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iHjje fUearflift Jv I’Mipenuicf JOHN H. SEALS, NEW SERIES, VOLUME 111. *C|t Centpraitct fasakr. every Thursday in the year, except two, rEBMS ! Two Dollars per year, in advance, JOHN H. SEAES, Solk Peopbietor. T-IONEL L. VEAZE Y, Editor Literary Pep’tm’t. MRS. M. E. BRYAN, Editress. d<STTN a. REYNOLDS, Pt'BLISHKR. Clubs of Ten Names, by sending the Cash, will receive the paper at .... Si copy. Clubs of Five Names, at 160 “ Any person sending us Five new subscribers, inclo sing the money, shall receive an extra cop} one year t ree of cost. ADVERTISING DIRECTORY: „ Rates of Advertising: 1 square, (twelve lines or less,) first insertion, $1 00 “ Each continuance, 50 Professional or Business Cards, net exceeding six lines, per year, 5 OD Announcing Candidates for Office, 3 00 Standing Advertisements: Advertisements not marked with the number of insertions, will be continued until forbid, and charged accordingly. 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 00 Citation for Letters of Administration, 2 75 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, are required, by law, to be held on the First Tuesday in the month, between the hours of teg,in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court-house door of the county in which the property is situate. Notices of these sales must be given in a pub lie Gazette, forty days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale ol’Personal Property must be given at least ten days previous to the day of sale. Notices to Debtors and Creditors of an estate, must be. published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court ot Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be pub lished weekly for two months, y Citations for Letters of Administration, must be pub lished thirty days —for Dismission from Administration monthly, six months —for 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. THE ATTORNEY—NAME AND PLACE. KING & LEWIS, Attorneys at Laic, Greenes* boro, Ga. The undersigned, having associated ’ themselves together in the practice of law, will attend to all business intrusted to their care, with that prompt ness and efficiency which long experience, united with , industry, can secure. Offices at Greenesboro and five miles west of White Plains, Greene county, Ga. y. r. kinu. July 1, 1656. m. w. lewis. AT7HIT G. JOHNSON, Attorney~at Law", intrusted to his professional management in Richmond and the adjoining counties. Office on Mclntosh street, tljtree doors below Constitutionalist office. lleference —Thos. R. R. Cobb, Athens, Ga. , June 14 ly TAMES BROWN, Attorney at Law, Fancy Hill, Murray Cos. Ga. April 30, 1857. TT OBEK L. Will GUAM, Louisville, Jet -l-I’ ferson county, Georgia, will give prompt attention to any business intrusted to hi 9 care, in the following counties : Jefferson, Burke, Richmond, Columbia, War ren, Washington, Emanuel, Montgomery, Tatnall and Scriven. April 26, 1856 ts LEONARD T. DOYAL, Attorney at Law, McDonough, Henry county, Ga. will practice Law in the following counties: Henry, Spaulding, Butts, Newton, Fayette, Fulton, DeKalb, Pike and Monroe. Feb 2-4 Dll. SANDERS, Attorney at Law, Albany, • Ga. will practise in the counties of Dougherty, Sumter, Lee, Randolph, Calhoun, Early, Baker, Deca tur and Worth. Jan 1 ly HT. PERKINS, Attorney at Law, Greenes * boro, Ga. will practice in the counties ot Greene, Morgan, Putnam, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, llanceck, Wilkes and Warren. Feb ly PHILLIP u. ROBIN SON, Attorney at Law, Greenesboro, Ga. will practice in the coun ties of Greene Morgan, Putnam, Oglethorpe, Taliafer ro, Hancock, Wilkes and Warren. July 5, ’56-lv THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL, PUBLISHED AT AUGUSTA, GA. 13 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 oi INTERESTING STORIES AND TALES, INTERESTING STORIES AND TALES, INTERESTING STORIES AND TALKS, 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. &c. Ac. The Weekly Chronicle & 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 city, at TWO DOLLARS A YEAR, IX 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 Willis’ Hotel, , , A T TIIE OLD STAND, is still open for pnafl ii the reception and accommodation of trav- JilllJLellers. All who may favor us with their pat ronage, .1..11 reci.c evey Greenesboro, Feb. 12, 1858. fITTARRENTED to force the Moustache anc.r, W Whiskers to grow strong and luxuriant in on<y ionth, where there was none before. It will not stain® r injure the skin. One Dollar per bottle.. bent ton 11 parts of the country, on receipt of the pnee. ‘lk Address DR. S. P. SHELDON, June 10, 1858 6m New York City. YOU can at all times find a fine assortment of TIN, exceedingly low for the Cash, with July 1, 1858 J. M. BOWLES. ’ S An Earnest Appeal. NECESSITY compels me to make an earnest appeal to those who are indebted to me for 1856 : and ’57, for help. I need money to carry on my busi ’ ness, nnd a small sum from each one whose account is i past due, would make me easy. Shall I appeal in vain ? ! July 8 W. B. SEALS. | —3 !