The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, January 31, 1867, Image 5
ISABELS (Dm<S)OT 5
OR, XHCRIVAI/LbTEBS.
Isabel'Wyndham lay lazily back on her
(wft-cushioned fauteml, with ber hands
clasped behind ber bead, looking dream
fegly oot-?i the cartainod window. Slow?
ly and serenely sailed up the fall round
moon behind the misty Kentucky hills,
and the . roar of a rapid river very near,
rose abwe- the sighing of the melancholy
night wind. The- *tars cleaving bright
and . keen through the blue-black arch,
looked bleak and wintry, and a hard black
frost baked the earth.
But to Miss Isabel Wyndham, nestling
cosily among, the rosy, eushrons of her
erVair, the outer 'coldness and desolation
only made the comfort of her pretty cham?
ber more luxurious. It was the prettiest,
the daintiest of maiden bowers, perfect
Jrom the mossy carpet, where rosebuds
Woomed, to the plump, snowy bod and
the. ovar pictures on the fluted walls. It
was all charming, but nothing there was
more charming than herself, as she loung?
ed with negligent grace in that eold
colored morning robe with its black belt,
und her trim slippered feet resting on an
ottoman. Her black hair fell, all tumbled
and foose, over her shoulders, and her
dark eyes were misty- with languid
thought.
"I wish I knew what to do," Miss
Wyndham. was thinking, rather ruefully.
"I don't want to be married tb&t I know
of, and I'm not in love I'm certain, and
?yotit. seems I . must be Mrs. Somebody
before long, or my dear absurd old uncle
wili go distracted. I wish I could take to
Timrijuony in the natural way Kke other
girls,'a mi ha ve done w it h it. I've had the
- measles, and whooping cough, and scar
letiha, and the rest of the diseases com?
mon to juvenility, but I can't fell in love.
The nearest approach I ever felt to the
?tender passion was at the age of fifteen.
Now I' am three-and-twenty, and?come
in."
? A rap at the door disturbed the current
of her thoughts. Miss Wyndham sat erect,
and a tall, thin old gentleman, got up in
faultless evening costume, entered, and
paused in the doorway aghast.
"Miss Wyndham, are you aware it is
half-past six, and we dine at seven V
. "Good gracious, unole! Half-past six!
2 never dreamed of such a thing! Has
anybody come?"
"Cur guests are all down stairs. Mr.
Baymond and Mr. Warner arrived this
moment. This negligonce on your part,
Miss Wyndham, is absolutely disgraceful."
Isabel jumped up and rang the bell.
YDfcnH be cross, uncle Tom, there's a
darling, and I will be ready in fifteen
minutes. I know it's disgraceful, and I'm
dreadfully ashamed of myself, but I?oh,
Sus1e:! hurry and make me as pretty as
you can. I am afraid I shall be late."
Susie, a bright quadroon girl, hurried I
.through the boudoir into the dressing
room, and her mistress was following her,
when her uncle laid his hand on her arm
and detained her.
? "Isabel, you will have a proposal to?
night?in &ct, two proposals."
"Two proposals! Now what on earth?"
Mr. Jordan gave his niece an impatient
shake.
"You understand very well, only you
are tho most aggravatingr-Mr. .Raymond
and Mr. Warnor, have both done you the
honor of asking my permission to address
you. Both are unexceptionable in point,
of family and fortune, both are young and
good looking, \7hat more can any wo?
man in her senses require ?"
. "Nothing," replied Isabel, meekly. "Am
T to, accept them both ? Shall 1 marry
one first and the other after, or both to?
gether, or how?"
"Don't bo absurd I Accept which of
them you please. Mr. Baymond is more
polished and considerably the wealthiest,
oat please yourself. I'know both will
make you au offer to-night, and one or
the other you must accept under pain of
my deep displeasure."
