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rjM [E public are respectfully informed
li that the steamers Ikwinton and Siren
w r! -in n regular packets between FLOR
i’NCE and \P.AL ACiiICULA, (touching
a, o ,i.i \ leaving each pi ice alternately, eve
ry Wht l ICS I<y all Sifir lay. The patron.
Hi’ the public h respectluUy solicited.
Vreieht and passage, at customary rates,
for Elicit ippij to the 0 iptaioson board, or
3E ALL, HILL & LAURENCE,
Florence.
FIELD & MORG AN, Irwinton.
DODGE, KOLIS Sc McKAY,
Apalachicola.
FI irerve. August 20 20
Waff II Commission
BUSfN K S S .
'MI HE subscribers having
T 4> t ■ ' the Ware
House lately occupied by
John D. Pitts Sc Cos. have as
sociated themselves together hre l, ‘'‘
pose of transacting a general COMVtb-
S[')N BUSINESS, under the name and
style of
11S YHIM. &> I.A.URENCE.
As our attention will be partieu’arly directed
t . the receiving an I forwarding goods and
cittoi, ive shill mike every arrangement
n -ees-ary, for storing and taking care of the
The business will be conducted by Mr.
A. W. Hill, and we pled’« ourselves that
n ithing shall b ■ wanting on our parts to give
general satisfaction. With ' j'’; 1 ’ assutan
ce«, we hope to receive a lib ml shared pu j
lic patronage. T . B7.A.LL,
A. W. IIILL.
M. 1. LAURENCE.
July 20 15
TO TIIH PUBLIC.
rfl IE Subcri iers beg leave to inform the
X Fjb’ic that th ay have b night the en
tire Stock of Messrs. A. W. Hill, Laurence
& Cos. an I Will continue to occupy the old
Stan I. South wing of Phoenix Hotel, cor
ner of Broal and Centre Street, the Stock
now on h in 1, and the supplies daily
ted will m ike a choice selection of DRY
GOODS, HAL’S, SHOES, BOOTS.
CROCKERY, GLASS, CUTLERY,
HARDWARE, Sec. and as we have
open 1 oir l> >oks for the yenr 1840, we hope
to receive a l iable share ot the pub ic pat
ronage.
Wc would further remark, that as we are
determined to sell goods to none but those
who are settled and good for their contracts,
we shall he able to afford g tods to our reg
ular customers at lower prices than usual.
CHARLES A. SMITH,
Dec. 6. 35 JAMES B. BROWN.,
Copartnership.
THE undersigned have formed a Copart
nership for the transaction of business
under the natne'and style of
WIYFREY & MORGM.
They have now on band and expect to
keep a well assorted stock of
DRY GOODS,
Crockery, Hardware, Cutlery, Sfc.
They intend to keep a well selected stock
of Goods at Friendship, Sunrter county.
A. B. C. WINFREY.
J. B. MORGAN,
Florence, Nov. 23 33
A YOUNG MAN, who can give un quits
X*. tionable reference, wants a situation
'as overseer, for the year 1310 Apply at the
store of McCullar St Perrv. LtXiujvkiu, Ga
Oct. 22 22 if
THE MI IK It IMS.
Settle Your Account*.
ALL those indebted to the late firm of
HARVEY & CHASTAIN or JOHN
P.HARVEY, are requested to come for
ward and liquidate their accounts by the
last return day in Janunjy, or they will find
them in the hands of an officer for collection.
JOHN P. HARVEY.
Dec- 28 38
~ l.i if ,v» tub: .
THE subscribers have this day associated
themselves for the purpose of plead
ing and practicing law in all the comities of
the Chattahoochee Circuit,and in ihe coun
ties of Dooly, Thomas and Decatur, under
the name of Graybijl & Bonner. Oifice at
Cuthbert, Randolph countv, Georgia.
GRAY'BILL Sc BONNER.
Jan. Ist. 1840. ts 40
SAVE COST.