^BO.a.E£ a £3a^ 9 AND ! LOVERS OF GOOD THINGS, FRESH AND PURE, JUST give ‘Old Mac’ a call— he’s always ready to supply the wants of those who may favor him l with their patronage. What’ll you have ? I A saucer of Cream, A Lemonade, Oranges & Bananas, Peacans & Peanuts, Candies and Cakes, Stews, Fries, Bakes, Col’rado&Ch’roots, ’Backer & Havanas, In sun or shade, ‘Old Mac’s’ th’ team that can furnish just what you may love! 52SJ~Meals at short notice. Call, examine and eat. He may still be found at his old place. Greenesboro, June 10, 1858 D. MCDONALD. SURGEON & MECHANICAL DENTIST, YUOULD inform liis friends that he will back in November and attend his engagements at White Plains, Mt. Zion, Oxford and Penfield. May 13, 1858-tfjan Q33c<2->cs>!JU CALL around and take some ICED LEMON ADE with June 10 J. M. BOWLES. OD&^^<SU'QQJl£l<E>SEl THE firm of COE & LATIMER is this day dis-j solved by mutual consent. H. A. COE, Greenesboro, May Ist, 1858 J. S. LATIMER. The practice will be continued by who will visit ; Oxford, Penfield, White Plains, Mount Zion, Warrenton, El her ton, Danielsville Fort Lamar, ot which due notice will be given inthe Crusader and; Gazette. Permanent office in J. C UNNINGIIA M'S BL OCK, G R EENES BORO. May 13, 1858 tjanl ciamag irwanHmMß.” T AM now well supplied with a larg e * and complete assortment of and TppP&fi FA NC r CABINET FURNITURE, eni -1 H II * bracing every article in this line of business, many of which are necessary to render home pleasant and comfortable : WARDROBES , Rosewood, Mahogany, Walnut; BUREAUS, do do do WASH STANDS, do do Marb.Tops; QUARTETTE TA BLES, Rosewood and do SOFA TABLES, do do SIDE-BOARDS, Mahotrany ; CARD S- CENTRE TABLES, Mahogany ; ROCKERS, Rosewood, Mahog. Maple Sc Walnut; CHA IRS, Rosewood, Mahog. Maple and Walnut; BEDSTEADS, elegant Designs and Finish : SOFAS; BOOK-CASES ; FOLD. TABLES; WASH STANDS; WARDROBES, iff. tfc. PICTURE FRAMES, Gilt and Rosewood, Any of the above-named articles purchased, will be carefully boxed and delivered at the depot, FREE OF CHARGE. N. B.—Sofas, Rocking Chairs, &c. repaired neatly and with dispatch. I buy and manufacture none but the BEST’ of work, and those who are disposed to purchase from me can rely upon getting good articles on the most reasonable terms. ‘ A. SHAW, June 24—3 t Madison, Ga. WIKI (BRASS. THE subscriber offers lor sale 25 or 30 bushels of the Winter Grass-seed, (known as the Iverson Grass—he having the reputation of introducing the same into Georgia.) Having raised three crops of this Grass, I am decidedly of the opinion that it is the beat that has ever been introduced into this section, it being far preferable to rye or hi rley for lots or grazing purpo ses. It grows luxuriantly all winter—hard freezes or heavy rains being no interference. It improves the land f on which it grows; neither does it hinder or obstruct the growth of any other crop on the same ground. All animals that feed on grass are very fond of it. The seed may he sow n at any time from June until October and do well. I will refer the public to a perusal of the j Circular of Hon. 13. V. Iverson. Any person who de sires to procure the Grass-seed front me can do so by early application, and have it sent to any place which they may designate. D. lIERRON. N. B. Any further information wanting can he ob tained by addressing me at Penfield. D. H. Penfield, Ga. June 3, 1858 8t | CERATOCHLOA BREVIARISTATA 1 Or, Sliort Awn Horn Grass. Columbus, Ga. Sept. 29tli, 1850. j To the Plunters, Farmers and Slock Raisers of Greene j County , Ga : Gentlemen : I take this method to bring to your notice a Foreign Winter Grass, the seed of which is now acclimated, and which I sincerely desire every Planter and Kaiser to possess and cultivate. This grass grows in the fall, winter and spring only, and is emphatically a winter | grass. For the grazing of stock and making nutritious j hay and restoring worn out fields, it has no superior. This grass has the following valuable qualities, which many year’s experience has abundantly demonstrated: Ist It has the largest seed of any known species of grass, being nearly ns large as wheat. 2d It will grow [on very rich ground] from three to j four feet high, when seasonable. 3d It is nevet injured by cold—no freeze hurts it. 4th It is never troubled by insects of any kind. sth It is never injured or retarded in growing by heavy ; rains, overflows or ordinary drought. 