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8 [For The Sufony South.] W ,ST - Bar; w. m. “ With sever a cloud iA the sky,” love— “ With never a shade o’er the lea; With never the dash of wild waters, But forever a calm, quiet, sea ? “ With sweets ?”—that would pall with their sameness; "With brightness?”—that would grow to be gloom; " With smiles?”—they would madden; “and flowers?”— They would weary with their unfading bloom! Of these you would make up your life, love— Of “sweetness and brightness and calm?”— Ah! the lack of the pain that is sent us Would lose us the o'er-paying balm. Dear love/ would the fair hands come ever, Were/io lines on our foreheads to Bmoothe? Woqluour lips learn to utter a kindness, Were no hearts with an aching to soothe? Could we claim a dear friend who through trials His friendship kept trusty and strong? Is it not the rude thorn in its breast, love, That gives us the linnet’s best song? Here’s my hand on the “ Good Master’s ” wisdom— A tear with a smile to succeed,— A joust like this ’tween us two, love, And a kiss, to show now we’re agreed. Opelika, Alabama. dition, and knowing that without his wounds he was physically disqualified for a soldier, per suaded him to apply for and obtain his dis charge, about which there was not a doubt. But the same pride, courage and patriotism that caused him to enter the service would not accept an honorable discharge, although bearing upon his person the scars of two wounds received in one battle. Forward to the front was his word and action. At night-fall, or a little thereafter, on the night just before the battle, he with several other offi cers and men arrived at Harper’s Ferry. It was miles to the line of battle. It was night, and the river to cross; yet, some time between mid would meet in conversation on a propitious oc casion, it was a rich treat to every intelligent hearer. Their minds were as highly cultured as naturally endowed. Their reading was ex tensive and well treasured. A gentlemanly re finement gave a fascinating tinge to every pleas ant piece of knowledge, every maxim or epigram, and every sally of wit or humor uttered. One might shut his eyes, and forgetting for a moment where he was, realize that he was present with that splendid corps of talkers that made that fa mous Liter; Sam Johnson between Burke and Garrick, around that Julian Cummin Another bucket of water was obtained from our more fortunate neighbor, and we were all put on short allowance for private use,—about two table-spoonfuls apiece for hand and face- washing. As fate would have it, sister Anna was taken violently ill during that day, and a dear old Scotch lady came over and kindly installed her self as nurse: and while we were doing all we could for her relief, our faithful Mary, who reigned supreme in the kitchen, and therefore ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. [We have received a great many questions which cannot be answered in this issue, as we cannot devote more than one column to this interesting department. They will all be attended to, however. Each enquirer shall have a respectful hearing.] Phonography.—The best and most easily com prehended book upon phonography that has ary Club of London, of whom old held the most important position in our house- colm ' under our inspection is “Booth s Phono, an was chief, and that there was a tilt hold, was hastily summoned across the river to Sophie Instructor. When it went was in Macon. see her husband, who had been somewhat in- Cleopatra and Juliet (Madison).—You ask _ jured while engaged at his work. too many questions at one time. We cannot night and day, this wounded, lame, and almost there was instantly a gathering of the clans to Having promised certainly to be home in time devote but little space to any one correspondent, blind Southerner reported himself for the ter- witness the intellectual gladiatorship between to prepare dinner, we waited anxiously for her for we have a great manv to reply to. We will rible duty of next day, at General Colquitt’s head- him and Phil. footsteps as the night drew on, until brother take pleasure, however, at anytime, in giving quarters. He, with the General and other offi- I have said that Major Tracy had physical de- ... . .. .. cers of the Sixth Georgia, took, before it was yet light, their rough Confederate camp meal, and then went to his death. The fight began at early dawn—McClellan’s seventy thousand fresh or rested and well-fed troops against General Lee’s thirty-five thousand wearied and hungry. The battle soon became general and sanguinary. The regiment and brigade