace Veils, $1 75.
-ie 1 bread Lace, 12 yards for 374 cents.
°' ton Umbrellas, for 75 cents,
p do do $1 to $1 75.
wasohq (Gingham,) 75 cents.
, do Silk. $1 75.
aces. Muslins, and Trimmings,
uuied F rench Muslins, 25 cts. per yard,
rn ? do 374 to 50 cts.
' ,7< ’ n Balm Leaf Hats, at $1 25 per dozen, &c.
• ace. & c>
sunrj^ le t0 Sa ^’ wo are ready, “as usual," to
^[--Wends and customers throughout the State,
1„. A . ( JJ broods, at lower prices than ever before, and
rap „, ri can be purchased at any other establish-
ln the State.
Central Funds at Par.
Mm 1 E. W. BANCROFT.
“edg nvi l| 0 _ Ju n o 20. 1843, 83 tf
R. K. SMITH,
Cotton Factor k Commission Merchant,
No. 1S§, Bay Street, Savannah, Ga.
T HE undersigned informs his friends and the public
generally, "that he will continue to transact the
above business, anti respectfully solicits a share of their
patronage. Having located permanently in Savannah,
and intending to bestow his entire personal attention
to the. bnsines**, in which he has had considerable ex
perience, he indulges the beliet that those who favor
him with their business will have no cause to regiet it.
Liberal cash advances will he made on cotton in store
when required, and orders for Bagging, t amily sup
plies, &c. promptly attended to, and in strict compli
ance with directions.
RANSOM II. SMITH.
Savannah, July 18. 1843. 27 tf
M. S. BALL, & GO’S
Daily Express k General Forwarding k Commission House.
T HE Central Rail Road Company of Georgia
having granted to the Subscribers the privilege
of running an Express over their Road during the
present year, with the privilege of an apartment under
their own Lock, they offer superior advantages for
the prompt and safe conveyance of valuable Arti
cles, Specie, &c. &c.; and are in hopes of being able
to make an arrangement w ith the Post Office Depart
ment, by which they will be allowed to carry a Mail
Bag.
They are prepared to receive and forward Goods
of all descriptions, to and from Savannah and Macon
and intermediate [daces, and between Savannah and
Charleston, with the greatest safely and despatch ; and
will also pay particular attention to the purchase of
Goods, collection and payment of Drafts, Notes, and
Bills, and transacting all kinds of business in the above
places.
They have also extended their arrangements to run
their Express by the Southern Boats to Picoiaia, in
Florida, and intermediate places on that route.
Macon—Office at the Washington Hall.
Savannah—Office at No. 153 Bay street.
Do. S. Philbrick, Agent, for receiving and for
warding Goods and merchandise.
Charleston, So. Ca.—Amos Head, Agent, office No.
96, East Bav.
M. S. BALL & CO.
June 20, 1843. 23 26t
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER.
Ffl HE subsr.jiber is now opening a large assortment
X of Spring Goods, recently selected with
greut care in New York, which he offers to the public
on terms as usual almost as cheap as the cheap
est, such as
Calicoes from 64 to 25 cts. per yard.
Ginghams from 20 to 37 cts. among which are striped
Earlstone, a good article for Gent’s Coats; also a few
patterns of Brocade Ginghams, a new and splendid
article.
Printed Muslins and Lawns, from 20 to 50 cts. pryd.
Jaconet, Nansook, and Swiss Muslins.
Embroidered do
Lace stripe and lace plaid do
Crimp Dimity, a new article for Ladies’ collars.
Victoria Lawns.
Pink and white Tarlatan Muslin.
Lisle, Thread, Cambric and Swiss Edgings and In
serting.
Pink and white Crape Leise.
Thread, Cambric and Linen Lawn.
I risk Linens, from 25 cts to $ I 25.
Linen and Russia Sheeting.
12-4 Cotton do
Hemstitched and hordered Handkerchiefs.
Ladies’ plaid and crimp crape Cravats.
Wrought Collars.
Kid and Pic Nic Gloves and Milts.
Lisle do
Black and white silk Hose.
Cotton Hose, from 10 to 50 cts. per pair.
Black Lisle Hose.
F ans, Parasols, and Sunshades.
F ine Birdseye Diaper, as low as 18J cent3 per yard ;
warranted half cotton.
Superior Birdseye Diaper.
Table Damask.
Georgia Nankeens, ns low ns $1 124 cents per piece;
warranted io fade the first time they are washed.
Best kind Nankeens. $1 37 per piece.
