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[From tlic St. Augustine Examiner.] CEnone. I sit by the door of my tent to-night, Watching the drifting clouds, With which the moon, like a trained coquette, The light of her beauty shrouds, The star-crossed banner floats o'er my head, With a listless, rustling sound ; And I hear distinctly the sentinel’s tread, In the silence that reigns around, I re been dreaming, my Pride ! of when last we met— Os that long remembered night— When the pale stars shone on an upturned face, So tearfully sad and white. You were wretched that night, my Peerless One— Or at least you told me so,— A- I kissed the dews from your silken hair, And you wept that I had to go. Remember, Love, how we stood that night, Neath the old oaks’ colonnade— In a little spot, where the moon looked through The canopied arch of shade ? How your queenly head on my breast was bowed— How your hands in mine wero clasped— And the love words you murmured were low aud sweet As the summer winds that passed ? How we spoke of the time when we learned to lore— Those long, long summer hours— Os onr whispered vows—of our tender trust— Ah! never was love like ours— How the waning night fled by so fast, Bringing the hateful day, Till I breathed my soul in one lingering kiss, And wretchedly rode away ? The moon is shining as calmly now As it did that fatal night, And ’neath the gloom of forest trees Makes patches of silver light ; I have dreamed of the past—of onr early love— Till even the crisp night air I« tilled with the scent of the orange bloom, That was twined in your braided hair. Again do I hear CEone Deal’, In tho swell of these forest trees, The grand old hymn of th’ ancestral oaks, As they rocked to the passing breeze ; Again do I feel your soft hand clasp, And your proud head on my breast, As we stood together that summer’s night, When your lips to mine were pressed. * * v * * But "tis over now—and dream is gone— For yu* are another’s bride— And to talk of love were wretched sin, A shock to a young wife’s pride. The few cold words that you sent me once Are all that I have to tell, Why you broke tho faith of that plighted love— Yet I’ve learned tlieir lesson well. They tell me you looked like a queen that night, As you murmured the marriage vow; That the orange wreath of your bridal veil Looked sullied beside your brow; They tell nu; your laughter was blithe and gay, That your step was light and proud, And you lavished the smiles that once were mine On a senseless, flattering crowd. Did you think of tho blossoms, oh, Faithless One, That you used to wear for mo; When your heart was as pure as that bridal wreath— As it never again can be— Did you think of the vows your lips once framed— That syllable wealth of love— Did you deem that a maid with a perjured heart Asa wife could faithful prove ? Did you think of the tears which dimmed that smile, When your scarf for my sword you gave, And I swore It should lead in tho battle’s shock, The bravest of the brave ? That scarf is steeped in my own red blood, Yet I laugh in my bitter scorn. To think how false is the Beautiful One By whom It once was worn. \ou have taught me the worth of a woman’s word The faith of a woman’s heart— That the tenderest tear that ever was shed Is a triumph of woman’s art. Pass on in your beauty, but yet the thought Os our last—our first—caress, V> ill cloud the light of your sunniest smile ith tho shadow of wretchedness. To-morrow, CEnone! the gray pale morn Will dawn on a field of death, And the starry cross that is drooping now', Will flap with the battle’s breath; My brave men tight for their homes—tlieir loves— But I with grim despair— For all that is left me of all the past Is “ only a woman’s hair." !