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(lllfj? JOHN H. SEALS, NEW SERIES, VOLUME 111, €j \t Cemperance Cntsakr. <• ■ •> Published every Thursday in the year, exeept two* VBBMfi i Two Dollars per year, In adv&ace. CSOaeUAo EBaa34®SS Clubs of Ten Names, by sending the Cash, will receive the paper at • • * • - $1 50$ copy. Clubs of Five Names, at ..... 180 “ Any person sending us Five new subscribers, inclo sing the money, shall receive an extra copy one year free of cost. , i i-, 1 f * ADVERTISING DIRECTORY: Rates of Advertising: 1 square, (twelve lines or less,) first insertion, $1 00 “ Each continuance, 50 Professional or Business Cards, not exceeding six lines, per year, 5 00 Announcing Candidates for Office, 3 00 Standing Advertisements: Advertisements not marked with the number of insertions, will be continued until forbid, and charged accordingly. , , jSS-Merchants, Druggists and others, may contract for advertising by the year on reasonable terms. Legal Advertisements: Sale of Land or Negroes, by Administrators, Ex- ‘ ecutors and Guardians* per square, 5 00 Sale of Personal Property, by Administrators, Ex ecutors and Guardians, per square, 3 25 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 25 Notice for Leave to Sell, 4 Citation for Letters of Administration, ‘ 275 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Adm’n, 500 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Guard’p, 325 Legal Requirements: Sales of Land and Negroes by Administrators, Exec utors or Guardians, arc required, by law, to be held on the First Tuesday in the month, between the hours ot ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court-house door of the county in which the properly is situate. Notices of these sales must be given in a pub lic Gazette, forty days previous to the day of sale. Notices, for the sale of Personal Property must be given at least ten days previous to the day of sale. Notices to Debtors and Creditors of nn estate, must be published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court oi Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be pub lished weekly for two months. Citations for Letters of Administration, must be pub lished thirty days —for Dismission from Administration monthly, six months—hr Dismission from Guardianship, forty days. Rules for Foreclosure of Mortgage must be published monthly, for four months —for compelling titles from Ex ecutors or Administrators, where a bond has been issued by the deceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always be continued according to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise or dered JOHN A. REYNOLDS, Publisher. STATE AND FEDERAL AFFAIRS. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, President U. States John C. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, Vice. “ Lewis Cass, of Michigan, Secretary of Stale Howell Cobb, of Georgia, Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, Secretary Interior John B. Floyd, of Virginia “ War Isaac Toucey, of Connecticut “ Navy Aaron V. Brown, of Tennessee, Postmaster-General Jeremiah S. Black, of Pennsylvania, Attorney General Judiciary—Supreme Court. Roger B. Taney, Baltimore, Md. Chief Justice, ap pointed 1856 —Salary $5 000 g John McLean, Cincinnati, Ohio, Associate Justice, appointed in 1829 —Salary $4 500 James M. Wayne, Savannah, Ga. Associate Justice, appointed 1839 —Salary $4 500 John A. Campbell, Mr bile, Ala. Associate Justice, appointed 1853—Salary 84 500 John Catron, Nashville, Tennessee, Associate Jus tice, appointed 1837—Salary $4 500 Peter V. Daniel, Richmond, Virginia, Associate Jus tice, appointed 1841 —Salary $4 500 Samuel Nelson, Coopcrstown, New York, Associote Justice, appointed in 1845 —Salary $4 500 Nathan Clifford, Portland, Muine, Associate Justice, appointed 1857 —Salary §4 500 Robert C. Grier, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Associate Justice, appointed 1846 —Salary $4 500 Benjamin C. Howard, Baltimore, Maryland, Reporter, appointed 1843 —Salary $1 300 The Supreme Court is held in the City of Washington, and has one session annually, commencing on the fust Monday in December. STATE OF GEORGIA. J. E. Brown, Governor J. A. Steele, Secretary Executive Department John B. Campbelle, “ “ M. W. McComb, E. P. Watkins, Secretary of State John B. Trippe, Treasurer Peterson Thweatt, Comptroller General James A. Green, Surveyor General John F. Condon, State Librarian ’ John E. Ward, President of the Senate W. B. Terhune, Secretary of the Senate J.W.H.Underwood,Speaker House Representatives Alex. M. Speer, Clerk House of Representatives William Turk, Principal Keeper Penitentiary Benjah S. Carswell, Assistant “ “ H. J. G. Williams, Inspector of Penitentiary Wm. A. Williams, Book-Keeper “ Dr. Tomlinson Fort,Physician “ Dr. T. Fort, B. P. Stubbs and Dr. L. Strohecker, Trustees Lunatic Asylum. Supreme Court for Correction Errors. Joseph H. Lumpkin, Judge. Term expiree 1868 Charles J. McDonald, Judge. “ “ 1861 Henry L. Benning, Judge. “ “ 185 B. Y. Martin, Reporter R. E. Martin, Clerk First District. —Composed of the Eastern and Middle Judicial Circuits, at Savannah, on the second Mondays in January and June in each year. Second District. —Composed of the Macon, South Western and Chattahoochee * Judicial Circuits at Ma con, on the 4th Monday in January and 3d Monday in