Brown Linens ami Drilling, from 20 to 50cts. prytl. I
Linen Check for Gentlemen’s Coats.
Black Lasting, Cambleteen.
Silk warp Alpacca Lustre.
Bombazine—Merino Cassimere.
Satin, Marseilles and Valentin Vestings.
Gent’s Horseskin, Thread Berlin and Lise Gloves.
Northern Tow Cloth, excellent for servants.
Moleskin, F ur, Oiter Brush and Leghorn Hats, all j
very low.
Palm Leaf from 10 to 37 cents.
Amazon, Zephyrene, Florence Cypress and plain
Straw Bonnets.
Bonnet and Cap Ribbons, Crewel].
Spool Thread. 600 yaids for 124 cts -
Needles, warranted first quality, for64 cts. perpaper.
Ladies’ Kid and Seal Shoes, as low as 75 cts. pr. pair.
New York made Kid do. $1 25.
Shell and other Combs, very cheap.
Brown Shirtings. 5 yards for 25 cents.
do Sheetings, 12 yards for $ l 00.
North Carolina Sheeting, a superior article.
New Y ork Mills and Manchester bleached Sheetings.
Crockery and Wood Ware, See. vtc.
All will be sold at the above named prices for
Central money. Goods constantly received
through the season.
E. M. COWLES.
May 9, 1843. 17 tf
Received to-day at Bancroft’s.
Pieces Earlston Gingham at 25 cts per yd.
20 do super, do do 314 “
20 do French Corded do 37 4 “
50 do Ric h Prints 124
20 do 4 Black Eng. Merino, from 25 to 374 “
5 do Sup. Lasting, $1 “
Super. 4 Biown Shirtings 64 “
“ l Na-htta 8 “
August 15. 1343. 31 3t
MOFFAT’S
Vegetable l.ifc 1’ills and Phirnix Hitters.
C CELEBRATED fur the cure ref Dyspepsia, Bit-)
> ions and Liver Affections. Fevers and Agnes, j
Nervous Debility. Obstinate Head-Aches, every kind ;
of 14'cahness of the Digestive Organs, Rheumatism,
Costiveness, &c.
Testimonials of the highest character from almost
every part of the country, of the great value of these I
medicines, may he seen at our Drug Store by those '
w ho have used them.
A Fresh supply Just Received from New- !
Yolk, of the proprietor, and for sale at LlTTI-F. & Co’s |
Drug Store, together with an extensive assortment of 1
Drugs, medicines, Chemicals, Pa
tent medicines, Dye-Stn(Fs, Paints,:
Varnishes, Window Glass, and Putty.
And also, Stationery, Blank Books,
Quills, Steel Pens, Ac.
Milledgeville. August 14th, 1843. 31 tf !
Greater Bargains now offered
BY SHAH AN,
Than was ever knowii before in Georgia.
T he s. linmer season being considerably advanc
ed, I have concluded to sell the balance of my
Summer Stoclt of Fancy Goods 25 per
CC*llt lower than any man or merchant in Geor
gia—quality and style both considered. All in want
of C 1 5lC£tp Goods are respectfully invited to call
immediately, or as soon as convenint at
SHAHAN'S.
July 10, 1843. 1?6 tf
Just Received,
Q g* Sacks Coffee—Java, Rio, Cuba, and glazed.
15 bhds. Sugar—St. Cioix, Toi to Rico, and
New Orleans.
40 Boxes Sperm and Tallow Candles.
12 Boxes Hull Sz. Son’s and Colgate’s Soap.
Together with a large assortment of Loaf, Havanna
and crushed Sugar; wooden Ware, Rope, all sizes;
Salt, Iron, all sizes; Cast and German Steel; Collin’9
ami Bond’s Axes; Trace Chains. The subscriber in
vite* his old customers to call and see hitn, and ex
amine his stock, at the sign of the
Family Grocery Store.
JAMES HERTY.
August 22, 1343. 32 2t
Change iu Business.
T ill! Subscriber will make n change in business on
the 1st of July; and it will be necessary to close
as soon as possible the business of the old concern. I
would respectfully say to those with whom we have
made smnll accounts, that the payment of them by I
the 4lh of July will greatly oblige
E. W. BANCROFT. 1
June 27, 1343. 24 tf j
New Spring and Summer Goods. |
rpHE Subsc riber has commenced receiving his sup- j
JL ply oiSpring and Summer Goods, among which -
may he found ail articles in the Dry Goods line, which |
will he sold as h.w as at any House in Milledgeville or j
the interior of Georgia.
