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I Sec. 1. Bn it enacted by the Senate and House
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J State Legislature, shall assemble at the Commis-
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■ year, and until their successors are elected, at
■ which election one or more magistrates shall pre
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|"t any of said Commissioners, the remaining
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■ cuncy for the time being.
[ Sec. 3. Andbe it further enacted by the authori
■ ('/ aforesaid , That the corporate authority and ju
■ risdictiou of said Commissioners shall include the
if "hole of lot No. ninety and all of fractious Nos.
■ eighty-nine and eighty-eight.
I Sec. 4. And be it further enacted- by the authori-
B'V aforesaid, That the said Commissioners shall
E lay and collect a tax for the support of 6aid town.
■ Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the author
|'v/ aforesaid, That the inhabitants of said Town
■ small be free from road duty without the limits of
■ s aid Corporation. All laws and parts of laws mil
■ stating against this act be and the same are hereby
■ repealed,
’JOSEPH DAY,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ROBERT M. ECHOLS,
I , President of the Senate.
I Assented to, 14th December, 1837.
GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor.
Secretary of State’s Office, )
j Millcdgeville,\oth April, 1838 $
1 certify that the foregoing is a true copy from
I the original of file in this office,
■ Given under my hand and seal of office.
\VM. A. TENNILLE,
6 Secretary of State.
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June 9 u J. P. MATTHEWS, O. S.
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From the Philadelphia Visiter.
THE GROOMSMAN,
A talc founded upon inciden ts in real life.
BV 11. N. MOORE, AUTHOR OF “MART MORRIS.”
( Continued.)
CHAPTER 111.
Mrs. West’s absence from the breakfast table
was immediately noticed by her husband on the
following morning, lie instantly despatched a
servant to her chamber to see if she was there.—
The answer returned was in the negative, at the
announcement of which he relinquished his cof
fee, and started ;o his feet, pushing back the chair
in surprise!”
“Not iu her chamber!”
“No, sir,” replied the servant!”
“Where then? where is she? Go—quick—tell
Manuel to come here,” he hurriedly said, evident
ly alarmed at the circumstance, but endeavouring
to conceal his anxiety from observation. At his
side w ere three or four domestics in attendance.—
“Go you to the nursery,” he continued, speaking
to one of them—“see if she’s there. If she is
not, ask tile nurse where she is—quick.”
lie ordered the rest out of the room, and up
and dowu the apartment strode, with one hand
thrust into the bosom of his vest, and the oilier
pressed against his forehead. Manuel enter d—
hastily—with an appearance of concern in his
countenance, and a look of surprise assumed for
the occasion. Use had made it second nature to
him, and he could be sorrow ful or glad at a mo
ment’s warning.
“What, my mistress gone !” lie exclaimed, as if
he knew nothing of it.
“Y es gone !” cried his master. “Gone—gone;
and I am left to sorrow and shame!”
At this moment the servant sent to the nursery
re-entered, and announced tiiat Mrs. West was
not there, aiid that the nurse knew nothing of
her.
“Th mi this confirms it,” vociferated the enraged
husband—“she has eloped with her seducer—By
ard!”—emphasizing the name of his relation w ith
a bitter tone, whilst his very teeth grated w ith the
energy of his passions. “I saw the villain about
the premises but yesterday, and told him to be
gone—or that I would bluvv liis brains out if 1
found him here again!”
“The—the child,’ —hesitatingly articulated the
servant, wishing to speak, but afraid to, discon
certed by the vehemence of-her master's lan
guage. Faint as was her utterance, it was heard
by the ear lor which it was intendeo. Drowning
men will catch at straws; and Mr. West eargerly
uttered the word. “The child—what ot that!—
speak!”
“’Tis aslegp in i* s cradle with the nurse,” was the
hasty response of the servant, crow ding the words
together as fast as her utterance would permit, for
she was actually alarmed—her master, iu the
eagerness of the moment, having seized her by
the wrist, fixing his eves wildly upon her.
