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MISOBI.XiA.KrY, Description of si First Love. FBOSI BEAUMONT AND VLEI GUEE. What can bo moro passionate, yet tender and maidenly withal, than thia description of a tirst love from ono of the plays of Beau? mont and Fletcher. Let the reader com? pare it with Desdemona's confession of ber affection for tho Moor in Shakspeare's Othello: "My father oft would speak Your worth and virtue, and as I did grow Moro and more apprehensive, I did thirst To sec the man so praised; but yet all this "Was but a maiden longing, to bo lost As soon as found, till sitting in my window, Printing ?ny thoughts m lawn, I saw a god, I thought, (but it was von.) enter our gates. My blood Hew out and back again as fast As I had puffed it forth, ami sucked it in Like breath. Theu was I called away m haste To entertain von. Never was a man Heaved from a shecp-sote to a sceptre, So high in thought as I. You left a kies Upon these lips then, which I mean to keep From yon forever. I did hear you talk Far above singing.- After you were gone, I grow acquainted with my heart, and searched . . What stirred it so: alas! I found it*-love. THE CASTLE OX THE RIILVE. BT FRANCIS A. DriUVAGE. Tu one of those old fondai castles which, perched like eagle nests, upon picturesque hills that overhang; '.Thc wide and winding Rhine," and with their mumbling and ivy grown towers, arrest the eyes of the delighted traveler, as he views them from the deck of thc gliding steamer, there dwelt, some years ago, the Baron Von Rosenburg and his lady Mathilde. Tin? baron was a very proud man, and continually boasting of his descent from a 'dong and noble line of martial ancestors," gentlemen , who were -wont, in the "good old times," to wear steel on head, back and breast, and each cf -whom sup? ported a score of retainers in his feudal castle. Where the money comes from to supporta princely housekeep? ing, -when the head of a family has no property or employment, is sometimes a mystery now-a-days; but no such doubt attached to the resources of the baron's ancestors. These gentlemen, when short of provisions, would sally forth at the head of their followers, and capture tho first drove of cattle they encountered, without stopping to inquire into the ownership. Some? times they made excursions on the river, and levied contributions on the little barks of traders, who often car? ried valuable cargoes from one lihine towu to another. But the privileges of the robber knights and bandit nobles were sadly shorn by the xn-ogressive spirit of modern civilization. With a total dis? regard of the immunities of chivalry, modern legislators declared that it was as great, crime for a baron to seize on a herd of cattle as for a peasant to steal a sheep. Hence the great fami? lies along the Rhine went into decay. Tho castles were dismantled, many noble names died cut, very fewr r? maincd, the representatives of the ancestral glory of olden time?. Among them was the baron. He had been a soldier and courtier in his youth, had spent some time abroad, and waj about forty when he married a lady of the same age, and settled down in the old family castle of llo senburg. Herc he lorded it over the surrounding valley, the simple inhabi? tants of which, though exempt from all obligations, yet in sonic sort re? garded themselves as vassals of the baron. They made him presents of tfish, accompanied him to the chase, and lent him a willing hand whenever he roquired assistance at tho castle. The baron, though he had the wherewithal to live comfortably enough, was yet a poor representative of the race he sprang from. His army consisted of a few farm-ser? vants, his cavalry of a plough-boy on a cart-hors?, and his navy of a fishing boat. But. on the whole, he was happy. He passed his days either in trimming his vines or hunting, and his evenings in poring over mildewed parchments or books of Heraldry, hunting up long pedigrees, and puf? fing a monstrous meerschaum till the atmosphere was as dense as the Inte? rior of a smoke-house. The lady Mathilde embroidered from morning till night. They had, however, a common source of grief. Fate had not blessed them with children. The lady yearned for the companionship of a daughter; the baron mourned at the prospect of the extinction of his name for tho want of a male heir. It was whilo pondering on this sub? ject one day, as they were strolling ont together, that the baron and his lady came upon the cottage of tn old sol? dier, named Karl Mueller, who culti? vated a little vineyard not far from the ?astle. The old man was seated on a bench before his door smoking, and so deeply plunged in revery that -he was not aware of visitors till the baron, touched