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Maid ok Beauty.
M aid of Beauty—since thon’il gone,
All, yes all but Thee 1 scorn;
The wandering winds, the bird, the bee,
Whisper me some thoughts of Thee.
Lost, to pleasures hand of glee
My love my life I love thee.
By those dimples on thy cheek
By the reddest .lips that speak.
*Ky the silver ‘rays that light.
Softly o’er them to invite.
By the chains which now confine me.
My love, my life. I love thee.
By those golden locks alone.
Which have changed my heart from stone
By those eyes whose mellow beam,
Pierces to my heart unseen.
By those lips which doubts will free,
Mv love, mv life, J love thee.
*■ '
Maid of Beauty now I leave.
Tell, Oh 1 tell me shall .1 grove,
Ne’er to meet thee-—once again,
Have I seen thee—-but in vain.
Cause that rising fear to flee
My love, my life, I love thee,
Washington as a Marshal of France.
There is in the possession of a Rich"
blond, Va,, gentleman, an ancient porce
lain mug, on which is painted thlfcyffiffy
of Washington op horseback, with Mtnfm
scription beneath] “George Washington,
Esq., General-in-Chief of the United
Stated Army and' Marshal of France.”
This latter title bjing one not ordinarily
understood to belong to the Father ofWiis
country, an old iet;er has been foijnd from
G.W. Parke CustL, dated in 1857, which
explains how Geieral Washington came
by the French rare. The history of the
American Marsha of France, writes! Mr.,;
Custis, is simply ibis : “When in 1791;
Col. Laurens wei; to France as special
ambassador, a difficulty arose between Ivim
sgid the French Ministry as to the com-
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 13th, ISMS.
mand of the combined armies in America.
Our heroic Laurens said, ‘Our chief must
command it; il is our cause, and the bat
tle is on our soil/ ‘C’esf impossible,’
exclaimed the Frenchman* the eti
4|Ui:ue'ot rffe !Frelch service in? Odtint <le
Rochambeau, being and old Lietenant
General, can only be commanded by the
King in person or a Marechal de France/
.Then,’ exclaimed Laurens, ‘make our
Washington a Marechal de France, and
the difficulty is at an end/ It was done.
A friend of mine heard Washington
spoken of as ‘Monsieur le Marechal’ at
the siege of Yorktovvn ; Washington
never coveted rank or title ; but it is be
yond doubt that from the force of circum
stances just related. the rank and the title
of 4 Men- bal de France’ was conferred up
on the General-in-Chief of the combined
armies of America and France.
81 LENT LIE 8!
“Boys and girls should always speak
the truth,’’ is often said by parents and
teachers. Is that sufficient ? There are
many who never give verbal utterance to
a falsehood, who yet act falsely, often
blasting the character ancti minim; 1 , the
prospects ot individuals in .furs world by
their SILENCE. How many persons, by a
cowardly silence, have acted lies ; allow
ing an innocent individual to be wrong
fully accused ! To be truly noble, one
MUST BE TRUE THROUGH AND THROUGH; for
“truth is a thing not of words only, but
of life and being.”
Buffalo Bill, the Indian scout, has re
turned from the Indian country to his
home in Rochester, N. Y. rfe gives the
following pen-pictures of the two generals
who have command of the forces opera
ting against the Indians: “Gem Crook
slept on his blanket, made his own coffee
and broiled his own bacon. Gen. Terry
bed brought with him, a portable
cooking range and an extension table.
We could not travel fast enough to catch
the Indians as we would break the dishes.
A young Quaker has been sentenced to
two moutihk imprisonment aA Marseilles
)ior refusing/*; join the armyiof reserve.
He declared that it was opposed to his
religious principles to bear arms, and re
plied to the President of the Court Mar
tial. who asked whether he would not
seize a weapon if hi father was threatened
with murder, that he should not even
then offer violence, but allow “God’s will
to be done. \
*■' The Centennial Tournament.
Tpe grundUeptennis l Tilting Tournament,
wfHeli will taktvplaee on the 19th. ‘of October,
is creating quite a sensation throughout the
country, as is evinced by the large number of
letters of inquiry received daily by the officers
of the Exhibition.
I* if tee it knights are to ride in the tourna
ment, thirteen of whom will represent the thir
teen original States, one to represent the Uni
ted States, and another t<> represent the Cen
tennial. The Queen of love and Bnuq\ywhq
i'-t ter he tliu h:th<fs mu 4 woman m America,
will be supported by four maids of honor from
the four sections of the country.
The tournament will take place on the in
side of the grounds- near the foot of George’s
Hill. Colonel S. T. Suit, of Maryland, has
been announced as chief marshal of the tour
nament, in honor of the State on whose day
the tournament occurs.
Beautiful medals are to be awarded/** the*suc!
eessful knights by the United States Centen
nial Commission. r ne Executive Committee
having charge will also offer valuable prizes.
l’he display of horsemanship upon this oe
will doubtless be one of the finest ever public/*
ly witnessed, and draw to it thousands of per
sons interested in equestrian sports,
In the evening the ceremony of the corona
tion of the Queen and Maids of Honor will
take place in Judges Hall.
The Old Man.
Bow low the head, boy ; do reverence to the
old man, as he passes slowly along. Once
like you. the vieissffiuV s oflbfe baM" eirar'?d *
the liair. and changed the round, merry face
to the worn visage before you. Once that
heartbeat with aspirations co-equal to any
you have felt; aspirations crushed by disap
pointment. as yours are, perhaps, destined to
be. Once that form stalked proudly through
the gay scenes of pleasures the beau ideal of
grace: now the haud of Time, that withers the
flower of yesterday, has warped the figure* and
destroyed that noble carriage. Once at your
age. he had the thousand thoughts that pass
through your brain—-now wishing to accom
plish something worthy of a nook in fame:
anon imagining life a dream that the sooner he
awoke the better. Bui he ini* ! ived the dream
very near through. The time is very near at
hand ; yet his eye ever kindles at old deeds of
daring, and the hand takes a firmer grasp of
the staff. Bow low the head. boy. as you
would iu your old age be reverenced.
Advk’K to <; iui.s.
An exchange says: "Win will girls run
a,wav and get married.’' -—"We give it up.”
answers the Louisville Courie;-Journal. "nut
we know a lot here who would stay at home
or jump at the chance to get off and get mar
ried. The boys aiut around asking them
like they did. It takes more money to
rim one now-a-days than it does to run a
steamboat, and they can see more tun
with a steamboat. Ah! girls, its your
own fault! Swap off your silks and satins
■for lawns and calicoes, shut up the piano
and dive into a w .sh tub, throw away
your fancy needle-work and tackle a red
hot stove in the kitchen. Instead of re
ceiving Brown the baker’s son,in the par
lor, keep your vye skinned for Bill Burns,
the Blacksmith's son, as he goes home
from work.
NO 5.