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) lewis m. grist. Proprietor, j |n f ittrepenlient familj fJctuspHpcr: for tjje promotion of tjie political, Social, %ricaltural aitti Commercial laterals of tjie Soot{i, j TEKM P3A,M^T1ffcIL^c"VA ' VOLUME XI. TORKV1LLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8, 1866. NUMBER 42. gj-j TM???^Tl?? *????r^?? ? ?? MY FIB8T POEM. a rare bit or laughable ingenuity on tytoorarhic al errors. Ah I here it is ? I'm famous now? An author and a poet ? It really is in print! ye gods! How proud I'll be to show it! And gentle Annie ! What a thrill Will animate her breast; To read those lines and knowTo whom they are addressed. Whv, bless my soul!?here's something strange: What can the paper mean By talking of the "graceful brooks That gander o'er the green." And here's a t instead of r, Which makes it "tippling rill "We'll seek the shad," instead of "shade," And "hell" instead of "hill." "They look so"?what! I recollect, Twas "sweet" and then 'twas "kind," And now to think the stupid fool For "bland" has printed "blind-" Was ever such provoking work? Tls curious, by the by How anything is rendered "blind" By giving it an eye. "Hast thou no tears," the t's left out, "Hast tbou no ears," instead ; ' "1 hope that thou art dear," is put "I hope that thou art dead." Who ever saw in such a space So many blunders crammed .' "Those gentle eyes bedimmed," is spelt "Those gentle eyes bedamned." "The color of the rose" Is "nose" "Affection" is "affliction I wonder if the likeness holds In fact as well as fiction, "Thou art a friend," the R is gone, Who ever would have deemed That such a trifling thing could change A "friend" into a fiend. "Thou art the same" is rendered "lame!" It really is too bad ; And here, because an : is out, My "lovely maid" 1* "mad." They drove her blind by poking in An eye?a process new ; And now they've gouged it again, And made her craxy, too. "Where are the muses fled, that thou Shouldst live so long unsung" Thus read my vision?here it is? "Shouldst live so long unhung." "The fate of woman's love is thine," And r commences "fate How small a circumstance will turn A woman's love to hate." I'll read no more! What shall I do ! I'll never dare to send ft!? The paper's scattered far and wide? Tis now too late to mend it, Oh, Fame I thou cheat of human bliss! Why did I ever write ! I wish my poem had been burnt Before it saw the light. Let's stop and recapitulate :? I've d'm'd her eyes that's p!?.<n: I've told her she's a lunatic, And blind, and d*f, and lame, Was ever such a horrid bash In poetry or in prose ? I've said she was a fiend, and praised The color of her nose. I wish I had that editor About a half a minute; I'd bano him to his bean's content, And with an b begin it. I'd jam bis body, eyes "and bones, And spell it with a n, And send him to that hill of his? He spells it with an c. Written for the Yorkville Enquirer. BLUE AND GREY; OR, ^?^vt\mtt-*tnri r\-m ttt a "n TMJB JTUKTUJNISiS UJ? VVAft. BY CLAUDE FOBBE8TER. CHAPTER X. A few months after Edwin Williams re tamed to his home, (some few miles out of Providenoe, Rhode Island,) he was aocosted upon the streets by a soldier, who, from the restless expression of his bloodshot eyes, the disorder of his dross, and the swinging nature of his walk, appeared to have been indulging rather too freely in the use of ardent spirits. Not exactly relishing the idea of being seen, in broad daylight, in com pany with a man habitually inebriated, he endeavored to pass him by with a friendly bow of recognition 'No you don't, Williams,' said the soldier, taking hold of the coat sleeve of the mortified young man, with an air of intolerable familiarity. (I have been looking for you for the last three days; and I ain't going to be pot off io this kind of way. Don't care about speakiog to Jack Turner, eh ?? Them nigger drivers down South beeD putting some mighty big notions in your head, I 'spose.' 'But, Jack,' said Williams, looking uneasily over his shoulder, and endeavoring to disengage his sleeve from the grasp of the soldier, fI have no time to talk with you just now?I have a very pressing engage ment to meet. Don't hold on to my coat sleeve in that kind of fashion, man !' 'Maybe you don't like it,' said Jack, staggering to a tree box and dragging Williams after him ; "but yon see I'm yonr friend, though you don't believe it, and ; want to do you a good tarn.' Williams looked despairingly around for j some means of escape, but observing that to j V- ?r.f n( nnoafinn and nrttininc fnr > UU ^UIIC UUV V* \jwvwcvj ? ?? ... , the first time, a group of ragged urchins collecting about the premises to see the"; sport, he said, after taking the arm of Jack, and hurrying him forward, 'Let us go over to the hotel, if you must have a talk with me; for you are not in a fit condition to be ; seen upon the atieets. Come on!' . j 'A fine gentleman, to be sure !' said Jack, j eyeing Williams from head to foot, with a smile of contempt. 