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«.aru‘ lu the coIU, darkly lighted roam, whose misery aud desolation a tew expiring embers in the rusty grate only served to disclose, was my once beautiful, still loved Emily. She raised her tnild, blue eyes as the noise of my entrance arres ted her attention, and there passed over her coun tenance a strange, unnatural tire, which made me shudder. 1 rushed towards the couch from which 6he had started. The grasp of the aged’servant, who would-have restrained me, was as nothing hclore the strength of that despair which nerved my frame. I clasped in my arms the fragile form which months of suffering had rendered almost shadowy. I pressed mv cold Hps on that brow, where intellect, in ail its proud regality, had once been enthroned—‘Emily, my own, dear Emily’- whispered I, ‘I am here—your Gerald.’ I ceas ed—-mind had fled ; why should 1 thus speak to one, whom hopeless insanity had made its victim. 1 held her from ine—l gazed upon her—‘Gerald!’ murmured she, as she looked long and earnestly info my faee—a rich glow passing over that cheek Hcur befell before as of marble. Idid not speak— I could not—but the tide of life seemed to have ceased, a9 I yielded to the intensity of hope that single word inspired—yet it was momentary— another instant, and a wild, hollow, sepulchral laugh burst from the lips of Emily. The old vaulted building seemed to seize it, and fling it hack on my heart, with a weight which threatened to crush vitality. One moment more, and the long, sharp nails of the slender fingers were buried in mv throat with a fierceness, fury of which I had uot conceived. The blood followed, and •overcome with all I had endured, I sank in utter helplessness oo the floor. I became unconscious. When l recovered, I was removed from that heart rending scene, and for many w eeks I exposed not myself to the view of its entire misery. •'Vet I saw her again; and as the door of her prison-chamber was thrown open to me, I obser ved a grate bad been added, which prevented ‘farther entrance. Emily glanced towards me ; a demoniac scream parted her lips; fire flashed iu her eyes. With extended arms, she sprang tow - ards the grate. What was it struck on my ear? 1 could not mistake the dnll, clanking sound— she. was chain'd! aud around that light, fairy form which had oft felt the twiuings of my embrace, was fastened the cold, heavy iron! It coufiued her to her dreary abode, and being attached to the wall, hindered her from reaching me. She sank prostrate on the floor, about midway betweeu her couch and the door.” Gerald paused ; the big tears stood on his manly heck ; his breast heaved beneath the avalanche of anguish which choked utterance; while Ida, eatung her cheek on his shoulder, wept unres trainedly. “If was not long before my Emilv was released from her sufferings,” resumed Gerald; “death came, and without one ray of returning reason fldiug her departing hours, she was wrapped in lie cold embrace of the tomb. For months 1 ired in that lonely and deserted house, knowing no greater happiness than in the stillness of night o prostrate myself in the luxury of grief, beneath the shadows of the willows, whose long and raceful branch** drooped in the silvery moonlight so sadly over the grave of her I had loved so well. But. Ida, you know not all. Listen ! That young, bright creature, was snv sister! The sister of the purest affection that ever sprung into life. 1 had known no mother’s tenderness; no father’s care. She was all the world to me; she guided my erring steps in boyhood ; she watched beside niy couch of pain, when burning fever scorched me ; she shared every feeling of sadness or joyousness which agitated my bosom; and for me, for my improvement, for »<»/advancement, she abdicated all those glittering pleasures to which her youth, beauty, wealth and rank entitled her. You may imagine with what idolatry I loved her ; how the very poetry of affection lived in our intercouse.— After that fatal malady had descended on liar ilfter she was laid in the bosom of earth—l learned mv mother’s buoyancy of spirit and brightness of beauty had thus faded from life ! that madness was my birthright, rny inheritance!