Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

lire fMSfI!,! STMIMI. BENNETT & SMITH, PROPRIETORS. VOL- “VT!. ‘platform and principles of TIIE ‘ JdDMUiic Bflti-Kiioto ydliiiig Party of Georgia: ADOPTED i jt a Mass J leetina, held at the Capitol, on the ! ifk licremher, 1855, at which the lion. Howell j Cohh, lion. Robert Toombs, Hon. Alfred her - | tenon and Hon. Alex. 11. Stephen* j, wereprec- j tut, and made Speeches. Ist,- Resolved, That as a portion of the * Democratic and Anti-Know Nothing ['arty of Georgia, we declare, in the language of the Georgia Convention of 1850, .. That we hold the American Union secondary in im portance only to the rights nnd principles it nsdesigned to perpetuate;” that past asso ciations. present fiuitiou, nnd future pros pects, will bind us to it so long ns it contin te to be the safeguard of those rights nnd , principles. 2d, That we hereby declare our full nnd j I unqualified adhcs.on to the following Reso- j ! lution of the Georgia Convention of ISSO, i and our unalterable determination to main j tain it in its letter nnd spirit, viz:—4th ! Resolution, Georgia Platform : ..That the j State of Georgia, in the judgment of this : Convention, will and ought to resist even (as ■ a last resort) to a disruption of every tie j which binds her to the Union, any action of * Congress upon the suhject. of Slavery in the \ District of Columbia, or in piaces suhject to J the jurisdiction of Congress, incompatible i with the safety, domestic tranquility, the i rights and honor of the slaveholding States; j or any act suppressing the slave trade be tween the slaveholding States; or any refusal to admit as a State any Territory hereafter applying, because of the existence of slavery therein, or any act prohibiting the introduc tion of slaves into the Territories of Utah) and New Mexico; or any act repealing or I materially modifying the laws in force for the recovery of fugitive slaves.” 3d, That we approve and endorse the ac- ‘ tion of our last Congress in the passage of ( the Nebruska-Kansas act. and the principles tiierein established, and in conformity with these principles the people of Kansas, have the right, when the number of their popula tion justifies it. to form a Republican State Constitution, with or without slavery, ns they may determine, and be admi'tcd into the Union upon an equal footing with the other States ; and that her rejection by Con gress, on account of slavery, would be a just cause for the disruption ot all the ties that bind the State of Georgia to the Union 4th, That we adopt and approve the fol lowing Resolution passed unanimously by the last Legislature of Georgia : .4 Resolv ed by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That opposition to the principles of the Nebraska Bill, in relation to the subject of slavery, is regarded by the people of Georgia as hostility to the people of the Sooth, and that all persons who partake of such opposition are unfit to be recognized as component parts of any party or organiza tion not hostile to the South.” sth, That in accordance with the above Resolution, whilst we are willing to act in party association with all sound and relia ble men in every section of the Union, we *rc not willing to affiliate with tiny party that shall not recognize, approve and carry out the principles and professions of the Ne braska Kansas act. and that the Democratic and Anti-Know Nothing party of Georgia, ought to cut off all party connection with every man and party at the North, or else where, that does not come up fully and fairly to this line of action. Gth, That those sound and reliable Demo crats at the North, who have patriotically fought for the Nebraska Kansas act, and the maintaiuance of the Fugitive slave law, against the combined forces of Know-Noth iugisui and Abolitionism, (which seek their repeal,) and who stand pledged to support the admission of Kausas into the Union as a slave State, should she ask it, merit the heartfelt sympathies, thanks and encournge ruent of all Southern men, in their patriotic position. That in the rnnks of the Democratic party of the North, aluue have been fouud those patriotic men, who have stood by the fights ot the South, and, judging the future h/ the past, that party only coutains the elements of souudnese upon the slavery question, upon which a national party can be constructed with which the South can consistently co-operate. Bth, That it i 8 expedient and proper that the Democratic and Anti-Kuow Nothing party of Georgia, be represented in the Na tmnal Convention of the Democratic party, which is to meet in Cincinnati'! next spring, for the purpose of nominating candidates for President and Vice-President ; that the De mocratic and Anti-Know Nothing members of the Legislature, together with such other members of the party as may be chosen to attend, from their respective counties, be and they are hereby requested to meet at some convenient time daring the present ses sion, and select twenty delegates to said Convention for this State. 