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.fm a^mammmmmm.mom im, nij..i w M?30ELLAKTY, Delicate Inquiries, I. Dost thou, in visions of the night, dcat Love, t . Even in its darkest midnight, dream of mer ' Fancyonrforms through every well-known grove, Pursuing paths in dayliglit scarce so free! Dost thou not. thus lind midnight hours grow bright, Taste joys that make our hope of joy complete; . And in the vagrant'visions of the night, Oh! tell nie, dearest, are our kisses sweet? ? . n. Vye have our joys by daylight, that is true; Put did not visions of thc night arise, . Gladding with?raptures that we never knew, Life*-giving raptures, blessings from the . skies," How empty were earth's "pleasure told thrice over! Ah! for the dreaming hour, and then to meet, "With the fond phantom of -thy eager lover? Sav, tell me, dearest, are ourlasses sweet? _^ EDGAH. J From Chambers' Ed'iiiylu -g Journal.] TTTK WIFE'S SECRTiT". If I pride myself upon any mental ?oiiflowmeat whatever, it is upon that liumble tine of common sense. I live what is called by tho intellectual peo? ple a conventional life. I have my pew in tho nel^libotiiig church, anti sit in it twice every Sunday. I know one captain in the anny-just such a person KS he should bc-polished and yet "ferocious, geutlt* to ladies, hut rather insolent to civilian males, boast? ful of his clubs, and givimg all his leisure time, which is considerable, to thc cultivation of his moustaches; but otherwise I am ignorant of tho fash? ionable wrorld anti its gay doings. ' I have made -no endeavor to break through the gilded pale that separates it from the steady-going middle class to which I belong. I do not wiider staud the feeling which prompts my superiors to be ashamed of beingseen in an omnibus. Once every (lay I return from the city in a yellow one; and if it is wet, I use the. same con? veyance in the morning to reach ray office. I pay my tradesmen weekly. My best sherry is 8s. a dozen; und when the captain talks of vintage wines, (as lie will do by the hour at my table.) I often wonder what he thinks he is drinking. However, with trite good breeding, he. imbibes-it in great quantities as though it were the best. I do not keep a^nan servant. Our cook eaimot compass an omdette covffec. My wife trims her own bon? nets. We have eight children, who all know . the church catechism by heart, except thc baby and the last? but one. In short, a more respectable ?ind unfashionable family does not exist in all Bayswater. Under these circumstances, it may bc easily imagined that we are as free from the vices of the great RS WC are without their privileges; and this was, I honestly believe, the case until iv very recent period. YYhon I used to read in the papers that the Lady Lu? tetia Day Coltay (of Forman ancestry and bluest blood) had left her hus? band's roof, and flexi with Major Flut tcrby, of tl ie Lifo Guards; or .that it was rumoreft among well informed circles that thc gentleman of the long robe wotdd soon find employment in ?he domestic affairs of his Grace the Duke of Belgrovia, I .used to give the prolonged whistle and remark: "Here they lure again." in general reference to thc habits of tho haut ton. I knew that our hereditary aristcoracy were given to these escapades, which in my own rank of lift; would certainly lie crimes, and I perused such details as the press could furnish with an avidity unalloyed, I tim afraid*, with much reprobation. I seem to be read? ing of a class of persons whose way of lile was feoo far removed from my own to affect me, except as a spectator; just as when I went to the play, I found myself in an atmosphere of intrigue and misunderstanding, and jealousy altogether unreal, and with which I had not tho ghost yf an ex? perience in common. Jealousy? Why, I had been mar Tied sixteen years .without entertain? ing that passion, so that it was not very likely, however well acted, that that passion should, entertain me. Misunderstanding! The. tiling was impossible, for whenever there pro? mised to be, "a row in \\\o pantry" find every man will understand mo when I make use of that metaphorical expressionbrought it to a head, and had it out, and off we started again, (speaking for self and Mrs. li.) on the snufoth current of our lives, with thc little fracas buried forever in its depths. A . for the mother of eight falling in iovt'with another nw?-it is all very well in a stage play, and par-* tienlarly (with all. deferen.ee to Miss .Anim. Dickinson) where the husband is a black man, and, as I have said, ?befitting enough among persons of cpality: Put upon thc Sotting Hill I - - .