June in each year. Third District. —Composed of the Flint, Coweta, Blue Ridge and Cherokee Judicial Circuits, at Atlanta, on the 4th Monday in March and 2d Monday in August in each year. Fourth District. —Composed of the Western and Nor thern Judicial Circuits, at Athens, on the 4th Mondays of May and November of each year. Fifth District. —Composed of the Ocmulgee and Sou thern Judicial Circuits, at Milledgevitle, on the 2d Mon days of May and November of each year. *Note. —The Pataula Circuit is attached to the 2d Supreme Court District; Brunswick to the Ist; Talla poosa to the 3d. The firm of j. m. bowles & co. is this day dissolved by mutual consent, Wm. B. Seals retiring. Ths business will be continued by J, M. Bowles at the same stand, where he will keep, at all times, a full supply of Family Groceries, and will be ready and willing to serve his friends at very Short Frq- Jits for the CASH. .1. M. BOWLES, Feb 25 WM. B. SEALS. LOST OR STOLEN. A IX persons arc forewarned against trading for XjL the following notes: A note on Wm F Luckie for Seventeen Dollars and Forty Cents, dated in April or May last, and due the twenty fifth December ihereaf ter ; one on Wm Moore for Twelve Dollars and Twen ty-five Cents, dated in May or June last, and due the <wenty-fifth December thereafter; one oil David Phelps df Hancock county for Twenty Dollars, dated in March Uet and due from date ; and one on John Mitchell of Mount Zion for Seventeen Dollars Twelve and a-hnlf cents, dated in April last, and due the twenty-fifth of CtecembA thereafter. ‘ “ The above notes were made payable to the subscriber guardian of free boys Jerry and Ben ; and the ma kers of the same arc requested to make payment to no person except myself or my order. THOMAS D. SANFORD. Greenesboro’, March 4, 1858. Fresh cranberries and currants. March 25 J. M. BOWLES! ORANGES AND LEMONS. Marcus J. M. BOWLES. |F you Want bright and sharp Knives, buy a BATH X BRIC-’ ol [April 22] J. M. BOWLES. ’ A NICE lo) of CROWDER PEAS lor sale by April 32 J. M. BOWLES. THE WEEKLY / • CHRONICLE & SENTINEL, PUBLISHED AT AUGUSTA, GA. , IS THE LARGEST AND BEST LARGEST AND BEST LARGEST AND BEST LARGEST AND BEST PAPER IN THE STATE. PAPER IN THE STATE. PAPER IN THE STATE. PAPER IN THE STATE. IN EVERY NUMBER IN EVERY NUMBER IN EVERY NUMBER IN EVERY NUMBER WE GIVE THE READER WE GIVE THE READER WE GIVE THE READER WE GIVE THE READER THREE TO FIVE TIMES As much Reading Matter as is contained in the ordinary Weekly Papers ol the South, consisting of INTERESTING STORIES AND TALES, INTERESTING STORIES AND TALES, INTERESTING STORIES AND TALES, INTERESTING STORIES AND TALES, MARKET REPORTS, MARKET REPORTS, MARKET REPORTS, MARKET REPORTS, LATEST NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD, LATEST NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD, LATEST NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD, LATEST NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD, Ac. Ac. Ac. The Weekly Cironiole &. Sentinel, devoted to POLITICS, NEWS AND MISCELLANEOUS IN TELLIGENCE, is issued every Wednesday morning, contains the LATEST NEWS received by Mail and Telegraph up to Twelve O’clock Tuesday Night, and is mailed to subscribers by the earliest trains from this citv, at TWO DOLLARS A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. TRI-WEEKLY PAPER, $4.00, DAILY PAPER, $7.00. Letters should be addressed to W. S. JONES, Augusta, Ga. copies sent free when desired. April 15, 1858 Dr. W. L. M. HARRIS, ATKFITI. to the good citizens of Pen- Ytf field and vicinity, for the liberal confidence Z3& and encouragement given him, respectfully contin ues a lender of his professional services to them. Dr. R. J. Massey, his former partner in the practice, will, with pleasure; attend any call, at any time, that may be made while Dr. 11. is professionally engaged and Cannot be obtained. March 11,1858 HTHE SUBSCRIBER IS NOW OPENING A a nice stock of Spring and Summer Goods, to which the attention of the citizens of Penfield and vicinity is respectfully invited. The styles of the sea son are unusually handsome and prices very reasonable. An early call will he highly appreciated. Penfield, March 25th ‘ Wm. B. SEALS. JUST RECEIVED! A Large Stock of Family Groceries! CONSISTING OF All Grades Sugar and Coffee ; Fine Syrups and Molasses ; Good Apple Vinegar; Rice ; Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Mackerel; A large lot of Hydraulic Candles, which can he bought exceedingly low; A variety of Pickles ; Maccaroni; Sago; Currants ; Raisins and Candies ; Table Salt; Soda; Pepper and Spices ; Chewing and Smoking Tobacco ; Pipes ; Any quality of a Cigar ; Large lot of Jar Snuff; All qualities of Soap; Drugs and Patent Medicines ; Perfumery—a choice lot. By way of remark, I would say to the citizens and vi cinity of Penfield, that I am giving this business my un divided attention ; and if they will give me a liberal pa- j tronage, I will save them the TROUBLE and EX | PENSE of going farther. Penfield, Ga. March 9, 1857. J. M. BOWLES. DRS. COE &. LATIMER would inform their friends and patients that one of the firm will constantly remain in Greenesboro', and that the other will befound in the following places at the times specified below: White Plains, from March Ist to March 141 h. Mount Zion, “ “ 15th to “/ 28th. Oxford, “ April 12th to April 25th. Penfield, “ “ 26th to May 9th. As this time table will be strictly adhered to, those who call early will be most likely to receive attention. Feb 25th, 185S A GOOD lot of SALT in new sacks. March 18, 1858 J. M. BOWLES. ALL persons arc forewarned against trading for a note of $53 00, held by Franklin Moore against myself. The considerations for which the note was given having failed, I decline paving it. April 8, 1858 IF. TF. DURHAM. THE BEST, CHEAPEST AND MOST SUCCESS FUL FAMILY PAPER IN THE UNION. HARP ER*S~WEEKLY. Price, Five Cents a Number; $2.50 Per Year. WE would not so often call attention to Har per's Weekly if we were not well satisfied that it is the best family paper published in the United States, and for that reason, ana that alone, we desire to see it undermine and root out a certain kind of literature too prevalent, which blunts the morals of its readers, vitia ates their taste for sensible reading, and is altogether bad in its effects.— Neu> London Advertiser. As Harper’s Magazine has done much to drive out the yellow-covered literature, so wc should be glad to see this new Weekly take the place of those papers which depend for excitement on poor, trashy novels.— New York Evangelist. Harper’s Weekly abounds in original matter, spicy, piquant, instructive and entertaining. It has, and de servedly, a very large and increasing circulation. It is a tip-top family paper.— Boston Journal. It (Harper’s Weekly) is the proper size for binding, and an excellent opportunity is aflorded for any one who wishes to preserve the history of the country, as it is made, to do so by filing Harper’s Weekly. —Pontiac (Mich.) Jacksonian. Its fresh leaves, its clear type, its entertaining vari ety, its severe but just criticisms upon the follies of the times, its elegantly written and instructive articles, and its able correspondence, all combine to make it the mo del newspaper of our country, and one that every fam ily must prize. Its condensed weekly summary o{For eign and Domestic Intelligence is altogether superior to that contained in any other journal. Being published, too, in a form for preservation und binding, iftaken care of as it deserves to be, it will he found in future years, as wclcctnc a companion for the family and fireside as the day on which it was first perused.— M'Conncllsvillc (0.) Inquirer. Its illustrations are far ahead of any journal of the kind in the country. Its pen portraits of distinguished living men are. of themselves, worth the price of the volume. — N. Y. Christian Advocate and Journhl. Fresh, sparkling and vivacious. Its circulation is probably the greatest success ever achieved by any pub lication at. such an early period of its existence.—Brook lyn Eagte. The best family jwjwr wc ever saw. Its pages embrace a great variety ol reading matter, and its articles on the loading topics of the day arc written with an ability which would do credit to the “Thunderer'” of the,Bri tish Press—the London “Times.” In point of illustra tions, it is ahead of any of our pictorial slieoUf.— New London Advertiser. ‘“Harper’s Weekly ” gains renders and popularity with every issue, because it aims ut and hits that aver age, requirement for family reading which litis enterpri sing house so well comprehend. Its articles are brief, timely and devoid of partisanship; it. is ns versatile in subjects as it is even in tone, besides being marvelously cheap.— Boston Transcript. Back Numlfcrs of HARPER’S WEEKLY, ns well as Covers for Binding the Volume just completed, can be furnished by the Publishers. TERMS: One Copy for Twenty Weeks, SI.OO One Copy for One Year, 2.-50 One Copy ipr Two Years, 4.00 Five Copies for One Year, ( LOO Twelve Copies for One Y.cajj, 20.00 Twenty-five Copies for One Year, 40.00 j -A n Extra Copy will be (illowcd for eve rif C'ltibof Ewclvc j 9r I'wntij-fw Subscribers, Vol. 1., for the year 1857, of‘‘HARPEU’S WEEKLY | handsomely bound in Cloth, extra, V’rice, $3.50, is now ! ready. PINE APPLES! PINE APPLES! at the Gro cery of [May 6] J. M. BOWLES. THE ADOPTED ORGAN OF ATT. THE TEMPERANCE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE STATE. TO WHEAT GROWERS. THE undersigned being provided with a first rate THRASHER, FAN and McCOR D’S SPLENDID HORSE POWER, will send them, under the charge of a competent mail; to the different planta tions in this and the adjoining counties, to Thrash and Fan Wheat, on as accommodating terms as can be af forded. Applications made to me, in person or by letter, will meet with attention. JOHN C. CARMICHAEL. Greenesboro, Ga. May 6, 1858 ‘ 4t, Porter’s Spirit FREE GIFT DISTRIBUTM. THE Proprietors of PORTER’S SPIRIT OF THE TIMES, will, in July next, make a free distribution of SI,OOO among their Yearly Subscribers whose yearly subscription shall have, three or more months to run, after the date of distribution will be governed by the result of the great race that is to be run in England (in the 28th Os July next, known as the race for The Goodwood Cup. This contest is under the special patronage of the Duke ol Richmond, and is one of the most princely of the English racing year. It was the meeting selected last year for the memorable defod of the American horses in the English Turf; and It is more than probable that Prioress and other American horses will, oil the ap proaching occasion, appear in it again. As there will, probably, be thirty