Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

I ^ : ? ?hc Cancaster frtgeu #2 PER ANNUM Big with ?Ik> wonder* of each puNMing day.''* IN ADVANCE J /nmilg nail political i'taispaprt?Ptanlti) !a tlit Arls, Stitnits, litrcaiutt, fintatinn, Sgritoltnrr, 3nltrnnl SmpnrattDtnts, /nrrign nuii Pnuitslit J.'rtus, nail tl)t jV.arktls. VOLUME VI. LANCASTER. C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 13. 1858. NUMBER 48. I^flcrt -jcWtrij. Matrimony, Matrimony in a nut For every man's digestion ; When tin- shell if fairly cracked, Hre question. I'retly girls will sigh and blush ? Simper all they can, sir? Till, from out ihe.r pouting lips, l'op ! goes the answer. Cupid fans the holy flatne? Rankest kind of nrson ? When it gains a certain height, l'op! goes ihe parson. Quite throughout the honeymoon ? IJnde of rosy colors? Into sundry dry go-.Js Oils, Pop! goes the dollars. When the year has shown its tail, Round the corner, (may be,) Out upou the hap(iv word, J?op! goes the baby. Mother gives it catnip tea. Fa hor give* it brin lv. And adown its gastric tube, Pop 1 goes the candy. Madame lets her hiishnnd scold, She mu?t be the whipper ; And above the youngster's heel, Pop! goes the slipper. Bachelor who lives next door, Stands it for a season ; But, before the year is out, i> ...? ........ I.-. * "I' * K"1"* ?>9 ic.muii, Maiden ludy, up the Htnira, S'nmpn each moment fanti-r, Till, from t>e ceiling underneath, l'op ! goes tin* planter. Dirty, ragged little l???y, 'Neath the window linger*. Thumb applied unto hi* n<>at*, l'op ! goen In* linger*. All around the neighborhood, Such act* are enacted ; Ami while mamma i* *eolding him, **i'op!" gne* ii.nl r.ictcd. Jtlerril lturi|. THE FUNKKAL BELLS. UV VlitUl.NIA F. TOWN3KND. 'Oil, Maltie! just hear those bells! I cunt hear it. luiJml 1 can't,' and Aglies w rung 11 *I holds, Mild sobbed, as she walked up HU-i down iiiv chamber. Il wmi? m bright day, one ot the bright est tlimi ever lione on llie orcbiird# slid wheal fields of Moss Vji.eii, Mild yet we <i i< J n't know it. Tlie daikiiess in our hetrls had made daikiiess nil mImiui us. Kllj?k Hart was 1>kai> ! We had said this to our-elves mm} tunes since leu o'clock tlull morning, but now we fkltu. 'lbone long, soirowtul bell strokes, mat rose Mini quivered over llie lulls, and roll ed down llie glen, and U|> the roMd, nil they reached llie cli.onber where Agues anid I s.it, spoke llie words to our heart*, which before luul only (teen spoken to our ears; 'hu.isK IIakt was ukau!' To think ul her, to ihuik ul her snid Agues. laving her lear-dietiched lace on my shoutder, 'Mow she used to come bounding ii|> the line, and across the Held* Willi Imr ?K/.?l .l.^tLlii... 1-^? 1 v? irtc, mill tliMl little gvpsey lihi net so gracefully oil her curls! what m picture she ?<*-> ! hiuI wIihi m glad, uieiry bird heart she bad, Maine !' Alid now to think she lie* there, witli tint while roses ? >111 the very bush she planted in her cold hand*, and her lair head resting ?>n the hard coitiu !' Jiun't Agios*, don't ! you'll break my (tearl,' 1 said, drawing the girl's laii fare up to mine, and covering it with tears and knses. 'Let us be thaukful (rod has left (is lo earh other.' Twkmty*onk! The sound of the fune rhi beila iaiuied for the laal illllti OS the distant liil s She was, indeed, in the Muw of Iter youth.' li is very hard to die |b?n. And yet I do not think Ki!i?e Hart found it s<>, for the)' said she went from jhe old to the new home, with a quiet smile on her lips, such as we have when we lie down to sweet dreams. Kdise U/iriJived shout half a mile f'om i put Louse Her mother was a widow, ml E'nse and her little sister, were the pother's oidy treasures. The Harts were not wealthy, hut a competence hsd heeii secured to the widow, and their social position was among the first at Mimi (ilen. Kdue aud I had been intimate Iroin , childhood. Site budded into womanhood, one of the fairest blossoms that ever o|ieo- | d itself in the sunshine and soft winds of Mows Glen. I wish t could describe her to you in i. o tier ixtiiiiei'i cummer. II WW jn*l be- , fore?no in*uer, I never heard any body cell her handaome, but there wan aoniethinif in her lace that would haunt \ou for day* after you bad looted on it. She had wofi sunahiny bair that ninny* hung in curia nrouud ber tare, clear, blue ye?, and li,-? red and full at meadow do^ Vur, before the dew haa drier! off them. but iba prevailing character.Mic of her face wm the sparkling joyouaoeaa of Ha | fSpreaatoQ, Vom looked oo it, and you knew that1 Kllis?