Eartbly Hopes.
BY VE8TA W. CUDWOHT1I.
One by one, as stars set at night,
Earth's brightest hopes depart.
Though long they linger, uueaffe their light,
Pointing life's landscape all too bright
For the peaco of tho trusting heart.
Thus one by one the-drops of bliss
Leak out from the silver oup.
Leaving the stricken its emptiness,
Or worse, the dregs of bitterness,
As fr pledge for their trust and hope.
Loved onon ? lonvin. nn? V... ? -
Youlb and its gladness flee ;
What Is the nest when the birds have flown?
When the fruit is gathered, the harvest done?
What is the refuse to thee ?
Thy days are passing one by one,
For thy life-work what shall thou win ?
For earth hast labored, for earth hast sown,
Its flowers are withered, its beauty gone,
And death is the wages of sin.
Miscegenation in Wisconsin.?Loet
Friday the usual quietness of our Maiu treet
was suddenly disturbed by the arrival
of two ooloved gentlemen from Luke
Mills, with a white woman hanging on the
arm of each. One couple was married,
and accompanied tho other for the purpose
of being present at their bridal. Judging
from the appearance of tho unmarried couple,
as they marehed up through the streets
wo should think, on thiB occasion at least,
true love really tan smooth. They at once
erocecdcd to the justice's office, followed
y a crowd anxious to witness the ceremony,
at which tho woman seemed surprised,
and inquired the reason of it, saying that
when she married her first husband there
were not so many present. Squire l)ueasso
gave them a few words of advice, and
declined the honor of lying the knot, when
the woman declared she would not marry
a white man if sho had to travel 1,000 miles.
? at the same time tapping tho ebony check of
her betrothed, and ho approvingly uncovered
his ivories. After several attempts
to procuro the services of some proper individual,
they left, saying something about
this being a copperhead town.? IPa/ertoiew
( Witccmin) Republican.
An army friend has given us an anecdote,
in conneotion with tho capture of
President Davis, which wo havo not seen
iu print, and which is characteristic of the
ready wit of the Irishman. Of its truth,
(we mean tjie occurrence of tho anecdote,
of course) there is said to bo no doubt.
Here it is:
"A member of a Yankeo Regiment,
which had captured President Davis,
marching along, with his command, amid j
groat exultations, and enjoying a high do
gree of personal cxhileration, incident to
tho occasion, caino across an IiisLman.
leaning on his spado.
'Well," said tho Yankee, "wo've got
your President."
"Well," said tho Irishman, "then we're
even?the dovil has yours." Sumter
Watchman.
New Kind of Collateral.?Imagine
one of those ragged little mudlarks, j
who sweep tho crossings, (and spatter all
vrho don't pay, accosting a gentleman
dressed in the height of fashion :
TVT..JI 1
i'xuuivrn?r icase, sir, give me a cent?'
Swell?'Sixpence is the smallest money
I have, my little lad.'
Mudlark?'Vol, sir, I'll got yer change;
and if yer doubts my honor, hold my
broom !'?[Punch, improved.
mm i i mm ?
Sweet.?A lady said to a gentleman
who accompanied her and her sister from
church, 'Why, it rains?send and get an
umbrella.
'Why said the beau, 'you arc neither
sugar nor salt, rain will not hurt you.'
'No,' said the lady, 'but we arc lasses.
lie sent for ono immediately.
"The Maiden's Prayer," written by Mr.
N. P. Willis, begins thus :
"She arose from her delicious sleep.
And put away her soft brown hair."
This maiden must have lived prior to
tho advent of the waterfall. At present,
the maidens put away "their soft brown
hair" before going to their 'delicious sleep.'
? ^
A lady once declared that she could not
understand how gentlemen could smoke.
-
n ??uduiuwjij siioncns mcir lives," said
she. "I don't know that," replied a gen
tlenian. "There's my father who smokes
every day, and ho is now seventy years
old." "YVell," was the reply, "if he had
never smoked, he might have been eighty."
