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THE WEEKLY CRESCENT

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ED UCATIONAL.

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Devoted 80 Southern Intsrsssa.
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Furniture Dealers.
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New Orleans, La.
Always hand direct from first class Msnuf.ctshss
plete assortment Of PARLOR, BEDROOM and DINING
ROOM SETS also every description Of Cane and Cushion
Seat CHAIRS which offering the trade the loves
prices and respectfully solicit the public call and
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They call her Florence, but with lingering gaze,
watch the working of her deep soul-lit eyes,
That are as soft as these September days,
And sometimes clouded too, like Autumn skies,
And thinking not of May-times brilliant sheen,
L call her Florence, my fair Autumn Queen.
My Autumn Queen, with rounded poet brow,
And eyes as dark as pools in lonely wood
Yet full of fire, outleaping with flow
OF bitter tears when childish sorrows brood.
Her life is like day which Autumn weaves
Ofgolden mists and warm hame-colored leaves.
Sometimes shadow comes into her eyes,
Mistily radiant and darkly bright,
As clouds float meath the stars in Autumn skies,
Making them shine with melancholy light,
And with sadness like the golden haze
That fingers round these warm empurpled
13s days.
The birds sad Autumn songs, the signing pines,
The mournful splendor ofthe crimsoned woods,
The yellow leaves upon the wild rose vines
The sad notes echoing through the solitudes
She has touch of all the Autumn time,
AS yet unchilled by hoary Winters rirne.
Her heart is like these tender purple days, :.
Inurning memories loved and cherished long !;
Her eyes like stars shine through a shadowing
91 haze, ,-ae-5
Mournful and sweet as remembered song,
Or as some withered flowers renewed perfume
By memory's magic ushered from the tomb.
Recalling memories sweet and sad and old,
Of glorious Autumn days long, long ago,
And so. when wintered days come still and cold,
My Autumn Queen brings back the splendid
eez glow, ~
The purple warmth of glad days that 1 knew,
When all the flowers were bright and skies
were blue
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Pirates on the MissiSSippi.

The mysterious disappearance of many per-
sons who have business on the Mississippi river
is at length explained. As the steamer Lady
Gay was passing Island No. IS about one hun
dred miles below Cairo, last Tuesday, she took
in tow from Mr.. Letters wood yard fiat to
wood from, Mr. Lester accompanying the boat
After proceeding about six miles the boat was
cut loose; MIR. Lester received $1l0 for his
wood. and the fiat was floating back when a
skiff put off from the shore manned by two
men, who boarded the fiat and demanded Mr.
Testers money. They said they were river pi-
rates, and would shoot him if he did not com
ply with their demands Mr.. Lester, who is
an old man, quietly gave them all the money
he had, and thanked them for sparing his life,
but as soon as one of them had returned to the
skiff he drew his pistol and shot the other, who
was just stepping over, through the heart; he
then shot the one WHO was in the skiff through
the hips, and navigated both boats to his yard
Burns, the survivor, said that his companion S
name was Moore, and that they were members
of an organized gang Of river pirates that has
been watching the river between Memphis and
Cairo for several years, and robblng whenever
they had chance. Burns confesses that he
has shot and thrown overheard four men, from
wood yards, who resisted his demands.
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Millard Fillmore.

A Louisville correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Commercial gives the following pen pic
ture of Hon. Miarl Fillmore. as he appeared
at the Commercial Convention:
'.Millard Fillmore is as faultless an old gen
tleman as there is in the world. His garments
Of black broadcloth, immaculate linen and
standing collar, black satin stock and neat
glossy boots are spotlessIy perfect, and fit with
out single wrinkle too much He is tall, well
proportioned, and inclines to an embonpoint
that is ust right to penny weight. His foot
is small and well turned, instep arched and is
encased in number six boot
Mr.. Fillmore is blonde who, on the verge
of seventy, retains his original clearness of
complexion. Extreme nicely, in a large sense,
oyerspreads him. His rather small, stee-blue
eyes are still clear and alert, his teeth white
and even, his hair moderately plentiful, almost
snowy in hue, and carefully cut to standard
neither long nor short. Only at the crown is
there partial thinning out. His ample double
chin and large, oval, pink horld cheeks are
firm and fair in texture; and have none of the
purplish tints of high living. Mr.. Fillmore is
evidently generous liver, scrupulously tenn
perate in diet and scrupulously nice in Dress
He looks like an Immaculate distinguished
man, produced by republic, whose aim as a
public officer is to be always absolutely consti-
tutional and correct, and as gentleman, to be
blindly courteous and solidly respectable.
His front face is open and dignifed, and his
profile with its convex aquiline nose and smooth
shaved ample double chin is decidedly patri-
clan. For man who has seen so much OF po-
litical life, Mr. Fillmore is remarkably modest.
When introduced by Gov. Stevenson yesterday,
he blushed deeply, once or twice indefinitely
stammered over uttering the wrong word. On
subsequently taking his seat on small dias
surrounded by growing shrubbery, on the stage,
the rear legs of his chair slipped off the back
of the platform, and the ex-Presdent was saved
from most unseemly fall only by the upright
cedars. He was assisted to rise by the gentle
men nearest on the platform, and as the con-
vention laughed rather broadly over the Incl
dent his face turned as deep crimson as ever
mantIed the face of a girl. .,rs iJf+
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An Astronomers View of the Universe,

