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B? DtRISOE, REESE & CO? S .ll.l'l.'W'll".'"! ,",,.",_y,,-,,;!---.*.to.M..,.*.^'^u^uu.MM. -< >, , : . . ?OL?M&XXX?I.-No. 2?, EDGEFIELD, S. C., MAY 22, 1867. ". spurns DRY ?mm i ?pring Dry Gooda M F, .-RUSSELL % CO,, AUGUSTA, Gr A., ??E NOW OPENING A LARGE STOCK OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC Purchased at the VERY LOWEST FIGURES from Importers and Manufacturers, in New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia, which they offer at Wholesale and Retail, on most reasonable terms. Merchants from the interior will find it greatly to. their advantage to examine our Stock, as jjreat inducements will be offered them. - . - Augusta, -Mar 25,. tf 1,3 IMPORTANT AND TRUE ! Immense Reduction in Prices. KENNY & GRAY, 238 BROAD ST., AUGUSTA, ?A., Address themselves to the public in very emphatic terms. . Every Gentleman in South Carolina and Georgia who will take the trouble to call at our FIRST CLASS CLOTHING HOUSE, Will be willing to endorse our assertion : That our House contains the MOStf COMPLETE ASSORTMENT, and the most elegantly finished Stock of H?ADY-MAM C10THIIG FOR SPRING AND SUMMER WEAR, That has ever yet been offered in Augusta. It-is, therefore, important that avery gentleman who desires to be well dressed, h garments that are THOROUGHLY FINISHED, and, at the same time, at th< LEAST POSSIBLE EXPENSE, to call at once at KENNY & GSA Y'S. OUR TAILORING DEPARTMENT Is supplied with the CHOICEST CLOTHS, CASSIMERES and VESTINGS, including the most delicate shades of color to be found in the country ; and its ope rations'will be prosecuted with RENEWED CARE '.AND ATTENTION on the part of the Proprietors, so that nothing of an inferior character can possibly escape their vigilance. We have made special selections of choice FURNISHING GOODS, which will receive more cere than heretofore, and enable our patrons .to supply themselves at our House with every article they may require. . f?gfOur Prices <tre immensely Reduced! KENNY & GRAY, j 238 Broad Street, Augusta. | Apr 1 3m 14 * 224. Broad St., 224. LARGE REDUGTfOH! Every Article in Our Stock Largely Seduced ! I. SIMON & BRO., . MANLT ACT UBERS OF MEN'S, i SYS' ANO YO UT RTTTTIT P Offer thc remainder of their WINTER GLOTHING and GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS at REDUCED PRICES in order to make room for-the-Spring Tracie. Our TV'ell assorted ; Stock of 'Cassimeres, Broad Cloths, Doeskins, Tweeds,, Jeans, Hats, and 'nany other Goods, wc ofier/at the same Reduced Prices. CBTBnym will save money by calling and examining for themselves. ^f^Remember we haye ONLY, ONE PRICE, always giving our Customers the advantage of;a fair Bartram I. SIMON" & BRO., ' : FASHIONABLE CLOTHING EMPORIUM, 224 Broad Street, Four Doors* Below t'entrai Hotel, Augusta, Ga? Augusta, Jori 7 tf . 2 LUMBER ! LUMBER ! \ Buggies and Wagons. TITS Subscriber has on band ' nt his Circular Ssw Mill, situate within 2} miles of tho r?sidence of Mr. Elijah Watson, Sr, 100,000 FEET CHOICE POE EUMBER, Embracing'every ?urtoty repaired by Builder?_ such as Framing Timber, Scantlings. Weather boarding, Flooring, Ceiling, Fencing, Ac, ?c, all of which has been cnt under bis own supervision, from th? best Stocks, and ii now being well Ma soned. ?E^Tenns, $10 per thousand, in Carrenoy,.at the Min; / . Orders for Lamber filled nt tbo shortest notice. J '' WM, STEVENS. IHAVE on hand at my Shop, situated near Good Hope Church, a few NO. 1 BUGGIES, of my own minufacture, und of good finish' Also, one excellent' TWO HOBSE WAGON. Wagons and ill kinds of Vehicles repaired at short notice, and at low prices. To. persons wishing to exchange ot barter pro visions for worl; done at ny Shop, satisfactory trades will bo |;iveo. . J JAS. S. HUGHES. May 15 fit 20. ? La.w Blanks. JT^01t_ sale art this Offico, LAW BLANKS'OF ALL KINOS at the uodt-reaionahl? prices ?p***V & ' ts ? - Early Klsing. BY JOHN fl. SAXE.' " God bless the mas who first invented sleep !" So Sancho Panza said, and so say I : And bless bim, al o, that he didn't keep His great discovery to himself; or try To make it-us tho lucky fellow might A close monopoly by "pawntright?" Yes-bless the man who first invented sleep (I realty can't avoid the iteration), . But blast the man with curses loud and deep, , What'er th? rascals name, or age. or situation Who first invented, and went round advising, That artificial cut off-" Early rising !" Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed," Observes some solemn sentimental owl, Maxims like these arc very cheaply said ; But, ere you make yourself a fool or fowl, Pray just inquire about the rise and fall, And whether larks ha?ve any beds at all ! The' " time for-honest folks to be abed," Is the morning, if I reason right; And he who cannot keep his precious head Upon his pillow till it's fairly light And so enjoy his forty morning winks, Is up to knavery ; or else-he drinks ! Thompson, who sung about tho "Seasons," said It was a glorious thing to rite in season ; But then he said it-lying-in his bcd At ten o'clock, A. M.-tho very reason He wrote so charmingly. Tho simple fact is, 'His preaching wasn't sanctioned by his practice. 'Tis doubtless well to be sometimes awake Awake to duty, and awake to truth But when, alas! a nice review wo take Of our best deeds and cir.;-.-, we find in south The hour: that leave the slightest cause to weep, Are those we passed ia childhood, or-asleep! 'Tis beautiful to leave .the world awhile For the soft visions of the gentle night; And free at last from mortal caro or guile, To live, as only in the angel's sight; In sleep's sweet roalm, Iso cosily shut in, Where, at the worst, wo only dream of Sin. So let us sleep, and giro the Maker praise ; I like tho lad, who, when his father thought To clip his morning nnp by hackneyed phrase Of vagrant worm by carly songsters caught, Cried, " served him right ! it's not curprising, fha worm was punb-bed, sir, for carly rising." .