9th, That our delegates to said Conven tion, ought, in our opinion, to be instructed by those who shall appoint them, to insist upon the adoption of a platform of principles ‘ as the basis of a national organization, prior j to the nomination of candidates, and that I said platform shall, amongst other things, include in substance, the following proposi tions : Ist, The recognition and adoption of the principles established in the Nebraska Kansas act: 2d, That neither the Missouri Compromise, nor any other anti-slavery re striction, shall hereafter be extended over* any Territory of the United States: 3d, The | prompt nnd faithful execution of the Fugi j tire slave law, and its permanent continuance ■j upon the Statute book. 10th, That no man ought to be held nnd ( considered a member of the national Demo cratic party, who does not recognize, approve I and adopt the foregoing propositions, and i that the Democratic and Anti- Know Nothing ; party of this State, through its sa'd delega tion, oueht not to affiliate or act in said I CQnvection with any delegate or delegates, j who shall disapprove nnd vote against the same. 11th, That if said propositions shall not in substance be incorporated in the platform adopted by said Convention, the delegates from Georgia ought, in the opinion of this meeting, to withdraw from the Convention, and take no farther part in the nominations or other proceedings of the same; nnd that our delegates ought to be instructed so to j act. j 12th, That the Democratic and Anti-Know j Nothing party of this State, ought, and will ! support the nominees of said Convention for j President nnd Vice-President, provided the j platform adopted by the said Convention be j in accordance with the spirit nnd intent of the foregoing propositions, and the nominees i thereof, be pledged, if elected, to curry out the same in good faith in the administration jof the government, and in appointments to i office under the administration. 13th. That we sympathize with the friends |of the slavery cause, in Kansas, in their j manly efforts to maintain their rights and the rights nnd interests of the Southern peo ple, and that we rejoice at their recent vie. tories over the paid adventurers and jesuiti cal hords of northern abolitionism: that the deep interest felt and taken by the people of Missouri in the settlement of Kansas and the decision of the slavery question in it, is j both natural aud proper, and that it is their | right aud duty to extend to their Southern 1 brethren in that Territory every legitimate j and honorable sympathy and support, i 14th, That we are uncompromisingly op- I posed to the political organization commonly | called the Kuow Nothing order, or American ’ part}’, having no sympathy with their secre j sy. their oaths, their unconstitutional de | signs, their religious intolerance and their • political proscription. 15ih, Thnt we hail with delight the late slgual triumph in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maine and other States including Georgia, of the Democratic party, and of the patriotic | : Whigs, who co operated in achieving these i results over the Know Nothing organization, jas conclusive evidence, that in the great practical questions involved in that contest, Southern men may honorably and success fully combine, without regaid to pnstpolit- I ical distinctions, to save the Constitution from desecration, nnd the South from being | prostrated before tho power of Northern fn -1 naticism nnd misrule, i 16th, That the Democratic and Anti Know l Nothing party in all our sister States, nnd especially of the Southern States, are re i spedfuily and earnestly requested to take the foregoing Resolutions into their early consideration, and co operate with us in the poliey aud objects intended to be thereby secured Splendid Premiums for Wheat. The undersigned will give premiums for wheat shipped to Etowah mills and weighed and Judged by his miller at the mills, for the crop of 1856. as follows, to wit: Ist. For the best aud largest crop grown by one farmer, of Cooper Wheat, a Silver j I Pilcher worth £SO. i 2d. For the best and largest crop, grown ] by one farmer of Walker Wheat, a silver ’ pitcher worth £SO 3rd. For 500 bushtds of white wheat ether than Cooper wheat adjudged to be better for the mill and farmer, in this country than the Cooper wheat, a silver pitcher worth £SO, 4th, For any variety of Red Wheat, ad- j judged better than it is for the farmer and ) I mill a silver pitcher worth £SO. j Gth. For the best 500 bus., Cooper Wheat, | I by a farmer whose crop does not exceed 600 . bush., a silver pitcher worth £25. 