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atlts luxuriance, and now and then folding it
inn black coronet around her head.
iiThere," she said finally; 81 am weak to
feel such pang at this small sacrifice. Yeu
may cut it off now.n
The Elderess lifted the scissors which hung
at her girdle and commenced her task.
= | say you shall not cut off that pretty
hair, naughty, dissgreeable woman" cried
Bessie, springing forward; J" don't let her,
mother, don't, don'tln and she flung herself
down on the floor and sobbed as if her heart
would break.
Sarah Wells, however, quietly proceeded
with her work, even adjusted the cap Of the
new conner; then she said -
sour little girls usually wear net it is a
great deal less work to take care,of the hair
so.t Here is one for you, child, and your hair
must be clipped, too"
z 1wont have it," shrieked Bessie; I
won't stay here if you treat me So"
2 Bessie" murmured her mother I wish
it, and you know how it pains me to see you
dispbedient."
+ The child's tears flowed afresh, but for a
lonn time she did not speak. At last, when
her long, rich curls lay in bright heap on
the carpet she broke out, mournfully =
3 SIT is too bad! How papa would feel, and
Wallace, dear Wallace-he said there was not
another head of hair so beautiful as mine, in
oil Boston Oh, mother, 1 can't help cry
highland she wept piteouslY.
Margaret PerciYal bent lower over the pile
ofTinglets. Was it tear that fell on the
golden coils =? Yes, and she walked to the
window to hide her agitation, while Sarah
Wells arranged poor Bessie's net.
2 Thus the once brilliant and courted woman
of the world became Shakeress.
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ISDusTRY STILL PAYs.-The Athens Ban
ner relates an instance of young man living
about twenty miles from Athens, who leased
a farm containing three or four hundred acres,
most of it well worn. Ec worked four OF
FIVE hands, made over twenty bales. Of cottog,
large crop Of potatoes, over four hundrel
bushels Of corn, and with the proceeds Of his
crop bought the farm, a few days ago, paying
$l,lOO for it. In good times the place,was
worth over S., ,00s. This is but an illnstra.
tion of what well-direoted industry will do,
anywhere in the South. If our young men,
instead of looking towards Honduras or Bra
zil, would CO. TO work with energy right here
at home they would soon find that it. would
pay. Our lands are not yet exhausted. With
proper cultivation, the use of fertilizers and
careful attention to the rotation Of crops
Georgia will soon regain ind even exceed ter
former prosperity.
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TEE Coop TINE CoMIsG.-Dr. Clarke, a
noted spirtualist, who has been on a recent
visit to Warrenton, Ga, says it has been re-
vealed to him that this country has but seen
the beginning of her troubles, but that those
to come are to be borne chiefly BY the North,
(which, if true, will be some consolation to
poor Southerners.) he says we are to have
no more Presidents; that there arctic be
wars and revolutions for the next fourteen
years, during which time England will lose
her crown forever, aud ireland viii shakeof
her shackles and become free and indepen-
dent; that after the lapse Of fourteen years
our country will again be organized, whh the
capital at. Chicago, and, during q long period
of years, enjoy degree of prosperity hithef-
to unknown in the history Of any land. All
Of which we learn from the Greensboro Herald.
.si>r q sss.t Ionsfi ;s,f1lisfsfs
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Coloring all crimson at his lghtcst look.
L. E. Landon.
Six years had rolled by since Margaret
Percival and her child found refuge among
the Canterbury Shakers. Had those years
brought peace and rest to the wretched,
world.wcary woman? Had they dropped
healing balm upon her wounded spirit? No !;
Oh, 70! Her rebe!lious, undiscipined heart
beat as stormily under her plain dress as it
had beneath the silken folds Of luxury. In
the quietude of her home she was as misera-
BILE as she had been in .he great metropolis.
She wever, rigidlyc. formed to the usages
of the community. Unaccustomed as she
had been to toll, she never shrank from her
share of the labor When she was required
to she had given up the immediate superyis-
ion Of her child. 1t cost her many pang to
yield, but she did at last school herself to the
trial She joined in their worship, rs soon as
the fear of discovery had worn off, but her
step tagged and her thin hands moved list
lcssly in the dance and march; and no "new
revelation" could inspire her with enthusiasm.
"And Bessie--what of her?" fancy
hear the reader ask. She had fulfilled the
