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13 Y THOMAS A. BURKE, PROPRIETOR, VOL. VII. the cassville standard, IS Published every Thursday.— Office, north-east corner of the Ovl to! public squnro. —Terms, Two Dol- £0 I Jars a-year if paid in advance, two and a half alter three months, ~rw O|r three dollars at the end of the I vear. * paper discontiuned until all arrearages are ! paid, except at the option of the publisher. 1 ¥ Miscellaneous advertisements inserted at $1 | per square (twelve lines,') for the first insertion, J and W cents for each weekly continuance. I Legal advertisements published at the usual ; rates. . ! Advertisements not marked will he published ! until forbid, and charged accordingly. betters on business mast be pre-pit id, and ad dressed to the Proprietor. Stows* Sfiir&foi'jj. MILXF.It A ALSABROOK, Attorneys at ( Law, Morganton, Geo.— Practice in the Counties of Union, Fannin, Gilmer and Pick- ; James Milner, Cassville; J. K. Alsabrook, ; Morganton. may 17, 185-> -ly j /CRAWFORD A CRAWFORD, Attorn?;/* at I V ! Lair, Cassville, Ga.—.Vs a firm under the above name John A. A M. J. Crawford will promptly and faithfully attend to all business intrusted to their care in any of the counties of the Cherokee or Blue Ridge Circuits. M.J. Craw- ; ford will give particular attention to the collec*. ♦iiicr of all claims and debts, and will spare no pain# to put clients in speedy pfthyir niMu'f. ‘ mh I—lyl—ly ta W. CHASTAIN, Attorney at Law, Mor-• [j, ganton, <l:i.-—Practices in all the coun-j ties of die Cherokee circuit. Jan') j TAMHS MILXKR, Attorney at Law, Cass-I rille, Geo. Practises in the counties of the Cherokee circuit. , "' 1 U O. CRAWEORD, Attorney at Law, Cai- J J), houn, Geo.—Practice in the counties ot i the Cherokee circuit. :; pr 2!. RH. TATUM. Attorney at Law, Trenton, 1 . Ga.—Business entrusted to his care in any el'the counties of the Cherokeecircuit, will meet | with prompt attention. Nor. 21. | O WEIL. Attorney at Lair, Canton, Geor gia. Business entrusted to his care in mi vof the counti wof tbp Uluc ltuljio circuit, ill j meet with faithful attention. | Refers to Hon. David Irwin and Ex-Gov. , Vellonuld, Marietta; ('id. Joseph K. Brown, ] Canton; (’apt. W. T. Wofford, Cassville; Lob Geo. X. Lester, Cununing. Feb 16, 1855 —ts (1 ,T. FAIX. Attorney at Lair, Calhoun. Ga. L Will practice in all the counties of the Cherokee circuit. Particular attention will be paid to the collecting business. mb it. WT. WOFFORD, Attorney at l.air, Cass • ville, Ga.—Practices in all the eoimtics. <•1 the Cherokee circuit, mid will attend faithful- Iv to nil business entrusted to his care. Ofiice east ot the court house. a "g 18 O nOOPKR A RICE, Attorney* at Laic, Cass ville. Geo. —Practice in the counties of Cass, Cobh, Chattooga, Catoosa, Cherokee. Dade Fiord, Gordon, Gilmer. Murray, Pickens, A\ alk er and Whitfield. John 11. Rick will, ns here tofore, continue to give his personal and almost evelu-ive attention to the collecting business, april 20, 1854. CL. BARBOUR. Attorney at hue, Atlan m ta, Georgia.—AX’ ill practice in the difier vnt Courts of Fulton and contiguous counties. Particular attention given to the execution of Interrogatories, and draughting legal instill ments. Claims in the citv of Atlanta will be promptly attended to. Office in the Holland lfotiso, up stairs. —Entrance first door above Whitney A Hunt. Feh 16, ’ss—ly YIHKLE A WIKLK, Dealers in Dry Goods, \\ Groceries, Ac. Ac. South west corner: of I’uhlic Square, Cartcrsville, (la. Jan. 26, 1854. Til. CARPENTER, Dealer iu fancy, staple j • and domestic dry goods, sugar, coffee, nio- j •isses, Ac.; hardware, cutlery, Ac., at Erwin s I old stand, Cussville, (In. Jan 1. rw. HOOPER A CO., Dealers ill Staple and , • Fancv floods, Groceries, Iron, Hats, Caps, ■ Roots and Shoes, Ac., Ac., at thiq Rrick stole, ! Cassrille, Ga. F?eb —, 1854. | nIRffc'HBEBG A DAVIDSON, CtnmUU, | Manufacturers of clothing, and deal ers ill Roots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods, fancy Goods, and Jewelry, Wholesale and Retail, at Patton’s ulb stand , Cassvilli', (la. June’Jv 1854. XOCKETT A SNELLINGS,* Factor* and j j (i/acral Caintm**oai J ferc.hantu, will attend strictly to Receiving and Forwarding and Selling everything sent to our address, sept o—Om* M. PEEPLES, Dealer in Dry Goods. \\ (Groceries, Iron, Hardware, Saddlery,, Hoots, Shoes, Drugs, Medicines, Ac., Ac. Cal liotin, oa. May 5, 1854. —ly SG. COURTENAY, A CO. N>. J, I!road l • Street, Charleston, South Carolina. Rooks, Stationery, Fancy Articles, Magazines, and i Newspapers. The most extensive stock of Novels, Roman ces, Ar., in the Southern country. \Jf“ Near the Post Office. mh Iff j fi. 0. COBUTEKAV. W. A. COITHTEJC.tr. HYATT McBURNEY A CO., Direct Im porters and \Yholesale Dealers in Foreign and Dor .estic Dry Goods, No. :!T Hayne Street, i Charleston, S. C. Jan 12, 185o—41)—ly WARD A BCRCHARI), Augusta Ga., would inform their friends and the pub- 1 Sic generally, that anticipating a change in their j business, the coming season, they are disposed Vo make large concessions from their former low scales of prices, in order to reduce their stock to (he lowest possible point. The attention of i wholesale dealers as well as customers, is res pectfully solicited. Augusta, Dec 22 I) ARR A McKENZlE.