< the Trenches, Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., June 20,18GL GEMS OF PROSE AND POETRY. NOBLEMEN, The noblest men I know on earth, Are men whose hands are browned with toll; M ho, backed by no ancestral graves, Hew down the woods and till the soil. And win thereby a prouder fame Than follows King or warrior's name. I he working men, whate’er their task, To carve the stone or bear the hod— They wear upon tlieir honest brows The royal stamp and seal of God ! And brighter are their drops of sweat 1 Ban diamonds in a coronet! God bless the noble working mem, Who rear the cities of the plain, Who dig the mines and build the ships, And drive the commerce of the main. God bless them ! for their swarthy hands Have wrought the glory of our lands. Ad angry man who suppresses his pas sions thinks worse than he speaks; and an angry man that will chide speaks worse Ilian he thinks. rnt’TH. —Some odc has been beautifully "did ; “ Truth is immortal, the sword cni id f pierce it, fire cannot consume it, prisons cannot incarcerate it, famine can not starve it. 5 ’ A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM. BY EDGAR A. POE. I stand amid the roar Os a tuft-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand— How few, yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep—while I weep. Oh, God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp ? Oh, God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave ? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream ? It is not work that kills men, but worry. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. FLOWERS WITHOUT FRUIT. Prune thou thy words, tho thoughts control That o’er thee swell and throng ; They will condense within thy soul. And change to purpose strong. But he who lets his feelings run In soft luxurious flow, Shrinks when hard servioe must be done, And faints at every woe. Faith’s meanest deed more favor hoars, Where hearts and wills are weigh’d, Than brighter transports, choicest prayers, Which bloom their hour and fade. The Laugh of Woman.— A woman has no natural gift more bewitching than a sweet laugh. It is like the sound of llutes on the water. It leaps from her in a clear sparkling rill; and the heart that hears it feels as if bathed in the coolexhilirating spring. Have you ever pursued an un seen fugitive through the trees, led on by a fairy laugh, now there, now lost, now found ? We have, and we are pur suing that wandering voice to this day. Sometimes it comes to us in the midst of care and sorrow, or irksome business, and then we turn away the evil spirit of mind. How much we owe to that sweet laugh 1 It turns prose to poetry ; it flings sunshine to the flowers, over the darkness of the wood in which we are travelling; it touches with light even our sleep, which is no more than tho image of death, but is consumed with dreams that are the shadows of immortality. Resist the Beginning. —The Arabs have a fable of a miller, who was one day startled by a camel’s nose thrust in the window’ of the room where he was sleep ing. “It is very cold outside,” said the camel; “ I only want to get my nose in.’’ The nose was let in, and then the neck, and finally the whole body. Presently, the miller began to bo extremely incon venienced by the ungainly companion he had obtained, in a room certainly not enough for both. “If you are inconve nienced, you may leave,” said the camel ; “ as for myself, I shall stay where I am.” The moral of the fable concerns all. When temptation occurs, wo must not yield to it. We must not allow so much as its “ 0080” to come in. Everything like sm is to be turned away from. He who yields even the smallest degree will soon be entirely overcome ; and the last stage of that man is worse than the first. Amongst tho gems which are cut, the diamond holds the first place for brilliancy of lustre, or water, as it is termed. The oriental ruby is next in value when of considerable size, or perfect transparency and rich color. It is chiefly found in the Capellan mountains, near Syria, in the kingdom of Ava. The sapphire, which varies from a dark rich blue to a pale and almost colorless tinge of the hue, holds the next place. It is found in comparatively large masses in Ava and Ceylon. The emerald, with its peculiar rich green color, is held in high estima tion by Eastern monarchs. The aqua-ma rine is a pale blue variety of the same mineral. The topaz is found in all parts of the globe ; and for the striking changes which it undergoes when it is exposed to heat, and the fine colors which it naturally displays, is peculiarly suited to the lapidary’s art. Garnets of very rich color are obtained in Ceylon and Greenland. An Extinct Race.