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VOLUME 11.
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ZW'Job If *ork of all kintls dene
teith neatness and despatch.
professional i business Carts.
Agency of the Bank of Savannah.
VU PPLY AT MY OFFICE.
Jan. Ist. 1855. J. A. TURNER.
mm
KESIBE.FT BEJTTIST,
EATONTON, GA.
May in, 1854.
S. W. BRYAN,
BOTANIC PHYSICIAN,
EATONTON, GA.
Office over Carter A Harvey’s store.
IM take this method of informing my friends and
the public generally, that 1 will pay particular
attention to the treatment of all chronic diseases,
ouch a.- Rheumatism, Dyspepsia, Liver complaint
and Dropsy ; also diseases peculiar to females. The
H3t■<* which lijii* universally attended tiie Botiiuic
s-raetiee. in all chronic complaints, is its best rec
wommendation. b. W. BIIYAN, M. D.
Reference YKY
Eatonton, March 3rd, 1855.
DR. LAWRENCE.
I HAVE moved my office to "the building occu
pied as a drug store by Messrs. GRAY BILL &
H All WELL, where 1 shall always be prepared to at
t*nd professional LA WHENCE, M. D.
Jan. 13th, 1855. .
W. A. DAMS,
h Mffifeß.
yy ■i?Wws»gj^Yisag!'a^
4Tm3- oft nr RMK. and Bf-BB •
KST ill bill* made with him are considered Cash ,and
livable when culled for with interest from date <>J
bill. %.•; Vy# T
April 18, 1854, " ‘"Ly
s. S. DUSENBERKY,
f, §is 811 O* V.I «/> J3 Tel He Ot:
-\%TK warrant to please all who wish the latest
VY style of dress! Shop up stairs, over €. D.
Pearson's store.
April 18, 1854. ■ ... .
cTdTPEARSON, & CO,
w°s ws
ware, Ac. -.L i/reftt care m the
$55 iSSmi PMladdplii* Ojjfj
and examine our stock of ready-ma<le < .lot!-
Tug. \V“ will emlea- vour to lit all in garments and
;j» prices. . :r .4^lgi
ADAMS & BROTHERS,
TO. YTO.V, Ll*i.,
INVITE the attention of the citizens of l’utimm
and tSSlSwlnff counties, to their large stock of
DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES,
n ld..t that they «n p'«* tll “ l " J
-asr.
Caen payjtig customers will find it aeuu
interest to give ns a call.
April 18,1654. —■
•new" goods
AT
+8 88*1*11 S Hr 81110 TIME it
■jrXTB would be pleased to
YV and gentlemen of l’ntnam and the adjoin
ing counties, our large stock of
FALL aud WINTER DRESS GOOD.
complete in variety
JSetonton, Bept. 30, 1854, t ts
% ®lwlil| lounial:—Jlcbntcb to literature, |lolities, anti General |llisreilau|.
professional i business Caclis.
DAVIS'& WALKEII
EATONTON, GA.
DEALERS in Groceries. Tobacco, Cigar*, Snuti.
Shoes, Hats, Drugs, Fatent Medicines, lluvd
1 follow and ""'xkl ware. Cutlery, Powder and Shot,
Candles. Soaps, Crockery, Fine Liquors and Wines,
and various other articles. Call ana examine before
purchasing elsewhere. Bargain!, can bo had.
April 18, 1884.
I TAKE this method of informing my friends
that anv business of a professional nature left
in mv hands will meet with prompt attention.
Jail. 18th, 1855. 2-ts J, A. TURNER
SNftKrSSK
DR. J. G. GIBSON
OFFERS his professional services to the people
of Putnam County. Office next door to Ad
ams «fc Brothers. Residence at the Parsonage, at
one or the other of which places he will always
be found unless professional tv engaged.
Jan. 20th, 1855. ‘ 3—ts
"house painting,
In ils furious Branches,
EXECUTED PROMPTLY AM) WITH I/ESPATCU.
