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THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8,1866.
ALONG THE JAMES,
A JOOBNEI INTO DREAMLAND.
It is now seven years since tho present writer,
coming in the Roanoke stoamor from the sea. saw
rising on the vast horizon of tho ocean the long,
green lines of the Virginia Capes, guarding right
and left tho entrance to Chesapeake Ray.
It is pleasant to return to that ' monti? of Juno,
* in the goodyear 1859-a sort of for antiquity now
and to recall the sights, and sounds, and thoughts
which came to the voyager as tho steamer glided
through that wide gate and headed for the mouth
of the James. Let me make tho voyage up that j
beautiful stream once more, therefore, with the
worthy reader. Perhaps, aa wo pass, some scones
of interest will attract our attention, and tno ?
breeze of the ocean blowing across the page may
fan away the dost of cities.
AB we nasa, you seo Cape Charles yonder, thrust-,
ina its low cutwater into the crawhng foam; and,
if hartness had descended, you vrould be attracted
by the red eye of the light-housn shining on the
summit of tho waves, its glare just tipping them
with along path of light. That is the "Eastern
Shore"-a singular and almost unknown land,
where poesy seems to dwell of right, and romance
is to the manner born; a land of legends, tradi-1
tiens and Old World tales; oJfbuccaneers, and'
longshoremen, and haunted hoaseB, looking out,
witt melancholy Window-eyes, on the melancholy
Be?.-The wildest fancies are here possible, ana
every Bpot has its legend. . .
toie Eastern Shoremen aro a morry and hospi?
table people, priding themselves npon their fine
Wood horses, and old houBes in irhicn still linger
stories pf the time far away, in 1680, when Bacon
drove Sir William Berkeley to ta'so refuge here. A ?
long, low shore of the silver sand, where the surges '
ef&? ocean come and go forever--suoh is the
land we leave behind us as we pass into the Chesa?
peake and ascend the broad current of the James.
To the mere commercial traveller this stream is
but a common river, which rises in the AUeghan
ies and flows to the Chesapeake. To tho dreamer,
the student, the poet, it is a magical current, upon
whose banks many tragedies and comedios unroll
themselves, and more than one illustrious figure
moves, as in the long, dead'yearB of other genera?
tions. That-is Jamestown Island, is it not? and
that lonely tower the ruin of the old church?
Many memories duster here a bove the tombs of
tho Arm?gera, around the oriunbling stones. The
great adventurers of England made their, eagie'e
eyry here two centuries and a half ago, rooting the
firm Norman foot in the soil of the new continent.
In the old black-letter volumes, writ by Captaino
lohn Smith, we read the strange and moving s to- I
Sj and make acquaintance with that worthy-with !
tater John Rolfe, my Lord Dela War-the gay ad?
venturers all, in bright steel hauberks, floating
plumes, slashed doublets and moustaches gallant- I
fy curled. But, more than ail, with that Margue?
rite des Marguerites, the Lidian Princess Pocahon?
tas! A goodly company, these preux chevaliers,
with bright ey?B straining for a sight of El Dora
do; and foremost of them all ia the founder. 'Tis
a knightly figure, that of Captains lohn Smith, as
we look at bun standing there upon the shore; the
broad, bronzed brow unwrinkled; the great eyes I
?lear, and candid, and brave; the firm Ups only half
concealed by the' sweeping moustache, and the
huge beard resting on tho bright steel hauberk,
defining bis sinewy form. He smiles with the frank
smile of the soldier. I think it is at the Bight of
that maiden yonder on the edge of the wood. See,
she comes-a child of no more than fourteen years;
slender and graceful as a fawn of the forest: half j
nude, but modest as a statue of chastity; with the
olive face, the soft, dark eyes, the rounded limbs,,
and the sunshine sleeping in the lustrous folds or
her raven hair. Sha stands with one foot raised, '
the dark eyes peering with a sort of'wonder from
among her curls. ' That is Pocahontas, the India?
Princess, who is going to interpose ber/bosom be?
tween Smith and the war club.
That is Williamsburg, is it not, beyond the for?
est yonder.;? Poor, suent city, with the grass
grown streets 1 you were once the capital of a na?
tion 1 At this London of -Virginia high revel was
aforetime held, in the "good old times" when the
royal governors reigned, their House of Lords the
Sing's Council, and their House of Commons the
worshipful Burgesses. How these worshipful
Eied to fight against His Ex??Heney t It was one
ug battle, as in England. The barons of James
River, the York and the Rappahannock, were jeal?
ous of their liberties, and they wrung from that
ooaree King John, my Lord Dunmore, at Williams?
burg, tho new Runnymede, a charter greater than
the old one. It was the virginia BUT of Rights,
on whose broad basis, laid by old George Mason,
of Gunsten, reste the fabric of Constitutional
Liberty.
