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VOLUME 11. €jjt jfricttii nf €l)i A Weekly Southern Newspaper, PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, BY EDWARD J. RURSE. iER M S : 1 ato Dollars a year, in advance, or Two Fifty if not paid within three months. SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED FOR SIX MONTHS, AT , ONE dollar, IN ADVANCE. 1 liree copies tor one year, or one copy three years, $5 00 Seven Copies, 10 00 Twelve copies, - -- -- -- 15 00 .*** Advertisements to a limited extent, W ill he inserted at the rate ot 50 cents for a square of twelve lines or less, for the first in set tion, and 30 cents for each subsequent •insertion. Business cards inserted fora year •at; Five Dollars. FF*A liberal discount will be made to Post Masters who will do us the favor to act as •Agents. Postmasters are authorized to remit mo *llo7 to Publishers and till money mailed in •presence of the Postmaster, and duly for \varded b him, is at our risk. FF* All communications to be addressed •(post-paid) to E. J. PURSE, Savannah, (la. FALLIGrANT 8c TAYLOR, CONTRACTORS & BUILDERS, Shop corner Whitaker atul Perry Streets*, 4 l.y SAVANNAH. W. s. LAWTON 8c CO., Warehouse & Commission Merchants, MACON, GEORGIA. LAWTON 8c DOWELL, FACTORS & COMMISSION MERCHANTS. No. 210 Bay St. Savannah, Ga. Tender their Services to their Friends and the Public nov 2 W. S. WILLIFORD, Auction f Commission Met chant , . MACON, GA. O’ All kinds of Mer chandiso and Produce [except Liquors] received on Consignment.ot Pur- I'liHsed to Order. 1 vr nov 2 CLASSICAL & ENGLISH SCHOOL. No. 159 Brotigh/on-St. BERNARD MALLON, Principal. J. 11. LUTHER, A. M., Classical Tkaciier. MISS V. JONES, Assistant. nov 9 GEO. M. WILLETT & CO., DKALER9 IN GROCERIES , WINES, LIQUORS, TOBACCO, SEGARS, FRUIT, PICKLES, Preferees, Confectionary, f Garden Seeds. All k ind* of Fish and Oysters, when in season, i No. 63 St. Julian and 101 Bryan Streets. J P. A. Dupos, ? (Waring’s Building.) Jrn R. Tr.BE At', £ nov 9 BOOK AND JOB ITiLNTLXG. GEO. N. NICHOLS, (Omens’ Building, opposite the Pulaski House,) SAVANNAH, GA. I* prepared to execute all work in his line, with neatness and despatch, and in a style not to be surpassed. Price* as reasonable as any other establishment In ihe city. ly sept 28 G-. BUTLER, MAST E R B UILD ER, DEALER IN WHITE PINE LUMBER, York Street, Oglethorpe Square. K. Li.—Ho is prepared to put in Iron fronts in Store*, See. ly oct 1-1 T. R. CLARKE, FASHIONABLE BOOT MAKER, Next door to corner Bull and Broughton-sts. •.t io ly A. PONCE, Importer and Manufacturer oj Segars, No. 13 Whitaker Street, K*ep* on hand a well sclectcil stock ol impoited Srgars ; also Manufactured Tobacco, Snufi, |’q>*'s, and all other articles usually kept in his line i business, which he otters on the most reasonu >le terms. ly E. T. SHEFTALL, ATTOR NE Y A T LA W, may 25 Dublin, Georgia. MEDICAL NOTICE. DOCTOR MOREL. Office No. 157 Brough ton Street. ts mar J DE MARTIN, DEALER IN Fruits, Wines, Liquors, Segars. I’ICKLES, PRESERVES and GARDEN SEEDS. —: also: APPLES, ONIONS A POTATOES, When in season, received fresh by every vessel. —: also: — Oysters put up to order in from 1 to 10 gat lon kegs. Gorner of Bay and W hitaker Streets, JOHN OLIVER, HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTER, GILDER, GLAZIER, Ac., No. 121 Broughton Street, n few doors cast of Whitaker Street, Savannah, (la. rW All kinds of Paints- —Paint Oil, Turpentine, *Varnish, Glass, Putty, &e., for sale. July ~0 EDWARD G. WILSON, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Conveyancer, Collector, Accountant A Copyist, Office under J. M. Haywood s. Return Day. Wednesday, February 19th. COLLINS 8c BULKLEY. Importers and Dealers in CROCKERY CHINA & GLASS WARE, V \MILY HsiTftwaie, Tablo Cutlery, Wood Jiud Willow Wave, Lamps, Lanterns, Wicks, &e., Also, Camphine and Burning Fluid, Together with n great variety of Fancy and House Fuinish hing Goods, at Low Price*. No. 100 Bryan St., Savannah, Ga. jr. P. COLLINS, ( T. A. lIULKI.EV. y nov 2 MRS. SILBER, MILLINER 4* DRESS MAKER No. 157 CONGRESS STREET, Has the pleasure of informing the Ladies, that she has returned from New Fork with a beautiful assortment of Silk Pattern Bonnets, all