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PHRTAINLV YOU CANNOT FIND in any other newspaper, no matter whero it is published, or however large it may be, so much of personal interest and local benefit as appears I” amoamftftUto j SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, MAY 10, 1878. ••THK lUVOIFAC OK THE BEAD.” Who wrote “The Bivouao of the Dead?” This is the question; and wo answer that it was Col. Theodore O'Hara of Kentucky. Hi served in the Mexican war, and also in the war of the rebellion, first as colonel of nu Alabama regiment and afterward as chief of staff to General Breckinridge, lie died in 1867 on an Alabama plantation, and tho legislature of Kentucky have brought his remains home lor interment, with those of other Kentucky soldiers, under a mouument erected by the Stale. His poem drew its inspiration from scenes in the Mexican war, and these are its stanzas; The muffl * l drum’s sad roll has boat Tin* soldier’s last tattoo; No more on life’s parade shall meet, That bravo ami fallon few. On fume’* otcrnal camping ground Thoir silent tents are spread, And glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead. No minor of tho foe’s advance Now swell* upon the wind. No troubled thoughtsuvt midnight haunt, Of loved ones left behind; No vision of the morrow’s strife The warrior’s dream alarms, No braying horn nor screaming fife At dawn shall call to arms. Their shivered swords are red with rust, Their plumed heads are bowed, Their haughty banner, trailed in dust, Is now their martial shroud Aud plenteous funeral tears have washed The red stains from each brow, Aqd the proud forms by battle gash and, Are free from anguish now. The neighing troop, the flashing blade, The bugle’s stirring blast, The charge, the dreadful cannonade, The din aud shout are past— Nor war’s wild note, nor glory’s peal, . Shall thrill with fierce delight Those breasts that never more shall feel The rapturo of the fight. Like the fierce Northern hurricane That swopt his great plateau, Flushed with the triumph yet to gain, Came down the serried foe Who heard the thunder of tho fray Break o’m tiie Held beneath, Knew well tho watchword of that day Was victory or death. Full many a mother's breath has swept O’er Angostura’s plain, And long the pitying sky has wept Above its moldef’d slain. The raven’s scream or eagle’s flight Or shepherd’s pensive lay Alone now wake each solemn height. That frowned o’er that dread fiay. Sons of the Dark and Bloody Ground I Ye must not slumber there, Where stranger steps and tongues resound Along the heedless air; Your own proud laud’s heroic soil BhaJl bo your Utter grave; She claims from war its richest spoil— The ashes of the brave. Thus ’neaththeir parent turf they rest, bar from the glory field, Borne to a Spartan mother's breast On many a bloody shield. The sunshine of their native sky Smiles nadly on them hero, Ant kindred eyes and boarts watch by Tho hero’s sepulchre. Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead! Dear as tho blood ye gave; No impious footstep here shall tread The herbage of your grave. Nor shall your glory bo forgot While Fame her record keeps; Or Honor points the’hallowed spot Where Valor proudly sleeps. Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone In deathless song shall tell. When many a vanished year hath flown, The story how ye fell; Nor wreck, nor change,hor winter’s blight, Nor time’s remorseless doom, Can dim one ray of holy light, That gilds your glorious tomb. —AT. Y. SUji. Who Made the Proposal. Dr. Gibson, hs.ving made an unprofes sional visit to Mrs. Kellioot, walked down to the gate with her daughter Mattie. Mattie was twenty years old, and the doctor was thirty. Her eyes were brown, and bis were gray. She had on a pink calico dress and a white muslin apron; he wore clean, cool looking clothes and a white Panama hat. The gentleman admired the lady’s flowers very much, especially the white roses, one of which, by the way, she had tucked under her car. She inquired, with considerable show of interest., about the Ruggles children, who had the measles. He gravely told her all about Tommy and Ben, Alice arid Kit; and when he had finished a silence (ell upon them. Mattie was leaning on the gate, looking down the village street. he thought how funny it was for Mr. Scott to paint his