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j BY J. A. SELBY. COLUMBIA, S. C., FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 24, 1865. VOL. I-NO. 204. New Goods ! M. WINSTOCK "TNFORMS city and country dealers that JL he has just opened at his establishment, over J. G. Gibbes', near the Court House, a large and handsome stock of DRY GOODS, FANCY ARTICLES, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, etc., Which he offers at wholesale at prices as low, or lower, than they can be bought for in Charleston or elsewhere-barely adding cost of transportation. Nov 8 Imo flSrCaniden, Abbeville, Anderson, Green? ville and Newberry papers copy three times and forward bills. Valuable Lands & Stock FOB SALE. THAT VALUABLE COTTON and PRO? VISION PLANTATION, in Darlington District, known ns "Bunker Hill," formerly the residence of John McClenaghan, de? ceased, is tillered for sale, containing 1,15(1 aeres, by a plat of W. H. Wingate. Sur? veyor. It is bounded on the South by thc line nf Marion District, defined by a canal draining the waters of Polk Swamp into Black Creek, which stream is its Northern boundary. Sonic live to six hundred acres arc cleared, under cultivation, and present the advantages of linc cotton lands, with . rich bottom hinds for com. <>n the place is a DWELLING HOUSE, with t ight rooms, a Vegetable and Flower Garden, with all convenient out-buildings; a new Gin-house, Barns and out-buildings which have comfortably accommodated ;:-"?t fifty to sixty persons. It is situated within two miles of Mar*s Bluff Station, on the Wilmington and Man? chester Railroad, and within five miles of Florence, and is too well known for its healthfulness] fine water and its advau t; gSS of society, to need a further descrip? tion. With the place, will bc sold, if desired, some 8 or Kt prime MULES. 2 HORSES, CATTLE, SHEEP, HOGS. CORN, FOD? DER, &c.;WAGONS, CARTS. Blacksmith s and Carpenters TOOLS .-.nd FARMING IMPLEMENTS. In the event that no sale is made, this place will be leased for one vear from 1st January next: and thc perishable articles mentioned will be sold on thc premises, for . ash, on SATURDAY, Uth of December next. For terms and conditions, apply t<> L. W. T. Wickham, Richmond, Va., or to the undersigned, at Mar's Bluff. SV. W. HARLLEE, Agent tor L. W. T. Wickham. Mr. S. LUCAS, on thc place, will show the premises, and give persons, desirous of inquiring, thc facilities of deciding for themselves. Nov 15 14 Watchmaker and Jeweller, BEOS leave respectfully to inform his old friends and customers, and ?.-_?Srj&--:r- public generally, that he is now prepared to repair WATCHES AND 4EWELBY Of every description, at thc shortest notice and on tho most reasonable terms. Apply at his residence-up-stairs-As? sembly street. West side, one door from Pendleton street. ?3T All orders left at the store of MEL? VIN M. COHEN will receive the promptest attention. Nov 5 Imo T. W. Radcliffe, AT THE 'Formerly nt /lie Comer of Richardson (md Plain Streets; note at the Corner of J'cn dlefon and Ans/-? ubiy strei t*-his dwelling,) OFFERS every article in his line, viz: WATCHES; JEWELRY, GUNS, PIS? TOLS. POWDER, SHOT. CAPS, CAR? TRIDGES for Smith's and Wesson's Pis? tols; ENI VES, FORKS, SPOONS: Spoct acles -to suit ali ages; Gold Pens-the best assortment ever brought to this place: Pishing Tackle, new and fresh-selected by myself ; Hair and Tooth Brushes, Combs, Walking - Canes and everything usually kept in our line of business. 1 will also receive from abroad every arti? cle of MERCHANDIZE that may be con? signed tome, for which I wiil make monthly or .quarterly returns-soliciting a share vi patronage. Watches and Clocks carefully repaired bj experienced workmen. Jewelry repaired. Lings made to order. Engraving neatly executed. Thc highest rates paid for old Gold ant Silver, and all of the above goods nanice will be bold at the lowest prices. Nev5 ? GENERAL COMMISSION AGENCY. PB. GLASS lias established, in connoc . tion with the Book and Stationery business, a general COMMISSION AGENCY for the purchase and sale of Merchandize of every description, Bonds, Stocks, Beal Estate, Ac. Careful attention given to all business entrusted to him. Oftice, at present, on Plain street, near Nickerson's Hotel. Nov 1 Greenville, S. C. THE EXERCISES of this Institution will bc resumed on the loth of Feb? ruary next. For Circular giving further information, application may be made to PaoF. JNO. F. LANNEAU. Oct 28 07 Secretary of Facultv. Charleston Courier, Augusta