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VOL I—NO. 18. C|e Hamilton Visitor D. W. D. BOULLY, Proprietor. CASH SUBSCRIPTION BATES. One copyono year... $2 00 One copy fix months ....$1 00 One copy three months 75 Any one furnishing five subscribers, with tbs money, will receive a copy free. Subscribers wishing their papers changed from one post-office to another, must state the name of the post-office from which they wish it changed, as well as that to which they wish it sent All subscriptions must be paid in advance. The paper will be stopped at the end of the time paid for, unless subscriptions are pre viously renewed. pr fifty numbers complete the year. CASH ADVERTISING BATES. Space I 1 mo 3 mot | p moa | \2 mos Jinch 60 $4 sr*roir*lo ltd 8 “ 400 725 11 00 18 00 3 5OO 1 9 Oil 15 00 22 00 4•< 550 11 00 18 00 27 00 100 l 650 14 00 25 00 35 00 | col 12 60 25 00 40 00 60 00 1 col |22 00 41 00 62 00 100 00 Marriages and deaths, not exceeding six lines, published free. 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The puroose of this reduction is to place the Daily within reach of those of every class who desire to read— the workingman and the farmer, as well as of the merchant aud cap italist. While The Sun is not quite so largo as onr cotemporaries of this city, and we shall not attempt to cot iplete willT" theirF iu the amount of general reading, we promise that as. A NEWSPAPER. its shall bo second to none in the city or State in quantity of news, either Foreign, National, Slate or Local Our market reports shall be very full and strictly reliable, and this, we are sure, will be an at traction for onr readers, especially those out of the city. Our EDITORIAL STAFF receives two valuable accessions, in the persons of Mr, C. H. C. Willing ham, (late editor of the La Grange Reporter) in the Political Depart ment, and Mr. W. 11. Moore, well known in this city by a former con nection with The Sun as its City Editor. The Editorial corps of The Sun will be as follows: A. H. Stephens, Political Editor. S. A. Echols, Associate Editor. C. H. C. Willingham, Assistant Political Editor, Pascal J. Moran, News Editor. Tf£2Z\ >- With this corps of writers, we enter The Sun upon the New Year, soliciting of tho public patronage, which we shall endeavor continually to merit. AYeekly, $2 per Annum. Letters and remittances for The Sun should be addressed Samuel A Echols, Business Manager. 1878 THE 1873 Southern €i)ristian F. M. KENNEDY, D. D., Editor. THIRTY-SIXTH VOLUME. This old and well-established relig ious family weekly is devoted to Re ligion and the Church; to literature, science, art, the news, the markets, advertisements, etc., etc. It is proposed to keep it equal to any family newspaper in the country —being all that a family that takes but one paper can need; and also worthy of a place with other papei-s, wheue several are taken. Terms: $2 a year, in advance. The Ministers of the M. E. Church, South, both itinerant and local, are agents for the paper. Address, J. VY. 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Any person wooing to act permanently as n local agent, will receive full and prompt in formation by applying to JAMES SUTTON & CO.. Publishers, 58 Muidou Lane, Now York. Written for the Visitor. AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS. BY HESTER E. SHIPLEY. “ All ashore,” rings loudly over the crowd hurrying to and from the steamer—the bell peals out its warn ing, and friends Hasten to imprint farewell kisses on lips which may never again respond. Hore a hus band holds in a close embrace the wife over whose grave the daisies may be growing ere his return. There a mother sobs out an hysterical good bye to the son so dearly loved. Yonder a merry group and jest trs if life! were a certainty, and death a myth, and so with many a bon voyage , given in smiles or tears, the crowd separates—fhe engine throws up a whirlpool of foam, and the boat slowly leaves the pier. Handkerchiefs are waved from the deck, and friends gaze Jinga-rincJy from the shore as they wave their own in response, then turn to their several . duties or pleasures. Tho boat slowly glides out of the harbor, the city gradually fades from sight until it becomes a mere streak above tho horizon, then the passengers turn to take the gauge mental, moral, physical, and last, but by no means least, special, of their companions de voyage. There is the usual respecta ble gentleman, fat and forty, with an immense watch-chain which dangles helplessly from his eapacious waist coat —the saucy homeward-bound school-girls with their jaunty hats and bright eyes—tho intolerable .ex quisite, with his air of insufferable su periority, for whom one will scarcely feel pity when he is seized, as he surely will be, by the demon of the waters, sea-sickness—the nervous old lady—the terrible enfant , and, in short, the infinite variety of charac ters and