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Ah? M?e were trat ow yale ' ? ' r W, . v'3 .... AW lifo w?ro but a talo, iadoedf Of sleepless suffering, guilt and wo, From which the haart were haply, freed, Tho hand administering, the blow; Did love not come with angel eye, And healing Hp, and voice of balm, * To dry the tear, to hush" the sigh, The grief subdue, the spirit calm. n. , She crowns our spring with peaceful hours, J And soothes the ardor in our sky: When pride wptdd teach us loathe tho flow? ers, That bloom but in obscurity! If fierce ambition speaks of fame. She answers with ber happiest charms, Instead of glory, shows him shanie, While rapture couches in her arms. EDGAR. t; ABE It THE SEA. In a late ? number of. Household Words, we lind a brace of those extra? ordinary and amusing "yarns" for which sailors have been famous from time immemorial. .They Were related to the writer, in his youth, by one Thomas Headfurst, an old "diver," whose family had been "divers" for centuries before him-even when the poor ..Ceylon Diver held his breath, And went all naked to thc huugry shark." This Mr. Thomas Headfurst was, it seems, in his latter days, the landlord of a popular tavern in one of the sea? coast districts of England; and it was in the parlor of this house that the old gentleman whiled away the long win? ter evenings by relating the profes? sional adventures of his family and himself "in the deep, deep sen,"-as inst moo the following: . "It was in the year fourteen, or it may be, fifteen, when thc Diomcdo went down, oil* Deal, and the guv'nor and a chum of his, nan ed Bluffy*, was appointed to be under the sea; for we be captains, like, and musters and all, when a ship once goes to the bottom, and wears, by consequence, a very singular uniform. Now, there was no better water-workman in the channel ihan them two; and they would have been employed still moro constantly, and been yet better to do in the world, but for being so precious fond of their game of cribbage. All day long, in some little parlor like thjs present, they'd be knobbing, and'heeling, and going, so that they was .seldom ready, when they Vas wanted," and wont by the name of tho Fifteen Two. How? ever, the Diomede. had bart- of gold in her, and it was of the utmost conse? quence to work Jit her as hard and fast as might be. So Bluffy and tho guv'- I nor waa hauled out of their snug par- ! lor to the miniate, never mind where j the game was, and out they was rowed j to the lugger moored above the wreck, J and down they was lowered in the bell. On one of these mornings, especially, I they had a great mind to throw up j their commissions, and go on pegging away all their life-times; but they J thought better of it, and went aboard, j Now, they was acenstomed to be below a good long time, only this day they stayed a precious deal longer, and tho crew above began to be alarmed, and to think there was something wrong with the air-tube. Howsomever, as no signal had been given to" draw up, they sent down a third man in a hel? met, to see what h.fd become of 'qm, and ti precious sight he sees-Bluffy and the guv'nor in their diving-dress-, es, sitting in the bell like a couple of magnified tadpoles, and cutting, and showing, and cribbing, with the cards and the board-between them, just as though they were in the inn parlor, except that now and then they -was nearly.being suffocated, having for? gotten to turn the air-eock. .So the end of it was, Fifteen Two was never allowed to go down in the bell toge? ther no more." "Dear me!" said I, "Mr. Headfurst, "that seem? a very extraordinary story." "Xtrorniry, I behove you," said he. "but nothing like a fight I had once with aJlectrical eel, in fifty fathom of water, West-by-South of St. Michael's Mount, in Cornwall. It was one of my earliest jobs, , and I wasn't thoroughly used to the work at that time; and I Hadn't a mate, either, to go down with me. It's a fright'ning thing that sinking, sinking cut of sight of everything, a'm rat, without knowing where you're g >ing to, nor what you may find when y JU get there. This time the bell missed the wTeck I was after entirely, (which, as it hap? pened, however, was a very fortun tte circumstance,) and I was lowered down to the very bottom. Half way down, Master James, what should come into the machine but an enormous lectri cal eel. He came in, young master, and he stopped in; and the higher the water rose in the bell, the nigher I got to the 'lectrictd eel. I pulled my pre? cious legs up on the seat, I promise you, and sat tailor fashion