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gulusoit (Mtffkln Journal, Publiskad Every Friday, f:. & cimiSTiAN EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS. * 'j't: H.WS- Strictly In .tdcancc. Three mouth* *1 00 Si* mouths i'i 00 One year it3 00 Hates of »iJ vertlsing t One dollar per square of ten lines for the flr.,t insertion, and Seventy-five Cents per square tor eaoh subsequent insertion, not ex ceeding three. One square three months ? 8 °0 One square six months d‘i 00 One square one year 20 00 Two squares three months 12 00 Two squares six months 18 00 Two squ ires one year 30 00 Fourth of a column three moths SO 00 Fourth of a column six months... ~ 60 00 Half column three moths 46 00 Half column six mouths 70 00 One column three months 70 00 Ou« column six months ,100 00 MAberal Deduction* Made on Contract advertisements. •flillilltllllltlllIt1111111111111111111111111(111111111111111111111*111111 Legal Advertising. Sheriff's Sales, per levy, f2 60 Mortgage Fi Fa Sales per square 6 00 Citations for Letters of Administration, 3 00 “ " guardianship,. S 00 I)i3mision from Apaiiniatration, fi 00 “ “ Guardianship, 4 00 Application for leave to sell land, 0 00 Hales of Land, per square, 6 00 Siles of Perishable Property per squ’r, 3 00 Notices to Debtors and Creditors,.... 3 60 Foreclosure of Mortgage, per square, 2 00 Kstray Notices, thirty days, 4 00 Job Work of every description ere cutedwith neatness and dispatch, at moderate rates. ___________________ SIMMONS & HOYL, attorneys at law, JMWSfKV, - - fSEOtIGI.I. % u. HOTt. jm2s Iy. R. F. SIMMONS. C. B. WOOTEN, .ATTORNEY] AT LAW, *2l y _ DiiwHon, Oa. J. J\ WATCH * ND UE PA IKES JEWELER. Dawson, Qa., . I s prepared to do any work in his line in the very best style. fch»3 ts J. C*. S# SMITH* <xUN SMITH ail'd Machinist, UJtn'SO.r, •• * Georgia. Keplirs all kinds of Gaos, Pistols, Sewing Maniocs, etc., etc. “ ,v ’ W. c. PARKS, attorney at T^axv. Mnrb IT D.l WStKY.G.t. C. W. WARWICK* .‘lilofnry at l.air and Solicitor in Equity. a.TimiPlLL® - - ’*• GI’O., \\T ILL practice inl.ee, 'Sutnter, Terrell v V ami Webs’er. J. E. HIGGINBOTHAM, attorney at law, ■Morgan, Calhoun Cos., Get.* Will practice in all the Courta of the South western aod Palaula Circuits. June 1 DAWSON HOTEL BY WILY JONES mHE Proprietor has neatly fitted up the L Dawsou Hotel, and is prepared to make liis customers satisfied wiili both Care and J.odging Connected with the Hotrt is a “8.1/t tIOOJN,” in which is kept the best li •qaors iu the city. No pains will he spared to pi care. fc22fon PAINTING ! PAINTLNG ! JAS. M.DODWELL, HOUSE Alft> SUGN PAINTER, &« DAWBON, G A_-> * IS prepared to do all work in his line—such as house and Sign painting, graining, pa per hanging,*©., ill the very best style, and on short notice, at reasonable prices, febl-fim. BROWN HOUSE* E. E, BROIYI A SON, Fourth St., Opposite Passenger Depot, Macon, Georgia. FROM the Ist of July tho business of this Honse will be conducted by E. E. Brown * Son, the Senior having associated his son, Wan. F. Brown, in tho management aud in terest of the Hotel. she hea«e contains sixty rooms, which are reserved chiefly for the use of travellers and transient guests. Competent assistants havo ( ten ses cured in every department, and eve r "tention will be paid to ensure comfort to their ,7 ustom ers. Rooms clean aud airy, and the table al\t * vs * u Ppl>ed with the best the country affords, porters attend arrival and •‘■•narturo of all flair.'* 10 convey baggage - . ’■•et passengers av.' ro!a e B ; reel 1,0 **<t eonuw. ju'»2T,tf lOheir quarters. - 1 " STEWAnr. Kuo-r eßovnr, thos. ... <<*• BROWN &STEWAR *, "Ware House and COItJMISMO* KlllßCil ASTS, at Sharp 4 Brown's old stand, «»1 H’SO,r UEOtIG 1.0. Wo are determined to use OUr ntmbsl en deavors to give entire satisfaction to all who may favor us with their patronage i and as far as possible to be to them, in this depart ment, (what we have often felt, and what eve ry planter must feel that he needs) just and erliahle friends. That we may be better ena bled to carry out this design, we have secured at business agent, the well known and reliable Capt. John A. Fulton. “A jutt balance,'’ is oar motto, i/arch 8 1867. W. R. & N. M. THORNTON Practical X>entists, u,i. t# ‘Office in Harden's new building. West Bide, Depoi Street. Deo. 4, i THE DAWSON JOURNAL Yol. 11. poirniv. tun MM I) K.X 7 0 TilS M(/ oIV. Oh Moon ! did yon see, My lover and mo In the valley beneath the sycamore tree? Whatever befell, 0 Moon—don’t tell— Twas nothing amiss, you know very well. 0 Moon 1 yon know, A lting time