to which Major Tracy be fects of limb and sight. Is it not strange that a man who was too lame to march and too blind to shoot should succeed in the role of a soldier? And yet he did, as his commanding officers will any day attest. He was so near-sighted that without the aid of glasses he could not tell his best-known friend six feet. His lameness was. according to Trelawney, the same as that of (Written for The Sunny South.] MAJOR IVTEXSELV INTERESTING INCIDENT OP THE AVAR BETWEEN THE STATES. longed suffered with extreme severity. All the Byron. There was just limp enough to inter field officers in command of the regiment were . est you in his gait, and yet too much to make killed. These were—Lieutenant-Colonel New- a pedestrian. It appears that nature does try ton, Major Tracy, and the Senior Captain acting to correct her own mistakes, and hence; if a as Major—Captain Plane, I believe; true it is. child is born lame, you may expect compensa- any way, that Captain Plane was among the slain, tion in extraordinary intellectual gifts, as was There, Levi Smith and Marcellas Douglass, both the case with Byron and Scott. So, too. if blind Colonels, received their deatli-wonnds, and died or of defective vision approaching blindness, in TI) i /'V upon the field. There were other distinguished this latter case the child is apt to be gifted in 1 KAO 1 . Georgians killed, not now remembered; and in music or poetry, where the tongue or the fingers fact, in that battle, the Georgia blood shed was can serve and delight without, or with very lit- plentiful and conspicuous in the noble men from tie sight. In Major Tracy’s case nature had so whose veins the life-streams poured like water, bountifully compensated'him for his lameness It was there that General Lawton received his in his intllectual supremacy that there was no very painful, disabling and permanently-affect- margin to make other amends in the way of The Tomb of Major Philemon Tracy at the ing wound; and General Gordon his five, so deep the fine arts for his want of sight. North—His War Record, and a Urief sketch and so dangerous that liis recovery may stand In the rescuing of Major Tracy’s body and of Hts Life and Death. comparison with miracles. All things consid- placing it in a spot where there is'an enduring ered, it was the hardest battle of the many hard memorial, we have another illustration that BY RICHARD h clark ones of that fearful struggle. There the Confed- “ blood is thicker than water ”! yes, “ thicker ” . erates showed not only their usual courage and than much thicker things than water. Some of ... daring in an unusual manner, but a spirit of the leading families of the North are of South- If a stranger, happening m the city of Bata- j subordination and a power of endurance une- ern origin. Likewise, manv of the South are via, State of New York, were to take a stroll in | qualed before or since. Confronted by more than wholly or in part of Northern origin. There the public cemetery, he might read upon a beau- double their numbers ot well-appointed and well- was a time when even South Carolina and Mas- tif.,1 bill nlnin mnrble sl„h”the name Purr™,™ equipped troops, they, worn and hungry, with sachusetts fraternized socially, although widely till u pin n marble 1. t a e, Philemi n th e broad Potomac between them and their terri- differing politically, when politics was honorable Tracy, with nothing additional but his age and tory, saved the fortunes of the Confederacy; but and gentlemanly. As we find John Adams, John the time of his death. It would not excite his ! saved, alas ! only to be lost at Gettysburg and Hancocks, and Roger Shermans and Albridge curiosity or any other emotion to note that the k r ^'. , , . , Gerrys, at the South; so we find at the North, ,. ,, . . 10 „ 0 Che best account we have of Major Tracy s likewise, given the names of Charles Pinckney, time was the seventeenth of September, 1802. j death i s that about nine o’clock a. m. he was John Rutledge, and Arthur Middleton. Even Men have died, men may die, as well on the sev- shot through the thigh, severing the artery. Charles Sumner’s father was named in honor of enteenth of September as any other day in the Falling, a less-wounded comrade hobbled to the old veteran Charles Pinckney, and was known year; indeed, it is a month when death' has his , hi “ a “ d odered his assistance; but the Major all his life as “Pinckney Sumner.” The son, I * ...... . , , 4 .. : to id nim to save himselt — it was all over believe, was likewise named; but be became so harxest, it the gnm monster, "ho has all sea- : with