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|bYTHOMAS A. HURKE, PROPTUETOR. VOL. VII. LssJ rpilE Cassuixe Standard, is j m 1 published every !■ •ld:y— ---- ji-vwnt'lt 'l i>:ii<l ’ advanw, two and I a half aftiT three months, or turc* I rloliars’at tli * vnd V t ’ ,l ‘V imnni>Bari I No naner fi seanßuned nut: all urcatogtsan h ii I ii the option of the jmbhsliei. M ;cXncous dvlrt;se.ncnts inserted at. T l , Innate [twelve tinps,) for the first msertnn ! ■!, cents for each weekly continuance. ••1 .egal advertisements published at too usna. ’■'vdvertisements not marked'\v;U : be published f until forbid, and charged accordingly icetters on business m<M be pn-pStid, and ati [ “ dressed to the t’roiinetor. anmmu mmwmmaammammmm 1 Biishtfs.s iPjtcctodi. _ %u VW FORD &CR AWFORD, Attorneys at ( fur, Oassvillc, Ga. —A's_a firm under the Above name John A. & M. J, Crawford will . promptly and faithfully attend to all business , ‘entrusted to their care in any of the nint.cs of] the Cherokee or Blue Ridge Circuits. M-J- Craw ford will give particular atterttipn to the colli e- j tine- of all claims and debts, and will spare no • pains to put clients Lu speedy p<isses.sionodthcu j money. f . . \v CHASTAIN, Attorney at Due, Mor ii, jranton, Ga.—Practices in all the coun ties of the Cherokee rftut o TAMES MU.Mill, Attorney at Lair, Cass- . f j ‘ voile, Oeo. Practises in the counties of the j Cherokee circuit. _ 111,1 k j O OR \WEORD, AUrmy, at - Lair, Cai i. honu, Oeo.l-Practice in the counties of the Cherokee circuit. apr-4, I y j[ T ATUM. Attorney at Law, Trenton, IY # Gi. Business entrusted to his care nt any of the counties of the Cherokee circuit, will meet with prompt attention. Xov.Jii. rj WFIL, Attorney-at La."-, Canton; Gonr tr’.t. Business entrusted to his care in nii voftlr.* counties of the Blue Ridge circu it, will meet with faithful attention. Feb lh, 1855. /'t J..FATN, Attorney <•* Tmw, Calhoun, (Ja,‘ \ TANARUS Will practice in all the counties of the Cherokee circuit. Particular attention will be paid to the collecting business. mb \\T T WOFFORD. Attorney a* L. nr, C.iss > V • villo, (la,- -Practices in all the counties of the Clu rokee circuit, and will attend j nthful !,- 1 1 all business entrusted to his Care. Office ! c ist of the conrf house. nag 18—tt I T"OOPER A RICE, A-O'fh* /< at Lair, Gass -1 JL v Uo, Geo.—Practice in the counties of t • iss. Cobb, Ch At. iog i, C itoosi, Cherokee, Dade F’mvd, Gordon, < Hthier, Murray, Pickens, Walk er aml Whipield. .bins 11. Rice will, as here tofore, continue to give his personal and almost exelus ve Rt ‘-.Con to tlie collecting business. 1 ;ipn! : ■■ 1 ’ ‘ . I (t L. BVRftDUU, Attorney at Law, Athvii-j . f Ge .fgia. -WiH I'.raciice in the differ- : CouKs pi Fahon aod eonPguoils coijdtics. J P irtlcniar itter.fln gA'cu to tlie cseCntioi) of I !uterr-.g -t-ir.es, and driugliting legal inst.ru- j >o os. “C! iim-’ ffi cty rtf Atlanta will be-, pr innub. it e’ Dn. Office in the Holland j House, up ts •. ■ -. A ldtrantv first door above • Whitin \ A Hunt. Feb j>t, ’5-s—ly J s\ 1. UPSH ,VW, He dr, n Dry Goods, Gro” j l I , e -V ~s, h -ifn-nv’. roi'rfv, S iddfory, lints, j ■Hu 1 e ns. b \ ron. nods, Ac., at I Hi tick’s jld S’a .1. West us the public square, j _ , . ! \ XT iii.’ •: k WIKuS, Dealers in Dry Goods, \\ .e-r s, Ac. Ac. S oitli west curlier of i’uh’ e S pi'uv, G.irtt'rsvtllCj,OaV i .1'.,.: m.,1. r D C VIIPENTEIt, Dealer in fancy, stapl pj • ut and on‘si a dry goods, sugar, coffee, nioc 1 iss s, h r.lwire. ciPh. ry, Ac., at Hrwin’s o'd st.nl, !’ ssviilc, ill. Jan 1. FIV. lIIDPUfI 4 CO., De-ders in Staple and s iev Goods, Groceries, Iron, II i-ts. Caps, , Boots ;ad Shoes, ic., Ac., at the Brick store,: C issvlile, ifa. Feb ‘2, lkok j RMsUtfßKiiG & DAVIDSON, Qux'ytU, J ft a. M.nmf •eturers of chi thing, and deal- 1 ers in Boots, Shoes, Hats, Gaps, Gentlemen’s. Furnish ng G . ids. Fancy Goods, and Jewelry, r Wholes ilc and Retail, at Patton’s olb standi Cassvillc, Go. Juno‘23 1854:. i T OCKFTT 4 S.XELUXDS, Fu-'nrs and] A j tA h / (JommiKrwH iferctointr, will attend strictly to Receiving and Forwarding and Selling everything syjf to Our address. sept u—<Jm* . .. DOCT. I). 11. ZUISER, Rrfon.t Physician Would most respectfully inform the cil i/.ens of Adairsville aud snrroundm®: country, that he is now prepared to treat forms of diseases upon the soundest I’hy sioU gical principles yet known ; his rem edial a/rents are all of the safest kind, raid chief ly Botanical. march r.o, lsrxi- —]y M. M. PEEPLIiS, Dealer in Dry Goods Groceries, Iron, Hardware,’ Saddlery,, Boats, Slmes, Drugs, Medicines, Ac., Ac. Cal houn, Ga. ■ ~ May f>,TS54.—"Tv Ci G. COUBTKX.VY, ACoTTy,. 3, Broad .a # street, Charleston, Stiuih Ci/rottna, Books, Stationery, Fancy Articles, Magazines, and Newspapers. T The most extensive stock of Novels, Itoman 'ces, Ac., in the Southern country. ZAA” Near the Post Oflicc. mh D> S. G. COITHTEXAT. W. A. COO l*£.EX.