E. M. COWLES. I
April 13. 1S43. 14 tf j
April 17. 1843.
MORE NEW GOODS OPENED
AT BANCROFT’S.
1 CASE rich Silk Parasols—50 gingham do. $1,00.
6 Cantons rich French Flowers.
20 pieces rich F’rench Muslins.
More of the Jaconet Muslins, at 374-
Rich Mourning Muslins and Law ns.
100 4-4 Cotton Shawls, at 374-
20 dozen Ladies Silk Cravats, at 50 cts.
5 oases white Hoods, at 374-
3 cases colored Jo. at 25.
New style Willow Bonnets, at $1,00.
Rich Bonnet Silks, &c. Sic..
Don’t forget that we are offering the largest Stock of
Goods in Georgia, nt “ astonishing low prices,” for
Central Money at Par.
E. W. BANCROFT.
Milledgeville, April 17, 1843. 14 tf
Summer Clothing;.
£ W. BANCROF T has opened a small invoice
. of ready made Clothing, adapted to the warm
season. Gentlemen in want will do well to call and
examine, as all tlte articles will be sold at prices to suit
the times" at the sign ofthe New Dry Goods Store.”
Milledgeville, May 2. 1843. 16 tf
TAKE NOTICE.
W ILL be sold to the highest bidder, without re
serve, on the first Tuesday in September next,
at the Court-House in the city of Milledgeville,
Five Negroes,
Viz: Silvester a man about 41 years old, Myra his
wife 29, an;l their three children. Maria 13, Jackson
11, and Hudson one year old. Terms cash.
GEORGE LEF.VES.
August 8, 1843. 30 4t
GEOBGIA DECISIONS,
For sale at $2 per copy, specie funds.
YV. G. LITTLE.
June 13, 1343. 22 tf
T HE Subscriber would respectfully inform his
friends, customers, and purchasers in Dry Goods
throughout the Slate, that he has purchased the entire
interest in buisness at this place, and will hereafter
continue it on his own account. He will be able to of
fer greater inducements the approaching Autumn than
ever before, and would respectfully solict a continu
ance of that patronage which has been so liberally be
stowed heretofore. E. \Y. BANCROF'T.
July 11, 1843. 26. tf
FROM GRAHi.M S MAGAZINE.
THE POST-OFFICE. ,
By Miss Sedgewick.
The family of James O’Moore was are-
putable branch of the old and broad-spread
ing tree of the O’Moores in Ireland. James
had married young, in spite of the wise
counsel of the sage and rich, who can
themselves indulge in the luxury of wives
aud children, and think it very fitting the
poor should do without them. Neither
would Jemmy O’Moore be guided by others’
experience, which lias been well called the
“ stern-light of the ship.” So, at five-and-
thirty, he was a husband and the father of
nine children ; “ five,” as his wife express
ed it, “ gone to the blessed Vitgin, in heaven
—three boys o’er-toppirig their father and
stouter than he, and our Rosy, dear, the
beauty o’ County Cork, tho 5 her mother
should be ashamed to say it; but her moth
er it was alone that knew' she was the tru
est and best that ever mother leaned up
on, God bless her 1”
Those who, unreasonably, or if they
will, reasonably, dislike the Irish, cannot
deny that, in the glowing fervor of their
affections, in generosity to their kindred
and people, and in gratitude to any member
of the human family, Jew, Greek, or bar
barian, who, in a kind manner, renders them
a service, they are unequalled. O’Moore
had a judicious and generous landlord, and
he would have thriven w r ell in his own
country, with only his four surviving chil
dren to bury or bring up ; but there was a
cousin, with three sickly girls and a hoy,
to whom his kind heart bade him extend
protection and support. The boy, Dennis
Rooney, was, to be sure, no charge to him,
or to his mother. Dennis was a stout,
brave and and manful boy, and, when but
twelve years old, he had saved the life of
the heir, and only son, of the lord of the
domain on which tiiey lived. This unfor
tunate only son of Sir Philip Morrili and
his wife, Lady Ellen, was born with a de
formity that made hitn incurably lame.—
He was beside sickly, and of a nervous
temperament and retiring disposition.—
He loved solitude; and when possible,
would escape from his mother and nurse,
and wander about the woodlands of the es
tate. His ruling passion was a love of
wild flowers, and in trying to obtain some
violets that grew on the brink of a stream
that bounded the estate, he fell in, and,
unable to resist the swift channel, he was
car tied down into an artificial pond, where
he would inevitably have been drowned
but for the timely intervention of Dennis
Rooney. Dennis came near being dragged
under by the convulsive grasp of a drown
ing child, but his stout arm and stouter
heart prevailed ; and he not only took the
boy front the water, but carried him half a
mile, to the castle, and laid him in his
mother’s arms. Dennis was at once taken
to the castle, was taught by Master Ed
ward’s tutor, reading, writing and cypher
ing, and, what to Dennis was more impor
tant, he was put under the head gardener for
instruction in his art. Master Edwatd now
transferred his love for solitary places to
the garden. His only pleasure, beyond
the reach of his mother’s loved and tender
voice, was working beside Dennis in the
flower-beds. Time did not lighten the
burden of life to the poor child ; as he grew
older, his mind became dimmer, and body
feebler. He was always leaning on Den
nis, or limping after him, and seemed to
love the piesence of the blight, strong,
cheerful boy as a plant loves the sun
shine.