A pious negro, somewhere in this rotrion,
whilst invoking Divine blessings in impassioned
strains, prayed with great fervor,
that vice and morality might "cover the
earth as tho waters cover the great deep."
This is true.
A person was boasting that ho was
rorung from a high family in Ireland ?
"Yes," said a bystander, "1 have seen some
of the samo family so high that their feet
c^uld not touch the ground.
The Petersburg mine "crater" is now in
the midst of a luxuriant cornfield, and is
itself planted in melons and l'ru t trees. A
correspondent who has been there writes :
"Tho immenso excavation inadeby tho ex
plosion is now nearly closed to the surface,
as it was converted to the uses of sepulture,
and contains, as I was assured,about 2,500
dead bodies."
Nineteen individuals who formerly held
positions in the rebel army, left Chattanooga
recently, en routo to Anscria, to join
th# Imperial army.
An Uneasy Predicament.
We were the witness of a ludicrous incident
which occurred in this city a few
days since, for relating which we crave the
indulgence of tho gentleman directly concerned?deeming
it too good a joke to be
lost.
While sitting at our desk, and Inboring
assiduously, with pen, scissors and paste,
to make out a readable paper for our pat
rons, we were suddenly 'frightened froui
our propriety,' by the hasty eutrance of a
gentlcmuu, exclaiming, 'For God's sake,
help me to see what's the matter ! I've
got some dreadful thing?scorpion or tarantula?in
the leg of my pautaloons! Quick
?quick?help me !'
We instantly roso lrom our chair, half
frightened ourselves. Our friend had bro
? * ? ?
i Kt'u in so 6uuuuniy an<i unexpectedly upon
, us, and was so wonderfully agitated that
we knew not whether he was indeed in his
6euses or not. Wo looked at him with a
sort of surprise mixed with dread, and
hardly knew whether to speak with, or
seize and confine him for a madman The
! latter wo came near attempting. There
i he stood, quivering and palo, with one
| hand tightly grasped upon a part of his
pantaloons just in the hollow of the knee.
What's the matter?' asked we, at last.
'Tho matter !' he exclaimed; oh, help
me ! I've got something here, which just
ran up niy leg ! Sotue infernal scorpion
or lizard, I expect! Oh, [ can't let go;
I must hold it. Oh, there !' he shrieked,
! T lelt it move just then ! Oh, these punts
I without straps ! I'll never wear another
i pair open at the bottom as long as 1 live.
Ah ! I feel it again.'
Feel what ?'we inquired, standing at
the sauio time, at a respectable distanco
from the gentleman ; lor we had just been
reading our Corpus Ohristi correspondent's
letter about snakes, lizards, and tarantulas,
and oegan to imagine some deadly insect
or reptile in the leg of our friends unmentionables,
as they are sometimes called.
I don't know what it is,' answered the
gentleman; help me to see what it is. I
was just passing that pile of rubbish there,
in front of your office, and felt it dart up
my logs as quick as lightning'?and he
clenched his fist more tightly. If it had
horn flip lippk nl'nn nnnnrtmtn lrn h^linvn
ho would have squeezed it to a jelly.
By this time two or three ot the newsboys
had come in; the clerks and packing
hoys hearing the outcry; stopped working
and editors and all hands stood around the
sullercr with looks of mingled sympathy
and alarm.
'Bring n chair, Fritz,' said we, 'and let
the gentleman be seated.'
'Oh, I cau't sit,' said the gentleman; 'I
can't bend my knee!?if I do, it will bile
or sting mc; no, 1 can't sit.'
'Certainly you can sit,' said we ; 'keep
your leg straight out, aud we'll see what it
is you have got.'
' Well, let mc give it one more hard
squeeze; I'll crush it to death,' said he,
ami again he put the force of an iron vice
upon the thing. If it had any life left,
this last effort must have killed it.' He
then cautiously seated himself, holding out
his leg as still and as straight as a poker.