\ V. KYATT M.-BURNEY A CO., Direct Im porters and Wholesale Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, No. 37 Jlavne Street, -Charleston, S. C. Jan 12, ISo.V—43 —l y SELLING off at Post for Gash, As the under signed is closing up the business of the firm “ M Leake A Howard, he lias determined to sell off at cost for cash. Gome all that want jood hnrrjnhu and tonu ‘/nick or you will miss them. Gartersville, Decll ts W. W. LEAKE. WARD A BURCnAUD, Augusta Gu, would inform their friends and the publ lie generally, tlfit anticipating a change ill their business, the tomi ig season, they are disposed to make large (one ssions from flierr former low scales of prices, in order 1 reduce their stock to the lowest possible point. The attention of wholesale dealers as well as customers, is res pect lullv solicited. Augusta, Dec 22 . “ PARR A McKENZlE.—Factors and Coimuis sion Merchants, and Dealers in Groceries, Produce and Merchandise goneralfv, Atlao|g, \jra. Particular attention given to consignments of Cotton, Grain, Bacon, and all kinds of Produce. *'• J - ™- E. MCKENZIE. jmg. 11.—ly. \\ IRON WORKS.—The subscri •cutc ordeL'fi n °” P r , u l ,a v e 4 10 receive and exe chi,e work ai’, kllui ~f CMhigs, or Mu orders in-ivVT’ and l , V rso,m favoring him with K^ vin * executed in at his Cur Establishment 1 < “V, . u . t , te " ded Copper, Bi ass and Iron Casting*. IW<l fw, ‘ 0 and Atlanta, Ga., June 3of Uh* 11 w INSHII*. AT WZ STAmURh^OFFICE! i SObcHlsclTieols. C CARRIAGE and Buggy Making EStaddish ) meiit at Cartersville Gass county Georgia, _ *■ WE would solicit a continuance of ‘ -d-ym (j ie patronage lreretofoivi? enjoyed.. — We are doing good -work, and at reasoniible j>ri-* •es. AVe keep on hand a good selection of -took, and have employed a tine assortment o’ rstrute Mechanics, who know what they ar. lout. AVe wan-uitnur work nut to fail. Giv ■s a call before purchasing elsewhere. Oh motto is J/orient a ami Industry. JONES & greenwood: Cartersville, Ga., July s, 1854. NEAV Tailoring establishment, nt Clirtersvi'le Georgia, Shop at S. 11. I atdlo’s old stand. | td’lie subscriber has lately opened in j the town of Cartersville a New T.u- j LORINO FsT.Mn.isnMKNT, where he ,s pre pared to do any work in liis line in the best and n.m fashionable manner, lie guar antees all wnK turned out of his shop to tit in the most uneteeptionable manner. Particular ly attention nrt to cutting and fitting jobs for ladies. Ilc it-soectfully solie.ts a fair trial, as he is conlidoiit of success. 4 SILAS O’SHIELDS. sept fl—ly j qpft FARMERS AND PLANTERS. A. & J. ! L L. Hill, are now receiving a supenbr lot ! of Negro Slmes, Negro Blankets and Kerseys, I OsnaGiVgs, Shirtings, Trunks, 4c., for the fall J and winter trade, which they are offering Low j for f'ax/t, or on short time. Farmers or others! wishing to ptrehase such articles wilt do well! to g vc us a call and examine prices, for we will 1 have them on hand and intend to sell. All that j we ask is that you will call ami examine for j yourselves, east, of the Court house. Cassvillc, Oct 27 . „ ‘ ‘-vj —is~r —i LA FORGE VOGT’S Piano and I \ T Music Store, .Ah. I ts Arch j 1 J D J j street, FJiibidd/diia. Constantly , J on hand Pianos, Melodeons, .Musi-1 cal Merchandize of every description, Sheet Mu-, sic, &e. &c. ‘ ’L’ VtKjT’s Piaxos are pronounced superior to all others in sweetness, power and beauty of tone and unequalled workmanship. Persons wishing a Piano of the first class and undoubt ed excellence, at a very moderate price, will do well to give them atrial. Sept I—T1 —T T^r. 0TICE ToTaXD OAVXES ! Tlie undef signed liavhig removed from Albany to TroupvUle, Lowndes countv, Ga. AVill in addition to the practice of Law examine j and report the value of land in the counties of j Thomas, Lowndes, Clinch, AA'are, Appaling and ; Irtvin. He will, when requested, examine! Lands personally, and give full information as to’ due, location and probability of immediate saL. Having no coiineetion whatever with Jand speculation he will engage to act as agent, j in the sale or purchase of lands, in any of the j aforesaid counties for a. fee of ten per cent, up- I on the a mount received or paid out, His ehar-i ges for ‘examining land will be five dollars per j lot, for lands in the 12th distinct of Lowndes, in j I all the other districts, he will charge ten do!