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fffifie JHeorqw cmprnHcc (if rtteiuVr. JOHN H. SEALS, NEW SERIES, VOLUME 111. CytHE OEOHUAO TEMPERANCE CRUSADER. Published every Thursday in (ho year, except two TEUNIS: Two Dollars per year* iu ml * u urc. y JOHN 11. SKALS, 80t8 POPEIBTOR. LtONKL. L. VKAZKV r Editor Litkrary Dmmrtmknt. MBS M. E. BUY AN, Kwtkrss. JOHN A. HBYNOLDS, Pubusoba. Clubs of Ten Nambs, by sending the Cash, will receive the paper at .... $1 50'$ copy. Clubs op Fivb 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 lines, per year, 5 00 Announcing Candidates for Office, 3 00 Standing Advertisements: Advertisements not marked with the number of insertions, will bo continued until forbid, and charged accordingly. Druggists and others, may contract for advertising by the year on reasonable terms. Legal Advertisements: Rale 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 Leavo 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 Acquirements: Sales of Land and Negroes by Administrators, Exec utors or Guardians, arc required, by law, to be held on t%f> First Tuesday in the month, between the hours oi | ton in the forenoon and throe in the afternoon, at the Court-house door of the county in which the property is situate. Notices of thoso sales must be given in a pub. lie Gazette, forty days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of Personal Property must be given at least ten days previous to the day of sale. JMotices to Debtors and Creditors of an estate, must bt published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court or Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be pub lished weekly for two months. Citations for Letters of Administration, must be pub* f lished thirty days —for Dismission from Administration monthly, six months —for Dismission from Guardianship, forty days. Rules for Foreclosure of Mortgage must bo published monthly, for four months —lor 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 lo these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise or dered x * * (35n*clciy, KING Ot LEWIS, Attorneys at Law, Gkef.nes boro, Ga. The undersigned, having associated themselves together in the practice of law, wi'l attend to all bueiness intrusted to their caro, with that prompt ness and efficiency which long experience, united with industry, can secure. Offices at Greenesboro and five j miles west of White Plains, Greene county, Ga. y. r. kino. July 1, 1858. at. w. lewis. WHIT G. JOHNSON, Attorney at Law, Augusta, Ga. will promptly attend to all business intrusted to his profeMional management in Richmond uYid the adjoining cctntics. Office on Mclntosh street, three doCrs below Comtitutionalist office. Reference —Thos. R. R. Cobb, Athens, Ga, June 14 . .ly ROGER E. WIUGHAM, Louisvillo, Jef ferson county, Georgia, will giro prompt attention to any business intrusted to his caro, in the following counties : Jefferson, Burke, RichmondTColumbia, War ren, Washington, Emanuel, Montgomery, Tutnall and tieriveil. April 26, 1856 ti LEONARD T. DO¥AL, Attorney at Law, McDonough, Henry county, Ga. will practice Law in the following counties: Henry, Spaulding, Butts, Newton, Fayotto, Fulton, Dolvalb, Pike and Monroe. Feb 2-4 DH. SANDERS, Attorney at Law, Albany, • Ga. will practise in the counties ol Dougherty. Sumter, Lee, Randolph, Calhoun, Early, Baker, Deeu tur and Worth. Jun 1 ly HT. PERKINS, Attorney at Law, Greones * boro, Ga. will practice in the counties ot Greene, •Morgan, Putnam, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Hancock, Wilkes and Warren. Feb ly PHILLIP IT ROBINSON, Attorney at Law, Greenesboro, Ga. will practice in the conn <ies of.Greene Morgan, Putnam, Oglethorpe, Taliafer ro, Hancock, Wilkes and Warren. July 5, ’56-lv JAMES BROWN, Attorney at Law, Fancy Hill, Murray Cos. Ga. April 30, ISS?.*- i SIBLEY, BOGGS & CO. s — I WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS 1N- Choice Family Groceries, Cigars, &c. 276 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia. Feb 18,1858 11 ZPo Warehouse & Commission Merchant, AUGUSTA, GA. V- /CONTINUES the business in all its p. *> HP branches, in his large and commodi ous Fire-Proof Warehouse, on Jackson street, near the Globe Hotel. Orders for Goods, &c. promptly and carefully filled. The usual cash facilities afforded customers. July 22 Gm* ELSE) & JB'iiSsYa ’ * Warehouse & Commission Merchants, AUCtIJSTA, ga. mg — Tl AVI NO entered into a co-part vJ . <s• _LJ B hip 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 tagging, Rope and family supplies. Their strict, per sonal attention will be given to the business. All the facilities due Irom factors to patrons shall be ” nMd wUh * libC "“ h “ d - ISAAC T. HEARD, . WM. C. DERRY. July 22d, gSfl. WILL continue the WAREHOUSE and COM MISSION BUSINESS at their old stand on Jackson street. Will devote their personal attention to Storage and sale of Cotton, Bacon. Grain. See. Lihr*l cash advances made when required ; and all orders (ot Family Supplies, Bagging, Rope, &c. filled tnnrket price. SAM - L and. linton. TODLLAIN, JENNINGS & CO. GROCERS AND COTTON FACTORS, OpyelU> the Glebe Hotel. Augusta, CJeorgia. CONTINUE, as heretofore, in connection with VV their Grocery Business, to attend to the sale oi COTTON and other produce. . They will be prepared in the Brick Fireproof y urc- T)<me, now in process of erection in the “Out of their store, at the intersection of Jackson and Reynold streets, sdio roceivo on storage all consignments made them. Liberal cash advances made on Produce in store, when requested. ANTOINE POULLAIN. THOMAS J. JENNINGS, .. Aaglo-6m ISAIAH PURSE. 