him. Purer or brighter spirit never aggressive, as well as progressive in a wrong sons” for his havoc, can be said to have a harvest- winged its flight from the carnage of a direction, that he dropped the Southern part of time,—truly, he hits no seed-time, unless birth i battle-field than when Phil. Tracy drew his his father’s name when he dropped his father’s - last breath. At that moment, my friend, and principles. an/ < ea i art one. y ou might have been in the midst of comfort Notwithstanding the gulf the war has made II a Georgian were to take tlie same walk and and enjoyment at Macon or Iliclimond, and no between the North and South, there vet remains find the same inscription, he xxould be struck one would have reproached you in deed, word that feeling of sympathv which exists between xxith amazement, perhaps with honor. He would or thought. If you had only not been so swilt true gentlemen evervwliere ; and when these say to himself. This cannot be the last resting- : to arrive at Harpers Ferry, or had tarried there gentlemen happen to agree upon the true prin- place of the 1 hil. Tracy I knew, for he w r as killed j (as others did) till the coming dawn, your sweet ciples of the government, they are bound to each at Sharpsburg and buried on the battle-field. If lite, your genial temper ami your surpassing other as “with hooks of steel;” and when, as in his remains had exer been taken away, they : mental endowments xx*ould have been saved to the case of Pliineas Tracy, the man of either would haxe been taken to the lovely Rose Hill family, friends and country. But no! You section rises and asserts “the nature that is in cemetery, Macon. Georgia, and would be beside ; chose to follow the lead ot conscience and duty, him,” despite of war and hate, to that man ice those of his brother Ed., embosomed in their | to sacrifice your life with all its present charms tender every honor. native soil. The Georgian would then surmise j and yet brighter future, that your principles ■■ ...— Will suddenly exclaimed: “Why. it's actually past our dinner-hour; no wonder I'm so furiously hungry. We can't wait any longer for that girl.” “Then xve'll have to cook it ourselves,” I re plied; “but I'm xvilling if the rest are.” Whereupon we adjourned “en masse” to the kitchen, for a dinner prepared under such cir cumstances we felt required the combined force of the family. “Of course, you’ll have some potatoes cooked; let me wash them for you,” said our dear Scotch friend. you or any one else the best advice we upon any one important point. Broxvn Station asks: “Why is Atlanta called the ‘Gate City?’” . . . Because it is the en trance to the mountains and regions of upper Georgia and the great Northwest, In setting out to visit the northern portion of the State or the Northwest, you are pretty sure to pass through this city. We have not the space to answer all your questions. Blanche, Newberry.—“At what age ought a young man to marry?” That depends a great “Certainly, xve'll have potatoes; they don’t deal upon circumstances—such as the young take long to cook,” I replied. man’s habits, constitution and means of sup- “ Where is the water to wash them?” she porting a wife. We have knoxvn young men to asked: “here’s only about a quart in the bucket. ”, he settled at twenty, and others xx-fio were im- “ Where's any to cook them in?” exclaimed mature and unstable when much older. Gener- Lilly, her daughter, who had come in to help in ally speaking, txventy-tive seems the most suita- the emergency. hie age at which young men should marry. “We can't have potatoes—that’s settled; but ; , ,,. . . , , „ we must have rice: that requires so little water,” ' T Ta 1“ g nT 'ie said brother Will, looking out for No. 1. “ d * hen ft - vonn e ha * <\ n f S ed hersel f rp, . . • .i | i q to ft young man on condition that he does not Theresa quart in the bucket and a little over drink, and he breaks that promise and becomes intoxicated, what shall she do? Shall she break a pint in the tea-kettie for tea and drinking water for a whole family; so how can yon cook rice?” Mrs. Smythe suggested. “ I suppose xve'll have to eat cold bread and canned fruit: that's all the cooked food in the house, and there is no one to go for any more water;” and I commenced disconsolately to help brother Will put a new wick in our largest lamp. “Hungry and nothing for dinner but cold bread and canned fruit. This water business is getting to be something more than a joke. I’m too hungry, and I icill hax-e some rice, water or no water!” and hastily xviping my hands—for I dared not use any water to xvash them—I rushed to the pantry, got some rice, washed it in about a handful of water, concluding that it wouldn’t hurt me to eat a little more dirt than usual xvith her engagement ? That depends on circum stances. If the young man has been in the habit of getting “tight,” she had better bexx-are of him. If the occurrence was in a measure accidental or unusual, she might “try” him with another promise. A Clerk, Montezuma.