- j i lnrs. Additional >vill be charged for an exam;-1 ! nation of title upon record. j EPHRIAM Hi PLATT, ! Attorney fit Law. j Tronpvlile, Lowndes Cos. Ga. | Nor 17 —ly J-tAA"S, SJIL'hT Mr.y/r } x . R,, THE undersigned is pro-; pai'ed to furnish A r on T’s! J'uom, at short notice, I Vi k and Oil as good terms, as i i they eih Ik’ had anywhere | at tlio South. These in-; 1 strunvents are wamuited to be equal in .point of! tone, durability and workmanship, to any man i ufactuml in the world. Every Piano warranted i for live vears. Any instrument failing to meet 1 ; the expect.itioiis of the purchaser, may be re-! turned at any time within six months, and an- i i other will be given in its stead. Having a ; brother i.a Professor of Music) in Philadelphia, i . who selects every Piano sent, out, purchasers j ; may rest assured that none but perfect instru i j ments, in <‘t<-ry n-yp..cf, will be sold. 1 A large lot of Slwcf. Movie, of the latest and j ’ most fashionable issues, constantly on hand • and for sale at Publisher’s prices. I ATM. SCHERZER. Professor ot Music in Cassvillc i Dec. 8, 1854 —ly Female College. T)IIINIZY & CLAA'TON, AA'aiie- ! P I Hoes* \xd Commission Mku- j Jc, ::■■■'* HA yrg; Amnusta, Ga. —Continue the - business in all its branches, and will give ! their personal attention to the sale of COTTON I and other produce. Cash advances made when ; required. Bagging, Rope, and family supplies | purchased at the lowest market rates. Com- j I mission for selling Cotton 25 cents per bale. j j augis— ; rfM) OLD SOLDIERS.—By a recent Act of 1_ Congress, all persons wlm have served in i any AA'ar since 1720, are entitled to’ioo acres of] Land—and those who have received AVamints j for a less number, are entitled to a sufficient number of acres to make that, amount. The undersigned will attend to the collection of! such claims. AVAL T. AA’OFFORD. j i Cassville, mh B—ts8 —ts riAO MERCHANTS AND PHYSICIAN'S!!— j JL Atlanta Dray Store.— 'The Subscriber liav ! ing purchased the whole interest in the above; establishment, respectfully offers to the Mer chants and Physicians of Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee, a large and well selected assortment of pure Drugs, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Dve : Stuffs, Window Glass, Surgical and Dental Ap- 1 paratusos, Medicinal Liquors, Fancy Goods, ; such as Soaps, Colognes and Lubin’s Extracts, i at wholesale or retail, as low as can bepurchas-, cd in any city South. I We invite persons visiting Atlanta to call ; and see—we charge nothing for showing, and j would be glad to exhibit our Goods to all. 11. A. RAMSAY. | Atlanta, Ga. nth 13—liin ; ’ *** Daldonega Signal, Cherokee Advocate, ! Cedar Town Republican, Jacksonville (Ala.) j Republican, Dalton Times, Rome Southerner, 1 West Point Beacon, LaGrange Reporter, Now nan Banner, Griffin Union, will copy twice a month for six months, and forward accounts. ■ Agency at Washington.--The urni dersigned prosecutes all manner of claims against the United States, betom Congress, be fore Commissioners, and before all the Public j Departments, and especially claims for bounty j land under the act of Congress just, passed, pen sions, back-phy, half-pay, adjustment of amounts ! of disbursing otfieei's, self, lenient of post mas-. * and contractors accounts, and every oilier . business requiring the prompt mid efficient scr- , vices of an attorney or agent. ‘ , re *j'denw of twenty years at the seat of the j , federal Government, with a thorough und jh mi iar acqunmtaime with all the routine of the nnhJic business at the different offices, added to his free access to consult the ablest legal advi- j sers if needed, justifies the subscriber in pledg ing the fullest satisfaction and utmost dispafmi to those who may entrust their business to his care. ->; Being well kuow.i to the greater portion of the citizens of \\ ashingtoii, as well as to many gentlemen who hare been members of both Houses of Congress in the last fifteen years it is deemed unnecessary to extend this notice by special references. A full power of attorney should accompany all cases. Communications must be pro-paid in all cases. Fees regulated by nature and extent of the business, but al ways moderate. H. C. SPALDING, Attorney. Washington, D. C., mh lo A FEW MORE LEFT of those cheap Double- Barrel Guns!! at LEVY’S CHEAP CASH STQUE. W toiliily ketospnper— BcboitO to IMiow State polities, p&tfe, p Markets, 101-cign ddo Sotucstic &e. - ■ - —■ —- —: r CA.HSVILT.E, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 39, 1855. CjjDire |4iiftnj. - - For the ('assville Stamtanl. % 30 Os Oh! love of my lone heart —where art thou ; now •* *>?■ ~ ‘ | lone —gone for aye—and broke the holy vow, ] That bound in fondest love, on tlie pure shrine i if Ih ‘dh and Hope —my heart to thine: Oh listen to me once—beloved, and tie er again, AVill tremble from my heart, thy blessed name. Still yearning for the Pad— tho’ wiV/e the voice, That.” bade thee in another land rejoice, (Seeking the love which thy great heart deserv- Frced from the strife, of Manhood* fame nn ., ’ \caj'dAj - A -■* K 4 \ Mine was the grief—afid fading now, the years Ofyoutli and love, dim’tl with its weight of * cares. • ■ • > - Bow'd is my head—and gone the happy smile That lit. so joyously tny face, the while 1 heard thee speak—ab! mournful, now the fall Os steps, that lightly flew, e’en to thy slightest call. Oh! heart that wildly prays —thou art undone, Too