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Yi T I Hy^?^]C ^0W'mS4Ctrc?n< ).Ji1'p^.N,.TiH E E V R O V E A N P L AN. jfPHE STEVENS HOUSE is well and widely known JJ_ to the travelling public. The location is cs PSWjljf ??itablo.tp merchants und business men ; it wF1^'^0 P**"xiniity to the business part of the cW^AiiS,ori tlA i-hfghway of Southern and Western ftrAVCb-rnnd adjacent to all the principal Railroad .?mLSleninh?nr d?pot?. ? ^hc STEVENS lRH'SE Jtns liberal ncconmioda ?ft<w!r 8uJ>i9'W,^3T^^ 18 ,vc'1 f?rniali5df and R?^eryAnrideVn irnprovcMicnt for the com |fort f<?r its iiMjiutes, / Tho rooms aro spacious and %well ventilated?provided with' ^as and water?tho .?vntm'dn'nc'ilB* vrdrhpt ahd rtspcotful?tm<i the table -ji?!tr??n?ro?fllji..(providod.'.with every ?luli?aoy of tho .aearon?at rnodorato rates. ? ? .miTb? r^>?las having bocu-rufurniuliod nnd remodel otfd,! .wd urb'Cnablctl to offer extra faoliltics f,>r (ho j?comfortj and pleasure of our guests, OEO. &. CHASE k CO., *4t}B*\fo*M to nl^.i -'t Uu Proprietors. 2f7Trt0TlP*' AN? o ?ff 11.1> ss i: x? h ?Tf.- 'XTT;OtTiINC., for sale low at ? PVH? p.ZIJKDvL ? KOKN'S. tvi / Y.Vfc'i vl j_"poetry. j Tho Dying Soldlar. t j Col. Ch'ri?tio, of North Carolina, fell mor tally wounded at tho buttle of Gettysburg, while he was gallantly leading his uicti,against, the onenry's brcaetwdrkn. lie wn? taken to AVlrichcster, where he was nursed tenderly tin \il hin death. Ho longed to seo his young wife, hin darling Lizzie, but when sho reached Winchester he was dead. His laut words wore, "Kiss mc for hlZZlK.,t+-iJ2x(ract r>f a Letter. .??Tho bravest arc the tendcrest, The loving uro the during," J am dying?Is she coining??throw tlic wiuduw open wiile, Is she coming? Oh! I love her more than nil the world bciidc. In her young'nnd temler beauty, must, oh! must she feel this loss? Saviour, hear my poor petition, tench her how to bear this cross. ? Help her to be calm and pntlcitt when I moulder in the dust, Let her say and fool, my Father, that thy ways aro true and just. Is she coming? Co and listen?I would seo her fuco once more; 1 would hear her speaking to mc, ere life's fitful, dream is o'er; 1 would folrt. her to my bosom?look into her soft bright eye, I would tell her how T low her?kiss her once be tforc 1 die. . ?, ? Is she coining 7 Oh! 'tis evening, und my darling .comes not still. Lift the curtain?if grows darker?it is sunset on the hill. All tho evening dewa are falling?I nm cold, the light in gone. IS she coming? Softly, snftly comes death's silent footsteps on! I nm going?come and kiss me?kiss mc for my dar ling wife : Trttfc for her my parting hlessiug?take the hist fond . kiss of life, Tell her I will wait to greet her whore the good and -lovely are, , In that home Uittottcho-I by sorrow?tell her she iinist meet ma there.' Is slit 'ondtig? Lift the curt.dn?let me see the fall ing 1.,-ht: Ohj * want . *? live to see her, surely .-dtp will come : Ha~L :?hi : ? . Surely crd ()if> dnyi>bt dlcth, t will fold her to my breast : With ber head upo:?my ^ *vom, calmly I ctudd^InH to res'.: It ishiiiit to die without >r: : H?k, I think she's coming now: I c:uvalmost feel her kisses on m/ faded cheek and brow; [ call olwM'st hear her whisper, feel her b."' "th Up?"*! my cheek. Hark! I hear flifc'frVni door open?is she coining .' did she speak ? JCo. * Well, drop the curtain softly?I will fee her j ftioo no uioro. ... Till t'Mcc it smiling on me on the bright, ntid better *hor#. IV11 her she must come and meet me in thnt Eden land of light; ? j Tell her I'll be waiting for her where there is no death?no night: Tell her that 1 called her darling?blessed her with my dying breath: Come nnd kiss me for my Lizzie?tell her love out liveth death. RiCHMOXn, Va. Mmuciii i n .i i, .mmm. n . nm ? ji i i?i ? i? ?? .11 ? ?111 i?nnii uro, .? 1 mmm* original story A Fact, 20< Fiction. .