7th. For the best 200 bus., Cooper Wheat ; by a farmer whose crop does not exceed 250 bus., a silver goblet worth £ls. Bth. For the best 200 bus.. Walker Wheat, by a farmer whose crop does not exceed 250 bus., a silver goblet worth £ls. 9th. For the best 2 bus., Cooper Wheat, a silver cup worth £lO. 10th. For the best 2 bus., Walker Wheat a silver cup worth £lO. The wheat shipped, will be paid for at the highest price of the market, and shipper allowed to choose his time of price pnyment to Ist day of October 1856. A bill and R. R, receipt must accompany each shipment. The weight per bushel, good order and purity of the grain, will be the criterion as well as its adaptation to milling and farming purposes. A vtatment of the mode of cultivation and time of seeding and barresing will accompany the loss of wheat. The premiums will be awarded and deliver* ed at Etowah Geo , on the first Tuesday in October 1850. M A COOPER, oetoter; 11, 1855. UiQOks fol’ $1 §i3odslrd Office, ® -Sebofed to qqO Sfqfe politic?, Jofeigi) qqO &c. GA., THTJESDAY, IISTOV. 29, 1855. ®l)c tHassmllc Stanbarb. B. F. BENNETT & S. H. SMITH, PUBLISHERS. c/K>“ OFFICE, — N. E. CORNER PUBLIC SQUARE. •‘JO® : 9 Terms : Two Dollars, if paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, if payment be delayed six months; Three Dollars, at the end of the year. No paper discontinued until all arreara ges are paid, except at the option of the Publishers. Miscellaneous Advertisements inserted at One Dollar per square (twelve lines) for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for each weekly continuance. ftd6etfiteb)eQfe Notice to Debtors nnd Creditors of an Es tate, must be published Forty Days. Notice thnt application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be published weekly for Two Months. Sales of Land nnd Negroes, by Adminis trators, Executors or Guardians, are to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, be tween the hours of 10 in the forenoon and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court House of the County in which the property is situate.— Notice of these Sales must be given in i\ public gazette Forty Days previous to the day of sale. Rules for Foreclosure of Mortgage, must be published monthly for four months. For establishing lost, papers, for the full space of three months For compelling titles from Executors or Administrators, where a bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of three months. Citations for Letters of Administration, thirty days For Dismission from Adminis ■ tration, monthly six months. For Dismission from Guardianship, forty days. For letters of Guardianship forty days. Hk of ffetospqpc^. 1. Subscribers who do not give express notice to the contrary, are considered ns wishing to continue their subscriptions. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance i of their newspapers, the publishers may con tinue to send them until all arrearages are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their newspapers from the offices to which they are directed, they are held responsible until they have settled the bills, and order ed a discontinuance. 4. If subscribers remove to other places without informing the publishers, and the newspapers are sent to the former direction, they are held responsible. 5. It has been decided by the Courts that subscribers refusing to take their newspapers from the office, or ren oving and loaving them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence ) of intentional fraud. 6. The Courts have also decided that a postmaster who neglects to perform his duty of giving reasonable notice, ns required by the Post Office Department, of the neglect of a person to take from the office newspapers addressed to him. renders himself liable for the subscription price. Democratic Anti-Know Noth in? Ticket. For Sheriff, JOSEPH BOGLE. For Clerk of Superior Court, JAMES WOFFORD. For Clerk of Inferior Court, JOHN F. MILHOLLEN. For Ordinary, J. W. WAITS. For ‘lax Receiver, D. H. TEAT. For Tax Collector, JOHN C. AYCOUK. For Coroner, BICHARD GAINES. Take Special Notice. —Wc request our subscribers, living in the vicinity of Cass ville, and who wish to pay their subscrip | tion in advance, to bring us bushels of Corn, for which the market price will be i paid, and placed to their credit on our ! nooks. We want some 60 or 70 bushels, and by doing this it will be an accommoda tion to us, and an easy way for you to pay your subscriptions. Bring us, say 1 barrel, each, and we will give as above stated.