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J' ,ti)i?..|,Hi.M,ii,,,i,"Ul 'liMitiL'i-Mu'liHu' U'ti>'i iMi|ii(?ni tii'liMU'i*" >?'? .,.???.M.lu*?*?..-1 .m..,.u......W1.,W.U.M.^-n.w, BT D. R. DtRISOE. EDGEFIELD, S. C.,-SEPTEMBER 7, 1871. VOLUME XXXV.-Ko. S7. COTTON STATES Life Insurance Company, Principal Office, Macon, Ga. THE business of this STRICTLY SOUTHERN and HOME COMPA NY is confined by law to legitimate Life Insurance alone. Policies issued on all the approved Mutual plans. It also issues Policies at Stock rates, 25 per cent, under the mutual rate. But it does not advise its patrons to insure on the Stock plan, that plan being very expensive in the lon2 run. It is known that dividends in a good Mutual Company will average about 65 per cent., especially at the South and West, where investments bring good returns. 90 per cent, of profits on the Mutual business divided annually amongst alLthe Mutual-Policy.Holders without exception. One-third Loan on Premiums given when desired. Interest charged only upon first loan. ?".Where all Cash is paid, Policies will become self-sustaining; that is, pay ont, and have 50 per cent, added to their faces, which is one-third more than the original sum insured. Ample provision against forfeiture of Policies in the expressed terms of the contract. The Company will always purchase its Policies at their Cash value. We offer the people of the State the sa?fce financial security as Northern Companies, the accumulating premiums of the insured, and in addition thereto a Capital commencing with $500,000 I Millions of dollars have annually hitherto been lost to the active circula tion of the South, in payment of premiums in Northern Companies. In benefits derived from the investments made by these Companies in Northern real estate and securities, our people can never share on equal terms. Let then sustain our own Life Enterprise, and thus keep our money . and the profits too at home. Officers at Macon, Ga : WM. B. JOHNSTON, President. WM. S. HOLT, vice-President. GEO. S. OBEAR, Secretary. JOHN W. BURKE, General Agent. G. -F. McCAY, Actuary. W. J. MAGILL, Superintendent of Agencies. JAS. MERCER GREEN, Medical Examiner. J?^The Cotton States Company is a Georgia and South Carolina enter prise, is a good Company, and is now fully identified with the interests of our people. This State is ably represented in the general management by South Carolina Directors. LAYALL & ABNEY, ? General Agents for North and South Carolina. i WM. J. LAVALL, Esq,, Office, Columbia, S. C., 1 M. W. ABNEY, M. D., Edgefield, S. C. j June 7 tf 24 New Spring Bry Seeds ! James W. Turley, BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA., DEALER IN FIRST-CLASS DRY GOODS, fl. [AS JUST RETURNED FROM NEW YORK, and is now fully pre pared to offer to the public a completelr assorted Stock of SEASONA BLE FIRST-CLASS DRY GOODS. Great care has been taken to supply each Department with EVERY THING NEW AND FASHIONABLE, as well as the_ more staple articles of the Trade. The Cash System will be Strictly Adhered to, and it is much cheaper to pay 25 per cent, for money, and buy your Dry Goods for Cash, than to buy them on time. The best judges ofv Dry Goods, and the closest buyers, are particularly requested to examine my present schedule of prices. JAMES W. TURLEY. Mar 29 tf 14 PETER KEENAN Again salutes the Good People of Edgefield, and the many readers of the Advertiser, and invites them, when they are in want of . Boots and Shoes, To paji at his Reliable Souse, next door to James A. Gray & Co., where they will find 'NOTHING BUT THE BEST WORK ! And all made to order in Baltimore and philadelphia. Haying made a flying trip to the above cities, and taking advantage o: the dull times prevailing there, I can conscientiously say th it I have The Best Goods Eyer Brought to this Market! And every style of Gentlemen's Hand-Sewed Shoes, at $5 per pair I Low Strap Shoes-Prince Albert's-made of Morocco and Calf, with and without Box-Toes. And Every Other style Known to the Trade ! . Nothing will be left undone to merit the confidence of my Fellow-Citi zens. I would just as soon force a paper, as beguile the public with any thing other than Facts. PETER KEENAN, 230 Broad Street, Under Central Hotel, AUGTSTA, GA. .Aug 8 tf 33 W. H. GOODRICH Quick Sales and Small Profits. |J M NBBLWT. iCottonGriii MANUFACTORY. THE Undersigned respectfully an nounce to the people bf Edgefield Counties, that they are still e manufacture of Cotton Gins, Of tho well-known and highly approved OGLE3BY PATTERN. MR. NEBLETT - who has fourteen yeats! practical experience in making j thesoGINS, will give his personal atten ' tion to tho business, and we feel confi dent of giving ontirc satisfaction to those favoring us with their orders. EVERY G?N WARRANTED. Old Gin's RENOVATED or REPAIR ED in th? best maimer. * . MEWETT & GO Oh RU'll. At Goodrich's Machine Works. 55S-Capt. LEWIS JONES, of Edge I field, is our authorised Agent, and all or ders received by him will meet with prompt attention. May '1 5m W GEORGE WEBER,!?ES? -WhoLesalc and Retail Dealer in DST &009S, Notions, Hats, B?OTS, SHOES." ' NlSW GOODS constantly arriving, which arc offered at thc lowest prices. ' No. 176 Broad Street, opposite Au gusta Hotel. Augusta, July 26 tf 31 TURNIP SEED ! TURNIP SEED ! JUST Received a LARGE SUPPLY EVJSrS IMPROVED TURNIP SEED, warranted Fresh and Genuine, embra cing tho following varieties: PURPLE TOP YELLOW RUTA BAGA, EARLY WHITE FLAT DUTCH, EARLY PURPLE TOP FLAT DUTCH, YELLOW ABERDEEN, LARGE WHITE GLOBE. LARGE YELLOW GLOBE, , LARGE WHITE NORFOLK, GEORGIA WINTER. July 19 L. PENN, Druggist. tf 30 Mi SALIDA HOUSE. BOOTS AND SHOES ! MADE TO ORDER OR REPAIRED All work well done at .reasonable pri ces, out of the best Leather, and by com petent workmen. Give me a trial, and I will give you good fit. Terms Cash. S. H. MANGET. June? >tf 24, RS. R. B. BOULWARE respectful ly announces to the Edgefield public thal she has opened the SALUDA HOUSE, and will use every exertion to please al] who may favor her with their patronage, She solicits the encouragement of hei friends. ^Ef?