§ HAVING a number of bands in connection
with me, I am prepared to do jobs not only
mini but in the adjoiningco mties. Any com
lnunieution from abroad will reach me through the
Post Office here. lam also prepared to execute pa
pering with neatness, and on goodterms.
April, IS, 1854. JEFFERSON WRIGHT.
MARSHALL, MCKAYITT & CO.,
MANUFACTURERS OF
■r*w carriages, rockaways,
Two-Horse Wagons, &c.
EATONTON, GA.
YI r E keep on hand articles of theabove dcscrip-
V T tion, fitted up in good style, of different quali
ties, of our own manufacture, which we are wil
ling to sell on reasonable terms, or any of them
will be made to order, and upon short notice.
Repairing will also be clone iu the best and
most approved style, on reasonable terms, and up
on shortnotiee.
MARSHALL, MeKAVITT & CO.
Eatonton, May 23, 1854.
MILLINERY
AitiD aiißiaaa uutosaaa.
Bonnets , Caps, .Millinery and
Fancy Goods , Dress Trimmings,
Wrought Collars, Under -
Sleeves, Face Fells, He., Sic.,
BY MRS. A. W. OSBORNE.
Rooms at SIDNEY PRUDDEN’S.
Jan 20, 1855. 3—ts
DK. R. B. NISBET
OFFERS liis_ services to the people ofPutnam, in
the 'practice of Medicine and Surgery. Can
always be found at his office—at the old stand of
Brariliaiu, Lawrence 6z Adams—or at his house (the
late residence of Dr. K. Adams,) unless profession
ally engaged.
Jan. 20th, 1855. 3-ts
To My Friends in Eatonton and
Vicinity.
HAVING sold out my entire interest in the prac
tice of Medicine to Dr. R. B. Nisbet, I can
most cordially recommend him to thepublic as a
safe, prudent, and skillful physician. To those who
may be influenced by me, I will state that my ser
vices can be had in conjuetion with Iris, at any time,
tree of extra charge. ROBERT ADAMS. ,
Jan. 20, 1854. 3-ts
DR. J. 11 GODKIN,
HAVING located himself, permanently, at Airs.
Turner’s, Putnam County, _ again offers his
services to the- citizens in th'a* vicinity.
Putnam Cos., Jan, Is'., 1855. * I—tr
DR. BRANHAM.
AT tlte earnest request of many of my old
Friends and patrons I have determined to re
main in Eatonton and continue the Practice of Med
icine. 1 offer my services to the citizens of Eaton
ton and Putnam county, and will attend faithfully
to mv Profession. I will give special attention to
obstetrical cases, and the diseases of women and
children. Having had many years experience in
the ,prnetice, 1 hope to get my share of patron
age. My office is in the liouso occupied by YVm.
A. Reid", Esq., as a law office. Calls left there, or
at my residence will be attended to.
JOEL BRANHAM.
Jan. 13th, 1855. 2—ts
NEW SPRING GOODS.
HURD & HIiKGERFORD,
MONTICELLO, GA.,
KESPECTFULLY inform their patrons and the
public that they are now receiving from New
York, tlitir first shipment of New Goods, (to which,
large additions will be made weekly ) and are
prepared to exhibit an unrivalled stock in every
department of rich and Fashionable Goods, adapted
to the wants of the whole community. All of
which are ottered at low prices.
March sth, 1855. 10—8 t
EATONTON HOTEL.'
HAVING taken charge of the above hotel with a
determination to make it >ne of the best hou
ses in fbe country', 1 announce to my friends and
the public generally that they may always find
with me such accommodations as are desired by the
boarding and traveling community. All that, con
venience or comfort can suggest at the table or by
way if lodging shall !>c furnished you sit moderate
terms and I warrant that no man shall go away
dissatisfied. Good lodging, attentive Servants and
a good table shall always greet you with a cordial
welcome to the Eutonton Hotel.
