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VOLUME XXXVI.
WITHERED FLOWERS.
TIIE pleasant Summer days arc fled,
Tlie 6kies arc chill and drear;
And Summer's fragrant blooms are dead,
The meadows brown and sere.
tSitrf Atittiiiin wmd* aVnpt the bowers.
And filled th? woods with gloom ;
And cruel frosts have stung the flowers,
And blighted uil their bloom.
Gay groups that made the gardens glad,
Pefacc I and lcnflcs3 stand,
Like stricken mourners, lone and sad
A desoluteband.
Poor blighted buds, sad w ithered things,
The Summer sure no more
Shall bring your bloom, or thousand
Springs
Your scattered seeds restore.
Ah, me! how many a human life
Is like the gardens now!
The blight of sorrow, sin. or strife
On lip, and heart, and brow.
How oft nnkindnces' withering breath,
O'er feelings tender flowers,
Has swept, and left the chill ?f death
Through all life's after hours.
Poor human heart! growths crushed and
killed
By blightening years of wrong!
Poor frozen souls, untimely chilled
By suffering deep and long!
Xo earthly Spring with balmy breath,
And skits with sunshine fair,
Shall wake you from your living death,
Or cure the ills ye bear.
But praised be Cod! bcyohd the years
Bull wintry years of pain?
A glorious Summer cliine appears,
Where ye shall bloom again!
Elizabeth Eovto.t.
MAGGIE MAY.
" I am sorry, George."
George Goodwin turned his face away
for a moment from the sweet, beautiful
one looiAing into it. It was not in the
least degradiug to his mauhood that the
large tears gathered for an instant in his
eyes, as the gentle voice spoke the
words that told liirn the strongest hope
of his life was crushed forever. The
room was silent after Maggie spoke, and
the strong heart wrestled dumbly with
its great agony ; a tender one sought for
words of couifort and relief. When
Maggie spoke again, her own pretty
eyes were moist and a tremor was in her
low, sweet voice:
'Believe me, George, I never dreamed j
of this. For so many years, over since
I was a little girl, you have been so like
a brother that 1 have given you a sis*
tcr's love and did not think you wished
lor any other. George,' she continued. |
pitcourly, 'tell me you do not think I ;
have been ttifling with you, or willingly
wounded tho noblest, truest and best
heart in tho world.'
'Darling,' said George, hoarsely, 'I
know you have not. It was my own
great lovo that deceived me. Tell me, j
Maggie, is there no hope for me in the |
future, when you may cease to love me
as a brother, but love nv dearly and
affectionately as I love you?'
The answer came slowly and tenderly
: 'I am the promised wife of Ed. ;
ward Olover.' The room reeled before
Georee's eves; then by a great effort, he }
straightened himself, and controlled I
himself to speak : 'lie is worthy, Mag- j
gic, even of your love. May heaven i
grant you every happiness!' and ?s ho j
spoke, he softly touched the raven hair '
of Maggie's bent head with his lips, and
left her. She went to her own room !
crying softly. It was a sore pain to her
to know that George loved her so deep,
!y. There was no thought of the girlish
triumph of a new conquest, for Maggie
had not one spark of coquetry in her
simple nature. No pain of her happy, 1
innocent Kfo hail boon so great as this !
sympathy aDd regret for George. She'
whs but a mere chilJ when Iwr uncle
had taken George into his household to
study medicine with him, to become in
the course of time as dear: i a son.?
lie was not entirely dependent on his
nrofesaion, haviug a small income
inherited from his father. To
Mapgio her uncle's house had bren a
hfiino since she was a child. Sit-1
uated about two wiles from her father's :
residenco, tho distance had been considered
too great in her childhood for .'
two walks in the day, so that a visit to
her uncle's was usually of two or three '
day's duration. She was the star ol'l
the whole household, froin her uncle to ;
the housekeeper, and even down to tho i
offico boj who considered her a little !
angel. George's arrival gave the damsel
a new admirer in the strong, rough
lad, whose ringiug voice woke the
echoes of tho quiet old house, us her
silvery laugh and low, sweet tones had
never done:
It was plea3ant to see how the young )
natures controlled each other in their1
frank, pleasant intercourse. It was j
George who conquered Maggie's timidi-,
ty, and made her a fearless horsewoman, |
who wakened her from her dreamy rer- j
cries to realities of life, turned her tsn- i
der sympathies to practical charities,
and led her up to higher and nobler
aims in life than her shrinking gentleuciS
would ever have sought alone. It
was Maggie who taught George to soften
his rough, rather uncouth man news, and
pcrsuadid him that courtesy was no
want of manliness, and gentleness implied
no weakness.