-Board by*the Day, Week or Monti at as low figures as can possibly be af forded. Edgefield, May 30 tf 23 Gin Repairing. THE Subscriber, with the benefit of,f pr:u!tical experience for tho lasl twenty-five years, offers his services tc Planters ol' Edgefield wishing their GINS REPAIRED, S A WS SHARPEN ED, &c to.:, and will attend promptly and faith fully to all orders. Terms reasonable.' Letters addressed to him at Edgefield, S. C., care of Mr. D. R. Duiisoe, will re ceive early attention. W. B. MAYS. July 5 lm 28 Heaven. Beyond these chilling winds and gloomy skies Beyond death's cloudy portal, There is a land where beauty never dies, And love becomes immortal. A land whose light is never dimm'd by shade, I ] Whose fields are ever vernal ; j Where nothing beautiful can ever fade, But blooms for aye, eternal. We may not know how sweet tho balmy j air, How bright and fair its flowers ; We may not hear the songs that echo there, Through those enchanted bowers, j The city's shining towers wo may not ? see, with our dim earthly vision ; For death, the silent warden, keeps the key That opes those gates elysian. But sometimes, when adown tho western sky The fiery sunset lingers, Its golden gates are noiselessly, Unlocked by unseen fingers. And while they stand a moment half ajar, 8 Gleams from the inner glory, 1 Stream brightly through the azure vault ; afar j And half reveal the story. -, ,-y lie Two Kisses. j -o- 1, AN OLD MANS STORY. I AM', an old man ; so old am I that, looking back, life seems very long, and yet so short, that I do not know whether many things did not happen in dre* m. I am hale, and hearty, and merry, for the matter of that ; and when x laugh, my laugh rings out clearly and loud, they say ; so much so, that it makes the people around, especially my grandchildren, and nephews and nieces, laugh too. And when I laugh the old times come back when others, who are silent now, laughed with me, and then I am suddenly still, and the laugh dies away ; and when I think of it, its empty echoes fill my brain just as if it were sleep-laughter in a dream. "When I stop laughing so suddenly -for the merriment and enjoyment, and, for the natter of that, the grief and pain of old men, are short and sudden, like those of children-my grandchildren, and nephews, and nieces have a great difficulty to stop too ; and they choke and nudge each other, and say: "That is a good story, uncle ; almost as good as the story you told us yesterday." Told yesterday ! Let me see what it was I told, yesterday. How long ago it seems ! it must be longer ago than the time when I was only twen ty years old, a stalwart, brave fel low, in yellow breeches, black leg gings, a heavy, brass-bound, leather , helmet, with a plume tipped with J red, and a clanking sword, which I now could not lift with my two hands. I was a royal volunteer then, prepared to resist t he French ; and I and some of my companions w?re enoamped in white tents on the coast of Kent. Tes,people think me very merry. And so, thank heaven, I am ; for I try to stand upright, four-square to the world, as a man should ; but be ing an old man, I have ?lank places I Je in my heart now where no love ' *r grows; barren spots in my memory, and chilled and numbed parts in my feelings whereto I cannot look back, and whereon I dare not tread and touch, lest sudden pain should come back, like the shooting of an old, old wound. Been in love ? Yes, I should think I have ; how else could Ihavegtand children, those people who laugh so hearty when I laugh, and make me tell how old I am a score of times, and say how well I am looking. Been in love? I think I was talk ing of that, was I not? Yes, been in love ! Well, we did love when I was a young fellow, and I recollect my Alice, and I recollect her as I loved her when she was very young, and as I love her now. I tnink she could do anything but drink and smoke or tell an untruth, or do a [? wrong action. Her face was a sweet oval ; her hair a very dark brown, nearly black ; and her eyes were a deep blue, full ot merriment at one moment-ay, at all moments, except when she heard a ead story or was touched with pain for any one else, and they grew deeper and deeper as they filled with tears. Not for her self. She never cried for herself that I know of, for she never bad a day's illness. But she was terribly cut up when her brother died, and that you iee was how I knew her. Her broth er was my right-hand man in my company. Many s the time he stood shoulder to shoulder to me, good at drill, good at song-good at any thing. He used to live near the coast; and, indeed, be joined us, and I was one of his tent-fellows, and his chum. Well, he knew people that I knew, and we ivere's'oon friends; and'he took m'e home to : show me Alice He was always . talking about her, and she about him; and'when'he was there, scarce a look did she give me. Her brother-his name was Joe, and mine too-could do everything, and was the be-all and end-all of the world, I used to think ; and so one day I tried to run with Joe, and Joe beat rae, and Alice laughed; and then I shot against Joe, ana he beat me too, and she laughed the more ; and I wrestled with him and threw him ; she didn't laugh then, but ran to see whether he was hurt, and said it wasn't fair for Joe to tackle a big fellow like me, although ne was nigh an inch taller. In short, I could not please her anyhow. Well, it was one day when we heard that the flat-bottomed boats of old Boney were not coming over, and that the army of