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MISCP1T IXJ? A JJ"3T Ruin in the Heart. Thc following lines were found by a Con? federate soldier in a deserted house on the Peninsula, Va.: "Into mch life some raiii must fa?." If this were all-obi if this were all. That into each life some rain must fall, There were fainter sobs in the poet's rhyme. There were fewer wrecks on the shores of time. But tempests of woe pass over the soul Since winds of anguish we cannot control; And shock after shock we arc called to bear, T?l the lips are white with the heart's de spa ir. The shores of time with wrecks are strewn, Uuto the ear comes ever a moan - Wrecks of hopes, that sci, sail with glee, Wrecks of love, sinking silently. Many are hid from the human eye, Only God knoweth how deep they lie; Only God heard when arose the cry, "Help me to bear-oh! help me to bear." "Into each life some rain must fall," If this were all-oh! if this were all: Yid there's a refuge from storm ami blast, Gloria Patri-weli reach it at last. Be strong, be strong, to my heart I erv, The pearl in the wounded shell doth lie; Days of sunshine arc given to all, Tho" "into each life some rain must fall." THE PAINTER'S WIFE. "But you have not. told mo yet Cyrilla, what incident the picture i intended to represent." "lt is intended to illustrate th story of Ginevra, as told in Hogers 'Italy.' I dare say, you recoll?e the poem in question?" "O yes; I remember all abou Francesca Doria and his youthfu bride, and how the latter hid hers cl in an old chest on her wedding-day and was smothered, and ber body no found for ever so many years after ?wards. " "That is just the point--wher Ginevra is about to hide herself that Theodore is trying to illustrate 1 have sat to him I don't know hoy many times already." "And a very good likeness it is o you, my dear. And the chest i vrhieh she is about to hide herself i painted from that real chest in th corner there! It looks a hundre years" tdd. Dear, dca*-! it's quit wonderful! But I thought painter always invented such things out t their own heads." .The speakers were aunt and nice -*tho latter, a fair and slender girl c twenty, with a singularly youthfi expression of lace for one who ws both a wife and a mother. The tim was half-past nine on a certai autumn evening some half-doze years ago, and the place was a pie; saut Home-like room in a small viii; in one ol' the westerly suburbs < London. '"The mention of those Italia names, Cyrilla." .said Mrs. lleve presently, "puts me in mind of :i old admirer ol' yours. Signor Pieti Fastiiii. By the by, do you kno where he now is?" "No; where?" said Cyrilla, quickl; "In a lunatic asylum. He wei crazy about a year ago, and has bet under restraint ever since. ] dot think you treated him well. Cyrill to encourage his attentions, and tin to east him oil'in the way you did Cyrilla's cheek paled suddenl she sank into a chair, and did n speak for a minot" or two. "Yi have been misinformed, aunt," s said at last. "Signor Fastini nev received the slightest eneourageme from me. I was attracted towards hi by his great musical talent; but it w his own presumption that drew lr. on to speak to. nie as he did. Nev theless, 1 am truly grieved to hear the affliction that has overtaken hin Cyrilla sat thinking deeply 1 some time after her aunt's depart u going, in memory, through ?ill tin phases of her life in which 1 young Italian had been au act Her reverie was brought to an c by the clock on the mantel-pi chiming eleven. She got up from her seat witl littiti sigh, and went into her dr? ing-room, which opened out of room in which she had been sitti and bathed her hands and lace; ; changed her e\ ening-dress for a ci fortable white wrapper; andunboi her yellow hair, letting it fall i: rich sheaf down her shoulders; Theodore had gone out to-night t supper-party given hy a brol artist who was. about to enter holy state of matrimony, .and had promised to sit up for him; Theodore, on his part, had prom to Be home soon utter midnight. Going back into thc sitting-ro Cyrilla rang the hell, and prose the nurse carno in w ith Baby, \ being a well-behaved young get man, was happily last asleep at late hour, ile was deposited a pretty little cot