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JOHN H. SEALS,
NEW SERIES, VOLUME 111.
OTHE GEOBWIAO
TEMPERA NCE.CIt U S A D E R.
Published every Thursday in the year s except two
TERMS : Two Dollars per J'csy, In advance.
JOHN It. SKALS, Solk I’hopuif.tou.
* LIONEL 1.. VEAZEY, Editob I.itkk.vhy Depautmest.
mks m. e. imy.vN, uuitriess.
JOHN A. REYNOLDS, Piblhitciu
CSHItiU.TfcJ
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ecutors and Guardians, per square, 5 00
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editors and Guardians, per square, 3 25
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Citation for Letters of Administ ration, 2 75
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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 ol
ten 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 salts must be given in a pub
lie Gazette, forty days previous to the day of sale,
r 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 ail estate, must
be published forty days.
Notice that application will he 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 —for Dismission from Guardianship,
forty days.
Rules for Foreclosure of Mortgage must be published
monthly, for four months —lor compelling titles from Ex*
ecutors or Administrators, where a bona 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.
qTAc &Auoiney a &>ticclciy,
KING Sc LEWIS, Attorneys at Law, Greenes- j
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.
v. r. k-ino. July 1, 1858. m. w. lewis.
WHIT G. JOHNSON, Attorney at. Law,
Augusta, Ga. will prompily attend to all business
intrusted to his professional management in Richmond
and the adjoining counties. Office on Mclntosh street,
three doors below Constitutionalist office.
Reference —Thos. It. R, Cobh, Athens, Ga.
June 11 ly
ROGER E. WIIIGIIAM, Louisville, Jef
ferson county, Georgia, will give prompt attention
to any business intrusted to his care, in ihc following
counties : Jefferson, Burke, Richmond, Columbia, War
ren, Washington, Emanuel, Montgomery, Tutnull and ;
Striven. April 26, 1856 if
LEONARD T. DOYAE, Attorney at Law, |
McDonough, Henry county, Ga. will practice Law •
in the following counties: llenry, Spaulding, Butts, |
Newton, Fayette, Fulton, DeKalb, Pike and Monroe.
Feb 2-4 i
• — !
DH. SANDERS, Attorney at Law, Albany,
• tig. 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 ol Greene,
Morgan, Putnam, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Hancock,
Wilkes and Warren. Feb ly
pHIEEIP B- BOBINSON, Attorney at
JL Law, Greenesboro, Ga. will practice in the conn
ties of Greene Morgan, Putnam, Oglethorpe, Taiialer
ro, Hancock- Wilkes and Warren. July 5, ’56-1 v
JAMES BROWN, Attorney at Law, Fancy
Hill, Murray Cos. Ga. April 30, 1857.
’ AVVBTOWSTJUiib)
firm of J. S. BARNWELL 4 CO. will 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 he open lor
settlement by note or cash. The undersigned will give
his attention to the settlement of ull claims.
Mr. Barnwell will continue in the business of HAR
NESS MAKING and REPAIRING, whom 1 take
great pleasure in recommending as a faithful and com
petent workman. [June 24—2m] R. J. M ASSEY.
PENFIELD AND GREENESBORO
UA<@SK. &nsrm
FTACKS or any desired accommo
-LI dation, waiting the arrival of each
train. Passengers for Penfield, Scull Shoals, Dr. Dur
ham’s, Watkinsviile, Watson’s Springs or any other
Point, will he carried thither safely and promptly.
assengers from any of these points desiring to meet
any of the trains, can find like accommodation. Prices
moderate.
Good horses and conveyances, with or without dri
ver. CASH will be required.
I have Horses and Buggies for hire at my stable in
Penfield. 11. NEESON, Jr.
July 15, 1858
SURGEON & MECHANICAL DENTIST,
inform liis friends that he
>mEwWBBjpL ** will be back in November and attend
M ~* J -LULIJto his engagements at White Plains, Mt. j
Zion, Oxford and Penfield. May 13, 1858-tfjan
~S1BLEY&” BOGGST
—WHOLESALE AND RETAIL HEALERS IN—
Choice Family Groceries, Cigars, &c.
276 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia.
Fab 18,1858 11
THE firm of COE & LATIMER is this day dis- j
solved by mutual consent. H. A. COE,
Greenesboro, May let, 1858 J. S. LATIMER.
