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FRIDAY MORNING,
la Cartcrtrllle, Bartow Cos., Ga., by
Samuel H. S4mit.li,
EDITOR and PROPRIETOR.
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PH oft SSI 0N A l CARDS.
MVRRELXi & BRO, !
RESIDENT DENTISTS.
Office over S. Clayton & Son,
canTEnsnut:, ej.,
Having permanently located here, and being provi
orJ with th« latest improvements in Denial Material,
ui prepared to do ant thing pertaining Dental Sur-
ALI WORK WARRANTED TO GIVE SATISFACTION.
tr DP.P. M. prepare a “Superior Vegetable Tooth
Powder," guaranteed to contain nothing injurious to
the teeth.
EXCHANGE HOTEL,
Cartersville, Ga.,
BY
BTJICB Sc HILL.
The undersigned have associated in business, and
alter refilling and re-arranging that COMMODIOUS
HOUSE recently occupied by A. R. Hu Igens as a Fam
ily Grocery and Confectionery, on the HAST BIDE
,-d the RAILROAD, near the late BARTOW IIOUrtK,
have opened in the same a FIRST CLASS HOTEL,
for the Entertainment of the TRAVELING PUBLIC,
which will be kept upon the EUROPEAN PLAN.—
Hoth parties are experienced In the Business, Mr.
IfILLL having be-n formerly Proprietor of the Ten
nessee House, Dalton, but more recently of the Car
tersville Hotel, and Mr. BUICE formerly Proprietor
of the late Exchange Hotel, C*' tersvilte, Ga., but moie
recently of the Washington Hall, Atlanta, Ga. Mr.
Oro. VV. Hill is General Superintendent, and Mrs.
fluioe, Lady Super in’ enderit.
BUICE & IIILL.
May M.—Bin.
OR. F. M. JOHNSON,
Dentist,
Respectfully offers his Professional -.
seirices to the citizens of Cartersville ■.
■ii..l vicinity .feis prepared to do work <ll
on the latest and most Improved style.
Teeth extract*' without pain, by means of narcotic
spray.] W rk aM warranted. Office over J. Elsas'
Store,CARTERSVILLE, Ga. Feb. 30,18G3. —wsm
JERE A. HOWARD,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
Cartersville, ga.
PRITCHETT & WOFFORD,
Attorneys at Law,
riRTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
OFFICE OVER ELSAS’STORE,
Oct. 17. 1867.
THOMAS W. MILNER,
Attorney at Law,
i AfUEHSVILIt. ’ GEORCIA.
Will at'end promptly to buxines* entrusted
to hi* care. Oct. 5. ly
JOHN J, JONES,
Attorney at Law,
Cartersville, Ga.,
WiLL attend promptly to all busi.less en
trusted to his care. WilJpract'ce in the
Courts of Law, and Equity in the Cherokee
Circuit. Special attention given to the collec
ti »nos claims. Jan. 1, 1866. ly
JOHN J. JONES,
REAL. ESTATE AGENT,
CARTERSVILLE. GA.
I an. authorized to sell, and have on hand several
Douses and Lot , and also numerous building lots in the
town of Cartersvil e. Also several plantations of vari
•os sizes in Bartow county. Parties desiring to bu, or
sell will do well to gvemo a cal!. All communication*
promptly answered. July 17, 1566.
S. H. PATILLO,
FASHIONABLE TAILOR,
\ t 'III attend promptly to the Cutting, Repair
s r mg and M iking Boys’ and Me i’s Cio hing.
• • hi back room of Blair A Bradshaw’s store, tl.m
Cartersville, Ga. —? i»
THE CARTERSVILLE HOTEL.
DR. THOMAS MiI,AM liavm, w
charge of this House, would be IT#
pleased to accommodate a few Board
erx with BOARD, with or without
Lodging. Call and see him at once for terms.
Cartersville, Jan 17.
Jbe W. R. JIOI .VTCASTLE,
Jeweller and Watch and
Clock Repairer,
In the Front of A. A. Skinner At Co’s store.
Cartersville. Jan. 25.
S- O’SHII-EXjIDS,
Fashionable Tailor ,
CARTERSVILLE, BARTOW COUNTY, GEORGIA.
1S prepared to execute all kinds
of work in the Fashionable Tail
—LL oring line, with neatness and in m£L
durable style. Over J. Elsas & Co’s store.
Cartersville, Jan. 23.
J. H. PURTELL,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
White Hall Atlanta, t;a.
(CLOTHING made to order in the very
J latest style and at short notice.
Oct 25. ly
1868. 1868.
AMERICAN HOTEL,
Alabama Strf,et,
JITEJIJI'TJI, Ga.
Nearest House to the Passenger Depot.
