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About The Cartersville express. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1867-1870 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 4, 1868)
Till: WEEKLY {Sam Him Is published every FRIDAY MORNING, In Cartersville, Bartow Cos„ Ga.. by Sanmel TI. Smith, EDITOR and PROPRIETOR. Kale* of S«b,»!cris»l!on : /weinr three month*, #I.OO tIIK f |>V six months 2.00 One copy one year 3.00 ( Invariably in advance .) parties advertisin'? will be restricted in th'ir to th'ir leifitlmate business , that is to say, II advertisement, t.h«t do not ref-r to their regular business wdl he charged for extra. ►y Advertisements Inserted at Intervals to be chsreed new insertion, jy The above rules will be strictly adhered to. PROFESSIONAL CAROS. Removal. TUI LAW OKFICeJBI GEN. WM. T. WOFFORD ■ red Ml :,a . |. .-0 1 1 <.n on the Hill n-ar the Pre-byte'ian ChU'cb,to his New Building near the Railroad Depot. Aug. 14, 4563. 3m. TrTfTM. JOHN S0 N, Dentist, i 1 -PFCTFULLY offers Ills Professional n |\ ,Vrvire« to tlie cittsen* of Cartersville a l.l vicinity. He is prepared to do work on the latest and most Improved style. Teeth extract® 1 without pain, |by means of narcotic ; «nr»y ] W rk all warranted. OtH'*e over ■). Elsas' htore,CARTERSVILLE, Ga. Feb. 20,1305.—w5m JERE A. HOWARD. attorney and counsellor at law, CARTERSVILLE, ga. PRITCHETT & WOFFORD, Attorneys at Law. CARTERSVILLE, REOIIRI A. OFFICE OYER ELSAS’STORE, Oct. 17. 1867. THOMAS W. MILNER, Attorney at Law, : ARTERSVILLE. ’ GEORGIA. Will at’crul promptly to business entrusted to his care. Qct. ®* G JOHN J. JONES, Attorney at Law, Cartersville, C«a., llTilili attend promptly to all busi.iess en \V trusted to his care. Will practice in the Courts ot Law, and Equity in the Cherokee 4 ircuit. Special attention given to the collec ti in of claims. Jan. 1, F 866. ly JOHN J. JONES, REAL ESTATE ICIEST, CARTERSVILLE. GA. I sin authorized to eel!, and have on hand several houses and Lots. and also numerous building lots in the . wn of Cartersvil e. Alsoseveral plantations of vari „,IS siz s ill Bartow county. Parties desiring to bu- or sell will do well to ?ve luo a call. All communications promptly answered. July 17, 1866. MUEL43.EX.Ij & 88.0., RESIDENT DENTISTS. Office over S. Clayton & Son, CARTERS f-ILLE, GJ., Having permanently located here, and being provi ded with thu latest improvements In Dental Material, sre prepared to do anything pertaining Dental Sur gery. ALL WORK WARRANTED TO GIVE SATISFACTION. DR9. M. prepare a ‘'Superior Vegetable Tooth Powder,” guaranteed to contain nothing injurious to the teeth. EXCHANGE HOTEL, Gartersville, Ga.. BY BTJIOB Sc HILL. The undersigned have associated in business, and after refi ting and re-arranging that, COMMODIOUS HOUSE recently occupied by A. It. llu Igens as a Fain ily Grocery and Confectionery, on the EAST SIDE of the RAILROAD, near the late BARTOW HOUsE, have opened in the same a FIRST CLASS HOTEL, for the Entertainment of the TRAVELING PUBLIC, which will be kept upon the EUROPEAN PLAN.— Both parties are experienced In the Business, Mr. 11ILLL having be J 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, ('a'tersville, Ga., but mo. e recently of the Washington Hall, Atlanta, Ga. Mr. G o. W. Hill Is General Superintendent, and Mrs. Jinice, Lady Superintendent. BUICE & HILL. May 29.—8 m. S. H. PATILLO, FASHIONABLE TAILOR, YT7TH attend promptly to the Cutting, Repair- .* a ing and Making Boys’ and Men’s do tting. 0 hee in back roomof Blair «fc Bradshaw’s store. Cartersville, Ga. —> L J. H. PURTGLL, MERCHANT TAILOR, White Sfiail Atlanta, Ga. (CLOTHING made to order in the very J latest style, and at short uotice. Oct 25. ly 18(58. 