-? -?- ? THE PAWSED ?LVG. CHAPTER I. " Oh mother, i'm so Mied, and my head aches so badly..that I'm afraid I shall have to ifive up, and not finish this work to night !" and the speaker-Ellen Temple-a fair young girl-bends her throbbing forehead on the. table where she sat at work on an unfinished garment. M Ellen, my child, wc might as well give up first as last. Poverty must come, and we cannot prevent it !" and Mrs. Temple raised her thio, emaciated form ou her pillow, as she spoke. ' " Oh, my .dear child," she cont inucd, " that I should live to see thc day! Our once afflu ent homo exchanged for this poer room ; and my.dear daughter suffering, toiling away her I young life, lo obtain us a mere subsistence ! I Can it be right ? I often nsk. And yet, I would not question Thy wiil, roy Heavenly ; Father! Teach me resignation and tope !" and she bowed ber Ler.d in prayer. The mother's distress roused the dau/nter to.a new struggle with ber own depressed spirits. We will not repine, dear mother!" said Ellen. This trial is sent upon ns for some wise purpose; but lara sure that God will not wholly forget or overlook us. We will trust him. His promises are sure ; for has he not said,1 that not a sparrow can fall to :he grouud wi bout His notice !' Let us hope yet, dearest mother." ': IV, yes. Ellen, 1 know that a wise Parent holds rule ever all His creatures, and .that our afflictions and sorrow* are but his will ; uut som .times it is hard tu believe ;t-lying here so week- and ill-unable to rise-and seeing you, my dear child. who was born toa better fate, toiling your young life a Way. It does seem very bard, sometimes, to think it right !" and Mrs. Temple, sighiug deeply, laid her weary head back again on bar pillow, " But, mother, it is not so bad, and wc won't despair ju?t yet !" said the young girt, au attempt at a smile lightning up her pale, lovely face, like a transient beam of sunshine. " I was wrong 'jujst now, to yield to my mo mentary gloom j for sae, dear mother!" and she held up the garment upon ?phjeu she had been eugaged, " It is nearly completed, and already mv bead feels a great deal better; so I shall soon have it finished-and then with the pay for it, I will procure" you the port wine the doctor ordered ; and I dare say I shall get mere work, when I take this home, and when you are well again we shall laugh at the memory of our hours of dejection," and again 6he resumed ber task, and t hes ti; eh, stitch, of ber swift flying needle, alone broke the silence of the quiet room. It wns a scantily furnished apartment that ia which Mrs. Temple and her fair yonng daughter sat. Yet there was an air of refine ment amid their faileti fortunes, and tbat in describable je ne sais quoi, us the French term it, shed over all their meager surround ings which bespolie that better days had once been the fate of the two occupants of that rented chamber iu an obscure, though respec table street, of the great New Em/land me tropolis. It revealed itself in the arrange ment of the few books aud magazines upon the table-the folds of the simply but snowy white muslin draperies ever the spotless win dows-the thrifty growth of a scarletttea rose, a magnificent calla lilly, and a rose .scented geranium upon a little stand-and tho tasteful arrangement of the furniture. The gauds aud tinsels of wealth, and expensive upholstery car. not make the lady, nor can their lack destroy her spei] or influence. Bat, as Mrs, Temple-lying upon the pil lows of the neat chintz covered couch, and looking upon the graceful figure of. her bend ing over her- scwiog-thought cf her own sunny, eare-fr?e girlhood in a happy. England home across the sea, she .could not refrain from saying, with a deep sigh u Ellen, your youth and mine differ so wide ly. But if-so some bal'mrcm-n certain share of sorrow must be dropped into tbe cup of life from which every one drinks, fj. d grant that your young lips have dtained tba deep est, and that the red wine of enjoj'meot and ? happiness may be in store for you I And yet, ' how loug-bow long such a fate is coming ! i I bavo so often dreamed that my dear Robert was returned to UH again-then waked to find it only a dream ; ana so I have settled myself to that calm, cold despair, which asks and hopes nothing for its future." u Mother, don't cease hoping !" eaclaimed the young girl, looking up brightly, a deeper blush dyeing ber cheek. "I'V.hor maybe living yet J we never beard certainly of his death-all was wrapped in mystery. If the ship was lost, he may have been saved ; such things have been; and oh, mother, I can't gpre up the belief that cheers my days, and visits me in dreams by nrgbt-^-that father will some time return to us 1" and again that smile lighted up the lovely face of Ellen Templo. . u Well, my. daughter, to your young heart hope whispers more flatteringly than to mine. But I will not repine wholly ; for I know all things are possible to our Heavenly Father ?" " Yes, indeed, dear mother! and wa will ! hopo on, hope ever'-the old motto, you know. There will yet be sunshine, and tbe wine of happiness, foras both, J. feel assured f" . said Ellon, cheerfully* " And now, see what a little perseverance bas accomplished," she said),rising and holding up tho garment. " If I hod given up a little while ago, the thought i>f this tujflaUkd W?BM tar? v?