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i 't . ? V S. - * LEWIfr5.,.-RIST' jiA^titt jfaniilg jltto^tr: % frgmofott of % political, Social, ^gridiiiral aiti Commercial Mrcsts of % Sotttfi. ^ v ^ "VOL. 13. YORKYILLE, S. C.} THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1867. USTO. 32, - , I , . ; - jKMtA f ^ THE DRUNKARD'S DAUGHTER. Out in the street with naked feet I saw the drunkard's little daughter; Her tattered shawl was thin and small; She little knew, for no one taught her. Her skin was fair, her auburn hair Was blown about her aching forehead; Her sad white face wore sorrow's trace, And want and woe that were not borrowed. Heart broken child, she seldom smiled; Hope promised her no brighter morrow Or, if its light flashed on her night, Then up came darker clouds of sorrow. x She softly said, "We have no bread, No wood to keep the fire a burning." The child was ill, the wind so chill Her thin, cold blood to ice was turning. But men well fed and warmly clad, And ladies robed in richest fesbion. Passed on the aide where no one cried To them for pity or compassion. That long night fled, and then the light Of rosy day in beauty shining, Set dome ana spire and roof on fire, * And shone on one beyond repining. Asleep?alone?as cold as stone, Where no dear parent ewer sought her; * olianf rtf annw QnH QIAA?_ ill W luuiug DUCCI>V> , Was found the drunkard's lifeless daughter. * Original fjtowlftt*. Written for the Yorkville Enquirer. THE WEALTH OF HOME. A STORY OF DOMESTIC LIFE. BY MRS. M. A. EWART, AUTHORESS OF "ELLEN CAMPBELL, OR KINO'S MOUNTAIN," AND OTHER STORIES. CHAPTER IX?Continued. "And how is Miss Janie, this morning?" said Dunbar, as he and Hunter entered the parlor several weeks after the crisis. "n.ijfii urnli hut. vprv much discouraged at not being able to comedown to-day," said Mrs. Carter. "Why, did she contemplate leaving her room today?" said Dunbar. "Yes; John waf to have been here to have carried hef down, but I suppose he has been prevented by business. I know he will regret it, even more than Janie, for he will understand her disappoint ment," replied Mrs. Carter. "I am so sorry for her," said Annie; Mag and f I tried to assist her, but Janie laughed so at our awkwardness, that we feared it might injure her, so we were obliged to replace her on the lounge." Dunbar stood a moment in thought. "Mrs. Carter, let me bring her down; there can be no possible inpropriety in her physician assisting her. Miss Annie,'' said he, not waiting for an answer, "take these flowers to Miss Janie, and tell her?but stop, I will write." He wrote something on a card. "There ; don't let her refuse." Annie ran up the stairs. "See Janie, your usual morning tribute," said she, throwing the flowers in her lap. "I wonder where Dunbar gets such beautiful flowers at this season?" Janie buried her face amid the fragrant leaves. "They are hot-house flowers, Annie; these beautiful China and tea roses never grow in the-open air. Oh! they are so sweet" "You have dropped the language, Janie," said Annie, as she picked up a tiny roll from the floor. "Oh! yes, I missed it," said Janie, opening it and reading it aloud. "I declare, I shall 90on be quite an adept in the Eastern language of hyperbole, if Mr. Dunbar continues his daily lessons." "Janie, want to go down stairs?" said Annie merrily. "When you have sufficiently admired those flowers, you can go." f "That would not be to-day, then," said Janie, looking quickly up. ' 'But has John come ? Oh I do tell him to come up for me." "No, John has not come; but somebody else says you must let him, and I am to see that you do not say no," said Annie, as she handed Janie the card. "Birdie, let me?" was written in his beautiful hand. "Whatdoes mamma say?" said Janie, "She did not say anything, which, with mamma, yon know, means yes," replied Annie. "Is Stephen with him?" asked Janie. "Yes," said Annie. "Well, tell him to come for me?not Mr. Dunbar, Annie," cried Janie, as she was leaving the room. "Don't let Mr. Dunbar think anything of my denial; do you think he would feel it ungrateful." "No," said Annie," certainly not; he would understand it?at least he ought to." Annie went down stairs. Janie caressed her flowers. Then she heard Annie returning, and a ( firmer tread followed. "Janie?" said Annie. "Stop, Miss Annie; allow me to usher myself, i I I am Stephen, till we go down stairs, if you prefer it so," said Dunbar, warmly grasping Janie's hand. Janie's pale face took the softest blush, as she timidly looked up at him; the languor of sickness giving her eyes an inexpressible softness. "Shall we go down now?" he asked. She looked into his face, an innocent question. There was a world of solemn mystery in the soft , brown eyes, looking with such timid boldness into j his. Never had she possessed such a holy beauty. Her face was regaining its full oval, and the soft pink that now tinted her cheek, gave a life to it, enhanced by the involuntary parting of the beautiful lips. Her white gown, buttoned close to the throat and wrists, with its delicate frills, was : relieved by a quilted pink silk wrapper, confined at the waist by a heavy cord and tassels. The lines around Dunbar's mouth quivered as he read the look, read even mere than the look was revealing, and stooping he whispered, "I have 1 almost found my Ariadne." Then, in a louder +nnA "TVinro Miaa Annie. Miss .Tanie will go: car ry her flowers for her." Annie took them, and one or two pillows from the couch. "Go on, Miss Annie, arrange the cushions; we will follow," said he. ! Janie shook her head and turned away. "Come, birdie," said Dunbar; and his winning voice seemed burdened with delicious music. Janie trembled. i He put his aim around her, and lifting her as I tenderly and lightly as he would an infant, he raised her up. i Perhaps it was the act of raising that brought i her cheek against his lips, perhaps it was a simple imagination, for he did not again speak until he I placed her on the couch in the parlor. "Stand back, all