]>ut while George was allowing his
whole heart fo become bound up iu
Maggie, giving her the entire devotion
of his life, making her returning love
for every cxcition, every act of self sacrifice,
dreaming of his future as only a
lifetime of loviug care for her, Maggie
regarded hitu only as a brother and kept
her hoart untouched till Edward Glover
came to claim it. He was hut a visitor
at the village where Maggie spent her
f?'y' ; . ;
0A1V
[ happy life, and in (he spring came to (
carry his bride to his city hoiue.
In the library wheic George Goodi
win had spoken his love tale to Maggie,
there were seated eight years later,
an old gentleman and a young. /air lady
in deep mourning.
'Your mother must have missed your
letter, Maggie,' Dr. East said. 'She
would never have left home expcctiug
your return.'
'I found my Inst letter unopened on
her tabic. AH was so sudden at the
last, uncle. Edward was so well when
I wrote before, that I do not think the
idea of my return occurred her. It is
so lonesome at home, 1 earae at once to
you, hoping to slay tiil father and mother
return.'
'You know, iny dear child, how plad
I ain to Miato you with rnc. Maggio,
there is something to tell you we did
not write of, thinking it would ofily
grieve you. George has been deeply
afflicted.'
George? lie is here is he not?'
'Always. I will tell you all. You
heard soon after your arrival in Italy,
did you not, of the dreadful accident at.
the new buildingjust outside of the village?
Many wero killed and wounded
by a premature fall of a large quantity
cf brick and mortar. Every one has.
tencd to aid the 6nffcrcrs. thinking all
danger w.n otcf.. Gccrgc went down to
the building, superintended the removal
of the unfortunate wounded, and
received thein in the long stonecutter's
shed above, and dressed their wound*.
All were removed but the dead, and
George was prill in the Du'J'Jwg worn
a second fall canic and horrified us all.'
Oh, uncle! George?'
He was taken up insensible. Apparontly
liia injuries were slight, but as lie ;
recovered consciousness we found a blow !
upon his bead, which, with the optvous i
shock, had totally destroyed his eyesight.
'Not incurably?'
'Vcs, dear, livery effort skill could
suggest or money procure has been
made. We have had the advice of the
first surgeons in the country, and all
remedies have been faithfully tried.?
All has beeu in vain, lie is hopelessly J
blind.'
Magpie's tonrs were falling po fast!
she could not speak; and her uncle con-1
tinued:
He bears his trial with fortitude,
but it is a grief none can appreciate, |
except, under similar affliction. Hush ! .
ha is coming.'
'Don't say T am here. T cannot speak !
to bim yot,' whispered Maggie, rising j
softly, and taking a scat iu a further
corner of the room, where she watched j
George's cntrancs with painful earnest- (
n ess.
He came in very slowly, his arms !
outstretched, and his step uncertain.
Maggie longed to offer her support, but
could not control her voice to speak.
'Are you here, Dr. East?' George
asked; and the deep soft Toiec struck
upon Maggie's ear.
'[ am here, in wy old place.'
'Let me find my chair. Ah ! here
it is;' and ho sank down wearily iu the
chair.
'I have clad, but still sad, news for :
you/ said Dr. List
'Sad an J glad ! News from abroad V
'Yea, The sad news of Ed ward Gio.% ;
vcr. lie died in Italy last month.'
'And Maggie is coming home, that j
i3 glad news ?'
Yes. Door Maggie!'
There wr.s n deep siler.ce. Thou
George spoke in a meditating voice, as
if following a train of thought: 'Bet.
tcr to be widovrcd than to have been i
burdened as she would have been, had ,
my life been blessed as 1 once hoped, t
May heaven bless and comfort her in
her sorrow !' *
'You lorcd hor very truly, George?'
'I love hrr while life remains. I can .
never cease to love Maggie. When is
she coming home, doctor?'
'She has come.'
'But her parents arc away,'
'She is her?. George.'
