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$1 a Month, in Advance. ''Let our just Censure attend the tmo Even*."-Shaksprare. Single Copies Five Cents By J. A. SELBY. . COLtJMBIA, S. C., FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 19, 1865. VOL. l.-NO. 43. THE COLUMBIA PHONTX, rUBUSHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY JULIAN A. SELBY. ? TERMS-^IN AD VANCE. bUusciurno.v. Six-months, - - - " One montli, - ' ? " " ' ADVEHTISINU One square, (ten lines,) one time, SOcts Subsequent insertions. - 35 cts [Original. Ballad. ?. Roar and revei, revel and roar. Winda that raye on the rock bound shore, 1 hear, but I lear, your wrath no more. ii. Ye are powers that wait on a mortal fate, But your roar and your wrath are all too late, She you would harm lies in sovereign slate. i III She is guarded by hands of a sovereign ruiirht. By thelig?itningdart of the pallid knight, Whose very stare is a doom to.sight. % iv. Break the cold earth, lay hare the mound. Where alie takes her state in a sleep pro? found Oh! would that your roar could break her swotrud! v. ' Could break those fetters of icy state, 1 Where, watched by the ?pells of a deSpot fate, She lies, nor dreams of the weeping who wait, vir. . j Why will ye thus yonr revels keep. When I would share in that kindred sleep. Laying me down in the mansion deep. vii. Methinks th?re are shapes that rise, of trees, Houses and hornes, of all degr?es, And 1 hear the chauntiug of mysteries. VI1L And the children ylide by* 'hi play, nor hear The howling that pierces my inward ear. Nor see the state she is keeping there. ix. How rude the laugh, and the shout how high! Tearing its way to the very sky, As if there were no such word as "die/' x. Jloar ayd revel, rev?i and roar. Ye make thc tit *>ug for the silent shore, Where the sea sings desolate evermore. XL Would ye for her that music make! Through the great palace of prisons break, And bid my own beautiful sleeper wake! zn. Ay, .hive her forth with a despot hand, And ?end her in exile, with dread com? mand, luto my keeping, and out of the laud! XIII. So roar, so revel, so revel and roar, Along the great deep, by the rock-bound shore. Singing for me pf the nevermore '"lie dread, unreturuing-the nevermore! Modern Jerusalem. A French gentleman, who delights ;o frequent the spots on which cele? brated poets have dwelt, or whence they derived their inspiration, has pub? lished in the Moniteur fm account of his visit to the 'Gardens of Solomon.' First, he visited the 'sealed fountains' large subterranean reservoirs, wherein the waters springing from the moun? tain are collected, and whence the water is conducted to Jerusalem hy pipes: .At a short distance from the raser* voirsare the celebrated gardens. They extend along a valley which runs from El Bourach to Bethlehem. It is thc most charming spot in all Palestine. Solomon was a good judge in' more senses than one. There are murmur? ing streams winding through verdant lawns; there are the choicest fruits and flowers, the hyacinth, the anemone, the fig tree and the pine. Towering high above the garden,aDd contrasting grandly with its soft aspect, are the1 dark, precipitous rock3 of the neigh? boring mountain, around whose sum? mit vultures and eagles incessantly scream and describe spiral circles in the air. 'Ric rare plants and flowers which the great enchanter of the past collected within these gardens were protected from the North wind by the mountain. Every gust of South wind was loaded with perfumes. With the first breeze in Spring the fig tree out forth.its fruits and the vines begari to blossom. It was, in the words of Scripture, ;a garden of delights.' The vegetations of the North and South were intermingled. One part of the garden was called the Walnut-tree walk,-(or, as the English Scripture translation has it. the Garden of Nuts,) another is the ?Beds of Spices.' /Hie writer's guide was a well., educated Italian, who informed him that the gardens of Solomon are now let to an Englishman. 