— Call at the Standard Office. “ PRINCIPLES —NOT. MEN.” Cjjnicr The Printer's Toil. Blow, ye stormy winds of winter ; Drive the chilly, drifting snow, Closely housed, the busy Printer Heeds not bow the winds may blow. Click, click liis type go dropping Here and there upon his case, As he slands for hours popping Every letter in its place. Heaven send the useful Printer Every comfort mortals need, For our nights are dull in winter, Had we not the news to read. Sad would be the world's condition If no Printer boys were found— Ignorance and superstition, Sin and suffering, would abound. Yen, it is the busy Printer Rolls the car of Knowledge on, And a gloomy mental winter Soon would reign if he were gone. Money's useful; yet the winters Fill not half so high a place As the busy, toiling Printers, Fing'ring type before the case. Yet while the type they're busy setting, Oft some thankless popinjay Leaves the country, kindly letting Printers whistle for their pay. Oh! ingratitude! ungracious! Are there on enlightened soil Men with minds so incapacious As to slight the Printer's toil! See him ! how extremely busy. Fing’ring type before the case, To : !ing, till he’s almost dizzy To exalt the human race. &C. The morning was dull, nnd betokened a day Unsuited to curing nnd carting of hay ; So Stephen bethought him to take a trip down, And bring this thing, aud that nnd the oth er from town ; And he harnessed the horse, and proceeded to go forth With a pail of pale butter, eggs, berries, &c. Now it hnppensd that Stephen (&c) came down On the day that the show was to enter the town, And into the village he chanced to come forth As the < caravan” came into town from the north, (A wondrous collection they purposo to show forth,) E;ks, elephants, monkeys, bears, tigers, &c. And Stephen arrived opportunely, I ween, For never had Stephen an elephant seen: So lie, with Old Sorrel,” fetched up by the fence, To sec, without paying the twenty five cents; And soon came the creature, uncouthly and slow forth, With tusks, nnd with trunk, blankets, rib bons, &c. But senred at the sight or the scett, or the souud, *. Old Sorrel” turned quickly and shortly around, Aud in turning so quickly and shortly a bout The wagon turned over and Stephen turned out; And into the gutter the berries did flow forth, Together with Stephen, eggs, butter, &c. Quoth Stephen aloud as he rose on his pegs, *. A fig for the berries, &c , and eggs — But henceforth 1 never can say it, of course, That I’ve not seen the elephant—nor can the horse ” And back to the homestead <> Old Sorrel” did go on, Leuving wagon and Stephen, &c., aud so on. War and Love. War and Love are strange compeers— War sheds blood, and Love sheds tears ; War has spears, and Love has darts, War breaks heads, and Love breaks hearts. The Belle and the Student. At a certain evening party, a hearty young beauty turned to a student who stood near her, and said : • Cousin John, I understand your eccen trio friend L—— is here. I have a great curiosity to see bin Do you bring him here and introduce him to me.’ The student went in search of his friend, and at leugtb found him lounging on the sofa . Come L ,’ said be, my beautiful cousin Catharine wishes to be introduced to you.’ • Well, trot her out, John,’ drawled L with nn affected yawn. John returned to bie cousin, and advised her to defer the introduction till a more fa vorable time, repeating tho answer he had received. The beauty bit her lips, but the next mo ment she said: Well, never fear, I shall insist on being introduced.’ After some delay, L—— was led up and ) the ceremony of introduction performed—j Agreeably surprised by the beauty and ! commanding appearance of Catharine, L made a profound low bow; but instead of returning it, she raised her eyeglass, sur veyed him from head to foot, and then wav ing the back of her hand towards him, drawled out, . trot him off, John! that's en ough !’ “ More’n You’ll Keep.” Some years ago nn old sign-painter, who wns very cross, very gruff, and a little deaf, was engaged to paint the Ten Command ments on some tablets in a church not five miles from Buffalo. He worked two days at it, and at the close of the second day the pnstor of the church came in to see how the work progressed. The old man stood by, smoking a short pipe, as the reverend gentleman ran his eyes over the tablets. • Eh !” said the pastor, as his familiar detected something wrong in the wording of the holy precepts ; • Why, you careless old person, you left a part of one of the com mandments entirely out; don't you see ?” <• No ;no such thing said the old man, putting on his spectacles ; .. no, nothing left out, where?” <i Why, there,” persisted the pastor; * here, look at them in the Bible ; you have j left some of the commandments out ” •• Well, what if I