ago, You left the sky and descended below Os a summer’s night, By your own sweet light, To meet your Endymion on Lutmas height. And theTe, 0 Moon! You gave him a boon, You wouldn’t I’tn sure, have granted at noon, ’Twas nothing amiss, Being only the bliss, Os giving—and takiDg an innocent kiss. Some churlish elf Who wns spying about, Went off and babbled—and so it got out: But for all the gold The sea could hold, 0 J/bon—l wouldn’t havo gone and told. So Mood —don’t toll Os what befell My lover and me io the leafy dellt lie is honest and true, And, remember, too. We only behaved like your lover and you. POLITICAL. I.filer from lion. 11. I’. Perry. To the Editor * of the Columbia Phoenix: The acrion of the rump Congress, the other day, id extra session, ought to con vince every one that the Radical party have no intention of restoring the Union uutil the Southern States are thoroughly Radicalised, and will elect Senators and members of the House of that party.— Kentucky representatives—nine in num ber, and all Democrats—have been de nied their seats in Congress? simply be cause they were not Black Republicans. If the Southern States, under the re construction policy of President John son, had elected Radicals, and given any asntrance of their adhesion to that farty, uo one can suppose their represen t itives would Lave been excluded from Congress In the fall of 1867, one of the lirst things done by Oongress was to purge the Senate, end exclude Demo crats en • ugh from that body to give them a two thirds majority. The question will be for the people of tbe'Southern States to decide, in the coming elections, whether they prefer to remain as they are, or by calling con ventions, adopting negro suffrage and electing Radicals, go back in:o tha Union \Vhat advantage to the South will it bo to increase the Black Republi can majority iu Congress? 11 w can we be benehtted by ptrengtbing the hands cf our oppressors? What inter est cau we possibly have in beiug repre sented in 'Congress by trai ors to the South—men whom we must seem and despise as Judas Iscariots in politics? It is a sad aud melancholy reflection on human nature, to sec men w ho inaugura ted the war, and Were going 4) die in the last ditch, now set king to back iuto the Union, stripped of every principle and right which they vowed to doleud, "with Black Republican collars around their necks. llow disgusting to see base, un principled white men seeking office and posit on by hypocritically pandering to the ignorant, criminal and ruinous pre jud.c.’S aDd aspirations of the negro! I would great’y prefer seeing every office in the State, filled by the honest, intel ligent negroe«, tean by such uupiiuci pled and shameless men. I once said to Bred lent Johnson, in reply to a dispatch-sent me, about Union men being excluded from office under the Provisional Government, that I Lad : made it a rule through life to confide in the poli ic3 of no one who was not mor all} honest and trustworthy iu private life, and that my experience had taught me the fact that a man who had no mor al principle could have no political prin ciple. Hence it is that we sco these who were foremost in secession, whilst secession was in the ascendant and the road of honor and distinction, power and position was open, now fawning at the feet of the oppressor, whilst ty tanny and oppression are all powerful. They care not whom they serve, or what principles they advocate, provided they can prd'- mote their own selfish views. But they would even lave us believe that the groat interests of the country were fore mist in their thoughts. Immediately after it was known that slavery would have to be abolished, I expressed the opinion that it would be wise and prudent to permit negroes, who had acquired a property aud educational qualification, to vote iu all the Southern States. [ thought tnis would be a safe ty-valve for political society. It would gratify and appease the intelligent and most influential of that class, and make them good citizens, instead of being (JiV'prbers of the peace. It would bold * an inducement to all who had any 9u> - ’- or wij?’ to rS C above the disposition \ ni j C yil could rc eommon herd ! - se( j -.. r y f e , r salt from it, as 1 supp- « V to comparatively, would ever in. attain the privilege, and when they u.._' they would always vote with the higher and better educated elans of whites. 