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THE LOST BRACELET. .‘Just one penny, if you please, ma’am.’ It waa tbe day before Christmas, and late in tbe afternoon, a beautiful and richly dressed Isdy as walking up Broadway wi h her arms laden with brown paper parcels. Hundreds of people were hurrying along, jostling each other as they passed -up and down the crowded thoroughfare; but her bright, happy face was like a ray of sun light in the gathering darkness of tbe win' ter afternoon, and the owner of tbe olat terings shoes that had been following her some distance, took courage from its mo dest plea for just one penny.’ It was a low, pleading voice, scarcely andible in the noise and bustle around, yet the lady heard it, for she turned and look ed an instant at the little creature before her. Her scanty garment was a poor pro jection from tbe frosty air, and her bands and pale face looked blue and pinched with tbe cold; her miserable hood bad fal len on her shoulder, and a pair of elo quent eyes looked up into tbe lady’s face, while, with her little stumpy broom, she swept crossing. ‘Never mind,’ said she to herself, ‘I can walk home—this poor little thing needs this more than I do;’ and she dropped in ,to the open palm before her the only six pence left. ‘There, child, a merry Christ mas to you,’ she said in a sweet, sympa thizing voioe, which made the tears come into the dark eyes of the little girl, as she tried, to think her. ( It was a long walk that lb« lady had be fore her, and the orainbuset rattled along with a provoking empty seat or two inside, hut her heart was light and happy with the little sacrifice which she bad made, and just as the jets of gas began to blase out of the windows, she resulted her home. She bad been married only a short time, and as she looked around her pretty room whiob her husband had furnished for her in their board iog-hqnse, she felt more than ever grateful that God bad given, her suoh happy home. Bhe bad not removed her hat and oloak, when she heard her hus brnd’s step in tbe hall, and with a smile and a kiss, she mat him at the door; ‘Why, Kate, how tired you look—have you done a great deal of walking to day V Kate blushed and smiled, but deception wee not e part of her nature, and she re plied i ‘Yee, Henry, I walked sll the way home,’ 'You shouldeo’t have done that,’ said he, a little reproachfully, and he laughed as he oontinue and: ‘Did you spend all your money, so that you couldn't afford a six pence to ride home with ?’ ‘Well, I suppose I must tell,’ said Kste, with soother blush. ‘I did have just one sixpence left, and was going to ride up, when suoh a poor little girl -’ ‘Yes, that’s it, I know what’s coming. Why, Kate, you make the very mischief among the poor people and my pennies— they are the most ungrateful set iu the world.’ ‘But,’ said Kate, earnestly, she was such a delicate, half-clothed, and, I am afraid, halKstarved little atreet sweeper ’ ■Street-sweeper,’ and her husband held up bis hands in mock horror ; ‘why Kate, they pick up handbills of money in a day, and did you walk home, and give one a whole sixpence. Oh, ob, what wouldn’t your innocent little heart do next!’ Kate bore this quizzing very well, and was about to reply, when, on passing her hand up her arm, she exclaimed suddenly: *O, Henry, my bracelet is goue—your gift, last Christmas— what shall I do f where can I have lost it t’ ‘That is too bad,’ said he thoughtfully, .but the next moment he continued, shrug ging up his souldera mischievously : ‘May be some honest person has picked it up.’ Seeing the tears come into his wife’s eyes at this speech, be put his arm around her and kissed her, with, ‘Never mind, though, I can replace it some time.’ Her husband, who really loved Ins "hHe i wile tenderly, took Jieykend and put some thing in it, closing her slender fingers tight ly over it, saying ‘Don’t distress yourselt any more about bracelets and street-sweep ers ; here’s your Christmas gift, and the next time you go down town get a pretty set of furs with it,’ JUte’a band closed over a hundred dollar bill. The day after Christmas the was again in Broadway, and as shs was passing bv the identical spot where she had given away her sixpence, she felt her dress pull ed gently, and taming round she encoun tered the same little half clad girl. Tm so glad to see you’re come, ma’am,’, •aW *l* child : sou dropped this the other ' day and I’ve been saving it for you ever since; and palling something ont of her bosom, she put it into lady's hand. lla«ti ly unrolling the bit ot news-paper. Kate A lair saw her bracelet. What a triumph for herself and lor Henry. ‘Thank you, my child,’ she exclaimed, taking tbe little bare bands in hers. “I tried to find you out that day,’ said the little child, ‘but you went ont of sight so soon that I couldn’t.’ And with a bright face, she continued, 'I want to thank you, and my mother wants to thank you too, I didn’t get a penny all that day until I saw you, and that sixpence bought the medi cine which is going to make her well.’ Kate’s eyes glistened as she heard this, and thought of the temptation to ride home that God bad helped her to resist. 'Take me with you to your mother,’ she said, still holding the girl’s band—‘such honesty and thankfulness shall not go un rewarded.’ It was a pretty long walk away over near the North River, but the finally reach ed the tenement house, in the basement of which tbe little girl lived. A pale, sickly woman waa lying on a bed in a single room which she occupied, but she looked up eagerly, as she heard Inw child's voice say, ‘Hire moi her.the beautiful lady is come herself.’ Kate sat down by the bedside, and lent her ear to a tale of want and privation of which she had never dreamed, and leaving what little pocket money she had with her, she promised to come and see her again; then she started lor her husband's office. Mr. Alair was poring over his account hooks when Kate rushed in with her bright eyes and glowing cheeks, and liold'ttg up the bracelet before bis eyes, she exclaimed : ‘See there, Hen ry, that’s what came of my giving sixpence to the street sweeper. Her husband looked up, glad and sur prised, first at seeing her, and then because the bracelet was found, and be listened while she told him of the interview with the child and her mother. ‘Ami now, Henry, I am going to ask you if I may do one thing—l really do not need so nice a set of furs as you have given me the money for, and I wsnt to take some ol it and buy fuel and lights and provisions for tbora poor people; they had neither coal nor caudles, and nothing but a little cold cab bage for their dinner.’ Henry shook his head, but it was not a very negative shake. 'Nobody can resist you Kate,’ said he smiling, ‘and you may do as you please with your money.’ Kate thanked him with her moistened eyes more than with her voice, and ns the door closed alter her, Henry said to himself, ‘There goes an angal; and if ever that text, Tic ilia' giveth to the poor shall not lack,’ was meant for anybody, it waa for her.’ The little girl’s mother did not gel well again, but before she died, Kate told her about Jesus and won her to love and trust Him, soothing her last moments with com forting, cheering words. Even little Jane she taught to say with faith, ‘When inv father and mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.’ By and by Mr. and Mrs. Alair went to house-kecpiug, and they took little Jane, now an orphan, to live with them ; and if there was one grace more than another that Kate prayed the child might have, it was that of charity; for Jane's growing beauty of character, and her constant gratitude, proved a continual reminder to her gener ous benefactress of that sweet lesson of our Saviour's—“lt is iaore blessed to give than to receive.” SOHO. Air— “l'd offer thee this hand of mine" “I'd offer thee ibis band of mine,” But still you will distress This hears that bests for only tbee, And thine own happiness. Why will you coldly then disdain A heart that's warm sud true; A heart that always turns with fond Affection upon you. “I leave thee in thy happiness,” As one I long to love; While you have rudely cast me off And l»«dr nte sadly rove. Y**t, oh 1 when pleasure's cup you drink. All peaceful though it be. Remember that I sip from out— The eup of misery. Alas I my brightest dreams are o'er, You’ve bid them all depart; And I must leave thee happy, while— I weep with broken heart. Then, oil dear one, wheufar away. I’ll ne’er know joy again; And every thought that’, u»«t on thee. Will give in; bosom pain. The Prussians have a cartridge which explodes after entering tbs body ol a man, and tears him to pieces. FOBRE TS own ACCOUNT OF THE PUR SUIT CAPTURE OF BTREIGHT. Late one afternoon, long alter this, at the raoment when tbe entire Confederacy was ringing with his pursuit and capture of Col. Straight, Forrest came into tbe ed itorial room of the Rebel at Chattanooga, where three or four of his old friends were collected, and gave us a minute narrative of tbe recent campaign, nis descriptivw powers are naturally very good and on thia occasion be was full of this story, and spoke with the enthusiasm and simplicity of a child. lie had pursued