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-ADVERTISINC RATES. T HE H E RA LD emejs IS Bper square-one inch-for rst insertion, and IS PUI.IsED i for each suse~quent insertion. Doable c9lumn advertisements ten per cent on above. .'-E5VERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, Notices of meetings, ohituaries and tribut I Iof respeer, same rates per square as ordina At Newberry C.- H.,a-ri9mns Special notices in local column 20 cent-. 0Tho. F. & R. H. Greneker, Editors and Proprietors. per line 09 ~ ~ ). iand charged accordingly. S.WS Sr fg@ $NNfg,Special cnntracts made with large adver Invariably in Advance. - ISped at the.l eiration o V WEDNESDAY MORNING, iM-A.RCH 29, 1871. No. 13 one w - ani Dispateb. The >4 mark denotes expiration of sub eription. --- -Aits and Joint Resolutions Pamd by the Legistature-Session 1870 and 187L [OFFICIAL.] AN ACT TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF PARENTS. AND TO PREVENT THE PROCURING AND CARRYING AWAY FROM THE STATE PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS. SECTioN 1. Be it enacted by the ,&nate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the s.ame, That if any person shall hire or employ any minor or person un der the age of twenty-one years, without the knowledge and con sent of the parents or guardian of each minor, such person shall pay to the said parents or guardian the fuli value of the labor of said tminor, from and after notice from 'the parents or gruardian that pay ment for such service shall be made to him or them, as the case may be, or be imprisoned in the county jail for a period of six months. SEC. 2. That if any person shall procure and carry without the Lmits of the State any minor or person under the age of twenty- 1 one years, without the con-ent of the parents or guardian of such minor, such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in a sum not less than one hundred nor more than fire hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the Penitentiary of the State for a period of not less than one year. Approved March 1st, A. D. 1S71. AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTI TLED "AN ACT TO DEFINE TIE JURISDICTION AND DUTIES OF COUNTY CO.MMISSIONERS. SECTIoN 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and Hous? of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in Getteral Assembly, and by the authority of tie same, That an Act entitled "An Act to define the jurisdiction and euties of the County Commissioners," .pased the 26th day of September, A. D. 1SGS, be amended as follows: At the end of Section 10, Para graph 1, add, "and the county commissioners shall not, in antici pation 'of the tax levied upon the county, draw upon the County Tre.surer for more than three fourths of the whole an>unt of -said tax in any one year, nor shall :ny order be drawn uipo the County Treasurer until after the monthly return of the Treasurer shall hare been made to the Coun ty Commissioners of the amount of funds collected, nor unless he has the funds in the treasury to pay the samu, awl the County Commissioners shal inform the County Treasurer of the orders drawn, in whose favor the amount, and the ordler in which they are drawvn. And should the County j Commissioners, or any of them, purchase, directly or indirectly, any order drawn upon the County Treasurer, for less than its face .value, they shall be deemed guilty * of a misdemeanor in officc, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be 4 punished by fine.or imprisonment in the discretion of the court, by any court of competent jurisdic tion." SEC. 2. At the end ofParagraph 4, Section 10, add, "and all work given out by the County Comnmis A ioners, when the amount shall exceed the sum of one hundred dollars, shall be done by contract, and the Commissioners are hereby required to advertise the same at least in one of the papers of the county, and also post the same in .three conspicuous places in theI county for thirty days, inviting proposals. Said proposals shall, in all cases, be accompanied by .two or more sufficient sureties, and! the Counry Commissionersi shall bave the right to reject any or all bids, if; in tLeir judgment,i the interests of the county so re quire." SEC. 3. Amend section-of said< -act so that it will read as follows:< "T'hat all the Boards of County Commissioners shall be present: for the transaction of business, ' and shill audit and sign all bills and checks. Tihe checks shall, in all cases, be countersigned by the clerk of the board." SEC. 4. Strike out "November"< wherever it occurs in tihe act, and insert "Septem ber." Approved March 9, 1871. -AN~ ACT TO REGULATE THlE MANNER OF DRAwING J.URtIES. 