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yptrafi XIV.
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J. O. lAlLSnr, Fropri?t?y ut ?ab-Editor.
The Loaf Ago.
i Oh! ? wonderful stream U the rlw Tm,
As it ntM through the mlmi eI Imn,
'With* fwhlmrytKm and mimical rhyme.
Am g.broad*# *w#dpf *?d ? wrge eubitnte.
And bloods ?lth I lie MMD of year*.
Ho* the wioUr* or* drifting like flake* of j
now, '
And the rammer* like bad* between.
And the year In the *h**f?*0 they com*
and they
On the river'* breaet, with It* ebb and flow,
A* h glide* in U14 absdow and sheen.
There'* A ttt*Rife*l 1*1* ?p the river of Tim**
Where the eoflest of *ir? are playing;
There's a cloudle** ?ky and a tropical clime,
And a song ( iwwt a* a Vrij^rt ehih{?t
And th* June* 'with th* rose* are itaj*
And the nam* of tbia lale la the Lo*o Aao,
- A ad we hurjr, our tr??.ure? there;
There ?* brow* of beauty and boeoma of
*A?W?
Them are beeps of duet, bat we krred them
' ml
: There are trinket* and trees#* of hair.
Tliere ar* fragment* of *ong that nobody
And a part of Ml infant'* prayer.
There'* a lute unastept, and a harp without
string*. . '
There am broken trow*, and plane*. of rings;
Avid the fWtoent* that ean ?*ed to wear.
ThaVe.aVe hated* that Are wated when the
^ faiVy shore _ . ^
By W*> Vtttrage la lifted In Mr;
And v? aoVhetinea h?r, through Ml? turbu>
lent roar,
Sweet voices we heard In the deje gone before.
When the wind d6wo the rWer is (hlfc
Oh! remembered for aye be the bleaaed isle.
All the day of life till night?
When the evening cornea with ita beautif?1
ontiie,
And oar eyes ere eloeed toelaraher n while,
May that " greenwood " 'of aoal be In
tmiGIRAL.
' k won tnt tovrtmx nrnrnri,
Lirfirpool to Binringkam.
A. poor, half ?UrV?d thrwsK Uwt aome
Vd-uel person had confined in n woodeVi box
with slot's en one tide end art ont on the
lends of theopposite hnoke, wee singing hie
mitln tong when I awoke, Saturday morn
teg, I looked about fir nSy fellow lodgers,
%ho^*d HMh daptrtfted, hod, *a f em nn I
turally loquacious, I was com pelted cither j
to Ulk to mjeelf or apoatrophtxe the bird,
Whieh wm the only living thing; in eight?
Thieie my interesting addrert lo the little
y>rieon?r; "Hd, ho, llAattet Thrush 1 It's
there you ere, in that vtle little box; out
. among tha chimney-pots.' ftad lueh to your
jailor?sure. I'd open your prison door, If
. J eould; bat I can't do U; and, may be. If
1 did, they'd put me io a worse bok, lor my
peine, ae rainy a poor follow has been
served before now, fo- trying hie head at
tk. a/ llh?ln WI..IIk.l _aa u. *
feekl?w l\aVi??DaiUl prrhape you fanes
J*fl 1 he'a out of priiin, now. Mid if your
UppHmr Would accept my bond, T wouldn't
mind becoming * aort of lloraee Grnely for
you, my fine fallow, for I. knew enme of
5?ear kin /olka, in my btby .laya t good
ningevn (bay were, loo but (herefs n l\?tVe
Merry Andrew down in South Carolina,
(where I left my dear onea, Qod blaaa
< (beailj called the troeklng bird, that cau
king your whole family oak of Iheir ahoek,
Any day. Dont be down iu the moulb,
' now, beeauaa I aaid that, but try that etrain
' agetn which charmed me from my bed to
* (his window, where I're already stood too
with no eovering but n?y?well, en
tflWiafrWe."