* Hart was iik i'?'V, and involuntarily i y*m breathed a prayer that Iter future might be as even us her pa?l?a May (Jav, full of song, mid cairn, and sunshine. It was hi June that Wallace Treat j came to our village. 11 is mother w as a ! distant cousin of the doctor's wife, and ; Wallace came up here to inhale ihe fresh i mountain air, for lie had graduated the year previous, and Ins intense application | to his studies had seriously injuied Ins I health, lie was not handsome, but there j was a strange magnetism in the man's ! voice, and smiles, ami manner, that drew i ' you at once toward tiim. ' lie met Hili e for the first time at the annual "strawberry pie nic. She never ; looked sweeter, she : jver kklt happier i than ulie did on that day. 1 love to Hunk I of it. Her lips lairlt sparkled with (miles, ami when you looked down into those ; j clear eyes, it seemed like looking into a calm, smooth river shining in the sunset. | Wallace Treat r an laminated at once. | | ilis grave, proud exclusive nature was , disarmed hy this gentle, sunny creature, i | ami tie piled her basket with the richest I berries, and tilled her tin cup with the cool spring water, and a little child would j have loted the rare smile that lighted up his grave features, as lie listened to that ; laugh?oh to think it will never make music with the birds in the wood houghs , again ! 'Matiie !' and Kllise eamo to tin*, after every kettle and basket had been tilled with the ripe beiries, 'Mamma told me to he sure and gather her some mountain ' ] mint They are laying the cloth for dm I I tier under llie miillu.rrv !.....? ... .j ...IV. it y?>u will <_' > wiih n:e to ihe lull, 1 will I ' gather the limit be lure dinner. We can | I steal nil unobserved now, and i know whore u grows ibiek, among the green | gra^s, tin llie oilier nidii.' And 1 went willi her. 'Kllise, how do j on like Mr. Treat V j 1 did not ask l.w llna (iiiealion nniil we i bad gathered llie iinnt, and were Hitting I down in llie co?>1 bill shadows lo rent our (reive*. 'I like bill), M it.ie !' she answered | thoughtfully, in.ne an il she was asking j berseil the (j iesiiuii, lb hi replying in I mine, 'lie is leliiied, accomplished, gen1 Humanly?u! course, one cannot hep li king li mi.* 1 smiled. 'That u'liet, lialf douhlftil tone is hardly coiH|?lniieiiiary, K line.' 'Isn't II, M t'.lle I' Slie pulled up two ' > or tliiee huuer.ups, ami wound ihe long I steins round her fingers, then suddenly ! she drew up close lo me, ami said, ear j j neatly, 'When I lirst saw Mr. 'I reai, Mat- ! I ue, 1 did not like hum That is loo i i strong, perhaps ? I mean iny lirst impros- j ' sini.s were nut pleasant, and Vel,' speak 1 tug to liersell Hglklii, 'it was not exactly raiiiiifitu...... I. . * I ....1 .-f - - voice, a something that seemed lo whis i per in iiiv heart, * 11 were belter jou had I never come together." SIio >|u>ke these last words in a 'louder > | toll", and I lie echo in (lie lane beneath us [ caught the words, and answered :lear and mournful as a human Voice, 'It were bet . ter you had never come together.' Involuntarily our eyes met. I was the | first to speak. Laughing oil the inoiiieiij lary impression winch llio le percussion [ had made, I answered} 'Well, K.lise, it's ! apparent Mr Treat won't endorse the ( | echo's opinion, lor his actions s od very | plainly, 11 is better dial we keep tngeili j er.' I am not sure but he told you tins loo, when von and he were by the spring, I washing the straw tar! ry stains olF your lingers with sorrel leaves?don't uiu think | now he w as a long time learning the verv simple manipulation*. 'Nonsense, Mallie; though I under i stand lour luuemlo. 1 shall not adtn.i its truth. l$ut seriously t my tirst impression* have been tie;trly neutralized by Mr. Treat's very agreeable manners and con versalion. Is not his ?inile iikaitikii. ? I There is really lie ?rt poetry in it. 1 am i sure he must he good, or lie could never smile like that.' My reply was interrupted hy a bunch . of wold rosea (hat fell at our feet. The next inoiiienl Mr Treat was at our side. 