—There are dozens of pretty things suitable for presents to vour young lady friend. Books and pictures are the most graceful gifts, but a fan. a pair of gloves, a card- case, a boquet-liolder are any of them appropri ate. Perhaps she would fancy a work-box or a gold thimble if she is industrious. Rings are too significant for an ordinary present. But, see here, does the young lady take The Sunny South ? If not, just subscribe for it for one year my food, and in txvo minutes more my rice xvas in her name, and she will be sure to remember boiling triumphantly, and I seated near the you pleasantly all the year round. stove, blissful, yet anxious lest some mishap t at n ,, T ... might befall it before it was actually cooked. We Li'J^ e -’ G , ft ’ ) sa -'* : 1 ,m n ^ ' my nineteenth year and in love with a girl only that the slab must mark the grave of another might prevail and your country saved from the man of the same name. But, then, there is that heel of the conqueror. Looking to what is now coincidence in date of death,—that seventeenth sad history, and you chose the better and hap- of September, 1862—Sharpsburg’s bloody day; j pier part.' The unfortunate Southron now is he the significance of that cannot be reasoned away. j who is cursed with life—the fortunate, he who is But if the sleeper xvas slain at Sharpsburg (as blessed with death. we have it, or at Antietam, as the Federals have It is meet that a few of the more prominent it), why not say so? Truly, death in battle is j facts in the history of such a heroic soul should the noblest of all deaths: and if this is not put j accompany this plain but heartfelt tribute. [For The Sunny South.] THE WATER FAMINE IN IOWA. BY ELJIA WINSTED. He “Well, the water-works is froze and so is the pump,” xvas the greeting we received from our ,, ... , , ... , , . ., . , * -■ , — German girl, as w r e entered the dining-room on on the soldier s tomb the dead is robbed by the was the oldest son ot Judge Edward D. Tracy, the colde % t morning we have had this winter, living of his laurels The solution then becomes of Macon Georgia, and was there born about “Water-pipes frozen ?” I exclaimed. “Why, easy. Tracy is a Northern name; the battle-date the year 1830. His brother, and only brother of we had those pipes put in on purpose that we is only a coincidence; here lies a man of the that marriage, was E. D. Tracy, Jr., a Brigadier- might have water if the pump should happen to same name who died on the same day but he is I General in our service, who was killed at Port freeze; and thev won’t freeze-they can’t freeze !” a different man, and died the death of nature. ; Gibson Mississippi, whither Pemberton had "Well, ma’am, but they is froze; that’s cer- But, stranger or Georgian, whoever you may dispatched General Bowen with six thousand tain:” and back she went to the kitchen, followed be, your conclusion is strong. It is the grave of men to dispute Grants passage of the river with \yy whole family Phil. Tracy, of Macon Georgia who was killed ; sixty thousand. Bowen was there also killed- j ' We walked straight to that faucet; brother Will at the battle of Sharpsburg; and, reader, I will another gallant native Georgian (of Savannah), turned the handle and I held mv hand under- make the necessary explanation. General Tracy s remains being within our lines neath to catch the first drops-but not a drop After the snccesfnl repulse of McClellan, have been borne to Rose Hill cemetery. Phil., was there to catch. Then lie listened for the General Lee. with his wasted and weaned army, after taking his academic course at home, was gurgling sound of the water in the pipes-not a had to cross the Potomac with all possible celer- sent to Yale Returning from thence, he was ” ur | le there. Then Anna listened, and I lis- ity I his left the enemy in possession of the admitted to the bar but before entering on the fened, but not a murmur did we hear. ke _ ld and .