new house pea green, with lavender trimmings, and was about to say so to Dr. Gibson, when he stopped her. He said the very last thing she would have expected to hear. He said;— “Mattie, I love you, and waut you to marry me!” The vory look in the bright eyes would have told him, without a sinpio spoken word, how thoroughly unlooked for such a proposal had been- She had never, in all the years she had known Dr. Gibson, thought for a moment of the possibility of his loving her. She was very sorry, she told him, but sho didn’t lovo him one bit, at,least not in that way, But the tears canto into her eyes as she saw tho quiet face grow a trido pa'e. “1 hardly believed you did care for me,” lie went ou after a pause; "but 1 hoped you might yet leant to do it.” “But—but—said Mattie, with em barrassment, “I thought-everybody knew I was engaged to my cousin Tom.” “Your cousin Tom!” echoed the doc tor. It was impossible to mistake the expression that passed over bis face. It was not merely personal regret at the fact that she anooanood, but an impartial dis approval of the match. He made no comment, however, but directly said: “Mattie, 1 shall never get over this—l menu I shall always love you —and it you need a friend or protector, or—any one— you'll'-- , to uio, won’t you?” She promised, and held out her hand to h'tu. Ho shook i; w .roily ar.d said, “Go.l bless you I” and left her hurriedly. Mattie, still leaning on the woodi n gate •-atehed tho retiring figure out of sight. Sho was very quiet all day, and in the ev.'uing propounded the absurd ques tion: “Tom, wbat would you do if I should jilt you?" Tom stroked bis downy upper lip and. looked pensive. “Couldn't say,” he replied, after some moments of reflection. “You might try it uml see.” “Perhaps 1 will,” she replied, more soberly than the occasion seemed to wur rar.t. Tom stared very hard at her, hut immediately forgot the incident. Nearly a year passed. One day Mrs Koi!ic"t's “he!;>” rushed tratuioally into Dr. Gibson’? ouse, and breathlessly rre nounced to th# gentleman that ‘ Mr. Tom would he deader’na doornail long before hegottber t if ho didn't jump!” For two seconds, thinking of him as his rtvs.l in Mat lie’s affections, the doctor had half a mind to consign him to the tender mercies of good, stupid, old Dr. Wells; but. Ilia better naiute prevailed, and he staited tor Mrs. Kellicot’s at the very heels of tho excited servant girl. When he arrived he found Tom in a high fever and delirious. Ho pronounced it a severe case of typhoid fever. He sent to his own house for changes of clothing, preparing to devote himself to tho rick man. Mattie, too, was unwearied in the vork, and, being necessarily much in Tom's room, consequently saw the doctor constantly. Ho and his patient presented a marked contrast, to each other. The latter was captions and peevish to an unheard of degree, and talked incessantly of some being named Kato. On the other h nd, Dr. Hibson was so patient and gi ntle, so strong and helpful, doing so much for Tom, and yet not forgetting ono of his accustomed duties, that Mattie opened her eyes in admiring astonishment. One morning, as the doctor prepared a sleeping draught for somebody, and dictated a prescription to Mattie for Somebody else, she said, with real soliei t ude: “Dr- Gibson, you will certainly kill yourself if you keep on at this rate, arid you ought to take a rest.” “Do 1 appear to bo at death's door?” he inquired, straightening up and squar ing his shoulders, as if proud of his pra ps :iorn. “No, Mat ip.” he continued solemnly, though with a merry twinkle of his honest eyes, “work, m: Mrs. Bowers frequently says, is a pannykay.” Mafic understood him, and colored crimson At last Tom was pronounced out of danger, and now the doctor felt he must remove himse'f arid his belongings fruui M rs. Keihcot’s house to hin o h. Mattie, hidden by the honeysuckle vinos over the piazza, watched him go, ami cried a little. The morning after, Tom and Mattie sat on the piazza; he reading or pretending to read, while she sewed diligently. Neither uttered a word f.ir more than half an hour. Presently Mattie shook out the muslin cap she was making, and laid it on her work box, put her iittle silver thimble asi-ie, and dropped her hands, om ...cr the other, into her lap. Then she look** ed up. Tom was staring straight at h"r. She colored violently, and so fur that matter did he. “Tom,” she began, “don’t bo angry. Oh, do forgive me!”