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fOKT&y. A Few More Years A shadow fulls in the sunny ynr?l. Oil the irruss where I ho ehihlreit J'hiy, A if I fairy fabrics their lingers raise. Hut 110 "I'iKik's in Air "leave llioy, A tew raoiv years, atcl fiiese ru'liatli hfl':v< Like dreams, will huvc |>a?.se<l away. \u i 1 uen-i their >! ion ii:tii*. a for.-o/.o uplifts their fpulhorv eiirl* from cvr- w!.i -h 1??v.* ?ii .wn im . up: a few in >iv \ i- ii'-. mi l sluuli s of ilio'.r iit will 11 ;i v o toll i 'i i :.ijhv > ' !i :< . i \v!i. -t with ll.iw - *\.?y i iiic ? i!: 11j, they ro ii on tlio v.?l\ t _i . a sialic my ho\:t u- i gi/.o alld w.i. -| r all's ! a 1 .* ! a low more no;.i ,,f (i -si-lvin;; -colics o'er tlio ii i.uio lnii; will pa.--*. anl cliimhu. 1 ' -iinilo will lio mellow <1 (lion, i ii i in? < 11 in cit' m tl (ii'or vein j. an l oft ill." 1: 'lit in t!ir>- i ; i - <>f iiioo lie 'l.irkotie-l. i'v miitovv - tear*. a few more years. ut'l (nil yielding trn^t i'jj 1->-f in .i in i/ ' ?! fours. tllul i i'll ill;" love wlli. i. . ii.'w ill olirs, \y i i , \ u:i* . lier< ro /n lint niili!' tin-oak oxt< i I i.'-^ .nil". Wliofo i!i iv , it: ir!tnili nti 1 iwiiit', Tln'ii* .'il'tcr vim mi;. . -t In- Most, M.i_v '> In i ;i:i. i i I !( -1 ?i > 7 A ' \7 J j \ji Jii. J /* T1IE DESERTER. AN an;n'liu l i: lit' n \ I'ltl.KON 1 11 K KIKST. In the year 'D, I'iertv i'itois wms sergeant in the t\v?"ll*tIt rc::iinent i I' '.lie hue, Ihen quartern! in .Slra-buig. lie was a native < T that half s iva^e, Is ilt'-civili/.cd p nt uf i?iir_run<ly know:i un l'T the nam ul" Morvan, ami his < ever spoke. ul' It:.it ? < " a t >u_:h enst.inter." Always t!to Hl\>t ami last !<> In- ', he had the f< pntati.ni of liking hut tw> things in the w .rlsi -the s111< 11 uf puwikr ami the \v!.i.-t ling of bullets. .\ >\w one u:iv our menu I u rre t< >K it into his 11etui to address a letter to liis colonel, in which he applied for leave of absence to go lid m his aged mother, wlu? w;i" dangerously ill. II''tiddi'd that his lather, being seventyeight years of age, and su'lerin under a paralytic titled i >:i, could not be of any use in mils' tending the |? or woman, and !. pledged himself to return as soon as the health of his mother should be restore d. The colonel's reply to Pierre's application, was, " that tt< the regiment might at any moment be oi\l red to take the liehl, no leave of absi nee e-uld be obtained.'' l'iei'iv I'itois submitted. A fortnight elapsed, and th mi a s< < oiul letter was received by the colonel, in which Pierre informed him that hi- mother had died without tin: consolation . r l i.._f i.l.t., l,. , clii!'', .1 ml in vhieh he again solicit d leave ol absent'^, say ing that ho "fml'ln >t s'atebis reason for t'lis request- it was a lami 1 v >-,oi' t ?but earne.?lly imploring the colonel not to deny 1.i;?? this favor. 1'icrre's second letter was as littl successful as 11; : lir.st. 'I'll - poor fellow's captain merely said : ' l'i rr. . the colonel has received your lettor ; lie is sorry for the death of your old mother, hut he cannot grant the leave of j.bBouee y u r |ulre, as the regiment leaves Strasburg to-morrow. " ' ,\!i The regiment leaves S'trasbur -; and for what plaeo, may i a-!< you said 1'ieire. ' l'or Austria," repli- 1 bis ollieer. " \\ e are, to see Vienna, my brave I'itois ; we are to <;.#!.? it,.-. \ ?wt,. i . ?l.-.f ?..i l lor you? You will bo in your element, my filJO fellow." 1'ierre l'itois made n> reply ; lie s-m-mh 1 lust ill <! op til v lit. The captain caught his 1 ia!i 1. ami. shaking it heartily, lie said : ' W*liv do you not speak, man 'i Are you deaf to day 1 am t<-11 iiitr that, iii le.-s- than a week, you are to haw tlio pit aMire of a set to with tlio Austrian*, and you have not one word of thanks for the good news; nay, I verily believe you have not even he?'\l n.\" ' Indeed. captain, I have luv.d c\vr\ Word, and I thank you, with all i ,y heart, for "'our Jicws, which I con-id.ver>. good." ' I til-night you world," said the officer. < 1?nt, captain, is there no chance of obtaining tlio. leave of absence?" " Are you mad '{" was the reply. Leave of absence the very day be for taking the field ?" " 1 never thought of that," ;-aid Pi-riv.? " W e are, then, i the point >1 taking the field, and at such a time, I . uppose, leave is never iveu " I: is never . veil a>ked." ' It : ui t light it is ik ver even asked. it W.Hl'.il have llic ;; J J : -i I*;. n *?? i?l eowaruico. A\"i'l 1, then, I will not press it. :i 11\ more; i will try Mil t 1:1 without i' " And vim will (1 i will," ivplied (hocaptain. The next day the twelfth regiment entered ticrmany, mi l t!ino .t?I'iorro I'it<>is deserted ! Tin' 111??:i*'; - after, when the twelfth ro;;iinciit, having r ]?? ?I in the fiild of 1 >:tf11<> :i i nbundiiiit harvest of trlorv. was making ils triumphal entry into Strasburir, I'ierro I'itois \\;i> itri; i111 ?n.-ly dtti<xj;ed back to his roi/> by a bri uUi?of '/. /< A eourt-iaar tial is i 111111 - d'. : t? iy eall d. i'ierre I'it.is is }iceus9;l of h t'vinu deserted at th very inomen j when 1 re;.-':n :,t w;;.- J'i iin'ft the enemy face t> face. The c< urt pr< ?i nted a singular -pectadc. On t!i(! one .