1 - ■ —— <£?e> dJo AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. THE undersigned, thankful for the liberal pa tronage extended to him for a scries of years, would inform his friends and the public that he will continue at his same well known Brick Warehouse on Campbell -street, near Bones, Brown Sc Co’s. Hardware House, where, by strict personal attention to all business en~ • trusted to his care, he hopes he will receive a share of the public patronage. vtft Cash Advances, Bagging, Rope and Family Supplies, * will be forwarded te customers as heretofore, when de eirod. {Augusta, Ga. Aug 19-6 m CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE. ] pARRETT WOOD HAM offers himself to the * voters of Greene county, lor tho office of Tax Re ceiver, at tho election in January next. ijOHN 11. SPELLINGS offers himself to tho vo tcrß of Greene county, ss a candidate far the office of Tax Collector, at tlm election in January next. \T M. JONES offers himself to the voters of *- v • Greene county, as a candidate for the office of Tax Collector, at tho flection in January next. HENRY WEAVER offers himself to the voters of Greene county, as a candidate for the office of Tax Receiver, at the election in January next. WE are authorized to announce the name of JOEL C. BARNETT, Esq. of Madison, Ga. as candidate for Solicitor General of the Ocmulgee Circuit, rtr > the first Monday in January next. BC. ALFRIEND offers himself to the voters • of Greene county for the office of Tax Collector, at the election in January next. GREENE COUNTY LEGAL NOTICES. SiniRIFFS SALEST” ¥ILL be sold before the ecurt-hnuse door in the city of Greenes. boro, on the FIRST TUESDAY in NOVEMBER next, within the legal hours of sale, the following property, to-wlt: One house and lot in the village of Penfield, whereon B. E. Spencer now lives ; also, a negro woman named Mary, about forty years old ; also, one pair counter scales: Levied on as the property of B. E. Spencer, to satisfy afi fa from tho Superior Court, in favor of C. C. Norton vs B. E. Spencer and Joseph H. English. Also, at the same timo and place, 6 cane bottom chairs, 6 Windsor chairs, I bureau, 4 chests, 2 beds, bedstead and furniture, 1 wardrobe, I carpet and 1 elock: Levied on as the property of B. E. Spencer, to satisfy a /t fa from Greene Superior Court, in favor of Scranton, Seymour & Cos. vs B. E. Spencer and Henry English. Property pointed out by Henry English. Also, at tho same timo and place, one negro boy named Jim, about 22 years old: Levied on as the prop erty of Henry English, to satisfy two f fas from Supe rior Court of said county, one in favor of Scranton, Sey mour &, Cos. ts B. E. Spencer and Henry English, and one in lavor of Scranton, Kolb Sc Cos. tin said Spencer and English. I. MORRLSON, Sheriff. Sept 30, 1858 ALSO, AT THE SAME TIME AND PLACE, Two hundred acres of laud, more or less, whereon R. A. Newsom now lives, adjoining Dr. B. F. Carlton, P. W. Printup and others; also, two negroes, one a man named Ned, about 55 years old, dark complexion, and a negro v.Oman named Martha, about forty-five years old, ot dark complexion: Levied on as the property of Richard A. Newsom, lo satisfy sundry A fat from Greene Su perior and Inferior Courts, in favor of James W. As burv, and other f fas in my hands ts Richard A. New som'. ‘ ‘ 0, C. NORTON, D. 6. Sept 30, ISSB 1 DMINISTRATOR’S SALK.—WiII bo sold be l* fore the Court-house door in Atlanta, Fulton co. originally Henry, on the first Tuesday in December next, two hundred and two and a half acres of land, No. 209. adjoining the lands ofW. C. A Isa brook ar.d others ; said land sold as part ol the estate of Martin Woodall, deceased, and sold under an order of the Court of Ordi nurv of Taliaferro countv. Terms on the day of sale. JOHNSON WOODALL,) . j SINGLETON HARRIS, J n ‘ I Oct. 14—40d ’A DM INISTBAT 0 R’S SALE.—WiII be sold in -e A McDonough, Henry county, on the first Tuesday in December next, within tho usual hours ot sale, the west half of lot ot land No. 240, containing one hundred and one ami a quarter acres, more or less, in the 12th district of Henry county. Sold under the incumbrance of a dower, and under an order of the Court of Ordinarv of Greene countv. as property of the estate of Thomas j Bell, deceased. * SHELLY DOWNS, Adra’r. Oc 21. 1858 j ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.