6th It grows as fast a3 Millet or Lucerne. 7th It is as nutritious as barley, and stock arc as fond of it as they are of that. Btli It will keep horses, mules, cattle, sheep, goats, hogs and poultry fat throughout the winter and spring, from November to May. !)th It will then (the stock being withdrawn, and the ground being rich) yield front three to four tons of ex cellent hay per acre, cutting when the seed is green (in j milk) each time. | 10th Itsaveßcorn nnd fodder being fed away to slock 1 during the winter and spring. i 1 lib It completely protects fields from washing rains. 12th It ennables farmers to have an abundance of rich milk, cream and butter, with fat beef, mutton, &c. for the table. i 13th It will (if followed with our cornfield pea or bean) give to fanners the cheapest, simplest, the surest and the most paying plan to reclaim worn out fields, and fertilize those not yet so, which the ingenuity of man I can devise. 14th It will sow its own seeds after the first time, without expense or trouble, thereby re-producing itself (through its seeds) on the same ground ad infinitum. 15tli It does not spread or take possession of a field, so as to be difficult to get rid of, but can be effectually destroyed at any stage before the seed ripen and fall out, by being plowed up or under. This grass having the above enumerated properties, will he found, by all who cultivate it, far superior to any other species ever introduced, or which can be in troduced, for the climate and soil of our country. B. V. IVERSON. i MTO'VJICZiE:* ALL persons are hereby warned against and forbid trading for a note of hand dated the third of i March last, for one hundred and thirty dollars, payable ! ninety days after its date, given by me to McGee & Cos. I the consideration for which said note was given having j sassed. THOMAS W. S. LEWIS. I July 8, 1858 4t THE ADOPTED ORGAN OF ALE THE TEMPERANCE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE STATE. OHE subscriber w ill opt n his house for the ACCOM MODATION OF VISITORS during the approach ing COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES. July Ist, 1858 W>B. SEALS. tTUIE firm of J. S. BA ItNWELL &CG, nil! be J- dissolved on the First of Next Month, by mutual consent—at which time those having demands against said firm, will please present them, and those indebted are respectfully notified that the books will be open for settlement by note or cash. The undersigned will give his attention to the settlement of all claims. Mr. Barmvell will continue in the business of HAR NESS MAKING and REPAIRING, whom I take great pleasure in recommending as a faithful and com petent workman. [June 21—2m] R. J. MASSEY. rALTTEIMTr i EXCELSIOR SPRING BED. THIS is an entirely new application of Spiral Springs to Beds, making a more comfortable, ! neater and cheaper bed than ever offered before to the ! public. j The peculiar position of the Springs elevates the head slightly, saving the trouble of building up the head with extra bolsters. PRICE ONLY SIX DOLLARS. For sale by A. SHAW, Madison, Ga. P. S.—l also manufacture to order other Spring Beds. June 24, 1858 A. S. Ludlow’s Infallible Cans. SOMETHING that supercedes all other air-tight Cans; they are self-sealing, which savCs you the j trouble nnd expense, of using an exhauster, for sale by Penfield, July 1, 1858 J. M. BOWLES. PATENT MEDICINES, of almost any kind that you may wish, fox sale by | July 1, 1858 J. M. BOWLES. PERSONS visiting Penfield during the ap proaching Commencement, can find accommoda tions at the house of .). 11. ENGLISH. Penfield, July 8 EmTRISIsV id) BY NIT IS. NI. E. BRYAN. PHASES IN A HUMAN EIFE. BY -MARY E. BRYAN*. No. 111. LOVE’S YOUNG DREAM. AND Claude St. Clair was heir to the estate of Eldridge Hall —heir to a desert and a ruin; for the landed inheritance was little better than a barren heath, and the old Hall was fast decay ing—a fit emblem of the fallen fortunes of the family on which it was entailed. There were no near kindred of his father’s name, but of the im mediate branch of his mother’s family, there were two brothers remaining: one a successful lawyer and eminent politician in a northern metropolis; the other the pastor of a small New England vil lage. To the care of both of these had the mother commended her son in a most affecting letter to he opened after her death. All who are acquainted with human nature will readily tell which of the two brothers best ful filled the last request of his sister. What time had the bustling man of business, overwhelmed by professional duties and in the heat of a polit ical campaign, to do more than pause a moment in the crowded