The practice will be continued by
fc ®s> VVttlfcVA, - j
who will visit
Oxford. j
Penfield, i
White Plains,
Mount Zion,
Warrentmi,
Elberton,
Dameleville
Fort Lamar, i
ol whleh due notice Will be given inthe Crusader and
Ctaaette. Permanent office mJ. CITTCNINGHAAr S
- . BLOCK, GREE NE SB O R O.
’ May 13,1858 tjanl
JF you want an article superior to Potash for
• making Soap, bay the CONCENTRATE! LEY.
March $5 J. M. BOWLES.
All Earnest Appeal.
ECESSITY compels me to make an earnest
l’ appeal to those who are indebted to me for 1856
and ’57. for help. I need money to carry on my busi
ness, and a small sum from each one whose account is
past due, would make mecasv. Shall I appeal in vain ?
| July 8 * W. B. SEALS. :
A X II
j LOVERS OF GOOD THINGS, FRESH AND PURE, j
: IITST give ‘Old Mac’ a call— he’s always ready j
*J to supply the wants of those who may favor him ,
with their patronage. What’ll you have ?
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,
‘Odd Mac’s’ th’ team
that can furnish just what you may love!
jSS-Meals at short notice. Call, examine and eat.
lie may still he found at his old place.
Greenesboro, June 10, 1858 D. McDONALD.
C U RUI S GIT A 11A NTEED!
CANCERS AND SCROFCEA CURED.
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN CASES CURED 1857”
PAMPHLETS containing testimonials a the
highest character, as to his success, will be forwar- j
ded toanv that may wish them. Those wishing to test !
the efficacy of DR. CLOPTON'S WONDERFUL j
REMEDIES, must give a correct description of the !
disease, its appearance in its incipient stage, progress, !
present condition, location, &e.
A three cent postage stamp must accompany all com- ;
munications. Address J. A. CLOPTON, M. D.
July 15, 1858 ly Hunts\ .lie, Ala. j
WIIMTiEIE . GRASS. j
THE subscriber offers for sale 25 or 30 bushels I
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 best
that has ever been introduced into this section, it being
far preferable to rye or herley for lots or grazing purpo
ses. It grows luxuriantly all winter —hard freezes or
heavy rains being no interference. It improves the land
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 sown at any time from June until October
and do well. I will refer the public to a perusal of the
Circular of Hon. B. V. Iverson. Any person who de
sires to procure the Grass-seed from me can do so by
early application, and have it sent, to any place which
they may designate. D. HERRON.
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
Or, Short Awn Horn Grass.
Columbus, Ga. Sept. 29th, 1850.
To the Planters, Farmers and Stock Raisers of Greene j
County, Go : |
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 Raiser i
to possess and cultivate. This grass grows in the fall, j
winter und spring only, and is emphatically a winter
| grass. For the grazing of stock and making nutritious
hay and restoring worn out fields, it has no superior.
This grass lias the following valuable qualities, which
many year’s experience has abundantly demonstrated:
Ist It has the largest seed of any known species ol j
grass, being nearly as large as wheat.
2d It will grow [on very rich ground] from three to j
four feet high, when seasonable.
; 3d It is novet injured by coid —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 j
I rains, overflows or ordinary drought.
6th It grows as lust as Millet, or Lucerne.
! 7tli It is us nutritious us barley, und stock arc as fond j
i of it ns they are of that.
! Bth It will keep horses, mules, cattle, sheep, goats,
! hogs and poultry fat throughout the winter and epring,
from November to May.
9th It will then (the stock being withdrawn, and the
ground being rich) yield from three to four tons of ex
cellent hay per acre, cutting when the seed is green (in
milk) each time.
10th It saves corn and fodder being fed away to stock !
during the winter and spring.
llilt 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.
13tii It will (if followed with our cornfield pea or
bean) give to farmers 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
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.
15th It does not spread or take possession of a field,
so as to be difficult to get rid of, hut can he 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 be found, by all who cultivate it, far superior to
any other species ever introduced, or which cun be in
troduced, (or the climate and soil of our country.
_ B. V. IVERSON.
ALL persons are hereby warned against and
forbid trading for a note of hand dated the third of
March last, for one hundred and thirty dollars, payable
ninety days after its date, given by me to McGee & Cos.
the consideration for which said note was given having
failed. THOMAS W. S. LEWIS.
July 8, 1858 4t
Bowdon Collegiate Institution,
BOWDON, CARROLL COUNTY, GA.
THE Fall Term will open on Second Wednes
day of August, 1858.