'The present tenant,' he said, 'is Mr. Goldsmith, of the house of Goldsmith & Son. He- is under draining' the gardens of Solomon on 1 the Yorkshire system. You 'will be I astonished to see how successful he has beeb. Here is the house.' I per ? ceived a bright brass knob shining iu the centre of a small square of por? celain let into a white wall. Over J this knob was the following superscrip? tion in the English language, Tiing j the hell.' This bell seemed to my imagination rather an anomaly in the gardens of Solomon-but that is a trifle. We did ring the bell, and we went in. The first thing that Kr?ck my eyes were red draining pipes .lying about, and bearing the mark of .the manufac? turers, Samuel <fe Co., No. 130 Strand." Mr. Goldsmith was draining that Bibli? cal valley, the dew of which was; so often brushed away by the naked feet of the Shulamite. It was in the month of September. An American mpwing I machine was cutting a second crop of artificial grass on the very spot where the daughters of Jerusalem gathered those, I?lieS of the field which were more beautiful thad Solomon in all his ! glory. A patent reaping machine was. rapidly garnering the crop of that "glebe in which th? sisters of lilith and the daughters of Naomi-were wont to glean. I asked to sec Solomon's pa ( vilion, but, alas! ?\? cypress timbers and the cedar wainscoating had been taken down, and in their place is a, i brick built cottage, with a roof of red and green tiles. The entrance hall ig whitewashed; there is a little parlor with a Birmingham carpet, and a drawing-room papered with a'red bor? dered y.llow paper, purchased in Paris, Ru? des Moineaux. The cVunney is Prussian, and the curtains are of Swiss muslin. Instead of the servants of the spouse, I found two nursery maids one from Paris and the other from Florence. The slave who prepares the tents of cedar is now called 'John.' He has red whiskers, blacks his mas? ter's shoes, scrubs the floor every day, and varnishes it on Sundays; and if some romantic person should inquire, as I had the naivete to do, about the dark Shulamite, he will he shown ave sweet little Erglish children, redolent of cold cream and Wiudsor soap, as fair as floss silk, with their jjair in corkscrew curls, and wearing prunella booti:, blue capes, and green parasols. The cinnamon trees have been cut doun for fire wood and the aromatic canes grubbed up, but the five little misses do crochet work under the shade of a bon. Cretien pear tree. Since the Eastern war, Mr. Goldsmith has obtained the custom of the Pasha of Jerusalem for vegetables. Last year he had seven crops of potatoes, thanks to his wonderful drainage. Scotland in the Sixteenth Century. The following graphic picture of Scotland in the Sixteenth Century is from a work by Robert Chambers, recently- issued in Scotland, entitled 'Domestic Annals of Scotlaud from the Reformation to the R?volution:' Our attention lights, a few 'years after the middle of the Sixteenth Ceir tury.on a little independent, kingdom in the Northern part of the British Uland. -a tract of country now thought beautiful and romantic, then hard favored and sterile, chiefly mountain? ous, penetrated Joy deep inlets of the sea, and suilering under a climate not so objectionable on account of cold as humidity. It contains a scattered 'population of probably seven hundred thousand; the Scots-thought to be a very 'ancient nation, descended from a daughter of Pharaoh, King of Egypt, and, living under a monarchy, believed I to have originated about tho time that Alexander-conquered India. A very poor, rude country it is, as it well might be at that a^e, and seeing that it lay so far to the North, and so mitch out of the highway of civilization. No well formed road* in it-no posts for letters or for traveling. There wa3 a printing-press in the head town, Edinburgh, but not another anywhere. A regular localized court of law had not yet existed in it for thirty years. No stated means of education, except? ing a few grammar schools in the prin? cipal towns, and three small universi? ties. Society consisted mainly of a large agricultural class, half enslaved to the lords of tho soil; above all, obliged to follow them ra war. Other agricultural pursuits to be found only in the burghs, the chief of which were Edinburgh, Glasgow, Rtir'ing, Perth, Dundee and Aberdeen. I?i reality, though it was not known then, tno bulk of the people of Scot? land were a branch ot the great Teu? tonic race which possesses Germany and some other countries in the?North west of Europe. Precisely the same people they were with the bulk of the English, and speaking essentially the same language, though for ages they had been almost incessantly at' war with that richer and more advanced community. As England, however, was neighbored by Wales, with a Celtic people, so did Scotland contain in its Northern and moro mountainous districts a Gellie - people, also Tltde, poor, proud, and of fiery temper, but brave, .and possessed of virtues of their own. These Highland clansmen whom the English of that time con? temptuously called Redshanks, with reference to their naked hirshte limbs - were the relic? of a greater nation, who once occupied