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HAIR BR?SERS, COMBS, TOILET ARTICLES, ^.?...jjE^thiu^?.d/Surgeon's Sponges, Brandies, Wines and Whiskies for M?dicinal Purposes, PAINTS, OILS, TARNISHES, GLASS, PUTTY, , Paint, Varnish and White Wash' Brushes, FI LL SUPPLY OF ALL KiADS GARDEN SEEDS, Together with a general assortment of 0 GROCERIES, TOBACCO, LIQUORS, &c, Such as. .. BACON SIDES, HAMS, SHOULDERS, LARD, MACKEREL, FLOUR, MEAL, SALT, SUGARS, SYRUPS, MOLASSES, COFFEE, TEAS; RICE, CHEESE, MACCARONI, - CRACKERS?; Soda, Starch, Soaps, Candles, WINES, BRANDIES, WHISKIES, &c. Fine White Wine and Apple VINEGARS, . . Chewing and Smoking TOBACCO and SEGARS, Citron,.Currants, Raisins, Pickles, Jellies,'' >: Almonds, Pecan Nbts, Brazil Nuts, Walnuts, Buckets, Tubs, Brooms, &c, All of winch will be sold at the lowest rates for Cash. A share of the trade solicited. Dr.' Sanders will be on hand at all times to COMPOUND PRESCRIP TIONS at the shortest notice. . D. L. TURNER. Jan 28 I t? 6 NOTICE TO THE CITIZENS OF EDGEFIELD WEare receiving our SPRING and SUMMER GOODS, consisting of all the Novelties of the Season. * ? Oar Stock is much larger than usual, and never, more complete. Close buyers will save money by giving it an inspection. Also, full Hue of FURNISHING GOODS on hand. WHITMAN & BENSON, ?29 Broad Street, A'iigust?; Ga.k Opposite Masonic Hall. Augusta, Ga., April 2 '.. om 15 1 ?. J. fl?CrUl,". DHU?GIST, joffmro.vs DEPOT, S. C. ? ? HAVING just opened a Drug' Slore a* this place, I take this method of informing my friends and .the.public generally that I now have in Store a.full line of Drugs, Patent Meuieiues, Toilet Articles, Perfumery, >> ii -GLASS, PUTTY, KEROSENE OIL, . Tobacco. Segars,' In fact everything usually kept in a Drug Store,-all new and warranted genuine. .My prices are as l?w as such Goods can be sold in any market in the same quantity. ' T. J. TEAGUE. Johnston's J)epot, Fep 19 ly 1 . 9 MILLEU BISELL & B??RUM -AND Commission Meroli'ts 175 and 177:Broad Street, j Augusta, Ga. \f^E are pow hi receipt of ouc Fall Stock of GROCERIES, consist ing in part o?- :?i ^acon SIDES. Bacon SHOULDERS, Dry Salt.SIDES, ' SUGARS o'f all grades. ' . .. ' SYRUPS-New Orleans and New York Drips, - MOLASSE3, Rio, Laguvra and Java COFFEE, ' TOBACCO, SALT, PEPPER, SPICE, Crackers, Pickles. Cove Oystersk . " ; CANNED GOODS consisting of Peaches, Blackberries, Tomatoes, &c. MACKEREL in Barrels, half and quarter bbls. and Kits, . Seed WHEAT. Seed RYE, Seed OATS, Seed BARLEY; Case Liquors of BRANDY, WHISKEY, GIN,. ? Wt* are also offering the 'most complete and largest stock of BARRE. LIQUORS of any Honse in the City, and selling at prices that will indue buyers to purchase nearer home than in Eastern markets. To the Planters and Merchants of ridgefield we would -take this occasion to express our thanks for their past liberal patronage, arid respectfully re quest a continuance of the same. 3fe&*Boying our Good-for CASH, we are prepared to sell as low, and oft times lower, than any other House1 in the City. Augusta, Oct. 9 - i i iii- M ?. tf 42 . THE BROW? COSTON OU PLANTERS should examine the above-named old and reliable Gin before baying any other. It bombines tht? required qualitjea of Simplicity, Strength and DarablUt . Jt gins'last and clean, mikes excellant Hut (often bringing l-*e? to l-?c. per lb. above market.) and is universally admitted to be the lightest running gin made We have had thirty years' experience iii the business, and warrant every gin'perfect Gins constantly in the hands ol oUr agents, to which we invite inspection* 1 "Circulars,- with testimonials and full particulars, mav be had by addressing, ISRAEL F. illlOWN, l?re?ident, 17 Hrowii Oottart'f.in-Co., New London, Corni. ...Feb 2ff . IQ . NEW WHITE GOODS.* GTR?FFIV & COBB have just reeeivv edj a beautiful supply of WHITE tfOODS, vizi Jrhun and Striped Vitoria Lawns, bishops Lawn?, Soft finished C'amb*i?s, JtaU.Mus^us, V i . . t Plain and Striped Swiss ^nsl ins, Also, a handsome lot* <*f Hamburg Trimmings. J These Goods we have mark?dat very low pri?es. Jonell tf S . 26 THE Ci REA T CAUSE OK HUMAN MISERY, Just Published, in ? Scaled Envelope. Price six cents. A Lecture on the Nature, Treatment, and Radical Cure ol Seminal Weakness, or Spermatorrhoea, induced hy self abnae Involuntary Emissions, Impotency, ?ier vous Debility, and Impediments to.Mar riage ironeraily; Consumption^ Epilepsy and Eks ; Meiltal and Physical Incapaci ty, tte-By ROBT. J. C?LVERWELL,. Sf; D , author of the V Green Book," ?fee! The World-renowned author, in this admirable Lecture, clearly proves ftom his own experience that tho awfukcon sequences of Self-Abuse may bo effectu ally removed without medicine, and with buf dangerous surgical operations, ' bou gies, instruments, rings, or cordials, pointing out a modo of cure at once cer tairf ?nd eifectnal. by which every suf ferer, no matter what Iiis condition may bo, may ciire himself cheaply, privately and radically. This leeture 'wiri prove a boon to thousands and thousands. 8ent undor'seal, in a plain envelope, to any address, on receipt of six cents, or two postage stamps, bv addressing the pubhsbe*iv-j. , . ,jt Also, T)R CULVERWELL'S "frank ?tt?