This may interest the historio student. What
rises to the eye of the present voyager is, that
brave old social life of the now grass-grown town,
when the Apollo room, at the Raleigh, echoed, like
Holyxood of yore in the days of Ghatelard, with ?
the strains of midnight minstrelsy; when the
minuet moved slow to the stately music, or
the reel flashed splendidly from end to end of tho
apartment, thronged with dames, and cavaliers in
li?e, embroidery and powder, diamonds, pearls,
and brighter eyes ! Move slowly, O minuet of the
long-gone years 1 Flash cn, gay reels of the old
regime 1 The minstrels are dead, and from the
bosoms of the young mon and the maidens, flow?
ers have been growing more than fourscore years;
but the music and the laughter fill the air as in the
days Before 1 As the comedy plays, and the voices
sound amid pearls, and powder, and bright glances,
can we not discern some figures worthy of atten?
tion ? There is young Tom Jefferson, with his san?
dy hair, his laughing eyes, his tall, gaunt figure,
and he talks with Belinda leaning on his arm. The
future statesman, president and founder of apoli?
tical system, is going to bsoome desperate about
that youthful maiden with the piled-up curls and
lace around the shoulders; to bocome very tragic
at her reply to the eventful " Won't you ?" and he
will project a visit to Europe, consequent thereon,
in his "sail-boat, the Rebecca, returning through
the British Provinces to the northward. All this
he i? going to relato in his Tetters to John Pago.
His biographer is going to publish them, and tho
whole world will smile at the spectacle of the go?
ings-on of the gray-haif?d "sage of Monticello,"
when1 he was- young Tom Jefferson and flirt?
ed with the girls at " DovUsburg.'" So he
ia to become a desperate discarded lover,
this paladin of. Democracy and migh?
ty leveller-only, however, after a decont in?
terval to mond his broken heart. Even now there
ls a little maiden dancing opposite, who is to sup?
ply the oement for that purpose. She lives at the
"Forest," in Charles City, and is going to play the
piano there, while young Mr. Jefferson, the mem?
ber of the Burgesses* accompanies her on the
violin. The long-drawn bow crawls over the
strings, the voico of the performer minglos with
the young ladies', and the two rivals who remained,
tradition says, upon the porch without while the
scone is played, retire in . dospair. They have
rightly guessed the event; fires blaze at the "For?
est;" a wedding feast is set; young Mr. Jefi'erson
is married in the midst of a groat frolic, as wau
theo tho good fashion, and tho bride and groom
set off for Monticello, in the mountains, to arrive
there on a freezing, winter night, with no flies
. biirning and no wolcomo. But the bride was
.?game?' Read how she laughed an I sang through
tho cold, blaok night in tho "littlo pavilion" of the
mountain lodge; how they supped on a bottle of
wine and a biscuit, found behind the shelves, and
how mirth, and music, and love conquered cold
and darkness !
We have wanderod from Williamsburg and the
Apollo at the Raleigh Tavern, where Belinda and
her bevy of bright companions still slay allcomers.
That young lady has declined Mr. Thomas Jeffer?
son, of Monticello; and tho fair littlo beauty stand?
ing near hoi- has in Uko maimer discarded a young
gentleman residing on tho banks of the Potomac,
?Mr. George Y> ashingtou, of Mount Vernon.
When Bolinda and hor friend mako up their minds
to marry, (hey aro going to marry brothors-Ed?
ward and Jacquehn Ambler, tho latter tu bo called
Tho Aristides of Virginia," for his incorruptible
integrity and honor-BO WO pass.
There roUs within the scope of our vision a state?
ly chariot. Ibo planter, his wife and family, aro
seated m grandam- within. Look ! tho maiden with
the snowy nock and tho hair carried back from tho
beautiful temples is Florella, and she is going to
tho assembly at tho ltaloigh. By tho carriage
lidos hor lover, in fur-top boots, coched hat and
powdered hau- with rutiles, long waistcoat and
embroidered sleovos, and look huw this youthful
individual, Corydon by nomo, makes his steed
?rance gayly to attract his sweetheart's attention I
hoy aro going to dance a minuet and reel at tho
Assembly; Mr. Corydon is going to bo completely
finished, and in the ensuing munbor of tho small
and dingy ?-?Virginia Gasietto" you will soo some
versos "To Florella"-au acrostic, a rebus, or some
other mysterious affair-by tho aforesaid Corydon
Road these poems in tho old "Gnzette;'.', they
abound tbore. and aro charming. A u you read, all
tho IOV?B of ft contur 7 ago risc up and taluto you
tho fair maidens laugh aa thoy rTiatJo their cuv
cilka xsl l?acu th?ir bright g u?e??.; t?? cahVats
sigh aa they make lore by moonlight; the om
basriBenon the play of T,01d Virginia," you
and the comedy ia charming_, with its sighs
laughter, its fair figures, music, low murmurs
brilliant eyes! _ , "
We Brill ascend the James, and tho bluffa {
balder, the whito-winged water fowl are ri
seen, nothing moves but that snowy, sea-bc
bark, and tho surface, broken into ripples by
wind. O broad expanse of blue-green wave
where tho foam just tips tho translucent np
O youth, romance, gay hours of the dawn-v
to sail in a sail-boat on the beautiful boso
the JameB was to feol that earth hold not]
moro to dosirol Does tho charm still liv
waves of tho sylvan James? Does tho old
manoo still dwell in your depths, and the Na
does sho haunt your dreamy covos, where
shining sand beneath the drooping foliag
touched by tho lip of the wave? I know not
that waa a long, long time ago, and thc drum
sinco then sounded, jarring through the idle ?
shine on the row and peaceful shore.
