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SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 17, 1807. i
Reading Matter on Every I‘;is?e.
AN OLD MAID’S ROMANCE.
_ I
CILVPTEU I.
“ But whit is it worth to you Julian ? That
is, not as an occupation or amusement, hut iu
money ? Mere vulgar dross, vou know, yet ne
cessary in a world like ours. What is its market
able value?
The speaker glanced round the small room
in which he stood, with an eye that seemed to
take each detail in turn, and check it off menial
ly. The fragments of illuminated borders and
bits of diaper work ; Ihu bright colors hardly dry
upon the palette; the book of gold leaf with its
attendant cushion, kidfe and brush ; and lastly,
a strange seeming inconsistency with these me
dueval appliances, an easel with a large painting
tipou it, the cover of which was partaially drawn
aside.
The old gentleman who had spoken, and who
was rather out of his clement, looked at the
young occupant of the room and shuffled a lit
tle.
'•I don’t pretend to know anything about
this niek-naekerylie continued ; “ hut that
now,” indicating the easel with a significant
nod, has to me more the semblance of real work
about it than the rest. A picture is a picture,
and can he sold, I suppose; that is, if it’s worth
buying. Still, lor all that, I must persist inniy
question—the marketable valueof your produe
tious, Julian ?”
The young man thus addressed did not at once
answer the question, hut propounded one hi his
turn. He passed his hands, all stained with
got d and crimson, across his forehead with a
rapid, agitated movement, and turned towards
ins friend.
“ You have something to say to me, sir,” said
he. “ Why not tell it at once ? You are not in
the habit of troubling yourself about my opera
tions.”
“Neither has it hitherto been necessary that
you should consider the actual remunerative
worth of your labor, Julian,” he replied. “At
least, I suppose it lias not. You have looked
upon yourself as your uuele’s heir?”
“ I have been taught to do so,” said Julian.
The old gentleman emitted a dissatisfied sort
of grunt. He had no intention, of being harsh
or supereillious but his mind the practical
mind of a business man, saw in the contents of
Julian’s, studio nothing hut foolishness and tri
fling.
“ You may so look upon yourself still, if you
like,” he said ; “ hei r to nothing, I am sorry to
say, unless it he debt. The llrtn has come to
grief, my hoy. Like many another time-honor
ed name, it means nothing now. The greater
the house, the greater the smash, always.”
“ And,” said Julian, quickly, “ inv uncle ?”
“Ah,” said the old gentleman, “its all right
tor you to thiuk of him, to be sure, since you
' owe all to him. And his wee bit laramie of a
daughter that is motherless—penniless, too,
now Julian. Yes, it’s right you should think ol
him first —I’m glad you did. .Just at this mo
ment, however, I wanfc your attention. Take
time to consider, and then tell me if all this lit
ter will ever be worth anything. I happen to
he your godfather, you know; and although
that’s not much, iu the world’s eyes, yet I con
fess to a sort of interest in your goings on.”
The old gentleman stepped up to the easel,
and rolled the cover quite back. lie looked at
the unfinished painting with his head on one
side, and tried to imagine that he was being
critical and sharp. He knew nothing at all
about pictures, or the terms of art criticism ;
and he expressed his opinion of a certain piece
of foreshortening in a brief but empliatic sen
tence.
“ The man’s knee is 100 big for liis foot,’.’ said
fie ; and then he shook his head at it, andgrunt-
£n-lUccklti Constitutionalist
cd ngnin. He didn’t think much of it, evident
ly. In spite of the Miiidcness and reality of t lie;
I change which lmd passed over his future, the
young painter could not suppress a smile,
which the critic caught sight of. “ Ah,” said
i he, “you think I’m an old fool, of course ; but
i then i suppose you’re a genius. What’s it about
! this picture ?”
“ From the ‘Ancient Mariner,’” replied Ju
-1 lian, —
Why look’st thou so? with my cross how
* I shot the albatross.”
Oh! poetry, is itV” said the old gentleman.
“ Well, hut I hardly think it would pay, you
know. Who would buy a man with an expres
sion oi countenance like that ? To be serious,
ouiiin, wliat is it all worth ?”
The young man’s face fell a little. Ilgrew al
most piteous in its deprecation, as lie replied,
11 Consider, sir, that I have worked without
thought ot remuneration. lam but a learner,
on the very lowest step of ”
“ The ladder of fame,” interrupted the old
gentleman, with a shuttle. “ I know that lad
der, of old. It’s a nasty, slippery, unsound af
fair, depend upon it; and, in speaking to me,
my boy, never mind images. I am a plain
man.”
“These bits of illuminating,” said Julian,
with a gesture towards them, “are done for
pleasure. 1 bad intended to devote myself to
mural painting.”
“And what does that mean ?” asked the old
gentleman.
“Ornamenting the interiors of buildings,”
replied Julian, “after the fashion of ”
“ Never mind when it was the fashion!” inter
rupted the, old gentleman. “ Will it pay?”
“At present, no,” replied Julian ; but. he did
not look at Iris companion when he said it. The
latter glanced round the room again,placed his
hands on the back of a chair, and lixed his eyes
on his godson.
" Julian,” said he, “could you give it up?”
There was in his tono something that it had
lacked before; a touch of feeling, as if it had
oecured dimly to th” elder man that there
might, alter all, be in these pursuits something
hard to give up.
“If it is necessary,” replied Julian, “of
course I can.” %
“ And lake to real hard work ?” said the old
gentleman.
“ Yes,” replied Julian.