^uHle," price 50 cts. Address the Publishora, ... , .CUAS.5g.C. INLINE & CO., 12T Bowery, Sew York, Vost Office Box 4,580. THE OLD CONFEDERATE. His History in 1933. From the Mobile Register. . . x: i Gather near me, little children, ' Stand you close around -my knee, For. \hy voice is waxing feeble, ' And your forms I scarce can see. Brief the time ere I must leave you, . But,.before I'm called to go,, There IR something I would tell you, - And, I think, you'd Like to know. Close the shutters, draw the curtain, .See there are no guardsmen near, For the words I have for you. Most not reach the public ear,. .Make you sure the room is empty; ' For in times Like' these I own It would seem the walls have sound . nerves Centering to 'a Tyrant's throne. This old frame that braved unshaken, Showers of shot and showers of shell Calmly went throogh many a struggle Where its friends by thousands mil, Shakes and trembles like an aspen Kow, ('tis passing strange to me,) At the merest glimpse or mention Of a tyrant's gallows tree. So, my children, close the shutters, See no soldiers-iing?r near, Draw the -curtain, dim the' lamplight, . Then approach-and'?end &n ear, Marvel'not'at what I told you, For I tell of long ago ; Of when I was young, and see ure - Now,; my locks are white.as snow, r ix. .i i i . -.. . . . i - Long ago there dwelt a people Good and generous, brave and free, In ai land of peace and plenty Bordering on a Southern sea. Life with them was as a spring-time Where np shadows ever moved I They were Nature's favored children, Living In the land they loved. And there dwelt a kjndred people Next them, iurther from the sun, And the two had formed a compact To go through the world as one. Nature's seeming-palatial bounties That upon the Southland fell, ??. < .Kept alive*" Northern envy, - . Still the Union promised well. Tyrant-trampled millions viewed them | With a longing to be free, . , Calling fortli a world of hatred ' ', - From the thrones beyond the sea ; , . And ere long each.sail that glided . . Seaward from European piers, - Brought its freight of whispered mis chief, . . .-. - For that envious kindredls ears. And ere long that envious kindred, . Caught within the flowery snare, Met ijs friend with, persecutions, Wrongs and insults everywhere, Till tile virtue of forbearance . (teased to be a thing'pf worth, And a civil war resulted 'Twixt the Sections, South and North. J Thin me tyrant heads of Europe, That their systems might pre' Sided with their- dupes and-tlri-V Influence in the Northern sc i Tyrants' means were freely gi Tyrants' arms were in the li Tyrants' Heels were on the sei. . Warding off their friends of And the dreadful work that Followed in this. Southern 1 Could not be described in lai That your minds wo.Uld un . Countries robbed .mid cities piai Crimes of every kndwu degree, Traces broad where Northern vandals Burned their roads toward the sea. Homes of ease, and wealth, and beautj' Crumbled 'neath the victor'* tread, Helpless wives and children driven Shelterless to beg for bread; Shelterless to bega morsel, Lighted bv tbe.lvurniug glow Of their btorcs, that kita poopl.c Not a morsel to bestow. But I'll drop,(his theme, my children, For I've noted with surprise, " ; Something glittering through the dim ness Bright as diamonds in your eyes. Lives there still a feeling for us ! AM was that it ? Well, 'twas weak In me to have sent a tear-drop ' Tracing down my furrowed cheek. But the old Confederate soldier Couldn't help it,'ho must own, .For bis thoughts were carried back ward To those better days agone, When a wife upon his bosom, And a child with flaxen hair, And ? child with golden ringlets Robbed tho world of every care. Then his thoughts ran through the con flict, Up to where the end had come. And to where he left the prison For his loved ones and his home; And again he paw bis chimneys Standing grim, and in a row Three neglected graves werenear them, But Hwas very long ago ! tn. When the end had come, my children, When the South had ceased te be, When that proud and generous people Claimed no longer to oe free, Then the victors, flushed and maddened By the taste of gold and blood, Pounced upon the conquered region, Doing all that, victprs could. And while every thought was plunder, Whore t? plunder, when hind how, ' Qoiotfy tho country glided Into what you see it now, . The victorious chieftain marking Great Advantages it gave, . Taxed bis cunning till the victors Each Was made a Tyrant's slave. Well I mind me how they murmured When awakened to the Htate Of affair* that hung around them, * But the waking came too late. Every right their fathers gave them Now^'as-oancelled, now was gonn, - Leaving them-'to beg for favor,' . Kne??ng-round a .Tyrant's throne. ? ;.-!.,,j- .-j JV.* , . .... j You have road, my Httle children, Standing at your teacher's knee, How a great and bad rebellion Rose .along tho Southern sea. You have road" of how the natibn Rallied in the right, and now One good lunn led on the armies, Winning, lqnrel? for his, brow. You have read of how the traitors Fell 1)eneatJi hi? miahfcsHid yon;j| . . Too* have read bf how that conflict' Left this good man-much to do; How the war had lof$ the country Racked wiOKstrffes and vague alarms,-' And of how this man, to save it, Took it kindly iii hWarms. Naught in this I find for wonder, But 'twill be my dying pride To reflect that some are living . Who have hoard the other side. And the old mai? asks a favor Ere his form is stiff aud cold s, Won't you tell your little children What the old Confederate told* What a wondenful thing love is to a woman J Hpw it helps.her.to know that some one is always fond of her, and rejoices when she rejoices, and sorrows when she grieves ; to be sure that her-i'auUs, ^ve? loved, aqd that her face is fairer to one, at least, than faces that are more beautiful-t-Uht one great'heart holds her'sacred to its innermost recesses above all other women? She can do anything, suffer anything, thus upheld. She grows prettier under the sweet influences, brigbter, kinder, stronger and life seems but a foretaste of heaven, and all lie* dreams are golden* I ii ? _^sr " Vh?n a feller makes his ar,m around h ls. gal, und .she vas :liken' .dot poolylwe?l, dheh dot vas,Shkrfbtune,;on akround it wus. maken hairiness come on some waist Places, ain't it ?" [' " ." ~ Bill Aro ott the Stock Market. . .Tiaie honorable '.to Acknowledge that w?t?n I'writ some oji'.the ipr?go ing I was f right smart ipol.. I can look back and. see/tha^?, ain't, a prof fet.'