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Vol. VL WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 26, 1870. No. 43. THE HERALD IS PUBLISHED EVEI.Y WEDNESDAY MORNING, At Newberry C. H., By Th F. & R, H. GPrenekeP, Editors and Proprie:ors. Invariably in Advance. i^? Ti. paper is stopped at the expiration of mi: for whicfi it is paid. '7 T'h :I mark denotes expiration of sub criittinu. INDIAN SUMMER. de~t :der: :> death of the flowers, And beore they are buried in snow, Thcr" ctiws a festival season, \;l', nature is all aglow Aow with a mystical splendor That rivals the brightness of Spring Aglow nith a beauty more tender Than aught which fair sunincr could bring. tyme siri ::k'in to the rainbow Th.:n borrows its magical dyes, And iantles t'Ce tr-spre-ading landscpe In hues that bewilder the eyes. The sui Ironi his cloud-pillowed chamber Smiles soft on a vision so gay, And dreams that his favorite cbildren, The ilowers, have not yet passed away. 'I'c"ru', a luninous mist on the mountains, A light, tz:ure haze in the air, As if a:cls, while heavenward soaring, I;td left their bright robes floating there; The hreeze is so soft, so caressing, It sveens a mute token of love, Ani "!m to the heart like a blessing, Lrom =o:ui happy spirit above. Thee d:tys so serene and so charming, Awaken a dreamy delight A trertnIou, tearful enjoyment. Like soft strains of music at night We k:nw they're fading and fleeting, That quicklv, too quickly they'U end, And we watch thern with a yearning affec tiuon, As at parting we watch a dear friend. Oh ! h^autiful Indian Summer ! Thou iavorite child of the year, Thou darling, whom nature enriches, Withl gifts and adornments so dear ! How fain would we woo thee to linger On mountain and meadow awhile, For ot:r !:earts, like the sweet haunts of Nature, Iejoice a:.d grow young in thy smile. Not alone to the sad fields of autumn Dost thou a lost brightness restore, R:t thou bringest a world-weary spirit S-.eet dreams of its childhood once more; Thy loveliness tills us with memories if all that was brightest apid best Thy peace and serenity offer. A foretaste of heavenly rest. TH E TWO PATHS. "Come George-just a drop a', patrting. Heaven only knows when we may meet again. You are to settle among the hills of Berkshire in the West,and I amid the vales of Middlesex, in the lEast. Just a glass to our success." "No. Matcolmn ; if I would ac cept aL true pledgc of success I must not find it in the wine eup. I hold the cup as a signal of fatil They were young men;* both of the:a--just admnitted to the bar, and ready to enter upon the prae tice of their* profession. And on this bright, crisp au tu~mnnal afternoon George and Mal colm were to sep)arate. They had selected their fields of labor, and were prepared to enter upon the work. --Pooh !" cried Malcolm, in re sponse to his friend's last remark, there's promise in bright wine if one kno,ws how to use it. Come an<i take a parting glass with me." "No, Maleomn-youi must not ask me. Were I to take the cup to my lis I should feair it as I l.nght featr a viper taken to my bosom." D4o you mean to say that you ar going to be a teetotaler ?" Unon that course I am re sol)e and i: let the future decide bet enu! -'An shortly after this they part cd. Maleolm Carling~ removedI to Mi-i 'cx county, where he very s)on taned fo,r himnselt a host of *friendls and anm extensive pracetice. Hiis intelleet wvas brilliant ; his wit was ready anid caustie ; his humor *was rieh~anid exuberant, and his fl~ow of ianguage was from a fount iftthou-:ht and imagery that never fald His path seemed a pleasant One indeed. Only flowers of rarest kolorsnd most exquisite fragrance hed ed it, while sweet music kept time to the dropping of the glit - eringt sands in the glass. it was the pathl he had chosen from the fist Its goal was the highest possible nlane of the social life, and the presi'ding genius was the Spirit of the wine cup. He reached the goal erc he knew Sit. An the joys of life he hatd chosen had be~en tasted cre he reached his pr*ime. A brief space, and the flowers began to wither; the thi~orns protrud(ed, bare antd sharp ; the sweet music grew f..nter..sdiscordant notes crept in to maru and break the harmony; and thle sands of thle glass-drp ping drppig, dropping-had lost their glitter, and now fell darkly- and1 solemnly into the back flowinig tide of the time that was lost. George Nixon Briggs establish edi himself in Berkshire, and puar -sued his wri h ahh a bse.All that he was he owed to his own endeavors5; and