colors, Straw, Leghorn, and New Fashioned style ot Jens ny Lind Bonnets. French Flovversand Ribbonos. of thv latest styles, and a general assortment ot fancy Goods and Trimmings. Also the Latest Fashion of Silks Cassimere, Mousline de Lane, &c., Stc. Anntfii tii jCitmittm', fritiOT unit 31rt, tljtjgg nfjtgniinfranrf, (Dili jfplloiusijtip, AHnsmirq trail tljf liras sf tjjf Dntj. P. JACOBS’ S E G A R M A N U F A C T OR Y, No. 27 Bull Street. THE SI BSCRIBER keeps on hand at all times the best Brands of Havana Segars, and is ready to nit orders for Country Merchants and others, as low as any <*ther establishment in the City, e also Manufactures Segars of various quali ties, and has on hand the best of Chewing Tobac co Snuffi Segar holders, Pipes—common and fancy—Port Monies, Segar Cases, Tobacco, ou< “ Ps ’ ‘^ c * Orders from the Country wiil he punctually attended to. noV 2 McARTHOP. & MORSE, Manufacturers and Dealers in PLAIN, JAPANNED & BLOCK TIN WARE, HOLLCHV & ENAMELLED WARE, STOVES AND COOKING RANGES, Lkad 1 ipic, buEET Lead. Copper and Zinc, STORE, IJJ BARNARD STREET. All kinds of Copper, Tin and Sheet Iron Work, done in the best manner, at the shortest notice. _ fp O 21 !y r ALLEN & BALL, FACTORS & COMMISSION MERCHANTS, No. 112 BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, GA. J. M. EALL & CO., o m w t s-s t o n c v c h a it t a , MACON, GEORGIA. ROBERT A. ALLEN, JANIES M. BALL, sept 20 i v N. ELLS, FASHIONABLE BOOT MAKER, No. 101 Broughton-st., near the corner of Bu!l-st. oct 12 y JONES & PAPOT, Shipwrights, Spar Makers, AND CAULKERS. Yard opposite R & J. Lachlison’s Foundry. R. H. DARBY, ’"SB'” M. m £3 32) JS3BL. _ Corner Broughton and Whitaker Streets, SAVANNAH, CKORGIA. R. H. D. is prepared to execute all orders for Making or Cutting on reasonable terms. mar 9 ]y J. S. STURTEVANT, MAS TE R BUILDER, Corner Montgomery and Liberty Sts. All orders in his line will be promptly attended to, and faithfully executed. ly jime 1 JOHN V. TARVER, FACTOR A COMMISSION MERCHANT EXCHANGE WHARF, SAVANNAH, GA. RABUN & FULTON, COMMISSION MERCHANTS, No. 207 Bay Street, Savannah, Ga. S. XV. It A1! IT N, R. TANARUS,. FULTON, I. P. WHITEHEAD. LANIER HOUSE, BY LANIER & SON, June 22 Macon, Georgia. J. HASBROUOK & CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in CHINA, GLASS AND EARTHENWARE, sept 21 BROUGHTON STREET. SAVANNAH. S. Y. LEVY, ATTO RN E Y A T LAW, Office, No. IS-5 Bay-Street. FRANCIS WAVER, IMPORTING & COMMISSION MERCHANT, No 107 Bay Street, Savannah, Geo. PHILIP KEAN, Dlt A I’E It AND T AILOIt, AND DEALER IIV READY MADE CLOTHING. Penfield’s Range, No. 98 Bryan Street, Store formerly occupied by J. Southwell Sc Cos. J. T. JONES, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN Double & Single Guns,KiHes, &c., West Side of Monument Square. A SHORT, MASTE R BUIL D*E R, Will take contracts for Building and Work in Masonry of every description. Cornet of South Broad and Whitaker streets. may 26 CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. The subscriber is prepared to execute with neatness and despatch all work in the above line. 142 Broughton St. Two Doors West of I. \V . MORRELL’S Furniture Store, june 1 Iy I. SOLOMONS, Agent. CLOTHING, I*l ERSON & II EI DT otter for sale CLOTHING, Wholesale and Retail, at New York prices, No 10 Whitaker Street. apl 26 GAS PIPES AND FIXTURES. STRATTON & DOBSON, Having received an assortment of Chandeliers Pendants, Brackets and Portable Gas Burners, respectfully invite the citizens of Savannah to call at their store, No. 72 St. Julian street, and examine the same 4t june 1 DR. J. DENNIS, BOTANIC DRUGGIST, Next door above L. C. Wairen & Cos, Augusta, Ga. Keeps constantly on hand a choice assortment, selected from the best establishments iu the United States,consist ing of Emetics, Cathartics, Diapho retics, Diuretics, Expectorants. Emmenagoeues, Stimulants, Tonics, Astringents, Nervines, Alka lies, Alteratives, Rubefacients, and Compounds for family use. Composition Powder, No. Six, Lobelia in its various preparations, See., also Medical Books. may 4 ALFRED HAYWOOD, CORNER BRYAN AND BARNARD STREETS, Market Square, Savannah, Dealer in Choice FRUITS, CANDIES, Nl TS, ORANGES, LEMONS, APPLES, AND PO TATOES, Wholesale and Retail. First