. froffesy aintymy ??rth...Meand the preephers was,-. ?oth mistaken, We tnot .we .would whip tb& whole of the fite, -but. we oply ..whiped two thirds of it., ..We. whiped..it at the fust and in the middle, but they whiped i ua! at the .last. We. never counted-on nevin to fite all creashun in front -and. BHik Brown ? and Joe Stephens'& OoJ.'ki ? the ?? rea*. : It was a unfair contest. If I was a Yank I wouldn't -never 'menshun this war as long as I liv'd." I'd be ashamed to. "Old Xerxes, with his big army, Chip ed a few ! Spartans, but histry ain't gat no respect for him!' N?w^?don't want to 'hurt' f??lins:' Alfter'at?ah* has d?ne a me?ri thing arid bin ?bt?h at it, I ain't tte individual ta keep a; thrdwin it up to' him.'- If the Yanks are" ashamed of their kb?duct, Tm' willin to' drap . it'?nd make1 friends." The pure, breed' of Yankees -never was a favorite stock with me. When' .it's jewdishdusly crossed it' does very well, but even then. fie ',oM ' Yank wjU crop oiit ever ajnd anon and 'show ?tue.akrub. There is'as much' differ ence ki peeple as. there is. in, horses,, The pure Southerner is.blp?ded appels.. With him honor and fair dea?n and family, pride are bigger things .than money.,. The pure Yank is a philtljy. luker skrub. Money is^he big thing. Their chief, end of manato keepalL yon git, and git all you ean.. They like what other peepul Lave got bet ter than their.' own, and they go for it, and call it speoulatin. If they can't get it fast enuf? that way, they pass lawB in Congress that will get it by degrees. Through tarifs and "bounties and -appropriaflhuns' they got nearly all w? had -before 'the wary' and have stole ali - the balline since. They look upon us as fd?m?n worthy of their steal. When :?' Yank gits 1 rich and don't want any more/be gits sorter honest, ?nd'gives away sum to churches and colleges. Then he lays' down and dies, and has a white se pulker biltover him, arid goes ?Vut' nuntin for Abraham's bu'zzum'. A pure Southerner don't keer for 'a tb:ip, but a Yank - will git rich off of coppers. He will boy..nails at four dollars and 90 cents a. keg and retail .-..#it5 cents a pound: Ten cents ewi ke? is id . . fciir ; ~*St \P IUHU. 'iii, c?s .:. ..?<'...:. when hunten roan for money ld don't mind goin from Maine to Mis sissippi not mote than we mind goin to the post offis. He-insinuates him self into every land that's got any thing lie can -git. He's smart, and he's diligent, and he's never left by the train.-. These-is good qualities, and I wish our peepul had em. When a clever Yank cums dow? South and mixes with our foaks, he improves rapidly by contakt, .and if- he comes in his youth and stays long enuff and marries in a respectable family he is apt'to make a*good citizen. It helps' him and helps the family, -especially ?f its poor and* proud. This kind'of a cross generully does well ?nd brings good iroot. The off spring is apt to be lively and .nifty and have,the love of money, ?od the, love of honor so butifully mixed up you can't tell tother fru-m which. The only danger is that the Yank may. crop out occa sionally and produce sum .mortifica shun. A cross between. Massachu setts and South Carolina does very well now a days. . One is ohuck full of money, the other of honor-. . The money keeps the honor from perishin, which is a good thing, for if it ain't kept cumfortabl? its mklined .to de generate, and the stock runs into ekrub in two generashuns. . Honor, nor. nuthin else, ain't bumb proof agin the debasin influence of an emp ty 8tomak. If a race hoss ain't well kept his off spring will play out; and so when a fust family gits ?poor, the children bekum a sekond family, and BO on and so forth?--.0.0til you can't tell-em from common stock. . Now my opinyun is that a State or a Gruvernient ought to keep 'up its human stock. When a man looms up above the h'orizun as a great mah, he ought to-be penshuned and sup ported so that ne wouldn't havto think about munny. He -ort to be required to marry into another pen shuned family, and in this way keep up a family of brains to draw from for our Presidents and Guveners a?d law makers. They orVNto be paid enuf to keep em out of temtashun, and then we wouldn't hav no carpet bagers, nor MobUli?rs, nor Cleweses, nor pie iron Kelleys", nor lobbyin bills througn the house for pay. ? like to see a family of brains keepin up'the family reputashun for generashuns lo cum- I like the Adamses, and Brek enridTres, ' and Jjamars,. and . Bay rds,. and Prestons, and all sich, and I'm glad they wa? born rich. I want all great mell to be rich as long as they are good. Their influence spreads all over the country, and we can pinf, our children to em and spy, |J there's your mark, now shoot at it." As it is now, the struggle seems to be who ean git the richest, and don't matter how they git murmy: so- they git it, and ain't cotch a stealin of it. Sum times you see the worst sbrt of skrub stock blessed with au uncommon quantity of brains, and,then- you may look out. Yon mout a* well surrender, for they' are gain to hav ? slice of your property. ,If they can't! git it no o'her way they' will mri ;down an oflU or a railroad or a Michel estate,. otWease, or git up a war and sneak out of it,.or gita Guv e?neut.|Con;i:ak, or git amothin that pays without-work. A smart skrub ia a dangerous .animal-.- ?A/cow that horns-dowa the fence, ?or a hog that roots open the gate, .or a hose tbM Lets down, thq draw,bars,.-isa uusance and,cu38. They are. skwb,- A.pure Durham, or a Berkshire, or a Harney,, won't. do( it... , The.j ,old,,/fafiknnd fust., familie^ woUl^n^,'d?^.,;mean thjng. They .was ; above j it. They wouldn't .fi?se their >self-respek, I like them sort, espeshully if; they are richr-. I like to live in j their nabor hood.