fondly praying—not fi.r all but one. Oh ! dearest, from mv poor breaking heart, Mourns the low cry of woe —and the keen dart Os -inward pain, tells but too sure, That J on earth shall see tlu-e, never more— Oh! ueoenmre— belovedV the ivjlhtt pain To yearn in death, to bear their voice again! Farewell my own— When life’s, dark troubl’d wave, A M*’ Shall pass to its deep rest—into the sileut grave; No more for thee to yearn—my spirit fled, To sleep the slumber, of the niouid’ring dead ; (>h ! let thy dear Up* smile, tho’ sad to part. Think from Earth’s gloom hath passed —a broken heart. ■ A a Cassville March 20, 1855. JSHANA, iDrigiim! AVritten expressly for the Cassville Standard. Ji?e &1(&* LINK THE FIRST. FRIENDSHIP: on Tli E M YSTEIUOUS OO VEHXESS. BY MISS C. AV. HARDER. CHAPTER XIII. THE DECLARATION. It is as difficult to find a heart Mint will break, ns a glass that will not. — Mr. F ley dell, in Gay M, ii uerifUJ. The quietude of Oakland was very ac (•A‘))lable to us all, after the hurry, fioise, hustle and confusion which we had wit nessed and participated in at the springs. The invalid resumed her school duties and tier horse-back rides, and both streijnftb and spirits seemed to be hn ] roved. Cousin Fred was happv whenever she was, and never was lover more as sidnous and untiling in his attentions. We had been at home perhaps three weeks, when l chanced'one day to go down to the arbor at the foot ot the front, yard. It was n dotightfnlsuinmer retreat. The sides, which had looked hare and desolate during the winter, were covered with leaves and thiwers.— On one of the seats cousin Fred lav fast asleep. I touched h : m and tried to a rouse him, but lie turned half pettishly awav, and said. H Letme sleep!” That simple exclamation haunted my memory aft<maids. How often has the wish been breathed in this weary world, 0 , Let -me sleep ?” The man whose conscience lashes hint for misdeeds—evils committed and un ropentod of, cries as he drops Iris head upon his thorny pillow, u Lot, me sleep! With sleep comes oblivion.” The mour ner who has seen some bright and beau tiful one fade from his embrace, like a summer flower nipped by a too early frost, hows his head above the pallid face of five prostrate form below him and sighs in the agony of his soul, Let me sleej) ! Sleep wiih the loved one whose smile shall never welcome my footsteps more!’’ “ Let me, sleep /” says the traveller, who, footsore and weary, has toiled long in the world and seen hopes perish un fulfilled ; joys wither ere they were tas ted ; friendships which he thought endu ring changing hue, like I lie chameleon, and rainbow promises fading and melt ing into thin; colorless air,“ Let me sleep , for I am weary /” The rosy cheeked child, the bright eyed maiden, the thoughtful matron, those for whom life puts on its finest as pect, its most endearing smiles, all have periods in which they long for sleep, ob livion of all care*-hours in which the waters of Lethe may flow darkly, and deeply over them. There cometh a sleep to all ; a sleep deep, husbtd, and breathless. The roar iof cannon—the deep toned thunder — ; the shock of an earthquake, or the rush of ten thousand armies, cannot, break up its deep repose. With mute lips, and folded arms, one after another | take their places in the chamber of these pallid slumberers: one after another, the ephemera of earth, sink down into, the grave, and “ into tlitp darkness of noth ingness.” No intruding footstep shull jar upon their rest —no disturbing touch, shall wring from them there the excla mation, “ Let me sleep /” I had sunk down, and was thinking of something like the above (for l have been a dreamer from my childhood, and even then, had thoughts beyond my years) when cousin Fred rubbed his eyes, and sat upright. “ Was that you, Claude ?” lie asked, “ pulling a#’av at my coat-sleeve, half n hour since ? Jff so, \vhy.t iu tiw? name - q 0 y 0(, wa „t v* I *Copy fight secured. “PRINCIPImES NOT MEN.” , I looked at the fellow in astonishment, j Lie seemed to be in a pettish humor: which was very unusual with him. j “ Nothing Fred, only.you were lying , there with the wind blowing upon you. 1 I was afraid you might take cold.— Pray! what, ails you? What makes j you so cross ?” . •’ - j ! “Am i cross, little -cous ? Do I’ seem to be in a petulent mood ? Well forgive me. I have, in the last half hour, seen a towering aii-castle—one whose summit touched the rose tinted douds'-eoine tumbling down hke a pile of bricks from a hod-man’s shoulder.— The shock I be.li.eve has shattered tny sen ses. I’ve been trying however to sleep ! my chagrin oft’—even now 1 mb my eyes j and try to think whether I have not j been in a dream. No, I didn't dream j it—it’s true, and no mistake about it.