—Factors and Com mi s’ I. sion Merchants, and Dealers in Groceries’ Produce and Merchandise generally, Atlanta) Ua. ... i Particular attention given to consignments of _ Cotton, Grain, Bacon, and all kinds of Produce. L. J. PAltlt. K. MCKENZIE, j aug. 11.—ly. ’ | WINSHII’S IRON WORKS. The subseri-, her is now prepared to receive and cxc-! cute orders for uov kind of Castings, or Ma-i chine work, and all persons favoring him with j orders mav rely upon having them executed in i the best manner, and with despatch. Orders 1 for Sash-bliuds and doors promptly attended to i at his Car Establishment. Cash paid for old Copper, Rrass and Iron Castings. JOSEPH WINSIIIP. Atlanta, Ga.,'June 30,1*54. A T VI-ACKSMITHING-—The Subscriber 1 1) is prepared to do all kinds of work ypf'in his tine, such as Ironing Carriages, I waking and repairing Farming imple i taents, edge-tools, horse-shoeing, Ac. in the best | manner, and on the most reasonable terms.— -'■dge tools warranted. A share of patronage is solicited. h. GRIFFIN. Ci-'urille, Ga., Feb. I*, Vijj.—2~ ly. SObeMisetyente. HAVANA plan LOTTERY! Jasper County Academy Lottery ! ! By authority of the State of Georgia. CEASS e. Subscriber having been appointed man- I ager of the Jasper County Academy Lotte ry, intends conducting the same on the Karan; plan of single numbers, and has located his Os iice in the city of Macon, Georgia. lie now i offers the following— j GRAND SCHEME FOR SEPTEMBER 24, 1855: | When prizes will be distributed as follows, a- ! mounting to THIRTY-ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS ! ! CAPITAL , SB,OOO. 1 Prize of SB,OOO I 1 Prize of $5,000 j 1 “ 2,000 I 2 “ 1,000 2,000 5 “ 500 2,500 jlO “ 200 2,000 j 20 “ 100 2,000 178 “ 50 3,9001 120 “ 25 3,000 118 Approx, prizes, 600 J 25(3 Prizes amounting to $31,000. Only 10,000 numbers. Remember every Prize drawn at each draw- j ing, under the superintendence of Col. Geo. M. Logan and Jus. A. Nisbet, Esq., gentlemen who are sworn to a faithful performance of their du- : tv. Prizes paid when due without discount, j All orders, rely on it, strictly confidential.— j Bills on nil solvent Banks taken at par. Whole Tickets $5, Halves $2,50, Quarters $1,25. Address JAS. F. WINTER, Manager, | g-;pt 0 Macon, goo. j Charleston Weekly Standard, j COXTAIXS ALL THE MATTER PUB - | Lulled til the Daily, Together with the Local, Domestic and Foreign : Mar Let*—The I'rices Current, Including the rate* <f stile for stock, Kr change, and Domes tic Produced- The gfhipping in Port—The La test Telegraphic information, dec. dec. dec. The STANDARD is the only morning paper in Charleston which issues a WEEKLY EDI TIOX. This Edition is published every Wednesday \ Morning, and by the evening of the next day can be received in every section of the State. Price s2—payable in variably in advance. L. XV. SPItATT & CO. jtt , EORGE VOGT’S Piano and Music Store, Xo. 148 Arch fUb n fjStreet, Philadelphia. Constantly J J on hand Pianos, Melodeons, Musi- j cal Merchandize of every description, Sheet Mu- , sic, Ac. Ac. Vogt’s Pianos are pronounced superior to all others in sweetness, power and beauty of; tone and unequalled workmanship. Persons j I wishing a Piano of the first class and undoubt- j ; ed excellence, at a very moderate price, will do ; 1 well to give them a trial. sept I—l : “VTOTICE TO LAND OWXERS! The under- j i lx signed having removed from Albany to . Troupvillc, Lowndes county, Ga. AVi 11 in addition to the practice of Law examine ; and report the value of land in the counties of j Thomas, Lowndes, Clinch, Ware, A mailing and ; Irwin. He will, when requested, examine; Lunds personally, and give full information as to “Hue, location and probability of immediate ■ ; sali. Having no connection whatever with i land speculation he will engage to act as agent, in the sale or purchase of lands, in any of the | aforesaid counties for a fee often per cent, up on the amount received or paid out, lUs char | ges Ibr examining land will he five dollars per j lot, for lands in the 12th district of Lowndes, in ! all the other districts, he will charge ten dol-! ; lars. Additional will he charged for an exanii- i i nation of title upon record. EFIUHAM 11. PLATT, { Attorney at Law, Troupville, Lowndes Cos. Ga. Xov 17—ly Vr~YT>HIXIZV & CLAYTON, Ware- j 5 mvjfr l 1- House and Commission Mkp.