-id'' stood forth ti ae l * 1 cuser, who (M ini : " I'icrro I'itois, you, oiic of the hravest men in thoiirmv; yon, on whose breast the Mar ot honor yet irliTters ; you, who never iueuire I either punishment or even censure from your oflieerg; you could not hive <|uitt d your regiment?quitted ii :i I i n > -1 ?n tin: event' battle without some powerful motive to iinnel you! This motive the court demands of you ; for it would gladly have it :n it-- power, if , ot (o ae quit you wliieh il ou-hi not perhaps, cither to door to dosiri ;it least to recommend you to the Kmperor's mercy." < )n t';e other side Mood the accused, who answered : ' I have desert. 1 withoiitany reason, without any motive; I do not repent. If it were to do :i?;un, I would do u ;i^;tin. I deserve dcatli?pass sentence." .\ih 1 tlion eamosome wit icssc.' who deposed: ' Pierre I itow a deserter. V. e lcnow it is a I'acf, but wc do not believe it." A ml others averred': ' Pierre Pitoi.s is niiid; the court cannot condemn a madman. 11< must he scnt(-need, then, not to death, 1 ?ut to the lunatic asylum." This alternative had very nearly hecn adepted, for there was not one |> rson in the court who did not consider the desertion of Pierre Pitois as one of those singular occurrences he yond the ranjre of uinaii possibilities, which, while every one is forced to admit as a fact, no or e can account for or comprehend. The licensed, however, pleaded guilty most positively, and was most pertinacious in his demand for the just penalty of the law to bo inflicted 1 mi him. No so boldly ami fearlessly avowed bis crime, continually repeating (hat he didj not regret it, that :it length his firmness as- | sumcd the character <>t'a bravado, and left no i room for elcmene\ Sentence of death was) therefore pronounced. ' i lerre i in lis licit I'M ins scihoiii'c ro'iil with the must unflinching naze. Tiny warmly uracil liiiii tu plead fur mercy, hut lie refused. As cver\ one piii sscil that at the buttoni of lii's nlVair there was some strinpe invstery, it w: - determined that tl.e cwut n el' I'ierro sll'itlhl b" !, lave d. lb* was carried back to the military prison, and it was announeed to him that, as a iiutrk ] of spcei.d favor, lie .d il.r?*e days jriven him 1 to press lor pardon. i!i . ': i ; _r? M his ^lioul del anil made no repi\. 1 In (lie middle of i!<c niplit on which w:,s to t dawn tlie dav fixed for the execution, the door 1 of Pierre's dungeon turned softly on its hint;'- i \ . .11X1 :i mioiuhtii uilinr <id v.iiii'iMi locii* siuo 1 of llie < .mi]) bed iii which t ho condemned was t tramiuilly sleeping, and after /.i n uj on him < soijib lime in sib'iitjo, awoke him. 1 Pierre opened his c\<>, ami starinjy about hint, said : t " Tin? hour, then, is al last ciiinc," 1 " No, I'ierre," replied the oOiccr, <l it i< 1 im>I yet tin- hour, t ill it will sunn conic." I " Ami what do you want witli mc until i then j " Dost thou not know mo, I'ierre? No . matter; 1 know thee well. i saw thee at , Austerlit/., and bravely didst thou hear thy- , self. Prom that day, Pierre, I have had fur , thee a r.>" ird ii ' !< > : warm than sincere. ] Yesterday, <>n niv arrival at Str.ishnrjr, 1 | l<-rii1-tied thy crime and condemnation. ! have ( prevailed mi the jailer, who i a relation of , mine, to allow me to see thee. And mov that , I have come, I would say to thee, Pierre, it is . often a sad thought f?>r a man about to die, that he has not a friend near him to whom he . mij;lit hi.< heart. ami intrust with some s.ici'i ii coiiimi.v-don to discharge when t t* should be no iniii-i'. If I In mi wilt ueci |>t uu?, ] i will ho to thee that friend." "I thank you. comrad iv|di.<l l'icrrc. ' W'liv ! hast tli- i not hiii;.; i i s.iy to uu; ?" \ Not i,:ii<.r." ' What ! n it one wiit'll of adieu to thy sweetheart '! to thy ' i^ter . ' A sweetheart a slater 1 never had i i- | tlior." , " To thy father V' \ " lie is no more. Two months ajjo-ln.- died in my arms." i " Thy mother, then ?" ".My mother !' and Pierre, wimse voice ; Middcnlv ami I of 1II v !? ?i i>.! r. n.1 ? m?> mother! Ah, comrade, <]<> not utter that inline, for ! haw never heard that name?I . have never, lid it in mv levit without feel- , , in?r melted like a ehild : and oven now, :ne . thinks, if I were to so-'ak Iter- | ' \\ hat t le u I "The tears Would eonie - and tears d ? not | lieeomc a man. . . . Tears !" continued lie, " ti is. when I have hut a few hours to live ! AI ! there would not h; much c<m- . raj^e in that !" . ' TlioU all too ("iii, eouirade. I think I have, thank tiod, :>H nm -li eoiirage us other t people ; and yet I would m i o ashtim 1 <.l" weeping, were I to speak of my mother.'' " \re you .-erious said I'ierre, eajjerly < .-.ei/iiu; the ollieer's hand. " ^*?ni, a man and a soldier, and not ashamed I > weep " When speahin;: of my mother ' (.Yrtainly liot. My iio'tl ; is so u 1, > . kind.? She loves me i:;ue!i ; and I. too. !o\e her " ?ylic lows you ? si ml you lov V ( >!i ! ' 111o:i I nmy, iml<*e?l, t !l you sill. My li nt ' i.- full-?it must li.ivo vent ; si:i !. how- vi r ' rmi*z ':iy fi'i-Hni - s?i>: :tr t> \ 111, i stm .mi.'.1 you will Hi it 1 .iiv'i :>! I "n. lii-t-vi. I! < -11 : ' iorwls.it yi u s. <I jut now is jn:t?* truo. A ! liisili v'iiil, \v!i 11 iiljullt to ?li to 11:?vi ;i | heart int > whieh lie can pour i<r.i his own.