°A. rdP ! u1 ’ * nd . ‘A e £ nl Z ac , ce ff- th ®l e A° P ractl< r e > edited the Macon Telegraph, first under " 0 h ! it will thaw out during the day,” I said, the wing of that nestor of the Georgia press, yerx T confidently. “Let us have breakfast, Samuel J. Ray, and then by himself. Retiring * - -- from the paper, he began the practice and be came connected xvith Hon. Barnard Hill and Hon. Thomas P. Stubbs under the firm name of | Stubbs, Hill & Tracy. While in this connection, and rapidly rising in his profession, in the year 1859 he was elected to the State Senate. He had married the beautiful and wealthy Miss Carrie Rawls, then Mrs. Walker, but before the tocsin „„„„ lLL „„„ „^ ucl wan lxlclno „ mluc and Baltimore swarmed with Federal troops, of war, she and their babe had seen the last of hoU se; none for dish-washing, none to cook llie animosity engendered by war was then in earth. dinner full fruition, and it was not only certain that Major Tracy on his father’s side was descended “Have you tried the water-works again?” I the body of a rebel would not be permitted by j from the Tracys of Litchfield, Connecticut, who anxiouslv inquired the soldiers to be taken North, but the life of were among the original settlers of that place. “ Oh! yes, ma’am; a dozen times, the messenger would be endangered. Every- A few years before the war, at a centennial cele- no idea of thawing ” she replied thing for transportation was prearranged with bration of that settlement, Donald G. Mitchell, "Well, I’ll volunteer to go out and investigate as much caution and secresy as possible, and more generally knoxvn as Ike Marvel, delivered the pump; perhaps we can thaw that out.” when the preparations were all made the body the oration and referred to Judge Tracy, of Geor- "There’s no water to thaw it out with,” said xxas passed through the lines as that ot a Fed- 1 gia, and his brothers ot New York, as descended matter-of-fact Mary; “I’ll have to go to the era officer who had fallen in the late bloody from the original Litchfield Tracys. The broth- neighbors to borrow enough to get my dinner.” battle In this guise they were escorted to Bata- ers, ot New York, were Albert andPhineas, both S he soon came back with a grave face. \ia and so buried—not, however (notwithstand- ot whom have represented their State in Con- “Thev haven't a dror> of water it Mr Com- ing the delicacy and difficulty of the task), with- gress Both were men of magnificent minds, stoc k’s or Mr. Haslet’s, but thev each got a little out Christum burial tor the service of the and the former made great fame as a lawyer. f rom Mrs. Vincent, whose pump is in the English church was performed over the remains. There is no Georgia lawyer of much experience kitchen; so I’ll trv over there, if you say so, Xhe monument, m the style described, was soon but has found in his researches the finished and ma ’ ani ” placed over the grave, and the inscription was scholarly judgments of the New York Senate as "Do carrv two buckets while you are about thus meagre because, in the then state of the pronounced by Senator Tracy. Judge Tracy it,” I put in as she was starting, “for it maybe public mind, there xvas imminent danger that (Phil, s father) was a man of the first order of the hist we ll get.” succeeded finally in collecting all the eatables in the house, and sat down tired and hungry to a late dinner. “Please for a drink of water.” was the first request of little five-year old Nellie. “You can’t have but a little; there’s hardly any left, Hoxv fortunate that I drink milk in stead of water, for that is decidedly t’-3 most abundant now-a-davs,” I added in a satisfied tone. “What does it say in the Bible about your food and water nex r er failing if you’re only good and faithful and so on ? I’m sure there’s some thing said about it,” remarked brother Will, gravely. “Oh ! that don’t refer to such climates as this, fourteen. Do you think it advisable for me to pop the question noxv, or wait until she is older?” . . . We should advise you to wait until she is older. Much of the present marital trouble re sults from marrying xvhen too young. No girl of fourteen is developed either in mind, heart or body. Her mind is not mature enough to grasp the principles involved in marriage, and her physical powers not sufficiently strength ened and expanded to enable her to fulfill the duties of wife, mother and house-mistress. “Montgomery” is not quite twenty years old, has “very limited funds,” but hopeful pros pects. He loves a beautiful and wealthy girl of seventeen, xvho treats him as a friend. He wishes for a long time xvas from the Federal side. Phil. Tracy had a kind uncle residing at Batavia, New York, xxlio, hearing of his sad fate, dispatched a trusty messenger in search of his remains. That messenger was successful in finding them, xx’here they liacl been interred