of you," he cried, in playful i decision. "You are not to speak to Miss Janie, for at least five minutes. That is right, Miss An nie, give her the flowers; their speech is not noisy, i and will soothe instead of excite." He placed his chair by her side, and dashed off i into some merry incident, until a glance at Janie's amused face indicated that she was perfectly composed. "Now," said he, sitting back his chair, "offer your congratulations, if you will, but don't smother her with kisses." How beautifully her soft eyes glistened through her tears, as one after another welcomed "the lost found." . John came in at the time. "Why, halloo, J&nie, how did you get down here ? I felt bad enough about you, this morning, but some "not-to-be-delayed" business, kept me till now. I hurried off the moment I could. Who brought you down, Stephe?" "Do you suppose I would allow 'Stephe,' or you either, to interfere with my medical duties, while I was about?" responded Dunbar, with a promptness that at onoe relieved Janie's embarrassment John looked at him quizzically. "And how is your patient." "Quite well, of course, in my patient's presence. Do you suppose I am not Esculapius enough to know the danger of discussing my patient's maladies, with malice aforethought, in her very teeth," replied Dunbar. "Well, you'll advise or prescribe, won't you? Mary has oome to give Janie a ride; can she go?" said John. "No," replied Dunbar, "Miss Annie can go for her, but Miss Janie has done enough for to-day." John shrugged his shoulders. "Humph, bon grt, mal gre, I suppose I must submit There is no appeal from this decisive Galen, is there, Janie? Come, Annie, don your bonnet and go ; I will stay with Janie till you come back." "Indeed, dear Johnnie, you will not Go with Annie?see how much company I have ; and Annie and Mary will eiyoy it better with you," said Janie. "Let Dunbar go, then," said John, resting his head, in his old boyish way, upon his mother's lap. "I have not had an old fashioned talk with mother since?since?" "Not sinoe you have been a Benedict, John," said Janie laughing ; then archly repeated, "Ah, gentle dames It gars me greet, To thlnlt how mony counsels sweet, How mony lengthened sage advices, The husband from the wife despises." "You don't know how beautifully Mary understands the lmeiun et tuum,' Janie. But it does me good to hear you look and talk like old times," said John fondly. "I'd forgive you a dozen sharp cuts, to hear your merry laugh again. I would believe then you were getting welL I tell you I believe the magnum arcanum of health and happiness is good spirits, don't you think so, Galen?" said John to Dunbar. "Yes," replied Dunbar, "with occupation for the mind, exercise for the body, and temperance and virtue for the sake of both." a _ II J T_1 "mere is iinnie, saia uuuu, burning up. "Come Dunbar, are you going?" "And have Mrs. John Carter wishing me in the Bed Sea, or Arctic Ocean! No, indeed, not I," said Dunbar. "I will not risk my popularity so far. 60 along ; I will take care of Miss Janie till you come back.'' John made some laughing rejoinder, as he went out with Annie. "Are we to have some entertainments now?" said Janie, turning towards him, as he again sat down by her side. "Do you know you almost made me forswear anything of the kind?" said he. "Why?" asked Janie, in surprise., "Because, from some source or other, you filled your mind with some awful charnel-house memories, which I got the credit of. When were you ever in the Convent of Mt. Sinai, and what induced you to take such meditations among the tombs." She looked surprised, and he told her of her delirious wanderings. "Oh!" she replied, "I expoctl got that from some travels I had been reading. Your wondrous pictures of Oriental life induced me to make all the search in my power, in Eastern fields, and I remember being thrilled with horror at reading the awful description of the dead laid in layers in Sinai's vaults." "And if I had told you of Hottentots and Bushmen, you would, I have no doubt, learnt all about the woolly-headed, thick-lipped race; blessed the Moravians for redeeming them from a state of brutality ; investigated their fondness for their sheep skin dress, which serves them for dress by-day, bed at night, and winding sheet in their grave ; and had vividly represented, in your busy brain, their Kraal villages, which look like a cluster of bee hives." "Very likely," said Janie; "I am apt to follow a stream to its fountain." "Does not the muddiness sometimes intimidate you ?" he asked. ".No ; I always find it purer the nearer it approaches its great original," said Janie, gravely. He sat for a long while by her side, talking in his happy way, about everything he thought would interest her. Not of travels, to excite her; not of speculations and opinions to set her mind at work; not provoking reply, or wearying by questions, but just relating everyday occurrences, which his acute perception, and keen appreciation invested with graphic interest When John returned, Mrs. Carter said Janie must go back. Janie expostulated to no purpose. She appealed to Dunbar. "Your handkerchief has dropped," said he, as he stooped to raise it "Gobirdie," he whispered. Janie took the handkerchief from the hand that clasped his for a brief instant and said, "Well, John ; take me now." "What a feather you are," said John, taking her in his stalwart arms. "A live one, though, Johnnie; don't drop me," she said, as she bade them all a laughing 'good bye.' CHAPTER X. "And so, children, you will not consent to my moving to a larger house ?" said Mr. Carter to his family, as they were all assembled around the breakfast table. "Oh! no, dear papa," we have all been so happy here, and now John is married, and Maggie is so soon going, we will have ample room. Annie can room with me, and the little girls can take Annie's room, and we will still have John's for "Willie, when he is old enough," said Janie. "Well, my dears, it is just as you please. I do not care to leave this