- - 1 Will you li -ti n to mi'. :in i not ! uij?!i t nu< ' ' Surely i will listen, I'iern-. A tlyin_' 1 ni;i:i mu-t ever excit ?. > nj>:i?ion:ito sy::ij>si- 1 thy." " Vou must know th.it since I e nno into ' tliis world, I novor IovimI but one In in:-; ? : tliat heingwis my mother. l>iit 1:< r I lovo<l 1 .. I.' i ...':?i -.11 .i. . : f i-.r ??.-? iiuim; n.? \ t"*| *? I I . I .ill I I l.l I Vi .!> I.I llir U| | 1 J C :unl ciiorjrv. While yet a lube, I used to read ' hi r eyoH, as she road mine ; I u'Uc- a-d Is< r 1 thoughts, lilnl he hnew usilie. '?? \v tlio 1 In .i t i?{" my hi art, am! ! 11. rt >f hers ? ' I li vo never had ilhor sweetheart or wife; I ih vi r h.:d a friend: my i;:?>t! r w s c,.'r, ill ill- ti) IIIC. W oil, I was su: ;i iii' iiied to ! 'lie 1 up arms j and when they { ] me I i. i i 1 leave her, in a jiaroxy >m of desji iir I declared ' iliey iiiitillf drat: ihc iinih from limb, but ih'Vi r 1 should tiioy lake, me from horalis . With ' oil1 word r-ji;?!con in her holy lortitn?]- and stnni;.; courage, .she hanged my wliole juir- 1 po.se. " rieiTo, said sli , 'you snu.it *ro ?it i.? 1 111y wish." ' " I kin-It bo fore lies', :tinl I siid, ' I will mother." ' 1 ' ' Pierre,' -he added, ' t': ?\i h ist 1 ? -on a 1 1 - > i and I thank < !<>il for it ; hut tin.1 il.i 1 li< < ill' a son aro nut the only ones si man has ' to fulfill. livery citi/.e". owes liinself In hi* cosiiitry : it esills thee -i,b'V Thou sivt 1 in^'tu bo a soldier. I'roni lhi? moment thy ' Iito is no longer thino own it is thv conn ' Irv's. It' its interest'! d'vnsiiid It, lav it down ' eh r r fully. It' it In- the wi" of (!od I liat tliou 1 shiiiihlst die before nie, I should weep fur 11 ? ? ' my heart < tears; but I woidd say, ' lie ; , Rave, and lie has taken siw.iv. blessed lit; tin name, of 111? Lord . (Jo, now, sutd if thou love thy mother, do thy duty.' (>!i ! how precious those holy words ! I have never forgotten tin in. ' I >o thy duty,' she said. \ow, t!i? duty of a soldier was always, and in all tiling', l.i obey; and in all things, and always, I obeyed. It was to go straight forw i*d to fa< dinger without hesitation ? without second thought; and ! wont straight forward?faced danger without hesitation? without ii second thought. Those who saw me thus, as it were, seel; to meet the bullets, aid, ' There is a brave fellow !' They might have better said, ' There is a man who loves his n.other !' " One day a letter brought me the filings that she was ill ?my own poor mother! I longed to go to her. I asked for leave of absence ; it was not granted. I remember* d her last words ?' If thou love thy mother, do thy duty.' I submitted. A little after, I heard that she was dead. Oh ! then my .senses forsook me; at any risk I determined to iI i,. i!.' \vi .,w ,l...l ... I" ^ ....... J. I ardent, so iiiip (nous a dc.siri' In sen1 <>nce more a place where my mother had just ?J:?<1 ? i will tell you; ::n?l lis ynu have a mother, ami as she loves ynu, and as you Invo her, you will understand mo. " Wo peasants of Morvflti are a simple, arid confiding rae . have nut received the instruction, nor attained the knowledge that' tin y have in the ojtie.s; l?ut wo have our l> ( li' ls, which the townsfolk o il I superstitious. t What matters tho name? IV they superstitious or belief*, wo have thorn, ami clovoi would bo tho man that could uproot them.? Now, one of these beliefs to which we cling the most, is that which attributes to the first flower that blows in the grave m<>uI<1, such a virtue that he who gathers it is certain of never forget tint; the dead, and of never being forgotten by them. lielief, bow dear, bow sweet ! \\ itli it, death iias no terrors; for death, without forgetting, or being forgotten, is but a sweet sleep, but calm repose after a Ion;; toil. That flower- I pit 11 ted to sec it l-tnl I panted to ^iiiIiit it! I abandoned my |)ust and went oil inv v,-iv. After ten days of ! on<r and weary march, I readied uiv mother's :ravo. The earth spciik.iI yet fresh -no low rnppoaied. I waited. Six weeks elnps d, and then one lovely morning ! saw a little !u<' fllower - t'or-get-ine-iiot.' As I plucked t, I shed ulad tears, for mothoiiirttt that little lower was my mother's sou! ; that, she had ell that I was near, and that, under the form if that flower she had given herself to my leart once more. ' There was iitilliimr now to detain me in ho country, for my father had soon followed ny mother to the grave, and I had plucked ny precious (lower; what more did 1 want '! I remcmhcrcd mv mother's charge ' ! >o thy luty !" I sought the '//'us d artifx, and I aid, ' 1 am a deserter?arrest inc."' . . . I And now 1 am to die; and if, as you assured no. I have in you a friend, I die without re*iot, for you will do tor me the only service I vijuiro. The (lower which, at the ii~k of my ifc, I I-lucked from the -.rave, is here, in a idle ease next to toy heart. Promise me hat you will sc.- that they do not take it from > ne. It is the link which unites ine to mv nother; and if 1 though! it would he broken ?oh ! 