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The TVe’sto’ii JFerald.
By 15 HOL., Jr. &. W- E. JON IKS.
VOL. I.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
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months after the receipt of the first number, or four dol
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sixty days previous to the day of sale.
The sale of personal Property, in like manner, must be
published forty days previous to the day of sale.
Notice to debtors and creditors of an estate must be
published forty bays.
Notice that Application will be made to the Court of
Ordinary for Leave to sell Land or Negroes,must be i>uj|
jished FOUR MONTHS.
Notice that Application will be made for Letters <>l.Ml-y
ministration, must be published thirty days and .or ,
i .otters of ' ux months.
A. B.& 5
CONTINUE to practice Law in Copa.t net ship. and
/ may be addressed or consulted on professional bu
siness.either at Auraria or Dahluhnega, Lumpkin county.
Feb. 14. —43 —ts I
WI
Attorney at Law.
H'S removed to Dahlohnetra, the county Site of
umpkin county, and will attend the Superior
Courts 11 this and lhe neighboring counties.
Jan. 31.—41—ts __ I
NO ICE.
lIE Copartnership heretofore existing between the |
B imdeisicned in the practice of Law. is this day dis
solved by mutual consent. AH business which has been
.il rusted* to their care, will rccievc their joint attention. •
dLusicuioim.. e > iR, WALKER.
LI, B.SIIAW.
Auraxia, Feb. 14, —43--3 t
GEORGIA, LUMPKIN COUNTY.
WHEREAS Harvey Small, and Susannah E.
Snow, appliy to me for Lefiers of Administration ,
on the Estate of Morgan H. late of sa:d county
dC ThS are therefore admonish all and singu
1 -il .ki 1 o of said deceased to be and
to
r kind till- 71i»
v
■k L
SAL E?
-a'WTILL be sold on the first Tuesday in May next, at
$ V the Court I louse in Gainesville, Hall e-.unty,
two Girls, named Grace and Charlotte, about 1 1,
and 12 years of age, th-’ property of Pinlip Johnson, late
of said county d.vcused. Terms made known on the
day of sale. THOMAS M .J( >1 INSON.
I.EVI PHILIPS.
/ BARTON L< tVELESS.
ISAAC LE< >N \RD.
Heirs of P. Johnson deed, j
I’. b, 14.—42- -ids |
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VALUABLE LANDS FOR SALL.
No. Dis. Sec.
1 | ? Lumpkin.
683 5 1 5
900 1 2 j
320 16 2 I
581 IB 2 I
i •) i | J) I i i
** > COUIA
]23 19 2 I
618 2 3 I
1023 17 2
Fraction & Montgomery’s j
Ferry.
(;32 3 2 J- Cheiol.ee.
1061 17 3 }• Cass.
744 19 3 j Paulding.
1085 21 3 S
243 10 3 ? Murray.
203 6 4 5
The above mentioned Lots arc principally valuable for
«oil, and will be sold on accommodating terms. Persons
desirous of purchasing, will Ir v.- an opportunity <4 doi >g
so by applying to the undersigned at Amana, or while |
he is out attending the Con ts in the several counties of j
the Cherokee Circuit, duringthe present riding.
WILLIA.IJ E. v ALKER.
Feb. 14.—43. 2t. ‘
C FOR SALE.
further particulars enquire at this oiiicc.
Feb. 14.—43—3 L
l
SA tVI IdL J . BF3 t• BK I \
Bullion and Exr’tattgc O2icc,
31 HV3LL STREET,
NEVV-A ORK.
PURCHASES Gold in Bar or Dusk, at the highest
i.remmm. Gold can be as correctly assayed in
this citv, as at the .Mint. Cannesten sent to the above
..llice will meet with the greatestdespatcb, an I the pro
ceeds’paid bv draftat sight. 1-1 percent Commission.
Nov. 16.—32—w6m
NOTICE.
A MAN expcrenccd tn the Mining business «ho can
ir ivc the best references for his charcter and abil
ities .wishes to get employment in a niinc.vein or depolit.
Enquire at this Office.
August,lll0 —13 —ts.
ftold Dots for Sale in Cherokee,
No. 257, 2nd District, Ist Section,
No. 579. 3rd District, 4th Section. For further
information, address A. B. GREENE,
Novi 9.—3l—tf Augusta, Georgia .