WHITE & WHITHOCK, Proprietors.
W. D. Wiley, Clerk.
HAVING re-leaicd and renovated the abov* Hot*',
we are prepared to entertain guest* in a most sat
isfactory manner. Charges fair and moderate. Our
effort* will he to please.
|Sr* , Bagg*ge carried to and from Denot free of
charge. April 29. wtf
Gilbert’s Latest Improved Pa
tent
Wilts tit,
ANDREW ROBIN reipectfary notifies Farmer* of
Cherokee Georgia, that he is now engaged in pat
ting up the above justly celebrated and daaervediy
popular
WHEAT FANS,
which are said, by those who hare used them, to b#
the best now manufactured. As the harveet etaeen ig
rapidly approaching , those wishing to pnrrh*«# will
send in their ordersat once.
Oartersville, Oa., aprll 29. 1869 wtf
THE CARTERSVILLE EXPRESS.
YOL. 7.
Georgia, Bartow County.
VVfIISREAP. Thomas A. Word. rator of the
ft r-Ntute of John sT. Word, dpctiMd, applies to the
mdortigned fir loiter* of dismission from his admin
istration : Therefore, all person* concerned are herrbv
required to show cause, if any they have, why said
administrator on the first Monday In I) cember next,
“hould not be discharged. Given under my hand, and
s»al of office, this Ht.h of May, 1365.
J. A. HOWAET>.
Ordinary.
Georgia, Bartow Count j.
IT T IinREA9, Thomas A. Word, administrator T>t
’ * lon It nen of the estate of George Stovall, de-
CMta 1, applies to me for letter* of dUmbslon from
»l* sdininistration .’ Therefore, ail persons concerned
•re hereby required to show Close, if any ther have,
why said administrator on the first Mo day in De
cember next should not be discharged. Given under
my hand and seal of office, this 14th dav of May.
!86S. J A. HO VaRD, Ordinary.
Georgia. Bartow County.
ItTHfSE \S. Thomas A. Word, administrator Deltm't
” non, of the es'ate of Thomas K. Franklin, deceased
applies to me for letter* of dismiss! >n fr .m Ids admin
istration : Therefore, all per*t. ns concerned are hereby
required to show cause, ts any thev have, why said
admicistrato-. on the first Monday in Pe eml>er next,
should not be d'seharjed. Given under my hand and
*eal of office, this 14 h of May, 186*.
J. A. HOWARD,Ordinary.
F. M. Kldleman. C. I. Brown.
F, M. EODL EM A N & C 0.,
WholeßAle I>eMlere in
Boots, Shoes, Leather,
French and American Calf Skins,
LASTS, PEGS, LINING AND RINDING
SZKIIHSTS,
BHOK FINDING?, *C., A*?.
Next door to Moore A Marsh, Decatur Street,
Atlanta, Ga.
{Syshne Manufacturers and Merchant* will find it
to their advantage to call on us before making their
purchases. .April 29, 18(18. wtf
FORCE'S BOOT AND "SHOE
House,
ATLANTA, GA.,
IS now receiving their FALL *nd
WINTER STOCK of BOOTS ANP
SHOES, the large*! ever brought to
Oils market. Tht*e good* came direct
from the Eastern manufactories, and will be sold to
Country Me. chant* and the Trade at New York pri-es.
expense* added, consisting of Men’*. Boys’, Youth*’,
and Children’* Wax. Kip, Calf snd Buff Brogan* and
Balmora •—Boots of all styles, thick, wax, kip, calf,
and of the finest qualities Ladies’, M'*»e*\ and C'hll
dren*’ Boot* ami Shoe*, of every style, and all made to
order. O. H. FOKCK.
B. W. FORCE, formerly of Charleston, will be glad
to see his old cueiomer*.
Oct. 10. ly
blacxsmzthingT
o
S&»i 11. GOODS®
Having competed their new
S' l op, adjoining Strange’s Tin (Shop, on
West side of Railroad, Cartersville, G:«., are
prepared to do ALL KINDS OF WORK in
the BKAOKS.MITHING Line. 'They flatter
themselves that they ran do as good work,
and at a* low piiee, a* any like establishment
in town. They ask a reasonable share of the
pumic patronage, ano promise satistartion ootn
in the character of their work and the rea
sonableness of their charges.
A. Ac M. GOODSON,
Cartersville, Ga.
Jan. 31, 18f>8. wly.
V. R. TQMMEY, J. S. STEWART,
Ncwto.j Cos., Ga. Oxford. Ga. |
TOMMEY k STEWART.