Chronicle A Sentinel, Edgefield Advertiser, Newberry Herald, and Yorkvillc Enquirer, please com- until the loth of Jannarv, and forward bills to the Sccrctaryof Faculty, Greenville. To Printers, THE undersigned will receive proposals for PRINTING 1,000 COPIES of the ACTS, RESOLUTIONS and REPORTS of the called and next regular session of the General Assembly: together with the CON? STITUTION OF THE STATE and the seve? ral ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS and REPORTS passed by the late Convention. rhe printing to be in uniform stvlc with previous like printing, stitched and bound together m good paper covers, and to bc delivered to the State Auditor on or before the lirsi day of March next. By order: WM. E. MARTIN, Clerk of Semite. JOHN T. SLOAN, Clerk House of Representatives. Columbia. November 15, 1863. ?5- Charleston Courier publish for one I week. Nov is c, RECEIVED AND FOR SALE BY h. C. CLARKE, Washington Street, Opposite Old Jail. TOGETHER WITH RIBBONS, COLOGNE, TOILET POW DEI!, VERBENA WATER, TOILF'x SOAPS. SOZODONT, DIAPER PINS, Toilet 1 owder Boxes, Silk ami Leather Belts Cor? sets, Tooth, Nail and Hairbrushes Gloves Linen Braids, Tape, Shawls. Edgings Bab moral Skirts, Calicoes, Traveling Bags Portmonaies, Canton Flannel, Cassimeres and Cloths, for Genfs wear, Blankets, Hats Whalebone, Zephyr Worsted, Black Bombai zinc, Black French Merino, Black Alpaca B. E. Diaper, Huck. Diaper, Cloak Orna? ments and Trimmings, Serpentine Silks and Worsted Braids, Fancy, Pearl. Agate Rone Metal and other Buttons. Shell and Imita? tion Tuck Combs, Dress Trimmings. Mar? celine Shawl Pins, Menefour, Ladies' Meri? no Vests, Drawers and Petticoats Gilt and Jet Belt Buckles. Gent's Merino Drawers and Undervests, Waterfalls and Pads Laco \cils, Marceline Silk. Ac. Oct 29 ^^^^^^^^^ L_j J ^ ? f I' = ? i?M '-? = ^ O -' ^ _ - ~ 7 ?- -? ' lui o m lillis I ^5 ' ^^^^ THE PHONIX, PUBLISHED DAILT ANS TRI-WKKKLY, BY JULIAN A. SELBY. TERMS-IN ADVANCE. SUBSCRIPTION. Dailv Taper, rfix months.$5 00 Tri-Weekly, " " . . 3 50 * ADVERTISEMENTS Inserted at $1 per square for the first in? sertion, and 75 cents for each subs?quent. &B~ Special notices 15 cents a line. MISCELLAKTY Nature vs. Man. BY PERCIE BRADKLLE. One by one the leaves aro falling, Dropping hourly-day by day; Flowers, too, have shed their leaflets, All to wither and decay. Thus it is that man must tarry, (On this earth by mortals trod.) Tarry but for one brief season, Then appear before his God. Thc day king makes his daily journey. Through the trackless waste on high, Then slowly, sadly, sinks to Westward, Where to the world he seems to die. Thus it is that man is destined. But for a time to brightly bhtom. Then like that sun his lustre's over, And he's hastened to the tomb. Night spreads her darkened mantle over All the world at God's command, A thousand twinkling stars appeareth, Showing the power of His hand. Thus it is that man, whose body Mtist again be changed to dav, Can place his trust in that High Tower In llim who .-ays "I am the way." But night and gloom will pass away The beaming sun .again will rise," Dispelling from the earth all shadows As he in grandeur spans the skies. Thus to man-if "changed in Spirit" To cheer him will iv bight be given A Light that's diml&s, ever fadeless A Light in God, w?o reigns in Heaven. [GoUlabormir. C.) Daily Actes. (?OLD .WI) DROSS. Reader, have fvou ever heard of Halliday Hall ? Very likely not. And yet, reader, it is one of the-may I say jolliest, without being considered fast ?-well, yes, I will say jolliost old places in England ; a big, rambling building, with no end of rooms, and not a bad, nor a dingy, nor a stuffy room among them, which is no small thing to say of any house, an old one especially. It has a terrace that commands the finest view in the county, and a con? servatory that boats those at Kew ; and last year its Victoria Regias were larger and better grown altogether than any in the kingdom. Sir John Maurice is the owner of it. It has been in the family for years-centu? ries-and a capital old family, take them all in all, they were, are, and I believe will be. Sir John Maurice may be some? where about sixty ; he stands six feet three without his boots ; he is stout ish, erect as he was at five-and-twonty ; with thick curling hair, quite white ; a splendid face, a trifle weather? beaten ; dark sparkling eyes ; and not a tooth missing. He is up at five in summer, six in winter ; walks two miks before break? fast to bathe