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4 DY?NO wo?p$. o? M8aap..8ooLB. f f "All right, ?ir, all right!" aaitl tho veteran Chjef, : . j . : Aa death ho o'orcamo in a struggle hut Exchanging his sword for a diadem bright, He gives this wat ch-word, "All right, sir, all right!" In many a battlc-?eld his sword had flashed, As on the proud foo he so gallantly dashed ; He never -irrendeted, but fought ibo good fight, . And shouted whoh dyirig, "Au right, sir, all rightl" ,; ?J, "AU right, sir, all rightl" Lo,-tho harp and the psalm, Tho throne, and tho crown, aud tho con? queror's palm, Await me in yonder blest mansion of light; I mount to possess them-"All right, sir, all rightl" My Captain and epmrades, whoso home is on high, K ? Havo como to convey mo with songs to the Thezo's'naught bf the gloom of tho gravo to affright O'er death I'm triumphant! "All right, sir, ajl right!" My father! my father! wo cry from aloof The chariot of Israel and tho horseman thereof! A oloud has received thee, far out of our sight- . ' But sends back tho echo, "All right, sir, all rightl" _ A BIDE m THE MN! Then might yon hear each valiant knight, To pago and s quire that cried, "Bring my armor bright, and my steel so wight, It ia not each day that a warrior's might May win him a royal bride." It is the privilege of old romancers and of certain modern novelists to eommence their works with a descrip? tion of scenery: One voluminous and popular author, who has extract? ed more "light reading" from the dry pages of history than any of his co temporaries, invariably introduced into his first chapter two knights on horse-back, a setting sun ominous of rain, and a mountainous country, "with a lake in its bosom. " We will not exact from our reader's imagina? tion any such exalted flights as these. We will only entreat that courteous individual to fancy an arohduchesss in a garden-an. archduchess, we re? peat, in a garden. Pleasant subjects, both, and requiring no great mental exertion to contemplate. The ques? tion is simply this-what sort of an archduchess^ and what sort of a gar? den ? Well, it is easier to desoribe the setting than the gem, the frame than the picture, the landscape than the sunshine. ' Perhaps we hod better begin with the garden. A square of short, much-trodden turf , on which the daisies are already beginning to droop their modest heads and shut up for the night; a few flower-beds ranged with mathe? matical, or rather say with militAry, precision, and containing plenty of roses, stocks, and such commoner flowers, ndne of which haveyetfeome into bloom, for it is spring-time still, Three high, close-cut beechen'hedgea in the most tender verdure, yet im . perviouB BS the walls of a palace, and on tho fourth side, where to secure uninterrupted privacy another hedge ought to rise, a murmuring brook, . "That to the sleeping woods all night ? Singofch its quiet tune," and beyond that a fair expanse of meadows sloping away to tho dark pino forest, above which the evening star glitters like a silver lamp out oi the pale serene sky. The place is, indeed, retired, though small. ? No? thing overlooks it except one tall-row of poplars, whispering and quivering in the light air that wafts with it thc sound of vespers on the ear of th? only occupant of the garden-th( archduchess herself. Again we must entreat tho reader'i forbearance, and request an utter re pudiation of all preconceived notion of an archduchess-an archduchess too, of Austria. No nez retousse, n< hair dragged back a VImp?ratrice, n< prominent ' 'here weare again" expr?s sion such as we are accustomed to sei with the inane smirk of tho Austria! mouth, in our galleries and their own where Austrian archduchesses ari always represented as foolish, full grown, full-blown blondes, makini the most of their red cheeks and thci white bosoms, and their general va caney of countenance and pointless ness of demeanor. No; our archduchess is of a diffei ent pattern altogether. As she step pensively along the grass alloy bi tween the flower-beds, -would that w could sit down and sketch her in lift like chalks and crayons and. coloi rather than in the dull outline c mere pen and ink. She is a youn queenly woman of some twenty sun mers. Her very walk is majestic i its feminine grace, and the flowin lines of noble figure, with its rounde symmetry of limb, aro well in obi racter with the stately pose of a hec that would adorn a diadem, and a ful white neck and bosom, against whh the royal ermine itself loses its purit Even the very action of hor shape hand and chiselled arm, bare fro the elbow, denotes a. certain imp rious wilfulness, a certain playf impatience, less tho result of hi( birth than conscious beauty; f beauty, indeed, sho possesses, wi all