all that he could hope for- in the future mfust come through the same chan nel. At thle age of thirteen he !i. iii",: a-..cz,t ..1 to a hatter, at White Creek. New York, where he remained two years. At the age of fifteen his brother had taken him from the hatter's shop and sent him to an academy. In one year thereafter, his brother had died, from which time he bad been left to steer his own bark, and se lect his own chart. True to the loftier instincts of his nature, he had selected the path of honor and mural duty, feeling assured that if he sought first" the kingdom of God and His righteousness, all other things would be given unto him. He was a social man-pre-eminently so-and a more genial companion never blessed the social circle; but be did not prostitute the higher nature to the allurements of the festive board; nor did be allow himself to be deceived by the false glitter of the bacchanalian tinsel. le lived true to the pledge whieb he had taken in his early man hood-the pledge of total absti nence from intoxicating liquors and the longer he lived the more reason had he to bless God for the choice he had made. At the age of thirty he was elected to Congress from the Berk shire district, and in that capacity he was retained during six succes sive terns,declining furtherservice in that direction upon being nom inated to the office of Governor. At the age of forty-seven he was elected Governor of Massachu setts, to which office he was an nually re-elected from 1843 to 1851. It was a cold, bleak day in March. Governor Briggs had just descend ed from his room in the State House, and was leaning against the railing which guards the stat ue of Washington, in conversation with a friend, when a page ap proached and handed him a note. le broke the seal and read. It was from the Mayor of the city, informing him that a man had been picked up in the gutter dur ing the night by the watch, and was now pronounced to be dying of delirium tremens. "He says," wrote the Mayor, "that he knew you once-that you were his friend and schoolmate. He will not give his name. If you would like to see him, come soon." The Governor hastened down to the City Building, and with Dr. Smith, the city physician, h' went down into the policestation, where the poor waif lay. Alas! he would never have re cognized in that wasted, shattered wreck of humanity the friend of his youth; but so it was. 0 ! what a sad, sad sight! "Has he any consciousness left ?" the Governor asked. "IIe has had one or two lucid spells; but the delirium has about spent itself. iIe can rave no more." At this moment the sufferer tarted, and opened his eyes-dark, avernous eyes, bleared and ghast y, but with a gleam of' intelligence n their sunken depths. "Who spoke ?" lhe demanded, in a hollow, whispered tone. "Malcolm, it was I. Don't you know me ? "The poor man straggled to aise himself, and the attendants elped him; and when he had yeen lifted to a sitting posture, ith pillows at his back, he looked up. "I know the voice," he said. "Aud don't you know the face ? Look at me, 3Malcolm." A little time, and something ike a smile broke over the worn nd haggard face. "Geor'gec! is it v'ou?" "Yes, M1alcolm.~ I am your old choolfcllowi. You surely rememn er' me now." Malcolm Carling grasped the and of' his friend and gazed upl nto his face. Another faint smile rept in upon his scarredl and tor ured features, but it quickly faded war, and something like a pearl listened upon the drooping tash s. "Malcolm, what can I do for "Nothing-nothing, George. I m past help. I chose my own ath and I have traveled in it nd here I am. But you-you. h! why should I murmier? You hose the better path, George nd there you are. You, Gover or of Massachusetts; and I-I-" The voice choked, the .features ere convulsed; a moment so, and hen the eyes were opened, the mile flitted back, and he murmur d, as his head sank, "&ic transit He had reached the end of the eary way, and another wreck pon the terrible reef' which a per icious appetite has reared amid he waters of life. Governor Briggs told me the tory of Malcolm Carling as we at together upon the platform on Boston Common, during the pub ic reception of' Father Math ew. Louis Napoleon, they say, is not fraid of' being sent to St. Helena, ior to Ham, nor to the Black Hole f' Calcutta. All lie asks is that the won't send him to Chicago. Vive La Woman I We published a telegram a few days since in which it was stated, referring to the election in Wyo ming Territory, that "Mrs. Howe, wife of the United States