It was painful to sec how the sad,
face of the afflicted man lighted up as
he bent forward eagerly, his hands cut-;
nUAinli. .1 ?t?/1 Mo r.wlnn.a iVArl'Inir wif K
OlIV'l^HVU UUU IIIO IVUVUIV'- HVi ???*.? |
emotion. 'Here, here. Msggie!' Ilu
bad forgotten bis blindness, her widowhood,
everything, but the fact tbnt
Maggie was near him. 'I cnunot see
you, Maggie darling,' lie said, with
some emotion. '.Speak to me.' She
came softly to him, her tears falling
last.
'Oh, Maggie!' he remarked "I
have no word to comfort your sorrow."
And your affliction, George,' she replied,
'is a new sorrow to me.' They
talked together for ft considerable time.
There was much to be told by both
parties, and each sympathized with the
other for the sorrows which had fallen
upon them during their separation.
It was not long before Maggie had .
found her old place in the home circle
?s if she had never left it.
To George a now, and, perhaps, happier
life had opened. Maggie again was
liis sweet, tender, loving hearted sister.
Tt was Maggie who drove him out in
the carriage; it was Maggie who read to
him, sang for hiin. made the hours fly
with the merry descriptions of her travels.
Maggie had opened a drawer in his
desk, searching for koiiio papers he
wished to see, when she said, sudden What
arc all tlirso loose papers,
George? There are an immensity of
pages.'
He replied, very sadly: 'That is
the wreck of my ambilinu, Maggie.'
'Tell me all about it!'
'You cannot realize the temptation
there is for a studcut oi'mediciuc to do-c.
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S. C., OCTOBER
vote nil Iiis energy to some special
branch of the profession, and to
study all that b?nrs upou ir. It
was my fancy (hat I could give my fellow
students sjtne valuable information
opou diseases ol the br?i:;,4 and I had
written what yon see wh#ti my labors
wevo stopped and I bccarni^ the useless
j log I siu now.'
I 'But the book, George; have you for
gotten it V
'Forgotten : Never! It is clearer
and more distinct in my darkened life
than ever before. My mind, in my sol*
itnry hours, has dwelt on each phrase
of the vnrious treatment of the diseases
till I Cud my blindness a misfortune for
others as gieat as myself.'
'But, George, why should you cease
yonr work ? Cannot you dictate to
7>
iuu ;
'Maggie, id it ri^lit to thj you down
to such drudgery ? *4
'It will not be drudgery. Let me
arrange these papers now, and read
them to yon, and you can continue the
work to-morrow.'
'I know it to be selfish, but the temptation
is too great. Maggie, you are
my guardian angel!'
The work progressed rapidly, and l>r.
East watched with loving g'uducss the
change in George. Maggie wrote for
him, and read the extracts he dictated,
entering with her whole heart into the
work.
A year passed away fro? tho day the
work was commenced befon; it was ready
for the press, and they wore rewarded
at last by n package containing
the handiomely bound volume.
Maggie was in the library uhrnc when
. % t 1 V . 1_
J Jr. hast entered witn tne dook.
Look at it, Maggie darling, while 1
find George.'
'I aui here, doctor,' said .George, entering.
'Let me feel it. Maggie, dear,
please read me the title page.'
Slowly sho reid the page, even to
the figures that anounecd the date of
publication. "1864," aiie said, as if
pondering. 'It is leap year.
George looked up. Despite his
blindness he had never lost the habit
of turning his face toward any object
of interest. Now his face was pale, eager
and yet radiant.
'Leap year,' Maggie continued,
'when ladies' may offer their hands to
gentlemen. George will you tako
mine ?'
'Maggie, do not mock mo. You are
youner, beautiful ana wealthy. What
am I V
"What you arc to others,' said Mag*
pic, 'let the universal lev*! rmj respect
you meet testify. What you are to me
1 can never toil }ou. You lovo ntc,
Geo rare V
'With my whole heart and soul ?'
'Let your love, then, road mine.'
'Oh ! Maggie?Maguie. can it be
true? You love me, blind, helpless,
useless'?
'Hush! George-'
You arc uiy eyes, my fingers, my inspiration
!
'Then rou will have me?' said -Maggie.
merrily.
'I have no answer yot.'
Dr. Mast stole softly away, blessing ,
them in his heart audibly when the
wedding day came. For they were
married, and the honeymoon has not
yet waned.
STONEWALL JACKSON.
A itcminlscenro of tho Wilder- {
neia.