—Wonder you now that 1 tremble, as! view the young, fair pledge of our loves ? that even in the enjoyment of the happiness I now possess, Ifcoft shudder as 1 think how dark, how stonnv a night may succeed to its brightness—but,” added Gerald, iu a hoarse, brokeu voice, “promise me, Ida, when the pall of insanity shall have descended to cover the light of intellect, when the fire of madness shall have score bed the sources of life, promise me, you will not leave, will not forsake me !” “Never! never!” ejaculated the weeping wife, as she flung herself into hie arms, pressing imr cold cheek to the colder one of her husband ; how her heart suiote her for having so wronged him, by nurturing one suspicion of that noble nature. That heart clung to him with renewed idolatry, and who can kiow the passionate fervor of the prayer which arose from its inmost depths, that God would avert from her hearth a curse so hitler, so blighting! • • 4 4 * It was but four years from the events recorded above, and a group, in which the very spirit of grief seemed dwelling, were assembled in a cham ber of that mansion which had seen so forcibly portrayed the perishableness of life's gifts. It was night, and the howling of the tempest with out, the heavy, monotonous pattering of the rain, the melancholy sighing of the wind, seemed un heard by the sorrowful occupants of that apart ment, in which perfect stillness reigned. A soli dary taper thing its sickly and flickering rav6 athwart a couch on which rested the form of a mau apparently but in the noontide of life. In the restless and unqiet rolling of the large dark eyes, there beamed no mind, yet there was beauty, sfaange beauty, in the finely chiselled lips, in the high, pure brow, which seemed imbedded in the heavy masses of black hair clustering around the countenance of deadly paleness. A small, fair hand, was twined iu those sable locks, and over the bed of insanity leaned the form of a female, painfully attenuated. In the depths of her lan guid eye, there lay a history—a tale of love, ten derness, suffering, and blighted happiness, but the unmurmuring spirit of the Christian reposed there also—-that spirit, which yielded not to tha blast as it swept over the treasure-house of the •flections, but which even in the bitterness of des olation, could exclaim, “the cup which my fat her hath given tue, shall I not drink of it!” Who in that premature wreck of all that was most beauti ful, could recognize the once brilliant Ida V , the creature of sunshine ?—-The stream of life,once mirroring nought but happiness, had been imbit tered and troubled. Though she felt that the billows of anguish were breaking over her soul, as 6he watched beside her inauiac husband, her sorrow was voiceless, and even the sigh, w hich oft -struggled to escape its piisou-house, was hushed ; the eye wgs uplifted to heaven with renewed fer ■eriry. the tins ’irfoved In prayer with unabated frequency, as she sometimes almost yielded to the passionate impulses of her grief. At the foot of the couch, over which his daughter bent, stood yj r . V . with folded arms, a rooted and stern sorrow depicted on his venerable countenance ; and kneeling beside him. her dimpled arms em bracing bis keees, her young, bright head lowed ou her bosom, was a fair child, whose few years seemed to preclude the possibility of her appre ciating the peculiar and moving scene on which she had been looking. Yet her childhood had nurtured in affliction, and on her young and grace ful brow, thought had descended prematurely.— She knew her father was dying— that father she had been taught to love passionately—and when she gazed on his sunken and emaciated face, she wept convulsively. Ida wiped away the chill damps of death, which had already begun to col lect on the brow of the sufferer. Suddenly the storm without ceased,—'the dying man moved— “ Heaven,” lejaculated he, as with supernatural strength he started from his pillow, and a smile ot ineffable sweetness passed over his pale counten ance—“ Heaven is gained! In Zion is no sutier ing.no tears! Ida, my own beloved!” and the next moment she is wreathed In his embrace. Reason had returned—though in his departing moments. She had prayed that he might not die in fearful insanity. That prayer was heard—an swered and she was happy, even while the fitful brea'hings of her husband passed fainter and fain ter over her cheek. “Hush, Ida! mine own one!” whispered he. “Glory is opening ttpou me—the Redeemer—precious—peace—” The tones, grew indistinct—-Ida heard no more. Slow ly, the arms which were twined around her neck fell from their resting place. His spirit had pas sed, even while words ol peace lingered on his colorless lips. Gently the stricken wife arose, lest she might disturb the beautiful repose of the dead—tremblingly she passed her hand over those lids which drooped over the glazed eyeballs— carefully she put aside the long, dark hair, which shaded the serene