1 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and Ho use of Representatiwes of the State of South Carolina, nouw met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, All persons who are qualified to vote in the choice of Representa-1 - tives in the General Assembly, I shall be liable to be drawn and serve as jurors, except as hereaf ter provided. SEC. 2. The following persons 1 sball be exempt frora serving as jurors, to ivit : The Governor, LiAeutenant (Govern.or, Attorneyj Eiencral, Comptroller G e n e r a 1, 4tate Auditor, State Treasurer, 3ecretary of State, Superintendent :f Education, Commissioner of Agricultural Statistics, members .nd officers of the Senate and [louse of Representatives during the session of the General Assem blv. members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, Judges and Jus tices of any Court, County Com rnissioners, County Auditors and rreasurers, Clerks of Courts, Reg isters of Mesne Conveyances, Sher iffs and their Deputies, Coroners, onstables, the Marshals of the United States and their Deputies, ind all other officers of the United States, counsellors and attorneys It law, ordained ministers of the ,ospel, officers of colleges. precep .ors and teachers of academies, racticing physicians, and sur geons regularly licensed, cashiers ind tellers of incorporated banks, ditors of newspapers, constant Ferrymen. millers carrying on that usiness at the time, and all men ictually employ ed as such ; such >fficers and employees of railroads is are now exempt by law, and ersons who are more than sixty ive years old. SEC. 3. No person shall be liable o be drawn, and serve as a juror n any court, oftener than once in very year. but be shall not be so xempt unless he actually attends ind serves as a juror in pursuance >f the draft: Provided, No person ;hall be exempt from serving on a jury in any other court in conse luence of his having served before I Justice of the Peace or Trial Justice. SEC. 4 That there shall be ap pointed by the Governor, and con frmed by the Senate, one officer for each county in the State, to be named and designated a Jury Commissioner, who, with t h e County Auditor and Chairman of the Board of County Commission ars, shall constitute a Board of Tury Commissioners for the coun ty. Said Jury Commissioner shall hold his office for two years, un less sooner removed by the Gov ernor. SEC. 5. The Board of Jury Com missioners of each county shall, once in every year, during the mnth.of January, and, for the present year. within one month Liftcr the passage of this act, pre pare a list of such inhabitants of their respective counties, not ab solutely exempt, as they may think well qualified to serve as jurors, being persons ofgood moral haracter, of sound judgment, and tree from all legal exceptions, which list shall include not less than one from every twenty vo ters, nor more than one froi ev ery ten voters, of their respective counflties. SEc. 6. Of the list so prepared, the Board of Jury Commissioners shall cause the names to be writ ten, each one on a separate paper or ballot, and shall fold up said pieces of paper or ballots so as to resemble each other as much as possible, and so the name written thereon shall not be visible on the outside, arid shall place them in a box, to be furnished them by the County Commissioners of their county for that purpose, and by said Board of Jury Commissioners to be kept. SEC. 7. If any person whose name is so placed in said jury box is convicted of any scandalous rime, or is guilty of any gross immorality, his name shall be with lrawn therefrom by the Board of Jury Commissioners, and he shall not be rctu'rned as a juror SEC. 8. The Clerk of the Court f Common Pleas in each county, it least fifteen days before the zomencemen t o f any regular erm of the Court of General Ses sions for the county, arid ten days efore any special session requir na jury. and in the county of harleston like periods before the irst of' each alternate week of the Court of Common Pleas, anrd at uch other times as the respective :ourts may order, shall issue writ,s >f ve'nire facias for jurors, and hall therein require the attend nce of jurors on the first day of he term, and for the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Charleston on the first and each lternate week thereafter, and ich other- days as the Courtsmay >rder. The petit juror-s returned 'or the Court of General Sessions 'or Charleston County shall serve 'or the term, and the Jurors re urned for- the Court of