'Shamed of Jack Tur-j ner, eh 1?but, never mind !' and th* poor j fellow followed, or was led by Williams, in- j to the hotel aoross the street, much to the j disappointment of the boys, who had ex- j pected to see some rare sport. 'And now, Jack,' said Williams, enter- j ing a priyate room, whicfc he had suoceeded i in obtaining from the proprietor, 'lie down here and take a eood sleep, after which you will feel better and be able to go home decently.' '1 ain't going to do no such thing, Williams,' said Jack, firmly. ?I tell you now, as I told yon before, I want to do you a good tarn. I've got something to tell you, aod the BooneT you hear it the better for you, maybe.' 'Well,' said Williams, seating himself impatiently, 'for heaven's sake, let me hear what you have to say. I can spare but a few moments loDger.' In the first place,' began Jack, staggering against the bedstead, 'I'm drunk !' ?I am very well aware of that fact,' said Williams, aDgrily. 'You are, eh?' replied Jack, making a j great effort to retain his footing. 'Well, Williams, I'm sober enongh to do yon a good turn, anyhow. Do you know that yon are snspected of sympathizing with the rebels??that the hound9 are on your track ?' 'What do you mean ?' asked Williams, starting to his feet. 'I mean that you talked too loud, and a little too muob, at Nat Ellison's eatinghouse night before last I mean to say, that you were reported ten minutes after as a suspicious character, and that you are watobed and dogged about wherever you go by a rascally detective, who is paid for the job. That's what I mean.' The devil!' exclaimed Williams, with uplifted hands. <i suspected of sympathy for the rebellion ! 1 dogged about as a suspicious character! But you are drunk, Jack, and talking at random. Well, maybe I am drunk?fact is, I know I'm drunk?but blast my coppers if I am talking at random ! How did I come to know that yon wero at Nat Ellison's night before last? How did I know that you were talking with Arthur Mansfield aud Charlie Thompson about the rebellion down South ? Answer me that!' Williams was dumb with surprise and astonishment. I'll tell you how,' continued Jack, in a lower tone of voice. ?I was coming in myself just as you three were going out, and I beard a fellow say to a miserable looking devil by the counter: 'Follow them Dan, and keep your eye on that fellow with the brown coat.' Then the man, called Dan, went out after you, and I asked the other fellow what was up. He up and told, me just what I have told you, about your sympathy with the rebellion and your abuse of the United States Government. . After an hour or so the little fellow come back again, went up to the man that I bad been talking to and whispered something' in his ear, which he wrote down in a little blank book that he took from his Docket, and then f ' said, 'All right, Dan; we have got him all right dow.' This ain't do random talk, Williams; blame me if it is!' 'Bat I have no recollection, Jack, of expressing sentiments favorable to the rebellion or injurious to our cause Besides all this, my character is too well koown to be suspected of anything like treason.' 'Dod'1 know anything about that,' said Jack. 'All I have to say on the subject is that you'd better not talk at all in these squally times, if you can't do so without mentioning the rebellion. You know, Williams, you've been down South a longtime, and some folks might think you uosound on the goose. But, don't you think I was doing the right thiDg to tell you about this matter?' 'Perfectly right, Jack, and very kind and considerate in you, too,' said Williams, thoughtfully. 'Very well, then,' said Jack, throwing himself upon the bed 'I believe I'll take a nap uow, if you'll call round in the afternoon and wake me up.' Williams promised to do so ; and after waiting until the lusty snores of poor Jack convinced him of his unconsciousness, quietly slipped out of the room, locking the door behind him, and walked out upon the street with a clouded brow and an indignant aod tumultuous heart. Had he nor been so completely taken up with bis own thoughts, he might have observed a oloaked and muffled figure glide stealthily from behind a pillar and follow cautiously and slowly in his footsteps, occasionally pausing aod then walking rapidly forward, first on one side of the street and then on the other. ******* 'So, your brother bus- j-.'r.H the army, Miss Alice,' said Arthur Mansfield, as the young couple sat beside the stove a few days after the incident above mentioned. <An unfair advantage was taken of the poor fellow,' said Alice, with a sigh. ?How ever deeply he may have deplored the exis tence of the rebellion ; however he may have doubted and denied the right of secession and advocated the present vigorous measures of the-government, he would have hp(>n tho vorv last man. I know, that would willingly take up arms against a people, from whom he has been the recipient of so many aot9 of kindness during his stay a i mong them. Now this very natural attach ! moot to tho people of tlio South bac notb iog whatever to do with his political seoti> ment3 aod opinions, but there has not been wanting, certain parties mean enough, for purposes of their own, to confound the two, and acouse him of sympathy for the very aot of rebellion itself. You know very! well, Arthur, that a man can deplore the j necessity of an invasion of the South, and i at the same time approve of such a movement.' 