<; They have big ' ideas and big Ways; and look like foaks ort to look? ?hey'hojd their heads ujp'and 'look at ^?u strait when they.talk-to your'*' They don't ride*'rror walk like com mon foaks. ' I rafi ?el I '' one of ?'m a hundred yards.'' It takes all sorts bf foaks to make up a world, and Im glad that kind is in it. ^ I'm as poor as Lazzyr?a,''.but I ain'tfrqol enuf to hate rich toaks ;. I .'Jike em. If they are good st?ck I can pick up a rite, good liyin off pf what they throw' away. ,?ut.jif ;you think" you cab make anything, ? off,, pf a .rich, skr'ub, ieajfc try it. He donjt waste enuf to keep a houn ,dog Ironi. starvashum Poor foaks. are a rite ;giopd thing, in I the .country. In faktr.-ra.country W lObleeged to have em ito , keep rich foaks in munny. That& what i've, been doia?ll my life, tod if I.don't grumble at it nobody need'ent. Bein oor and keepursoi? my.forte, .but! aV-.h?d a rite good, time,--neverthe less'notwithstanding forij^da?y brings a'heap of trubble, -and$the children ge*t so orful tired a w.ai^n for the old man to die: Three score years and len must be a long time Jo foaks that's wai tin. .. i V And there's that he?aje's eye busi ness, and the long divi?iun, "and the quarr?fs of the lawlers over the estates. But after all Piifce.munny. I've" got nuthin agin-'it'?p fa'r'?'s I am .pgncerned. If ' ennybody eh?Ttld leave me enny.T should exsepfit1 ah? shed a' tear to his memory; '?The fakt is: I would lik? to'?f?e? 'the/feeling of a rich man tor a'little swale. May be it would stretch :me up ?jj?le. R?rs. Arp says I'm l^ettin bump shouldered.. I would Jike ito* be an elder in a church and giye 600 dollars a year to the preacher, andsbakq. hands with the Jbrethren and slaters at the vestyBule. T?at would, .be ejegaat.. I'm . obliged.fto.'think I'd like tha^ . .... , : .Well, after all, itf,don't- matter, much whether a man, je poor pr.rich. One man is about as ha$py as.another . if his .bart is in.his buzzum- andjnot in ?is pocket. If-hejdin't, wecaaft help it, and its no <-me to grumble about what you can't help...A-grumb lin man is a nusance.i |He is a skrub.' . 'BILL AEP,* Brevities and Levities. . ? . .. . A ft . . H. " ? ' "' r "**?atelyobservr - . .i?ii? -. ' The scrip, paswid-it ou ? label in the cash drawer. Josh Billings says-" Mackerel inhabit the sea generally ; but those which inhabit the grocery al was taste to me as though they had been fattened on salt. They want a deal of freshning be fore they're eatin', and also arterward. If I can have mackerel for breakfast, I cati generally make the other two meals of water." An Irishman went for the first time to a play. Just as the dr-p cur tain descended, after the lirstact, an en gine in thc basement exploded and the Celt was blown through thc roof, alight ing in the next square. His first re mark, after coming to his senses, va's, " And what the di vii do they play next?" .* ft ??i~ Green apples are now doing their favorito work-pains, frescoed with se vere griping, and grunting in- various notes. ?Sf A young man in Maine killed. himself because he couldn't haye two wives. Some men kiU themselves be cause they have *--ie. i< . _., .y&T- The wife of a Methodist minister in Tennessee ha? been seriously .iii for some time, but, says a Southern paper in announcing the fact, "hopes are en tertainod'tliat she will recover;" And then it adds "Let him (the husband) have the sympathy and prayers of hlJ bretheren in this hoar; of affliction ?nd discouragement." ^SB* A man called to see Mr. Greeley, at Memphis, and asked' him if, in his opinion, guano was good to put on pota toes Mr. Greeley paused a moment, and said, u It may do, my ?on, for thosewhose appetites are vitiated with rum and to bacco, but I like gravy the best." gas- A friend says : Going to Cape May the other day, we saw a man leaning over the railing of the upper deck, and .with violence giving to the winds the contents of his stomach. Just at this juncture one of the boat's officials walk ing briskly by, asked in a patronizing' mariner, "sick sir?" ""iou don't s'iip-1 puso I'm doing this f?r fun do you?" said the poor, fellow indignantly, as Soon as he could recover his breath. . ?Sr A deacon, residing within an hun dred miles of Americus, objected to tho organ purchased by his church, and 'when called upon to close tho sorvice with prayer said : " Call on the machine ! tr it can sing the glory of God it oan pray too. Call on tbo'machine !" /JSP"* A Southon* negro, knowing th? pro?lts of internal revenue officers, ex claimed, whon ho heard that Rothschild had ]eft a fortune of four' hundred mill ions, " Golly, he mast "had a good dee s:rick." :'' ' p?r " I wish y?ur reverence," said Curran ono day to rather O'Leary, " that you were St- Peter, and had tho keys of heaven, then you'd be able to lot mo in." "Ry my libnor and conscience," replied O'Leary, it would le bettor for you that I had tho keys of the other place, for then I could let yoi out." ;W In an editor al on the horse dis-' ease the CongregutonaUst suggested Unit it might bo well tu sit at the foot of a 'horse and learn humility. "Just so," says' tho 'Cali ibm ? News. Letter; "sit down at tlie hind f?et of aniiilo,' and if he don't huiniliateyou, pull his tail abd tickle the inside o? hi? legs with a stable, llbrk.r; ?V . .. j . .. . . ?: . fs&~ Old Dinah.our colored laundress,, : passed a just criticism on fashion when j ene day in a;gossiring mood she asked, " What do you tine o'.-dem panyas what . the ladies wonrs dtind.of lem."' "(1We think they are yejgr. ugly," we replied., ?"Reckon dey ;.??,}";,she exclaimed. ;?