1858. AMERICAN HOTEL, Alabama Street, .ITLJ.IT.I, Ga. Nearest House to the Passenger Depot. WHITE & WHITHOCK, Proprietors. W. R. Wiley, Clerk. HAVING re-leased and renovated the above Hotel, we are prepared to entertain guests in a most sat isfactory manner. Charges fair and moderate. Our efforts will be to please. GT" Baggage carried to and from Depot free of | sharge. April 29. wtf Gilbert's latest Improved Pa tent wifi A * rts, ANDREW ROBIN reipectful'y notifies Farmers of Cherokee Georgia, that he is now engaged in put ting up the above justly celebrated and deservedly popular _ WHEAT FANS, which are sail, by those who have used them, to be the best uow manufactured. As the harvest season is rspidly approaching , those wishing to purchase will send in their ordersat once. Cartersville, Ga., april 29,1863 wtf W-H. HOWARD & SONS, - General COMMISSION MERCHANTS. Alabama street, ATLANTA, GA. of all descriptions of Merchandise, Western and Country Produce THE CARTERSVILLE EXPRESS. VOL. 7. Georgia., Burlaw County. UfHEKEAS. Thomas A. Word, A ’minis'rator of the estate of John J. Word, decease t, applies to the undersigned for letters of dismiasion from his admin istration : Therefore, all persona c> n-’erned are hereby required to show cause, If any they have, why said administrator on the first Monday in next, should mot be discharged, Given under my hand, and seal of office, ttiis 14th of Mar, 1863. J. A. HOWARD, __ Ordinary. Georgia, Bartow County. \\J HERE AS, Thomas A. Word, administrator be W bonis non of the estate of George Stovall, de ceased, applies to me for letters of dismi-sion from hisadministration: Therefore, all persons concerned are hereby required to show cause, if any they have, why said administrator on the first Mo-day in De cember next should not he discharged. Given tinder my hand and seal of office, this 14th day of May, 4868. J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary. Georgia, Barton County. \yHF.KEAS, Th imas A. Word, administrator be boil’s ” non, of the estate of Thomas E. Franklin, deceased, applies to me for letters of dismission fr ,m his admin istration : Therefore, all j>er»t ns concerned are herehy required to show cause, if any thev have, why said administrator, on the first Monday in December next, should not be discharged. Given under my hand and seal of office, this 14 h of May. 1868. J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary. F. M. EJdleraan. C. 4. Brown. F. M. EODLEMAN & C 0., Wholesale Dealers In Boots, Shoes, Leather, French and American Calf Skins, LASTS, PEGS, LINING AND BINDING SIKLELTS, SIIOF. FINDINGS, AC.. AC. Next door to Moore A Marsh, Decatur Street, Atlanta, Ga. Shoe Manufacturers and Merchants will find It to their advantage to call on us before making ilieir purchases. A pril 29, 1868. wtf FORCE'S BOOT AND SHOE House, ATLANTA, GA., 19 now receiving their FAI.L and WINTER STOCK of BOOTS AND \ SHOES, the largest ever bronplit to j A this market. These goods came direct from tlie Eastern manufactories, and will be sold to Country Merchants and the Trade at New York prices, expenses added, consisting of Men’s, Boys’, Youths’, and Children’s Wax, Kip, Calf, and Bull Brogans and Balmora’s—Boots of all styles, thick, wax. kip, calf, and of the finest qualities Ladies’, Misses’, and Chil drens’ Boots and Shoes, of every style, and all made to order. O. H. FORCE. 11. W. FORCE, formerly of Charleston, will be glad to see his old cuslomers. Oct. 10. ly BLACKSMITHINa 2E A. & M. GOODSON. Having computed their new Shop, adjoining Strange’s Tin Shop, on West side of Railroad, Cartersville, Ga.,_are prepared to do ALL KINDS OF WORK in the BKACKSMITIIING Line. They flatter themselves that they can do as good work, and at as low pi ice, as any like establishment in town. They ask a reasonable share of the public patronage, and promise satisfaction both in the character of their work and the rea sonableness of their charges. A. & M. GOODSON, Cartersville, Ga. Jan. 31,1868. wly. V, R. TOMMEY, J. S. STEWART, Newto.i Cos., Ga. Oxford, Ga. TOMMEY & STEWART, IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN HARDWARE, At the Sign of the MILL SAW and GAME COCK, Whitehall Street, Atlanta, G a., TANARUS) EBPECTFULLY call the attention of Merchants 111 and others to their LARGE AND WELL ASSORT f:d stock of Foreign and Domestic Hardware, Consisting in part of Iron, Steel, Nails. Builders’and Carriage Materials, Agricultural Implements, Grain Cfttdles, Sythe Blades, Tools of all kinds, &e., &c. ALSO, LEATHER, LIME AND COTTON YARNS. AGENTS FOR Hook’s Anti-Friction Vlelal. Baugh’s Rawbone Super-Phosphate of Lime, Buffalo Scale Works, Nonpareil Washing Machines. PROPRIETORS AND AGENTS FOR Brook’s Patent Portable Cot ton am! Hay Screw and evolving: Press, In over one hundred Counties in Georgia ! County Rights for June 5 ly Errors of Youth. A Gentleman who suffered for years trom Nervous