dear little home I assure you. But where will we put the wedding guests?" he asked. "I have arranged that, papa," said Margaret. "We will be married in the Church and come home to our dear home circle, and so avoid all the fuss and parade. You know I am not partial to it, and Stephen is willing for anything that I say." "Very well then, Mag," replied Mr. Carter, "but If you want a wedding you shall have it. I can afford it; you know I would not do it otherwise." "I know ray dear papa is not willing for anything that is not ju3t and honorable; but, indeed, [ do not want it," said she, kissing him affectionately. "And how long is Stephen going to let you stay with us, after the wedding is over," said Mr. Carter. "A few days?perhaps a week; but he is anxious to get back to his plantation," she replied. "But I expect that is him now; he said he would be here this morning. Yes, that is his voice?may < I bring him in here?" she asked. "Certainly, daughter,"said Mrs. Carter. As Margaret left the room, Janie said, "Mag is a perfect problem to me. She used to be so cold, so self-reliant, so sensitive, about everything connected with her inner self, that I was in constant dread lest her iciness would place me hort du combat, as it often did. Now, there is something so irresistable in her bonhomie, so frank and genial in her confidence, so exquisite in her unreserved details of her future, that I find myself constantly stopping my investigations to admire. She oertainly is a perfect type of a noble woman; Stephen ought to be proud of her. But I need not say ought to be, for he says he never knew Margaret till now, and he blesses God he did not, for if he had known her as she is, he would have hung himself long ago in despair of ever winning her." Margaret now entered, leaning in such happy dependence on Stephen's arm, and he looking with such lover-like pride in her face, as at onoe to testify to their mutual sympathy. "Janie," said Stephen, after greeting the family, and placing his little pets, Katie and Willie, on his < knee, "Dunbar is in the parlor; he has some views, i or something to show you, and said he would wait i till you were through breakfast" * ? * * i it "Don't talk about tbe wedding taili come Dacx, said Janie, skipping through the passage. There was a bright color in her face, and a joy- ; ous sparkle in her dancing eyes, as she tossed back her carls and entered the room. Dunbar arose. "Well, mocking bird," said he, taking her hand in both of his, "Come up to the fire and I will show you these Syrian views I spoke of." She took a chair near him. "No, no; that will not do," said he. "You never look like my?you never look like little birdie, unless you are seated on a stool. Here; sit here, where I can rest the picture on my knee and then you <?in see it" She laughed, and blushing, took the seat He showed her several, and pointed out the different spots where he had stood; but he frequently paused in his description and seemed to forget i that he was expected to go on. "What gorgeous city is this?" she asked; "and ] what is this gloomy and pestilential looking swamp t on the opposite page ?" i "That is ancient and modern Ephesus," said he. \ "Pliny calls it one of the eyes of Asia, Smyrna being the other. There is the Stadium, where those engaged in the games contended, with its tiers of stone seats cut out of the natural rock. There, midVuifTTToon *Vin ?Unirlnm find Mlv Priori, sn famed for its marble quarries, is the enormous theatre, and i here is the city's crowning glory, the Temple of Diana. Pliny says,thesun, in all hiscourse through the heavens, looked down on nothing so glorious. | It was built of marble, and was said to be so pure and bright as, at a distance, to dazzle the eyes of i mariners. You can have some idea of its size when I tell you, workmen were engaged on it two hundred and twenty years before it was completed. The shrine of the goddess was decorated with ce- j dar, cypress, gold, jewels and precious stones, and ] the roof was supported with columns of green jasper. Eight of those I saw entire in the mosque of ( St Sophia, in Constantinople." "And the goddess; was she equal to the Athe- ] nae of Phidias ?" asked Janie. "No; this image, which they supposed fell from the sky, was an unshapely block, much like the figures we now see in the pagodas of India," he ] replied. "To prevent its tottering, a bar of metal, ( some say of iron, others of gold, was placed under ( each hand, and a veil hanging from the roof of the temple concealed it from the vulgar gaze." ^ "Strange," said Janie, "they should worship j anything so unsightly, for I should have supposed art would have attained great perfection there. Was not Apelles and Parhasius natives of the ] city?" "Yes; and the celebrated picture by Apelles, of j Alexander grasping a thunderbolt, was long in the temple. The magnificent altar was from the chisel of Praxitelles, and it is said the staircase was made of a single vine from Cyprus. Some of the statues were of pure gold, and much of the wealth of Asia was deposited in the sacred shrine." j "Great is Diana of the Ephesians," said Janie. "And where is all now ?" ^ "That opposite' picture tells you," he replied. "It fell into the hands of invading Goths, and is < now a total wreck, a chaos of noble ruins." "And what beautiful town is this, rising amid its 1 gardens and hills ?" she asked, as she turned to another view. \ "That is the town and harbor of Rhodes, cele- j bra ted for its roses, which some say gave the name to the island; others say the Greek name signifies c 'noise of waters,' " he replied. "The Temple of the Sun, and the Colossus, is t associated in my mind with it," said Janie. "Oh! j here is the Mediterranean, by moonlight; how j soft and clear the light plays on those white sails, ] and how rippling the foam appears on that vessel's i wake. I can feel the fascination, and hear the < sweet murmur," said she, dreamily. ? Dunbar smiled, and indulging her humor, his eloquent tongue presented new