NEGROES WANTED.
TT IBERAL prices will be given for Negroes. Apply
0 Jat this office.
Nov. 23. —33 —ts
AURARIA, UUMP?4UV UOUI¥T¥ 9 GEORGIA FEB-itUAR a 21, iScM.
..•dieriff’s ales ior Marc!: in
FORSYTH COUNTY.
Lot. Dis. Sec, Property of To Satisfy.
1414 14 1 John Bramblet, Pleasant Hulsey,
FLOYD COUNTY.
205 23 3 J. M. Henry, et al W. L. Campbell.
67 16 4 John Ryan, David Cooper,
303 5 4 Jesse Roberts,
191 23 3 Alsa Light J. W. Spencer,
CASS COUNTA r .
592 17 3 Johnson Benes, J. Hollingsworth,
218 16 3 Abner Cherry F. Flournoy,
1050 17 3 Thomas BridgmaiqF. D CumrningM,
869 21 2 harlesCoupee, W.C. .Clark,
20 16 3 Leonard Bissell, JohnChappel,
Feb. 14.—43
*yui i ■■uimemiMßi i i v»
OF THE
WESTERN HERALD,;
Published at fluvaria, Lumphin Comity Ga.,
BY HOLT & JONES.
This Gazet.te having been transferred by purchase to
, the undersigned, will in future be conducted by them
i conjointly as EditorsandProprietors. The reasons which
■have impelled them to an undertakingat once so laborious
' OThtaxsoonsible, as the conduct of a public Journal, in
' coimeclron with their professional avocations.may be read
intheprcs.nl lowering aspect of the political horizon,
produced by the fearful prevalence of the doctrines ofthe
Presidents ill-starred Proclamation —doctrines at war
with the genius and spirit of our Government—in their
nature, foreign to its theory —in their tendency, destruc
tive toils character as a confederated republic, by over
! turningthe rights and sovereignty of the states which
I compose it, and in their final end and effect, baleful to the
! liberties ofthe People.
To contribute our feeble aid in the great work ot pro
ducing a conformity in the practices of the Federal (iov
ernment, to its true and original theory—in restraining
its action within its original, and well defined Consti
: tutional limits; in one word, to dethrone the misrule of
I revived Federalism, and to restore the supremacy of the
I rejected Republicanism of’9B—to build up the true and
■ genuine State Rights doctrine in its primitive purity,
j strength and beauty, untrammelled with the conditions,
I restrictions, limitations and refinements ofthe political
I weat er-eocks of the present day —these may be num
bered amongthe objects,to the accomplishment of which,
. our humble exertions shall be dev.,ted, with a zeal and
! we trust.) a sincerity not unbecoming their importance,
j Nurtured and brought up as we have been, in the
admoniton ofthe Republican State Rights doctrine—in
a contest in which their preservation is sought on the
one hand by the lovers of Constitutional Liberty, and
threatened on the otner by the renewed assaults of re-ani
mated Federalism,it may be easily conjectured on which
side we are to be found. We aspire to belong to the
i Republican State Rights Partv, professing such princi
ples as sustained '.he Fathers oi that faith in ’9Band ’99
as bore that party in Georgia triumphant, through the
political conflicts of’2s and 26, and to which it has not
proved recreant in ’32 and ’33. We claim to be disciples
ofthe School of Jefferson, as taught in the Kentucky
and Virginia Resolutions. But professions of republic-,
apism have become — u —
Ttlalm toThuT tillej from the Vnion Democratic flejnib
lican party ofGeorgia, up to the great ATiftomd Republi
can pa.ty of the t nion, and back to the remnant of the
party which rejoiced in the subsequent election of a Se
dition law Judge, as the triumph ofthe Democratic Re
publican party of New England ! Equally vague is
the pretence to belong to the State Rights Party,
since many of those who profess to be Stale Rights
dherents, ,'eny to tin States all oilier rights, but those
of remonstrance and submission. Still more uncertain
is the pfofesskin of belonging to the Jeflersonian
School,since many who pretend to be followers of that
Pat i.it, publish to the world, the preposterous, the
humiliating notion, that the labours of his whole life
were intended to prove that the States have only the
right of petitioning for a redress of grievances—of
I monstrating against unconstitutional Federal Legis
j lation, and finally “ whenall other remedies fail” of
protesting 1 ! 1 To prove that our professions
,ui md of this character, kt the columns of the Herald
be our witness.
