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The Poets and Violets. ""Violets, violets, sparkling with dew, ? Down iti the meadow-land wild where you grew, How did von rome by thnt beautiful blue, With which your soft petals unfold?" * [Hannah Gould. "She comes-the first, the fairest thing Thal Heaven upon the earth doth fling Ere Winter s star has set; She dwells behind her leafy screen, And gives, as angels give, "unseen; So love thc Violet."-Barry'Oormoatt' "A violet by a mossy stone, Half hidden from "tho eye, Fair as a star when onlv ono Is saining in the sky.'' "[ WbrdsworOi. "I do love violets; They open with the earliest breath of Spring, Lead a sweet life of perfume, dew and light, And if they perish, perish with a sigh, Delicious os that of lifel"-L. E. L. "Spoko full well, in language yuaint and olden, Ono who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called thc "flowers so blue and golden. Stars that in earth's firmament do shine." [ longfellow. "Some plants in gardens only found, Are raised with pains and care, God scatters violets all around, Thev blossom everywhere." [J. F. Clark. "The 'sweetness of the violet's deep blue eye, Kissed by the breath of Heaven, seems colored by its sky.-Byron. "Violets, dim, but sweeter than the lids Of Juno's eyes, or fair Cytheria'a breath." [Shakspeare. "Out from its screened and sheltered nooks, The blue eye of the violet looks." _ [ Whittier. THE EVENTS OF A NIGrHT. "Thc wind has veered round to the East, sir," said a young,sailor, putting his head in at the door of the Cottage belonging to his captain, "and I think we are going to have a dirty night." "Veered round -to the East has it, .Tack?" said the maia in authority, 'oohing up from the enjoyment of his tea; "then we must be off directly. Order ail hands on board, and then bring the boat round for me." ' "Ay, ay, sir, "replied the boy, touch? ing his hat, and instantly departed; while Mr. Kendall, turning to his wife, said: "You see how lt is, Mary-I must go. I was hoping to have stayed with you for o little time; but no vessel o? the Daring's size can live here in an Easterly gale; so -we must be off to Stanlynch Bay, and there's no know? ing when Tri- ?bidl be back, for they say an Easterly wind luis as many lives as a cat." "God will watch over you, I hope, lohn," was all she could trust hersch to say, as she retired to prepare for hie departure, while he tin ?shed his meal. At this instant the door was thrown open, and in sprang a boy of about twelve, in a sailor's dress, exclaiming, "Is tea ready, mother? See what luck I've had," 1 ' ,ir"r out several ?sh that he had just, du. "Sit down, trry," said his father, "and get your ?ea as fast as you can. for we must be oft"; don't you see it'? coming on to blow great guns." "Then I wqn't stop for tea," wai the quick reply, "but I'll go down tc the spring, and get all the water uj .that motlier is likely to want, els? she'll go wearing her dear self ou with fatigue," and without waiting fo: a reply, he clashed off with a bucket ii either hand. While he is gone, we must introduci the reader to the principal personage of our little tale. Mr. Kendal, who having been in the cruiser Darin; from a boy, had at length risen to th highest rank on board, was a short stout man of fifty; his face of a bronz od hue, from constant exposure to th weather, but still bearing traces o considerable personal attractions, add ed to a brilliant good humor, thu would make the plainest feature agreeable. His wife, several years hi junior, was as slender a~ her husbam was stout, and aa fair as ho wat brown Constant ill heidth had given her singularly soft and delicate appeal ance, and "left on her countenance tin look of meek resignation, so general! found with those taught by aiflictio to look above the present work Their family consisted of tho bo before mentioned-who acted on boar the Daring as his father's cabin-boy and two girls. The dash of oars soon gave the sign: for parting, and as the boat pulled u a small river that ran ulong the side < Mr. Kendal's house, Harry appear? o? the opposite side with his bucko filled, and stepping into it was pulle . acroaa to the door of tho house. ' 'NOA then, mother, look here," said h nanting with.? exertion, "you are 1 promise mo that you won't go once 1 tho spring yourself, while I'm gon I'vo brought up enough to last you fi some time, and if you want any mor ask George Dowling, and he says he get it for you, ''Bless you, my Harry* you're II wayc thinking how you van spa mc '" exclaimed tho mother; kissii I him-a process