'Certainly,' replied Arthur, 'I, for one, think it ten thousand pities that the South should have driven us to such harsh measures ; but, at the same time, I am com-1 pelled to advocate these very measures as j the only means of restoring the Union.' 'Well,' said Alice, her eyes flashing with t indignation, 'they actually arrested Edwin j for expressions no more treasonable in real- 1 ity, than those you have just uttered !' 'Arrested bim !' Indeed they did,' said Alice, 'and kept' him in close confinement for nearly a whole week.' 'But this certainly could not have been done for the mere harmless expression of an opinion, with no political significancy ?' i 'It appears,' said Alice, 'that brother Ed ; j win and two of his friends were dining at j j Ellison's restaurant, some evening last week, j when the conversation accidentally turned ! upon the Southern rebellion One of the j ' geDtlemen remarked that confiscation and | : extermination was the only sure method of; I quelling the rebelliou, and upon this point, j Edwin took issue with him. He argued i ' the propriety of peace measures, spoke of' the willingness of the South to compromise on honorable terms, alluded in very high terms to the patriotism, courage and noble endnranc^of the soldiers, of the exalted spirit of self-sacrifice and bravery of ber people, not forgettiog, at the 6ame time, to disavow all political sympathy and declare himself a staunch Union man, and in favor of the policy of the administration.' 'I was present on the ocoasion, Miss Alice,' said Arthur. Charlie Thomson and myself were the friends that dined with your brother, and your report of the conversation is, upon the wbole, tolerably correct.' Then, after a pause, ho added, 'I must confess, that I was very much displeased with Edwin for the injudicious manner in which he expressed himself upon the occasion ? The room was crowded with oustomerB, most of whom were soldiers; and his voice was raised to the highest pitch, as if intending to be heard by all present. I noticed several little groups of citizens and soldiers whispering together and oasting very indignant glances towards our party; and not wishing to be implicated in a disturbance in such a publio resort, I endeavored to check Edwin, by reminding him where be was. My efforts were thrown away, however, for be spoke the louder for my interference. That was certainly very indisoreet,' said Alice, thoughtfully; 'but do you think the subjeot matter of bis remarks were at all treasonable.' 'I do not think so,' replied Arthur, 'but others, who know bim less than I do, may have deemed them even incendiary. But was this the cause of his arrest ?' 'So he has informed me, since his release,' said Alice. 'But what put him in the notion of joining the army V 'His explanation is quite unsatisfactory,' said Alice. <He says, that after remaining in solitary confinement for four days, be was visited by a diminutive old man, who called himself Dan Roberts, who offered to pro care bis immediate release, updo condition that he would allow him to baDd in his name to a recruiting officer. After some little argument, this Dan Roberts succeeded in carrying his point, and brother Edwin even accompanied him to the recruiting officer and joined the army There were at least two reasons whioh influenced him thus to deoide, and one was the fear of a protracted imprisonment/ And what was the other ?' asked Arthur. A very natural desire to prove, beyond all question, the falsehood of the oharges brought against him, and to manifest bis loyalty and allegiance to the governmentEdwin could not endure the idea of being suspected of sympathy for the rebellion, and, being always over-hasty in all bis conclusions, deemed bis course of aotion in the premises, as the only certain method of silencing his enemies and redeeming his character from the vile imputations cast upon it.' And is it possible that your brother allowed himself to be so nicely entrapped V j said Arthur. Why, Miss Alice, just as sure as I am a living man, this Dan Roberts has made a snug little sum by this transaction. There are men about town that make it a regular business to recruit the army, and make money at it, too. I'll bet something handsome, that your brother did oot get his bounty You do Dot soppose, iMiss Alice, that DaD Roberts had ioflueoce enough with the government to briDg about the release of a prisoner, if the arrest and imprisonment were authorized?1 'You surprise mo !' said Alice. I never thought of that before now.' Then after a pause she added, impatiently, 'But this is just like brother Edwin !?always rash, always hasty iD everything, and never for a