—WiII be sold - A- before the court-house door in Greenesboro, Greene county, on the first. Tuesday ih December next, within the legal hours of sale, and in accordance with nn order of the Court of Ordinary for said county, One Hundred and ’l’cn Acres of Land, more or less, lying on the wa ters of Ogeechcc, adjoining lands of George S. Tunnel, I. A. Williams and others. Sold ns the property of Joseph Grimes, deceased, for the benefit of tho heirs of said deceased. Terms on the dav of sale. ISAAC A. WILLIAMS, Adm’r Oct 11, 1858 de bonis non. EXECUTORS’ BALE.—If not sold privately before that time, the PLANTATION belonging to t he estate of John 11. Broughton, late of Greene county, and upon which he lived at the time of his death, will be publicly sold, on the first Tuesday in NOVEMBER next, at the court house of said county. Said plantation is pleasantly situated, about two miles from Greenes boro, nnd contains about Seventeen Hundred Acres. The same will be sold in a body or in parcels, as may be lor the best interest of the estate. Those wishing to purchase will be shown the plantation by either of the executors. Terms : Equal payments with interest, in one, two and three years. Possession to be given en the Ist of January, 1839. JOHN T. BROUGHTON, ) r , JACOB L BROUGHTON, ) r *’ April 29, 1858 r K PJAJRIBUS UNUM. Georgia Merchants! GENERAL NOTICE! i FALL AND WINTER TRADE, 1858! npHE subscriber wanting a good situation in -A- some established house, with means and facilities to carry on business, and pay a salary from six to twelve hundred dollars per annum, will receive any offers. He lias from 12 to 13 years’ experience as salesman nnd bookkeeper in the following places : Penfield, Greencs boroj Madison, Albany and Augusta. Any letters, to receive attention, must state the kind of business, place, and also salary that can be paid. r -cenesboro, Oct 11, 1858-lt W. 8. BAGBY. MASONIC INSTITUTE. . John K. Leak, A. B. Pres’t. - THE next To: a 1 >f this Institution will open on the Ist Wed es ay in January, 1859, with a full and able Faculty fc the reception of Students, both male and female. Ye have a commodious building, and the society, v lto and hcalthfulness of the locality are unsurpassed': < tl> >. State. The course of study is thorough and cxlenstve in both departments, including all branches taught In the Male and Female Colleges. Board §8 per month—Tuition reasonable. We can j and will make it to the interest of all who patronise the j Institution. . dents will come by railroad to New- j nan, Ga then- cby private conveyance to Carrollton. j For further particulars address John K. Leak, Car ■: rollton, Ga. W. W. MERRELL, W. M. J. T. MEADOR, S. W. ] Oct 14-tev B. M LONG. J. W. NEW CARPET STORE! A. G. BAILIE BitO. 203 Broad st. Augusta, Ga. j AND JAMES G. BAILIE, 231 King st. Charleston, S. C. { Importers, Jobbers and Dealers IN ALL KINDS OF CARPETING, &C. Medalion Carpets, Tapestry Royal Velvet Carpeting, Carpet- Brussels Carpeting, ing, Imperial and three-ply carpeting, Super and superfina carpeting, Cotton, chain and wool filling carpeting, English Venetians, for church ais'es, entries and stair®, Stair carpets and stair rods, Floor Oil Cloths. 3 to 24 feet, wide, thoroughly seasoned for rooms and entries, Hearth Rugs, Door Mats, See. 6-4, 12-4 and 16-4 Druggets, White and red Check Mattings, Felt Druggctß and Crumb Cloths. —ALSO — A full supply of WINDOW SHADES and TRIMMINGS. ! TTUE bog to inform our friends and the public VY generally, that we have opened u CARPET STORE in Augusta. Ga. in connection with our Charleston House, where we will keep a full and fresh ! stock of all the above goods, and which we will sen as | low as the same grade of goods can be purchased in New ; York or clsowhero All pi|jchascrs wishing carpets made up, fitted i and put downs or oil cloths and mattings laid, can have them properly attended to, as we keep in our employ . thorough and experienced carpet upholsterers. Ncto Carpet Store. Oct 21, 1858. , ; A honestly, freely and aystem j i~x. atically, is now recognised as one <jf tha sure • means of success, especially Jr the CstfSAim l*ee it. THE ADOPTED ORGAN OF AEL. THE TEMPERANCE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE STATE- PEH FIELD, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 185 8, BY MRS. M. E. BRYAN. j THE BROTHERS—RALPH AND ROLAND. *T mxbt s. sarxs. : A slight, fair boy, with long lashed eye* And clustering ringlets like a girl; With high, white brow, a lute-toned voice And maiden’s mouth and teoth of pearl: I saw him on a Sabbath eve Beneath the locust’s ehangeful shade, And on his fair, uncovered head, A golden hand the sunset laid; While round him stood a dusky group— The slaves that tilled his father’s land— While his sweet tones gave voice to words Traced by an angel-guided hand. Like ruby peaeils fell the light Upon the volume’s open page, While from the youthful teacher’s lips Fell the high words of Israel’s sage. ‘Twas rare to see, on those dark brows, Feeling’s and intellect's faint dawn, And mark the boy’s inspired face, For this was Ralph, the eldest born. The other, oh! his native South Left her dark beauty on his faeo, Lit his deep eyes from her bright