face of the marble-like corpse. Then kneeling beside the couch of death, her child nestling with sobs beside her, Ida gazed her last on the one who had been dearer to her than aught else earth held. 4 * * * * Ida lived many years after the golden link in life’s chain had been shattered. She was not un mindful of her remaining blessings, and in the education of her daughter, in teaching her to tread the paths of holiness, in administering to the comforts of her aged father, she enjoyed se renity and composure. Yet the memories of her youth—the sacred remembrance of Gerald, tlie husband of her deathless love—were never dim med ; and her chastenings drew her more closely, more tenderly to that Father, who hath s id unto his redeemed children—“ When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee; —and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shah not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.” «. c. M. Nelson County, Ya. SCENES IN CHARLESTON. All who can sysmpathize in human suffering, will read with painful emotions tiie picture of miserv and desolation that is sketched in the fol lowing extract ol a letter from Charleston. It is from a native of New England, who lias long been a resident of that city, and was written at a time when the epidemic was at its height, ihe testi mony which he bears to the efforts of charity and benevolence exerted by her citizens, is richly mer ited, and long may it be beture they are again called into requestion by so painful an occasion. “Charleston, Sept. 29. “I have been all alone this week, xcept my oldest sou, who stays while lgoto get something to eat. Yesterday, we did not think my clerk would live through the day, but a good change has taken place, and strong hopes are now indulg ed of his recovery. \esterday was last day; 1 went to the City Temporary Hospital; forty-five sick were in it, men and women, the women up stairs, and the men down. It is a shocking sight to see the poor creatures all stretched on cots in one long room, writhing under the powerful arm of this fell disease. Some have died in twenty fours; some in forty-eight; but they usually die the sixth or seventh day. Among them are Ital ians, Irishmen, Spaniards, Frenchtneu, English men. Germans, Ac. as w ell as Americans. Here a poor fellow from some town in Massachusetts or Connecticut, lying next a swarthy Spaniard ora heavy moulded Dutchman; there the late polite and agile Frenchman or Italian, receiving support, sympathy, and all that money, science, ami reli gions consolation can provide; from the warm and noble hearted Sc uth Carolinians. Asa patient convalesces, he is taken next door, to the Medi - cal College, where they have all the littie nice restoratives and attention.- they require. Bishop England (Catholic) has a hospital iu which tiiere are a good many. To realize what death aud disease are, most visit such a place, where the blood is oozing in streams lrom the mouths ot some, and the sheets and bedding saturated with it as it flows from their bodies, and the dread ful metalic smell of tiie calomel that penetrates your very brain; and the strong and weak men, as helpless as infants, some calling on their distant friends whom they never will see more, crying in their agenv— this , this is death ! r l his is a sight sufficient to melt the stoutest heart. “1 am almost proud that my children w ere born in Carolina. There is a noble spirit of humaiity here that will ever make them proud, and most justly so, of there native State. 1 do not believe there is a city in this known world, where there is more practical religion, or so much Samau an like conduct, as I find here. There are pe*nle going about all day, hunting up the sick and des titute, pouring oil inte their wounds. In our very small summer population (this summer) most of our richest citizens are absent. Notwithstanding which,,near four thousand dollars have been rai sed in the different churches in a single Sabbath, out of a white population not near so large as your own. “When you take into consideration that scar cely a citizen but what has suffered deeply by the great lire, and has also been taxed and taxed, a gaiu and again, subscribing for the poor suffer ers by the lire, building churches, Ac. and that rents and living have increased so much, and all to transpire within a few mouths, (and besides at this season; too, when no business is doing,) and then for them to give near $4,000 for the poor, sick, and and destitute stranger, is noble in the extreme, besides private donatious ot money, food and clothing, to