“Asleep in its cradle, say you?”
“Yes—ves, sir” —she replied, trying to discu
gage herself from the grasp of her questioner, who
now burst out into a loud laugh ol exultation,
mechanically letting go his hold ot the maid at
the same time, whilst a ray of satisfaction beamed
through his sorrows, and lighted up the expres
sion of his face. “Then i have wronged her,”
lie cried; “she has not goue. That child she
loves as fondly at ever a mother loved her babe;
she would not leave it-—no, she never could—no,
never so much forget the sympathies ot woman’s
heart!” Confident of what he asserted, and cal
ling the domestics together, he gave orders for
them to seek her about the place, which they did
thoroughly, but after an hour’s search, it was dis
tinctly ascertained that she w as neither in the man
sion or neighbourhood. A horse was saddled,
and Manuel sent to the city to inquire among her
relatives—perhaps she was there.
All the time during the absence of Manuel, his
master strode backwards and forwards, with a hur
ried pace, anxiously and impatiently looking
out for his servant's return, llis eyes frequently
bent to the floor, but at the slightest noise they
would glance towards the road, expecting to en
couuter the object they desired to see. The lon
gest day must have an end; and at last Manuel
came. Mr. West hurried dowu the gravel walk
to meet him, and instinctively taking hold ot the
bridle, stopped the horse, w hilst he demanded in
haste of the rider, if lie lrad seen or heard any
thing of his absent wife.
“No, sir,” wa- Manuel’s reply. “I have neither
seen nor heard of her.”
“What—they know nothing of her?”
“Nothing.”
“Then gone she is,” said the husband, emphat
ically giving utterance to his words’ “(tone!
gone!” he exclaimed, beating his breast in the
violence of his emotions. “Gone, and left her
child-—deprived the iufant of a mother’s care. ]
thought her incapable of such an act, but find I
gave her credit for sensibility she never possessed.”
As he finished speaking he dropped his hand from
the bridle, and walked back towards the house
sorrowful—dejected. Manuel rode to the stables,
put the horse up, and went into the draw ing-room
where his master w as seated.
“So,” said the latter, as he rose and commenced
pacing to and fro, “her relatives have not seen
her?”
“No, sir.”
“Nor heard of her, you say ?”
“They have neither seen nor heard of her, but
are as much surprised as yourself at her disap
pearance. In fact, they are alarmed, and purpose
visiting you today.”
“Visiting tne! I’ll not see them! If they conic,
tell them I’m absent—or if you choose, tell them
lam at home, but wont be seen. Oh, Manuel,
my dishonor is now complete! made public to the
world! Little did I think, when at the alter I
made her mine, that I was reserved for a fate like
this!” As bespoke, he clasped together his up
lifted hands, and the tears of agony drenched his
cheek! The tears of a woman are not unusual,
FLORENCE, GA. SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1838.
and we may expect them on many occasions—but
when man weeps, when the sterner heart is sub
dued, we may of a certainty infer that the cause,
w hatever it is, must be painful indeed.
“Sir,” said Manuel—“let me advise you to for
get it, to thiuk of her no more, but take another
iu her stead.”
“Another!”
‘Yes—another wife—Get a divorce from the
first, marry agaiu and you can again enjoy the
advantages and comforts that your wealth af
tords.’
*A divorce!’
“Y es—why you echo me, and seem amazed
that I should propose it—’tis hut au every-day
occurrence. Many like you, sir, have married
w ith hopes of perfection in the choice they made,
and have experienced a like disappointment
Many there are in the world that live together,
nominally man and wife, bound by the rites of the
church, but who would willingly be sundered.—
They w ould, but can’t—you cun—your wife has
left your bed and board, and if you but ask a di
vorce of the authorities, they cannot refuse.”
“Ask a divorce ? of the authorities?”