“ Bravely spoken, my boy!” exclaimed the
old gentleman. “Ami now, listen. ! don’t
think a commercial life would suit. I don’t
think you are fitted for it What do you say to
tiw idea of emigrating ?”
The young man could only repeat the word
in amazement, but his friend persisted.
“ You will not think I propose this without
dueeonsideration,” said lie. “ I always thought
it a mistake for you to be wasting your life in
tills way’. Formerly, however, you were nt lib
erty-to please yourself; at present I scarcely
consider that you are so. You are strong,
young and brave; not, without brains; a like
ly-looking lad enough, in spite of your accom
plishments here. Tlie fact is, I have an enter
prise in view, for which I want brains, and n
reliable agent. ) believe that you can do me
service if you will, ns well as taking the first
step to your own fortune. I trust to your
sense of duty to throw your heart into the work
if you begin it.”
“ But ” said Julian.
“ I want no answer now,” interrupted the old
gent 1, man ; “I am not so unreasonable. 1
would rather that you would consider well of
the matter. Think of it. A new country, a
a glorious country, with scenery such as yon
have never dreamed ot. There von may quad
ruple vour capital— or mine, if you prefer that
mode of speaking—and come hick a rich man.
Come hack to take up your hits of pictures
aguin, if you like. They and all this miscclln- ;
neons property ot yours shall he respected. I ;
promise that your studio shall be locked from
all eye', if that will pica: e yon. Now, good
bye.”
The old gentleman was gone, and the young
one, with a sigh, turin dto look alter him. lie
seemed to have partially taken out of Ike room
that load which had come in with him ; I hat
strange, sudden waking up from a world of ;
beautiful dreams into a common-place, hard *
necessity. The presence of the old gentleman 1
in that study uas min ual aud improbable; tui <
had left an nil- ot iinprnhuhiVifly and HTfrenlily i
over tile news lie had brought, and the changes '
which if seemed imperative should result from t
them. The young painter took up a brush and t
bent over his work. Tlie-c was Lite gold, put '
on just het.ire the coming of this ill omened i
visitor. If lay waiting for him, with the bur
nislilng stone beside it. There were tho con- ;
veiilionaToutlines of leaves, llowcrs and fruit
only wanting to lie tilled in with bright eadium, t
lake and ultramarine. How full of promise
the sketch was! How beautiful the finished i
piece would he! Aud then he Hung down the t
brush and turned away, ft was no longer a <
titling implement for ids fingers. This terrible I
talc was true ; in; could no longer follow his
own pleasure, but must work for his living. :
Julian had an intense desire to sit down to i
the table again, and go on with that one piece.
Surely there could be no such immediate no- I
cessity for breaking off his former studies; that. ’
might ue done at r.nv time. And was it not t
possible that in the distant future—no matter
that it was distant—his genius and perseverance
mlarlvt achieve sufficient to satisfy him?—nil 1
amount ol success which should serve, for all
Ids wauls? But how was lie to live now?
And besides that, the debt! The recollection of
it fell upon him like a sudden blow. He had i
hardly realized the fact at first, in the eyes of
the world, indeed, it debt existed it would lie
no business of his ; hut in the eye of his consci- :
cnee aud ids gratitude, wliat is it? All his file
long he had owed everything to the fallen man,
his uncle—his education, luxuries, tlie smallest
necessaries of life. Was the old man to put his
shoulder to the wheel now, in tiie evening of
his days, and ! lie nephew remain a visionary -
idle, or unproductive, inasmuch as the pursuits
he loved were unproductive?
He went up to tlie easel and covered the pic
ture gently, then lie took down a frame from the
wall and looked nt its contents; a German
poem, the illuminated border of which he had
finished only the day before. He thrust this
amongst the other scraps, finished and unfinish
ed, into a portfolio to put away; then he went
to the window again, standing where he had
stood whilst his friend talked with him. His
eyes, to all appearance, were looking upon the
seeue outside—-the swaying tree tops, and tlie
copper tints of the western sky ; but in reality
he saw none of these. He saw instead anoth
er room, singularly unlike his own; delicate
lingers were there, and made it beautiful to the
eye oi artist and poet. A shadow tell upon tlie
wail of that room, and a dark-eyed girl rose up
from her seat to meet him. The young painter
stretched out his arms with an involuntary cry,
“ Clare! tny Clare!” How was he to tell her
that, they must part? How bear the long ye. rs
of waiting that must separate them ? They
might both grow old apart; that fortune which
the old merchant, spoke of so confidently might
never come. Wliat was he to do?
Through the long hours Julian thought, eall
iug up his life in review helorc him, and in the
twilight he went out into the streets of a chang
ed world ; for henceforth he belonged to the
great army of workers for their daily bread.
There was a certain sense of relief in the fact
that his resolution was taken ; and only once
in that hasty walk Ids. heart failed him for n
moment. It was when lie stood at the door
of that room which bad risen before his eyes in
fancy and saw the one he loved best on earth
spring up to meet him. The next moment his
ami was round her, and she was looking with
bewildered inquiry into his face.
“Julian, what is it ?” she asked.
“ Are you strong. Clara ?” said lie. “ Give me
your hind—so. Now, then, I have had news ;
arc you afraid ?”
“ Never af'riad, so long as you arc safe, Julian
and in my sight,” she replied.
“ Don’t say that, don’t,” said lie, putting liis
hand upon bet lips with a sudden exclamation of
dismay; “for we must learn to live without
seeing each other. Clare, I haven’t a penny in
the world, or the expectation of one.”