Debility, Premature Decay, and all ihe effects of youthful indiscretion, will, for the sake of suffeiing humanity, send free to ail who need it, the recipe and directions for making the simple remedy by which he was cured. Sulferers wishing to profit by the advertiser’s experience, can do so by address' ing, in perfect confidence. JOHN B. OGDEN, 42 Cedar St., N. York. Steam JtManufactory. Planeing, Sawing and Matching. GRIST-MILL. Sasii Blind and Door MAUriTPAGTOR'Y. SUCH & M c ELREATH. I,HK above firm are haj py to announce to the public generally that, having got their steam machinery in succersful operation, they are prepared to Plane, Saw, Tongue and Groove, a, and to contract to Build Houses, and do nearly all kinds of Wood Work, and guarantee satisfaction in all contracts we make, bo h as to time aid the character of our work. Our ma chinery. being propelled by steam, enables us to do work with great rapidity, and, consequently, at very low figures. Having a Steam Saw Mill near Carters ville, wh ire we have our ow.j lumber sawed in connec tion with our steam manufactory at this place, we flat ter ourselves that we can do work quicker and cheaper than any other contractors In North Georgia. We are also prepared to grind corn, and will have our Wheat Mill ready to grind wheat by harvest time. Our mill and machinery is on the old site of the late Magnolia Steam Merchant Mills, Cartersville, Ga April 29, 1863. wtf CARTERSVILLE, BARTOW COUNTY, GA.. SEPTEMBER 4.1808. PIANO fortes: riIHE undersigned would announce to the J citizens of Cartersville and vicinity th <t he is fully pepared to furnish PIANO FORTES, Wifi 7or 7 1-3 (mm! OCTAVES, with all the very latest improve ments, and most elegant style and workman ship, one hundred dollars less than they can be purchased elsewhere south. They will be fully warranted. Pianos Tuned and Repaired, In the very best manner, and all work warrant ed, and shall be pleased to give all orders prompt attention. MR. 8. T. ANDERSON will kindly give further information at present, and deliver any orders, or you can address, by mail, F. L. PREYER, Kennesaw House, Marietta. Ga. He : s also agent for the sale of all kinds ot ORGANS. Jan. 25. wtf TO THU LADIES. PREMIUM FAMILY SEWING MACHINES, rjMIE best Machine for every description of J Family-sewing made. Call and examine Machine and specimen of work over S. Clayton & Son’s store, Carters ville, Ga. S. H. PATTILLO, Agent for Bartow countv. Dec. 13, 1867. ts lISII#WJIIL =-/ y A rive lemovec/ my jy&cA OF DRUG S, &c., fiom A/tedAoiei out, itnc/el AAc BARTOW HOUSE, ant/ cun no w AocaActZ on Main Street, neceA c/00l Ao GILBERT &CO HARDWARE HOUSE. y jAici&onci/ciAAenAeon t-i ytven Ao A fie 3VH EDIOIUES, ftiicZ cun 4eZZmy azz flit r* ArcZc-X m my, Zinc > JfrcZi ad MEDICINES, OIL, PAINTS, GLASS, &C,, AS CHEAP ad can Ac o^Z ZZte dame yua/iAy eZieivActe. 4,c= AAy do Zfcit a conAcmi= a nee AZte ft erd A ZuncZnedd Aa ve Iccct vccZ. J. F. BEST, M. IX, Druggist and Pharmaceutist, Feb. 7, 1868, wly Cartersville Ga. SADDLERY AND HARNESS iM&NUFJUBTOBV. riIHE undersigned, determined to give the I people 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 prices that will defy competition. ~ They flattertßem selves that they can and will do work, which, in every respect, will compare favorably with any work done North or South, boiil ill <li:nlity and price. Let no one ig nore our work because it is done in the South, nor our pi ices, before giving us a ttial, for that is all we ask to secure trade. Our work is all 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 us, if prompt attention, good work, and. mode late, charges will secure that end. Rooms in thetront of the Eclipse Sale and Livery Stable. THOMPSON & STOCKS, Cartersville, Ga. Jan. 7. IBGB. wly JORDAN, HOWARD & HARRALSON, TOBACCO Commission Merchants, Whitehall Street, AIL ANT A, GEORGIA, Keep constantly 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, Ga. PROMPT attention given to filling orders and the of Merchandise. Produce, etc. March 26. wOm NEW GOODS. Cheap GOODS! AT Loe tv enstei n 4* Pfeifer’s. OO \H7E ARE NOW OFFERING a Sp’en- W did WELL SELECTED STOCK of ID IR, IT-G- OOPS) 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 THAI 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 y ourselves. Remember the Vftf sm.fSA* • UNDER