1 mid not have the courage t > die. Say, do vou promise to do what 1 isk of yon " " 1 promise!,'' .said the officer. " Vuur hand, that I may press it to my ie a t. \ nil arc very kind io me ; and if the Almighty tiod wore in his omnipotonoe to iivo mo my life a second time, I would doo.ti' it to you." T: o friends parted. The next day had dawned. They arrived it the place of execution ; and already had I lie fatal sentence been road, when the !.<\v murmur that ran through the ranks changed into almost dcafeniair shouts : Tin* liin|>"ritr ! the i iai|i'.M? ! I. live lho l']iii|ioi'i)r !" 11 o disitinuiitrtl from liis horse ; '.in! then, with his short, ?|uick sli p, hu w.slki I u|> In tin- conilciiiiit'd. " I'ii'rrc," said lie f t him. Pierre iri'.i-d it him, iiiiil made n effort to speak. I.i.i :i sudlen sl?] or seemeil i ) (ivi rwht Im him.? ' Piirii'," continued ili'- lliiijiiM.tr. " p.nm'inIjiT V'llir HU H \V"il i!< III' |;i- t lli jilt. < I "d i Ws lliec lift! a sci-nii'l uiiic ; t!i v-. t-- il nut In inc. I>u? t.i France 1 Sin*. 1 (iii. is a kind mother! I..ivo lii-r as Ihou ili'lst thy lirst- Ihiiu* own." ! i . il t i . ... ... i . -limit.- if iiilsiiirlic.' love followed him till In* tv.is mil lit" ,sii;lit. Some year.- this, :i captain of tlie* < >1?1 liuaids i'.-ll inert illy wounded on the 1 i? ! I of Waterloo. Amid tli<<! din of li.itlio. 11o w is heard to diotlt in his deatli |"I! JS : * Iion:r livi* t!h i 1:uj?c ir ! Franco forevci ! My mother! My nmther !" 11 was I*rre i 'iU" ; Di?co:i5ohite Willow. W * w'll insure a p>od, 11":irI \ l.niyh to all IV! 1 o will take tlii' It'ouMo t'i road tin follow iijX. It is a mi\!nrc of the suhlinic and the idi uloe.s tint is jiositiv?*lv rofn >liin?r: Alt ".' nine utiles of the most lonesome, Irtviry ami hilly read that, ever mortal man raveled, I came ill si :ht ? ! what I i-uppns. d i i>< tlie wi 1"W-" lion">'0 It was a low eahli, at the foot of ;i hill, with a tremendous ak in ::t (if it. 1 saw s ene one sitting null r the tree, anil, as I annroaehed near :v, I t!i>. ivi'i'il it was a Woman, witli !i -r u:<' buried in Iht liaml.s ami weojiinji vioelitlv. soull ;is I iv:n:!iril (lie >in?t, i i(i?Ii-'i| In r M'! .<%\v!rit in iho following ivik'iIs : ' I il i not \\ 111 to be in pertinent. madam, utl ! fool .soiiifi cniici-ni t<i know wii:11 is tlie innt id wit ii yon " < >'l ! ! 11II a hiio-l'l' ! oh, nil' ! I'oil oil hoolioo ! ' I '' .My 11vir madam, wlnit is tin4 mutter ! ?1.-in: ii< 1< 11. bi'coiiiiiii; real'v eonec'i'iied :<t '.15 lllnniK T ill wllilll sdio Was ::rtio;;\ Hiie ki .t uj* Iter :iirony of distress, winlu :i jrrotip ! >ix or seven i-liii'li'i'ii b:?tr?iii to eouiu from be iiei^liburini; Int-hcs anil j^atbor closo about Muliim"1!" < ! icd i, ''in the nunc of all '.at'.s go??d, It'll mo what :iils you?" ' O, stranger!" she oxelaimed, r:?i>i 11 tr her yes, bloodshot with weeping, " my?hooioo lion!?lin- -ljiio -band is lino-lion dead! mil jigain sin' rcliipsiMl into her lit of weep:i.c. I was truly iillVcti d by the poor wonan's di.-ln aiul, tln? 'gh a poor sinner ny.seif, I < ?uI< 1 not refrain from offering her some coiisolat ion. ' -My dear mad.tin, ilo nut give up to disr? s-i He aven h:is promised t > 1*0 a lius >and the viiluw, ami a father to the fatherless. ('lieur uj>, my jjood woman j t lit; doud may !>< dark, I>ut tIk; siiii will eventually ?li>]?cr.-?" it. You may liave to laL><>r hard lor your children, hut Heaven will lid yon.'' ' That ain't notliin'!'' exclaimed llio woman ; " fiiv the children, I han't j^ot but seventeen, an, I make a sport for thcin easy enough. Heaven inou' he, my husband, an' I lias ni) d 'iibt lic'<l make a mighty j^ood husband; bin I want a sure null Imshand, a real one like my poor .John was afore lie died. Poor -John poor .John 1 (), me 1 lioolioo-ee c j When I had listen" (I to this speech, there was something so absolutely and purely original in its ridiculous ideas that I could not help lanjjhinj; at tluf mourner. As .'-non as possible I recovered myself and clmi<*cd my tacticH. " Well ma'am," I said, " if that's all, for 11 Oil veil s saKe don I give yourself any I r? >u bio, there are pleanty of men in the world ; .surely yon can get another husband." " I must git another husband, .-tranter; hut, oh ! I couldn't find nary notlier like John poor .John, poor John ! oh, me ! lioo hoo-ee !" " What wn* thore remarkable about him, ma'am ?j J! I' ho w,is uncommonly likely, there arc plenty of handsome men li ft in the world. If lie was an extraordinary strong man, 1 know of some giants in st length. Was lie good, kind and gentle, there are such still left on the earth. Wit . lie.a man of extraordinary intellect, wisdom or genius, depend upon it, there arc others equal to him on earth. Depend upon it, that no matter what extra gill lie may have possessed, with patienoe ami diligence you mny find anoth ' or to Kiuootlio the rough way of life for you, and fill the vancaney which now distresses you so." "(), stranger!" returned the woman, "I know it's your kindlicartcdness what makes j you speak so, but'taint worth while; .John wasn't nutliin' extraor'nary in none o' them thinps as you speak of. Hut still I never, no never! I know I never kin find the like of )oh n again on yuth ! (), John ! poor.John! boo-hoo-eo !'' ''Well, ma'am, I have guessed till I'm ' tired. What was there about him so renin Hi- I ahlo>' " Markbull !" sir.1 exclaimed, " why, stranger, John \v;is the best fiddler on yuth.? ! I low he'd lay haek behind his fiddle ami roll his beautiful roil hod about tVym i11o to side, as ho played 1 Sujjar in do t Jourd,' ' I'ijj; in do 'I'atur Patch,' ' ()lo i)an Tucki'i1,' an'all ih.'in tunes! Ju^t to think ! It han't been a month since he sit rite hero under this tree ami played for me, while I ^ot up and danced just this way." And here the woman jumped up and cut two or three very dillicult steps? half way between the pijjeon winjj and the old Virginia hack sti | ?while she sang tho tune; then failing, she screamed in all tho agony of (list rcss. '* And now lie's none ! dead ! (), mo ! I jjazod at the woman for one moment, ' id then told her I know some very <rnod lid- 1 (tiers. Site immediately bcenme calm, and looking up into my face with :tn inquiring glalieo, .she 811 id : " Staanger. may he you is a good fiddler; , I 11 no ittid git Joint's liddle !" And till .sin' started for the house! As Minnas site was eut of sight, I .struck spurs to my horse. Few can understand the depth of such fueling as that. Extracts frem ilic Special Message ol Qov Brown, of Ga. 1 entertain no doubt of the rifht <.f ejie!. 1 State, to decide :iii 1 net for herself. The ' I'nioii is a compact between 1110 sovereign Slates of which it is c*oiii|)<>mo<1. Kach St. te iii t!io 1'iiion is in point of sovcreijintv the c|11si 1 of every other, and neither is dependent upon a not h< i for any of the attri luiles of sovereignly. So loiij; as all the States, abide in ??ti< d faith hy their Coii-j st it hi ioi>.<l en?;aircinoiits to each other, and ; the compact is not viohitid, no State cati withdraw from the I'nion without beinjr guilty of had faith to the others. If. however. the compact is violated by the refusal . of part of the contractinir parties to ahide hy ir. and submit to its hardens, while thev i receive the henclits arising from it ; the uth- j or parties are no longer hound hy it, hut may declare it a nullity, and refuse to abide by i! on their par!. It is an essential part of the I.;w of contracts, that both parties are hound, or neither is bound, ami if one, violates the contract, the other is no longer , i .... i I'll! I may 1>" asked wlin i^ to judjri? of tin' violat: >.) of" the contract ' I answer t 1i:it (i soven-ijiti State, li'oin iin? verv nature of tin* case, nm-l juil.no. and decide lor herself. There is no common arbiter between them. Kach bcinji sovereign, iieknowl- -dues no Itiuh' r power on earth. The I'Vderal (!ov. lament is but the limited Jij.:ent of all t!ie Sinles, and has no rijrht t<> assume to dictate to the principals, Iroui which it de- 1 lives all (lie jiowrr it possesses, nor to sit in judgment upon t!i<r conduct of the creator, whose crciiturc it is, and by wSiose consent alone, it exists for a single day. It is not to 1m> presumed that a State will secede from the I iiiou without just e;.use. OT the sufficiency i>f the cause each sovi reipn St a to must judjjo for him -If. When her decision is made, no one has a ri'/ht to reverse the judgement, because no higher power e\i- Is to which an appeal can be taken. Tho right ill a Staio peaeabl\ In soecde from the I ninn, when, in the judgitieilt ol' her people, the ciimpacts (if tlie Constitution have been vioI fcil, e in nn'y bo denied by those who denv the sovereign' v in'" the State:. I :i: i nwaiv that some have attempted fo anali'iiise the 1"Jjjjht of a portion ul the Slates of (ho I iiiiui to secede from it, even lor jut i ::usc, to (he right of the Colonics to secede from the British (lovcrninont; ami as the colonies possessed only the right o! rcvolu iioii, it is argued (hat the sovreign St itos of the 1 iiiiui po.<M ss no other right. There ; is no just analogy between I ho two cases.? The Colonies, prior to the devolution, were not sovereign. They were subjects of the British < lovernnu nl. ere ted by it, and bolonged to it. They hail never even claimed to be the e(|Ual-of the Mritish Crown, nor i had tl'.it .(ioverinnont evor recognised them as sue!:, or formed any compact with them as sovereign powers. \\'hen, therefore, they withdrew from the (Jovernment of llreat Britan, it was a e..s of rebellion on the part of tho subject, against the power of the sov01 ijn -in of her wo', <ls, it was revolution ? and upon their success depended their exemption, from the poind I i s of troa.'on, to : tin: (Jovernmont whoso subjects (not ei|Ual?) they wore, till they had eslabliscd their right of sovereignty by force of arms. liuf tho State.-? of the I nion are not tho subjects of too federal (iovcrnuicnt, were not created j by it, and do not belong to it. They created t ; from them it derives its powers, to j them it is responsible, and when it abuses the trust reposed in it, they, as equal .sovereigns, letve a ri?;*it ti> re.