him on the shoulder. ,"In a brown, study. Karl?" said the baron. "I have enongh to think about," returned the soldier. "I'm getting old, and one thing troubles mc." "What's that, my good fellow?" "Why, you see, baron, I'm not alone here. "Not alone?" "No, sir; I-have-I have a little child here." "I never knew you were married, Karl." "Nor was I, your honor. For I always thought an ' antry soldier ought kr be in marching order, and never have more baggage than ho I could carry in his knapsack. No, no; the ohihl is?nou? of mine." j "But it is related to you," said the baroness. "It is my grandchild, madame," re? plied the soldier, fixing his eyes on the lady; "and the child of as brave a man as ever faced thc lire of tho enemy. He might have been a field marshal for the matter of that. I saw him at Oberstadt, when the hussar went down to charge the enemy's light cavalry. Faith, madame, they made daylight shine through their ranks. Their curved sabres cut them up as the sickle does tho cern. I saw him, the girl's father, madame, go into the affair with the hussars; but he came not out safe. It was pitiful to see his Uniterm all dabbled with blood, as he lay on the .ground, and to see his pale lips quiv? ering as he prayed for water. I gave him the last drop in my canteen, and swore I'd protect the child." The baroness, whose eyes were filled with tears, turned to her hus? band and asked: ".Shall we not give a shelter to the child of a brave man?" The baron nodded, and tho propo? sal was accepted by Karl, who retired into his cottage, and immediately re? appeared, bringing forth a beautiful girl of ten, with fair hair and blue eyes, and a form of graceful symme? try. "A girl ! nonsense !" said the. baron in a tone of disappointment. But tin baroness folded the child in her anni with rapture. The child responded to the caresses of the lude, with equa ardor. So the little Adelaide was soon do mesticated in the castle, which Lei frolic spirit filled with gayety. Tin baroness renewed her youth in gazin?: upon hers, and the baron never scoldei her, even when she took the pipe on of his mouth, or rummaged among hi parchments. As she grew up to womanhood sin became more serious and thoughtful She was anxious to learn every thin j touching her father, but on this sub ject the baroness could give her n< information^ and Karl, lier grand father, seemed equally averse to .speak ing of it. When hard pressed h promised to speak out at sonic futur time. One day she was summoned in grea haste to the cottage of old Karl. Th old man had suddenly been taken il and required the presence of his gran daughter, lt was evident at a glam that he was on his death-bed. "Adelaide," said he "forgive m before I die, that 1 may die in peace. "Forgive you, dear grandfather Am I not deeply indebted to you ?" "1 should have reposed more cont dence in you. I should have spoke to you about your parents." "My father ?" asked Adelaide. "Was a brave and good man. Bi of your mother-your good mother she was-" Here a spasm interrupted his utte ance, and he lay huck on his pillow gasping for- breath. After a bri space he seemed to revive again, ai made strong efforts to express bimse! but his breath felled him. He m tioned to Adelaide to fetch him wr ing materials, and while she heb1, sheet of paper on a book before Lh he essayed with feeble lingers to tra a sentence with a pen. But the rap approach of death foiled all his c delivers to communicate a secret th evidently lay close to his heart, ai while the young girl bent over him an agony of grief he gently sigh away his last. The baron and barone found their protege an hour afterwar still sorrowing by the bedside of th? early friend and protector. Wi gentle violence they removed her frc tho chamber of death and took 1 home to the castle, where they ga directions to tho proper persons take charge of tho old soldier's : mains and inter them with that dee? respect which was due to his char; ter and station. Among his effe< was found a will, in which he mu Adelaide his heiress, bequeathing her Ids little landed estate and a sm sum in gold, the produce of his t and frugality. This eveut cast a gio? over the spirits of the young muid' from which, however, lier- religious persuasions, the attention of her friends, arrid thc elnsticity of her youth, eventually relieved her. The old castle on the Rhine was gay once more, when Rodolph Ihn- I stein, aN nephew of the baron, a gay young captain of hussars, whose jral lantry and beauty had given him. a re? putation at Vienna, came to pay a long visit to his uncle. Ho wat: a high-spirited and aoomplished yoking man, had served with distinction, was a devoted admirer of the ladies, ?n d ono of those military