A sharp knife was procured; the pun's
were cut open carefully, making a hole
large enough to admit a hand; the gentleman
put on a thick glove and slowly inserted
his hand, but he discovered nothing.
\Yc were all looking ou in almost breathless
silence to sec the monstrous thing?
whatever it might be; each ready to scamper
out ol harm's way should it be alive;
when suddenly the gentleman became, it
passible, more agitated than ever.
'By heavens !' he exclaimed, 'it's inside
my drawers. It's alive, too I leel it!?
quick ! quick !?give mc the knife again !'
Another incision was made?in went the
gentleman's gloved hand once niuro, and
lo ! out Came?his ici/e's s(?<-kitty !
How tlie stocking ever got there we. are
unable to say; but there it certainly was;
and such a laugh as followed, wo haven't
beard for many a day. Our friend, we
know, has told the joke himself, and must
pardon us for doing so. Though this is
all about a storkiiiy, wo assure our readers
a : ... * ' /i '?
ii ir* iiu e/fiin/ icuyunc.
^ ?-??
An Incident.?A "rob," who had long
languished on the sweets of a forced idleness,
consequent upon his occupation having
terminated with Lee's surrender, began
to look about linn tor something to lie, to
do, or to suffer. Thinking himself sufficiently
reconstructed, lie applied lor work
atone of the Departments, presided over
by a Federal officer.
"Iluvo you been in the rebel service?"
he was asked.
"Yes, sir," was the reply.
"In any battles?"
"About eighteen pitched battles, sir."
"Kver killed any Yankees?"
"No sir: never ki'lcd any."
"How do you know that?"
"Well, I couhln't kill any of them."
"Why was that ?"
"Uocausc they were all in the rear speculating;
but 1 guess I stayed about a thous
and Dutch and Irish."
We did not learn whether the candor
of this "reb" secured him a place or not,
but it certainly was deserving of some rec
ognition.?Xorfol,k I'injintan.
Tho rose of Florida, the most beautiful
of flowers, emits no fragrance ; the bird of
Paradise, the handsomest of birds, gives no
song; the cypress of (.5recce, the finest of
trees, yields no fruit.
A Clyde, New York widower, with seven
children, was recently married to a
Rochester widow with five. Roth parties
were igQQTint of the other's having chil
drcn.
mmrn* ?S&ifies*
RANGES, FIRE BRICKS &c.
ADAMS, DAMOIV A. Co.,
i HAVE REOPENED BUSINESS AT THEIR
OLD STAND,
16, Broad Street, Charlestou, S. C,.
.1 hd ketp Constant/;/ on Hand
I COOKING STOVES
i
or nir.
Latest Improved Patterns,
i Range's Gratos. Mnrhlo Mantles, Tinners'
*j Machines ami Tools, Plumbers' Materials,
Iron an?l Hr iss, deep well Force and
Light Pumps, Sheet Lead, Lead
and Iron Piping, Railroad
Force Pumps. Also the
i Great Labor-Saving Washing
. iHHC ii i 11 c nnu n r 1 11 g c r.
8tX^AU Order* attended to icith Dispatch.
Mch 1 5 ly_
I "PHILIP FOGARTY & CO.
I Wholesale Grocers
AKD
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
Comer of Atlantic Wharf & East Bay,
P. FOGARTY, 1 ?v , . on
6. FOGARTY. / Charleston, 8 C.
Agent? for BOYD BROS. ?V CO'S Cream Ate.
Melt 1 5 ly
PL. Floming;
WILLIAMS & COVERT,
(Formerly LK 11. Williams & Co.,)
TOBOLSK ALE Pr.AI.LnS IN
llats, Cap?, Straw and Millinery
GOODS,
SO. 122 MEETING STREET,
Next door to Charleston Hotel.
CH ARLESTON. S. C.
Bg)? We also have a branch of our house in
! Charlotte, N. C., wlicre we have a large stock
of llats, Caps, Straw and Millinery Goods.