“Y es—by all means I advise you to do so.—
YVed another. There are many as fair as she is;
marry one of them, and let the wife that has de
serted you, see that vou yet can live, and happily
100. As for her, Ist her go—let her bask in the
arms o ' her paramour, ’Tis but an accident that
has happened to you, and you should look upon it
mno other light. We are all liable to misfor
tunes. Why should you be exempt? Pardon
my plain speaking, but I consider it my dutv. Jf
you marry again, the same may happen again, or
it may not. Like every tiling else, it is chance.
One man escapes the gallows that deserves it,
while another that is innocent, hangs. One man
is suddently thrust to the steeple top of fame,
without even desiring it; whilst others that have
toiled their existence for it, fall short of it, and
sink forgotten to unheard-of graves. ’Tis chance!
chance! —l say again, get a divorce and marry
another.”
“No, Manuel—no! Ido not wish the knowl
edge of my dishonour more public than it is.—
Tou talk of marriage as a matter of business—as
a merchant would speak of a bargain. But to
me, there’s something noble iu the nature of it—
more pure, mure holy, than the thoughts you en
tertain of it. ’Twas not for the gratification of
sordid appetites I married Julia—no—but because
1 loved her!”
“Loved her! nonsense! you were dreaming!
This love ol which you taik may answer well
enough for the rhymes of poetry or the exagger
ations of romance, but if analyzed, it falls beneath
the test of criticism. ’Tis an ignus faluus that
dickers in the youth of almost every one, leading
them into difficulties, if not to actual ruin. For
example, your own case, sir—”
“Nay speak not thus—you torture me!”
“No! you torture yourself—by letting it vex
you. lam giving you good advice, if you’ll but
lake it.”
flere a pause occurred in the conversation fur
a minute or two, which was resumed by Mr. YVest.
“I u her I bad centered all my joys,” he exclaim
ed, “and in her my happiness is wrecked ! I am
now an object for the finger of scorn! The
w orld v. ill sneer as it points at my disgrace—as it
teils the tale, ami in mockery pities me!” Ap
proaching a mirror, and viewing the reflection of
himself in the gk ss—“see here, how I am altered,”
lie continued ; “cadaverous checks s;:d a hollow
eye for the bloom of health and the flash of tire!’
For a moment he paused, whilst liis bosom heaved
with the thoughts that oppressed it within, then
dashed from his eye the tear, and railed for wine.
“Wine! wine!” with a vehement voice he cried.
“Give me the glass—l'll drink—drink—and
drown my recollection iu the sparkling fluid!—
Another—another glass—fill again—and another!
I'll drink till my brain whirls, and my senses are
steeped in Lethe’s wave!”
As he said, so it proved. He continued to
drink till completely inebriated, and actually stag
gered as he ascended the stairs to his chamber.
This was early in the evening, and the domestics
of the establishment had not yet retired, when,
about ten o’clock, tlie report of a pistol was heard
from the room of Mr. West. The door of his
room was locked —the servants kursted it open,
and there they found their master upon the floor,
drenched in biood, with the pistol at his side, and
the appartment filled with smoke.
“Is he dead ?” cried Manuel.
“Y r es,” answered another w ho was in the act of
raising the body tram the floor.
CHAPTER IV.
Life! what is it?—what else but a passage to
the tomb, or else to the humbler mound where the
long grass waves as the wind moans by—where
decrepit age arrives at last, w ith crutch and tot
tering step, to end his pilgrimage—where the
middle-aged are sleeping, and youth lies at rest!
For my own part, whilst bounding about in the
insolence of health, and the buoyancy of youth,
it seems as if I could never die—as if I must live.
But reflection calls no back to reason. The fu
neral train crosses my path daily, with its long
line of mourners and the hearse, winding skiwly
through the streets, where the active and the liv
ing throng, upon its way to the burial ground—
there to deposite its dead, 1 pause as it passes
tnc, and the thought inevitably intrudes, that I
too must share the common lot. Perhaps, too,
ere 1 have gathered around my brow the laurels I
anticipate, or drauk of the fame for which I thirst!