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
HARDWARE,
At the Sign of tho
MILL SAW an<! GAME COCK,
Whitehall Street, Atlanta, G a.,
KEBFEOTFULLY call the attention of Merchants
and ~'teii to their LAUGH AND WELL ASSORT
ED STOCK of
Foreign and Domestic Hardware,
Cansiating in part of
Iron, Steel, Nails.
Builders’ anil Carriage .Materials,
Agricultural Implements,
Grain Cradles,
Svtlie Blades,
Tools of all kinds, Sir., Si c.
ALSO,
LEATHER, LIME AND COTTON YARNS.
AGENTS FOR
Hook’s Anti-Friction Metal.
Baugh’s Raw bone Super-Phosphate of
Lime,
Buffalo Scale Works,
Nonpareil Washing Machines.
PROPRIETORS AND AGENTS FOR
l)rook> Patent Portable Cot
ton and llay Screw and
evolving Press,
In over one hundred Counties in Georgin '
County Right * for
June 5 ly
Errors of Youth.
A Gentleman who suffered for year* trom
Nervous Debility, Premature Decay, and all
the effect# of youthful indiscretion, will, for the
sake of suffeiing humanity, send free, to all
who need it, the rec',te and direction# for
making the simple remedy bv which he wax
cured. Sufferer# wishing to profit by the
advertiser’# experience, can do so by address'
ing, in perfect confidence.
JOHN B. OGDEN,
42 Cedar Bt., N. York.
Steam Jftanufaetory.
Planeing, Sawing and Matching.
GRIST-MILL.
Sash Blind and Door
MANTJFAOTOR/Y.
SUCH tft MC£LR£ATH.
IiUE aN>v* firm ar# harpy to announc# to the public
generally that, having got their steam machinery
to #acce»*fi.l operation, they are prepared to Plano,
Saw, Tongue and Groove, at and to contract to Build
Houses, and do nearly all kinds of Wood Work, and
guarantee satisfaction in all contract* we make, both
At io Urn# ad the character of our work. Our ma
chinery, being propelled by steam, enabht us to do
#orfc with great rapidity, and, consequently, at very
low figu'ea. Having a Steam haw Mill near Carters-
I vlile, wh Jr# we have our ow.i lumber tawed In connec
tion will, our »t«atu manufactory at this place, we flat
ter oureelvee that we can do work quicker and cheaper
than say othercootractor* in North Georgia.
We are also prepared to grind corn, and will have
onr Wheat Mt'i ready to grind wheat by harvest time.
Our mtil and machinery is oa tiie old lite of the late
Magnolia Srasas Merchant Mill* Cartersville, G*.
April S9, 189* »ts
CARTERSVILLE, BARTOW COUNTY, GA.. AUGUST 14, 1868.
j PIANO FORTES!
ifllHE undersigned would announce to tlie
J citizens of Cartersville and vicinity that
h« ia fully pc pared to furnish
PIANO FORTES,
jTTlfl 7or 7 1-3 Jj cjj
OCTAVES, with ail the very latest improve
j ments, and most elegant style and workman
ship, one hundred dollars less than they can
he purchased elsewhere south. They will be
fully warranted.
Piano* Tuned and Repaired,
In the very best manner, and all work warrant
ed, and Khali be pleased to give all orders
prompt attention.
MR. S. T. ANDERSON will kindly give
further information at present, and deliver any
orders, or vou can address, bv mail,
F. L.'PREYEK,
Kennexaw House, Marietta, Ga.
He la also agent for the sale of all kinds ot
> ORGANS. Jan. 25. wtf
TO THE LADIES.
Imam m~wmi
PREMIUM FAMILY
SEWING MACHINES,
FJ3HE best Machine for every description of
J Family-sewing made.
( all and examine Machine and specimen of
work over 3. Clayton & .Son’s store, Carters
ville, Ga. S. H. PATTILLO,
Agent for Bartow county.
Dec. 13, 1867. ts
-J' Aavc icntotietA ttty AAT/ocA
OF
DRUGS, &c.,
jftotn /Ate 4 foie loom iinfAel /Ate
BARTOW HOUSE,
un </ am note* Aocu/etA on
Miiin Ntrcet,
fte.vA cAooi /o
GILBERT &CO HARDWARE HOUSE.
«=-AAy a/Zcn/ton rd
ytvett so /Ac ny o^-
medioines,
ant/ ft m Jc/Any ft AA fti *
ZtcZed tit my Aire, jttcAt a-i
MEDICINES, OIL,
PAINTS, GLASS, &C.,
AS C H R A r
tr«l can Ate cA/Ate •Same
yttaAtZy cAjcto/tclc. ajA
ccZjAff AAy Jo Act/ a coftZr/ire
ancc
.- A Atavc tcccivccA.