'The dinner is all ready, ladies,' reniov ing Ins straw hat with that grace winch pervaded his every movement, 'and the company are in a stale of absolute starvation, induced by y our running off. 1 volunteered to come in search of you.' We Ikj.1i sprang up with regrets and apologies, hut 1 thought, asase descended the lull, Mr. Treat did not lament much either the delay or the trouble. Wallace ' Treat was not at heart a dad man, nei ' ther was lie exactly a noble one. i have sometimes thought his greatest laull was 'lutirinily of purpose,' and yet it iB in .re than probable he would, to achieve a de sired enJ, evince more energy, more persistency than most men. Bui lie was a mkntal KPICt'HC, loving beauty for no lusher muliw Uimii that il ^lauoeneu 11*h J fastidious, le-tlieiie nature. Tin# lot", of course, brought its leward in a cons', a. it weaning of the old, a constant craving after the new. lib was, at the age of t wentv five, thai most unfortunate of men, a mental <l)s peptic. But he loved KHise. Looking back now oc the past, 1 have not the least doubi of it, and if ?hh, me! how much sorrow and suffering lies beyond that quivering of inv pen ! but I in'Ml hasten oyer my history, for the bright June di^ia wearing downward, and the 'three o'clock breeze,' ilia', lifts the edges of iny paper, is wlu?|>eriiig of tlie night. The day after the ptc-nic I suddenly left Moss (Ji?n, and did not return till late in the ' next month. &hse did not know 1 had reached home, and 1 weut down to her mother's U) surprise ber. I Al ill** door 1 met Iter little sister, and bidding her not acqua.nt Kllise wnli my arrival. I walked into the parlor. A large daguerreotype ease lay on the tal-le ; 1 " opened it, and looked into the dark eyes ol Wallace Treat. Then I took up a small but mosi exquisite engraving of a sunset on the Kiiine; on the margin were I the initials 'W. T.' After duly admiring this, I turned to an elegantly hound vol time of Bryant's poems. On the tiy-leaf of this was written, by Wallace To his beloved Kli.ihk Uakt. My amazement, for the moment, quite took away my breath. While I was en deayoring to kkkl all those few words had revealed to me, an eager well-known call, Maine!' hrouiflit me to inv fe?i ui,.l L'l o - ,VVM ",,u ; liso and I were in each oiher's arms. 'Oh ! I am so glad that you are come, I darling,' an,| die little dimpled lingers 1 stroked toy cheeks fondly. *1 have longed every night for a month pa^t to see yon, nioie than you can imagine ; Mattie I have a great secret to tell von.* "I have guessed tl already, Kllie,' I said, | smiling had sadiy, liaif archiy, as 1 pom- j led to the open hood. She started quickly, and her cheeks were incarnadined with hlushes. 1 didn't kiu?w that was on llie table, j I thought I carried it up staii.: ilow VKitV careless of lite!' 1> .ii'i mind it now, dear. I have only learned the secret a little sooner than I ollo-rwise shotilo. S t down iiere now and ; tell me all about it.' And K lise did. She drew a low *. kU ! to her feet, and averting her face, so that ' i i . in 11;iii ii'?i see me liiii^hes that covered it, she whispered liuw \N a I lace Treat hud won Iter heart. 'Next >epienih r, Mattie, t shall la? his wife, and yoti and Agr.es sliatl he iny ; bridesmaid*.' S<? soon, darling? And vmi love him better than all the world beside J' She turne I her head qtucklv, ami her eves made ine an answer before tier lips j did. 'Heller than all the world beside, : Mattie!' It was soon noised ahont Moss Glen that Kliise II .it was the bride elect ot | \\ allace Treat. She w .is a favorite throughout the vil luge, and Wallace, notwithstanding his pr?de and reset ve, won our hearts with 1 11.at wondrous smite ol Ins, so there were ( leasing* and prater* heaped on the bright head u| K lise il.irt. I taring the next iimii Ii I met her ami I Iter heiroihed several times, ho'.h at her residence and 111v own. W allace's watchful tenderness, the lo\e | that ieveale-1 itself in every word ami ae:. iiiiim ua?c me heart oi any woman, ami it was not strange I thought, Kilise's lil'? will be like a t>ong?a Sum nier song, to die eml. The last time I saw (tie two 'ogetlier, i before but ton will know that soon j er.r ugli ! It was at tier mother's, ami the August j Jay liaJ been verv bright, but toward ; evening it liaJ grown Jani|> ami chilly. tvlne ii.-? I mm of those delicate organ j izatmns which are ho sensitnre to elem.-n 1*1 influences. She had a severe head ache. There were no gues's hut tnvseif and Wallace, ami she laid ln-r head on Iiih shoulder. I see it there now, f..r it is ! a pictuie 'hound ii|> and laid aw at' in the silence of my heart. The golden curls ' swinging round ihe pale, sweet face, the I iiaik o* quiet lailli Timl happiness, resting on every himament, even to the holfchm , ed etelids, chained o v gaze all that even ! ing. I remember Wallace informed us J that I toctor liu.?sell was expecting a niece of his, from New York, the next day, and j that st.e was considered quite a belle, and was coming up, lie resumed, to restore 1 the roses she had lost in the gajeties of; the last season. 