At the period when our history of the
O’Moores and Rooneys begins, the thiee
sisters of Dennis had married and gone to
America, loaded witli favors and presents
from Sir Philip and Lady Ellen. Dennis
had manifested no disposition to join them.
He was quite contended with the service
he was in, and never left the castle but to
visit the O’Moores. 11 Ami why do you al
ways go there, and never to fairs, or wakes,
or metry-makitigs of any kind V’ asked
Lady Ellen. Dennis looked straight up,
and straight down—he looked one side,
and the other—he looked sheepish; in short,
he looked every way but in his mistress’
face, as he replied, “ Sure my lady has
seen Rosy O’Moore.” Sure my lady had,
and, with a woman’s quick wit, she read
the whole history of Dennis’ heart. After
a little consideration, she told him so—
drew from him a full disclosure of his
wishes and dawning plans, and promised
to forward them, by giving Rosy an eligi
ble place at the castle. That Dennis
should ever leave it, while Master Edward
lived, was out of the question, Lady Ellen
said, and Dennis assented, for he felt him
self bound there not only by Edward’s de
pendence upon him, but by his gratitude for
the multiplied favors heaped on him and
his family by Sir Philip and Lady Ellen.
A week had passed since he had seen
Rosy. In the next half hour after his
communication with Lady Ellen he was on
h : s way to the cottage. Rosy, who always
knew when it was Dennis that knocked,
opened the door for him. The flush of
welcome, or the blush that oveispread her
cheek when Dennis kissed it, soon passed
away, and he observed that she was paler
and less cheerful than usual.
‘ Sure, Dennis,’said the mother, ‘these
have been the longest days ofthe year that
you have been staying away from us.’
‘ Indeed, and that’s true,’ replied Den
nis, glancing at Rose, ‘ hours are minutes
here, and minutes are hours away from
you.
“ Oh, it’s getting darker than ever we
saw it yet, Dennis.’ Dennis stated. ‘ Is
it O’Moore that’s been at the castle to-day V
continued the old woman.
‘ No.’
* Nor Dan, nor Pat, nor Tommy V
‘ Not one of them.’
* Then the news—bad luck to it—is yet
to tell.’
Dennis was confounded. He fancied he
had only news to tell, and, resolving not to
have that interfered with, he turned from
the mother and asked Rosy to walk down
the green lane with him. Rose tied on
a snow-white apron, threw her little cloak
over her shoulders, and they went out to
gether. The sentiment of the humble, like
the diseases of childhood, is simple, un
complicated, and little varying in its symp
toms. “ Thanks to you, Rosy, dear,’ said
Dennis, * it is not now to ask ‘ do you love
me V ’ Rose only sighed in reply, ‘ Sure
that question was asked as long ago as we
can remember V
‘ And answered just as long ago—was it
not, Dennis V
* Sure, sure it was, Rosy, and we have
been as good as oue ever since, having but
one heart between us—troth plighted and
all, and so Rosy, dear—-but why are you
so dark ?—you send chills to the very soul
of me.’ Rosy buist into tears. ‘Oh, speak,
Rosy ; if trouble has come to you, have I
not a right to the better half of it V Den
nis’ arm was round Rosy’s waist, and Ro
sy pressed the hand that was on her heart,
but she could not utter a word. Dennis
wiped off the tears with Rosy’s apron, say
ing, ‘ there, my life, don’t send any more
after them ! 1 have news to tell you that
will drive away all sorrow—sunshine to
melt away all the clouds, Rosy ; if one
door is shut, another is opened.’ And he
proceeded to communicate the sure and
near prospect*, that lady Ellen’s kindness
had opened to them. Poor Rosy’s sadness
deepened at every word, and, when he had
finished, she covered her face and sobbed
out, ‘ It cannot be—it cannot be—Dennis,
it can never be.’ Dennis, alarmed and
confounded, was rather relieved when he
found out the real lion itt the way; and,
alter a little soothing and cheering, Rosy
began to feel that there was still twilight
above her horizon. She had communica
ted the following facts :
It seemed that James O’Moore had been
long vainly struggling against the cunent
of hard times. With all the indulgence of
his landlord, it was hard for him to pay his
rent; and his boys, now grown to be capa