all the rest of the way; and when we touched ground at fast, ? wasn't above an inch br two off tho beasir-boxed upUrJ?er the-ocean, within a couple of inches of being shocked to death. Well, as ? said/I was new to the~ wx>rk, and having banged at him with a pickaxe till I was tared-end he slipped away from me just like oil-I thought it would be an easier thing to suffocate ?him than me, so I didn't tum no air on for ever so long, and found myself getting black in the face, while the animal was swimming and gliding like a gentleman in easy circumstances enjoying the spectacle,' and eveiy now and then a splashing with his tail for moderate applause. So I gave up that dodge just in time, and resumed my pick. The more I picked, how? ever, the less he chose, which was an unappreciated joke I made to myself during those trying events themselves, and I was obliged to try summitt, else. I laid bare the lioor of the bell, (which we can do within an inch or so,) got him into shallow water, and very soon finished him off. The skin is in the big chest, in my bed-room, and mea? sures a hundred and twenty feet from tip to tip. I regret to say that the key is lost, or I should have great pleasure in showing it to you." . "I will tell you," continued Mr. Headfurst, after a pause, "of an oc? currence .that happened to my brother within the last few years; he lias toe come an altered man since, I assure you, and generally takes a religious work down in the bell with him. "There was a friend of his, mate tc a "West Indiaman, that was outward bound in a few days from Cork, and Bill" my brother, and he had had ii difference. "What thc quarrel began about I don't rightly know, but the mate abused Bill's profession, ant cali d him an amphiberous lubber, 01 something like that, and Bill ubus.ee" the mate and wished him under tilt sea, with never an air-tube; and thc ship sailed without making it up. My brother was very sorry when ii was too late-for amphiberous lubber! have their feelings like other folks and greatly shook when news wa! brought, next morning, that the vesse had gone down not three miles fron shore, with every soul on board Just at starting, as it might be-wit! all her passengers so full of hopo agoing to join their friends again she struck upon a rock off Earl; Point, and settled down, as it, wa supposed, about midnight, in a fe\ minutes. There was a good cargo o spice, and Bill was, of course, sent fo immediately. There was but few bc dies floated to shore, and, knowin he would see some terrible -sight, h was not over-pleased at the job; bu until they could get more divers ?her was no choice, so down he goes to th vessel, and linds her fallen betwis two rec?fs of rock, bolt upright, wit masts standing and sail set, just a she settled down. She looked, h said, for all the world like any shi upon the, surface, except that thei was a hole broken in her side whei she had struck. Her boats Vere shin I almost- uninjured, coils of rope wei lying on the main-deck, the hatch? were open, and the door above tl chief cabin stairs, The wet, swi J fishes darted in and out of it, and tl i crabs were going about their woi j already when my brother descende? ; There were six or .seven men in tl ! cabin, gentleman passengers, and i card-or two that floated about show? they had been playing when the vess ! struck. Some of them were eve i then standing upright, 'just as th? I started from their seats when tin ? felt the shock, and one hed a dreadf j look, with pale, parted hps, as thou; i a cry of agony had just escaped thei j A young man and a girl-so like as be, sworn brother and sister-wc embracing for the last time. Tl heaving of the sea, scarce felt at su deplh, swayed all the figures to a: fro. Without a touch of decay, a: instinct with all but hie, was tl ship's company. Thc captain, in 1 cabin, slept his last sleep qu ptacidly. The sailors, for the- in< part, were drowned within their ha; mocks, only those Avhose duty nee sitated their being on deck, wc washed off and driven ashore. T darkness "had been so deep as to rene the best look futile-the strong swimming of no avail. All tin things were sad enough, and Bi nerves, iron as they were, were sa? shaken. Wandering about that livi charnel-house, attired so unnatural seeking for gold in the lieart of 1 ocean, it was tembl?; and yet Mas James, thongh yon look so shock it was his honest business so to and a far less hateful way of gett on in the world than is practised .hife i places daily. Still, when he ] found what he wanted, and, la< with as many bags as he