Mr. Jordan strode with dignity out of
. the chamber and down to the drawing
rooms where his guests were assembled,
waiting for the dining bell. Walter Ray?
mond and John Warner were waiting for
something else?what do young men in
the hist stage of love care for their meals ?
They fidgetted and made objects of them?
selves; John ? Warner particularly, and
watched the door, and answered at ran?
dom when people talked to them, and sat
on nettles generally.
Mr. Baymond who was slender and
elegant, and bad a beautiful moustache
and Parisian manners, managed to con?
ceal hlsanxiety tolerably, and to talk to a
TjKsse'la'dy in red velvet; but Mr. Warner
cbuld not. He was a tall, fair haired
yqung.man, this John Warner, who blush?
ed-when-Miss Wyndham spoke to him,
jvttd had^a cinvzy notion that the angels
in,paradise could not be much more beau
tlmljpijjerfect than she.
J&esejfrtily she came in, radiant in bright
blue, jadaee and misty lace with jowels
sparkling about her, and her dark carls
flowing Mr. Raymond was beside her,
somehow directly, with a flush on his
cju?eJc|jand;Mr. Warner coloring up as if
Irenaci stolen the spoons,stood afar off,
and looked and longed.
The blunders that that young man
made.all through dinner were shocking.
Nothing but being hopelessly in love with
a young lady sitting opposite could possi?
bly palnate his atrocities. Mr. Baymond
?oh, thrice blessed Mr. Baymond!?sat
by her?ide, and poured ?oft eloquence in
'Yutr listening ear. He couldn't eat any
more than that unhappy John; but Miss
Wyndham took her soup, and her flsh,
and-ber desert as calmly and with as good
an appetite as if they had been at the an?
tipodes. Still she had rather liked it;
and Mr. Raymond's eager rhapeodies and
Mr. Warner's blunders and distressed face
amused her. She w as inolined to prefer
the former; a husband who would blush
whenever she looked, at him to the roots
of hi& whiskers, and who drank frantically
out of his finger-glass, and overset the
gravy, was not desirable. Besides, he
had fair hair and no moustache, and Isa?
bel liked, moustaches, and raven locks,
and men who knew how to use their
tongue. Yes, she decided before she
. ^foae she preferred Walter Raymond;
and yet?poor John! He had been hor
jlayaate- long- ago, bar brave, tracheart?
ed boy lover, and she bad always liked
him. It did seem a little hard.
. In a corner of the long drawing-room,
somewhat in a shadow, Isabel eat at the
piano, playing brilliantly, -with Walter
Raymond taming her leaves, and bend?
ing over her with such a rapt face. Tho
storm of music ceased, and then there
was an idle strumming on the keys, nnd
then?out it came?one passionate, elo?
quent impetaoas appeal. 8ho listened
half frightened, yet pleased, too?it was
60 romantic, you know. The Corsair
never wooed "Medora" more eloquently
than this. Poor John Warner, sitting
melancholly and aloof, still saw and un?
derstood it all. Isabel, lifting her eyes
from the piano keys, saw him too, and
the half scared "Yes" trembling on her
Zips died thero. Poor John! Her heart
fluttered a little, and then stood still. She
had come from a race of heroes, this dark
eyed Kentucky maid, and the blood of
her forefathers rose in her veins.
"Mr. Raymond, I?you are very good
to care for me so much; but I?I am
afraid I don't like you, you know just as
.much as I ought. If you will wait, if you
will wait, if you will give me time?"
He caught her hand and kissed it in a
rapture.- Give her time?of course, he
would give her eternity, or anything
else, rf he had it.
"Thank you," Isabel said gratefully,
"Give me six months, and then you shall
have your answer."
Mr. Raymond looked rather taken back.
Six months was longer than what he had
anticipated. Rat no matter; he would be
gallant and wait.
"In three months I expected to sail for
Europe," he said; "but your will, fair lady,
is my law. I will postpone the journey,
and when I go, fairest and dearest Isabel,
I trust, I believe, you will go with me."