faces which compose the or dinary company of a steamboat. A little apart from the crowd, two gentlemen are conversing with the animation of newly re-united friends. They would have been singled out as gentlemen in the highest epnse pf the word, in any crowd. Irie elder of the two, with his athletic form and somewhat military bearing, closely cut sandy hair, and kind but penetra ting blue eve, is Capt. Howard of the Morning Star. The gentleman with whom ho is conversing is Paul Leices ter, Not handsome, there is still an indefinable attraction about this graceful inltn, with Ids cosmopolitan manner., as he looks in a calm uninter ested way over the miscellaneous crowd; the hand which he runs carelessly through his clustering brown hair is white and soft as a woman’s, while on it a magnifietnt solitaire glitters and sparkles as it catches the last rays of tho sun, which sinks, a fiery mass, into tho waste of waters. But if you infer from this that Paul Leicester is either weak or effeminate, you have but to look at his dark eye, or the firm-set lips to discern your mistake. Capt. Howard was saying : “I am glad to know that you are going out with us; you could met lave selected a more pleasant season fur a trip South.” “Yes,” Mr. Leicester had 11 and the Morning Star moves with Abe poetry of motion—you are justly proud of her. But Howard, Ido not quite like that dark line just above the horizon; we may have a blow be fore morning.” “IlartJly,” was the reply in a non chalant manner; nevertheless Capt. Howard looked keenly in the direc tion indicated. Just then a breeze came over the water cool and strong, and lifting a gossimer vail from the hat of a stylish, well dressed lady who was seated not far from them, wafted it directly toward Captain Howard, to whose coat sleeve it clung tena ciously. Its owner had been gazing dreamily out upon the water, appar ently oblivious of the crowd about her. Her gray travelling suit of some lustrous fabiic fell about her in graceful undulations, arid the ribbon at licr throat sought in vain to rival in softness and beauty the violet eyes above. She turned smilingly to the Captain as the vail floated to him. “Ah Ia friend in need is one in deed,” she said. “May I trouble you to return the truant to rightful custody I” What a sweet sensitive face it .was, with its dewy eyes and tender lips, and air of nobility and refinement. Past its premier jeuneeee, as the French express it, .evidently—and vet possessed of a charpi as infinitely superior 4o the budding beauties of girlhood, as are the glories of autumn to the pleasures of spring. At tho sound of her voico Mr. Lei cester turned quickly, and a mingled expression of pain and pleasure swept over his face. “ Gertrude —Mrs. Laign! ” he cried, advancing eagerly toward her. But at the sight of him all color fled from her face, and iho smile died on her lips. It was not until he caught her cold hand in his, that she found breath to articulate: “ Paul, oh! Paul.” “ I am glad to see we are ‘ mutual friends,’ ’* said Captain Howard, very iriVich mystified bjT this linexpoeteif’ display of emotion on the part of two persons whom lie thought entire strangers to each other, and instantly perceiving himself de trep. “Mrs. Laign, my duties calling me elsewhere, I am only too happy to resign you pro tern, to the care of Mr. Leicester,” and lie bowed him self away with all possible expe dition. But his words fell on licedless ears. They were gazing at each other, those two, looking down the long vista of fifteen years, recalling the vows.then made in tlio sweet spring-time of youth and hope. She was thinking of the bright May morning—was it not ages ago ?—when she, in her far away home, stood with him under the drooping vines ladened with their wealth of jessamines and roses, and playfully shook over him from the golden chalices a perfumed shower; she seemed to inhalo again their odor and even to hear again the joyous note of a lark, whose upward flight into the deep-blue, cloudless sky, slie marked as they stood together, so many years ago, when he asked her to bo his wife. Just sixteen, she was so young, and life was so sweet. “ Anti he? But his remembrances were of a less pleasant nature, if Jho pained face was an index to liis thoughts. “ Gertrude,” lie said, seating him self beside her and breaking a silence which had become painful, “have you nothing to say to me after all these years of misery on my part — these years of ceaseless wandering to and fro over tho earth, in a vain en deavor to forget the past; but my life is one unceasing thdught of you. Can you, though tho wife of another, deny my right to ask even at this distant day an explanation of con duct which wrecked my life?” “It may be unwise to exhume tho buried past,” she replied, while the color came and went iu her cheek, “ but I must tell you, I newer did you an intentional w rong, Paul.” "Never