stars, And gave his form her nine’s proud graee. His lips had the rich scarlet ffloom Os the pomegranate’s budding flower; His face the haunting mystery Os midnight at her loneliest hour. The changeful flush upon his cheek Was like the sunset’s fitful glow, And looking in his eyes, you seemed To gaze on stars through depths belew. Ho smiled not as his brother smiled— Like sunshine gleaming over flowers— Bn* rare, yet bright, the flsshes came As lightning when the storm-cloud lowers. And on his curled and crimsoned lip, Slept pride and passion, ne’er apart, Waiting the touch of Time to wake And coil, like serpents, round his heart. He stood upon the lonely shore When sprang the morning from the pea, And trod the dark wave’s haughty heads With her light footstep, bold and freo. Ho stood, with kindling cheek and eye, Joving to hear the angry tide, His hand upon the shaggy mane Os the huge sea-dog at his side, And the bold breeze baring his brow Os its rich locks of niglu-black hair. He seemed a prince, in pride and power,. Mighty to do and strong to dare; Or a young eagle, lone and high, With daring saze fixed on the sun ; Yet. beautiful as was that fcce, ’Twas one you feared to look upon. T kept thoae pictures in my heart— Those two fair forms of differing grace; I read their futures, shadowed forth In prophecies on each young face. The calm and gentle piety— Tho self-denying zeal of one, I knew, would throw a tranquil light Upon the path but just begun. The other! bv the transient blaze That leaped and burned in his dark eyes, I knew a fierce volcano slept Whence these quick flashes would arise. j I heard of them in after times, And I recalled those features fair; Years had fulfilled the prophecies The hand of God had written there. The one in climes beyond the seas. Bears tidings blessed to heathen souls. Ho heeds not, in hie earnest zeal. That deserts lie and oeeafi rolls Between his native home and him ; For all God’s thousand starry eyes, He knows, look down in tenderness On every land bonoath the skies. But Roland ! oh ! the destiny Those eyes loretold must be fulfilled ; No mingled cup for those proud lips.! But balm or wormwood, and distilled. 110 loved as mortals seldom love, Eul jealousy is passion’s shade, And love, a tortured victim, writhed In the tierce flames that pride had made. 110 fled his native land; he threw From off his heart its olden ties; ’Neath foreign flags his blade he drew. And won a name ‘neath Eastern skies. Ho fell in that ensanguined seige, When Cross and Crescent palely shone, And driven to his dark den, tho Bear Howled to the Black Sea's waters lone. They tell me that a reckless Bntile Curled his proud lip, though pale and cold, But that his hand a picture pressed, Hidden beneath his garment’s fold. Oh! many a gallant warrior youth Lay dreamless on that blood-stained shore, But none so beautiful and brave As the bright boy I knew of yore. •/- Thomasville. RA.LPII r.” *x i “ Balph ,? is mistaken in imagining th&t there is to be any editorial connection between tbe At lanta American and ourself the ensuing year. We will be pleased to read his poetical contribution. Cannot, of course, promise to publish it until we are permitted to decide upon its merits. M. E. R. Paul desmohtd. A Story of Southern Life and Southern Manners. We will begin the publication of this novellett© in our next number, and continue it through tbe remainder of the year, still giving our readers, however, the usual quantity of editorial matter. As numbers containing the story will not be sent except to those who intend taking the paper for a year, all who may wish to read “ Paul Desmond” will send on their subscriptions for the Cnusader immediately. M. E. B. Among the curiosities on exhibition at the ! Fair of the Industrial Society of Rhode Island, | is a bottle of brandy, found on board the Brit | ish bark Resolute, when she was picked up, af- I ter having been abandoned in the solid ice of the ] Arctic regions. S In one of our western cities a poet met a friend ; of his, the other day, from New York. .“lam ! perfectly delighted to see you,” said the artist, I throwing his arm affectionately around his friend’s • neck; “how long are you going to stay ?” “ T i think,” said the poet, “ I shall stay as long as my money lasts.” “O, how disappointed 1 am!” said the artist, in a tone of deep sadness; “ I hoped you were going to spend a day or two.” The origination of the term, the “First family of Virginia,” Is thus explained by an exchange : In the early settlement of that State, it was found impossible to colonise it unless women went there. Accordingly, a ship load sent’ out, but no planter wa allowed to marry one of them until ho had first paid one hundred pounds of tobacco for her passage. When the second ship load came, no one would pay more than I seventy-five pounds for the matrimonial privilege, except it were a very superior article. Conse -1 quently, tho descendants of all those who were I EOld for one hundred pounds of tobacco were ranked as the first families, while those who [ brought but