Slreighl's column, fighting every day, for nearly a fortnight, over an almost barren country for over »ev liundred miles and with an inferior force, capturing him at last by stratagem. “I wasn’t Certain when I demanded his sur render, which would have to give in, him or me. But it was like a game of poker,! called him on a single‘pair’ to his ‘full,’ trusting to luck. He seemed, at first, to have very little confidence in my band ; but I said: ‘I give you five minutes. I've followed you and fought you for two weeks, and now I’ve got you just where I want you. I'm tired of sacrificing lives, and offer you a chance to stop it. If you don’t I warn you I won’t be answerable for the consequences.” Streight waa ‘fairly bluffed.’ He was in a strange country. His adversary was known to be a desperate man. Hi« com mand was jaded, What could he do? If he stood out any longer and was mistaken, be might be sacrificed. He surrendered, and in a few minutes himself and his men were disarmed prisoners under tte escort of ooc-fourih of their number. “Where is tbe rest of your command General ?” ask ed Col. Straight. Forrest smiled grimly, and made no reply. Presently when they arrived in tbe village of Home, the myste ry was removed, and the gallant but out wilted Imlianian saw his blunder. It was during tbe puisuit of Straight, that an incident occured which Forrest re ported with great satisfaction. The chase was becoming excited and the Confederates were beginning to be eager lor its conclusion wheu thuy reached a stream over which the enemy had crossed in safety, but which had risen so rapidly ns to be impassible. Forrest rode along the banks l>afiled and angry, while the bullets from the other side spun through the trees and whistled about bis ears. After vainly seeking for half an hour, he came to a cabin which stood alone in the wilderness near the wa ter’s edge. Here, as a last resort be in quired for a ford. A young girl ran out and said, “lean show you one if you take me up behind you.” Tbe mother was ve ry much shocked, but the girl continued, ‘l'm not afraid. You're General Forrest, and will take care of me.” ‘Hop up, then,’ said Forrest, riding close to tbdftrice —The girl bounded upon the horse, clung tightly to the General's sabre sash, and away they rode, down the stream and sharp shooting and the whizzing of min nies, ‘What’s that?’ said the girl innocent ly, aa one of thsse came very near. ‘That,’ said Forrest is a skecred bird.' They reached tbe lord in safely, the command passed over, and the General turned to his gallant little guide and asked what he could So for her ? She replied that her brother bad been captured by Colonel Straight and was a prisoner in his hands; all she desir ed was his release. ‘Very well,’ said For rest, taking a note of t. e name, ‘you shall have bun by twelve o’clock to morrow.’ It was turned of eleven the next day wheu Straight surrendered. Immediately General Forest called for John Sansom, who promptly appeared, glad enough to be relieved, and wondering what could be wanted with him by his own General. ‘I promised your sister Emma,’ said Forrest, when tbe young man appeared, ‘to send you to her at twelve o’clock to-day. Time’s nearly up. Take the best horse you can fiud aud put out. Double-quick now— march I’ As related by Forrest himself, with tbe earnest delight,of his nature and iu tnal quiet little editorial room at the close of a summer day, with all its free uess about it, the story w.t- thrilling, and we at ouce resolved to make a heroine out of the little rustic, Em uua Sansom. Sub sequently she received a grant of land and a vote of thanks from me General Assem bly of Alabama; but the remembrance of that ride behind the most daring cavalry leader of tbe American continent should be worth more to her than all the grants and resolutions which Legislatures have power to give. I know that F "rrest looks tuc k upon it with pride that exceeds the sense ot the victory whiob it secured, and never aliu 1- >.o it without a touch of the old nre and a qu.ck returning of the old dash. —Correspondence qf the Hashville Banner. FRANK. ARNOLD. BURWELL GREEN F. ARNOLD & CO., DEALERS IN GROCERIES, HARDWARE, &C., AT CLEVELAND’S OLD STAND. E desire to call the attention of the pub -1 1 lie tu our complete Stock of GROCERIES, which we offer cheap for CASH. Our assort, meat consists of SUGARS, COFFEES, TEAS, PICKLES, VIN EGAR, LOBSTERS. OYSTERS. SAR DINES, MACKEREL, BALT, CAN NED FRUITS, JELLIES, FINE WINES, BRANDIES, ALE WHISKEYS, PORTER, CANDIES OF ALL KINDS, SOAP, P I PES, INK, PAPER, CURRANTS, FINE CHEWING AND SMOKING TO BACCO, FINE