(Erora the Usirelt Free Freei.)
All ! but tlic.se calif for regimental
re unions menu something more than
decorated lulls,grand dinners, and toasts
and responses. Memory aits down with
the boys in blue and the boys in gray,
and nukes their hearts thrill ? they
renumber the terrible clurgeofthe Con"
federates to possess themselves of the
key position at Gettysburg. She asks
the veterans to remember how the
bra re Seventh Michigan pushed across
tho wide river flowing past Fredrick-burg
and looked into the fierce eyas of l?.irk?.
dale's Missis.-ippinns. She calls upon the
sabre fight nt Trovilian stution, the
tramp of Stonewall Jackson's men on
th# plains of Manassas, ami the mad,
eager rush around Petersburg.
Well may memory sit at every veteran's
right hand, fur under ono soil,
lulled to eternal rest by the same breezes,
are the blue aud the gray?falling
on their skirmish lino, in tho charge,
single and by scores?und no man dare
say that they were not brave and true.
That, was an awful day when the Confederate
lion, Stonewall Jackson, crept
upon poor Hooker hidden in the Wilderness.
LKK 0!f OXR SIDK?JACKSOIf oX Till Oinr.B, |
and the woods aroutnl Chttneollirsville
shook and trcuihled, and were almost
swept from tlio Jjco of the oartli by the
whirring round-shot, and hissing shell,
and the screaming grape-shot. Men
were struck stone-dead as the battle lino
advanced or retreated. Whitc-fncadrecruits
and bronze-faced veterans were
torn to fragments and hurled against
the living.
Wounded men fell in their tracks to
he crushed in the earth by great limbs
cut (ruin tho trees by shot and shell.
The roar of guns, thecracklo of mn.skcU
ry, the fierce shouts and awful groans,
made such a hell upon earth of that
battlefield as was never seen before or
after.
Fighting Joe Hooker was in a box,
but not a man in his great army drcanr
cd that it was so until tho long gray
line of Stonewall Jackson c.amo creeping
through the quiet loiist, at 3 o'clock on
that ever-to*be-romcmbcrcd 2nd day of
Mny, 1803. Tho light earth works had
been thrown op to fnco another way?
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towards Loo. All lines faced toward
Lee ; nil men were looking for Lee,
when three divisions of ConfedAtfes,
n:ovin?r with soft steps took Hook^Mn
the rear, and drove one brigade intpand
pel 1 well over another, until veteral soldiers
were without strength or nj?WDce
nf minil That, nrvfiil nip-lit wiHt
W
Tirr wouxncn wrr.n peixo ntkiflff alivs,
id tlio woods, and the leaves just broadening
into full life, a report ran through
the reorganized ranks that thf great
Stonewall Jackson had been killed.
Thousands believed it; but three of us,
lung side by side in the new battle liue,
born after night came down, put no
faith in the ruu.or. Why we did not
is what I started to write about.
Stuart's cavalry had been following
up Hooker's army, but it wss like a rat
following in the footsteps of horses. Lcc
was so far away and coming up so slow"
ly that Hooker hail tiuio to throw up
light earthworks, seize the best ground,
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it'll LIL'Vh IU [lJU'.ect 1119 UUUbO aim uivav
ready to shatter ?nd hurl back the expected
attack. On tlt3t 2d day of May,
liis soldiers, hidden in the woods or lying
in the fields, washed their clothing,
wrote letters homo, made comfortable
beds for themselves, and were not in
the least troubled abont what another
week would bring forth. As a deep
river suddenly bends to avoid a bluff, so
did that great army of Lee's bend to
avoid the Wilderness, It split in two
to attack r.t a given bour on both sides,
and Joe Hooker sat in his tent and congratulated
himself on his impregnable
position? considered impregnable by
him when two great highways ran along
the rear ot half of his army. So universal
was the feeling of security that
soou after noon three infantrymen stqfe
ted out to
DEO OB BCr FOBAGCTOOD.
Sigel's corps was on Hooker's^west
flunk, and commanded that du^by
Howard. Tart of this corps faced the
old turnpike and plank road; part f^ced
the other way. Most of the men were
hidden in the woods and behind ridges,
and up the broad highway which ^Ipuld
have been first looked to StunrF was
pushing his cavalrymen as skirmishers.