He paused for a moment, and the girl bent her
head to liis hand and kissed it.
•‘I understand that,” s id Julian, smiling.
“ I never doubted you. But then we must live,
yon know ; and to iivc, one must work. I have
been a dreamer hitherto; now I am going to
put my shoulder to the wheel. The very
thought of it makes me strong, Clare ; and we
will do without each'other for a few years.”
“Tell me your plans,” said Clare.
When Julian had told her, Clare clung a little
closer to him, and bid her face; but not for long.
Juian felt, his own grow pale as she raised it
again with the desperate struggle after courage
in it.
“ My|darling,” said lie, “ we shall he together
in thought. We can trust each other.” “Yes,
Julian," she replied.
“ And then there are the mails," said he.
“ Yes,” said Clare, firmly, thinking all the
while that Julian might be dead long before a
letter could reach her. And then, glancing at
him, she saw that his lingers were playing "ner
vously with the work she had just laid down,
and a cry, which was halfa soli, broke from her.
How was she ever to hear with the old occupa
tions when he was gone!
“Julian,” said she, “give me something to
do for yon. I shall he happy then.”
Me looked upon her gravely, and a quick
gleam of intelligence came into his face.
“Clare,” said he, “the poor little girl my uuele
lias so petted, it will fall heavily on her, bis
Mayflower, you know ; and we will have noth
ing ont ol the ruin. Be good to my poor little
cousin.”
“ Mine, too," said Clare, trying to smile.
“Thank you, Julian, for that. And" now—”
“A little while longer,” said Julian. “ A few
day’s perhaps, and then—we will not think oi
the years that lie between, but of the meeting
to come—shall we?”
CHAPTER 11.
Clare stood on the same hearth, no longer a
girl, but a gentle, beautiful woman, and a dark
figure loaned against the raautlepiece beside her;
but it was not Julian.
“ What, back again, Hector !" she said, and
her face was very sad as she looked at him.
Her eyes were full of a slrauge wonder and
compassion as the firelight flickered over his
face for a moment, and then left it dark.
“ Did you think that calm good-night was
going to satisfy me?” said the young man,
veliemeutly. “You are so cold to me—you,
whose gent leness is on tlie lips of all who know
you. Why is it?”
“ I am not cold to you, Hector,” she replied.
“ I am tlie same as ever.”
She could not keep those eyes of wondcing
pity from his face, from reading the rebellion
and passionate remonstrance which spoke in
every feature of it. He was little more than a
boy to her ; and yet she saw now, for the first
time, how strong the feeling was which had
written itself there outwardly, as though he
cared only that she should so read it.
“ Not cold P’said he. “You have scarcely a
word or a thought for me ; and when I am here,
you barely suffer my presence. Yes, yon are
die same as ever—that is what I complain of.
You drive me mad ”
She stopped him with a look of pain.
“ Hector,” said she, “consider how unreason
able all this is.”
“Clare,” he replied, “ understand that every
word you say is a sting to me. Have a little
mercy, a little charity forme!”
“Sol have,” she replied—“ so I will. Go,
Hector—that is Marion’s step. I would not
have her see you thus.”
“ I will ask but one thing of you,” said the
young man, biting his lips hard. “ Suffer me to
come again, only once more, to-morroiv.”
Clare turned away from him, troubled and ill
at ease. In the pleading, voice ol this wilful
boy there rang at times a tone that fell upon
her like a sound from a far-off land— nrfamt aud
distant echo, coining over die restless waters
to touch her with the great sorrowful longing
ot hope d etc red. Would it not be better for
herself that she should tell him all ?
“ Come, if you will, Hector,” sin: said.
He bent his bend over her hand, tlie hand on
which Julian’s betrothal ring glistened, and
touched it with his lips, but she hardly fedt the
loach, and then the door closed after him,
and she was alone.
Did ever passionate human love such as Hec
tor's fail in touch the heart to which it spoke?
Clare was yet young,too young surely, to give up
all the hopes and dreams that cluster soltly round
a woman’s life. There was another love, calmer
than Hector’s, like the ashes of a burnt-out file ;
should she cheat him with a mimicry like that?
Through ail his passion and his pleading, the
grave thoughtful woman read, or believed she
read, that it was hula fitful storm ol excitement,
a flash of boyish enthusiasm that would dicout,
ami then
A servant came in to light the lamp and lay’ a
packet on the tabic. Clare turned and took up
the packet absently ; when the servant was gone
she opened it. There lay before her the Ger
man poem, Julian’s l ist finished work, with its
rich border of birds aud flowers. Bhe sank
down on her knees before the table, and tears’
fell upon her clasped fingers as she read the
brief sentence that accompanied the work—
“ Found accidentally amongst some rubbish,
from my poor god-.on's studio.”
Clare took a pen and marked out the word
“ poor” from that sentence.
Julia,i,” stie said, “jny Julian—where ?”
But no one could tell tier that.
The next evening Clare stood before the long
glass upon the mantle-piece, waiting, and a
strange expression eaiue into her face. What
heatitiful woman is there who does not know
that she is IxainUfuJ, ;uwl that BtSutly Isa power,
a rare gilt? Such knowledge is distinct from
vanity, inasmuch as while it cannot exist, it
takes no note of itself. And Clare stood before
the glass and looked at the reflection there.
The soft folds of her dark dress became her.
i a the half light of the fire the stamp often weary
years seemed to have passed away and left her
young again, an untried, visionary girl.