Mar shal, was the first lady who 'over voted for Delegate to Congress. Ladies voted generally through out the Territory. They east 171 votes at Cheyenne precinet." Now, here is something practi cable and tangible. While Eliza beth Cady Stanton is double-shot ting her guns and blazing away, through her paper, at the horrible men in the East; while charming Anna Dickinson stands, in a pair of No. 7 slippers, and belches forth her arguments of thunder from the rostrums of Massachusetts; we find the dear girls away off yonder in Wyoming Territory marching up to the ballot-box in one solid invoice of calico and de positing their ballots with as much nonchalance as if they had been wearing pantaloons long before they immigrated to that land of milk, crinoline, woman's rights and honey. Is it possible that the success of the female Wyomingos in assert ing and maintaining their rights is attributable to the fact that there are no Cady Stantons and no Anna Dickinsons in that fa vored land ? if so, we advise the suffering "female women" of New England to place their noisy lead ers and orators in confinement.; discontinue the mutterings of the Revolution, and let their rights come "dry so," as seems to have been the case in Wyoming Terri tory. Glorious country, that Wyo ming! Mrs. Howe, wife of the United States Marshal, sings a snatch of "Rock-a-bye baby on the tree-top" to the "heir apparent," buckles on her five-shooter, rolls up her pants, lights her cigar, cau tions Mr. Howe "not to let that child fall out of the cradle," and marches off to the polls to add her influence and power to the cause of woman's freedom and woman's rights. But Rowe about Howe ? Does he vote at all ? or does he stay at home and mind the baby while his innocent wife fixes up things at the polls ? Possibly Mrs. Howe says to Mr. Howe: "Be a good boy, now, Johnnie. I shall go right to the polls, deposit my bal lot, and work for the cause until nearly sundown ; then 1 w.'i re turn and let you go and vote. I will allow you fifteen minutes to get to the polls-ample time-only two miles distant." Of course, Howe didn't say a word-not in Wyoming-and then comes the "tug of war." We feel sure it would be abso lately safe to bet ten to one that Howe's baby was teething, and that it was subject to frequent at tacks of the coliec; that during the absence of his spouse it became necessary to use nine bottles of soothing syrup, four bottles of paragoric, and one of the old lady's <lippers. Suppose, too, the battles around the polls waxed warm, and it be :ame important for cara sposa to strike a few "hefty" blows "from the shoulder" in order to main tain the dignity of the sex. And suppose all this occupied her time until the close of the polls. Then what becomes of' Howe and his vote? That's what's agitating the ountry from centre to circumfer :ee, and what's "stopped the Prussian advance." [Wilmington Star. PLxsGiNo AN AXE INTO A MAN's HEART.--Some days ago Win. Watkins carried off a shirt belong ing to James WV. Foster, a wealthy Parmer at Newton Stewart. On Thursdaiy evening Foster m e t Watkins at Estridge's blacksmith shop, and asked him (Watkins) when he intended to return the shirt. This question infuriated Watkins, and without further words he seized an axe and struck Foster on 'he left shoulder, almost literally hewing the sboulder and arm from the body. He repeated the blow upon the shoulder, when Foster whirled round with his back to the murderous assailant. rhis gave Watkins a fair chance t his victim, and swinging the xe into the air, he dealt Foster a hird blow with the blade in the eft side behind the shoulder, and iterally splitting his heart in two. [New Albany (Ind.) Ledger. Queen Emma, of the Sandwich slands, has seen so much of civili ation that she has resolved not to throw herself away upon the fune ral pile of her husband, but instead thereof to permit another suitor for her hand to dry her tears and to sweeten her cup of' aloes. The Paris journals are confident that the ex-Emperor and Empress of France will retire to the shades of private life on the snug little income of 200,000,000 francs, -or nbou $40000.000 per year. Perpetual Motion. It is announced that perpetual motion has at last been attaiued, I and that the machine will b3 on o exhibition in Chicago in about a a fortnight. The inventor is a Mr.;4 Horace Wickham. Jr., a native of S Orange County, Now York, who ! has resided in Chicago from early i childhood, and who is therefore P altogether the proper man for an t enterprise so