-:o: BY HAISY 2?ALK. "I'ib a looker.r?n at Venire;" 'and, as weeks roii by, the tide, it abb* and Ames. Some Witli the flood, rush on to fortune ; while many, with the debrifi-innj-*, float unresistingly to find neglect and ruin in turbid shallow* ; ebic, driving on tho sen-bound wuves, aro wrecked 'twixt foster dangers, Scylla or Charybdis. If all "tho men and women, actors are," where is th? inspiring audience ? Methiuks 1 hear the poet's cynic tone, when ready wit makes answer, ?'How little know we what we say or do, We are both iwtcyx and spectators loo." So cheerily the harvest moon skiun? ou the dappled clouds, that its friendly presence should WflrtJl but pleasant memories. Life is not always moonshine, and wo observers; we, with human intuition* girt, revere proud fortitude, and at times aro led from the even tenor of our ways to ponder on the dio. ramie lights, thnt shade the by-plays we have seen and known. * * * * And they were bairns together. I can sec bright Alico now ; tin only child was she, so fair and tender, A gentle eye, 'twas one of I !<io Hud gazed "at Heaven, ami caught its hue." While she was yet a child, her every whim was law at home; and her want of company, the only bane tu happiness. It was then, that Mrs. ilfthjnd dipd,-~bf>r father's pnjy sister;? and, :1H cousin 1* dward had always been hpr ideal of a good brother, Mrs. .Inslyn, bor phris tiaq i))otlicr, found it no cross to Wtill'ouic to her home nnd heart, the orphan boy. Kdwufd Hyljind 1 cai} scarcely describe. He.was one yenr the senior of Alice; yet his intelligent, eyo and well knit frame suggested grcntov maturity. He was of moody, sensitivo temper; one of tlut tropical type, still, un demonstrative, immobile, yet ardent. And all his and orphanage was beguiled by the clinging cheerfulness of Iub childish cousin Alice. She flitted around him in hip study hour, and di verted his attention from the half completed sum f she Dogged for his help,?juet one nnn ?te,-j~whon, absorbed in soiuo Greek transla tion, ho had all but accomplished tho task. When it annoyed him. she "was so sorry to make him, impatient, but she had no one to care for her, like cousin Kd." And who could re ? .Hist the mischievous and artless caress, with which she made amends, and pardon begged, where the act was scarce a fault. Mouths passed, . ' "For lightly mils tho foot of time, That only (rends on Honors." Thcwo eh i hi re ii of the household had now become all essential to each other. Kdward been at school Alice's stimulant to study ; and their long walk to the Academy each day, was ever beguiled by close converse, and an ox change, 'if actual opinions and Sentiments, that had knit their interest iudissolubly. The sea son drew nigh fur Kdward to go to College; latterly, he had watched with a questioning eye, ail the intercourse botwecu his "littlo Alice," and the youths who attended their school. With a conscious look or repartee, she sometimes cheeked their gallantries. A compliment offered on otic occasion, called up a blush, which caught tho cyo of Kdward, and assured him I lion, that his was not a brother's i love. 'Twits more a genial atmosphere, au in i llucucc that permeated l?is every fibre. It was a month since, and \ot he revelled in the hope, , f His drpnin, he dnrc not tell: The thought he ever tried to hide Or loving her, so well. Sad hours of parting too quickly came; and the heart, distressed at the thought of sejiara I tion. panted for the assutancc of hope, which \ could hilly,lio formed by a reciprocal affection. ! "I love her." said he. '-'as I do my own life; aye. better. She has inspired my aims, since first I came, a still and sullen sufferer, here to shelter my orphanage. She has beguiled my silent sorrowfand-tuwed my ?ereoi^iato.; till,, through hor tender influence, I have learned to i put a better value on life, and its myriad iiio I tives. I have cputQ to love her pare: ts. as al | most my own; her homo, as my abode, ami the I Cod of her heart as my father. To Him have I I prayed, that she might love me. first, un earth, J that she might be mine; I need her as no uttiJW being docs, and oh?mine she must he." I "J'was i? knr his mother's grave, at the hush of twilight, tn.'t lie thus revealed to his cousin j his parting cmotio;if=. She was startled at his agitated tone and trcuil'liog grasp; but. in her winsome way, replied. "When you depart from me, Sorrow nitidus and happiness takes his leave. : But this did not suffice. He stayed,?he kept her hand,?and bid her speak but once. "Alice. 