Wo Mirce men were beyond Sigcl's
corps, and on the point of entering a
farm house from which everybody ii*a
fled; when, less than a rifle-shot nwayj
wc caught eight cf tho CorifodwraJ^
advance. The cavalrymen wore ndvuwf
cing slowly, evidently expecting to fmdb
a heavy guard at sotno point, but at the
time wc imagined that less than a regiment
of Stuart's men were feeling along
up to pick up stragglers, locate position,'
etc. V.'c, at !ea?t, did cot fear them,
and the proposition to enter the house
and sncurc a better view of tho 'roads
speedily conveyed us to a chamber
window. IVc could sec hut littlo more
from that post, but wc did see, soon
uftcr reaching it,
THAT Sine STOXEWALI. JACKS OX
ride from th'.itcr out upon the turnpiko
in full view, attended by only three or
four officers. lie had como out there
to make observation. Like n cat before
slio destroys the mouse, he was wonder*
ing at what j>? irit he sliouiu srriite to
disable Lis victim soonest.
(trim minded and sour-tempered was
the third man of us, and war's horrors
delighted him. When ho had taken
his second look at the little party sitting
on their horses on the open road, a
wicked smilo crossed his faw. and he
whispered:
4,Jly the hundred g"ds of th* heathen
! but that chap on tho left thcro is
old Stonewall Jackson, and I'm goingto
drop him!"
Old 1'cto, our sour teniperod com.
pan ion, had a first class Minnie rifiio
with him. Ilo had carried it tor neverai
months, in runic way cicapiDg the at"
tendon of tho inspector and always in
some way secured ammunition for it.
I saw him in at least half a dozen instances
shoot down videttM or skirmishers
wbo seemed to {be half a mile away,
nni lie was known throughout tho reg**
iiucnt as a dead-shot.
There was considerable firing around
us from foragers, stracglors, and men
cleaning their gun?, and a ahot from the
window might not attract particular at*
tendon. JtesMngthe heavy gun ncros?
the window sill, and having us steady
rest as hunter ever naked for*. ''Old
rcto" was ready to Keep ins wora.
ir SEEMED LIKE COLD DLOODKD AgflASS
I.NATION. jft
I could almost count tho buttfWi on
JaekTon's coat, und th<>rc seemed ajirES- ,
capo for htm. 1 was watcbinpflBim
when the rifllo cracked, lie lnnWja
gla?s to hi, eye, and the only movement!1
we could sec was a q;il*k motion uffi
tho head, us ii" the bullet bad eat close 1
to his car. The glass was not even
iowerd. "Old l'eto" sworo a terrible
long strin; of oaths as he realized lis i
lailure, but iu a minute was ready I
again. <
' I hope never to diaw another breath I
if I don't kill him stone dead!" ho mut- (
tercd as ho knelt down. Jackson did i
not face us as before, yet he was a good I
mark, even for a musket. We witched I
him as before, and this time the bullet 1
must have swept past his face, as he *
dodged his head backwards. The glass ;
was down then, but he raised it in an ]
instant and went on with his survey.
' Have J got to be a fool! or have I I
grown blind 1 howled "old I'etc," as he
looked down upon bis unharmed victim. '
"I'll kill him this time or shoot myself j
in this chamber!" i
It was dangerous to remain there '
longer, as the cavalry hud crept nearer,
and Jackson's aids seemed to have got
the idea that a sharpshooter was posted
uear by. Yet "Old l'cte" would have
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hod a third that if the Confederates had
been in the house.
THE TARGET WAS AS FAIR AS BEFORE.
He took a moro careful aim, and yet
when he fired we saw splintera fly from
a rail way over beyond the General. The
cavalry were then close upon us, and
oor two muskets were lost in the hurried
flight from the house. Half an
hour after that Jackson was driving our
brigades and divisions as he wished.
'Til measure off the same distance,
offhand, and bet my life that 1 can hit
a soldiers cap nine times out of ten!"
growled "Old Pete," as he hurried forward,
and, suddenly overcome by indinrnnfinn
nnd ohnorin. ho battered his
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cherished gun against a tree nnd destroyed
it. As if seeking personal revenge,
Jackson's logions passed right by
us. The nearest brigade of Sigel's corps
was picked up and dashed to pieces as a
strong man would lift and hurl a child.
Running along with tbe amazed and
frightened man, but bearing off towards
our own division, we picked up other
muskets to replace our lost ones.