Common Pleas for two weeks; the jurors 'or the Court of General Sessions 'or all other Counties shall serve or the term, and for the term of .he Court of Common Pleas im nediately following. SEC. 9. The Uenires shall be de ivered to the Sheriff of the Coun y, and shall be served by him vithout delay upon the Board of ury Commissioners of the Coun SEC. 10. Nothing contained in ,e preceding sections shall pre rent the Clerk of any Court of 0mmon Pieas from issuing venires ' nadditional jurors in term time, whenever it is necessary for the b convenient despatch of' business, t in which ,ase, the venire shall be t served and returned, and the jury required to attend on such days as t the Court shall direct. a SEC. 11. All jurors, whether re- c quired to serve on grand or petit v jury, shall be selected by drawing F ballots from the jury box, and the c persons whose names are borne on a the ballots so drawn shall be re- b turned to serve as jurors. SEC. 12. When jurors are to beil drawn, the Board of Jury Com- e missioners shall attend at th. of- t flee of the Clerk of' ths Cour. .1 t Common Pleas within and for that t County, and in the presence of the a Clerk of the .Court., and the Sher- o iff of the County, shall shake up the names in the jury box until r they are well mixed, and, having: unlocked said box, tie said Jury f Commissioner, in the presence of e the Clerk of the Court and Sheriff 1 of the County, shall proceed to C draw therefrom. without seeing f the names written thereon, a num ber of ballots equal to the number c of jurors reauired. If a person so T drawn is exempted by law, or is C unable, by reason of sickness or absercxe from home, to attend as a E juror, or if he has served as a ju- t ror in any Court within the year then next preceding, his name shall be returned into the box, and c another drawn in his stead: Pro- I C vided, That if the Clerk and Slier iff shall fail to attend, after due no tice, the Jury Commissiner shall t proceed without them, and the ju- t rv so drawn shall be lawful. t SEC. 13. When any person is drawn and returned to serve as a juror in any Court, the Board of C Jury Commnissioners shall endorse c on the ballot the date of the draft, and return it into the box after j the number of jurors required have i been drawn; and whenever there is a revision and renewal of the t ballots in the box, the Board of C Jury Commissioners shall transfer C to the new ballots the date of all the drafts made within the year C then next preced.ng. C SEc. 14. The time for drawing jurors shall not be less than seven nor more than fifteen days bef>re the day when the. jurors are re- v quired to attend. SEc. 15. The Sheriff shall, at E least four days before the time V when the jurors are required to t attend, summon each person who . is drawn, by readinr to him the C cenire, with his emdorsemenit there- s on of his having been drawn, or t by leaving at his place of' abode a t written notifleation of nis having been drawn, and of the tine and place of the sitting of* the Court at ( which ho is to attend, and shall e make return of the iv:nire, with e his doings thereon, to the Clerk of, f the Court, bef'ore the opening or t time of' holding the Court, from t which it issued. SEC. 16. On the day when the a jurors are summoned to attend at C any Court, the Clerk shall prepare I a list otf their names arranged in I alphabetical ora-er. T ii e first twelve on the list who are not ex emp)t, shall be swor'n and empan. nelled as a jury for the trial of't causes, and shall be called the first jury. Trhe next twelve on the C list shall be sworn and empannelledt in like manner, and shall be called the second jury.t SEC. 17. Supernumerar-y jurors j1 may be excused, from time tot time, until wanted, and may be ~ put on either of' the juries, as oc- - asion requires, in the place of ab- C sentees. Nothing herein contain- t ed shall prevent the transferring a of jurors from one jury to another C when the convenience of' the Court t or of' the jurors requir'e it. SEc. 18. Bach jury. after being a thus empannelled, shall retire and r choose their foreman, or shall make such choice upon retiring I with the first cause with which d they ai'e chbarged ; and whenever t. the f'oreman is absent or excused from f'urther' service, a new fore- I man shall be chosen~ in like man ner. SEc. 19. Bothing contained in a the preceding sections shall apply to the empannelling of jur'ies in t criminal cases; but the jurors shall t be called, sworn and empannelled a anew for the trial of' cachi caso, a"-- C cording to the established prae- I tie, and their foreman