“ lint I would not have it so,” she said ; “oh,
not lor worlds!”
Then all at once she turned away from the
glass with a throb of pity and dismay, for Hec
tor was there, kneeling before her, and pouring
out the story she had hoped to silence upon his
lips.
“ I would have prevented this, if I could,”
site said sorrowfully. “Yon arc so hasty, so
impetuous, Hector, nty poor boy !”
“ Reject me ts yon will,” he cried, stopping
I her witli a violent disclaimer of the. unhappy
word, “but not thus refuse my love, and send
I mo away ; but led it be as other men are rejected.
H member, 1 am no boy.”
“ I remember ou’y the years by which ray
life is older Ilian yours,” she said, “and ” '
“ What of that, Clare ?" lie exclaimed. “ Hear
me a little longer. No one that takes your
name upon it speaks as other names are spoken.
Surely men soften at your name; shrill-voiced
women calm themselves and grow gentler when
they hear it. Indifferent people, whose time is
swallowed up in doing the world’s work, pause
and turn aside for a moment to wonder
what fascination hangs about it. Think, then,
what it is to me. I will give up everything lor
your sake. My great ambition 1 throw.at your
feet. My riches shall go, as yours do, to feed
the starving, mid our home shall shelter the
homeless. This is not all; f there is hope for
me ”
Clare put licr hand on bis shoulder, and felt
that he shrunk from the touch as though it hurt
him.
“ Hector,” she said, “ I have something to tell
you—a brief story. Will you listen ?”
“ I will hear whatever you have to say,” he
replied. 1
“ There is no sueii feeling as you speak of in
my heart,” she said ; “ none such can ever come
into it again. Ten years ago my promised hus
band went abroad. You knew nothing of me
then ; no one but myself can ever know what
he was to me—wliat he is still. One letter
reached me from him—one only ; the first and
the last, lien 1 heard that he was ”
“Dead,” exclaimed Hector.
“ No, Hector —missing.” she replied.
Then she told him the little there was to tell,
and drew from her bosom a small morocco case,
in which lay that one letter and a lock of hair.
Through all these years that she had waited
with hope growing fainter, no voice had
brought tidings of hitn. Where, iu all the wide
dreary world, laid be found a resting-place?
Notie could tell her. No soul knew how it was,
or where, that he disappeared. All trace ofhim
.was lost.
The young man covered his face. He saw it
all the terrible agony of the first suspense, the
long hopeless waiting; the ghastly uncertainty,
and the courage of the loving woman who bore
it all so bravely. A little while he sat thus,
hiding liis face ; then once more lie beut his
knee and took her hand, putting it to his lips.
“ Clare,” said he “ forget my love. I will go
away now. When you see me again 1 shall be
a true friend anil brother.”
She saw his face pale with strong emotion ;
she knew that he meant what he said, and a
gleam of comfort stole across her pity for him.
Then Ehe stooped and kissed his forehead ; a
grave, womanly kiss, the seal of the compact
between them.
The evening grew cold and still. C'lare sat
where Hector had left her, watching the faces
that came and went between the bars of the
grate. And by-and-by a light knock sounded
on the door, and a radiant little figure eatnc in,
and sat on the footstool at Clare’s feet, looking
up.
“They said you had a visitor, cousin, and
must not be disturbed.”
Clare’s hand wandered carelessly over the
fair hair, and a sm le stole to her lips. This
was Julian’s cousin, the poor “ wee lammie” he
had given into her charge ten years ago. and
whose home was with her now.
“So I had a visitor,” she replied “but he is
gone, Mayflower. You did not want me?”
“ Not more than I always do,” she replied.
A shadow passed over Clare’s face. She
scarcely knew why, but something in the words
startled her into a sudden prevision of loneli
ness in the future. This child, who .had so
grown into her life, and who loved her now,
might change with the changing years. Clare
had yet to consider what her own world would
be when that light should shine upon another
hearth.
“ Clare,” said the girl.
“Well, Mayflower?” she replied.
“ You are so grave,” continued the girl.
“The visitor was a tiresome one, 1 kuow.
What are yon thinking about ? Would yon
rather 1 went away again ?”
“No,” said Clare, smiling into the upturned
face. “ I was only thinking—thinking what 1
should do if I had no Mayflower.”
The girl started up with an exclamation of
dismay.
“ Clare !” shu exclaimed, “ what do you mean?
AUGUSTA (Ga.) SUNDAY MOANING, MARCH 17, 1867
Whifi. have I done ? You are uot going to send
me away? I conldn’t hoar it; l couldn’t live
without you.”
Then ns she met tlie sad, tcndci eyes fixed
upon her, a suddeu rush of color f.pread over
Marion’s cheeks, and she hid them.
“ Clare, if you mean that, 1 shall never care
for any one as I do for you,” she said. “ I
shall never leave you—l will never ” ‘
Her lips were covered hastily, and she felt
Clare’s arm around her in a close embrace.
“ Hush, my darling,” said she, “ that is not
for you or me to decidc ; it is nil in the future.
I have you now; we will be satisfied with that,
shall we?”
CHAPTER 111.
Clare sat by the tire, where she liked to sit iu
the twilight hour, though the lime of year
scarcely required fires; and because she sat
there, another came and sat there too, on a stool
very near to her. This was the light of the
house, the treasure she could hardly bear out
ofliersiglit—the Mayflower that had eonm to
cheer a life whose summer blossoms had been
few, and gathered long ago, set aside, Clare
herseli would haveteld you like precious mem
ories uever to be parted with, even in their
ashes. But then of these the Mayflower knew
nothing. She held a book iu her hand, and her
hand was bent down over it, one cheek resting
on her hand, and it is just possible that her
thoughts were not with the book itself. At any
rate, Clare, looking down upon her, conceived
some idea that they were not.
