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DURISOE, KEESE & C<f. .;.-.,<!^fg7.' EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEMBER 18, 1868. .HUtltill.>l.lUl'UMllMiMi.li,.,.("l"1.,l.,|.|.?l.|l?|l?M??rft?i.,??4,M,l?l|H.i?.l?1l'll'l,?l||....>,.?,>.>,..,!?".Ul|l>MVltiV^lllVl|HUl>l>>U? VOLUME XXXIII.-No. 47 PUBLISHED EVEEY WEDNESDAY MORNI?? B T DUBISOE, REESE tc CO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. Tho ADVERTISER is published regularly erery WEDNESDAY MOUSING, at THREE DOL LARS per annum; ONE DOLLAR and FIFTY CENTS, for Six Months; SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS for Three Months,-alway? in adecnee. ?5?" All paper? discontinued at the expiration of tho time foi which they have been paid. RATES OF ADVERTISING. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Advertisements will be inserted at the rate of j ONE DOLLAR and FIFTY CENTS per Square (10 Minion lines or less,) for the first insertion, and ONE DOLLAR for each subsequcntinsertion. A liberal discount will be made to these wishing to advertise by the year. Announcing Candidates $5,00, ia advance. ESTABLISHED 1802. CHARLESTON COURIER, DAILY AND TR I-WEEK LY, BY A. S. WILLINGTON ?fc CO. Daily rape-, 98.00 per Annum. Tri-Weckly Paper, 84.00 per Annum. T;iE COURIER has entered on thc sixty sixth year of its publication. During this long period of its existence, despite the mutations of fortune and time, ic bas been liberally sup ported, whilst many of its contemporaries have beon compelled to succumb to financial necessities. Wo gracefully record this evidonce of the appre ciwion of our jwn, ?nd the efforts of our prede cessors, to make it trhat it is, and always has beon. ONE AMONG THE LEADING COM MERCIAL AND.NEWS JOURNALS OF. THE S <J V Til. and will renew our exertions to add to \'.< m-ccptabiiity to thu public, ag well ns to place it easily within the reach of all who desire a FIRST CLASS CHEAP PAPER. ? In furtherance of this purpose we now issue tho D i Hy and Tn. Weekly Voin icr to our Sub scribers, at the rate o: eight and four dollars per nun um respectively. Oar purpose is to furnish a first class paper upon thc most reasonable living prices. Charleston, Jan 2!) tf 4 P INSURANCE AGENCY. ARTIES wishing to Insure their DWEL LINGS, GOODS, ?c., con do so on the owest terms ?nd in the BEST COMPANIES, by call ing on the Undersigned. D. R. DURISOE, A-{ont for A. G. HALL'S Insurance Agency. Jan I al PLANTERS' HOTEL. - AUfiTTST^jGA^ Newly Furnished and Re Ott ed, Unsurpassed by any Hotel South, Was Roou?,-x ^ tko Public Oct. 8,1SC6. T. S. NICKERSON, I*nt|ir??t?r. Jan. 1. tf 1 THE Corner Drug Store, AT JN"O. 1, 3?ark Row, T. W. CARWILE. I HAVE just received a FRESH SUPPLY o? GOODS pertaining to my line of business, con sisting of Tieinau's LAUNDRY BLUE, Hurly's WORM CANDY, Essence of JAMAICA GINGER, Cottar's INSECT POWDERS, Hosteler's STOMACH BITTER?, H ill's Sicilian HAIR RENEWER. Spear's FRUIT PRESERVING SOLUTION, Mrs. Winslow's SOOTHING SYRUP,J Rad way's READY RELIEF, MUSTANG LINIMENT, Effurvescin? Sol. CITRATE MAGNESIA, PHILOTOKEN, or FEMALE'S FRIEN";, Aver's CHERRY PECTORAL, Sylvester's BENZINE, or STAIN REMOVER Beckwith's Anti-Dv<puptic PILLS, A. Q. Simmons' LIVER MEDICINE, CONGRESS WATER, CONSTITUTION WATER, Gonuino Old PORT WINE, SHERRY and MADEIRA WINE, FRBNCH BRANDY, Fine Family WHISKEY, Bininger's Old London Dock GIN, Fresh SEIDLITZ POWDERS, CORN STARCH, COOKING EXTRACTS-Lemon,Orange,Va nilla and Rose, Sulphate QUININE, Sulphato MORPHINE, Durkee's Concentrated POTASH, NATRONA SAPONIFIER for making SOAP Cox's SPARKLING GELATINE, ?c. For the Hair. Mrs. Allen's ZYLABALSA\:UM, Barry'* TRICOPHERUS, EUREKA HAIR IN VIGOR ATO R, Antique HAIR OIL, Bear's OIL and Cro?lo HAIR OIL, Piiilocombe POMADE, Pure OX MARROW, 4c. For (he Handkerchief* LU BIN'S GENUINO EXTRACTS-assorted, BURNETT'S FLORIMEL, Genuine BELL COLOGNE, NIGHT BLOOMING CEREUS, ?te. Fancy Articles. Highlv Perfumed RICE FLOUR for the Toilet Pure LILY WHITE, Lubin's TOILET POWDER, Fancy PUFF R?XES, Bairn's SIIAVIN'G CREAM, Military Shaving SOAP, TOILET SOAPS of all kinds. The very bet TOOTH BRUSHES. Fino assortment of HAIR BRUSHES, Hat and Clot hes BRUSHES, Dressing COMBS, Fino Tooth COMBS, Tooth WASHERS and POWDERS, ic. --ALSO Con.?tantly on hand a large assortment of LAMPS. Limp CHIMNEYS, BURNERS, Ac. PURE KEROSINE OIL, NURSING BOTTLES, improved style, PENS, INR. STATIONERY, Faber's LEAD PENCILS, Ac., Ac. rsir-All sold for the most reasonable price, but STRICTLY CASn. T. W. CARWILE, At Sign Golden Mortar. June 23 tf 2f> Seed Wheat! HAVE SELECTED with care different varieties cf SEED WHEAT, which we offer for sale. BRANCH. SCOTT & CO., AUGUSTA, GA. Sept 2S St 40 ROSE OF CASHMERE. ANATURAL TINT OF THE COMPLEX ION. For sale by THOS. W. CARWILE, At Sign Golden Mortar. Oct 13 tf 42 CARPETS. ?AMES G. BAILIE & BROTHER having finished tho improvements to their Store, respectfully invite the attention of their custo mers and the public generally, to their new and large stock of CARPETS, ?c., which they have j just received, and are now openiug, as follows: English Brussels and Velvet CARPETS Heavy Three Ply and Ingrain CARPETS Venetian, Dutch and Vienna CARPETS List, Felt and Hemp CARPETS RUUS. DOOR MATS, BINDING and THREAD Woolen CRUME CLOTHS and WIDE DRUG GETS Stair