We now approach the upper waters of the Jar
and everywhere are the traces of history, log
and tradition. Hore dwelt in former years
groat Vh'ginia worthies-tho statesmen, rul
soldiers and gentlemen of many generate
They have not left their peers.
That house yon see across the foliage yonde
B-, the afiodo of hospitality and kindm
Shall we disembark here at the old wharf runn
out into the stream ? Perhaps wo may find soi
thing there to attract, some memorial of the el
days, and of the great race which illustrated th<
Wo land, and the murmur of the wave upon
sand seems to woloome us. We ascend tho slo
green and grassy, to tho terrace; and then
proach the good old mansion. Do not be afraid
am not in a descriptive mood this fine June d
and yon shall look for yourself upon the great <
troos, the blooming flowers, the rustic portico, a
the wings which seem to hold out arms of hospi
Die welcome. We have stopped-or at leas
have-to see two portraits in the old mansion, i
portraits of some friends of the first years , of t
great eighteenth century. Do yon remember thc
good years? His Excellency Governor Spot
wood was then ruler, of Virginia-a brave old s
dior who had fought with Marlborough at Bb
heirn, and who marched with the gay youths of f
colony to the far Blue Bidge, drank tho health
the King on the summit of tho mountains, a
made every moniker of the adventurous bane
"Knight of tho Order of the Horseshoe." But
is not the portrait of the scarred old soldier 11
seeking-it is yours, my hearty ! hanging yont
on the wall, and looking down serenely with t
Sire de Couoy air! So we meet again, galls
Colonel Byrd, of Westover! . I have not seen y
before since we journeyed together with th
goodly company to draw she dividing line botwo
our country of Virginia, and the neighboring Pr
vince Of ??orth CarolBHSfe-abocIo of Indians, a f(
English, and those bright-eyed, brave, thoroug
bred Huguenots, who have Bought refuge bc
from the tyranny of His Majesty LOU?B Xiv. H<
we laughed and talked as wo rode through the g
Virginia woods into the unknown land, how ^
jabbered with tho Redskins, how wo passed' tl
days in mirth ' and jest and song ! I think 1
made that journey in or about the year 1727, d
we not ? Memoryns so treacherous ! and in the
historic dates I am curiously weak. But I cou
never forget you, my dear Colonel. You look
your portrait, hanging In the old'apartmer
above the piano., as you did hi the actual flesh
cavalier full of hfe, gayety, gallantry, wit, and wi
a certain air of exquisite. courtesy as of the tra
elled man, long moving in the finest sooioty of tl
Court. You were in fact trained there I think
the English Court-and had the Earl of Orrery fi
your intimate friend, aa well as many others wi
valued you muon, and presented yon with the
portraits, hanging all around me as I look. Amor
these your own picture impresses mo most.tnd, lo\
ering my voice so that you cannot catch the words
utter, I say to my travelling companion: There
something brave, gallant and charming in thi
countenance, which looks down upon you fro;
under the flowing curls of the immense peruke, an
above the lace and ruffles, at neck and bo?om. Hat
you ever seen a faoo-of greater personal beauty
one displaying a more exquisite gayety, cou
tesy, high breeding and noblesse? Thei
is none in the roll of English worthies more hanc
some and attractive. Not Philip Sidney's, or thc
of the lover of the beautiful Elizabeth Ceoil, stai
as they were for beauty of the antique day. Wit
his mild, bright eyes, his perfectly arched browi
his mouth full of character, sweetness, and a hui
ing humor-with his bel air of gentlemen, nc
haughty, not obsequious, but simple-the mas tc
of Westover1 n is a finer face than aD 1
He would haye been forgotten, but he wrote
book-the old-MS. in faded ink lying there beneat
his picture. That, may it please you, my dea
travelling companion, is "Tue Westover Mann
script," BO called from the name of the author'
house on the opposite side of the James. The MS
narrates the adventures of the Colonel and hi
comrades as they went forth, bravely, in that gOoi
year 1727, to the wilds of the Roanoke and the Dis
mal Swamp to draw the "dividing line." The MS
has been printed-read it. It is charming: full o
freshness, adventure, incident, fine descriptions o
scenery, and touohed here and there by a gay ye
mordant wit. Some of this wit is too broad for to
day-savoring as it does of the atmosphere ii
which wrote Congreve, Wyoherly and Vanbrugh
Doubtless the good Colonel had known tho grea
Sir William Congreve, and caught from the society
in which ho moved that tone of daring persMage
and polished irony, mingled with an odd, rion hu
mor which spared nothing. He was gallant, anc
a gentleman m all-but some of his jokes upon the
ladies are shocking )
As you salute the uoble face of tho old master ol
Westover, and seem to see him make a courtly
movement with his stately head in reply, you?