&t?w down till I should have r?Hly beco but I havo persevered-and nave wor headache quite away into the bargaii you spare me now, for an hour or two, I dearie-while I carry it home V sbi with winning gaiety. "Yes, Nellie," replied the mother, ci a little infusion of her daughter's i mood. And I think the walk will < good-so don't hasten back ! I eau ge very well. There, go now, and put 01 hat and shawl." A half hour afterwards, Ellen Temi tered the store of Messrs. Truefit where work of various kinds was to by poor sewing women. She enter large shop with a timid step, for she y usod to carrying home their work, hen huvlng always done this until this tin sudden illness had prevented her. Elle advanced to a counter, and inquired in lady like voice,, for Mr. Truefit. Thj could not refrain a more than passing a' the sweet young face beneath the dr< hat brim ; but at length he directed h< door in thc rear of the sales room, rem; that she would there be attended to. Ellen soon found herself in the prese a tall, bustling, energetic overseer, whi her bundle-listened with a hurried i her few words-then unrolled it, and < ined her work. t " Oh, ah, well-let me see-you ai daughter of the woman who took ou work. It was taken out one week a; day,M referring to his book6. " There ai dozen shirts at fifty cents apeice, anc makes six dollars. Here John 1" callei clerk at a desk in the father corner c apartment-six dollars due this young p -lady, I mean," he added, apologeti his keen, cold, business eye softening i incut a* it rested on her graceful figuri sweet young face, so,different from many came there to procure employment. Ellen received the money from the eic put it into her little portmonaie-then ti again, half hesitatingly, to the man whom she had first spoken. "If you please, sir," she said timidly should like more work-it yon have it,' then she stood waiting his rcpl}'. " We have decided not to get our garn made by hand any longer, since we have 1 made by sewing machines, and the work 1 so much better!" said tho overseer, in hi customcd brief, business Voice, which c struck H chill to thc girl's heart. Ellen said no more, but merely nodded reply which she could not utter ; and tu; irom the room, with the thought of her mother, and their extreme need, rising u] fore her- Which way could she now ti She had no friends in the great crowded -aud now the sewing upon whicii she her mother had reckoned had failed. 1 aid them! aud this was the language spoke in her appealing blue eye as she tui away from the work room. That glance, so mutely sad, so eloquei despairing of human aid-touched the i of the overseer, and haunted him all 1 day through his business hours. "I am sorry I denied ber-work. ? young thing ! she had seen better days, doi less-was a real lady I dare say-I wis had given her the work on my own respo bijity, despite bf Truefit's orders'?" he sa for thc same hurried, stern man of busin had a soft, warm heart hidden under that e< dollar-and cents air ; and it was long be( that sweet face, with the grieved look ab the lips, and thc sadness of the blue cj vanished from his memory. CHAPTER If. " Ellen my child, what has enmc over yoi asked Mrs. Temple, as ber daughter ente; the room with a slow, hopeless step, and sn languidly in a chair. "You were so di fi .eiitly when you went out Are you ill, d ling?" and she rose from the sofa. " No, mother, not ill ; but Mr. True-fit 1 no more work for us-and so you see my tie sun of hope has sunk quite down will the lust two hours. Ob, mother, mother ia so bard-to be willing to work-to do n thing to keep us from starvation-and j hape that denied to you," and quite overcon the girl knelt down by hpr mother's side a burst into tears. " Don't, Nellie ! don't, darling I" said M Temple, caressingly ; untying her hatstrinj and . moothing tho rich, wavy hair over t forehead of the fair kneeler. " You are e cited my love ; you will become ill, if y give way to your feelings so I Let us ta calmly together. We must look our futu in the' face now. Cheer up my pet, and, I a sure something will yet occur to help us." Ellen gradually grew calmer tinder h parent's soothing caresses j and when tl paroxysm of her disappointment had passe she agaiu talked over their prospects for tl ensuing winter. " I might work, if I had friends to ass! roe in obtaining a situation ; or I might gil music lessons if I bad a piano-and, ol mother, that reminds me that the other di our kind neighbor, the grocer's wife in tl next tenement, asked if I didn't think bi little Gracie was mott old enough to begin 1 learn music, for she !-:as quito an ear for ii Mother, why can't I rent apiano and gi v lessons ? I know I could in time get scholar Mrs. Braoders would send me her little gir I think, and, I dare say, recommend met others. But I forgot-we hawe no money t pledge for the piano rent, and they wouldn let-us have one on promise!" and the brigb young face'fell again. . . Mrs. Temple, whp had listened quietly t h?r daughter's words, suddenly grew anima ted as Ellen's last plan waa unfolded, and look.of resolve settled on her face._ I Rising, she stepped into a small bed cham ber adjoining thc room wherein they sal ; opened A drawer of her bureau, and dre; thence a tiny cabinet, from .whe:i'ce she tool an elegant but antique ring, the sparkle o whose gems proclaimed them pure diamonds Returning to her daughter she said "Ellen, this Was your father's first gift U mc at our -betrothal. I was, then, the onlj and petted daughter of a luxurious home and he was the young captain of his own ship sailing from Liverpool to America. This rin{ I have never parted with through all our mis fortnnoi; but to keep it longer when Got peints out the way through it whereby wt ! may obtain a comfortable livelihood, would be wrong. Yon may take it to a goldsmith'* and dispose of it-rent a piano-and, shoulti you- succeed in obtaining scholars, it will bi much easier for you than to sew eo conatantlj as you have done of late." "Oh, mother, how beautiful I" said Ellen, taking the ring ; " and I remember the sparkle of these gems so well upon your hand when I was a little girl { I wonder I had forgotten you ever wore it. But, mother dear, I will not sell the ring-only pawn it; for I 6ball soon earn money enough to redeem it, and you must never part from dear father's gift. But I will first run over to good Mrs.Broaders and ask if she will give me Gracie for a pupil !" and, springing up and re-tying her bat strings, tbs hopeful girl bounded from tho room. CHAPTER, nr. "I will pledge you forty dollars on it, Miss,'' said the jeweler and pawn broker, before wbose counter Ellen Temple stood on that, same day in which she received her mother'' j cherigupd keepsake of tho long missing fat he and husband. ' ' " So little 1 and it wa* such a treasure t < my mother F said Ellen, disappointedly, hi ' j countenance falling.' " Why, you must BI I tLey ?? ?al dUm?