moment thinking about consequences or re suits. So he acted at the Suuth ; leaving a capital business, breaking up all his plans and pleasant associations, and, without a word of explanation, actually running away, and for what ? A silly love affair?a little piece of thoughtless flirtation on the part of a mere child! Aod now?pshaw ! I have no patieooe with such men I' Well, well,' said Artbar, 'what's done J canoot be helped, you know; and, after, all, perhaps it was the very best thing he j could do, under all the circumstanoes ? Every young man, able to shoulder a musket, should be in the field; for this gigantic revolution, rebellion, or whatever you LLI<*y I/O pkuocd to oull fuoo Jo'.vu Qoutt, must be suppressed at any cost, and the glorious old Union must be preserved, at all hazards.' The rebellion will be suppressed?aye 1 crushed oat!?and the Union preserved at j any cost of blood and treasure,' said Alice, I her eyes sparkling with enthusiasm. 'The old flag will be replaced upon every fortress, and the good old anthem of flail Columbia be heard in triumphant tones over every city, town, village and hamlet in the South. It may be years before this is done, for our antagonists are bone of our bone, and blood of our blood, and are partakers of our valor and courage, but nevertheless it will be done. All this I know very well, but have we but a more handfull of men to wage the contest, a mere corporal's guard to bear the old banner onward, j -' i 1 J i- - ?. r ^i I mat an oqjj hod rqouiu do iuro lruui um arms of a widowed mother, and unprotected sisters be left without their only support, and all this, too, by duplicity, artifice, stealth and dishonorable seduction ? Is the game as desperate as that??the resouroes of the nation so limited?' 'But, Miss Alice,' said Arthur, the gov- | eminent ie not responsible for the acts of individuals, such as old Dan lingers and others of his stamp. However, be that as it may, your brother is able, I presume, to purchase a substitute, if be can be made to tbiok such a step is not inconsistent with his queer notions of honor and duty.' 'That he will never consent to do,' said Alice. 'Then it only remains for him to make the best of the circumstances io wbiob be finds himself,' said Arthur. <1 presume he will be allowed a choice of regiments ; and, if so, he will find ours as good as maoy others and much better than some. We are now under marchiog orders for Hilton Head, South Carolina; and I may have an opportunity, after all, of moeting dear Susan once more, and your brother seeing again the girl he left behind' him in Dixie.' It would be anything but agreeable to Edwin to return so soon to South Carolina with arms in bis bands, after the kind treatment which he received from her people. However, I shall speak to him about joining your regiment, as there is no certainty about the destination after they leave tho State. But have you really received marohing orders, Arthur?' And an expression of sadness and anxiety overspread her countenance 'We certainly have,' replied Arthur, with well feigned indifference; 'but what has that to do with the sudden elongation of your pretty face, Alice ?' 'Oh Arthur 1 how can you speak so?? God knows whether or not we shall ever meet again in this world.' 'Meet again ? why, Alice, what is to prevent it? There, now!?don't go on in that style?please don't!' 'But, Arthur,' said she, removing the handkerchief from her face, and sobbing aloud, 'those southern soldiers are such barbarous, oroel creatures, tbat they will certainly shoot you, if they get a chance.' 'If they get a chance, they most assured ly will shoot me,' said Arthur, smiling; 'but if I can possibly avoid it, I assure you, my dear Alice, that I will never give them a chance. But who told you that the rebs were so oruel and barbarous? Don't believe a word of it, my dear. They are just exactly like other people?no better and no worse. But, be that as it may, I have no idea of ever smelling gunpowder in the field at all, for I verily believe tbat before our regiment gets to South Carolina, the rebellion will be over and the Union all right again.' 'Do you think so, Arthur??do you real ly think so ?' asked Alice, smiling through her tears, and looking up earnestly in his face. 'Oh! would'nt that be glorious ! and how happy everybody would be, botb North and South !' 'Not everybody, Alice,' said Arthur, looking down. 'There are men both North and South, *to whom the thought of a speedy peace or an early adjustment of our national difficulties, would be productive of anything but happiness. Men who are amassing large fortunes and boldiog luora tive offices, who rejoice at every new evi dence of a long^nd bloody oontest, and d< all in their power to keep up an interest in and make popular the war among the mass es of both sections. So rife has this feel ing become, that whoever dares to raise bis voice for peace is marked as a trr.itor 'Alas!' said Alice, 'that what you say should be so true! But, dear Arthur, I cannot but hope for better times?nay! I do hope to see the time, when the wisdom, virtue and good sense of our people, North and Sooth, will predominate over fanaticism and wild fire. In the meantime, designing politicians and unprincipled demagogues can continue to 'foam out their own Bhame,' until, by the righteous indignation of aD over-ruling Providence, tbey shall 'reap the whirlwind,' aod stand as traitors before the bar of their country?covered with the infamy of an Arnold.' * * * ? 