The ears of, lie people have of late been drummed al
most to deafmss with the continued and popular cry of
Union ! Union ! ! Union !! 1 We too profess, (not
emptily) to love and venerate’the Union, and to be as
highly sensible of its incalculable value and importance,
as those who are most loud and boisterous in then cla
mours. But. we seek to have a Union in truth and in
deed; a Union of Stales in its pristine beauty and sim
plicity; m its original healthful vigour and purity. We
would be spared the pang of viewing our own native
Georgia, in whosebosom we have been cherished; upon
the fruits of whose soil we have been reared; in whose
bountiful institutions, we have been educated; a mere
speck upon the map of a great consolidated empire,
I shipped of her ancient rights, and disrobed of her primeval
i sovereignty, by the agent she had helped Jo create ,• proud
as we are, and as we have reason to be of her name and
flier people - ardent as are our affections for her, soont r
let it be written that “she was, but is no more.” We
would have her as of right she shoulu bo, asoveretgn
member—an integral part of a great confederated Re
public. which shall continue the pride ci the Woiltl —the
; hope of Freedom —whose living prin< ipie shall manifest
’ itself, not in th ■ pomp and splendour of an hnmenscand
I all-coiitrolli central' fiower; but inlhe happiness and
! prosp ' itv of every one, even the least ot its members.
| It shall be our purpose to make the Herald vorthy the
| perusal of all classes of readers—of those who delight in
the pleasures of romance and the “ Music of Poetry”—
ofthose who prefer to pursue the delightful paths ofliis
torie or of scientific research, —oi those whose business it
is to delve in “mother earth,” in pursuit of her glittering
treasures, as well as of those who are connected, either
I through choice or necessity, with the agitating, political
controversies of the day If the increase of patronag.
' which we seek, will justify the measure, the -erald will
! be enlarged so soon as the materials for that purpose, can
be procured.
I The terms of its publication remain unchanged, being
S3OO per annum in advance, or $1 00, at the end oi the
year.
Our press and materials are <>f that desc iption, that
will enable us to execute with neatness and d- spatch all
Job and Advertising business with which we may be fa
vored.
HINES HOLT, Jnn’r.
WILLIAM E. JONES,
i February 7, —42
*lCp* Editors generally will favor us by a few inser
tions of the above
PROr PECTUS,
For publishing a new weekly -Veicspaper at
Auraria Georgia, to be entitled
THE MINERS RECO. DER,
AND
SPY IN THE WEST.
IN the publication of this Paper, the Editor will from
time-lo time, furnish the public with all the informa
tion he may he enabled to procure, in relation to the pio
gr ss of tiie Mines. In addition to which, he will shortly
be furnished with a series of Essays, written by Literary
Gentlemen, whohavn taken a Geological view of this
i t c o ac s, I
country, in which will be sn w i t i complete arrange
ment ofthe diil rent Strata ot earths and rocks, forming
this interesting section ofcountry, and in what kind Gold
is most usually found. The Editor will endeavor at all
times to procure from Mineralogists, literary men, and
practical observers, such informalion, as will .cep up a
constant investigation ofthe various minerals found in
this country.
In the way of Miscellaneous matter he will make the
I best selections in his [tower both of a domestic and Ibr
j eign nature.
As regards the political course of this paper, the Editor
will endeavor to pursue a liberal course, keeping at all
times his columns open to the discussion of political sub
jects, which are or may be of interest to the country.
In relation to bis own political opinions, he considers
them to be such as have been maintained in the Southern
! States, from the adoption ofthe Federal Uonslitution
down to the present time.. He believes that Fed-. ralcn
croacb.ments, should be guarded against With vigilance
and repelled with promptness. Yet nowever in contend
ing for the. Rights of the States, he cannot go to the ex
traordinary and dangerous extent of some of the politi
cians in n -ister Slate; because he believes it woulc. ulti
mately end in the destruction of the Government and all
its Sights.
. His opinions however he considers as nothing more
than tin opinions of any other individual, lie will there
fore endeavor to act the part of a faithful Journalist with
out being subservient to the views of any party leaving
his paper open to the investigation of truth, and all inter
est ing subjects by all.