Mr. West was not dead, as the domestics at first
sight were led to believe ; for ou lifting him from
the floor, respiration was perceptible, and the ef
fusion of blood being stopped by Manuel, one of
the servants was sent off for the nearest physician
—not far distant—who luckily happened to be
disengaged, and came at once. The wound,
though serious, he did not consider mortal. liis
first care was to wash off the gore, and have his
linen changed. The sufferer was then put to bed,
and other remedies applied to the wound i:i place of
tile simpler applications of the servant. After
icing put to bed, he was spoken to, but whether he
heard or not, he returned no answer. The pre
sumption is, that lie was completely insensible
from the exuberant loss of blood, lie neither
jpoke nor moved, but lay quietly upon his buck;
»nd the only indication of life to be perceived,
vas the low wheezing sound so peculiar to the
respiration of the sick—and w hich must be fanril
iar to the ears of each of my readers who has
watched by the couch of an invalid. The whole
house was hushed and rendered as quiet as possi
ble. The domestics, upon tiptoe and with a
noiseless tread, went through their ordinary duties.
For nearly a w eek he lay in a kind of torpor, with
out once speaking and scarcely ever moving— ta
king no sustenance but the little that was forced
into his mouth, and swallowed with the reception
of the air upon his lungs. His eyes were almost
all the time closed; when opened, it was but fora
lew seconds, with a spectre-like glare—then shut
again, like the faint flickering of a candle con
sumed to the wick, as simultaneously it revives
and goes out.
The physician was constant in his attendance,
evincing the greatest concern for the welfare of his
patient, and eventually had the disinterested satis
faction of finding him convalescent. In a short
time the wound began to heal rapidly, and the
invalid recovered strength enough to sit upright
in bed.
At the end of the second chapter, in the pro
gress of our narrative, w e left Mrs. West on board
of the schooner, w here she had been entrapped by
the w ic'ti and ait liees of her own cousin. Two mouths
had now passed—nothing had yet been heard
of h< r—inquiries had been every where set afloat,
suit], it Hail even Uecu advertised in the daily pa
pers. Part of the time, on the night of her de
parture, was spent in writing to her husband, it
will be recollected. She left the letter upon a
table in her chamber, w here, as a matter of course,
she expected it would be immediately noticed
upon tiie discovery of her (light. As it turned
out, however, it was not observed until the second
mottling after she left. One of the female ser
van ■ who entered the’apartment to sweep it, upon
approaching the table saw the letter—the first
that had noticed it. Owing to the fact of her
master’s having shot himself the night before, it
was not practicable to give it into his hands, so
she w ent to Manuel with it, in whose keeping it
remained until his master was judged able to bear
the excitement consequent upon the perusal ofit.
The contents of the letter were as yet unknown to
any but the w riter, but their tenor could easily be
guessed, and it was the physician’s desire that the
showing of it might be deferred a while longer;
but to the pressing solicitations of Manuel, he at
last gave a reluctant consent. Mr. West was out
of bed, when the letter was handed to him, seated
in a cushioned chair, made lor his convenience
while sick, upon rollers, and capable of being
moved with ease from one part of the room to
another.
“Here’s a letter, sir, for you,” said Manuel, as
ho delivered it to ilie hands of Mr. YVest with a
respectful obeisance.
“For me. from whom ?” said the invalid, as lie
gazed at the superscription, endeavouring to identi
fy the writing—it however had evidently been
w ritten by a trembling hand, and was not very in
telligible.
“From your wife I believe,” said Manuel, “but
Pm not certain of it. 1 ’
At the mention of his wife, the bloodless cheek
of Mr. West faintly coloured. Having broken
the seal, he unf.dded the letter, and read as fol
lows :
‘ At Nigiit, October 10th, 1826.