— One of the most remarkable races that ever inhabited the earth is now extinct. They were known as the Gaunches, and were the aborigines of the Canary Islands. In the sixteenth century pestilence, slavery, and the cruel ty of the Spaniards succeeded in totally exterminating them. They are described as having been gigantic in stature, but of a singularly mild and gentle nature. Their food consisted of barley, wheat, and goat’s milk, and their agriculture was of the rudest kind. They had a religion which taught them of a future state of rewards and punishment after death and of good and evil spirits. They regarded the vol cano of Teneriffe as punishment for the bad. The bodies of their dead were care fully embalmed and deposited in cata combs, which still continue to be an object of curiosity to those who visit the islands. Their marriages were very solemn, and before engaging in them, the brides were fattened on milk. ©I IMI lOSSIL Pearl Divers.— The following is from O an article in the March number of Put nam's Magazine: The boats generally assemble at a late hour of the night, and when all are to gether a signal gun is fired, whereupon they set sail for the banks, which are not far from the west side of the Persian Gulf, The purpose is to reach there be foi e daybreak, so that the divers may be able to begin the moment the sun rises abo\e the dark waters. In each boat there are, besides the pilot, ten rowers and ten divers. The latter, perfectly naked, but with their skin well rubbed with fragrant oil, work five at a time, leaving the other five to recover and to recruit in the meanwhile. Before they jump in they compress the nostrils tightly with a small piece of horn, which keeps the water out, stuff their ears with beeswax for the same purpose, fasten a net work bag, which is to hold the oysters, by a string to their waist, and aid their own descent by a large stone of red granite, which they catch hold of with their feet. Then they go quickly down to the bottom. Here they dart about as quickly as they can, picking up with their fingers and their toes, which they use with wonderful agility, fill their bag, and shake the rope that is held above in the boat, in order to be drawn up at once. In favorable weather the diver may go down fifteen times a day ; if the weather is less propitious, they dive at most five times. They remain on the average not over a minute under water ; to stay there a minute and a half or two minutes is possible only for a few expert divers, and can only be reached by extraordinary efforts. A few who have endured four or five minutes are spoken of as the men of genius that adorn a nation’s annals; and the greatest of divers is a half fabu lous Indian, who remained full six min utes under water. The exertion is ex tremely violent, and generally when the poor men return to, the surface, blood flows from nose, ears, and eyes. Hence, divers are generally unhealthy and, with out exception, short-lived. They suffer of heart diseases and sores, and are easily recognized among the mixed population of those regions by their blood-shot eyes, staggering limbs, and bent backs ; these are a part of their wages. Sometimes they die suddenly, on reach ing the surface, as if struck by a shot, and are seen no more. The stories of Hume us tlieir number being regularly slain, in order to throw their limbs to the sharks for the sake of saving the lives of the others, or of eye-balls starting out of sockets, and trympanum of the ear break ing under the pressure of the water, are, of course, fables; but the pains and pen alties of the poor pearl divers are, in all conscience, sad enough to surround the fruit of their labor, the beauteous pearl, with a melancholy interest unknown to other jewels. Impeachment in 1678. — The following is the speech of Earl Caernarvon on the impeachment of Earl Danby : My Lords : I understand but little of Latin, and a little of the English history, from which I have learned the mischiefs of such kind of persecutions as these, and the ill-fate of the persecutors. I could bring many instances, and those vary an cient ; but, my lords, 1 shall go no farther back than the latter end of Queen Eliza beth’s reign, at which time the