- : Augusta, Ga. —Continue the business in nil its branches, and will give their personal attention to the sale of COTTON and other produce. Cash advances mads when required. Bagging, Rope, and faniilv supplies purchased at the lowest market rates. Com mission for selling Cotton 25 cents per bale, auglß OLD SOLDIERS.—By a recent Act of j jL Congress, all persons who have served in ■ f miv War~since 1790, are entitled to Ido acres of | Land —and those who have received Warrants j for a less number, arc entitled to a sufficient number of acres to make that amount. The 1 undersigned will attend to the collection of’ | such claims. WM. T. WOFFORD. Cassville, mb B—ts Agency at Washington.—The un dersigned prosecutes all manner of claims against the United States, before Congress, be- i fore Commissioners, and before all the Public 1 Departments, and especially claims for bounty land under the act of Congress just passed, pen sions, back-pay, lialf-pay, adjustment of amounts of disbursing'officers,'settlement of postmas ters and contractors accounts, and every other business requiring the prompt and efficient ser vices of an attorney or agent. A residence of twenty years at the seat of the Federal Government, with a thorough and fa miliar acquaintance with all the routine of the public business at the different offices, added to his free access to consul’ die ablest legal advi sers, if needed, justifies the subscriber in pledg ing the fullest satisfaction and utmost dispatch to those who may entrust their business to his care. Being well known to the greater portion of the citizens of Washington, as well as to many gentlemen who have 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 pre-paid in all eases. Fees regulated bv nature and extent of the business, but al ways moderate. H. C. SPALDING, Attorney. Washington, I). C. mh 15— I>OUNTY LANDS.—The undersigned bar > ing long been engaged in the prosecution 1 of Revolutionary Pension Claims, Invalid Pen ! sion Claims, Bounty Lund Claims Ac., against, the General Government, now tenders his ser vices to all such claimants, especially to Bounty haul claimant* i hr the procurements of their Claims, as there are many such Claims under the late hew of Congress,'which gives an addi tional Bounty of Land to the soldiers of all the wars in whicn the United States has engaged since 170'*, who have not received n* much as lfift acres. ELISHA KING. Adairsvillc Ga. , mh 22—2 m tdjftu AT CARTERSVILTJC, GEO.! — J. P. White, respectfully informs the citizens of Cass and surround ing comities that he has located in Cartcrsvilte, and will attend promptly to all orders in the line of PLASTERING. All work warranted, may 17, 1855—1 y T AND WARRANTS WANTED—The *m \_j dersigned will pay the highest cash prices for Land Warrants. He can always be found at his store iu Cussville. MADISON McMURRAY. | junc 28—21 ts T> EADT-MADE CLOTHING, Pant!. Stuff, I; Chainbray, and a tine assnrtnir-nt. of Jew* ! dry, at LEVY’S CASH STORE. 1 apr 20- —ts 51 Mil f(cb)sj)i)f)cr—JlibokO so Stqte politic?, Jitcl'iiliire, ilje DJql'lief?, toivip ()>t<) (Dofneslic “Cc- CASSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, SEPT. 6, 1855. Cjjnire Woman. “ Holy are tlty rights, oh! teaman, and beautiful Thy calling.” Like clinging tendrils ’round The oak, thou beautifiest strength, and art the Fragrant, lily of God’s most beautiful flowers. Like not to the ocean, in its foaming Ynger —nor the mighty vessel Tiding the fearful Waves in proud defiance ! —but to the | Steady compass, with its gentle hand, guiding, All silently thro’ the dark waters, to the Haven of the proud ship’s hope — small in its j Sight of size, but gre.it in mighty worth. Not a great nation’s hero, art thou nor The leader of a bloody battle ! Tiiou standest i Not on the rude platform of the world, in Pride of homage paid, nor bend’st in courtly Halls thy beauteous brow, to the bright wreath inga ; Os Fame’s laurel crown; yot to thee belongs the Hero’s praise. Thou hast fledged the young nestling Into the nightingale of birds, and heurest songs to his i Praise, as a bright tribute to thy well directed : wisdom. | The golden medal is not thine, yet doth Thy unselfish courage turn the warrior to his ; path, lighting j 11 is darksome way with cheering hopes, arid ; with Thy parting prayers, nerving his sierner heart ; to The bright achievements of a soldier’s glory. 