thoroughfare of life and drop a tear to the memory of his dead sister and a few hasty lines of condolence to her orphan son ? It was the humble clergyman, who. leaving his parish and his family, hastened to press the lonely boy to his warm, loving heart, and offer him a quiet home in the pleasant parsonage, and his own assistance in the studies he wished him to continue. So, in a few weeks after the old Ilall had been made more desolate by the death of his mother, Claude was domesticated in the pretty bird’s nest cottage of his uncle ; and when time had lessened the violence of his grief, he turned with renewed interest to the studies that had been for a while suspended. And surely, never was a place so conducive to study and thought as the quiet rec tory of Mr. Alwyn. There was the library, with its perfect stillness; its air of inviting coolness; its easy chairs and lounges; its ganzy, green cur tains and windows, across which the mimosa threw its great arms and nodded its graceful foli age and rose-colored plumes all day to the breeze. Then without, there was a wood path which Claude learned to know well, winding down to the rapid stream where he might lie, with the mute companions—his books —on the shelving rocks, beneath the shade of the hazels, or yet more luxuriously, farther down, where the soft moss imbedded the feet of the giant oaks. Mr. Alwyn thought with complacency of the retirement and isolation of the place, as conducive to Claude’s scholastic progress. “ There is,” said he to his excellent wife, “nothing here to tempt the hoy—no gayety, no dissipation to lure him away from his duties, and no flattery that is so dangerous to young genius.” Ah! the worthy clergyman forgot to name one other influence more subtle and dangerous than all the rest; one which, like the “ delicate Ariel,” cannot be con fined by bolts and bars; an influence that lias been the ruling power in the world ever since Adam accepted death from the hand of the wo man. And who that has known its magnetic-power ; who that has eaten of its “insane root;” who that has built airy castles over Coke and Littleton, dreamed golden dreams over the pages of Tacitus, or stitched sweet fancies and tender thoughts in to plain sewing, will not testify for me, that of all the syrens that beset the path of duty, there are none more fascinating nnd more dangerous than —love. Amid the shades of “Locust Grove” parsonage lingered the spirit that should first trouble the fountain of the young student’s heart. Claude was an habitual early riser. Enthusi ! astic worshipper of the beautiful, as lie was, the i radiant picture “ which God hangs daily inthe glowing East,” was sufficient to lure him from his morning dreams; and he found the early hours best suited for study and reflection. Ilis thoughts | had then the dewy freshness of the flowers, and ! the cheerful vigor of the lark’s up-soaring song. He stood one morning on the bank of the river, at a point which was called “Rock Bend,” from the abrupt turn of the stream that here almost doubled upon itself, and from the large, gray rock, fringed with ferns that partly overhung the bank. lie was watching the sunrise that crim soned the pavilioned clouds, and, in a playful mood, broke into an impromptu apostrophe to the fire-thronged king of the spheres, calling, in the classic style of the Virgil he was reading, upon the naiads to lift their white arms from the cool waters, the ymph3 and satyrs to come, vine- PENFIELD, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1 858. crowned, from their sheltered retreats, continu ing, as his tones swelled to the close, to invoke the dryads to “Shake from their tresses green, night’s glittering gems, And with their murmuring voices welcome in The coming of the day.” “ Here!” responded a clear, sweet voice just behind him, and Claude turned quickly to find himself tis-a-vU with a lady on horseback, whose approach his own abstraction and the roar of the river, as it dashed over its rocky bed, had pre vented his hearing. The lady was elegant, rather than beautiful, and her rich habit and plumed hat added to the grace of her fine figure and clas sic head. She bowed smilingly to the astonished Claude. “I have been listening to your invocation,” she said, “ and, being the only creature resembling nymph or dryad within hearing, I have ventured to respond to your call. Fancy me Dictynna now, if your imagination is so elastic; though I must confess my appearance is more in character 1 of an Amazon.” “It would be no difficult task to imagine you Venus herself,” said tho boy—forgetting his em barrassment in his admiration of the graceful and animated equestrienne. “No compliments, if you please, sir poet,” said the lady. “ Three seasons of belledom have ut terly surfeited me with flattery. I came here to recruit; to forget the glare of gas light; to ignore bonnets and flounces and kidded dandies, with their hackneyed compliments. But even in Elen’s dale, I find that flattery has its votaries. Mr. Meek, the school master, told me yesterday that I looked like a morning-glory. What a beautiful scene!” she continued, as the sun, bursting through the gorgeous clouds, lit the sum mits of the surrounding hills. “Will you give me your hand to assist me in dismounting? I should like to see if the top of this rock does not command a fine view for to-morrow’s sketching; and, by the way, you do not yet know what to call me. lam neither nymph nor dryad, but simply Anna Allston, of Philadelphia, cousin of, Mr. Mason, whoso house you see through the trees on the hill before us. I have been rustica ting here for a week or two, and shall a short time longer. Now, you have the introduc tion, on my side at least, in full, and you”—she hesitated and paused. “ I am Claude St. Clair,” said the youth, think ing, as Miss Allston loosened the strings of her hat, that never before had sunbeams glinted upon curls of more golden brown, or a complex: ion more Hebe-like in its beauty. “I knew that very well,” said the lady with a light laugh, “ for I have heard of you, and I may as well confess, have seen you more than once, when you thought yourself unobserved. Though not exactly a wood nymph, I have as a fancy for roving as yourself, and finding our tastes in this respect congenial, I determined to make your acquaintance, not, however, in the stiff, for mal manner lam SO thoroughly tired of. I think we shall be good friends. ‘ You S¥£_&~£Qdt, I know, by your eyes and by your impromptu ad dress to the sun, which I happened to overhear. You will not bore me with small talk, and we will read and study together. It will be charming, will it not?” Claude signified his delight more by his inge nuous blushes, than by the words he faltered out. But her easy, accessible manner soon made him forget liis boyish timidity, and in a short time, to his own astonishment, he found himself reading passages from Virgil’s Eclogues to his attentive listener, and pointing out the peculiar beauties of the poem. And this was their introduction—thoir first meeting, though afterwards their intercourse was almost daily. And Claude, with his young heart thirsting for affection ; with his quick fancy and ardent temperament, soon learned to love Miss Allston with all the romantic warmth of a first passion. There was, in tho elegant and graceful belle, that charm so irresistible, from its very nov elty, to unsophisticated youths—the nameless fascination of look and manner that can only belong to a thorough woman of the world. It was all new to Claude; his ideal had been a re fined image of the blooming country maidens he had known, but this delicate, graceful creature, with her perfect taste in dress; her sprightly con versation ; her winning smile and changeful voice, seemed to him lovelier than aught his dreams had ever pictured. His passion was as refined as it was ardent. If but a curl of her soft hair brushed his cheek, as she bent over to look more closely at some marked passage in a book he was reading, the blood would mount to his brow, and his voice become inartic ulate from emotion. The lightest touch of her soft, white hand would send a thrill to his heart; he oftered her flowers with the blushing timidity of a child, and received and cherished her sim plest gift with as much tender gratitude as if it had been granted by a divinity. Such delicate, unobtrusive devotion could not fail to touch and interest the heart of the world-wearied woman. It was, in its freshness, its purity and its simpli city, such a contrast to the hackneyed homage that had jaded and disgusted her in the circle of her fashionable admirers. This sweet, simple earnestness of look and tone; the pure senti ments and sincere, unselfish worship of her poet lover, were refreshing to the heart of the blase belle, palled with “ the hack sights and sounds” of worldly life. She neither understood nor ap preciated the full value of the love so freely lav ished upon her, but she found it very pleasant, in those long summer evenings, to listen to his sweet, strange thoughts; to watch the changeful beauty of his expressive face and listen to him, as wanning into confidence, he spoke of his am bitious dreamings and gave utterance to the hopes nestling like unfledged birds in his young heart. At length, Miss Allston was summoned home, and Claude, who had been wrapped in the brief delirium of love, awoke to the pain of feeling that the daily intercourse which for