shall be C appointed by the courlt or by the jury when they retira to consider t their verdict. I SEC. 20. When, by reason of challenge, or otherwise, oir a suffi- ( eient number of juror's duly drawnt and ummned canotbe obtained J criminal, the court shall cause ju rors to be-retur'ned fr'om the by- r staders, or from the county at C large, to complete the panel : Pro ;ided, Th at there are on the jury tot less than seven of the jurors C who wvere or'iginially drawn and summoned, as before provided. C SEc. 21. The jurors so returned C from the by-standers, or the coun ty at large, shall be returned by: the Sher'iff, whose duty it shall be-! t be present during the ent,ire-:c term of' sitting of any court in ] thenir resnective counties, and shall e such as are qualified and liable Ia ) be drawn as jurors, according h ) the provisions of this act. SEC. 22. The court slhall, on mo- o on of either party in a suit, ex- t; mine, on oath, any person who is f< alled as a juror therein, to know fi rhether he is related to either y arty, or has any interest in the c ause, or has expressed or formed g ny opinion, or is scnsible of any' t ias or prejudice therein ; and the 91 arty objecting to the juror may c )troduce any other competent g vidence in suppor of the objec- a ion. If it appears to the court hat the juror is not indifferent in d be cause, he shall be placed aside ii s to the trial of that cause; an- t ther shall be called. a SEC. 23. In indictments and pe- p al actions for the recovery of a d um of mcney, or other thing for- s !ited, it shall not le a cause of a hallenge to a juror, that he is ha- t le to pay taxes in any county, r ity or town, which may be bene tted by such recovery. g SEC. 24. If a party knows of any o bjection to a juror in season to t ropose it before the trial, and s mits to do so, he shall not after- v .ards be allowed to make the j1 ame objection, unless by leave of i he court. SEC. 25. No irregularity in any t 7rit of venire facias, or in the r rawing, summoning, returning or t mpannelling of'jurors shall be suf- t cient to set aside a verdict, un- ( ass the party making the objec ion was injured by the irregulari- s y, or unless the objection was t iade before the returning of the t erdict. L SEC. 26. If either party in a a ase in which a verdict is returned e uring the same term of the court a efore the trial gives to any of the t rors who try the cause anything I y way of treat or gratuity, the n ourt may, on the motion of the i1: dverse party, set aside the vor- b ict, and award a new trial of the f ause. e SEC. 27(a.) When a jury, after p ue and thorough deliberation up- t n any cause, return into court, e vithout having agreed upon a u erdict, the court May state anew he evidence, or any part of it, rid explain to th.m anew the law c .pplicable to the case, and may 2 end them out for further deliber- I tion ; but if they return a second ime without having agreed upon verdict, they shall not be sent ji ut again without their own con- 3 wnt, unless the) shall ask from p he court some further explana- i ion of the law, SEC. 27(b.) That the said Jury r om missioners, appointed by thc iovernor, shall receive for their e ervices, three dollars per day, for 1: very day's actuai service in per arming the duties imposcd by j his act; such number of days not o exceed the number of days the ourt. for such county shall be in ession, together with five days to omaplete the list, and draw the ists, arid draw the jurors, to be >aid out of the Treasury of their, espective counties. SEC. 28. The ju ry in any case ay, at the request of either p)ar y, be taken to view the place or remises in question, or any pr-op rty, matter or thing relating to lie controversy between the par. ies, when it appears to the conrt hat such view is necessary to a ast decision :Provided, T he par y- making the m)otionl advances a urn sufficient to pay the actual xpenses of the jury and tbe offi ers who attend them in taking g, he view, which expenses shall be ftrwards taxed like other legal a osts, if the uarty who advanced hem prevails in the suit. t SEC. 29. If a person duly drawn nd summoned to attend as a ju or in any court neglects to attend ~it:out sufficient excuse, he shallt ay a fine not exceeding twenty v~ ollars which shall be imposedC( a* y the court to which the jurort as summoned, and shall be paid 'to the County Treasury. SEC. 30. When, by negtlect of1 j ny of the duties required by this , t to be performed by any of the 3 fficers or persons herein men ioned, the jurors to be returned rm any p)lace are not duly drawn j nd summoned to attend the court, 9 very person guilty of such neg ect shall pay a fine not exceed(iiiga ne hundred dollars, to be impljosed y the same court, to the use of be county in which the offence as committed. SEC. 31. 