repeated "by each ? sister-:after which he sprang into the boat, soon followed by his father, and in a few moments more. they were alongside the Daring. Perhaps, to an eye callable of ap? preciating it, there is not a more beau? tiful sight than a vessel, well manned, and her crew well disciplined, getting under weigh on a sudden emergency. Sail after sail appears to fall into its proper place of jts own accord; and yet to a landman, when on board, what a labyrinth of ropes seems to belong to each! Mrs. Kendal and her daughters stood on the bench watching each sail set. till the boat was hoisted in, and the beautiful vessel, released from her moorings, was gracefully ploughing her way through the waves that now dashed furiously around her; still they i continued silently standing together on the highest point near their house, I till the cliffs hid her from their sight, ! and then they returned to their home. The gale rapidly increased ; the wind howled fearful!v; and the river that I ran by the side of the house-swollen i already by previous rain-being met by the advancing waves, was unable to empty itself as usual into the sea, and, in consequence, rose to a fearful height. The two gil ls, terrified at the noise of the contending waters, crept closely together by the fireside; but their mother heeded not their terror her thoughts were with her husbant and her son; she trembled lest thej should be unable to reach the harboi of safety, and bc driven back on tin iron-bound coast, where she too wei knew no earthly power could avail t( I save them from destruction. Hon: after hour the trio sat siloutly in thei little room, each too much occupied ii her individual anxieties to speak until at length "Mrs. Kendal said: "I is nearly eleven o'clock. Sarah; ge mc the Bible, and we voil now com mend our absent ones to the care d Him, who said to the raging sen 'Peace, be still.'" The girl obeyed and in a clear, though trembling voice the mother read a-chaplcr and prayed j and then retired to rest. Mrs. Kendal occupied a room h.ein the sea, and whenever her husban i was .afloat, she was accustomed t i place a light in the wintlow, as a be: ! cnn, that if he entered the bay ; ' night his eye might rest on his boni? As she placed it ou its usual stan : thin night, she looVodout on tb., ooi j lng waxers beneath, ftnd was startle j to see how high they had risen abo\ ? the general water-mark. Alarmed ; I she felt, she determined not tobreatl j her terrors to her children, who shu I in a room opening out of lier's, so si ! quietly laid down-but sleep she cou 1 not. Sim thought of her husbam and the dangers he was then expose to; even at that moment he might"1 struggling with the stormy waters, < dashed against the unyielding rock As every fitful gust moaned along, ai shook the casement, she trembled : violently, that she feared every insta J that she might be obliged to rouse h daughters. They laid by this tin forgotten all their previous terroi and were buried'in slumber. You sleeps soundly, when more advano age lies wakeful. An overruling Pi vidence does not allow care to pr? heavily upon the young, until t bodily frame is matured and strengt ened enough to boar it. So-it w ?with Mrs. Kendal and her childre while she was' racked with tormenti fears, they were sleeping as peacef u as though above and around th< shone the soft brightness of a sunni night. Suddenly, a fearful blast sho the house from its foundations; t candle Avas extinguished, and the w dow burst open with a violence tl threatened to tear it from its lung Mrs. Kendal sprang up, and, at 1 same instant, her daughters roused the noise, rushed shrieking into t room. "Be calm, my children," s the trembling mother, "and fetch a light; we are in God's hand, and will watch over us." Almost dread: to move, the girls obeyed, and as tl returned with thc fight, another i more awful blast again shook house. The candle was placed in mother's hand, and as she turnee the window to replace it, with a s den crash the whole side of the ho gave way, carrying her with it into waters which raged furiously benet) The affrighted girls' first impulso to rush down stairs, to -endeavoi alarm their neighbors; but to tl horror they discovered that the st case, and tho whole of their own roi which they had so lately quitted, been carried away with the wall. C tiously they laid themselves clowr. tho floor, and crept along to the e oi' tho boards, straining Their < over the foaming torrent beneath, shrieking out in the most piteous cents their mother's name. Va they looked; for the. long peni ?waters had at length found an oi as the tide receded, and now erwept along with such overwhelming fury, that every fallen stone haa been whirled away in their mad career, leaving only the mined walls of thc cottage, which still remained stand? ing, supporting tile s:nail piece of .flooring where crouched the hapless children, jis a monument of their de? structive power. It is impossible to picture H inure fearfully desolate condition than that of the two girls at this moment. They saw and heard the force of the torrent too plainly to dace to hope that their mother might yet live; and saved, as they felt themselves to be as yet, by idmost a miracle, yet the remaining j walls were rent by srtch wide fissures, I that tliey expected every moment to ! be crushed beneath their ruins. All means of escape were cut up from ! them, and although thc wind fell ra j pidly, yet the ceaseless roar of the contending waters effectually prevent? ed their eries from being heard. In the meantime, ?us morning dawn? ed and the storm abated, the fisher? man rose early to examine the extent of injury sustained by their- boats I during the night. As a party of them I were wallang over the high bank of I sea-weed thrown up by the gale, thc j foremost struck his foot against some j thing which caused him to stoop down and remove the mass in which it wah enveloped, when, to his horror, he I discovered the body of a woman. Calling to his companions, they re? moved the long wet bah- that streamcc over the face, and in the dim twilight recognized tho features of the unfor? tunate Mrs. Kendal. Wrapping it caret"ally in one of their pilot coats they carried it to a cottage (dose by and then determined to proceed to tin I house which she occupied to see ir he. children had shared her late. As the; neared the spot, they passed a quail tity of stones with mortat* adhering boards, and two or three brokei chairs, thrown up on the beach by tin tide. With their fears doubly exeite< by these symptoms ol' ruin, they epiiek cued their pace, and in 1 urning ul augie of tlie eli if. came suddenly upoi all that remain" 1 of the once neat an. pretty dwelliu, of Mr. Kendal. Th whole ot the . ..ll fronting the rive was torn away, leaving the remains c thc moms exposed. The little hitcher j ?uni. indeed, the whole ol'tia- groun floor, was idled with water, and th ] work rd'destruction so complete; tilt i aH tut- fragments had been carrie ? a way, leaving nothing but the shattei 1 ed wreck. One of the party had prc vided Iiinisclf with a ladder, wilie they now planted against tho upp( ! windows, and one of the foremost a: eended. Tho poor children, who wei almost stupefied with cold anti watel ing, no sooner heard the voices of the preservers, than they endeavored 1 reach the window; but the {errors < the night had been loo much for tl youngest, and she fell fainting on tl floor. Her sister knelt by her, ar I chafed her icy hands. At this m j mont, the hardy fisherman, bnrstii I in the window by a blow of his powe I ful list, sprung into the room. "Thank God, you're ulive," lie c 1 claimed ; then calling to ono of 1 companions to help him, they wrapp> I blankets around e-ach, ami careful ; carried them down ibo ladder. T j inhabitants of a cottage uot far < I were aroused; and the fainting, ? j hausted children carried to it, whr the kindness of the owners soon i I stored them sufficiently to tell all t events of that fearful night. Tin- ne thing to be done was to apprise t husband and son of tho catastropl and the old fisherman who had disc vered the body, undertook to wi over to Stanlynch, and break t dreadful news as gently as possible them. Like the artist who cover the mourner's face in his paintii we leave the imagination of our rei ers to picture to themselves the fe ings of the bereaved ones on henri it-though communicated with that tender sympathy which is get nilly to be found in sailors, lurki sometimes even under thc most i promising exterior-nor will we late the circumstances connected w the funeral ; but close our little nar ti ve with the text selected by tho cl gyman on the following Sunday, wi he alluded to the fatal event-"Wat ? therefore, for in an hour when ye th: I not, the Son of man cometh. W. H. ?ASTERBY. Com. Mcrcliar Receiving and Forwarding Agei CHARLESTON, S. C. PROMPT attention given to orders the sole or purchase of COTTON PRODUCE of any kind. July 15 fig Brass md Copper Wanted. HSOLOMON & CO. -still continu . purchase BRASS an.l COPP Th* highest market price will be {?aid . li. S< >LOM< >N <t CO., West side of Assembly slit? WHOLESALE 153 Mteting Street, Opposite Charles? ton Hotel, CHARLESTON, ^ C. JUST.received. a full eopply of DRUGS, CHEMICALS. GLASSWARE, DYE STUFFS, PAINTS and LIQUORS of all kinds for medicinal purposes. <fcc, which we offer to the trade ot lowest r?'"es. AGENTS FOB DRAKE'S. VL.