pictures to her ar- I tistic and poetic fancy. Gradually his voice grew more silent, while Janie, alternating from grave to gay, from keen perception to dreamy sensibility, 1 turned over the remaining pictures, making run ning comments on the different scenes, to the al- ? most silent Dunbar. c "But you have not finished telling me about this great temple of Petra," said Janie. "That front c seems cut from the solid rock, and it looks as if it {j nowo r>rW stamncd nnnn its surface." "So it is, Miss Janie, cut from the solid rock, as I you say, and the Colliscum at Rome, the Acropolis g at Athens, the Pyramids of Egypt, nor the mighty n temples of the Nile, is not more grand. You know I Petra is the capital of Edom or ancient Idumea ; v its name signifies a rock, and history teaches us n that the inhabitants lived in natural clefts and excavations cut in the solid stone. The city is sur- o rounded by rugged mountains, strong, firm, and immovable as Nature itself. The pride and beau- a ty of the city is this temple, with its Corinthian ? columns and ornaments, standing as fresh - and li clear as if but yesterday from the hands of the 1: sculptor." )] He stopped. li "And what is inside?" said Janie. li lie did not answer. v "Tell me where that stream flows, and what these a immense rocks are?" she asked. "What is the matter, Mr. Dunbar?" she said, looking up at s him. r He placed his hand on her head, and held it firmly, while he said, "Janie, Edward Wilcox is li to be married next week." d Janie's face turned crimson. "T don't rare." said she. rmshiner his handfrom (' her. She buried her face over the picture. He ] did not speak. They sat for some moments per- ( fectly silent, then said Janie, "Let us go into the dining room with the rest." He started up. ^ "No; I am going back to the hotel. Good mor- j, ning," and bowing coldly, he left the house. }] Insteadof going into the dining room, Janie ran up stairs to her own room, and complaining of headache?that never failing resource of woman? ( did not come down until late in the evening. They were all at tea in the dining room, and ti Janie went into the parlor and nestled herself in V the curtained recess of the deep bay window. She had been sitting there but a little while, when she " heard John's hearty voice in the passage. ri "Oh I come in," he said, "I will only be a min u.te. They are all at supper, anyhow. Yon need not see the girls if you don't wish to. Til just get the papers from father, and be directly book." . "Well; don't stay, John," said Dunbar. "I must be back by nine o'clock, to prepare to take the morning steamer." "You are determined, then, to leave?" said John. "Yes," replied Dunbar, decidedly. ( John's footsteps sounded down the passage; Dunbar came in and leaned against the mantel, lifter awhile, heaving a deep sigh, he sat down; : one hand supported his head, the other hung by bis side. Janie heard the stern voice, heard the deep sigh, i saw the attitude of hopelessness, the grave earnest look. She forgot everything but that he had saved her life, that some trouble seemed pressing upon ! him, that she had been cross, unkind that morn- < ing, and stealing timidly out from her nook, phe orossed the room with quiet footsteps, and kneel- i ing by his side took the hand that Msg so passively, and pressed her lips upon it "Forgive me, Mr. Dunbar; I was cross, unkind i this morning?I have been sorry all day." He did not even turn, but his other hand hid his face more effectually. ' < ' 'Are you vexed with me ?" ] He did not answer. ' i "You will not forgive me ?" j Still no reply. She dropped the passive hand. < "Then I will go." "Stop," he said, as she was moving away. "Stop, tell me good-bye first" < He stood up before her, and took both of her i tiands in his. I "Good-bye!" said she; "where are you going?" "To the East?my trip has only been deferred, not abandoned," ho said, looking down into her brown eyes. "To the East!" she said, mechanically ejaculating his words. "And how long will you stay ?" "Perhaps, forever," he said bitterly. "Father, toother, sister, brother, I have none; no one ever to regret the wanderer." "Forever!" she said again; and there was a frightened look in the soft eyes. "Did Stephen not tell you ?" he said. "No," she replied, "I have been in my room with headache all day, and have just come down." 1 He looked searchingly in the anxious face. "Good-bye, Janie," said he, as he more firmly [grasped the hands he had not relinquished. "Good-bye," she whispered. "Is that all you can give mo before I leave?" he aid. Her face was becoming so white, but she did not j Einswer. "Do vou look UDon me as a friend?" he asked. Her lips parted, but the answer was inaudible. "And when friends part, is this all the memory they take with them?" said he, again pressing her hands. The sad, frightened look, still met his, hut she ;lid not answer. "Will you give me a memory?" he asked, as he l>owed his proud head over the upturned face. She nodded her head. "What I ask?" Again she made the assenting sign. He threw his arm around her. "Then kiss me, Janie; just :mce?only once, before I go, perhaps forever. Some, birdie." Janie's eyes filled with a tender light, her face Jowed in the loveliest blush, and she buried her ace in his bosom. "Come, Janie, John will soon be back." He could feel the rapid respiration against his >reast "Dearest, if I did not love you, I would not ask t," he whispered in the lowest, tcnderest tone. Janie slowly raised her head. "One kiss." "Let me go," said Janie; "John is coming." She sprang back to her window. "Come, Dunbar," said John, putting his head n at the door. "I'm ready," said Dunbar, meeting him ; and he two went out. "Is not this too provoking about Dunbar," said Stephen,* as they all came in from the supper room. "What is it?" said Janie, to whom the question lad been addressed. "He is going off to the East Will not even vait for our wedding. Leaves either to-morrow or lext day," replied Stephen. "Is it not very sudden?" said