ble and industrious, had no work to do.—
Emigration is the great national resource
for Ireland. O’Moore’s relations and
friends, on every side, were going to
America, and sending home letters with
accounts of success, and remittances, for
those left behind. A few days before, O’
Moore had received letters from the hus
bands of Dennis’ sisters. They were still
in Canada, where they had heard the most
tempting accounts of the facilities of set
tlers on the new lands in the United States,
and they vehemently urged O’Moore to
come out, with his sons and join them. O’
Moore was an impulsive and determined
man—qualities that do not often go togeth
er. Foteseeing opposition from the wo
men, he imparted his plan to the boys on
ly. They joyfully concurred with him. He
made fortunate arrangements for the sale
of such effects as must be left behind him,
and on the morning of that day, he told his
wife and daughter that, in one week, they
must be riding on the salt water.
Rosy listened as she would have lis
tened to a sentence of death, and turn
ing from her father, she sunk down on
a chair, pale and motionless. Her mother
understood her child’s feelings, and, after
her own surpiise and shock had a little
subsided, she said, “ Sure, Jemmy O’
Moore, it’s for the good of your hoys, I
have not a word to say again it. I shall
not long bide it—1 cannot learn to stand
alone in my old age.’
‘ Alone 1 will not we be on every side
of you V
‘ Not she that I must lane on. I have
always had something to lane upon since
first I lay upon my mother’s bosom, when
she was taken, then it was my poor father,
then it was you, Jemmy, and now is it not
Rosy that’s my prop—my rest and comfort
by night and by day V
‘And, God helping me, will still be,
mother,’said Rosy, dropping on to the floor
at her mother’s feet, and laying her head
on her lap.
‘ Ah, my darling, is it not you that’re
promised? and, as I left all for your father,
so must you leave all for Dennis—this is
the thorny way of life that Providence has
marked with his own finger.’
‘ Now, this is jusFwoman’s way,’ inter
posed Jemmy, ‘ flying off into the clouds,
instead of walking in the beaten road befote
you. What the divil signifies blurring
your eyes, Rosy 1—can’t Dennis come
with us ?’
‘ Never, never, father ; he is duty-bound
to Master Edward. Ifs the nearest duty
tee must do. I’ll go with you, mother—1
will, and I’ll say never a word against
Dennis doing God’s bidding, and that
is all ’tis possible to serve Master Edward.
Should I that love him before all things,
stand between him and his duty?’
And to this noble resolution Rose adher
ed, at first with struggling sighs and bitter
tears, and afterward with a stronger and
more cheerful resignation.
How wisely and how beautifully Provi
dence has interwoven the reciprocal rela
tions of the rich and poor ! Money could
not buy, hut it might reward such set vices
as Dennis’. The sickly child of- fortune
was his dependent, and he was hound to
the genetous benefactors of his family by
ties far stronger than any chains ever forg
ed. Lady Ellen was sure her son would
pine away and die, if Dennis left him ; and
so he probably would have done; and a
man less true and constant to duty than
Dennis might have questioned whether a
life so feeble aud profitless were worth pre
serving at such a cost. But there was no
such question in Dennis’ clear mind. He
threw his love and longings to go with Rose
into one scale, and his duty into the other,
and that preponderating the thing was set
tled.
The lovers parted^ Rose came with her
family to America, and Dennis remained
in the service of Master Edward, at the
castle. They were too young, and too I
strong of heart, to part without hope. ‘ Be \
sure, Rosy, be sure,’ were almost Dennis’ j
last words, ‘ that poor Master Edward’s
shatteied ftame cannot stand it loug, and, j
when it pleases God to take him to His j
peace, I will be after you, as fast as wind j
and sails can btingme.’
Flowers have bloomed on our prairies, I
and passed away, from age to age, unseen I
by man, and multitudes of virtues have been 1
acted out in obscure places, without note !
or admiration. The sweetness of both has
gone up to Heaven.