The first number of this paper will appear in a few
I weeks.
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MILTON H.GATHRIGIIT.
Jan. 51, 1834.
PRoPECTU
OF THE
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Published in Philadelphia.
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I December, 1833, a semi-weekly paper to be called the
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Jan. 25.—40,
I _
PROSPECTS
OF THE
COLUMBUS ENQUIRER,
NEW SERIES’.
By J\l. B. Lamar, ttnd JF. B. Tinsley.
vOM the commencement of the ensuing year, th<
rU Columevs Enquirer will be published by lira
beau B. Lamar and William B. Tinsley in support ofthe
principles of the “.'State Rights party of Georgia,” as a
- iced in the Preamble and Resolutions ofthe Stati
Rights meeting in Milledgeville, November 13, 1833,
which a e already before the public.liscolumns howev- i wii
not be devoted exclusively to politics; such alt ntion
shall be given to Literary and Miscellaneous Selections,
t ’oinmercial and Foreign News, and Gen. Intelligence
as to make it acceptable as possible to every class of rea
ders.
The Enquirer will be printed with entirely new ma
; terials, and on the best paper used in this country, for such
’ publications.
The change of editors and the contemplated improve
ment ofthe paper have been madethe occasion of issuing
a prospectus for increasing its patronage and extending
its circulation.- Those friendly to thecause which it will
advocate are requested to give circulation to this notice,
I in their rcspcctwe counties.
* Terms —i hree Dollars per annum, payable in advance
or Four Dollars if not paid within the year.
I November, 20.
UNIVERSITY OF GE<K
next College Sessitn will commence on the
16th January, 1834. FaredmissionintotheFresh
man Class, a candidate must nave a correct knowledge
j ofCicero’s Orations, Virgil, John and Acts in the Gre< k
Testament, Graeca Minora er Jacob’s Greek Reader,
: English Grammer, and Gcogiaphy, and be well acquoint
-1 cd with Arilbmetic.
c hcrahl of a Go6f; e.> W
j Studies of tiie i/rcs a Class.
Ist. Tenn, to Jv'bt'.. —Livy. Graeca, Majora, Ist
j vol. commenced, and the French Language.
2d Term, from Jan. to Jipril.— Livy, Graeca MajoraMst
vol. and French continued.
Term, Jipril to .dug.—Livy and Graeca Majora, Ist
vol concluded, French continued, and Day’s Algebra,
through Ratio and Proportion.
Studies of the Sophomore Class.
Ist Term, Aug. to Nov. — Horace and Gneca Majora,
2d vol. commenced, Algebra concluded, and three books
of Geometry, (Playfair’s Euclid.)
I 2d Term, Jan. to .dpril.— G reaca M ajora, 2d vol. con
; tinued; Horace and G eometry concluded, and Jamiesons
Rhetoric.
3d Tenn, .Ipril to-dug.— G reaca ' T ajora, 2d Vol. eon
eluded; Modern Languages, Plain Trigonometry, Men
suration, Surveying, Botany, and Tytler’s History.
The present Junior Class have studied in addition to
the above, the first book of Cicero de Oratore, the first
book of Homer’s Iliad, Blairs Lectures, and Olmead’sst
! Mechanic’s in part*
I'hough the classes regularly attend to French during
the Fieshman and Sophomore years, yet it is not made an
.ndispensable requisite for admission into any ofthe clas
hes. Provision is made for those who enter without a
knowledge of French, to study that language, for which
there is no additional charge oftuition.
Those who desire it, will have opportunity of studying
Hebrew, Spanish, German, and Italian without any addi
tional charges.
The rates of tuition are S3S per annum, payable half
yearly in advance.
Board can be obtained in respectable families at from
8 to $lO per month.
By order ofthe Faculty,
WM. Ls MITCHELL, Sec’y.
December 14 —3s—«f •
1118—MWWWBM
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We take the following lines from the New York Mir
ror. They were written, some years since, by a popular
poet, in a lady’s common plaqe book, under the engraved
portrails of Lord and Lady Byron, whence they were ex
tracted for the Mirror. The verses embody a fair history
of that unfortunate couple.
Lincs written after the perusal of numerous essays re
lative to the marriage and separation ofa certain no
ble lord and lady, who, once upon a time, were paired,
not matched.