or forty horses en tered, and some fourteen or fifteen to start, we propose to distribute the sl,oooas follow s: First, we will confer a- „ . . Free Gift of SSOO in Cash, on the Subscriber who, in the distribution, shall obtain the name of the winning horse. The subscriber holding the name of the second horse, ; a Free Gift of $200; I and (othc Subscriber who holds the. name of tin? third horse, a Free Gift of SIOO. Among those who hold the names of the remaining horses which started, other than the first, three, we w ill distribute a Free Gift of SIOO in equal ports; and among those who hold the names ol horses which were entered, and did not start, we will distribute in like manner, the remaining Free Gift of S4OO ; so that there will be,'in all, SI,OOO divided among about j thirty gifts, in cash. j The distribution of the names of the horses among j our Subscribers will he effected by putting them into a i glass ballot-box, and taking them thenceforth simulta i neonsly with the number of the receipt of each Yearly J Subscriber as found upon our books. The horse thus I drawn will, of course, become the chosen competitor for the victory to the Yearly Subscribes whose number is drawn with it. In this way, the whole thirty-five or forty horses will be distributed among our regular Yearly Subscribers; and each subscriber will know’ ifhe has drawn a horse, by the duplicate number of his re ceipts, which we will forward him in advance from our books. The distribution of the horses’ names will take place on the evening of Saturday, the 24th of July, at our Office. 348 Broadwmy, New York, on which occasion , we will also distribute the names of the same horses in j another, out entirely’separate | Free Gift to AgrcHtt* of SSOO i among those of our Retail Agents who shall have been • in the habit of selling or more copies of our paper regularly, for eight weds previous tosuefa distribution: and for every extra ten copies each Retail Agent or, Newsman may sell, lie shall have anndditional share in the Agents Distribution. We take this mode of rewarding our Subscribers and Aids, in preference to employing Traveling Agents— choosing rather thus to give, what we would pay away in such expenses and commissions, to the Subscriber himself. By this means, the Subscriber receives, for the usual subscription price, not only his paper for the year, but a large sum in cash, in the shape ofa very novel and interesting sagacity. j The subscription price of Tortcr’s Spirit is $3.00 a j year. Postmasters and others who furnish Jen Yearly Scribers, will, in addition to their premium, be entitled to one share of the Agents’ Gift. It is our present intention to continue this system ol Free Gifts, and make to our Subscribers and Agents two Free Distributions during the following and each •succeeding year ; the first to be decided by Tltc F.psom Derby of 1856, to be ruii in England in the early Spring x (and for which two American horses are already entered.) and the others by The Doncaster St. Lcgcv, the annual great meeting of England for the Fall. As in both these last named meetings there are always about two hundred high-mettled racers entered, the interest that will attend the distribution of the names of the competitors among the readers of our paper may easily be conceived. For the present year, in consequence of the close ap proach of the Derby, we have chosen, for convenience, the grand race for The Goodwood Cup. P‘ S.—The distribution wiH take place publicly, un der the superintendence of a Committee of Subscribers and News-Agents. GEO. WILKES & CO. Proprietors. Iff 111: DISSOLUTION. TfTE firm of COE & LATIMER is this day dis solved by mutual consent. 11. A. COE, ! Greenesboro, May Ist, 1858 J. S. LATIMER.’ The practice, will be continued by J. S. & C. S. LA- I TIMER, who will visit Oxford, Penfield. White Plains ; and Mount Zion, of which due notice will be given in ! the Crusader and Gazette. Permanent office in : Greenesboro. May 13, 1858-tfjan. Georgia, greene county.—whereas Samuel A. Howell applies for Letters of Admin istration de bonis non, with the will annexed, upon the estate of McKinney Howell, dcecnsed : These are theretore”to cite and admonish all and sin gular the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at the Court of Ordinary to he held in and | for said county on the first Monday in June next, to ; show cause (if any they have) why said letters should I not be granted. Given under my band, at office in Greenesboro, May 1 3, 1858. EUGENIUS L. KING, O r d. ; May 6, 1858. 30d Georgia, greene county.—whereas William English, administrator upon the estate of ; Ann E. English, deceased, petitions tbe'Court of Ordi | nary of said county lor letters dismissory from said cs i tatc: These are therefore to cite and admonish all persons | concerned to be and appear at the Court of Ordinary to : b held in and for said county on the first Monday in j December next, to show capsc (if any they have) why ! said administrator should not then be discharged. 1 Given under mv hand at office in Greenesboro, Mav I 10th, 1858. EU GENIUS L. KING, Ord. | (GEORGIA, GKEENE COUNTY.