1 Thou unravelest not the secrets of The earth, uor searchest the glowing wonders 1 of I The moon and stars; yet is thy more quiet mind a Well-spring, from which the philosopher May drink—and thy home’s sweet stillness a fount From which the poet gleans his verse. “ Holy are thy rights, and beautiful thy cal- 1 ling.” Angels of earth ! ever hovering with unwearied , wings ’round | The dark couch of death watching the last dim j light “Os life passing away /” Sweet soother of childhood’s pain, thy Gentle words bring balm to young, troubled ; hearts, and Little feet fly to the fold of thy ever open arms ; i nor j Doth the aged slight their influence—all strick i on ; Hearts bow to thy heav’nly condolence —dark j misery knows • Thy coming, and sinful hearts grow soft in the ! Light of thy happy smile. ! “ Jfoly are thy rights, and beautiful thy call j ing /” j Oh! when thou look’st upon this earth, so j j strangely | Beautiful, and sec’st thyself the beauteous queen ! I of I All—bright purity thy crown —a loving heart j : Thy guide, on ! lift thy voice to God, and _ j Thank him “That He hath made thee a Wo man !” Cassvii.i.k, Geo., Feb. 9 1855. suana. (Driipnl J^nuudUttf. Written expressly for the Cassville Standard. 11)4 11)1-44 GoitVi) Hii)!;?.* LINK TIIE SECOND. LOVE: Or the Adventures of an American Student. BV MISS C. W. BARBER. CHAPTER VIII. TIIE NIGHT AT CRAG’S END. The long night through which Sol watched, at Crag’s End, wore slowly away. No travellers showed themselves —not a sound was to be heard hut the rushing waters beneath, and the rumb ling thunders over head. The rain at times poured down in torrents, and the dwarf was drenched to the skin, but he still kept at his post, sleepless and vigi ! hint as a sentinel on important duty.— j At a very late hour he was joined by Smith, who came riding down on his Shetland pony. The young man’s face wore au anxious expression. He had | thrown off the clothes in which lie had i journeyed through the preceding day, i and was now completely enveloped in a 1 long cloak, which served to partially j shield him from the tempest. “ Have you seen nothing of them, ’ yet, Sol I’’ he asked, pausing beside a ; fire of brushwood, which the dwarf had kindled, under the projecting cliff of a | huge rock, and by which he was sitting, ; enveloped in a cloud of steam that the ; heat extracted from his saturated habil | aments; “ have you seen nothing of March mont and the Professor yet?” “ No, Mister Smith, they have not showed themselves in this road —that’s certain.” “ What can have become of them?” pursued Smith, as if to himself. “As soon as daylight breaks in the east,” he continued, “ wc will follow the road, and see if we can discover any track of them. Somebody certainly must have cither seen or heard from them.” The dwarf nodded from under his i rimless hat. “There’s been foul play somewhere, ; Mister Smith,” he said, thrusting both i of his hands into his capacious pockets, j “ I’m certain ot that. It has been whis 1 pered about for a day or two past, that Boh Clinch’s band is in this neighbor hood—if so, we can surmise what may ’ have become of them.” j “True! true!” said Smith, while an ! expression of concern akin to agony, j passed over his fine features. “If they have fallen into that outlaw’s hands, i Heaven help them—for useless, 1 fear, will be the vigilance of man. Bob Clinch is to this part of the world, what Rob Roy was to Scotland—a terror and a scourge. His character, however, lacks the trails of nobleness, which were some j *(Jopy righi secured. “ PRINCIPLES NOT MEN.” times displayed by the Scottish marauder. Heaven help mv poor Marchmout and the Professor!” “ It’s worse than falling over Crag’s End,” continued the dwarf. “Few, I’ve heard them say who fall into Clinch’s hands, ever get’out again. For my part I’d rather he dashed into atoms on the rocks down there, than to be captured, murdered, or made perhaps to join his desperate gang —a thousand times rath er.” “ Don't talk about your letters /” said a voice almost at the dwarf’s elbow.— Both Smith and Sol started, as if a can non had hei'ii discharged at their feet, hut the voice was succeeded by utter si lence, and nothing could be seen —no outline of a human figure discovered, in the dense darkness which enshrouded every thing beyond where the dying light of tiie decaying lire fell. “Who speaks?” demanded Smith, drawing a pistol from beneath his cloak. “ Who is hidden there in the darkness ?” There was no reply. “ Speak again !” commanded the stu dent, “ or I’ll tire at you, who ever you are! Speak !if you value your life 1” “ D n ye, fire away!” said the same mysterious voice; “I m not ft’ fraid ! ’ The sharp report of the pistol was di reetly afterwards heard, as if it might have been a reverberation of the thunder rolling over head. Both Smith and Sol listened, to see if any thing like a groan or an oath could be heard, assuring them that the student had touched his view less n ark. But all was silent for a moment. Then a low, mocking laugh came to them, as if the one uttering it was retreating far away in the darkness. “That is one of Clinch’s men,” said Sol. “I’d stake my life on it. We are watched. 