The O’Moores joined the Kelleys—Den
nis’ brothers-in-law—at Montreal. The
limit assigned to this slight sketch of their
fortunes, does not permit our detailing,
step by step, their progress; led on—as
such wanderers are—by chance advice, and
chance acquaintance, and the hope of cast
ing off old burdens, and gaining new ad
vantages, they reached Illinois, and there
squatted on some nt^tv land, about six miles
from the thriving little town of Clifton.—
To reach this point, all the O’Moores’ con
vertible property had been turned into
money, and the amount was nearly expend
ed. The golden cloud that, to the poor
emigrant’s eye, rests over this western
world, had, till now, gone before them, and
now, at the very point where they hoped
it would stand still, it melted away. The
fate of the ‘ best laid schemes o’ mice and
men’ hung over our Irish friends.
The first season, James O’Moore took
the fever of the country, and died. His
eldest son, finding that harder work than
he had done at home met with smaller pre
sent returns ; was disheartened and disgust
ed, and he quitted the land, and went to
work on a railroad. Patrick left to labor
alone—for Thomas, the youngest, had re
mained in Ireland, to fulfil a year’s engage
ment—was discouraged, and was soon
laid by with ‘ the fever,’ whose first vic
tims the disheartened are. The Rooneys
extended all the kindness in their power to
our ft tends—they had difficulties of their
own. The life of a settler is, at best, a
life of hardship and endurance—emphati
cally a struggling life. The second spring
opened gloomily on the O’Moores. Pat
rick could just crawl from his bed to the
fire, his days being varied only by chills
and no chills. His poor mother was like
an old tree dying from transplantation, an
unwise movement for an old subject.—
Rosy did Iter best with kind words, hope
ful suggestions, smiles, and ends of songs—
her tears she kept to herself. Many a tear
was shed, when there was no light in the
hut but that of the smouldering log. They
were all, in truth, pining with home-sick
ness. The Irish are often ridiculed, or
contemned, for vaunting the comfortable
homes they have left behind. ‘ The Al
mighty knows,’ they say, ‘ what we’ve
come here for; we were a dale belter
off at home!’ This is false in word, but
true in feeling. Their earnest affections
take possession of their memories, and ef
face all but that which made the happiness
of their birth-place, and childhood’s home.
There, in perpetual freshness, ate the juys
of youth ; the associations of song and sto
ry are there—there, in golden light, all the
bright passages of life—its pleasant ac
quaintanceship, and sparkling incidents.
And there, those ministetsof suffering, tri
al, superstition, even death itself, have their
root of sorrow plucked out, and become
ministering angels—messengers from an
other world. Who ever looked back up-
er, and giving Patrick a farewell pat on
the shoulder, she set forth on her six mile
walk, to the Clifton post-office.
She called at the shanties of the sisters
of Dennis, to ask if they had any money to
send for letters. No, they had no money,
and no expectation of letters. They ex
pected their husbands from Buffalo in a
fortnight’s time, and, if Rosy would wait,
they would then give her enough to pay
tor the letters that all Ireland would send
her. W ait a fortnight! thought Rosy, as
she definitely shook her head to their pro
position. It was an affair in which the
waiting of a thousandth part of a minute’
could not be voluntarily brooked.
But our readers are not yet acquainted
with all the reasons of poor Rosy’s eager
ness for a letter. It was not only that she
might know her brother’s fate, but she had
learned, by her last despatch from Dennis,
that Master Edward’s health was rapidly
declining, and Dennis said, if the poor
young man died—‘ God forgive him for
writing the same’—before Thomas sailed,
he—Dennis—should go out in the ship with
him. Rosy had no doubt that the Thomas
O’Moore mentioned among the passengers
in the wrecked ship, from Liverpool, was
really her brother. It had sailed sooner
than Dennis had anticipated, and her rea
son told her there was scarcely a chance
that he was in her, hut on that chance hung
all her happiness. A longer interval than
had before elapsed between his letters, had
now passed, and, if he were not in the fatal
ship, she felt sure of finding a letter from
him in the Clifton post-office. Sure, when
a great good is at stake, with what a fear
ful rapidity the mind calculates chances!
how rapidly the pendulum vibratee !