'She Will be lonely up here inthecoun- j Irv,' s aid K line, opening her sleq?y eyes. ( 'We wi.l call on her Millie, when she cullies.' The liexl Sa'dialh- ivlien llidilnclnf nn.l ! Iiih family entered the church, the 'conn try f?lks' stared of course, with no little ' curio?ilv, ??t the city belle. She ??? ? brunette, with large, brilliant eye*, and thin features. I did not think her handsome, and I believe I lie secret of her at tractivei ess lay rather in her character i (I had well mgh written her art,) than Iter face. iit there was a fascinating elegance and icttneiiieni in her slightest movement and with my intense admiration for these my exes wandered qune too often from the minister to the city maiden. That week, Ellise and I called on her. We found her elegant, piquant, accomplished, and a little, a very little patronizing. Our intended call of twenty minutes lengthened in'o one or two I,ours. There I must have been something strangely fas ciiiHluig in the conversation of ^.aiira ! Mead. A few days subsequent to litis call, El lise passed the evening at our bouse.?? 1 VValh.ee had engaged to meet her there in the evening. Night came, and lie, Otu* . ally so punctual, was not there with it.? 1 Kdise laughed off his nonappearance, but ' I could see heir spirits were restless and j ..~..t-l ?i Mvuuiru* At I*At presented himself, but it was wcnung toward nine o'clock. Kllise met linn with an eatjer, Wal ' lace, what has kept you ! We (eared ' something had happened to vou.' 'No, dearest,' and I can remember, uis laugh had a little embarrassment In it.? 'The truth i?, Mis* Mead was very anxious Vo nee the sunset front Craig Hill, and I accompanied her there. We walked rather slow, 1 suppose, for she was chat ling all the way, and when } reached the doctor'*, I discovered, to inv regret, it whs ?fter eight. Wou't you forgive me tins time, Kilise?' lie said it with one of his smiles,Minoo tiling dowt. Iter curls, and she answered hint with one of Iter's, bright, trustful, confiding. 'Aunt Harriet, you don't mean to tell tue Mr. Treat is really engaged to Miss Hart, that pre'ly little golden haired girl, with her soul in her blue eyes! ! am so surprised ! Hut then, af er all, men of bis intellect and taste usually prefer such woiuoii for the sake of the contrast, I sup po?e. Any way, he'll have a sweet little doll-wife, who'll love him to distraction, ami make liiin the riehest sunns, ami i.-l I ' J" lies ill Christendom,' and Laura went up stairs, humming a tune hh naturally h* if she didn't know Wallace was under the window, and had heard eve^y word die bad spoken. Mr. T rest, I have such a favor to solic it of you !' and Laura Mead laid Iter little fingers on die gentleman's arm, and lifted those nark, melting eyes, whoso powet. many a con<pie*l had taught Iter, to the gentleman. 'Well, speak it. Miss Mead. I shall oniv tie too happy to gratify you.' I'llin morning, I saw the Hwecteat white rose in a little vase on your table. It whs precisely what 1 wanted for my hair.? You know Aunt and I are going ?"1 lo Mr*. Morton's tea party, ami a while rose. !: tins braid will just complete my toil* etle.' vVallace hesitated a moment. The flower was Klline's gift, the last one that had blossomed on the bush, and he bad promised to keep it until the next Summer should hring her its Iresli blooms. Hut be looked on the elegant pleader and lie thought it would be very ungentleinauly to refuse her. 'I am oulv too happy to oblige you,' lie said, as be ran up stairs, ami it was a pity be did :.ot see the niu npli in Laura's e\es, as she placet the rose ill her black brvids. I noticed that Klltse started as Miss Mead entered the parlor, at Mrs. Mor ton's, and fastened Iter eyes eagerly on the young lady. Then a shadow crept into her hum eyes, and for a moment her lips quivered. Hut she regained Iter com tlOMIfe. ami all llml afn.rti.wni .?. ? .......... HH>'< thfU^li 1 knew itt?r bright face Jul nut paint the cloud that whh hi her iitfHri. Fur the lirst tune h KUi*|?ic*ioi? that whs in itself a fearful parig liHti entered it ! Two days later Ellise came ii|> to our llulise. it 11h<] been >t beautiful day. and the \V<*: was iiiediillioned with a gorgeuna Amiiitin sunset. Why didn't Wallace come wi'hyoii?' I asked, seizing Iter band and pulling ber into ilie house : She laughed, not quite naturally, I thought. 'He did intend to, hnt Miss Mead was very anxious to visit an old trietid of her mother's at the Fort. The doctor wan not at home, so he acMtnnaniu'l her.' 