glance will wander to another portrait, hanging on
the wall not for from his-the picture of anothei
friend of mino, dearer still than ho, and known at
the same timo. 'Tis a stranger, is it not, that you
?jazo upon, good my fellow-traveller? But she ie
none to me. This is Evelyn Byrd, the daughter ol
the worthy Colonel, and cmancee, long ago, they say,
to the young Lord Peterborough. They wore never
married, for a reason very binding in the eighteenth
oentury-he was a Oatholio and the young lady was
% Protestant. So the match was broken ou; tho
young nobleman went into a religious house, and
the maiden died a few years after ward-that is all.
Not much, you will soy-but you have only to lot
your fancy rove, and from these bare facts it will
not be difficult to shape a sweet and pathetic ro?
mance.
'Tis a sweet and gracious face, that of Evelyn,
tho fair morning-star of a day that is dead. She
smiles as you gaze at her-at tho light in her eyes,
the rose in her nail', and tho twin roses blooming
in the delicate ohooks. Thore is a rod bird thoro
in one corner of the picture, but theparaquet
scarcely attracts your attention-you aro looking
at the girl. See 1 tho hands with their small taper
fingers, lily-white, rest there on tho blue satin lap;
tho fair, round neck bonds sidowiso with an exqui?
site grace; the beautiful head inclines slightly to?
wards the shoulder, like a flower of tho dawn
weighed down with tho dows of night. Tho figuro
of tho maiden is little and undulating; tho waist
long, slender, slight enough to span, thdtyoung
bosom under tho Mario Stuartbodieo isa half-open
bud of tho Spring. You look at her thoro on tho
old walla of tho hall, and you murmur "He must
have loved her dearly I"
One other memory of tho "mighty mou of old,"
and wo come back to tho present. Wo have readi?
ed City Point at the mouth of tho Appomattox, and
enter the broad door of an old mansion called
Caw8ons. In this year of our Lord, 18??6, Oawsona
is a forgotten ruin, for Aro long ago clostroyod it;
but in 177-, when wo cross the threshold, it is a
fine old Virginia house, full of charming pooplo.
Let UB look at the family-they are worthy of at?
tention. Yonder in his groat diniug-room is a
fray-haired old cavalier; at ten paces from him is a
eautiful womau of middle ugo. with profuse ravon
hair, block eyes that sparklo whenever she speaks,
and a complexion of doop olive which sho derivos
from her ancestress, Pocahontas. But it is noith
er with the smiling old cavalier or the dark boauty
near him that wo may now concern ourselves. Let
us look rather at that beautiful child yonder, play?
ing on tho grass, over which his small foot scaroo
can totter as yet. Take him up in your anns, and
you will bo struck with his exquisito beauty-with
thecheoks as smooth and delicate as a rose leaf,
the Utile smiling mouth full of infantile swootnoss,
tho clear, bright eyos which return your glance
with a gaze o? singular intensity. For that child,
you would prodicfc a life all love and joy and Sum?
mer; misfcrluno, Winter, any harsh or 'botter emo?
tion-uone of these you would say could touch
him. *
Alas ! in that pithy word, summing up so many
human careors, is tho whole truth told. For you
hold in youl' arma, good friend, tho future Ran?
dolph of Roanoke.
This is not tho" place to raise oven a corner of
tho curtain on that extraordinary lifo whoro all tho
tragic elements minglo-upon the bitter foo. the
faithful friond, tho passionate lover, tho born
statesman of a political proacienco unsurpassed,
and unequalled by Henry's, Masons, Jefferson's,
or that of any ono whoso foot has evor trod tho
soil ot Virginia. Upon that point many things
might bo uttered; and it would not be difficult to
show that lins lonely Master of Ravenswood, buried
thi118 8. Mtroat at Roanoke, and mourning over
;i^^,9V,?nw ftirUl!11, intc the ?Hitare, was in every
this must be left for the historio student; Ourldle
sketch cannot attempt the subject. It was only by
the individual personally that we were attracted
by John Randolph the, man.
Cawsons is a ruin now. It was the same when
Randolph came to gaza upon it once more, a little I
before ne died. It was in presence of this melan?
choly spectacle that the sad old man-tho "last of
his line1'-returned in thought to the Bmiling hours
of his childhood. For a quarter of a century ho
had fought with the keen-edged Damascus blade
of his oratory in tho heated atmosphere of politics;
for twenty years he had mourned, in the bitter?
ness of hm desolate life, the miserable fate which
donied him the'heart of tho woman whom ho
loved, ho said "moro than his own soul, or him
that created it:" on the stump of Charlotte Court?
house he had diroctod tho first minds of a mighty
epoch; from his Bick bod he had risen and tottoipd
to lus carnage, arid travelled to and fro, a living
coroso, to fight in that passionate year 1833 for
State Rights, against Jackson. After all this tur?
moil, conflioi. these corroding emotions of hatred
and sporn, he had come boro to Cawsons. the |
haunt of his childhood, to try and see his mother's
face once moro beforo ho died. Did tho dark beau?
ty of that long-loved countenance rise up again be?
fore him, framed liko a dim portrait in the ruined
window ? Could he hoar in the sigh of the foliage
around the gables tho caressing voices of old
years? No record remains-wo only know that
from these ruins he returned to Roanoke to die.