1 go to-morrow. Ob., let me take 3*011 in this lonely heart,?mine own ; or must I struggle on, with but a kinsman's blessing from your evening prayer. 'Oh tell mo now. that much and more, you'll love me." Her tears fell fast, And thcro and then, the glance none saw hoside, The sijrh none else might understand, The whispered thought of hearts allied, The "^assure of the thrilling hand. morrow came, ??d Mr. and Mrs. Jdslyn bade a iciml'? t0 b?-V ; "f lUt,c cousin wept, because ?"? ?,i8S0<1 ?IC' J)I?y,m,tc; her chosen. We have never questioned the pr?.j.\r'u''y ?^ the lover's dream ; a father's blessing was un sought,?and why ? Because from earliest years his children's wishes had been ever his rule; and in his heart, we dare affirm, he had often fancied his old age blest by the combined affection of those ^?-">g hearts, whoso, wishes now gave light to all his transactions. Mouths passed ; and with each week came letters teeming with affection, from dear ones, who inspired ambition and hope. It seemed advisable that Mr. Joslyn should remove to the city, us Alice was now seventeen, and ought to know more of society, in cultivated circles. Thither they went; and soon the easy mer chant and farmer became a partner in a large and thriving house. Mr. Stcrmau, was the financier of tho firm. He was an approacha blo business man, but never sought society. Ho was a bachelor of, per 'tips, fifty years. They said he had buried his heart in an early disappointment, wherein tho i cart-chosen had early fled from sight. They met, they loved, and were parted ; for she was not. To have no ono for whom we are warmly concerned, from whom wo might hopn for sym pathy and nfFpction, js. a deplorable state. TJjij.s grief had scarrui} John Sternum, but timii iirid taught its lesson uf ^|ibmissioii, and curbed his sangttinc disposition. Poverty had beau a blessing; It had made him a moral wicsttcr. ltd liijsicd not himself witjj nifiiej pntibfm of to-morrow -3 the <Jay and its evcnts>, were uot neglected, lost Providence assign lliin to more entire destitution. So he worked and accumulated, 'until competence had crowned his eflbrtSV The vigor of youth wan past, but his heart had never failed to sympathizo with the young and hopeful; nor had Iiis trust in Immunity ever been-wholly, warped. Little children ,liked to . claim him, ns undo John; and even Alice, with her winsome voice, had, in his luniring, told'some joke on Uncle J. Oh, lull mo not of the future, gin9y. Tell nie not, the die ia cast; TinnrtO come,?too well resembles, Hours In .my experience past. "Stcrinnji and Josbju," being a commanding firm and good livers?received a welcome to the most eligible circles of society. (7b he Cxivimxicfl.) V A R I 0 U S. [From the Norfolk Journal.] A Few Common Souse Views for Colored People. If a white man and a colored man were in a boat in the middle of the Chesapeake bay, nnd the ping was out of the bottom, what ought they to do? Ought they to let the boat sink by quarrel ing while the water came in ? Kvery man of sense will say that they would be fouls to think of anything but putting in tho plug to keep out the water. t* ? The white people and the colored people/ of | Norfolk are in tho same boat. r If had or foolish men are sent to thtf Con vention what will they do? t/1 They will make bad laws or MdtVb/hiws. Suppose any set of tuen sayra-yau, we will make bad laws lor white poomn 'and good laws I for colored