promise of her childhood and grown up q
beauty. She was also at eighteen SO fine a
scholar, that she was, despite her youth and
inexperience, appointed an assistant teacher
in the Shaker school. Besides, there was not
so rich and sweet voice as hers in the
whole settlement, and she was, therefore, one
Of the leading singers at church.
1t was on O glorious Sabbath during her
eighteenth summer, that she stood in the lit
tie temple, singing some wild, fantastic tune.
A crowd Of spectators were gathered around
her, but for time she did not appear to be
aware Of their presence. Her soul was lost
in the song, and she sang on, not after the
usual cnstom of her sect, but in clear, warb-
ling tone, as bird might sing in the green
woods, or on his fight through the tranquil
sky.
"What voice" exclaimed young aud
fashonably dressed man, who had come there
with gay party of friends, and half-rising
from his>seat, he leaned eagerly. forward to
catch glimpse of the singer. AS his glance
fell upon her, sudden flush broke over his
high forehead, and his whole frame seemed to
thrill. He was still gazing at her, silent and
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FREAK OF NATURE.-We have been infolm.
ed, by responsible gentleman of this place,
Of o female child being born in York Dis
trict, with true resemblance Of a.watesiall,
at the back of her head. What is still as re.
markable, the mother never approved of such
fashions. Its hair is about an inch in length,
aud of q beautiful black. How strange that
nature will endeavor to initiate the fashions
Of the day by such ridiculous freaks. 1t is
problem for the wise to solvc.-Chcster
Stanard.
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An IRISH YALrsr1SE.--oh, Paddy, swate
Paddy, if 1 was ye're daddy, I'd kill ye w,d
kisses intirely; if L was yere bruther and
likewise ye're muther, I'd See that ye wint
to bed early. To feel ye'rs sweet breath 1
would starve me to death and lay off me hoops
altogether TO joost have taste of your arm
round Inc waist, I'D laugh at the mear' st of
weather. Dear Paddy, be mine, me own Val.
entine-Ye'll find me both sing gle and civil;
our life We will spind to m Elegant ind, and
care may 90 dance wild de divil.
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Gov. OaR.-The New York. Day Boot has
some hopes ofpoor Orr, the SO called Cover.
nor of South Carc.lna.a It. says:= ai
"But we must not give up the Governor as
hopelessly broken into the black ce.spool of
Mongresm, for in'the conclusion of his ad-
dress to the gentlemen Cytses, he says, 1
am .disgusted with politics. He must be.
We should think any man would be-, with
such politics as he las adopted ; if he takes
nothing to allay nausea of the stomach; tits
not impossible that he may yet spew the dis
gusting mixture out of his mouth. 'sl 's'gs-s
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The CorToN CRop.-Tss cotton specula-
tors, having combined to iaise the price of
cotton, the Southern planters are in q state
of "high jinks." The spectators design to
stimulate large crop; hence these prices
in advance. They confidently rely uponthe
gullibility os our farmers, and already re-
ioice that the alluring bait has been swallow
ed. A correspondent Of the New York Her
aid thus writes: S:l'''i Is es
"The recent rise in the price of cotton has
already produced magical effect in the
South.n
Yes; and the decline in cotton, next fall,
will produce another effect, more melancholy
than magical, we fear.-Cons itusioaalist.
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%
Pass Him ARouND.-Our exchanges in this
State, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida and
Tennessee will confer favor and render as,
sistance in the capture Of notorious thief,
hy stating that Bob Thompson, mulatto, es-
capped from custody on the 9th inst, by Jump
ing from the passenger train on the Green
vile and Columbia Railroad, between Aston
and Littleton. He is about Is years OF age
five feet or 7 inches hig h, blind in one eye
and the lid partly closed has very black hair,
resembling that of an Indian, and cut short;
he is considerably marked by small pox, es'
pecially on his nose. BE is q weli-known
burglar and horse-thief, and has broken open
several stores and stolen horses in this State
and Florida. Had on pair of handouts
when last heard from. A reward of Forty
Dollars is offered for him by John R. Coch-
ran, of this place, and any person arresting
him will confer a favor by, notifying him at
once. Newspapers copying this notice aud
causing his arrest will be literally rewarded.
Anderson Intelligencer.
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DEMoREsT'S YOUNG AMERICA,