CARPETS, Stair RODS and Stair CRASH COCOA MATTINGS and Red Check and Whito MATTINGS CARPET PAPER, HASSOCKS, Ac, ?c. We are opening a beautiful stock of Curtain Goods, REPS, SATIN, DELAINES, DAMASKS, LACE CURTAINS Gilt and Wood CORNICES and BANDS PINS, TASSELS, LOOPS and GIMPS MOREENS. TURKEY RED and Chintz CALICO PICTURE TASSELS, CORDS and NAILS Piano and Table COVERS and Table COVER INGS. Window Shades Of new styles and patterns, and all sizes used, | with necessary Trimmings. Our Stock in this department is comploto in NEW PATTERNS. In cur stock of Waif Papers and Borders, PAPER SHADES, FIRE PRTNTS and SIDE LIGHT PAPERS, may bo found the latest pat terns and a large Stock to select from, and the prices low enough to please. Floor and Table Oil Cloths. Having purchased largely of thc?e Goods, we aro prepared to offer in all Quantities and widths ol FLOOR OILCLOTHS And in all quantities nf TABLE OIL CLOTHS STAIR OIL CLOTHS.and OIL CLOTH GOODS. A beautiful stock of theso goods at LOW PRICES. CA V PETS Made and Laid, WINDOW SHADES Squared, Trimmed and -put up, and OIL CLOTHS lr.id promptly. JAMES G. BAILIE it BROTHER, 205 Broad Street. - Augusta, Ga., Oct. 26 Gm 44 Oar ?Uolto t As Cheap as the Chcapesl !-.ls Good as the Best ! . JAMES li. GLOYE?R, WITH . KUSEL &. BROTHER Wholesale and Retail Dealers -IN PINE READY-MADE otnmg. For Ttlcn, Boys & Children's Wear, FASHIONABLE HATS & CAPS, A SD GENTS' FURNISHf-MG GOODS, ISTo. 250 Broad St., Under Globe Hotel, AUGUSTA, GEO. ^acrTho very latest styles in SILK HATS always on hand. A call is respectfully solieitcd before purcha sing elsewhere. Augusta, Oct 12 3m 42 REMOVAL ! HAS REMOVED HER MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS STORE Fruin No. 22G to No/253 Broad St., TKO Doors aboce the old In* it ra ur* Bunk, Where she has Oponed an Elegant and Varied Assortment of EATS AFB B0HHIT5, OF ALL 1HE LATFST STYL?S, Which she will sell :.t the LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES, Wholesale and RotaU. Augusta, Oct 12 lm 12 No. 1 TVE ARE NO tv PREPARED to receive Orders for No. 1 PERUVIAN GUANO, which we are expecting direct from thc PERU VIAN AGENTS, and which wo can GUARAN TEE TO BE PURE, ani of-FRESH IMPOR TATION. Parties buying beforo its arrival, will bc al lowed a LIBERAL DISCOUNT. Wc would advise our friends to send in their Orders carly. BRANCH, SCOTT & CO., 208 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. Oct 27 41 JAS. T. GARDINER, MCINTOSH STREET, AUGUSTA, Or A -, DEALER IN PURE Peruvian Guan? AND THE BEST BONE SUPER PHOSPHATES, And for which lil ilnlcrs will Jicecivc Prompt Attention AT THE LWEST CASH PRICES. Augu.4.1, Oct2?? 6m 43 Kerosine Oil JUST RECEIVED I Bid. Standard White KEROSINE OIL warranted to stand tl c test of heat 110 degrees and is thcrefoyo non-explosive. G. L. PENN. Oct. 2? tf 44. Old Times." There's a beautiful song on the slumbrous air, That drifts through tho valley of dreams ; It comes from a clime where the roses wee, And a tuneful heart and bright brown hair, That wared in the morning boains. Soft eyes of azure and eyes of brown, And snow-white foreheads are there; A glimmering Cross and a glittering Crown, A thorny bed and a couch of down, Lost hopes and leaders of prayer. A breath of Spring in thc bi.*..:; woods, Sweet wafts from the quivering pines Blue violet eyes benoath green hoods, A bubble of brooklets, a scent of buds, Bird warblers and clambering vines. A rosy wreath and dimpled hand, ? A ring and a slighted vow Three golden lir.ks of a broken band, A th,y track on the snow-white sand, A tear and a sinless brow. There's a tincture of grief in tho beautiful song That Sobs on thc slumbrous air, And loneliness foltin tho festive throng, Sinks down on the soul as it trembles ulong From K clime where the roses were. We heard it first at thc dawn of day, And ii mingled with matin chime?, Bot years have distanced thc beautiful lay And us melod> fl iweth from far away, And we call it now Old Times. A Womaii'sConfession. From tJic Picayune. " A few days ago," .said Mr. F-, "intelligence reached tis ! hat a Milan banker had absconded with ari iinmen.se amount of money. It was believed that he had fled to this country and ta ken refuge in New Orleans. A young Italian.girl was thc companion' Jo? his flight. Together -with a description of the man was a1 miniature of this girl. .She was very beautiful, and the inani mate ivory pictured a face so winsome iii itsyouth and innocence, so trustful, so confiding, that my heart ached as I looked at it. ''.Months went -by in the fruitless search for thc criminal. If here, his precautions were well taken, and his concealment effectual. " One night a report reached the sta tion' that a- drowned woman had been drawn from the river. She had -been dead but a few hours, it was said, and was elegantly clad, and young and beautiful. . r . " Why I could not divineat the time, but I felt a strange desire to see this girl.. I mentioned th?! fact to Mr. I-, and we walked together to the river. The body waa laid out on the pi cr, and the lovely upturned face was magnetic in its intense beauty. A wealth of black wet hair fell back from the broad low forehead, exposing a face rounded and full in its fresh, spring-time beauty. The lot i LT toshes ^drooped dnVkk- o voy The palo uncter-iidsr'TrniT