seventy-five pounds are now ranked r as the second families; and the reason why no one can ever find any of the second families, is • because sou can’t get a Virginian to admit that m k his mother only Beventy-ftve pounds of [tebacco. ROMEO m JULIET lllf PIG STREET, BT MART *. SRVAX. DR. THOMAS SLY was a worthy citizen of Hie very small town of Shote-ville, and owed his professional title to tho circumstance of his being tho only druggist in tho place, and of his having been called upon occasionally to prescribe for those patients who preferred being over-dosed or under-dosed, by well-meaning ignorance, to pay ing the usual foe to regular physicians ; as some individuals, in order to save the extra charge of a skillful dentist, will submit, with praiseworthy fortitude, to being hauled about the floor by means of a pair of nisty nippers attached to an aching tooth. But our worthy apothecary not only sold and administered calomel ad libitum, but made him self uaelful in various other ways. Country peo ple consulted him in regard to tho ailments of their stock, disputed points were referred to him, and he was much resorted to by old ladies in coal scuttle bonnets, whose dried herbs ho purchased and manufactured into various medicines, which ho labelled and sold for the annihilation of fever and ague. In brief, Dr. Sly was a very popular individual, (none the less so because he was a widower,) and the very man for a small commu nity, being a Jack at all trades, and capable of making himself generally useful. So, whether you wished to ask his advice concerning the lame ness of your nag; to purchase a stick of pep permint candy; to inquire whether the people in Kansas were Heathens or Hindoos, and why they were so extravagant, as to have all the papers and stump orators talking about their “ biUe,” or whether you merely desired to consult him res pecting Ann Maria's ring worms, you were sure j to find his rubicund visage and bland smile illu- | minating his dingy shop on Pig Street, of which ‘ the interior was festooned with cob-webs, per- ; fumed with villanous smells and enrichod with ! a heterogenious collection of “ sundries,” from ! a quart bottle of “Cherry Pectoral” to a jar of j preserved ginger, or a standard of brick dust j rouge, while the outside was decorated with nu- i merous yellow placards pasted on the walls, each f sotting forth the marvelous virtues of some patent ] nostrum, and proclaiming to the credulous pub- ) lie an immunity from all diseases, and a fair j chance of escaping the necessity of ever paying | the debt of nature, simply by paving tho moder- j ate sum of one dollar for Sarsaparillas, Cathartics, j Balsams and Vegetable Pills, manufactured by disinterested benefactors of their race, solely for the purpose of relieving mankind. But our story has little to do with Dr. Sly’s ealeab’es, or with tho old ladies, who spent hour.- chaffering about tho price of their “yarbs,” or the young ladies, wiio bought pearl powder and mint lozenges of the polite apothecary ; nor is the estimable Doctor to bo tho hero of our truthful i story, nor yet his respectable tabby cat, which al ways sat in the shop door in profound meditation and sneezed everts two minutes, owing to the very sneezy atmosphere of the room, where the old la | dies above mentioned insisted upon dipping and j sniffing into all the snuff bottles, for fear of being j cheated in their Maccaboy. No; upon Tommy I the senior and Tommy tbe cat, our pen dial 1 lightly touch ; but Mr. Thomas Sly, junior, only son and heir of the house of Sly, a plump, rosy youth, just out of tound-a-bouts, and a very good looking lad, indeed, shall stand forth as our cho son Romeo; and “What caro I, maidens, though his name Be all unmeet for song or story ?” Having passed his sixteenth winter, and grad- j uatod in Smith’s Grammar and compound frac- j tions at tho village academy, young Thomas was deemed sufficiently learned ; and accordingly, he was taken homo to aesit in the “shop,” and in any domestic jobs for which his services might be required. As Tommy always performed his most fascinating school bow whenever tho coal scuttle bonnets or straw Hats honored the shop with their presence, he was universally voted as a “ nice, steady boy.” And so he was—innocent to a de gree that would have excited the pity of the in cipient moustaches of our minature Gothams— and contented and happy in his small sphere of well performed duties. Ignorance, in his case, was bliss, and so Tommy whistled as he swept out the shop at sunrise, waited on customers with all his father’s urban ity, was satisfied with a game of marbles in the back yard, or a lump of preserved ginger for re creation, and at Sunday meetings, sat like the statue of Apollo, in all the dignity of stiff collars and oiled locks But every Eden of innocence has its tempter. Tommy’s came in the shape of Mr. Snaps, a tall, gaunt, starved looking-attorney at law, of no particular age, who sat from day’ to day behind a black desk in his box of an office, just opposite “the shop,” watching the door with desperate