her dignity, of the most woman and most attractive kind. Tho ft tures are moro of the Norman th tho Saxon type. The eagle look co ferred by those arched eye-brov Which she has inherited from her wi like ancestors, is redeomed by t ?mr i ty and gentleness of that, wk ow forehead, framed in its masses . dark chesnut hair, by the softness of those loving eyes, and by the playful expression of the red lips 'and beau? tifully moulded chin. Though she ia pale to-night, and her breath comes short.and quick, as alie paces down towards the rivulet, ber color is usu? ally that of the moss-rose in1 its first bloom; and; indeed, ft must be some emotion of more than ordinary, strength that can thus blanch her cheek, or bate one jot from the cus? tomary dignity of her gait and bear? ing-for bur archduchess is np.t with? out i tx considerable . share j bf that, wbm?n-pride on which women so pique themselves, and thinks she is possessed of a groat deal moro than she really has. * -Her; dress-but here we honestly confess ourselves at fault. With no feminine assistance at hand, wo dare not enter on tho details of a lady's toilette in tho days of which we write, as now, a matter of pro? found-science and elaborate ort. It is sufficient to observe that more than one gallant about her father's court had, that .afternoon, pronounced it' the most becoming he had ever-seen; and that although it was a favorite costume of her own, or she would scarcely have worn it on tho present occasion, sho had, this evening, for the first time, certain misgivings as to Its attractions and her general ap earance.' She must, however, have een a good deal preoccupied, for she scarce gave more than a passing thought to this uncomfortable con? sideration. Bright and fair as the evening star above her, she walked down to the murmuring rivulet, and her cheek grew yet paler, and her head drooped more and more, as she watched the passing stream. Presently, she started and the blood mounted to her brow, for a bunch of violets,' 'floating down the eddying water, came ashore at her very feet. She stooped to pick them np, with a bri ghi smile, ;.fmd, wring? ing the wet away, hid them tenderly in her bosom; then, with quickened steps and agitated gestures, hurried from the garden, and was soon across tho adjacent'meadows, and was lost . in the gloom of tho neighboring pine? forest. f . ..'.', . j , ?j It was not the first time that a run? ning stream had been, employed to . carry a message.or a love-token.. It ', was .thus..according to the old ro-f maucors, that Lancelot corresponded with ' Guenevere, and that true Sir k Tristram heldiconverse, after. she"w j came Queen bf C?rnwa^ wiA?c .<> "The i?T^Ueatlady hs-the 'S-nd^i?> ':? ! Ysoult ot Ireland. . * .. . So our sweet arch-duchess, fair Clo thilde* so called after her ancestress Chroetildo of Borgan dy, wife' of Clovis, the first King of 1 rance, hied heyjaway. to n lone spot in tho depths of the pine-forest, where > a, ' certain spring, being Indeed the very source and origin of tho stream that flowed by her garden, bubbled up cloar and cold from its surrounding moss. . It !did not, however, appear that ? the oryBtal Water was tho attraction which drew her to this4*sylvan haunt. She stopped indeed at the spring, but it was to look and listen, rather- than to stoop and drink; and she needed not to look nor listen long. There glides a eteP through tho foliago thick; And her cheek grows pale and her heart ? beats quick; Thore whispers a voice through tho rus? tling loaves, 'And her blush returns and her bosom heaves. A moment more, and they shall meet 'Tia past-her lover's at her foet. "My angel Clothilde, how good of youl" said a fond, frank voice, and a manly head bent down towards the hand he had imprisoned in both his own, whilst she, woman-like,m must needs exclaim, in the accents "of the greatest astonishment, "Count Karl! and here! how often havo I told you not to come?" It would scarcely tend to elucidate the thread of our narrative were we to detail circumstantially tho succeed? ing conversation. Our own impres? sion is that much of it was carried'on in dumb show; and we are of opinion that a dialogue between a lady and gentleman who met accidentally twice or thrice a week nt a f ouutain by star? light was not more likely in tho fif? teenth century thau at present to be of a terse aud sparkling character, alive with point, rejoinder and re? partee. But it is n?cessary to account for the intrusion of the youug gentleman whom tho archduchess addressed as Count Karl, in that lady's favorite haunt-au intrusion which seemed to create so much astonishment as to leave no room for indignation. How forgiving women are, to bo sure! how meek and patient of compulsion, when force and inclination