weeks had been the course of tho sweetest, wildest joy, must now end. l'ho evening before her departure, in the summer parlor at Mr. Mason’s, when softened almost to tears by her own, sad music, Miss All ston had bowed her head upon the instrument — Claude dared, for the first time in his life, to take the little hand that lay across the keys, and— how, he never remembered —in what words he could never recall—to own his love and plead with eloquent earnestness for a return. Miss Allston half arose from the piano. “My dear Claude,” she said, “ this is all non sense. It was all very well to love me. Poets, I suppose, should fall in love to feel the reality of the emotions they desoribe, but when you speak of engagement—of marriage, that is quite a differ ent affair. It would be altogether too serious a termiqatiQn t$ this petite <}fmedie. Do you kflQw, that in spite of these”—and She pointed to her jeweled arms and neck, “ and notwithstanding my fashionable position and stylish manner of living, I am, in reality, poor as a church mouse ? Now, I know what you would say; but let me tell von; love in a cottage, roses and fresh curds all sound very pretty in romance, but arc egregious humbugs to one of such extravagant tastes as I have the misfortune to possess. Your poets will tell you that a howl of moonlight is the standard food of Cupid; but trust me, tins song is an ‘o’er I true’ one,” and running her fingers lightly over the keys, she sang: “Young love is at homo on a carpet., And mightily likes his case ; And love has an eye to a dinner, And starves among shady trees.” “Then,” said Claude indignantly, “you have been trifling with me for your amusement. You have purposely deceived and entrapped mo into this confession.” 11 Mon enfant” replied the lady coolly, “pray do not be so vehement. There is not the slight est occasion for such excitement. I am three years older than you are in time—ten years older in worldly experience. Os course I expected you should fall in love with me. Youths of your age usually do, with every pretty face they chance to see; but I knßw, also, that the feeling was a very transient one, and I could not resist the tempta tion of your society—-could not forego tho pleas ure of playing Mary Chaworth to a second, youth ful Byron. 1 knew my worldly wisdom would be beneficial to you, and your freshness and simpli city of service to me. Should this mutual pleas ure and benefit be relinquished for so trivial a thing as a boyish fancy?” “Then, you have really loved me ?” said Claude, seeing nothing but the hand she extended to him and tho smile upon her sweet lips. “ Claude,” said Miss Allston, touched by the pleading pathos of his tones, “love is not for me. I have steeled my heart against it long ago. From my earliest childhood I was constantly told, that through me must the decayed fortunes of our proud family be re-instated. For this end was I educated at a sacrifice, made to cultivate to the utmost what graces I possessed, brought forward in society by wealthy relatives, and early taught that I must not listen to the pleadings of my own heart; must forget, indeed, that I had one, and strike boldly for a prize in the matrimonial lot tery. I have done so. These few blissful weeks were but the reprieve for which 1 stipulated, be fore the final sacrifice. In a few days after my return to Philadelphia, 1 shall give my hand to the wealthy old merchant, whose miniature I allowed you to think was that of my grandfather. He is a millionaire, Claude. Congratulate me upon my prize.” Notwithstanding the levity of her tones, there were tears in her eyes. They emboldened her young lover, who had listened to her words with mingled pity and surprise. A sudden rush of tenderness overpowered his resentment. “Ohl Anna,” he exclaimed, “this sacrifice must not —I have little, it is true, but I can work for you, darling. UwTitnTHkviUcheerfully, gladly, if you would but love me in return. ‘ “Ma foil ” said Miss Allston, wiping with her laced hankerckief the moisture from her long lashes. “Do not be so silly, child. I have no doubt that in time you will soar away like the wonderful roe we read of in the Arabian legend, and bring back golden stones from the mount of knowledge; but the wings of the eagle must first grow, my aspiring poet. And seriously, I wish you a better fate than to link your destiny to mine. I should be a clog to your ambition, and, besides, you have no idea what a quantity of silks and laces are requisite to my happiness, or how utterly incapable lam of baking a pudding. I have always been accustomed to luxury. No matter if it was not mine, I enjoyed it, and can not live without it. No, Claude, you must find your happiness in some gentler, fresher