COURT HOUSE, //f EAST SIDE~RAILROAD. LOEWENSTEIN \ PFEIFER. Cartersville, Ga. May 14, 1868. To €ou«umptlve«. The Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON will send, free of charge, to all who desire It, the prescription with the directions for making and using the simple remedy by which he was cured of a lung affection and that dread disease Consumption. His only object is to benefit the afflicted, and he hopes every sufferer will try thiß prescription, as it will cost them nothing, and may prove a blessing. Please address Rev. EDWARD A. WIDSON, No. 165 South Second St.. Williamsburg, N. York. Couldn't Afford to Marry. A STORY FOR MARRIAGEABLE YOUNG WOMEN. It was noticed among the friends of Mr. George Lane that, for some cause unknown to them, a sober hue had re cently fallen on his thoughts. l'he reason was inferred, and cor rctlv. Arrows from a pair of bright eyed had wounded him, end the pain found no abatement night or day.— Was the maiden coy or ufikind ? No— the maiden was familiar and lender. There was healing in the eyes that shot forth arrows. And the pain found no abatement night or day. None! George Lane was no blind lover, ready to risk all consequences in pursuit of any object— but a sensible young man who counted the cost. This was the reason of his trouble. Love is sweet, but life is a thing of sober earnest; and as George put the love and life together, taking things ns they were, lie could not see how love was to make any permanent sweetness. An intimate frieml. holding him by the hand one day, said : “ George, my dear fellow, what has come over you ? I don’t believe you have smiled for a month. Are you in love ?” “ Yes,” was the frank reply. “Aha! a sickness of the mind.— Well. I' rn triad to know that ii ie noth ing more neriouj,. Love wounds to heal. If, as the poet says, * Keen transport throbs thiough every vein,’ it is also true that we never know so sweet a pain. ’ ” “ There is no sweetness in my case,” said the young man. “ The pain was very sharp, and there was no soothing medicine tin the arrow point. “ Then tlie maiden is unkind ?” “ No.” “ She loves you in return ?” “It I have any okill in reading e) es.” “ What then ? Are her parents un willing ?” “I have never asked them.” “ You are a strange lovfer, to look so woe-begone. Where rests the trou ble?” “ There is much beyond love,” said Lane. “Yes.” “ Marriage and cost of living.” “ True, but you have a good salary. Has the young lady nothing?” “ She lias a father who is doing an excellent business ; but tlie family live at an expense which must cover, if not more than exhaust, all the profits.” “ Who is this young lady? I will not betray your confidence.” “ The youngest daughter of Abraham West.” “Hardware merchant?” “ Tlie same.” “I know her, and a sweet little girl is Nellie West. Why, George, she is the very one for you. And you have found favor in her eyes. I congratulate you.” “ You needn’t then,” was the sober laced reply of Lane, “ for I am not witless enough to bare my neck to the halter of matrimony, if the act is to bind me to a perpetual serfdom.” “ What do you mean ?” “ Simply, that the manner in which Mr. West has raised his daughters un fits them for the position ol wives of young men in mv condition. They have the education, the tastes, and the accomplishments vve desire and must have ; but their habits and expectations are fatal dowries for any poor young man to accept. They have no fortune to bring their husbands, and yet must be supported in comparative elegance. The idea of useful employment does not seem to have entered their minds. Work, in their minds, involves some thing of degredatioa. Ah, well I must dismiss a fond illusion, that was sweet while it lasted. 