My room mates are up A?d dtt bedfaha*
their " eta* are weld, like my shaving
' WUlev, which " Boots" aaid was toiling, two
wrinutaa ago; ptrkapt it waa, for wo loarn
' iu philosophy that wator will boil at a low
tempMstore in high nltitudee; and Longfallow,
good fallow aa be la, and good port,
<' teak would never beve written hie M KneelAk'
Iu this attWl abode, unfam poverty
had driven him to do it for hire. Cold
- water far abasing la not the moat agreeable
< thing la the world, bat. theoka to Maaara.
fSigjla * Weatenholm! F?a got a anaooth
ehin. at lot. Now, a alaaa paakat handkerchief.
and tban oloud?, farewell! I'm
going down to earth, once rru re Boaaylng,
with a valediction aa raj lip and araliaa in
my haai f daaeaadad the lire paira at aUlra
' / to tmra Jtrmo. k common nbeerrer might
hare notfaad a light obliquity In my gait,
aa I atroda baak to the - Bee," It wee not
fcy laaapa af getting high, laat night? by
BO maant) but thoaa eonionndrd "at* leg*,"
(da aailan eMail them,) one -a ?w? to gat, f? a
week'a voyage oa tba ocean. A tHeh of para
Java aoffee, a jnley bee# Meek. torn hot
and bettered toaat etf libitum, followed
by tonta rtra wberriee, large aa bee*'
*' agga, made np the earn of my Saturday
tammlng'* break Mat, during the time of
which 1 read over the list o? peteeogera by
the "Chine," fading^ of aatarea, no other ia.
tereat than J eat (o ?nd my own nam# among
^ tha pthent A drifting rain began; ao,
' ; borrowing aa ntobr?Ua of the Queen B e.
(or landlady,) I aaeompaaied Mr Bleke.uore
to |fr. Mclrcr'i office on Dale alreet, where
W? both aeourad onr ratom peaanga te Boaton
by paying down twenty five pounds in
: hard geld. To guaid againat )o?a wa
lodged our aortlfiraUa la tha banla of the
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Cuotrd ?ompM}'? ?gtDk Returning to the
" Bm Houee." *e pkid fur ihfe hooey we bod
tipped, ond then ?truck o bee line fur the
Blrtninizhom ond London Rmliwaw Hindoo.
in Qumo Square. 1 had written to a friend
In Boot land to m?et me in London, if ptML
bit, but had forgotten to pott ttlj ittttr.?
Mr. Blekemore. told me them wonld be
( lenty of time to do to; pointing to e lamp
port he aaid to me, " There'* a box now."
At once, it ooeurred to me that I had aeeh
the a.me sort < f convenience in some large
oiliea ? ( the UnileJ Stales. It ia merely a
strong iron bt.x, (placed contiguous to a
?treet lan>p.) into which lettert riiay lit Shopped,
by n'ghl oa day. There are marty of
these boxes which are opened at efcrtHih
hours, end all mail matter taken to tha
regular po*t office for di?p (oh.
Birmingham, Saturday, P. M., July 18lli.~
Wt laft Liverpool at 10^'o'oloek, and reached
th|a clly at I)?113 mile* In three hobra.
I couldn't help Blinking of the trip from
Greenville to Columbia. The train leaven
Liverpool through n dark tunnel 1$ Mile
in length, and op a very steep aglillVity; it
then rushes quickly through a wilderness
of brick houses, and shoots out to the delightsome
country beyond, which, at lllii
season, presents a picture quite different
I from anything one sees in A merles. The
quaint cottage, with its thatohad or tiled
roof, and diamond-shaped glaae window#,
surrounded by the well trimmed hedge (no
wooden fences or stone walls) inclosing the
well shsped hayrick or eorn stack, not
thrown, haphazard, together, as ee plant!
llona el home, but trimmed off as toetttly
with a knife, as a housewife trim* her pie
crust. Greet flocks of elieep, gmslng, or
doling In the shade?the 'aimer-boy, In
sinock frock, leanlhg upon hi* rake, and
gazing with admiring eyes at the skill rollcats
which, perhaps,he has never yet entered,
although seen t>y him so often; for money,
to the laboring wtaa la EttglaHd it hard to
come l>y, but, when hid. It Ik real messy,
and not filthy rags, like the " groenbaeks s
at home. On?oo?oveb iartfige t-oedsj
(but not across them,) under hills, thnoMrd
through and through, eomstimes for teVera]
miles, on entering whien so swiftly ortk ran
not help thinking, with a shudder, what a
dreadful melee thtre would be, If a wheal
should break, or a rati become displaced,
while rjtsltlng through theea subterranean
places; U is scarcely possible, howevet, that
a collision should occur, as every English
railroad has a double track. On wc fly,
ttrois a canal, with its long, laay boats, and
how ws enter the Black-eountry (M><eelled)
of Staffordshire, where Iron and eosl are
disembowelled front the teeming eailh.?