cou1! cai was returning to the main-deck another way, it seemed co him worst job he had ever been set to d and lo! at the foot of the ^compani ladder, he met the man he knew sog well, and parted with in .wrath so lately, with one hand bn the round, as if in the act of flight. The look upon the drowned mon's face seemed to reproach him for his last wish, so that he dared not put him aside and pass by, but turned back and went upon deck by the road he came; nor even ofter that eventful night could brother Bill be brought to ven? ture down into the sunk "West India? man." . ''Hear me, Mr. Hcadfurst," I said, "I never heard-to frightful a tale in all my life. " , "Nor I neither, Master James; but it's true enough, and so my brother will tell you, if you ask him. I don't happen, just at present, to remember his address, but he dives a good deal still oft' the East coast of Ireland." HM?8IG7T Asmall assortment of C HO !<*."- MUSIC, by the old masters-Beethoven and ocners-for sale at MCKENZIE'S, Aus ? Corner Plain and Gates streets. CEUM.VMA, NIAGARA, HANOVER, REPUBLIC THE UNDERWRITERS' POLICY IS ISSI,KO BY H. E. NICHOLS, Agent. CO LCM HI A, s. c. ONE policy of Insurance, issued by four companies, which is made to meet thc necessities of the business community, by securing, with despatch, large lines of In? surance with reliable Companies, upon uniform, plain and simple conditions, there? by obviating tho necessity of applying to various separate Offices for Insurance to the amount they are severally able to accept; and of holding numerous separate Policies, the conditions and written portions oi which rarely agree, rendering it difficult for the assured to become familiar with and harmonize their various conflicting condi? tions. By the condition" of thc; Underwriters' Policy but one set of papers is required to prove a loss to the several Companies insuring under it. thereby making the ad? justment simple and expeditious. The cash assets of each Company issuing tin- Underwriters' Policy nf Insurance ex? ceed half a million of dollars,, making a security in the aggregate of three million dollars. AI.so, Agent for thc Hartford. .Etna. Home, Phoenix, International, Metropolitan, Con? tinental, Merchants, Croton. New England, (Mty, Washington, North American and other first class lir-- insurance companies, and will, in a few days, resume thc late 1 Insurance Branch for several of thc largest lifo insurance companies in' the United States, ALSO. Agent for thc New York Accidental Insur? ance Companv, insuring Travelers, Bailroad Conductors, Expressmen* Mechanics and others, against all accidents. The amount premium being PO small and the benefit so great this Company presents inducement" < for all to take ord a policy. No medici* examination required. For cards, band h?ls and more full expla? naron, call at our office, next to Muller & .Semi's and Kenneth & Gibson's ste res. ? July 29 2*_H. E. NICHOLS, Agent. J>ESPECTF?LLY informs his friends, \ and thc citizens <J' Columbia, that he has inst opened an assortment of MEDI? CINES for Family use, and is prepared to put up prescriptions at all times. PA REOORIC, LAU DA N I'M, EPSOM SALTS, S YB. SQUILLS. DOVEll'S POWDER. CREAM TARTAR, Bi-Carb. Soda. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, Arrow Boot. Cod Liver Oil, &c, Ac, KC. -Madder ^nd Spanish Flout Indigo. Toilette Soaps, Bar Soap, Extracts for tho Handkerchief. Cologne, Bear's Oil, Hair Oil and Pomades. Pens, Ink, Paper, Pencils and Envelopes, '* Candles, Kerosene Lamps, Cheese, Sardines, Mackerel, Pepper, Spice, Cooking Soda, Sugar, Lemons, Sogara and Tobacco, Pickles, Celery Sauce. Raisins, Gum Drops, Chocolate Cream, Lubin's Extract Vanilla and Lemon. Pocket Knives, Hair Brushes, Tooth Brushes, Combs. A general Stock of DRY GOODS, consist? ing, in part, as follows: Black Broadcloath, Fancy Cassimeres, Plain and Black Alpacas, Calicoes, Plaid Dress Goods, Mull Muslin, Jaconet Cambric, Irish Lin*n, Paper Cambric, L. C. Han '.kerchiefs, Huckaback Towels, Bleached Jo.;.i Drawers, Merino Undershirts, Suspenders, White Cotton Hose, Brown Half Hose, Neck Ties, Barege and Tissue Veils, Belt Ribbons, B .npet Ribbons, Skirt Braid. And a complete assortment, of articles in this line, all of which will be sold low at Aug 8 JACKSON'S? Budcll's Row. Headquarters Military District ot Charleston. , TEER AB?MENT SOUTH CAROLINA. ABSD3TANT ADJUTANT-GEN.'S OFFICE,. CHABiaSTON, S. G., July.27,1865. 