Reaching a knoll from which we had another
view of the turnipike, we halted
for a last look over tho heads of the
frif^tencd, fleeing soldiers?over the
grouad strewn with arms and accoutrements?over
the blue smoke just begin?
ning to rise.
"VVE SAW JACKSON AGAIN,
lie was far away, but it was Jackson, i
"Curse him! but he has cot a guardian
angel," howled "Old Pete" as he shook
Ins kit towards the turnpike.
No other roan ever yet had a rifle i
drawn on him at such a range and ei- 1
caped three cool, carefully-aimed bullets.
His escape sent a thrill of superstition
through each mind, and from <
that hour to the momcut when the news
reached us "Old Pote" never spoke a
word. It was a puzzle he could not
solve. As we lay in lino, every eye <
peeping through tho darkness to catch 1
fight of the gray lino coming on again, 1
an aid came hurrying along and shout- 1
od out: 1
"We're all right, boys. Stonewall i
Jackson haa been killed up tho road '<
therel"
"Old Pete" leaped up, whirled around i
to face the bearer of the news, and savagely
shouted bock: ]
"You lie! you lie! you lie! Stonewall
Jackson cau't bo hurt by shell or killed '
by bullets!"
but it was so.
, Lying ia the arms of tlrosc who lov^d
htm, so near ua that the cries of our
Wounded must have rcacTied his ears, was
tfic mortally wounded General whose ,
skill and strength had no match. While
tho white-faced dead looked up to the
torn and shattered forest trees?while
the wounded crawled here nod there in
their awful agony?while the living
looked into each other's anxious faces
and wondered if another night would ;
find any of u3 there, the legions of
Jackson were strangely silent. Now and
then came the sudden boom of some
great gun, sounding like a deep groau
of despair, bat there was nothing more
to break the silence. While men rested
in lice of battle, having the awful horrors
of war on every side, there one
who gave up his life as he wh:spered, '
"Lot us crossover the river nod rest
uuder the shade of tho truss."
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A Beautiful Passage.
The following is from the reveries of
a bachelor, by Ike Marvel; "A poor
man without some soit of raligion is at ]
best but a poor reprobate, the footboll
of destiny, with no tie linking him to 1
infinity and the wonarous eternity that '
is oven worse?a flame without a heat, *
a rainbow withouta co|or, a flower with- <
out a perfume. A man may io some sort <
tiediishopc and his honor to this shifting <
ground tacklo, to his business or the 1
world, but the woman without that an. I
ehor called faith is a drift and a wreck. I
A man may have some sort of moral re- i
sponsibility out of relation to mankind, 1
but a woman in her comparatively isp- ;
latcd ephcre whore affection r.nd not
purposo is the controlling motive cao
find no basis in any other system or 1
right action but that of faith. A man <
racy craze his thoughts to truthfulnoss 1
in such poor harborage as fame and t
reputation may stretch before him, but 1
n woman, whore can she put her hope (
in storms, if not in Heaven? And that J
sweet truthfulness, that abiding love, '
that enduring hopo mellowing every
page and scene in life, lighting them
with radiance when the world's storms
broak like an army with cannon, who
Ins onjoyed the lovo of a Christian '
mother but will echo the thought with *
Micrgy and hallow it with tears?
Sunshino. * <v' '
oyer uotico what a5 differ^Pr
lcpcct cvet-}'tjMM wears in the sunshine t
rout what it aow in thc*^shadow ? And
lid yon ever thiuk wlut un anology
there was between the sunlight of a
doudless sky and the sunshino that .
fleams iuto tho darkened shadows of ?
:he human soul ? How bright and t
beautiful arc the golden beams that j
break the riven clouds to light up the t
world again, after a succession of dark (
ind stormy dr.vs. llow happy and how 1
pencoful are the blissful words of hopo .
ind cheer that touch the heart and
[ill the soul with emotions of |eaceand
joy after a long period of sorrow I (
There are none living who do not, in a (
greater or less degroo, havo an influence |
over the earthly happiness of others.
The sense of contributing to tho pleasure
of others augments our own happt* <
ncss. Unselfishness, Christian charity I
and loving kindness arc sunbeams of i
tbo soul. i
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Gypsy's Pear of Death.