“ Burning your eyes,” she said, “and your
cheeks and head; scorching yourself to death,
and all for the sake of one foolish chapter. Let
us see, wliat book is it, Mayflower?”
“ A borrowed book, cousin,” replied the girl;
but she kept her face bidden as she spoke.
“ Borrowed ?’’said Clare. “I wonder who
lends yon books. There is only a Christian
name on the title page—Madeline.”
“ Yes, Clare, Hector’s sister,” she replied.
Clare never answered a ,word. Her hand,
which had been wandering as usual among the
fair hair, grew cold, so cold and neverlcss, that
by-aud-by Marion, still without looking up, put
out her own wistfully, to clasp it ; couseious,
in a vague sort of way, that somethin gwas. wrong
and yet unable to speak her thought.
“ Madeline is very good, Clare,” she said.
“ I don’t mean that she is as good 11s you-; you
know no one ever could he that to uie !”
“For borrowing -the book?" said Clare.
“No. Mayflower."
“Nor (or anything else? Because you are
not like yourseif quite,” said clarion.
“ I was only thinking bow fast time flies;”
replied Clare, a little sadly. “Another month,
and the trees will be bare again for winter.”
“ And I shall be 21,”. said Marion-*-”of age,
Clare, and begining to go down hill.”
The two looked at each other, and the smile
faded out of Cl|*re T s face, leaving it dark. Was
it only the firelight that seut that sudden flash
over the girl’s check and made her hide it?
Clare knew better, in the tone ot her brief
answer there rang sound bing so like a knell,'
that ihe child at her leet trembled, and grew
pale, not knowing why. Clare was not thinking
of Hector’s sister, but Hector himself; and when
hy-and-by hi* well known knock sounded
through the hail, and his step was in the room,
lie came upon her an expected guest indeed, hut
one whom it cost her a struggle to welcome—
only for a moment, however ; the next she was
standing before him, with her arm round Mari
on, halt smiling at (be sight of his pleading laee
and agitated greeting.
“ Clare,” said the young man, wistfully, it
was three year* ago.”
She would have understood him without that
well enough ; three years since her story had
silenced his boyish love for herself.
“ i know it, Hector,” she replied ; “ and
now ?”
“Takciny thanks for all your goodness,”
said he, “to me and .”
“ My Mayflower, who is to be .mine no lun
ger,” said Clare. “Is that it, ll< elor ? It is an
old story.”
The smile was on her lip slid, and Marion
clung to her.
“ Oh Clare ! never say that,” she said ; “ yours
always, both of us. We couldn’t do without
you.”
“ We!” echoed Clare. She said it very'sofif}*,
as we repeat the name of a dead friend. Then
she stooped to kiss the girl’s forehead and to
put the hand which trembled so into Hector’s,
before she left them.
Many years have passed over Clare’s head
since that day, and she has eased to question
the wisdom that made her lot lonely. She. is
happy. Eyes that are weary with patu turn
eargerly to look alter her as she passes, and
pale lips murmur blessings upou a blessed life;
how blessed in its sclf-aacnfltfc and earn for
others, will be known only when the secrets of
ail hearts are told.
FLOUR, BACON, &c.
300 BBLS CHOICE FLOUR, assorted
brands, from Bear Grass Mills, Louisville, Ky.
100 Sacks EXTRA FAMILY" flour,
from best Georgia Wheat.
10 Bbls New HuLed BUCKWHEAT.
30 Barks Choice RIO COFFEE.
50 Btils REFINED SUGAR, assorted
brands.
io Hilda New Crop MOLASSES.
£5 Ilhds Choice NEW BACON—Sides
and Shoulders.
CHEESE, RAISINS, PICKLES, CANNED
FRUITS, &c„ &c.
For sale low by
febl2-tf A. STEVENS.
J. M. ROBINSON. I W. J. FALK
Robinson & Falk,
DBALRK3 IN
O YSTERS, FISH, CLAMS, TURTLES, TER
RAPINS, LOBSTERS, CRABS, SnRIMPS,
PRAWN, GAME, itc. SIIAD, in their season,
packed in ice, and shipped promptly to any part of
the country. All orders promptly attended to.
126 BROAD STREET,
an2o 4ra Near Lower Market, Augusta, Gn.
CORN AND BACON.
20,000 BUSHELS White and Mixed
CORN
50,000 Lbs. BACON, Clear and Rib
bed Sides and Shoulders,
in warehouse and arriving daily, for sale a* the lowest
market rates. Planters and others in want of cither of
these articles are invited to call and see me.
Office, 154 Ellis street, adjacent to Palace Stables, or
application may be made at the Warehouse, comer ot
Washington and Ellis streets, under the Newton
House.
mt *S-H M. A. DEHONEY.
LAW CARD.
WM. HOPE HULL. JOHN H. HULL.
HULL & HULL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
AUGUBTA, GA.
OfFICE in Law Range, over the Post Office,
oo 124-6 m
machinery.
0
PENDLETON & ROARDMAN,
ENGINEERS AND MACHINISTS,
Foundcry and Machine Works,
189 Reynolds street , rear Planters' Hotel.
prepared to furnish every description of
MACHINERY needed in the South. On hand and
fdr sale, STEAM ENGINES, BOILERS GRIST
MILLS. SAW MILLS, COTTON GINS, and all
kinds of PUMPS, FORCE, LIFT and DEEP
WELL.