-uine the powers respectively delegated to it hy tlieui. I'pon my mind there is no doubt, that (lenrgia or any other State in the I'nion, lias a perfect right, to secede from it, whenever the people in their sovereign eapacit; . decide lor themselves, that the compact ii;.s been violated hy l!e> other Stiites. And neither the Fedora! nor a State (lovernment. has any more right to make war upon her. for the exorcise of this act of sovereignty, than they have to make war upon her for the exorcise of any other one of hor sovereign powers. Should , (icorgia determine, while I exercise the Fxocutive power, to secede from the I'nion, on ! account of the violation of the compact hy other States, I should deny the right of any other St:ite or (lovcriimcnt to coerce, lier to return to it. In such case (he idlegianec of her citizens would ho duo to her aloiio and each would ho entitled to the protection of her flag. This they should have. And if any other government should interfere, aud assume jurisdiction over them, and take the lives of any of them upon a ehargfl of treason to its authority, for following the flng of tJeorgia; 1 would retaliate promptly, by seiz! in;.' and hanging upon the nearest tree, two of the subjects of such (Jovornment for each : citizen of t.J corgi,i whose life should he thus illegally taken. 1 need only add that I regard the question of separetc State action, or ' of united action upon the par* of nil the ; Southern States, as a mere question of polij ry, and not as n ijiio^tion of light. As the cause of (he Southern States is a common cause, and as the agressions upon their rights arc common, I should think it wise that their action ho common. J f the fifteen Southern Stat"M of the Union should meet in Convention, nnd determine to secede from it, there would he no war, no bloodshed. So many of the Northern people are dependent upon our Cotton, ann our I ratio, tor employment.: and for the necossa- j ries, as well as the luxuricH of life, that, they , could neither a fiord to fight us, nor io stand ' by and sec others do it. Nor could the (iovcrnmcnt of (treat Britan afford to wit-' ness an invasion of tlie Southern States.? , \\ e are planters, a large portion of the people of I'ltiuiitiid are manufacturers. We come in competition with none of their interests.? Our interests and theirs are mutual and reciprocal. The people of the Northern States are tho rivals of the people of l'liij'land in manufacturing and shipping. Both are dependent upon us for Cotton. Four millions of the people of Ureal Britan look for tho mcansof tlieir support, to the Cotton crop of the Southern States of tliis I'nion. An invasion of our soil, which would cut off a single crop of Cotton, would shako tho pil lars or Tin- ii.su turoiie, ana the ciy ot "bread <>r blood would nt oncc control tin; action <.t tlie (lovornnient, the Army, and tli.' Navy of (J rout 1-ritan in our favor. 1 am aware tliat tlie opinion is ?*111?-11;tincd 1?v many, that 111o Southern States, in the event of u dissolution of tlie I'liion, would In* in a worse condition than they now are, in reference to the recapture of their fugitive slaves; as it is said lariro numbers would escape, and we would have no process by which we could recover them from any portion of the Northern < 'onfeder: cy. This is a jrreiit error. In case of a separation of the two hectii'ijs, and t!m formation of new rover.inieiits, the people of the Northern t onteUeracy, woiiiil no longer tool that they wore connected witli slavery in tli<: South, anymore than they now ale in Cuba or Brazil. Must of the Northern St iU\s have already enacted .stringent laws, again>t the importation of free negroes among them.? l liev woiihl not desire such a population in their midst, and would lie willing to spend money to rid themselves of it. I hey would need our Cotton, as they how do, and would find our trade still iudispcnsihle to their prosperity. We .should then have the power to regulate our own revenue laws, tariffs, I and to diseriininato against them, and in : favor tit Kuropean States, il we ohoo.se to do so, by imposing export duties on Cotton pur- j chased hy them, and import duties on manul'aetui'cd articles sold hy them to our people. This they could not endure and prosper. The result would be that they would, if required, enter into a treaty with u- to hring back our fugitive slaves, and deliver 111o!11 to tb : t the lino, if wo would ti^ree to a favorable Commercial treaty with thom, by which they couUl buy our Cotton and sell their iMiutls upon e<pnl tonus with other nutions. A .similar treaty, for the like reason could be math' with the I'ln^lish (iovernmi nt, by which Caiiaily wouUl no lon?*er bo tlie harbour of fugitive slaves The sentinieiit, tlo donht, prevails in the ; Northern States, that the people of the South would be in jjroat danger from their slaves, in I case we should attempt to .separate from the ! Nor.hern States, and to form an independent I < iovernment. I n.- unvclion and revolt are already attempted to be held in terror over us. I do not pruUMid to deny that Northern spies aiiiouir us, mi^ht bo able occasionally, to incite small numbers of slaves in dilfereut !.?calitics to revolt, and murder families of in- I noccut women ai d children ; which weuld iib!i>'e us iirnimUlv t.i ov.ikhIm i!>. > tl I 1 ' 'J * ' ?' ??.? ,,,V ......V I n .IX> should have departed from the path of 'luly, 1 under the deceptive influence of abolition in- | ecndiaries. Tlie.-e installers would, however, 1 be rare. Our ol ives are usually under tin* eye of tin ir masters ?