«T. F. BEST, M. D.,
Druggist and Pharmaceutist,
Feb. 7, 1868. wly Cartersville Ga-
SADDLBRY~AND HARNESS
f&pem K
MANUFACTORY.
TW3HE undersigned, determined to give the
JL jtcople of Bartow and adjoining counties
no excuse for goin«- abroad to purchase their
SADDLES, BRIDLES, HARNESS, &C.,
and for repairing the same, have opened, in
the town of Cartersville, a regular
Saddle and Harness
MANUFACTORY,
where they propose to put up everything in
their line in the neatest, most substantia! and
durable mannor, and at priced that will
defy competition. They flattertbem
selves that they ran and will do work, which,
in every respect, will compare favorably with
any work done North or South, both In
quality and price. Let no one ig
nore our work because >'t ia done in the South,
nor our pi ices, before giving us a tiiai, for that
is all we ask to secure trade. Our work is sll
warranted, and that is a sufficient guar
antee to purchasers. We are determined to
build up a name and business in Cartersville
that will be a heritage to our children after
u», if prompt attention, good work, and mode
tate charges will secure that end. Rooms in
the front of the Eclipse Hale and Livery Stable.
THOMPSON & STOCKS.
Cartersville, Ga.
Jan. 7. JB6B. wly
JORDAN, HOWARD & HARRALSON,
TOBACCO
Commission Merchants,
Whitehall Street,
AHA NT A, GEORGIA,
Keep consta’ itly on hand, a large
and fine Assortment of CHEW
ING and SMOKING TO
BACCO, CIGARS, &c., which
we offer at the Lowest Whole
sale prices.
June 10, 1868. wtf
SMITH & RICHMOND,
Wholesale Tobacco
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Alabama Street, Atlanta, Ga.
'PROMPT Attention given to filling orders and the
A of Merchandise. Produce, etc.
March K. «6m
NEW
GOODS.
*■
& heap
GOODS!
AT
Loewenstein
S'
P.f e ifer ’ s .
\TTE ARE NOW OFFERING a Sp’en-
W did WELL SELECTED STOCK of
DRY-GOOPS,
BOOTS. SHOES, HATS. CLOTHING.
GROCERIES, ETC., ETC., ETC.
WE WILL CONTINUE TO RECEIVE
GOODS of ALL DESCRIPTIONS DAILY,
AND WOULD RESPECTFULLY SAY
TO BUYERS COMING TO THIS PLACE
THA I WE CAN SHOW NEW GOODS
WHICH WE GUARANTEE CAN BE
BOUGHT AT LESS THAN ANY PLACE
IN THIS MARKET.
Call and see Us,
and convince
yourselves.
Remember the
m UNDER COURT HOUSE,
/JtilCUk EAST SIDE RAILROAD.
LOEWENSTEIN k PFEIFER.
Cartersville , Ga.
May 14, 1868.
• To Consumptive*.
Th* Rev. EDWARD A. WILBON will »#d<l, free of
charge, to all who desire it, the prescription with the
direction* for making and using the simple remedy by
which he was cured of a lnng affection and that dread
disease Consumotion. His only object ie to benefit
the afflicted, and he hopes every sufferer will tiy this
prescription, as It will cost them nothing, and may
prove a Messing. Please address
Rev. EDWARD A. WILSOH,
No. 165 South Fecond St., WllHamshurg, V. York.
The Only Gcnlleman.
BY PAULINE FORSYTH.
“Adhesive plaster. Miss Wilson?
Wpre you asking me fit adhesive plas
ter ? asked Clara Stuni.ope. glancing
carelessly at a young girl, who was
making loud lamentations over an al
most imperceptible cut in one of her
pretty white lingers.
“ \ es ; have you any in your work
box, Miss Stanhope?
“No, my work-box is not a medicine
chest ; but here is Lieutenant Grey ;
he would do very well. He possesses
all the qualities of the best adhesive
plaster; it is almost impossible to get
rid of him.” And the spoiled beauty
ended her rude speech with a clear and
ringing laugh.
Miss W ilson looked amazed, and
the poor lieutenant •»{ marines, alter
trying in vain to join in Miss Stan
hope’s merriment, walked away.
“ 1 hat is the seventh gentleman vou
have offended mortally within the last
lour weeks,” said Mrs. Lee.
“ But Mr. Grey is so dreadfully
tiresome, Mrs. Lee, he wore out my
patience long ago. Since 1 came he
iias dune nothing hut keep up a perpe
tual smiling and bowing at everything
I said. Wherever I turned. 1 saw him,
and no mailer to whom I spoke, he
answered. 1 could not endure it a
moment longer ; and, besides, 1 confess,
it is a great pleasure to me to say a
culting thing to conceited people.”