have?” said old obsti nacy, as he ran his eye complacently over his work ; what if I have ? There's a blessed sight more there now than you’ll keep!” Another and more correct artist was em ployed next day. Borrowing Trouble. The newspaper called the . State of Maine.” published at Portland, gives the following illustration of the propensity of some people to be distressed by imaginary evils; Borrowing is a bad thing at best, but • borrowing trouble’ is perhap the most fool ish investment of • foreign capital” that a man or woman can make. An amusing in stance of this species of 4 operation’ is set forth in a duwn east newspaper, wherein a man thus related his experience in a finan cial way on the the occasion of the failure of a local Lank : i iAs soon as I heard of it my heart jumped right up into my mouth. -Now, thinks I, 4 sposin’ I got any bills on that bank! I'm gone if I hev—that’s a fact!’— So 1 put on my coat nnd 4put’ for home just ns fast as my legs would carry me ; fact is, I run all the way, nnd when I got there I looked keerfully and found that I hadn't got no bills on that bank—or any other ! Then I felt easier.’ •4 There have been a thousand instances of 4 borrowing trouble’ when it was not a whit better .secured’ than in the present ex ample.” ♦ Hints to Dentists. The Denti*s who may be in want of a little practice just 4 to keep their hand in,’ the following anecdote may nfford a useful hint. A good cat practice might be worth pick ing up—it would certainly be a mew sing ! Mr. Tiedetnnnn, the famous Saxon dentist, hat a valuable tortoise sell cat, that for days did nothing but moan. Guessing the cause, he looked into his mouth, and see ing a decayed tooth, soon relieved it of its pain. Thu following day there were at least ten cats at his door—the day after, twenty ; they went on increasing at such a rate that he was obliged to keep a bull dog to drive them away. But nothing would help them. A cot who had the tooth-ache would come any number of miles to him. It would come down the chimney even nnd not leave the room until he had taken its tooth out. It grew such a nuisance at last, that he was never free from one of these feline patients However, being one morning v ry nervous, he accidently broke the jaw of an old tab by. The news of this spread like wildfire. Not a single cat ever came to him afterwards. Wife Wanted. Here's a chance, Gals ! He talks to the point! Means what.he says! Address him i at Bntesville. Ark. : •4 Any gal what’s got a bed, a coffee pot, and a skillet, knows how to cut out britch es, can make a bantin’ shirt, nnd knows how to take care of children, can have my servi ces until death parts both of us ” JOHN C. SCHMIDT. A soldier on sentry duty at an en campment stabbed a dog with his bayonet, who was set on him by some boys. The owner came up and was much vexed to see his cur lifeless ** Why didn't you strike him with the butt of your gun ?” said he. • Because he didn't come at mo ta>l fore most,” was the answer. Jss>~The Albany Argus tells us a story of a man buying oats, a few days sinco, who gnvc a fifty dollar bill in mistake for a five. Ou discovering the blunder, and hastening to have it rectified, he found the recipient of it deliberately rubbing out the cipher on the bill, in order to make his cash account square with his funds. The story of a man who had a noso so large that he couldn't blow it without the use of gunpowder, is said to be a hoax. pa* The toothache may be cured by hold ing in the right hand a certain root —the root of the tooth. TWO DOLLARS A-YEAR,. IN ADVANCE. j 51 Cnjrifnl ftonj. PHILIP WINSLOW. B iK’qrt iftsfoi’tj. j CHAPTER I. “ Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, And worthily becomes his silver locks: He wears the marks of many years well spent., Os virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience.” Rowe's Jane Shore. He was an old man. Avery old man. Not that he had added up so many years. Not that so many winters aud summers had passed over him—not that he had seen so many changing scenes, and winter constel latioiiß. For it has been often said, until it has become a trite saying, that time in the life of man is not to be measured by the di al, or by events out of his own immediate experience. From very childhood he counts on days as the dates of joys and sorrows, nnd eagerly hastens forward to or shrinks back from a coming hour. Doctor Winslow had been nn old man ever since I had known him, and that is mon years than I will acknowledge. Older men than I have said the same thing ; and I have sometimes puzzled myself with the effort to add up the years of his life and give the ’ sum of them. That lie was over eighty then can be no doubt; and yet his voice was j clear, his eyes not in any