'I believe 1 am not quite, well, Millie, for I've had the blues all Jay.' She. leaned her cheek oti tny shojlder, and burst into tears. We went up stairs, and at last Kllise told me that a change had of late come over Walter. It W'as slight, intangible, bill hhe FKLT it. lie se.-med ttbsi raried ami liked to converse alx.ul Miss Mea<i, whose manners lie pionouiiced the ' per feci'on ot elegance.' L)o you think her so very beautiful, Mat tie ?' questioned the girl, lifting her sweet lace to mine, and looking as if her life depended on inv veidiot 'No, not half so much so as are you, dear Kllise,' I answered, adding what words of comfort 1 could, till at last Ki li>t smiled, add said with her old aniina lion, 'Next week, Mat lie, wu are lo go to Ciraiiduia's, and then all will he settled nicely. You know we are to invite Iter lo the wed.lino, which lakes place next month.' Ah ine! poor KJIise! I do not think I.aura Mead loved \Yal lace Treat when she first conceived the idea of trying her eoq.iettish art on thai Uentlemati. hill \V all ace was not an ordi nary man, aid it was not lung before the city belle found, to Iter aslonismnent, that her affections were waniiiv enlisted in this matter ? I believe Wallace loved Ellise. aa he never ?< ?'> love any other woman, but, as 1 said, he was a menial epicure, and Miss Mead's elegance, her tii.e e>es, ami great conversational powers fascinated him. He was greatly to hlame, and yet, had you seen, I know you would pity hi id. That night \N allace had made every ar rangeim-nt to accompany Ellis* the neil day to her grandmother's. He had been like his old neil, lender, affectionate, and he left his bride elect with a heart heat ing toils old tune of happiness. It wis thk 1,1st tim* tilky mkt ) Wallace returned to the doctor's, and found Miss Mead alone and in tears.? She pointed to a letter she had received, informing her that her grandmother was very ill, ami iter nurse had written that tier tecovery was doubtful, and she was very desirous ol seeing Laura once morn. 'Dear, dear <ir*ndina ! If I could only go lo her,' tobbed the Indv through her tear*. 'It i? nearly forty iniles from he?, and the piece, in acce*?ible by neither r til rued or tinge.' Wallace wet greatly touched. 'Do no: weep to, 'leer Mint Meed,' lie taid, preat ing her hand ; *1 would accompany you tnytelf, if it were not for my engagement with Kllttel* r 'Oh ! if you only could t If the engage ment might be postponed I Hut forgive me I I know not wbat I tay. Oh t (i rand mother, if I could only hear you bit*# me once more,' nnd the lean flowed faster than ever through her white fingers. Whether these were occasioned bv her grandmother's illness, or lier fears of los- ( 111 Wallace, Laura alone knew. lier grandmother wan real'y ill ? lint whs afterward proven incontrovertible. 'Truly, Miss Me?.l, I never thought of tliHt. Our journey inigli' l>e delayed two or three days. It would undoubtedly disappoint Ellise, but then thecircumstances certainly would lully excuse the delay.' The look of gratitude that dashed lip through the tears that softened ihose biillianl eyes settled the matter. It wasar| ranged thev should leave early in the i morning. It was too late to see Ellise that night, ami Wallace wrote a haste | apologetic note, which explained the | cause of his default. mree uavs liarl passed. They had been long and weary ones to Kllise Hart, for h dun apprehension of evil had rested all this time on the gill's glad spirit. Sue sang *.s usual around her home, but the i | old spirit was not in the tune, for the j | unknown hand was writing its prophesy | ol sorrow on liei heart. She could not ' | interpret it, and whispered to herself she j I must be growing nervous. There was | nothing in Wallace's brief bill affection j ! ate note to occasion her alarm. Of course j | courtesy demanded that he should ac- ! I company Miss Mead, how muchsoever i I this might conflict with his inclinations. I | "El'ie! Elite! I have a letter tor you," i ' ami little Mary Hart danced into the j | room, on the afternoon of that'third day,' | I ami lam n m her sister's lap,for the office whs between the child's school and her | , home. The address was in Wallace's chirog- j i rapl:\. IIis betrothed opened it eagerly j and read : 'Kih.se : I have a request to make of you?one which will brand me foiever in your opinion, as the worst, and the basest I of men?no mailer ! I cannot *e? in to you worse than I feel myself. K use, will i j you dissolve our eng .geiuent! 