THE notes and accounts of C. H, Aus
tin, Sc Cos, have been left in my hands
aud 1 am compelled to put them in a train
of collection. All those so indebted are re
spectfully invited to attend to the settlement
of flic same.
JUNIUS JORDAN.
Jan, 3. 1840. 4t 40
STRAYED.
FROM the Subscriber tbs last of Nny.
1830, one Pay MARE Colt, no
marks recollected. When 1 last heard of
her she was in the neghbourhood of Bal
lard's Store, a liberal reward will be giveji,
or any information respecting her will fire
thankfully received.
.I AS. P. M ATHEWS.
Jan. 4, 1810 403 t
STRAYED.
FROM my premises about tbe2Btli or
23th day of November last, a small bay
inairecolt, Bor 9 months old. It is suppo
sed that he may have followed other horses
off, as he was seen near Lumpkin a short
time ago. Any information concerning
him will be thankfully received.
JAMES P. MATHEWS.
Jan 4th, 1840 3t 39
PROPASALS
For publishing in the town of lrwintoo. li
abama, a weekly Newspaper, to be entitled
the
liiwivrox CiIROYICLE.
HAVING heard many complaints of tho
want of a Newspaper in this town, (te
be conducted in a gentlemanly-like manner.)
the undersigned have been induced by the
earnest solicitations of many friends, to cm
bark in me undertaking.
In assuming the duties rnns"'j , rer>t open
such an enterprise, we feci deeply conscious
of the responsibility which will devolve op
on us; and knowing, too, the divetsity id
the human mind, we cannot flatter ourselves
that we will be able to rt." v-t. ait,. i>
so far as our humble abilities cxitii.i, wc
will, at all limes be found striving to elevate
the standard of truth and cuitKru mural
principles, it will be our object to ad
vancc she prosperity of the F. istcni section
of our State, abounding, as it does, in so
many natural advantages, and. as a necessa -
ry consequence, especially to promote tiie
interest of our own town. Our aim will be
to render our paper useful and valuabV y,
all classes of the community—in short Lit
erature, Useful information. Agriculture,
Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, will each
receive a due portion of our attention. '
In legard to Politics, we deem it neces
sary to say, that we sh ill give the general
Political intelligence of the whole country,
while, at the same time, as conductors of a
Free Press, wc will fearlessly, and without
favor or affection, advocate and support all
such measures ns will, in our opinion, pro
mote our general prosperity as a people, and
the perpetuity of our rights aud liberties.
Our paper will be purely Republican, as
practised by those great Apostles of Liberty,
JEFFERSON and MADlSON—preferirig
them as our guide, rather than the nku -
LUSHT, SELF-STILED Democratic Repiibii
cans of the present day. AVe a;e “strie!
constructionists of the I* ederai Lorn,' c..
and shall, therefore, oppose all schemes o!
Internal Improvement, except by the Stale*
themselves, as a part of that •• American
System” which has proved so. ruinous to the
South, and which war attempted to be i.is
tened upon us, under that must pl utsjrle
and specious pretest. the ' .. NU.’! A L
WELFARE.” Believing, as we do, ihat
it is the duty of every go id citizen to cher
ish with jealous care the “Union of the
States, and the Sovereignty of the
States,” and as this cannot be done «' bout
a strict adherence to the Constitution iisuit,
,v fi shall not be sparing in our ! iuc .a ions
of the attempts which are and have been
made by the late as well as the present Ad
ministration. to control, not only the mon
ied facilities of the Government, but ol tiie
entire country. With regard to the ques
tion whiijfi is now agitating the country rela
tive to the Currency, we now, unhesitating
ly declare our hostility to the thrice-reje“-
ed Sub-Treasury System, tending as it does
in our opinion, to an increase of Executive
power, which has already been claimed and
exercised to an alarming extent, in more
stances than one, if not by the present in
cumbent, by his immediate predecessor, ir,
whose “footsteps’ .ie is endeavoring to tread.