people. Can y.jjftl trust them? And suppose that thoy/uo make laws all in favor of colored people, will tjiut benefit colored people j! w Suppose you aro a carftidnter, where do you get your work and who pays yon ? The white people. i Suppose you are a bricklayer, where do you got your work, und who pays you ? The white Suppose you work iu a ship yard, who giv?s | you employment and who'??pays you? The white people. Suppose you drive a truck, who gives you your loads and pays you for yuur work? The white people. Do you sell wood? Who buys the most from you? The white people. And so through the whole list of things by which men and women of color make a living. Now stop ninl think, (.'an any laws which arc had for the white people be good for the colored people ? If work grows slack in putting up houses or in repairing and building ships, in carrying loads on trucks and drays, in selling wood, and so on, don't the colored man suffer ? lie is bound to feel it. And just as sure as the sun shines in the sky. the black man must he hurt by bad laws made fur the white man. For if) laws press hard on white people, the rich ones will go away, and the great majority who stay will stop, or fall off in their business, whether it be building, selling wood or coal, oV loading ships, or using trucks and so oil. What ought people of color to do then ? Ought they to vote for candidates who say they arc out and out for the black man. and out and out against the white man ? Such people can't be trusted. They arc like vultures, only seeking to find something to oat for their own benefit. \7l!"t ought colored men of industry and ?onse to do ? Tlley ought to vote for no man who is nut fe^own to be n just-minded and fair man. who will ma?j :1 ?00(1 <'>?^"t?-?, ud der which Norfolk may gsow :Um1 pwpcrj l'ov when Noi lolk grows aud prospers tue?? w"' u0 plenty of honest men. and a decent living tor every colored man who chooses to work for it. Hut make a bail constitution, and things will grow from bad tri worse until Norfolk will sink like a boat with the ping out, and the white man and the black man will go down together. Let the office, seek the men. and not the men seek the office. So say think and say THK CKNTIIAJj COMMITTEE. Glowing Accounts from Liberia. A C< uuibtiH (On/), paper ?publishes a letter from a former (lave to his old master, in which ho gives.a glowing and encouraging account of the prospects of that country to his fellow* freed men who may desire to emigrate. The probity of the writer is vouched for, and he was Well known about his old home in (Joorgia. We subjoin a few extracts : "Wcarc located on tho Siubo Hirer; ab'otit two miles above Oroonville, in a largo house, given tu the emigrants for six mouths. Wc have also ?fx months* provisions, broit'ght^frolil A,nicrlen, furnished by the Society nt iVash lug'tonf ' Tbc'Governihdtit of Lib?H? givcsr twcnty-flve ucrcs of land to every, fanilly^a^d] ton acres to every single person. Twenty-five acres.oF laud iu. Liberia id AVorfh more J thnrv 1(H) acres of pine land in America. Liberia in a groat country as there is in the World j nfl that a man will have to do hofc in to clear his land and plant it, giving it. olio working, and it doa'L need any more work. Hut some of the people here ore so lazy that they don't tnako a support. This is a great country for cotton ; it is always growing. Sugar cauc grows twen ty-five feet high. CofTcc grows io a wild state all over the woods ; a uinn can gather just as mucli ooff'oo as he may want out of the Wood^ Pineapples, oranges, lemons and coconnuts, and many other kinds of African fruit that I am not accustomed to, grow here. I am told that this land will make over one hutidrcd bushels of corn to the acre. If a-mau cannot make a support here he will not make it aijywhcrc. J expect to draw my laud about nine miles from here, up the river. There is game 61 all kinds in the woods to shoot?the deer, antelope,' wild