Boulogne had melt ed, bit by bit, away like a snow drift, that we made a night of it. Ay, it was a night, too I and, being hot and in summer, we must need keep up the fun till the sun cam.' up over the seacoast, looking red and angry at our folly. Well, Joe and I -the two Joes, as they called us ran down to the beach and washed our hot faces, and plunged in the fresh, salt waves, and were in a min ute as fresh and merry as larks. And after dressing, Joe must needs take a walk with me-who was nothing loth, fr lc cl cc tc ai o^ fo bl w e< a w si Ol hi lo st w w Vi & ai tl a? ol n< tl ar cT ni h. to m la tli al ai in ly b. ki it di ai tl in di ai vi A is g c fl c] a tl Ol h S C( tl tc 0] cl BC fo re d< it ? o? ra to th H? cn ai ci? in ac se cr tri A nc H on bl H or cr sw gr in you must know-along the edge of ihe cliff. Thc 3eas for centuries have been washing that chalk-bound coast, md at intervals tLere stand up pil lars of chalk, with seas around them. The people call such a place " No Man s Land," and no man can own t, truly. Well, Joe came to one of ;hose within a few feet, say twelve, :rom the cliff, and taming to me ?aid, " Joe, Junior"-I think I 'see lis bright face now-" I challenge rou to jump on that 'No Man's Land,' I do." " Joe," said I, hurriedly, " don't je a fool ! It may be would give way it the top, and if ic did not, how :ould you jump back without a run ? x*Gu'd be. stuck on the top like a mad lentinel or a pillar saint. I'm not joing to jump it." " But I am," said he. And before '. could stop him, if needed I had ried, he took a run and jumped. 1 It was so sudden I could only stand ighast when I saw him there. 'He tood, ,-ndeed, for a moment, and tuen ie toon, a back step, and would h?ve umped back, when I heard, a r?m iling, sound, and half the top of the No Man's Land" part, and the chalk ud earth, and Joe, too, fell down rith. a crash on the rocky coast be 3W. I ran round the little creek to the ther side of a small bay, and throw 3g myeelf down on the turf, stretcb d my neck over, looked over and ried out : "Joe ! Are you hurt, oe?" A faint voice came up, and I could ;e the poor fellow struggling under huge piece of chalk, which seemed ) hold him' down in agony. He niled in a ghastly way, and said : Run, Joe, run I the tide's coming il" Well, I did run, and we got rope? ?om the tents, and a few strong fel 1W8 held them as I swung over the iff just reaching poor Joe as the )ld water was lap, lap, lapping up ? his mouth, taking away his breath, ad then running back, crawling rer him and leaving bubbles of salt iam, as if in sport. I got him ' out, at he could not stand. Some bones ere broken and he was badiy bruis 1, so that I was'forced to tie him to rope, and they hauled him up, and e took him home. Well, well, to make a long story lort, poor Joe died, with my praise 1 his lips, and Alice bowea her ?ad like a broken lily. It was a ng time before she got over it, and immer had grown into winter, and inter to summer, to autumn, and to inter again. The threatening in ision was all over ; our swords were ?tting rusty, our uniforms dirty, id when the holidays came I left ie firm in which I was a partner, id went to spend a fortnight at my cl friend's io Kent.. Alice was there, well and cheerful )w, and reconciled to her loss, lough wo often talked of poor Joe, id as the days wore on we grew os^rTogetlicr, and she cr?T?M'-n?tHn ime, and seemed to have transferred ?r brother's love to m?. She never ld me so or let others see it, till ?ne ?Vy Christmas night, when she re cted all her cousins and her other iends, and would only dance with e. We had the mistletoe too. At st, one madcap fellow proposed that ie ladies should kiss the gentlemen 1 round when and how they could ; id'Alice should play, too ; and she, i a solemn, quiet way, smiling sad ., and yet sweetly, too, took me jneath the Christmas-bough, and issed rae on the lips. Ay, it's many years ago, but I feel now. My heart beat so fast that I hardly ired return it; but I -put my arm "ound her and took her gen'ly by ie bay-window of the old hall, say ig as I pressed her hand ; " Alice, sar Alice, did you mean that kiss ?" Well, I need not tell you what she :i9wered. 'Tis fifty years ago, fifty ?ars ago ! .and I am surrounded by .lice's dear grandchildren, and there one, a little thing with light and olden hair that will deepen into rown, who plays around my knees nd tells me her little stories, her )rrows and her joys ; so quick, so urried in their coming and their oing, that they are like my own, and 3 we talk, we grow quite friends nd companions, as my Alice<was to ie. Bless you, she understands it all. he is a woman in her pretty ways ; er poutings, pettings, and quarrel ls. She manages her household of ne wax doll and two wooden ones, nd tells me-rfor the wax-doll is the idy and the two wooden ones are he servants in mob-caps and stuff owns-when they gossip with a fooden policema-n, who belongs to 1er brother, little Joe. So we are fast friends, little Alice ,nd I ; and to:night; I noticed that he would not dance or play with he pink and shiny-faced little boys i'ho were unnaturally tidy ?nd clean n their new knickerbockers, vjr?th ed stockings ; but she came and "?at >y me, and talked softly in the fire ight, as Alice' did, and made me hink of fifty years ago. And only hint how old times come back and lew times, like the old ; only ju6t hink, that when her mother told her ihe should choose a sweetheart, she 50t a little bit of mistletoe, and ilimbing slily on my kpee, and, hold ng me in talk as if ta hide her pur lose, though I guessed it soon. I ell you, she put her little doll-like irm around my neck, and holding the nistletoe above my head, she kissed ne again and again, and said I was 1er sweetheart. So this child-sweetheart brought he old times back-the times that itill are so distant andjso near ; and the weet kiss beneath the rustling leaves nade me think of my dead Alice in he grave. Tl co th co wi ch th ha ou ? ?rr as no ev us to is Ni ed fin an Tl of er dc th mi in lu at of ar le vi Ol fo th in at g' cc m ca of eJ tj h tl m ti ai w w ol B a ci ii P A A very sharp chap thinks that columbus is not entitled to much credit br discovering America, as the country is o large he could not well have missed it. A young gentleman of Chicago ell in love with a hotel waiter girl, but ove fled from that once fond heart when ie found the " sweet little thing" cutting 1er toe nails with a butter kuife in the citchen. From the Unionville Times. 