'So, here I aoi !' soliloquized a sentinel, walking to and fro on his post; and wrap ping bis overcoat oioser about him and shifting his musket, restlessly, from one shoulder to the other, he added with a sigh, 'and what creatures of mere circumstaucc we are I Only a few short months ago, a recipient of kind and considerate attention from a people agaiost whom I am now in arms. Bow is it??what strange concatenation of adverse circumstances has brought me to this !' Then walking with rapid strides to aod fro, he suddenly paused, aod exclaimed, 'Oh Ellen ! Ellen ! was there indeed but a step between all the blessedness of former hope and present agony ? Was there no intermediate expe rieuoe of forgetfulness I Alas! that I should have come to this !' Then, after a pause, occasioned by the sudden rustling of the dead leaves aroaad him, he contioued : Under marching orders for South PuroKo.., too!?probably to some of the islands around Charleston I Oh I this is loo bad? too bad ! I . Wbo goes there ?' 'Corporal of the guard, with relief 1' 'Halt, relief! Advance Corporal and give the countersign 1' 'Good news, Williams, old fellow !.' said the corporal, after relieving him, and while on their way to the guard tent. We are off to morrow for Hilton Head, and no mistake. From there we will no doubt go to Morris Island" and co-operate with famous old Foster in bis operations against Charleston What do you think of that, oldsobeisides ?' CHAPTER XI. Two long and eveotful years have passed away sinoe the ooourrenoe of the inoideuts j in the lasr ohapter. Tbe land had been ! filled with the wailiogsof orphans and widows, and many a brave fellow bad found an ! untimely grave far uway from home aod its | great consolation and comforts. Still the war raged, and the insatiable sword of the destroyer cried Give 1 Give ! Victory after ; victory followed me United States forces, ! aod the stoutest hearts began to despond of . success to the now almost prostrated Coo- j federaoy Disaster upon disaster seemed i to follow the movements of the Southern ; armies ; now but half organized, badly dis ciplioed and shamefully bandied ; and since the uninterrupted march of Sherman from Atlanta to the seaboard, the mass of the people generally, had necome utterly : discouraged and all confidence in their commanding generals pretty well exhausted. Every man of ordinary common sense knew very well that the game was up, unless Sherman could be prevented from marching through Sooth and North Caro lina, into Virgiaia, thus getting to Lee's rear and compelling an unconditional surrender or a vain attompt to fall back, which 1 I 1 a .44 .. 1 ?4.l_ - _! LA wouia oniy do attenaea wild a siauguier too general and terrific to think of. And yet, there were no grounds for even a rea sonablo hope, that Sherman's advancing columns could or would he met by a force sufficient to defeat his objeot and prevent so terrible a disaster. Newspaper editors, in their paper breastworks; Provost Marshals and Enrolling Officers, in their bomb-proof offices, were hard at work. The first, in deceiving the | people with manufactured dispatches, and I 'reliable news from the front'?which 'front,' by the way, existed more in their own fertile imaginations than io fact?and urging the people on to supornatural efforts to do impossible things; the second and third in driving living skeletons, invalids, old men and little boys d.. cctly in Sherman's path, and allowing an army of nice young gentlemen to remain at home and do the talking in bar-rooms and at street corners. There were a few honorable exoep tions, perhaps, who reversed this order of things, and discharged their difficult and delicate duties in a fearless, impartial and conscientious spirit; but, nevertheless, this did not prevent an abuse and misuse of power on the part of certain officials, which was oriminal and cruel, io every sense of the word. Wounded men, whose furloughs bad expired, actually sent to the front on crutohes, at a distanoe of hundreds of miles; pale, haggard and consumptive oreatures, whose strength was but barely sufficient to endare the weight of their knapsacks, lagging behind their commands; beardless boys under guard and being escorted tremblingly to Provost Marshals? these were becoming daily occurrences and pointed too surely to the disastrous end to which the South was slowly drifting. The game is up !' exclaimed Mr. Rog ers, as he sat moodily in the front parlor of his little cottage in the village of . 