1 shall go no further in I his direction. Some other man, bolder, or less inclined to count the cost, must win consent from a heart it would be a life-long happiness to call my own.” “ Nonsense, George,” replied his friend. “If the young lady really loves you, she will adapt herself to your circumstances. Nellie is a charming girl. Press your suit, and after gaining her consent, talk over life's sober real ities with her. She has sense and right feeling, and will readily comprehend how much of happiness is involved in your prudential ideas. A woman who loves a man well enough to marry him, will cheerfully accommodate herself to his circumstances.” “ Accommodate !” exclaimed tlie young man, curling his lips, “ I don’t like the word; it hurts my pride,” “ Pride is never a good counsellor, friend George.” “My manhood, then. It hurts my manhood. A young woman without a dollar in the world, ‘accommodate’ herself to the circumstances of a young mail whose income is twelve hundred a year! You can’t reconcile me to the case under that plea. My manliness, pride, self-love, or self-esteem —as you will—revolts against the humiliation. No, no—George Lane h?s independ ence as well as prudence, and thinks their counsels worth heeding.” “ While I think,” answered the friend “that George Lane is a little too high strung for the case under cosideration. I know Nellie very well, and think het a sensible girl. True, the way her parents have conducted her home edu cation is not favorable to just views of life ; but love is clear-sighted and strong hearted. Take her out of her present false relation to society, and she will make you, I am sure, a good wife in every respect,” “ No, sir,’ was firmly answered.— i “ Even as I talk with you, and listen to what you say, I grow more resolute in purpose to recede from a dangerous position. If Nellie was alone in the world, I might act differently. But look at the case as it stands, and sen what risks are involved. There are two other sisters, both married ; and their husband’s noses, to use a homely phrase, are well down upon the grind stone, and likely to remain there.— Already both have gone through the j ordeal ol a iall in business—and no wonder. “ Not being able as clerks to maintain their domestic establishments, they were foolish enough to set up. in imi tation of other people as silly as them selves ; they must have stores ol their own, from the income of which they drew with such unscrupulous hands, that more than all the profits were_ consumed in costly living.” “Somehow or other, in their break down, they have managed to keep their fine furniture and houses, and still live before the w'orld in what to me is shameless extravagance. Both are clerks again—but how they manage to keep up appearances as they do, passes my comprehension. 1 have met their wives a lew times at Mr. West’s, and they hold their heads as high as queens. lam nobody in their estimation ! Why the jewelry, lace, and other showy things they flaunt in people’s eves so shamelessly —soring that somebody besides their husbands have oaid for them—cost more than a third of nay year’s salary.” “ But you have nothing to do with these ladies,” interposed his friend. “'True, and 1 don’t mean to have anything to do with them. But tlie case would have another hearing, were l a brother-in-law. I would have their bad influences operating on my wife. She must have as costly outfitting a-* they. She must have as fine a house in which to live, and as fine furniture to display to her friends, and mv nose must come down to a grindstone, like the noses of their unfortunate husbands. I’ve gone over the matter twenty times or more and can see it no different. It won’t do, and there is no use in trying to harmonize things that are utterly incongruous. “ 'Take another view. Suppose Nel lie came into my view of these things, and turned herself avvav from these allurements. Suppose vve. like sensi ble people, live below our income, and set ourselves to make provision for a time when expenses would be greater. I would gradually accumulate, set up business, perhaps, and raise into a po sition of some influence in tlie way of money matters. Then I must consent to be ruined, or written down as a mi ser or a churl by the whole family.— Papa lives on the extension principle, just making both ends meet, as 1 infer. Well, tight times comes every now and then. He has lailed once in life, and may failagain. When the strain equals the resistance, a slight increase of force snaps shafts of timber. If papa gets in trouble, and son-in-law is all right, son in-law must go to the rescue, sink or swim. It won’t answer, you see.— I’ve counted the cost, and think it too great —have looked over the hedge be fore leaping, and am afraid of the ditch on the other side.” “ I see how it is,” answered bis friend, “you have large caution.” “ Am I r.ot right ?” “ Perhaps so. But lovers, whose hearts are as much interested as yours seems to be, are not apt to throw pru dential reasons of this character in the way of their happiness. 