The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1859-07-07
GREENyIhIE sOUTR CARoLN THURspAY MoRNG JULY Is5a

s'nVusa the cHamQcrs OF my hehrt.- Bn scorn
sat upon her throne. and ere she. laid down her
seeptre had crushed out all the love my being
ever knew. One year ago to night I was we'd
ded. But I did not give my hand; ias perhsps
you think, without telling my husband of our
enlargement. and its termiDation I respected
himfally- hisI saids Aye, 1regarded hhnmorc
than any other person; |; but had no love for any
human being Affection was anpihilated from
my nature He took the little had to give,
-and gave. me. the name so proudly bear I
have done know that 1t WINS. not you that .chill.
! ed the statuary, but the spirit Of contempt that
abode in my bosom. when learned the uuwo orthi
ness Of the object upon which had layi4hca so
much. Since then a---. no, the regard saoe bear
my husband Is something. far too sacred to be
spoken Of to yoa"s.
+ He made no reply. Mrs Clifton swept from
the conservatory but, before she reached the par.
| iors every vestige OF her emotion was gone
She had SO long been cold and. calm, that her ex-
! terror continued enye yeloped IN iciness.
That 6ight after the guests were gonet ybil
glided 10 the side of her husband, and winding
her white arms around his neck, said, with tears
in her eyes
8 !" My precious husband"
= She loved him, and the maghficence around
her, did not mock the bitter anguish in her soul
-thc heart beating beneath the robe was not
crying out in ngony--the sounds smothered by the
velvet folds above it. Beneath the marble ex:
terror there had been re-lighted the lamp of az
feetion.- Raperley Atagasi,ie.
Is CuEss Ak IsTELLEcruAL CAMS 1.-The Boston
Courier dissents from the popular encomiums of
:" the intellectual game of chess" and objects to
the glorifeation of it's champion. II says,
1--WE cannot assent to the disposition manifest.
ed, naturally enough. by distinguished chess
players TO magnify their Office and function. We
cannot admit that there is any necessary and in
evitable connection between cminenee In chess-,
playing and general intellectual supefiority.--'
While itis true that many Distinguished men
have been, excellent chess-players, it is never.
equally true thatt greatest chess;players have,
given evidence Of conspicuous ability in any.
thing else: There were many men at tie Bos-
ton banquet on Tuesday evening whom we should
rank ininteiectual stature for above Philidor,
Macdonald Des Chapelies, Do la Bourdonnais,
any other great name in the annals Of chese,
whether dead or living.
"The game Of chess Is certainly an intellectual
SNncS Sp 10 NhiSI WIN, TO Oe sure, an eiemenJ
ofichance superadded, 40 is checkers. But it IA
buta game sfter all !. and the best thing you can
ssy of Il is that it is very excellent eontrivauce
% enable idle men to get through the lazy-pac.
ing hours without damage to the pocket, the
conscience or the constitution, It Ia for an
amusement, the nearest possible approach TO real
intellectual work. But IL is a barren tree; il
bears the blossoms of entertainment. but not
fruit of utility. the rest OF mankind are very
little benefited, mentally. morally, material.
ly, by tho dligent study of the game of chess by
aliaited circle To our taste, too the spectacle
Of two. men. especially young men, eroeking their
spinss for hours aud tying knots in 5theiEbrains,
over parcel of figures cut~in. White aud red
ivory, is a little drearyi but this smereIy mat
ter of taste, and we are far from insisting that
others shall square their conduct blythe line of
our tastes.sN - ~, 49,