Jan. Ist, 1855 [37-ttJ WM. 0 BKILN.
' LUMBER, LUMBER!
W E are prepared to furnish Lumber at the re
gular market price, to wit: One dollar per
hundred teet. For extra lumber w e will charge one
‘dollar twenty-five cents. In no instance will we un
dertake bills if -they are to he refused because riot
sawed bv a specifietl time. We will saw us fast as
ue can and saw the hills in the, order m which
tliev come in—flrsteome first served. We frequent
ly fail in getting ears to take lumber off, and some
times after we have loaded the ears. they stand oil
t e turn-out four or five days. We will do our very
best to execute all orders sent to us promptly and
faithfully and we respectfully and confidentially
solicit a continuance of the very liberal patronage
we are now enjoying. Persons living ill Putnam
will please pav postage on letters to us and put them
in the hands of J. A. Turner, Esq., who will send
U Address,' Tkurkli., Tunmet* & Cos., YVhiting,
Wilkinson County, Ga.
Jan. 27,1855. 4 ~ ! y
Eatonton Factory.
ALL persons indebted to the F.uteuton Man
ufacturing Company, previous to the year
,o, r, hv note or account, are not-fied that unless
thev make payment before last return day to March
I Brd, 1855. f 1
EATONTON, GA., SATURDAY. MARCH 24, 1855.
lortrii.
Another War Sc tig.
Mr. Alexander Smith, the new Scottish bard
of whom we had heard so much of late, has enter
ed the lists with the poet laureate, Mr. Tennyson,
mid produces the following brilliant ode on Balalr
luva's tight. It- is very much in Tennyson’s own
style, it is certainly a stirring lyric:
B ALAK L AYA.
Oh, the charge at Balaklava 1
01), that rash and fatal Charge 1
Never was a fiercer, braver,
Thau the charge at Balaklava,
On the battle’s bloody marge 1
All the day the Russian columns,
Fortress huge, and blazing banks,
Poured theiivdread destructive volumes,
On the French and English ranks—
On the gallant Allied ranks 1
Earth and sky seemed rent asunder
By the loud incessant thunder!
When a straiige but stern command—
Needless, heedless, rash command —
Came to Lucan’s little band—
Scarce six hundred men and horses
Os those vast contending forces—
“ England lost! unless ye save her!
Charge the pass of Balaklava!”
Oh, that rash and fatal Charge,
Or. the battle’s bloody marge!
Faraway the Russian eagles
Soar o’er smoking hill aad dell,
And their hordes, like howling beagles,
Dense and countless, round them yell!
Thundering cannon, deadly mortar,
Sweep the field in every quarter !
Never, since the days of Jesus,
Trembled so the Chersonesus!
Here behold the Gallic Lilies, —
Stout St. Louis golden Lilies!—
Float as erst at old Ramillies !
And, beside them, lo 1 the Lion, —
England’s proud, uneonquered Lion!
With her trophied Cross, isfiyiugl
Glorious standards!—shall they waver
On the field of Balaklava ?
No, by heavens!—at that command —
Sudden, rash, but stern command! —
Charges Lucan’s little baud!
Brave Six Hundred! —lol they charge
On the battle’s bloody marge!
Down yon deep and skirted valley,
Where the crowded cannon play—
YVhere the Czar’s fierce cohorts rally—
Cossack, Kalmuck, savage Kalli—
Down that gorge they sweep away!
Down that new Thermopylae,
Flashing swords and helmets see!
Underneath the iron shower,
To the brazen cannon’s jaws,
Heedless of their deadly power,
Press they without fear or pause—
To the very cannou’s jaws!
Gallant Nolan, brave as Roland
At the field of Roncesvalles,
Dashes dovvn the fatal valley,
Dashes on the bolt of death,
Shouting with his latest breath,
“ Charge then, gallants! do not waver,
Charge the pass of Balaklava 1”
Oh, that rash and fatal Charge,
On the battle’s bloody marge!