We expect to encounter many perils, ma
ny adverse winds ; yet aided by the strong
breath of public, favor and support, the trade
winds of our world must wait us clear of our
troubles —we dare raise our anchor, unfurl
our sheets, and venture boldly upon our new
snd untried course. What shoals and quick
aands, what rocks and hidden perils await us
“alas, we know not!” Lit us but clear the
harbor and get fairly “under way,” then we
will fear nothing. Nor is this the vain boast
made when danger is yet io the distance.
It is our firm determination, made after se
rious thought, and weighing well the diffi
culties we are to meet with.
The Chronicle will be issued as early as
the necessary materials can be obtained
from New York, which will be in Decem
ber or early in January next. It will be
printed on a large imperial sheet, contain
ing twenty-four columns, with entire new
type, and will not be surpassed io beauty by
any paper in the Southern country.
JACK HARDMAN,
RICHARD RUE MOONEY.
TERMS. —Three Dollars per annum.
payable invariably in advance.
lrwinfon ( A!a. 6<t. 10, 1839.
ms;? aa* aaaik
.1 Teacher Wanted.
ONE who can come well recommended
as a good English Teacher, of sober,
and industrious habits can meet with em
ployment, and liberal wages, by applying to
either of the subscribers on llannahatcliee.
Stewart county, above Florence.
JAMES PACE.
\VM. HILLIARD,
FIELDING SHARP,
JNO. FIZGERALD.
Jan. 7. 1840. 3t 39
_ PROSPECTUS "
OF THE
SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER.
riGHIS is a monthly Magazine, devoted
X chiefly to Literature, but occasion
ally finding room also for articles tlm fall
within the scope of Science ; and not pro
essing an entire disdain of tasteful selections,
though its matter has been, as it will con- '
tinue to be, in the main, original.
Party Politics, and controversial Theol
o.o’i, as’ ftr a* possible, are jealously exclu
ded. They are sometimes so blended with
discussions in literature or in moral sci
ence, otherwise unobjectionable, as to gain
admittance for the sake of the more valu
able matter to which they adhere: bu*
whenever that happens they are incidental,
nnlv. not primary. They are dross, tolera
ted only because it cannot well be severed
from the sterliug ore wherewith it is incor
porate i.
Reviews and Critical Notices, occu
pv their due space in the work : and it is the
Editor's aim that they should have a three
fold tendency—to convey, in a condensed
form, such valuable truths or interesting in
cidents as are embodied in the works re
viewed, —to direct the readers attention to
books that deserve to be read—and to warn
him against wasting time and money upon
that large number, which merit only to be
burned. In this age of publications that by
their variety and multitude, distract and o
verwhelinn every undiscriminating student,
impartial criticism, governed by the views
just inwtitioned, is one of the most inesti
mable and indispensable ofauxiliaries to him
who does wish to discriminate.
Essays and Tales, having in view utility
or amusement, or both; Historical sket
ches —and Reminisences of events too min
ute for History, yet elucidating it, and
lieiglitning its interest—may be regarded
as forini ,g tlm staple of the work. And
of indigenous Poetry, enough is publish
ed—sometimes of no mean strain—to man
ifest and to cultivate the growing poetical
taste and talents of our country.
The times appear, for several reasons, to
demand such a work—and not one alone,
but tnanyt The public mind is feverish
and irritated still, from recent political
. iiic soft, a su isive influence of Lit
erature is needed, to allay that fever, anti
1 •’ ’* ' •••tation. V r ice and folly are
rioting aiiro id :—They should be driven by
indie ant rebuke, or lashed by ridicule, in
to tiieii u.n.rg haunts. Ignorance lords it
over an Immense proportion of our peo
pic:—Every spring should be set in motion,
to arouse the enlightened, and to increase
flimr number; so that the great enemy of
popular government may no longer brood,
like portentous cloud, over the destinies
of our coil ;try. And to accomplish all
these ends, what more powerful agent rau
be employed, than a periodical on the plan
of the Messenger; if that plan be but car
ried out in practice ?