There he sleeps now-may tho haughty spirit rest
in peace I *
"Vex not his ghoat I O let him pasa ; he hates him
' That would upon the rack of this' tough world
Stretch him out longer !"
JOHN ESTEN COOKE.
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P. H. DRAKE & CO,
No. 302 BROADWAY, N. Y.
Hold by all rosDfotablo Druggists, Physicians, Grocers I
Saloons, und country Hoiulsdealera,
\nru t ' tbstnlw
?rMTJSIO BOOKS.-BA"SSINI'S 20 MELODjC
EX-KCl8LS, In form of Solleugio'ti, for Suprimo ?nd
Mt'EZo-^oprano voices, intended aB studies io acquire
the art of Singing, by CARLO BASSIN 1, _ ?oo.s, oacb
$2.20.
??IA NO FORTE CALISTHENICS, a collection of Exer
ci <es fo ? str-'iiiitheul/iR, oq'imi/.ing mid ucqoiiii g flexi
bl i ty of fingering, hy FitANCIS H. BKuWN, r*com.
mi- ried by GOTTHUHALX, B-EMNI, and others. Price
$3 SO. -
All the latest and best publications of INSTRUMEN?
TAL AND VOCAB MUSU published by
WM. CALLA SON,
No. 643 llroartwiF, few York.
Music sent hy mail nosit>*td on receipt ot mar_ed
.riv?. ' Mia.Jan. J?.??~*A.
SOUTHERN EIPEESS COMPANY
Office No. 147 Meeting-street
ooisr3srBOTioisrs
WITH ?ZX
RAILROADS THROUGHOUT,
THE
UNITED STATES.
Every attention given to the
safe Transmission of Freight,
?oney, and Valuables.
WILL CALL FOR AND DELJYEB
FREIGHT TO ANY POINT IN
THE GUY FREE OF
CHARGE.
H. S. PLANT,
^^jjj Pr?sident, Augusta, Chu
J? PRACTICAL
BOOK-KEEPER,
A?GOUNTANT AND COPYIST.
Collections promptly attended to
OFFICE COS. BROAD AND CHURCH STREETS,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
BOOKS WRITTEN UP, ERRORS DETECTED, BILLS
MADE OUT, and all kinds of WRITING.
ALSO,
Instruction giren in PRACTICAL BOOK-KEEPING
and Business generally, at moderate prices.
September 26 8moa
DBS. RAOUL & LYNAH
HAVE RECENTLY RECEIVED A LABOE STOC K OF
DRUGS, SOAP, PERFUMERY AND PROPRIE?
TARY AND FANGT ABTIOLES, which they cfferat
Wholesale and Retail. They would call sp?cial atten?
tion to the following :
OLIVE OIL
Flax Seed (ground)
Tapioca
Camphor
Opium
Cotton Wadding
Purr. Opium
Pair. Liquorice
July 98
Medicine Chests (Plat
Medicine Chests (shif
Glycerine
Spirits Lavender
Phosphoric Acid
Tannie Add .
Rosin Ointment'
Mercurial Ointment.
DKUG STORE.
E. H. SELLERS & CO.,
(SUCCESSORS TO A. C. PHIN,)
APOTHECARIES AND DRUGGISTS,
No. 131 MEETING-ST.,
THIRD DOOR NORTH OF MARKET
WOULD INFORM THE PUBLIC THAT THEY HAYS
on hand a foil assortment of DBUGS, MEDICINE 8
PROPRIETARY ARTICLES, SOAPS, BRUSHES, PER.
FUMER ? and FANCY GOODS, and are prepared t o
Bupply Physiotens and private f?mulas at cheapest mar*
kel rates.
B. H. KELLERS, M. D..H. BABB, M. D.
July 18 _
SIMILII SlffllLlfiPS CURANTO,
HUMPHREYS'
HOMEOPATHIC SPECIFICS
HAVE PROVED, FROM THE MOST AMPLE EXPE
BIEN OE, an entire suocess: Simple-Prompt-Bm
oient and Reliable. They aro the only medicines per?
fecter adapted to popular use-so simple that mia tali ea
cannot be made m using them; so harmless as to be
tree from danger, and so efficient as to be always re lia?
ble. Tiley have raised the highest commendation from
Ul, *nd will always render satisfaction.
Cento,
So. 1, Dures Fevers, Congesti?n, Inflammations.. 28
" 9, " Worms Worm-Fever, Worm-Ooio.. 90
" 8, " Crying Collo, ar Teething of In?
fants. 90
" 4, Diarrhoe?of Ohildrenor Adults.... 91
" 6, " Dysentery, Griping, Bilious Coho... 96
0, Choisi a Morbos, Nausea, Vomit?
ing.:. 96
?i 7, >. Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis.