with other officer- comrades. He knew Phil, well, and the identi fication was free from any doubt from a mark, xvhich will be made to appear in the sequel. The whole country from there to YVashington anyhow, and thank Mary’s forethought that she kept some water from last night, or we would have no coffee this morning.” So we ate our breakfast and drank our coffee, blissfully ignorant of the fact that xve were drink ing the last of our water that we xvould taste for many a day. At lunch, German Mary informed us that the water in the pitcher xvas the last there xvas in the They’ve or else xve’re not quite good enough, I suppose; to test his fate,but hesitates because of the inequal- but what do the old residents do for w r ater in ity in their fortunes. But their family positions such xx’eather ?” j are equal, and he would not hesitate to propose “Isaxva load of ice thrown into your next if she were poor. What shall he do? Tell her neighbor’s yard this morning,” Mrs. Smythe in- ; you love her in a manly, straightforward way, formed us. and if the feeling is reciprocal, ask her to “wait “Oh! is that the xvay they solve the difficulty ?; for you” until the “hopeful prospects” you Then you may all look for a load of ice the first speak of are in a xvay to be fulfilled. You have thing to-morrow morning;” and the head of the time enough. Twenty is very xoung to marry, family with a look of infinite relief, went into s Convers.-“Should a man seek an ideal the cokl bread and fruit with renewed zeal, of a lady for a wife?” . . . That word “ideal” has while we all looked hopeful and happy. become rather of misty significance in modern The next day we borrowed a little more water times . If Sue means h J y " b ideal wife » a combi . and waited all day long for that load of ice ; leay- nation of e virtue a nd excellence under the ing the pump m despair after filling it with salt, sun _ an exalted and altogether angelic being- as xve heard that would melt it, we devoted our we answer it is no use t ° seek 8n * h a one. for energies to the water-pipes, piling hot ashes s jj e wou ] ( ] no t be found in this imperfect xx-orld above and beneath them. At night we were in- of ours . But every if he is himself honest formed that the ice-cutters had been unable to and loyal-hearted, has a right to seek in a wife fill anx of tlieir orders during the day, the wind as mllc b excellence as can be found. No man blowing such a hurricane as to drive all their should take a woman for a life-partner unless he workmen f rom the nx'er, but the x-ery first hour f ee ls sure she could be to him a companion and that ice could be cut, we would see a load at our a helper, door. . . F A happy group watched from the window the j Y t ictoria.—(1) “YVhat books are best for a new next morning the unloading of a quantity of beginner who wishes to study French without such large, beautiful blocks of ice. Lying on a an instructor?” We think, as an elementary bed of newly-fallen snow, how they glistened in work, a little book by Picot, called “French the sunlight! How rich we all felt! Small Made Plain,” is the best we have seen. Flern- lumps of this ice were soon transferred to the ing’s and Tibbin’s French and English Diction- stove reservoir to be converted into water, and peace and plenty once more reigned in our home. Poets and satirists have long descanted upon the miseries of washing day, even under the most favorable circumstances; but washing day with blocks of ice instead of a well of water,— who is able to describe its tribulations ? Not I. Only our long-suffering and patient Mary is competent to tell the story of her breaking huge blocks of ice into manageable lumps for melting; ary is a very great help towards acquiring a knowledge and pronunciation of the French language. (2) In what sense is the phrase “not much,” slang? When it is used (often out of grammatical meaning or intelligent significance) to emphasize a denial, in the same way as “not if I know myself,” “not for Joseph,’’and a dozen other phrases. Suppose you say to your friend, “My dear Julia, I heard that you met Captain Watson at the ball last night and fell desper ately in love with him,—is it a true bill ?” and the stone would be raised or defaced. It is not ability, and excelled as a wit and humorist. i n a few minutes she sailed triumphantly into 1 around’the publichydrants “tothaw" the ice and £ i lS 1 arnVed "' he x-‘AT Zl the anecdotes of him tradition brings the kitchen with txvo buckets full ofVater. keep them ready for use in case o? fire ” No one to the present generation ot lawyers. "it’ s a mercy I didn’t fall down and break my “When we build a house, well have an iron Major Tracy on his mother's side xvas a Camp- neck and spill that water, for it's as slippery as j pump or have it in the kitchen. There’s no interesting facts may be made public, will noxv desecrate the grave of the dear and gallant dead; and Phil, will there rest unmo lested until “the archangel’s trump shall sound,” i , H .’ S mother was a sister of Duncan G. glass.” j trusting water-works or anything else in this f rom that “refusal to correspond” and disincli- i , • .. • , ... , - . - Campbell, an able lawyer and politician of Geor- “Do be very careful of it, and don't let a drop climate ” responded his wife wearv of the verv „■ * -A! l C0r ^ es r )0 a . unless his friends or relations should choose to gia , belonging to the generation preceding this, be wasted,” said sister Anna; and we sat down name of water " J nation to flirt with her admirers or treat them bring his precious dust to mingle with his native H e was “ the right arm” of old Jack Clark in his to take a view of the “situation.” Another week passed- all efforts to thaw the ° 7 W Z * ^ ^ lth - & rS K01 ,.;, . , terrific contests xvtth Crawford and Troup, and “ It seems to me this is becoming rather a se- pump still proved unavailing so another auan- modem young lady is no gx This statement would fail of completeness his me mory is beloved by foe as well as friend, rious matter.” said Anna: -borrowlm? water bv “S r . eserve ln . the matter of coquetry and correspon- unless some reference is made to Phil. Tracy s ” • — - - - - - — of the hours and hours spent in filling and re- Miss Julia should shrug her shoulders and say, filling boilers xvith ice and xvaiting for it to melt “Not much,” then “not much” xvould be slang. C. A. S. is a youth eighteen years of age and in love with a most lovely and excellent young lady a few months younger than himself, who, when he left her to return to school, refused to correspond with him, while still treating him in a most friendly manner. C. A. S. is tired of suspense and wishes to put his fate to the test. What shall he do? YVe have no faith in long en gagements in general, still, we have known cases xvhere they were faithfully carried out and ended in happy unions. As eighteen is too young to marry, and your suspense is intolerable, you might lay the case before the young lady, and xve think it likely she would decide sensibly. She would seem to be a sensible girl, judging for one w-hole day before commencing active op erations; of the hundred and one trials of that day. After that experience, the bucketfuls of boil ing water that xx-ere poured into that pump—the quantities of salt that xvent down on that ice, no one will ever know. “If our pump xx-as only of iron, we could fol low the example of the fire companies doxvn town,” remarked brother Will one evening. “I notice that they keep large, slowly-burning fires rious matter,” said Anna; "borrowing water by 1 t itv of ice was obtained. Ad the close of the career as a soldier, incladjog the eircaar.tanie, ^ ’M** ’"*•.“?*«? * ■“? of the Supreme Court of the United States when “The only thing is to thaw out the pump.” “We can’t get enough water.” For six consecutive hours "she nielted Iceland in a fix,—yes, a bad fix. Doubtless you have “Put m hot coals.” poured it boiling hot down the pump, until late heard about our legislators wishing to impose a tax • ■’ - - - - - - - — J T s r howto escape the of his death. At the election of the officers of the Sixth it iras the tribunal of a constitutional republic. (Colonel A. H. Colquitt s) regiment, Mr. Tracy Philemon Tracx-exhibited a large share of the xx-as elected Major. Hitherto, he had paid no ±~i—± —/._> v, , ■ , dence with gentlemen. the prospect of another wash-day, xvent at that H. (Morris Station) says: “I belong to that pump with a zeal that was truly astonishing. ? lass known as old bachelors, and for once I am ^ i • _ in « fiy —rpe a Viarl fir YOU have [’ A® iff, t ? lent whic V le g itimate ly was bis birthright on “But the pump is a wooden one, and the coals in the afternoon,"when she rushed breathless and u P on us - and 1 want to know h irx mailers, pnxsicai lnnrnn- the paternal and maternal side. As an orator, would set it on tire.” triumphant into the house, exclaiming: law should it pass. Can you te d f 6 C ftS t ° - ffi 6 ' ' be approached the best; as a conversationalist, “ Hot ashes then,” I suggested in a desperate “ The pump is thawed !