D. n. WILLIAMS, II. c. CALVERT.
May 24 17 _ 3m
CHARLES BELLOISE & CO.,
OasisiJssiiaiBi ri-jToIii.-ij,
AND llE.VLK.liS IN
Ham<, Sides, Shoulders, Smoked
Beef, Tongues,
I FLO172, lii'TTUIL ( IIEESE,
I.IPh i.'i: i: ^ emu ct> ? niui ,, . v
I JJ'JUU, I O 1 v..V PL
ICS, Ac., &c.
120 & 1JJ LAST BAY STEET,
Comfyn.ten's SolicittJ.
II. BEL LUIS*, } CHARLESTON, S. C.
:o:
Wc woiihl respectfully notify Merchants tin*
we are strictly in the Provision Hiitinrts, anil
are onuLled to supply the trmlc at lowest prices.
Mch 1 6 ly
ROBINSON Ar XKLSOX,"
pi Wholowillc 111141
Retail Dcnhrs In
3x}iXE3> ?i
TRAVELLING 1L\(JS, Ac.
ttot; king stki;kt, j
.Wnrl>/ opposite Vicloriii llotf.l,
C'lini-lestou, South ilirolliia.
J. 11. ROBINSON, A. NELSON.
March 1 ly
" I JAliT & CC>.,
(Suoce mji-i to S. N HART A CO.)
South E i-i Corner King A Maikct Street. .
( i i.iull'S ray, a. c,
IMPORTERS OP
Foreign & Domostic Hardware, i
ci; tiacky, gunh,
BAR IRON, TIN AND PLATED WARES,
Will receive ortlers f?>r R. 11012 A CO'S Circular
Saw., tin 1 (SEO. PAGE A CO'S PortaMo
Saw Machines,
j P. D. CoIIBN. 1). S. II MIT. P. MoB'JAN.
j March 1 h ly
ST ATI-: (>K SOCHI CAllOUXA.
Willin.ni Bennett, Applicant,
v>.
John I*, Casey, wife Mary, an 1 others, Defs. j
I Petition for sale <>f Heal Estate of James lien- j
licit, deceased.
I T appearing to in}'satisfaction that John E |
(Itiscy, and wife Mary, M unset Moore, and '
j wife Sarah, defendants in this '-ase, reside
' without this State : it is therefore ordered that
they do appear and object to the division or
sale of the Heal Estate of James Bennett, do
reused, on or before the 21st day of Neptcni
bcr next, or their consent to the same will he
entered of record.
(liven under my hand this 18tl? day of June,
A. Lb, 1806
JNO. KARI.K IU)MAR, o. 9. n.
June 21 21 8m
Dii. w. t. w;sskl~~
I \\71I.E continue the practice of Medicinev
T Surgery, and (at his otlice) Dentistry
OFFICE?over ttr.iMTsit nnt'o stork.
Feb 15 tf
SULLIVAN & WINSMITII,
ATTORNEYS AT I.VW AND SOLICITORS
IN EQUITY, SPARTANBURG, S. C.
OFFICE NEXT TO POST OFFICE.
C. P. StU.ivan. J. C. WtXRMITn.
W. MAGILL FLEMING,
Al I orney nt Law, j i
TTTII.I, attend to nil business with wh'ch ' J
If the citizens of Spartanburg District
rray fuvor liim.
(?FFICr?OYER BOOKSTORE.
June 21 21 12ot
HUNT Ac BRO.
Shipping, Commission & Forwarding
Merchants,
Aocoiuiuodation Wharlj
J. li. HUNT, Jn. } C lia, ,CM,on' S>
(Formerly of NEWBERRY, S. C.)
:o
Promptly forward all Merchandise consigned
to us arriving iu t fie City from
? t r;i v o fob rax bo ts
Mr will give strict attention to Sale anil Burchatc.
of Cotton, Bice, Flour, <jc.
Liberal Advances on Consignments.
llr?erkxcks.?ft. W. Williams it Co., Charleston.