point in the same direction! Pliant as the willow, if you only bend them with tho grain; try them against it, how? ever, and seo how soon they will snap! Count Karl of the Fen, then, was ono of tho sprightliest young noble? men at the court of Maximilian I, a far-seeing and rightly-judging Empe? ror of Austria, who, with that keen eye to his own interests which marks tho successful mau, had married Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles tho Bold, the richest heiress in Europe, and a personable lady enough into the bargain. Like his son, Phdip tho Fair-who followed the paternal precept in espousing another heiress, Jean of Arragon Maximilian adopted a matter-of-fact and practical view of tho holy state, such as moots with the cordial ap? proval of "parents and gnardiuns," and only entails upon society the bitterest of. all the curses with which uutivro takes core to avenge herself on those who rebel against her lawB. Of course, ho looked to ?i wealthy' match for Clothilde, the pearl of all his handsome children. . Maidens .of twenty, however, are apt to view these -^natters in a differ? ent light from their sires. A sc or o of years later, when her heart is hard? ened and her good sense developed, the prudent matron can ' scarcely believe she could ever feel like "miss ip her teens," Women exhaust their affections faster than men, and con? sequently are less hampered with them in advanced life. Herein they show their accustomed tact; a doting groy-beard may bo a pitiable sight enough, but a romantic old woman is as ridiculous an anomaly as a cow in a gallop. Nevertheless, the young ones can bo as wilful as you please.. Clothilde) could not be brought to: see the merit . of ti suitor whom her father especially favored, simply, it Would appear, 'because Maximilian did favor him", and .because he "'was the wealthiest and most sumptuous noble about the court. And yet Otto of AlsnthV, Landgrave of .Ehenheim, was a gallant well calculated to_mako wild work in the female bosom! He was* in the prime of life, exceedingly good-looking, with a certain air of conscious superiority and noncha lence, which makes so much way in a woman's good graces. Indifference, you see, interests them, piques them, ' raises the combative principle, of which they' possess a considerable share, and they must' fathom the mystery, must conquer or die. He had a high reputation, too, as a war? rior; had held the lists in Burgundy, on occasion of the Emperor's mar? riage, for two summer days, against all comers, and threw his Alsatian revenues about with a profusion that astonished the whole court.. Also, the extravagant absurdity of ' v his dress was only equalled by its splen? dor; so the Austrian ladies vowed in their soft Austrian tones that he was enchanting. As an aspirant to the hand of the beautiful Clothilde, he had especially do voted his military talents of her father. Ho wore the young arch? duchess's colors of all occasions; and although he had once been ur horsed in a tournament by an unknown, knight who bore a knot of ribbons of the same hue on his helmet, his stout ' arm and skillful lance had made tho terrible violet, Clot hilde's favorable emblem, a dread to all who -sat in knightly selle, from which tho Landgrave was axcoeed ingly su cc ess ful. in extricating them. Still she liked .Count Krui tho best. How her heart had beat, that wcU-asmemberecl - day, ;:w?eiT' from the gjulery she recognized hpr.iown cognizance on an unknown helmet, aiH|V ^mhthin'g tolfl her she was guessing rightly at tho fnco beneath. How sho held her breath and turned si?k'.at\tne , crash of the; encounter; and?hpw her., faintness; passed,.away andr-her blood thrilled whott'-she saw -tho, Landgrave . on his back, Wi?i bia squire unclasping his vizor, tile Hie unknown champion wheel his charger- round in 'triumph to receive the plaudits of the Emperor. After that, ? of course, .she lot, him declare himself; and When he ap? peared at court-dh.. s/.fult 'Buit of violet satin, -embroidered with seed pearls, * to the Empress's admira? tion and'the. 