me" biuseleCr. lips bad not lost their delicate curve and crimson stain. The soft milky skin showed beneath it the olive tint it had worn in life. The clinging dress but imperfectly concealed each rounded limb and the exquisite outline ol' body. I felt a strange attraction in looking at this dead woman. She must have been unsurpassingly lovely*1 when life was instinct in the frame now so chill. The warm sun of her native land could not have been more lustrous than her eyes were then. I felt that T had seen her before. The conviction grew upon nie as my eyes became rivited on her features. The face haunted me. For an hour my memory was at fault, but it caine at last. Like a flash, recollection returned. S'/ie was ilie original of the picture. Eagerly I bent forward and traced again and again each outline of face and figure. There could be no mistake -the liniaments were the same. On examining the body it was discov ered thai she had been murdered. A deep penetrating wound in her side, made with a small Spanish dagger, which yet filled the cavity, disclosed the means of her death. This knife bore the initials E. F. They did not stand for her name nor that of her be trayer. It was a costly weapon, for in the handle was a brilliant of value. I took the knife to a jeweler, and asked him to examine it. The monogram ar rested his attention at once, ile took it and examined it closely. Then from his desk he brought a jewel set in gold, on which was a lettering precisely simi lar. "Where did you get this?" I asked. " From a customer of mine." " A lady ?" "Yes." '. Where is she to be found ?" He showed me a direction. It was that of a lad}' of fashion ; a^Cuban vis iting in the city. I went to her at once. On mention ing my name she showed me evident signs of uneasiness, ?md motioning me to a private room, begyed with white lips and a faltering utterance, the na ture of my errand. I detailed thc circumstances briefly, I told her of the ciminal, the flight and escape, of the dead body ; I showed her the knife, ami the ring I had obtained at the jeweler's. " Madame," I concluded, " I must arrest you for murder !' "Oh, no ! no, no," she exclaimed, " I will confess ?ill ; not mine the sin, not mine the deed !" She then told me who the man was, where lie lived, and the circumstances that occasioned the poor girl's death. It appears from her statement that some weeks before, the banker had wearied of the young girl, and had abandoned her. He had then paid his court to her, and not knowing his ante cedents, and judging of him by the sta tion he held in society, she had consent ed to marry him. That the evening previous she had been walking with him on the pier. Standing there in the i moonlight, they had been approached by a female elad as this one was. Up- ' braidings and angry reproaches follow ed, and the girl, in the madness and frenzy of her distress, threatened to re veal iv secret. The words had scarcely left her lips when the man struck her with thc dagger I held in my hand. She said he had taken it from hera few moments, and was toying with it when ; the woman came up. '. When the blow was struck.'* she1 said, " thc woman reeled and fell into j the river I saw her as she sunk beneath ! the water, and her white face upturned in agony yet haunts me with its horror. I screamed and fled. It was thc most terrible sight I ever witnessed." The woman told her story truthfully, I could not doubt. But, as I supposed, the man was gone. He was never heard Df afterwards ; and this little memory is all that is left of the wrecked and ruined woman who died beneath the flood. Squirt-Guiis and Sardines. A Western landlord, somewhat noted j 1 for his blunders, took it into his head ' ] to get u?) a ball at his tavern. As he j i intended to do the thing up brown, and i ?avc everything on the big auger plan, ! J ie fancied that a few " store fixtures" ivould be a great addition to the bill of are of pork and turkey. He therefore!^ nade inquiry of his fiends, and- found ('.lat the only delicacy in market at that i jason if the year was sardines; ac-1 j ..ordingly he sent tu rheu'earest city for : i .wo dozen boxes sardines. His chirography, however, was so )ad as to make it read "two dozen joxes syringes." The night of the party came, and as ?upper time drew near the landlord ooked anxiously down ho street for he appearance of the stage which was o bring the principal dish on the bill. At last it arrived, and with a pack ige for the expectant landlord. Directly. there was a great outcry, md a sound of cursing in the bar-room. The-entire party rushed out to^sec vant was the matter, and there stood Boniface; as mad as a turkey-cock, puti ng ami blowing with rage. " See there !" said he, "sec there ! I cut to Dubuque for two dozen boxes 'of ardines for supper to-night, and the nssed fool sent me twenty-three boxes d' them ?I--tl pewter squirt guns, and ays that's all lhere was in the market !" - - ? ? - - ALWAY? AN OBJECT OF CONTEMPT. )ick Claiborne, when parish justice of \ortlicrn' Louisiana, officiated willi a lignity that wan slightly appalling to he timid... Among the multifarious duties and towers of the parish judge was that of uctionoer. He sold all thc property >f succession in his parish; It happened, on one occasion, iii soli ng out the property of a deceased ;rocer. that an unruly parishioner dis urbed the order of tho proceedings, 'inf judge lined him fifty dollars, and enc him to jail for contempt of court. An application was made to hini by .n attorney to remit the line and re eas? tho prisoner, on the ground that r WHS no eurtienqt-m -vunrr,-rrs-rrnr udge, when fulfilling thc oilicc of auc ?011001?; was not a court, and therefore lot an object of contempt. The judge immediately drew himself \y> with all his dignity and conscious tower, ami replied : " Sir, I'll let you know that I am udge of this parish-judge all the time, rom the rising to the setting of the un. and. as such, always an object of ontcmpt !" A PITTY SNOBBED.