'The South can do no more, and fall she must, through mere exhaustion. If success were possible, under the circumstances, God knows she would deserve it; but it is not possible?never was possible.' 'But, papa,' a soft mellow voioe replied, 'somehow or other, it seems to me that there is some hope of soocess yet. Sherman ma; oot fiod it quite so easy to pass through our State as he did through Georgia; and if we obd only prevent him from doing that, who can tell what turn affairs may take.' 'My dear child, Sherman will go just where he wishes. It is no manner of use to deny that, for we cannot prevent it. He has already taken up bis line of march trom Savannah, where he received heavy reinforcements ; and, mark my word, whatever may have been the programme laid down by himself, be will follow it out to the end without any material deviation. I tell you, child, the game is up !' 'And what is to become of us, papa?? Sherman will certainly pass through this village, if he gets into the State.' 'Perhaps not, Ellen, perhaps not; but if he should, God help us.' 'But, papa,' said Ellen, looking anxiously up into the troubled countenauce of the old man, 'be will not trouble us, will he ?? We are all English people, you know ; and have had nothing to do with the rebellion ' 'But what do they know about that,child? I do oot suppose that Sherman's army is composed of aoy worse men than any other army is ; but I fear that it has its share of bad and unprincipled men, who will stop at oothing short of the gratification of their nam anlla What ft nirv it is. Ellen, that we ever left dear old Eogland !' ?OL ! papa, do for gracious sak(, don't talk that way ! I will never be able to close my eyes to night. Lately I ounnot sleep, anyhow, withont dreaming all kinds of horrible thiogs about Sherman and his men.? Last night I dreamed that a great big colored soldier bit off Captain Faulkener's head, and then oat bis body all to pieces. Oh! my, how dreadful frightened I was 1 But, papa, doesn't Captain Faulkener stand in great danger?' Mr. Rogers looked long and anxiously into the earnest face of bis daughter, and ropKod ! ?T am undnr ?h*> impreRsion. El lea, that the captain can take care of himself. What in the world have you to do with Captain Faulkener? It is Captain Faulkener this, Captain Faulkeoerthat, and Captain Faulkener everything. Who is this Captaiu Faulkener?' <Why, papa,' said Ellen, blushing, 'you * ? ? ? ? II m A m Kor ! koow mm very wen. uuu l yuu icujtujuti I the evening he speot with us Over two years ago V said the old man. 'Yes, I remember that very well; but what does the fellow mean by making it a rule to visit my daughter every time he gets a fur- j lough, and always managing somehow or! other, to keep out of my way. Why, 1! have not seen him since the last night that; poor Williams came to see us, and yet, I i bear of him being here very often since ? Do yoa knew, my dear, that I highly disapprove of all this V 'Hut, papa,' said Ellen, ?it is all accident < that you have always been away wnen he i comes ' That may be very true, Ellen; but are his visits as accidental as my absence? 'I suppose so, papa,' said Ellen, looking dowo and growing very red in the face ? 'At any rate, I cannot prevent hiin coming, you know.' 'But I can,' said the old man, with em phasis, 'and what is more, I will' Bet why have you taken such a dislike to him, papa?' asked Ellen, anxiously. 'I have taken no dislike to him, particularly ; but I cannot apprcw of his conduct in invariably timing his visits wbeo I am I away from home, and studiously avoiding a. personal interview with me. Now, poor Williams acted somewhat in the same way, with no unworthy motive, I presume, and see how it all ended.* I mostsee and know more of this Captain Faolkener, or pot a stoo to his future visits. Ellen.' Ellen was about to reply, when tbe door opeDed, aud Aristotle entered with b note for Mr. Rogers, who, after reading its con tents, hastily left tbe room, maoh to tbe relief of Ellen, who seemed ever unwilling to oon verse freely aboat tbe mysterious Cap tain Faalkener, or give anything like a satisfactory explanation foe bis frequent visits. Tbe reader, no doubt, has oome to tbe oonolusion, by this time, that tbe writer is equally as unwilling as Ellen to discuss Captain Faulkener in publio, and equally determined to preserve a silence on tbe sab jeot of bis frequent visits. Who then it Captain Faulkener, and what is tbe relationship existing between the family and himself? Now, we do not propose answering tbe question fully, in this stage of our story, for several reasons; but a few words of explanation, perhaps, are due to tbe reader for the gratification of a very natural curiosity. Three days prior to Edwin Williams'last visit to the family of Mr. Rogers, and his final interview with Ellen, fcn officer called at the house and inquired for Miss Ellen Rogers, to whom he said he bad important information to communicate. After some consultation with the family, Ellen concluded to admit him, and granted him a private interview, whioh lasted long enough to exoite-the