-Vyhyf?f .dein air things ?rowed dere, ?dey'dhave all tba doctors in Boston a cutting on .'em qS-et\t took a bar'l.of flo iric^n-tad^Jii";^ u- .it kh i ! Froin the Wilrningt?n .paily Journal, i Profits of Ku-kluviuV ia SoutU 'l 1 . ; Carolina Our South Carolinafriends seem-to' be dispos^d to grumble ait "the larg?? profits- tbitt; were 'ma"d#:'outv bf the I Ku-K*lux business in that^t?t?. j The 'ff?od 'forthne ' of ' ode ' Major .Lewis-'Me'rHlI of the TJnit?d States j Army is .'especially commented upon j and in a'; style 'thai 'doubtless seems ?.quite ungracious, to that much trustee), .servant, of the best government the world ever saw. Major, .Merrill did, in^ee? it seems, reap a ripii harvest' during, tys. occupation 0/ the Palmet ,to,State,. but our .friends there ought to remember that the. work he per :i formed was very dirty., work. Nor have they presented, both'sides of, ' Major. Merrili's .casewith tb.e.fullness that- truth.,and justice seem to de mand. ? .. . ..-" . .; . : We haye.y^ry. high authority, au thority that'even our South .Carolina friends themselves will npt attempt ' to controvert, for saying that-Major. Merrill and his command- did riot' constitute the worse federal grievance . inflioted upon our neighbors across the line. There have been meaner mendie South- Carolina 'than Merrill. vIt certainly canoot-ibe^ forgotten that-Mr.?Bayard declared upon the Hoof of 'the United States Senate that as an innocent marr he would prefer to run the gauntlet -of the bullets of Merrills cavalry rather than tate his chances in a trial' in the Federal Court presided over by His Honor' Judge Bond. .'. . ; ? ". ; Unless they can show that the 'dis tinguish?cV Senator was rherely ridi culing the accuracy ' of the aim 'of Merrill's men we beg our South Caro lina;'friends not. tb hold up the lucky Merrill'"as the worst'man in their state. ,' ''. . ' Major Merrill.will doubtless' thank ' .us for'bringing .to public attention one of the . feW kindly .words that have been spoken of him. ' 'Some people may think the SenaWs re-, mark was , at .best. only qualified praise. We dp not pretend to decide that question with the fear of Solici tor Cantwell before our .eyes. It is sufficient for.us. that Senator Bayard intimates that Merrili with, his caval: ry was preferable to Bond -with his Court, and as impartial-journalists, we give Merrill the benefit of. the doubt. Here is what the News and Cowier has to say on the subject : No wonder that Major Lewis Mer rill, of the United States Army, in : >0!i .J ?r the counties trader mar . ' igabu f?i hunting * ..Klux- }<o V.- that"! ?CurKioxpU: How mucli did n, ? Major'Merrill $9,400 for" fcrtywVu convictions, $8,000 for the arrest of forty persons who' became witnesses for the prosecution, ana $4,000 for twenty, persons Wno, were indicted," but are not yet convicted. Total $21,40.0. Is it not evident that ar resting Ku-Klux at. $200 a head is a highly profitable,businessj ^specially for a person who draws,. Resides, his full pay and allowances as. an officer in the army of the United States? The General Assembly appropria ted $35,000 for the. payment, of the? rewards offered- by Governor;.Scott for the apprehension and conviction of persons engaged in the-Ku-Klux conspiracy. 1 Major Lewis Merrill. United' States Army, gobbles $21, ,400, and the arbitrators pay . them selves $2,500 for their trouble. ,The remainder eoes ?ri this wise : Thomas M. Wilkes,~$7,000, H. H.- D. Byron. $1,200, James Canton, $1,200, W. H. Brown, $1,600: ?Grand total, $34, 900. Balance Uft1 in the treasury, formanners, $100. Poor treasury* It is- now sahl that the appropria tion under which these payments rt ere made was not passed by a two thirds vote, and i?, therefore, void and of nd effect. The money is gone^ and cannot be recovered, but what were the ?ov?rnor and the Attorney General doing that they did .riot de tect this important irr?^?larity ? "Gdv-. ernor Moses knows all about the pas sage of bills, and what forms are re quired to be complied with' to make them binding. It is somewhat strange that he did pot remember that an ap propriation of money, by acclama tion, is absolutely null.. Perhaps slimebody can prove thai.jibe Ku Klux appropriation, was properly made ; ni .which case the .people will have the consolation, of knowing that they have been, robbed.by law, under th.e,forms .prescribed by the Consti tution. . . A Strange" Growth, . A phenomenon. worthy, of the at tention of the scientific, world has been brought to light in, Wilmington, N.C. .. . ; . "iv, . It appears that in January, 1803, a gentleman from another ?tate died in Wilmington while in the perform er, ?e of some duty connected with the army, and was buried in Oakdale Cemetery. The body was placed in a ooffin, and the coffin put in.ia box, the space between the two being filled with charcoal. On Tqesday, the 24th, the friends of the deoeased gentle man made application for the remo val of the remains, and the superin tendent proceeded to comply' with their request. After digging down to the box it was discovered' that it as well as the coffin had- completely decayed and was crumbling to dust. On the removal of the crumbling lids of tire-box ' and coffin the super 1 intendent fef?rid a; thick mass of gray ;moss, apparently 'alive'arid growing, which covered the entire body-as with-*a'winding sheet," and it had matted and grown so.'thiclf that'itwt?1 removed from ' the remain? ih a roll. A new Hoi had beerii procured'- into which the remains were'?lace/d,''""dM[ then the moss was' returned''to" it??" original position. '. ' ,;. 'y : OMI .pcJ-^ia umumU* '.-. '''.; ' ?.? ?&* Kew Jersey servant girla Lire by tlie month. , These who. "have beaux/': get eight dollars, and those , who luiven^ get twelve. ; Qnly ,ono in, "flye ; hundred, gets twelve, uuoirjoswj jtulqiAyiaDlii . .Dexter'**,Destined Rival. . ' fHopkirjsviU? Gonservativo^l?th.] "i? .