Adonises wh o are bom to conquest. Ho. was charm - ed to find domesticated beneath tbn old roof tree so fair and loveable a girl ms Adelaide, and of course did his best to render his society agreeable to her. Ho ?mg to her songs of his own. writing to airs of his own composition, accompanied on Ivis guitar; he told her , tides of strange lands that he had visit- ; ed; of -cavalry shirniish.es in which he had participated; sketched her favor? ite scones in pencil, and offered to teach her the newest dance in vogue at Vienna. He was a dangerous com? panion to a young girl whose imagina? tion needed but a spark to kindle W, and for a timo she indulged in the wild hope that she had made a con? quest of Rudolph, But then her rea? son told her that even if he loved her, it would be impossible for a yeing niau of family to offe? his hand to an almost portionless girl, about whoso origin a voil of mystery seemed wrapped. Tho names of her parents, even, had never been disclosed to her hythe lips of probably the only man who knew her history, ami those lips wore now cold and mute in death. Hence the little gleam of sunshine which had for a moment penetrated her heart, was speedily quenched in a deeper darkness than that which reign? ed iir it before, and she could not help viewing thc visit of Rudolph as au ominous event. [CONCLUDED IN OTTR NF.X?'.] THE following gentlemen arc respectfully suggested as candidates fur the Convention to bc held in September next: WADE HAMPTON, A. lt. TAYLOR, W. A. HARRIS, .7. o. Ol Vii ES. _ July ,11 * Tn view of thc importance of tho-approach? ing Convention, ii is of vital consequence to us that wo should bc represented'hy men, not only of patriotism and experience, but of legal acquirements. I beg, therefor*.!, to present to the voters of Richland the names j of the following gentlemen, wie? art: emi I nein ly titted for the responsible post for j which thev are non.mated: i . il AN< ELLOR CAR ROE. HON. WM. F. DESACSS?RE, COL. WM. WALLACE. CUL. F. W. McMASTEIL Aug M For Hie Convention'. The friends of tim Union and ftf their State, desiring to bring hilo lier councils practical knowledge, soitnd patriotism and devotion to her host Interests, respectfully nominate the following gentlemen'as dele? gates t > the State Convention from the District of Richland: JOHN CALDWELL, ' WADE HAMPTON, A. lt. TAY!.Ol!, _ W. A. HARRIS. August 1* School Books. 11 HE Subscribers heg leave to inform . their old friends and the public, that they are now receiving a large stock of SCHOOL ROOKS, STATIONERY, and everything usually found in a Well furnish? ed Bookstore, which they oiler, and to-ill sell cheap for ca nh. Country dealers and Teachers can scad on their orders now, with tho assurance that they will receive prompt attention. Aug 21 t8 _ TOWNSEND rt NORTH. Brass Foundry. TITHE subscriber, thankful for past patron _|_ age, would inform his friends and the public that h.- is still prepared to furnish all kinds of BRASS CAST INO in a workmanlike manner and with despatch. ROBERT MCDOUGAL, Jnlv31m Gadsden, near Washington st. Ul ?U11 fl COLUMBIA, & C. j^. THE undersigned, having leased tftinrthe LARGE and COMMODIOUS JHICLBUILDING known as thc "Columbia Methodist Female College," will open it asa FIRST-CLASS HOTEL, ?rn September 7. T. S. NICKERSON, Proprietor. JtyS" Papers throughout the State insert twice a week for live weeks, and send bills to this office. Aug '7 & illil i:?;i\ RUNS a CARRIAGE or SPRING WAOON to Orangeburg, at 2 p. m., Tuesdays, i 'i'iiursdays and Saturdays- making conne? I tion with thc Charleston trains the following I mornings. On arrival of train on Monday, WeflueSr day and Friday, a vehicle .-tarts for Colum? bia. For passage, applv to J. H. FOWLES or E. COFFIN, at the store of R. M. Stokes, 1 Thun street. Aug 22 3* Headquarter* Mil Hary District ol Charleston. DEPARTMENT, SOUTH CAROLINA. ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GEN. S OFFICE, CHARLESTON, S. C., July '?1,1866. NOTICE. PERSONS deiriring'to publish Nerrspcpers within tho limits of this Distrist, are hereby informed that it will first be neces? sary lo obtain the consent of the Majcr General Commanding the Department. By command of Brevet Brig. Gen. JOHN P. HATCH. LEONARD B. PERRY, Ass't Adj. Gen. Official: E. HAINS JEWXTT, 1st Lieut, and A. A. A. Gen._Aug? 18 The New York News. DAILY and WEEKLY. THE NEW YORK WEEKLY NEWS, a great family news? paper- BENJAMJ N WOOD. Proprietor--the largest, best aud cheapest paper published in New York. Single'copies, 5 cents; one copy one year, ?2; three copies one ysar, 5.50: five copies ono year, 8.75; ten copies one year, 17; and an extra copy to'any club of ten. Twenty copies one year, 30; the Weekly Nncs is sent to clergymen at 1.60. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS. To mail subscribers. $10 per annum; six months, 5: payments invariably hi advance. Specimen copies of Dailv and Wecklv Nows ?cut free. Address BENJI WOOD, Daily News Building, No 19 City Uah Square, New York City. ~Ti?llIll??STlA\? 1XDEX. j BY the FIRST OF OCTOBER, or as soon | as the mails arc re-cstablishod, 1 will I renew the publication oi the ''CHRISTIAN I IN DEX" and Hie "CHILL'S INDEX" I have. ? been publishing. j Price of "Index," per annum.i'i 00 Pri?e ?f "('?..Id's Index,?' "...... 50 (A deduction mude for Clubs.) Money may be remitted at once, as my dcterminction is positive. My desire is to secura>a lurg?.' sul'*,oription list with which to begin, and I issue this prospectus that i subscribers may have time to forward their remittances. It is my intention to issue first class papers, and no pains or expense will be spared to secure that end. T?e best writers ?ind correspondents will be secured, and tho highest religious and literary talent will be Riven to the papers. The CHILD'S PAPER will lie profusely illustrated ind will, in every sense, be made in conform to its new title, THS CHILD'S DELIGHT! VIv?icy may De sent by Express or other - if by Express, nj. my risk, ii" the Ex? press receipt is sent me, on the resumption ol man facilities. Mv cmiiii ci' n with the firm of J. W. Burke A. Co., is /hssolved, but 1 will ?sta blush an office i.i Macon, Georgia, where communications mae be addressed. Aug 5 lino " SAMUEL BOYKIN. A GBEAT WWI SI 1?LIE!) ! I NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS) PUJ'.LISHF.O gqiiij, Jfi-ilicciiilj ?iJtC?iiij, At thc Capital of South Carolina, COLUMBIA THE DAILY PHCE^?X, TSSUED everv morning excepf Sundav, is tilled with tim LATEST NEWS, (bv tcje graph, mails, etc.,)EDITORIAL, CO?.T.ES PONDENCE, MISCELLANY, POETRY. STORIES, etc. This is tho only daily paper in the State outside of thc city of Charleston. The Tri-Weekly Phoenix, For conntrv circulation, is published every Tuesday, Thursday ami Saturday, and haw all tie- reading matter of interest contained in thc daily issues of the week. WEEKLY GLEANE?, A HOME COMPANION. As its name indicates* is intended as a FAMILY JOURNAL,and is published every Wednesday, lt will contain Eight Pages, of Forty Columns. The cream of the News, Miscellany,. Tales, etc., oi the Daily and Tri-wenklv will 1?- found in its columns. TERMfrC-INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. Daily, one year.$10 00 " " three months. 3 00 - l i-Weeldy, one veal-. 7 00 " three- months. 2 00 Weekly, one ymir. 4 00 * bree months. 1 25 Advertir, nicnts inserted in the Daily or Tri-WeeMy it $1 a square for the first in? sertion, and 75 cents for each subsequent insert ion. Weekly advertisements $1 a square every insertion. JOB WO?S, Such as HAND-BILLS, CARDS, CIRCU? LARS, SHIN-PLASTERS, etc., ex?cut?e' promptly and at reasonable rates. JULIA* A. SELBY July 31 TuWisber an?i Proprietor - ' i " "-' 1 EgggSBB By thc Provisional Governor or Ul? s State o? South Carolina. A PBO'CLAMAHOM ! \\j UEBEAS His Exoeiiancy Presiden? TT Johnson has issued Lie proclama? tion, appointing me (Benjamin E. Perry) Provisional Governor in and for the State of South Carolina, with power to prescribo such rules aud regulations as may be neces? sary and proper for convening a Convention of (he State, composed of delegates to be chosen by that portion of the people of said State who are loyal to the United States, for the purpose ol' altering or amending tim Constitution thereof; and with authority to exercise within the limits of thc State alt the powers necessary .ind proper to euable such loyal people to restore said State to it3 constitutional relations to the Federal Gov? ernment, and to present such a Kepublican form ?f State Government as will eutitls tim State to tho guarantee of the United ?tatos therefor, and its people to protection by tho United btatss against invasion, insurrection and domestic violence. Now, therefore, in obedience to the pro? clamation of his Excellency Andrew John? son, President of tho United &tates, I, BEN'JAMiN P. PEJAlty, Provisional Gwver-., nor of the .State ot bouth Carolina, for the purpose of organizing a Provisional GOY ernuient in South Carolina, reforming the Stato Constitution and restoring civil au? thority in said State under the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim aud declare that all civil officers in. south Carolina, who were in office when the Civil Government ef the Slate waa suspend? ed, in May laet, (except thuse arrested or uudur prosecution for tr?a?on,; snail, on taking the oath of allegiance puscnoed ;.i the 1'resident's Amuesty Proclamation