1l the Board of Jury i 'ommissioniers shall be guilty of~ '. raud, either by practicing on thep ry hox previously to a draft, or~ o a drawing a jury, or in] returning p' rto the box the niame of any ju or which had been lawfully r rawn out, and drawing or sub-b tituting another in his stead, orp r any other way in the drawingd f jurors, he shall be punished by q fine rnot exceeding live hundred olars, or be imprisoned not ex-. t eeding twvo years in the State e ~enitent.ary. SEC. 32. Nothing contained in I hiis act shall affect the power and J Wty of-Coroners. Justiccs of the eace or Trrial Justices, to sum aen and emnannel iurors, when t uthorized by other provisions of M.w. Ec. 33. The Clerk of the Court f General Sessions in each coun y, not less than fifteen days be )re the commencement of the rst term of the court in each car, shall issue writs of venirefa ,as in each county for eighteen rand jurors to be returned to hat court, who shall be held to Brve at each term thereof through ut the- year, and until another rand jury is empanneled in their tead. SEC. 34. Grand jurors shall be rawn, summoned and returned a the same manner as jurors for rials, and when drawn at the ame time as jurors for trials, the ersons whose names are first rawn, to the number required, ball be retured as grand jurors, nd those afterwards drawn, to he number required, shall be ju ors for trials. SEC. 35. In case of deficiency of: rand jurors in any court, writs f venirefacias may be issued to he Sheriff of the County,in which aid court is held, to return forth ;ith such furthernumberof grand arors from the bystanders, as ,iay be required. SEC. 36. No more than thirty wo persons to serve as petit ju ors shall be drawn and summoned o attend, at one and the same ime, at any court, unless the ,ourt shall otherwise order. SEC. 37 That any person who hall hereafter be arraigned for ho crime of murder, nianslaugh er, burglary, arson or rape, shall e entitled to all the incidents of n arraignment, and to peremptory hallenges, not exceeding twenty. lid the State, in such cases, shall e entitled to peremptory ehal. rnges, not exceeding two,in the 1iner heretoibre prescribed by tw. And any person who shall e indicted for any crimne or of. -nce other than those above numerated, shall have the right to eremptory challeuges of five, and he State, in such cases, shall be ntitled to peremptory challenges ot exceeding two. SEC. 38. That an Act entitled An Act to regulate the manner f drawing juries," approved the 6th day of September, A. D. 868, and the Act entitled "An kct to amend an Act entitled an Let to regulate the drawing of [iries," approved the 23d day of larch, 1869, and all other acts, or arts of acts, in any way confliet ng with the provisions of' thik et, be, and the same is hereby, erwaled, SEc. 39. That this act shall taku frect, and have the full power of tw, from and after its passage. Approved the 10th day of .1arch, L. D. 1871. Words of Warning. X-GoOERNoR PERRY To OVERNOR scoTT. REDICTIONS As To TIlE FUTURE OF soUTil CAROLINA. GREENVIL,LE, S. C., Mar. 13. '71. o his~ Excellency Gorernor Scott: SIR-1 understand that yon arc onsulting your pohitical opp)O ents, in every section of the tate. as to the best means of pre erring order, peace, and the en >reement of~ the lawvs in South ~arolina. You have invited promi ent gentlemen throughout the tate to meet you in Columbia ar this laudable and patriotic ulrpose. 1 believe, sir, that you rec now sincere in this purpose, ot.withstandingr your "Winches er rifle speech" in Washington a ear or two sinee, in which you endishly proclaimed that this in-I trument of death, in the hands of he negroes of South Carolina. ras the most effective means of 2aintaining order and quiet in he State. I rejoice to find that a hange has come over the spirit f your thoughts and actions; anid for- one, am ready and willing, eith all t.he good peole of the ,tate, to sustain you in your prles nt cour-se. The tone and temper f your recent message to the aegislature is evidence of your incerity. Permit me to say to you, sir, in 11 candor and sincerity, that the igns of the times inidiente, uinmis skably to may mind1, that we arec n the eve of a bloody, tuimultu uis conmmotion, Uniless somet hintg done to quiet publIic opinion. bhe incendiary destr-uct ion of pro. erty every nigh t, and the roguery f the Legislature ill their apipro riations and taxation, amounting ltimately- to confiscation of all cal and personal estate, cannot e borne much longer. There isa oint beyond which human en urancoecanno)t go. let thbe conse uiences be what they may. I know it is not in your power. o reform the Legislature,c or staiy ffectual ly their corrupltion, bri 'ry. prodigality and roguery.