That poor John "Warner!?didn't he
see and understand all this in his remote
corner, and gnash his teeth with impotent
rage and jealousy.
"The lights wer? fled,
The garlands dead,
And the banquet hall deserted."
Rut still he sat there, eilen t and sulky
??that's the word for it. Miss Wynd
ham wrapped herself in a crimson shawl
and stepped out on tho verandah with a
yawn that was not very encouraging.?
He started up, goaded to desperation,
and stood' beside her. Ah, how pretty
she was! You might have fallen in love
with her yourself had you seen her there,
her long dark carls flattering, her eyes
like stars, and the moonlight falling like
a tender glory around her.' There Mr.
John Warner told his story?rather in
I coherently, rather hysterically, not at all
as the Corsair or "Count Lara" would
have told it.
Miss Wyndham listened and looked at
the moon, and felt a little sorry for him,
poor fellow, but the words were cold that
fell from her cosy lips. Still there was
hope in them, hope Mr. Warner had hard?
ly dreamed of. He was to wait six months
?at the end of that time, she, Miss Wynd?
ham would have made np her mind.
Mr. Warner rode home that night in
tho silvery moonlight, an ecstatic man.
He couldn't sleep of course, he could do
nothing but smoke cigars and think of
Isabel's black eyes. Mr. Raymond, more
sensible, went to bed like a Christian, and
Isabel dreamed with her rosy cheek pil?
lowed on her white arms, that she was
being married to them both, and likely to
have a perplexing time between them.
Five months passed away, and the great
rebellion had broken forth. The war cry
from Snmter had echoed through the
length and breadth of -the land. Tho
South cried aloud to her young men to
gird on the sword and free their lovely
land from the tyrant yoke of the oppres?
sor. With one heart they answer?an.
armjT of braves, and went forth from kin?
dred and friends, to fight for their free?
dom and their right.
In the tender twilight Isabel sat alone,.
the shadows of the clematis climbing
round the open window, coming and go-'
ing on her thoughtful face. Only one
mouth left now, and as far from decision J
as ever.
"It doesn't matter much," she thonght,
"this is no time for marrying or giving
in marriage. Now is the opportunity of
proving what mettle they are made of,
when their country calls. When the
South is freed from the Northern yoke let J
them retiin., and my promise will be
kept. 'None but the brave deserve the
fair/" -
While the thought was yet in her
mind the door opened, and Walter Ray?
mond, elegant as ever, stood before her.
Miss Wyndham arose with a welcoming
smile, and an iquiring glance. She had
seen neither of her suitors for the past
three weeks, and there was a certain anx?
ious expression in Mr. Raymond's face
now that told her before he spoke his
visit meant more than a mere lover's call.
A few desultory commonplaces, and thon
he struck into the heart of the matter at
once.
"Isabel," he said nervously, "the busi?
ness I spoke of five months ago ! cannot
any longer be postponed. I must depart
at once for Europe, but before I go will
you not give mo that promised answer?
Oh, Isabel! willyon not come with me?"
Refore Miss Wyndham could reply tho
door was flung open by a servant, and
John Warner strode into the room. He
looked eager and flushed, and be wore
the grey uniform of the Confederate ar?
my. The flush faded from his face at the
first sight of Isabel and Raymond seated
side by side, her hand in his, that down
cast look in her face. She hastily snatch
ed her band away, and stood up as her
second suitor came forward.
"Pray don't disturb yourself, Miss
Wyndham," Mr. Warner said, coldly, and
with a very pale, stern face. "I shall not
remain a moment. ? I merely rode over
to say good bye."
j "Good bye," Isabel faltered, "you mean
' you are going?"
"Where glory leads me, and all that
sort of thing," trying to speak carelessly.
"1 am Captain Warner now, very much
At your service, and off to-morrow to face
the foe. Good bye, Miss Wyndham?say
faro well to Mr. Jordan for me."