Passing Wolverhampton, with Its thousand
biasing ehlmniea, wa toon enter Binning'
ham. Stepping' from ths carriage, one ie
struck with wonder at the Immensity of
the rsllU'hy elation, the roof of which is
llOtt fctet in length, 21*2 feet in width, com
posed if li-on and glass. It U 80 fact high,
yet has Ho ttlh-r support than the pillars on
either side. The iron arshes which apan
the epaoe from pillar U pillar, weigh 2ft
tons each. *ftie glhsiIH tVie boof weighs lift
tons, and the Iron liort tons This ffe ths
Cei.tral Railroad Station. The cabman has
your trunk, and, for the sum of one shilling,
yttn may bo aet down at the "Queeuh Hotel,"
(but her Majeatj will, most likely, be
ou?, when you get there,) " Great Western,"
"Nock's Royal," "King's Head," 'Hen
and Chickens "?or any other ona of a
ftcorte <Jr ttoo rtlora. t Urithftd fof a quiet
and eomfortahlo place; so, my frlsad, Mr.
>Blakemore, who Is a native 6f Birmingham,
introduced me to Mr. John Jones, proprietor
of the "Commercial HoUl," Union passags,
New street, where I am now estab
lished, for a day or two, at least. It ia
comfortable, without ostentation?' neat,
but not gaudy* a* the derll tail, khett ha
pain'ed hit tail sky bloa. " Now, what
will yon hara for dinner f" a?k? Mrs. Jonea,
in person. She is buxom, roey-eheeked
woman, of forty, maybe. The Eogheb busineas
man's wife ia a true belp>aea?t, and
not a mere h holp-me-eat," as sooae I aaaM
name. " What do yoa a*yk now, to boiled
leg of motion, with eaper aaueaaad reg?tableat"
"Good." " And gooseberry-pie, er
college podding I" "Gooseberry piegood
I" " And a bit of eheese, for relink f"
"Nothing batter, Mrs. Jones, *thank you;
sud lat'a hare It, right sway, If yon please.*
" In twenty fire minutes air." " And, Mra.
Jouee *?" Tot of ale, air ?" " Extot'y, Mra,
Jonea, and fetch that firtt, if you pleaee.*
Birmingham la said to ba the largeet manufacturing
eity in the world. Tha quantity,
quality, and railety of ita predoets ia trsly
wonderful. It ia aituatad in tha northwestern
part of Warwickshire, which la
sometime* eilled " tha heart of Ragleed."?
This groat work shop has a population of
900,000 souls. Many fins public edifices.
ana on? ?Ul onurcn, *rn wormy 01 in? atlantion
of (h# anliqaariaa tourtat?St.
Martin'* Cliuroh?waa built aa early an UMi
Whan undergoing soma repair*, about
twanty year* siuoa, aereral niahaa Way*
dlaanvarad in (ha wall* under tha to war,
containing hitman akelatou* in a good abate
of praaereulioa. whiub, being found In an
upright poaiiiou, tha praaomptiaa I*. that
they were Unniurad while liring. There
are aome ourioua monument* in ^ thin aid
Ohoroh. One tooab bear* tha imaga of a
knight in plate armor, eaid to rapraaatit
John d* Birmingham, who waa ehbriff. ? <
Warwick and Lric?atmhire* in 187J. U*
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GREENVILLE. SOUTH C
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balft the tWd Western tdwerfi of the Yurk
Cathedral, In 1102. There is inothtr very
i. mHoui monumental composed of aleWUr,
hat w much that I found It
ImpwdlU to dni|ih?r any p?rt of tha 1st
> miptlon thereon. I lesrtted from the x>ld
woman who guided me, that it represented
a distinguished msmher of the Marrow family.
" A Us! thy marrow hstli no fatnessnow."
My guide being less loquacious titan
nu.tt of llbr s<-2, Ml tti# to my own thoughts,
which had wandered away bafck sis hundrsd
years, when these dry bones had vital
flesh upon them, and human pasaioi.e swayed
ike imfhbrtal OoUl to deeds tHileh now it
expiates in hell's eternal firs. And is it so?
Hsth tbs Almighty hourjde<h man's pro
gresslre life to suoh an ihali of iirtls as earth
affords f Man, made in the image of his
Creator, wlioite life without beginning is one
eternal spring of lore I Oh, Father!
fk? hi idthe, high up in tbs tower shore
me, began to filer - Tha Bloe-bclls Uf Scotland,"
Whan My Ibohglit ih an instant,
rushed from the sublipiity of by-gone ages
with a moat ridiculous stride of 6,000 miles,
to the College musie rooms, where the poor
" Bloc frails 4 have bPeh torthred Into musiaal
onnvulsiotte for months arid years.-?