all Scotland, and | of whose blood some portion was mingled with "that of the Scots nf the i Lowlands, producing a certain fervor of character-tperjerviaum in etti um Scotorum1-which is not found in purely Teutonic natures. Tba mo narchy bad originated with them early ' in the sixth century of tb?; Christian era, and had gradually absorbed the rest of Scotland, even "while its origi? nal subjects were hemmed more and more within the hilly North. But, by the marriages of female heirs, this thorn-encircled crown had come, in the fourteenth century, iuto a family of Norman English extraction, bearing the name of Stuart. Jeff. Davis' Coffee Set. We examined on Saturday thc ma? chinery of one of those curious souve? nirs bf the war, that, like their recipi? ents, 'cannot escape history.' We I allude to a fancy coffee or tea set-we ! do not know which-which formerly graced tho mansion of President Jef? ferson Davis, but which was disposed of at auction with silverware, ike, by Messrs. Bell, Elliott & Co., Pearl street, a few days before tho evacu? ation, when Mr. Davis, concluded to 'decline housekeeping,' and make a tour for his health. The coffee or tea set in question ?3 a perfect miniature or fae simile of a railroad locomotive, with tender attached. The locomotive boiler receives the coii'ee or tea, makes and discharges it through a spiggotf a steam whistle indicating when the tea or coffee is ready. The boiler of the locomotive is of porcelain, and the figuro of the fire? man, ol the same material, appears on tho locomotive vigorously ringing the bell, which, we suppose, means tue breakfast, dinner,-or supper-bell. The tender, which is an admixture of brass j and other metal, curries the sugar in an j elegant sugar caisson, with goblet for J cognac and stunning small cut glasses. The sides of tho tender are embellished with rack3 for segars. The :nost cu? rious contrivance of all is a music-bow located somewhere in the tender, which, being set, plays eight, popular airs, sufficient in length to entertain a supper, dinner, or breakfast party. It got obstreperous on Saturday and refused to play 'Dixie.' The whole establishrnent,engi"ne and tender, rests upon two benutihilj en? amelled waiters. As we have said before, the article was disposed of at auction, and purchased by an Italian, A. Barratti, who, several days ago, disposed of the sanie to Col. Friedman, of Philadelphia, a gentleman well known in and out of the army. Col. Friedman purchased thc souvenir with a view of presenting the same to Pre siderit Lincoln; and to save the public the trouble of an effort of inspecting the mechanism we have described, we may as wen state that the rare article is on its. way to Washington and the White House. It may not be inappropriate to men? tion that upon the side of the looo~ motive, in miniature, is emblazoned 'President Jefferson Davis,' showing that the testimonial, locomotive and tender, were built expressly for bis use, or pleasure. Upon tue front, just where tho 'cow-catcher' ought to be. appears the Confederate banner and the battle-flag, entwined with the na? tional ensign of France. Wonder if j the whole affair wasn't a present from 'Little Nap,' as a testimonial of his 'sincere regard and sympathy.' [Richmond Whit/, April 17. HOOD'S LIFE.-My whole course of existence up to the present moment would hardly furnish materials for ono of those bald biographies that, content the old gentlemanly pages of Sylvanus Urban. Lamb, on bein"; applied to fora memoir of himself, made answer that it would go into an epigram, and I really believe tiiat I could compress my own into that baker's dozen ol lines called a sonnet. Montgomery, indeed, has forestalled the greater part bf it iu his striking poem on the Com? mon Lot, but in prose nobody coule ever make anything of it except Mr George Bobbins. My birth -was neither so humbio that, like Johr Jones, I have been obliged among mj lays to lay the cloth, and to court th? cook and tb'c muses at the same time nor yet so lofty that, with a certair lady of title. I could not write withou letting myself down. Then for edu cation, though, on the one hand, " have not taken my degree, wit! Blucher, yet, on the other, I hav< rusticated at the open air school, lik< . lite poet of Helpstone. As for incident: of importance,! remember none,e.