>r overseers. l'e\v of tlieni can read or wilt >. They are not pormitt' d to travel on our Kailroads, or other public convevanee, without the consent of tiio.se having tlio control of them. They have no mail faclities, except such as their owners allow them to have, and no means of communication with each other at a distance. They are entirely unar ii^d, and unskilled in the use of arms. A general revolt would therefore bo impossible. I>ut tin; more i11>|mrt int f.sct, which is well known in Southern society is, that nine tenths of tlu'in are truly : im 1 do- ' votodly attached, to their masters and mis- > tresses, and would sliod in their dofeiieo, the last drop of their hlood. They feel and recognize their inferiority :is a race, and their dependence upon their owners for their protection and support ; whose smile of Approbation constitutes their highest enjoyment.? 'I hey have not been accustomed to claim or exercise political rights, and lew of them have any ambition beyond their present comfort and enjoyment. In ease of a plot or conspiracy, the secret could he communicated to but > few, till some w ndd learn it, who would immediately communicate it to their masters, nun [>ur mem IIpi>11 Mio:r guard. '1 Ins Would lead (i? ;iii immediate seizure and execution of a lew of their leaders. W e have tin retire hul little cause of apprehension from a rebellion of our slaves. Let u.< for a inouicnt contrast our dilficulties with our laborers, in case of division, with tin- difficulties which the northern people w?;u!d have with their laborers. Many of the Northern masters, or employ- J crs, if they prefer the term, are now in possession of large fortunes, which they have necumilcated by the use of the strong arms of white laborers among them, who have labored and toiled and dropped tlx- briny sweat, lor weeks, mid months, ami years, in their service, mid have received from tlioin in return a meagre compensation; which in health, has barely enabled them to support themselves, in a simple style, denying to tlicir families most of the comforts of life; anil in sickness has often left them in destitutioy, and aetunl want of the necessaries of life. While those who receiv e the benefits of the labor of others, ore living in stately mansions, amid ease and luxury; and faring sumptuously every ibiy, many of the laborers whose toil brought these comforts, must spend their days in unpleasant dwellings, doomed to nee ?> i t n ' " I pctuul obscurity, nnd denied even in sickness, the comforts of life; produced by thoir own hard lubor. I>nt who nro tlie.se honest sturdy laborers, who iii!' kept in a position of inferiority, to those who assume control over them '{ Tliey 1 are white men. They belong to no inferior race. They are the sons of freemen, ami they have a riicht to be free, many of them are descended from revolutionary sires, who ' shed their blood to secure liberty to their posterity. These men have political rights inhorited from their ancestors, which are inalienable. They have the ri^lit to benr arms, ! Mid thousands of tbem know how to use them. 'I'llcy can read and write and correspond v. it!i SBH each other about the wrongs inflicted upon them. Should a BO})arution take place, and tlio'fl Northern States take up arms against the peiJaj pie of the South, and attempt to incite ouffiE slaves to insurrection, thousands < r theso norJB thern white laborers, who have uflcn d much injustice, at the hands ?>t those, wli<j9| have wrung from them the hard earnimjs the sweat of their brow!; might feci at lihcr-flj ty to require satisfaction for past injustice, utid to assert the principle recognized in tliC 1 South, that tl?o true aristocracy, i.s not an nr-W istoerncy of wealth, but of color and of r,)n. flj duct. Whilo their sense of justice mi?|it, :9 prompt them to assist the South against aggressions of those in the North, who liavo]9 denied equality to them, as well as to the jieoJ| j?le of the South. Among the poor white laborer is ro.qtei.-tcd^B as an equal. I lis family i.s treated with kind- $8 ncss, consideration and respect. lit; d(.c,s MB not belong to the menial class. The negro is in no sense of the term his equal. He feels and knows tliis. Hi- belongs to t!ie only tine iB aristocracy, the race of white men. lie blacks no masters boots, and bows the knee to ? no une save inm aione. no receives Migiicr wages for his labor, than does tin- laborer of V any other portion of t!ie world, anil he raises jflB up hi* children, with the ktiowkd?e, that ' they b Ioiijj to no in t rior cast.; but that tlio 4M highest nil nibcrs of the society in which he lives, will, it their conduct is good, respect wi and treat them as equals. Those men know, tli:?t in the event of the J5?? almliiion of slavery, they would be great* r 38 sulVerors than the rich, who would be able to I protect themselves. They will, therefore, 1 never permit the slaves of the South to be set I tree aumn;^ tiieiu, come ill competition witii I tiie.r labor, aesociate with thoiu and their I children as equals?be allowed to testify in I our Courts against thum?sit on juries with BH tho:n, 111:1 rcli to tho ballot Ih>\ by tlioir sides, 1 and |>:trticipate in tho choice of their rulers? I claim .social equality with them ? ami ask the Fm hands of their ehildivn in man