In waiting ourselves in imagination to our
own satellite, 1.-THE moon,) we have passed over
distance equal to thirty times the diameter of
our globe In advancing to the sun we travel
over distance equal to thirty that of the moon.
Before we reach Uranus, the remotest of the
planets, we have travelled space equal to
twenty times the earth's distance from the sun.
Thus placed at the limits of a system enclosed
In circle of eighteen hundred millions of miles
OF radius, our appreciation of distance would
appear to be exhausted, and we seem to be as
on the margin of an unfathomabe abyss. The
telescope, however, and the mural circle. enable
us to span the void, and the genius of man,
proud of the achievement-an justly, if fhumbly
proud-has crossed the gulf twelve thousand
times the radius of his own system, that we
may study the nearest world in the armament
OF heaven. Beyond this frontier lies the whole
universe of stars-their binary systems, their
clusters, and their nebulous combinations. The
observed parallax of one-fourth of second in
Lyre, carries US four times as far into the bosom
of space though beyond this, as we have no
positive measure OF distance, it would be as un.
philosophical to assign limits to creation as to
give it an infinite range In this rapid flight
into space, we traversed it but in one dimension
and the line which We have traced is but unit
in the scale of celestial distances Creation In
Its wide panorama is still above us, beneath us.
duu dIOuuu us. ne OFer-arcllng heavens still
enclose US, and innumerable worlds sparkle in
the canopy aaars...-. .-.,.-
Ii from this bourne, from which the as
Economical traveller alone returns, we look up-
on our course, our own planetary system ceases
to be perceived. Its sun is dim itself, but an
invisible point in the nebulous light that in
tervenes. Where, then, is our terrestrial ball
its ocean-its continents-its mountains-its
empires its dynasties-i thrones? Where is
our fatherland-its factions-its Christians, dis
unions, and its unholy wars? Where is our
home-its peace-its endearments-its hopes,
and its fears? Where is man-intellectual
monad-the only atom of organtic life that can
pierce the depths and interpret the enigma of
the universe, and yet the only spark of spiritual
nature which discaims the authority and resists
the will of the universal King? They have all
disappeared in the far-off perspective-th long
vista of space, whose apex, were it sun, the
hughest telescope would fail to descry No liv-
ing thing here meets the eye, and no sentiment
associated with life presses on the Affections
The tiny organisms of earth and ocean-every-
thing that lives and dies-all are ingulphed in
the great conception of the universe. The
strainlng mind cannot units the immeasurable
extremes. The infinite in space, the eternal
duration, the omnipotent in the power, the per-
feet in wisdom, alone fill the expanded soul and
portray in their awful combination the Creator
of the universe
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NUMBER XLXII.
Waiting.

On the shore Of Time linger, E9ele eI'
Looking out upon the sea, to -...,s..
Where the ships are sailing outward,
From this neither land and me. los
These mysterious ships are bearing
Treasures out upon the main, -, f
That the heart has loved and cherished, r
AMI they come not back again.
Faith and Hope speak words of comfort
And the ships sail out to sea-
Wereit not for these good angels. -1+cu
That are cheering you and me, afr.
Life would be heavy burden,
And the shadow on the shore
Would forever keep the sunlight -
From the souPs half-open door
Twill wait with resignation
-, My ship is coming by and by
Through the darkness, outward sailing,
Underneath Heavenly sky.
L shall find within the harbor
Where the ships at another lay,
All my treasures that were taken
From this night-world into day.
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nR. II. p. REESE offers his professional
ID services to the public. he may be found
during the day at his office on the corner above
tha lutheran Church and at night at his resi-
dence on the corner of Frederick and Water Va 17r
streets. opposite the old market house. :, Calls
promptly attended to in the country as wei t as IN
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.R A We HENKEL. Staunton, Va