The old woman tad me up to daylight. onOe
mora I gate her sixpence for her trouble,
and received I etoilP, worth a shilling, In
ratarn, making sixpence clear profit. I
stepped to gsss at Nelson's monument, in
tho " Bali Ring-,** opposite St Martin's
Chhrek. It is a bronze statue of the Adm:.
rsl, standing oa a eireulnr marble pedestal
{ iiis Irk arm rrating on an anchor,
and the modal of a Ihfy of War, behind him
Leering this, I saonigro-l into the " Market
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nan,- a uuge edifice, l>uilt in Ilia Grcclan
order, (u liloh would teem to be exactly tlia
right Myh for a |ilaM where fat bttf and
mutton are dispensed In atirh quiintllies.)?
I waa importuned at every ???p to buy, and
waa positively tind witli giving rteyatiee
shakea of the liebd to UiU Irgina of dealer*
la gaetrie viand*, when I observed a stalwart
countryman looking at my etraw hat,
which I had eotttlnu.d to ?Nr aiiica the
g*U ih North CatUliha t-obhfcd me of my
Other. 1,1 ilylt U peculiarly An ctioin, I
appose; at any rat-, this bumpkin thought
ao, no doubt, wlien he shouted out, "Veil,
h'l 'oahecu td h' America, h'nnd no uiirtaki-!^
When be aaW that 1 uoderatoo I l?im, he
tamed to moVe olf, but 1 Iht* too nittehamuaed
tp let him go an; and, taking off my
" thatoh," offered it to him He was a good
deal Oun'uaed. but hobo tveovered himself
(as what EngMshmaa would not?) at tha
mention of a pot of porter, after treating
him to whieh, he retreated, anil I returned
to my hotels tor a Saturday night's re??.
MuKK A NOV.
LOLA MONTEZ.
Skotohed to Smiles and Shadow*,
ST G ft ACS On CRN WOOD.
I apeot (be winter of IMS is Washington.
It waa ratbar a dull season politically. The
ataaosphsra about tha Capital waa sullen and
portentous. Disegreablc wrangler, that led to
nothing hut intenser ill feeling, worn tho order '
of eaeb day. After unaatiafaotory morning*.
in watching Ccngrtdioatl proceeding*, j
which were noither amusing nor tidifying, we
turned with more then the usual ie*t to tnu*i- |
eel end dramatic entertainment*. Among the
latter, perhaps, might be included the snmo1th
at profuse and delnding honor* paid to
Koamlh.
Charlotte (*U*httoan played a long engagement
at liie National fhentiro that season,
tiling the stage with the grand sweep and re.
gal altitude of her genina?charming in social
life with rare wit and culture?with the womanly
truth of her nature and the genial simplicity
of her manner*?all ef which fotlowod
l ime tempest of tragic potter liVe sUothlbej
ratnbolrs sad soft airs, after a tropieal tornado.
Tim earn* 01# Bull, with til wterd violin,
his aHislic eciUilet and tfanees, and his *ell
preserved boyishness af enthusiasm end
Catharine Hays, the sweet fWging-blrd of the
fthtUtttdil. ?
Following Push man, that f zed star of the
drama, earn# the lawieue, erratlo little meteor,
I?eta Meatus.
Everybody knew that she was *hy no means
a aloe and proper young person, yet everybody
was anxious to sen that danelnz enchantress.
who owned herself to being " wtl d and way.
ward?though nerrr wicked"?that suWwer
of tldtrly kings and tamer of young husbands
?and everybody wont Onoe at taaet, and was
subject in one perilous evening to tht spoil of
hor dark, splendid, entangling oyes and Cireiao
fascinations. Hbs appeared merely as
a dancer, and she was hardly that. Daring
and dassllng, she was wanting in grace and
1 sftistis ftnlsh. She showed a sort of petulant
disdain of Iks ordinary arte of the i?s?fM??,
retytag wholly. It tommod, on the piquant heanty
of kar faea aad the splendor of her costames.
Vfrr form was light and lithe, bat toe
this, at that ttane, for perfect symmetry
Pwssrtfal she was, with those wonderful eyes,
biasing Ihrtb now and than front under long,
hoary, drooping 1 ashes?the masked batteries
of passion aad her dark, toft, abundant hatr(
gathered hack from hor ' low forbbesd fa
Toeofy, shining ripples, and lit by seme gefgWeos
tropical downs. Tot to mo there was
aaaaothlog sod to hor pasatsoats, detent, attarfy
onpeaeefbt face. AW, It woniU bare
\ seemed aad beyond tears could I have foremen
(. the piteous, dreary eUding ot that arriag and
1 wanted life, of tkwt mad, bailed chaee alter
pleasure; the sudden, awful Wight of partly
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CAROLINA. OCTOBKR 1(3.