1 expressed a similar opinion many years ago, in regard to recapturing fugitive slaves. I thought ii Well for society that when a slave had acquired such a love for freedom as to prompt him to flee to the Northern States, and possess ed intelligence sufficient to make LU escape, he ought not to be brought bark. In this way the bold, daring and reek* less—they who wero most likely to dis turb the publio peat" —would be out of the countrv, and there would bo greater safety for thbjjC 101 l behind. But my opinion thus expressed was denounced by those who are now urg- DAWSON, CiA., FRIDAY, AIHiITST IU, 18(17. ing universal seffrage for the negro, or at least advocating the call of a conven tion, by which universal negro snffrage if to bo established. 1 likewise advoca" ted, at the same time, the piopriety of permitting uegroes to give testimony in all cases in our courts of j istico. This too, was sternly resisted by those who are how willing to confer on (he negro the right of holdingr office, to get back into the “glorious Union, ’* which they once hated and de-pised so cordially. In one of my previous communica tions, I stated that Professor Agassiz has proten conclusively th; t the negro was of an inferior race to that, of the white umn, and had a different origin, in saying this, 1 did not intend to in sinuate, as Borne of the negroes seemed to think 1 did, that God was not their “father,” as well as the white man’s father. They are certainly both crea tures of the same Almighty baud. They are doubtlce, too, equally under the pro tection rs the almighty, and equally dear to Ilim in their respective spheres —spheres in which lie placed them and to which he mado them. The horse and the jackass are bath alike the crea tures of God lie did not create them of the same type, or make them ouo and the tame animal. He gave to one beau ty of form aud symmetry, spirit and flectness; and to the other strength, en durance and other valuable qualities. So he distinguished between the ne gro and white man. To the former he has given a black skin and a wooly head, greater strength and less brain. He has adapted him to labor—given him pores which defy malarias aud f vers. To the other 11a has given a white skin, and a head of hair—less strength and larger brain, adapted to higher thoughts and greater intellectual improvements. But God loves his whole creation equally, and it is to be presumed that he has the same regard f>r the owl that ho has for the eagle, and so with the j ick ass, the white man aud the negro, pro vided, always, that the one is as faithful in the discharge of his mission on earlh as the other. It is by no means a crime or a fault on the part of tbc jackass, that he could Dot rnn as swiftly as the horse. He was not created fir such fieetoess j and so with the negro: ho has not been endowed by God with the same veliimo of brain that the white man has, and he is not to Llame for being unable tro can pete with him in science and knowledge lie is an inferior animal to the white man. God made him such as he is, f r wise purposes, as he mado tbc a~s ir.fi rior to the bone. It is as foolish to think of making poet-q artists, and statesmen out of negroes as it would be to make a race horse or a spirited charg er in battle out of a j tekass. You may give the negro thoright of suffrage and the right to bold office, and make him •; legislator ; and so you may enter the ass for a four mile heat wit the blooded horse, or you may mount him in battle for a charge on the enemy, but bo»b would be equally unwise aud disastrous, for you are attempting to pervert nature and the laws of God. Profeator Agassiz, of Harvard Col lege, Mas-:., the most learned and sci entific nuluraii-t trie world has ever •produced, declares most confidently, after a lile-time of thought and obser vation on the subject, “That the ne gro and the white man were created as specifically cfrff'ere'nt as the owl and ihe eagle. They were designed to fill different places in the system of na ture. Th'tf negro is no more a negro by accident or misfortune than the owl is the kind of bird -he is by acci dent or misfortune. The negro is no more the white man’s brother than the owl is the sister of the eagle, or than the ass is the brother cf -the horse.”. “There are,” says the same great authority, “over vne hundred specific differences between the bona! and nervous system of the white man and the negio. Indeed, their forms are a'ike in no particular. There is not a bone in the negio’s body rela tively of the same shape, size, articu lation, or chemically of the same com position, as that of the white man.