us thc lilith day of May, 1805. resume tho duties of their otlk-es an<l continue to dis? charge them under the Provisional Covcio meut till further appointments arc made. And 1 do further proclaim, declaro and j make known, that it is tuc duty ol ail loyal. ! citizens of tho State of hu uta Carolina to promptly go forward and take the oath of I allegiance to the United States, before some j magistrate or military officer ci tuc Federal Government, who may he qualified for ad ! ministering oaths; and such aro hereby 1 authorized to give certified cop.es ?hereof to.the persona respectively by whom they I were made. And sutii magistrates yr officers jf.ro hereby required t^ transmit th) originals ol' such oaths, at as early a Cay as muy be convenient, to the Department ot' ! State,in tho city of Washingtoe?-'D. C. i And I do 'further nroelahu.'l'?ociarc and make known, that the Managers ?f Eise? tious throughout tiic Stale ol South Carol. na will hold un elect um for members ul a State Convention, at their respective pr?. - ciucts, on tho FIRST MONDAY IN SEP? TEMBER. NEXT, aovording to the lava of South Carolina in force betoie the aeccssieU of thc State; and that each Election Eu trict in tis.' State shall elect as many meia I hers of the Convention as the saki Uisuict has members of the House cf Representa? tives -the Oasis of representation being j population and taxation. '1 ms will give 1 one bundled and twenty-four members to j tte' Convention-*o number aiUHcientij large I to represent cverv poriv.i of tue Slate mo*', I fully. Every loyal citizen who has taken the Amnesty oath and nut within th?- excepted ! classes in the President's Proclamation, j will be entitled to vote, provided ne vasa Ilegal v*tcr under the Constitution as it ! stood prior to the secessi'm ol M>UUI Caro ; lina. And ah who arc within the excepted i classes must take the oath and apply lor a pardon, in order to entitle them to vote ct become members of the Convention. ! The members of the Convention fhu* ' elected eui the first "Monday in September j next, are hereby required to convene in the city of Columbia, on WEDNESDAY, the liitli I day et' September, J-'oO, ?or tho purpose of J altering ami amending thc present Coasti ! t inion of Soutli Carolina, or remodelling j and niakinf: a new one,whick will conform to the great ehanges which have taken place in the State, and be more hi accord1 I ance with Republic*!! principles and equah I ty of Yepresoutation. i " And i do further proclaim and make, i known, that thc Consritutronand all laws of [.force in South Carolina prior io tuc ser.es I sion of tii?1 State, are hereby made of force j under the Provisional Government, except wherein they may conflict with the pro vi I sions of this proclamation. And thc Judges land Chancellors of thc State aro hereby j required to exereisu all the powers and pei - i form aU thc duties which apporta in to their respective offices, and especially in criminal casej. lt wiil bc expected of the Federal military authorities now ni South Carolina", to lend their authority to thc civil officers of the Provisional Government, for the pnr ! pose of enforcing the laws and preserving . tlie peace and good order v>i' thc State, j And I do further command and enjoin nil good and lawful citizens of the State to I twite in enforcing the laws and bringing to j justice all disorderly persons, all plunder I ers, robbers and marauders, all vagrants Iand idle persons who are wandering about without employment or any visible means of supporting themselves. lt is also expected that all former owners I of freed persons will be kind to them, and not turn oil' the children or aged to perish; and thc freed men and women are. earnestly enjoined to make contracts, just and fair, *for remaining with their former owner. In order to facilitate as much as possible tho application for pardons under tho ex? cepted sections of the President's Amnesty Proclamation, it is stated for information i that all applications must be by petition, stating the exception, and accompanied with thc oath prescribed. This petition must be first approved bj thc Provisional Governor, and then forwarded to the Presi? dent. The headquarters of thc Provisional Governor will be at Greenville, where all communications to him must be addressed. The newspapers of this State vyil publish this proclamation till the election for mem? bers of the Convention. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal. Dene at the [i. s.] town of Greenville, this 20th day of July, in the year of our Lord, 1*65, and of the " inderi ndenee of th? ?United States the ninetieth. R. F. PERRY. By the Provisional /lovemor: WILLIAM H. PERKY, Privat? Secretory Julv 26