extraordinary. The b Times of that city devotes three a columns to it, but no one is asked t to believe, now, as it is said every- . body will eventually beconvinced, it not enthusiastic. A party re. tl cently visited the residence of Mr. c Wickham to see the thing, and 0 were ushered into his bed-ebambcr. D Beside the couch was au ordinary p table. and upon that rested a thick a marble slab, which formed the [ foundatiou of his device. Four ' iron logs held the marble above si the table, and the slab, with its fc accompanying machinery, could ti be lifted clear from the boards and carried into the adjoining p apartment. a "The boy turning the crank" " was summarily dropped from the si minds and tongues of the visitors. ui It was much plainer thau the iu noses upon their respective faces fc that the impelling fbrce all laid Cl I above, and not below the marble. h Several upright standards were is firmly screwed upon the slab, and p these sustained the something b that was perplexing the wits of the party. A lever, some two c feet in length, delicately hung be- e tween two of the standards, was T oscillating steadly.up and down, tl like the walking beam of a minia- y tnre steamboat. In fact it was to d all appearnees more like a tiny g walking beam than anything else. it A thin shaft hung from one end, 1c the lower extremity of which was ct attached to a main wheel, and p this to a few plain cogs, surmount- i ed by an infinitesimal "governor," p such as is used for regulating the speed of all steam engines. The diminutive beam soemed to drive C the main wheel, the wheel seem ed to turn the cogs, the cogs forced the "governor" to spin about. All this was simple C enough, but what worked the beam? The young enthuaiast (which was Wickham) was ready, at the enquirers' olbows, with the :- be swer. He showed how the walk- ". ing-beam was hollow, and its in- c terior formed an unbroken cir- A cuit, in which little balls, partially / filled witli mercury, were chasing each other in an eternal pursuit; - how the air was exhausted from 01 the channel in the beam so that to the spheres of quicksilver might i3 play in a vacuum; how, when a al ball reached the end of the beam fr furthest from the wheels, a valve W was driven open and the sphere r was forced up into the top of the ? course to be again hurried on ir is its unbroken route ; how the main r( wheel had quicksilver in some of m its spokee, ready at the proper in stant to overcome the weight of P1 the balls at the further end of thcR beam-in short, exactly how this rt very simple and yet altogether beautiful device was operated. ~ For seven long months has that tC little beam moved steadily up anc down, and the main wheel han Pi ground out its fifty regular revo lutions a minute, and the minor eI cogs have been driven faster still C. and the tiny brake has controlle( the motions of the whole, the di ? minutive "governor" regulating i all. The report concludes with S~ the comprehensive remark thia! "the most astute logic under heav en .annot prove that two and two are not four, and all the reason in.; I upon the face of the earth. eannot do away with the fact that Mr d Wick-ham's invention has thus fa: in done what is claimed for it." s th Lxm1.-Our en terprising towns- di man, Rev. B. Holder, has placed th on our table a remarkably pure sh specimen of carbonate of lime, ta- lir ken from a vein intersected by the of Blue Ridge Railroad at what ia of known as Sloan's cut; four milce in above WValhalla. The rock is of n at whitish, crystaline appearance, re fo sembling very much a block of w: loaf sugar. It appears almost at or pure as marble, containing a very th small per centage of earthy mat- Tl ter. Mr. H. has leased this quarry m; and is now engaged i nburning his of first kiln of 500 bushels. Unless loa greatly disappomnted in the result B< be hopes to be able, at an early ar day, to supply farmers and rae- in cbanics with a superior article of o, hydrate at very low prices. WVher th we consider the great value of m lime as a fertilizer, especially on Tl our cold bottom land, this disc:ov- cn ery must prove gratifying to eve- bi: ry person. It is an essential in- til gredient in all soils, and with us lo is often deficient for the profi table sa growth of many agricultural pr)- ar ducts. A full supply, at low prices, ta will enhance the yield of corn, :til wheat and the grasses to the ger.