quality Thunderbolt Oysters, Fish. &c. Newark refined Chantpaigne Cider, and Albany Cream Ale, by the bid. Orders from the Country, accompanied bv the cash or City reference, punctually attended to ’ fiug 9 G. M GRIFFEN, fiL HAVING purchased the stock in trade of thelate M. Eastman, would solicits the con uued patronage of all tlie friend ot the establishment. All customers shall be pleased with goods an.l saiisliod with prices. GEO. M. GRIFFEN- N. B. 5\ atehes and Ghrometers will receive the personal attention of Mr. G. as usual, sept 12 DAG-U ERR E O TYP E &T P. M. CARY would respectfully give notice to the public that his Rooms, corner Bryan Street and Market Square, are now open, where he will bo happy to wait upon all persons who would have their pictures well taken. dec 7 Irh'rti'ii pnrfnj. CARE OF ANGELS OVER MEN. And is there care in heaven ? And is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, I hat nitty compassion of their evils move ? There is:—else much more wretched were the case Os men than beasts: But O! tip ex ceeding grace Os Highest God that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth em brace, That blessed Angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked men, to serve his wicked foe! How oft do they their silver bowers leave Io come to succor us that succor wunt! llow oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies like flying pursuivant, Agains foul fiends to aid us militant! 1 hey for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant; And all for love and nothing for reward : O, why should Heavenly God to men have such regard ! [Spenser. INFANT SLEEPING IN A GARDEN. Sleep on sweet babe ! the flowers that wake Around thee, are not half so fair; Thy dimpling smiles, unconscious break, Like sunlight on the vernal air. Sleep on ! no dreams of care are thine, No noxious thoughts, that may not rest; For angel arms around thee twine, To make thy infant slumbers bless’d. Perchance her spirit hovers near, Whose name, thy infant beauty bears, To guard thine eyelids, from the tear That every child of sorrow shares. O ! may thy life, like hers endure, Unsullied to its spotless close ; And bend to earth, as calm and pure As ever bowed the summer rose. [Dawes. The Firemen of the land is thus finely complimented by England’s best living poet, Eliza Cook : When the red sheet winds and whirls In the coil of frightful death ; When the bannered smoke unfurls, And the hot walls drink our breath; When the far off crowd appears Choking in the demon glare. And some helpless form appears In that furnace of Despair; Save! Oh, save ! the people cry, But who plucks tho human brand ? Who will do tho deed or die ? Tis a Fireman of the land. Then give them Honor, give them Fame, A health to hands that fight the flames ! [7?° Juveniles will find it a pleasant recrea tion to select lines of poetry from different authors which will rhyme with each other, and make new versos, which will sometimes make curious sense. Such are called cento verses ; here are a few ; 1 hear the dread note of the drum, The silver moon is waning ; The melancholy days are come, To give our boys a caning. “A mason’s daughter fair and young, Cries, Boatman do not tarry ; If you love me ns 1 love you, When do you mean to marry ? The moon has climbed the highest hill, The country to see ; Then with her starry courts she sung, Oh, —Woodman spare that tree.” fclerteii Cult. [From Mrs. Ellis’ Morning Call. SELF-DECEPTION; OR, THE HISTORY OF A HUMAN HEART. CHAPTER X. On ihc morning after the melancho ly accident which deprived the sol itary widow of her last earthly stay ; an event, which, as has al ready been described, occupied many of the idle loiterers in and about the little town of C , two young people—a brother and a sis ter — sat dow’n to breakfast in one of the lodging-houses near the sea; and as they lingered over their meal, they looked ocaasionally to wards the dark and still unsettled waves, and then talked again of the boat, its crew’, of the poor wo man on the cliff, and of the lost sailor youth. Nothing could be more cordial, frank, and easy, than the conversa tion of these two, recent comers as they were; for they discused, in a lively and amusing manner, all those