—the pump is thawed !” dnd a beautiful creature that i attention to military ties had prevented, and his vision too defective to sufficiently see. Nevertheless, xx-hen the strife came, he claimed no exemption for reason of either or both, and came promptly to the front to undertake the duties of an able-bodied man. He applied him self diligently, and soon made himself a profi cient officer. At the battle of “Seven Pines,” or “Fair Oaks,” he xvas twice wounded. The tell me where I can is readx- and xvil- I’ *•> urn v» . i / urn 17 in iua w cu . . • l if IV Little flying feet were heard on the stairs, and lin 8 be >’ oked t0 the matrimonial cart tor life, M e 11 set Mary at little Nellie burst into mv room, clapping her and can be satisfied with the neat sum of twelve hands. ‘ ’ fi b dollars a year? If you can, I shall ever feel Di d grateful to you for life. Now please don t go he was brilliant: but as a writer he excelled, in- tone. 1 — ~ • 1 - -P J eluding himself in his departments of oratory and --That’s the very thin conversation. To give anything like an accurate that;” and forthwith we adjourned to the idea of his excellence as a writer in thus sur- kitchen. . j “Did von know the pump was thawed? o * passing himself m conversation, it can be stated r eeling that this was too important a matter voll kno ( v the pump xvas thawed'- 1 ” and recommend some ancient maiden, lor xve that he was one of the very few we meet in a life- to intrust to any other hands, I bundled myself j 1 had rather pay the tax than be imposed on in time to whom we are willing to play the part of up from head to foot, as if for a journey (for the ; *■*"* any such way.” . . . The proposition to tax old listener all the time: and yet, as much as xx-e thermometer stood twenty degrees below zero YVe have received the first number of John H. bachelors seems to have created quite a sen:;a- •• ““ mic, "Hi.. ,luu ucu.ic loved to hear him talk, we prefer to read his that morning), and went out to examine the Seals’new literary paper, The Sunny South. It tion among that class of seedy celibates, and the lie recovered from this he was shot through the writings if compelled to make choice, yet haxing pump. A solid mass of ice four inches in di- is one of the handsomest journals in the coun- excitement seems to be spreading among the old fi?g. between the knee and the hip. and fell, the chance of both, enjoy both. He was a youth ameter filled the inside of the pump. It was trx\ well printed, illustrated, and edited xvith maids, as will be seen from an inquirer in this 1 his xx-as in May or June, 1862. He was fur- , c f rare gifts. Isay youth, for it must be real- plainly evident that nothing could be done but ability. It is equal as a storx- paper to anv column of last week. If twelve dollars a year is toughed, and came home to have his wounds j zed that at his death, now verging on thirteen to pour something hot on top of that ice; so in Northern paper of that class, and bein^ a South- all yon can promise a “beautiful creature ’to be heiiled. Betore lie^got xx ell the^second battle of years, he was not exceeding thirty-two. and that went the hot ashes—a goodly quantity. As soon ern enterprise should be sustained. Savannah yoked with you and help to pull the cart,^ guess Advertiser. Manassas was fought and our army had marched bis reputation xvas made before he had attained into Maryland. Major Tracy chafed to return to his command, and such was his zeal and anx iety that he left while the wound in his leg was yet unhealed, to return to his command. He by the way of Richmond, and tarried there day, perhaps. His friends, seeing his con- his twenty-fifth year. He was certainly the most gifted man I ever met among his cotemporaries, xvith one exception—and it might well be con sidered who had the advantage—and he was Ju lian Cumming, of Augusta, now also, alas! in the spirit-land. YY'hen these two young men on the ice. as that was cold it was taken out and another hot supply furnished. And so Alary worked and xx e waited. But the day closed and no signs of thawing. All the next day this operation went on, varied by an occasional use of the large | kitchen tongs made red hot and pressed doxx-n you will have to pull the concern yourself and pav the tax besides, for xve hope no “beautiful The Sunny South is charming in its typog- creature' will consent to be yoked with you upon raphy, and exceeds in beauty anything of its any such terms. Guess the dreaded old maid class which xve receive. It is elegantlx" illustra- "’ill hardly entertain the proposition for a mo- ted and its literarv contents are unequaled.— ment, so there is no danger ot your bein'" Newbury (S. C.) Herald. posed on in that way.