Janie, striving to ommand her voice. "Sudden ! yes. I did not know a word of it unil this morning, after I left here. We spoke of ;oing, it is true, but I thought with the change in ny arrangements, his plans were broken up also. 3ut ho says he never abandoned it only deferred : t for a season, and as the steamer sails to-morrow ?r next day, he will go at once," said Stephen, Jmost angry with his friend. "Could you not pereude him to wait?" said Urs. Carter. Stephen laughed. "You would not ask that if you knew Percy.? s lis decisions are as unchangeable as the laws of c he Medes and Persians. If the Bteamer does not ? ail, of course Percy will not go; if she does, Per- c y goes with her.." <j "I did not think Mr. Dunbar was subject to such r aprice," said Margaret, vexed with Dunbar for z Stephen's sake. E "Nor is he," replied Stephen. "That is what t 1 do not understand. I never knew him to be g ,-uilty of an unreasonable act in my life, and just j iow, at the very time of all others?but pshaw!? F ' am too provoked to talk about it I wish he t rould get married and stay at home like a sensible t a an, but that I am afraid he will never do." o "Why?" said Margaret "Has he not suffi- a ient appreciation of our sex?" Q "Yes; I never saw a man have a higher respect, a n almost adoration for a pure-minded woman, but u trange to say, I never knew him in love in my p ifc. Pity, too; a man so fitted to make a woman E lappy, and so fond of domestic life, in spite of his tomadic habits, should have a wife and home of f lis own. I have never seen him enjoy himself as b le has done here though; I thought for a little d rhile his rest was found," said Stephen, glancing t t Annie. - t "Janie, you are not well, you look so pale," 0 aid Mrs. Carter. "You had better go to your e oom, daughter." fi "Yes, mamma, I think I shall," said Janie mguidly. "My head is still aching," and bid- b ling them good night, she went up stairs. b The next morning Mrs. Carter was in the break- 1< ast room, surrounded by her children. They were p aughing and talking merrily when Mr. Carter t] ailed her to the door. Mrs. Carter came out. p "What is it?" she asked. a "I have just received a note from Dunbar asking a o see us both this morning, privately. This is h he hour appointed, and there he is now, coming h ip." ^ tl Dunbar entered and was ushered into the parlor, o "Almost prepared to start, Dunbar ?" said Mrs. t larter. n "Yes, almost; but I was mistaken as to the b ime of the steamer leaving. It will not leave for f< jn days," replied Dunbar. tl "Ah! I am glad of that," said Mr. Carter.? S 'You will be here then when Stephen is mar- tl ied." ^ p "Yes; I suppose he will expect me to fill the of- h ffice of groomsman for him, bat I shall not do it if I can help it," said Dunbar. Mrs. Carter, too well bred to 'ask a reason for this refusal, still looked her astonishment and vexation at this unkind and unreasonable caprice.? Dunbar smiled, and answering the look replied, "Because, my dear madam, I am myself anxious to represent the character of groom, and if you will grant me your influence, I think I shall be able to do so." "I do not understand you," said Mrs. Carter falteringly. "I shall not long be so enigmatical It was for this I desired to see you this morning. I love your daughter, Janie, and I want to make her my wife. Have I your approbation ?" Never was the firm voice prouder; as erected to bis regal height, he supplicated in the tones of a oonquerer. "Janie, little Janie ?" said Mr. Carter, perfectly astonished that his playful pet could have capti rated this stern proud man. "Yes, little Janie," and the proud tones became unconsciously tender. "The only woman whom I hare ever seen, that I would wish to stand in the relation of wife to me. The only woman who has ever been able to approach me, cold and stern and proud, as I too often am. In my cheerful hours she was always ready to enhance that cheerfulness, and her merry humor won me almost to gaiety. If I was oold and stern and repelling to all others, the never feared me, but won out of myself, would make me a participant in her cheerfulness. No phase of my character ever intimidated her, and could she have seen the innermost cell of my heart, she could not, more truthfully and fully, have answered its need." "Have you spoken to her of this?" asked Mr. Carter. "Not positively; but Janie is too perceptive not to understand that she is very dear to me," replied Dunbar. "But like all lovers, I suppose you hope," said Mr. Carter. Dunbar smiled his radiant smile. "Have I your sanction in urging the hope to assurance ?" Mr. Carter grasped him warmly by the hand. "I know of no man to whom I could surrender my child more unreservedly. Win her if you can, and God bless you." "Mrs. Carter, you also will bid me God speed in this?" said Dunbar. Her eyes filled with tears. ut i?i: jl ueueve you uru uiiu ui we wry ren miv wuiu make Janie happy. Where she loves, she brings a wealth of affection I have never seen equalled, and I believe you will be able to fathom itsdepthsT Guard my child, for she is a peculiar treasure." He kissed her hand. "Even you, with all your mother-love, cannot more deeply feel the-priceless value of the love I desire to possess. I think I understand the character, and I will be able not only to meet, but anticipate all its need. Let me tell her of this, if you please, and let me see her as soon as possible." "How proud I am of this," said Mr. Carter, as be Jeft the room. "Apart from his wealth, which is immense; his position, which is the first in the state; his talent and moral rectitude, which I have never seen equaled ; Dunbar has a depth of tenderness, a womanly sensibility under that cold exterior, a dignity and strength which rises superior to all the petty vexations of life ; and last and noblest, a christian principle which will satisfy and strengthen Janie's character. I consider her most blessed, and I am proud and happy." "And thankful; too, I trust, my husband," said Mrs. Carter. "There