IRON and BRASS CASTING, of the heat quality,
promptly furnished. All kinds of MACHINERY re
paired with neatness and dispatch.
WM. PENDLETON, 11. M. BOARDMAN
feb6-tf
TWELVE TIMES A YEAR.
The GREAT MAOAZINKof the Southwest.
8u bscriptlon, *1 a year in advance. Sample copy free.
Large cash premiums palu to all who wish to obtain
subscribers. Address F. I. DIBBLE
fob2o-1 m Publisher, Louisville, kj.
* FOR SALE OR RENT.
•x~
| FOR SALE,
-STEAMER “ IIARI» TIMES,” AS Blit;
■ NOW MKB AT AUGUSTA.
1 _JJCNUTH, 169 feet; width, SOS foul; depth of
*»old,l feet.; measure* 222 .50 95 ton.; twenty-six
iH.jitliiold; draught of water, 18 Inchea; stern-wheel;
‘worn I‘reaaure Engines, 16 inch cylinder, 3 H feet
strol(,|two Boilera, 21 foot long, 38 inchea diameter ;
PoulCHf Ehgino, for supplying lioilera; Btcain Capstan
and Siphons for freeing tlie bout of water.
Bll<^fc ready for immediate u»o. Her Imll la of Oak,
and well faatened.
FoHfcrn.*, Ac., apply to Captain Cm hi.km ti hi si, at
Augusta, or to
•f JOHN A. MOOKK.
_AiWS*», 71 li March, 18117. mh7-tl
A.t JPrivalo Sale,
A Splendid Residence Near the City.
I OFFER FOH BA I,K all that tract of HAND, In
liichmond comity, with the Improvement* thereon,
known*. “HAYWOOD," uhont three mile, from
August,, on the Mllledgevllh road, contnllllltg ahoiit
fifteen and a hull nere*,
In conuei'tlon with the Hoii»e I* coinpl.te Hu.
Work., In order, n.pletelid Well of Water, an excel,
lent Vugetnble Harden, with Fruit Tree*; all in wa
ry out buildings, Kitchen, Wn.li lloti.e, Bervunt.
Unildittra, Btahle and Oimlage lloiimi.
Thefcahtence contain, eleven room.; the Fuller,
and turn* tnoat lienutlfully froucoed. The entire es
tablishment I. eempUde with every modern Improve
ment ; a {n ut flower yard in front of the llou.e, hedge,
all round; also, line large grove, on either aide ud
joining.
This* I. one of the heat and ino.t dutilruhle Resi
dences in this county, and In tinly a “comfortable
home,"And If desired the BURN ITU UK, which is
new and elegant, can be purchased with the place.
For (|rtn!<, and further particulars, apply to
W. H. GOODRICH,
>u%f 271 Broad .'root.
For Sale or Rent,
VERY pleasant RESIDENCE, five mdes
from Augusta, on the Georgia Railroad, Picayune
train stopping morning and evening near the dwelling, i
which domains six rooms 15x20, wide hall, all neces
sary outbuildings, with twenty a, res, five cleared for
garden,jahich is very productive. Enquire of '
JNO. M. CLARK * SONS, •- ,
lahto-Tw 278 Bioad street.
FOR SALE.
A. 6EWING MACHINE, one of Singer's best, I
in complete orJu
Sold lt>w for cash. Inquire at \
novitVtf THIS O&’RTOE.
FOR SALE,
T 4 HOUSES urd two I.OTB, on Reynold. I (
street, or without furniture, will he sold cheap
fei cashi Apply to Capt. W. B. DAVISON, i
A at CRUMB, DAVISON A CO’S.
t
FOR SALE.
My FARM, in the county of Ilnbcivlmm, four
Clarksville, containing Seven Hundred
Acreg, Jbt inferior to any in the county, together with
upon it, consisting of Mules, Sheep, Cattle
The Standing FURNITURE of the ]
Hoi .►. *5; well as the Kitchen Furniture, will Ik? em- J
bract > at the hale.
.T. WALDBURG, Savannah. \
— Wr~ salsto w; ~~ ;
A SPLENDID NEW PIANO. Just received I l
from the manufactory, and will be sold low by I
QUINN Jfc BROS., I
Next door to CoustUuiiotialiHt Office. I
decl2-tf ]
PLUMBERS, ETC.
C. H. WARNER,
i
Plumber, fias and Steam Filter,
IN REAR OF 265 BROAD STREET.
Augusta, Ga.
3?UMPS, GAS, STEAM and WATER PIPES.
RUBBER HOSE and [JOSE PIPES, promptly fw *
ni-tied or repaired. (
Jobbing aud Orders from the Country promptly (
attended to. I
All work warrariled. t
tUT Terms, Cash.
0c.t24-Gm
GAS AND STEAM KITTING A PLPHIIINC.
f
O. A. ROBBE, 1
T_J"AVING re-opened a GAS AND STEAM
JLIL FITTING AND PLUMBING SHOP, in the
rear 272 Broad street, (Concert Hall placed is now pre
pared to do all kinds of worn, connected with
GAS, LIGHTING, STEAM HEATING AND
WATER SUPPLY,
On reasonable terms and at short notice.