eagerness for clients who never came, i and looking particularly lean and hungry, and ! exceedingly like a famished spider at tho mouth of his hole, seeking to entrap some unsuspecting fly. Mr. Snaps belonged to the numerous class of unappreciated geniuses. There is no telling what quantity of Latin phrases was crammed away in that small head ; yet it w r as all in vain, that his shingle made known to the public that “J. J. Snaps, attorney at law, would attend promptly to all business entrusted to his care,” etc. The business was never forthcoming. The peo ple of Shotesville, though by no means a commu nity of angels, required no legal aid in settling their disputes, but managed them their own way. Thus, on elections, ‘mass meetings, hang days and other interesting occasions, the country peo pie came in and exchanged their little commodi ties for bad tobacco and worse liquor, and calling in their dear friends, treated them to “ red eye, and treated themselves so generally, that they ended by quarreling with their “dear friends, and engaging in the pleasant amusement oi pounding the heads and gouging the eyes of each other. Tho sounds of 6uch altercations were sweetest j* usic to Mr. Snaps, but although spider like, he rushed to the door to be in readiness, yet, a bloody nose or two, and a forgiving shake of. the hands, adjusted the matter, and J. W4B left to deplore the want of propor spirit an rt sentment in the Shoteeville citizens. • .Mrs. Meigs, the grocer’s wife, bad said to iss Jenks, the antodiluvian villag© spinster, that, in her opinion, Mrs. Glubb (Mr. Snap’s amazoman landlady) “was no better than she should be, and the amiable old maid having communicated the compliment to the widow, it eo inflamed her virtuous indignation, that Mr. Snaps, overjoye by the prospect of paying tor bis board by a suit for slander, went brilliantly to work, when, alae. the two Zantippes having uniortunately met at a neighbor’, house. Mrs. Glubb o overpowered her meek assailant with her superior torrent < t abuse and billingsgate, that she was fain to cry for quarter, and make all requisite concessions m favor oft) victorious Glubb. So poor T. J. slunk back into his hole, and burnt his “ written evidence” with a sigh. As lie was daily snubbed and lien-pocked by his pitiless landlady, and sick at heart with hope deferred, the gaunt attorney relapsed at last into quiet resignation. Since there was no prospect of clients, lie threw aside Coke upon Littleton, and for amusement, took to reading novels behind the black desk, where the peoplo of Shotesville imagined him to be al uay.s perspiring over the pages of the “ law.” tommy’ was a protege of his, as lie had once as sistod him in working out a sum which had puz zled the erudite brains of the old school-master, and whitened the two or three hairs on the top of his head ; and so one day, when Master Tom my’s evil genius prompted him to look over Mr. Snap s shoulder, while he was solacing himself “ith Dickens, either from malice prepense, or a de siic ol getting rid of Tommy’s entertaining soci ety', tho lawyer offered him a novel to road—ac tual ly lent, him “ Children of the Abbey.” Thom as Sly, to read this most romantic of romances! Thomas Sly, the pattern boy, whose light reading had been hitherto limited to Robinson Crusoe, and Tales of the Sea,” and who knew as little of love as he did of algebra! Many soft young brains has this delectable no ; addled, but never was head so completely’ turned by its fascinations as was that of Thomas Sl /> j un ior. He read it behind the counter, when Iris worthy progenitor imagined him to be bright erring up his knowledge ot fractions. He read it at night, by the light of a tallow candle, and be fore it was half finished, ho was confident that he was not appreciated or understood ; that ho was born for greater things and must fulfill his des tiny. By the time the fair Amanda Fitzallan was consigned to the arms of hor devoted Mortimer, Tommy s fancy had blown a great many soap bubbles ; he was persuaded that the “ great dig nity ot life is to love and be beloved,” and was con vinced that there was a kindred spirit for him somewhere in Shotesville or vicinity. He men tally’ went over the list of young ladies who bought their toilet arrangements at tho “shop,” but they did not suit the iastidious taste of the young no vel reader. Borne were too emboinpoiM, some too thin, some had red hair, and Miss Glubb, the belle of the village, talked through her noise. At last, however, lie decided upion a certain fair, blue-eyed Miss Matilda Meigs, (the grocer’s daughter,) who passed tho shop daily on her way to the village school. To-be-sute, she was rather too dumpy to fili the ideal creatt and by Amanda Fitzallan; but then, like all heroines, she had curls—rather of the corkscrew order, it must be confessed, and unmitigably flaxen; but then j Tommy was no connoisseur, and ho was satisfied that they had the requisite twist, and conse quently, as the novels phrased it, “her hair hung in beautiful ringlets around her classic head.” So the