S. C.; Hussel it Ellis, Wilmington, N.
C.; liiglow & Sargent, Baltimore,; Lutlibury.
Wickershnm ?k Co., Philadelphia,, N. L. McCready
& Co., New York : Llav & Walter. Bos
ton; 0. W. Garmany, Savannah, Ua.; G. R
Wilson, esq-, Norfolk, Vn.
Mch 1 5 Cm
WILLIS ^CHISOLM^
FACTORS ,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
ASP
Will attend to tlic purchase, sale atul shipment
to Foreign ami Domestic I'orts, of Cotton, Rice,
Lumber and Naval Stores.
Atlantic Wharf, Charleston, S. C.
E. WILLIS, ALEX. U, C11IS0LM.
Mch 1 5 tf
J. A. HENNEMAN
TAA'jtm itiAiEasa
AND JEWELLER.
Spartanburg C. II., So. Ca.
HAS JUST RECEIVED
A S E I. E C T ASSORT M E NT OF
WATCHES, JEWELRY,
PLATES WAR!
AND
Fancy Goods.
ALSO
A NEW LOT OF EIGHT-DA V AND TWENTYFOUR
IIOUU CLOCKS, A FIRST-RATE
ARTICLE.
WAUUKXTED
TWO Y GAIIS.
Spectacles for all Eyes and Ages.
WATCHES. CLOCKS AND JEWELRY
neatly repaired, and warranted.
J. A. HKNNEMAN,
At the Old /'luce on Alain-Street.
Feb 22 1 tf
W. I>. 3XilsleiRESPECTFULLY
announces to the public,
i that lie has nguiit commenced the
Tinning Business,
ami feels liiinself well prepared nnd qualified
to do all kinds of work in his line, with ncatne-A
and dispatch. He ha* a large stock on
hand, of every thing usually found in an estiibli-hmcnt
of this kind All articles of TIN
WAKE, wili bo kept on hand, thereby rendering
himself able tosupply the wants of any who
may call on him.
He is prepared to do such work as ROOFING.
GUTTERING AND REPAIRING. He
will work and sell, wholesale or retail, LOW
FOR CASH. All work warranted.
SIKH* NEAR THE SPARTAN OFFH E.
Feb 1 1 tf
C. C. IIUG GINS
T A IIA) U.
H aying returned to the town of
Spartanburg, he takes occasion to inform
hi ? triends I hut I lie is prepared to do work with
neatness iltd dispnteh. lie respectfully aska
L s'llrii't* ?it l.nltli 11 fiini rrr? r*??.l iiloil.roj 1* ->
l>oi endeavors to give satisfaction to iiis customers.
lie mi ay lie found at his Shop in rear of J.
i \ lt< 11!MI'S STOKE, where his customers
will timl plates of the latest fashions.
Fell 1 1 If
iw 11 sORrne.
HAM NO just returned from a trip North
and West, takes this method of informing
hi> lormcr l'atrous and Friends, that he is now
prcpuicd to till all orders with neatness and
dispatch in the very LATEST STYLES, as
cheap as any one for Cash or Darter.
My shop is over the store of FOSTER Jk
JDDD S, opposite the Court House.
The latest SPRING FASHIONS have just
been received. WM. LOCKWOOD.
Feb 1 1 tf
FARROW & DUNCAN.
ATTOllNKYS AT LA W
and
Solicitors in Equity,
?*iyd>tlice in Ifrick Building, upstairs, over
former Office of James Farrow.
J asics Paruow. I). R. Duncan.
April 15 11 ly
W11,LI\ MS, EVINS <fc CHOICE,
ATTORNEY'S AT LAW,
SrAIlTANBURG, S. C.
Geo. W. Williams, Yorkville, S. C.
J no. H. Evins,
William Ciioice.
June 14 20 fun
LAW COPARTNERSHIP.