'Yesterday I learned that Lmra loved 1 ine, with ail the lervor of her deep. rare. | ' iiohle nature; loved me. as you, with alt I j your sweetness and gentleness, never COIlld. I 'In my weakness or madness, 1 asked 1 I her to tie iiiv wite, and, with \our consent I I our marriage will be con?uinated before j the close ol i he week. 1 do not ask you j to forgive me, or to show me any mercy, even in your thoughts, for 1 deserve none, only thank God, that you were spaced | j linking your luiuru with one ho utterly | i unworthy of you. | 'I lot e l 3 <>u Ellise, I love you now, i ( perhaps belter than 1 Jo L itira, although I j she lias shown me thai our tastes assiui ' i late, that our souls will he married to 1 each other, as yours and mine never could ' j he. Hut this writing is too |>ainful.? May (iod bless you, Edise ! prat? as lie J l dare not pray for himself. 'Wai.lack Thkat.* An hour later, little Mary, who was . I playing among the bushes, in the Iroiit 1 j yard, saw hllise coining toward tier, and I her face whs very white. 'Mary,' she | | said, ill a lone which awed the child into I silent ohedtenee, 'here is a tetter. Take it immediately to the .illice, before the mail closes.' And Mary look it, and j Eilise walked slowly hack to the house, j { and sat down hi tier old place, covering ! i Iter face with her hands. Soon afterward her mother went into ; lIih room SIim tnutu 1 i -- - ? ? - " " '?i ; I had happened, but the girl's white face i ' Irightened her. Kllise pointed to the j letter, and Haul, calmly, '1 have answer* j ed It.* 1 cannot describe the feeling which el- | I ectrilied all Must CJ.en, or the bitter | euros that were heaped on Waller and j Laura Treat, wheu the next week > brought the tidings of their surreptitious marriage. Eiuse bore herself bravely through it, I | attending to all her social and domestic ' duties as usual. Many tears were shed b) those wiio loved her, but there was a I quiet uigmlj, and sell possession in her i manner, wl.icu pieciudctl all coutersatiou I on this subject. lier triends rejoiced to see she was ho little atU.cied by tier lover's desertion,but 1 looked through her deep ejes into her ' heart, and 1 knew it was bruleti. Autumn came, and when the winds I began to laku up the first notes of the ' i year'* iioiology, and the crimson banners I to HuL.tr ninoi-g tiie lorest trees, Enise j showed lirst those symptoins of disease i wblcii had 1*41 u Hli Iter lalher'a taiuny, in I the prune ol their days, under the grave ; grass ot Must G.eu. i The doctor snook In* head when lie | saw tier. 1 here was, u* her case, he said a hereditary proclivity to cousuiupuoii, | hut much uttering only could bnve tie| veloped it so early. I She lingered with us through the next Wiu'er and Spring, ripening more and more lor that horn j where the very wiiiuh are one eternal Hallelujah. She lorgave those who had so deeply wronged her, and in the hrigm June luue augeia came 'or her. Wallace Trent is s rich man,enu an honorable one, ill the city where he and ills elegant wife have takeu up their abode; : but those who keow them host gay mat in hi* dreams he moans of Knise, and ( mutters of the sweet lace, with its long brow,, hair, and blue mourniui evee, that come out of the grave to reproach hiiu. Laura'* brilliant eyes, loo, are often | dimmed with the tears she sowed iu her | heart, and though, in hergeorgeoua home, her head reela on the h?ar. of the hueband ehe love*, she is not happy I God ! save us froui the posperuy of the wicked. FroW the Marion American. The Palmetto Regiment. by onk of the two hundred. NO. VIII. I must l?egin this chapter with a cor rection, which will lx> explained iu the following ietter : KG Depot South Carolina, > September '23d, 1857. J Dear Sib: In your last ketch of the j Palmetto Itegiiueni?'new series?No. 4,' you state that, 'on the second ?av of January, the left wing under Major j Gladden, was conveyed on the cars to ; Atlanta, lr?*orgiH.' j'uu are mistaken? the left wing was placed under iny coin- | man 1 at Augusta, and I continued in coinmand until it reached LaGrange, at , which place Col. Butler himself resumed j the command* Lt. W. C. Morangue, company D., wan llie acting Q lartermasier, and S Sumter ; was the acting Adjutant. I do not now remetnber who was the acting Commis Bar v. Respectfully, it. G. M. Dl'MNOVANT. To Mr. B. Lane Poaev, Marion. You are correct. Captain, and I thank j you lor the correction. The command j iiki uevoive upon you as tlie senior Captain, in the absence of Major Gladden.? ! l'temember it well now If 1 should in | lui ure make any mistakes, 1 beg wnv Pal ' ineito to correct me. The storm having subsided, our labors j were resumed. The