—Wirereas i W Thomas R. Thornton and William A. Overton, administrators upon the estate of Vincent R. Thornton’ deceased, pciition the Court of-Ordinary es said Bounty 1 lor letters ol Dismission from said estate; } These are therefore to cite and admonish all.persons | concerned, to show cause (if any they have) why said : administrators should not be discharged at the Court of I Ordinary to he held in and for said county, on ihe fii-o | Monday in December next . “ Given under my hand at office in Greenesboro M-.v ! 10th, 1858. EUGENIUS L. KING, Ord. 1 H EORGJ4 GREENE COUNTY^WhT^ i ‘-J Phjlip 11. Robinson, administrator upon the estate o? George P. Nickelson, .deceased, petitions the Court of Ordinary for said county for letters Dismissory from said estate; These arc therefore to cite and admonish all persons concerned, to show cause (if any they ha,ve) why said administrator should not be discharged at the Court of Ordinary to be held in and for said county; on the fu st Monday in December next. Given under my band at office in, Greenesboro Mav FOth, 1858 - EUGENI US L. KING, Ord’ uii* tjejj-c.r SURGEON & MECHANICAL DENTIST, iBP'UUk W°ULl> inform his friends that he /MNlb ™ Will be buck in November and attend J ~U-LULrto his engagements at White Plains Mt Zion, Oxford and Penfield. May 13, 1838- tfjan PENT I ELD, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 185 8 . BY MRS. HI. E. BRYAN. m wtst mih BY MART E. BRYAN. CHAPTER IV. I found Dashwood looking wretched and ling gard enough, but with a reckless expression on his countenance that I had never seen there be fore. I handed him Claire’s package and he opened it in silence. His face changed as he saw the Bible, and, turning to the blank leaf, he read her name and, with a sudden impulse, pressed his lips to the characters her hand had traced. Then, as if ashamed of betraying so much weakness, he tossed the book-carelessly aside and opened the letter. He read it through, and I knew by the quivering of his lip that those words of gentle firmness, of tender, sorrowing love, wrung from the heart of my cousin had no( failed to reach his own. He crushed the letter in his hand and sat for a while in silence. “ The end of a dream,” he said, at length, “ ami with it perishes hope and truth and conscience all the brightness of my existence, and all the joys of household, human life, forever and ever.” “Is there, then, no hope, Frank?” I asked, mv own heart aching for my friend. “None! none! Did I not toll you that the moment I forgot my manhood and broke my pledge to her, the die would be cast forever ? My foot is on the descending ladder that leads down —down to death and perdition. Fool that I was to struggle with my destiny—to deem that fate Had anything in store for me! Paul, do you re member the curse of Harold ? * While there is bliss in revelry, Forgetfulness in wine, No woman’s smile may rest on thee, No woman’s heart be thine.’ Talk of moral courage! Paul, one may strug gle successfully against the whirlpool when lie first feels himself within its influence, but when lie has yielded to its power and is drawn within its voitex, there is no hope ; lie must go down But,”- lie continued, springing to his feel, his tone changing to one of wild gayety, “at least I will sell my life dearly. I will taste all the in toxicating pleasures wine can bestow. It shall be my Lethe, as well as my Helicon. We will have a glorious orgy to-night. Would your demure reverence honor us by looking in and heholding what delights, unknown to you plodding mortals, 1 Lie in the bowl—the gleaming bowl, Wiiose draught has power lo lire the soul ?’ ” And lie threw his Spanish cloak lightly around Him, and stood regarding me with a smile of care less defiance. “Oh, Frank!” I exclaimed, my eyes filling with tears as I looked upon him, so young, so gifted and so fallen! His assumed gayety was gono in a moment, • % “Paul,” he said, “I am not worthy to he your friend ; lam not fit for your associate even; I am a reckless, desperate man, hut I am not un grateful; 1 shall never forget your kindness to one so littlq deserving. God bless you, Paul Les lie ! you have been a true friend to me.” He turned away abruptly. “And Claire,” I whispered. Tears rushed to his eyes. “Tell your cousin,” he said, “that I shall al ways remember her as the noblest woman I ever knew. Tell her I thank her from my soul for the brief gleam of sunshine that has brightened my life, and that the memory of the wrong I have done to her gentle heart will be the bitterest por tion in the cup which 1 have prepared for my self, and which I must drink to the dregs. Bid her lorget me, or remember me only as one lost to love and hope, unworthy of a sigh or prayer; and yet, not that,” he added, “I would not have her think of me someiimefe in her prayers. It would be sweet to know that she murmured my.name in her pure orisons. It is all that I dare hope for now.” lie wrung my hand, looked at me with an ex pression of hopeless anguish that I can never for get and was gone. His last words had sounded like a farewell, as indeed they were. I heard next day that he had left the city—gone, no one knew whither. Two days after, Claire returned to her Southern home. - - * j ime passed ; I did not go to Europe as I had purposed, for Claire’s words had shaken the in ertness of years and awakened that latent desire for active, stirring life which exists in some de gree in all men, even the confirmed loafer, or the habitual dreamer like myself. Years before, I had been admitted to the bar, and as my con nections were numerous and