HE BEsT JUVENILE MAGAZINE. Every
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or n good two bladed, pearl Pocket Knife and a
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Wit, Boys and Girls. Specimen copies, five
cents, mailed free.
Published by
W. JENNINGS DEMoREsT,
Alb Broadway, New York.
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E"A man who'll maliciocsly set fire
to barn" said Mr.. Slow, "and burn up
twenty cows, ought to be kicked to death by
a jackass, and I'd like to do it,
M~ An exchange says it is hard to live
without wie-no gentle heart to got up
mornings to build the fire.
re- Some one calls the time of squeez-
ing girls hands the palmy season of life.
T3-. The most startling proposition of the
week is made by Northern paper-to re-
store all the plate, pianos, iewelry, etc., sto.
len from Southern families on private account
during the late war, as beginning point for
reconciliation and permanent reconstruction.
It is said to have created an unparalleled SEN
sation throughout the New England States,
the Radicals generally denouneing the au-
thor as disloyal, copperhead" and "blast-
ed traitor"
IL y widower was married, few days
ago, at church, making "big splurge"
with brass band. After the interesting Ger
emony, the band struck up that old and ia
miliar air, "My wife's dead and I've got an
other one" Appropriate.
Il A Washington telegram says Mr..
johnson is sewed up; Butler is still bottled
up; Grant is politically used up; Staunton is
stuffed up; and the country, constltutlonally
speaking, gone up. AS the correspondent
SAYS nothing Of Greeley, the inference may
be drawn that he is going down below"
HN-" Nominate your poison" is the
last expression used in Indiana in lieu OF the
matterof fact. "What will you have to
drink 2"
GE" Why do you set your cup Of coffee
on the chair, Mr.. Jones ?" asked worthy
landady one morning at breakfast, : 1t is 80
very weak said Jones, "l thought would
let it rest"
nS% Isn't it very affecting to behold at q
wedding the sorrow.stricken air OF parent
as he gives the bride away" when you know
that for the last ten years he has been trying
to get her off his hands.
nS~ A SIGN.-A Smartlad says that when
you see young man and woman walking
down the street against each other like PAIR
of badly matched oxen, it is pretty good
sign that they ore bent on consolidation.
sB- A Kansas city editor went skating the
other day, and slipped into an air hole. His
ears caught on the edge of the ice, the hole
not being big enough to let them through:
They partially froze, and will be amputatcd
and used for door mats.
Ea Culfy said he'd rather die in rail-
road smashup than q steam boat burst up,
for this reason: "If you gets off and smash
ed up, dar you is but if you gets blowed up
on the boat, whar is you ?''
EN An old darkey short timo since,
very torcibly illustrated the present condition
of the negro, when he said, de yarkees take
'em, and turn 'erh loose in de big road, and
didn't tell 'em which way to CO."
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The Round Table, heretofore bold, man
ly and outspoken Grant organ, now since that
immaculate statesman, served that dirty lit
tie trick upon the President, talks itin this
wise: sss
"They have tripped him at last. If he
does not consider himself hound to surrender
toback the President powers whichhe derived
solely from the President, hemay not be ready,
at the proper time, to surrender to the p, oplc
powers with which they may intrust him.
Instead of being safe man, he may be the
most dangerous man in the country to whom
the people could conhdotheir interests. =
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INSURANCE AGENCY.