-The resemblance if some people to dogs is thus illustra ed: Major T. was a paymaster in tho ar ny, an old newspaper editor, a man of .asl acquirements and brilliant abilities, ?e was on duty in Cincinnati during he war, and for his amusement bought t choice dog of some kind or other (if herc is any choice among dogs.) There was a young man of the genus nippy, who had a great desire to cult i ;ate the major's acquaintance, much lo he latter's annoyance. As a kind of entering wedge to a Vi (Midship, the young fellow hit upon he felicitous plan of inquiring after the najor's dog whenever he met him. The latter boro it for six or eight lays, until his patience gave out. At last; one morning thc fellow came ip with his usual salutation : " Major, how's your dog?" To which the major answered prompt: ?y: ' " Quite well, I thank you ; how are ron ?" The question was never repeated. A TOUGH STORY.-There is a place i < in Maine so rocky that wheivishe na-1 i Dives plant corn they look for crevices in the rocks, and shoot the grains in' with a musket ; they can't raise ducks there no bow, for the stones arc so thick that the ducks can't get their bills be tween them to pick out the grass-hop-. pei's, and thc only way thc sheep can i ' get at the sprigs of grass is by grinding ! ? their noses on a grindstone. But this ' ain't a circumstance to a place in Mary land-there the land is so poor that it takes two kildeers to cry " kildeer," and on a clear day you can see the grasshoppers climb up a mulin stalk, and look with tears over a fifty acre field ; and tho bumblebees have to go down on their knees to get at the grass ; all the musquitocs died of starvation, and thc turkey buzzards were obliged to emigrate. But there is a county in Virginia which can beat that-there the land is so sterile when the wind is northwest they have to tie thc children to keep 'em from being blown away there it takes six frogs to raise one croak, and when the dogs bark they have to lean against the fences-the . horses are so thin that it takes twelve ' of them to make a shadow, and when ! they kill a beef they have to hold him ? up to knoek him down ! A FOWL RETORT.-Fred (who has: been sent down stairs to entertain the : visitors while his mamma is arranging her back hair.) "Do you keep cocks and hens, Mr. Meekings ?" Mr. M. " Whv do vou ask, my dear?" " Because my pa told my ma that you was hen-pecked." HAD ALL UK WAN', D.-" John ! ' John ! you flop-eared young scoundrel, i what are you crying about? What do you want?" aske-1 an indignant father of Iiis young lie. d, who was making day hideous with li is howls. " I've got the bellor ache, that's what I want."" 1 Th?ction of Gen. Grant. W.?jjttke. a few extracts from our ex fctiie result of the Presiden mr: [Fronrthe New York Times, Republican.] untry may now look for that Denefic^y^eace which has been the .vatcluMr?l. of thc Republican party du ring t?j^political campaign. General jran&gpi?d have done the party no ?reatejfervice than by giving it this dea ?Khi? word to inscribe upon its janntMp-The turmoil of the iast eight foar?^Bfcbecome intolerable. When t w?^Kin the field, the people bore t w|tlijrerong hearts and strone arms. BufwlSLthis was followed by four rears offlnolent political distractions fiat constantly threatened a renewal of fangninar^Nstrife, popular patience got exhausted. ?And when, finally, the Democratic pat^ty raised a revolutionary jlatforra, from which we could see notti ng but ? stormy'?u?ure and a tempest ?ossed country, there would have been uglification for despair if no means of j iscape had been opened up.. But the ;reat soldie-r who had formerly given is peactjjjy his military genius, again, tood fp?ward as the representative of lenee in the storm of political passion. L'he country felt the power of the sacred vord,-a?id rallied round the leader who buld give it hope. . [From the Now York World, Domocrat.] It" is not merely as the representative il'a bea'ten party, pouring oil upon their mounds, that we vindicate in this the vi/^rrois of our misfortune, and as we leheve tif the country's calamity, the .rdor ami the courage, but thc desper ,tenes>J,(ulso, of our struggle. Rather lo we i&ocliiim in this-most trying hour -.speaking for a party serenely secure ?f .possessing the future of our country, .nd of ajpuiding her magnificent des iuics wh'en itself shall have been purg id, andjiiouldcd for that Imperial task -an unshakable confidence in its puis ant ai?r" undying youth, which out of lisastec will get discipline, out of mis ortunei patience and unconquerable ourage^ out of blunders wisdom and a cttlei? will. To