'Oar acts our angels are, or good or ill, 3ur fatal shadows, that walk by us still." Last week our ppinion of Lawyers is they were and i as they are, was Dublished by the Times. In the first Legislature of carpet jaggers, scallawags and sombre gcori nts blessings upon South Carolina, vere three sombre, two carpet-bag md one scallawag'?awyers, who have idopted the 11 Code of ' Procedure" inder which we are destroyed1 in wenty days, and that without remedy if court of jury';' bt drawn into the preen bags and there made to leave en-fold more than was; allowed,' or ven asked or expected, when Cal loun, Cheves, Preston . Harper, L? pre and others 'made laws, winch ave all been abcfished by Corbin, nd Wright, and Whipper, and Mdnt omery, and their ac?essary adventures nd thieves--ninety of whom are he roes, and some of them actually aught stealing the'carpets from the oors on which they sat to concoct be robber code by which honesty nd-industry are pillaged. We see the hideous purpose of bese demons. They have multiplied (fices, and raised an army of office olders, and enlisted them, like the epoys of India, against their ow juntry and countrymen, against ?emselves and their children. Now, ) this fearful power they have added : sought to add, the lawyers, that ass of intellect and eloquence, whose ?eptre has swayed this 1 nd-whether ir its weal or not-from our first ?volution down, and aspires to the ominion oe the whole Union-nay, is supreme in the 'Congress of the nited States, and in the Legislatures ! most of the StateV By the Fee Bill of their Code, this .venous party hold up their bounty the lawyers, and invite them into e ranks of the oppressors of their ;ricultural and industrial fellow tizens, ..now reduced as they are to forlorn hope, and wi.-h a bare au'fn ?ncy left from their toilsome earn gs, to feed and clothe themselves id families. Many of them, this ason, will not have enough. Tn the isis of the season of *fiela-orops, om the 2d of July to the 23d. of ugust, fifty-two days, there has .been ? rain on many 'of their farms, eaven, for a purpose, and a good ie, no doubt, h^ withheld the essed showers. How can these live? ow pay ten-fold to the Radicals, id other ten-fold to the lawyers? Agriculture is diminishing here and erywhere. Manufactures increase, erchandize increases, idleness in eases, vice and crime increase, kindling and stealing increase-the eat towns and cities grow rapidly p 'pulation, and the small ones fill ) with idlers, loafers and vagabonds. ie prudent and patriotic of every mmunity are seriously discussing e questions, " how long is this to ntinue?" "Is there no remedy?1' There is a remedy, and_ but one. ie-fararer3~?nd iiat;uri'iTg "men Dft?e" bole country must use the right to lim and control the earnings ol' eir own hands. It is theirs. They .ve the power, the numbers, eighty it of every hundred. Justice te ures them to do it-honesty calls em to the work-self-preservation iperatively demands it-the re oaches of their offspring, sinking they are into poverty, wretched J ss and degradation, mova iliem by ery vibration, of nature to it. T?e organs of our oppressors call fogies and fossils; and they claim bc the udvocates of progress. It the progress which prevails in orthern circles and cities, wheiv ucation and intellect hold tip the linen of equality and fraternity, id ignore morality and honesty, icy are unsafe teachers and leaders society. The condition ol' North n cities-the dark and depraved ieds of daily occurrences there e total eclipse of moral sense and oral worth-show the horrible abyss to which these leaders of progress ive conducted their followers. Look the recent and present condition Paris, the world's focus of fashion id refinement, of science and intel ct, of euphuism and optimism !-as vid a picture of hell as can be seen itside of the infernal regions, has r months existed and now exists in at paragon city of the elegance and telligence of the world. Anet there is another pandemonium , Washington city, when the Con .ess of the United States is there, imposed as it is largely of lawyers, ost of them trained as well to advo tte the false as the true. And. tve r the South not only see with our res, but feel in our souls, the migh r wrongs and deep afflictions they :ive brought upon ibis country ; and lat intellect must be combined with loral culture and religious convic on, or it is not fit to conduct the rTairs of mankind. The lawyers of South Carolina, ho are not carpet-baggers norscalla ags, will despise the temptation, ist such as was made by the evil one f old, from the high mountain. The people of Uuon appointed a ?card of Arbitration two years ago, 3 a remedy, if necessary. The itizens of Greenville recently moved i the same direction, but decided to etition the Legislature to repeal the Lct, a?4 withdraw the hateful bribe. Ve will see. At all events, the tax avers of the State.must take care of aemselves, as far BB they are able. ?G ADMIRER. SHOCKING DEA^DJ OF A CHILD. In Tuesday last &]>ost marian exam iation was had on the body of a child t Ashley, Luzerne county, Pa., tWo ears of