Rosy pursued her walk for three mile9,
without passing a human habitation. She
then passed near the comfortable farm
house of an eastern settler. The wife of
on home, through the vista of time, or the! the proprietor was a city-bred lady, from
wide spaces of distance, and saw any thing j one of the Atlantic states, but, in common
but light and beauty there ? Surely, then, i with her pooler neighbors, she had to suf-
the poor Irish may be pardoned the hallu-j fer the inconveniences of a new country
cinat ions of their filial love. j residence. Her husband was absent, and
Dame O’Moore’s widowed and sinking i she too expected letters, and now called
heart turned to Thomas. Many a weary j Rosy in, to ask her to inquire for her. ‘ I
month had come and gone since any tidings j will give you half-a-dollur, she said, ‘ for it
had readied them ftom Ireland. At last J may be a double letter.’ Rosy took the
came a newspaper, forwarded by a friend • half dollar aud promised to execute the
in Montreal, giving an account of the wreck commission. As she left the house, tho
of a packet that had left Liverpool, on a : possibility that she too might have a double
certain day, with an unusual number of letter occurred to her, and, though the
emigrants. The paper contained an itn- poor little love-token—the English shil-
perfect list of the passengers, and among
them was the name of Thomas O’Moore.—
‘ And sure it’s Tommy,’ said the old wo
man ; ‘ as I look at it l see it’s Tommy’s
own name, and no other/
ling*—was of inestimable value, it would
not be so rated by the post-master. Rosy
paused. ‘ I will ask Mrs. Johnston to lend
me the money—how can 1, she a stranger I
yes I will.’ She retraced her steps, and
But, mother, dear,’ said Rosy, who ! proposed to the lady the possible contingen
could find a ray of light gleaming where all j cy of there being a double letter for herself
was darkness to her mother’s dulled vision, j and none for Mrs. Johnston. ‘Inthatcase,
‘ all Cotk County is full of O’Moores, and ! ma’m,’ asked Rosy, hesitatingly, * might
ate there not six Thomas O’Moores, cous
ins to us, or something that way, besides
our own Tommy ?’
‘ Ah, yes—but this is my own—I feel it
to be the marrow of my bones—now
look,’ she said, pointing to the printed
name, ‘ it’s as like him as his own face.—
Oh, Rosy, it is he, and none other—my
heart is broke !’
Rosy, in spite of having a weight of sor
row, of which her mother was ingnorant,
in the intervals of adjusting the old woman’s
pillows, and administering a cup of hot,
fresh tea, contrived to let a ray of hope
into her drooping spirit. The day was
bright, and when the little cabin began to
have the ait of comfort that neatness and
order give, even where there is povetty
and sickness, Rosy proposed walking in to
Clifton, to see if there were not a letter in
the post-office.
‘ That’s my own darling,’ said her moth
er ; ‘it was last night 1 was dreaming of
roasted potatoes, and that’s a sign of letters
coming—Old blind Barry ’tvvas told me
the sign, when Pat, his son, was away to
the Indies. But Rosy, dear, where’s the
money to pay for the same V
‘ Is there not a shilling, mother, of the
last pound of tea ?’
‘ Ah, no, Rosy, that same went to Clif
ton for the last vial of my mixture. I
would not rob you, darling, but sure a let
ter would he better to us all than gold.—
There’s the gold piece, Dennis—God ever
bless him—gave you at patting/
‘ Mother, what for would I tell yon in
that dark bout and you sick, but sure it
was the gold-piece I paid for father’s coffin,
to quiet his dear soul. Could he rest easy,
the thing not paid for, and his own dear
child having gold in her purse V
‘It’s all right, Rosy, love; the blessing
of the dead and the living on you ! If there
should be a letter! Pat, boy, is theie
ne’er a shilling at the bottom of your emp
ty purse ?’
‘ Na, na, mother/ groaned Pat from the
chair, where he sat cowet ing over the coals;
‘ my last shilling went to the pedlar—bad
luck to him— for the fever-pills/
‘ Oh, mother, dear,’ interposed Rosy,
‘ it’s a lucky thought, the same 1 have.’—
She pulled from her bosom a shilling sus
pended by a threadbare ribbon, from which
its original rose-color had been long wash
ed out. * Sure I never thought of its be
ing money—it was a love token we called
it. It was when you, and I, and Dennis
went to the fair—he bought this ribbon and
tied around my neck, you remember,
mother—it was my seventh birth-day—I’ll
scarce know myself without it—but I’ll
not scruple parting with it to bring you the
comfort of a letter—so kiss it for luck’3
sake, mother dear/
Her mother kissed the love token, and (
I just borrow a bit of your money ?’
‘ Certainly—yes—but stop a moment’—
it can’t be, she said to herself, poor peo
ple never write double letters—my purse
is very low—there is no saying when Mr.