— The negroe’s bor es contain a far great er par cent age of calcareous salts than those of the white man. Even the ne gro’s blood is chemically a very differ ent fluid from that which comßes in the veins of the white man. The whole physical organization of the negro dif fers-quite as much from tho while man us it docs from that of the chim panzee—that is, in hi* bones, muscles, nerves and fibres. The chimpanzee has not much further to progress to become a negro than the negro has to become a white man. This fact sci ence inexorably demonstrates.” It is agreed by all scientific men who have turned their attention to this sub ject, that tho capacity, by measure ment, of the skull of the white man is ninety-seven cubic inches, that is, tho average of one thousand or any great ct number of skulls. The negro has sixty six cubic inches; the North Amer ican Indian has six'y-thico cubic inches; tho native Au traliun has fifty six cubic inches. Sir Charles Lyall, than whom there ran bo no higher au thority, says the feet and bands, the arms and legs of tho white man and ittsrro are unlike in measurement.— r, 'he hal'd of tho negro is one-twelfth ad ont'-tsnlh broader than ‘.lie larger an,f C man; his foot is one band of the w,. „„ j th bn>oder eighth longer aud o- . • than the white man’s; his io. • ™ one-tenth shorter, and the sime is i. of the boMkfrom the knoe to the an kle TheWeleton is unlike in the whole in weight and measurement, and unlike in every bone of if. In the most admirable speech of the lion. \V. Mungen, of Ohio, lately de livered in Congress (and to which I uni greatly indebted lor X have said,) it is boldly asserted, on the authority ol scientific men, that the world docs not aflord an instance of a mulatto in tho firth generation. The hybrid race beeoin '8 extinct after tho fourth genera ion, unless they have in termixed with one or tho other of tho original races. .So it is with nil ani mals. Tho mule does not breed at nil. The woif and jackal, tho dog and fox, have produced hybrids, which always become extinct In tho third genera tion. These animals, like tho negro and white man, were regarded, at tho time, as only different varieties of the same species. But experiment shows them to have been a different creation as it does tho orgro mid the white man. I repeat what I have said in a for mer article, that I havo over been tho friend and protector of tho negro through life. This my former slaves will vouch for me. My house servants, eight or ten have never loft me, and are still jiving with mo on the same terms they did whilst slaves. It is be cause I w ish well to tho negro that I am unwilling to see him placed in a false position. Ho is unfit to exercise tho right of suffrage, and will become the dupe and to 1 of base apd design ing men. A war of Tact's w ill" onsite, and the negro, being the w< aker and less intelligent, will be exterminated in such a war. Extinction will be the result of this great boon, bestowed on them fur the sole purpose of strength ening the Radical parly. General Benjamin F. Butler said to me, eight een months ago, that all-the Radical party wished was, to have ‘"impartial suffrage." He said that we might decla r c that no one should vote, unless he was a graduate of the South Carolina College. All that the Radicals then thought of was equality between tho races. But now, they are determined to have the negro vote, in order to raciealize the South. In the negro convention which sat the other day, in Columbia, it was claimed that, in ihe next presidential election, there should be placed on tho Radical ticket, a negro, candidate for President or Vice President. It was contended, too, that the lands should 1 e divided into small farms, so that each head of a family might get a homestead. If the laud owners re fuse this division, then the’r lands should be taxed so heavi y as to force them to part with them There is considerable ingenuity in (his scheme of confiscation. The whites who vote for a conven'ion to avoid con fiscation on iho part of Congress, will find themselves nicely caught by the negroes in convention. As 1 Lave al ready said, they will find that, after sacrificing their honor, the rights of the State and the principles of self-goyern men and constitutional liberty, they have lost their lands into the bargain. Another scheme of the negroes, promul gated in their recent convention, is to have nothing taxed but pr perty. This will release the negroes from all taxes, »s they do not own property. Thhen, tbc property of tho Stato is to be tax and, to establish free schools and colleges all over the State, for the education of their children, without expense to the negroos 1 Again, they declare in con vention, and