^ ilr, ?d we J only n/rt\with it from necessity," sbe ur{ As Toe /jeweler turned the ring with aj rent carelessness in his fingers, the while eyea gloated over the flashing scintillation the gems, he nodded coolly and said- ' " May be, miss, but the stones are sn and th?^setting is old-fashioned." ? u Forty dollars isa great price, miss, foi old ring like this. But as you say, you se to need the money." looking supercilious^ her attire-the faded shawl and the last yet hat-"-and so I gave you a good offer at first." ? " S?Wfifty, sir. ' Really, I can't'part wit) for lesilhan fifty dollars !" said Ellen, i: tone soyearnestly pleading that any ear 1 the Hardened one of a pawn-broker woi have melted to her appeal. "Really, miss, -I can't think of it I Wi it naayche a dead loss on my hands, for al know. ?Nobody.would buy an old-fashior ring \T& this this ; and, if !twas ever wo the stokes would have to be re-set. I'll g you theforty on it and no more." I Ellefrassented, though "she had thought j obtain jl much greater sum on the gem, wh< value, she knew, far exceeded that 'Bet np it by |?e crafty jeweler. But she realiz that her necessity was his opportunity, so s accepte^ his offer and received the mon which^as counted out to her. But'e're she took it she said " I should like it understood that I am have the privilege of redeeming the ring, posnbjft. Sly mother values it very big! from its associations as the gift from my de father." " Certainly, miss, certainly ; I should glad tojiave you redeem it 1" said the jewel blandbja^his keen, black eyes glittering 07 his bargain, though all the whiie, be was 1 solved Jp sell it at the first opportunity makinj?a good bonus on the sum he had pa on it.^ Ellen^now turned to leave the shop, unD ticing tfiat she was followed by a handson ?young man who had stood-at a show-case the jeweler^ store, and* witnessed hcrinte view wijh him. And-fortunatc was it that she was thus tl recipient of this young man's notice. For 1 Ellen l&mplc, absorbed in thoughts of hi recent sale, was crossing thc street at a co ner belctw, sho was startled midway oh tl flag stones by a loud call from the thror around her-and there, close upon her, wit their h'Ot, steaming breath almost on h; check, dashed two terrified horses, draggir the fragments of a broken carriage and tor harnesses. She could not move. Her limbs seeme paralysed, and with thc warning cry of thot upon the sidewalk full in her cars, she woul have bAn trampled dowu by those fierce an mais but for the strong arms and courage ( the youjig man who had followed her iron the jeweler's, who grasped her, drew her asid with l?OT?ning rapidity, and thus saved he from alorrible death! For '?ninute she felt deathly faint, but uh soon x??ved and opened her eyes upon he presccv'*. She endeavored to thank him, bu agitati?thindered her words, and meanlimt quite adjioup had gathered around her. " YOB ire . injured ? You cannot walk ! said.th|young man, anxiously. ".totf&d I can, and I have received no hurl LetxS? leave" thTsL crowd-T'friTRrg'o honflrri once ?"she replied, earnestly. " I iiust insist upon accompanying jon then," said her rescuer, h for you are stil trembliig with fright. It was a narrow es cape, m ss. But you are too weak to walk Which Why do you go-down town ? Thei we willtAke this car," and shortly he beck oned the driver, aud assisted her- into om that was passing. " Oh. sir, how can I ever thank you ?" ex .claimed tho girl, af(er they wer? sea teni, i shudder passing over her frame at t he reali zation ct her danger. " But for your cour age I slonld have benn killed 1 How can 1 express my gratitude?" " Do not speak of it-it was thc happiesl scrvicel ever rendered myself," he said, cour teouslyyct earnestly. " Bu do not say it was nothing !" answered Ellen, warmly. " Few would have periled their om safety. I was so terrified that] could n.t stir, and the next moment*! should have been trodden down. I can never thank you si/ficicnlly ; but I can nt least ask the nameof my preserver, and assure him that il will Dver be remembered with tho deepest gratiude by both my mother and myself." Th?, evidently, was what Ellis Parkhurst mostdesired ; for be gave his name with the utmot readiness-obtained Ellen Temple's in retun, also tho number of her residence ; and whei he left her ati the door, which they gai nd by walking through several streets af ter laving the carche said "]6hall beg leave to call very soon,\o as Ruremyself that you have experienced no ill effeds front this day's fright." .Certainly I wo shall be happy to receive yoUjboth my mother and myself!" rop?ed the oung ?ir!, with a charming frankness, grac and naivete that quite won the aristo crate and wealthy Ellis Parkhur.st's regard ''^.nd, now, for a bargain with that rascal ly Eilliou !" said the young man, turning back to tie jeweler's again. " He knew he was cheting that sweet girl ; but I'll have the rin?at any price, cs a gage d'amour for my futre acquaintance with her. CHAPTER IV. lo long, cold winter passed by ; and, hap py a the more congenial employment of giv ingmusic lessons, which, bad succeeded her tas as seamstress, Ellen Temple little heeded the flight of time, save as it brought added heath and strength to thc frame of her mother, ancripened her own icquaintancc with Ellis Pashurst, who Lid become a constant visitor at er home. tnly ono incident had marred the pleasure of hose past fleeting months-and that was he disappointment in not finding her ring at 1 th jeweler's when she w?nt there to redeem it. "Really, Miss, I don't seem^to. remember artbing about such a ring ns you ??peak of : or