The South peculiarly requires Such an
agent. In all the Union, south ofYVashiug
ton, there are but two Literary periodicals!
Northward of that city, there tire probably
at least twenty-five or thirty ! Is this con
trast justified by the wealth, the leisure,
the native talent, or the actual literary taste
of the Southern people, compared with
those of the Northern ? No: for in wealth,
t dents and taste, we may justly claim, at
least, an equality with onr brethren md a
domestic institution exclusively onr own,
beyond all doubt, atfords us, if we choose,
twice the leisure for reading and writing
which they enjoy.
It was from a deep sense of this local want
that the word Southern was engrafted on
fl.'.s oer'od! : and not with any,design to
nourish local prejudices, orto advocate sup
pose I local inte:csfs. Far from any such
thought, it is the Editor’s fervent wish, to
S p,, f y.,> North and South bound endearing
ly forever, in the silken bands of
mutual kindness aud allection. tnr from
ine.hinti!! r '-ostility to the north, he has al
ready drawn, and he hopes hereafter to
draw, much of his choicest matter thence;
a;d happy indeed will. he deem himself,
should his pages, by making each region
know the other better contribute in any es
sential degree to dispel the lowering clouds
that now threaten the peace of both, and
to brighten and strengthen the sacred ties
of fraternal love.
The Southern Literary Messenger has
now been inexistence four years—the pre
sent No commencing the fifth volume.
How far it has acted out the ideas here ut
tered, is not for the Editor to say; lie be
lieves, however, that it lallsnot furtucr snort
of them, than human weakness usually
makes Practice fill short of Theory.
CONDITIONS.
1. The Southern Literary Messenger is
published in monthly numbers, of (54 large
supei royal octavo pages each, on the best of
paper, and neatly covered, at -«>s a year
payable in advance.
2. Or five new subscribers, by sending
theii names anil S2O at one time to the edi
tor, will receive their copies for one year,
for that sum, or at $4 for each.
3. The risk of loss of payments for sub
scriptions, which have been properly com
mitted to the mail, or to the hands of a post
master, is assumed by the editor
4. ]f a subscription is not directed to be
discontinued before the first number of the
next volume has been published, it will be
taken as a continuance Jor another year.
Subscriptions must commence with the be
ginning of the volume, and will not be ta
ken for less than a year's publication.
5. The mutual obligations of the publish
er and subscriber, for the year, are fully in
curred as soon as the first number i>f the
volume is issued : and after that time, no
discontinuance of a subscription will be
permitted. Nor will a subscription be dis
continued for any earlier notice, while any
thing thereon remains due, unless at the
option of the Editor.
Richmond, Virginia.
SOUTHER!*.
LADIES, BOOK.
edited by.
BY P. C. PENDLETON &GEOR3E F. PIERCE.
To the Ladies of Georgia and to the South
uenerally, the following plan is most re
speetjutty submitted■ It is hoped that it
trill receive thiir serious attention, and
meet their approbation, since it is for their
especial benefit that the work ispritjected.
PROSPECTUS.
In submitting the following plan, wc
would first call the attention of the Ladies,
and all those who feel interested (and who
are tin e that do not ?) in the welfare and
improvement of the female sex, to the pre
sent/utidition ofthe Southern Press. Near
ly ail the publications which issue from
it are engaged in its political discus-,
s'ous, and their columns teem with accusa
tions, denials, abuse, and every oilier lorio
of wordy warfare—carried on in language,
frequently unfit for “ears polite," and seldom
suited to the delicacy and gentleness which
belong so peculiarly to the Female charac
ter.
Os the few literary papers published South
of the Potomac, there is notone exclusive
ly dedicated to the LADIES! AVe have
felt this as a want which ought to be sup
plied ; and we propose to make an effort to
do so, confident that our endeavors will be
crowned with success, if we can only secure
the hearty co-operation of those lor whose
wellare we are about to labor—The Ladies
ol the South. And wc expect, further, that
every intelligent mind among the other sex,
will view with approbation, and aid in sus
taining. an enterprise designed to improve
the minds of those, without whose cheering
smiles and soothing companionship, hie
would be dreary and this fair world a desert.