curiosity of Mrs. Rogers, and provoke the wonder of Susan. After the lapse of a full hour or more, the officer suddenly left, aad Ellen appeared among the 'family with swollen eyes and a considerable agitation of mind, giving, as an explanation, that sbe bad recugoized auold frieud in the stranger, to whom sbe had been very much attached in England. This explanation wa? anything but satisfactory to the family; bat not a word more would Ellen communicate, except that bis name was Faalkener, and that he was a captain in the army of the Confederate States. The next appearance of this mysterious stranger was upon the occasion of poor Williams' last and eventful interview Mr. Rogers was so taken with his delightfully prepossessing manners, that, together with the fact of the visitor being an Englishman, he treated him with a lavish familiarity and a profusion of hospitality, which was almost ridiculous. Captaio Faulkener seemed to have known all about the family, and mentioned certain things which occurred prior to their removal from Eogland, which convinced the old man that his probations of old acqoaiutaoceship was well fonoded. *1 cannot say that I recollect the name,' said Mr. Rogers, after eyeiog the straoger with peculiar ioterest, 'but, odg thiogis very ev ident, and that is, yon seem to know all about as.' From that time the captain was a frequent visitor, speodiDg all bis eveoiogk with Ellen and Susan, when on leave of ab 6eooe, but stadiously avoiding Mr. Rogers, much, at first, to the surprise of the old mail, but latterly, to the very natural provocation of distrust aod suspicion. What puzzled Mrs. Rogers, however, more than anything else, was his evident fondoess of, aod attachments, Susan ; who : in turn, manifested much wounded pride and considerable jealousy, because of bis apparent partiality for Ellen. It was out of the question for the captain to marry | both of the girls; aod yet,-judging from , bis professions of attachment to each, such , an idea had actually takeo possession of his mind. So, at least, thought Mrs. Rogers t Finally, however, much to the lady's ' surprise, the Captain made a declaration of I his love to Susan, and proposed marriage? I after the war, of course. Susan, who real- I ly loved him, did Dot immediately accept i the offer of his baud aod heart, bat bade i him hope that she might eventually yield < to his wishes upon oalm reflection and die- 1 passionate consideration. Enough, bowev- I er, was Baid to fill the heart of the captain with delight and beautify the future with a precious hope. Just in the midst of the < dawniog happiness of Susan's loving heart; < just when life was growing beaotiful and i full of delightful interest to her because of i the fragrant hope -germinating within her i bosom?just then, alas 1 the blight of dis trust, jealousy and suspicion came down upon her happy heart and blasted every bopo Cupraiu FaulLeuer had but just lefc the i side of Susan, and but just beeo expressing 11 tbe warmest love aod attachment to ber, i when Ellen .name into the room with a message from Mrs. Rogerp to Susan, re- I quiring ber immediate presence in another portion of tbe bouse. Susan, requesting Ellen to eotertaio the captain until ber re I turo, left tbe room, aod, upon her return, j discovered tbe couple in a close embrace, j aod overheard expressions of love and at | tuchmeot in the captain's well kuuwu voice < Without uttering a word, but with a frame i trembling with emotion aod a countenance t cf deathly pallor she approached tbe appa < rently guilty captaio, aod, after giving bim i a look, io wbicb anger, sorrow, pain, sur J t prise and mortified pride were all mingled, ; I she burst iuto tears aod hurriedly left the | i room, before the captain aud Eden Could reoover from tbe surprise or explain the 10- j t uocence of their cooduot. j 1 Ellen,' she said, a few hours after tbis i \ " - " l - e _:_i r..i I unlortunate discovery, as me iair gin tui lowed her ioto her owo room, whither she bad goue to reflect upon what was the proper , cuurse to pursue under the circuuistauces, i Elleu, do out attempt ao explanation?1 wish uooe ! Any attempt to justify your cjuduct to my satisfaction can only result in failure. Leave mc!' And when Ellen wept and wruog her bands and prayed to be beard, Susan, without a word of reply, quietly led her to the door, gently pushed | her out, and locked herself within The ' following day the captain received a letter from Susau accompanied by a package, con taining a number of hi* gift*; and thaa matter* stood at tbe time of the opening of the present chapter. Now nothing of this was known to Mr. aod Mrs. Rogers; for thooeb Sanaa felt herself injured beyond measure, by tbe seeming perfidity and unfaithfulness of tbe oaptain and tbe duplioity and apparent deceit of Eileo, ber pare heart was too araoh under tbe influence of tbat chanty which tbioketh no evil aod enduretb ail things, to poblisb the injury done her, or the Borrow so unexpectedly brought upon her heart. Captain Faalkener