ii I had it, and promised to retain it (or a gien time, the fault must be yours in failing (tpanie for it !" was his answer, when she vited the shop of the crafty Bullion ; and Ben had np resource left but to lament the las of the ring and recount thc-story to her lother. "Never mind, my dear," said Mrs. Temple, it cannot bc helped, aud we will put all dis greeable thoughts from our minds. Thc ring pened to us our present corafortablccirgum tances, and it has accomplished its mission." And now came a new joy to Ellen-a joy md happiness so full that she almost doubted f such could be held in store for ber. One pleasant May afternoon in the budding . pring time-riding in Ellis Parkhurst's ele gant carriage through the beautiful suburban owns that environ thu good old Puritan city rv i th a girdle of loveliness-she listened to a ilory ot honest, manly love. " But, Eilis, I am poor, and you are of an iristocratic family, and can wed with wealth md position," she urged in reply. "Hush, little wordlingl lot your, heart ?peak, Nollie !" interrupted the lover, bend oc; down and looking into her blue eyes. 11 ask no other answer than that gives, and Khen I tell my dear mother of the graceful laught?r I shall bring her-and whenv my rood father returns from tho European voy igo on which he is now absent-I am sure. ;hat both, will smile upon my choice ; for i1 hink 1 haye the assurance that my parents ?au trust their sop in ohoosino; a wife. Now, ?but says that little beating heart. Nellie ?" What answer Ellon Temple ra ramed to ita nobb wooer, may bo inferred (rom th* ' J? ? tenn art* \ ui s vj?; -a ? rift? ki 'tc? a * fact that thc stately and worthy lady mother ?of Ellis Parkhurst visited the humble abode of the music teacher the next'day-that El len's pupils were soon, dintnissed-and pre parations weae immediately entered into for the bridal.. Late in June the.steamer which bore- Mr. Parkhurst, the elder, home from j.Europe, arrived in port, and that day, a week ' later, was set for his son's marriag?. " This is a rare choice our boy has made," Said the old merchant, in hearty approving tones, as he discassed tbe youthful grace and beauty of the bride elect with his wile. '.'Beau tiful in disposition and character, and lovely tn persoii-?that is wealth enough : for I have seen too much of life to attempt to thwart a ' young man's best inclinations, or to imagine that position and fortune are necessary dow-' . ries for Ellis' wife to, bring Lira. By the way, wife, I believe I forgot to tell you that I was in to see Nellie to-cay, and the little tyrant is so proud of her poverty that she insists upon it she won't accept a set of .pearls till after she is married/and I was al most afraid to tel! her. sh?! must let me love her half as well as our boy does ; but I did, though, and we are the best of friends al ready. Temple-Temple-it's a pood name, and both Nellie apd her mother have the air of genuine ladies. They've seen better days, it appears. By the way, the captain of the steamer I came over in bears the same name, too, and he's one of the linest mea I ever knew. Quite a friendship sprang up between us on the voyage. T've invited him up . to dine with us'to-morrow, and as he seems fond of young folks, We'll give him a bid to the wedding, too.5' Two days?'a?cr the bridt.l party Were ' as sembled in church to witness the marriage of the aristocratic Ellis Parkhurst to the love ly music teacher. Amid the guests was a tall, noble looking gentleman of, perhaps, fifty years-the captain of the vessel in which Mr. Parkhurst had returned. . Throughout the ceremony, this stranaer sea-captain, who stood net.r the altar and the bridal party, was observed to gaze fixedly on Mrs. Temple, whnsechceks were'flushed with thc excitement of thc occr.sioa, till an almo-t girldish air.invesled her, removing the rav ages of time, illness mid sorrow ; und now and then he passed his hand over, his fore head as if to dispel a sad dream. But as the rites proceeded, and Ellis Parkhurst placed'j upon the finger of his brida tho diamond ring which he ..bad bought of the jeweler, the stranger's eye caught its gleam, and he sprang forward and grasped the acm of the bride, exclaiming : " That ring! let me lc:>k at it ! Yes, ir is the same-there was no o:her like it, ami it belonged to my long-lost -w ife !l? Attention Was now distracted by a cry from Mrs. Temple's paling lips, and she would have fallen, but the strong arm of-hcr restor ed husband were around her, and her head was pillowed on his bosom, while the lovely bride turned from thc altar, to be clasped in the arms of her father. When the bridal party were a: ain seated in Mr. Parkhurst's ele^f.nt drawing-room, explanations followed. The 3hip which Cap tain Temple had eoramandid had been wreck ed, but the captain was rescued by a foreign bound vessel wheu almost exhausted by star vation, and after a long absence he returned 'to England to'find-*~hie?fajnily?gone to seeJ?| him in America, whither his almost frantic [ wile boped ho might htive been carried. To America, ho followed his wife and daughter, but as they, in the meantime, had gone from New York, in which city they landed, to B is | ton, where they were told they could live more prudently on their scanty income, Cap tain Temple sought them in vain. Hope deferred, and the dispair which fol lowed, brought illness upon Mrs. Temple: her scanty r-e-ources dwindled low, and it was at that period-that slit first obtained sew ing from thc shops as a mean;; ol liyeilihood. Wc have already seen hon- ono step li d t<> another, and when poverty pressed sore upon her and her daughter, the mothar re solved to dispose of tho love pledge of huc| husband, which now figured so largely in their rc union. And we have seen also how tbislove pledge was the means of restoring them to happi ness, and Ellen Parkhuist, 'in her happy home, never regrcls what rc-nnited to her mother and herself the dearly loved husband and father-THB