ARTIEs wishing to Insure their Dwell
L1NGs. GOODS, &c, can do SO on the lowest
terms, and 10 the BEST COMPANIES, by call
ing on the Undersigned
D. R. DURISOE,
Agent for A. G. HALL's Insurance. Agency.
JAM "a
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"THE S1rUArIoN.-Ther have been nu-
merous attempts to define the. situasion,"
but; with all due Difference to pundits every
where, we think the following as good as the
best and far more epigrammatic:
"a gentleman of color working on one Of
the boats on the Alabama river was asked the
other day whether he was best eff now OR
before he was free? He scratched his wool
and said: wall, when Itumbled overheard
before, the captain he stopped the ship and
put back and picked me up, and they gave
me glass of hot whiskey and water, and
then they give me twenty lashes for falling
overheard. But now, if I'd tumbled over
board, the captain he'd say what's dat2 oh,
only dat dam nigger-go ahead.'" -,
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Notice! Notice

LII Persons indebted to the late f,rm Oh
"a TEAGUE & cA.wILE will make imme-
diate payment to either of the parties. All Bhis
unpaid by January 3lst 1868, will be placed IN
an Attorneys hands with instructions TO sue ut
once Pay up and save costs.
TEAGUE 4 CARWILE.
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THE SHAKER CONVERT
CHAPTER I

"Upon her face there was the tint of grief,
= The settled shadow of an inward strife, :.
S And an unquiet dropping of the eye,
As if its lid were charged With unshed tears.
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And had he not long read
The hearts hushed secret, in the SOFT dark eyes,
Lighted at his approach, and on the cheek,
Coloring all crimson at his lightcst look.
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VOLUME XXxnI.-N Q.
The AppIeaTree in the Lane.

=
It stood close BY, where on the leathered hinge
The gate swung back from tho grassy Jane, e
When the cows came home when. the dnsky eve
It's mantle e.threw.over3hill and plain .rgs
Its branches;knotty and. .gnarled by timc,j !ai:is
> Waved to and frS'in the idle breeze, 6 ss+f:S
Whon the spring days wove blrshing crown :
" Of blossoms bright for the apple trees. :. =,
It's shadows fell o'er1thetcrystal stream c;:ss y
That all the long, bright summer days, -:
Like silver thread, mid the waving grass =.
Reflected back the olden rays 80
Of the MONDAY sun that madly .stroye ..,.
:. To drink the fount of the brooklet dry -
But the light clouds showered tear drops down
Till the glad brook laughed asit glided'by.
Never were the apples half SO sweet,
Golden rusiett atriped with red ...:,.. - 80.
As those that fell on the yt,lding turf al 49,
!, When she shook the branches overhead.
"A trysting place for, ,your youthful friends g:;,l
Was the apple trees in the days of yore.
'Andioft we've sat beneath its shade ,5-se52
And talked bright dream, of'thofutureio'erla
"a i Z .sE7.s.7 -7.,. YASf ~ - sI!..il.g5c1
And when the. warm October sun ,..I.,q
shone on the apples, scarlet robes, g. .i. 81
We gathered apples sound and fair 5'..l4,.i
And round as our own mystic globe. =. u
The. stately hemlock crowns the hill, ss5'' =
The dark pines rise above the plain q
But tho one we prize far more than they,
- The apple tree in the paainre lane. ~ -
Long years have passed, and COWS no moro
Come home ut night through the grassy lane.
Where the gate swung back on leathern hinge
I stand and gaze on the fhr-off plain. - 20
No more we list to the music low 80
Of the crystal stream as it ripples, on.
And the apple tree in the pasture lane -
Is but dream of the days by,gone. u
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CHAPTER III.

Richard /! Richard /! Richard!n
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E@" Nominate your poison" is the
last expression used in Indiana in lieu of the
matter of fact. "What will you have to
dr;Dk 2''
The freedman's press., 1868-07-18
Legitimising Children Born out Of
WedlOCk.