* Some wee?s sinfcewe'yhotiic?d the sale by' Messrs. "Bry?ri'?? ?? Baker o? .their* trotting horse, ""Dixie," at :'$r,tK3? rash." ' As Dixie bad'b-'?nus?d and known np 'to1 that time' only as'a saddle Horse,''haying only been han. died by a trainer jfor a-bout w?eia previously, some' seemed.'.to doubt the ''correctness, of ? the statement,. ,By , way of. showiiig.that .Dixie- \vas not overestimated, 'we will .state, .that, we havei? from rf liable authority that I the .present. owner, of. ??xie?,,has, de clined ap offer of ten-thousand/-.doh ,'lara, for hi tu, and furthermoredecl.area that twenty-five thousand --would be (no inducement for the young,prodigy. Dixie can. already trot his-mile in.two minutes-and twenty-five seconds, and. after thorough.-training.Dexter .may look to his .laurels. Dexter a best time ia^'lT}, showing, aidifference -of 7i seconds only; whereas, -Dexter"was well matured, properly and thorough ly trained, whil? ?Rxie i's-young; un accustomed to'the turf; a-rrd?bas-been' ander training for about five or six weeks." Dixie has as yet"'made '"tu? race, from the fact; no doubt, that, should he enter the ring'of green and uhtri'?d'horses' at Nashville, he Could win at most only, a jirrrse of about' $1? 0, and'then,' having made a rebord, he 'would be excluded from'the '"greeta ring" in the'"Fall'races' of tafe East^ where the* purses do not stop at hun dreds. Whatever Dixie may oe known to have "accomplished, he can not, un der the turf rules, ,be.excluded from the jgreen ring, or t-he ring of untried horses, until he has at.-first made a race, and it has been recorded qn the turf register. Ijf we ? are correctly informed, only 20 horses in the whole country have trotted their mile u.pr der 2:23, and half of those, yt exe the Rysdjk Hamiltonian ,family, from which.we claim that our Dixie has descended-i. e., Pixie's .dam was by a Canadian horse raised in Bourbon, and brought by N, E. Mitchison to. Caldwell; Dixie s gravid dam was of the Philip and Romul us . stock, and Romulus was said, to naye come from the Hamiltonians. - ,, l7 Colored Dresses. The Scientific American says : It is not often that. we find scientific item's" ol 'any especial degr?e of in terest'tb the members of the fair sex who may, perchance;"glance over our pages 'i but now* we believe' we have got one. which is' simply absorbing. Probably, Madame or Miss, you are the pos8esser of. a summer r\r*ao ^.?? | fro.ii some -.vi...'c tiiaph?? >us ???.>'. ! . ai: .utd'' tun; .'..suIK; i;.' ? .?oi-? modern engineer ?? .^ruish no parallel. Now, a.learned German .professor, has.invented a plan whereby your single white-,dress may, be changed as. often as you desire to Any, color you may fancy, and. this ...in .your own laundry, so that hearafter,the mopey, which you .would, devote to .severn)., robes,of .varying Jmes may be entire- ? ly saved.while-you.may appear daily, if. you -chooser->in toilets of totally different complexion. The process is Very simple-,? ?and -?on3its -in merely coloring tbe-starch used in the "do ing* up." Suppose a white dress-is to bei; tinted ? beautiful crimson : Three parts of fuchsin, an asaline color which any chemist can readily" procure- for you, are dissolved in twenty parts of glycerine, and mixed in.a mortar with a little water. Then ordinary starch; finely.pulverized,-is stirred "in, ami the thick- mass ob tained is poured out and dried on blotting paper. The powder thus obtained ? is "used just the same as common ataroh, and so applied to the fabric. When the latter is -dry it. is. slightly sprinkled and pressed- with a moderately warm iron. By means of other coloring materials, mixed as above described, any desired tint may be obtained. We should counsel, however; on avoidance' of damp lo^ entities, and. strongly deprecate.going out iii! the rain, as we doubt the " fastness" ot the .-dye and would not be at. lill surprised to -bebol i th* gar ment hort-ly assume a rather streaked and /.ebra-like appearance. A Divorce Romance Some, twenty years since, says.the Cincinnnti . 2'vmes, the daughter of ?it that time-oue of our wealt? y. merchants, was . married . under th-! most fl?ittejiug auspices. It was not, however, veiy long before, the. pair discovered that there was not any thing congenial between them, and, after living together some nine years, and having three children, they by inutuaL-agreement were divorced, the children remaining- with the father, the mother being- permitted to see them at her own. convenience. The wifo went home tc her father, who shortly afterwards died-helplessly bankrupt. The woman, who, previ ously the-child of luxury and' the wife" of opulenoe, had never known' what'it was'to ward? fora single thing, suddenly found herself thrown'out' upon the world, and forced ko seek a livelihood as best she could. At first she undertook sewing for shops,'then attending stores, and finally keeping a vei/ plain.' boarding house, in none of winch did she succeed. One day, when almost 'driven to despair, she mustered 'np' courage and went to her former home and asked the one who had'succeeded her as the/ mistress of the house'ii she would not befriend her,, even, ever so little, as she was qp, the point of .'starv.atiojo, as, her. wan. and haggard .condition too plainly showed-.,-Women's ears. and. hearts are'.ever open to .the sufferings of their more!unfortunate,?ello.w .beings. The lunforfeunata woman ,,waa inyited. to remain until the husband returnedi: which sh? reluctantly did, and when ?he came it was th'dWtfgh'ly discussed. It waa mutually"' agreed for wife No. I to remain '^'nif'm?fte her home?n,' the fiotise oY?r \Y.hibn ahechad W ruled a?j' mispress!, And' there sh'? is( i'o?n'd jo-j ' seemingly satisfied wi th. i,the cfiangej 'arid apparently not ear- , j ing-that'the love that Wa8 once pied gr. ?fljP&olemnly before to;hen?,oneis now ? bestowed upon another?. " The Spirit of tire'SWh." ?' ul; ? + -, liK.vcht . ?