Thorough instruction given in the various English
branches, in Latin, Greek and French. Particular at
tention paid to Pure Mathematics, to Surveying and
Civil Engineering. A Military Company will be organ
ized as soon as the term opens.
( HAS. A. M< DANIEL, A. M.
Professor An. Languages, Nat. Phil. &c. I
JOHN M. RICHARDSON, B. S. j
Military Instructor, Prof. Mathematics, <Scc. i
July 22-fit
m* jPo
j Warehouse & Commission Merchant,
AUGUSTA, CIA. ,
t W~~~ /CONTINUES the business in all its
V'f'H branches, in his large and conunodi
ous Fire-Proof Warehouse, on Jackson
street, near the Globe Hotel.
Orders for Goods, &c. promptly and carefully filled.
The usual casli facilities afforded customers.
July 22 6m^
Warehouse & Commission Merchants,
HJGUSTA,GA.
jsstf TTAVINft entered into a co-part
p <> ,s§l -Llsliip for the purpose of carrying on
the Storage and Commission Business in
all of its branches, respectfully solicit con
signments of Cotton and other produce; also orders for
Bagging, Rope and family supplies. Their strict, per
sonal attention will be given to the business.
All the facilities duo from factors to patrons shall he
granted with a liberal hand.
ISAAC T. HEARD,
l T , , WM. C. DERRY.
July 22d, 1858.
Ludlow’s Infallible Cans.
SOMETHING that supercedes all other air-tight
LJ Cans; they are self-sealing, which saves you the
trouble and expense of using an exhauster, for sale bv
Penfield, July 1, 1858 J. M. BOWLES.
: VOU can at all times find a fine assortment of
-L TIN,- exceedingly low for the Cash, with
July lr 1898 J. M. BOWLBS.
: T HAVE on hand a few loaves of the old stylo
I *IjOAF SUGAR, for nit ckeip for cub.
1 July 15 J. M, BOIWLES.
THE ADOPTED ORGAN OF ALE THE TEMPERANCE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE STATE.
PENFIELD, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5. 185 8.
BY MRS. M. E. BRYAN.
ERNESTINE'S WARNING;
A STORY OF FLORIDA.
BY MARY E. BRYAN.
*’ K THOUSAND plagues upon it all?” ex
claimed young Sydney Wvlde, as endeav
oring to raise the windows of the heavy traveling
; carriage, he found the glass gone from both.
“Wrap your cloak around you more closely, Ern-
I ©stine, and here, let me draw you nearer to me
I and keep you warm with my arms. This chilly,
1 drizzling rain, makes the atmosphere feel more
like that of a New England November, than an
August at the South.”
“And this is Florida,” he continued, looking out
upon the dreary prospect of alternate “ bay galls,”
strips of desolate pine woods and wet A marshes,
among whose rank grass the frogs had already
began their evening concert. The scene was dis
mal enough, and Ernestine Wylde, whose deli
cate organization rendered her peculiarly suscep
tible to outward influences, shrank closer to her
brother, as she forced a smile in answer to his
observation, and wondered where were the orange
groves, the magnolia blossoms and perfumed
breezes of the “land of flowers"—the utopia of
| the invalid.
j “It is growing late,” said Sydney, glancing un
| easily up the road which was scarcely more than
! a blind track, “and I see no signs of the farm
: house where wo were to pass the night. Wo
: must push on as rapidly as this miserably rough
i road will permit, for I fear the effect of this clamp
j air upon your cough. I say, Hector,” he called
’ out to the driver, “don’t you think we have lost
our way ?”
“ Dunno, mass’r,” responded the sable coach
man, in tones rendered a little thick and husky
by his frequent consultations with his companion
—a black junk bottle, carried in his capacious
pocket, and whose contents, if they answered the
avowed purpose of keeping “ the fog out of his
lungs,” had certainly sent it to his brain and con
siderably eloudecl his ideas. “Dunno, indeed,
mass’r. Place looks sorter strange like, that’s a
fact. I know’d de way jist as well as de road
from Ta'lakas.sy to Quincy, but it keeps drizzlin
and mistinso, it’s enough to ’wilder-like any body.
I’m mighty sure we’s traveled a sight further’n
need be. We ought to got to mass’r Sam White’s
two hours by sun. Wish to messy we was tliar
now !” he added, fervently, as the carriage moun
ted a huge palmetto tuft and came down with a
heavy jolt.
“You thick-skulled varlet!” cried young
Wylde, now fairly losing all patience, through his
I fears for his sister. “ A pretty guide you are. to
■ trust one’s self to; but who is that hallooing be
| hind us? Tom, the wagoner, is it not?