did me an intentional wrong! “ho cried poßnionatcjly. “Cau you say this to mo? You who sitould have been my wife; w r ho pledged yourself to ine in the wight of ITcavon, by vows the most holy— who broke them by marriage with another man—who —” “Paul,” she interrupted gravely, “you must control yourself and listen to an explanation which I make be cause I feel it is due you—i.t kan obligation whieh outweighs my duty to my husband. Neither of us are to blame for the unfortunate termination of our engagement. ’’ “Great Heu.v-enl“ be cried exci tedly, “ who could have done Uijs great wrong?” “ Calm yourself and hear the story. You have not forgotten that we had just amicably adjusted one of our frequout differences—we wore both so impetuous in those days—when you telegraphed to me that being hurriedly summoned to London by the extreme illness of your father, you had only time to see mo an hour, and catch an outward bound steamer.” “ Ah 1 do I not?” lie groaned. “That telegram I never received. 1 had left home only a few hours pre vious to its arrival, for a visit to my sister in the interior of the State,. Annie Elmer, whom you remember as my foster sister, always loved yon, though 1 did not then suspect it. She had been long watching her op portnnity, and was not slow to seize upon it. She wrote the note which she gave you on your arrival, saying I had left after rhe receipt of the tel egram, to avoid a parting scene with you, as I hud mistaken jwy feelings, and wished the engagement broken.” “Ah! yes, I remember well her sympathy, .and j> nonuse to write me .of you/’ “She then wrote me an account of your visit, and said you had made the same request of me, as you were tired of my exactions—that you had ——*— TX * - told her confidentially, though you WGre really going to London on ac count of your father’s illness, yon were rejoiced, as it would preclude any unpleasant meeting hi future. It was very cleverly done, and might have deceived one better versed in the arts of deception than myself. She told me your love for her wa3 the cause of the change in you; a story which your subsequent correspondence with her, confirmed in my mind. Stung to the quick by your treatment, I was too proud to ask an explanation, and after a few months of Meriting, did what proud, Sensitive gjrlTfaa done before atid since—married in haste lo repent at leisure.” “ Where is she?” said ho under his breath,” this arch traitress, this fiend in human form?” “ Hush! Paul, file is dead, so lot, her rest in pcnco. This is the secret which she scut for rue on her death bed two years ago, to disclose. For this sin 1 freely forgive her: will you not do the same?” “Never!” he critd hotly. “May her tortured soul —*’ A soft hnnd was placed over his mouth an instant, to stem the tide of fiery words; he seized it and pressed it passionately to his lips; it was gently withdrawn. “ Paul,” she said in answer to his look of reproach, “ this is very hard for you to bear, us it was for me when I first learned how cruelly we had been wronged, nntl I ntn afraid I noted as wildly as you do now; but time, great soother of every sorrow, will blunt tho sharp ness of (ibis anguish i*y you as for tne.” “No, no,” he cried passionately, springing up and pacing about the deck. “ Oh, my darling, to lose you thus! To know we must drift apart down the stream of life, when we might have been so happy. Can you ever have loved me when you sit there so calmly, and know this? I fool it pressing on my heart aud brain.” “Haul,” she said solemnly, “ this hour, ns that of death, shall be a truthful one; for we must after this let the dead past bury its dead. Hut I will say to you now, that at this moment I love you as dearly as when I pledged myself to you years ago.” “ Then why may wo not he happy yet ? ” he asked, stopping in his walk and coming towards her eagerly. “ Oh! Gertrude, yours can bo no true marriage, since, as you acknowledge, your heart is mine. Dissolve this cruel bond which separates us. Take the life, so worthless without you, in your own hands, and let mo forget, in tho joy of the future, the misery of the past. My darling, you alone can make a noble tuau of mo. Oh! do not refuse me ” He was gazing into lier face with wild eyes, iu which hope struggled madly with misery for supremacy. She drew away the hand which he had taken and said tremulously: “ You do not understand me, and are too wild with grief to know what; you are saying.” Then, as he drop ped his face in his hands with a groan, she scented to rise above her own unhappiness in view of his, "My poor Paul,” she said tenderly smooth ing the brown hair, just ns a mother might soothe a passionate child, “it very hard, and I pity yon so, but we only learn strength through suff ering. You meant, of course, that I should procure a divorce, now so ea sily granted; but, Paul, I do not feel that I would have any moral right