- i.A erad benefit of the County. We' wish Mr. HI. all the sucese h:s low to Make Cuttings Grow. Alluding to the manner of pro agating cuttings, the Ec.u E:y and Fanter says that it has t:ecn scertaiued that a cutting will de elop roots much sooner in moist snd than in rich soil. But the aud cannot maintain its growth )r any length of time. To pre are pots for raising euttings liey should be filled nearly to the rim with rich garden loam, dark od porous, not clayey and soggy ; Leu pour in one inch in depth of .ouriug sand ; sea sand will do as !oll as the yellow sand. Wet ais thoroughly, and place the attiugs, from which all but three r four upper leaves have been re toved, close to the side of the Ut; the contact of the ware tainst the stem of the cutting romotes its growth. Press the et sand firmly around the tiny em. A great deal of your chance )r success in raising slips or cut ngs depend upon this. Plant as many cuttings as the ot will hold, from six to a dozen, :cording to the size of your pot ; 'hen they are firmly set in the Ind two or three can be inserted the middle of the pot. Set them a dark, warm place for twenty ur or thirty-six hours. Thus, ittings will grow quickly in a ot-bed, because the temperature not dry. Their growth do onds a great deal upon light, eat and moisture. If a bud is close at the base of a tting it will strike root more isily-is not so apt to decay. he roots shoot from a bud, and i1 lower down it is the surer our success. When the leaves rop, the plant is commencing to row ; if they wither on the stem, has begun to decay. By fol wing these directions no one Lm fail to grow all kinds of house ants. Roses and all the rarest wers of the green houses are ropagated in this manner. CHEAP FUEL-PEAT BED DIs )VEItED IN SOUTU CAROLIN. itherto it was believed that no at was to be found South of the ismal Swamp, Virgiuia; but re nt experiments and analyses tve established the fact that ousands of acres in the South 'Sta~tcs, bld as worthless be use of their sterility, are peat ,ds of first class quality, to prove hich it will be necessary only to te one of many similar cases. bout 1,000 acres of bog land, rming a portion of the planta )n of the estate of J. Raven athewes, twenty-five miles South Charleston, between the Edis and the Ashepoo Rivers, and :tending from river to river, has ways be,en considered worthless, om the well known fact that it ould neither grow timber natu *lIy nor agricultural prodncts by ltivation. An enlightened chem 6, Dr. St. Julien Raveniel, at the quest of Mr. J. Fraser Mathewes, ade a personal examination of is bog and an analysis of sam es taken from it by him. Dr.1 avenel, in his letter giving the sult of his investigation, says: he bed is eight feet thick, uni rm in structure from top to bot-1 mn ; the peat in it is of' a red own color, easily reduced by lgging to a homogenous mass, hlieb dried in the shade without acking. .It burned easily, with nsiderable flame, and left about ur per cent. of ash, when prop ly prepar-ed for' fuel. I suppose will weigh a little more than ety pounds to the cubic foot." A REMARKABL DsovERT. SuIP FoIrsN ]N A CALIFORNIA EsERT.-By many it has been ld as a theory that the Yuma sert was once an ocean bed .At tervals pools of salt water ha;e I >od for a while in the midst of' e surrounding waste cf sand, sappearing only to rise again in e same or other localities. A ort time since one of thee sa- I ie lakes disappeared, and a party Indians reported the discovery a "big ship" left by the reced g waves. A party of Americans I once proceeded to the spot, and I und imbeded in the san<is the -eek of' a large vessel. .Nearly e-third of the forward part of e ship or bark is p)lainly visible.t ie stump of the bowsprit re-, tins, and portions of the timbers teak are perfect. The wreck is :ated forty miles North of San 'rnandinio and Fort Yumna road, t d thirty miles West of Los Pal) os, a well-known watering placet the desert. The road acr-oss I e desert has been traveled for are than one hundred years. ie history of the ill-fated vessel I nof course, never be known, 1 .t the discovery of its decaying nbers in the midst of what has og been a desert will furnish vans with food for discussion, d may perhaps furnish inmpor nt aid in the elucidation of ques mils of science--Los Angelos 'etes Sept. S. An order has been issued consigning 1 e A. E. Pollard to an insane asy'lum. ONE IlUNDRED E.MICanANTS BURNi;D To L'EATH.