1 wish daylight would come, —then there would be fair play if a fight is wanted.” “ We had better extinguish the fire immediately,” said Smith. “We can be seen by its light, while our enemies, wherever they may be, are screened by the darkness. Put out the fire, Sol.” The dwarf caught the chunks of wood, which had composed the most durable part of the fire, and with his strong hands, hurled them far out into the wind, and rain, and darkness, a4f he too were aiming at the unseen intruder, who had broken in so unceremoniously, upon their watch. The rain soon quenched the scattered fire, and the dwarf and student stood in as dense darkness, as that which had a few moments before screened the robber, (if robber it were,) who had so rudely accosted them. “ Little will be gained by staying here, I imagine,” at length exclaimed Smith. “We may as well go up to Wernlock and larry until daylight.— Then we will alarm the neighborhood, and institute a search for our missing friends.” “No! no!” said Sol. “I intend to stay on the ground until morning. You can ride back to Wernlock, arouse Daddy Logan and have everything in readiness bv daylight, but I choose to remain where i am!” , “ I do not think it will be quite safe, staying here alone,” said the student.— “ You had better go back with me. I am drenched to the skin already. You are, if possible, wetter than I am, and as I before said, nothing is to be gained by staying here. Marchmont and the Pro fessor are dead, or captured, or something unaccountable has happened to them in some way, 1 am at rather a loss to surmise how or what—but we will go up to Daddy Logan’s, and proceed in the morning in a search after them. Their baggage would be very likely to attract a desperado’s eye, and Marchmont, I know was without arms, for I had his gun in my possession. How unfortunate that I insisted upon taking it! Had he retained it, he might have defended him self—the report of it too would doubtless have attracted my attention, and I and Pomp could have hastened back to their assistance, if aught of evil did befall them. But it is too late to repent now. Will you go up to Wernlock or stay here?” “ 1 will stay,” said the dwarf. The student turned and jumped astride of the small animal, whose bridle he had scarcely relinquished for a moment since dismounting, and was soon climbing the hill on Ids way to Daddy Logan’s cabin. His mind was filled full of doubts and gloomy apprehensions. Bob Clinch had long been known among the mountains as one of the most fearless and desperate of mankind—he was a freebooter, and had attached to him a band of men. who secreted themselves in wild moun tain passes, and maintained,when attack ed, a firm and decided defence. Pew belonging to these outlaws had during the fifteen or twenty years in which they had been known and feared in that vi cinity, ever been brought to justice.— Sometimes they carried on for awhile their graceless trade, and then disap peared for months and even years.— Where they went nobody knew; but. scarcely did the country have time to settle down into peac3 and security— scarcely did men get to travelling fear lessly through high ways and by ways, before Bob Clinch and his men were back again, and the event of their return was always signalized by some act o! atrocious wickedness —an act which a roused and started the whole region, and set every body upon their guard. Coun terfeit. money soon became plentiful—it crept into circulation, nobody knew how or from whence it came. The periods of Bob Clinch’s visitations were fearful ones. The mount.fineers dreaded them —there was then no security felt —life and property were both liable at any moment to be recklessly destroyed, but they had to be endured. Too cunning and too desperate to be easily reached and arrested, the robbers came and went, as best suited their pleasure. It was in to the hands of these cut-throats and mountain marauders, that Smith feared his peaceable and unsuspecting friends might have fallen. Clinch and his men had recently been absent for a long time —the mountain people had dropped in to a sort of forgetfulness respecting their existence, but the time of their return had arrived it seemed. Nothing was to be looked for on the part of the moun taineers now but acts of violence and outrage. When Smith reached the cabin, lie found that neither Daddy Logan nor Ids wife had retired during the night. They sat and listened to the bowlings of the storm without, and talked of the lost travellers. A ruddy lire blazed on the hearth—the mountaineer had on his over coat, and was watching for the first streak of grey dawn to break in the east. He had determined to then take his horse, and ride down to where Smith and Sol kept their dreary vigils. But the sight of Smith cheered him. lie hoped that something had been seen or heard of those in whose fate all felt so deeply interested. But Smith’s sad and anxious countenance forbade, be instant ly saw, the entertainment of any such hope. “The poor gentleman !