close hy his mot! side. .'You can gu to Bed, m and the other servants can do same," said Mrs. T holmhurst. "1 sit up for master myself. Seo tht: doors ?md windows are all fa: ed before you go np stairs." When thc woman was gone, C'1 stirred up thc low lire on th, lu into a fitful blaze, and then too! thc iirst volume of a novel whicl been Brought ber that after from the library. Theodor?; v be home in an hour at the furl and thc time would pass pleas and quickly away. A pleasant, cosy, home-like pi -thc pretty, girlish wife coil? gracefully in her husband's easy-chair, tho sleeping child, the room itself, with its walls half-hidden with sketches, prints and water? colors, with thc easel in one corner, and the piano-forte in another, with Cyrilla's work-basket ou a side-table, in company with a meerschaum, big and brown, and a tobacco jar after the antique. A pleasant picture, and one which Theodoro ?hornhurst, | artist from tho top of his head to the sole of his foot, would not fail to note when ho should come stepping leisurely in through one of the three French windows opening on to the lawn, which had just been draped, ready for winter, with curtains of crimson damask, in place of the muslin ones which had shaded them through the summer months. Cyrilla read on undisturbed for about half an hour, at the end of which time baby began to grow rest? less; so she laid down her book, and began to rock the cot with a low, gentle motion, and at the same time to sing, in a minor key, the exquisite cradle song from "The Princess:" "Sweet and low, sweet and lew, Wind .d' thc Western sea; Low, low. breathe and blow. Wind of the Western sea'." Kinging thus, she lifted the child tenderly out of its cot, kissed it fondly, and carried it through tho drossing-room iuto thc chamber be? yond, and there laid it snugly in bed. Presently, she came back, still humming the music of the song under her breath, and leaving the door of thc dressing-room half open behind her, so that she might tho more readily hear her darling, should he awake and cry out. Then she sat down again iu her husband's easy-chair, and went on with her novel. But tho under-current of her thoughts was with her husband; and presently she glanced np at the time piece on the mantel-shelf, only | to discover that it had come to a dead stop some ten minutes pre? viously, for want of winding up. ? She put down her book, and rose at once to perform the necessary duty, for the voice of the little (dock | sounded like that of a friend in lier : lonely watching. How the words | ofthat song haunted her memory.' She was winding up thc time-piece slowly and carefully, and bumming i thu song to herself, and as she did j so-what woman would not have done the saine? sin; glanced at the reflection ol' her own pretty face in ] the glass over the chimney-piece. 1 She saw ber blue-eyed face, with its ? setting of yellow hah*, and the same ? moment she saw something else by j no im ans pleasant to look upon something that for one instant caused every pulse ?d' her being to stand still in silent horror. There was sonn? one in tin1 room i beside herself. What she saw ia . the glass was thc reflection of a hand grasping the crimson damask curtains that draped the French win? dow opposite tin; tire-place. Only a hand -but whose hand? It was very small and very white, but un? mistakably tlu' hand of a man. and just as surely not the big brawny paw of Theodore Thornhurst. Cyrilla's eyes dilated as she gazed: I the murmur ol' thc song di'd off her i lips; her lingers ceased from turning the key of the clock, she stood like ono changed to stone. She durst not turn her head to glance at the j dread reality which she knew was j behind her; she kept her gaze fixed | steadily in the glass, watching w ith a sort of horrible eagerness for some j sign or token of life in those white, ' death-like lingers, which looked as j if they belonged to a corpse. Sud- ? denly, while she was looking like j ono fascinated? there wns fi slight movement of the curtain, the white ? lingers relaxed their grasp, opened, j and for an instant were withdrawn. Next moment they were there again, grasping the curtain as before; and as they re-appeared, C3-rilla's heart thrilled