My h ustand —l will yet venture to address you
with emphasis by that endearing name.—The
name—alas!—is all that 1 have left of you ! Be
fore this meets your eye, l shall have escaped far
enough to elude the possibility of being overtaken,
should such a step be .decided upon by either
yourself or any of my relatives. Into a detail of
the causes which have induced me to pursue this
court e, I will not enter—it w’ould be but upbrai
ding you, and I have not the heart to do that. My
cause I place in the hands of Him who sees into
the secrets of the soul—-and there is comfort yet
In the hope you will in time be convinced of my in
nocence. I weep to think you should ever for a
moment have doubted it!
After an hour’s intermission, 1 resume the pen;
with a hand still tremulous with emotion, but a
heart resolved to brook its fate. My child—our
child!—take eaie of it I charge you! By ail the
love with which you mice caressed me, and which
you felt—by that, and by the tears that now 1
shed—l entreat you to cherish and protect her. —
Bea kind father to her—be to her w hat her moth
er would have been—and every night when you
kneel in prayer, if you only remember her, you
cannot forget me! If the time passes on. and we
; are doomed to never meet again—oh ! let her not
| know Imr mother’s story—let her not know it till
grown to womanhood, but speak of me to her,
when you speak of me, as of dead! These tears!
these fears! how fast they fail Farewell—but
not I hope forever. Julia.”
Back on his chair, with closed eyes, Mr. YY’est
sunk as he finished the perusal of this letter.—
: Manuel, as he gazed upon the agonized expres
sion of his master's countenance, saw the tears
steal down liis eyelids, whilst his bosom heaved,
and the heartfelt groan of anguish was audible.
“Read it,’ he said, handing the letter to Manuel,
who took it, and after the perusal bluntly denoun
ced it as hypocrisy!
“Hypocrisy!”
“Y'es—a mother with the feelings which she
pretends to possess, would never have deserted her
child as she lias done.”
“By the by,” said Mr. West, “where is the
child ? 1 should like to see it. Go, bid the nurse
bring it here, ’if it’s awake—if it’s asleep, dis
turb it not.”
Manuel went to the nursery and delivered the
orders to the nurse, who followed to the chamber
of tiie invalid with the little Julia in her arms
Mr. West took the child, and raising it to his lips,
imprinted a kiss upon its blooming cheek. It was
VoL. I.—No. 12.
smiling, and seemed grateful for the attenti :
bestowed upon it. For an hour and better tl.e
parent fondled with it—he appeared delight
ed with its infantile caresscss, nor resigned
it into the hands of the nurse till the child i:scif
grew tired. “What a resemblance between the
babe arid its ahsetft mother,” he uttered, addres
sing the remarks to Manuel, who admitted the
truth of it, and added himself, “.die is indeed
her mother, and is as she is called, the ].
ha.”
“Julia!” said, or rather exclaimed ;; v
with a voice in which were min-lcd t]
regret and affection. “Ah ! k hat ~ *
tions the sound of that rcuicn.bti
conjure up! Over the preset i
I atnback again amidst the
when in sunshine and shad
and foliage, th< hapj % hot
existence was but h
the cup of joy! .
they will never return !” ■*“*'■*»
“Y\ by speak of them?” said Move) ~T
only makes their loss more keenly lelV i U
had you not better get into bed again » ’ Y*ou 1
been up longer than you are aware of, pcThml”
—speaking kindly, and apparently evmcn rl .