" 8, " Neuralgia, Toothache, Faoeaehe.. 9ft
11 9, " Headaches, Sick H??daohe,|Vertlgo.. 96
" 10, " Dyspepsia, Bilious Stomach.......
"ll, " Suppressed, or PaiirfalPeriods.....
?i 12, " Whiles, too profuse periods. 96
" 18, " Croup, Cough, Difficult Breathing.. 93
" li, " Salt Rheum, En eipo'as, Eruptions. 9ft
M 16, " Khemrafttiara, Rhoumatio Pains... 26
11 16, " Fever and Ague, Chill Fever,
Agues. 60
17, " Piles, Blind or Weeding. 60
'. 18, " Opthalmy, and Sore or Weah Eyes. 60
", 18, " Cat?"-h, Acute or Chronic, Influ
ens?. 60
"20, " Whooping Cough, Violent Coughs 60
"121, " Asthma, Opprassed Eroathing.. 60
" 93, ' Mar Discharges, Impaired Hear?
ing... 60
? 23, M Scrofula, Enlarged Glands, Swell?
ings... M
? 24, " General Debility, Physical Weakness 60
* 26, " Dropsy and Scanty Secretlops. 60
. 20, " Sea Sickness, Sickness from Bid?
ing. M
. 27, " Kidney Disease, Gravel. 60
* 28, " Nervous Debility, Seminal Emis
?ionH, Involuntary lseterges.1.00
* 20, " Sore Mouth, Canter. 60
? 80, " Urinary Incontinence, Wetting
Bed. M
. 81, " Painful Periods, even with
Spasv i... 60
. 89, " SuflerVrtgs at Change of Lie.1.00
* 88, " Epilepsy, Hpasms, St. Vitus' Dance.1.00
'"84, " Dlptheria, Ulcerated Sore Troat... 60
FAMILY CASKS.
8 vralt, morocco case and book.,$10.00
0 large vials, in piorocoo, and book. 8.00
D large vials, pla'ln case, and book. 6.00
IS boxes (Nos. 1 to 16), and bu uk. 8. (Mi
VETERINARY SPECIFICS.
?ahogany cases, 10 vials.118.00
linglo vials, wi;h directions. LOO
?-These remedies, by the OOBO or single box, are
eat to any part of tho coantry, by Mall or Express, free
<t charge, on receipt of tho price. Address
HUMPHREYS' SPECIFIC
HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINE COMPANY,
Office and Depot No. 662 Broadway, New York.
Dr. HUMFHBEYH is commited daily at his offioe, per
?nally or by letter, as above, for ali forms of disease,
KING & CASSIDEY4
W. A. SKR1ME.
A. .?*. ECKEL & CO.. Ketall Agents,
No. 231 KING-HTHEET, 4th door above Market-st.
April 1? niwffimo Arno Oharl?*t?in. 8. O.
LOMBARD SL CO.,
COMMISSION ^MERCHANTS
AKD IMPORTERS AND DEALERN IK
GRINDSTONES,
NO. 13 LEWIS, AKD NO. 9 T WHARP,
BOSTON.
Advances mude on Cons gnments of Bice tad Cotton
to our ud<lroH8.
RoforeucHH, by permission: To Messrs. JAMBS ADOEa
& Cu., MtSMi'S. HIIIKKT l?iOTBKUa A; CO., Char ftdu'n, a.
C. limon* Octoner 1
BOYLAN & TUE RS,
MS"ANUFAOTO?ERS OF, AN*. WHOLESALE DEAL
KL Eli? In, WHITE LEAD, ZINC FAINTS, COLORf
:t,^Uii~>W, ta.
No, iW HAIDEN LANS,
New ?o*' ,
Orders by ma!' prompt! v attend ed to
M. r"1' n1 r ?)
BREWSTER & SPRATT,
Attorneys at Lum and So?ciiora in Eqo?lj,
OFFICE NO, S; 8JU0&r<XMEffiR
JAMES MCCORMICK,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
WHOTigfliTiK AKD BETAU DBA1EB Hf
CLOTHS, CASS1MEBES Ali? TESTINGS,
GENTS*FURNISHING GOODS,
No. 35 Broad street,
Jilly 3d - 6moa CHARLESTON, S. 0.
A. S. HULL, Agent,
MERCIAN? TAILOR,
B. W. CORNER CHARLESTON HOTEL,
WHERE A FULL ASSORTMENT OF CLOTHS, CAB
SIMERES AND TESTINGS can be had, together
with a obeloe a ssortmentof
gentlemen's Furnishing Goods?
LINEN AND MUSLIN SHIRTS.Lmade oxder, to any
y le that may bo desired.