flaxen-haired maiden was oxalted to be the “ errant demoissello” of the chivalrous Tom- ; my; but how should he make that innocent litte damsel (who so demurely carried the tin bucket containing her dinner) conscious of her destiny f it was in vain that he cast the most passion-fraught glances under her school bonnet, as sho passed. | tihe looked at him innocently with her mild, blue I jyes and went on, in “maiden meditation.” It he dropped emblamatic rose-buds, she picked tuern up and pressed them quietly in her diction ary. If ho ran his fingers through his hair &nd bit his lip aftei the manner of despairing heroes, she looked at him wonderingly, probably conjec turing tha t Tommy Sly “ foit bad,” and had either been lectured by his governor, or e t more pick led shrimps than agreed with his digestion. At last Tommy’s perseverance was rewarded. Attracted by tho magnetism of those ardent glances, (or possibly having a spare half dollar to spend,) his Dulcinea came into the shop one evening, and as the senior was enjoying a snoose, the junior partner had the felicity of helping his lady’ love to mint lozenges. Notwithstanding his timidity, he could not forbear trying what effect upon her sensibilities would be produced by’ tho delicate compliment, that the “ sweetness of the lonzenges would be rivalled by that of the lips they would soon have the happiness of touching.” He had tho mortification of finding his poetical idea unappreciated. The blue-eyed one only looked puzzled, and curtsied to him demurely as she passed out, without the least heightening of her rosy bloom. Tommy then opened his heart to Mr. tfnapg, and that gentleman, acting on the principle that “Satan finds sonic mischief still For idle hands to do,” adtised the lovesick youth to keep trying, and proposed a billetdoux. Between the two, a very presentable affair, copiously intermixed “ith scraps of Byron, and written on rose-colored note paper, was prepared and delivered by Tommy himself to the lady of his heart. She show ec to all her dozen dear friends at school, and re marked that it would make a pretty thumb-pa per, but it had the intended effect of waking the mischievous little god, which Jean Paul tells us “may sometimes sleep in a maiden s hearty but he alwavs dreams.” The next morning, as i om my was arranging the show-case, she stopped at the window, and left on tho sill a huge, red ap- P Xommy was in despair. “Does the girl take me for an overgrown schoolboy ?” he said to Mr. Snaps, as lie strode up and down the little office, striking his clenched fist to his forehead, in Lord Mortimer style: • “ I am a man in soul,” he cried ; “ My heart was early manned,” ’ exclaimed the mischief-making J. J. in affected admiration, and poor Tommy felt all the soul of Ciesar and Mark Anthony swelling under his vest buttons. . “I’ll toll you what,” said Mr. Snaps to his ox cited protego: “lend her ‘Tho children of the Abbey,’ and if that don’t oxalt her ideas, I’vo a book or two that will.” Tommy was comforted ; and after marking all the tondor passages and wrapping the book nicely in brown paper, ho handed it to Miss Ma tilda that evening, and anxiously awaited the re sult. He was not disappointed. Matilda no longer chewed orange peel on her way to school, and her languishing or passionate glances and fluctu ating color proved that tho idea of Mr. Snaps was successful, and that the allopathic doses of love and sentiment administered by the book, had ta ken effect upon her young and tender heart. Sho discarded bib aprons, frequently forgot hor dinner bucket, and rewarded Tommy’s constancy with sweot smiles and occasional gifts of roso buds and geranium leaves, till pretty soon, by the aid of Mr. Snaps, of 6tolen Sunday evening walks and a regular interchange erf boquete, billetdoux and kiss verses, the matter progressed to an en gagement, and Tommy had the happiness of car rying on a clandstine affaire de comr, under the EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. VOL. XXIV. NUMBER 42 very nose of his unsuspecting paternal guardian. Os course it must all be secret. Os course the hard-hearted parents would oppose their happi ness. It was always so in novels, Snaps said, and in love matches, where the parties had the great ness of soul to scorn morcenary considerations, and bo true to tho instincts of their hearts; and then he quoted to the infatuated Tommy his Shaksperean oracle: “ The course of true. love never did run smooth.” Finally an elopement was proposed, and after some blushing and hesitating, Miss Matilda con son ted, and, without any definite idea what they intended doing afterwards, except a vague sup position that they were to live on love and moon light, it was decided that tho first of May (which was only a few days distant,) was a very roman tic and suitable occasion for uniting the twin spirits into one. The morning came; but the flowery month be gan her reign in a fit of the sulks, and the raw, •°ggy atmosphere, and the cheerless aspect of the village, suggested the idea of a November day, rather than the advent of the