-*. NTATIO C< BITTERS, STERLING'S AMBROSIA, Pure KEROSENE OIL And KEROSENE LAMPS. July 27_t.6 Dissolution of Copartnership* THE copartnership heretofore existing between tho subscribers, under the name, style and firm of KILLI AX & WING, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. F. W. WING, having purchased the debts due to the concern oed assumed those due by it, persons having demands ' will present them to him, and persons in? debted will make payment to him. ELI KILLIAN, _F. W. WING. The subscriber having purchased the interest of ELI KILLIAN in the above j firm, the business will hereafter be con ] ducted by him in his own name. Ile j respectfully solicits a share of public pa? tronage. _F. W. WING. j The subscriber takes pleasure in recom? mending his late partner, Mr. F. W. Wing, j io the support of the former patrons of I the late firm of Killian & -Wing, and of j ?he public generally. ELI KILLIAN. BOLLMANN BROTH'RS, j DIRECT IMPORTERS AND . I WHOLESALE DEALERS FOREIGN BRANDIES, WINES, ? SE GARS , AND J. A.'J. NOLETS IMPERIAL j si&&?se \ And Aromatic Schiedam Schnapps- ! i TO ARRIVE: 1 AA PIPES Imperial EAGLE OIN. j 1UU 1.000 boxes AROMATIC SCI1IE DAM SCHNAPPS. 600 Loxes LITTERS, (Mag??atrophen.) ! lOO Mille Cigars, of all grades. j Quarter and eighth casks Cognac Brau dy " Rochelle " "' " *" Port and Sherry Wines. . Scotch Ales and London Brown Stout . Porter. July 20 wis THE UNDERSIGNED IRESPECTFULLY notify their friends \i and customers that, they have RE OPENED their store at their old stand, No. 88 East Bay, corner of Vendue Range, Charleston, S. C., where they will constantly keep ?>n hand and for tale, at LOWEST MARKET PRICKS, a general assortment of GROCERIES, imported and domestic ALES, WINE*"', LIQUORS and SEGARS, of well known brands. BOLLMANN BROTHERS. July 20 wf8 BOLLHANN BROTHERS HAVE now on hand and are in weekly receipt of all grades R E F I N E 1) SUGARS, bags of COFFEE, boxes Soup. Starch. ?Ec. Also, all grades of Hyson and Young Hyson Teas, and every other arti? cle connected with a wholesale grocery. Our senior partner is .residing at the North for the present, and attending io person to all OUf purchases, which are for cash only. We assure our friends and customers that we eau and will do as well by them as any other house in this city. Cotton and all Country Produces will be purchased at highest market prices, or taken in exchange for groceries. Charleston, S. C., July 20v wfs By the Provisional Governor of the State of South Carolina A PROCLAMATION! TX/II TREAS His Excellency President VT 'ohnson has issued his proclama? tion, appointing me (Benjamin F. Perry) Provisional Governor in and for the State of South Carolina, with power to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be ne? cessary and proper for convening a Con? vention of the State, composed ol dele? gates to be choses by that, portion of the people of said State who are loyal to the United States, for the purpose of altering oi amending the Constitution thereof; and with authority to exercise within the limits of the State all the pawer? neces sary and proper to enable such loyal peo? ple to restore said State .to its constitu? tional relations to the Federal Govern ment, and to present such, a Republican form of "State Government as will entitle the Stnte to the guarantee of the United States therefor, and its people to proteo lion by the United Stat ea against invasion insurrection ?nd dontfsi.ic violence Now, therefore, in obedience lo ?lie pro? clamation of his Excellency Andrew John eon. President of the Uthud Stat??? T BENJAMIN F. PERRY, lVovisional Go? vernor of thc State of Snut.li CaroliuA, for the purpose of organizing a Provisional Government in South Carolina, reforming the State Constitution and resto-rin^ civil . . authority in said State, under the Consti? tution and laws of the United States, ?n ' hereby proclaim and declare that all ci vi!. . officers in South Carolina, who were in office when the Civil Government of the State was suspended, in May last, (except those arrested or under prosecution for ireason,) shall, or, taking the oath of alle? giance prescribed in the President's Am- _ nesty Proclamation of the 8&tli day of ^ May, 1865, resume the duties of their ! offica and continue to discharge them under the