MR. JOHN T. FLYNN
WUl give bia special atte^ to the
TAILORING DEPABTMBNT
&. nanali lyx Jone
J. REEVE GIBBES,
CTQ
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANT
No. 2, Corner Broad and Church sts.,
AND
No. 7 Vanderljorst's Wnarf.
mr Ordern and consignments of COTTON, RICE,
NAVAL STORES, PROVISIONS, PROD DOE, Ac, BO
lotted_8mo_ September 38
KENDALL & DOCKERY.
FAOTOBS
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
ACCOMMODATION WHARF,
CHARLESTON, S. O. ?
C. P. KENDALL.Gheraw, 8. 0.
0. H. COOKERY.Richmond County, N. 0.
JKST Lib?ral advances made on Consignments.
October ll _'_. _Imo
ARCHIBALD GETTY & CO.,
FACTORS,
lUQlni sol Commission M?A
NORTH ATLANTIC WHARF,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
IL? Hetty.El. A. Souder."?..g. V? Bonder?
Jnlyfr_
WILLIS & CHISOLM,
ACTORS. COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
AND
SHIPPING AGENTS,
ITTHiL ATTEND TO THE PURCHASE, SALE AHI
W SHIPMENT (to Foreign and Domestic Portaje
30TTCIN, BICE, LUMBER and NAVAL STORES.
ATLANTIC WHARF, Charleston, S. C.
1. WILLIS._.-.A.B.OHOOL*
OotoberM_
RISLEY & CREIGHTON,
SMppEaMCffiiissionMercliaiits,
AMD
IMPORTERS OF W. INDIA PRODUCE.
COB. EAST BAY AND ACCOMMODATION WHARF.
October 1_'_
WILLIAM H, GILLILAND & SON,
Real Estate Agents, Auctioneers
ADD
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
OFFICE NO. 83 HAYNE STREET.
September 8
"SAMUEL R. MARSHALL,
(FOBMXBLI CO-PABTHEB OT J. E. ADOXB li CO.),
IMPORTER AND DEALER IN
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN HARDWARE, CUT?
LERY, GUNS. AND AGRICULTURAL
IMPLEMENTS,
NO. 810 KING ST., THIRD DOOR BELOW SOCIETY,
OtfABLKBTOK, S. 0.
October 1_Smos
EVANS &* GODBOLD,
FAOTOB8
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
' No. lia East Bay,
OVEB THOMSON BBOTBSBB.
CHARLESTON, S. 0.
N. G. EVANS.T. W. GODBOLD..
September 8_
JOidLN KING <fc CO?,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
Nos. 143-145 EAST BAY.
CHARLESTON, g. C.
JOHN KING. . JOHN MCQUEEN.
Ootobere^.___'?a-0B
"~ BOWERS & SILCOX,
BROKERS, AUCTIONEERS AND OENERAL OOM.
MISSION AGENTS,
No. 127 Meeting Street, opposite the Market,
\N HAND CONSTANTLY: FAR VI8, PLANTATIONS,
9 H008E8 AND LOT.S for sal? and to rent. Are
spared to receive all kinds of GOODS, WARES AND
.EROHANDI.SE, PRODDOE, &o,, on consignment,
Iso, FDMNITCBE. H0R8I-8, AND VEHICLES oi
rory description for sale. Will also give our special
attention to oUT-pOOR SALES. Sinos September S
LA PIERRE HOUSE,
PHILADELPHIA.
The Subscribers having leased this favorite house, il
has been.
BEFITTED AND REFURNISHED
IN AN ELEGANT MANNER,
iud lg now prepared with the most perfect
appointments for the reception of guests.
The ?7st position among first-class Hotels will bl
maint v?ed ID the future, as in the past,
gestern her 3 ?mos KAKi-R ft FARLEY
WILLIAM BR0?KB?NK8,
iTKABI GAS FITT?K. ANO P LUMUKU
DLALN ANUUllNAAiENTALUAd PUIUBi* UA?
!>:NDI'D IO. >?' ' *I<L "' 1 ?
E. M. AV HITING,
CORONER AND MA0?STRA1E
- " v ?v.??Ntr tili fK""'t) ..-".'M C?A?.?HK*.
s^sysaye?sgy)a. ?W0"-'*
?p . 8
Bx FATUO tile- "Egyptian Urne," Tt^yaia'r
"OhoralittB0 become nothing but worthless loaf en;
he had given thoa PBsmxx's glorious Perfume from the ;
same beautiful flower, they would have become camry* K
and ELEGANT gentlemen, and their wives, LADO?. ^
E
As VINOEHT WALLAOE'S Mono io the ear; ai the
pollened Parian marble to the huon; aa tho morning
star to the eight, BO to Paaitax'a exquisite Perfume of
EOXFTIAS LOTUS to tbs smell.
1ST
ALL BX AL BEAUTY ?B allied to religion, even althosgh
it only approaches the truth. It was this instinct
that made the Hindoos wear the .EGYPTIAN LOTUS ia
their mythological p:rooesBlons: hut Parnta, in hie WK
ucaons SOBFCVE from that flower, has aarpuned tne
. . ' - - .' ' ...... . - ?
ancients.