heart, and I will give my consent to become mistress of Mr. Townsend’s elegant establishment. If you ever visit Phila delphia, or ever want a friend or home, you will know where to find both. And now, good-bye. I have promised to return some calls with my aunt this evening, and must go.” She bowed herself smilingly out of the room, but came back again, stole up softly to the chair of Clar.de, bent down, pressed her lips one mo ment on his bowed forehead and was gone. And so ended “young love’s dream.” MORAL JAUNDICE. I threw down my pen this evening to listen to a conversation between my father and an acquain tance from the country. It inculcated a moral lesson. Shall I give it to you just as I ovei'-heard it through the half-parted curtains of my window that opened upon the piazza ? “Fine day,” said my father in his cheery, ge nial voice as he handed his visitor a chair. “Umph!” responded a voice between a growl and a melancholy whine, “ clear enough for that matter, one of these wretched storm-breeders, as I told my aon. We always have just such spells of weather before a squall. Like enough by to morrow we’ll have wind and hail, beating down the corn and ruining what little is left of the crops.” “ Are not the crops good in your section ?” in quired my father. “ All that I have seen this season are remarkably fine.” “I wish others could share their good luck, then, 1 insure,” muttered the visitor. “I don’t think we shall make our bread; and as for the cotton crop, it’s a perfect failure. There wont be a dozen pounds made to the acre. Notliing pros pers there but the doctors.” “ Indeed! I thought your neighborhood a very healthy one,” interposed my father. “ It’s no worse than the rest of the State. The whole country’s nothing but a graveyard. We have sickness all around us. Not a sound liver in the country, if you’ll believe me, sir; and the physicians don’t understand their business. Ar rant quacks, every one of them.” My father uttered, as in politeness bound, a kind of negative sound of commiseration; and then, as a last resort, turned the conversation upon a topic that is the unfailing resource of men. “Politics are rather dull at present,” he said; “ what do you think of the signs of the times?” “ Bad ! bad! as bad they can be. There are no parties and no politics. All is confusion and misrule. It will end in civil war and bloodslted. I knew it; I prophesied it long ago, and its coon ing to pass—that, or the end of the world, I don’t know which. Such wickedness can’t go long unpunished.” Here the entranoe of A servant with a waiter of fruit interrupted the edifying conversation, and the dissatisfied individual, after mumbling some thing about indigestion and dyspepsip, and assert- EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. VOL. XXIV. NUMBER 27 ing that fruit was so much poison at this sickly season—ended by helping himself bountifully. Prompted by a curiosity to see this importunate personage, I drew the curtain slightly aside and stole a peep at the visitor. I was sure of it ; I knew that lie looked just so, and that I could have singled him out among a dozen others. No other face would have belonged to an inveterate croaker, and the index to the character was fully legible in the elongated visage, the mouth drawn down at the corners, the dull eyes, billious com plexion and crab apple physiognomy generally. Os all the disagreable characters that it requires to make a world, that of the habitual grumbler is the most tiresome and unbearable. It is his de light to complain. He finds pleasure in profess ing himself miserable and making others so. It is his needful stimulant, and as necessary to him as a morning dram is to the inveterate toper. He is really glad of an occasion to vent his ill humor, and if none happens to present itself, his imagination readily invents one. His presence carries a shadow wherever he goes. Innocent mirth he stigmatizes as sinful frivolity, religious zeal as hypocrisy, friendship as a deceit and love a ridiculous folty. He sees a cloud in every fair sky, and prophesies more ill luck and multiplied disasters than Madame Salvo when consulted in an after-dinner fit of indigestion. If you meet him with a light heart and a pleasg ant smile, he speedily dispels both, and croaks you into the belief that life is a miserable cheat, the world a cess-pool of wickedness and yourself a friendless, pitiable creature—leaving you in doubt whether to commit suicide, or find relief in a passion of hysterical tears. I have elsewhere spoken of the literary croaker who mistakes his morbid fancies for indications of genius, and afflicts his unending complaints on all who have patience to peruse them. And yet, this unhappy