have made it a part < f their platform, that the old negroes and infirm negroes and paupers, are to be supported by the property of the white men, instead of takiDg care of their own aged parents and pauper kindred. In the twelfth article adopted by this Radical negro convention, they avow openly their putpose of disfranchis ing all who havo served in the Confed erate aaroy, or aided and abetted the war. They arG disposed to take a step, aud a wide one, beyond the Radicals iu Congress. The white Radicals have disfranchised only those who have fill ed public offices ; but the black Radi cals are determined to extend it to all who were in the army, which includes almost the entire population. This will be accomplished in that convention which the white pcope are going to vote for—a convention to disfranebise thc-m --eelves, confiscate their property, and place the State absolutely under the control of the negroes. Was there ev er such folly and madness heard of be foro in-the civilized world ? In sack sloth and ashes they will hav-e to rc-- pent of their stupidity and dishonor. This negro Radical convention fur ther demands a rev si on of our laws and the reorganization of our courts. They, a set of paupers, ignorant and debased, are to govern the S'ate, aud tho white men, who own all the property, are to pay the expenses of the State. They speak of building railroads! Mo doubt a thousand schemes will be concocted for spreading the wbi*e man’s money, sor the benefit ojj the negro, before they proceed to take it from him by force or fraudulent legislation. Horrible, horrible, most horrible, is tho future of our poor Stato and degraded pcoplo. No one soetns to realizo our true situa tion. It is now as it was in tho days of secession. We arc standing like idi iots, on a magazine ol' powder, flouri-h --ing in our hand a fire brand, and laugh ing at the beautiful iiog af libbmit makes in the dark. The explosion will come, must come, sooner or later, and bring with it universal death and destruotion to the people and property of tho State. In Libel is, where there is a nation of negroes, sent from the United States, and where th y havo formed a Govern ment, no white man is'allowed to hold atn-'e, or vo(0 Bt an ? £seSl ‘' ;n for an y sue TuL is wise and proper 9™ they have thought it necessary to make this exclusion for shoir own peaco and prosperity. Have not the wite man the same right to exclude the negro from the right of suffrage, when they know the negroes have a majority in the State, aud will scizo tho government of the State if permitted to vote ? It is idle folly to tell tho people of South Carolina that capital and immi grants will (1 iw into the Stato when reconstructed on the Black Republican platform On tho eon’rarv, ns swn as this negro government is organised, ev ery dollar in foreign capi’al in South Cirulina will be withdrawn, aud not one cent will come here seeking invest ment. Not will any foreigner move here to settle under neg'O rule, and iho confusion and disturbance, which it. will give rise to in the State. Mr. Cal houn predicted, years ago, that if the negro w»s set free, tho Northern peo ple would insist on his right of suf frage, an'l if allowed, the negroes would seize the government, and the white people would havo to leave tho State, lie further said, that the firmer owners would lose all influence over their freed men, whose sympathies and partialities would be for Northern men and vile emmissaries sent here to control them. I think it is pretty generally acknowl edged, oven now, that all control of the negro in the eomiug election, is al ready gone from their former masters. Gen. Hampton and his friends had just as well try to control a heard of wild bufftloerlu the vast prairies of the west as tho negro vote of Colum bia. B F Pkrry, Greknvitt.f, F. C., July 27, 1867 MISCELLANEOUS, lIAfiRIIAG A CONVICT. I had served twenty-five years on -board an East Indiatnan, and for the last ten years hud commanded the Belle, one of the finest crafts tha' ever floated I was an old nt>a dog, and had dwelt so long on salt water that I felt almost a hatred for the land. On the 20th of October, 1821, I re ceived orders to put myself in readi ness to sail for Cayenne. I was to transport seventy five soldiers and a convict 1 had orders to treat Ibis individual well, and the letter I had receive 1 from the Directory enclosed another, with a huge red seal, which 1 was not to open until between 27 and 28° west longitude; that is pist be fore we were üb< ut to truss the line. The letter was a long packet, so v e'l c'osed