Provisional Government till further appointments are -nude. And } do further proclaim, declare and I malle known, that it is the duty of all j loyal eitir.eus of the Stake of South Caro ! lina tflpromptly go forward and take the i oath- of allegiance to the United Slates, ? before some magistrate or military officer of the Federal Government, who may be qualified 1er administering >>aths; and such ar?: hereby authorized to give certified copies thereof to the persons respectively by whom they were made. And auch magistrales or officers ?re. hereby required I to transmit the originals of such oaths, at us early a day as may be convenient, to the Department of ?Slate, in the city of Washington. D. O And I du further proclaim, declare and make known, thal the Malingers of Elec? tions throughout the State of South Capo lina will hold an election for members of a Stste Convention, nt their respective precincts, on the FIR.-T MONDAV IN SEPTEMBER NEXT, according to the j laws of'South Ctiroliua in force before thc secession of the Stale; ?ind that each EJec j tion District in the State shall elect un j many members of the Convention ns the : said District has members of die Hons? of I Representatives-'he basis of represen ta ! lion being population and luxation 'Ibis will give one hundred and twenty four members to the Convention-a number sufficiently larne to represent 'every por? tion of the State most fully. livery loyal citizen who has taken the Amnesty oat h and not within the excepted <das?e? in the President's Proclamation, will he entitled to vote, provided he waa a legal voler under the Constitution ns it stood prior to the secession of South Carolina. And ^?11 who are within the excepted classes must take the oath and apply .for a pardon, in order to entitle them to vole or become members of th'j Con ven lion. The members of the Convention thus elected on tie- first. Monda}' in September next, are hereby required t? convene iu the city of Columbia, on WEDNESDAY, I the 18th day of September, 1865, for the j purpose of altering and amending the j present Constitution of South Cat?lica, or \ remodelling and making a new one, which j will conform to the great, changes which ! have taken place in the State, and be ! more in accordance with Republican prin? ciples and equality of representation, j /ind I do further proclaim and mike j known, that the Constitution and all lawn j of force in South Carolina prior to tho p-secession cf the State, are hereby made ot |*'oice under the Provisional Government, except wherein they may conflict with th? i provisions of this proclamation. And the I Judges and Chancellors of the State arc hereby required lo exercise all th? power* ! and perform ail the duties which apper? tain to their respective offices, and espe? cially in criminal ease*. It will be . expected of the federal military authori? ties now in,South Carolina, to lend their authority to thc. civil officers of the. Pro? visional Government, for the punpose of Enforcing the laws and preserving the peace and good order of the "state. And 1 do further command and enjoin all good and lawful citizens of the ?Slate to unite in enforcing the laws and bring? ing to justice ail disorderly person?, all plunderers, robbers and marauders, all vagrants and idle persons who are wan? dering about without employment or any visible means of supporting themselves. It is als.i expected that all former own? ers of freed persons will be kind to tfiem, and not turn off the children or aged to perish; anil the freed men and women are earnestly enjoined to make contracts, just and fair, for remaining with their former owner". In order to facilitate ns much as possi? ble the application for pardons under the excepted sections of the President's Am nes try Proclamation, it is staled for in for? mat i<>n that all applications must, be by petition, stating the exception, and accom? panied willi the oath prescribed. ' This petition must be first approved by the Provisional Governor, and then forwarded to tlie President. The headquarter of the Provisional Governor will be atGreen v il le, where all communications to him must be addressed. The newspapers of this State jv ill pub? lish' this proclamation tilt the election for membeisof the Convention. In testimony whereof, 1 have hereunto set my hand and seal. Done at I he |u 8.1 town of Greenville, this '/Otb day of July, in thc year of our Lord 18f>5. and of the independence of the United States the ninetieth. l?. F. PERKY By the Provisional Governor: WILLIAM H. PERRY, Private Secretary. July 20