to become your wife while my husband lives. I think, for many reasons, a wife may separate from her husband, and, fur jir own protection, be le. gaily divorced; but while she has a legal right, she certainly lias no moral one, to marry again during the life of her husband. ‘ Until death do ns part,’ is a vow beyond the power of law to annul. And though I did you an .unintentional wrung iu mar rying another, yet, by so doing, I ns sumed duties aud obligations I may not lightly throw off.” He had been regarding bur earn estly as slie uttered these last words, sometimes drawing in her breath oaitifidly, but all through, speaking' with a calmness to him incomprehen sible. “ Gertrude,’ 5 he (did, when she had finished, •“I do not understand how you can speak so calmly of a subject which lashes me to fury. I almost fiud it in iny heart to think you never loved me,” “ Paul!” She looked at him, and tbo tsars she had been resolutely $2 A TEAR. keeping back Tolled down her pale face. “ Forgive me, Gertrude,” He cried penitently. It was most ungeneri ons ol me to say this. You, who (#8 so pure and good—so for above mo in your purity and beauty as those stars above us. I was wild to sjtealf as 1 did, but yon do not know how my soul is torn. Yon aro right— yon always are—do with me as yog will. I have no hope on earth.” “ Can you not conceive how ontf may suffer and bo stftfng? This fe of life so small a part. OH! Pad; pm jou not look beyond ?” “I will try —oh, Ttelp me!” It was almost a wail. Ho had taken her hand, and this time it was not withdrawn. Her head bowed low on the railing: she was praying for him, ho knew. Then peace fell on him, and his soul waa tilled with a wondrous resignation* which, a few moments before, be thought impossible, fie watched the clouds gather and drift: over the moon, and the sailing of the shadows across the nearly deserted deck, wishing to break the silence, yet daring not, feeling it was hallowed ground, upon which ho might not intrude. The breeze freshened and ble# keenly across tho deck. Gertrude raised her head, and drawing hffif shawl more closely about her, said? “My heart has been too full for words, but now I feel strong to live on unvepiging t tho end, since I know I shall share eternity with you —I shall be yours at last. I do not mean I shall be yonr wife there; for in that world there ia no marrying or giving in marriage; lint loving you supremely hero, I shall love you next to God (there —is proportion, not fa relation, as I did here.” “ Yes, that is tho hope which will sustain me in all the coming years of my probation. Let us pray that this life, which is so full of misery, may be short.” “ Let ns pray, ‘Thy will be done,* * she replied gravely and softly; and with the moonbeams resting; on her lovely, upturned face, it seembd $0 face of an angol—at Jt st, Haul thought so. “Jt ig late,” she said, after a few moments of silenoe.: “I mnst do what I should have done some tint* ago— say good bye— not to Mr. Lei* cester—l shall see him to-morrow, and often afterwards, I hope—but to Paul—mi/ Paul.” This was said with all the fimmiMs and calmness which she could ilot*- mand; she dared not let one inflec tion of weakness betray her to him, “ Come,” she said, gently placing her h.ad on his arm, as he, witfa'firm; set lips, gazed steadily out upon tbo silver-tipped waves. “WBJ you con duct me to my state-room, Paul?” Then he rose up, and, without * word, obeyed her request, but when she had reached the door, and turned to offer her hand, he caught her to his heart with alj the passion of his Htroug nature, lu iip# touched bey brow just once, and he was gone. Gertrude went iu, .dosed the door* and sauk upon her knees, “Oh! Futlier, was it wrong?” she cried, lifting up her hands appealing/, “ Thou who seest and pilioat the most ——i - lowly, pity u$ —oh, pity us!” and sobs which shook her frame choked her Utterance. Gradually calmness stole over her, and as she arose her knees she noticed for die first time the steady tramp of some o* overhead. She needed no oraoU to tell her who it wan, and her soul wens out in earnest petition for him, and witii his name upon her lips site fell asleep. It seemed to her that she had not slept an hour when she was awakened l>y screams and cries of human voices, and she felt the via* lent rolling and pitching of the vessel, Stic sat up and listened. Was shs dreaming? Surely someone called her. “Gertmdcl” She sprang up, and hastily throws ing on a dressing-gown, opened the dour, it was Paul who stood with out “Olr! Paul, what is the matter ?*■ said she, trying to steady as the vessel gave a terrible lurch. “ lie quiet, darling,” ho Baid calm ly. “ The storm wo feared has sud denly burst upon us with the strength and fury of a hurricane, and we are being driven rapidly aud helplessly upon the breakers.” She shivered convulsively. “Aud you let mo sleep Uu'uugh it, all?”