age, whiebjhad died in great gony. It was taktn suddenly and xolently ill, and iothing could be dministered thatieemea to afford elief. Its body shelled to nearly tvice ita natural sizi, and it died vom ;ing blood. On tie opening of the bomach of the chili, the cause of the ingular illness m( death was dis overed. In the coating of the stom ch, with its huge jhorus firmly em edded, was an enormous stag beetle, 'he only explanation that could be ? iven as to the mainer of the insect * etting into the ?omach was that ' iv>-n by the child] mother, who sta- t ed that the night |ho child was ta- \ 4 ken sick, and a few moments before the first symptoms, it had asked for water. The mother gave the child a drink from a cup containing water, and sitting on a chair beside the bed. There is no doubt that one of these horned-beetles had fallen into the cup while flying about the room, and the child drank it with the water. ' Terrible Outrage. The Arkansas papers report the following terrible outrage : .. "On Monday of last week a most brutal outrage was committed on the person of a little girl, aged thirteen | years, near Wittsburg, Cross county, I named Sanders. The father was ab-! sent in the wood splitting rails. At j noon, Mrs. Sanders, with her two j sons, took the dinner of her husband to him, leaving the little girl at home. After taking the dinner, Mrs. San ders remained at the house of a neigh bor during the afternoon, sending one of the boys back home to remain with his sister <*nd leaving the other with bis father. On arriving at home, the little boy missed' his sister, but, sup posing she had gone to a neighbor's louse near by, he thought no more ibout it. When the parents return ?d in jthe evening they became alarm ?d for their daughter's safety, and tent to the neighbors in search of her, )ut could hear nothing concerning 1er whereabouts. Runners were sent mt, and numerous neighbors joined n the search during the nicht. At laylight the next morning the body if the child "was found about two ?undred yards from the house of her )arents, with her throat cut and her )er8on outraged, and the knife was till sticking in her throat.* After earching for the fiend, a negro man lamed Harris was arrested, who was barged with having committed the leed. A temporary court was or ;anized, with twelve jurors, who, af er hearing the evidence, decided to lang the negro. Better counsel pre 'ailed, however, and it was agreed hat he should have a fair trial. The text day he waa taken be?ore a mag strate, and the proof of his guilt was verwhelming. About five o'clock a the evening the court adjourned ver to the next day, and the sheriff tarted to jail with his prisoner. As ie did so, a crowd of about two hun ted persons, both white, and black, ushed forward and took' the negro rom the officer^ and carried him to he spot, where the deed was commit ed, and there hung him to a tree. ?he people generally regret the ne essity for the act, but all join in greeing that it was just." SAVAGE FIGHT WITH A PANTHER. -A correspondent at Blackford, West Virginia, sends to the Baltimore Sun he following accountof an adventure rhich he says befell a young man amed Levington, a resident of Bal imorejJnjthat ^neighborhood, a few ays ago : On the 30th of July a young man y the name of Levington, from Bai imore, accompanied by an old hull er named Loughry, took his rifle and tarted out to hunt bears, which in ?st the neighborhood. When about, tiree miles from home they heard errible screams, wkioh were the cries f a. panther about to attack. In an ther moment the beast pounced upon oung Levington from his perch upon he upper limb of a tree, and both ell-to the ground. Loughry, when e saw them down, hit the PAuther ritti the but end of bia rifle on the lead, which knotted him off. Lev iigton immediately rose, when the 'east again attacked him, and Lough y coming to his assistance received blow watch felled him to the earth, ud he remained insensible for the emainder of the conflict between jevington and the wild beast. Th>y losed together, each seeking the leath of the other, Levington plying lim with a bowie-knife, and he try ng t#fear up his courageous antago list. Finally, by a tremendous ef? ort, Levington succeeded' in disen ?aging himself from the clutches of he wild beast, and immediately natches up his gun and shot; the" ?anther through the heart. The pan her made a spring at Levington, and vhen in mid-air fell dead to the earth, jevington received but few scratches .nd contusions. The panther measnr d nine feet and four inches ftom, the lose to the end of tjhe, \s?\, and was .s large a spe.?jiui?n as has been seen n tba country for many years. THE CAEPET-BAGGER.-The ad vance in intelligence made by t the legro voice at the South has its most ?otable illustration in their grawin ippreciation of the patriotism an ither meritorious qualities of the arpet-baggers. A colored Senator rt ^b.e ?exas Legislature, said to have brmerly been a slave of Governor raines, is among the latest to testify oncerning these gentry. In lah runge of truly Oriental imagery hough hardly parliamentary, " we lave taken them up," said he, " bob bled coat, tight pants, little gold leaded cane and all, and we have ed them long enough out of our iwn chicken-pie." From this it ap lears that the carpet-baggers have ilso offended against the demands of ashionable costume. But the Sena or goes on to heap up contumely ipon the interlopers whose appetite br metaphorical chicken-pie is so nsatiable. " These little fellows," he tdds, " are too small to plough, and oo weak to breed." Unfortunately, ,hey do riot increase by propagation, mt by immigration, and the case of he dispensers of chicken-pie is all he worse for these facts, cut aside rom the light which this throws rpon the estimation of the character )t carpet-baggers at home, it is, as ve have said, highly complimentary o the growing perspicacity of the ilaoks, who may in time have to de nse some measure for ridding them ielves of the nuisance. Ugy* The rising generation " ago" rap-11 dly. A mature specimen, eight years ] lld, was hunting around the polico 8ta- ' ion for a stray father the other night. 