Islam! was cleared up for parade grounds for the different | regiments. Ships continued to arrive I with additional volunteers, atid the Island ! was covered with a city ol tents. There | were on the island the two Pennsylvania ! regiments, the New York regiment, a I Louisiana regiment, a battalion from the 1> strict of Columbia, 1 think, the Palmetto regiment and perhaps oi her regiments, j liut Col. butler and 400 of the Palmel j toes had not yet arrived or been heard from. They had left Mobile Liny 111 com |>nii) villi ok, Inn *? mk)U left them hi a? H. Day alter day w# looked fur thetn, Htui hailed ever) sail iii sight as llie old A liambra, until we fell tbo ino*t painful 1 apprehensions fur their fale. We bene* | ed (IihI lliev bail been wrecked, until h j lumbering uld ship was seen on itie 141 li of February, winch proved to be lire Alliaiiibra. They bad been 17 days out from Mo bile, and bad narrowly escaped slilpwreck. A few days after, the c >mpauy from New berry, under (Japt. Williams, wbicb had been received as ibe llih company of ibe l'almelio regiment by Ibe Secretary of VN ar, joined us,and increased tbe strength of i be rogiinenl to 1000 men. l)uri'ig our slay on L<?bos, we were drilled with great severity. We were under arum, and ou drill six hours every day, under a broiling sun. Otherwise our sojourn on L->boa was very pleasant. 1 tie moon-light was soli and bright slid as soon as ilie sun Meat down, the tem- j perature of the Island was cool and bra I cmg. The cool, sweet breeze that blew ] all night whs bland and refreshing. It I was the sweet South winds which, "Breathing upon n bank of violets, Stealing ami giving odor." Lulled bv Us fragrant breath, and the soft moonbeams, we sank to sleep upon a soldier's bed?the hard ground covered with one blanket. We sank >o sleep? 'perchance to dream' of love, aud glory, and home. In our leisure hours, we went fishing and bathing. The sailors caught large qua..titles of red fish, and sold them to us. Uur Sutler arrived with his 'groceries,' and being flush of money, and having credit with the Sutler, we 'fared sumptu ously every day.' More fully to occupy the leisure hours, games of 'short cards' were played. 1 was Invited lino one as 'a green horn' to be victimised, but I bad .,,,.1, u r i..a ? ? - ' " ...... >UI. v/1 iuvn IUHI 1 WUII H IIHL IUI! of silver or gold, liui having such toolish scruples hIhjui ti.e matter, I gave it back. 1 he I'alineltoes Iih< 1 begun to sutler much from disease. Measles and mumps had spread largely among them. It wan laughab'e to see some ot the companies, when called out on parade. Half of thetn had their laces enormously swollen with mumps, and other part* of the body so sympathised with their facet that they could hardly walk, l'ueunionia and diar rlicea were very prevalent, and almost ?r erv day, the sad note* of 'the funeral march' announced that another soldier had gone to his grave. We began to grow callous and reckless We followed a brother soldier to a shallow grave hastily lowered htm in it, fired the format *aI lute a* his last requiem ; but no tear was shed, no emotion evinced, and in a iuo meiil it was altogether forgotten. Heath is terrible only at a distance.? Those who hare often looked the old reaper in the face, pluck Ins beard and laugh in his face, with the moat reckless defiance. It is the same with terrors as with pleasure and hopes, Distance lend* enchantment to the view." To pile a Pel ion upon the Ossa of our afflictions, small pox broke out upon us. It was discovered among a Pennsylvania regiment, quartered not farther than lfiO yards frotu us. Yet it created very little excitement. 1 had given my washing to some women in that regiment, and I cared so little about the small pox (or the devil) that I did not even 'move my washing.' But the sinall-pox is a very slightly contagious disease, and never an , epnieutic. Neither ? it a dangerous die ... i._' ease. 1 have re?u exposed to it ft doMft times, and bud it mildly oace. I * ? tliit* to allay n very foolish terror which penile have about milmII pox. Let them remember, if it ever comes along, tbftt there is no dimmer in it, ?nd no danger ' of taking it, if they keep themselves four feet troiu the bed of the person diseased. It kills Indians because they try cold baths as a cure for it, and it occasionally kills a white person in the country, be causo be is left to die like a leper by frightened population. itul it did not spread beyond the regiment where it originated, end only two or three died of it. A difficulty occured on Lobos between me