in the open sea all the year round ; sleeps with his window open from January to December ; rides to the fox-hounds every time they go emt, and, notwithstanding his size, his age and his weight, he and his horse Goliath are among the very first in at the death. At great hunting dinners at Halliday Hall or elsewhere, he can drink more wine-habitually he is rather abstemious in the n ritter of drinking-than any man in the country ; and when, for certain good reasons best known to themselves, most of the other guests eschew the drawing-room, or would do AVCII to do so, he makes his appearance among the ladies as genial, as well-bred, afc charming, as perfect a gentleman as he showed himself at breakfast in the morning. A dear, fresh, wholesome old man : the best landlord, the best friend, thc best father-had been the best hus j band-in short, the best gentleman tc be met with anywhere in Britain o? out of it. The story of his marriage maj stand as an example of what he was, Atfive-and-twenty he Wearne attach?e to a beautiful girl, with a large fortune He had not. yet proposed, was in n< I way bound to her, when one day he: j father decamped, learing wife, daugh j ter and creelitors to shift as they bes might ; and about the same time the girl was attacked with confluent small? pox, which, the doctors confessed, could scarcely fail to disfigure her for j life. Hardly was her life spared, when Sir John waited on her mother, disregarding all warnings as to infec? tion, and proposed for her ; and, as soon as matters could be arranged after her recovery, they were married. Eventually Lady Maurice nearly re? covered her good looks, and was as excellent a wife as he was a husband. I After som o years she bore him a son, j and, when they were neither of them j very young, a daitgliter-Rosamond, j the heroine of my story-not very long ; after which she died. The first ball that had been given at Halliday Hali since Lady Maurice's death took place on the occasion of Rosy's eigh tee util birth-day. Young as she waa, she was already opening out into a splendid specimen of womanhood, tall and full and fair, with masses of nut-brawn hair, and large violet eyes that looked at you I steadily from under their deep white I lids. This was her first regular ball. How she enjoyed it, I don't know : but this I eau state, that on entering her bed-room, when it was all over, she sat down, hid her faeo in her hands, and began to ciy, sobbing, gasping, as only young people and strong men cry, and indulged-I use the word advisedly-in this exercise for about half an hour without inter? ruption. Then she got up, undressed hurriedly, and went to bed. Next morning, after breakfast, she ! came down late, when she knew her ; father would bc gone to pay his ma j tutinal visit to the stables. She went for her usual stroll in the gardens. It j was a lovely day, though well on in September, and the beds were still bright with perpetual roses, calceola? rias, verbenas, and geraniums. But she passed them all by, and wandering oft* to ne of the shadiest walks, began pp g up and down with an almost feverish rapidity. Suddenly, as she came to the end and turned, she saw a figure entering the alley at the further extremity. Her first impulse was to dash in among the shrubs and escape ; but a moment's reflection induced her to continue her course, thong)) at a great? ly slackened pace. Meanwhile, from the other end the figure advanced, meeting her. A tall, slight, though firmly-built man, of about six-and-thirty ; not iu the least handsome, but with a grave, striking face, especially about the upper part, where a singularly earnest and piercing dark gray eye looked out from under a firm, broad, massive brow. At last they met. "Iliave been lookingforyou, Rosy," the new-comer said. "Child, how cold your hand is !" but he did nol hold it in his to warm it, as he would have done yesterday, nor was his look or his voice thc same. For some seconds they walked sid? by side in silence. ' "Rosy," lie said at last, "I want tc speak to you. Shall I say what I hav< to say now and here ?" She merely bowed assent. "Rosy, I fear I have been mistake] in you, that you have been mistake! in yourself, and that we are both be ginning only now to find it out.*' "Oh, Stephen !" "If it is so, we had better umler stand the truth at once. Rosy, would rather die than give you up, i I thought you loved me. But also would rather die ten thousand death than marry you, if I knew you di< [ not-if I "thought you only fulfills ; our engagement from a mistake sense of duty, to Rave me and you [ father paiu. You arc very young 1 Rosy, a mere child compared with m< I know the world, and women, an [ my own heart ; and 1 chose you d< ' liberate!