great est interest in the uch are of his master V s
W est was not insensible toil, but took l i, a i j ‘k
‘lf other kindly in that of hi S“°V»h iH*
«ha, a friend hate 1 in you! She it
have been with me, has gone_*ll„ f ./ h ° Uld
whilst .none of my servants I /inti an only Sd'
Lut fin you, amidst these trials w W u
si;;* : >■<
“Nay, sir, do not sneak of „ ,
win always be its own n tvnrd”—Fni,
on his breast. Jn Dog his hand
The next day Mr. West asked for
child again, which when brought to
he affectionately held out his and
ccive, and tenderly fondled with it fir
■tdcrable part of the forenoon. Un theT’
lowing day the same was repcated-the ,-lt
so on daily. He continued an inv hddm
»;asrotalfclo lea,chi,3
Il|f link-Julia w , tlm ,
this time become so accustomed to the father ti \
it preferred being with him. The nmntl, r\! l T*
passed away; April, with itss f
Went was entirely recovered. Ili s i„ , , r *
was thrown aside, and he even tool! imtice of® 1
on ty , tor, on the anniversary ut } - s
independence—the 4th of July, 1827-hJ gL?
a Ltgo party ot his acquaintances to dine with
him. lie was sociable, affable -md , “
merry as the liveliest of guests. ’ AbLttffis'? : ‘ S
.0,., liiaiHlc daughter
expressible pleasure that this but ordinary oecurl
mice afforded him was truly remarkable TIL
whole soul seemed to be centered in his child- as
m the mother it once w as. u Ji
Another twelvemonth passed around and
completed her second y,Lr. Bm stiil ot the a b!
sent patent theie was nothing heard ti,,. r
band ae kne] wedged to himself that there were mo
ments when he wished she was at his side tn v-t
ness the pride of his heart, and lee the
bcamies of their cl,iW-their owu-ti.57 only
child. ILs belief in her guilt would often waver
a he gazed at the child, and mused upon the a »l
sociations connected with it—its birth-and the
tune preceding that. Her letter , 0 him he would
lead over, and over, and “surely the heart that
dictated such sentiments as thejp he would say
“cannot be capable of crime. But yes, she mm
be gud.y! ,f innocent, why leave her home and
int . Ay—and with Byard, too—By"rd”
Another year-and auothcr-foui years alto
gether passed aw ay, and still l.iswife was not heard
ot. \\ hat had become of her ? Was S ] lC dead >
-he knew not-she might Lc-no tidings came,
no account o. her. °
The little Julia rapidly improved. In her child
ish pra.de the husaand listened ores more to
the musical tones of his wife’s soft voice, and
i tr ‘„ 1,1 th ' ; g r< * w (i*g features of liis child, the
well-remembered lineaments of her whom once
to see was never to lorget! By the hour he would
v and with his arms folded, before the portrait of
the absent one, and think ct other thu s—of lnr
pier times !—when hope looked ever forward to
a brighter scene, and every day went by in hap
piness and peace—unclouded- by a single sor
row ! °
CHAPTER V.
Manuel Garcia, the servant we have so frequent
ly had occasion to mention, was a Spaniard by
birth. At the age of fourteen he emigrated with
his parents from Spain to the West, Indies, w here
they both died m a short time of each other, from
the ctiects ot an epidemical disease. The boy
wms himself attacked by the contagion, but sur
vived it. Afterwards he shipped as cabin-boy iu a
brig, and came to the United States, where he pas
sed a desultory kind of life for several years. The
lowest kind ol pilfering and dissipation he was i.
miiiar with, and was finally accused of murder.
A tavern keeper near Baltimore was found
derad in his bed, and suspicion of the crime f
upon Garcia. Guilty or not, lie evaded tnc m.
suit ot the police, and had the address to insint
himself into the service of Mr. YYcst. In J.cir' *
he was below the middle-size, but thick '•r* •
had straight black hair, saffron s i. , . :
restless eyes. His lips were thin
his forehead low, and when frowniu.' hi i hair
eyebrows seemed to meet -But, whatever n: _ :.t
have been the character of his life previous, Mr.
West (bund him to beau attentive servant.
lie was assiduous in his endeavours to please
so much so that liis master singled him out par
ticularly to wait upon himself. He performed
with alacrity, and apparently with the greatest
good-will, the duties incumbent on him. Event
ually lie became his employers confident—more
like bis companion than a servant. It was n.-w
more than five years that he had been with Mr.
West—suddenly he gave ti lice that he was going