a large amount, l challenge, most fearlessly challenge, the universe tor an instance of superior benevolence. Among our first ladies, an, many noble Episcopalians and Catholics, who go hand in hand with those ot other denomina tions. While some poor being is throwing up the black vomit, they are calming their wounded ’ j spirits and smoothing their dying pillow. “The City Guard, out of eighty men has alrea dy lost twenty -ix. r ! lie Citadel Guard has lost many. Four or five English Captains have died and a great many American seamen and officers. These principally die in the Marine * Hospital. There are seven four story brick stores at one point in King street where a few weeks since a hundred men were employed For ten davs past there have been but four or five. The rest have gone away, died, or are sick. It is the gloomiest time 1 ever saw in Charlesion. Only thirteen passengers have come down on the railroad from as far up as Branchville, Aiken, ml Augusta, for four weeks past. The few passengers who come here from the north, are immediately sent otl in extra cars. Almost all who were subject to it are gone, got well or have died. A poor Jtw arrived from Now \ ork a few days ago and died with the fever in three or lour days. Several oth ers have met tiie same fate in a few days alter their arrival.” Charleston herself again /--We believe it to be perfectly safe for the inhabitants of Chari ston to return to their homes, without ant fear of being assailed by the atrauger’s fever. Our reasons for this belief, are that we are assured that ICE was observed yesterday morning, by the residents of Catmonsborough and Hampstead, and that we are assured that a heavy white frost, of sufficient volume to enable a person to scrape up a consid erable quantity, was seen within the city. We state this fact for the simple reason, that informa tion has reached us, that numbers still what the announcement that the epidemic has disappeared, and as we have taken rather a prominent stand, in making remarks upon the health of the city, which atone period, was considered premature, but alier wards, most unfortunately proved otherwise, our paper is looked to by some as bound to redeem our promise of being prompt in the announcement of the return of health to the city. We therefore repeat, that, in our opinion, there is no lougerthe least danger to any, either citizen or stranger, iu coming to Charleston, in which opinion many of our physicians fully concur.— Courier. Grand Texian Expedition. —We learn from the New Orleans Picayune, that an expedition, composed of 250 men, is fitting out in Texas, for the purpose of trading with Mexico and supplying the inhabitants with merchandise, made scarce by the French blockade. The company has agents in New York and other parts of the United States and from the rapid ty with which preparations have been made hitherto, it is expected that the expe tion will get oft’some time in November. The main object of this company, says the Pi cayune; is to establish a road for wagons from Galveston Island, through Chihuahua to Montery —not the Montery of New Leon, near the Rio del Norte, hut a town of the same name situa ted on the upper part of tne Gulf California. In this pioneering expedition, which is expected to he more extensive operations hereafter, it is in con templation to take along from forty to fifty thou sand dollars worth of goods—-and, as there will be 250 men in the company, well armed and equip ped—-it is also to be presumed that the caravan will proceed to its diminution without much mo lestation from robbers, banditti, Ac. The leader of the expedition, Maj A Le Granda an enterprising gentleman ot Texas, who has led, several similar expeditions, The following account of the gathering of the Pottawatamy mbe of Indians for removal furnish es an interesting picture of frontier scene*. It ;s from the l.ogausport (Indiana) Telegraph of the 15th ultimo : A small military force left Logausport ou Wednesday tiie 2(ith August, and, having been reinforced on the route, reached the Indian Chap el an Twin Lakes, in Marshall county, jbout 11 o’clock on Thursday. Here the principal chiefs, with several other Indians were found, aud sur rounded, to prevent their escape. General Tip ou then heid a council with those present, and our chiefs, appearing somewhat refractory, were taken and placed under guard in one of the rooms ot the building which had been occupied as a chap el. The Indians present were then told that they must prepare to emigrate —that iu three days they must be ready to go West; that