manner dimmed his whole aspect, except at particular times, that of a stout, strong man He was of medium height for a man- not tall nor yet short, not thin nor yet heavy, j not quick in his movements nor was he fee ble or skw. He was very deliberate in all that he said and did, with one only excep lion, which was this : When in the pulpit on Sunday he was n I different man f:om any other day. Then all was activity, eloquence, fervor. Ilia whole soul was in the work of the day, and lie looked like a different being. He read the morning chapter with a full, sonorous voice. He gave out the psalms, and he sang them too, with fervor. But when he opeued his Bible, and lifted his eyes for a moment for help from Heaven, and then proceeded to expound the passage he had selected, he warmed up, and Ivs words glowed, and his hearers were carried away with his simple, fervid and yet grand utterance. His parsonage (it was his own ; the church built one, but he used his own house.) was the perfection of simple comfort, liis libra ry it was a luxury to enter. All the fathers looked out from oak shelves, and nil the learning of all ages was there with them Many a rare old volume that it would please an antiquary or a book collector to pay n small fortune for, was there, in the quiet and unpretending collection of the villag pastor. He had no mania for old books, tint he loved them, and he loved te take one in hand that, he never saw before, and sit down for an hour and talk with the author, long since dead and forgotten. But the social qualities of the Doctor were liis most winning. Where lie received his doctorate I did not for a long time know, as there was no manifest inducement to any college to confer it; for there was no nn tiuy. and there were no students likely to conic from our tillage, and we ail know that on>- or the other of these expectations is ord:iia ri’y necessary to lead a college board to confer a degree. But I learned, at length, that it was one of the oldest institutions in the country which for once, was led in honor piety and learning, and had astonished the pastor in his quiet village home with the of ficial letter thnt announced to him that they had seen fit to recommend him to the world as fitted to teach the mysteries of sacied theology But in the library every person in his congregation loved to pass nn hour with the clergyman; old and young alike found him their companion and friend. 1 think lie best liked the presence of the young; and In would sit for hours among them, teliiug quaint old stories, or personal reed loot ions, or curious things be bad picked up in liis reading, and they were never tired ol listen ing to him. He was a widower, but no one knew hi.- wife. He had been the pastor of that church for forty years, but no one had ever heard him name her. He came there a man ot middle age. They asked him if he were married and he replied that lie was a wid ower. That was the only time it was evei spoken of. lie had ministered to them a longtime; he had baptised their children nnl buried their fathers; be had married their young maidens, had counselled their erring sons, had been father, brother, friend, in joy and sorrow ; had been the constant, steadfast visitor in days of affliction; had watched with them many nights of agony . had pointed them often to the far-off heuveu. where alone there was rest and peace for even the dwellers in that peaceful village, and yet no ono had penetrated the old m iuV soul, or knew from what fountains in his own breast he drew those consolations which experience alone can supply. CHAPTER 11. ” I cannot love him, Yet I suppose him virtuous —know him noble, * * * * * * A gracious person; but yet I cannot love him.’ j tihahtytor*'* A lyht. Mon laugh at love. Men sneer at human I affection. Well, let them laugh, let them | sneer. There are hours in the experience of every man when he longs for tho infolding of a woman’s arms, for the kisses of a wo man's lips, for the soothing of a woman's voice, with unutterable longings. Wait for that hour. Do sot attempt to arguo with NO. 4,2- the poor fool of this world, who, in his igno rance of bliss, denies its existence. It is not necessary to relate the manner in which I became acquainted with the ear ly history of Philip Winslow. He is an old man now, and those around him cannot ap preciate very many quiet things that he sys, ami many more that he does, because they do not know him. I can understand his long evenings iu the still moonlight, bis lonesome walks along the bank of the river, liis smile while he sits thinking, his pauses in prayer when he speaks of the re-uniens of the other world. Doubtless the star-light Qf his young love lias been steadfastly shin ing through all the twilight years