In the proceedings of the Constitutional Con
vention Of the 9th inst, we find the following:
Newcomb offered the following declaration and
asked its reference to committee on general pro-
visions
Be it declared by the people of Texas in Con
vention assembled, That the following shall be
q section in the Constitution OF this State:
SEC -. All children born in this State out of
wedlock, are legitimate for all purposes of law
and fact; and it shall be the duty OF the Legis-
lature to pass an act enabling such persons to
inherit the estates of their parents, and to en-
force all the obligations Of parent to child.
This is the most important measure which has
been introduced i'll the Convention up to this
time. 1t effects the most vital and social inter
ests Of the freed people, who number at least two
hundred and fifty thousand souls in this State.
Up to the close OF the rebellion, lawful wedlock
was unknown to the colored people of the South,
the relations of husband and wife, parent and
child We're unknown i'll law, and but a slight
degree in fact The auction block knew the
slave only in the light Of mule or an OK; they
were sold and resold, regardless of kindred ties ;
human affection WAS an article unknown to the
merciless slave dealer. When families were al
lowed to grow up with some semblance of res
pect for the decencies of humanity, a day Of doom
was always in store for them and at last the
chords of love, parental, conjugal, and filial
were snapped by the sound of the auctioneer's
hammer. The Rebellion ended, and in the eye
of the law it left nation of five millions of
bastards, which the Constitution proposes to call
free and equal to all other people In the eye of
God they are equal to their fellow-men. Millions
of them feel their cheeks burn with the blood of
their white en-slavers. 1t is no more than JUS
tice, it is imperatively right and necessary that
these people be declared in the eye of the law at
least, legitimate, and capable of inheriting the
property oftheir parents, and enforcing the obi
cations of parent to child Considerations outside
of the feelings of the great body of people whom
this act effects, suggest that their interest de-
mands this act of justice as protection. We
hope it will receive the earnest attention OF the
Convention and that they will pass such pro-
vision before they finish their labors.
The freedman's press., 1868-07-18
Our Ministers st Washington.

On Wednesday 9th, Mr. Morgan c. Hamilton
and Judge Caldwell, left this city for Washing
lngton, being sent there bv the Convention TO
represent in person to Congress important mat
ters relating to the reconstruction OF loyal gov
erllment in Texas; among which are the organl-
tion of loyal militia and the appointment oil
proper registrars to attend to the registration OF
voters and conducting elections.
The selection of Mr.. Hamilton was the pest
that could have been made; his earnest, stralgn0
forward manner, his great ability, his rigid lnte-
gritty, his large experience, his devotion TO tue
cause of loyal reconstruction, makes hlm the
ablest and best representative Texas ever sehb
abroad. AS champion of equal rights and po-
itical equality he is far in advance of other
prominent men who make loud public protes-
sons, but at heart would like to restrict the po-
litical power OF the State to the hands OF tue
white men alone, and who are continually reach
inc out to draw in the influence Of halfway re-
bells. Mr. Hamilton has compromise III nm
and will have great weight before kadlcai
Congress.
Judge Caldwell as chairman of the comm1ttee
on lawlessness and crime, was appropriate
appointment as the report of that committee Is
the most powerful argument in favor OF the or
canization of loyal militia and the appoint
ment of good men registrars.
We have high hopes of the success OF our MIL
listers at Washington.
The freedman's press., 1868-07-18
Conservative or Democratic Noml-
u6eS.
u6eS.

The Convention held at New York, after mil
mite wrangling and disputations has accom-
plished it's work, has set aside Pendleton, An
drew Johnson, Hancock, Chase, &c, &c, ana
has nominated Horatio Seymour and Francis t.
Blair ir. a peace democrat and a war free-sol-
er This is we'll enough Somebody had to be
nominated to be beaten by Grant and Colfax. If
Seymour and Frank Blair are willing to be the
victims, no Republican, at least, has the right
to object They used to political defeats.
Seymour was beaten for the Governorship of
New York Blair was left out of sight in the
race for the United States Senate in Missouri
fthe conservatives" as they choose to call
themselves, OF Texas, can swallow this ticket, it
will show aprogressiveness a capacity of adapt
ing themselves to the advance of the age that
VIII argue much in their favor with thinking
men.
During active hostilities, they denounced Sey-
mour and the Northern copperheads as towards,
but did notdare to fght against the United States
Government to maintain them. At the same
time they were bitter against Frank Blair, be-
cause he marched with Sherman from Atlanta,
to the sea, and laid waste Georgia. Alabama, and
South Carolina, with fire and the sword. Now,
they overlook alike the timdity of Seymour and
the ruthless devastation of Dixie wrought by
Blair and write their names on what they call
the Democratic ticket
If they will put forward their diseordant poll
teal failures-their broken down and played out
office seekers in the States in which they may
think it worth while to make a contest, for cleo
tors, the procedure will be in harmony with the
action of their National Caucus and will make
the triumph of the Republican candidates,
Grant and Colfax, more emphatic than the Amer
lean people had a right to expect.