CIGARS, COTTON AND WOOL CARDS, BLACKING, ALMONDS, RAISINS, HARDWARE, HOES, TRACE CHAINS, BUCKETS, TUBS, SHOVELS, SPADES, Axes, Hatchets, Files, Screws, Nails, Drawknives, Sifters, Padlocks, Brooms, Smoothing Irons, Shears, Sythe Blades, Knives, Forks, Pocket Knives, Measures, Shot and Caps, GLMSWMI, CROCKERYWAfIE, tinware, &and. wr ’roduee of all kinds taken in exchange for goods at the HIGHEST markot prices. Just Received, A fine lot of SUMMER lIATS and SHOES al F. ARNOLD A CO’S. Washington, April 27, 18G6, 1-ts c Stands for Clothing when fashionably made L For Light Patriot to euit tbe spring trade o Onr establishment, where please to call; T Tidy garments should be worn by all; II Hot weather, coming rapidly without far; I Invite you to buy yoni clothing here N New styles we aie receiving every wees; G Glad to see you when our establishment you seek. REMEMBER I. SIMON & CO., Fashionable Clothing Emporium 2J4 BROAD STREET, AU'"V»T4 ! t May 18, 1866, IIARDW ARE, QUTLERY, AGRICULTURAL TOOLS, Ac. FOR SALE BY JOHN* &> THOS. A. BONES, 105 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. June 1, 1866, 6-3 tn J. ROBERTSON &C 0„ Cotton Factors AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Ao. 6, Warren Block, Augusta, Go. Nay 10, 1860, S, ts Southern Kerosine LAMP AND OIL DEPOT, 309 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga., Under the Planters Hotel. EDWARD i BLBAKELY, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN r kerosine oil, LAMPS, CHAS'D A LLERS, BRACKETS,Ac IVf T Stock embraces the following articles Ia wtir and OL4Sfi »•»•* MF.TAL HAND LAMPS, LARGE AND ? a 1 ?? L o A .; HP8 ‘ BRONZB PARLOR LAMPS. HALL BKALKbTs, with and without Reflectors; Chandeliers, all atylea, with 2, 8, and 4 Lights Police, Pocket, Globe and Dark Lanterns; Chimneys and Burners of the most improved Wi** Oil Caos, Trimmers, etc. z 3T ,** Lampi vary in price from 60 cents to $25 each. Chandeliers from $6 to SIOO. t2T“ Keep constantly on hand a Large Sup- Pft * PUREST AND BEST KERO SKBE OIL MADE, pnt up in Barrels, and Tin Cans, suitable for City or Country. All orders large or small solicited and promp tly attended to. E. a BLEAKLEY. June 1, 1566. 7—3 m C V. WALKEIU foT 271 BROAD STEET. AUGUSTA, GA, Auction and General COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Will give prompt and personal attention to all business entrueted to them. tw Favors solicited. Refkrkncks ; —Merchants generally of Au gusta, Ga.; Earle A Cos., Schanck A Downing Dudley P. Ely A Cos, New York; John Gib son s Sons A C«„ Clsghorn A Herring, Janies C. Hand A Cos, Philadelphia; Heyward, Bart lett ACo Ward Love A Cos, Baltimore; Chea ter, Gueld A Sons, Brigham, Thayer A Cos. Boston: Shy lock A Rowland, St. Louis, Mo.; Andrew Buchanan A Cos, Louisville, Kv.; T.’ F. Walker, New Orleans, La.; Goodwin, Ward A Cos, Selma, Alabama, Ala.; Baker, Robbins A Cos, B. A. Weems, Cunningham A Purse Mobile, Ala.; W. 11. Stark, A. Champion, Henry Bryan, Savannah, Ga.; Geo. W. Wil liams A Cos, Willis A Chisolm, Charleston, S o’ June 1, 1868, 6, 3m.* HEWITT’S GLOBE HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GA., W. C. HEWITT, Proprietor, Late of Hewitt House, Va. Col. GEO. H. JONES, Clerk. June 1, 1866. 6-Sm. GJ. EORGIA, WILKES COUNTY.—Whereas h Arden Evans, jr, Administrator on the estate of Arden Evsne Sr, late of said county, deceased, applies to me for lettereof dismission from said trust : These are, therefore, to cite and admonish, all and singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at my office within the time prescribed by law, to show cause, if any they have why leltere should not he granted. Given under my hand and official aignatnre, at Washington, this 7th day of May 1868. G. G. NORMAN, .. Ordinary, Mav 6, 1866, 8-lm6m. -■ ■ » 4 ,o ' Es> I lilt? it! FROM THE PLAIN ES T TO L |J\ THE MOST ELABORATE, /fji OESICNED 4 FURNISHED {V TO ORDER AT SHORT HOTICEU TOR THE COUNTRY CAREFULLY BOXED M GEO. B. CHUMP & CO., General Commission Merchants and Wholesale Dealers in ROCCRIES, LIQUORS, TOBACCO, \JT Bacon, Lard, Grain, Goano, Ac, 208 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. »ar Will purchase and sell on Commission, Cotton, Tobacco, Produce, and Merchandise of every description. CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. MT Refer in Washington to S. H. Cren shaw, Jas. Junkin, G. W. Bryant, Pettna A Callaway.. [Jnne 1, 1866,-Bm_ JOHN D. BUTT. | JOSHUA W. JOHN D. BUTT ijl GENERAL G^yfl AND COMMISSION MERM 260 BROAD STREET, Wii! attend to the sale of Cotton and •’ If Dealers in Imported Segara, Wines and Family Supplies. [June 7