! The carriage stopped to allow Tom, tho driver
of the wagon that followed behind with provis
ions and baggage, to come up, riding one of the
mules of his team and breathless with the intelli
gence that the wagon was fast—“ stalled” —in a
; boggy bottom a mile back, and that all his efforts
! and that of his team wot e powerless to extricate it.
. He eon lit': tied tho fears of Sydney by the addi
j tional bad nows—learned from a runaway negro
: —that they had certainly lost their way, and gone !
nearly half-a-day’s journey in an opposite direc
tion. However, the runaway had said that a lit
tle farther on there was a deserted house where
they might find shelter, “ and a place for Elsie
to cook supper, if they could but get the wagon
under way,” added Tom, with aside-long glance
at Ernestine’s maid, who was the object of his
gallant admiration.
“Certainly,” exclaimed Sydney, his spirits re
covering their wonted buoyancy. “It is not so
bad an idea after all. Wo will drive away tho
gloom with a glorious lightwood tiro ; Elsie shall
broil us a supper of the line venison I shot to-day >
and you, dearie, shall have a bed of the cloaks
and carriage cushions, which, if not so poetical
as the “couch of roses bespangled with dew,”
which your song speaks of, is more wholesome,
I’ll be bound. Drive faster, Hector ; we’ll make
a comfortable night after all. I say, sis, won’t it
be rich to tell of our backwood’s experiences
when we return home ?”
Ernestine’s smile was but a faint one. Whether
it was the melancholy, monotonous croaking of
the frogs, the gloom of tho evening, the utter
loneliness of the scene or some indefinable forebo
ding of ill, she could scarcely tell herself, but an
unusual heaviness gathered about her heart, as
she contrasted the desolate wilds around her with
her own pleasant home and the dear ones far
away. Ernestine was an invalid, as the fragility
of her figure and the transparent delicacy of her
complexion readily betokened, and it was in the
hope that the mild climate of Florida might ben
efit the sister he idolized, that Sydney Wylde
had brought her from their home in Tennessee
to spend the autumn and- winter with some
relatives whose plantations lay near the capital
of the State. On arriving, they found that the
i family of Col. Wylde were, as usual, passing the
| summer on the gulf coast, but learning of the
• arrival of their guests by a messenger dispatched
I from “Temple Farm,” they immediately sent the
large family coach that the brother and sister
might join them at their pleasant sea-side resi
dence. To do this, it was necessary to traverse
a considerable tract of wild, unsettled country
under the pilotship of Hector, the driver, who
was supposed to be well acquainted with the
road. It was the second day of their journey.
The level country, and the width of the numer
ous creeks announced the proximity of the coast,
and the farm-house of Mr. White was the last
stopping place before reaching their destination.
The ascent of another hill brought the travel
ers to the house the negro had spoken of—a log
■building rather larger than those they had seen on
the road-side,bu t weather-stained and covered with
neglected vines. Nothing could be more dismal
than the surroundings of the place. The yard,
filled with tall weeds and grass, among which lay
rotting the fruit that had dropped from tho
peach and apple trees within the enclosure. The
paling, part of which had fallen to the ground,
was overrun with gourdvines, with here and
there a rose peering through tfce rank vege
tation, serving to make the desolation more ap
parent by contrast. A solitary deer was feeding
upon the luxuriant verdure, and as the carriage
approached, he raised his beautiful ohoad and
stood regarding them in seemingly fearless sur
prise. Sydney would have fired from the steps
of tlto carriage, U frptfnt Wll llff Ml |||ffl(l
Upon his arm.
“ Don’t,” she said, with tears in her eyes.
“ Don’t brother; I can’t bear it now.”
Wondering at her sad mood, the young man
took her light form in his arms, and bearing Iter
up the steps around which crowded the tall, un
trampled grass, he placed her in the piazza and
threw oi>en the door of a large, empty, dreary
| looking, yet tolerably close room, with windows
secured by wooden shutters, and a fireplace am
ple enough to have roasted an ox for an Alder
manic dinner.