We wish also to afford to the Ladies a
field for t'ie exercise of their ow n talents,
and for the (ievelopcnieiit of the resources of
their minds. The list of authors for some
years past, have frequently unruled the names
ol Females whose glorious success has shed
an additional radiance on the name ol “Wo
>i\N.'’ t'he “lords of creation” have bccu
forced to acknowledge that tiie Female mind
is, by no means, detlicient in capacity and
intellectual endowments, whilst, at the same
time, it is possessed of superior delicacy and
tact. Long was Woman's mind held in
thraldom, long were her powers underrated,
and forced to ten ain inactive or unexcrcised
by the force of conventional arrangements ;
but her chains areJir„ken, and her liberty
has been proclaimed. The article of Mos
lem laith, that “Women have no souls,” no
longer obtains among us. Let the Ladies
now assert their own privileges, and we of
fer them, in our proposed work, a medium
for the expression of their own views and
sentiments, on all that appertains, in any de
gree, to the welfare and improvement ot their
sex.
In offering the plan of a SOUTHERN
LADIES, BOOK, we do not intend that it
shall be precisely similar to a work ol like
name, at the North. We leave to our Nor
thern cotemporary pictorial representations
of fashion and dress, for the embellishment
“I their person ; be it ours to provide a garb
of purity, elegance, refinement and grace’, for
the adornment of the mind. •
All that may contribute to form the heart,
invigorate the mind, purify the affections,
and refine the manners, shall be our especi
al care, that our work maybe a useful aid
io the young, and fait, and beautiful, in pre
paring themselves for the discharge of the
noble and arduous duties which devolve on
Woman, in her varied capacity of Daughter,
Wife Sc. Mother, And we icpeai that in the
accomplishment of this high enterp ise, we
confidently expect the aid and support ol en
lightened and judicious of both sexes. Ar
rangements lor regular aid will be made
with several Ladies, whose productions have
already gained them high fa-oein the litera
ry world—-and several gentlemen of distin
guished attainments have already been se
cured as contributors, from whom scientif
ic tracts, with notes, and observations on
the arts, may be expected. This depart
ment of the work will receive marked atli n
tion. In short, nothing will be omitted
which tnay tend (ogive the publication such
character, as will render it worthy the atten
tion of the learned, and those to whom it
is dedicated— - 'lhe Ladies of the South and
West. It only remains to obtain the requis
ite number of subscribers—say two thou
sand -and if the Ladies will smile upon,
and aid our elfortg, that number will not
long be wanting. Let them urge their Fath
ers, llu*band, Brothers, and Friends, and
it is soon done.
(C/ 6 * The work will contain sixty-four roy
al octavo pages, stitched in a neat colored
cover, and will appear monthly. Terms*.
Five dollars per annum payable on the del'\ B .
ery of the first number.
It is highly important to sta'te, that
all the the subscribers names whir’,, ,j,ay be
obtained, should be forwarded !• v t be Ist of
December next. Agents m'.'.’i please bear
this in mind.
07* Tt,e Allowing ar' ; some of tiie con
tributors to the work :
A. Church. D. D., Pres't of'Franklin
College Ga.
Professor .1. P. Waddell, Franklin College,
lion. A. B. Lougstrect, l’res’t of Emory
College.
Dr. A. Means, Prof Phys, Science, Eir.orv
College.
Rev. I. A. Few, Ex Pres't of Emory Col
lege.
Rev. G. 11. Round, Principal ofthe Geor
gia Conference and Mannal Labor School.
Rev. Jesse Mercer, Washington Georgia
! Rev. AY. [I. Stokes, Washington, Georgia.
; I lon. ». Andrews, Washington, Georgia.