She said she never would forgive
And yet forgive him—
She vow’d a single life she’d live,
Anri never have him:—
She swon>«tw> auvw- wouLLrepcnt,
And yet repen fed—
By Jove ; she never could consent,
And yet consented!
'A as this well don , or sensible, or witty ?
And yet ’tis woman-like, ah, more’s the pity.
. ell, then, she married him of course they parted
W ithin a twelvemonth from their wedding-day;
She sobbed and sighed— was nearly broken hearted,
And with her babe, went sa 'lv on h< r way.
Ho sought out foreign climes, and wrote and swore
W hole books of nonsense ’bout his child and w ife.
Ami toy'd with pretty women by th< score.
And, not long alter, breathed away his life.
The world, since then, hasstudied rather hard,
4 <> solve th< riddle of this strange event,
Some think the lady wrong’d and some the bard,
And some in tears have o’er their story bent:
\ et all agree, ’tis verv, very odd
That man and wife should cut up such a caper—
But one is resting ’ncath the quiet sod,
The other wasting sil. ntly life’s taper.
Now for the moral of my fretful verse—
i (Unlike the writings of the man I sing
Il has a moral, sensible and terse,
i hough’t nor cash, nor critic’s praies'bring)—
And mark it well- young ladies should not w< d
1 he man whose hand they’ve once refused in scorn-
For, ts I lie parson joins th in, heart and head
ill rue the day that ever they were boro!
FILIAL WORTH REWARDED.
“ My tale is simple and of liumbli birth,
A tribute of res oct real w orth.”
“You are too pan imoniou®, Henry;” said
I Mr. to one ol his clerks, as they were
together in the counting house; “give me leave
to sav that you do not dress sufficiently genteel
to appear as clerk in a fashionable store.”
Henry’s face was suffused with a deep blush,
and in spite of his endeavors to suppress it,
a tear trembled on his manly cheak.
“ Did I not know that your salary was suffi
cient to provide more genteel habiliments,”
continued Mi. D. “I would increase it.”
“My salary is sufficient sir,” replied Henry
in a voice choaked w ith that proud independent--
offeling which poverty had not been a de io
divest him of. Hi. employ er noticed his agi
tation, and i mediately changed the subject.
Mr. D. was a man of immense wealth and
ample benevolence; He was a widower, and
had but oue child, a dSught r, who was tin pride
of his declining years. She was not as beauti
ful as an angel, or as perfect as Venus, but ttie
g odness, iff innocence, the intellig; n< e, of her
mind shone in her « ountciiam e, and you had
but to become -equainted with, to admire and
love her. Fu< h was Caroline Delaney, when
Henry first became an intimate of her lather’s
house. No wonder then th it he soon loved her
with a deep and devoted affection—and, reauer,
had you known him,you would not Lave won
dered that love was soon returned, for their souls
were congenial; they were < ast in virtue’s purest
motiMl -and allliougii th ir tongues never gave
j utterance to what their hearts lei’, y< t the lan
guage of th -ir eyes was too plain to be mistaken.
Henry was the very soul ot honor, and although
he perceived that he was not indifferent to Car
olina , he still felt that he must conquer the pas
sion that glowed in his bosom. “1 must nut
endeavor to win her young and artless heart,”
thought he—“l am pennyless and cannot expect
that her father would ever c' nsf nt to our union
—he has ever treated me with kindness, and I
will not be ungrateful.” Thus he resolved;
and thus he heroically endeavored to subduo
what he considered ill fated passion. Caroline
had many suiters, some who were fully worthy
of her, hut she refused all theirs overtures with
a gei tic but decisive firmness. Her father
wondered at het conduct, yet would not thwart
her inclination.
He was in the decline of life, and wished to
sec her happily settled ere he quited the stage»
of existence. It was not long ere he suspected
that young Henry was the cause of ho indefi'er
ence. to others; the evident pleasure she took in
hearing him praised, the blush that overspread
their cheeks whenever their eyes met, all served
to convince the old gentleman, who had not for
gotten that he was once young himselfi that (hey
felt more than common interest in ecali others
welfare. He forcbore making any reinanks
upon the subject, but was not as much displeas
ed at the supposition as the pennyless Henry
would have imagined.
Henry bad now been a year in his employ.