“You should remember, though,
what Sheridan saj s : • Let your wit be
as keen as your sword, but as polished
too.’ That latter epithet would hardly
apply to all your severe remarks.”
“Oh, Mrs. Lee! who expects polish
in a Western girl? That would be
‘gilding retined gold.’” And Clara
Stanhope laughed proudly.
“ People ol a family like ours,” said
Mrs. Stanhope, coming to her daugh
ter’s assistance, “are shove the con
ventionalities that ordinary prisons
hedge themselves about with. We are
related to many of the noble families
of England ; among others, to ihe Duke
of Rutland ; my mother was a Manners,
and on iny husband’s side, the Duke
of Northumberland is a relative of
ours; and I have lately d.scovcred
that Robert Bruce was an ancestor of
mine in a direct line. Our progenitors
were people of consequence when they
first came to this country ; and there
never has been a time when they did
not rar.k with the first families.”
“ Then 1 suppose we must pav you
infinite respect,” said Mrs. Lee, “as:
America, who have not only oncf i.1.” j
two grandfathers. 4 Honor to whom
honor is due.’ But, still, l think if
Miss Stanhope would only consider
the feelings of these gentlemen —”
“Gentlemen!” interrupted Mrs.
Sanhope, with her usual impetuosity. I
“ Do you call these persons about here
gentlemen? Accoiding to rnv under
standing of that much perverted word,
there is but one gentleman in the
house.”
“ And who may he he ?” asked Mrs.
Lee, who, being a widow, did not feel
herself called upon »o resent this sweep
ing denunciation.
“ l do not know’ his name, but he is
that tall, elegant looking man who sits
just opposite me at table.”
“What, the one who comes in and
goes out without addressing a word to
any one—who is so exquisitely parti
cular in his dress, and in w hatever he
deigns to eat or drink—makes a great j
parade about his wine and all the lutle j
etceteras, and gives the waiters more j
trouble than any other ten persons?” j
“ I have not observed all that,” said >
Clara ; “ but I must say, he is my
beau ideal of a high-bred gentleman.”
“And I must say, my dear, that I
think you will find out before long that
you have made a great mistake.”
“Do you know anything about him ?”
“Only that he gave his name as
Ma nners, when he took a room here.”
“Manners!” exclaimed Mrs. Stan
hope ; “perhaps he is a relation of the
Duke of Rutland. I v/il! ask him to
day.”
“ But, mamma, you do not know
him,” said Clara.
“I will introduce myself to him,”
said Mrs. Stanhope. “People of a
family like ours can take such liberties
without being misinterpreted.”
This conversation took place in the
drawing-room of one of the largest and
most fashionable hoarding houses ol
New York, where people prided them
selves on their exclusiveness, and fan
cied that they added greatly to their
own importance by refusing to recog
nize those who sat each day beside
them, if they did not chance to be
members of their own circle. Mrs.
Stanhope was a lady of some w’ealtli,
from one of the western cities, who had
come with her daughter to New York,
that she might see a little more of the
world than she could at home.
Clara Stanhope was a remarkably
fine-looking girl, with a spirited, dash
ing, and even daring look and manner;
always cool and unembarrassed, even
when she was saving the most nston
lshing things ; and with a laugh whose
clear and silvery melody, somewhat
loud though it was, often beguiled those
who were suffering from her merciless
sarcasm into joining her merriment.
Mrs. Stanhope, panoplied by her
reliance on her “ family,” graciously
condescended to take the initiative in
making the acquaintance of her vis-a
vis at table.
“ Might she ask, ** she said, with a
bow as stately as that of any Castillian
dame, “ if lie were of the same family
as the Duke ot Rutland ?”
With an equally stately b.vw, and a
calm indifference of manner that show-
|od him to lie a true-born aristocrat.
Mr. Ma nners replied in the affirma
tive.
“Then I must claim vou as a rela
tive.” Mrs. Stanhope continued, with
an air as though she were conferring
an immense favor; “for we are also of
that illustrious house.”
Mr. Manneis merely bowed ; the
favor was received, as unrequested
gifts often are, as though the accept
ance was somewhat of an infliction.
But tins indifference only heightened
the admiration ot Mrs. Stanhope and
her daughter. If he had courted them,
they might have treated him with their
usual haughtiness; hut keeping them
as he did in the position he first as
sumed, as applicants for his notice,
they showed him, underneath their
accustomed arrogance, a constant de
ference and attention.
“I am happy to have found relatives
in this part of the world, where I
thought I had none,” said the gentle
man, as fie arose from the table, with a
languid air, as though he felt it incum
bent on him to say something, but.
thought it quite a bore.
“ Wliata coxcomb !” said one gen
tleman to another.