With a nod to Raymond, be was gone
?striding over the moonlit lawn, with
his cap pulled over his eyes, and his heart
planging tamultuoasly behind the Con?
federate grey. It bad all passed so quick?
ly, this interruption, that Isabel scarcely
realized he was there, before he was gone.
She drew a long, shivering breath and
?at down, white nad gtilL
"Isabel, dearest, your answer."
She looked up in Walter Raymond's
handsome face, with a searching glance
in her drep dark eyes.
"IIov? long will you be away V
. "Months?a year perhaps. Tott will
come with mc, Isabel?my love?my
wife ?"
Me would have taken her hand again,
but she drew it away and stood up.
"No," she said; "now, when brave men
nre fighting and dying for freedom?when
homes are desolato around us, there is
no timo for wedding festivities. When
the war ends, come to me again and you
shall have my. answer."
With the last words she was out of the
room, and he stood alono in the dying
light.
Four years! The long weary struggle
of might against right was at an end?
the end that so often closes such strug?
gles in this world. Might bad conquered,
overpowerod by numbers, the heroes who
had fought so long and so nobly laid down
their arms at last, and peace reigned again
in the land.
She was back in the old homestead.
Isabel Wyndham changed in these years
from a gay girl to a thoughtful, saddened
woman. In the hospitals she had been a
ministering angel; in the prisons she had
been a comforter and a friend, but it was
all over now, and she was back where the
old trees waved, looking at the sun go
down once more behind the misty, purple
hills.
She sat under a heavy elm, dressed in
deep mourning, paler, thinner, and with
a sadder beauty than of old. Her uncle
was dead, the old servants gone, and she
sat in the tender spring twilight, desolate
and alone.
The gate opened. A man came up the
long avenue, and in tho pale cheek a rosy
light came. Handsome, well-dressed,
more polished than ever, Walter Ray?
mond had just returned from abroad,
with tho old love stronger if possible in
his heart. In all these years they had
not met before; now he bent ovor her as
if they had parted but yesterday.
"Isabel, I have come for my answer."
A tall figure that had been walking
amongst the treeB, drew near, but stopped
as he heard the words.
She lookod up, very quiet, and very
pale. "The answer is no, Mr. Raymond."
"O.Isabel! After all these years?"
She smiled faintly. "You are very
kind, but I cannot marry you."
"And why, Isabel ? Is it for any one
else ? Is it for John Warner I am rejec?
ted?"
She flushed up proudly. "You have no
right to ask that question, Mr. Raymond?"
"I have the right. I insist on an an?
swer ! Is it for John Warner, maimed
and mutilated, you refuse me ?"
"Maimed and mutilated in a glorious
cause, Mr. Raymond! I adore heroes,
and Colonel Warner is a hero."
"Then you moan to tell me you will
marry that scarred, one-armed man ?"
"Don't distress yourself, Mr. Raymond;
I have not seen Colonel Warner since I
last saw you) but let me tell you, his
scars would be to me most perfect beau?
ty, and a one-armed hero worth a dozen
carpet knights! . Please to go, Mr. Ray?
mond?I wish to be alono."
He wont without a word.
The figure lingering among the treos
stepped forth?a sun-burned, stalwart
young man, with bis right coat-sleeve
dangling empty.
Isabel started up with a scream at
sight of him.
"Have I frightened you, Isabel ? I did
not moan to. I wanted to tell you I
have been listening. Mean, was it not ?
But I could not help it."
She covered her face with her hands to
hido hor tears, falling so fast at sight of
that empty coat-sleeve. Oh ! she knew
now which she loved best!
"I have come to say good bye again,
Isabel. I am off to Spanish America. 1
have lost everything I possess here, and
a one-armed rebel like me must earn his
daily bread somehow. There is an open?
ing out there, and so"?his voice grow
huskjT as he held out his hand?"good?
bye, and God bless you, Isabel, for the
words you spokefivo minutes ago, though
I know you could not mean them."
