?aESSSSSSS*Se^^SS^^SS^^=^S^^~mm'"""" "THE PRICE OF LIBERTY IS ETI1RNAL VIGILANOE.'.' ."\ " ==^ ABBEVILLE, 9. C., SEPTEMBER Q9, 1869. . IS10. 47. THE ABBEVILLE BANNER. pudmsiikd evicrt wednesday mobbing, AT $3.00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE [From the Banker of tiie South.] ELEANOR STAUNTON , . BY A SOUTHERNER. i ' ts * dedicated to miles m. farrow, esq , 01 nilam.erton. b. c. [continued.] wlndemere pank, Oct. 8.. I received a letter from Florence Dolav ,'i this rooming ; and, among other things ?i 'he said : "Mr. Iloward has been ver; ~ ill, for several months, and was out to da for the first time. Lucian brought him t dinner, and I was roally shocked at bis ap poarance ; be is a perfect sbawdow, and .ikewiae, a very beautiful one. Yo.^kno\ he was always ray pet admiration. rIIe i olmost a transparency now, lie is ver grave and silent ; indeed the only spark c :mation I elicited from him was when h wr.8 enquiring tny last news from England md I read bim n portion of your last letter, (which, to your shame as acorrespon lent be it said, was dated the last of May) " 'link the climate must nfiect his health *ook upon myself to advise him to 'lorae ; for which I wns tupremanJoraestic tyrant, and advised to le\^r' ^owar^ himself ho the judge ol i .^5>urso of action he had best pursue what cV 1 Of coursfc a reProof from headquarters eileuced m>* But 1 sli,! lhink R tnble o! Fnelish air \voo'd benefit that beautiful '.raqsparency.' ^ nm keeping my diary very irregularlv. ^ have lost all heart foi writing, and, ind^? I have very little to write ai^out. My ife '8 very quiet and mwijotonoas. I never ?? cut; nor do I receive society. Dr. Ler.nox comes over very often ; ostensibly to se\ WlNDEMERE PARK,Oct. 26. Annette has kept up a sort i.corr-etb' rondence with Laura Templeton's maid ever since she met her in Paris. (I know 1 "ugbt not to call Laura by ber maidet i smo, but I never can bring myself t< peak of her as my father's wife, or writ< ier .tame ab Leslie.) But, aa I was say> 'g? ?r g?'ng on to say, which amounts fa ha B?me thine in the end. Annetto ha . -.teljf received letters from Louisa, in wbic \be Said that young French officer, wh ad bi*n very intimate with Laura whil ' ev were in I^aris, had lately come inl . c neighborhood, and was putting up i The Leslie Arms," and that L*ura wi ettll very intimate with liim, though it ^ainH her husband'-, wishes. Of cour his ia errwnfa hall gossip, and, consi i. ntly not to be relied on. But, it mat: if anxious. I know Laura is not bappj ,r,d the least imprudence on ber part w oO ruinous. Scandal never spares, trea .ng imprudences as bardly as crimes, es jccially in a country neighborhood. M t. .1 >- j: . .. -r i?k"oi ? uisuwuiug ine is an injustice 1 w never forget, or ce&*e to rebel agaim T was cruel?I had deserved more at 1: ands. Dr. Lennox is a very consta visitor. I believe, absurd as it 6ount ilbat be is trying to win the band th Aunt Margaret once denied him. We ho-bM been very constant Auntie cou be vety happy with him. X \ * -i Wikdemere Park, Nov. 18. Mr, Morely arrived late this evening i a v?rv Dainful mission. T,nnr? h>i> ..MI M U?U WIVlf r ft with her French lover, and my father I reived a paralytic Blroke. My poor fat <>r ! Mr. Morely says he was perfectly ii $g?ted with Laura; and she, wretchi tatuaffifci that she is 1 bow horrible is h ?omat?r? wj|| ]eave to-morrow at da fnto\ ^TMJy dear Aunt Margaret, I wish ^rca^* ^?have to leave her so entire :lid not \ *\one. \ LeslikHall, Not. 19. . . _S?H my father was re 3oSfcr changed s I 1 ?" y "^afover may be my future life, and it prtt^p to be a dark and sbaneful one, r. your:J| will never agiiio be crossed by i me. bare some pity upon you tbougb, it ciMUJii'irinbn mp willing' to Fnaro vour 7 (?., u?.?v .?v - r I J y nameie infamy that will bi'acken mine. 0 ' /e'up all claims upon yc>u, cow and . fori e * lt LAURA TEMPLE'rbN." V 1 'urn strange, terrible lette^ f0r n s wc i, to have written. I eat betide my y fat udgYing his heavy sleep, and thought if ?v< le life that had grown so dark and e delate. Her wild, reckless, ungovernaI, blentixre ; tho passionate heart, lliat had - all its wealth on one shrine ; em. ba&d all its treasure in one ship, and saw . it ?cke erfln 'from his y marrying him. Bui that u#i havo by to means decided upon A ate3 lovers are very foolish things, ft Soman ought to be content to reyafone for the rest of her life, when | oiu us 1 am. 11 tnigni uave uono *?0' D0W 'l j* ridiculous " iP' not PreS3 'lor ??y fftlr^ep? MU^l wilh the admission that the plan 18ft eA possible. If she would hat# conJRad ?nto 'she will again. And thobgh .imber o?dafford to wait T0rjr long, I still PjStok