Orders from tlie country promptly attended to. 1
All work warranted. mh4—tf
_ - ]
GOLD, GOLD, GOLD. <
To Parties Wishing to Invest in fiold
E will purchase and carry GOLD for partie.
depositing, merely a margin with us.
BRANCH, SON & 00., t
jnn23-tf Bankers Geo. R. R. Bank t
JOHN S. DICKERSON & CO., ;
Importers and Dealers In Metals, I
<
OFFER FOR SAI.E
TIN PLATES, ,
ROOFING TIN,
SHEET IRON,
RUSSIA IRON,
COPPER,
BLOCK TIN,
LEAD,
WIRE,
ZINC, &c.
89 &. 31 Cliff Street, Corner Fulton,
febl3 3m NEW YORK.
Garrett, Young, Scott & Co.
i
NO. 83 WARREN AND 29JMURRAY STS.,
NEW YORK.
SUCCESSORS TO
Archibald loan?, Garrett & Co.,
OF NEW YORK,
AND i
SPENCER SCOTT & CO.
OF NEWARK, N. J.
O
EXTENSIVE MANUFACTURERS
AND
Wholesale Dealers in
Men’s and Roys’ Clothing.
O. W. GARRETT, A. S. SHAFER,
EBEN YOUNO, A. 1,. SCOTT,
I BPBVOKK SCOTT, F. M. GARRETT.
[ febfi-ly j
ALEXANDER WHILLDIN & SONS,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.,
FOR THU SALK OF
COTTON Y^ARISIS
AND THE PRODUCT OF TilK
G-eorgia Factories.
EXPKRIKNCB of nearly 40 years justifies
thorn in R uar.in toeing prompt Hales, at the full Market
price of all Goixls conaigned to them, upon which they
will in .he LIUKItAL ADVAKCKH without charge.
JNTKKKOT « IMCU CKNT. I’Kit ANNUM.
They refer to
UtfHKKM. BKANOH, HONH 6l CO., A ooudTA, Ca
Through whom diafU may he negotiated,
j »n4*2m
to. AI.t.KN KIL'UAkDMOM. WILLIAM KICIIAKDBOM.
W. A. Richardson & Son,
I.ATK
Richardson, Fhatard & < 0.,
k*J*OLE manufacturers of tho “Groenlcaf" ROPE
and BAGGING,
GKNKItAI, COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
AND
DEALERS IN PROVISIONS, GRAIN, *c., Ac.,
No. 30 Fourlli Sired,
janlß*d3m Locisvillk, Ky.
13. F. AVERY’S Louisville CAHT PLOWS,
BTfc.NL PLOWS, and Steel COTTON SCRAPERS
with hardened edges. lam prepared tc execute all
orders for my CAST PLOWS and STERL SCRA
PERS promptly, and to furnish an article that will in
sure satisfaction.
None genuine unless branded with my name I
both on the beams and the mould board*.
Office and Factory corner of Main and Fifteenth
BOARDING.
.A. FEW single gentlemen can bs necommodated I
with BOARD and LODGING, by application to
J. J. LATIIROP,
f.d)7-tf _ corner Lincoln and Ellis streets.
CO-PARTNERSHIP.
rp
JL HE undersigned having associated•theniselvcg
in tho PRACTICE OF LAW, under the style
of Hook A Carii, will attend to all business entrusted
to them in the Middle Circuit and elsewhere when oc
casion may require.*
JAMES H. HOOK,
JOSEPH P. CARR.
February Id, 1867. febl7-lm
A SPLENDID
RESIDENCE AND FARM,
o
KJITUATED within the corporate limit.; ol the
Town of Aiken, B. C. The RESIDENCE is large
and commodious, containing eleven rooms, all with
fire-places ; piazzas aie attached to the first and second
stories, with all the conveniences necessary to a com
plete RESIDENCE. Tlie grounds arn handsomely
laid ont with Evergreens, Roses, Ac., and the Vegeta
ble Garden very ample. The Onthtiildiogs, Servants
Houses, Stables, Ac., are all iu complete order. The
FARM consists of about fifty acres of fine planting
LAND.
T.'iis property, now the residence of Mrs. Schwartz,
is offered for sale at a reasonable price, and on accom
modating termß, for the purpose of division among the
heirs of the late Guo. Parrott. The entire iurniture
of the house and premises may ho purchased with the
property.
Address,
W. S. WALKER,
W. G. MOOD,
fehs->odlf Executors Estate Geo. Parrott.
Notice to Corn Buyers,
The under signed is an Agent for Pitying, in At
lanta or any of the Western Markets and Slopping to
any point in Georgia, CORN, BACON, or any other
PROVISIONS, for 2j£ per cent, commis ion; and
my advice to those wanting small fpianlities is, to buy
in Atlanta; iny experience Is, that nothing is made
by shipping from the Western markets except in very
largo quantities.
To insure prompt attention, all orders for any of the
above articles must he accompanied by the cash, sent
to me in Atlanta, On.
JOHN R. WILSON,
Formerly of Columbia county,_Ga.
REFERENCES:
Richmond County—Judge Gibson and Georok T.
Barnss.
Columbia County—C. n. Siiocki.icy, Esq., Dr. H.
R. Casey, Rev. J. 11. Stockton and Dr. J. 8. Jones.
Warren County- It. A. Heath and Dr. R. W
HUBERT.
Hancock County—Colonel Linton Stephens and
Bishop I'iercr.
Taliaferro County—Hon. A. 11. Stephens and Geo.
F. Bristow, Esq.
Greene County—Miles W. Lewis, Esq.