Johnston will be home—every peny
counts— 1 no, my girl/ she concluded a-
loud, ‘ you will have no occasion for my
money, I am sure: I am sorry I can’t
oblige you, but if you find no letter for
me, I had rather you would bring my half
dollar back ;’ and when Rosy turned a-
way, her face dyed with disappointment,
and mortification at having made the request,
the mistaken lady thought, ‘it was well I
refused her. She'll have no double letter,
and then the money would have been taken
for something else and I should not have
been the wiser. The Irish have always a
lie ready/
* Man’s inhumanity to nan
Makes countless thousands mourn.*
Oh, what a pity that life should be mar
ked by wasted opportunities of small kind
nesses ! Striking occasions and great
deeds fall to the lot of the few, but the
humblest has every day an opportunity to
do some little favor—to speak a kind word,
or forbear a harsh one—to cheer with a
smile, or withhold a frown ; to do some
thing in virtual obedience to the blessed
command, * bear ye one another’s burdens/
If relenting angels do wait on men’s
deeds, it is over the blank pages, we fancy,
that most tears are dropped. Mrs. Johnson
turned to her affairs quite unconscious of
the wrong she had done, for the Irish were
out of the pale of her sympathies ; and
our little friend pursued her way, stopping
only once to rest by the road side, whete
she took Dennis’ last letter from her bosom
and read it over, for the hundred thou
sandth time, with smiles and tears. She
arrived at Clitton, art hour after the eastern
mail had come in. The arrival of the mail,
in a couutry town, is the great event ofthe
day ; but no where does it produce such
a sensation as in one of our western settle
ments, for there are members of families
newly sent out from their birth places, their
fibres still trembling with the disruution
from the parent stock—there are exiles
from the old world, too, their pulses still
answering to every beat ofthe old heart, at
home—there are the most anxious specu
lators, and there—if there be any gradua
tions on this scale—the greediest politi
cians. The Clifton post-office was in one
extremity of a large ‘stoie,’ whose propri
etor was post-master. There were two
entrances to this 3emi-civilized establish
ment, one large door from the main street
* Broadway’—and the other a narrow door,
from a narrow side street, little used ; the
great flux and reflux being through the
main door. Rosy fell into the tide entering
here. Her heart beat quick with fear and
kissed her good child, and pured out a j hope, and she began, as she afterwards said,
shower of tears, as she said, ‘God Almigh- to feel a chokiitc. as if there were a lnaf nf
ty’s blessing rest on you, as it does, aud
ever will, for you have kept all his laws,
and crowned them all with ltouoring father
and mother—so you have His sure word
that these black days will lighten up, and
be long and bright to the last, in the laud
that the Lord thy God giveth to thee—God
speed ye, my darling!’
These blessings, the very effluence of
well-performed duties, fell, like dews from
Heaven, on Rosy’s spirit, and filled it with
cheerful expectation. She changed her
working dress for a holiday suit, and, hav
ing arranged becomingly her fine dark
hair, she looked at herself with pardonable j
to feel a choking, as if there were a loaf of
bread in her throat. She was unconscious
that she was stared at on the right hand
and the left, and quite indifferent to the au
dible exclamations which her beauty called
forth. The store was already full c>f peo
ple, all men ; for our chary womankind do
not reckon it a feminine service to go to the
post-office, being afraid, as one of their
witty puusters once said, of seeming to run
after the males!'
The great men of Clifton (Clifton has
its great men) were gathered round a table
on which Peter Smith the post-master, was
depositing the newspapers, letters and
parcels, as he drew them from the deep
complacency, for no drawing-room mirror j a hyss of a great leathern bag. The P os t-
ever reflected a sweeter lace than was
given back by the little bit of broken trian
gular glass, by which she tied on a pretty
straw hat. ‘ Rosy, said her mother * your
mourning bonnet, child ! A crape bonuet,
of her own fashioning, was the only badge
of mourning Rosy had been able to obtain.
‘ There’s no luck under a black bonnet,
mother, dear,’ said Rosy, ‘ so this once i’ll
leave it behind—the weed is on my heart
all the same/ So, again kissing her moth-
master was a man of short stature and
spare body, with a weasel-face and eyes
glowing like a rat’s. He felt the impor
tance of bolding the wheel of destiny for
the community of Clifton—of being the
oracle to announce the voice of the divini
ties at Washington—the herald of all news,
foreign and domestic, aud the medium of
all the good and evil tidings that came to
* All our readers may not know that an Engii-h
•hilling w about twentv-five cents.