“ This part of the world—he must
he an Englishman—an English gentle
man of course ; perhaps a nobleman,
who has dropped his title while travell
ing in this democratic country,” said
Mrs. Stanhope to her daughter.
As days passed by, Mr. Manners re
laxed somewhat from his cold abstrac
tion of manner, and condescended to
converse. It was evident that G’lara
Stanhope felt more pleased by his at
tentions. few and slight as tLey were,
than she cared to confess. 'File casual
remarks he dropped influenced her
strangely. Her laugh, that had once
been the music of the house, tinging
through the drawing-room, the halls,
and dining-room with its outburst ol
exuberant pride and joyousness, grew
stiil end hushed, replaced by a tranquil
smile. The change began on the verv
day that Mr. Manners had made the
remark, that “no woman with a loud
laugh could ever claim to he considered
a lady.”
The gentleman evidently was not
aware that his words contained any
peisona! allusion. Several other sav
ings of his had great tfleci on the un
restrained manners of Clara Stanhope.
She was fast becoming subdued and
quiet, and even gentle. But this trans
formation could not take place without
being commented on, and the cause ol
it closely scrutinized. Thanks to her
severe speeches, she had not a friend in
the house, but many watchful and criti
“l beYVeve ffial IVliss Nt mlmpp is ir> !
love with that Mr. Manners” said Mr.
Grey.
“Do you know who he is?” asked
one gentleman.
All answere in the negative,and t!#n
commenced a general discussion and
conjecturing. It was late in the even
ing ; the ladies had all retired ; the
gentlemen still lingered, wasting more
than an hour in fruitless surmising?.—
The only fact that was clearly estab
lished was that there was some mys
tery connected with Mr. Manners.
When ladies gossip, there is a vague
uncertaincy in their utterances. There]
are innuendoes, .hints, wise looks,
compressings of the lips, and shakings
of the head; but all these amount to
but little ; the world needs something
definite to rest on, arYd so it shuts its
eyes resolutely against the cloud of
smoke, and if the fire is well hidden
takes no heed of it.
But when the sterner portion of the
race put their wise heads together, and
they are not so slow to do it as they
would like us to believe, something
crimes of it. From that evening’s dis
cussion there sprang up, in the minds
of two or three ol the gentlemen, all ol
them the victim* of Miss Stanhope’s
beauty and her raillery, a determina
tion to penetrate the veil with which
Mr. Manners had enveloped himself.
An old lady from the country, who
lived in the house, tiarl expressed a
wish to know “ what that gentleman
did for a living ; for her part, she never
felt easy about foikstil! she knew vvliat
their business was,” The lofty scorn
with which Mrs. Stanhope repelled the
idea of its being necessary tor a gentle
man to do anything for a living quite
subdued the old lady.
“I only meant,” said she, “that I
have always noticed that those that did
not follow any business, but lived, no
body knows how, were disrespectable,
generally speaking. ”
“ Mr. Manners is nn English gentle
man, ” said Mrs. Stanhope.
“ Oh !” said the old lady ; and Mrs.
Stanhope looked upon tin* matter as
settled, though it would have been hard
for her to tell how she had made it
out.
The point which the gentlemen were
bent on discovering was the same as
that about which the old lady had ex
pressed such curiosity. One of the in
vestigators was a lawyer, a keen,
shrewd man, one whom nature and
practice had both combined to make a
“ detective ”of the first order. In two
or three days, Mr. Hilliard, for that
was his name, said to Mr. Grey :
“ I have discovered one thing. Mr.
Ma nners has some regular occupation.
His very air betrays that as you meet
him in the street; and no gentleman of
leisure would come in and go out as
regular as lie does.”
“ While I was reading the paper, this
morning, I was struck by a remarkable
coincidence,” said Mr. Hilliard, about
a week afterwords, to the same gentle
man.
Mr. Grey opened his eyes wide ; for,
though he had hy no means Mr. Hill
iard’s capability of seeing through a
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! millstone, even when it hail no hole in
it, he appreciated all the more highly
• his friend's powers.
“ I observed, ” continued Mr. Hill -
i iard. “that Mr. Manners’* engagements
—you know lie is engaied three or
'our evenings in the week to the sash
ionahle parties ot the season, Mrs.
Stanhope thinks ; —well, his engage
ments all occur on the nights when
| the Ethiopian Band give their concerts:
! tind r.lso ’ —Mr. Grey was opening his
I eyes wider every minute—“ ami also,
! : 't the time when Mr. Manners went
; on a little trip to Philadelphia, to see
; the city, he said, the band must have
gone and returned in the same train."
Here Mr. Grey shut his eves—a re
| action consequent upon their having
been so long strained to their utmost
limits of expansion.
•• Grey, suppose we go to hear (lie
Ethiopian Band to-night? They
said to he very line singers in their
way,” suggested Mr. Hilliard.