*\t??&, ?di?pr.s of ?ie'Bte?m^ ?dver Will you"permit a few words on the subject of your article entitled " The Spirit pf the South," and the series bf extracts from' Richmond newspapers? Three month's* passed' in .the South1 during this winter and sprang entitle me to speak with some coiifidence of the situation ihere, and I may add that, my owryibservatioxis and opinions Have been .snared and Confirmed by hundreds of '^brAigatful 'people.from the North', out, of the twenty-five thousand who have'visit ed Florida and -the-South this last winter. 'Theee'?'pereonB/' intelligent men: and women-from' all parts of odr conntry, haVe'b?en lirge?y Repubri-7 cans in' politics, anxious for'the edu cation'and elevation of the'colored* people",1 and'tndist tenacious of what are cilied the'result?'' of the1 wat.' :I do not care to offer.your readers any' South-side views 'Or " copperhead" comments, uor eyen th?pohtic?l fault findings of "tljie Democracy. I would have 'this gesti?n understood at the North as it has .been seeti by Repub licans-and Republicans only. .'It is a tedious matter' to discuss the measures adopted for the recon struction of the South,'.br to apppr-., tion the blame upon .ex-President Johnson or, the .Southepi;?the failure to adopt the wise recommendations of Governor.-:Andrew s fare'fell^ad dress. Whatsoever the cause of . the muddle which now . exists the . result is simply horrible* In. our desire to. proteot the colored people from a real, or supposed hostility of their.formal mas tena we .have given - the suffrage] to them all-most' of them hopeless-, ly jgnoranti; we. have organized th?m into pol:neal leagues; elevated them infcopositions of high trust, forwhich they "are deplorably unsuited ;* and then handed them over intheir help lessness to th?! 'mdst'eofrnpt and' in competent seVof shysters, called' car* pet-baggers.from-the North, of which it is possible to conceive. ' I have yet to lea.ro. ' of a'slngle mah who has gone from the North to better his po litical, fortunes (who is "bn the make," J as tjhey themselves, tell you,) whp has any real, earne^. .desire to he p the cclore.d people or. .the community, in which.he.lives. . Oneof these carpet bag politician?; '*. ' -5^? v^?\ \ . at' , .. -. ; r>v. - ' rA?i tion ai tho Soui?, v,*i?> ?-. I.- -riil kept alivi by i carel ?* .. li ;^ffsd*use il the patronage and "political, innuence at Washington. We haye 'organized society at' the South, upside down. .Ignorance ?nd crime override intelli gence and decency. The great edu cational, financial, commercial^.char itable and, political interests of the States are'entrusted to our common' field hands' pf 'the South and unprin cipled adventurers. from the North ! Can., you wonder fchatthese people de S?J e to free themselves of this tyran-: ny and corruption ?. Such, a stateof things is contrary to nature, God'a laws, and all the teachings . and the wisdom of mankind. Such govern ments are tie most grotesque traves ties'; .they command - no respect from black or white ; they are a scandaL and disgrace to them and to us. And does it help us- of-the'North in any way, to h?ve a hot of m<'U; the natur al product of this condition of things, sent into the halla bf Congress to leg islate for us, there to become the tools of bad men, and ready to com bin?'with vicious' elements from the North and West ? It c?rtainly is of some consequence' to tis that'the tweuty-four senators1 and' eighty -or more representatives .from theJ^OUth should be clean and intelligent men. We canpave them reasonably so if we desire ; but not by sustaining the present state of things. " . .It may seem singular that the col ored man should go; as he invariably does, to the native whites for- advice in'the care of his family, his money, and all his temporal coucerns, except his politics.- He wont vote with the white man because, liketh?: Indian, he 'worships the gre?t father at Wash ington,'?'nd minds the orders of his, political league; "Gradually and sute-' lyvth^se oppressed people are finding out, amidst ttieir weary''search for tr J.kfriends, that the politicians who1 have settled ?mortg\'?heni "oh the make" are not the... wisest and best of guides...!. There, is no hostility-rat least the writer has never, seen any-r. between the former masters and their forrner-slave& The blacks go to these, men-foe advice ; jtbey fi even* in many instances, support their >oldvm*8ter8 or -mistresses whouhave been stripped bf tlr?ir al 1 by -the war. I know -fchut the leading-gentlemen of Charleston-, old and young, ?re-studying the prob lems-of race and government with Ah earnest desire for the welfare of its blacks. They feel that their own prosperity, for weal^ or woe, is indis-' so?ubly bouud up with that of the colored race,, and the race, must be educated and ^rained.tp citizenship. The general satisfaction, witt the eoV ored police of ..Charleston, and11 the, favorable comm?ntsfrom old residents, are a proof that ..the whites are .will ing and anxious to have the colored people do whatever they can do well. To make judges,,adjutant aDd .mar; jor'-generals, State and congressional, legislators of them in their .present ignorance, and ' in .league wi"* had; wji^es'fji-bfnithe, .N,orjjhvis, simply?j, d?ci?tg society apd^gpyernipep^^. chaos,?and creatinft,..a.state.pf .things, whi?hi augurs-ao, gpod,fcij. the..colored-, rac ' ? . ' .. 'A distinguis^ed.Northern Republik, can tnW^e .thajt.'he .could not ppssj;. mu wm? m tiy^f?t? ??, public mcDils-and. Wpublic welfare with,this deluge. of:: ignorance, and corruption let loose ..upon us.by the measures ^fjeionstructionfie thougnt erny g^P^^W-,^^^^^?1 1865 had been 'a, terrible'. bl?ncier, from' *kch t^re'; wemed;no;'A^Jg ? wouldbe,easy 'to quote^ higli political - jtand^nilitary &thoji;y_i^^??i'rt of ' ; theseVatemeni**; ami raany-i;.iiuen ktial business men Hnd capitalists, and persona: irrteiieete<L.in phi?anthitjptc ^nlStwents'/ ?iVd Jtudenta *f ^ocial 'problems, Ha^eJ^turaed to "-their-: homesfrom th?r?