little incidents and traits ot character which are apt to strike the attention of persons just com meucing anew and independent life, in ?i place unknown to them before ; especially when surround ed, as in the present instance, by Strangers from different parts of the SAVANNAH, GA,, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1851, country some of whom might be distinguished by rank, some by fashion, and a few’ no doubt really interesting in themselves. Names they have chanced to hear, parties they have accidentally met, and re semblances they have imagined so far as to furish surmises about iden tity, are, under such circumstances, the usual topics of conversation, and the Jocelynes did not fail on the pres ent occasion to be talked about by the lady, at least, with considerable interest and animation. “Butcome, Willis,” said the sis ter, after descanting upon this theme for a long time, “you are dreaming. 1 have alreadygiven you sugar twice, and yo*u are helping yourself again. ‘Besides which, you have not spoken for the last five minutes, and 1 ain telling you about the Jocelynes, and that I expect you to go with me to call on them. “ That remains to be consider ed,” said the brother. “ You mav call if you like, but for my part, 1 confess 1 have no fancy for the Joce lynes.” ~ “ Why so, Willis “ For no other reason, I dare say, than because I hear them so much talked about, and I have a sort of perverse feeling, that if everybo dy thinks one ought to call, I won’t call at all. Very amiable, and very manly, is it not ?” “Very amiable, indeed; butyou will think differently after a while; or rather you w r i 11 act differently, and that is of more consequence to me. But see, what arc 3’oa doing ? That is my cup, not yours. You shall really tell me this time what you are dreaming about for I must know. Have you had an adven ture since you came here? Have you done any knight-errantry, 01 otherwise unsettled your intellect? 1 begin to think your brain has been turned in the water, while stuggling after those poor [Men.” “ Ah, yes ; you are right there. It was enough to turn any human brain. And then not to save the poor fellow’ after all l It was a great horror, I assure you ; and that w’relcbed woman’s anguish—l never saw anything like it in my life. I shall go and pay her a visit again this morning,as soon as you have finished your breakfast.” “ I w’dl go wii h you.” “ Well, as you like. But not to day, perhaps. There will be ma ny people there —rude kind of peo ple —neighbours, and sailor men. [don’t think you would like it. Be sides which, the body will be there, and the place is very small.” “ You speak very shockingly, Willis. I don’t think ] shall ;go, then. But why should you ? I can not understand why you should think of going.” “ Why ? Oh, I quite prefer it—l wish—l quite intend to go.” “ Now’ Willis, I will know’ what has happened to you before you leave this house. You look absent, and smile to yourself, I don’t .know what at —you smile, 100, wdien we speak of the most dreadful things ; and you speak in short snatches, as if your mind was wandering after something else. lam quite certain you have had some adventure; or met someone you knew before ; or that something has happened to you which you have not explained ; and I tell you again, I will know it, or you shall have no peace.” The brother now laughed out, although the lady looked anything but pleased, and fixed upon him a pair of sharp piercing eyes which might.have made any other person quail. But the brother was accus tomed to them ; and besides this, he possessed within himself such an unfading fund of good humour and good-w’ill, that it helped him to bear without injury conflicts which might otherwise have become both sharp and bitter. In the present instance there w r as great apparent inequality in the combatants, if indeed a battle bad been likely to ensue ; for the lady had all the fire, and all the passion on her side, w'ith certain indications of a capability for mischief, accom panied with strength of energy', and will; all which were in perfect keeping with her strongly marked features, black hair, and piercing eyes. And yet the brother had the best of it, he was so calm, and so pleasantly good-natured, that