this great work, here nd noj&;Upon a battle field which has >ecn45sc5 do we invite, beneath undis lonore? standards, thc youth, the man lood o?our time. [From tlie Now York Herald.] The.flepublii.ans hold ihe field and egain^tiie White House. The Demo raticJW?ders flung their chances of suc ess overboard when they made their Lieble nominations in July last, and more snecirtjfeyllen they brought prominent peakcraTneu from the Southern States teep?lt to thc lips in disloyalty to the ?bvernment, and fresh from ihe fields diere thousands of our Union soldiers aid down their lives to preserve the i fe of thc nation. ' With thc candidate he Democracy selected to carry their tandard nothing but defeat was to be xpected, and we suppose that not even he most sanguine' member of the party .nticipated any other termination to he contest than the election of General Tr?nt. <; Let us have peace" is his notto. We look now to see these words on verted into acts-to see the olive ?ranch substituted for the sword in the Southern States, negro supremacy quiet y superseded, and such measures adopt-, id as will create harmony out of dis lord in that genial and fruitful portion >f our country comprised in thc States low suffering from a mistaken and vin lietive policy. We look also and hope iilly to this-that after the fourth of | pareil next there will be a check put ipon the monstrous corruptions which ircvail in all the departments of the government, that economy shall succeed extravagance in the disbursements of he public funds, that the public debt ?hall be reduced as rapidly as possible, md that the taxes which press upon lie people shall be made more easy to jear. The people expect that General jrant will accomplish all this, and if he 'ails to do su he will not have compl?t ai the purpose for which he is elected. But we have great confidence in Gene ral Grant. [From the New York Tribune, Radical ] This result has been achieved in spite rf ?II the power pf the Federal Execu tive and of the late slaveholding aris tocracy of theSoul.li, aided by the most gigantic fraudsiunaturalization, and by roting tha-s?me men over and over till thev we?l dizzy. General Grant is this ilayvihet choice of a decided majority ol' th? fegfi voters of every State in the I'niqnjAve Kentucky, Maryland, Dela ivar?6pd possibly Oregon. Every State I hat "ros gone for Seymour outside of thcse'S'Ss been so carried by coercion or fraud/ We now look for the adoption jf^mSpires that shall effectually pre clude |i repetition of these crimes". tjom the Journal of Commorco.] l;Grant is not a Radical, and the very highest authority for ihat it is his purpose to separate ffrop the extremists, and to rai tt him a strong body of the bet ter cl??fc.oitizens, who shall draw unto Liiem.tjfeigenial allies from all quarters, and-beTiome, as they would deserve to be, th'f\*pariy of the country. He is al so extremely anxious to verify his party watchword, and to lead the country at once to peace a renewed prosperity. This is his purpose, and no one can deny that it is a noble ambition. Not him self a politician, and with but little ex perience or skill in civil life, he does not, Ms'we think, at all realize the diffi culties in thc way of such success as he covets. We do not say that he will fail ; for he has undoubted pluck, and, besides four years of patronage at com mand, he will also have the advice and practical aid of some strong friends who do not usually intermeddle with public affairs. MUCH pf the water to be obtained along the line of the Pacific Railroad is strongly impregnated with alkalies. A stage-driver observing a passenger about to quail' some of it thc other day, exclaimed, with a genuine Western style of simile : " Don't drink that, colonel, for it will go through you like the ten command ments through a Sunday-school.'' sayrfl hims' ly roi Forty Acres ami a Mule. The Sumter Watchman says : " Mr, Wm. L. Brimson, whose lamented death we notice on another column, bequeath ed to his faithful servant Washington, upon his death, forty acres of land, a mule, a wagon, a cow and calf, a fine stock of hogs and one-half the crop grown upon the farm the present year. Upon the coming of freedom, Washing ton preferred to follow the fortunes of his old master, remaining with him and conducting himself with fidelity and faithfulness, and so also did the wife and family of Washington. During his last illness, Mr. Brunson received un ceasing attention from his faithful ser vant, who regarded his old master his best earthly friend and loved him with the affection of a child for a parent. This is but one of tens of thousands of instances which would have occurred in our country, Jjut for the poisonous in fluences and wicked teachings of Radi cal emissaries, by whom the colored man has been lcd to suspicion, and to regard as an enemy his former master, until, in fact, an antagonism has been created between tliein, which, in all probability, can never bc obliterated. The colored man has been seduced by these infamous men from his interest, and his frith, and is being steadily lured by the same in fluence to his ruin. The Southern man has cleared his skirts. Pretty Good. Many incidents of an amusing, char acter happened during the late war which have never found their way into print, but which