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f|§epr(jtfl fs|r#*fcr. 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 Ci.CBS of Ten Names, by sending t lie Cash, will receive tlie paper at .... $1 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. ADVERTISING DIRECTORY: Bates of Advertising: 1 square, (twelve lines or less,) first insertion, $1 00 “ Each continuance, 50 Professional or Business Cards, not exceeding six 1 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. 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 editors and Guardians, per square, 3 25 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 25 Notice for Leave to Sell, 4 00 Citation for Letters of Administ ration, 2 75 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Adrn’n, 500 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Guard’p, 3 25 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. VOL. XXIV, NUMBER 30