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Sfr^-ths painful death so Wearily fffolooged?
the ftuimi of Km forgotten oaari??ln, and
the kunbh grot* of tboMagdaWaa, .
Vdry liUlo la really known of Lot* lion to*,
hough several sketches of bar 1Mb faltta Lfihh
written?one ptltyortihg td bo /rdai bor own
pen. One of our party at the theatre that
night wae on Englishman, #ho hod aeon bor
several year* before, at bar first appearaqee in
Londthi;" She tts* thob, bo laid, exquisitely
beautiful, yet Wai bitted, not fdr bad daneiugt
though that may baro desorved It, bat heoauao
of her being faoogoltad by addle officer* la the
pit, aa an English or ratbet ail Irish UOttMH;
and the runaway Wife of d cdptaiu In tbo army.
Sho hod, ir see ml, loft hot husband in
India, with tbo understanding that <be was
going to England on a'risit; bill she boat no
farther than &pain, where she took some letsona
in Spanish and ballet ^anelng. Alter
gaiuiug some little reputation on the Continent,
sho wae dorlng enough to appear under
bar pretty Spanish totWpHt So tbo boards of
Drury Lane. Her English career was rosy
abort. 8bo was next board of as ploying In a
more important, if not n more honorable rmU,
aa tbo ebief farorite-Oioad *ad adviser of
Klog UJli| of Bavaria?4* tbo power bohind
the respectable thtod*; *hlob SWUldA III A
gorgeous gilded boll in tbo bed polaod hi Munich.
Lud wig was a gentleman of mnob energy
arid enterprise, and of artistic tastes. Ho
hod built a fine pataco Add noble mnoonnse of
art. Ho bad boon tbo gensrous patron of
sculptors and pointers, and bad greatly beautified
tbo capital city. His loyal subjects bad
boon Willing to indulge htm la bin extensive
tastes for. pietnros, staittbS arid fihtgant ediflcetj
bo' they did object to the scandal and cost Intulvod
in hi* iufstnation for ths young Spanish
(lausiuM, who had tttrned bis royal head
with Iter heels, and fired hit itefili^-gding old
utrman ueart wttu b?r Wteked eyes. It
n lUMbnent blybly paternal and platontc |
doubtless, but nwMtiUUD( In tbe munificent i
royal DUnd, * haadMHe establishment, horsey
pbmUiDi, dog*, diamond*, and finally ill* title
and estate of A countess.
Well, those loving subject* grew Wore averse |
to theing their august sovereign bowing hi*
anoointed baad to kiss the band of danoing
adventuress. They denied his diriae right to
dilte A Ibiii of himself in his old age. They
tidiculod, they reviled, they raved. They finally
made tbe crown too hot for that mou'
arch's head, and it was laid down nioro ia sor.
row than In Anger?and itfaxlmlllan took It
up, and wore it loyally enough I believe.
Lola Monies, or Madame, the Coantesa Of
LanritMdt) Whose veracity fits Rover been 4tto^cscltt'd,
said thnt her persecutions resulted
from her baring advocated reforms, political
and religious, whloh t-onsed agalnkt her the
Jesttites, thAl immortal and dbiquituoa* society,
which has borne so much killing, and so
thrive# on proecription. The prieats, she said,
set oh the t indents, and tin gal taut tat of Herman
boors, who quarreled With her dogs, and
did pot take horse whipping meekly. Certain
it it Uiat She was compelled to lease Munich
without much time for packing ; but perhaps
she went not altogether unwillingly ; tho dull
life of a small Herman capital must have bored
her iitttlieuaelj, and she was eridently not
meant fur " an old man's
If I remember rightly, the next the World
heard of Het wet n piece of piqaant doWiettie
scandal. Bhe hfid tUWewhere eanght Id bet
toils?thoSe siibllo toll*, loeinlngly light and
silvery ss a gblsAttior, yet in reality as strong
a* steel, and aa tcbacious as grappling irons?
a wealthy and Well boHi young ftnglishrnan,
and married hitri. lie was under nge and
weak intellect, and as it was presumed that he
had given himself in marriage under the spell
of the uvil eye, (a pair ot them,) if ndt hndolr
actdal bodily fear, his friends resolved to roicuo
hint, and separate the ill-matched couple,
"then followed tho famont pnrsuit over the
continent, front elty to eity, Lola Montes always
keeping a little ahead, having in oloae
custody bcr terrified and submissive victim.?