Now the bolts of volley’d thunder
Rend 'that little band asunder,
Steed and rider wildly screaming,
Screaming wildly, sink away:
Late so proudly, proudly gleaming,
Now but lifeless clods of clay—
Now but bleeding clods of clay !
Never, since the days of Jesus,
Saw such sight the Chersonesus!
Yet your remnant, brave Six Hundred!
Presses onward, onward, on.ward!
Till they storm the bloody pas 3
Till, like brave Leonidas
They storm the deadly pass!
Sabring Cossack, Kalmuck, Kalli,
In that wild, shot-rended valley—
Drenched with fire and blood, like lava,
Awful pass of Balaklava !
Oh, that rash and fatal Charge,
On the battle’s bloody marge 1
For now Russia’s rallied forces—
Swarming hordes of Cossack horses,
Trampling o’er the reeking corses—
Drive the thinned assailants back,
Drive the feeble remnant back!
O’er their late heroic track!
Vain, alas! now rent and sundered,
Vain your struggles, brave Two Hundred I
Thrice your number lie asleep,
In that valley dark and deep,
Weak and wounded you retire
From that hurricane of fire—
That tempestuous storm of fire !
But no soldiers firmer, bvuver,
Ever trod a Held of lame,
Than the Knights of Balaklava —
Honor to each hero’s name I,
Yet their country long shall mourn
For her ranks so rashly shorn,
So gallantly but madly shorn,
Iu that fierce aud fatal Charge
On the battle’s bloody marge!
Till Little and that Little Well.
’Tis folly in tho extreme, to till
Extensive fields arid till them ill.
The farmer pleased, may boast aloud
His bushels sown, his acres plowed;
* And pleased, indulge the cheerless hope
That time will bring a plenteous crop.
Shrewd common sense sits laughing by
And sees his hopes abortive die;
For when maturing seasons smile.
Thin sheaves shall disappoint Iris toil.
Advised this empty pride expel,
Till little and that little well.
Qf taxing, fenciug, toil, no more
Your ground requires when rich than poor;
And more one fertile acre yields
Than the huge breadth of barren fields.
HisailMitaas.
TIIE GIPSEY BRIDE.
A SPANISH tale.
. • *1
CHAPTER I.
“ It is well for the cfews of yonder
crafts that they will have reached a
place of safety before another hour,”
said an old fisherman, addressing a
young Spaniard who stood n ar him on
the shore of the Island Cyprus, watch
ing the white sails of several fishing
boats as they rose one after the other
above the horizon, and stretched their
course towards the land.
The young man, wnom we shall
henceforth call Hernandez, having
been but .a short time on the island,
was not skillful in the signs which fore
told a storm in the changeful climate
of the Levant; nor did he perceive
any alteration in the appearance of the
sea or sky until drawn, by the remarks
of, the old Cypriote, to notice 4 hem.
The surface of the sea, which but
an hour before had been tranquil as the
spirit of its slumbers, was now furrow
ed into huge billows, swelling darkly
in the distance, that flung up the spray
of their snowy crests, as if to play
over the wings of the light but steady
breeze that swept by them.
Several ot the boats had already
reached land, and the lighter ones
were drawn upon the strand, while the
crews of the larger were busily em
ployed in getting out their largest an
chors, and strongest cables, to enable
them to outride the fury of the corning
storm. Those still iu the offing press
ed all sail and hastened to the bay,
while their pilots, one moment, look
ing to the heavens, watched every
change of its aspect with anxiety, at
another measuring the distauce to the
harbor, as if to assure themselves of a
place ofsa ety against the terror of the
approaching tempest.