'Landgrave's unbound? ed disgust, regarded him with a sunny smile, and - permitted him to eat off the same plate with her at supper-a partnership which, in those unsophisticated times, implies rather an excess of good will than a' scarcity of china. And Count Karl loved her very dearly, and for her sake spilt Iiis blood in her father's battles, win? ning great honor and renown; and for her sako haunted her father's court, where ho was not exceedingly welcome, and preferred his , almost hopeless suit, with all its sorrows, to the bright eyes and kindly "smiles that wooed him from the rest. It was strange, said the Austrian ladies, to see so high couraged a warrior, with a heart, so cold. But stranger still was tho conduct of Clothilde. So little ^advanced was this yonug Indy in the code of coquetry, that she did not despise her lover for his unswerving devo? tion to his mistress; that she did not undervalue a possession simply because she was sure of it; nor humi? liate him because he was too proud to endure and too kind to resent it; nor visit on him all her own petty cares and annoyances where? soever they might spring; nor in? flict upon him any one ol tho thou? sand insults and injustices with which women tako pains to destroy a fabric they are unable to build up again. And then who so dismayed as the child itself, when the card castle has fallen to pieces, nnd all the ingenuity of tho pretty lingers, and all tho tears from the pretty eyes, can never put it together any more? Our young couple, however, had plenty of difficulties in their way without- making any tor them. Courtiers' glances are sharp nnd courtier' tongues aro nimble; neither do tho former restrict themselves to seeing nor tho latter to detailing only that which actually takes place. Too overt an admiration on the part of Count Karl for tho Emporor's daughter would have destroyed its object by earning his own dismissal from the court. In public the lovers were compelled to appear co'd and distant, yet it did seem hard, very ?tWI. [|)llcirara*tH^^ ?eMftnAef&CpV enjoyed anon meet? ings all the more for the necessity; and the manner in which they ar? ranged these ?interviews, without being novel? .waa sufficiently 1bgo?l notiaJi/vr'L? Pw ' Ui?ivM First of all, ClothiWe, seized,, ns it would seem, with, .a violent? hor? ticultural turn, began to make a practice of*walking at sun-set in the garden above meutioned. After a while, when her absence from vespers ceased ?to be remarked, pho extended her rambles to the adjacent pine-forest; and somehow or an? other it was a very short time before she made out that if a handful of violets should chance to come float? ing down the stream whilst she took her evening stroll, she need not 'be startled in a few minutes afterwards to find Count Karl at the spring. . i On tho occasion in question when the archduchess expressed so much surprise, tinged with displeasure at the rencontre, she was particularly anxious for an interview with her admirer. That very day, some two hours after noon-for the Emperor dined at eleven, and sat a long time after dinner-she had been sum? moned to her father's chair to pour ont his Rhenish, and listen to a few words of ?paternal advice. The three or four courtiers present sat so far below the dais as to be out of ear-shot; and the jester, whose pri? vilege it was to stand -.behind his master, was by this time so drunk as to be both blind and deaf; thus parent and child might be said to be alone. Maximilian I., slightly elevated, began the conversation.. "My pretty Clothilde, it is time thou were married. Fill my oup, daughter, and married thoa shalt be forthwith." [CONTINGJib IN OUR NEXT."] BUTTER AND CHEESE. KEGS choleo GOSHEN BUTT?E. 500 lbs. frosh COUNTRY 40 boxes CUTTING CHEESE. 10 M English Dairy CHEESE. lu Btore and for sale low. E. & G. D. HCPE. March 13_'_'_ CUBA MOLASSES." /~\NE THOUSAND gallons choico CUBA VJ MOLASSES. 200 gallons New Orleans 8YRUP. For salo low. E. A G. D. HOPE. March 13 _ The Great American Blood Purifier. QUEEN'S DELIGHT! 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Tho extraordinary and unprecedented cures performed by tho Queen's Delight Compound is attracting the attention of ov?ry ono, not only at nome, but abroad. Tho merits of this compound aro being felt and appreciated overywhore. Hoar what they say of it in Now York: "It is a remedy of much importanco and valuo, exerting an influenoo ovor all tho Bocro tions, which is unsurpassed by any other known alterative. It is extensively usod in all tho various formB of primary and secondary syj 'dlitic affections; also, in scrofulous, hop ic and cutaneous diseases, in which itra i.so is followed by the moBt successful results." Its properties as a remedy were first in? troduced to tho notice of tho profession by Dr. Tkos. Young Simons, of South Carolina, as early as 1828, as a valuable alterative re? medy in syphilitic affections, and others re? quiring uso of mercury. Dr. Simons' state? ments have boon endorsed and 'extended bv Dr. A. Lopez, of Mobilo, and Dr. H. R.. Frost, of Charleston. 