“Not so comfortable a drawing-room as one
might desire,” lie said, passing his arm around
his sister’s waist, “but a cheery lightwood fire on
that broad hearth will act like magic, and you
may, if you please, fancy it a castle liko those
your old-time romances tell you of, and yourself
a heroine, a Lady Ernestine, shut up to prevent
her seeing her chivalrous knight errant. In the
meantime, T wit! bring in the cushions for you.
and bid Hector collect the wood. Here are
matches in plenty: and that done, little one, will
you mind my leaving you with Hector and Elsie
for half an hour, while I go back with the horses
and help Tom extricate the wagon ? Unless I
do, you will be compelled to sup in imagination
only: for you can see for yourself that Hector is
hardly in a fit condition to be trusted on such an
errand, though without doubt, he will prove a
trusty guard to your castle, Lady Ernestine, since
there is no danger of its being molested by any
thing except banshees, on such a niglit as this?”
“ But the rain,” said Ernestine, checking an
impulse to detain him, and feeling a strange re
luctance to being left alone.
“It will not reach me through my rubber
cloak and hood, and if it does, it will make little
difference. Remember to have a good fire ready
for the venison stakes, Elsie.
Ernestine’s was not naturally a timid nature,
yet her heart sank with unaccountable heaviness,
as leaning against the door frame she listened
to the sound of the horses’ feet, growing fainter
and fainter until it was no longer audible. The
twilight had now fairly merged into night, though
a misty moonlight rendered all objects dimly
visible.
But this ghostly light, struggling through clouds
and falling rain, only enhanced tho gloomy as
pect of the scene on which Ernestine’s eyes res
ted, and she shuddered as she heard the moan of
the wind in the pines and the shivering cry of
the death owl among the tangled vines in the
eaves of the house. She re-entered the room,
now illumined by a cheerful blaze, and, half re
clining on the pile of cushions before the fire,
took up the guitar that Elsie had brought from
the carriage and, running her fingers over its
strings, began to sing in a low voice and absent
manner, fragments of songs, mostly breathing of
love, for Ernestine’s thoughts were with the lover
of her girlhood who was awaiting her return, with
sanguine hopes of her restoration to health.
Half an hour had passed, the rain and wind had
increased, the fire burned low and flickeringly upon
thehearth. Ernestine aroused the sleeping Elsie to
replenish it. As though in answer to the sweet
ballad that Ernestine was murmuring, there came
—seemingly from the loft above—a wild, wierd
voice, breaking into a chant that filled the room
with its dirge-like music. The horrified silence
of mistress and maid enabled them to distinguish
the words, above tho sound of the falling rain :
Aye, they bore her away to the halls so ga)-.
And they bought her a palfrey good,
But Death, he danced by iter side in the hall,
i And rode by her side in the wood.
And she thought she should stand with her lily band
In her bridegroom’s, so brave and so proud;
But Death shall her only bridegroom be,
And her bridal robe the shroud.
So merrily, merrily Death rides by—
Merrily on his pule horse,
And at every door where he knocks, ye’ll find
On the morrow a stark, white corse.
“God of Heaven, what is that?” gasped Ernes
tine, clasping her hands together.
“Oh! it’s a sperrit! Miss Ernestine,” sobbed
Elsie, beside herself with terror. “It’s come to
warn us of some dredful thing that’s goin’ to hap
pen. Did’nt ye mind what awful things it sung
about ?”
“ Throw on more wood. Kindle up a bright
blaze, Elsie,” said her mistress.
“Oh ! there’s not a mite of kindlin wood in
the room,” said the maid after a hurried search.
“We’ll be here all in the dark wid tho sperrits
in another minnit. Sakes preserve us, Mias Ern
estine, what will we do?”
“ Call Hector, quick, Elsie! call him, for I can
not, and Ernestine sank back half fainting upon
the cushions.
Elsie threw open the window, and in a voice to
which terror gave a piercing strength, she repeat
ed the name ot Hector, shrieking it out until it
reverberated startlingly through the empty house
and aroused bats and owls from their repose; all
to no purpose, for the recreant guard having
built himself a comfortable tire in an out house
near by and taken a last drain of the black bot
tle, had sunk into the deep sleep of partial in
toxication, and could not be awakened even by
Elsie’s banshee screaming.
She came back, wringing her hands in despair.
“ the sperrits have carried him away, Miss
Ernestine, and they’re only waitin for the fire
to burn down, to come after us. I dares’nt put
my foot- out o’ the house es my life upended on
it, sides I could’nt think no way of leavin you
here by yourself for a minnit. Oh! es young
mass’r would only come I”
“Elsie,” said Ernestine, rising to her feet with
sudden determination, “take up that knot of
burning lightwood and follow me. lam going
up there,” pointing to the farther corner qf the
room where a ladder-like staircase led up to the
loft,” to get some Qf those loose boards for fire
wood, and to see who, or what it was singing.