is no room in my heart for'anything but ;he deepest gratitude, that God has so blessed our aouse." "Here is mamma," cried the children, as she en:ered the room. "Come here, mamma, and help Katie and Bessie to decide whose children they ire to be when Maggie goes. They say they will be fame's in the day, but Annie's at night," cried ittle Willie. "Janie," whispered Mrs. Carter, "there is someihing in the parlor for you to see. Go now, daugher." She kissed her quietly. Jahio was not looking rery buoyant; her eyes had the languor they alvays wore in sadness. She answered by a faint imile, then walked softly down the passage. * ? .1 _ j! 1 She did not care ior anyming in me parior. Opening the door she mechanically walked across he room. [conclusion next week.] [Back numbers of the Enquirer containing so nuch of the foregoing story as has been published, an be furnished, if applied for early.] IpsttttfliiMusi fUaflittg. From the Memphis Ledger. A STARTLING EVENT. An affair has culminated at Columbus, Missisippi, which seems the beginning of the end. The ountry around having been first exhausted by tealth and robbery, an organized and armed band if negro marauders has marched into the city and lemanded bread! A company of United States egulars has dispersed them and protected the citiens for the time. But what of that, and what lext ? Is it possible for the United States troops o keep down three hundred thousand vagrant and tarving negroes? A hundred thousand men dispersed to the best possible advantage for that purpose will prove wholly insufficient. One of three hings must be done speedily?either the whites oust abandon the country, or the nogroes be driven ut of it, or efficient vagrant laws must be enacted nd enforced and the labor of the blacks compelled. .Tiere is no time to lose. Men that will not work nd must eat, will fight for bread; and if white aen have it, they must fight to defend it. If prompt measures are not taken a war of races is no ayth, but an inevitable reality, which is upon us. We have repeatedly called attention to these acts; and we trust the warning will not be without ts instant effect to stir the Northern mind and in.. -r* i . _i?xi__ a ii. j?_ _:i: luce tne iresiaenc k> piace me mam unua mmaiy rulo at once. Columbus is .hardly an excepion. Outlawry is universally triumphant all over ur States, and we are without a Republican Govrnment in every one of them. We subjoin the allowing summary from the Avalanche: "For some time a great deal of dissatisfaction as existed among the freedmen in the neighboriood of Columbus, Miss. They had quit work and ;ft the fields white with cotton, and would not luok a boll, the reason given for such action being bat their share of the crop would not pay their exenses for the year, owing to the tax on the staple nd the low price to which it had fallen. As soon s they refused to work, as a matter of course, they ad to leave the plantations and give up their ouses to other laborers who would work. They ben took to the woods, and commenced a system f idiscriminate pilfering and stock killing. About 1 ivo hundred of them have been assembled in the ' eighborhood of Columbus, Mississippi, since the i eginning of the election, and had become a per- ' ;ct nuisance and terror to the neighborhood. At i bo request of the citizens, a company of United 1 lates troops had been stationed at Columbus, for i be protection of the lives and property of the peo- i le. When this band of vagabondized negroes ] ad enhausted the country of eveiything which was ] ; stealable, they determined to mate a raid upon the town of Columbus in full force. They were all armed, and procuring a fife and drum, they marched into town, and demanded bread. Not one oi them asked for work; they did not want that Bread was all their cry, and they were about commencing an indiscriminate robbery, when the United States troops appeared on the ground, and disarmed them first, and then dispersed them. The ring leaders were then taken into custody. "What a scene of bloodshed and robbery we would have had to relate had it not been for the fortunate presence of the troops, we shudder to thing of. This is the first attempt at a bread riot which has ever occurred in the South, but how long it will be until they become common it takes no far-seeing prophet to tell. The negroes all through the country are becoming most thoroughly demorolivckA tin/lor flio foooliinff nf flro Porli/tol liranaa who counsel and incite them at every fence corner to their own destruction. They now positively, in many kxnlitios, rcftxoe to noik, will make no contracts with the planters, fully expecting the division of lands so long promised them by the Radical leaders. Bands of from three to fifty are roaming through Mississippi in every direction, a terror, a nuisance, not only to the planter, but to the industrious of their own color. How long this state of affairs can continue without scenes of riot and bloodshed, depends entirely upon the forbearance of the white men. A spark may ignite the train which will redden the horizon with the blaze of burning houses, and initiate a conflict between the races bloody and remorseless." THE MOON AND BABIES. The moon is thought by old wives to influence the life of a child. Thus the child born on the first day of the new moon is fortunate in all its undertakings, and will live long; one born on the fifth day, will be vain and deceitful; one born on tbe sixth will live long; one bom on the 7th will have a life of trouble; one bom on the ninth will be rich; one bora on the tenth will be a great traveler; one bom on the eleventh will be devoted to religion; one bom on the sixteenth will be grateful and unfortunate ; one bora on the eighteenth will be brave; one bom on the nineteenth will be full of malice; one bom on the twenty-first will be strong and healthy, but selfish; one bom on the twenty-second will be cheerful, but inclined to low society; one bora on the jtwenty-third will be un governable, will forsake