influential, and I had already gained the reputation of a man who could be “depended upon,” 1 readily obtained as much practice as I desired. I went again into fashionable life, was courted by maneuvering mamas and calculating daughters, and bore the afflictions of commonplace with commendable for titude. But all this time my heart was very lonely—alone in the midst of a great city, with the tide of life rushing and roaring around me. I felt that strong yearning for affection and sym pathy which comes to all—the sweet pleadings of nature that- will not be silenced. Had life noth ing for me but the memory of a single grave? Should the dove-like spirit of love ever roam with weary wing over the ocean of life, finding not even the olive branch of hope? Ihe sweet, serene, domestic life had been the Utopia of my dreams, since death darkened the Elysium which youthful fancy had painted; but should this, too, he denied me? And in these reveries and troubled looking. 1 * into the future, when the business of the day was over, the face of my cousin rose ever beforo me—type of the quiet, deep-felt excellencoof woman, and I longed for her sweet, earnest voice to break the dreary solitude of my heart. At length, I went South, determining to visit lier. I stopped at Etonton, and procuring a horse, rode slowly along the shaded, picturesque road that led to “ Stanly Farm.” I reached a belt of park-like woods, inclosed by a fence white with the snowy blossoms of the Cherokee Rose, bheop were feeding on the margin of a stream that wound through the woods, and the sunset was gilding the tops of the pines. I saw a white dress glancing through the underwood, and thought l recognized the form of Olaive. dismounting, I -loft my horse and approached her. Sho wa#lean. ing against a tree, busily engaged in sketching. , The thick grass deadened my footsteps, and she was not aware of my proximity until I was by her side. When ouv greetings were over, with ray arm still around her, I put her back from me and .looked upon her face-. It was changed certainly: you could tell that sorrow had passed there; but the leatures wore a look more elevated—an ex pression of serene power; the power that has con quered suffering; that lias triumphed over weak ness ; vet, there was still a subdued sadness in her eyes, and in the tone of her voice. “ I am so glad you have come to us, Paul, at this season of the year,” she said as we walked | slowly home through the deepening twilight. ’ “ You will find that nature has made amends for i the absence%f r.rfvln the decoration of ‘Stanly I Farm.’ Mrs. Belton, too, my excellent house | keeper, will be rejoiced to see you. She has heard me speak of you often. I hope you have come for a long visit, cousin.” “On the contrary—a very brief one. I should like to remain longer, but I have engagements that will prevent it. Through your influence, my sweet cousin, 1 have become what you wished me to be—no longer the dreamer, but the active man of business; and yet, it has not brought the hap. pi ness I hoped for. lam unsatisfied still. I want to recover the half of my life that I have lost; I want the love of a heart that has learned sympa thy with sorrow; a true, strong heart to strength en, to encourage; I need the sweet influences of home and woman ; I need you, Claire; and I have come to tell you this—to ask you if you would fill this void in my heart; if you would be the angel of my home. \ou know all my past; you know that I cannot offer you the fervor of a first pas sion, but you are dearer to mo than all the world beside. Claire, will you accept a heart no longer in the bloom of its youth, and braid my life’s bro ken hopes into something like brightness again?” She was silent for a moment, and then looking up, she frankly placed her hand in mine. “ Paul,” she said with her clear, candid eyes fixed upon mo, “you, too, know all my past; you know that this calm you see reflected upon my face, is but tho quiet that succeeds a storm; yet, I love you, Paul—dear Paul, and if I may be of use to you in your future career; if I may assist you in bearing the burden of life, the hand you hold is yours forever. And it is not wholly ihe ruins of a heart I give you. As 3-011 foretold, the dews of time have fallen with holy healing ujion the arid waste, and fresh flowers have sprung from the ashes of desolation.” And this was our plighting; and two months after I brought a bride to my lonely home, and my unquiet spirit settled down into calm peace, the weary dove folded its wings upon the house hold hearth. We were tranquilly happy. Both had suffered. Old memories still had power to invoke ghosts from tho past, but they could not now mar the serenity of our wedded life. Beat rice was in Heaven, and Frank Dashwood—Ah ! 