are too good to be lost. The following, we believe, has not here tofore met the public eye : Wash Petty, a notorious bushwhacker whilst foraging in Southwest Missouri with his followers, rode up to a farm house whose owner was known to have ample provisions for man and beast, but whose politics were best known to him self. Petty and his men being dressed in Federal uniform, were mistaken by the farmer for " jay hawkers." He be gan to declare most positively that he was a " Union man. God never made a better." Petty said " wc are hunting your sort ; we arc rebel bushwhackers." Whereupon the farmer chanced his tac tics and declared just as positively that he was a " Southern man." " Look here, old man," said Petty, "you don't know to which, side wo belong, and you must take one side or the other, and stick to it ; if you happen to take the wrong side we'll kill you." This stag gered thc man considerably, but after thinking a minute, he said : "Well ; I is?id. at the start I was a Union, man,. amt J. ii SOCK tu IL u ic is it tr-a lil lie was loft tb enjoy his peculiar opin ions without further molestation. MARRY HER FIRST.-Many years ago, in what is now a flourishing city, lived a stalwart blacksmith, fond of his pipe and his joke. He was also fond of his blooming daughter, whose many graces had ensnared the affections of a young printer. The couple, after a sea son of billing and cooing, " engaged themselves," and nothing but the con sent of the young Indy's parents pre vented their union. To obtain this an interview was arranged, and. the typo prepared a little speech to admonish and convince the old man, who sat en joying his pipe in perfect content. The typo dilated on the fact of their long friendship, their mutual attachment, their hopes for the future, and like top ics ; and taking the daughter by the hand, lie said : " I am now, sir, to ask your permission to transplant this love ly flower from its parent bed" but his feelings overcame him, and he forgot the remainder of his oratorical flourish, stammered, and finally wound up with. " from its parental bed into my own." Tho father keenly relished this discomfiture of the suitor, and, re moving his pipe and blowing a cloud, replied : " Well, young man, I don't know as I have any objection, provided you marry the ?irl first." ? -?- ? - Sr-EEcii OF BEAST BUTLER.-Gen. Butler was greeted by about 3,000 of | his fellow-citizens, in Lowell, Massachu setts, to whom he made a brief speech on the 5th. He had triumphed, he said, under thc motto : Equality of all men's rights under the law, by using freedom's great weapon-the ballot. He hailed tho glorious triumph of .Re publican principles throughout the lund, lie believed it would bring peace and prosperity. We shall not long have murder after murder and riot after riot. Look at New Orleans, from which we have reported 2,500 for Seymour and 276 for Grant. There was a time, he remembered, when the people of that city behaved better. [Applause.] He felt confident such time would come once more. Several Southern States voted for Seymour, or are in doubt, be cause men's lives were threatened if they attempted to vote. When Congress meets as it will in a short time, it will be our purpose to find a remedy for this kind of thing, and if Johnson dees not second our eflbr-ts, though it may be late in the day, we will try and provide for him. [Applause.] GOOD.-We understand that the ne groes of Beech Island, S. C., and its neighborhood, are calmly but confident ly awaiting thc division of lands, mules and other property now held by the whites. They understand the election of Grant to be equivalent to a home stead, and nothing to do for the rest of j their natural lives. When their expec tations are realized and the titles to the aforementioned property obtained, we should like to see tin* bruni. The only wav in which any of the poor deluded creatures will ever become possessed of property of any kind, which they can hold under the light of day, will be by the " sweat of their brow," and the time is not far distant when this truth will be sorrowfully, but sternly realized.-Au I gusta Constitutionalist. ? #5V" Mrs. Eliza Garth, of New York, 1 aged seventy-four, has sued Richard j Howell, of Flanders, N, .T., aged seven ty-seven, for $5,000, a nd got it, for tri I fling with her virgin ailee tiona and mar ' another girl. Our Traducers? Now that tlie election is over, and (he country "saved," according to the Rad ical " patriots," North and . South, we may reasonably hope that the misrepre sentations from which we have so long suffered, may at last cease. How muop this species of insidious-warfare has cost the South.it would be difficult to esti mate. We speak not now bf Uncle Tom's Cabin which gave an immense impetus to the Republican party,-nor of the poems, essays and sermons, innu merable, which were circulatedastiacts, all over the North and West, and con tributed their share in fomenting the war; we refer more specially to the j ? wa rm of'lying newspaper correspon dents, who were sent out here from the surrender of General Lee up to the date sf General Grant's election. Those men, with very few exceptions, wei e obscure Bohemians, ignorant, flippant, and ut terly devoid of principle. They were sent for a specific purpose, and knowing that the