There are no such things as ghosts, poor child,
and if there were, God would not suffer them to
injure us. Come,” she continued, in a tone so
firm and peremptory that the girl immediately
obeyed her.
The old stairs creaked omenously undei t
weight, and on reaching the low, dark gane ,
the bats, affrighted by the light, flew around
them in narrow circles, striking their faces with
their skinny wings.
The light that their flickering torch threw upon
the sooted and cobwebbed walls was so faint that
they did not immediately perceive the supernat
ural looking object that stood in the farther end
of the room. It was a woman, her tall, motion
less figure clad all in black, her arms folded upon
her breast and her face, white as that of the
dead, looking out from the long, black lialr ihat
fell almost to her feet. There was no shade of
living color In that rigid countenance, and the
eyed, mteneely w* brain ßi wer li * e<l
with unwinking upon th* intruder*.
“Who are you?” asked Ernestine, shrinking
before those wiered and piercing eyes.
1 he apparition made no reply, but tho clasped
arms slowly unfolded, and levelling her finger at
the trembling girl, she sang the wild refrain of
her song:
Merrily, merrily Death rides by—
Merrily on his pale horse,
And at every door where he knocks, ye’ll find,
On the morrow, a stark, white corse.
“ I can hear this no longer, Elsie,’’ said Ernes
! tine, faintly. “ Let us go down.”
They went, pursued by the unearthly sounds
of the song, and on reaching tho room, a burst
of hollow, discordant laughter rang through the
house like the mirth of a demon.
The torch fell from the hand of Elsie, and the
room was in darkness, .save that the struggling
moonbeams streamed in through the open win
dow. The quick tramp of a horse smote upon the
silence.
“He is coining! lie is coming! cried Elsie.
Look up, Miss Ernestine ; young master will be
here in a minnit, . lie’s stopped at tlto gate now.”
“ Thank God.!” uttered the poor invalid, and
she fell back insensible into the arms of her at
tendant. The re-action had been too much for
exhausted nature. The hurried step of Sydney
Wylde was on the threshhold.
“ What in Heaven’s name is all this?” lie ex
claimed. “Where are you, Ernestine, Elsie!
I low in the world came you to suffer the fire to
go out?”
“My young mistress has fainted,” sobbed the
girl, hysterically.
“Famted!” and Sydney dropped the traveling
case he held and snatched his sister from the
support of her maid.
“ Here, open that portmanteau, Elsie, and light
one of those candles. Quick! girl, quick!”
“My God,” he exclaimed, as the light flashed
on the pale features of Ernestine. “She has had
another hemorrhage. There is blood upon her
lips. Hand me some water, Elsie;” and he
bathed her face until she opened her eyes with a
low, shuddering sigh, as of a child exhausted by
weeping. Seeing his familiar face bent over her,
she threw her arms around her brother’s neck,
and burying her head in his bosom, gave way to
a burst of hysterical tears.
When lie had succeeded in calming and
soothing her, Sydney inquired the cause of this
strange disturbance.
“Oh!’ said Elsie, “it was a sperrit, tall as this
jice, all dressed in black, wid a face whiter’n a
sheet, and it a standing in the loft, singin the
orfullest songs about death and pale horses and
all. It’s up there now. Both of us saw it, and
Miss Ernestine, she spoke to it, but it only stared
at her wid its great eyes, and begun singin its
outlandish songs.”
“I will see for myself,” said Sydney, catching
up a light and ascending the rickety stairs, re
gardless of Elsie’s remonstrances. He came down
after a thorough search.
“There is nothing in the world up there,” he
said, “ except bats and spiders.”
“ Then it’s flew away through the housetop—on
a broomstick, like enough,” said Elsie. “Sich
tilings as that don’t stand big bolts nor bars.”
“Nonsense!” said Sydney. “If it was not a
delusion of the senses, dear Ernestine, it was,
without doubt, some poor deranged woman, who
had taken shelter here, and who made her es
cape through this very room, unnoticed by you
in the darkness and confusion. Your good sense
will teach you it could have been nothing else.
Calm yourself, my trembling little one,” lie con
tinued, throwing himself down beside her and
taking both her hands in liis. “It will all be
explained satisfactorily. I have read of such
things before. I reproach myself deeply for hav
ing left yon so long, but I gave such special in
junctions to that villain, Hector, that he should
stay in the piazza just outside your door and
keep a good fire until I returned, that I had no
idea he would dare disobey them. And besides,
I did not dream that you would really have an
adventure in your haunted castle. How you will
laugh over this night when it is over, little sis!”