A prettv ehate Che toil them, bnt they otsftook
her, or Intercepted heir, at last?her bushand
went over to the enemy, who bore hltb
off In triumph. Then there waa a trial. The
law Vindicated injured aCate innocence, weelth
and roepeetahilUy, and divorced the peoy
yonng gentleman?the tJiere dreek ef hinlself,
his friends said, bnt it Is to be hoped he wa,
hrodght totind again, on toail and wine-whey
and ripened at last into an aVsrage Briton ef
the " swell-type," which Leech so delighUkl U
picture. It was well fef |Soor Lola that all
this did nut happen a eehtdty earlier. Her
judges would then hare tfcbt their eyee end
condemned her to hanythg Of dtoWSlhg as a
witch. She was now aldit Again, and; tike all
fioatlng things, she uaUt rally drifted to A (Met
lea.
On the name stoanter with the e*-ftoYorhor
of Hungary, sum the of Bera*
ria. It ?tm notteed that the trUit her fascinations
on the great Magyar, hat witout arafl.
She daily eat near him ea dock, looking
charming, oeen in her eea wrap*, gasing
dreamily over the wares aad peaeieely Smoking
a cigarette. And he too smoked, and
dreaufed, and remembered, end hoped?hot
hie elgar wes the aedatire of a brain orerwrought
by grand scheme* dad gredt tfaotighU
?bid dreanta Were noble, kll (Oedtorte# eeieean
his hopea beneficent, aad H be keeded the*
woman of anwomaaty ways, it Was in tfhre I
thought of pity to the roetieis heart aad the
wanted lift;
T^O theatrical Career ef Lola Monies in the
1 Statcn waa not brilliant Or preiOWged. #ew
wished to aee her more lhaa toreSi She Kitted
from-city t? elty, doing soma tefy generoae
things, let it he remembered of hof" nehowiag
eapeeiel kindaeea towards eh i Id re n, who wore
ha sorrow and in need. Then sighing, like
him of Macedon, for a new world to eewqfer
she Kitted to California, where aha saw Ufa'
under a thousand new aepeeU, each oae wilder
(ban lite test. She flung herself, with
wreckless abandon, with what seemed pare
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I Irtill divtlirr. Into IKlti
lifo, anrttb<lu?l, unterrificd, incorrigible, under
ota* very hard nptrlcDON. Strang* stories
of hw tMeiitloltiw, her eras/ freak*, her
daring wajrfi eante to a* and made
Itftigh, yet shudder f fall* We laUghed. She
tamed bean; rod* en caailler, gambled, shot
at abd bom-whipped her enemies, flung about
tier money, and married right and loft. She
teemed to hath a mania fur marrying and boI
idg divorced, Mt falling in lo?e ttii fighting
bet way out-i-poor tnu<i little ainoer.
At length, broken in health if not In spirit,
the returned to the Atlantic State*, and began
a new career, a* a lecturer. Her lCctktea were
flimay, patcbed-up affair*, and of questionable
moral tono. They were probably not written
altogether by herself?yet I should eay she
could have produced something better, if lose
ambitious, had she giren naturally and simply,
recollection* of the strange countries and
peddle the bad seen, though not a Well educated
woman, her conversation was said to be
singularly sparkling aud racy. Yet the flash
and sweep of ber magnificent eyes, and tha
bewitching fall of her luetrious, dark hair,
went far With the general audienee to mako
ap for the laek of ttlt and Wisdom of her
WofdJL
Thodgb kjlp&ftlhtly the ttost respectable,
this period was perhaps the ifiosi pitiable of
ber life. The tool of unprincipled men, she
kad entered oa a work for which she was even
loot fitted than for tho profession of tho datt.
oer, and ia which ehe depended more direetly
for eaceeee on bor unenviable repute. Though
ber drees was modest and her menner grave,
her lectures were more demoralising than her
dancing bad boeU. She usually read very
nieily, with no effurt at oratory Or display of
feeling ; but on the night when I heard ber, a
somewhat objectionable passage was distinctly
hissed by k gentleman sitting ip front bf the
| platform. Instantly a guit of passibn swept
over her loVely face, transforming It luto
something terribld. She paused, fixing her
yea on the offender, Arid iebmod like a tlgreia
just about to spring. She mastered her anger
how?Tct> And *ehl Oil heading, but with a
fierce glint in her eyes to the end.