HAVING associated C. J. ELFORD, o
Greenville, S. C , with me in the practice
jflaw for Spartanburg District, under the name
md style ol ELFORD iN ELFORD; all business
ntrusted lo my care will receive the prompt
mil faithful attcution of said firm.
J. M. ELFORD.
April "> 10 Oinoi |
DRYGOODS STORE 1
Toppe Ac Smyth J
WOULD respectfully inform the LADIES \
that they are now receiving their 1
SPRING STOCK, j
CONSISTING OF
White Long Clotli, Drown Shirtings anil Sheetings,
While and Drown Linens, Merrimack,.
Amoskeug, Schwabeand American CALICOS,
warranted fast colors. Jaconets, Cambrics anil
Victoria Lawns.
A complete and choice assortment of Needla- ,
WORK and Linen Setts. Needles, Spool Cotton,.
Working Cotton and Thread in every variety.. J
ALSO, a great assortment of
DRY GOODS, FANCY GOODS, Liens and)
Hosiery, Bonnet and Lute-String. Ribbons,.
Thread and Cotton LACES and EDGINGS.
i 11living open connected for a long time with'
, the Dry Goods business, we arc confident off
giving satisfaction
ALSO, on hand a general assortment oS
BOOTS and SHOES. Tin Ware, Hats and Cape*,
and a general assortment of GROCERIES, ah
the UP TOWN STOKE.
FREDK. TEPPE, ALEX. n. SMYTUN.
B. State Money Bought.
April 26 13 tf_
NEW SPRING GOODS. U
0
WE HAVE just received from Charleston, a
fresh supply of
J
BOOTS, SHOES, PRINTS, J
and many other articles too numerous to mention,
which we offer at cheap rates.
CALL AND SEE US.
U it J. L. WOFFORD,
No 4 opposite Court House.
April 5 10 If
N E WG_00 D S.
WE arc now receiving a capital assortment
of GOODS, selected by a member of our
firm in the Northern market.
GENTLEMEN'S AND LADIES
DRESS O O O I> 8,
LATEST STYLES OF
LADIES' IIATS,
S IT OBS,
TRIMMINGS, NOTIONS,
tar CALL AND KNOW OUR PRICES.
VANDIVER, BLARE & CO.,
M.ij 21 17 If
Aow Enterprise !
soutiikkn?1mpoeting
AND
MANUFACTURING DRUG ROUSE,
PRATT, WILSON & BROS.,
No. IiiiiK' Srcct,
CHARLESTON, S C.
o 1
The Proprietors are Native
Southerners.Vo
tuch tnlrrj>ri.if South of Philadelphia. Will
Southern Houses give us their Patronage t
WE OFFER AT RATES THAT COMPARE
FAVORABLY WITH NEW
YORK PRICES. ALL DRUGS,
('IIEM 1CALS, MEDICINE8,
SPICES,&t\, THAT LEGITIMATELY
BELONG TO
OUR LINE OF BUSINESS,
AND
KEEP ON
HAND
ONLY THE BEST
tar Packages ftut up to suit
uouuuy xraae.-w
N. A.Pit ATT, Chemist to late C. S., Niter and
Mining Bureau, L. W. WILSON,
P. It. WILSON, Chemist to late C. S., Or
Department.
April 11 5 1 j
Merchants Hotel.
(DlhSlTlSSiGn, So (Do *
Cheapest ami best Hotel in the State.
Transient Board, S3.00 day.
Weekly " 14.00"%! week.
March 1 5 tf
^Y. ILLING,
Millinery and Fancy Goods,
AT NEW YORK PRICES.
262 KING STREET,
Opposite Uufain Street,
ClIARLGSTOKi, SO. CA.
March 1 6 tf
DRS. B. & J. L. W0FF0RD
OFF KB. TIIKIR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
to the citizens of the Village and
surrounding country. One or both of us will
be found constantly in the office at the STOKE,
during the day, and at our Residence, opposite
WofTbrd College (Chnrcli Street) at night.
Feb l j 3 tf