He spoke gaily, and Tom came in soon after,
with an arm full of rich [tine knots, whose bright
blaze chased tlie shadows from the corners of
the room and restored the confidence of Elsie.
She laughed and chatted with Tom, as she broiled
the venison and made out the buiscuifc for suj>-
per, while Sydney sat apart, reading Miss Mil
ford's pleasant sketches to his sister, and doing
all in his power to recall her wanted cheerful
ness. But the shadow lay too deep on Ernes
tine's spirit: her eyes had a strange, faraway
look in them, and her lips and cheeks remained
pale as those of the apparition of the garret.
Next morning as the vehicles moved away from
the deserted house in the gray light of early
dawn Ernestine looked back from the carnage
and felt assured that she saw that wild, white
face at the garret window, and caught a momen
tary glimpse of the shadowy hand, raised with a
gesture of warning.
Unwilling to disturb her brother needlessly,
she refrained from speaking of it to him—but it
did not pass from her mind —not then, nor ever
after; for when she breached her last in her bro
ther’s arms, a few weeks afterwards, this passage
was found written in her journal and dated the
night before her death. •
“ I feel that I must die. I know that the great
change is near—nearer than my poor brother
dreams of—and for liis sake and my mother’s
and Philip Wentworth's, I cannot but regret it,
yet it will not find me unprepared.
Ever since that terrible warning on the mem
orable nineteenth of August, I have endeavored
to withdraw my thoughts from the things of time
and sense, and fix them upon God and eternity.”
When next Sydney Wyldo traversed the lonely
road which he had travelled-with Ernestine, it
was in company with a corpse. There came a
night of gloom and rain, like the one on which
the apparition of tho garret-had appeared to Er
nestine, and again tljo deatli-owls shivered and
the pine trees moaned, while Sydney kept watch
all night over his sister’s coffin, with tho wild
lines of the song ringing through his brain :
And at every door where he knocked, ye’ll find,
On the morrow, a stark, white corse.
Inquiries were made by liimsolf and Col. Wylde
concerning the deserted building, but with, no
satisfactory result. It was called by the near
est settlers, “tho haunted house,” and: was
thought,to be visited by tho ghost of the former
occupant, a widow of stern, cruel nature, who
had been guilty of numerous inhumanities, and
on one occasion, had driven from her door an old
Irish peddler dying of yellow fever, contracted
on the ship ho had left only a few days before.
At the foot of the hill on which the house was
built he droned (lend,, and the negroes buried
hi bleached bones by stealth, alter his body; had
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
been eaten by vultures. The widow herself died
a short time afterwards, an impenitent and dread
ful death—the negroes passed into the hands of
her heirs and the house was left without an occu
pant.
Sydney learned, also, that a crazy woman—
whose mind had become unsettled at the death
of her children—had been seen wandering
through tho woods, subsisting on fruits, on the
tender bud of tho palmetto, and the game she
killed with her own hands. She was described
as being of medium height, while the woman
seen by Ernestine was of gigantic statue; but this
might have been only the exaggeration of an ex
cited fancy. Sydney had little doubt of the crazy
woman’s identity with the mysterious apparition,
but the servants gave quite a .different version of
the story, and if you should ever have ocoasion to
stoj) at the plantation of Judge Wylde, not far
from Nashville, Tennessee, you can hear the most
marvellous of ghost stories related by Elsie, and
believed in by every negro on the place. If you
should chance to rest awhile in the drawing-room
of the mansion, rich with the dim lustre of old
oak and crimson velvet, and see upon the walls
the portrait of a girl with a face half child-like,
half angelic in its beauty; a brow holy with the
light of truth, a smile full of mystery and sweet
ness, and eyes that will haunt you forever, look
well upon it; for it is the beautiful, all but breath
ing semblance, of Ernestine Wylde.
ThomasoUe.
THE SOLDIER’S RETURN.
BY MARY E. Bit VAX.
Jhe soldiers came down from the mountain, -
And their banners waved over the glen ;
The sunset’s red light glinted bravely ’
On the glistening arms of the men.
The pibroch awoke the glad echoes—
The clarion in triumph pealed forth,
“ Back again to the green hills of Scotia,
From the dearly won wars of the North.”