ID formerly of New Market Va,), ;.
all the branches of the Medical Professlon-spe-
.ial attention paid to Surgery. :,
May be found at his, office at all hours. unless
professionally engaged.
night in the country as well as in the town.
Ofice-on Bruce's corner, up stairs Entrance
on Augusta street, 3 doors from corner
Lima 90 25ts
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r " The circulation of the SPECTATOR"
is, about as great as the combined circula-
ation of both the other papers published in
this place, and has as many subscribers in
this county alone as are contained in the
whole list of either of the other papers.
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Professional Directory.

1n uANcER ND. j. H. FULTZ NJ. D.
be prseee hsvnF n @sd a0sG
cine offer their professional services to the cltl-
zens of Staunton and vicinity: When, not pro
fessionally engaged they will be found at their
Office over D. A. Kayser's new store-front room
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EHTNT- M. NFcALLISTER,
AE Attorney at Law,

Warm Springs, Virginia. rfe,
Will practice in all the Courts of the counties of
Augusta and Allegheny, and as partner with
the distn guished William H. Terri IN oot}an Bath
county Prompt attention given to tne o coi.eco .,
aggregate. Attention given to business in any
county in the State if specially employed.
;,lxy)5-10no
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ADVERTISING RATES.

ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the rate
,f one Dollar per Square of Eight Lines or less,
COR the first and so cents for each subsequent IN
maEed-unon the manuscript it will be publish
ed ed until forbid and charged accordingly.
Nss- Obituaries, Amnouncensents OF Cand,dates
for Office, Communications calling u1gon Aayoea
.nfons or Notices of a Personal or Pssvate char
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as advertisements.
SPECIAL NOTICES will be inserted at oouoie
the advertising rates.
maa- Address -'sstaunton Spectator" staunton,
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AN AFFECTING INCIDENT At Providence
the other evening, where Miss Maggie Mitchell
was playing Little Barefoot" just as the com
pany was ready to go on the stage, Mr.. Sutton,
timer received a telegram that his mother
was dead. The play went on, and soon the
cheeks Of Miss Mitchell and Mr.. Sutton were
bathed in genuine tears, but the audience little
knew the reality Of the grief Miss Mtchell's
mother died only short time since. AoEa-
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A man complaining of being turned out of a
concert-room, said that he was fired with in
dignation. IF you were fred,'' added a by
stander, perhaps that was the reason they put
you out
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Schools.
"TASHENGTON COLLEGE.
Lexington, Virginia.s.lll Il
Schools.
FACULTY

FACULTY:
GENERAL r. E. LEE, E,..-.......PREsIDENT.
CARTER j. HARRIS, A. NJ, Prof. Of Latin.
JAMES j. WHITE, A. NJ, Professor of Greek.
EDw S. JoYNEs, A. M, Prof. Mod. Languages
--,# Prof English
REV J. L. KIRKPATRICK, d. D.,
Prot. Moral Philosophy.
VIM. PRESTON JOHNSTON, A. NJ,
Prof. History and English Literature.
ALEX. L. NELSON A M, PROT: Mathematics. +
WIN. ALLAN, A. NJ, Prof. applied Mathematics
RICHARD S. MCCULLocH A. NJ,
Prof. Natural Philosophy.
JOHN L. CAMPBELL, A. NJ, Prof. Chemistry.
--,t Prof AppLied Chemistry.
Hon. j. w. BRocKENBRoUGH, LID, Pr. LaaO.
M. W. HUMPHREYS, A. NJ,
Asst Prof. Latin and Greek.
RoDEs MAssIE, a. NJ,
asst Prof Modern Languages.
DUNCAN G. LYLE A. NJ,
Ass't Prof: Mathematics.
CHARLES A. GRAVES, A. NJ,
Asst Prof. English.
JOSEPH B. WALKER, Asst Prot. Chemistry and
Principal Of Business School.
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;s7D1VEEeS PHTTI.TPS.

"a = ---- ATTORNEY AT LA w, -
Stanton, Virginia,
viii practice in all the Courts of Augusta and
Allegheny, and in the Circuit Courts OF ROCK
Special attention given to collecting. rr
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THE brass upon your face" he said
would make four-quart skillet
our honor's head the girl replied,
Has sap enough to FIJI it.n