-L-L-- : -- , side of Bayswater, any such mischance ? would, I felt, be out of .place and ridi? culous-a social presumption, as well as a grave domestic crime. Imagine, ' therefore, my astonishment when my > opposite neighbor, Peabody, who also calls himself my friend, didtfne the honor ' to call upon me a fqp weeks ago; to. speak in confidence, of the alarming conduct of my wife. Hav? ing demanded and obtained a private interview, this scandalous old person, who was once an indigo merchant, and yet retains the trace *>f his calling upon his nose, set before mn Lu,detail a number of curious circumstances connected with the "goings on," as he was pleased to call them, of my wife, which he waa not, indeed, prepared to say, "might nflt possibly be only coin? cidences, after nil," but which he felt it his duty, as a fellow-creature, and ono who had been ii husband in his time-herc; his lips made a dumb mo? tion of gratitude--to let me know. Even as a neighbor, and the inhabi? tant of a common Crescent, hitherto remarkable for its respectability, and which, as I doubtless remembered, had declined to permit Mrs. Jones to put up apartments in her window, lest we should be confounded with the lodg? ing bouse.localities; nay, which by tho mere force of its public opinion, had prevented No. 4S4 from being let to a play actor -oven in this character, said Peabody, he felt it his duty to make 'me aware of what was being said, though doubtless falsely, re? specting the behavior of Mrs. B. Hore I should have locked the door, and informed Peabody that his last hour was certainly arrived, and that he had bettor make his peace with Providence before I cut his throat; but from ignorance of the proper'eon duct to be adopted in s;:.;h exceptional circumstances, and perhaps from the knowledge that there was nothing but a paper-knife in thc rodm with whieli to effect this righteous punishment, 1 only burst out laughing, and called him a meddling and impertinent old fool. "Very time," returned he, for hf .always makes use of that form ol words-''very true; but still the fact are worth investigating, eve n from their singularity. Do you know, foi ""instance, that at ll o'clock, three days a week, vour wife goes ont in a cab b> herself?* "No," saul I, "I do not;-though, i she does, it is surely better than if sh? had an ineligible companion. As si matter of fact, however, .she does liol do so, fori have offered to go shoji ping with her twice this week, anti she has declined to go with me on tin ground of having a sore throat." "Upon what days did she give this excuse?" inquired Peabody, taking out his pocket-book. "Last Monday and last Tuesday,' returned I. "Well, here's a memorandum: 'Mon dav, 4th, saw Mrs. li. start as usual at* ll; Thursday, 7th, ditto, ditto. She could not be going to a morning concert, because she had no whit* gloves on." "I will grant that much," quoth I sardonically, and yet notbyany*meau? unmoved by this unexpected intelli genoe-"My wife does not go to morn ing concerts." "Very true," Answered Peabody "Then the question arises where doe she go to? Now, as an inhabitant o the crescent-" "Peabody," interrupted I, severely "I acknowledge tho right of no man no, not of the man in the moon him self-to meddle** in my affairs upoi that ground. I am obliged to yoi for the interest you have taken in titi matter, but the .simple fact is, that i has been entirely misplaced. I h av been perfectly well aware of my wife' movements, and they have had m; fullest . permission and approbation I only wanted to see to w hat length your impertinence and love of intel terence would carry you. That is you hat, I believe; your umbrella is th alpaca (inc. 1 wish you a very goo morning." I ushered my visitor ont, and the sat down in my private parlor wit my elbows upon the table, and bot my hands thrust into my hair. I ha temporarily extinguished Peabody but I was on fire with jealous appr< hensions myself. What could it a mean? For sixteen years my wil had never taken any excursion unie: in my company, upon which, she lia given me to understand, she doatei and yet, after refusing to go out wit me upon Monday and Tuesday las tfti tho plea of ?ore throat, she lui started, tho very instant my back w: turned, in a Ransom-or even sn] posing it was a four-wheeler-in cab without white gloves on, and Confound it, here was a row in tl pantry, and one which my peace i mind deruanded to have cleared up : once." "Auna Maria," coied I, huskil from tho bottom pf the stairs - "An? Maria, I wish to speak -with you im? m?diat? dy." "Lor' bless me," answered my wife from the top story, "it isn't one of the children "is it, John? Pray tell me tho worst at once? " ? "No, Madame, it is I," replied I, stiffly. "Then its the kitchen chimney," exclaimed she; in a dogmatic tone. "And didn't I tell Mary to have it swept a week ago; ami now the fire engines will spoil everything, even if we aie not burnt out of house and home." Was it possible that this woman could have deceived me, a.s Peabody hud s:dd, and yet talk so simply of her