he seemed to turn offevery hostile wea pon himself and even to toss them each into the air as if it w’as a child’s plaything, rather than a poisoned arrow. And so it w’as to him, when coming from his sister’s hand ; for he knew that she would suffer any privation or any pain, rather than hurt a single hair ot his be loved head. This belief once settled in his mind, he cared little about what she said or did, in moments, ot irritation ; at least so far as he was himself con cerned ; but he did care when the shafts of her spleen were directed against any one whom he admired, or pitied; and especially any one whom he desired to screen from itijury and suffering. Thus he was sometimes slow to bring forward subjects for her dissection, and still more so for her castigation ; he him self finding no pleasure in either of these operations. He thought, too —he must have been a very blind young man had he not thought so— that there was apt to awake a cer tain kind of jealously on the part of his sister towards any one about her own age, of whom he spoke in terms of admiration ; and therefore it was, that on this morning he tried to keep a little secret to himself; over which, however, he could not help smiling with a kind of half concealed satisfaction which suf ficiently betrayed, that even while speaking on the most melancholy and appalling subjects, he was in wardly glancing back upon some little picture of his own, not alto gether repulsive to contemplate. It wasjust this which his sister wan ted so much to come at ; and hav ing with her piercing eyes discov ered that there really teas something to conceal, she determined, as she said, to know all before her brother quitted the house. Could he have trusted to her kindly feeling, it would have been a great pleasure to him to tell her all ; for young and hopeful hearts will sometimes grow full even to overflowing with their own happiness, and then it be comes not only a pleasure, but al most a necessity to reveal and de scribe every trifling incident which stirs the smiling surface of their lives; thus making the happiness more bright and sparkling, as the dash of the boatman’s oar upon a summer sea breaks up the glassy face of the water into glittering foam, of which each separate par ticle shines like a silver star in the clear sunlight. “ Don’t laugh, then,” said the brother, “and 1 will tell you all.” “What is it?” said the sister, looking not at all likely to laugh; for she felt very angry that her brother should have attempted to keep secret from her, what evident ly filled no inconsiderable place in his own thoughts. “Go on, if you please, 1 am listening.” “It is altogether 100 absurd to make into so serious a matter,” said the brother, and an undeniable blush spread itself all over his face —it was one of his weaknesses that he could not help blushing—“it is really too absurd to make a history of in fact, it is nothing at all.” “ I am all attention,” said his sis ter. “ That is the very reason why I can’t tell you,” replied her brother: “you look so dreadfully grave, and make such a mountain of my little affair, that I am absolutely ashamed of the mere mouse which is about to come.” “Never mind— 2:0 on.” “ Well, then, yesterday, as I was rambling over the smuggler’s cliff —1 think they call it—along a nar row path upon which the wind blew tremendously, I met a lady. But now you are laughing ” “Not at all, 1 am as grave as if you had met a ghost, and perhaps it was a ghost all the while : who knows ?” “Nothing of the kind. It was the most beautiful, living, breathing, creature, I ever beheld in my life.” “ Well, what then ? Was there no room to pass on the narrow path way ?” “Scarcely, under any circum stances; but the violence of the wind so confused and terrified this beautiful creature ” “A trick, no doubt. But go on.” “I will not go on, if you say so.” “ Then I revoke my words, and am of course very penitent.” “ Well, I could not help compas sionating the case of one so situa ted. I should have felt the same pity for a hideous old crone, but the lady in this case was young and a stranger, and evidently unaccus tomed either to danger or difficul ty.” “So you took her gently by her * lily-white hand.’ ” “ I did, and led her along the path tb the level ground, where she could walk in safety.” “ And she went down on her knees, and thanked, and blessed you for having saved her precious life.” “No; she laughed—indeed we both laughed, and she tried in vain to gather into her snug little bon net the dishevelled ringlets that floated around her brow, anti cheeks —such ringlets! dark auburn, wavy, and soft.” “ Have you preserved a specimen to show me ?” “ Nonsence. 1 tell you this girl —this lady—this angel—was really the most exquisite creature lever be held, or imagined. She was beau tiful in her fright, but when she be came more at ease, and spoke, and smiled—l really cannot describe to you how captivating she was.” “So you walked home with her?” “ I did. But first a very absurd thing happened. In order the bet to adjust her hair, she untied her bonnet, which escaped from her fingers, and was blown away.” “ A nicely contrived little incident —very pretty indeed !” “Not at all contrived; but yet very pretty —not at all premedita ted, I assure you. indeed she is al together genuine—clear as the day, and true as light.” “ The light of the moon ?” “ I will not goon if you interrupt me in that way.” “ Yes, do. lam all impatience to hear more.” “Listen, then, with mere res pect.” “My respect is unbounded, amounting to absolute reverence, only that ray curiosity gets the bel ter of me; fordo you know, I fan cy I have seen those auburn tresses myself, somewhere. But go on, I may be mistaken,” “ I have very little more to say.” The bonnet flew away, and I flew after it, and brought it back, and there stood the beautiful creature half-way down the hill-side laugh ing, and shaking her wild locks in to a thousand tendrils of gold.” “I thought you said her hair was dark auburn.” “ I did, but when the sunlight fell upon it, as it did just at that mo ment through the parted clouds, it was all converted into gold.” “ Yes, I always admired the gold en tinting of that hair. To my fan cy it was the best thing connected with it.” “What are you talking about, Lillie? lam sure you don’t know who my princess is.” “ I will guess her name, however. But how many guesses will you al low me ?” “ Only one.” “I don’t mind ; I will venture all upon one guess. Her name is More.” “ Right.” “Yes, 1 knew I was right. But you need not have staited so, ‘ What’s in a name ?’ ” “ Nothing, certainly, in that name.” “And yet there is something— their is money. So if you are in search of a fortune, you had better follow up this chance, It seems at least to have begun auspiciously.” “ Miss More is an heiress, then ?” “I understand her father died very rich.” “ But how do 3 T ou happen to know her.” “Just because I was at school with her at Mrs. Warder’s. Don’t you recollect my telling you about a little city girl—the daughter, I fancy, of some London hosier, or silk mercer. She was always beautiful in her gloves and stock in S s \ “ No bad thing in a lady.” “ She was a pretty little child, no doubt. You must remember my talking about her, “Perhaps I do; but it seems to me that you can never have done justice to her beauty.’^ “ l dare say she has improved by this time, still she was pretty, as [ said before; but a shocking dunce. I dare say she has improv ed in that respect too. It is quite likely, as she seems to have made great progress in the art of capti vation.” “ There was no art in the matter, Lillie ; but the purest girlish sim plicity ; aud it was precisely that which made her beauty so charm ing to me.” “ Inde-ed !” “You seetn surprised, Lillie. Was this not one of the character istics of Miss More when at school ?” “ I should like you to ask any of her ompanions there. Finesse, Willis, it is all finesse. Come, don’t let yourself be taken in by an actress, at all events.” “ What can you mean, Lillie?” “ I mean that a girl who, when very young, could practise all soi ls of little deceptions, is not very like ly to be sincere as a woman.” “ To what deceptions, do you al lude?” “ I am sure I must have told you —studying in bed at night, for iu- stance, by the light of a; lamp, and—” Willis now recollected all, though he did not choose to say that he did; but finding that the bitterness of Miss Cawthorne’s look, and manner—for it was she who* held