*’ said Mistress Alice, with a sigh. “Only to think tlmt lie saved tlie life of my little gal, and that too after 1 had denied him a night’s shelter, and now he has come to this ! Who would ha’ thought it?” and she sobbed hysterically. Smith related to them the adventures of the'night, and told them how lie had fired at an unseen person through the darkness. “It’s Clinch!” said Daddy Logan, starting up. “ You may depend upon it—it’s Clinch and his gang. I’ve lived among these mountains a longtime, and I’ve got to knowing the first and least signs of him and his desperadoes. Well, if Clinch has got them the case is a des perate one. lie is a little man, it is said, but be carries the heart of a lion. Nothing ever scared him yet, and he goes every where, under all sorts of dis guises, and finds out every thing about every body, without people’s once sus pecting it is him. If Clinch is about, we may look out —the people in the A bite house—your folks, I mean, sii* up there on the hill, may look out for him, for they have got p : les of brass, and ho will manage to get it all before fall.” “ If by brass 3 011 mean money,” said Smith, “ you say truly. My uncle is wealthy, but 1 do not apprehend that Clinch will get much of it. lam only troubled about my friends. We must raise the country and scour the moun tains for them, to morrow, my honest friend,” said the student —“daylight is breaking in the east, now. Bring out your horse, and let us away.” The old man obeyed, and in the first grey 7 dawn Hie student and the moun taineer were on their way 7 to spread the alarm, and to raise a force sufficient to capture if possible, those who so ruth lessly captured others. As they passed the White ho ise (as Daddy Logan per sisted in calling it,) they saw pale, anx ious faces looking out at them through the windows. Neither Gertrude nor Julia had clos ed their eyes in sleep during the night. Both were agitated by indefinable tears and doubts. Early as it was, Smith saw at a glance that the whole house hold was astir. ltis uncle stood upon the door steps, looking at the light grey clouds, which were Hashing through the morning sky after a night of tempest and storm. Ilis aunt was going hither and thither through the house with an eye upon the business which the ser vants were engaged in transacting, but it was easy to perceive that her thoughts were pre-engaged, while Gertrude and Julia stood and pressed their pale cheeks against the smooth window panes, and looked almost anxious to hear something relative to the fate of those whom each, at that moment, felt to be inexpressively dear. “ Have you heard anything about our lost guests ?” enquired the owner of the stately monsion, at the same time strok ing his thin locks with his hand, and coming forward to meet the horse-back riders. 11 is nephew shook his head. “It is supposed,” ho said at length, “ that they have fallen into the hands of Clinch and his men. Wo are on our way to arouse and alarm the country. Can you join us, uncle 3” “ Certainly,” said the old man, hur riedly. “Certainly, 1 will join you in doing any tiling that I can. But what has given rise to this suspicion 3 1 Smith again related the incident which had befallen himself and Sol at Crag’s End. His uncle shook his head ominously. “That bodes no good,” he said, “sure enough. If those rascals are back again TWO DOLLARS A-YKAR, IN ADVANCE. in our midst, we may all look out. — Pomp, bring out my horse ai.d saddle him.” KtlieOirfohj DMyss Delivered by Miss S. Juice Hooper, Grad - vate of Cassvi/le Ft mule College, July 20, 1855. Blithe summer retiring yields, her place to sober autumn, while the winds siirhiti", la j ment the departure of their flower crowned | queen, and the birds flit away to seek a suu Inierclime; but ere they are gone, carol a joyous farewell, filling the woods with such a gush of inolody, that the forest trees lis tening bend their haughty heads, and the ocean wave pausing to drink in the floating sounds, steals from the chaos of melody a sweet soprano to the deep bass of its waters. But there is something iu the still lingering notes, something iu the music faint ly echo ing o'er hill and dale which cheers us when wo see them no more; something which says <i we're gone but for a season ” The flower unfolding its delicate petals, laughs to the summer breeze and gladdens us with its smile of love. Anon it fades and withers on the stalk, and nought remains but the sere and yellow leaves strewing the ground, sad | relict of the beautiful! Y.s! the silent perfume is clinging to it still , and when the wanton zephyr rifles it of this lingering fra ! grance. as it is borne away upon the bosom of the ravislier, we bear the whisper, * I’ll ! bloom again to-morrow.” llad tho bird bid \ a last farewell to its sylvan home, ‘twould | have chanted a mournful adieu—had the ; flower reared its frail form for the last time j ’neath the blue vault of heaven, there would have been sorrow in its whispered good bye. Even so when summoned to take a final adieu of school and its hallowed scenes, must the farewell be fraught with sorrow, mingled j with nought of joyousness, for it is a long adieu —a farewell of forever. Respected Audience?