After this, out of eight and out of mind alie
paeeod wholly, till I heard of her sudden illness?that
eruel stroke that left her helpless
and so pitiable, blighted and aged before her
time?a fate moat terrible for an organisation
like bora, a)! nerve* and five and action. Then
followed the long, dim twilight of that life of
fitful aad lurid brilliance, misty and chill, and
ushering in a night that seemed quite dreary
and starless. But the poor soul though* she
aw amidst the mists of ibo gldom tho a teddy
shining of the Star of Stars, gracious and
pitiful?tha star that shone over the manger
of Bethlehem and cstne out above the Cross ol
Calvary; and on this side she fixed to the last
those great dark cyca through which had
biased every wild human passion and sinful
boguilument, but which fait! Sometimes Softened
With human pity and overflowed with penitent
tears. 80 who would deny to thorn the
right to look towards those divine, beckoning
rays of peace and pardoning grneo ?
I have heard from a lady, who know the
kind CamariUns who nursed fcittot fwJla Monies
in her last sickness, that her grateful gentleness
and humanity weru vory pathetic. She
crept to the fpot of the cross, and crouched
there weeping} till sho soOtMed to boar the gracious
words?'* l"hy sins are forgiven lliee."
In the summer of 1S53 I visited Munich-?
While driving about that fine capital which
fronl iti aspect df newnos*} seeitts more liko nn
American than a European city, th^ beautiful
V,,, vt?- ?? vr.-r?~
Lola Montex, was pointed out to us by our valet
<fe ftlttec.
" Wil she vety Unpopular in Munich?" t
asked.
" Yes, Madame, with our most respect at do
cltitons, and latterly with tbo students?hut
bo wan good to tho poor?thoy missed her."
In the Art Gallery of the new palace, King
LudWig, Who W*s a gteat of beauty
had set apart a ball for the portraits ot living
European beauties, and at the head all of these
we found a portrait of Lola Montct, decidedly
the loveliest picture there. Even tho reigning
Queen, a young and protty woman, was given
a less honorable position id the gallery. We
are told that tha King exacted of bis successor
a promise that this Jlifcthtb should remain
in its planet At least while be lived. In tho
rose embowered studio of KauILsck, we found
eaotber portrait of?as the painter named her
?" the Countees of Landsfhldt." It was a
fall length, in an antique Spanish dress, a
saperb and stately picture, after the style ot
Vandyke.
One bright afternoen In the winter of 186#,
I tru wandering through Greenwood Comcterj,
and suddenly came upon an humble grave,
in a atnall three-cornered lot, quite unadorned,
and only marked by a plain white stone, bearing
aimply tbia inscription:
" Mr*. Elixn Oilber*'. Dieti February 17lbf
1861-Hijrd 41.
It waa the grave of T.ola Monte*. I could
hardly realizo that after such a free, wild
wing at lifts, from eonticnt to continent, *"hs
had been liih'ited to siieij H narfo# domain'.?
How that UtUe triangular bedge rceined to
imprison that wilful, untamable creature, that
rebel against society, that Zingra of the World
How heavily the earth seemed to rest on that
etange, wild heart, pasitionttte as IDS; inaon
stent as water. Jlow still she lay, who bad
seamed like *osie gleaming tropical bird, gay
bad bare* dad restless.
Kind people provided this place of repose
for ber yun, weary* faded body, but it is hardly
llbe'y that they often risit the spot. There
are no Coral tokens of lovely remembrance.
Doubtless, many an unmarked grave in tbe
Potter's Field on the hillside, ia tnore fre.
querttly visited. But is I stood over the
, mound, I felt only womanly pity and regreti
and gladly wtgld I bare laid thereon an offer
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log of flower*, to fade on tho brown tarf a*
bar bonntj had tided from tho world; not
nmptuouo roaea, typical of htr in her lovely
prime, when tho groat Gorman painted her?
not 111ia?, which might wem to roproaoh bor
memory?hut a bunch of pnrplo beertVeAeO,
breathing reconciliation and poaeei
flor.nraas Dasnnrtwo tbk RamoIU.?In*
11 part* of the Union brave soldiers are leaV- '
tag the Radical party, Anil denouncing thai'
organisation aa opposed to the beet interests
of the nation. Recently Col. John Turlcy, of
Clay, Ohio, repudiated thtS Radical party, to
which be had always belonged, in the follow*
ing truthful and strong language:
I am compelled to any that no party ban
ever had an existence in this country which
baa shown such hu utter disregard to law or
tho constitution. None has strer been so corrupt,
I have never been a Democrat, yet, *4
one who lores bis oountry, I am willing to
unite with Demooarts, Conservatives, or man
of any party, won who love their country
above party, to arrest this anarchy or deepo"
tism to which we are drifting.