with a fresh terror; she felt- ' by instinct, and not by the action j of any more positive sense-that, I from amid the dim folds of the cur-j tains, two eyes, unseen by her, were , watching her every movement. Tho dread inspired by this disco- j very-for she felt sure that her in- j stiiict was not playing her false-was almost moro than she could bear, lier senses seemed as though they were about to desert her; a dimness - crept over her eyes; a numbness | began to steal through every limb; ' and it seemed to her as thoug?the room, herself, and even that terrible i band, were, all fading into unsub? stantial shadows, and that nothing could ever trouble her more; when all at once her Jading senses were pierced by a faint sound--a sound that went straight to her mother's heart, and in one brief moment stung all her lading senses into vivid life. lt was the voice of her child that she , had heard, just as she * was about toi sink fainting to the floor. He had j turned over in his sleep, and had felt for her in the dark, and had given utterance to a low plaintive cry at not Anding her beside him. To a feeling of life the most vivid and intense, tho weak voice had re? called her. "For my child's sake," she murmured in her heart, "let strength be given me:' Her hand was steady enough now, and she went on with the winding-up of the little clock; winding slowly, that she might have mort; time to think what her next move must be. '.he was strangely calm now, with '?it calmness which is induced in some natures by the presence of a I groat peril. As she kept on winding, I her eyes seemed to be fixed intently ! ou the little clock, but were at the ! game time watching the hand with nj covert half-look that might or might not deceive the hidden eyes which she felt sure were just as intently. watching her. There! the clock was wound up at j last-never had it taken so long a time before-and thc question was, | what to do next? If she could only i get away-get away into her dressing- j room, and put the door between i herself and her hidden visitor -she ; felt that both she and her child ; would be safe. It was their only chance of escape. Tile effort must be made, and that at once; for to stay in tho room much longer, watched by those unseen eyes,*woitld be enough' to drive her mad. I "Sweet and low, eweet and low, W iuds of the Western sea." How she contrived to get the words out she could never have told afterwards, but she found herself humming them over, and sidling across the room with an elaborated careless air, towards a little table placed half-way between the fire? place und the dressing-room door. The table was reached in safety, and Cyrilla ventured to breathe again. A photographic album lay on the table, and she took it up and began to examine it with tho deepest ap- ^ parent interest. While in this posi- i tion, the hand was behind her. She | would have given much to be able to glance over her shoulder and soe whether it was still visible, but the effort was ono that required more j courage than she had to spare just j then. Perhaps, even now, her un- j known visitor was stealing out from behind, the curtain-was creeping I stealthily after her, with the view of surprising her, say by putting his hands over lier eyes, or by seizin g j her suddenly round the waist, Iiis foot-steps would be noiseless on the thick carpet She could bear the horror of her situation no longer; sim let the hook drop from between her fingers, and made a rush for her dressing-room; but just as she had got within ti yard ot the door, she stumbled, and came down on her ' knees. Before she could even make one effort to risc, she w as grasped by | the right wrist from behind, a cold: hand was placed over her mouth, and a stem voice whispered in her our: "Make thc least noise, and you are ti dead woman!" Next instant her mouth was un- | covered, and Cyrilla found herself; lifted somehow on to her feet. Sin: | turned to look tit her assailant, and as her eyes met Iiis, she shrank away from him as farast heir<'ii clasp, onshe wrist would allow, and gave utterance to ti low cry of terror: "Signor Pietro Fastini!" "Even so. eurinima mia," ho said. "You do not seem pleased to see me. But pray resume your