on every site that it was impossible to catch tho slightest glimpse of Its contents I am not naturally superstitious, but there was something in the look of the letter that I did not altogether like, though I coo'd give r.o reason why. However, I carried it into the cabin, and stuck it under the glass ol a litt’e old shabby English clock which was fastened above my bead. 1 was busy fixin i the letter under the clock, when who should come into rny cabin but the convict and his wife ! This was the first time I had sen either of them, and 1 may say that a more pre possessing couple 1 never m**t. The woman was scarcely more than fifteen and ns handsome as a picture; while the husband was an intelligent, mag nificently formed man, on who e fea tures nature had never written ‘vil - lain.’ llis crime to be plain, was the mis fortune of being a hundred years ahead of bis age. Ho and others had attempted something w hich our gov ernment calltd treason, and which it punished with death. It, therefore occasioned me considerable wonder that he should ho placed under my charge—but more of this afterwards. He had, as I said, his wifo hanging on his arm. Bhe wan'as merry as a bird ; she looked like a turtle dove cooing and nestling beneath his great wing. Before a month had passed over our heads I looked upon them as my own children. Every morning I used to call th tn into my cabin. The young fellow would sit, waiting at my table, that is to say, my chest, which was my bed. He would often help me at my reckocrqg, aud soon learned to do bo'tor than T could. I was amazed at his ability His young wile wouldupon one ol the round stools in my cabin work ng at her nee die. One day we were n;l three sitting in this way when I said : ‘Do you know, my yourg ohes, as it seems ,o me, we make a very pret ty family picture! Mind I don't mean to ask question*, but may be you have not much money to spare, and you are, both of you, as 1 think, too hand some to dig in the burning sun ol Cayenne, like many a poor wretch be fore you. It's a bad inuntry —n bad country, take my word for it. I, who have roughed it through tempos*, wind and sunshine, till I've got the skin of a rhinoceros, might get along there; but you, lam afraid for you r>o il you should chance to have a bit of foolish friendship for your poor o’d captain, I’ll Uli you what I’ll do. I’d get rid of this old brig; she’s not much better than an old tub, after uli; so I’ll settle myself down there with you, if you like. Aon see I have not a living soul in the world to care fur, or that cares for mo. I want relations, I want a home, I want a family. J should like to make my home witn you my pretty'young ones 1 YVLat say yeU They Said nothing at all, but sat looking first at each other, and then -it me, as if they doubted whether they understood what 1 said. At last the little bird threw her at ins around mj’ neck and cried like a baby. “Hut,” said she, sudden’y pausing, you haven’t looked at the letter with tho big reel seal. ‘•Hung it!” I exclaimed, “il had slip |'ed my memory entirely.'* With a cold, dreadful sensation, I IVo- £JS>. went to my chest to see where we were. _I found that we had several days remaining before wo should reach the proper long'tude for opening the letter. Well, thero re stood, all three cf it?, looking up at tho lo'ter as if it could have spoken to us. As it hap pened the snn wag sniffing full upon Iho face of the clock case, and fell up on the great staring red seal of the let ter. I could not help fancying it look ed something liko a Lig monster, tin ogre’s face, grinning from tho middle (>1 tho fire; it looked horrid. “Could not one fancy said I, to make them Hugh, “It’s great big eves were starting out of its head.” “All. my love,” said the wife, “it looks like blood.” “Booh ! Booh !’’ said her husband, taking bar arm under his, “it looks like a lett r ot invitation to a w edding Couie, come, leave the letter alone il it troubles you so. Let's go to our room nnil prepare for bed. Aral off they went They wont upon deck and left tne with that beast of u letter. I remember that I kept looking at if as I smoked my pipe; it seerne, to fi* its great red eye upon mine fascinating like the eye ot a serpen.