Her fingors closed in a sort of a fright
ovor tho hand she held?going away and
forever! Sho did not know how hard she
held the haud he extendod, but all the
blood in John Warner's body surgua in a
wild transportation to his face.
"Oh, Isabel! did you mean it ?"
"Yes, yes?evory word ! Oh, John !
don't go!"
There !?that's enough, isn't it ? John
didu't go. Ho staid in Kentucky, and
took charge of the old place and the
young lady for life; and elegant Mr. Ray?
mond can't see to this day how any wo?
man in ber senses could prefer a man
with one arm to a man with two.
A Judicial Reminiscence.?Tho San
Jose (Cal.) Mercury relates tho following
incident in connection with the history of
?one of its judical ornaments:
"In the early history of Santa Clara
county?say as far back as tho year 1850
?we bad a County Judge, who was given
to excessive potations. He was old and
lame, and aside from his intemperate
habits, was generally regarded as wholly
incompetent for the position. It is rela?
ted that the bar became so thoroughly
dissatisfied with this dispenser of justice,
that, on a certain occasion they sent him
a request to resign, signed by every mem?
ber of the bar in the country.
"As the court was then in session, on
the morning following the presentation of
this request, every lawyer was present at
tho opening of the court, anxious to see
what effect the petition would have upon
the Judge. As the timo arrived the
Judge entered the court room, and for
once perfectly sober. His countenance
wore a sad and contrite expression. As
he walked, with halting steps, down the
aisle, he awakened a feeling of pity in
the breasts of several who bad signed the
petition, and they sincerely regretted tho
step they hadf taken.
"The court openod with a 'hear ye/
etc., and the venerable form of the Judge
rose from the bench. After looking tim?
idly around he commenced in a faltering
voice, to address the bar: 'Gentlemen of
tho bar,' said he, 'last night I received
a petition from you, couched in lespect
ful language, setting forth certain reasons
why I should tender my resignation as
Judge of this court. Conscious of my
?.many infirmities, and realizing the neces?
sities of a pare judiciary, throughout the
6ilcnt hours of tire past night I have had
your petition under painful, and, I may
addjprayerful consideration.'
? "Hero the eyes of some of the more
sympathetic of his listeners were moist?
ened with tears. Tho judge proceeded :
'I feel, gentlemen, that you have acted
from a high sense of duty in the matter,
and,' in responding to yonr petition, re?
questing my resignation, I will simply
say that,'?straightening himself up and
changing entirely his manner and tone of
voice?'I will see yon in h?1 first, and
theD I wouldn't. Mr. Clerk, call tho next
case.' The effect was somewhat start?
ling."
-o
? "My dear boy," said a young lady
to a precious youth of eighteen, "does
your* father design that you should tread
the thorny and intricate path of a profes?
sion, the straight and narrow way of the
ministry, or revel in the flowery fields of
literature?" "No marm; dad says he's
gwine to set me to work in the tater
patch."
? "I never saw any man," says an old
author, "who could bear another's misfor?
tunes like a Christian.". This reminds ns
of the old lady who thought every calam?
ity that happened to herself a trial, and ev?
ery one that happened to hor friends a
\judgment.
? A young lady of extraordinary intel?
lectual capacities, recently addressed the
following letter to her cousin, Jiving in a
country village: "Beer Cussin the weath?
er whar we is air cold and I suppose whar
I you is it air coler. We awl is well and
mutber is got the his Terics nnd bruther
Tom is got the Hupin KofF and Sister su
sin is got a baby an i hoap these few lines
will find U in the same condishion rite
suneyure aphecshunate Kussin till deth."
Miscellaneous Advertisements
Greenville & Columbia Rail Roal.
General Superintendent's Office,
olumbia, Sept. 12, 18C6.