surest road to favor with their principals was to paint men and things m the most glaring colors, they set to it with a will, and spared not the brush. This line of action subserved its pur pose admirably ; contributing nov mean mare in strengthening the Radical ranks in thc elections two years ago. The oBcy of Mr: Johnson was condemned y the " voice of the nation," as was the fashionable phrase of that day, the four teenth amendment was ratified. Next caine the reconstruction acts, and with them the great hegira of the carpet baggers ; from whose ranks the staff of newspaper correspondents was constant ly recruited. A stronger motive was now added-interest, ambition, cove tousness. Three of the strongest pas sions of the human heart goaded these gentry to the perpetration of the gros sest injustice on an innocent people : the love of gain, the lust of power, and ibject and cowardly fear; the latter from a consciousness of the great wrong they were daily and hourly inflicting apon a people who harmed them not. The object was to carry the Presiden tial election, and now that it is over, ' let us have peace." Not only were we traduced in the Northern prints of every description, the newspaper, the illustrated weeklies, the literary magazines and reviews, and thc pondeieus tomes, but their misera ble caricature was accepted as a faith ful portrait, by their own people, the people of England, France Germany, and the rest of the world. Mr. Adams hr Irre rre<Mit-r^;cT^-rk tkiu upoLa of "tins. Jle said that fie liad met peo1 pie from the South all his life, and they were much like other men. Yet in his schoolbooks he had learned they were semi-savages ; in the village newspaper he read of their cruelties and barbarism: and though an intelligent and an edu cated man, one who ought to have known better, he confessed that these con.'.tant iterations .produced their ef fect, even upon his mind. lie gave us the picture of the traditional Souther ner, blustering, bullying, tobacco chew ing, pistol brandishing. Mr. Vernon Harcourt, ono of thc leading men in England, better known as " Historiens'1 of the Times, a few week's ago, at the Social Science Con gress, in Manchester, said : 14 Gentlemen who had travelled in the Southern States have often seen persons sit down to a peaceful dinner with a re volver in each coat tail pocket. Of course, it was only for the purpose of self-defence, but then it very frequent ly happened that before dinner was over two or. three were shot." In France and Germany, particularly among the " Liberal" party, we find the same ignorant prejudice against us. Our immigrant agents have met with little success in consequence. They had not only to contend with the current literature hostile in its tone, but found yet more formidable obstacles in the numerous paid agents from the North west who spread infamous falsehoods to our prejudice, in order to induce emi grants to go to Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, ?c., and not to South Carolina. We hope that this warfare will now cease, and that the hand of time may be per mitted to break down this thick wall of prejudice. A fair race-justice-is all we ask. Wc claim nb exemptions, no special favors ; only that which is our rightful due. We have been so long accustomed to these calumnies, that we fear some of our people have at last begun to accept as truth the verdict of their detractors. We arc glad therefore that Commodore Maury, in a recent addref-3 before an Agricultural Fair in Str-unton, Va., took pains to look into this subject, and nobly vindicated the Southern peeple from these foul aspersions. He said there is nothing more com mon than the assertion that the South ern people lack energy. It is a mis chievous error. The North is appar ently more prosperous, because it is manufacturing and commercial, the South agricultural. In all manufactur ing and commercial communities pro ducts are concentrated, and there is a show of life and activity never seen in agricultural communities, because labor is there diffused. Another reason is, that the statistics showing the rewards of labor at the North and South arc not quite fairly presented. For instance, suppose that one of your neighbors, in giving you an account of his earnings during tho year, should tell you that he had housed so many barrels of corn, which was worth five dollars a barrel ; and killed so many hundred weight of pork, that was worth eight cents a pound : had so many pounds of bacon, worth twelve cents ; but when you come to catechise him a little closer, you find that it had taken all of his corn to fatten his pork, and all of his pork to make his bacon. Now, this is the way with the hay crop of the North, which is worth as much as the cotton crop of the South, as Governor Scott said in his message to the Legislature. In the last returns, the hay crop ol' thc North is put down at upwards of three hundred millions dollars ; thc valu? of the live stock at a little more, ami the value of the bittier ami cheese at many millions, when tho hay went to make lt all. There is still another reason for this apparent greater prosperity ol' the North, and the appa rent show of greater energr and entcr pri.se there. According to tho census of 1790, the population of tho United States was very nearly equally