}-, and with full knowledge < what I was doing, and because ' knew 1 could never love any otb? woman with the same love I had U you. Your case was different. ] ioiay have beeu that my devotio . awakened in your perfectly inexper enced nature a feeling that yon migl easily mistake for love, but that wi * not love, as would be proved or. tl r first occasion. I was very angry la ? night, Rosy. When I left you, rushed out, walked off to the beach, and there I wandered about till day? light. I saw the sun rise, and the golden little waves ripple in with the tide, and the white cliffs become rud? dy as the day came in. And in the face of all that eternal glory and strength and tranquility, I felt the folly and thc impotence of my anger, the vanity of straggling against what was to be ; and by degrees I came to see things in their true light, and to say to myself what I have just said to you. Rosy, that man will never love you as I love you ; it is not in him, and he is not worthy of you. I tell you so, not because I am jealous of him, but because I know it of a truth. Nevertheless, if you prefer him to me, and that I stand in the way of what you consider your happiness, Rosy let me say, my Rosy, if it bo for the last time-I give you back your free? dom." "Stephen, O dear Stephen, how good you are to me ! how little I de? serve it ! But indeed, indeed, yon only do me justice in thinking I have not been deceiving you. It wa? not till last night that I really knew I-J preferred Mr. Wilbraham. Oh, can you forgive mc ; can you bear it ? Oh, what a change-what a heart? break.! for papa, for everybody ! I wish I never had seen Mr. Wilbra? ham. But I can't kulpi t, Stephen ; you believe that ?"' "Yes, Rosy ; you never wilfully de? ceived me in your life, and I believe you have not yielded to this feeling without many struggles. Let them be1 over now. Shall I tell your father ?" "Will you ? Oh, it will save me so much ! But no ! I have no right to save myself. No. dear Stephen, I will do it ! What a wretch I am-and you, what can I call you ?" "Your friend I shall always be: Rosy. Dear child, dear, darling love of my heart ! it seems like such a terrible nightmare to think that you are mine no longer ! To think-after the delicious months of peaceful, hap? py, holy love, of tranquil security I have enjoyed- that all is swept away in an instant, and that I am to go forth alone, tossed hither and thither over the world's tide, leaving to an? other all that I deemed so wholly my own. And I do not feel the worst or the fullest of it yet ! Oh, Rosy, Rosy, it is kitting! I thought I had made up my mind to bear it ; but when I see you-!" He passed his hand rapidly across his eyes, and Rosy sobbed aloud. "Of course," he went on, after a pause, "I can't stay here and see it. To-morrow I shall go to town to wind lip my different matters, and in a week at furthest I shall bc across the i water." "Where do you go, Stephen ?" "Heaven knows ! if it could be 'any j where, anywhere out of the world," it would be all the better." I "You'll bid papa good-by ?' I " Yes, yes, of course. I'll come to? morrow morning ; you'll tell him in the meantime. And now, Rosy, best and only beloved of women, may God bless and protect you, and make you as happy with your new choice as I once fancied you would be with ma ! One kiss, Rosy-the last of all the hundreds I have, in nndonbting se? curity, taken. Farewell !" He strained her to his breast with a long and convulsive embrace, and without another word departed. She stood some time on the spot where he had left her, bewildered by the suddenness of the scene, by the novelty of her position. For an instant, her impulse was to call him j back. Was it thus that was to end forever au engagement she had, not many months back, willingly entered iuto with tho man she had, almost from her childhood, esteemed above all others-the dearest friend of her absent brother, the man whom her father regarded as another son? How he loved her! how happy they had been together! Could it be indoed that a stranger, whose very nam. . was unknown to her a month ago, could have thus changed her heart, broken her faith, made her untrue to all the associations of her life? But it was so. Alas! Two months were gone by, and [Concluded on Fourth Page.]