On nnd after Monday, 17th inst., the Passenger
Trains will be run daily, (Sunday's excepted) un?
til further notice, as follows:
Leave Columbia at ? - 7 15 a. m.
" Allston, - - 9 05 "
" Newberry, - - - 10 85 a. n.
Arrive at Abbeville, - - 3 13 p. in.
" " Anderson, - - 6 10 "
" " Greenville, - - 5.40 "
Leave Greenville at - - 6 00 a. m.
" Anderson, ? - 6 30 "
" Abbeville, - - 8 35 a. m.
u Newberry, - - 1 20 p. m.
Arrive at Alston, - - 2 46 "
" " Columbia, - 4 40 "
The bridge at Alston being now completed, pas?
sengers and freights will be transported without
delay. The expense of freights, by the discontin
| nance of the wagons and boats, will be largely
reduced.
J. B. LaSALLE. Gen'l Supt.
Sopt 20, 1866 14
Schedule over S. G. Railroad.
GENERAL SUP'TS OFFICE,
Charleston, S. C, Nov. 3, 1866.
ON and after Wednesday, November 7, 1866, the
Passenger Trains of this road will run the following
schedule:
acocsta train.
Leave Charleston, 8.00 a. m.
Arrive at Columbia, 5.20 p. m.
Arrive at Augusta, 5.00 p. m
Leave Augusta, 7.00 a. m.
Leave Columbia, 6.50 a. m.
Arrive at Charleston, 4.00 p. m.
'through mail train.
Leave Augusta, 5.50 p. m.
Arrive at Kingsville, 1.05 a. m.
Arrive at Columbia, 3.00 a. m.
Leave Columbia, 2.00 p. m.
Arrive at Kingsville, 3.40 p. m.
Arrive at Augusta, 12.00 night.
H. T. PEAKE, Gen'l Sup't.
Not 15, 1866 22
Schedule over toe Blue Ridge Railroad.
ON and after Monday the 17th inst., the Trains
on the Blue Ridge Railrond will leave Anderson
for Pendlet on and Walhalla, on Wednesdays and
Saturdays, after the arrival of the Greenville &
Columbia Railroad Trains.
Will leave Walhalla on Mondays at 3} o'clock,
a. m., connecting wkh the down Train of Green?
ville & Columbia Railroad.
Will leave Walhalla on Wednesdays at 10 o'clock,
W. H. D. GAILLARD,
Superintendent B. R. R. R.
Sept 20, 1366 15
NOTICE.
To Persons Emigrating to Florida.
THE SPLENDID STEAM SHIP
DICTATOE,
(1,000 TONS BURTHEN,)
Captain Louis IMC. Coxetter,
WILL transport gangs of hands from Charles?
ton to points on tho St. John's River, at the fol?
lowing rates:
Grown hands at Five Dollars each. Children,
under ten years of age, Free. Mules, Horses and
Wagons, at reduced rates.
The DICTATOR leaves Charleston every Friday
night at 10 o'clock.
j For freight or Passage, apply on board or te
Office of the Agency, 17 Vandorhorst's Wharf.
J. D. A1KEN & CO., Agent?
Dec 20, 1868 27
BEWLEY, KEESE & CO.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers In
T3r*y Goods, Groceries,
HARDWARE, &c.
ANDERSON, O. II., 8. G.
Jan 25,1866 82 17
J. H. BA6GETT & CO.,
FACTORS,
lO Accommodation Whar/;
Charleston, S. C,
GIVE their attention exclusively to the sale e
LONO AND SHORT STAPLE COTTON.
Liberal advances made on consignments.
Sept 6, 1866 12 8m
J. SCOTT MURRAY,
Attorney at Law and Solicitor in Equity,
Anderson C. H., S: C.
ALL business intrusted to his care will receive
prompt attention. Office in the rooms formerly
occupied as the Enrelling Office.
Jan 11, 1886 ?0
CONSTANTLY on hand and for sale hy
W. H. CATER,
North Side Public Square.