Mr. Grey consented, and they were
soon seated in a corner of the concert
room, where they could see without
being themselves seen. When the
troop, seven men, with their faces
blackened and dressed ala Afrtca-
A-mcrica, appeared, they scrutinized
them closely. Three of them were in
height and figure very much like Mr
Manners, hut so well disguised were
they that it was impossible for even
Mr. Hilliard to decide which one of
the three, or whether any one bore anv
tesemblarce to the gentleman in whom
they were so much interested. Mr.
Grey, after having fixed upon each
member of the troop in succession as
the individual in question, at last gave
up in despair.
The first part of the concert was
over. Amid outbursts of applause, the
singers turned to leave the stage for a
lew minutes.
“ Look, Grey, look at the man with
t' e tambourine. There he is the
gentleman himself!”
Few people think of disguising their
hacks ; perhaps it would not lie so easy
to do it ; ands« Mr. Manners was dis
covered. 'Die secret he had so care
fully kept was his no longer. No one
who has not tried it can tell how hard
it is to keep a secret in this age of the
world.
If Mr. Manners was especially satis
lied with anything that belonged to
himself, it was with his walk and bear
ing; erect, stiff, and somewhat pomp
ous. That betrayed him.
“There goes the only gentleman
Miss Stanhope has s'‘en in the whole
city of New York, which she calls an
immense city of plebeians.” And Mr.
fnSfty "' :,u - f
“ She must see him in his glory,”
said Mr. Ililliard.
But Mrs. and Miss Stanhope reject
ed with scorn the idea ot mingling with
the crowd of undistinguished common
era, to listen to such low and base-born
melodies.
“ I would not go nor allow mv
daughter to attend such a place. Not
a fit place for ladies, Mr. Manners
says,” said Mrs. Stanhope.
Fortune favored Mr. Hilliard's pur
poses. The very evening alter making
this assertion, Mrs. Montgomery Fan
shaw, the star and cynosure of the
fashionable world, stopped in her car
riage on Iter way to hear the Ethiopian
Band. She had been persuaded, she
said, into making up a party for that
purpose, and wished to know if Mrs.
and Miss Stanhope would join them.
It was a kind of amusement particu
larly agreeable to the young lady, who
enjoyed a regular frolic far more than
any staid and proper recreation. She
openly expressed a desire to accompa
ny Mrs. Fanshaw*; her mother hesita
ted, glanced round the room ; then re
membered that Mr. Manners had left a
little while before, pleading an engage
ment lor the evening; Mrs. Fat sltaw
was almost a stranger to her ; she was
very anxious to turn their slight ac
quaintance into N an intimacy—and
therefore she ended by consenting.
Os course, Mrs. Fanshaw, with her
party, occupied the most conrpicuous
places in the concert'room. After the
fiist haU'hour had nearly passed, during
a short pause in the singing. Miss Stan
hope heard herself addressed. Turning
her head, she found that Mr. Hilliard
and Mr. Grey were sitting behind tier.
A few remarks passed—criticisms on
the singers, the audience, and the
crowd ; and Mr. Ililliard said
“I wish Miss Stanhope, you would
observe the man witli the tambourine.
Notice him as he goes off the stage.
He reminds me very much of Mr. Man
ners.”
“ Compare Mr. Manners to an Ethi
opian serenader !” said Miss Stanhope,
with her scornful smile.
However, her attention, once turned
in that way, found so much to interest
and perplex, that she could notice noth
ing else. When he turned from the
audience, the conviction flashed upon
her that the tambourine player was Mr.
Manners, and no one else. Onegl .nee
at Mr. Ililliard revealed to him that
the discovery was made. He saw a
long whispering conversation between
the mother and daughter. Mrs. Stan
hope evidently lefused to believe the
story.
“All your imagination, my dear,”
she said at last.
But, before the evenirg was over, she
too was forced to perceive the truth of
her daughter’s discovery. She could
hardly command herself sufficiently to
sit through the remainder of the con
cert. Her very dress seemed to share
tier indignation, and shook and rustled
incessantly.
It was no difficult matter for Mr.
banners to discover, when they met
at breakfast the next morning, that he
had been recognized. He was treated
with cold disdain by both la.li'-s. Si
lent contempt was Mrs. Stanhope's
lorle, and she impressed the propriety
of the same couise of action on her
daughter. But Clara Stanhope belong
ed to the class of demonstrative young
ladies. The impulse to speak was too
strong to he resisted.
•• 1 was delighted with (he concert
last evening, Mr. Manners,” said she;
“ von acted your part moat inimitably.
You have not mistaken your vocation,
evidently.”