- Mv air-castle proved to be “as baseless as tlie fabric of a vision,” Claude. Tlie poor tower builders in Babel were not half as much confounded, while standing around their pile of brick and mortar, as l am, sitting here over the shattered ru ins lying at mv feet. You needn’t look down, child. You won't see them, but. | they are there nevertldess.” “ Cousin Fred, what are you rattling on about ?” I said. “ I believe you are a rowing crazy.” “ I thought so myself, little cous, three I hours ago. My brain some how whirl ed around like the Maelstrom on tlie coast of Norway, and a mist was before my eyes so that l could not see distinct ly, but the cob-webs are getting out of my vision, my poor brain is growing steady again. I shall come out of the’ furnace as gold do s, purified, maybe.’ “ 1 didn’t, know that you had been in one before,” I said, “ hut you have taken to dealing in enigmas, like my govern ess. Yoil said aon meant to learn of her, but 1 didn’t think she would find in you such an apt scholar. If you keep on you will beat her in the science in which she is most perfect.” “ What is that!’’ lie asked instantly losing the half comic air which he had assumed. “ Does she deal in enigmas ? She sometimes tells straight forward i truths—i could swear to that.” “ lifts she told you any ?” [ enquired wondcrinrly. “ Ye-ye-ves, I’m thinking she has — i throe hours ago while she was sitting j • there, in that leafy nook which’ you I j now occupy, cous—while the birds were ! singing in the oaks over our heads, j ! and the summer wind rusfled the leaves j j of a half read volume lying open in her j j lap —three hours ago, I chanced to step j in here and found her, and she told me j strai lit forward truths, Claude —truths; ! which an. fellow, wearing an ear upon each side of his head, could not fail to hear and understand. To me, they were as stunning as so many claps of thunder j breaking from the serene sky of inid i summer, but, the voice which spoke I them was low, soft and gentle as tlie j lireatkings of an MEolian harp.” ! “ What do \ou mean, cousin Fred ? I What do you mean t’ i “I have been thinking that I had j best not. tell you — you who played Sibyl,! ! and gave me fair warning, months ago i —you who have the prom.! [flood of all j the Alstons flowing in your heart. — Your neck would arch more proudly j than an insulted Empress —your little ; pale faee would flush to the roots of your j hair, with anger—your thin /. Iston lips ; would curl with more than Alston pride. O no! Claude, tho experiment of telling ■ vou some of your teachers’ straightfor ward truths, would be too hazardous. — I don't think I can summon resolution to do it.” “ Bat I will know !” I said impatient ly. “ You will, ha ? The Alstons always speak in the imperative mood, 1 am told ■ when excited.” ’’ Why have you excited me then ?” j “ Well, I don't know—l can’t exact | Iv tell how 1 came to do it, but you play j ed Sybil—you were almost, as wise as the | heathen prophetesses inspired by Jupiter |in days of old, and 1 thought it was a | pity not to let you know the result of ; your predictions: but now I think of it, | Claude, you made a slight mistake, j such an one as the old farmer made I when he went to the lawyer to in form him that his bull had gored one of i the legal gentleman’s oxen—you will re i collect the spelling book storv. It j proved to be the lawyer's bull, and the j | farmer’s ox, after the lawyer had settled ! the justice of the affair. Your mistake, j |as I was telling you, was similar. You ; said that an Alston must never marry a ’ governess, but the way of it is, Claude— a governess will not marry an Alston, or an Armstrong, which is the same thing.” “Jt isn’t true that you've asked her ; to marry you, Fred.” ! “ Well, if l understand the signifioa- Ition of the words we generally make use l of in the English language, \did ask i her somethiiyv of the sort. I did it too •| in real*novel style. You ought to have | been here, to have witnessed it. I fancy it was quite a scene. She has on a white diess to-day, and looks as much like an angel as flesh and blood ev jer gets to looking—and I, in this ro mantic bower—clad in my handsomest • i kneeled—-(hot, quite Claude but almost kneeled) and ask ed her to accept of healrt ?mt) baud, arid she—” h What, did she say F “ Couldn’t tell you, cous. Couldn’t tell yon, il l was going to lie shot for not doing it. Lt. was a pretty speech tho', but, as 1 was” saying, after having heard the first few words the cobwebs some how got into my eyes, and tlie Norway Maelstrom into my head, and I am afraid I shall die ignorant of the precise lan guage which she made use of. It, was though, as l to.'d you, low, soft and sweet as harp music. But some hovy the im port of it stunned mo.”;' 1 “ I thought she liked you Fred :.I felt certain of jt- She would not consent to your being left behind at the Springs.