In summing up the acts of the party in Pow^
r, thb Colonel continues as follows :
They have already, by their unjust, tyrant*
cat and dotpotio rule, desolated the fairest por*
tiou of country to tho tyrant's sway, making
slaves or Wort* tlidn slaves of millions of our
countrymen, Americans, by denying thein any
protection for life, liberty or property, ULkiUjt
thetU beyond anything ever known, with no
voiee or power to prevent or rttgtllate it, with
no right to tho jury box, no right to enforce a
jttst claim, no rigbt to testify, no right to pro*
toot their persons, their family or property, all
at the mercy of the thousand thieves and adventurers,
Whose duly Warrant by the Republican
party to invest tho Country, Is their en"
tire concurrence, and willingness to sngender
malice and ill feeling between the former slave
and master. No monarchical government has
ever treated its cititene thus.
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ADVeetisixo.?This annexed ptnfnpK
from the FAIrfleld Herald contains a trUlh>
ful statement in begatd to advertising, ami
we commend the same to the consideration
of all business men:
A cotempoi-ary poeitively asserts "that
people who advertise are smarter than those
who don't?and better looking too, nlut eut
of ten." "this is sound pVUoeephy. The
fact of a man's advertising it a proof of hia
intelligence, and an inielligdiit mind throws
an expression over the plainest features
that makes them appear handsome, fit'
sideB that advertising bribgs business, bnsl*
ness brings money, and money brings
peace of mind and perpetual cheerfulnessIf
you have good* to sell asohrap or cheap"
er than your neighbor, let the world know
it. Evtu those not in wnct, Hko to knot*
where to go when they do w ant. Your
name and residence being Constantly before
the pnblie, you will be In ti short time recognieed
at A phsidng business man. Adveitiso
iif trA?le it bad, to hiake it good.?
Advertise if the trade ift fcood, to make it
better, In short,, advertise and keep advertising
until you make your fortune ami
atop?and not tilt then.
Ohio.?A Columbus (Ohio) paper says;
At a meeting of some fifty or sixty Federal
soldiers, who are opposed to nigger suffrage t
and in favor of a restored l/mdn, held at Thurinan
Hall, last Saturday night, tho following
pcamhlo and resolutions wero adopted :
Whereas, This Government was fouudad by
white men, and maintained and governed by
White Won for upwards of eighty years, and
believing that it should so continue J there*
therefore,
\ Iteioloi J, That wo appeal to all tho hovs In
blutt df this country, regardless of party, who
fought for our dug and the Constitution, and
the preservation of this IIuioh, to join with
us to defeat the designs of all parties and tnett
who are attempting to place the negrb ou
equality with the white man,
fiewotved, That wo, the Undersigned, form
ourselves into an organisation, to be known aa
the " White Boys in Blue," with the object of
Using our best endeavors to defeat negro suffrage,
and carry out the principles for which
we fought?a white man's Qovernineut and aa
undivided Union.
?? Tnu
"grand army," formed for political
purposes, is quite ready lor action. They call
easily add numbers to their proscnt orgnttirUi
tlon. Ilencc the rumor that they will aall for
twenty-five thousand volunteers, black and
white. They can do it at the beck of a radical
caucus or eominitteo of Congress.
Another sign appears to-dap, which promises
an effort for resistance on tho part of tbo
President. Qeneral Bhcrtbln, at the President's
requost, is on bis Way to this city.?
Perhaps ho msy be here to-morrow. It is
in |iriTi? rcuur to ids rreiiasnt, apprbbatite
of hi* polity of totomlnioUon, and
<\ hope that the people would sustain him io
it.
Sherman is daring, imperlons^aod attblti*
one. He has not forgotten the affront put Upon
him by the unceremonious rejection of his
own peace measures. ,
In a f?w days we shall haTe more concerning
the movements of both parties to this new
aud threatening complication. LEO.
[ Was*. Cor. Io Chat. Couritr.
Chkeuino.?Gratifying it is, truly, to notice
in our daily intercourse with the business
marts, the return to tbe eity and to their soveral
vocations, so many of oar old marchants<
heir familiar faces wo greet almost hourly.-'*
May these sterling tradesmen accomplish
much in not only sustaining, but in furthering
> that commercial prosperity heretofore so ui
usually acceded to old Charleston.'? Chnrlr.ton
Mtu>s.
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