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Citv Hall Square, New York Citv. Atlg l> __I THE CRRISTL4N ?XDEX. BY tho FIRST OF OCTOBER, or as aeon j as tim mails are re-established, I will j renew the publication oi tho "CHRISTIAN INDEX" and the."CHTLD'3 INDEX" I have j been publishing. Price of "Index," per annum.... $3 00 ! Price of "Child's index," " 50 ! (A deduction made for Cluba. ) 4 * ? Money may bo remitted at once, as my ' determination is positive. My desire is lo j s-cure a large subscription list with which ? tn begin, and I issue this prospectus that subscribers may have* time to forward their j remittances. 1 lc is my intention to issue first clans I papers, and no pains or expense will be. ; spared to secure that end. The best wrkers ! and correspondents will be recured, and r the highest religious and literarv talent will | be given to tho papers. The CHILD'S PAPER will be' profusely illustrated and 1 will, in every sense, ho made to conform to I its new title, THE CHILD'S UELicirr: j Moaav may be sent by Express or other- ? wise-it by Express, at my risk, if the E\- I press receipt is sent mo, on tho resumption ! of mail facilities. j My connection with the finn oi J. W. ! Burke & Co., is dissolved; hui I will esta? blish an office in Macon. tieorgia. where communications mav bc addressed. Aug 5 lind ' SAMUEL BOYKIN., j TliBE?T \V.\n SI MIED! ! NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS! TSE PIOTSIX . PUBLISHED At the Capital of South Carolina, O O Xa "O' T&. 33X uSL . 1?G3. THE BAILY PHOHiX, ISSUED ovcrv inorunie: exe. pt Sundav, i.i filled with tho LATEST NEWS, (by tele? graph, mails, etc.) EDITORIAL, CORRES? PONDENCE, MISCELLANY, POETRY, STORIES, etc. This is the only daily paper in the. State outside of thc city of Charleston. The Tri-Weekly Phceny.i, For country circulation, is published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and haw all the reading matter of interest contained in the daily lsaiu* ol' tie week. WEEKLY OtE?NE?, A JI OME COMPANION. As its name indicates, is intended as a FAMILY JOUltNAUand is published every Wednesday, lt will contain Eight Pages, of Forty Columns. The cream of the News, Miscellany, Tales, cte., oi the Daily and Tri-weeklv will be found hi its columns. TERMS-'-INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. Daily, one year. . .$10 00 " ' three months. 3 00 Tri-Weekly, one year . ... 7 00 " three month-: . 2 00 Weekly, one year. 4 00 " * three months. 1 25 Advertisements inserted in the Dailv or Tri-Weekly at si a square for tho first in? sertion, and 7."> cents for each subsequent insertion. Weekly advertisements .*1 a square every insertion. JOB WORK, Such as HAND-BILLS, <JARDS, CTRCU L.HtS, SHIN-PLASTERS, etc., 0x6011*01' promptly and at reasonable rates. JULIAN A. SELBY, July 31 Publisher and Proprietor, By thc Fiovisionnl Governor O? t?c State or South Carolina. A PR 0CLAMA?I.0N ! WHEREAS His ExctUoncy, President. Johnson has issued his proclama tion, appointing me (Benjamin F-. Perry) Provisional Governor in and for the State of South Carolina, with power to prescribe such rules and regulations as may bc neces? sary trad* proper for convening a Convsntdein of the State, couipoped of delegates to be chosen by that portion of the people of raid State who aie loval to th??Lnittd States, for tho-purpose of altering or amending tho Constitution thereof; and with authority to exercise within the limits of the State all the powers necessary and proper to enable euch loyal people to restore sail State ti? its cd?istituticual relations to the Federal Gov? ernment, and to proaent such a Republican form of State Government as will entitle the State to the guarantee of the United States therefor, and its people to protection by th? United States .-.gainst invasion, insurreetic-n and domestic violonce.' "Sow, therefore, in obedience to the pro? clamation of his Excellency Andrew John? son. President of the United States, I, BENJAMEN F. PERRY, Provisional Gover? nor of thc State of South Carolina, for the purpose L-l ov^,a.n..'.lr.g a Provisional Gov? ernment m boatb Carolina, reforming the State Constitution and restoring civil' au? thority in r;aid State.under the Constitntioi* ami lava et the United States, dosh?eby proclaim and declare that all civil officers in Louth Cardinia, who were in ofiicc when the Civil Government of the State was suspend? ed, in May luriClc-xcept those arrested or under pro?