1 ' You Bee," he remarked, with filial exul-1 ation, " the guv'ner'a R little wild yet,. j mt he'll grow out of it I" i] Our Taies. Mr. Copeland, the correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce, writing from Columbia, under date j of the 17th instant says: . I bav? examined-into the system of taxation, and discovered the reason I why there has been so' much grum-1 bling about the rate. The fact is there has been a surprisingly large amount of corruption, both in the levy and collection of the taxes. I j was shown by one of your subscribers j who has been in business here and in ! Charleston for many years, a tax re- j ceipt in which the tax was legitimate-! ly in accordance with the levy, $28.50. ? The extra added swelled the amount ! to $41. He protested, and the tax I collector struck off the extras. This { was on a small piece of property. He ; nays he has seen bills calling for 40 cents and 50 cents, upon which the ! extras amounted to $2, $2 25 and I $2.50. These little collections are j generally made from the negroes and I poor whites, who do not know any 1 better than to pay them, but the tax gatherers are learning better than to affix perquisites to bills rendered to intelbgent men, because their game is beginning to be understood. As I said above, the citizens of South Car olina have always been aristocratic. Their aristocracy was of the landed order, and to encourage the owner ship of lands in large bodies the State did not tax them. The taxes on negroes, buildings, and on mer chants and professions, paid the debts af the State. When the war w s ended the negroes were free, the buildings burnt down, and nothing was left to tax but the lands, and jven they were worth much less than ;hey were before the war, for the reason that they were overgrown with shrubbery, cane, &c, during pears when their cultivation had been jeglected. The accounted average assessment value of all lands in South karolina before the war was fifty sight cents per acre. Now they are issessed ana taxes are collected at an iverage value of about five dollars Der acre. Many persons who had no noney when the war ended had their lomains sold for taxes. When the fact is considered that >nly from one-tenth to one-fourth of ?ach land-owner's possessions is cul ;ivated, (which, however, is a greater iverage than was worked before the var,) it is not wonderful that there thould be considerable reluctance or ?rumbling when the planters are ?ailed upon to pay taxes on the whole imount of land owned at a rate of lasessment frequently beyond the narket value. The result is that a jood portion of many of the large 'states is offered for sale. South karolina has not been developed to m extent that causes all her citizens ;o feel comfortable, or they would lot part with any portion of their ?states. Still they are doing remarka )ly well under the circumstances. E veiymair sunicfer bravely Trp-^tb- the .esponsibility of the State debt, with mt regard to the outrageous addi tions to it, and not one of them would ower his pride to breathe a whisper )f repudiatio : in any form. The taxes levied for this year are line mills on the dollar of assessed raine?, and the estimated total col ections at that rato will bc $1,200. K)0. Of this ?oOOfJOO will be re uiired Ui pay tho interest on the leht, heaving $600,000 for the sup iort _of the Stute government. .1 voulu advise gentlemen who are in erested in the financial affairs of South Carolina to preserve these state nents, as they ure well authenticated md trustworthy. WHERE SHALL REST BE FOUND ? Between Mv. Horace Greely and the eriiblo Ku Klux, the poor carpet bagger is in a pitable plight. One >f the wre ched creatures writes a piteous letter to the Tribune, from tome where way down South ni Dixie, mploring Mr. Greeley not to be so lard on people like him for fear of riving the Klan an excuse to " out 'age" them. At last these mischiev )us interlopers are beginning to get meir deserts. They are between the ipper ?nd nether mill-stone. Be hind them gleams the brandished ?word of Tewibutive justice, from tfh.iob.1, ir they escape, it is only to become objects of universal scorn, contempt and execration. PLAIN TALK ABOUT ROYALTY IN ENGLAND.-The London Baily News las this frank declaration in its edi ;orial column It is not of the cost of Royalty ?hat people complain, but of the cost )f Royalty in retreat. It is not that ;he people do not want Roy dty, but :hat they miss it and regret it. They want to see more of it, to feel its oresence as the presiding genius and nfltience over society, as the visible jmbodiment and supreme expression )f all that is grand and gracious, and lospitable and majestic in the h.story ind traditions of the State. They vant to see Imperial and Royal visi tors to this country received as guests n the Palace, not lodged as strangers n an hotel. There would never have irisen any question a6 to further de nand8 upon the country in respect of Drovision for members of the Royal Family by additional taxation, if the :ountry were persuaded that the Uivil List for many years past had Deen spent in fulfilling the ordinary )bligation8 of a Royal household and establishment. The English people fe not so me n as to pour into the oublie treasury the proceeds of the ?ereditary domain of the Monarchy, md then to ?xpect provision to be nade for the Royal Family out of an innual allowance granted to the Sov ?reign for life, and just