-A very sad occurrence is riported at Ilio de Janeiro. namely, the buruiig of an emigrant ship, and the couse qucut lus ut' over one hundred passengers on board. The details of this terrible catastrophe are giveu by the captaiu of the Freneb bark Adele Louise, who succeeded in saving some of the persons from the ill-fated vessel-the Ma uiu Barraviua-on its way from Genoa fur .Ioutevideo, with one hundred and tweuty-eight pas sengurs and twenty-live of a crew. It appears that on the 21t of Ju ly, about nine P. M., boiugabreast of Rio do Jaueiro. the Adelo Louise sighted the Barravina in flamos some distance astern, and at once went to her assistance. What fol lowed is described in the Telcgrif Mari.imo: "The spectacle presented by the burning ship was extremely aw ful ; the cries of the passengers, the flames leaping out on all sides, the women shrieking frantically, some of them jumping overboard, others holding on by the chains' and bow of the vessel, forming a sceno of disaster and confusion that bales description. One boat that was lowered was speedily filled with people crowding into her, and went down. It was al most impossible to render assist anee, but the bark succeeded in taking off eight persons, including the captain and mate. The schoiu er Mary, from London to Austra lia also happened to pass, and res rued ten more, whom she tran shipped to the Adele Louise. The remainder, 123 in number, per ished." It seems that the confla gration broke out in the chimney of the cooking galley and spread to a large number of chairs that rortmed part of the cargo The passengers and crew immediately became panic-stricken, and in the absence of discipline the captain was unable to take effective meas ures to suppress the flames, or to save the lives of those on board. TUIRTY CENTURIES OLD.-The :>dest relic of humanity extant is the skeleton of the earliest Pha raoh encased in its originai burial robes, and wonderfully perfect, r:ousidering its ago, which was do posited twenty months ago in the British Museum, and justly re ,arded the most valuable of its irchaological treasures. The lid f the coffin was inscribed with he name of its occupant, Pharaoh ifykesimus, who succeeded the ieir of the builder of the great )yramid, about ten centuries before brist. Only think of it-the monarch rbose crumbling bones and loath. ry integuments are exciting the wonder of the numerous gazers in Uondon, reigned in Egypt. before solomnon was born, and ontyabout dleven centuries or so after Mis -aim, the grandson of old father Soah, and the first of the Pha aohs, had bean gathered to his athers ! Why, the tide mark of' he deluge coild scarcely have >een obliteratcti, or the gopher vood knee timbersof theark have -otted on Mount Arar-at, when his man of the early world lived, novcd and had his being. His iesh and blood were progenitors f the great~ patriarch. TAtr. BEARING.-N%ever repeat a tory unless you are certain it is ~orreet, and not oven then~ unless omnethinig is to be gained, either f interest to yourself or for the ood of the person concerned. ['attling is a mean anid wicked ractice, and he who indulges in t grows more fond of it in pro. >ortion as he is successful. If you tave good to say of your nteigh >or, never repreach his character y telling that which is false. He who tolls you the faults of others ntendJs to tell others of your aults, and so the dis.h of news is tanded from one to another till he tr.le eomes enormous. The compositors' cases in the aission printing honses in China asre each over six thousand comn nartments for the reception of the mmerous letters of the Chinese .Iphabet. ~The cases are built in he form of an amphitheatre, and he compositor stands in the mid [to. Every letter ho sets he se cets from the six thousand. ] A man at Auburn, who had been o a circus, said it was easy enough ur any man of ordinary talent to urn summnersaults, and he said he ad talent suffHeient, and proceed d to show the crowd how it was one. The surgeon who attended im said it was probable that his! eck was broken as soon as he truck the marble floor. KILLt un av Wzrr..--In New York; n Wednesday a man named Pe'.r CZas-1 iday died from injuries received a few] lays ago by being pushed out of a third tory window by.