-. 3Lt there are two things which -ou can do, and should do, the: ooner the better--diarmn your. militia, and appoint good and in-. lliennt men to offce- Mli the' lawlessness and violence which have disgraced the State have been owing to these two sources of mischief. Never was there a more fiaal mistake, or a more dia bolical wrong committed, than when you organized colored troops througbout the State, and put arms into their hands, with powder and ball, and denied the t4ame to the white people. It was atro cious. The bloody tragedy at Laurens was owing to this, and nothing else. The murder ot'Ste vens arid other white men at Union by one of your negro compa nies, and the subsequent e.xcu tion of ten colored prisoners, was owing to the same cause. The fearful murder and killing of a number of men at Chester was likewise owing to your coL ored militia. The violence and lawlessness atYorkville originated in one of your worthless appoint rnents. Heretofore, your appoint ments have been mostly made of. ignorant and corrupt men, who cannot enforce the laws and pre-c serve the peaced. The colored people of South Caroinia behaved well during our civil war, and would have contin ued to have done so, but for the unprincipled carpet-bagger who came amongst them and stirred up hatred to the white race by the most artful and devilish ap peals to their fears and bad pas sions. Unpri.icipled white men living amongst us. seeing an op portunity of office and plunder, joined 'the carpet-baggers. These two classes united in persuading the negroes that they would be put back into slavery, and that they must apply the torch to re dress their stipposed wrpngs!' It is not surprising that a people so igrnorant anid credulous as the ne groes are, should thus have been led astray. They were told that lands would be given them and their children educated. Hundreds of thousauds of dollars have been appropriated - for this purpose, and all squandered and stolen by their pretended friends! A multiplicity of offices have been created to reward political parti sans; salaries have been increased, millions appropriated for railroads, and the most extravagant waste of public moneys in every way! The public officers and members of the Legislature are charged with the most shameless corrup tion, bribery and roguery! It is impossiblo for the industry of the State to pay the taxes. There is no sceurity for property ! It is impossible for this thing to go on and prreserve Cr-r in de State. The State bnJi will not be paid. I earnestly desire the peace and prosperity of my State. I (lid all that I could to prevent the seces sion of South Carolina and the civil war which ensued. 3My pre dictions of all the evils which have ensued were treated with scorn anid contempt by those in power and anthority. Xou, sir, and those in power at the present time, mnay not heed my predictions again ; but the day is faist approaching whien vou will realize all that I have sid(. unless some change takes place. Yours, &c. .1. F. PERRY. Winr NEER UiE To0.ERATED.-The Vic-ksburrg IJerald thruis disposes of the ellert to bring about negro egetality in the State of ississippi: "The insnlent de-mand of the negro members of the Legislature that negroes, with their wives, or those they may call such, shall sit in the railway cars as signed to ladies and their escorts, mray as well be mret at once and promptly !Rad ical carpet-bagers and thieves may pass a law declaring that nearoes shall sit in the r-nme cars with white peopl- and at the samei tables in hotels with them, atid they may allix what penalty they choose as a punishment for those who deiny thema those ?eats in the cairs or in the hotels, bunt these laws and enailtie-s will avail nothing. The white meni of M ississipp;i do nrot propose that Saimbo and Dinah sh-dl sit by their sides or by the sides of their wies's anid daughters, either in railway earn iniges or in public hotels, and Senator., Gray and Gleed, andl Mr-. .Jacob Ross, of the Ilouse, may as well understand th.i- at once. T[here is noi power on e-arth that can c->mpel our people to ihis. TIhae army of G rant canr tot travel on r;ailway trainrs to protect negroes in the right to intrude them se'lves where ther are not desired, and where their presence will not be