DAWNED RISC. " WHAT DOTU HINDKRMETO I:E BAPTIZED?'' -This question received a new solution in Hamburg, S. C., on Sunday last. In all.the colored Baptist Churches in and mound Au gusta a great revival has bceu goin# on for some wee,ks, and many had beeu baptized or immersed. This contagi?) has not confined itself to the Georgia side of the Savannah River, but spread into S nth Carolina, with like glorious results, until the raw material or that which was accessible, was well nigh plnyed out. On Sunday, aowever, a solitary subject was fouudr and he, headed and sur rounded by the minister and a large crowd, took up the line of march for the Savannah. On arriving beside thc swift running stream, and thc subject was aim-st in the attitude ol' the eunuch with which Phillip rode in the chariot, "Herc is is water-what doth-hin der me to be baptized," when the poor can didate's eyes'were . suddenly opened by the minister propounding to him thc solemn question, ''Aro you married ?" "No, sir.'" h Then you c?n never be baptized so long as you are Hving in* illicit in^crcou^e wilh a wo maD, though you may consider her your wife.'; This fell like a bombshell into an enemy's camp and set him to- thirkiDg. but not wish ing to spoil the show, and jeopard his.\:hances for kingdom comev he soon made up his mind and intima'oi his willingness to comply'with thc letter of the law, and the woman (dress ed jn a plain calico, and minding unsuspec tingly in the crowd'to see him dipped) was trotted out before the assembled throng, the knot tied on tho bank, and her husband ac cordingly immersed with all the rites aud ceremonies.-Chronicle & Sentinel. 9 Sequestrated Property. HEAD'QRS, SECOND MILITARY DISTRICT, .1 Charleston,.S. C., May Otb, 18G7. J [General Orders,.Ko. 19.] -. All persons in this Department employed or concerned at any time in seizing, holding or disposing of real or personal property, goods, chattels, shares in my bank, railroad or other corporation, bombi, mortgages, notes, bills or assets of. any kind, sequestrated by the late socalled Confederate Government, are required without d?lay to report in wri ting to these Headquarter!! their action, spe cifying the kind and amount of property se questrated, the time and place of sequestra tion, and the names of t'io original owners, and of the parties by whom property is now held. . . By. command, of Major Gen. D. E. Sickles. J. W. CLOUS, Capt. 38th U. S-1., A. D. C., & A. A. A. G. Official; ALEXANDER MOORE, Capt. 38th Infantry. Aide-de Camp. .-?.".vi-?,-,- ? ' Two important decisions were rendered in th? Supreme Conrt of Louisiana on the 13th. In the case- of Mainemigl.t vs. Bridges, the court holds that no recovery can be had for notes given for purchase of slaves, in the case oC Bower Vs. Shae Welford, the court holds, ai previously decided, that no recovery can be had for- notes based o- Confederate money. > In other words, .such money was il legal and no consideration r'and .further,'that notes signed before the ' passage of tho stamp j ?aw does not require to be stamped to' bo used j M?Yidbhe?V ??i 1 . 1 "Release of President Davis RICHMOND, May 13, noon.-The States Qourt was packed thi? nior^i military guard, was stationed around a strong police inside. _ About twent; were among the spectators ; also fifty r At.ll o'clock- Mr. Davis was brought took a seatnext' to .thc prisoner's_ bo General Burton and the Marshal,' a ? acompanying him. Mr. Davis was sit an open window, when he remarked : a little cold, isn't ft?" ' Ani'he was'tl moved to a seat near his counsel, m ?? the Judge* General Burton's return wit was read and the' Judge complir Burton in ooeying the laws, and relievi of the custody of Mr. Davis. The if immediately served' on Mr.- Davis a 'warrant to answer the Norfolk indie Mri O'Conor then took the floor and sp Mr. Davis' long imprisonment and health, and asked tbat bc be bailed, being no opposition' upon the pert ( prosecution, who fixed the bail at one dred thousand dollars; the Judge anno his readiness to accept the bail, stati the same time, that tbo responsibility delay infringing Mr. Davis' case into rested upon the "Government, not upt District Attorney. Ho also said half th should be given by persons residing ii State of Virginia. Thc ' sureties then forward. Horace Greeley being amonj first; followedby Schell, of New York j man, of Philadelphia;"and others. A ber of gentlemen residing in Virginia-el their names as bail. Mr. Davis was cor ulated by scveral'friends*. but there w demonstration or sois;e of' any kind, giving bail to appear at the November of the Court, he was taken in a coach t Spotswood Hotel. "As Mr, Davis cams out of thc Court 1 and entered the carriage, after hu nd there was a loud cheer from thc crowd c groes outside and about fifty of them ga ed around the coach and shook hands him. He has remaiued quietly in his ] ail the evening, and will visit Canada dav or two to see hjs . children. ' The names signed to the bail bond after thc Jefferson Davis is Horace Groeiey, th^n S of New York, and Jackman, of Philr.deh, a little lower down is thc name of John 1! Botts ; the Virginia residents who 6?; were prominent citizens of Richmond, ] chants and lawyers. There seems to general feeling of relief among tho citi: and authorities that Mr. Davis'is at la? liberty^ The following telegram was received Judge Underwood in tho Court room to a short time before he admitted Mr. Dav bail: " WASHINGTON, May 1:'?.