— It was red, wide, raw staring like the maw of a fierce wolf. I took my great coat and hung it over the clock and letter and went up ou deck to finish my pipe. We were now in the vicinity of Cape do V erde Islands; the Belle was running before a fair wind at the rates of ten in.les an hour. It was a splen did tropical night—the stars largo and shining, tne moon rising above tho hor izon, as large as a sun of silver, the line of ocean parting it and long streams of bare, shimmering fight fall ing waves, which as they broke spar kled like jewels. I sat upon the deck, smoking my pipe, an 1 looking at them. All was still except the footfall ofj tho officer of tne watch, ns ho paced • the deck, gazing as I did, upt n the shadow of the vessel, stealing over the silent wat r. I I vo silence and order—l hate noise and confusion. Tho lights should all have been extinguished before this time, but when 1 looked upon the deck I th light 1 saw a little red line of light beneath my feet At another time 'his would have made me angry, but knowing tt at the ligl't came from the oubiu of my little deports, I deter mined to see what they were nbout. I ha j only to look dow n—l could see into tho cabin from the sky light. T he young girl was upon her knees and was saying her prayers. A lamp swinging from the coiling lighted her room. She bad on a long, white night dress, nnd ler fair, golden hair floated over her shoulders, and almost touch ed two little hare feet which were peep ing from under her white dress, so pr. tty. 1 turned away, but pshaw, said I, lam an old sailor! What, matters it. So 1 stayed. The husband was sitting upon a little trunk, his head resting upon his hands, looking at her as she prayed. She raised her face to heaven, and then 1 saw that her eyes were filled with tears. Hhe looked like a Magda lene. As she rose, he said : “Ah, my sweet Laurctte, as we ap proach America I cannot help being anxious—l do not know why—but 1 to. i that this voyage has beeu the hap piest part of our lives.” “So it seems to me,’ she observed. “I only wish it might last forever.’ Suddenly clasping his l ands in a transport us love and affection, he said: And ye‘, my little angel, I see you cry in your prayers, and then- I cannot stand, for I know what causes it, and then I fear you must repent what you have done.’ ‘Repent, T she said, in a sad, rebuking tone. ‘Repent of having come with you? Do you think because I Lave been yours ouly such a vory rhort’titnc, that I should not love jou? Was I not your wife! How can you be sorry that I should bo with you, to live with you if you live, and to die with you if you aro to die.’ The young man began to sigh, strik ing tic 11 .or imp ientlv with his feet, while be kissed repeatedly the little Land and arm which she was holding out. ‘Ah, Lunette, Lavrotte ! I think if our marriage had only been delavcd five dayp, only five days, tLat then I should have bcon arnsted and transport alone, I cannot lorgivc myself. 1 At this the little one stretched out her round white arms, clasped his head, prcf-ed his forehead, his hair, his eyes, smiling like a sweet cherub, and mur muring all sorts of woman’s fond thiugs. 1 was quite affected, and considered it one of tho prettiest scenes I Lad ever witnessed. ‘And besides, we arc so very rich, too !’ said she bursting rut laughing. ‘Look at rny purse, one g ild louis d’or —all my worldly wealth.’ II" begm to laugh too. ‘A es, my dear, 1 have spent my hist half crown. I givo it to the fellow who carried our trunks on board.’ ‘Ah. poor ! ciied she, ‘what matters it? Nobody so merry as those who have nothing at all; hi r ides, I have two diamond rings that my mother gave me : they are good for something all the world over ; we cau sell them when vou like, and besides, I am sure that the captain meant kindly by us, and I sus pect he knows very well what is in the letter.* 'lt’s a recomendation to the Gover nor of Caycnue.V ‘Perhaps so; who knows?’ ‘lo be sure it is,’ continued the charming little wife. ‘Vou arc so good, I urn sure that ihe Goveramuitbas ban ished you only for a short time—--J kniw they will have no feeling against you.’ It was high time that tho light should bo strickeu out, and now I rap ped on the deck and called to them to do so. They instantly obeyed, and I heard them loughing and chattering like two innocent school fellow*. One 'morniog when I awoke, I was surprised not to feel the slightest mo tion of tho vessel. Hurrying on deck I found that we were becalmed. Lat itude 1° north longitude, between 27 and 28. west. I waited until night, when I descend ed to my cabin and opened the letter, with a dull awful feeling. I held my breath while I broke tho big red seal and rea‘d : 'Uantain Fontainbleua: The con vict Antoine Hiudsclear, stands con victed of high treason against the lie— publio Thy Directory order that he be shot in mtd-oocan, and you are here by instructed to see that these orders aro carried into effect ’ I rend the letter backwards and for wards. I went on deck. They were there, she looked upon the ocean, and be gazed upon her with an expression of unutterable fondness. Catching his eye, 1 signed for him to come into tbo cab in, and bidding her good bye, he came down, bis face all smiles. 