family and friends and wander in a foreign country?unhappy through life; one born on the twenty-fourth will have extraordinary ability; one born on tbe twenty-fifth will be desperately wicked and come to a fearful death; one born on the twenty-seventh will be amiable; one born on the thirtieth will have the acme of all good gifts, temporal and spiritual A baby's nails must never be cut till it is a yeai old, or it will be a thief. A child with a blue vein across its nose will never wear its wedding clothes; should it chance to outlive its infancy, it will bring son.w and disgrace to all belonging to it A babe that cries at its christening will not live long; if you bathe it on Sunday it will be sorrow free ; if on Wednesday, it will grow fat, if on Friday, all its sins will be forgiven ; if on Saturday, it will be unhealthy. There are certain other superstitions applying to the town people: If you cut your nails on Sunday it provokes Monsieur le Diable to such a degree ?hat he'll shave you all the week, and lead you into mischief. If you clip your hair at the new moon, it will grow long at the full; as the moon wanes your hair will fall out If you don new clothes "on a Sunday you'll be happy; if on a Monday, they'll tear; if on Tuesday, they'll burn; if on Wednesday, you'll have plenty ; if on a Friday, you'll be unlucky; if on Saturday, you won't live to enjoy them. Every one, silently or openly, is a little suspicious regarding Friday, yet few could give a reason. A Had met on nis own ground and Defeated.?Not long since two men, traveling companions, one a white and the other a black Rad, called at a very neat farm house for accommodations for the night, viz: supper and lodgings. And finding genuine hospitality, the good hostess was not long in preparing supper, while her husband cared for the horses of the guests. Supper being announced when they found each provided with a separate table. The white brother finished his meal first, and without waiting for his sable friend, returned at once to the sitting room, and demanded of the landlord a reason for having two separate tables when only he and his colored friend were to eat? The good man replied that in all matters of that sort his wife had always followed her own views and that he never interferred with her arrangel ments. The wife chanced to hear all this, and more of the same sort So to herself she said, we will see what we will see. The hour of retirement at last arrived, and the wife directed the guests to be escorted to a certain room up stairs. When the room was entered, judge of Mr. White rad's surprise to find but one bed, and he demanded a reason for this. The farmer said that in all matters of that kind his wife had always followed her own views and he never interferred with her arrangements. The rad scratched his head and balanced, himself first on one foot and then on the other, while Sambo showed his :vory, at length, and, with a sneeze and cough, declined that part of the accommodation, but requested that their horses be brought forward and the privilege of leaving, all of which was freely granted. Incendiary Radical Speech.?We are reliably informed that Beverly Nash, Esq., a colored magistrate in Richland District, appointed by an order that General Sickles issued, and a peace officer, according to his office and his oath, recently made in Fairfield District, before one of the Union Leagues, a speech, of which the following is an extract in substance: He said: "Rather than yield the ballot box to Democrats or rebels, and have wives and children of his race slaves, he would take up his musket and see the gullies run with blood, and the hills covered with bleaching bones; and should those negroes be hung for killing that boy at Walhalla, Governor Orr would'nt be Governor six days. He advised the freedmen not to contract for one-third but to wait until the first of February, and they would have their old masters on their knees to them, since the negro could do better without the white man, than the white man could do without the negro. He said he was fifty-seven years old, but that he expected to bo a man yet?that he expected to walk the streets of Columbia or any village, and when he offered his arm to any lady, white or colored, she would be proud to accept it" Winnsboro' News. tGf The Eufala (Ala.) News has a good story of a Radical office seeker, at a negro meeting somewhere near that place. Had was trying to gel Cuff to understand that the histoiy of the world demonstrated that the negro race was not capable of making legislators or rulers, but might do very well to assist others to office by their votes. He told them that there was not a single instance in histoiy where an African had ever become a ruler among the whites. After his speech was dosed, an old leader (not opposed to taking office himself) replied that he was all wrong?that negroes had been rulers, and the Bible, the greatest of authors, ) said so. When asked where it said so, has reply 1 was: "Don't it say that the old nigger, Demus, who came to Jesus by night, was a ruler of the f Jews ?" This was unanswerable, and the gent of the carpet-bag sect subsided. . . Wealthy Colored Men.?The following paragraph is going the rounds of the press: i "There are two colored men in Georgetown, D. * C., named Lee and Conner, who are said to be > worth fifty thousand dollars each; the first keeps a ! feed store, and the second is a teamster." The persons referred to are Alfred Lee, the feed dealer, a resident of Georgetown, who is well known throughout this District, where he is much respected, and whose property may be safely set down at a figure nearer $100,000 than $50,000, and John Cornell (not Conner), a teamster, also a resident in Georgetown, where he has many friends among the whites, whose fortune does not reach the latter amount Besides thpse there are - UII fiwi rili? here who have accumulated fortunes by industry . and prudence.