seat:" and still holding her by the wrist, he led her back to the easy-chair, into which I he inducted her with a profound bow. A tall timi elegant-looking man, this Signor Pietro Fastini; olive complexioned, with black beard and moustache, thin and silky; und large, dark, melancholy-looking eyes. But in those eyes there was now an ex? pression such us Cyrilla had never seen in them before-an expression that made her shiver with affright. Ile was dressed in full evening cos? tume, except that he was without hat and gloves; wliile his long black hair, all blown and tangled by the night wind, lent a touch of incongru? ity to his appearance, which no one could have tailed to detect. "Certainly, you do not seem pleased to see me," he repeated, loosing his grasp of Cyrilla's wrist. "That, however, was hardly to be expected. Lot ns put it that I took you too much by surprise, and not that I am au unwelcome guest."' He govt' utterance to a low sneer? ing laugh; thou he drew np a chair close in front of Cyrilla, and sat down on it. anti seemed to devour her with Iiis Large black eyes. "Cy? rilla Thornhnrst," ho said, "do you know with what purpose I am here this evening?" Poor Cyrilla's lips formed "No," but no sound issued from thom. "I am here to kill you,'" he said, speaking with the slightest possible foreign accent. [CONXLNUKI) IN OUK NEXT.] Gunny Bagging. -? i\ BALES GUNNY BAGGING, cxti W f weight 21 pound*. 50 coils MANILLA KOTE. 1 bale BAGGING TWINE. The above in store at reduced rates. A. L. SOLOMON. Second dom- from Shiver House, Oct ls On Blain street. Fresh Crackers! JUST RECEIVED: G hbls. fresh SO DA BISCUIT. 2 bbls. GINGER SNAPS. 2 " OYSTER CRACKERS. 2 " Extra Butter " '? " Fancy I'io-Nio " the bakery. J. C. SEEi ?ERS .v CO. Feb 26 ^_ Third Supply ol Fre ;h Seed. DA Vlf) LANDRETIl ?(. SON. SILVER SKIN ONION SETTS, Radisl Green-glaze Cabbage, Turnip See< Peas and Beans, Extra Early Corn, Mu Stem Collard, now Tomato Seed and ot la varieties, at FISHER & HEINITSH'S Feb 2G Drug and Seed Store. L STUNG DIU GOODS. 1867. WE HAVE NOW IN STORE THE FOLLOWING TV ??: W A. TV I > C??E vi* O OOI> S s I) RI NTS. BLEACHED ami BROWN COTTONS. PRINTED MUSLINS. CAMBRIC ami BRILLIENTE. ORGANDIES. LAWNS ?md O RI '.NAD I NES. CARS1MERES. COTTONADES and LINEN. ALSO, Tho finest selection of WHITE GOODS, of everv detcriotion, vet offered, and at PRICES THAT CANNOT FAIL TO PLEASE. D. JONES. R. C. SHIVER. ? CITY TRADE! "TXTE offer, for a few .lavs, a SPECIAL and BEAUTIFUL LOT ol NEW DRESS W GOODS, at TWENTY-FIVE CENTS PER YARD. Just in ami suitable for tho season. DAVID JONES. R. C. SHIVER. HAYING ascertained by experience that GOOD GOODS always give satisfaction, and inferior, or second-class, goods seldom do, we have determined to adhere more strictly to our established rule of keeping th. BEST, or FIRST-CLASS, GOODS: and for the future, while wc shall keep ALL GRADES of GOODS, FINE GOODS will be our speciality. DAVID JONES. JErL. O- SHIVER. March 10 NEW GOODS! R. & W. C. SWAFFIELD HAVE JUST RECEIVED AN ASSORTMENT OF S I? RING Clj<)TIII]V(r I OF THEIR OWN MANUFACTURE, WHICH THEY OFFER TO THE PUBLIC AT ? N LT S I" A L L Y LO W P RI C E S : SPRING CASSIMEEES-NEW STYLE. March 5 BEDELL'S RoW. DAILY AND TRI-WEEKLY: OR THE WEEKLY CLEANER PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY-, IN COLUMBIA, S" C. The Latest Telegraphic News! foreign and American, will bc found in these publications. Every issue of the Daily contains from Ten to Fourteen Columns of Reading Matter: the Tri-Weekly from Twenty to Twenty-four. Terms as reasonable tis thc stringency ?d' the money market and the quantity of reading matter furnished will warrant. Thc Weekly contains EORTY H I C I LT COLUMNS, and is the " ' Largest and Cheapest Paper in the South! An examination of their merits is solicited. ??