Mr. D. knew nothing of his family; but his
strict integrity, his irreproachable morals, his'
pleasing manners, all conspired to make hiin»
esteem him highly. He was proud of Henry r
and wished him to appear in dress, as well as in
manners, as respectable to any one. He had
often won feredat th< scantiness of his wardrobe,
for although lie dressed wnh the most scrupul
ous regard to nealness, his clothes were almoyt
threadbare. Mr. . did not think that this pro
ceeded from a niggardly disposition, and be
determined to broach the subject ai d if possible,
ascertain the real cause- this he did in thu
manner we have before related.
Soon after this conversation took place, Mr.
D. left home on business. As he was return
ing through a beautiful little village, he alighted
at thT; door of a cottage and requested a drink.
The mistress, with an case and politeness thai
convinced him that she had not always been th*i
humble cottager, invited him to enter. He ac
cepted the invitation—and here a scene of
poverty and neatness presented itself, such a3
he had never before witnessed. The furniture,
wbiah consisted of nothing more than was ab
solutely necessary, was so exquisitely clean
that il gave charms to poverty ; and cast an air
of comfort on all around. A venerable looking
old man who had not seemed to notice the en
trance of Mr. D. sat lecning on his staff;
clothes were whole, but so patched, that yH.
could scarcely have told which had been fflF
original piece.
said Mr.
aildressuTgAhc mistress ol the house.
*• It is sir.”
“I le seems to Lc quite aged.” isl
“IL- is in his eighty-third year ; Le
vived all Ins children excepting myself.”
“ You have seen better days.”
“ I have ; my husband was wealthy ; but
false friends ruined him ; he endorsed notes to
a groat amount, which stripped us of nearly all
our property, and one misfortuno followed an -
other, until we were reduced to poverty. My
husband did n-rt suivive his losses, and two ci’
children followed him.”
“ Have you any remaining children.”
“ 1 have one and he is my only
Mv health is so feeble that I cannot do much*
and my fath r I c ng blind needs great attention.
My son conceals from my knowledge tiro
amount of Ins sallary ; but I am convinced that
he sends m< nearly all, if not the wholeamourit
of it.”
“ 'Hu n he is oot at home with you.”
“ l\o sir, hr is a clerk for a merchant in
Philadelphia.”
“ < Icrk tor a merchant in Philadelphia I pray
what is ioui son’s name.”
“ Henry U .”
“ Merry !” reiterated M. D. “why lie is
mv ' Icik ; i ’• ft .’.mi at my house not a fert
ni«u r s:n<«.
H- foil > d a succession of inquire*, whieft
vin- . an anxi- tv and solicitude, lhat a moth
• r ■ »>>uld f-> 1 ;to all of which Mr. D. ru»
p’ c ■ ir r peif-ct satisfaction.
“ 1 u kui w our Henry ?” said the old inani
raisin- hi. Lea-i born his staff- “well sir then
von know as wort* v a ludasever lived Godv,;”
bless him. lit will bless him t rI is gondnes.-*
to l-i« p-rr old grandfather,” im added, in a
tremulous voice, while the tears run down Li.»
aged checks.
“lie is a worthy fellow to be ship, snid Mr
D rising and placing a well filled purse in the
hands ot the old man.” “He is a worthy fLL
low, and shall not want friends.”
“ Noble boy” said he as he wns riding !< i - -
urely along ruminating on his interview —“no
ble b< v, he shall not want wealth to enable him
to distribute h ippmess. I believe lie loves my
girl ind if he does he shall have her, and w ith,
all my propelty in the bargain.”
Filled with this project, and determined if
possible to ascertain the true state of their
hearts, he ent -red the breakfast room the next
morning after bis airival home.
“So Henry is about to go to England to try
Lis fortunee,” he carlesslv observed.
“ Henrv about to leave us!” said Caroline
dropping the work she held in her hand; “about
to leave us and going to England !” she added
in a tone which evinced the deepest interest.
“ To b-.- sure—but whrt if he i-, my chill V t
“ Nothing sir, nothing, only I thought wo
diould be rather lonsomc,” she leplicd, turning
a win to hide the tears which she could not sup-
■.
“ Tell me Caro’mo,” said Mr. D. tenderly
embracing h- r, “ tell me uo you love Hecry !
you know I w ish your happiness, my child. I
hr.-, e■ t- catud yr u with kindness, and yo - ..
ISO.