%-ut?ou for trcasc.n,) shall, on taking the oath of allegiance prescribed in the 1 resident's Amnesty Proclamation of the iith day of May, 1KG5, resume the duties of their offices "and continue to dis? charge them under the Provisional Govern? ment till farther appointments are.made. Ano 1 do further proclaim, declare and. make known, that it is the duty.ol all loyal citizens of tho State of South Carolina* to promptly go forward and take the oath of allegiance io thc- United States, before sonic magistrate ur military obie cr of the Federal Government, who may be cpialiiicd for ad-. kiniuistering oaths; and .sttch are hereby authorized to give certified copies thereof to the persons rtapectivelyby whom they vere made. And such magistrates or enticers are hereby reepdred to transmit the originals ol' such oaths, at a:i carly a day as may bc convenient, to the Department of State, in thc city of Washington, D. C. ? And I do further proclaim, cicclar? and malic knuv.'ii, that tkc Managers of Elec? tions throughout*t?i?:?tatc of South Carob- , na will holct -an <d?pi$c?i tor members of a State Coiiv.;iirion'i?*<bbir rcsucctivc pre? cinct.', on the FiltSTOLONDA? IN S?P ?EM?iEB NEXT, according to the lavs of South Cardilla, in fore*-1 Ix fore thc secession of the Slate: and,that cadi Election Dis? trict in the State shall elest as many mem? bers of the Convention as the haid District has members of the House of Kopi*;8enta tives-the basis ot representation being, population and taxation. This wilt give ou r hundred and twenty-four members to til? Convention-r, number.sufficiently largo to roprot-ent eiorv portion of thc State most fully. Every , loyal citizen who has taken the Amnesty oath and not vit bin the excepted classes in thu President's Proclamation, will be entitled to vote,provided he was? legal voter nuder the Constitution as it stood prior to the secession of South Caro? lina. And all who arc .within the excepted elaasss must tak-- the oath and apply-for A pardon, in order to entitle them to vote or Docomo members of thc Convention. The members of ti ic Convention thus elected on thc first Monday in September next, are- hereby required to convenu in the city of Columbia,on WEDNESDAY, the 13th day of September, lti??, ior the-purpose of altering and amending thc preseAt Consti? tution ol' Souilo. Carolin?, or remodelling sud making a nev 0:1c, which wiil conform to thc great . chang's .winch have taken place in the State, and be. more in accord? ance with Republican principles and equali? ty of representation. ? And 1 do further "proclaim and make known, that die Constitution and all laws i i force in i-.'outh Ciirolir-a prior to th? .H-CCS sion of the State, ure hereby made ol force under the Provisional Government, except wherein they may coulliot with the provi? sions of this procl?niation. ?And thc Judges and Chancellors ot the State arc hereby required to exercise all the powers and per? form all thc duties which appertain to their respective offices, and especially in criminal c-.ises. it will bc expected-of thc Federal military authorities now in South Cand?na, to lend their authority^ the civil officers of th? Provisional Government, for thc pur? pose of enforcing thc laws and preserving the peace and good order of the State. And I do further command and enjoin all good and lawful citizens of thc State to unite in enforcing the laws and bringing to justice, all disorderly persons, all plunder? ers, robbers and marauders, all vagrants and idle persons ?vho are wandering about without employaient or any visible means of supporting themselves. lt is'also expected that all former owners of freed persons will be kind to them, and not turn oil' the children or aged to perish; and thc freed men and women are earnestly enjoined to make contracts, just and fair, for remaining withjtheir former owner. In order to f-icilitate as much as possible the application for pardons under thc ex? cepted section? of the President's'Amnesty' Proclamation, it is stated for information that all applications must be by petition, stating the exception, and accompanied with thc o.tth prescribed. This petition must bc lirst approved by the Provisional Governor, and thou forwarded to thc Presi? dent. Thc headquarters of the Provisional Governor will bo at Greenville, where all communications to bim must be addressed. 'Hie newspapers of this State will puVIish thia proclamation till the election for mem? bers of thc Convention. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand an?; seal. Done at the [L. 3.] town of Greenville, this 20th day of Julv, in tho. year of our Lom1., 1.?5, and of the independence of the United Statca th*> ninetieth. B. F. PERRI. By thc Provifiional Governor: WILLIAM H. PKKIIY, private Secretary, July Uti