1 was bathed in cold sweat; I felt as if deadly sick. I handed him the letter, and be road it, together with the death warrant which was drawn Up in due form, and attached. I gathered voice as he finished. He colored slightly, and bowed. ‘I ask nothing, oaptain,’ he said in the same gentle voioc that always char acterized bis speech ; ‘no man can be ex pcoted to swerve from his duty. I only wish to speak a few words to Laurette, and entreat you take care of her, if she should survive, t hardly think she will.’ ‘All that is fair, my good fellow,* I said. ‘lf you request it, I will carry her back to France, to her family. I will never leave her until she wishes to be rid of mo. But Ido Dot think she will survive it.’ He took my hand and pressed it. ‘Most kind captain, I see you suffer more in this business than f do—but there is no help for it. I trust you will preserve what little property of mioo hi left for her sake, and that you will take caro she gets what her poor old mother may leave her. I put her life—ber honor in your bands. She is’ (and how f ndly low his voice become)‘a del icate little creature, her chest is often < ffoeted. She must be kept warm ; and if she could keep tiietwo diamond rings her mother gave her, I should be glad ; but, of course, if money is Deeded they must go. My poor Laurctt", how pretty she looks.* It was getting too much for me, anl I began to knit my brows. ‘One word is *8 good as a thousand, I said. We understand each other. Go to her.’ I squeezed Lis band ; he looked wist fully at me, and I added : ‘Htay a mo ment, let uic give you a word of advice. ‘Don’t say a word to her; be oasy, that is my business. It shall bo managed in the best manner * ‘Ah !’ said he, ‘I did not understand; much better. Beside, this leave tak ing !’ ‘Yes,’ said I, ‘don’t behave like a child—much better. No leave taking if you can help if, or you arc lost. ‘1 kept my seas. I saw them walk ing arm in-nrm upon the deck, for about half and hour.’ ‘I called the mate to me, and when he had read the letter, I said : ‘Garley, this is bad business—bad business. I put it in your hands. I obey the orderp, but remain in the cab in until i is over.’ ‘How do you wish this thing done 7’ ho asked iu a nonchalent manner. ‘Take him out in a boat—out of sight do it as quickly as possible; don’t say auytbitig of this till the time oorors.’ Garley sat fivo miuutos looking at me without, saying a word. lie was a strange follow. I didn’t know what to make cf him. lie then went out of tho cabin without saying a word. Night came at last. ‘Man a beat j go a quarter of a mile; be quick. To obey a slip of paper !f. r it was bat a slip of paper after all. Something in the very air must have urged me cn» I saw the young man kneel d°wn be fore bis Laurcttc ; kiss her knees ! her f et! her gown 1 I cried out like a madman : ‘Part thorn 1 part them this instant ! part them—curse she Republic—curso the Directory —curse tho Directors I I quit the service! curso the lawyers! you may tell them if you will !’ She was dragged into her berth end the boat moved away in tho darknossi S mo time after, a dull volley came over tho sea U the sLip. It was all over. Fool madman ; how I paced the deck and etirecd myself All Dight long I paced bask and forth; all night long I heard the moaning of the poor stricken bird. Often I halted, and was tempted to throw myself into the tea, and so end this horrid torture of brain ana heart. Days passed ; I aaw nothing of Lau rette. 1 would sot see her She avoid ed moj and I was glad c f it. 1 coul l not Lear the sight of that woe, stricken face.' The mate, Gar’ey, how I hated him \ He was as cool and unconcerned as though Le had no remembrance of shoot ing the poor vrrc-tch. At Cayenne I resigned my ship Go ing to the ci'y, I made oil my arrange ments, aud took the steamer for New A’oik. I placed ample fund in the Lauds of a trusty friend, and stold him to send Laurotte to me at the end of six mouth*. I could not see her until her grief had lost its edge. Weary, si k and careless of my lift I wand. red i ff :n New A’ork gate. and* finally bought a little place wheter 1 hop-* ed 1 should lay dowu aud die. 1 sent for Laurctte. Poor bird, I must sec her. I could wait no lo«g --cr. P'OKC.UI'ED PS I'oVRIH P* V*V*wtS*.l *'