Col. J. H. Lumpkin Lexington, Georgia.
Rev. E. L. Wittich. Madison Georgia.
Hon. R. M. Charlton, Savannah Georgia.
A. 11. Chappell, Esq. Macon Georgia.
Hon. E. Nisbit, Macon Georgia.
We shall be glad to exchange with those
Southern and Southwestern papers who will
publish our Prospectus.
Macon, Georgia, November 15t,1833.
Florence Female Academy.
THE school will commence on the first
Monday in January under the care of
I Miss Margaret J. Harvev and Mrs. Taslor.
Dec. ?Bth im
a? ® a
Ftoni the Southern Literary Messenger.
“THE INTEMPERATE.
"Pray, Mr. Draindrinker, bow do you do !
Wiiat in perdition's the mailer with you!
How did you come by that bruis« ou the
hand!
Why are your eyes so infernally red.
Why do you mutter that iu infidel hymu!
Why do you tremble in every limb !
Who has done this—let the reason be shown.
And let the ofleuder be pelted with stone!
And the Drauidriuker said, if you listen to
me
Y'ou shall hear what you hear, and shall see
what you see.
“1 had a father—the grave is his bed :
1 had a mother—she sleeps with the dead :
Freely 1 wept when they left me alone—
But 1 shed all my tears on their grave atid
their stone:
I planted a willow—l planted a yew—
And 1 left them to sleep (ill the last trumpet
blew !
“Fortune was mine, and I mounted her car:
Pleasure from virtue had beckoned me far :
Onward 1 went, like all avalanche down,
And the sunshine of fortune was changed to
a I.own.
“Fortune was gone, and I took to mv side
A young, and a lovely, and beautiful bride !
Llcr 1 entreated with coldness and scorn,
Tarrying back till the break of the morn ;
•Slighting Lier kindness, and mocking her
fears—-
Casting a blight on her tenderest years;
Sad and neglected and weary I left her—
Sorrow :|ud care of her reason bereft her—
Till, like a star, when it falls from its pride,
She sunk ou the bosom of misery, and died !
*1 had a child, and it grew like a vine---
Fair as the rose ol Damascus, was mine;
Fair---and 1 watched o'er her innocent
youth,
As an angel from heaven would watch ove?
truth.
She grew like lier mother, iu feature and
form-
Her blue eye was languid, her check was
too warm;
Seventeen summers had shone on her brow -
The seventeenth winter beheld her laid low !
Yonder they sleep iu their graves, side by
side,
A father—a mother—a daughter—a bride !
“When they had left me I stood here alone:.'
None of my race or my kindred were known -
Friends ait forsaken, aud hope all departed—
Sad and despairing, and desolate-hearted—-
Feeling no kindness lor auligt hu
man—
Hated by man, and detested by woman—
Bankrupt in lortutie and ruiueti in name—
Onward l kept iu the pathway of shame!
Aud iill this hour, since m, fallicr went
down,
My blow has but known a continual frown
“Go to yoi t children, and tell them the tale !
Tell them his cheek, too, was l.vidly pale;
Tell them his eye was all bloodshed aud
cold :
Tell them his purse was a stranger to gold :
Tell them lie passed through the world they
are in,
The victim of sorrow and misery and sin :
Tell them when life’s shameful conflicts
were past,
in horror and anguish he perished at last
D ©ISA.
TilE I’A LACE OF MOXIGaNA
The palace of Morgafla was vast aiie*
beautiful, with many hails and gallerie* n \
marble, jet, crystal, aud lapis lazuli: cu; ._
nices of gay caiors, mosaic piivetncT>' s ’
tinuaus paintings of the most tar c p u ’j (
besques appeared on all sides, r n j
the florid windows which m , !jat de | icio^s
climate needed no glass to cioge (h was
seen the prospect ot e , an(J , ,
gardens. 1 hose wrr, 0 , :u , cienl , ree /
green turfs, and ►. edjtf c f red flowers ; and
were divided bv lwirble terrac „ , rom lhe
wooded walks aromul. Many bright foun
t.mis pi-.ijci vneir diamond arches againlst
the dun. 4.11 ths birds of fairy-land flitted
across t j- ic avenueg or rested iu the foilage.