-his wife, who was in iquor. The man at the time was sharp ring a knife on the stone ledge, when he wife suddenly seized him by the egs and threw him over, while her three :hildrcn were looking on. Rich Jews. Our rich Jews of New York have much inherited wealth, and as they alu ost invariably live within their incomes a Jewish family is certain to get rich. This murdered Nathan has been making money steadily ever since he was a youth. and only death put a stop to his atlluence. To his name may be added that of the Harts, the Noes. the Simpsvns (famed as iawnbrokers.) the Bernheimers, the Levys, the Moses, the Eman ucls, the Isaaes, the Solomons, the Davids, aud ether scriptural names, as noted for wealth. The rich Jews do not dash in the fast way for which "Young America" is noted. The only sporting man of high rank that I know among them is August Belmont. He lives in grand style in Fifth Ave nae, and keeps a fine stud of fine ly bred horses. He has been for thirty years the head ofa banking house which bears the name of Rothschild, and is the American agency of the great European capitalists. Belmont is too fasl. iorable to bend himself to the let ter of Hebrew orJinances and cus toms. lie is not one of the strict or sort, and wandered so fhr into the Gentile world as to marry the daughter of an American Commc dore. The affair made great ex citcmont at the time, and the fush ionable world was quite iudignant that the niece of "Perry- on the Lakes" should marry Belwont. The bride, however, had a deed of a Fifth avenue mansion to start with, and if the course of domestic life has not subsequently run smooth, the world has not dis covered it. The Jews are mas ters of the gold market, as any one may know who enters that noisy room where this commodity is daily sold as an article of mer chandize. In addition to these Hebrew magnates of the gold room, there are a fe w heavy mercantile houses, the chief of which is Hen dricks Bros. Those men have dealt in metals, which, if not gold, brought golden profits. 'ihey are among the chief holders of copper, tin, &c., and have for years invested their profits in real estate up town, which has become im meusely valuable. They now own hoaes, block after block, and from humble beginnings have acquired a position among the chief land lords of this city. These men make little noise in the ivorld. indeed, the Jews as a class do not seek notoriety. They have a fame of their own, that is among their own nation. Every family in the Fifth avenue synagogue is duly canvassed, and their rank is silent ly taken according to the land, bullion or jewels they are supposed to possess. Wealth holds a sway of vast influence here, for no class acknowledges its power moe than the Jecws.-Troy, N. Y., Times. PROFITALEBooKEPIN.-"who has bought the handsome saddle, John?" ii:quired a saddle and har ness maker, some time ago, of his foreman, upon coming into the shop and finding that a very hand some new saddle had disappeared. "Indeed I canrot tell who it was, and the worst of it is, it has not been paid for. I was very busy this morning, when a gentleman came in, asked the price of it, told me to charge it to his ac-count, threw it into his vehiela, and drove off before 1 could ascertain his name. I am sure, howoe:-, he is one of our Customers, fo)r he has fi-equently bought articles he"e be "T h t's rat er a puzzling case, recally," snid the master', scratch ing his head, "and some mode must be devised to find out the p)urcbaser, and get the pay for the saddle. Ay, I *have it, (ohn ! Charge every one of our customers, w~ho have accounts open, with the saddle; those who didn't get it will, f orereeeto pay, and in1 that way we shrill roach the right John did as he was ordered. A rew weeks r.'trChri.t..ae bills had been sent out the foreman was in terrogated as to whether he had succeeded in finding out the pur Tbaser. "It is impossible to saiy, sir," he nswercd, "fo~r about forty have aid for it without saying a ord." It is hoped a time is at band hen every woman will be trained o some employment by which he can secure to herself an nde pendent home and means to sup >ort a family, in case she does not1 narry, or is left a widow, with aerself and family- to support. ( American Woman's Home. McMahon, when he plunged into bhe fight at Sedan, said to some of bis officers wvho begge ~ .iim to restrain himself: "Leave me, my 'iiends, let me show those Kings, :hose Pr-inces, who hide behind their masses of men, that a mar shal of France knows how to fight. md when beaten_ how to die." ADVERTISINC RATES. Advertisementasrted at the rat of .S per square-one inch-for Srs insertion,"and - :l for each sbsequent insertnkm. DonNa column advertiements ten per cent on above. Notices of meetin;. obituaries anditrlbut? of respecr, .arme rates per square as ordinary advcr.ierteins. Special notices in local column 20 cents per line. Advertisements not marked with the n'a+ ber of insertions will lie kept in til forad. and charged aceording -. Special contracts made