'They are usually inclined to lake counsel of love alone.” “1 have seen pictures ot love blind folded, but 1 think love a false god.” “ As you will,” said the friend. — “ But this I know : if my heart was interested in Nellie, 1 would never abandon her on the plea that you have advanced ; at least not before I was well assured that the false life, which, by a kind of domestic necessity, she has thus far led, had so far fostered pride and vanity as to deprave her understand ing. Be assured, my dear George, that in this you sin, not against your own heart, but the maiden’s.” “ I spent an evening with her last week,” replied he. “ I went with mv mind more than half made up to let my lips betray my feelings. It so happen ed that she wts not alone. A young lady was her guest; a very spright ly, outspoken, critical, rather sharp tongued girl of eighteen or twenty — smart enough for twenty, and thought less enough for sixteen. People and things were talked about with a flippan cy and freedom neither charitable nor delicate. Among other subjects, the marriage of a friend came under dis cussion, and the vveil or ill chances of the case were settled in a manner that made my cheek burn! “ I never thought Amy the simpleton to get married in that mean sort of way,” remarked the young lady.— ‘ She must have wanted a husband ! : If a man cannot do better by one than that. I’d advise him to give my door a wide berth.” “ Nellie laughed at her friend, and returned a few assenting remarks that stung me to the quick. The present of a ring by the young husband, was remarked upon. Nellie said it was an emerald, but her friend pronounced it i green glass, adding that nothing but a diamond would have suited her ideas. I waited in uncomfortable suspense for Nellie's response. It came in these words: ‘Nothing but diamonds for me !* ” “Thoughtlessly said, George,” re marked his friend. “You take too | seriously the light speeches of girls, who, often talk without thinking.” NO. ]]. “If it was jesting,” answered Lane, “ the subject was unfortunate at the time. But this was not all. My ears were quick; ami I took in every inflec tion ol voice. Nellie said many other things connected with the subject ol the young friend’s marriage to a poor young.man who could not afford her a respectable place in society, that it would be folly for me to forget. When l left her house that evening I drew a vail over her image in my heart, and I have tried not to lift that vail since. I’he pain it is costing me I have not been entirely able to conceal, as is perceived by observation of a change in my appearance. But I am strong enough to do what reason tells me is right. No word or intimation of what was in my heart have I passed to the young lady, so that I can turn from her without dishonor. Heaven send her a happy lot in life.” The voice of George Lane faltered a little on the closing sentence. He was fully in earnest, as shown by his sub sequent conduct. More deeply than he had imagined was the heart of Nel lie interested, as her pale face, dreamy eyes and quiet manner long afterwards witnessed. But he did not return. — Two years after that she married, be ginning life with a young husband just in business, who drew from his light capital two thousand dollars to furnish his house in style suited to the social grade in which she had been moving. In three years, extravagant living Had consumed more than all he was worth, and under the pressure of a “ tight money market” had failed and was sold out by the sheriff, Nellie being forced to go back with her two children to her father's house. The husband in a fit of desperation, went off to Cal ifornia, and died from sickness and ex posure among the mines. In Mte meantime, George Lane, who could never obliterate Nellie’s image from his heart, continued to live a sin gle life. He was now in business, and gradually accumulated property. The death of her husband, and in a few months afterward the death of her father, awakened anew bis interest. He knew she was poor and dependent; and lie learned, incidentally, with pain, that since her father’s death she was living in the house of a brother-in-law, who was not able to support his family,— That