children, and of house and home? By the time Anna Maria had got do wn to the drawing room flight, 1 hogan to be rather ashamed of myself. When the motlier of%eight reached my sitting room door, with her honest face aglow with animation, and her voic? so ear? nest about, the soot, I did not dare to mention what I had in my mind. "1 called you down, dear, to say th?x I was going to give myself a holi? day to-day; and to ask you to como with nie to Hampstead Heath, and aine at Jack Straw's Castle this after? noon, it being sucha beautiful day."' A ray of joy^ passed for'un instant over her features, and then, ns if re? collecting herself, she began to stam? mer that she was very, very sorry, but really she bad so much to do about the house just then; if I would oniy wait tiil Friday week, which was my birth-day, then we would go some? where, and she should like it above all measure. Tliis afternoon, however, tile thing was impossible. "Well,"' said 1, gravely, "we have not many holidays together, ami 1 am sony. You had a sore throat on Mon? day and on Thursday, when 1 offered you a similar opportunity." "O'yes," answered she, shaking heW little head, which is very prettily could it be too prettily?-'set upon Lier shoulders; it is quite impossible that I could go out with that throat." 'Tiens" thought i, for she could not have gone out without her throat, j "is some dreadful falsehood: but Pea? body may have told it, and not she. Perhaps she never went, out at all. Should I not rather believe the wife of my bosom than that scandalous old retired indigo merchant? Was it not base even to suspect Anna Maria of deception? Doubtless it was; but yet 1 thought I would just satisfy myself with my ?own eyes. "Very well," observed I, quietly, "since you cannot come with me. to? day, I shall go to the city as usual. I don't care for a holiday hy myself." "Poor, dear fellow," said Anna Ma? ria, coaxingly, as she helped mc on with my great-coat, "1 am ?quite grieved to disappoint you. Good-bye, John. Mind you have a good lunch? eon; its very bad for you, eating those buns and rubbish." (cONCMTOEn IN OTU NTS XT.) Iii vi-w of thu importance of tin: approach? ing Convention, it is of vital consequence to us that we should lie represented by mei ,' not only of patriotism and experience, bf.t of legal acquirements. 1 lieg, then fore-, to present to tile voters of Richland the mimes of the following gentlemen, who are emi? nently titted for tin- responsible post^for which they are nominated: CHANCELLOR "CARROL, HON. WM. F. DKSAL'SSURE, COL. WM. WAI.LACK, _COL, v. w. MCMASTER. Aug'3 THE follo wing gentlemen are respectfully suggested as candidates tor thc Convention i:? Oe held in September next: . WAHL HAMPTON, A. lt. TAYLOR, W. A. I IA Ki; IS, .1. ti. GIPPES. July 31 * For Hie Convention. Thc friends of the Cloon and of "icir Stale, desiring to bring into ber councils practical knowledge sound patriotism and devotion to her \?->i interests, respectfully nominate the following gentlemen as dele? gates to the- State Convention from the District of. Richland: JOHN CA LD WE LL, WADE HAMPTON, * A. R. TA VI.OP, _W. A. tlAKUIS. August 1* AV. K.MOIIXSTO.V, 3fcE?ig;??rt:ir?t-te>, Offirr tm I'irkr..* street hist Cud Of Latl'J. "II/"ILL attend to all official business W brought before bim; will also attend to drawing up DeuJs, Conveyances, Mort? gages, Contracts, and other ordinary, legal instruments of writing. Fair copies of any document executed with neatness and de? spatch._August 1 Notice--Charitable Appeal. mHE ladies of thc URSULINE CONVENT JL ami ACADEMY, aro anxious to rebuild, as speedily as possible, an edifice suitable for their Monastery and Institute, theirs having been burned in the general confla? gration of Columbia by the United Stifles Armv, under Gen. Sherman, on thc night of February 17tb. And while they are far from pressing their necessities on their fel low-svfierers of thc South, will gratefully receive any contributions >?iiich tbo friends of ?ducation anil religion may donate them for Ibis excellent work. Remittances may be made through thu Express Company. Phase address THE MOTHER SUPERIOR, Ursuline Convent and Academy, Care Dr. John Linell, Columbia, S. C. i Aug 2 Imo HeadquaTterg "Military l?i.itrlvi ot Cliarlesiozi. DEPARTMENT SOUTH CAROLINA. ASSISTANT ADJUTAM'-GEN.'S OFFICE, CHARLESTON, S. C., Julv 27,1806. ?90TTCE. , v )ERSONS desiring to publish Newspapers within thc limits of this District; arc hereby informed that it will lirst be neces? sary io obtain the consent of the Major General Commanding the Department. By command of Brevet Brig. Gen. JOHN P. HATCH. LEON/, au B. PERKY, Ass t Adj. Gen. Official: E. HAINS JI;WETT, 1st Lieut, and A. A. A. Gen. _. _ Aug 7 18_ The Nev/lTorkCTews. DAILY and WEEKLY. THE NEW YORK . yiEEKLV NEWS, a great family news? paper-BENJAMIN WOOD, Proprietor-the largest, best ami cheapest paper published in New York. Single copits, 5 cents; one copy one year, $2; three copies one fyear, 5.50; five copies one year, S.7?; ten copies one year, 17; and an extra copy to any club of ten. Twonty copies one year, 30; the Weekly News is sent to elergvn?en at 1.60. . NEW YORK DAILY NEWS. To mail subscribers, $10 p?r annum; six months, 5: payments invariably in advance. Specimen e .ai" s pf Dailv and NVeefclv News sent free. Address BENJ. WOOD, ? . Daily New.