— She seemed in ecstacy, when she learn ed that you were to come with us. She could not conceal her pleasure then, al though I think she tried to appear in different. She is an enigma. But wliat are you going to do now. Shoot, hang, or drown'yourself. “ Neither, Cous ; l don't fancy that it would be pleasant dying in any of those ways. I think, being disappointed in love, 1 shall act, like a sensible fellow and betake myself to the wars. There I can get shot without being at the trou ble of shooting myself, and moreover es cape the odium attached to a suicide.” ; “I don’t believe you love Miss Church,” I said half amused at the queer strain in which he had been, for the last half hour,going on —“if you have addressed her, you don’t love her.” “ 6 yes, cous ! you mistake matters now. I made up tny mind to love her, before she ever set foot on Oakland soil. T havn’t had any thing else to do, since she came here, but to love her, and I have done it with all my heart soul and strength. First I loved her with theloye pity, she seemed so sad, gloomy, and at times, unhappy. Next I admired her intellect and then I fell head-over ears in love, in the.most appioved style. At the Springs, I shut, my eyes to everybody elsc’s charms, although that L>octor’s daughter is a vara avis , but—hark ! I hear a footstep on the gravel. Don’t you hear tlie crushing of the sand? We must stop this conversation.” As’cousin Free ceased speaking, a shadow foil athwart the arbor, and a tall form darkened the door. I looked up and almost shrieked wiih surprise. Newt Wei born the mute was there. “ In the name of all the gods at once,” said Fred starting to his feet, “ how came this follow hero ? Is he omni present ? When we are expecting him least, then lie shows himself. This is a greater Surprise than when he look ed down upon us from tlie top of that old fort. Why ! Newt, man ! how came you here?” and Fred raised his voice as if he expected, by screaming in to his ears, to Ik* heard. The mute smiled, yea, chuckled al most audibly, and extended his large and weather beaten hand. Fred shook it heartily and, in the pleasure which he 1 experienced in seeing the strolling crea ture, seemed to forget the chagrin and disappointment under which he had been writhing for tlie last half hour. The mute sat down and commenced writing with his fingers upon the air ! Fred replied to him, and having watch ed their motions for awhile, without be ; ing able to gather up even the theme of their conversation, 1 arose and ran away to the house. CHAPTER XIV. THE UNEXPECTED JOURNEY. And hurry, hurry, off they rode, As fast as fust might be. Burg tier. 1 sought the governess and found her I sitting in her usual place at the desk in the shool-room. She was reading an old looking volume which she had pick ed up in the library, and looked at that moment calm, tranquil, almost happy, j I paused and surveyed her. “ llow agitated she will become,” T ! thought, “ when she learns who is below.! I wish she could be spared the pain of j knowing that lie is here—she is, as she I expresses it herself, so dreadfully afraid j of him.” I looked at her again. She’ was so much engrossed by the volume i that she had hardly noticed my entrance. I sat down quietly in my seat and drew lines on my slate, which was lying there. The room was so still that the ticking of the clock could be distinctly heard : but my canary, which Mary had placed in the sunshine against the window, pres ently broke out into its highest, sweetest song. The noise aroused her. | “ Claude” she said looking up, as if for j the first time conscious of my presence, ! “your bird would do better out on the j hack terrace—the sun shines there naif of the day. Were lin your place I would j move its cage.” 1 arose, and took the noisy, gleeful songster away, as she desired mo to do, and then I went down to communicate to grandmother what 1 could not find it in my heart to reveal to her. The old lady was sitting alone in the parlor. She laid her net-work down and raised her eyes in astonishment when I made the i disclosure. ! “ What h<Ls possessed that creature j to follow us here ?” she exclaimed “ and j Ellen, poor child, is eo much afraid of J him too. Did you tell her Claude that ! you left him in the arbor with your eotis ! ill Frederick ?” j “No, grandmother, slie looked so,tran quil that I hated to disturb her. I did Hot say a word to her about it.” . “That Clitu'd’e— that was figfhf. You Always -were a thoughtful ichild, and have, as 1 have often told your TWO DOTjRARS A-YEAR, IN ADVANCE. j grandfather, a great dea 1 more sense iilian ‘many “who were put ot their books much earlier in life. We must contrive some way to get rid ol this disagreeable visitor without letting her know that he is, or Ims been here. I “ ill get Mr. Als j ton to go down to the arbor, and give | him some rnonev and send him away. 1 lie can tell him that there is a sick lady I in the house which prevents us from in- I viting him in, and that will hot Ik} a j falsehood, for Miss Church is an im?Jid, | and would, I have no doubt, at sight of ! him faint quite away. I