hogs, geese, ducks, turkeys and'- pigeons. There are monkeys up tho trees in sight of the house, and also leopards aud all kinds of ani mals. This country don't want anything but, population, and with it this would be as great a Country as there is in the world. Those emigrants who came out here last fall are all doing very well." ' >'; Will Fiuuuks Lie??Poor Joncc Hooper iu referring to a Radical about lluntsville, Alabama, by the name of Figures, contented that the popular proverb "figures' don't lie" was a fallacy. M'c arc inclined to get on Jonce's platform. Old snivel nose Howard of the Bu reau, who has the best opportunity of knowing, says that ono million aud a quarter of negroes have died since thoir emancipation. The military Governors on the contrary have increased them by registration from ten to fifty per cent. There is a lie out between old Sniv ery, the military Governors and the figures.^; ('i>l. Sun. j AGRICULTURAL, A?. ? l'rolty "r?or PraeUtcs/ ~7 . "Cosmos." who edits the rural column, of tho Sal unlay Kreut ny Past, enumerates a list of, pretty poor practices: It is a pretty pour practice for a farmer to dig aiul delve, tug and grub, aud clear up fifty acres of land at a cost of ?2,000, and then iu the third year surrender about a fifth of it to the briers, brambles and ox-cyed dnisCfii' I'oor practice to half manure, half plow, half seed and half cultivate a field, and then harvest from it less than half a crop. To keep two inferior, scrawny, scrub cows for daily purposes, that give less milk than one good one, and consume more food than three. To purchase iu town 500 loads of livery stable manure, and suffer 000 of better home made manure to run to waste. To attempt to fatten three hogs into 1.200 pounds of pork on just as much feed ns Would keep two nicely growing. To estimate agricultural fairs as nrrant humbugs, and spend three days every month saving the country at political meetings. To depend upon borrowing your neighbor's rakes, mowers and all sorts of implements in haying and harvestiug time. To house up a thousand bushels of grnin. waiting for a rise, till one tenth has gone to feed rats and mice, and the remainder smells like the essence of rat, and the price h down 10 per cent. To plaut out a hig orchard of choice fruit trees with a first thought of ??oucy utaking. and leave thorn to do or die. - ???? ? in. . -p-ii?? [From the Charleston Courier.] The Japan Lucerne Sespedeza Striata? A New Forage Grass. T have received from various quarters speci mens of a plant resembling a clover, which has sprung up in almost every part of this Statu, especially along the line of the railroads and also in several parts of Georgia and North Carolina, and 1 have heard of it as far West as Kufaula, Ala. It seems to be spreading very rapidly through the whole of the Southern States. A grass adapted to pasturage has long been a desideratum iu our Southern country. This species, which Providence has kindly sent us, seems to be. admirably adapted to our present wants. Cattle are said to be very fond of it. It grows in almost every kind of Roil, and flourishes under shado trees, arid roots out tho nut graa?, joint and Hormuda grasses: It is said, like clover, to salivate horses but to fatten other cattle. It is represented as growing bit the poorest kind of hind: The iop dies down1 Ui wilder but tho root is perennial. A friend. (Mr:/fas: \i. Watte, of f<aurens*' Tiis^ioT^^rites ^Tbcro arc in tili? vicnity verv donee pino ?tliickctV, uVdcr winch rtbtMiigbVcY to; grow before, that Would now rival in beauty the finest 'law-tan in the.bo-it- cultivated, yard*/' I nave not time to quote a 11-tho favorable rep* \ For the name We are indebted to Mr. Oray? of Hont on, who had been written to by ? gen* '? tlcmati of Aiken, signing himself Hif.H"W? xP.f wjho is, no doubt, Mr. Henry W. Rnvcuol, a distinguished Hobt n ist, who,- ins?n "prinlteA enlar issued from the Aiken Preux, gives the name and desoriptym of, y]A?Vin ilftuB?tai manner it.was brought to.this country und the causes of its sudden and rapid .spread through out the land is, as yet inexplicable. The name Scspcdoza expresses tic cTiaractcnl?c^fir*^? genus) it was given "ScspcdeK, a Governor of Florida. Thcr'oM>^Te?