No* ?, 1866 21
Charleston Advertisements.
NORTH, STEELE & WMDELL,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
Stelionerj, perfumery, tf?ntlcrj,
Hosier)', Furnishing Goods,
"White Goods,
167 MEETING STREET,
Charleston, S. C.
J. B. STEELE, -C. C. NORTH,
H. W. WARDELL, Jr. New York.
Dee 6, 1866 25 6m
ESTABLISHED 1854.
LCN6NICK &~ SELL,
Importers and Wholesale Dealers In
MILLINERY, STRAW,
AND
FANCt GOODS,
Northeast Corner Meeting and Market Sts.,
CHARLESTON, S. C,
INVITE the Trade to examine their full and va?
ried assortment of *
BONNETS & HATS, trimmed and nntrimmed,
RIBBONS, of all descriptions,
FLOWERS. FEATHERS,
DRESS CAPS, NETS,
VEILS, of newest designs,
RUCHES. LACES,
CRAPES, SILKS, CORSETS, SKIRTS, &c? &c.
Sept 20,1866 14 4m
I. L MFIK? . & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
11? Saat Bay,
r
Charleston, S. O.
HENRY L. JEFFERS. WM. H. JEFFERS.
HAVING resumed the Cotton Factorage and Com?
mission Business, carried on beferc the war by
Cothran, Jeffers & Co., we hope, by energy, and
careful attention to the interest of our friends, to
merit a continuance of their patronage.
Charleston, S. C, Sept. 1, 1866. 19
To the Public.
the pavilion hotel,
Corner Meeting and Hasel Streets,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
SO LONG AND ABLY CONDUCTED BY THE
late H. L. BUTTERFIELD. will still be kept open
for the accommodation of the Traveling Public
And its former friends and patrons will find the
usual accommodations and attentions best owed on
them as formerly, and the public favors already so
well established as THE HuTEL of the Traveling
Merchants of the South, will by earnest efforts be
faithfully preserved.
Oct. 25, I860 19 4
MILLS HOUSE,
Corner Queen and Meeting Sts,
Charleston, 8. C.
THIS popular nnd wcll-know? House is now fully
open for the reception of visitors, having been, re?
furnished with new and elegant furniture through?
out : and offers to the traveller accommodations
and conveniences as a First Class Hotel, not to be
equalled by any North or South. The patronage
of the travelling puMicJs respectfully solicited.
Rates of board, per day, $4.00.
Rates of board per month us may be tgreed on
JOS?PH PURCELL,
Proprietor.
Feb 16. 1866 -85
HILBEUS HOUSE,
(LATE MRS. DIBBLES'.)
384 KINO STREET,
Between Went worth and Hazel Streets?East Side,
Charleston* S. ?.
Transient Hoard -S2.SO per day.
Permanent Hoard?$10 to CIS per week.
Special attention paid to the accommoda?
tion of families and single gentlemen.
August 16, lBiiii 9
F. HORSEY,
SUCCESSOR OF
$Ms, Caps ana Stab inoK
No. 25 HAYNE STREET,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
Dec 6, 1805 25_
Geo. W, Williams & Co.,
FACTORS,
Clxwrch Street, Qharleston,
WILLIAMS, TAYLOR & CO.,
Commission Merchants,
New York.
Liberal cash advances will be made on Cotton
consigned to either House.
Oct 4, 1866 16 2m
CHARLESTON HOTEL,
.THIS popular and well known HOTEL, haa been
newly furnished throughout by the present pro?
prietor, who has been sixteen years connected
with the establishment.
W. WHITE, Proprietor.
Gkoeob G. Mixer, Superintendent.
Chahles A. Mulee, Cashier.