-: ’Tis with pleasure now at the anniversary ! of our annual Commencement, that I address j myself to you, who have been with us, dur ing the painful ordeal of a public examina tion, exhibiting a sympathy for us daring the exciting scenes, and indicating by your interest and attention how important to you is the cultivation of our minds ami hearts. Old Time has been busy 7 since we last met, and has just garnered the sheaves of our | scholastic course, and presented the humble j offering to an enlightened and perhaps crit- I ical audience, for we dare not hope that j this crowded assembly is entirely without i f s j critics, or that we have passed the ordeal cn- I tirely unscathed. Sarcasm and biting satire 1 have doubtless aimed many a poisoned shaft lat their victims. One sends his random shot : at the so-styled n blue stockings,” another 1 with a significant curl of the lip denominates us superficial aime/s at perfection, while a third < always did dislike to see children growing wiser than their fathers and moth ers before them.” But whether we aim at the regular indigo blue stocking literature, or are content with a more delicate skv-blue, —that cerulean tint which dyes the heavens and imparts to its possessor the delightful polish and winning grace, without the as sumption and arrogance of the pedantic scholar. Whether or not we have glossed over the mind, and covered it with the art ful tissue of accomplishments, through whose flimsy fabric the dark hue of ignorance can be discerned, we would still have the barbed arrows of ridicule pointed by some hand.— So whether wo may drink deep of the Pierian spring, or only sip of its crystal fount, we can all challenge the band of armed critics to deteot in any of us a literal <1 Know Nothing.” To some of you tho exercises of this examination have been fraught with an interest above that the careless observer feels. The parent who sees a beloved child face the gaze of a crowded audience, can but experience a thrill of excitement ngi’a ting liis frame, and call it not weakness that a father shall tremble with anxiety when lie sees the loved one thus exposed; ’tis a holy interest he feels, a commendable anx iety which excites him. Point not with rid icule to the tear which steals from the mother's eyo at such a time, ’tis a tribute worthy to bo caught by Angels and curried to exhale and glitter in the heaven’s blue ether as a bright testimony of a mother's love. Upon you, fond father, it depends whether your child shall move downward or upward upon the scale of improvement; your’s the duty to urge upon her the neces sity of laborious study, while acquiring the rudiments of knowledge; yours to assist and to render the path of le li ning less dif ficult ; yours to bid her strive for the laurel wreath, and when once she has acquired a love of knowledge, taken one draught of its crystal fount, she will ever thirst for its refreshing waters. Could you tlieu wish to oppose her progress in learning, you should have to employ some barrier as stroug as the sword, which cuts oft’ approach from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Eden. Gentle mother", yotrrs to instil yio moral and religious .principles, which will luako her the. possessor of all those qualities and virtues which constitute woman's true source ofpower. <• For though she be more talented than the sages id’ an tiquity, aud possessed of all the graces aud accomplishments of the fabled llouries of Mythology,” yet if she be nnblest by the enlightening aud sanctifying influenoo of Religion, she will shine but as a feeblo light, or like the splendor of the short lived mete or, will dazzle for a moment and be forgot ten, or extinguished by the blaze of those brighter planets whose pure, steady light ISTO. 30. j shines on forever. Let then the united light of reason and religion guide her actions, j and when your last hour shall have arriv ed, an affectionate child shall he able to soothe the pangs of dissolution, and when your spirit shall have winged its flight homeward, can murmur the sweet consola tion to you and herself, n We meet again in heaven.” ■Esteemed Trustees: 1 } Within the comparatively short existence of this institution you have been able by your interest and exertions to overcome the vast amount of popular prejudice which bailed I its opening scenes, and to stem the tido of envy which threatened to engulph in its bit -1 ter waters the frail bark launched upon the treacherous sea of popular approval. By your efforts