*' as many as scyen or eig Iii- sp natives of our .Southern States. ! ^io' -Erig^?sfi name I have proposed is "^jt:p^any'Luc^r%e^^^ asmuch as it appears toMiavc ino^'yfvtrre,'^WT'^ aetcrist ics of Lucerne than 'of 6lovcrVJ/,,ai/>lA . 1. would advise, that pUtntcr^Hfiu h$ ctitth&V? .where this grass exists, sfio^ntow^ft^ffe'u^f'fc ripcx during the present nVonitV/ a'nrl' K6y^ flto8^ seeds for sale, and distriljile^tfii^^6?f^^ low country. I have not-sbctr' HI grOv^lng*1 ,Jr* 'scud a dried specimen, rebeived tlii'o^grPfrro kindness of Mr. \YaV$"Please* gfW'^???!1 at j-our office to be itispectcu uy A married wretch says' 'the "^rchtesr ffliffi vouchsafed to 'any 'living7 nian Was tnafcfgWnW? to Adam, as hp was blessed witftaJ'Wlfi %?!-? out ever having a nioth'cr-iridaw/'"'? ?>'uTHO& Ah old lady sa?l Kct'niis^antt.wnH'v^foT?cN of peaches arid that Wat/his own '?totcJ"?**** *dt ''Fault, madam," said one, "how ctn 'you. call that a fault ?"1 ' 7; M/ "Why, because! there arc^Lfferent:iwajseWof eating them. sir. My lnisb.iiid tahes: thcm-inl the'form of brandy." {g. m ? '<t urutf ydT .. , i i : uLkmi ? :?i ( I ,r.d Iltw A little girl who had been visitipgi.ifl jtj^ I family of u neighbor, hearing them speak of Iber father being a; widower, Oil'her return home {adar.e^^^v^lius}-. "Pa, aToyfflwHowcrT?35^317, "Yes, my child. Donjt you know your mc ther's dead?" y .? / / y\ ."Why,.ycfi, ^knew mother was dcad^^hut you always told n>- you was a ^jjw<YV^r?cr.^^ Maruikd foh a Watch.? bachelor in the upr^hcrii( of New Hamp shire., who had. yjade many, fruitless attempts to get a wife, at last succeeded, by. the ihr&istjble temptation ,of a sixteen dollar. WAr-cn^O ducing a higliTtcmpcrcd old maid t'o niafrv'iiftti^ The ceremony having lieen'''duly pcrfi>rmc^n? the bride's father's, the happy nnsbanif| posed an itnniediatc return homo'; ^HoificP exclaimed the bride, '-home! tips is'rri^tioftic, and you'd better go to your n ? agreed to marry you for the wateh ; but I wo'dldn^'f^e with you for a town clock !" . When the troops,'under General"SfcCletfan, peuctruted th? 'mountain region g'ttiia, in May, l'fifiT, they cricourite'retHff0! quiet nook on the side of Laurel Ridge;'? VcW erablc matron standing in the door of a log cabin. One of tho men accosted her with : "Well, old lady, whero's your flag fit*/ 7/ "I hain't got no flag," was tho prompt re ply. " , li <?>?,; |J? "Well. then, which side arc you for?" "I don't know what you mean," she answered in astonishment. "Arc yon sceesh ? ' asked the inau amused .... -*\t ? ...... II .?I :>nt -.:ltl'7 ?T at her ignorance. "Xo I hain't," she rejoined, emphaticafly "Are you u nion . "Xo, I tell you." '""!'}J '"Well, what are you?" , ".^ ? t, w(/. "I'm a good, plain Haptist?that's w.l^t I a,S.'- ???? ? . ? ; <>r^ The nicu laughed heartily, and at last one j?T them said: "Yiut'll not refuse to hurrah for 'Ohl.Abc'/* will you, old lady ?" . , "Who is '()id Abe?"' asked iU Oaiu'e growing more astonished every minute; ,lAbraham Idricoln, the Prcsltfdilfl b'f ltho United States." . ' - ' "\Vhy, hain't Gin'nil W.t^flngibri Presi dent 1" ? ? 1' - "Xo, he's bceti dead fdr mofe thhfi"sixty years."' '' ": " ? ' ! ' ' ? ; "Gin'ral Wasliingtoii ikWd !"l Alrt fairlyV screamed. Then rushirig iiito tablrrYh^Cnll?tf. "Sam 1 Sain !" "Well, What i3 It, mother?" said a'vdice within: ? ' t coil I alnifj in a nioriicnt she reappeared at)thcd?Otiwitrt a' votoran of fifty, ? whb tho men afterwArdo learned was her son. miu.pji. "Why, duly .think/Sain," she crjedj ex*5t<kl ly, ''Gin'ral Whshingtort's dead. -Sake.s alive ! 1 wottdfif Wlmt' t ;idhig to happen next y'uuv.t ... .'? ii .itotiemti *Vtv.>