Uolurieis of several of the regiments, on the point of rank and command.? Col Butler chtimad to Ire the oldest Colonel on the Island, ?nd of course claimed the command. The Pennsylvania Colonel, Wynkoop, and probably other*, disputed the claim. It was agreed however, that a messenger should he sent to Gen. Scott, who was alTampico, and the matter referred to him. Lieut. John B. Motagne was sent as the messenger, an 1 returned in a few days with Gen. Scott'* decision in favor of the seniority of Colonel Wynk'?op. Gen Scott arrived at Lobo* on the 21st ot February. Several thousand of troop* were already there, and others were arriving daily. It was evident now, that in a few lays we would quit the Island, and spread all sails for Vera Crux. Qen, Scott had left Gen. Worth at the Brazoe to superintend the embarkation of the troops taken from Gen. Taylor.- They were all expected to arrive at Lobos by the l?t day of March, and the troops on the Island were orJered to the ships, to be ready to sail on that day. High winds however delayed us until the 3d of March, when the signal for starting -1? given oy me steamer Massachusetts, on which (*en. Scott had hit bead quarters. In a few minutes seventy vessels spread ail t heir canvas, and before a stiff breeze we started for Vera Crus This time 1 was on the old Alhantb'*, not a ! regal palace as its name indicates, but ft miserable, unwieldlv, old bulk, under a I Captain and crew grossly ignorant of [scientific navigation. The cooks in the Aibambra were two yellow skinned *ce1 lestia's' Cbinanmn. By unskillful management, when the anchor was raised, aa I under current U>re the Alhambra on the very verge of the breakers. f?he narrow' ly escaped being smashed to pieces on the ! rocks. The whole horizon was dotted with white sails. The distance to Vera Crua j was only sixty miles, and ought to have I been run in eight or ten hours, but a | norther scattered the fleet, and the Al| haintira went kiting a hundred miles or I so down into the Carribean sea. She hauled up however, and came to the reu dezvous on the third or fourth day. The i rendezvous was opposite the promontory | of Anton Lizardo, about ten miles South of Vera Cruz. It is my object in this narrative, to 1 confine myself generally to a simple narrative of fw'lt mni'lm I - - .. wiu >>1^ ?ur spvtUiaiiTV Hiid the controversa!, but in a few instancw, I must depart from my plan. Before commencing the narrative of the seige of Vera Cruz, there are several things to he con-ode re J, and some arrears to ba brought up. One chapter will be sufficient for this purpose, and I propose to devote the next chapter to a general circumspection of affairs connected with ibe I siege of Vera Cruz, Parity of Heart ! "Blessed nre the pure in heart far they j shall see God." A pure heart is the foundation of the | Christian. Upon it hs can establish a no I tie, God like uharacter, which will with* j stand the temptations of this sinful world : at the same tune tit him for a purer, | holier world. But what is a pure heart, is a question i which every jafmoii, nod especially every Christian, should consider. We answer, it is a heart so full pf love i to God and to our fellow-men, ae to es J elude every impure thought or feeling, nuch as envy, strife, avarice and pride. W* should endeavor to avoid all these, ; and cultivate kindness, charity and bu? i mility. Root out the seeds which Sataq has by r.aiure implanted in our hearts, aud I implant the truths which Jesus laugh| wlide hers on earth. "A new ootmoand' ineut 1 Rive unto you, that ye love 004 another," was the language of Jeeue.? How pure, how heavenly. Let ue pray ; G'hI to hasten the day when this commandment shall be obeyed throughout ; the world. Every person ,we presume, would prefer purity and love to sin and hatred -? f . 1 ?; i uwii hi v u ml mi iv in amen siKirting among lh? wild flower* of lb* glen; lb* very type of innocence and beauty, lb* image 1 of God. And on the other hand, eee , that loathsome object in tbe shape of man I coining from a den ot iniquity, filling I the air with curaea, bidding defiance to i In* God. In the former, *? discover % j heavenly, a gelic purity; in tbe letter, % corrupt, depraved end wretched b**rt. Winch of ihe two would we oheoae for e companion f Which will God chooeg ! when he shall "make up hie jewels}" O whet e blueeed plat* heaven fane} j he, when weconeidev that not en Impure thought, word or deed can enter there-* Z Herald. A soft answer mey turn nwey wrath, but in a chancery suit, n eoft answer In I only likely to lure theecelea apiget^o^