iage. That I MBq the nltimato design of the lllaek Ho|inhliean fll party, is. I" bring about this st.it>: of tilings, in the Southern Stales, and that its triumphs, flj if suhmitted to by us, wiil at no very distant fljfl period, lead to the consummation of those re- I suits, is, I think, quite evident, to the mind J ol every enol, dispassionate thinker, who lias jj examined this question, in the light of all the I surrounding circumstances. Notico. t S.I. l-l'.KSONS interested in (lie Kstate of John I iV fiiiirli, deceased. esneriii'lv I lie hcirs-iil tnw nf i^l KIIcikIit linker, ileeenseil, (tui'iiici'l\ t'oneli) arc ln-ri'liy nolilic>l to ? i?im* i'orwanl ami receive tlieir R ilisi rr utive shares in sail Kslatc ; <1 lierwise, we I si.nil reluse to jmy interest on sai<l shares any I loiljjei. M \KV \. rOl'CII, I Aditii'x. IIOU'T. <'<U ('II, j Ailiiii'r. j^B Sept. I> 1 8<MI ft|n IS liereliV jriven tlinl n|>plir:iti M will lie 11 11 in |H I lie ( niiiluissinnei's of Itomls . I llioil* next meet- I in ?. to >|x-ii a roa<l I'roin tlie Hriiljrc to lie Imilt a ip'.ir Sloan's Kerry. lollie Wallialla I'oatl. neartlie k Jfl eleven niiio |><>.-1. mill also to cutmccl tlic same with ill" Oconee Station llonl. dcliihl'i' 1, I Hi it I 1'J I 1 ay 1 I.I. lM'I'SOllS i lltlel'l l?ll lo lilt* I'st:?1P III" \\ i 11 i *i til \ ilecease'l, are vr<|iiiret| in make |? ?\ im-iif by I lie tsuvcntli day of huci'iulior next : ami Minse having demands n;<niusi x:iii| Kstato must jn-esenl (Item by iluil d'lVi as a linal settlement <>' saiil Ks* Hfl tale will be miule before tin* Ordinary at I'iekens y III., al I hat time. O.-t.dmr 1. 1 Hl'iO 11) TIIK STATK OK SOlTil (' A IK >1.1 N A, H uj Ail.ii I, | j|: i j^u I,,,, lin.il >(.'ltle- 9 I'.il'.vanl lingers. et.al. ) ,'1, I".' !.|.peiir;nji to mv miki?>:i that Temperance Mi'WInii'lti', John Mi-W l.mi r, Hugh lingers, Ml 1 'i n letiee1'> < iinan, ft Homier liobinson, an 11livheir.* mi at law <il . I < >1111 lingers, deeea-'ed. ( na hips anil mini- U be.r tinKnnwii,i il-'leinlaills iii tli - ease, reside wiili- IB out tin* limits of t'lin State: It is ordered. there lore, llnll I lie ^ :I i?I iib.-'olll If IV|I< I.I III< 11 > appear III I lit* ('mill ot (>i iliiiii ?v. iii I hidden :it I'iekeris ('. II., on I'rid: i y I lie <vi ii day ul IYI>: u ry ne>: I, l > she w J cuusc, If mi) I hoy can, why i timil settlement of JW llic Ksi'iie of J nines Ho?ors. senior, deceased. BH should not he inside mi ilml day, mid u decree luid (hereon; iilso, lo render their advancements, and MR receive, their distributive share- in > ?i?l I',slate. w. i:. iKn.co.Mm:, <>.i r?. Ordinnry's Olllcp. Oct IHtM) Ihn Till: STATU OF S( H'TII CAHOUNA, ] IN llltlUNAln IMCKI'.N.S. j|J 11. A. Thompson, c.i:.r. ii, Adm'r 1 ... ? * | 1 el 11 ion for MnrllmJ.Mnior.cl.nl. J Partition. | IT tip|>oariiifr to my satisfaction iliat Martha J. Miller and I.aura K. Miller, d? fondants in this 38 case, reside withi ut Iho limits of this State : it is j ordered, llieroforo, dial (lie sai l absent parlies do a ppotir ill the I 'onrt of ' rdinary, to lio hold at Pick- jfl ens II, oil Mondiy the Mull day of f)oC0lllhor next, and object lo (lie pa it it i :ti or sale of the Ileal B Kstato of llohert I.. Miller. d -ceased, or their conSl'lll In I In* sniiir will lut mlmvil ul* i \V. P.. Ilol.ro\ii;i;. ?.im? Onlhiiry'* < lllieo. Sept. ft. INilit ".in (JIIBKNV'ILI.B IMA HUM: V All I). f I ^ iI K suliserilier lias on Itninl tun] is constant t I v receiving u larjje iiml varied assm In.ent ? f I American ond Itnlir n Ki.rMc, I'n wliieli lie would call I lie at ten I ion of ilmsein waul of a suitable Monument to mark tlit* ^j t wlterc repose the remains of ilirir departed relatives ami friends. Curving and letteiin^ of all kinds n'atlv and promptl'. executed. arm ular attention | aid to orders l.t mail .J A M MS M. A 1.1 - K N. Olreenville ('. IF., 1YI> 'J'J ol tf N. 1$. lie refers to l>(? \\'e>tlield. (lower.Cox, m Marklv & Co.. Dr. M l> Karl". \V 1! Watson, 1 Ks,,.. Col l> lloke. II McKay. IN... ?TATK OK SOl'TII (WIIOMNA. - ' n [ \V. S. & T. 1'. Williams j r.s : Petition for I?? Iiof. Sic. <!co. \V. MeKinncy. c*t.nln. I ' IT itppcnrin;; to my i?:i 11 sl'u ? ! i on that ticnrge W, 1 MeKitiitey. 0110 <>l' the (leloh.liint.x in this ruse, i resides without tlie limits of llii.? Ktiite: On nio- < ion of Norton, pro pet: It in unliTfil tli:it 11 o HiiiiJ iihsent (lolviiilniit ilo apponr in this '"mnt. nml plead, answer or demur to the petition tiled in | (his Oiisn, witliin tl?I'cc months from the tl:ito hereof, or it will lie taken />rn <<o/frxtto us to him. KOIPT. A. THOMPSON, r.u.r.n. ' Oct. 20, 18150 12 Bin .1. W. xotlll I/, .III. .1. W. II \ It It J SON . l\ I'l 1,1,1 AM. NOIUlis; HARRISON & VI I LI A INI * y\ tlorneyi :it l>u\v, AND S O MCI T O K 8 IN I". Q V 1 T V, i W'll.l. Attend nromi.tlv to all loudness niiiiiilril to their cure. Mu, I'im.iam can u'.whvm 1>o found in the <Mlioc. OF KICK AT 1'lfKKNS ('. II., H. C. ( 8opt, 0, 1860 0 if W. K. KARI.KY ISAAC Wlf!KI.IKK? 0 EASLEY & WICKLIFFE, Attorney** at l,a\v, J \r V,Lr' "'l''1"' ptni'iiinliy to nil hiinincPH enT i trusted to t licit' rare in I lie Dintrkts comprising ilie Western Ciwirt. OFFICH AT riC Kl .\S C\ If., X. ('. I Kept. W, 1855 i:j tf