--She paused to think how sho could tell him .softly, hut she went on bluntly, “1 want to end our engagement." “So do II" rojoined he, with difficulty repressing a whistle. Then both burst into a hearty laugh. “You see, Mat,” said Tom, when he could speak, “I lovo some ono else.” Mattie appeared to bo taken quite by surprise at this declaration. “But I couldn’t help it, indeed I couldn’t. She is—” "Sho is a young lady whose name is Kate, and her eyes are the blackest, and her cheeks the reddest, and she sings ‘Under the Stars,' with guitar aecompani ' ment,” rattled Mattie, all in a breath. It was Tom’s turn to stare. “Where | did you find all this out?” he asked, j “My dear little bird, etc. I think I'll ; go and write to my future cousin,” and ' off she ran, glad to escape the questions which she feared he might propound, i ‘‘Hut you haven’t told me —ho called after her. "And never shall,” sho returned, ! whisking into her room. In less than an hour sho L td reconciled her -i the. to Fate’s deer ■ h <■. ■ M,--lvat" Spencer and pet's i. (To;,: ! Write r.is'>, and had done much t . • t.i informing the whole village ol ' ■ tit?r- -I prospects. In duo time Tom was mart 1 i, Mat! officiating as firs t bridesmaid. Mattip, after the excitement Tom's wedding, be though herself wi at he would do. There were her sum mor j dre> so to I"' made up, her music scholars j to attend to, the sewing circle, and the flowin ', hut these neither occupied all her time or i1..-tight e There ought to have been Dr. Gib*o-:i, too, sbe could not belli thinking; but that gentleman, instead of falling at her iect as soon as he found she Was free, paid her no more attention than before. She waited for him, iu growing wonder and wony, an eternity—two weeks--arid then took measures to bring him to his senses. She employed only recognized and lady like means, however. She began by flirting a little with different gentlemen. There was Will Ellis. This young gen tleman had offered himself to our heroine on an average four times a year since sho was fifteen, he had inevitably refused him, decidedly auu emphatically; but they were tho beet friend in the world. Sho now told him tha> -be would accept all the attentions that, in would ciTor hex during the next week, taking care to le member that this singular declaration proceeded not ’from any regard for him, but was umdc in pursuance of some occult design on her part. Forthwith the pair embarked on what seemed to be the stormiest flirtation Skinnerville ever saw In the long mornings they drove or rowed together; they dined at Mrs Keliicot’s, and Immediately sallied forth on some other excursion. Both were excellent equestrians, and Mattie gloried in gal loping over hill ond dale on one of Will’s handsome horses (Will, by the way, was the son of a rich man). Then they drank an early tea on the veranda, and spent the evening at. the piano or in reading. At the hour of nine, Mattie always sent Will home without a particle of ceremony or regret at his departure. In short, what appeared to Skinnerville as a serious court.ihip was, in reality, a purely busi ness matter, an ) so understood between the parties to it. This state of affairs continued for a week or so, during whiMi time the doctor ignored Mattie’s existence, except a- sho was the daughter of his :•• -nd Mrs. Kebioot. And all the time th" ; vl w,is raging inwardly at he quoad a- i 1 ‘‘Why doesn’t he nsk uic at ••••••?” .--bo queried mentally; “Ia n me, and any one might see *-r.it t !•>'.-• him; but he can’t, I suppose I sli.tii - an old maid.” But the doctor was not to hliuu". A man of tho world would have seen through Mattie’s stratagem, but he did not, tic imagined "be was either trying to drown bar di. appointment at losing Tom, <>• bad really derided to marry tho cuemoicd Will. The truth ccotuTod to Mattie at last. She could hardly believe such stupidity existed in the mind of man; but she en deavored to try what modesty and retiring behavior would effect. So she dismissed Will, and became, to all outward appear ance a little nun. Still no advance ou ib-. doctor's part. Mattie gave up all hope, finally, of ever coming to a better understanding with him, when something happened. Dr. 1 