Earl of Es sex was run down by Sir Walter Raleigh; and your Lordships know what became of Sir Walter Raleigh, My Lord Bacon, he ran down Sir Walter Raleigh; and jour Lordships know what became ofmy Lord Bacon. The I)uke of Buckingham, he ran down my Lord Bacon ; and your Lordships know what happened to the Duke of Buckingham. Sir Thomas Wentworth, afterwards Earl of Strafford, ran down the Duke of Buckingham ; and you all know what became of him. Sir Henry Vane, he ran down the Earl of Strafford; and your Lordships know ol Sir Henry V ane. Chancellor Hyde, he ran down Sir Henry Vane; and your Lordships know what became of the Chancellor. Sir Thomas Osborn, now Earl of Danby, ran down Chancellor Hyde ; but what will become of the Earl of Danby, your Lordships best can tell. But let me sec the man that dare run down the Earl of Danby, and we shall soon see what will become of him. Never lay a stumbling block in the way of a man who is trying to advance himself in the world honestly and up rightly, for he is likely to walk over it and iaugh at you afterward. -- — ‘’But” is a more detestable combination ofletters than “No” itself. “No” is a surly, honest fellow, speaks liis mind rough and round at once. “But” is a sneaking, eva sive, half-breed, exceptional sort of a con junction, which comes to pull away the cup just when it is at your lips. marexbb. On Tuesday June the bride’s father, by Rev. A. J. Ryan, Dr. H H SMETH, of Screven county, and Miss KATE CLAUDE youngest daughter of J. E. McDonald, Esq., of this city. No cards. OBITUARY, IN MEM OKI AM. Died, at San Luis Potosi, Mexico, March 18, 1868, Dr. JAMES H. BERRIEN, of Savannah, Georgia, late Surgeon, and Medical Director, Confederate States Army, in the thirty-second year of his age. Dr. Berrien was the son of the late Hon. John McPherson Berrien, of Savannah, and, previous to tho late war, was a Surgeon in the United States Army, and on the breaking out of the war, was on duty at one of the military stations on the Pacific coast. Upon the secession #om the Union of his native State, he threw up his commission in the Federal Army, and joined his fortunes with his native South, aud was at once commissioned by President Davis a Surgeon in tho Regular Army of the Confederate States. He served with distinguished ability in Richmond, Va., aud subsequently as Medical Director of General Magmder’s Department in Texas. On the termina tion of tho war, rather than yield obodience to a now usurped Government, he removed to Mexico, where he engaged in the practice of his profession, and had already established a reputation for skill, science, and fidelity. He was the soul of honor—pure and upright in all his dealings with his fellow-men ; a devoted brother, aud a worthy son of a noble sire. He was devoted— passionately attached—to the Lost, but noble, Cause of Constitutional Liberty and Southern Independence. Requiescat in pace. g. New Orleans, May 19, 1868. —— ADVERTISEMENTS. Kenny 6l Cray, -No. 238 I3road Street, dealers in READYMADE CLOTHING, CLOTHS,’ CASSIMERES AND VESTINGS, GEM FURNISHING GOODS, OF ALL KINDS, •# AND EVERYTHING USUALLY KEPT IN A First-Class Clothing and Tailoring Kstabllshment #£T An examination of their splendid Stock is oor diallv invited. Augusta, March 21,1868. ts HIRING- 1808. THE OLD AND RELIABLE HOUSE OF 6l TITRIiB’Sr, ATJCATJSWA, GA., Is always prepared to offer to the public, at wholesale and retail, a thoroughly complete assortment of STAPLE GOODS, —ALSO— French and Swiss Dross Goods, CLOTHS, CASSIMERES,’ CLOAKS, SHAWLS, EMBROIDERIES, LACES, HOSIERY’, HOOP SKIRTS, NOTIONS, kc., kc. mli 21 t, NEW SPRING- DRY GOODS. James A. Gray &, Co s», 228 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GEO., Beg to inform the public that they are now receiving THE LARGEST SPRING STOCK OF 6XAPK.IS AXn FAXCY DRY tiOOXJS Which have been received at this Establishment for the past twenty years. These Goods have been purchased EXCLUSIVELY FOR CASH from the most eminent Importers of the United States, from the Manufacturers’ Agents direct, and in largo quantities from the recent celebrated Auction Sales ordered by Messrs. Benkard k Hutton, one ol the very largest Importing Houses in New York Having full