she consent. . , 3? cannot ^XBecond npsrriges, generalBreaking' Adhere are some cues Web jnstif/ theu^jJo this case. Bach diction ws^jy. merit*, by ihe wcv cf poftiq justice,\ if nothing ebe, a |fckg'TeW?i3. And Dr>Jjenoo* is a wan uMocn tf'y^inger wooQatk iba* Aunt Marffiftj*'woultdo w*ll to taarry. T *t have lot besrd from Calcutta in-s 1 1 long time, and I am growing anxious. Leslie Hall, Feb. 10. I received two letters from Florence this morning. The first wna written before she heard of my widowhood, nnd has been delayed somewhere most unaccountably. I copy a portion of it, for lack of somo thing better to do. "Mr. Howard is wilh us every day. You remember how full of life and gayely he UBed to be? Now he is a3 grave and silent as he can be, goes nowhere, see6 no one, and is altogether as much of a recluse as a wealthy, handsome young man is permitted to be. "I drag him o?ut sometimes to the balls given at tho Government House, and throw the moat charming girls at his heart. He will dance with tlicm, if obliged to, hand them to supper, or into a palanquin ana there tho matter ends. I nm convinced that he has been jilted by some fair one and asked Luciun about it the other 'night. Whereupon my lord assumed a becoming tone of conjugal authority, and remarked : "There are som8 questions, Florence, that even you cannot have answered. Whatever misfortune has befallen Mr. Howard llfi will ilnliVitloco nnnfi/lo If 1 ~ you when be wishes you to know it. But, until be does, it would be quite as well that you should remain in contented ignorance." ' "I subsided instantly, though I know some such thing has occurred. Otherwise, with that tenacious care for a fellow man's 'dignity* which all men have, Lucian would have denied it flatly. 'Twas a queer woman who could deny such a lover as I know he would make. I think he baa no equal, except Lucian, and I onlj except him for appearance's sake. The next letter was dated in November. I make an extract from that, also : "Your last letter was the most welcome one I ever received. I have never Maid eyes on' the one you allude to as containing an account of Mr. Staunton's death ; and we have been laboring under a terrible mistake. A package of English papers that bad been delayed on tlieir route, reached us moro than a month ngo, and on the obituary list was the announcement of the death of 'Mrs. Edward Staunton, of Winderaere Park, very puddonly of heart disease/ The shock brought on ma a severe illntss, and when my little girl rras put in my arms, I called her Eleanor, and Lucian added Howard, for the sake of your cousin Fercy.'* "I think my baby was five weeks old, when Mr. Steward came to tell us goodbye, as he was going with a party of gentlemen to viait the interior. Ho looked wretchedly. "I know I shall always love him for bis tenderness to ray baby* He begged permission to bold her, and carried ber off to the window in bis arms. When he gave ber back to me. her l!fll? fnrn wa? wot u-iili tears and a superb diamond cross glittered on ber bosom. I objected to ber receiving so costly n gift, but he Bilenced ae by saying : 'I meant it for Eleanor ; let your little one keep ii. The sight of it would afford me exquijte pain/ "Of course, I said nothing more. The party has been beard of several times; they will be gone some six or eight months." The dear little baby 1 I wish I could see it. Leslie Hall, April 11. My dear father died last night at eight o'clock. He had been gradually failing, but no one apprehended his immediate dissolution until last night, when his speech and consciousness fully returned; and though' very much debilitated, he could converse rationally. He saw his lawyer for an hour, and the Rector f?r some time. . Towards midnight, as I wa3 giving him some wine when, he became very much agitated, and accused himself of cruelty towards me, and pathetically besought my forgiveness. I assured him of it with manj tears, and he raised himself upon his crutch with difficulty and, laying his thin hands upon my head, blessed ma with ' tender words of love. The effort,, though; was too much for him, and he aaolc buck in a fainting fit, and never recovarad h's consciousness again. , His death- was perfectly painless. I only knew when life .! 