-, Building. No, 10 City Hall Square, X?w York City. " raOlIRlTIlN INDEX, . BT the FIRST OF OCTOBER, or as soon as the mails aro re-cstabl shed, I will renew the publication oi the "CHRISTIAN ?NDEX" and the ' CHILD'SINDEX" ihave been publishing. Price ot' "Index," per annum.$:i 00 Price <^f "Child's Index," '*. 50 (A'deduction made for Clubs.) Money may be remitted et once, as my determination is positive. My desire is to s-. eure a large subscription list with which to begin, and I issue this prospectus that subscribers may have time io forward their remittances. lt is ?iv intention to bsuo 'hst class papers, and no pains or expense will be spared to secure that < nd. The best writers at?d?correspondents will bc secured, and the highvst n .igious and literary talent will lie given to die papers. The CHILD'S PAPE?? wiil be profusely illustrated and will, in every sense, bc made to conform to its new title, THE CHILD'S DELIGHT! Money mav be sent by Express or other? wise-if by Express, at my risk, if thc Ex p: ess receipt is sent me, on the resumption ol mail facilities. My connection with the firm of T. W. Burke & Co.. is dissolved, but I will esta? blish an office in Macon. Georgia, where communications mav be addressed. Aug olmo, SAMUEL BOY KIN. A GREAT \\m SLPI'LIEB NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS! PUBLISHED S?i??y, Ji'i-3iitcy?j diJt'ciiiij, At the Capital of South Carolina, OOXi? uve BIA. WS- . ^ ' ' iso.-,. 'y*/ - -, 1805. THE DAILY PH2E?$jp\, ISSUED everv morning axeept Snndav, is idled with the LATEST NEWS, (bv tele? graph, mails,.etc.,) EDITORIAL, CORRKS PONDENCE, MISCELLANY, POETRY, STORIES, eic. This is the only daily paper in the State outside of thc city of Gharleaton. The Tri-Weekly Phoni*, For rounby circulation, is published every Tuesday, Thursday -iijil Saturday, mid has all the reading matter of intercut contained in the daily is.-nos of the week. WEEKtY GtE?NE&Y A HOME COM F ANION'. As its name indicates*, is intended as a FAMILY JOURNAL, and is published every Wednesday. It will contain Eight Pages, of Fort v Columns. The cream of the News, Miscellany, Tales, etc., oi the Daily and Tri-wct kly will be found in its columns. . TERMS- INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. Dailv, one vear. r..$10 00 " " three months-. 3 00 Tri-Weekly, one y?ar. 7 00 " * three months. 2 00 Weekly, one year. 4. (10 three months. 1 23 Advertisements inserted in tho Daily or Tri-Weekly at il a square for the lirst in? sert ion, and 7;> cents for each subsequent insertion. Weekly advertisements il a square every insertion. JOB WORK, Such a:: HAND-BILLS, CARDS, CIRCU LARS. fJHIN-I'LASTEFS, etc., fixecatec promptly and at reasonable rates. JULIAN A. SELBY,? July 31 Publisher ?ad Proprietor. ' By th? Pro-/:-Io nul Gton^raor of tht SSatc o? Sou???. Carolin is. A PROCLAMATION ! WHEREAS His Excellency President Johnson na? is:,>ied lita proclanift. tioit, aispointing itu. (iicnjnmhi c. lVny> Provieiuual Governor iii ai;.: lor the State "of Sooth Caroline, with power to prescribe such rules and regulations aa may ne neceB .sary and proper fur coi*, ouing a Convention of tho State, composed of delegates to bo chosen by that portion of the people of said State wii? are loyal to thc United Staten, for the parp?se o? altering or amending tin .Constitution thereof; and with authoruy to exercise within the limits of the State alt tlie powers necessary and proper to enable such loyal people to restore said State to ils constitutional relations to the Federal Gov eminent, and-to present such a Republican form of State Government as ?ill entitle tin state to the guarantee of the United State* therefor, a'nd its people to protection hy tho United states against invasion, insurrectiwii and domestic violence. Kow, therefore, in obedience to tho pro? clamation of his Excellency Andrew John? son, President of the Uititcd C. ta tea, 1, RE-N?AMIN F. PERRY, Provisional Gover? nor of tb?; State vi South Carolina, for thu purpose cf organizing a Provisional Gov? ernment in South Carolina, reforming tin? State Constitution and restoring civil au? thority in said State under tf.o Constitution and laws of thc United States,, tb? hereby proclaim and declare that all civil officers in South Carolina, who were in otlice when ttie Civil Government of tho