of his later life The first passage in his early life that I shall refer to is a letter: 44 Never again, Philip, never again. My hand does not tremble as I write it, my heart does not beat one pulsation the faster for this last letter. Although this is the end of many pleasant hopes, many brilliant antic ipations, yet I am very calm in saying that it must be the end. Ido not love you. This is all the story. I wiil love you as a sister, —but nothing more. Do not seek to change my resolution. You will fail nnd but in crease the pain of this final separation. So good bye, now. forever, Philip. Think no more of Mary Pierson.” lie read it over a second time, but it was l , ’ the same cool, deliberate, final answer. He studied it to extract, if it were possible, some ot her meaning out of the brief senten ces. But lie failed iu that. He examined the writing to sec if there might not be some hesitation in the penmanship, some indica tion of vascillating thought, uncertain decis ion, but lie found nothing of the sort; every I letter was the familiar, firm hand that he - knew of old ; every curve was regular, eve ry dot and cross was in its place. There was one word on which he paused long. It was the word 4. pain.” What did she mean by that? Was it of herself or him that she spoke? Was it painful for her thus to d.smiss him, because she thought lie would suffer, an 1 s.ie did not wish to give pain, even to a worm ; or was there no such feeling whatever, but only the convic tion that he would suffer and no care on her part whether he did or not? Whatever it was, it was vain for him to seek any evidence of a wil ingness on the part of Mary Pierson to be'sued for a change of purpose. lie knew her heart—which was as firm ns a rock in its determinations—and be yielded, though it was like yielding life blood to the kuil'e, for she was of noble na ture, and one from whom it was terrible to part. For two years lie bad loved her with abounding love. They had been much to gether—his preference for her was so marked that it soon ceased to be a secret in the lit tle village where they resided. They had been much together, in this two years, and had—he believed it in his heart of hearts— loved each other all the time. Not all her asseverations now could convince him that -lie had not loved him; and on calm reflec tion he was satisfied, even now. that she did not know herself and that she loved him still. He even smiled when lie read her letter a g ;in. and saw how coolly she said she did not love him. But his smile became bitter when he reflected that she was just as deter mined, aud that eveu a knowledge of her iwn heart would never serve to effect a ohnuge of resolution in her. In spite of her youth and beantv, sho bad all the dignity ands verity of full grown and experienced womanhood 1; was the peculiarity of her nature which distinguished her from all it hors, nnd none knew it. bettdr than lie. She was a strange person altogether, and ■ yet very lovely Her soul was full of fresh, out gushing feelings, which at times she did not seek to restrain, and yet but few uuder -tond her. Had you seen her in company, m her own drawing room, receiving her many guests, or in the evening among the gay, most splend.dly atti-el, sweeping through the crowd with all the majesty of a queen, you would have sai l she was a cold, haughty beauty. But had you seen her, when Philip Winslow sat at her side, and no one else was near, you would have call ed her the impersonation of goodness and eve Ii ness, of ease nnd gentle beauty. But she dismissed Philip Winslow. Aud why ? She said it wns because she did not love him. He said it was because she did not know herself. It happened iu this wise: They were returning from a long moon light walk. 44 Mary, 1 am going away to-morrow to be goue a great while. I know not how long I cannot go without—without —with- out ‘* “ Without what, Philip ? ’ • Wo have been friends long, Mary.” • We hare ” <• Can we ever be more ? ’ She looked into hie faco. His eyes were fixed on hers. She was thinking—a flood of ihough! came pouring into her soul It might have been one, two, three minutes,or not so many seconds, before she gave him an answer. • j Iu vain did ho argue, beseech and implore, j Her mind was fixed She did not love him, | except ns a dear friend. She would be kiud ! to him, would love him just so always, but | lie must not ask for auything more. That evening he wrote her a long, mad ’ letter, full of all his heart's passion, and ended by saying that he should always love her as he did, but could not think of her as it friend. Ho must bo bur husband, or tear himself away, to drag out a miserable exis tence unknown and unloved. There was no other futiuc for him, and he left her topre-