Jellerson County—Hon. Geo. Stapleton and Gen.
Carswell.
Wilkes County—Hon. Thos. Barksdale.
Lincoln County—Jas. W. Barksdale and W. N.
Walton. fehlfl-cod2m
PUBLIC LAWS, &C.
ILL have ready for delivery to subscribers
within live days from the adjournment of the Legisla
ture, a PAMPHLET contain,lie all PUBLIC LAWS
of the session. Also, all changes in the Code from
the time of its adoption, together with a revised
COURT CALENDER, a List of Congressional, Sena
torial and Judicial Districts, as well as other matters
of useful reference. Price, $2 per copy. Copies will
be promptly sent by mail, postage paid, upon receipt
of orders accompanied by the money.
11. J. G. WILLIAMS,
C. J. WELLBORN.
Mili.bdoevii.lb, Nov. 20,1866. nov2l-tf
USE Fairbanks Standard Scales. Manufactory
125 Walnut street, Cincinnati, O.
FAIRBANKS, MORSE & CO., Propr’a.
fch2C lm
BOARDING.
kj 1X single GENTLEMEN can be accommo
dated witli large comfortable rooms and board. Ap-
Iy at No. 14 Campbell street.. jan22-tf
P. BRENNER,
PIA.nSTO-MA.KER,
BROAD STREET, No. 458,
to Sell, Rent, Tune and Repair
PIANOS and ORGANS. Being Agent of some oi
the most eminent Manufacturers in New York, he is
now prepared to furnish instruments of any of the
latest styles and improvements. He has now on hand
some very superior Pianos, unsurpassed in the essen
tial qualties of a first class article, made by
GEORGE STOCK A CO., New York, and
IHRIE A CO., Now York.
aplß-ly*
COTTON YARNS.
100 BALES superior COTTON YARN 1,
from Fontonoy Mills, now in store nnd for sale.
Assorted numbers from 6’s to 12’s, constantly on
hand.
nov2B-t' A. POULLAIN
Juo. P. Whitehead. Jr.,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office over Flkmino & Rowland’s, corner of Broad
and Campbell streets,
Will practice on tho civil side of tin- Court in all the
ooun ies of ti e Middle Judicial Circuit.
octSo-3m
BARGAINS! BARGAINS !!,, BARGAINS!!!
GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES
AT TH K •<
E MIP OBLItTM
• . . 1 OF
* - jtm. JE* iw «Sz «C 2 e£B « 9
262 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA.
' —0"-~
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
DRY GOODS,
IN GREAT VARIETY, CONSISTING OF
RHIRt/vt^aiiß KinrirTiMPß . Black and Colored DRESS SILKS,
osnaJukgs bUEKTiNGB, suawls CLOAKS ' (Newcst Slylc ->
rOTTOV B ?! d ASi? 8, mourning goods,
AFRON N CHFUKB E | J RANS ENGLISH and AMERICAN CALICOES,
tiprino« HECK ’ JhANS * IRISH LACES, (In.polled,)
GLOVES, RIBBONS,
BROWN HOLLANDS, Frendi and English BROADCLOTHS,
IRISH LINENS, TWEEDs! COBURGS,
Time niumifa French aud English MERINOS,
DAMASKS, GENTS and LADIES HATS,
inkling, blankets, flannels,
NAPKINS, NOTIONS.
The attention of friends aud those visiting the City is called to our heavy and wcllJassorted
Stock. We offer inducements to buyers, socoud to uo other House in the South. Come and
judge for yourselves before purchasing elsewhere.
I. IvAITN & CO.,
anrin/moMi/inw BRADLEY’S now patented “DUPLEX ELLIPTIC” (or Double, Steel
oprmg liUUI ttKJKIS. octl7-(sm
iimiimim,
PUBLISHED
Daily, Tri-Weekly & Weekly
AT
Contains the
By Telegraph and Mail, from
ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD,
Together with
FULL eUMtaOIM AM IMKET iEPUBTi.
TERMS.
DAILY, Per Annum, •. $lO 00
TRI-WEEKLY, Per Annum, 7 qq
WEEKLY, Per Annum, 3 qq
job bbustthsto
AND
BLANK BOOK MANUFACTORY.
THE
CONSTITUTION A-LIST JO B OFFICE
IS PREPAREDjjTO FILL ALL ORDERS FOR
EVERY! DESCRIPTION
OF
«
PLAIN AND FANCY JOB WORK,
BIIJ, HEADS, LETTER HEADS,
BILLS OF LADING,
BILLS OF FARE, CIRCULARS,
CHECKS, BUSINESS CARDS.
VISITING CARDS, WEDDING CARDS,
RAILROAD RECEIPTS,
RAILROAD BLANKS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
LAWYER’S BRIEFS, LEGAL BLANKS,
CONSTITUTIONS OF FIRE COMPANIES, JfeG,
PAMPHLETS, BOOKS,
HAND BILLS, POSTERS,
*fcC., &C., &c
In the Best Style and on -Reasonable Terms
THE BOOK BINDERY
In connection with the JOB OFFICE is under the management of Mr. P. R. KOSE.fwel)
known as a tirst class workmau.
ALL KINDS OF
BLANK BOOKS
MADE TO ORDER ANI)
MUSIC, MAGAZINES PERIODICALS AND PAPERS BOUND IN THE BEST MANNER
OKDKKH SOLICITED.
ADDRESS:
STOCKTON & CO.
v Constitutionalist Office, Augusta, Ga.
yOL. 28 —JK< 3i