May 8, 19H 44 fa
Charleston Advertisements;'
WHOLESALE
THE Wholesale Dry Goods Business fierelofore
conducted in the name of
JOHN G. MILNOR & tJO.,
will hereafter be carried OS IS tue name 99
MILNOR, WILBUR & MARTIN,
AT THE OLD STAND,
13S MEETING STREET,
CHARLESTON, S. C
OUR HOUSE is now in receipt of a full and de?
sirable stock of FANCY AND DOMESTIC DRY
GOODS, and we would invite our. old friends and
the trade generally to an examination of our slock.
FACTORS AND PLANTERS
Will find it to their interest to examine our stock,
as we aie prepared to give them eyery facility in
our line to enable them to fill their orders and lay
in their supplies. m
f?^T Orders carefully and promptly filled.
Mr. Wm. C. Snall, late of the firm of Chamtter
lam, Miller & Co., is with us, and would be pleas?
ed if his friends will give him a call.
N. B.?Messrs. Nayler, Smith & Co's . Office
can be found at our Store (up stairs).
JOHN G. MILNOR,
T. A. WILBUR, '
J. J. MARTIN
Nov 15, 18G6 21 .
No. 153 Meeting Street,
FORMERLY JOHN ASHURST & CO.,
South Carolina.
GEORGE C GOODRICH,
PHILIP WINEMAN,
JOHN ASHHURST, J
?DIRECT IMPORTERS -OF
DRUGS, MEDICINES AND CHEMICAL?,
CHARLESTON, 8. C.
Nov. 15, 1866 22 6m
JOHN S. FAIRLEV.
R?TLEDGE WILSON.
s.
"J
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
FANCY GOODS, WHITE GOODS,
FURNISHING GOODS, ETC.,
INVITE, the attention of Retail Merchants
throughout the country to their complete assort?
ment of the above .mentioned Goods, nop being
opened at
No. 37 Hayne Street,
The old stand of Messrs. Hyatt, McEurset &
?Co. Their Slock has been selected with grteat
care and a thorough knowledge of the wants ?f
the Southern people, acquired during many years
experience in business in Charleston.
Our business motto will be
Quick Sales an J. Short Profits^ . .
Orders will be promptly nnd carefully filled..
JOSS;* F.MaiH^Y & CO.
The subscriber is particularly desirous of re?
newing business relations with the customers of
his old house, Marshall, LUrke & Co.
J. S. FAIRLEY.
Dec 6, 186.6 . .25
J. E. AE'SER & CO,
EH POETESS AND DEALERS IN
HARDWARE, CUTLERY, GUNS,.
Bar Ivo?, Stool. Nails?,
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AO;
1S1 3?eotiti{y Street,
(Near Charleston Hotel,)
CHARLESTON, S. C.
Mr. S. HYDE, formerly Clark, Jlyde k
Co., is with us, and will be pleased te seo his *\d
friends.
Deo. 5, 1866 25
E. H, RODGERS & CO,,
FACTORS
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
CHARLESTON, S. C,
BEG to inform their friends that they have re?
moved their Office from Adger's Wharf to North
Atlantic Wharf.
FRANCIS J. PELZER,
FRANCIS S. RODGERS.
Octl8, 1866 18 3m
R. S. CATHCART, R. H. BOMAR,
Columbia, S. C. Spartanburg, S. C.
WITH
WM. GURNET,
WHOLESALE GROCER,
Axn
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
102 EAST RAY, CUA RRESTON, S. C.
BACON, Pork, Butter, Cheese and Lard.
. Particular attention given to filling orders.
Liberal advances made* on consignments, ?
Nov 22,1866 23 Im
W. Y. LEITCH & R. S. BRUNS, ~*
BROKERS and AUCTIONEERS,
NO? ^25 BROAD SREEET,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
WILL sell Stooks, Bonds and Securities -gen*,
rally.
Refer to Hon. J. L. Orr, Gen. J. W. Harrison
Col. J. P. Reed, James A. Hoyt, J. D. M. Dobbin!
andO. H. P. Fant "' ?
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