sufficient for naintaining the dignity of the Crown. Perhaps the question of providing or an unknown quantity of future Princes and Princesses may require lome day or other to be dealt with in \ comprehensive and permanent man ier, especially in the event of re peated marriages out of the Royal inc. But that time has not yet ar-1 Y rived. I' -~-T- ?1 Two Missisippians recently fool-1 \ ably tried to persuade a mule in the ray ' ( ie should go. One leaves a large kmily. i The Ruts of Lile. Get out of them if yon wii live long. Men and women have recreation, must have ar ment, must have diversion, wholesome for the mind to I away from its daily vocation 01 ploy ment every night. The man goes from his counting-house o workshop at the close of the day, does not leave it behind him, bu: at the family table in moodi brooding overpast occurrences, w< ing probabilities, casting conjecti laying plans, and when the me over sits thinking, thinking, by hour, and goes to bed to toss tumble and worry, cannot live 1 the brain or the heart inust give \ In the Island of Cuba, the w; roads lead over hills made of li stone; the wheels have run i?. same track for generations and 1 so worn into the solid stone that hubs scrape the surface, and thei no getting out of the rut until bottom of the hill ?3 reached. Si the lives of many, tho mind, un the influence of worldly care, i;.ji run in a particular "?r..ck : in rr :ases, bte.occupation* ar? of such insufferable B?.nie:M,s5 from ouv ye ?nd to another thabits ircrlciwa ;omes mechanical, arni out 6/ iii ines they cannot work at all ; he ;he stupidity of such a large port )f the farming population oi :ountries; the peasants of Eng I a md Ireland, France and Genna md Russia as well. And our wives, in large towns a lities, sweep and dust and arran md wash and sew aud provide, me incessant round, summer a vinter. No wonder they grow tl md care-worn, and weak and ne: ms. Get out of the rutsfall of yo )ay a neighborly visit three nights i week, or for two afternoons lettht >e a " let up.'" Get out of the rat, reader, two hree hours a week, and there will io time lost by it in the long ru or it gives activity to the moral r ure ; it cultivates the affections ; rakes up observation ; it exercis omparison ; it gives breadth of vii n all subjeets; it makes a man mo aanly ; it maktis a woman more w a?nly.-Halls Journal of Health. Brevities and Levities. t&~ A lady teacher at Des Moin ailed a boy up and made him show he e kissed the big girls in the woodshe ifter he showed her, she punished him j laking him stay after school. He sai; e don't want to graduate for two yea et. " That man," said a wag, car o this city forty years ago, purchased' asket, and commenced gathering raf low much do you suppose he is wor low ?" We gave it up. " Nothing," : ontinued, after a pause, " and he ow or the basket." . SST A young female Fifteenth Amen, aent was recently expellccTfrom the v ige school at Oskosh, because she wou lot allow the pupils to use her face for backboard. 4Sf A Western comtemporary lonj o beconfi a flash of lightning, in ord hat it may utterly annihilate people wi peak of a cable dispatch as a " cabl ram. BSP A *' reliable gentleman" tells ho e picked up two dead water snak tillich had partially swallowed each otht iach snake had commenced swaliowir he other's tail, and they continued tl peration until their heads met. 3gf Don't it beat all how children wi ometimes ask questions wfiich even tl k'ispst is puzzled to answer. " Manu xclaiiued Charley. " How big was fhen you was a little giri ?'' t??f" K?chester is lull of guilty poopi )ne day last week one ot inc city papei nade sonic charges against an individu; ritho?t giving his name or residence. Ti mee of thc paper hus boon full of rrf ince then, asking-if anything was h inuuted K'.,ainsL them. t?r A recent corni n . r . Ve resemble the se! . iceni quire in thc foamy pew, sleken o?!. Washington Irving, who chuckled at se rig the eyes of his poorer parishioners ti ected toward him whenever the pareo poko of the difficulty of a rich ma entering thc Kingdom of Heaven: jScS"* " What arc you about, my dear? aid his grand-mother to a little Loy, wh vas idling about the room, and castin urtive glances at a gentleman who wa laying a visit. "I am trying, graml-ni: 0 steal papa's hat out of the room with mt letting^the gentleman see it, for pap .vants him to think he's out." S?f* An unreasonable and somewha nisanthropic acquaintance remarks tha ie has often heard the proverb, " A trien n need is a friend indeed," but he says h ian't see where the laugh comes in. H ias a friend in need who is always bor owing money of him. " You have considerable floatinj lopulation in this village, haven't you ?' isked a stranger of one of the citizems o : village on the Mississippi. " Well, yes ather," was the reply; "about half th 'ear the water is up to thc second storj rindow." SSS" Indianapolis has a merchant whe ias been''in business over fifty years anc lever advertised a line. His profits ave age about fifty cents a day. A Nashua gentleman said to ar ld lady who had brought up a family o! hildrcn near the river, " I should think ou would have lived in constant feai hat some of them would have got drown d." " Oh, no," responded the old lady, we only lost three or four that way." EQUALITY.-An old Scotch minis er on being asked to preach a ser t>nr in favor of equality, at a time of , --at excitement on that subject, said 't the close of a sermon, in substance ? follows : ' You asked me to preach a sermon .n equality. Since that time I have .anged in vision through the yegeta )le world ; I saw flowers ol'unequal ustre and perfume, trees of unequal leight and value, but then* was no ?quality there. 