If a funeral procession happens to JM
pass before thoir houso, if twelvo o'clock
tins not jet struck, the family will go *|3j
out upon the threshold of the door aud
say the usual prayers; bat if it is ?Ueruoon,
they oakc haste to shot the doori
and windows, and no one will go out
till the next morning. The eight of a
drop of blood draws from the gypsey
horrible cries, as if he were being assassinatcd.
If, while preparing a meal,
a malevolent hand lays beside him a
dead dog or cat, he will immediately
throw his dinner on the dunghill, for
fear of witchcraft, As soon as a gyp*
scy feels his d?ath pangs begin, he aska
to be carried into the open air, for if it
happens that he dies in his home,J|pi*
family must pot all the furniture into
street before theycan carry out the corpse
In short, the dread they hare of the
dead is such that a coriegidor of Cordova
wishing to rid the city of the gypsays
ot the Sierra Morena, gave ordere
that they should be employed at inter*
ments. '-ltathcr robbers than grave
diggers," was the cry of the gypscys,
and they all returned to their moua"
tains.
Self Beepect. 4 ' j
One of the strongest and most prevalent
incentives to virtuous conduct is
the desiro of the world's esteem. We
act ruther that our actions may be ap?
plauded by others, than to have the ap*
probation of onr own conscience. We
refrain from doing wrong, not so much
I'rcni principle as from the fear of in*
curring the censure of the world. A
regard ought, indeed, to be paid to pub*
lie opinion; but there in a regard we
owo to ourselves which is of far greater
importance?a regard which should keep
as from committing a wrong action
when*withdrawn from the observation
of tho world, as much as when exposed
to its t broad glare. If we are as good
as others?and it is our own fault if we * ;
are not?why aland in more fear of
others than of ourselves? What i? there
in othor men that makes ns desire their
approbation, and fear their censure mora
than our own? In other respects, we
are apt to orerrato oursslvcs; but suros
ly, when we pay such blind and servile
respect to other*, we forget our own dig*
uity, and undervalue ourselves in our
own esteem.
Bleck and White.
Jefferson noted seventeen points of
difference between the black and tho
white man. They differ in color, ia
hair, and in the shnpe of their bodies.
The black roan has less beard than the
whito man. IIo perspires mora pro*
fufcly. There in a slight difference in
the arrangement of their lungs, by which
the black lias more exhaling forco than
tho white. Tho black m^tu require? _
ie?s sleep. Ills love is mor? ardent, but '
less imaginative than that of the whito
man. His gri^f is tnoro transient, He
reflects less. Ilis reasoning powers arc
decidedly inferior. His memory ia
equal to the white man's, but not his .
imagination, which is dull in tho ex"
treuie. 1 he blaok has less originality.
He has no turn for the arts of painting
and sculpture. He has as good an ear
for music as the white man, but no skill
in composing. And, lastly, the black
has no poetical tendencies.
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Who can beat This.
Mr. J. II. McFadden, an cnergetie
planter residing a few miles south of
llock Hill, has brought us a samplo of*
rcry fino sorghum, of which ho has
nade 53 gallons, all the product of one
quarter of an aero of laud. An article
>f molasses of about the samo grade
;ouId not be bought for less than 50
:ents per gallon, hcnco its value to the
producer is equal to $26.50. The same
land in cottOD, supposing it to yield at
the rate of one balo per acre, would
make, at current prices for this article, *
ibout $10.00. Again we say, diversify
four crops.
Gen.Logan, of Illinois, has presented
r sight extremely rare to the Ameru
;an people. It is the spectacle of a Remblican
refusing office The
ictually the
right upon the
the collectorsbijj^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H
to
s mind,
name
eleventh
now an
ho quelled the
fortsJjfia53 he
theJForld by his
leJwte'nfj^ia.itopol. his
Ire unimpaired, Osmnn
engineer
The Washington corrcsponden^^^^^^^^^^^^^^J
he Baltimore Sun says there a
uuong outsiders and insiders, too,
he the President alter
lave much to do in the decision of
he Louisiana and the South Carolina
held that there are several
Republican Senators who will oast their
rotes so as to reflect wishes.
A Person asked Chapman if the
oiling of a bell did not put him in mind
>f his latter end. He replied;'No, sir;
out the rope puts ir.o in mind of yours/
While his mother lives, a tr.au has
me friend that wiL not desert him when
lie is needy. Iler affections flow from
a pure fountain, and cease only at the
ocean of eternity,
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