“She comes! she comes!” again
shouted the old man, as a white sail
loomed up above the horizon ; and
Hernandez turning to the direction in
which he pointed, could with difficulty
discern a slnall flag flying at her mast
head. “Henrico .well kno.ws at what
time to seek the land, and never was
his knowledge so requisite as now.
There are many ahead of him, but I
will wager that the Arrow will not
be the last to her moorings. See, how
nobly she bears herself through those
swelling waves.”
“Well does she deserve the name
she bears,” said Hernandez; “she holds
her course gallantly through a cloud
of foam, passing one boat after anoth
er, seeming more desirous to display
her superior sailing than to outdo the
coming squall.”
Scarcely had the Arrow reached her
moorings, when down came the squall
in all its fury ; issuing, as it appeared,
from a small, Yvhite cloud that was seen
to rise above the horizon, and to in
crease in an incredibly short space of
time. Then spreading over the sea, it
harrowed up the billows for leagues,
bearing off the feathery spray in light
clouds of a thousand fantastic forms.
By this time the crews of several of
the fishing boats had gathered around,
Hernandez and old Jerome—for such
was the name of the old fisherman—
and reported that they had seen a
large Spanish carvel from the Bospho
rus, which they conjectured could not
outlive the present gale, if it did not
seek safety in one of the harbors of
Cyprus.
The storm had reached an alarming
height. Dark clouds rolled heavily
over the face of the heavens, while
• quick successive flashes illuminated
the dome, and deep rolling peals of
thunder spoke loudly of the wild con
flict of elements. The dark waves
lashed into ungovernable madness,
raised their giant forms aloft; then,
bursting into misty wreaths, wove a
shadowy shroud well befitting the
spirit of the storm.
The fishermen were about to seek
shelter, when one of them descried
the form of the laboring barque emerg
ing from the horizon, driven madly be
fore the iury of the gale, an t advan
cing directly towards the island. As
she-approached they could discern that
she had been disabled to a considera
ble extent; her foremast had been
carried away, and it was evident, from
the unsteadiness of her motion, that
t e pilot had now lost all command of
her. . .1. ?
“All is over with that luckless
craft,” said Jerome, addressing the com
mander of the Arrow, “she will strike
on those rocks yonder before another
hour, where the waves will beat her
to atoms ere we can render her any as
sistance. But we must exert ourselves
for the preservation of the unhappy
crew.”
“Father!” said Henrico, “had we
not better proceed immediately thither,
with all the ropes and oars that we
can collect? I fear our efforts will be
needed long before we gain the point;
and our delay may prove fatal to some
of the unhappy sufferers.”
They had scarcely reached the point,
when with a violent crash, the richly
laden vessel struck on a shelving rock.
and whirling around lay fast on her
side for a few moments, until the
waves, rushing in boiling surges over
her, in a short time dashed her into a
thousand fragments. Then rose the
wild cry of terror from the despairing
crew and passengers, even louder than
the storm that shrieked over them.
Some, that had been tin own on the
rocks by the violence of the concus
sion, clambered up beyond the reach
of the waves, and there, awaited the
proffered assistance of the fishermen ;
while others precipitated into the
waves, still plunged and struggled
amid their boiling fury. A rope being
thrown to one and an oar to another,
some few of them were with difficulty
drawn ashore; while others, grasping
a mast or clinging to a plank, buffet
ted with the waves, and were tossed
to and fro or at times hurried in the
wild abyss beneath.
The scene was one of terror; but
the fishermen with Hernandez suc
ceeded in rescuing most of them from
their danger. Hernandez managed
the ropes with all the skill of an ex
perienced seamen; adjusted the lad
ders, which from the difficulty of
reaching some points, were found ne
cessary ; and guided the movements
of the entire party, who obeyed his
dictates as Yvillingly as if he had been
their accustomed director.
Among those who were preserved
were an old woman of Andalusia and
her niece, a beautiful } 7 oung Castillian
of about sixteen summers. They had
both clung to the same plank for safe
ty ; and by timely assistance were
drawn ashore, more affrighted at the
perils of their situation than injured
by the waves or rocks they had to en
counter.