Slate was suspend? ed, in May laal, (except those arrested or under prosecution for treason,) snail, on taking the oath ol allegiance prescribed m tho President's Amnesty Proclamation ol thc-illili day of May, 1805, resume tb? duties ot* their othtsesand continue to dis? charge them under thc Provisional Govern? ment till further appointments arc mad?. Am. I do further proclaim, declare and imj-.c known, that it is the tluty of ali loyal . citi/.eiia of tho State of South Carolina to . promptly go forward and take tl.? oath t.l' allegiance to th? Unite.! Stiftes, before some magistrate or military officer of the Federal Government, who may be qualified for ad? ministering oaths; and such are hereby authorized to give certified copies thereof to the persons respectively by whom they were made. And such magistrates ur officers arc hereby required to transmit tito originals of such oaths, at as early a day as may bo convenient, to the Department of State, m the city of Washington, ?J. C. ' And 1 do further proclaim, declare and .make kndvn, that the Managers of Elec? tions throughout the State of South Caroli? na vfM bold an election foi- members of a State Convention, at their, respective pre? cincts, on tho FIRST MONDAY IN SEF TEMRER NEXT, according to Hie laws of South Carolina in force before tin: secession of the State; and that each Election Dis? trict in the State shall elect as Uli'.liY lUeirt bcrs of the I'oiivr'lliou aa thc said District has members of the House of-Representa? tives- the basis of representation being population and taxation. This will givu one hundred and twenty-four members to the Convention-a number sufficiently larg-.' to represent everv portion of the State most fully. Every loyal citizen who bas taken th? . Amnesty OH th and not within thc excepted classes in th?- President's Proclamation, will bc entitled to vote, provided he was a legal voter under the Constitution as iL stood prior to the st -easton of South Caro? lina. And all who ar.e within the excepted classes must take the oath and apjdy tor a 'pardon, in order to entitle them to Sute Ol* become members of the Convention. The members of the Coiivuntion thus elected on the first Monday in September next, are hereby required to convene in the city of Columbia, en WEDNESDAY, the bab day <>i September, 1865, ior the pm-j lose of altering and amending the present Consti? tution of South ('andina, or remodelling and making ? new one, which will eon fori ii to the great changes which have takes place in tho State, and be more in accord? ance with Republican principles and equali? ty of representation. And I do further proclaim and mair known, that the Constitution and all laws of force in South Carolina prior to thc seces? sion of the State, are hereby made of force under the Provisional Government, except wherein they may conflict with the provi? sions of ibisproelamation. And the Judges and Chancellors of the State are hereby required to exercise all the powers and per? form all tho duties which appertain to meir respective offices, and especially in criminal cases, lt will be expected of the Federal military authorities isewin South Carolina, to lend their authority to the civil officers, of the Provisional Government, for the pur? pose of enforcing the laws and preserving ttie pAtee and good order of the State. And 1 do further command and enjoin all good and lawful citizens of thc SiaSc to unite in enforcing the laws and bringing to justice all disorderly persons, all plunder? ers, robbers and marauders, all vagrants and idle persons win* are wandering about without.employment or any visible means of supporting themselves. It is also expected that all former owners of freed persons will be kind to them, and not turn off the children or aged to perish; and tlie freed men ami women are earnestly enjoined to make contracts, just and fair, for remaining with their former owner. In order to facilitate as much as nossible the application for pardons niider" the ex? cepted sections of the President's Ami ns tv Proclamation, it is stated for information that all applications must be by petition, stating tho exception, and accompanied with the oath prescribed. This petition must bc lirai approved bv the Provisional Governor, and then forwarded to the Presi? dent. Thc headquarters of the Provisional Governor will be at Greenville, where all communications to him mast be addressed. The newspapers of this State will publish this proclamation till thc election for mem? bers of the Convention. In testimony whereof, I baffe hereunto set my hand and seal. Done at tho [L. S.] town of Green ville, this 20th day of ^ July, in.the yeaf of our Lord, 1SC?, and of the " independence of tho United States the -ninetieth. Ii. F. PERRY. Ry the Provisional Governor: WILLIAM H. Prturv, Private Secretar-.. - July 26