A,il • beautiful statues, and pieces of fantastic
&r ulpture were placed here and there in
those pleasant erouods, or grew like alabas
ter lillies from unknown seeds beneath. Iu
sight of these fair things many colonnades
aud domes rose amid ihe masses of foliage,
lor the assembling or repose of tiie happy
inhabitanis.
There, at a certain season whi ehea /g
historians have generally omitted to speak
of, were a party of young men and damsels.
They spent their time in singing to each
other, in gathering and braiding flowers, in
sports and dancing, or in enjoy ing beneath
the shade their light and gay repasts. Their
life was fit for springtime, full of courtesy
and honor; and all evils was as far from the
thought of those youths and ti dies as was
the appearance of aught foul or unpleasing
from the abode in which they dwelt. Soma
of them were generally together, and of
these no doubt one clung to another more
than to the rest; and there might you have
seen the soft sweet feeling of mutual love
creeping into many hearts. Others were
content to pass the hours more carelessly,
conversing with all, or alternately with dif
ferent persons; and taking almost as much
pleasure from observing the signs of afiec-
Tlon in those around them, as those whom
iliev laughed at fVi’imi in their own feelings.
Among those whose regards and gentleness
extended to all, and did not fix on any one in
particular. was the young and beautiful
Lady Viola. Sometimes, when a band of
her friends were sitting in the dreamy noon
tide shadow, or wandering slowly undi r tlm
twilight, she would spring among them out
of a thicket with her wild and airv dance,
like a windtossed moonbeam, scatter among
them a handful of orange flowers, and tlnn
start off wgaip, too lighriy for any frkrt to
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follow; »nd from some tangled depth of
1 aves. on the height of a rockj covned
with ..aii boughs, hci Voice would be heard
in tree and solitary song. She was wiity,
and merry, and courteous, and her word*
ai.d her capricious presence were pleasanter
to all than the beauty of any of her com
panions. 15 ut she gave equal looks to man
and woman. Many hearts were entanghd
in the meshes ot her brown hair; but ou
none had she ever bestowed a lock of it.
Among the noble and generous jouilm
assembled in Morgana s palace, was one
less cheerful than the rest, w hom the others,
therefore sotn t met called tb* solitary;
sometimes trom his power* of song, the Min
strel; and sometimes agaiu trom tl estrange
tales he told, and the feats he was said to
have| performed, the Magician. Ho
often wandered in the woods, wldle the rest
were sporting in the colonnades of the pal
ace, or gathering fair nosegays in tl e gar
dens. Aud while they sat mound a foun
tain. delighting themselves with song, ar.d
jest, and tale, he would be seen for a few
moments crossing some dark avenue, aid
apparently lost in thought. Viola was th*
lady whom he chiefly sought to converse
with. But her rtpfie* to him were gen
erally light and mocking; and it was sel
dom that she would remain near him, or,
indeed, near any one, fur more than an in
stant. Ukce only it was noticed that at
night, when the st.rs were shining with
peculiar beauty, and the lordly planet Ju
piter seemed to rule the sky, her voice was
heard in long-continued and exulting song
from the sum nit of a wood cliff, aud when
it ceased, a pipe, known as the Magician's,
answered faintly from the dark river-bed be
low ; and when it had sounded a few notes,
appeared to re awaken Viola’s melody.
One afternoon the whole party were as
sembled under a huge horse-chestnut, cov
ered with lan like Isaves and spring flowers.