Uhson “dropped in” one morning, when Mrs. Koilicot sat sowing n tho pleasant vernada, in ttm cool, refreshing breezo t NUMBER 20. “You musn’t ooree here,” sho called, an he tied his horse to the hitching post. “My work requires my undivided atten tion; besides you’ll step on the ruffles. You may go help Mattie, if you like.” The young woman was making pies in the kitchen. She saw the doctor coming round the corner of the house, gave a hurried glance at tho bright bottom of a pan she was holding, found herself pre sentable, and greeted him composedly. She was very glad to see him, she said; wouldn't ho come in? No, ho wouldn’t come in, the day was so beautiful. He would just stand on the little brick pavement under the win dow and lean on tho sill. So there ho stood, under the grapevine trellis, with a littlo golden sunshine fall ing over his hair and shoulders. Mattie observed that ho looked thoroughly un loverliko, and concluded that he didn’t intend to propose. She also noticed a rip in his coat, aud wondered who would mend it for him. Somehow, tho talk veered round from the weather to woman’s rights. Mattie, on this, spoko up. She didn’t at all believe in tho seoond haud influence which reached the ballot ’"ix through the ncency of husbands and 1 rothers. “Av heu 1 vote,” she said, “I -• to march to the polls and put in my iw l vote mysoli.” •Wba -i pretty spectacle you’d 'make, with that rolling pin in your hand, 'm not sure th.-p, f rant to vote,' he -interrupted; “hut 1 would like to comaLvs ß- :, that it ail: • '.Yelt msghi petition the legisla ture. vl (. -dec’or, gravely. “u - , are not legal laws, only social eti.,-;cit.a audit-ages.” She laid the roll in pin a.-uio with an emphatic bang, and plain 1 her floury arms akimbo, looking very earnest and determined, aud quite regardless of th3 fact that she and Dr. Gibson wore in love with each other. “Sow at a party, when a lady sits alone in a stuffed chair I1 evening, nut dancing, simply because she hasn’t any partner and can’t ask one. Oh! you know, Dr. Gibson, you know —" “How it is myself?” interpolated he. ‘•‘How it was at Mrs. Campbell’s tho other night. If I bad been Ann Rad eliff or Dura Coliard, I’d have asked soma of you meu to dance with me.” “Then you think women should have the privilege of asking for whatever they wish?” he retorted with a half smile. Sho answered that sho thought just that. “Well, Mattie, I quite agree with you. I not only think that they should have this right in such cases as you men tion, hut also in more serious affairs. For instance, women might, with perfect proprioty, make proposals of marylage.” Now such an idea had never dntored Mattie’s foolish little head, and sjie seized the sugar box with great euibarrassmenK The doctor wont on, with much gravity; “I am aware Ilia; it would be a very unconventional proceeding,- and I ~am afraid no woman will ever ho wise enough to take the initiative; and yet I am per suaded that in many instances it would be the most natural aud beautiful thing she could do.” He was looking unconsciously up in the blue sky shining through the filagree work of vine leaves above him. It was evident he was thinking about it iu the abstract ouly, but a faltering little “Dr. Gibson,” recalled him to the concrete. And there stood Mattie, smiling, blush ing, dimpling, ready to extinguish herself in her brown gingham apron. “Dr. Gibson, I like you ever so much,” she faltered, bravely but breathlessly. .! he ductor jumped through tho open wndow and made his proposal over agaill. !’ ’let' uit’s millpond, Taylor county, there is a curious sneeiiucn of beaver huu -building. Near the middle of the -. ~!, w.uets furen sit hundred acres of !,;u,t th:-:e f-' •* Uu : island, on which has 1,,.;.,- 'r industrious beavers a thr?t slur; 1 e, made of logs cut liom the timber contiguous to the pond. The unp-u story is above high water mark. It i- .aid that when the water begitiH to rise from a freshet the heavers remove their young from ono story to tho other until they are safe. The house is well constructed and daubed with mud, so we are inform ed , and it is no unusual sight aay cloudy day t i ,-ee one or two beavers with their ht -..is out of a hole in the top of their dom icil taking observations of the weather, — T' I button llet/utcr. Blunt men sometimes say cutting things.