“Thank you, Miss Stanhope; your
appreciation of my poor efforts gives
me great pleasure. But, allow rne to
request you, in your approaching visit
to England, to say nothing to ovr cous
in,” with a provoking emphasis on the
our, “ the Duke of Rutland, of tnv
present employment. He might not
think it a suitable one fora member of
It is family.”
A saucy reply was trembling ori
Miss Stanhope's tongue, but, obedient
to a glance from her mother, she closed
her rosy lips over it, and finished her
meal in silence.
“ Manners, indeed!” said Mrs.
Stanhope, when they were again m
their own room. ** Clara, his name is
Boggs; Mr. Hilliard found it out.”
Written for the Democratic
( tub, Lumpkin, lin.
W«M flio| proud freedom’* b nner out.
Air Bonnie B/ut Fiag.”
We'll fling proud freedom’s banner out,
Unsullied and so fair;
We’ll swell the chorus and we’ll shout
Fur fSernour and for Blair.
We’l> fling proud freedom's banner out.
O’er land from sea to sea;
We’ll swell the chorus and we’ll about
We must again be free!
Hurrah, hurrah, for Seymour and for Blair.
W e’U fling proud freedom’s banner out, unsul
lied and so fair.
From Northern climes we hear the strain,
On Eastern hills the sound;
It rdl’h o’er every Southern plain,
And shakes the West around!
While tyrants there their tliroms upon,
Speak loud of people’s “ rights,”
We’ll push the car of freedom on—
Ui hold the Stars and Stripes.
Hurrah, hurrah, &.c.
Yes, onward roll her mighty powers.
’Twill never be too late
To bless this beauteous land of ours---
To save the ship of State.
And when the race is run and out,
O'er land from sea to sea,
We'll swell the chorus and we'll shout
That we again are free!
Hu.rah, hurrah, &c.
We'll then throw off th 'soldier’s shroud
I >f war—oppression’s sigh’s ;
We’il banish then the gloomy cloud
T at o’er the nation lies,
We’il fling proud freedom’s banner out,
Unsullied and so fair;
We'll swell the chorus and w ‘’ll shout
For Seymour and for B air.
Hurrah, hurrah, &c.
Force of Imagination.
A few year* ago a celebrated physi
cian. author of nn excellent work <»i>
add experimental to ’ Ills t'henn'tn nl
knowledge, made application to the
Minister of.lustice to he allowed an
opportunity of proving what he assert
ed by an experiment on a criminal
condemned to death. The Minister
complied with his request, and de
livered over to him an assassin—a man
who had been horn of distinguished
pari tils. The physician told him that
several persons who had taken an in
terest in his family had obtained leave
of the Minister tl«at he should suffer
death in some other way than on the
scaffold to avoid the disgrace of a pub
lick execution, and that the easiest
death he could die would be blood let
ting. The criminal agreed to the pro
posal, and counted himself happy in
being freed from the painful exhibition
he would otherwise have been made of,
and rejoiced at being thus enabled to
spare the feelings of his friends and
family. At the time appointed the
physician repaired to the prison, and
the patient having been extended on a
table, his eyes bound, and everything
being ready, he was slightly prizkej
near the principal veins ol the legs and
arms with the point of a pin. At the
four corners of the table were lour lit
tle fountains, filled with water, from
which issued small streams falling in
to the basins placed there to receive
them. The patient, thinking it was his
blood lha. trickled into to the basins,
became weaker and weaker by degrees,
and the remarks of the medical men in
attendance in reference to the quality
and appearance of the blood (made
with ill a t intention) increased the delu
sion. and he spoke more and more
faintly until I:is voice was at length
scarcely audible. The profound si
lence which reigned in the ? ppartmer.t,
and the constant dropping ol the foun
tain, had so extraordinary an eflert
upon the mind of the poor patient, thrt
nil his vital energies were soon gone,
although before a very strong man,
and he died without having lust a sin
gle drop of blood.— Ia Camelsttn.
“When will Thai! Stevens die?”
asks an exchange. “Never,” responds
Brick Pomeroy. “Likegooif old Elijah,
he will be translated, hut the whirl
wind that takes him will go down in
stead of up, and he will disappear so
quick that Beast Butler will nut have
time to steal his watch.
Doctor : “Well madam, how’s your
husband to-day !"
Wife : Why, doctor, he seems no bet
ter.”
Doctor : “Did you get the leeches ?”
Wife : “Yes ; but he only took th»ea
of them raw; I had to fry the rest!”
The Hancock Courier save : “A
widower was married in this place a
few days ago, at church, making a *hlg
splurge’ with a brass band. After the
interesting ceremony, the band strin g
up that old familiar air, “My wife’s
dead and I’ve got another one.” Ap
propriate.