\cep being drawn for a soldier, which was ; hoai:', and having the opportunity o giving a casting vote on a grea parochial question, only I didn't at tend. I have never been third in ; duel or crossed in love. The strearj of timo has flowed on with me ver like that of the New River, whic everybody knows has so tittle romane about it that its head has nevei trou bled us with a tale. My own story then, to possess any interest, must b a llb. Truly given with its egutisr and ils barrenness, it would look to like the chalked advertisements on dead wall. Moreover, Pope has rea a letter to self-importauce in th Memoirs of P. P., the- parish der} who was only notable, after all, am?nos his neighbors, as a swallower < loaches. To conclude, my life-upo my life-is not worth giving, < taking. Thc principal just suffices f< me t') live upon; and, of course, won] afford little interest to any one els Besides, I have a bad memory, and personal history would assuredly 1 but a middling one, of which I hat forgotten the beginning and cann foresee the end. I must, thereioi respectfully decline giving my life ;he world-at least till 1 have do1 j with it. Laughter i? not altogether a fooli !i thing. Sometimes lhere is even wi dom in it. Solomon himself admits there is a time to laugh, as woll as- :i time to mourn. Man only laughs man, the highest organ i/.r-il being; a?'<l hence the definition that has boen pro posed of 'Man, a laughing animal.' Certainly, it defines him as well as :\ 'cooking animal,1 a 'tool making anima!,' a 'money niakinrjf animal,' :-. ?political animal,' or such like. Laugh? ter very often shows the bright sido of a man. It brings -out his happier nature, and shows of what sort of stuff he n really made. Somehow wc feel as if we never thoroughly know a mat: until we hear him laugh. Wo do not feel at home with him till then. Wo do not mean a mere snigger, bur, a good, round, hearty laugh. Tho solemn, sober visage, like a .Sunday'.? dress, tells nothing of the real man. He may be very silly, .or very profound; very cross, or very pilly. Let us hear him langi), and we eui decipher him at once, and tell how his heart boats. We are disposed to suspect thc man who never laughs. A t all event ., there is a repulsion about, him which we cannot get- over. Lavater say.-: 'Slum that man who never laughs, who di-likes music or the glad face of a ?child'. This is what everybody feel:, I and none mote than c'nilureu, who are quick at reading characters; and their strong instincts rarely deceive them fMackwooiL MARRIAGK- LOVE.-Marriage with? out love is life without health. There is no need to exhort, a womaii to love her husband, she is sure to do it, she cannot help it; even if her h>art be pre-occupated, the sacred tia disposes it to respond to a husband, unless want of affection and kindness on his part prevents it. Her first sensatiou is a sort of wonder at the good fortune that has given her to the man of lier choice; lier second a sort of fear that she is not worthy of Lim, and her third a strange desire to become so; and tims juatifv bis pene? tration t?at enabled him to distinguish ber among so many, that in her hu? mility she seemed so superior. Ob! that woman's nature was more studied by those who are destined to become her masters and guardians! that they could understand her deep trusting tenderness; her perceptions of chango and mdiilerence, her unbound? ed capacity of being loved, and the immeasurable gratitude when ' this essential love and tenderness are ac? corded. All a woman asks is love. For that she will resign self-will, opinion, long formed habits, every? thing. Withhold that, heap on hc-r wealth, splendor, pleasure in every form, and you fail to satisfy her. Many a woman languishes amid abundance, and envies the very beg? gars in the streets, if the latter possess the blessing of connubial love. . Dr. Johnson, in his most prosperous period,contended thatschool-days were the "happiest days of life. 'Ab! sir,' he said, 'a boy's being flogged is cot so severe as a man's haviug the hiss of the world against him.' Provisions for Sale. AFEW barrels of FLOUR, a few bushels of RICE and a small ?juan, i ty of SORGHUM can be had in lots to suit purchasers by applying to the under? signed, at his residence. Winn street, nt/., the Charlotte Railroad Depot, between t> and lo o'clock in the morning. may 2" '1* WM SHEPHERD Furniture, ?fee, for Sale. THE undersiened otfers for sale the . tire lot of HOUSEHOLD Ft!RN I TURE of a family removing from the city including riot only the usual complement of the parlor, dining room, chamber? am kitchen, but Crockery, Glassware, Cutler", and thc numberless other articles rcquisiti for comfort. Liberal- conditions as to '. > j time ol* payment will be given if iesir* : to a party purchasing the while or great' part of the lot. WM. SHEPHERD. Winn street, near Charlotte D*po:, 1 may 20