^Specimc?i copies furnished 0:1 application."vS? Daily Phoenix $4; Tri-Weekly $2?: Weekly Gleaner 81 h. JOB PRINTING ( )f all kinds, snell RS Books, Pamphlets, Band-bills, Posters, Dray Tickets. Receipts. Blanks, Programmes, Contracts, Circulars. Bill I [cuds. Business Cards, Labels, Visiting Canis. Wedding Card-. PLA?H OH C?L?REG, Promptly executed, and at such prices as will make it an inducement for persons to leave their orders. JULIAN A. SELBY. Proprietor Phoenix Power Press Printing Establishment. West side Main, between Taylor and Blanding Sis. Paints, Oils, Glass, Varnishes, &c. SIX THOUSAND Lbs. WHITE LEAD, in oil. A complete assortment of Colored Paints, dry ami it! oil. 300 boxes Window Glass, assorted sizes. ALSO, Linseed, Tanners', Kerosene timi Ma? chinery Oils. Furniture, Coach ami Japan Varnishes. A complete variety ol' Paint, Varnish, Graining, White-wa?h, Dusting and Scrub? bing Brushes. In store ami for sal ? at lowest prices hy JOHN C. DIAL. Mackerel. ONB HUNDRED packages Nos. 1 and 3 MACKEREL, in kits, quarter, half and whole barrels, of warranted quality and weight. E. & Q. D. HOPE. Feb 23 The Adornment of the Head-The Hair Restorer. (1 KAY HEADED v* opie haw their locks X restored by it to the dark, lustrons, sillo n tresses of youth, and aro happy. \ Young people, with light, fa.h il or red hair. : have these unfashionable colors changed to a beautiful auburn, and rejou e. People whose heads are covered with dandruff and humors, use it, and have clean coats and ? lear and healthy scalps. Bald-headed veterans have their remaining locks tight i ned, and the bare spots covered with a. ' luxuriant growth of nair, and dance for joy. Young g. ntlemen use it because it is richly perfumed. Young ladies use it be? cause it keeps their hair in place. Every? body must and will uso it, because it is the ch ariest and best article in the market. I F? r sale by FISHER & HEINITSH, Feb 3 " Druggists. The Great American Blood Purifier. THE QUEEN'S MOT ! THE QUEEN'S DEI.Killi, the great American Alterative and Ul". ; Puri? fier, ia the most perfect vegetable coin pound of alteratives, tonics, diuretics and diaphoretics; making it the most effective invigorating, rejuvenating and blood cleansiug cordial known to the world. In introducing this new and extraordi? nary medicine to the public, observation leads us to remark that t>>.> little attention is paid to the "life ?d' all tlesh," the blood. Main diseases, and. too,many complaints, which have their origin m a vitiated state of the blood, arc treated only as symptoms and results; whereas, if the remedy bad been applied to enrich the blood and ren? der it pure, both causo and . iVect would have been removed. The Queen's Delight is offered to the afflicted as a sure remedy for those diseases arising from an impure condition ?d' the blood, lt luis a direct and specific action upc.n that thud, and consequently renders the bl. >d pur.-, it is said, on high authority, that .'man no sooner begins to live than he begins to di.-, and that the characteristics of the living organism are ceaseless chang, and ceaseless waste." lt is obvious, therefore, to every reflecting mimi, that unless the blood is pure, in supplying the waste tis? sues with material, it lUUSt be t he cans.- i !' innumerable ills and constitutional disor? ders, such as Scrofula, ttheuuiatisrn, He? patic Disorders, Consumption, Inflamma? tions, Fevers, .v.-. Life and health is only to h.- maintained by th.- circulation of pure arterial blood. We th.-r.-fore advise (-very omi whose blood is in the least vitiated by indulgence or excess, and whose constitution is im? paired by disease and is suffering from Rheumatism, Liver Complaint, Consump? tion, Scrofula or King's Evil, Carbuncles, Roils, Itching Humor of the Skin, Erysi? pelas, Skin Diseases, Tetter, Roughness of tho Skin, Pimples, Blotches, Pains in thc Bones, old Ulcers, Syphilis and Syphilictic Sores, Indigestion, Inflammation id' the Bladder ami Kidneys, Pains in tho Rack, General Debility, ami for all complaints arising from delh i, nev ami poverty of blood, to use the (Queen's Delight. Females of delicate constitution, suffer? ing from weakness and lepression ot mind ill consequence of those Complaints which nature imposes at the period .d' change, have a pleasant and sure remedy in the Queen's Delight. Children whose fair and ruddy complex? ion gave early promise (d' health and beauty, but too soon become blanched and pale by some hereditary taint of tin- blood, will have the rich boon restored by using the (moen's Delight. The unaccliniated and persons traveling into warm countries will find the Queen's Delight a great protection from all ni alar?? ais affection and .list ases which originate ai a change of climat. , diet ami life. Tin- extraordinary and unprecedented .ur.