access to the very best Houses in the world, and purchasing side by side with the largest Jobbers in the United States, we can confidently and truthfully assure our friends that WE CAN SUPPLY THEIR DEMANDS FOR DRY GOODS, EITHER AT WHOLESALE OR RETAIL, AS CHEAP AS THEY CAN PURCHASE THE SAME IN NEW YORK. Merchants visiting the city, will please make a note Qi this fact, examine our assortment, and judge for themselves. We would respectfully invite the closest examination of both stylos and price. JAMES A. GRAY k CO., a pH 228 Broad Street. J. J. BROWNE, GILDER AND PICTfBE FRAME AIANtTACTCI^F.R, 135 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. Old Pictures and Looking-Gjiass Frame* Tie gilt. Oil Paintings Restored, Lined r,nd Varnished. my3o—ly O’Dowd <&, Xttnlhcrin, GROCERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, iVo. 283 liroad Street, AUGUSTA, GA„ have on hand a fell stock of SUGAR, COFFEE, TEAS, SOAF, STARCH, CANDLES, \ TOBACCO, LIQUORS, SEGA US, BACON, LARD, FLOUR, AND EVERY THING Usually kept in a Wholesale and Retail Grocery. PRICKS AS LOW’ AS THE LOWEST. mh2l ts GREENBRIER WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Tlie undersigned, Lessees of this OLD AND WELL KNOWN WATERING PLACE. Announce that, encouraged by the liberal jiatrouage received last season, they have largely added to their accommodations, in comfort and appearance, aud are prepared to entertain fifteen hundred guests. THE BATHING ACCOMMODATIONS ARE IN FINE ORDER. HOT AND WARM SULPHUR BATHS, So eminently efficacious in many cases, are at the command of visitors, at all hours. In addition to other amusements, they have provided anew and elegant BOWLING ALLEY AND BILLIARD ROOM. CONVENIENTLY LOCATED. PROFESSOR ROSENBURG’S CELEBRATED FULL BRASS BAND, Has been engaged for the season. A. GOOD LIVERY STABLE Will be kept on the premises. The completion of the Virginia Central Railroad to Covington leaves only twenty miles staging, through a beautiful mountain country over a well graded turn pike. T@PKts: $$ par and pac Children under ten years of age, and colored ser vants, half price. White servants according to accom modations. [mylG-lm] PEYTON & CO. To the Public. The undersigned, so long and favorably known as Broom Manufacturer, and Seater of Cano Chairs maker and renovator of Mattrasses, kc., would re spectfully inform his friends, and the public, that, in addition to his former business, he has supplied a want long felt at the Southwestern portion of the city, namely, a GENERAL NEWS DEPOT, Where all tho leading NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, and MAGAZINES can be obtained at the LOWEST RATES. lam also agent for the Banner of The South, New York Freeman’s Journal, Charleston Ga zette, kc. Metropolitan Record, In Crosse Democrat, Police Gazette, N. Y. Herald, Tribune, Times, World, Harper’s Weekly, Frank Leslie, or any of the leading Newspapers or Periodicals, delivered in any part of the city on the morning of tlieir arrival. Earnestly soliciting a share of public patronage at my Old Stand, Corner York and Montgomery streets, Savannah, Ga. may23-lm E. M. CONNOR. AGENTS WANTED FOR THE LIFE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS, J3y FRANK 11. ALFRIEND, of Richmond. This Is the only full, authentic and OFFICIAL history of tho Life and Public services of the great Southern leader. Mr. Alfriend has had tho 00-opera tion and assistance of the leading Confederate officials in the preparation of this work, as will be apparent t > all on examination. Send for specimen pages and cir culars, with terms. Address NATIONAL PUBLISH ING 00., Atlanta, Ga. my 9—6 SPECZAX NOTICE. STEEL AMALGAM BELLS, Every Sole ol and Plantation should have one. V, .11 sell those low on hand cheap. Those desiring to purchase will do well to call soon. Price, complete, from $7 to If 10. P. MALONE, Augusta Foundry and Machine Works May 19th, 1868. rnyliO—t Augusta Foundry AND MACHINE WORKS. V, RIGHT & ALLUM’ri IMPROVED COTTON SCREWS, GIN GEAR, SUG AR BOILERS, SUGAR MILLS, GUDGEONS, ALARM BULLS, AND ALL KJN‘DS OF CASTINGS, DONE AT SHORT NOTICE. HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR OLD MACHINERY IRON. BRASS AND COPPER. PHILIP MALONE. mh2l ts 3