they need not hope to remain on the lands which they occupied, for they would becoinpelled to leave them. They were further told that wagons would be provided to eonvey their furniture and utensils into camp, to be carried tor them to their homes in the West; that their co, ifieids be appraised by disia ; terested persons, aud that they ( the Indians; i should receive the amount of then valuation; that the Government would tmuisii them with provis ions and clothing, and farming utensils for the term of one year lrom and after their arrival upon the lands assigned to them beyond the Mississippi; ; that they would not again be compelled to remove, and that the Government would protect them in the»r new homes. Parries of dragoons were then despatched in diff erent directions, with orders to bring the various bands of Indians into camp. The dragoons were also ordered to treat the Indians kindly, to pre serve their moveable property, and to buru their wigwams. These orders were executed in a summary man ner, and the business of collecting the liidiaus progressed w ith a rapidity w hich seemed to aston ish those who understood u. Such was the ictivi ity displayed that o» Monday, the dd of Sep tember. tiiere were in tin encampment about eight hundred Indians, apparently (with a few excep tions) satisfied with tiie prospect of immediate em igration. The encampment occupied a space about one i hundred yards square upon the banks ol the Twin Lakes. This area was almost completely filled with ludian tents, ponies pigs,public officers, dogs, cats, sentinels, wagons, Ac. Throughout the whole proceedings great decision, euergy aud ac tivity were displayed, accompanied by very little, if any, cruelty—that is, viewing the whole as a mat ter of national policy. Alabama.—*-' The Huntsville Democrat, one of the ablest and best informed papers in Alabama, says: “The late election in Alabama, we have reason ! to believe, has resulted in opposition to the Sub j Treasury scheme of finance, and, so far as that is • a test, in opposition to the leading measures of Mr. Van Buren’s administration,”* * “Public sentiment in this State is steadily pro i grossing and settling down against the measures of Mr. Van Buren, who, without the aid and in -1 flueoee oltlte ‘great Nullified,’ would even now be left almost without friends among the People— -1 the office-holders and spods-men adhere to him fas a matter of course.'’ a* • ■'7 — As we anticipated, cur attic.c v te’v • j,i j . adv;si.r« our iiiemts ot the pro- i . ... 0.ti,,. ot our opponents ;n ti,e i.e r . • e, ; 0 relj , she t Runes Dntbiu' ister and pearile resolutions. A , reference* * the >ub i rct-Muy; tire United f- esßank ( and Van Buteu if thit proved anvthing but savory to ti - \ p, * press i.i the state. Fully aware ‘ the a,7 opement of tin i sinister attemj .( c iridicatmito uiriihv those attem tiling but i abatable to our op * quite prorate t to pa -s nnr.oticec : u the cant wu'i we knew our remarks would « a forth lrom U Federal mocrats of their press. W e had ( Ul 6 determined likewise, to let tht-it oservations i-, regard to the ■consistency of our party iu the late election, pass for what it was worth, Knowing tn with our party as well as with ourselves] tli e judgment of our opponents iu regard to our con sistcncy with our principles, would not be cousid' ered as of any great validity. And we now only refer to this subject, on one point, for the purpose of preventing some cf our political friends, w |„j may have just become entitled to a vote, aud W [ UP may not be very conversant with the course ofthe [tarty in times past, from being led into error by the constant reiteration of such stuff by our n o j itical opponents, uncontradicted by the press 0 f their own party. The point then is this: Our opponents pre tend that our course, in opposing anything |,(. proscription in our own party, on the subject old United States Bank, is wholly inconris cut with our principles, and an ..baiiilonment ofthe uniform course ofthe party, They say, that a fundamen tal principle of our party has ever been not only in opposition to a National Bank, but thefproscrip tion of those who (littered with us on this point We positively deny both nsseitions. Nor aie\, e content with a bare denial, we will prove it. R av . more still :we will demonstrate that (hose are inconsistent , and grossly inconsistent, wlm would at this day begin a course of proscriptim on this topic; and w orse, much Worse than ireen sistent—for the only object in the dibit that can perceive, is solely to bohstrv up :! - *• P , Van Buren in Georgia—-a man who ha* t. -* ;• ij, offices and patronage of the Gov- r "orient’‘to our party in the dust. \V him all e ~wan r, : this paper is now, and ever has b en against tin constitutional power of Congr - Bank, or any other corporation, even a u. , , , university-—yet we know that this paper,and **.,•*■. other paper ofthe party in Georgia. a-> well as the party itself, has always y ielded to their fellows the right cf private judgment on the subject, and hay, never r, fused, on this account their hearty srr, port to those of their friends who differ with tie ;., in regard to it. But »o the proof: It wih no'jbe necessary • presume to trace th” course of the partviu-th-. hack than thirtv years ago, and thence down the present. some thirty years o t o < nr ;■ r tv ackuowiledged as its chief TnUr, Wn. H. Crawford. They rt stained h:i:: tor the Chip Magistracy, with all their v-.-or.. and sustainr him throughout t.i ■■ poht knows that Mr. Grawfurd was ?h ablest champ on of the United po'iticnl career. Was any inconsistency, then or ever, cl oe ' upon tb- party for support ing Mr Crawford The ['arty sustained for eve ry political office, so long as he remained with us, John Forsyth; notwithstanding his advocacy ol a National Bank, and notwithstanding he voted for it. No inconsistency in this.—The party with pleasure sustained Mr. Elliot in the Senate, notwithstanding his preference, as we believe, for a United States Bar k. The party ever sustain ed Alfred Cuthbei t. as a member of Congress so long as he remained one of us, notwithstanding he was in favor of a I Triterl States Bank, and voted for it. The party sustained in Congress, until his death, Mr. Te!fa*r rv.t.withs , and>ng he advocated ami voted for the Bank r l i<• party sustained Wil son Lumpkin in fori ; .i -s. so h-ng as he remain ed one of us, albeit he supported th*- United States Bank, and voted for it. The party has ever sus tained Joel Crawford for Congress, ay, and but t year or two ago, offered him as their candidate for Goveruer, against Wilson Lumpkin, and did their utmost to elect him, notwithstanding his preference for a United States lia.tk The party sustained, as long as thev were able to sustain any body, Richard H. WT’. , notwithstanding his uniform advocacy of a T uito.i h rates Bank'. Ihc State Rights party candidate for Congress, bin. two or three years ago, av, and the especial favor ite candidate was he, of tlie out and ou* Nulhfiers was Mr. Chappell m twiths mil n • : ’ in favor off Tates Bant the par ist . ed and highly sustain m, for Cot gross, notwitb -landin bis idvof-H'Y o’ • 1 nttfd States Ba.T and a pure) patriot, an.: lionester man, w.; never si st inn’ b; any party- Shahwc go in w'>th the list, ft s rhi‘ ek> rated enough **t present, for the time and patience c the r ' SL - er \l'c!! ; to till ‘ ’ as far harp a w can remember downwards tot 1 pres* nt time, t l -re has been t;o charge ot watt sisteiicy o* abandonment of princij le ivt 1 *•’*• at the end of thirty years friendly, 'ibeia! and hat ruonious action a- we have shown, vie are to>a. that to <b as ws h. v e ah' avs done, allow our triet o s to think on thh subject for themselves, is vastly inconsistent, .nd an utter abandonment ot the principles ofthe party. Faugh 1 Those only are inconsistent with the uniform course of the party since its origin, who would now attempt to dictate to tlie party on this subject, and to drive them into a departure from their uniform cour se of action, to a course of proscription ; and all, so laras we can see. for tlie worthy object of breaking our old party into fragments, and allowing Martin Van Buren to become the lord Dictator of Geor gia. A worthy object doubtless ; and the in«a DS as worthy as the object. . . We have thus hastily ran over a period of tn* r tv years’ action of tiie party on this subject, to able those who may not have made th miseries 3 well acquainted with our party in yetrs go tc by a we are, to refute the absurd and faU f''eg atiu of inconsistency on this point, whi > DClW in much in the mouths of those who would g! 0I 7 the ruin of the party, and who canonly effect tne* object by dividing us. We leave it to the tx a whether we have not satisfactorily reade out ot case.— Sothern Recorder. New -Jersey Election.—The Ne i : nir.g Star of "the 17tli instant conta is ibe c cial returns of the election in New DrsvjG _ which it is ascertained that »he whol . ’Y iig y gressional ticket has succeeded by t majority 95 votes: and that there will be in iho U e S ls ture, on joint ballot, a Whig majority ui