shall never for get. how he frightened her among the |ruins, and 1 shall never forgive him for it either. lam somewhat afraid ofltitri, J I must acknowledge, myself, and I cau j not bear the idea of bis being a guest at j the house. Oh no! he must-not be in vited in—though your grandfather is so ] hospitable, 1 doubt whether he could be S persuaded to turn a dog away from the [door. But T see Frederick coning up | the gravel walk. lie likes Miss Church j almost as much as ( do, and will not, I am certain, consent’ to let stlcli a baboon. las that frighten her into fits. I will 1 makemv arrangements with him and get that half idiot sent away without ! having defiled the bouse with his .pros ence.” ; “Yes, cousin Fred likes Miss Church j almost as much as you do, grandmother,” j I said, with an air of .unsuspecting sirn j plicity which I was amused at myself i for assuming—“ at any rate, lie lias al | wavs treated her very civilly.” | “ I know it, child. Frederick has al ! ways been very kind and polite to the j poor thing—indeed I alwa\ s taught my children to be kind to every body, and I dare say they have all taught their off springs the same great Christian lesson. | I have always been pleased with the way ; Frederick treated Miss Church, and he J will not let that strolling vagabond in j terrupt her now, I am sure.” I Just then Fred’s quickstep was heard i at the threshold. “ Grandmother,” lie said, hurriedly— “ can Tom be spared a little while, to as sist me in packing my trunk, and then may John take it over to Newton for me t I want to get there this afternoon in time for the stage.” “In time for the stage /” repeated grandmother in surprise. “ Why Fred erick, you are not going to leave us 1 hope ! Where on earth are you going?’ i “On a short journey—l shall he gone , several days—perhaps a week or mere, j I have been summoned away very uncx j pectedly upon business of importance. ■ If Tom cm help me about mv trunks 1 I shall be very glad, and, Claude, will you be kind enough to ask Mary to send up my clean linen ? lamina great lmrrv ; else I would not trouble you, little cons.” “ But where are yon going Freder ick ? 1 declare! lam so Hurried by this unexpected intelligence, that I hardly know what lam about. Nobody is sick, nor has any accident oeeured, I hone. I Yon look pale and troubled. What ! has happened to you to disturb you ?” “Oh, pshaw, grandmother! Nothing or next to nothing. lam not. jade, or i troubled—-your spectacles deceive you. I am going ci a little trip into the inte rior, and as I before said, shall be back again in a day or two. I have not time to explain mv busiue.-s to you. Let it suffice that, it is urgent and important. Please send Tom uj., and Claude don’t forget the shirts and collars.” So say ing, Fred turned and sprung up the stairs two steps at a time. j M3’ grandmother went, in search of I Tom and Ito find Mary, and in half an j hour from that .moment cousin Fred was ! on his way to Newton, •accompanied by i Newt Wei born who had never offered ! to set his foot within the hospitable mati- I sion at Oakland. Grandfat her, who was out somewhere, j hardly got into the house in lime to hid l Fred good-bye, and Miss Church sal up j stairs ignorant, of his departure. But ! when she came down to dinner, grand* j mother, with a troubled countenance, I began to narrate what had taken place. “I am so Hurried, 1 declare, Miss Church, l hardly know whether I am helping you to soup or dessert. Frederick went away so unexpected I}-, and in such an j unsatisfactory manner! lie did not I give us a word of explanation relative to where lie was going, or what errand he I was upon. Some ofhis doilies had not I been ironed, yet he never stopped long j enough for Marv tb heat an iron and j mb them over a little, but he folded ’J them up, and crammed them into the i top of his trunk, as if he was going to ride for his life. I don’t see the use ol | folks acting* in snob a headlong manner. T rover do anything, myself, without tnk ! iog time to reflect and prepare tor it, ! hut Frederick is young, ami it is natural for quo at his time of life to he hair brained and impetuous. Mr. Alston, ptay whero were you, while he was ram bling through the house, like one dis tracted, looking tip his clothes ? If you had been here you might have found | out where he was going.” “I was in the garden,- giving some I directions to the gardener. How should 1 have known that, the ‘boy was turning ; himself into a Will o’ the wisp, or Jack | with-the-lantern ! I never heard any | thing about bis leaving until I came in, | and fouud him all ■l’Caoly to start, lie must have been summoned away sud denly, sure enough,” , “ 1 ’spect,” said Mary, wlio was stand- isro. a. jug, waiter wi band, behind MissChuw-h’s chair, “that that arrange follow —that Mr. Newt —” hat-do te call him ?” “Pshaw —pshaw! Mary,” su'd my grandmother, interrupting her humidly —“you know