4 1 it I : t iL. i j l i wns uxwiuuij uy mo remxiug ui vuu unuu 1 . held. I feel bis death keenly, tad miss so i' much the care of bim. I find my soft eai , listening, expecting to hear hit voice. Mj dear, dear, father I * . \ c ' i } ... . ? L*slib Hall, April 16.'i Mj dear father was buried last evening To-morrow I will rot'irn homo. Mr. Alexander Leslie, the heir at-law, has arrived. IIo was very kind to me, telling mo 10 consider this my home, as long as I choose to remain hero?and very kindly asking mo to take anyting out of tho house that I cared to own. (The fur~ mture, paintings, plate, and china, all go t.]i? nnfnrll ^ T /lt/1 nnt.' ntrni! mrcolf - / - of hia offer though, as everything I cared for was especially bequeathed me by my father. Mr. Leslie is a distant cousin of our?, though, from some family fiend I have never seen hirn before. >The day has been a painful and depressing ono. I did not tbinlc I would fhind, so much, seeing a stranger in my father's plnce. To-morrow I go home; this is tho last night I will ever spend under my ancestral roof. For centuries my father's have dwelt in these halls, and now J, the last living desccndent of the eldest branchs go forth?and leave to a stranger the home _ f _l.il 11 1 1 Al. _ P oi my cimuuoou au rather gloried in my father** implacability, r I thought it once a want of proper pride -to yield an atom to an enemy. Now I have learnt that the true, manliness and dignity of human nature ie best indicated I by a generous, forgiving temper. He i< bravest, who, when in error, can frankly confess it, and aeek a reconciliation; not ho who is so unceiVun of his honor, that lie fearo to peril it by a concession to an injured opponent. I did r.ot mean to go off into an cthical treatise though. Mr. Leslie is Tery agreeable; uol brilliant nor talented, but he has travelled a great deal, and being a shrewd, sensible maHj Las very many things to talk about j that are worth hearing. lie is plain a^d straightforward in his manners, and gives you an idoa~~ that bo is thoroughly honest, a man whom you can trur,t and rely upon. lie is not handsome, stiictly speaking; but there is something very attractive in his appearance. Ilis fnceia so resoluto; a rich bronzed complexion: vary dark beard and moustache, almost black; and a beautiful shaped head ; rather irregular features, but beautiful oyes; largo clear, well opened, violet blue, with the pleas* antest expression in them. I suppose he is about twonty-live or six years old, though ho docs not give you the impression of beiDg a very young man. He is passionately fond of music, although ho cannot ?ingntnll. I played for him to-night. The first tiuie I have touchod an instrument in nearly a year. [to be cost ued.] To a Little HWwife.. O little Huswife clean and spruco Thy use one heart divines; A rosy npple, full of juice, And polished"till it ehiucsl A tidy, tripping, louder thing, A foe to lazy litters, A household nr.gel, tidying Till all aronnd thee glitters 1 To see thee in thy loveliness, So prudish and so chaste; l*o speck upon the cotton dress Girdled around thywaisj; The ankle peeping white ns snow Thy tucked-up kirtlo under; Wlii'e shining dishes, row on row Behind thee, stare and wonder! While round tliy door the millions call, While the great markets fill, Though public sorrow strike us all, Singing, thou workest still; Yea, all thy care and all thy lot Is ever, sweet and willing, To keep one little household spot As clean as a new shilling! The crimson kitchen firelight dips Thy cheeks until they glow ; The white flour makes thy fiugcr tips Like rosobuds dropt in snow. Whe^ll thy liltlcKptle heart Flutters io exultat&n To compass, in an apple tart, Thy noblest aspiration 1 O Huswife, may thy modest worth Keep ever free from wrong; l^lont hi* til)A and t.liA 1IAAI4.1I Thou blesscat all day long! And nightly, may tby sleep be sound, Whil) o'oi* thee, softly, stilly, The curtains close, like leaves around The husht heart of the lily! ?All the Year lionnd. Our Fighting Editor. A fighting editor being a necessary evil in every well conducted newspaper office, we entered into an agreement with a gentleman from Arkansas somo time since, who offered to conduct the "sanguinary department of this paper at live dollar a difficulty, and now have the pleasure of announcing that ho is ready for business. All aggrieved nnrfifla rloaira n oofflnrftnrtf wiflA tlVO 1TUW UV/OUV Ul OVIUVIUVUU M 1LJL1 us arc notified to apply to him. Besides the important duties we have called liirp. to perform ho desires it to be made nown that he is prepared to go into the wholesale business?there being many newspapers unprovided witli a Bloody Editor?but ho cannot undertake less than ten little difficulties at a time. It must not be thought that our accomplished associate is a mild mannered, conciliatory gentleman. That would bo fatal to his reputation, and would destroy his -useful i1 i-tl! ?. 1 3 ness in tnia eaiaonenment, uesiaes being one of the mo$t tremendous falsehoods ever uttered, lie will wait upon anybody who expresses such an opinion. In size he is a little over seven. feet j his age is ,twenty