this conversation with her brother—had reached that crisis at which he usually deemed it best to’ leave her; after walking again to* the window, and looking out upon the sea, and the clouded sky, he make some plea of an early engage ment for the morning, and left the house. It was indeed but to true, while Miss Cawthorne had endeavoured to recal to the mind of her broth er certain passages in the life of her school-fellow, and certain traits of character developed by this identi cal Miss More, there were startling facts connected with these reminis cences which her brother would now have been very glad never to have known. It was more than probable, he now thought, that these had been exaggerated by his sister ; but they could not nave been entire ly without foundation, for Lillie’s faults were not those which leaned to the side of falsehood ; and the impression.be had received at the lime of listening to her school de tails—an impression of something artful and insincere, on the part of the little beauty—now came back to him with such force, that the pleasant-dream he had a moment before been dwelling upon in all its vividness, became clouded over by a king of mist, which hid its fair est features from his view. “And this is the girl,” said he to himself, as he wandered again over the high cliff', “ who used to study by lamp-light, at night under the pre tence of working for her father, and who bribed her companions to se crecy by oranges and sweets; while she, whom 1 met upon this very spot, might have been a cherub in her childhood, nursed in a sunbeam, she looked so pure, so lovely, and so true.” Poor Ella ! It was hard that her girlish artifice should come hack to slain lier fair character in this way ; but so it always is, even with a little of that acting upon double motives —that making the best ap pear, while keeping the other back, to which Ella was so often temp ted ; so it is, that some views of a character thus twisted out of pro portion will ever be darker and more deformed than the case really deserves, because this twofold in tricate character is never clearly understood, and never can be; and thus, while some take the fair seeming side of it for the only true one, others, with equal par tiality, take the dark side alone, and believe with equal pertinacity in that, and that alone. It is a ne cessary conseqence of this want of integrity of purpose, and of motive, that characters so constituted, or rather so distorted, fall under the charge of hypocrisy, whenever they pretend to anything great or good. And yet they may all the while be perfectly sincere—they may really feel what they profess to feel with as much warmth as others; but they also feel something of a widely dif ferent nature, and the world is not able to believe that they feel both. Willis Cawthorne, the brother of Lillie, was a remarkably clear and open character. In his very soul he abhorred falsehood and artifice of every kind. His sister’s violent and capricious temper no one knew or regretted more than himself; but to him it was, in a great measure, redeemed by her straightforward, fearless truthfulness. Perhaps ho overrated the merit of this sinceri ty, which owed something of its integrity to a constitutional care lessness about offending or giving pain—we will not say to a pleasure derived, in some instances, from the very actof giving pain, but certain it is, that the most unwelcome truths were occasionally exploded form her lip, without the slightest ap parent feeling of remorse as to where they might fall, or what mis chief they might do. This was re garded by Willis Cawthorne, who could not think evil of any one whom he loved, as the sincerity ol principle. In all probabity he had never yet examined the difference between that, and the sincerity of passion. But the summing up of the whole matter was, that he lov ed his sister, and had the most im plicit confidence in her love for him ; that they were left witfiput parents ; alone in the world ; and that she had no other protector than himself: and these tender thoughts would, under any circumstances, have cov ered from his eyes a multitude ot faults in the being whom he thus felt bound, by the most sacred ties., to love and to care for. NUMBER 51.