No traces of any other remaining,
except some few in whom life had been
long since extinct, whose motionless
corpses were seen hanging in the
shrouds attached to some of the bro
ken masts, they prepared to bear the
shipwrecked persons to their homes,
there to administer to their wants. —
ILude litters were hastily prepared to
remove those who were too faint to at
tempt walking; while those who had
recovered sufficiently were permitted
to walk to the dwellings of the fisher
men.
On Hernandez devolved the care of
the Andalusian and her niece, whom
we shall henceforth call Adele. He
had them borne to the hotel at which
he stayed, that all necessaries might
be provided for their comfort.
During the time that Adele and her
aunt remained, Hernandez was their
constant companion; if not for the
sake of the elder lady, at least for her
niece’s, whom he found to be a gentle
and amiable girl, of most agreeable
disposition. He attended her in all
her rambles to the seashore, and to
the rocks where they first met under
the painful circumstances of the scene
we have described. He learned from
her the history of their voyage from
the Bosphorus, and all the incidents
that had occurred during their pas
sage.
After some months spent in this
manner, it will not be wondered at if
the heart of Hernandez had become
entangled in those mysterious meshes
which a young and beautiful compan
ion can so unconsciously weave round
a willing captive. But how Adele
preserved the freedom of. hers, we will
leave for the future to disclose.
In the meantime, business having
called Hernandez to Rhodes, he parted
with Adele in sorrow at the idea of
this short interruption to his pleasure.
Being detained there for a much long
er time than he had anticipated, he at
length set out for Cyprus at the end
of the third month of his absence;
but what was his disappointment, when
he arrived there, to find that Adele
and her aunt had left the island some
six weeks before in a Spanish mer
chant bound for Cadiz, leaving no clue
by which he could hope to find out
their point of destination!
CHAPTER 11.
Three years had passed away, yet
Hernandez had not discovered the ob
ject of his search. In fact for a long
time past he had given up all hope of
ever seeing her again.
In the meantime he had fixed his
residence at a favorite estate in Anda
lusia. It was satuated near the Guad
alquiver, in a beautiful and picturesque
valley, where the wood-crowned hills
on either side rose towering !o the
clouds, while between them stole the
whispering waters of the bright stream
speaking like a vein of silver, and
smiling on both with all the fascina
tions of a coquette, not deigning to be
the sole mistress of either.
Hernandez, having roamed one
evening farther than usual along the
banks of the river, came to a small
orange grove, where, tired with exer
tion, he rested under one of its trees!
The moon was risen, and gleamed
calmly over the tranquil waters. The
air was silent, as if bound by some
spirit chain; and the last echo of the
night breeze had sunk to rest in some
grotto of the mountains.
He had sat for a loug time silently
admiring the splendor of the scene
around him; the sound of a paddle
splashing in the waters, at length
aroused him from bis reverie. It pro
ceeded from a graceful bend of the
river, not far from the place where he
sat. Hearing the sound, he started to
his feet, when at the same moment the
prow of a shallop emerged from the
shadow which the grove had cast on
the stream, a young female guiding its
course along the wave, to give even a
faint idea of whom we will pause fora
moment. She- appeared to be some
nineteen years of age ;;-.her dark hair
hung in dishevelled masses over a neck
and shoulders of the most exquisite
form; and her wildly beautiful black eye
gave an inexpressible charm to the soft
radiance of a brow which might ha\ r e
served to inspire the dreams of the
Medicean sculptor, while touching for
the last time the brow of his Venus.
Thus, with the full glow of loveliness
over-spreading her fair cheek, we pre
sent the young Andalusian to the
reader.