one still dear to him should be thus dependent, and, as he felt humili ated, hurt the young man, He could not bear the thought, and began turning over in his mind one suggestion after another, looking to her relief. But licro c-uiisiJcralivrus of delicacy and propriety were in the way. lie felt that he could do nothing. One morning lie met her in the street. He was walking with his eyes on the pavement, thinking of Nellie, when, looking up suddenly, he saw her at a distance approaching. She was poorly clad, and had a bundle on her arm. which Lane recognized at a glance as work from a clothing store. Their eyes met and rested on each other. Lane made a motion as if about to speak ; Nellie dropped her vail over Iter face and moved on with a quicker pace. Ere the vail lell he saw an ex pression in her eyes and on her wasted countenance, that filled his heart witli the tcnderest and saddest feelings.— What history of suffering was revealed ! The rest need not be told. If Nellie lost her lover when skies were bright, she found him when the rain was falling into the dark days of her life, and when painful experience had made her vision clear. On the lover's conduct in turning from Nellie ill her sunny days, we give no opinion. We only record the fact and give the reason. Inferences and opinions are with the reader —and the lesson also. " LATOXA. A Delightful Letter. [Special Correspondence Louisville Courier.] Evansville, Ind., Aug. 10. My Dear Courier, —“All the world is a steamboat!” his Shakspcarean ex cellency “Will of Avon,” would have said if lie had lived in these days in which the genius of Fulton has peopled our rivers with moving palaces, which walk the waters “like things of life.” But the author of Lear did not say as much, which goes to prove that he himself was a “slow coach,” while we of the Fultonian age guided swiftly onwardly by the “Morning Star” of progression. Having set sail under such favorable breezes blowing, there was little ques tion we should salely reach the port; though, be it confessed, there was little of the “Huzza Hodgeson” exultation in my thoughts. As I sat upon the broad guard in the fall of the golden eventime, my heart filled with tender est regret for that which I was leaving, confused with a pleasing anticipation of that which l should meet, I scarcely heeded the summons to tea, which came as the material is ever breaking in upon the immaterial in this checker ed life of ours. Owen Meredith is right— “ Where is the man who can live without din ing 1” And who could resist the charms of Frederick Hartman, the kind-hearted steward, who treated us rather as guests than as passengers. The very stores of his larder were poured out upon us, under the supervision of Captain Holcroft, The coffee w r as a beverage fit for gods, and we soon found ourselves anchored to a steak, rare enough to have been severed from the loins of one of the cows of Ava. The Morn ing Star gems most gloriously the commercial horizon ; her appointments arc tine : her officers kindly gentlemen; and it was in a self-satisfied state that we retired—-to the guard, to watch the going down of the sun. Capt. Ballard was cheery, his lady pleasantly reflect ive, as we sat tracing the amber rcfles on the mountains of cloud, and saw the golden glamor hiding itself away in the ebon caverns of shallow which skirt the tomb-land of the dead sable shrouded day-god. Long after my friends' left me I sat there, mv mind filled with the floating cloudlets of thought, which seemed to hide the light and obscure the purple splendor of the blazing West. There was in my brain that dim intangible chaos which precedes creation ! the earlhicizing process of inspiration ! the travail out of which comes the after glory of an idealistic birth of the shapes which are fair as the star of morning; yet which resolve themselves into the perception of two vital facts, which all the forces in the universe go to demonstrate, viz., the divineness of human love, and the humanness of divine pity. bloating cloudlets in the radiance of the summer air might hide the splendor of the sun ! though high over serial summit, and river, and shore, was a gateway leading up to the Infinite, which was love, —the one burning consciousness of God in men. The pulse of -the immaculate which throbs itself out to the