came the next evening, but Sasao refused to see him, or even reply to a message sent up to her room ; so, after, sitting beside the piano and writing a few lines upon* blank leaf, whiob be tore from one of the mosio books, be. handed it to Ellen, with the request that it be conveyed to Susan, and then hurriedly left the house. [to bi concluded next week ] Mormon Domestio Life. Dr. Bowles of the Spriogfieid Republican, writing from Austin, says: Polygamy introdnoes many ourioos orossrelatiooshipe, and intertwines the brooches of the geneologioal tree in a manner greatly to puzzle a mathematician, as well as to disgust the decent minded. The marrying of two or more sisters is very common One young mormon merohaot in Salt Lake City has three sisters for his three wives. There aie several oases of men marrying both mother (widow) and her daughter or daughters, taking the old woman for the sake of getting the young ones, but having ohildron by all. Please to cipher out for yourself bow this mixes tbiDgs. More disgusting associations are known, even to the marrying of a half sister by ooe Mormon. Consider, too, how these children of one father and many mothers, the tatter ofteo blood relat.ons, are likely to be erosied again in nom marMuiToa in rho QflnnnH onrl thirri if not in tbe first generation, under the opereratioos of this pulygaaiuua practice; and it is safe to prediot that a few generations of sacb social praotices will breed a physical, moial and mental debasement of the people most frigbtfoj to contemplate Already, indeed, are snub indications apparent, foreshadowing tbe sure and terrible realisation. Biigbam iTouo^'s wives are numberless; at least no one seeui* to know how many he has; and be baa confessed himself to forgetfuluess iu the matter The probability is, that be baa from sixteen to twenty genuine or complete wives, and about aa many more women "sealed" to hlui for heaven and glory. The latter are mostly pious old ladies, eager for high seats in tbe Mormon heaven, and knowing no sarer way to get there than to be tacked on to Brigham'a angelic procession. Some of tbose sealed wives are tbe early wives of other men; but lacking faitb in tbeir husband's glory, seek to make a sure tbiog for tbe future by .1 e ? tuc glMUU UA ^IUUIUU3 Uii^uaui. Ia many cases tbe Mormon wives not only support tbeaiseives and their children, but help to snpport tbeir hatbands, Thus a clerk, or a mao with a similar limited income, who has yielded to tbe fascinations and desires of three or foar women, and married them all, makes his home with No. 1, perhaps, and tbe rest live apart, each by herself, taking in sewing or waahiog, or engaged in other employment, to keep ap her establishment and to be no charge to her husband. Be comes around, once in awbile, to make her a visit, and then she sets oat an extra table and spends all her accumulating earnings to make him as comfortable, and herself as oharmiog, as possible, so that her fraction of the dear stinted man may be multiplied as math as possible. So that tbe fellow, if he is hty and has tarned his piety to the good account of getting smart wives, may really board round continually and live in olover, at no possible expense bat bis own clothing. A Tradition.?There is an unique and charming tradition connected with the site on which the Temple of Solomon was erented. It is said to have been ocoopied in oommoo by two-brothers, one of whom had a family; the other bad none On the evening succeeding the harvest, the wheat having been gathered in seperate shocks, the eider brother said unto bis wife : \lj Tcuupoi Oiutlier IS unable W bear the burden and beat of the day; I will arise, take of toy shocks and place with his without his knowledge " The youu^er brother, being actaated by the same benevolent motives, said within himself: "My elder brother has a family and I have none; I will coot'ibate to their sapport; I will arise, ta re >f ruy shirks and place them with his without bis knowledge Judge uf their motua' astonishment when, jn the following 'uoraiutt tbey found their respeoti ve shocks undiuiiotshcd. 1 his..ourse jt events transpired f ? several aigors. When ;ach resolved in hisow.i miod (oMaud guard ind solve the mystery Tbey did no, when, in the following uigtit, they met each other Jalf way between tbeir respective shucks, with their arms full Upoo ground hallowed with such assucia .iuua as this, wad the Temple of Solomon ereoted?so spaoious aad magnificent, the ffouder and admiration of the world. The Disposition of Harper's Fer1Y?West Virginia ha* a proposition before the Seuate Military Commute*, which t under oous.deratioo, to have Harper's Ferry turned over to that State The coo coittee have come to oo cooeluaioo io regard to the matter, sod, before anything is done, will agcei taio the views of the War Department respecting it The Oommutee, at well as Coogreas, are opposed to ever re.Udoitatiiig it for ao armory, or fur aoy oatioual work, aod will direct its sale to the highest bidder.?Philadelphia Inquirer.