Go with laurels to meet the brave victors—
Go, matrons and maidens, in white;
They have fought for the honor of Britain—
They have proven her red Lion’s might;
f or the Bear of the Russias lies vanquished
In his den hy the lonely Black Sea ;
And the soldiers all plumed and all plaided,
Return to their homes and thee.
Hark ! hear you the well known Scotch welcome,
_ And hear you the shouts of the men ?
Go, maidens ; the army advancing
Winds out from the shades of the glen.
Oh ! many the bosoms were beating,
But none throbbed so wildly, I trow,
As Effie’s of Ellerslie cottage,
Who stood in the ivy-hung door—
Sweet Effie of Ellerslie cottage—
Nor father nor mother had she ;
But Roland, the Hazledeen piper,
Was dearer than kindred could be.
Oh. brave looked the youth on that morning,
Now summers and winters ago,
When he bade her adieu in the shadows
Os the ivy that mantled tho door.
O’er the fair locks that - fell on his shoulders,
I he plumes oi Ins odnnet waved high,
And a Hush to his young cheek had mounted,
Though a tear dimmed the blue of his eye.
She had waited and wept for the hour
Os returning and of welcoming glad ;
Now she hushes her heart while she listens
For the pipe of her bold highland lad.
j She joins not the matrons and maidens—
Her trembling foot cling to the floor.
And she grasps with her hands the green garlands
Os the ivy that droops o’er the door.
Oh ! if they who go forth with rejoicing
Find the hopes they have cherished are flown,
There are others to weep with and cheer them,
But Effie has Roland alone.
The soldiers, with plumes lightly dancing.
Wind out from the shades of the glen,
And husbands and brothers and lovers
Are clasped to fond bosoms again;
And the wails and the wild sobs of woman
Are drowned by the clarion’s shrill voice,
And the pipe wakes it’s loud highland-music,
And bids the old echoes rejoice.
Ave, the pipe rings its note of rejoicing,
But alas (or the Ellcrslie maid !
For dark flows the hair of the piper,
And he wears not the dear Scottish plaid.
Oh! many an eye, blue and bonny,
I With sorrow or gladness runs o’er,
’ But none turns to the pale, slender maiden
That stands in the ivy-hung door.
They pass with their glitter and music,
And the day fades away in the West;
She heeds not, for with the pale sunset
Hope and joy have died out in her breast.
Thomasville.
TIIE SEVEN ANCIENT WONDERS OP THE WORLD.
These were, first, The brass Collossus of Rhodes,
1-0 feet high, built by Cares, A. D. 288, occupy
ing twelve years in making. It stood across the
harbor of Rhodes sixty-six years, and was thrown
down by an earthquake. It was bought by a
Jew from the Saracens, who loaded 000 camels
with the brass.
2d. Tho pyramids of Egypt. The largest one
engaged 300,000 workmen thirty years in build
ing, and has now stood at least threo thousand
years.
3d. The Aqueducts of Rome, invented by Ap
pius Claudius, the censor.
4tli. The Labyrinth of Psammetichus, on the
banks of the Nile, containing within one contin
ued wall 1,000 houses, and 12 royal palaces, all
covered with marble and having\only one en
trance. Tho building was said to contain 3,000
chambers, and a hall built of marble, adorned
with statues of the gods.
sth. The Pharaos of Alaxandria, a tower built
by order of Ptolemy Philadelphus, in the year
282, B. C. Jt was erected as a light-house, and
contained magnificent galleries of marble—a large
lantern at the top—the light of which was seen
near a hundred miles off: mirrors of enormous
sizes were fixed around the galleries, reflecting
everything on the sea. A common tower is now
erected in its place.
6 th. The walls of Babylon, built by order of
Semiramis, or Nebuchadnezzar, an \ finished in
one year, by 200,0fi0 men. They were of immense
thickness.
7th. The Temple of Dianna, at Ephisus, com
pleted in the reign of Servius, 6th King of Rome.
It was 450 feet long, 200 broad, and supported by
126 marble pillars, 70 feet long. The beams and
doors were of oedar, the rest of the timber Cyprus.
It was destroyed by fire B. C. 265.
Rogers says: “The head-dresses of ladies, dur
ing my youth, were of a truly preposterous size.
I have gone to Ranelagh in a coach with a lady
who was obliged to sit upon a stool placed in the
bottom of the coach, the height of her head-dress
Hot allowing her to occupy the regular seftt. ,)
The ladies at that day had so little in them heads
they thought it advisable to over-ornament them
on the outside, At this dftjj tbs tiling id (jditO
reversed. he sex have Improved wonderfully.
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