An unaccountable change came
over the features of Hernandez, as the
shallop of the fair stranger swept by
like the wing of a seabird. It had not
proceeded far down the stream when
he determined to follow its course,
keeping at such a distance, however,
as not to awaken any suspicion, should
the fair girl observe him in his pur
suit. He stopped for a moment in the
shade of an olive, while the stranger
he seemed to take so sudden and so
deep an interest in, turned her skiff to
wards the bank, and having moored it,
leaped out, and in a few moments was
lost in the surrounding groves. He
paused for a considerable time, unde
termined whether to proceed or turn
back; until the sound of a lute, ac
companied b} r a voice of the most be
witching softness, urged his footsteps
still further on.
At length he reached a small
orange grove where he found that pre
parations had been made for an even
in ds amusement by a group of gitanas.
They intended to celebrate in this
place tiie bridal of two young mem
bers of their tribe, and spend the night
in dancing and revelry.
Sonfe had been already engaged in
the dance, while the sounds of lutes
and castanets rose softly on the moon
lighted air; and some who, perhaps,
had been fatigued with treading the
graceful Spanish measures, were slow
ly pacing alofig the river’s bank, lis
tening to some passionate love tale
that burned while it breathed from the
lips of some handsome young gitana,
had come to share the evening’s sports;
while others/scattered about in groups',
were listening to some sweet-voiced
minstrel, while she blended with the
voice of her lute all the softness of
passion and the sweetness of song.
But the largest group had collected
around the fair being whom Hernan
dez had pursued thither, and who now,
seated in their circle, gave freedom to
the delightful sweetness of her voice.
It rose softly at first, and then swell
ing by degrees, rolled in a rich stream
of melody, while the other minstrels,
as if touched by some magical spell of
its weaving, dropped their lutes, and
sat mutely listening to the delightful
strain.
Hernandez leaned for some time
against a tree that stood near, him;
for lie was tired with his walk; it was
not until the gitana had ended her
song, and all were engaged in the
dance, that he woke from the dream
like stupor into which he had fallen.
He watched the bright form of the gi
tana float through the dance, lie
could only gaze at her, so completely
had she absorbed all his senses; and
more than once did he catch the search
ing of her dark eye resting on him.
After the dance was ended, lie looked
round for the form that had so rivet
ted his attention, but in vain. She
was gone, and be knew not how to ac
count for her mysterious disappearance,
since he thought that he had watched
her movements so closely. He went
to the bank of the river in quest of the
shallop that bore her, but that, too,
had disappeared with the beautiful
minstrel ; and he was left to retrace,
his footsteps to his home with feelings
of the same dark hue as were spread
around his return to Cyprus, when he
found that the idol of his dreams had
fled from liis shrine.
All his former hopes returned to him
again; the memories of other years
crowded around him; and liis love .for
the amiable Adele, which only slept
for a season, was again restored to its
pristine fervor. He knew not why lie
should have associated the fair Castil
lian with the beautiful gitana, or why
a meeting of the one should have
awakened all his former passion for
the other.
Some mouths of pain were spent by
Hernandez, when, one evening, as he
wan seated in his study, a servant en
tered, and handed him a note> the pur
port of which was, that a company of
gitanas entreated permission to remain
on his estate tor some time, as one of
their tribe .was too ill to proceed on
the .journey; and also begging of him
to oome! to their camp, in order that lie
might prescribe any medicines he
might think that she had required.
Hernandez repaired immediately to
their encampment, where he found an
old woman stretched, in the last ex
tremities, in one of the tents. Beside
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her bed was the fair form of the young
minstrel that had led him to the festal
scene we have already spoken of; but
so altered in her appearance, from her
constant attendance on the sick bed of
the old woman, that he scarcely recog
nised in her careworn features the
liveliness that had then attracted him.
Upon his arrival, the old woman,
having recovered a little, directed them
to assist her in sitting up a while.