nothing of the matter* — What, are you talking .about Newton for ? The boy had to go tinge to take t Ik* stage, yon ’know —you must have had your ideas as much cymfused as 1 mine have been pass Miss Church the ■ tomato sauce, and the catsiip. We wall I say frothing more Upon this subject. — Frederick will explain tilie cause of Ins dejuirtur-e in a satisfactory manner, I dare sav when he returns.” The governess took neither tomato sauce or catsup, though pressed by my grandmother to do so. She had sud denly grown saj—palo-’-silent. Iler ap petite had deserted her. “ I hope,” said she, “ fbatpolbitig un pieasant has occured to call yoirr grand son,-Mv. Armstrong., away.” \ “Dissembler!” I said tp myself in dignantly. “ She knows tiliat something unpleasant has lnqipened—she knows it much better than my grandmother does, t wonder .if she imagines that-cousin Fred ispomiugin here to -sit. down beside hen, to see her sweet face, apd listen to (lie tones of a voice which has already intoxicated his senses, day after day, as he has been doing in times past; if so, she is mistaken. An Alston may bo spurned, but he will not tarn like the spaniel, and fawn and lick the band, af ter it has applied the lash. No, no, my lady! You are greatly in fire dark, it you think so.” “ 1 can’t sa}'.,” replieJ the old lady, “ whether be received unpleasant intelii i genee or not. 1 thought at first that be i did look greatly troubled, but he laugh ;cdat me wbou I told him so. lie went I off cheerfully enough, and said that ho j should be hack again in a few days; but, Miss Church, you eat nothing. Ma ry remove tire cloth and bring in the dessert,” At this period, I slipped away from the table, and \v9nt back to the school room. I picked up m v slate, and sunk down behind the counter to finish the drawing of a bouse which fl/had begum I worked on for awhile, undisturbed, but Voon the door opened and the .'governess entered. .She did not see me, but sup posed herself to be alone, , j “ Good Heavens! ’ she exclaimed,clasp ing her white bands over her forehead, j “ What an unfoVtionate being I am! I destined ever it seems to wound and j sting the bosoms of my best friends and j protectors. And yet, who is nine hare - less in purpose than I haw ever been ? Gibers have been more blame worthy than I. In my childhood, fondled —pet- ted—spoiled by over indulgence and Well fostod pride, Self-Will, it is true grew, into a monster of giapt-proportions, but I have upt deserved the harshness with which 1 have since been treated by the parent who in those d-avs, did bis best to spoil me. I stung bis pride, and lie spurned me like Ji viper from Iris thres hold. 1 next, came here. It is a quiet, good asylum for one, world weary as l have grown —its cool shades-its undis turbed tranquility —its pleasant inmates, | were all grateful to my feelings. And no\V.T have stung them too—stung thorn ■ where they arc most sensitive—l have j wonded their family pride. Bull could 1 not'marry him. “Oh no, TcOuld not! Pledged, Plight ed, almost married to another, how could I marry him.? lJe is generous, good, and noble, rwid if-1 eovdd have ex plaiiied to hnn why I ‘rejected him it would have subtracted somewhat, I am sure, frointhe keeiiess of the javelin which I was compelled to throw. But I could not do it ! that added to my agitation and perplexity. I left him with a few unsatisfactory words, and now he has in his chagrin and disapjioititment gone off, it sCeius, no one knows where. I did not think he would take it so much at I heart. lam surprised that he lias done so. 1 have never believed that he loved me with that strong, deep, deatldessMove which is born twee in every littman soul, and, if ever crirsheff, stcvr Uvcs again. — In a few days, I hope, lie will return, ; and this passage in bis life will become like a troubled and forgotten dream.— At anv rate. I can hut .await the issue fn patient hope.” She sat d-own, ami took her book a gtiin. Having been n involuntary* al though not. an un’wttwM’cd listener, to what I well knew was not intended for any human ear, l began to consider how I could best, eseapo JVenn the room with out letting her know that I had been there. There was ,1 small door leading from a corner in tho school room on to the back terrace. Scree nod bv the coun ter, 1 managed to gain it unobserved, |aud when t lie teacher looked up she saw me through the window feeding the Ga mmy, and dropping ■crumbs to the pige ! Otis’ She laid her book down, and came to the easement. “ Jt is school time, Claude,” shy said. “1 am ready to hear your lessons. You i can cotwo in now and recite.” “y’ _ I obeyed, and for several davs tilings moved on in their accustomed order a uioug the inmates at Oakland. My grandmother however could not forbear now and then bursting put iuto a struiu of wonder when Fred’s uame was men tioned. “It is very strange,” she said “ what keeps him away so long, and why he