month of Love and Roses. Hurrying on his Sunday suit at an early hour, as agreed upon, Tommy, feeling very cold and queer, and almost wishing he were only go ing to sweep out tho shop, hurried down to the corner assigned for the place of meeting, where he was soon joined by Matilda, looking very blue and miserable in her low-necked white muslin, with short sleeves that exposed her plump, mot tled arms and very red elbows. Taking her hand, Tommy whispered consola tion, and then, as though they feared their cour age would ooze away, or their love freeze by de lay, they prepared to set out immediately for the house of tho minister, about half a mile distant; but unlucky fate! Who should turn the corner at this moment but their respected fathers, Mr. Meigs and tho Doctor, arm in arm, and with a very broad smile (which Tommy fancied particu larly malicious) upon their countenance, as they approached! Tommy prepared to support Ma tilda if she should faint, but Matilda did nothing of the kind. She only looked still more blue and miserable, and seemed as though she were going to cry. “Hillo!” cried Mr. Meigs, “where are you youngsters bound for—going Maying, I sup pose, but it’s too early in the morning to bo p’easant, and ’Tilda, my girl, you’ll get yourself all draggled with dew, and’ thon there’ll be a pretty muss with mother. Come back and wait for tho rest. I’vo just opened a box of as nice candy as was ever tasted in Shotesville, and if you’ll just come up to my store, I’ll treat you, children, seeing as its May-day and a holiday of Tilda’s; and maybe you’d go with us, Doctor, and try my fresh sardines—would you not? 1 take it, they are a whoiesome substitute for your castor oil, and answer the purpose just as well. . “ Come on, all of you,” he continued, and ta king a hand of Matilda and one of Tommy, ho retraced his steps, accompanied by Dr. Sly, and they entered the back room of his well stored grocery, where there was a cheerful fire burning brightly as though newly supplied, and seats for four drawn around it, looking marvelously like a previous arrangement. The lovers, who had preserved silence during their forced march, were looking very sheepish and thorough’ ashamed of themselves. Tommy had an uncomfortable suspicion that they had played the fool most completely, and inwardly resolved to cut tho acquaintance of Snaps. “Here!” exclaimed the grocer, opening the candy box. “ There’s sugar plums and sweeties enough for you, children, (emphasizing the last word and winking archly at the Doctor.) “Help yourselves and enjoy your holiday,” and the last remains of Tommy's romance vanished, when he saw Matilda munching sugar plums, and filling her pockets in real schoolgirl fashion. “ Yes, eat and make tho most of it, ’ said tho jolly Doctor, looking up from his sardines and crackers f for I've just bargained with Mr. Meigs for a bit of land to sow in turnips, and as I don’t need you in the shop at present, I’ll see what you can do at the plow, my boy. You have lost your appetite and your color tho past month, and I think a week or two of hard work will bo better than a course of quinine. Eh, Mr. Meigs?” q'ho grocer nodded assent, You may mako the most of it, too, my girl,” lie said to Matilda. “ You’ll have to go back to your books with a heartier will to-morrow, for Miss Stebbins has been to mo with great complaints of your inat tention lately. She says your g’ography is not half learned, and your grammar shamefully neg lected. and it’ you don’t amend, she’ll have to administer—what do you call it—corporal pun ishment? which I suppose means nothing more nor less than what the schoolmasters in my day called flogging. But it shan’t come to this. You must brighten up, my girl; put your mind on your books, and next birth-day you shall have a quilting,” and he took his daughter upon his knee and good-humor edly patted her cheek and chucked her under the chin. Was Mr. Meigs and Dr. Sly really not so obtuse as Tommy had imagined, and did they know what had been going on for the past few weeks ? Tommy wondered, and thought his father and the grocer wonderfully facetious and mysterious in their nods and winks and knowing smiles, but he dared not speak what was uppermost in his mind. And so Romeo went to sewing turnips, and Juliet parsed pronouns under the nose of the vin iagry Miss Stebbins. The matrimonial inclina tions of the precocious pair wore nipped in the bud. Tommy embraced nothing but the plow handle, and Matilda conjugated nothing but verbs. And this was the finale of the affaire de coeur, but not the sequel of the story; for, five years after, Thomas Sly, jr. having ft snug little homestead of his own, and Miss Matilda Meigs having manufactured thirteen patch-work quilts as a set-up for housekeeping, they concluded to begin together, and wero accordingly married in the most orthodox and unromantic manner, at the houso of the bride’s father, with the full con sent of their parents, the benediction of the minister and any quantity of cake and syllabub. 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