with large adrer tiscrs, with Liberal deductions on anoTe rates. JS PRz rzT.e Done with Neatness and Dispatch. Terms Cash. "Fetch on Your Lats?" Adam Bepler ke,ops a tavern in Alleghany. One rather gloomy evening eeently, when Adam was in rather a gloomy humor, a stranger presented himself about bed time, and asked to stay all night. "Certainly," said Adam, eyeing the rather seedy looking stranger. "If you take breakfast, it will be youst one dollar." "But I have no money," said the man. "I atu dead broke, but if you will trust me-" "Ah !" said Mr. Bepler, "I don't like that kind of customer. I could fill mine house every night mit dat kind, but dat won't help me run dis house." "Weli,'' said the strangerr after . a pause, "have you got any rats here'. '-Yes," replied Adam. "yon'd better believe we have. Why, the place is lousy mit demn." '-Well," rejoined the man. "I.l tell you what I'lldo. If you let me have lodging and breakf tst, I'll ki: all the rats to-morrow." "Done," said Bepler, who had long been desperately annoyed by the number of old Norways that intested his premises. So the stranger, a gaunt, sallow, melancholy-looking man, was .bhown to bed, and no doubt had a good sleep. After break fast next morning, Mr. Bepler took occasitn in a very gentle mannertoreminSd his guest of the contract of the previous night. "What ! Kill your rats! Certain. ly," said the melancholy stranger. '-Where are they th; thickest?" "Dey are putty dick in de barn yard," answered Adam." "Well, let's go out khero," sai41 the stranger. "But stop!. :Have you got a piece of hoop-iron ?" A piece about fifteen feet .ong was brought to the stranger, rho examined it carefully from oxuiend to the other. Exp ressing Yiinself entirely satisfied, -at length, with its length and strength, hi pro ceeded to the barn, accompained by Mr. Bepler and quite a party of idlers who were anxious to sen' in what manner the great.rat-kill er was going to work. Arriving there the stranger looked arorzd a little, then placed his back firmly against the barndoor and raise.d his weapon. "Now," said he to Adam, "I am ready. Fetch on your rats !" low this scene terminated we are not precisely informed, it is said that, although no rats ane swered the appeal of the stranger, Mr. B3epler began to smell oneo pretty strongly at this juncture, and became very angry. Oste thing is certain, and that is that tenew boarder was not at Ad am's table for dinner, nor for say suibseqo.ent meal. He had .sud denly resolved to depart, probably to pursue his avocation of rat killing in other quarters. The greatest pie on record was made at Lowther Castle, in West moreland, in the year 1762, anid was sent up as a present to the King. .It contained 1w geese, four ducks, two turkeys, four wild fowl, one wild goose, six wild ducks, three teal, two starling.-, t welve partridges, fifteen wood cocks, two guinea fowls, three snipes, six plovers, three water hens, six widgeons, one eurlew, forty-six yellow-hammers fifteen sparrows, two chmaffinches, two larks, three thrushes. one fieldfare, six pigeons, four black birds. twenty rabbits, cue leg of veal, hulfa bam, three bushels of flour, two stone otY butter. The whole pie weighed twen ty two stone (308, pounds. It is reported that "a thing with the head of a rat, the bodyv of a lizard, the feet of a duck aind the tail of a kitten, was caught ini the Nishnabotany, Iowa, near Red Oak Junction, the other day. it was put into a water-filled -box, but lived only afe w hours. It was put into c'lcohol, and will be sent to Yale College." lals Journal of Health savs : "If a zaan can sleep soundly, has a good appetite, with no unpleasant reminders after meals, the bodily habies being regular every day, he had better let himself alone wheth er ha is as big as a h ogshead, or as thin and dry as a fence rail." Miss Kate Field, the lectnrer, is rthead of most young ladies-she has one hundred engalgements on hand. Somebody has dliscovered that n forty years a snuff-taker devot.. twenty-four months to blowing hsis lose. It is stated that the Bapti<t Irome~ afission of the city of New York has pur :based of Col. Johnison, Pre.ident of the Charlotte, Columbia arad Augusta Rail road, the property known as the La::a ~state, situated just East of the Ch.ral ne lepot, and containing about ei;rbty acers sf land. The price paid was]6,000ca.. rhis Society contemplates fitting u, a Fme seminary, and it is understood st*i will at once be takena to begin the wik. 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