-.Judge Uni woo?! : Beware of Greeley! Remember I by Prison. Andersonviiic and Belle Isle. F milsons are looking on, aud expect you ti your duty, while three hundred thousand triots graves cry aloud for revenge. Voca FRIEND. On the return to/hc'Spotsv/ood Hotel I Dp. Minncgcrode, in thc company of Mr. vis* and bis family, and a few personal frici off-red up prayer in thanklnlnoss for release of his friend, his restoration to bogoin of his friends and fiuniiy and for .futuco protection.., -A Jar?o number of"\ tors were ufterwrtrd rec "iver! bv him. Jefferson Dnrivon his release, telegTap his brorher, Joseph C. Davis, in ?i ississh of the fact, and informed him that hewe write him from New York. Mr. Davis II wife visited the grave of their son thia ev iag late at Hu! ly wood cornel erv. ? Fron lite Charleston Courier. An Old Southern Planter to kenall. Wilson. . The snbjninednetter.was sent to S?mi Wilson while he was in our city. It 7 written by one of nur old tiike'gcntl?mcri. a we have no doubt will be read with much tercst. ' CHARLESTON, May 1th, ISC". To lac Hon. fleury Wilson of MyssacTnutiL SIR-Thc accident which occasioned yo detention in.this city to-day. enables pi? addressy?u a few words, in relation to yo harangue delivered yesterday. I beg to c serve.that you did not dc.lso fairly with Li people ot South Caroima as you are:reporti to hayo done with the people of Virginia u North Carolina. In those State?, on the sc eral occasions wheu you addressed the "gu erings," a citizen was permitted to reply you, and the poison was thus neutra!b:? Herc you have devised the pian of being a; nounccd through the public print. andthrou2 the presiding officer of the* meeting, aa a invited orator-, an.l in your introduction fo claim to be here and tospeak " in complu >u with invita/ions.'' In (TH'S way and by the: means, you secured your.-elf ?rom an anjwi which would have c-xposed you.as an ertri-s; ry of the New England Anti-Free Traie l'r? teciive Tariff Consolidation Interest, whos leading objects caa Only be subserved bj di vidtng thc votes oi'thcSbtith. In other word; by ai raining the npgro- against thc Souti er whites, aud on the side of the NewEuglam manufacturers as tbfcir*specia! friends. You would have done no more than s'r.ce ju-tice to U3 if you had offered - to 1st us b heard : ami yon would Iravo contributed ti thc enlightenment of jour culored audie ice iCyou had suffered us to show them how di rectly antogonistic the interests of New Eng land are to their and our ' agricuitural pur suits; and how "imperative it is upon- bot! blacks and whites tn the South to get ri 1 ol the " friendly hag'1' of New England high tax ation on us for their bcii'Jit, and to be nnitetl and stand tirtnTy together :n demanding ha: the fruit of our labor shall not be pocki ted by Lowell, Lynn and Boston. In thc plenitude, loo, - of your co?iscienti oldness and candor, I pray you, in your r oxi; address, errter a littlo into the'history of thc slave trade, and tell your auditors thc truth that your ancestors o? Massachusetts, Rhode Islaud, Conneotlcut, New Yorjc and Pennsyl vania, brought this country all the Africa.u? whoever came here, ana1 they sold them tc the people of Vic SoiUh. That they had all the ships aud sailors, and the South had none. That the trude was profitable to New Ungi and ?md the North, and that the money derived from it has enabled them to outstrip the South in wealth and .prosperity-aud. then turu to the descendants of those Africans and. say to them-" The South is innocent of lhet crime of enslaving you. Yankee cupidity ion-' ceived, plannedi and executed thc .diabolical work." . ' . A truth like Ihis will be more useful in re conciliug these Freedmen to their u former, malters,'' il that were your purpose, than all your advice to them to go to work and rjii?c cotton, for the beneilt.of. New England, to vote on the side of justice and right, which you interpret to be tho Yankeesido of eiery question. And then .again, .sir, be just to. yourself and your past recQrd^aud say ou; boldly to these, people,-*-that tbcv nnver would-haye been liberated by tho Nortb, it the South could have been yanquished with out it. It wa? to overcome thc South, .by the uso of a. couple of hundred thousand'of their bodies as breastworks, (when the South had not that number all in all,) that they were promised liberty, and have now received it. This too, will help them to understand thc kind of. friendship your people have for them. I will ask you in conclusion, to invlio lia cussion before the Freedmen, .and in your presence, that they inay have both sides, and you may have full opportunity to'reply tri any oh? who may see fit to answefyoa. Tfcate the honor to be; yours, .?;.?... . ' -.Wi El . I .The True Basis of Action^ The following remarks are ?from the Rich mond Whig, and are as applicable in this, State a3?n Virginia: / Our 'newspapers and our people should all be united, and sheald advocate the redemp- . tion of Virginiajby all Virginians, of-whatever color, ?r'par?y?ntecedenftsandp0lrtr<M?cTe^ffr" ? Our interests'are. the same-our obligations and duties identical. When wc seo our com mon country imperilled by'dissensions among* ourselves* wc show more selfishness than pa*-* triotism by continuing them-a blind selfish ness, too, .that promises no gpod to anybody .-a perverse wilfulness for which no justifica tion can be ol%red. Wc are all under the military law, and by uniting and cb-cperatinp; as sensible people should, rte can'get from: under that law ; escapctiisfranchiscment and confiscation ; . ge? self-^ovenmient, and bo. , placed in practical relayons with the General Government. Every reflecting man musv know that, if'the'white people keep to them selves) vote against* convention, and defea'; it, when Congress again assembles, it" will pass another* 'bill more stringent than tbd present, under which thc handiul of " loyal" whites and blacks'will be authorized to hold .:. a convention and Iramo a"<}ons;itntiCjri whose '? acceptance bv Congress, will be certain. Jxbn only this, bul that all of ns w?ho shall have voted against a convention, will be roarke?. ? "; for perpetual disfranchisement and for confis cation. . * But suppose thc whites keep together, voto for a convention, and, maintaining a separate organization, nominate their own peculiar ?