Then, motioning Hernandez to a seat
beside her, she thus commeno«d;—
“Since it is the will of Heaven that I
should once more behold you, the
poignancy of pain and the excruciating
pangs of mental agony are mitigated,
and death is deprived of half its ter
rors. But in order that you may fully
understand me, it will be necessary
that I should give }’ou a sketch of my
past life, at least in part. I shall then
relate some of the incidents in as brief
a manner as possible, for I feel that I
have no time to spend in circumlocu
tion. Some sixteen years since our
company encamped on the estate of
Don Lopez de Vinta, a cruel and ty
ranical man, and an acknowledged per
secutor of our race. We had not en
tirely completed the erection of our.
tents when he came to drive us off to
seek repose elsewhere. Not content
with the peaceable departure we pre
pared to make, he entered into some
altercation with one of our men, who
used some language not suited to his
w rathful mood, upon which he order
ed his attendants to fire on us. They
did so, and several fell, among whom
was my son.
“Some years elapsed, when De Yin*
ta lost an only daughter in a most
mysterious manner. She was seen on
the lawn but an hour before, and in
the next .she disappeared. I it was
who stole the child intending to have
sacrificed it in atonement for the de
struction of my f>oy; the winning
sweetness of the little girl, and her in
nocence of her father’s crime, preserv
ed her life.
“I brought her up, however, in our
wandering habits; and but for a debt
of gratitude which I owe —though as
yet you are unconscious, I see, of its
being such —would have betrothed her
to a bridegroom of our own unhappy
caste.
■“ Don Lopez is jour father’s heredi
tary foe, yet I know that in the heart
of Hernandez dwells not feelings of
revenge ; and you will guard the
treasure I leave you, if not for his sake
at least for hers. But to continue.
In sailing from Constantinople, accom
panied by De Yinta’s daughter whom
1 had taught to call me ‘aunt’ and re
gard me as such, we encountered a se
vere gale while near the coast of Cy
prus, which overwhelmed our vessel
and dashed her to pieces on the rocks
of that island and would have added
our names to the eatalogue of unhappy
sufferers, had not some fishermen,
with you for their director, saved ua
from the perils which surrounded us.
You are already acquainted with the
manner in which we left the island,
but it was only within the last few
months that I have been enabled dis
cover you place of residence. All
that now remains for me to add is, that
into your hands I deliver the daughter
of Don Lopez—the young Adele ;
you must now become her protector,
for I shall soon be gone.”
Thus far did Hernandez listen to
the strange revelation with fixed as
tonishment, when with a sigh the old
gitana expired. Hernandez gazed for
a moment onthe lifeless corpse before
him; then, taking Adele in his arms, for
she had fallen senseless to the floor the
moment her pretended relative’s spirit
had passed away, lie carried her to his
castle.
After some days the gitanas interred
their departed sister with their usual
ceremonies; and having given Her
nandez all her papers and her other
property, they departed. The papers
corroborated the statement of the old
gitana, and several trinkets were found
marked with the well known arms of
the house of Don Lopez. When Acjele
recovered her senses she deeply la
mented the death ’of her aunt, as she
hadbeen accustomed to call her ; but
the presence of Hernandez, and his
devotedness to her, wiped away all
traces of her tears.
In a Jew weeks after, the scene was
completely changed ; instead of an
encampment of gitanas, a large festal
party moved in various groups around
the lawn, the brilliant bands were seen
in all directions, partaking of the fes
tivities; while the beautiful Adele,
the shipwrecked lady of Cyprus, and
the enchanting minstrel of the Guad
alquiver, moved amongst them all, the
most fascinating centre of the circle.
Hernandez and Don Lopez de Ymta
quenched in the cup the mutual ani
mosities that existed so long between
the rival houses, and a long, chain of
interests was in time established be-
them, the first link of which
we must allow Hernandez to consider
his GIPSEY BRIDE.
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He who thinks he can find within
himselfthe means of doing without
others is much much mistaken ; but
he who thinks others cannot do with
out him is still more mistaken.