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Jbe?ly Paper $40 a Month. J Payable in Advance. S J By ?T. ?, SELBY. "Let ehr just censure Attend the true event."-Shakspeare. COLUMBIA. C., FRiDAY, MAY 5/1865. j TrI-Weekly $30 a Month, "f Payable in Advance. . VOL. 1.-NOe, 32. THE COLUMBIA PHONIX1 IC yWBM?SED I) AI LT AND TE I - WEI ? I.T. )IT JU LIAN A. SELBY. Tb? Daily is issued everv morning, except Sfapday, at $40 a month. . Tri" Weekly, Tuesday. Thursday and Sattrday, at $20 a mont li, inva? riably m advance. -- Single copies $2. Advertisement* inserted at $10 per. sousr* (tea lines) Jo r ?aaa insertion. [Origin al. Ballad. \ GU bow th? dreams of other days awaken Tie echoes of eaeh. well remember'd st np, Aad all the palace of th* soul are shaken. Aad hopes and joya revive, forgotten U.ug A sadden gt!sh cf st%slight, iv sn hour, Recalls ttl? rapturous dream of long ago; A sudden burst of song, in moon-lit bower, Speaks nutt delunion to the heart of wo. How dost thee liak thyself to these emotions, Bad wanderer, sweet as sad, aad yoong and fair;" Between as rolf in barrier, m:pht ?est oeenas. And alps arrest thc vision wandering there. Soul leaves fer souita ee?d whose germination. Seeds but fixed tendance and a loving ey?-; And I wbo toil fer love, through all creation, Still see thee smile, and give thee eigh lor sigh. ALCdSUS. Th?-Oval Portrait. ^ .? BT EDGAR A. POE. Tba chateau' into which nj valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit rae, in roy desperately woumj- j - ed condition, to pass a night in.the-open . air, waB ona of those pile? of commingled gie om 'ana grandeur which bas so long ~ fi owned among tbe Appenines, net less i ' fact than ia the fancy of Mrs. Ratcliffe. To all appearance, it bad been temporarily and httciv abandoned.- We established p,ur *elves ra? one of tb? smallest and least .sumptuously furnished apartment*. It lay io a ra mete tuiret of the building.. Ita ^decorations were - rich, yet tattered and antique. Its walla were hung with tapes try bedecked with manifold sud multiform amoral trophic*, together with, an ??nnr melly gnat number of very spirited mod ern pain ting?, in frames of rich golden . arabesque. In these paintings, -which de? pended from the walls, not only in their main .surface, but in very e?any nooka *MT hieb the bizarre architecture af tbe cbja tsatl rendered necessary-in these paintings my incipient delirium, perhaps, had caused ?ne >to. take deep interest,ao that I bade Petro to cross the heavy shutters of the room, since it was already night; to light the tongues of a tall candelabrum which ! stood by thc head of my badi and to throw J i open lar and wide the fringed curtains of1 ?lack velvet which enveloped the - bed itself. Tl ie position of tKe candelabrum dis? pleased me; and, outreaching my hand with difficulty, rather than disturb my slumber? ing valet; I placed it so aa io throw its rays more fully upon the bock. But the notion produced an effect altogether unan? ticipated. The rays of the numercus caa? dles (for there were many) BOW fell within sa niche of room which* had hitherto been thrown into def p abade by one of the bed? posts. -I thus ?aw in vivid light a picture all unnoticed before, lt waa the portrait of a young girl just ripening into wonnat hood. I glanced at the painting: hurriedly and then closed my eyes. "Why I dit thia was not at.first apparent,,to my owr perception. But while my lids remainec thus shut, I ran over in my mind nt} reason for so Fbutting tiers, it was at impulsive moment to gain time, for'! wished all Ibis done that I might retigi myself, if sot to sleep, at leset ?iternateh to the contemplation of these pictures, an? to the perusal of a small volume whicl had been found upon' the pillow, ant which purported to criticise and describ them. ? Long, long I read and devoutly I gazec Rapid and glorious the hours flevr by, an the deep midnight canat:-thought to mak ?ure that my vision bad not deceived me? to cairn and subdue my faucj for a moi rober and more certain gas?. In a vet few. moments I again looked more fixedl at the painting. That I now saw aright I could not an would not doubt, for the first flashing < ibe candles upon that canvass had seeme to dissipate toe dreamy stupor which wi stealing over my senses; and to startle n at once into waking life. The portrait, I have already said, wi that of a young girl. It was a mere bea and shoulders, done in what is meehan cally termed a vignette manner, much i the style of trie -favorite heads of Sull The arms, the bosom, and even tbe cods ?the radiant bair,'melted imperceplib! ! into the vague yet deeper shadow wbi< 1 formed tb* back ground of the whole.* T? Jrame was oval, richly golded and ill greed ru Moresque. Aa a thing of ai nothing could be more admirable than tl painting itself. But it could have bei neither the execution of the. work, nor tl immortal beauly of the countenance, wbi< hs>d so suddenly and so vehemently m o vi mn. i Lent of all, could it have been that (aacy, shaken, from its half slumber,*had mistaken ita head for that of a living . person.* I'aaw at once that the peculiari? ties of the design, of the,vignetting, and of ? the frame, must have instantly dispelled such an idea, must have prevented even ita momentary entertainment. Thinking earn? estly upon Jhese point*, 1 remained for aa hour, perhaps, half sitting, bkH reclining,, with my vision rivetled upon the portrait? At length, satisfied with the true secret of m effect,! fell back within the bed. ' I bad found tbe spell of the picture in an abso? lute life-likeness of expression, which, at first, startling, finally confounded, subdued and appalled me. "With deep and reverent awe, I re-placed tbe candelabrum? in ita . former position. The cause of my deep agitation being thoa shut from view, f -.ought eagerly the. volume which discussed - the paintings and their histories. Turning to ijae number which designated ibe oral portrait, I there read the queer and quaint words which follow:: "She was a maiden of rarest beauty, and no more lovely than full of glee. And evil was the hour when dbe ?aw, aird loved, and wedded the painter. .< He, pas? sionate, studious,, austere, and having al? ready a bride in his art; she a maiden of rarest beauty, and not rooYe lovely than full of glee, ?ll light and ?mile?, aim fro licksome as the young fawn, loving and cherishing all things; hating only the art which was ber rival; dreading only tii? pallet and brushes and other untoward in? struments which deprived her of the coun? tenance of her lover. It was "thus a ter? rible tLing for this lady to bear thc p??inUr speak,_pf hi% desire to poHriry even hi* young bride. But shelis humble and obedient, and sat meekly for roany week1* in the dark, high-tun et chamber, v. here the ligut drippled upon the pale canvass culy from overhead. But he, the painter, loot glory Jn his work, went on from nour !?> hour, and from day today. And hts .was a passionate, and wild, and moody UIMP, . wbt> became lost in reverie?, f-o that ha would hot see that the light which fell PO ghastly in that lone turret withered the health and the spirits of his bride, v?bv pined visibly to au but him. - \ Yet she pined-on, and Mill on, uncom? plainingly, bevause that the paii'tei (veli? had high renown) took a fervid ni d burn? ing pleasure in. Iris l? kv arid wrought -dav and night to depict ber^who so loved Kim, yet who gow daily more dispirited" and weak. And, in south," some who behold '