these walls were reared, and by j your continued interests, filled with the vo taries of science, and though still in her j incipient stage, your tender nursling bids fair to attain the strength and vigor of a glorious maturity. ’ When we remember the almost insur mountable difficulties which reared their formidable front at tho presumptuous prop osition of building a College, the sneers of 1 the cynic and incredulous, the ill-omened prophecies that a school could never succeed I here, and tbeu consider that in the short space of one year and six months it has al | ready won its way to the hearts of the com munity ; already taken a firm stand among ; its sister institutions, wo can but thank you I for its success ; you who have constituted yourselves its guardians, and with whom it now remains to decide whether she shall at tain to the highest pinnacle of literary emi nence, and illumine with the light of learn : ing our own dear Cherokee. Shall you , transmit as an inheritance to your children i the grateful remcinbrauce that you have helped to disseminate the truths of learning, that you have given an impetus to the on ward tide of improvement, which is deluging our fair land ? And why may not you add ! one trophy to the modern march of mind* ’ one star to the galaxy of female colleges which now shed their blended light through j out the union, from north to south, from \ oast to west ? Why not place another jewel among the many already glittering in the I diadem of learning upon Georgia's brow ? 1 1* Lowliness is great ambition’s ladder,” and 1 the little deserted village may yet roar its , head proudly as the polar star of wisdom 1 and knowledge, while in the plenitude of her power she shall write Georgia upon the ( pages of imperishable fame. There's sub j limity in the thought, there's patriotism in jit! Education is the main spring of free | dom, and at its touch it almost seems as if the honored dead will arise—the earth givo j up the departed heroes of our American j revolution, long covered with the sod where- I (iu they were slain, to blow a loud blast at their awakening so the progress of educa tion, to the triumphs of freedom. Alethinks tis enough to cause tho vault of Vernon to open, and a voice to steal from the silont ups of the Father of his Country,” bidding you as you love your homes, your lauds, to 1 render your sons able to protect them by | the cultivation of their iutellects, your 1 daughters able to grace them by beautifying : their minds with the refining influences of ; education, and purifying their hearts with the sacred teachings of piety. Truly then : your children might rise up aud call you blessed. ’ ; .Mi/ Beloved Teachers : The painful duty of saying farewoll to ’ you can be avoided no longer. The holy ties which have bound us together as teach ers and pupil are about to be sundered Each will pursue a different course down the tur : bid stream of li le, each mingle in different scenes, and form new ties, new links in the great chain of human hearts, but those we have formed during the brief period of our • sweet communion here, shall ne'er bo riven. The past shall always be the connecting link which shall rivet forever the bands ! which bind our hearts together. The place , and circumstances under which these feel ings have sprung into existence shall exert ; an undying influence upon my heart in after years, nud Uie recollections of wiy transient gleam of happiness hero, shall form the brightest picture engraved on memory's 1 tablet, upon which 1 shall often gase with mingled emotions of pleasure and sadness. E'en now memory is busy stealing a retro j sportive view of tbe great store boute of tho I past, and crowding the varied scenes upon I the pages of her heart leaves 1 fill again the vacant seats in the. recitation rooms, hear again instruction's voice from the lips ot beloved teachers, wander through the lubaryutk mazes of kaowledgo, and sail | smoothly down the ocean of improvement, tor standing at the helm and steering the 1 ship’s course through the rugged waters of the tempestuous sea, are my kind and cxj>e rionced guides .. JJlcssings brighten as they take their flight,” and Imw swiftly fly the golden hours when the blissful period is i approaching its close. Hours which moved on loadcu wings when wo were anticipating ! a number of years of toilsome study in the duf-ky walls of tho school room, now seem ito flit by, on wings of light—ah ! deeply and more beautifully vivid is the recollection of our dream of happiness when the transient vision is fading away. Would that Time could pauso for nwliilo in his ceaseless course and bid me rema n with you through anoth er season of joy, but silently, steadily, e’en now he is winging his way, and sadly I must leave you. My Dear School mates and Companions : We haYe wandered through a wilderness