Near them was a Inrue and finely-sl.aped
Vase ol Alabaster, adorned with exquisite
sculpture of Nynipiisand Bacchanals. The
Lady Viola was peculiarly fond of it, and
took care to crown it daily with the sweetest
and brightest flowers. The different pnf
ies moved tow; rds the Vale from maty
sides of th* garden, gliding over the soft
tuft and the smooth marble of the terraces
and with their various garn * nts glancing
under the evening sun through the openings
of the thick foliage. Viola came bearing
her hand some mountain heath which she
newly called, and which she now added to
the garland of the vase. The others gath
ered round lier, and one said, while looking
at the sculptured figures, “1 wish I could
make them move ami dance."
“Such things have been done,” said
another.
“I wonder,” exclaimed a third, “could
our friend the Magician accomplish such a
leat ?”
“Oh!” cried several voices, “I wi h ha
were here ; I w ould try.'’
“I wish he were!” said Viola, in a low
voice; and immediately the leaves of the
neighboring thicket rustled, and the Mi
girian stood before them.
He seemed not thirty years of age. Hie
black dress was laced with gold ; a crin sou
cloak hung from his shoulders;
his high forehead and large bltck
eyes were shaded by abroad cap of the same
color, from under which his long raven hair
tel I over his shoulders, and gave him a wiz
znrd look, at which it might almost have
been fancied, from the expression of hi 9
face, that he himself was quietly smiling
lle held in his hand a pipe ol ivory, wrought
in imitation of a reed; and from it he was
accustomed to draw sucli so unds as encLau
led and filled with sad de’fighi the, guests of
the invisible Morgana,
“You wished me ’ u ere 1” he said, io Viola
“Oil!” she rep'i od , “y ou most have quick
ears. I
of the garth „/>
“Your wish,” he said, “expressed in a
fainter whisker, would have brbnght me
horn the o'.ner end ol the earth.”
vVlu’,o they thus spake, n **t bf those
near them sal down on trie grass, or on the
curved and inossy-cushioned benches ; and
lie said to Viola,---“But will you nut sit,
while 1 lie at your feet and hear your com
mands ?”
She was*in an unusually compliant mo'od,
for she sat down at his desire. He placed
himself as he had proposed, and addressed
her again ;—“Now, lady, how can I pleas
ure you ?”
“Thus,” she surd ; “wc were all wishing
you here, to make tiie figures on this Varu
move, os it endowed’wiih life ?”
“Is that all ] I could teach a child to do
that ” .
He placed his instrument to his lips, au l
began to play a tuue which none of them
had ever heard before. It soon grew louder,
mid at cash return of the strain some fast
and wilder movement was added to it. All
eyes were fixed on the Vase, till, from the
very intentness ol their looks, and the strong
thrilling ot the music, which they lett as if
it shook the earth, they hard>y knew whether
thfc mariile remained immovable, or even
whemer they themselves were not whirled
around it. But aftt r some minutes, all
were satisfied that the figures actually gli
ded on; the Nymphs and Satyrs wove their
aims together hi the dance, and shook their
thyrsuses and garlands; and w bile the
music sank, so as to he almost inaudible, tlio
shapes completed their ciicle, and were
restored to their former places and attitudes.
“Wondrous!’’ said sll present; “he is
indeed a magitian.”
“This,” he replied, “is little. Jt is but
to have learned an ohs forgotten tuue, which
men of late years seem to have thought'teo
good for them, and so have left it Io the in
visible po« ers ”
Viola said nothing, but he ventured to
look at her, aud the slight softening *f the
eye, and ti e faint flush upon her cheek,
overpaid him for a thousand incantations.
Soon she exclaimed, laughingly,- -“If this
be so Ittlle, could you not show us some
achievi merit of your art which you consider
really worthy of you?’*
“Willingly,” replud h« ; and drew n
j single peculiar Bote from lii« instrument.
He then begged her to touch the ground
beside him with* sprig of flowered myr'W.
which she held in her hand, fit sfftc,
a fountain rose fromfthe earth, wnfkformrd it
crystal dome above th* Mag'*iart, diMdlqft
him from Viola, ’ftbrough its dafalftfe,
colors and ewitt motion hi* fiy m *&tiWTaft|'
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