1 must speak of him. We were in Florence—beautiful Florence! and the soft golden atmosphere of Italy; the music of Italian voices, and tire gloiw of Italian skies were around us. Wo were loitering away the morning in the art gallery, and I had just paused before a picture of Raphaels, and called Claire to my side. The ven erable paclrc who had accompanied us, started at hearing the name. “Signor,” he said, “T have just left the bed side of one of your countrymen who is dying of fever in Florence. In his delirium, he constant ly repeats the name you called. Would you like to see him? It might do him good to hear his na tive tongue, and see faces that remind him of his home.” I answered Claire’s beseeching look by telling the padre, that if he would accompany us we would go immediately. We went, and there in obscure lodgings I re cognised in the wasted figuro extended on the low couch the friend of m3’ boyhood. His thin cheek was flushed with fever and delirium gave its unnatural brightness to his eyes. He was raving incoherently and did not recog nise us when we entered. “ The serpent!” he cried ; “it is coiling around my heart. It is crushing out all the strength of my life. I cannot unwind its folds. Ha demon! do not come nearer with your glaring eyes and poisoned breath. I defy you ; you shall torment me no longer. Ah! you smile; now I remember lam 3 r ours, soul and body. I cannot escape your dread fascinations. Oh! Claire, save me! save me! Why did.you leave me?. Why have yon forsaken me? “ Look !” ho continued, changing his tone and pointing with his wasted hand; “do you not see that path winding through the shad ow-land of the. past? It is strewn with dead hopes; the blackness of desolation is there ;” and then he would call for Claire, with a wail in his voice that thrilled my heart with its concentrated anguish. Claire’s tears fell fast upon his face. “Dear Frank,” she kept repeating, “ I am here. Do you not know me?” There came a lucid interval; he looked up into the lace that bent over him with a deep joy in his bright, dying eyes. “Claire,” he murmured, smiling faintly and feebly, stretching out his arms, “ you have come at last; I knew you ivould; I shall die happy now. You will not leave me, darling ?” “No! no!” sobbed. Claire, kneeling by the bed and covering his thin hand with kisses. He smiled a glad, grateful smile, lake a pleased child’s, and closed his eyes. He seamed not to notice me, but lay as though in a happy dream, with his hand still in Claire’s. When the rays of the setting sun streamed through the low windows, they fell upon the white face of the dead. We severed from his temple a fair tress of Carting hair, and turning down the coverlid to place in it is lingers the white rose brought In* a little flow or girl, who luid known and loved him, >ve Found lying clasped to his bosom Claire’s last gift—her own, tear-marked Bible. I led my wife away; no unworthy thought of jealousy entered my heart, I would not thus have wronged Clairo/s noble nature. Bven thus, had it been Beatrice dying among straugers in a foreign land, would I have soothed liet last hours with m3- love. Two leagues from Florence, whom tho blue waters of tho Arno glide through a land fair as enchantment, there arc two graves on the green hank, and the ill-fated child of Genius sleeps by the side of Beatrice Franz ini, and the summer winds scatter the white blossoms of tjie myrtle above them both. ’Phmfwr&viUe, Ga. Rochefoucauld says: “We always lo*ve those who admire us, but we do not always lowe those whom we admire.” To winch latter clause, such a case as that of Northcotie's may be put an as an exception, for se(/’-loveJs the source of ie^Aadmi ration, Moreover thiij is the safest of all loves, for you and I, readqr, rtray indulge in it without feat- of 41 rival. EDITOR AID PROPRIETOR. MOXG OF THE SEWINOIttACHIAE. BY GEORUE P. MOTtSIS. I’m the Iron Needle-Woman! Wrought of sterner stuff, than clay; • 1 And, unlike the drudges human, , * Never weary night nor day; Never shedding tears of sorrow, Never mourning friends untrue, Never caring for the morrow, Never begging work to do. / Poverty brings no disaster! Merrily I glide along, - - For no thankless, sordid master, Ever seeks to do me wrong: No extortioners oppress me, No insulting words I dread— I’ve no children lo distress me ’With unceasing cries for bread. I’m ofhardy.form and feature, For endurance Framed aright; I’m mot pale misfortune’s creature, Doom’d life’s battle here to fight: Mine’s a song of cheerful measure, And no tinder-currents flow Todestroy tlie throb of pleasure Which the poor so seldom know. 111 the hall I hold my station, With the weallhy ones of earth, Who commend me to the nation For economy and word: While unpaid the female labor, In the attic-chamber loriG, Where the smile of friend or neighbor N.evcr for. a moment shone. My creation is a blessing To the indigent secured, Banishing the cares distressing Which so many have endured: Mine are sinews superhuman, / Ribs of oak and nerves of steel— I’m the Iron Needle-Woman Born to toil and not to feel. Splendid. If words were permitted to speak for them selves, wluvt a complaint would bo heard from them, of banishment from their proper place, and misuse by well-disposed persons. No one has more cause for complaining than the word Splendid. In ancient times, this word was derived from the Latin, an ancient and honorable source. From the same family came glorious, sublime, excellent, delectable, superfine, delicious; all, once, honored and respected words,, but now, like modern Spanish grandees, deprived of every thing except their empty titles. Splendid is applied to dress, to men, to a house, a tree, a story, to roads; to the weather, to horses, to all sorts of animals possessing beauty of grace, to household furniture of all kinds, car pets arid marble tables, to,anything beautiful, pretty, good, rich, nice, excellent, graceful, use ful, superior, appropriate, bright, sparkling, witty, ingenious, superb, pleasing, pleasant, charming. It is, briefly, a universal adjective, which may bo used as freely as the common-place remarks on the state of tho weather, and generally with no move effect than they, while it is not atall neces sary, as they may be, to help in filling up a bare page’ of note paper, or to enrich the conversation ofa dull company. We forbear giving'examples, as better than we can adduce may be obtained by any who listen to the small talk in the parlor or in the dining room . Perhaps someone may be as much shocked as we were, to hear a ‘ finished’ young lady speak, at the dinner-table, of ‘a splendid— : — potato.’ — 7i. f. Schoolmaster. , ’ The Chinese.—ln a country where the roses have no fragrance, and the women no petticoats; whore the laborer lias no Sabbath, and the mag istrate no sense of honor; where the roads bear no vchiclos, and the ships no keels; where old men fly kites; wligrc. the needle points to the south, and the sign of being puzzled is to scratch the antipodes of the head; where the place of honor is on the left’ hand, and the seat of intellect is in the stomach; where to take offyour hat is an insolent gesture, and to wear white gar ments is to put 3-ourself in mourning—we ought not to bo astonished to find a literature without an alphabet and a language without a grammar. If we add that for countless centuries the Govern ment lias been in the hands of State philosophers, and the vernacular dialects have been aban doned to the laboring classes, (I am about in the next few words to call forth the execration of every Sinologue in Europe and Asia) we must not be startled to find that this Chinese language is the most intricate, cumbrous, and unwieldly ve hicle of thought that ever obtained among any people. There are 18 distinct languages in China, be sides the Court dialect; and although, by a beau tiful invention deserving of all imitation, the written language is so contrived as to denote by the same character the sounds of each of the 19 different words, all of which it equally represents, this is of no great use among the multitude who cannot read. . There is not a man among our Chinese scholars who can speak three of these languages with flu ency, and there is not one who can safely either write or interpret an important State paper wit hout the assistance of a “ teacher?’ —Hong Kong Corrcspondriit London Tones. Kirwan, in “ The Happy Home,” speaks perti hiontly of the hot bed education which is so ruin ous to the mental as well as physical constitution of children in America. “They are sent to school when they should be in the open air. or in the fields; they are learn ing to read before they have well learned to run; and instead of permitting the mind freety to drink in all the knowledge it can through the senses or by imitation, it is bowed down to study before it can comprehend what it is taught as a parrot, and before the body or mind are sufficiently strong to resist tlie evil influence of confinement. And all these are aggravated by sending them to cheap and incompetent teachers, w-ho have never studied the laws of mind, and know nothing of the art of developing it, and who often manipu late tlie mind on the principle that the fruits of autumn should precede the buds of spring and the blossoms of May and, June. Compelled to sit quietly and to breathe a confined air, and with tlie fear of the rod and of the despot that wields it always before them, their bodily powers are soon exhausted ? the3” become diseased and nerv ous ;. their brain is liable to inflammation, and a premature death often ensues! Indeed wany ot our ablest physicians trace the insanity which is filling our asylums to the neglect of the pliy-sical training of children, and to the foolish, if not sin ful; anxiety of parents for their rapid education.” Tike Live like a nTx.-Takeit just as though it was a g it is—ail earnest, vital essential a£air, T ike it just as though you personally were bom to the task of performing a merry part in it—as though the world had waited for your coming. Take it as though it was a grand opportunity to do and to achieve, to carry forward great and good schemes; to help and cheefr a suffering, weaiy, it may be heart-broken, brother. The fact is, life is undervalued by a great majority of mankind. It is not made half as much of as should be the ease. Where is the man or woman who accomplishes one tithe of what might De done ? Who can look back upon oppotunities lost, plans unachieved thoughts crushed aspiration unfit filled and all caused from tlie|lack of the nec essary and possible effort! If we knew better how to take and make the most of life, it would be far greater than it is. Now and then a man stands aside from the crowd, labors earnestly, steadfastly, confidently, and straightway becomes famous for wisdom, intellect, skill, greatness of some sort. Tho world wonders, admires, idolizes ; and yet it only illustrates what each may do ifhe takes hold of life with a purpose; If a man but say ho toiU and follows it up, there is nothing in reason lie may not expect to accomplish. There is no magic, namibcle, no secret to him who is brave in heart and determined, in spiritV—Har per's Weekly. , “ Sorrows grow less and less every tim§ they M© I told, just like the age of a woman.” VOL. XXIV. NUMBER 19