^uth?ft? visit de-' tarja: ti ed to do something ip enlighten, the public aa to the outrageous statt of things in 'the South. And wha'1 shall be the r?medy ? It is diilicralt to/sayjif.but one^.tji&g* can be;. done, and that is "create "a.public sentiment' which shall enable tlje 3g?|feern States to rid themselves of their pres-' ent political ^rulers, white andTbfack; and secondly, .- w.thhold ;all govern ment' and political patrouagerrfroijg men known tb fcfe1 connected with the riuga". in the South ; and w.c ?an ' [safely leave the rest to'time. , - f! ., . A.J:c.s." . ^he%n and U?B Sinicrsi . Tl?-comptrr?^ ^???? ?ftT0 seven millions of ipouth Carolina bohda are^n the umreet; without au thority .of law;. If these bouda aie fraudulent, the m^n-who signed, seal ed and,issued them are - guilty' bf a felony."".. ' - If they' ?vere' issued without ail-? . thority of law! then ?ie men who is-, sued them in the name ot the State ? were guilty of malfeasance in office. -. Tho comjitroiler reporte'that aJ^ree amount ot b?nds; r?ti?iveiiin exdmthge . for conversion bonds;-^nd' thus re-'' deemed and paid",7,inBffftd of being cancelled were.again issued sold or hypothecated. If. this ie true, a p'?paore fraud was committed. No error of judgV ment could he^pleaded in . mitigation of such an;a?t. . " . ; 'r'he attorney-general does not IM?-;' tate to JD]ead the fraudulent character of some-pf, tue bonds as a reasor^why., a mandamus should not-issue ug.unsfc.. hie client the comptroller. I If he be-. Heyes this why :Srdoes he not'proceed to prosecute those who committed the ' fraud and" who were, guilty^ of stich an enormous malfeasance'in bmc?. " Th? men, responsible for the..ies?T; 1 ance of these bonds are nofcunknown.'. We. do nott believe that a bondi.waa ; placed on the market without ther knowledge and .consent of the'finan cial board. Certainly we never heard of a protest against them ?until just before the election. . If the State expect" fo be able to make a compromise with the holders of these so-called r-fraudulent "bonds/ . th? prose of tk? nd' -n ,!?.{. of tUcr crtmf *?; ' J. :. -. >m?{ cneii?' .: ... .y . . to .. I To ;t tho !:?...*... - ?1 siltier VTlt?? ': -'.v:.i nor th 'o.:. j>? ?\0 f?.-.Mr pir?::.i' - : ?,f; ;,;-,yr. j?-fae . non-Ii-jir "- . .. . iT.-^i ' hoad6., i-.. . . ., . ?. .?itc&i -.'.'!'. . cd\h\!r?Sl^;w - ;:i.:.;rahon can gain ' " ..' .~'o?' MgiiUng the bondholders while; pro-' tecting those who put off the bogus bonds. No one will believe that it hates the sin while it shows its love for the sinners. Of the conversion bonds, issued without. authority of law according-to the attorney-g?n?ral and the comptroller, no one could have been sold .or hypothecated with out the signatures of the governor, and treasurer and the seal of the sec retary of State. We have frequently been assured that a written opinion, asserting the lawfulness of the act \yas secured in everv case from the1 attorney-general. Now, R. K. Scott ' bas pot -fled the State. Niles G. Par ker may be seen any fine day in front ot hrs elegant new hall. The portly form of F. L. Gardozo, no w graces - the treasurer's office. And the at torney-general krrtxws tbe wherea bouts of-his own l^w-p?iJ???f}, D; H. Chamberlain.-Beaufort Rcpubli(%/n.. 1 Pure Heart. Apure heart isa blessing above all- price. It gives tone, harmony, and beauty to life that nothing else ?an give. And then it brings a. man - into such commuuiou with Gbdand divine things,, as to make them pres ent with him. -Blessed are the . pure in heart, for they shall see God, says Jesus. ' A'pure heart rather- than' a strong intellect, is the faculty through which we apprehend the spiritual truth's. It apprehends by sympathy rather than by logical movement-lt.. feels the truth as the seeds feel the dew' and sunlight, or the mercury feels the cold and heat, rather than reasons itself .into "it." It knows .?tf/ h?b?n the light.bf'sol?t?bn but'in the feeling of. oneness and affinity with it. . ! ? pure heart is a good pilot. It keeps a,man out of all mischief, and so out of all inward .misery and re morse, tl It steers him clear of . break ers and re?is, and gives steadiness and poetry to all his motions. It puts beautiful pictures in tho oyes, and so-makes'^the outward wond a ; delight andglory<- Ifor.tothe puie, all things are pure. It exhales its own fragrance through every fnuc jaori, and so makes the whole man redolent of grace as well as muscular strength. It chases all fear out of a man, and makes him bold, , brave, true. It is calm and poised m great trust, for it'"sees," and therefore has knowledge. It is a law to itself and a light to itself. It is the joy of all blessing,' for perfect purity is perfect life, and perfect life is perfect peace. First pure, then peaceable. It Keeps a man from, collision with,.conscience, Christ,., and God,- and^ma?esnia.;life.?.. a part of tho rytbm of the universe, ? a full note in the hymn of the angels. FRENCH'S NEW HOTEL, Cor. Cortiaitdt and New Church' Stn., j ON THE EUROPEAN PLAN^;.,^ ft I C, H ARD P. FRENCH,^" ?'dn of'the late Coi!''RICHARD F?EKcr?. bf French's Hote?.lias taten this Hotel''1 newly fitted up and', entirely renovated Hbo sa*?Q,,, Centrally located in th j-BUT*. S7N?SS .^AnT?f tKe City. r . .. ? ^^'La?dies'^??'Genti?m'eri's Rooms attached. fTfT is.neoessary tobare the best VTN? *" ve. jost . j can W 4?fprcES !?NiN:-d! June 18? ti i..'. X G AR O, L. Pena A Son H have just . received 2^ Rbis, of im V^RY BESE VOTEGAR, whic4'>h^cafl^i?rnjiV Call >a?l' tfyliti Als^j-^PPC?S^o?- ali kinds* . :'f,. Q. IA PENN: tt8DN^.