measure of mortality, through sorrow and waiting and weari* ness and pain, under cross and cruci fixion to the resurrection. A thousand human hearts repeat the story. Heber tells us how it was told in India centu ries agoite by the Awab of Oude. I find a copy in the library of mine host. Dr. 11. G. Jones, and subjoin an ex tract, as much because of its rarity as for its exquisite beauty and simplicity : “In those eyes the tears that glisten,ns in pity for my pain, Are they gems or only dew-drops ? can they, will they Jong remain ? “ Why thy strength of tyrant beauty thus with charming ruth restrain. Better breathe my last before thee, than in lingering grief remain. “To yon planet fate has given,every month to wax and wane, And, thy world of blushing brightness, can it, will it long remain l “ Health and you'll, in balmy moisture on thy cheek their seal maintain, But the dew chat steeps the rose-bud, can it, will it long remain 1 “Asuf! Why then in mournful numbers, of thine absence thus complain T Chance had joined us—chance had parted ! nought on earth can long remain. “In the world may’it thou, beloved! live ex empt from grief and pain, On my lips the breath is fleeting! can it, will it long remain 1 This exquisite little snatch was the melody of some unwritten music in my own soul oil the guard that evening, thinking how life is made up of the intermediate space between meeting/ and partings, a3 1 sal looking out trpry* rivor. «nJ shore, and skv, with a fee ing of serenity nodci-lyi,,)- pant, fik« the monotone of some sweet eternal harmony. There ar%some Uimg* „ i.;.k must remain forever, glories from which we cannot part, feelings so blunt and interfused into the Godlike element in onr natures, that to separate them from the life here or to come, would be to sever the glowing morning from the deepening noontide—the Creator from his created. My dear Courier, here, in this beau tiful home of my friends, it is so sweet to believe in what Ike Marvel has told us is home—love-hallowed, consecrated to all time and eternity: “The bright blest, adorable phantom which sitteth brightest in the sunny horizon that girdelh life.” m The Evansvillians are a commercial people. In tr.y walks and drives about the city, I could not but be struck with the magnitude of their enterprises. The salt wells are objects of special interest to strangers. Though during a long drive through the tangle of the long bayou which skirts the other shore,- I could not but think lovingly and longingly of the green woods which circle about my old Kentucky home, and wonder if you in the Falls City miss your true frtf ml Latona. Marryino Tipplers.— A word of warning to young ladies on this sub ject is not inappropriate. How many young women by uniting their destin ies with tipplers, or men of confirmed intemperate habits, have destroyed their own happiness, and involved them selves in lives of sorrow and often to shame! “Yet, in spite ol all the wretchedness of drunkards’ wives,” says Mr. Cuyler, “young women ate continually willing to marry men wl © are in thejiabit of indulging in the so cial giass! Ladies often refuse the marriage offers of young men because they are too poor, or of too humble a family, or too plain in their person or manners. But only nowand then one lias good sense enough to refuse to unite herself with a matt who will not pledge himself to total abstinence! A rich fashionable young man commonly has no trouble to get a wife, even though he is hardly sober long enough to pro nounce the vow of marriage. But a teetotaler, in coarse raiment, might be snubbed as a vulgar fellow who has never seen society. Ladies ! before you begin to scold at me for saying thig. impolite tiling—just look around and see if it is not true.” Ladies, this is. an important subject, and you should, consider it well. It involves your hap piness and respectability in this world and perhaps your salvation in the next. You should reject the hand of any man, if you regard your own happiness, who indulges in the intoxicating cup. What are riches, station, or anything worth, without sobriety, virtue, char acter ! “Boy, did you let off that gun ?” claimed an enraged schoolmaster.. “Yes, sir.” “Well, what do you think I \yijl do to you !” “Why let me off. There is a firm in Syracuse by the name of Settle & Burst.