$$k * candidates, elect them, excluding all other representatives, frame a Constitution, aridii. * then still maintaining tHeir separat? organiza tion, elect a Governor, Judges, a Legislature, :md allstate officers-suppo.se ail this is d?nc. will Cougress ratify this work when it learns that thc original Union men ard the negroes" have, by our refusal to act with them, arid by means of our majority, been studious.y and. entirely'eluded from participation and rep-* resent?tiou ? Wc shall not further elaborate, * th ?se points,-but leave them for the reflection of our readers, with tho single remark that/ Congress will riot, in our judgment, accept any such work if'opposed b\- the so-callcc; (l ?oyal" whites and tho biacks, as. opposed ii most certainly would bc. If we selfishly ex- . elude those elements, Congress will exclude us. Our duty is plain. It is to unite with all men who can be prevailed upon to unite with us, vote for the convention, elect to ii men who will fuliow'the provisions of the military .bill, frame a Constitution that will command thc support bi the several classes referred to, and that will be-acceptable to Congress, and elect Senators and Conpressraer who can (alni thc iron-rind oath, lt is not worth while to do anything unless we do all these things. If wc think to hoodwink and deceive Congress by any device, wo deceivB ourselves. 'The' eyes of that body are steadily lixed upon us, and its great business is'to see that^recon struction shall not be effected in the interest alone of the Confederate whites, and to tim exclusion and injury of thc Union whites and the blacks. " If we Would get back into tin? Union, we must get back on the basis of a Union among ourselves. . Let rs all rr?ar thi? in mind. Vol??rJal ?VtTy ?ijr u-'.Ydrfc. * The New York correspondent of the Char leston Mercury, of a late date, says : There is ah amazing apathy among N'pvr Yorkers ii) regard to political inatter?. Tht? cases now before the Supreme Court, though the most important ever before that tribunal, are hardly ever1 mentioned except in the newspapers. Everybody seems benton loblr ing out' for1 number one,' atid letitfng number t .vo'do the beal nc can for himself. You might talk to a hundred merchants about pol i tier, ?iiid uinety-nine of thteiii would say, " It v?ill como out all right." New York merchants, bankers, etc., as a class, are anything bot rad ical. You won't lind one in twenty to indorse thc principles of Stevens and Sumner, nor mote thu.ii thc'same proportion to protest against them. This is thc I rouble. The mon eyed men go on with their business) Whatever it may bo. and never bother themselves about politics. No one can doubt lhat much of tho legislation of the past two ycart might have been prevented if thc men of Capital had made a vigorous protest against lt. If Stew act, Clafliu, Astor, and a hundred ether mil lionaires had said to Cor.grei;3 \a\t year- : 11 Your cource ?3 ruining the country ; it is des! roy tug our business : we f.upportcd the war because wo wanted tho U:iiou restored; you are preventing restoration, dcrnagins" business and paralyzing enterprise ; we ?vant thc Union restored' uov/, without ifs or buts, and as men deeply interested in the prosper ity of the country, wc insist that it shall-be restored." If thc capitalists had taken tome such ground as this, they would haye had tho masses at their backs, and Congress would haie been constrained to act justly. But the)1 stood aloof, neiitral if you please-and rccklc.-s?css and fanaticism ruled. They arc now reading thc fruits of their indifference in paralyzed trade and decreasing back' account-:. Wir) will say that it Joes iiot Serve them just right ? But untortunatcly the heaviest sbaro of the sullcriiig falls to thc masses. The mil lionaires arc safe cnousb, b'ut the working men must groan- under heavy taxes. But ^ suppose thc politicians rush the country into bankruptcy aird repudia.ion. When that time comes-?nd many believe it is cooing -the millionaires may have reason to regret that they did not speak when they should have spoken; . Trying to Cheat thc freedmen. In our issue of yesterday wc, mentioned' that Parson French, in a speech delivered during the, late Wilson uproar, declared that "ihe colored race was on> probciion as lo its' 7tsc of Ihe ballot" and as corroborating the view that the Radical par ty would sell out the freedmen in a moment, it> to their advan tage, wc cali attention to . the following from the Nashville Gazette: The Radicals are profuse in their protesta tions bf n friendship"; for thc negro, and never cease tb remind the late slaves of the mani fold obligations they are under..to -their "friends"-the Radicals-for. thc rights of persou abd property, and especially for thc right of suffrage. Abuudant evidence, how ever, has been given that thc Radicate intend to bc thc masters of thc late slaves, and that li free to vote" means free to vote as tho Radicals direct. Anything like .manly free dom in the expression of their own choice at the polls "the Radicals deny to the colored race, with denunciations \ aud ' threats pt loss ' ot favor if they vote the Conservht?yj? jacket, tn Boston, where many negroes T0i?,d .the Democratic ticket, they drew upon theny?eives the violent displeasure of a Radical journal ?O intemperately expressed that a.New Torie Radical paper rebuked the irtoler?nce add bigotry of ?ls Boston? t*)fitemp?rary in pre-" scuding to the right to chastise the n?eroes^ for voting.as they surfit. ' ' The S t. Louis Democrat says if thc blacks ' ;ast-their-votes with the1 Conservatives they' ?viii furnish justification for the claim, that ' ;hey ?ute no more ft to tole ih?n horses or Tittie*. . And in tbesame article it'dembn ?trates the hypocrisy and mockery of Rad'ea? pretentiona of love for tho negro, and desire" . ;or his true freedam abd equality, ' by the threat that if tho " colored loyslhfts" of Ten nessee vote^with the Conservatives the Radi- '' sals of the North will c?ntinnis to deny the ~ ?lective franchise to the blacks of the North am States I . ; ?l^e 'iii?- *t ewMi .??.