( Alfred Jones, a well known feed dealer, of this city, is one of these, and he has, probably, made more money here than any other colored man except Alfred Lee. It may be added that the prominent colored men above named have persistently refused to waste ' their time and money in the unremnneiative business of dabbling with local politics, and thereoordf ? : of ward meetings will be searched in vain for any i mention of their sayings and doings.?Washington Star. The Rivals op Southern Cotton.?The editor of the Wilmington Star has had an opportunity to examine samples, sent from New York, of cotton grown in Pern, and the East and West Indies. That from the West Indies was remarkably . fine, the staple being as long, and the texture as fine as our American Sea Island cotton. The sample from Pern, while not so good as the former, i was superior to any upland cotton. - The body was veiy superior, being very similar to wool, both to the eye and touoh; the staple was not so long as the Sea Island, but combined great strength and ! elasticity, and die sample gave evidenoe of careful s ginning. The specimens from the East. Indies > were inferior to the others, and much below our ' good American uplands. The color was not good; the staple nothing to boast of, and there was an I absence of the careful preparation observable in i the Peruvian, the cotton being full of fragments of leaves and the inner coating of the pods. There i was a remarkable absence of sand dr dost in ail ; 1 the samples, bat this was possibly owing to the i frequent handling to which they have been subjected. : Reduction op Through Freights to New York.?Thursday last, Messrs. Magrath and Peake, the President and Superintendent, respectively, of the South Carolina Railroad, and representatives of the Georgia, Western and Atlantic, ' Atlantic and West Point, Montgomery and West ' Point, Nashville and Chattanooga, and Memphis * and Charleston Railroads, and several representatives of the steamship lines plying between New York and this city, met by appointment in Atlanta, for the purpose of agreeing upon some redaction of through freights by the steamers. - It was; finally concluded to reduce the through rate upon cotton from one cent per pound to seventy-live cents per hundred pounds, which was immediately put in operation. An effort was also made to establish a fast through freight line, and to form a tariff by which corn could be shipped, on charges made per car load, instead of forty-five oents per hundred as heretofore; but no agreement was reached, although it is altogether probable that both of the propositions will prevail at no distant day .?Charleston Courier. Ben. McCdlloch's Watch.?The Texas Enquirer says Samuel Mather, former Grand Master | of the Masonio Grand Lodge of Texas, passed through McKinney not long since, on a visit from the North. In Iowa, he met with a Federal Colonel named Greusel, tfho had the watch taken from, the body of General Ben. MoCullooh, after he fell at Elk Horn.' It is a plain hunting-ease gold watch. On the outside the letters "B. McC." are engraved. Inside the following words are neatly engraved: "Captured, from Brigadier General Ben. McCulloch, by Peter Pilican, Co. B., 36th Regiment Illinois Volunteers, at the battle of Pea Ridge, and by him presented to CoL Greusel, March 7th, 1862." Mr. Mather bought the watch to present it to the McCullough family. The Enquirer says it is worth $100 currency, but "CoL H. Greusel" charged $200 for it. Time flies, they say; but the idea of "capturing" a watch upon the body of a dead man is something ?well, to say the least of it, we wouldn't like to have our name engraved on a watch captured in that way. Conviction op a Citizen by Military Com-* mission.?Before a military tribunal, convened at Columbia, by order of Gen. Canby, John McGinnis, a citizen, was arraigned on the charge of violating so much of General Order No. 10, as prohibits the carrying of deadly weapons. It appears from the testimony, that he snapped a navy revolver at one soldier and threatened to shoot another. He was found guilty, but to conform the sentence in a measure to the spirit of the State law, it was commuted to stand as follows: To be confined at hard labor for the period of six months and to pay a fine of five hundred dollars; which price, if unpaid, will be expiated by further imprisonment, at the rate of $25 per month. Fort Macon is the Dlace designated for his confinement Charleston Courier. A Radical Yaw of a Political PteAGgDm. We are glad to see that the House of Repreriegtatives is still .to enjoy the invaluable services of Rev. Mr. Boynton, as chaplain. It is that gentleman's habitual practice to thank the Almighty pretty regularly for whatever may have been done in Congress, which acoords with his own views of political and party propriety, and in this way the members are properly posted as to his opinion of their acts. As the chaplain has no other mode of making political speeches in the House, not being a member thereof, it is exceedingly clever in him to have discovered so excellent a dodge. We observed that in Thursday's opening prayer, he offered a resolution of thanks for the establishment of universal negro suffrage.?New York Times. Dr. Livingstone, the African traveler, reported at the Cape of Good Hope, in February last, to have been killed by the Caffres, has at last been heard from. His presumed death created much excitement and sorrow; several British associations took public notice of the matter; the British Government sent a vessel to the Cane. to inquire into it, and if the Doctor ever returns to England, he can pass many pleasant weeks in reading whole columns of eulogistic obituaries. The cable now informs us that, at latest accounts, he was hundreds of miles from the ooast in the interior of Africa, engaged, possibly, in the registration of negroes, with a view to their future reconstruction. " . Browillow tells the public that, so tar from dying, he expects to recover his health. Brownlow is always saying disagreeable things. So av? the Louisville Journal, V