3sr
NATUBK, tmsovBTUDLX, hf &e substratum of ali; but
man, by refining on it, makes himself hex absolute sa- '
perior, as witnens, R^MinL in Mu manipulation of ocean,
forest and bird music, and Pxjwrv, in his EGXFTIAB
LOTUS PxnFuuz. , . ) j"
THEKE IS A OBXAT DXAL or GAST about which la
best, the useful or the beautiful. That only le xaa beet
that UNITES Bora, an PEMHXX hu done la his EOT?TI?*. .
LOTUS PXBF?MB. .?' .
1
MEQB?DEA?, the wonderful French Orator, when
dying, asked fer th? odor of, flowers. If he was Uvfng,
0, how eloquent would he be over Pamrex'* Eaxxrus '
LOTCSI '
"BUHO FLO wm*, nstas jnovsBt?" cried the de*
ligbtful' Mrs. Homans. A distinguished American.
Poetess has newly finished a song on the perfection of
the moral KIHODOM, Paaaax'a Ee.xrruK LOTOS,
As H Kira Y Our in eloquence; as Blondell la painting}
as Hart in Sculptors; as Bonnor in newspsperdom; ea
Spear m mining; as Ferham ir. Worth Pacific- railroad,
mg, BO America's beautiful ead refined women nj?
PENNEY to in ato EGTFT?AH Lore?,
KING & CASSIDEY,
GENERAL AGENTS;
No. 161 Meeting street.
September 10_v._
T. G. A. R.
DB, LAWRENCE'S
CELEBRATED
ANTI-SYPHILIT?C,
F OR THE CURE OF SYPHILIS IN ALL ITS
TORUS*
THIS EXTBAOBDIHABY AN3) TRULY V?LUEABLB
Medicine to prepared with the almost akUl and caro
by a regular graduate-of Modiolus and Pharmacy, from
fresh SOUTHERN MEDICINAL BOOTS AND HERBS,
and to therefore
ENTIRELY VEGETABLE.
49- It completely nen trail??) the peculiar Syphilitic
poison, sad eradicates every particle of the taint from
the system forever.
49- Thia to not a remedy that MAT CURE, butene
that DOES and WILL OUBE every case without failure,
when taken according to directions.
49? Neither to it a remedy to be tried, bat one thu
has been tiled and thoroughly tested in Borne of the
very worst oases of secondary and tertiary Syphilis,
and in every case lt made a complete euro, and gave the
sufferer a new lease of life, health, strength, and happi?
ness.
49- It to now being used and recommended in their
private prentice by some of the most eminent paye)*
clans ia the United States, ^
A FEW RECOMMENDATIONS FSOM PHYSICIANS
Dre. Dna gan, Barnes, and Kin j?, of Wilson, N. 0.?
certify "that LAWRENCE'S ANTI-SYPHILTTIO to aa
efficient and valuable remedy, and that it has perform?
ed remarkable ou re e."
Dr. Blake, of Baltimore, Md., says:- "Tour remedy is
performing truly marvellous cai es in this city."
Dr. Smith, ot New York, writes: "I have fairly teet?
ed your ANTI-SYPHILITIC in as bad cases as I coola
find In the city, and in evory instance lt made a com?
plete and rapid tare. It really seems to possoai almost
magical powers."
4^- We could procure numbers of certificates from
patients, but of course delioaoy would forbid them from
signing their full names; but certificates are of small im?
portance a ay how, as a fair trial will convince the most
sceptical of the real merits of the Medicine.
READER, STOP ! PAUSE ! THINK !
Have you ever been affected with ByphUiB in any Of
Its forms ? If so, do not run the fearful risk of entail*
lng horrid diseaseii upon your children and children ?
children to the third and ionrth generations, but be
positively sure to drive evory vesUge of the disease
from yoin- system at ono?, by taking LAWRENCE S
ANTI-SYPHILITIC. ,_: ? , . . . maAiMLt
ass- It has h eon remarked by a celebrated medlo?
writer, ?that if Syphilis and Its effects;could beistopped
half of tho diseases that now affliot the human family
ThTvea1uable medicine ls pliantto the tute,
hasadohghtful odor, and is not in tho least Injurious. -
jj?- For sale by all Lruggiata.and
Elf G & CASSID?Y,
NO. 161 MEETING STREET,
Charleston, S. ?.
?9-BEWAEJB OF IMITATIONS.-??
September 10 /_
MTM. Q??p?
Wholesale & Be*?il Dealers
BOOKS, J?IODICALS,
NEWSPAPER^ STATIONERY, ESQ.,
0, BJ?1 Kine-BTREBV,
/ (Opposite Ann-street,
j KC atf?LESTON, B. o.a
The l**?st <BBua?i of the v. rt?? al wave on hand.
zndvtr-u JUL io?eiiea aad Ooods dthveredor
Jity&l cv .UM> ai Kioscos.
/a M??I ??I>&?<: vui oe nnroptiv stieaaeaso?
? .mum* ?. __j *#