1 paeBcd to the animal kingdom, and saw the trained horses and the j fierce beasts of prey, the linnet and I the hawk, the sparrow and the eagle, . the sheep and the horse, each occu 3 pying a relative sphere. :- ID the sea were the molluse and . the whale, the dolphin and the shark, , the timid and the fierce, each proper I ly organized and doing its proper !a I bor, but I saw no equality. ; Lastly, I entered the gate of Heav en, and on a great throne sat the ! Judge of theLinverse; ch?rubin and seraphim fell before him, angels of 1 lesser degree did his bidding. I found seven heavens rising above each other, but no equality there. I gazed on the stars, and found " one star dif ferent from another star in glory ;" but there was no equality. So you . see that there is no equality in all God's vast kingdom. Grant's Desposta fiat OTC. What does Gen. Grant mean by his persis.entpersecution of the South? The right of self-government belongs tb those people, as it does to all wno ! ve under republican institutions, ? d no man of them can be judged by . law in the making of which be has had. no voice, lt is a divine a natural right, for nature has obliged ors.elf to give the powers of protec tion and preservation to every man to \rjiom she has given being. It is a -iiviuc right, for God himself pre sumes our responsibility to govern ourselves, and rhe right of self-gov ernment'is the foundation of all mor ai responsibility, both here and here titer. The inquiry has been suggested by r.he report of a conversation that was had in the " cottage by the sea," in reference to North Carolina. Just oeiere the recent election Grant was asked, " What would you have done ii North Carolina had not satisfied Republican anticipation?" And the answer was worthy of the despot that he is: " have the power under the Ku-Klux MU io have made for." Let him hold in remembrance that every despotism that attempts to des troy the forms ,of government, the spirit of liberty, and the institutions of a civilized people, must prepare to destroy the people at the samt time. As despotism can have no guarantee and safety in the mutila tion, only extermination can consum mate the work. Scotland understood it. When the Duke of Argyle went to see .Queen Elizabeth, said'she : " You have mur dered my provost marshal in Edin burgh." '. May it please your Ma jesty," he replied, " he was killed." "You have killed my provost marshal in Glasgow," said she. "No," said the Duke ; " he on i y cannot be found." '. You have killed two more of my provest marshals in the Highlands," said the Queen, with the terrible blasphemy that characterised her bitter conversation, " and I shall send my troops down to Scotland to make a hunting ground of your country."' " May it please your Majesty," re Tplied the-Duke, " juat bel?n4?nojjgl: - to let us know when you send them down, and we will have our hounds ready." Scotland by this determin i tion was saved from the tyranny that crushed out Ireland. Is it manly and noble in Gen. Grant to play the despot over an oppressed and down-trodden people? These Southern people have their constitu >ional rights, .-Tren if they have been rebellious.' He would not dare threat en such interference in the c-s? ot' rhe State of New York, and why .-hould he do it in the case of North Carolina, now supposed to be restored to all the constitutional rights belong ing to all the States? But the fact is, Grant cannot divest .. himself of the idea that the country is ro be ruled by military despotism. When Gen. Hancock, in command cf the Filth Military District, issued his famous order No. 40-in which ho told the peolc of that district : "Thc right of trial by jury, the habea* cor iius, thc libft-ty of the pre?, the free :om ol' speech, the natural rights of ns, and the rights of property must he preserved. Free institutions, vhile they ;<re essential to the happi ness and prosperity of a people, al ivays furnish thc strongest induce ments to peace and order"-by the friend! of constitutional liberty this order was hailed as a voice of resur rection. Bin from the day that Han cock issued that order Grant com menced a system of petty persecution ?igaiwst thisi one cf the noblest and most magnanimous soldiers of the war, revoking his orders, degrading him Irom his official rank, and placing him in subordination to juniors ina commission, which has not yet ceased. Grant cannot be anything but des potic-it is deeply graven in his na ture ; and his gross ignorance of? the spirit and form of our entire system ot government leads him into count less stupiM blunders.-N. Y. World. A CHINESE WILL.-A Chinaman died, leaving hisproperty to his three sons, as follows : To Fum-Hum, his eldest, one-half thereof; Nu-Pin, his second son, one-third ; and to Ding Bat, his youngest, one-ninth thereof. When the property was inventoried, it was found to consist of nothing more nor less than seventeen ele phants, and it puzzled these three heirs to decide how to divide the property according to the terms of the will without chopping up the sev enteen elephants, and thereby seri ously impairing their value. Final ly they applied to a wise neighbor, Sum-Punk, for advice. Sum-runk had an elephant of his own. ' He drove it into the yard with the sev enteen and said, " Now we will sup pose that your father has left ' these eighteen elephants. Fum-Hum take I your half and depart So Fum-Hum ! took his nine elephants and went his way. " Now, Nu-Pin," said the wise man, " take your third and git." So Nu-Pin took his elephants and trav eled. "Now, Ding-Bat," said the wise man, " take your ninth and be gone." So Ding-Bat took two ele ?hats and absquatulated. Then Sum-**. Punk took hw own elephant and drove home again. Query : Was the prop erty divided according to the will? Violin and Guitar Strings. . IF you wish une VIOLIN and GUI TAR STRINGS, ?o to j, G. L. PENN'S Drug Store.