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THE ANNUAL.MEETINO of tho Stock? holders of this Company will bo hold in tho city of Columbia, on WEDNESDAY, tho 8th proximo, at 12 o'clock m. Free passes over the road will bo granted to Stockholders and their families to attend tho meeting and of returning under .this privilego within a reasonable time. I April 10 C. H. MANSON, Sec'y. NOT I OE . Office Seaboard & Roanoke R.R. Co., PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 22, 1867. IT has hoon understood by the officers in charge of transportation via tho Boa- . hoard Inland Freight Route, that letters addressed to tho Railroad Agent at Ports- . mouth, on the sibjoct of freights? aro un? answered, and that, in consequence, causes of delay aro not explained and claims fo* losses and damage unsettled; and as tho . 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As freight consigned by the compa? nies' connecting steamers is forwarded from Portsmouth within twenty-four hours after being landed, there is no reason for delays; and although freight may some? times bo mis-sent, it will in such cases be promptly traced, and if not found, will bo .paid for. Tho companies forming this lino cannot bo responsible for the rapid transportation of freights, or for charges upon ic, unless sent from Boston by tho Boston and Nor? folk Steamship Company, end of Centre Wharf; from Now York, by the ??Old Do? minion" Steamship, Company, Pier 87, North River; from Philadelphia, by Clyde's Lino of Steamers, ll North Dolawaro Ave? nue, or Tia tho "Annamessic" Lino Depot, Philadelphia; Wilmington and Baltimoro Railroad; and from Baltimore, ria tho Bay Lino Steamers, foot of Union Dock. For freight shipped to t?io Seaboard Company by schooners or by other steam? ship lines, tho companies cannot be respon? sible until landed on their wharves. Per? sons writing about freight that has not rcaobed them, will please bo careful to state tho dato of shipmont, by whom ship? ped, from what place, by what lino of* stea'mers, and, if possible, enclose a copy of tho through receipt to JA8. W. McCARRICK, Trace Agent Seaboard Inland Air-lino; . ^PdrtamoutlvYa. ! JOHN M. ROBINSON, Managing Director auiPGon'l Sup't. March 29 ' . . lmo General Superintendent's Office, CHARLOTTE A S. C. RAILROAD, COLUMBIA, 8. C., March 16, 1866. THE Schedule of tho Passenger Trains over this Road is as follows: Leavo Columbia at. 3.36 a. m. Arrive at Charlotte at. 9.50 a. m. Leavo Charlotte at._ 5.10 a.m. Arrive at Columbia at.11.25 a. m. Close connections aro made at Columbia and Ch ario tt c. with mail trains on tho North I Carolina and South Carolina Railroads. THROUGH TICKETS aro sold at.Colum hia to Riebmond, Va., Washington, D. 0.,* Baltimore, Md., Philadelphia, Pa., and New York city-giving choice of routes via Portsmouth or Richmond-and baggage checked. Tickets aro also sold at Char? lotte for Charleston and Augusta. An Accommodation Train, for freight and local passage, loaves Columbia at' 7 a. m" on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays of each week, and Charlotte on tho" same days and hour; .-.rriving at Columbia and Charlotte at 6 p. m. , March 17 C. ROUKNIGHT, Sup't. Schedule over South Carolina R. R GENERAL SUP'TS OFFICE, . CHARLESTON, 8. C., March ll, 1866. ON and after tho 13th inBt.. tho Through Mail Train will run as follows, viz: Leavo Columbia at 11.40 a. m., ChVn time. Arrive Kingsville at 1.20 p. m., ** * ** Leavo Kingsville at 1.35 p. m.. " " Arnvo at Augusta 9.00 p.m., " " TASSENOER' TRAIN. Leavo Charleston.8.00 a. m. Arrive at Columbia. 5.20 p. m. I.eave Columbia. 6.50 a. m. Arrivo at Charleston.4.00 p.m. March 13 H. T. PEAKE, Geu'l Sup't. Greenville and Columbia Railroad. PASSENGER Trains will run daily, Sun? day H excepted, as follows: Leave Columbia at. 7.15 a. ra. *' Alston at.9.05 '* " Newberry at.10.35 " Arrive ut Abbeville r.t. 8.13 p.m. *' at Anderson at.5.10 " " at Greenvillo at.5.40 " Leavo Greenville at. 6.00 a. m. " " Anderson at.6.3 ) " " Abbeville at. 8.?K> '.' . " Newberry at._1.20,.. m. Arrive at Alston at.2.45 " " at Columbia at.^ 4.40 " READY-MADE CLOTHING. THE ladies, gentlemen and young peo? ple of Columbia, who may bo in want of "SOMETHING TO WEAR/' aro respect? fully and earnostly invited by tho ladies of the Industrial Association to call at their Work-room, in tho Female Academy, and examino tho articles which thoy havo now ready for salo. Somo ono will always bo found ready to exhibit tho ready-made gar? ments and to rocoivo orders from those who may wish to havo work dono noatly and promptly. The object of tho Association is to fur? nish constant oroplovment to thoeo who, having been impoverished hv tho war, now depend on tho necdlo for daily bread. Does not such an object commend itself to tho hearts of our citizens? Or must the anxious applicants for work ho told that ourpeorfe prefer Northern-made garments, and that there is, therefore, no moro work for than? Shall it bo said that such an Association as this cannot bo sustained in the capital ofSonth Carolina? Jan 19 Old. Newspapers FOR 8ALE at tho PHONIX OFFICE.