divided between the North ami South ; and ac cording to the retnriisof the subsequent census, the ratio ul" natural increase was greater at the South than at tho North. But notwithstanding this, tho popula tion of the North, according to the cen sus of 18G0, was, in round numbers, eleven millions greater than at the South. Did it ever occur to you, says Com modore Maury, when an emigrant comes into the country, to calculate how mm h he adds to the national wealth, not by the money which ho brings, but By the labor which he U able to perform ? For that labor you will pay him, at ti.e least, one hundred dollars a year, ile, therefore, represents an industrial capi tal of which a hundred dollars a year is the interest, precisely in the same way that a steam engine, by thc work which it is capable of performing, re presents an industrial capital. The la bor, therefore, of a white man represents quite as much industrial capital as the labor ofJ a negro did before thc war, which for an able-bodied man varied from twelve to fifteen hundred dollars. Taking old and young, male and female, let us suppose that each emigrant rep resents an industrial capital of fpiir hundred dollars. And then we must weigh these eleven millions of excess of Northern population as the number of - emigrants, and the descendants-c f emi grant*', which have come into the coun try since 1790 and settled at the North rather than at the South. Multiply that by four hundred and you have up wards of four thousand millions of dol lars, which the North has acquiied. not from any superior energy of her people, but merely by the influx of laborers aird foreigners from abroad. Suppose these eleven millions had settled in "Virginia, what would not have been the wealth of the State ?--Charleston Mercury. ATROCIOUS MURDER.-On 'Saturday last, two inoffensive colored men, Con servative in their politics, came to Or angeburg with a wagon, from the lower 'part of St. Matthews, sold their cotton, and started on their return home that evening, with the proceeds, partly in i vested an supplies, in their wagon. Ar > t.Mid uiai Yu nf-Hulea Dll?ge,-Uley camped near the road-side, and after building a large fire, went to sleep. In the night one of them, Stephen Ladf I den, was awakened by the report of a gun, and a sharp shock, and saw some one making off through the bushes. Ho went to his companion, Frank Thomp son, -and found that he had been shot in the head, and was dead. Stephen also was wounded in the arm. No clue has been discovered to the perpetrators of this barbarous crime. It is supposed that the party or pari i es who committed thc deed, having killed but one pf their intended victims, fled upon seeing the other rise up, (which he did, shouting as he rose) in order to escape detection.-Orangeburg News. Affairs in Spain are not; yet quite smooth. The revolutionary government has been recognized by England. France Prussia and Italy, but the managers have .not yet succeeded in getting a head for it. Ferninand is said to have declined,.' n offer of the crown, and the men in whose gift it is lind it difficult to cjet any one to take it. The reason probably is that it might, bc hard to keep when taken, for it looks as though there might be more hot work in Spain before long. Dis turbances are reported in Malaga and Grenada, and troops have been sent from-Madrid to suppress them, with what result is not stated. This is signi ficant, but of course one set of revolu tionists have a perfect right to put down another set of-revolutionists, and hang every man they can catch. Isabella's throne would probably have been safer if she had taken hold of the revolution ists with a stronger grip than she gene rally brought to bear on them. SINGULAR' MOVEMENT IN WASHING TON.-Wc clip tiie following from the Cincinnati Enquirer of the 9th, giving it for what.it is worth : WASHINGTON, November 8, 1S68.-A singular movement has been originated by certain politicians, having in view the castine; of the Democratic electoral votes for Grant. It is urged it would influence Grant to a conservative course, to which he is undoubtedly inclined. A circular letter on this subject has been addressed to Mr. Pendleton, Governor Stevenson and Gen. Preston, of Ken tucky, A. H. Stephens, and prominent Democrats of the North. The following is the text of the lefter : WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 8,1868. GENERAL :-In my judgment the wis est thing the Democracy could now do would be to throw their entire electoral vote for General Grant, as an indication of the fact that, should he pursue a lib eral, generous and magnanimous course, they will sustain him. It would also have the effect of not leaving him alto gether in the hands of tho adverse fac tion, and would doubtless strengthen any purpose he may entertain toward the conservative sentiment of ?he coun try. This vote can not possibly do Sey mour any good, and thrown in the man ner suggested would, at least, produce a conciliatory impression. Very truly, yours, &c. j When a woman says another woman has a good figure, you may be pretty .-?ure that other woman is freckled. nV that she squints, or that she is marked with tho small pox. But if she simply ' says, she is " a gr od soul," you mav bo morally certain that she is both ugly ' and ill made.