-s perform.-d by tho Queen's Delight Jompound is attracting tin- attention ol very one. not only at home, but abroad. I'll-- merits of th::-, compound are being '.lt and appreciated everywhere. Hear Abat they say ot' it in New York: "It is a 'emedy of much importance and value, ixerting an influence over all the s?cr?? tons, which is unsurpassed by any other mown alterative, lt is extensively used in ill the various forms of primary and secondary syphilitic affections; also, in ? ero'ul. ms, hepatic and cutaneous diseases, n which its use is followed bv the most successful results." Its properties as a remedy were first in roduc. d te the notice of the profession by I >r. Tia -s. Young Simons, of Sont h Carolina, is . arly as 1*2*. as a valuable alterativere IIedy in syphilitic affections, and othersre luiringuseof mercury. Dr. Si mei is' state nents have been endorsed and extended >y Dr. A. Lopez.of Mobile, and Dr. ll. R. frost, of Charleston. From tin-report s in ts favor, there seems no reason to doubt bc efficacy of this medicine in Secondary syphilis. Scrofula, Cutaneous Diseases, 'bl om.- Hepatic Affections and other com ilaints benefited by alterative medicines. For sale wholesale and r.-tail bv FISH KR ,'v HEIN?TSH, D.-c 27 Druggists, Columbia. S. C. PROSPECTUS Till: l?.VI^TI^T. "ITTI". PROPOSE to publish a WEEKLY VV PAPER, devoted to the diffusion of the principles of religion and the interests ?f th.- Baptist denomination. We have h..-ii moved to this undertaking by tho solicitations of brethren in various por tions ?d' this State, as well as ol' other States, among the readers of thc late 4 Confederate Baptist, and by om- own con? viction that a paper ot ti high character ivould contribute largely to the intellectual improvement, the religious progress and the general welfare of the churches. The h ld is hu ge, affording ample room for all -in. ere ?md zealous laborers. The Baptist will be print.- 1 on a sheet iibout twenty-two by thirty-two inches, and will contain twenty-four broad columns, mostly in Long Primer type, clear and edible, so that it may h.- read with com? fort, even by th.- ag.-d. Its entire mecha? nical execution will h.- of th.- highest order. Jiu columna ?ill l.nriched by corres? pondence and contributions from tho ither Southern states, and, occasionally, from Europe an ! our missionary stations ihroad. Tb.- . ntertainnient and instruc? tion of Hu- young-especially the child? ren- will not h.- forgotten; am! our vene ble friend, "Uncle Fabian," ea wi ll and favorably known to tho readers of the Confederate Baptist, will r?sum? his labors in their behalf. In short, wc possess ah th.- facilities requisite to produce a paper ?I' th.- first rank. As such, we offer it to air brethren, timi solicit their generous .o-op.ratioti. TEEMS- ?:> a year, payable on the recep? tion of the first number. The Baptist will in- issued as soon as a sufficient number ol subscribers have been secured. All communications will lie addressed to 'The Baptist. Columbia, S. C." J. L. REYNOLDS, A. K. DURHAM, Jan 'J! Editors and Proprh tor-. READY-MADE CLOTHING. THE ladies, gentlemen and young peo? ple of Columbia, who mav be in want of "SOMETHING To WEAK,'' are respect? fully ami earnestly invite .1 by thc la.!;, s of th.-'industrial Association to call at their Work-room, in th.- Female Academy, and examine the articles which they have now n ady fm-sa lc Some ene will always be found ready to exhibit the ready-made gar? ments and to receive orders from those who may wish to hav.- work done neatly and promptlv. The object of th.- Association is to fur? nish constant employment to those who, having been impoverished by the war, now depend on the needle for daily bread. Does not such an objet t commend itself to the hearts of our citizens? Or must the anxious applicants for work be told that ourpeoplt prefer Northern-made garments, *nd that there is, therefore, no more work for tin m '' Shall it be ?aid that ?neb an Association as this cannot be sustained in the capital of South Carolina? Jan ly