disposition is not confined to medi ocrity and would-be litterateures. It has thrown its sombre shade over minds of undoubted talent, making them perceive everything through a jaundiced medium, magnifying evils, diminishing M cuminU darkening even the beauty cf the fair ®avth, thesky and human face divine, and draping tho muse who should be clothed in garments of light, with tho dark, trailing robes of sorrow. And this, too, when the province of the poet is to cheer, and to bless when he is ordained by God as priest of the holy temple of Nature, and pro fesses to interpret its oracles to man. What would you think of a German writer of genius calling the blessed stars “coffin nails in the black cloth of night,” while another morosely terms them “the shining leprosy of Heaven?” M. E. B. A BATH OF YOUTH. I FEEL to-night as though I had been quaffing a goblet from the rejuvenating fountain of Ponec de Ison, or else oaten of tho lotus leaves that sets the fancy dreaming, for I have been sit* ting idly here with the summer moon-light fall ing over me through the acacia boughs that shade my window, wandering back hand in hand with rrrSrAQfV through the chequered scenes of child hood, of the gray am, should be filling this blank sheet of fools cap that lies before me with thoughts on the grave subject of “reform” that I have written at the top of the page —written that only, and then allowed the pen to drop from my hand, and Fan cy to loosen the reins from the grasp of Reason. I know wliat it is that lias set these memory bells to ringing their half-mournful feelings in my heart. I have sat to-day within walls where, a few short yeacs ago, I was a young student, and witnessed a scholastic exhibition in the same room that lias been the scene of similar ones in the past, in which I, too, bore a part. I have seen youthful faces, childish tears and blushes, and listened to sweet young voices whose clear, flute-like music floats over me now. The friends and patrons of Miss Hansell, prin cipal of the Female Seminary in Thomasville, as sembled this evening to hear the exercises that closed the session, and terminate also the labors of the accomplished preceptress and her young assistant, in this place. The girls acquitted them selves admirably, and the whole school having been taught vocal music gratuitously, gave evi dence how greatly they had improved since tho last concert, and sang with much taste and sweet ness a number of beautiful and difficult songs, in which the grave and gay were properly mingled. The preparatory class is certainly the most charm ing and loveable assemblage of children I ever beheld ; just such a band of sylphlike forms, in white muslin and pink ribbons; such a constel lation of blue and brown eyes, brim full of sub dued mischief*; such light curls playing hide and seek over dimpled shoulders, and such tiny slippered feet that even in repose “ seem dream ing a tune,” must surely have danced through the imagination of Shakspeare and suggested his queen Titania and her fairy train. Alas ! that these charming little girls must grow up into fashionable young ladies, confine their short curls with a comb, forget to be artless and learn to flirt and to simper. Alas! that the bud must become a blossom; that time must brush the soft down from the ripening fruit. The Senior class was composed of young ladies on the eve of womanhood; but even their sweet voices grew tremulous, when tho parting song filled the room with its mournful music, and their lips quivered as they sang: “Ah! ’tis aa hour of sadness: There’s a hush in every heart, As the thought keeps welling upward— The thought that we must part.” The compositions were well, ana in some in stances, excellently written, and the valedictory —read by a dark-haired girl, with large, intellec tual eyes—was fraught with pathos and heart eloquence. When the exercises were over, and the dear old room vacated by the audience, the tears that had been pressed back fiom the blue and brown eyes overflowed in summer showers. And well might they bo sorrowful. Not soon shall the place of Miss Hansell and her assistant be supplied in the seminary. Not soon shall they find teachers so accomplished, so patient, so wor thy of all respect and admiration. From Thomasville Misses Hansell and Arm strong will go to fill their engagement with Pro fessor Hendee, of the Female College at Greenes* boro’, where we hope they will find awaiting them hearts as warm and pupils as affectionate as those they leave behind. M. E. B. H * The following epitaph may be found upon .a tomb* sttpne in Connecticut: “Here lies cut down like unripe fruit* The wife of Deacon Amos Shute; She died of drinking too much coffee, Anny Doroiny eighteen forty.b