tolera ted, and nothing short of this can ever force our pi .ple to surbmit to the inso en t dem:an;d ihr social e-quality w ith ne groe-s. This at iimpt of the inegro-s will only- produce bwil blood, a score or so oif impudent scoundlrels will be killed, a few worthless carpeit-bag gers will 'pass in their checrke,' and the knaves and the fools will thetm sub:.idle. If the negroes are wise, they will subside before any of them get hurt !'' A mnilkman,. in Bang'rr, Maine, boasts of his horse and his dog. I1e procures part of his urnik about half a mile from his house, and every evenri -g, he says, he harnesses hi., horae into) the miilk wagon, puts in the esns arid thro' s the r?ios over !! e dasher. A lar ige New foundlaind dig themi gravely steps in, and the horse under the dire' tiorn of thc catnine driver, a'one proceeds to the place whrere the milk is prncured, aind stops; the doa an noiuncens theirarrivatl, the cans are tiled, the dog resumes his seat in the vehicle and the horse carefully turns and trots hnmq. Memoranda. r BY 3ARK TWAIN. a MY FIRST LITERARY VENTURE. f [VALEDICTORY.-I have now t written for The Galaxy a year. d For the last eight months, with t hardly an interval, I have had for t my lellows and comrades, night f and day, doctors and watchers of the sick! During these eight s months death has taken two mem- c bers of my home circle and ma lignantly threatened two others. u All this I have experienced, yet t all the time been under contract r to furnish "humorous" matter t once a month for this magazine. 1 I am speaking the exact truth in p the above details. Please to put v yourself in my. place and contem- v plate the grisly grotesqueness of e the situation. I think that some f of the "humor" I have written du c ring this period could have been d injected into a funeralsermon with- a out disturbing the solemnity of the lF occasion. (The Memoranda will cease per. . manently with this issue of the L magazine. To be a pirate, on a r low salary, and with no share in 'J the profits of the business, used to v be my idea of an uncomfortable i occupation, but I have other views I' now. To be a monthly humorist v in a cheerless time is drearier. I [So much by way ofexplanation d and apology to the reader for any i obtrusive lack of humorousness s that may have been noticed in my i humorous department duringthe s year. At last I am free of the I doctors and watchers, and am so exalted in spirits that I will cut L this final Memoranda very short t and go off and enjoy the new state ' of things. I will put it to pleas- c ant aad diligent use in writing a b boolk. I would not print any b Memoranda at all this month, but i the following short sketch has v dropped from my pen of its own t accord and without any compul- F sion from me, and so it may as e well go in. As I shall write but a little for periodicals hereafter, it e seems to fit in with a sort of in- L offensive appropriateness here. F since it is a record of the first c sciibbing for any sort ofperiodical s I ever had the temerity to at- 1 tempt.] I was a very smart child at the age of fifteen-an unusually smart child, I thought at the time. It t was then that I did my first news- t paper scribbling, and most unex petedly to me it stirred up a fine sensation in tne community. It . did indeed, and I was very proud of it. too. 1 I was a printer's "devil," and a progressive and aspiring one. My a uncle had me on his paper (the -Weekly Hannibal Journal," two dollars a year in advance-500 sub scribers, and they paid in cord wood, cnbbages, and unmarketable turnips), anid on a lucky summer's day ho left town to be gone a week, arid asked me if I thought Ii could edit one issue of the papert judiciously. Ah, didn't I want to try I Hin ton was the editor of the rival paper. Hie had lately, been jilted, and one night a friend I found an open note on the poor fellow's bed, in which he stated that he could no longer endure life I and had drowned himself in Bear Creek. The friend ran downi there and discovered HIinton~ wa ding back to shore!i He had con- I eluded he wouldn't. The village was full of it for several dlays, but IIinton did not suspect it. 1 thought this was a fine opportunity. I wrote an elaborately wretched account of the whole matter, and , then illustrated it with villanous cuts engraved on the bottoms of wooden type with a jack-knife one of them a picture ofilinton< wadling out into the creek in his shirt, with a lantern, sounding the I depth of the water with a'walking- t~ sti'-k. I thought iu Wats despe)- fI ratly~ fuh ny, and was densely un conscious that there was anyv mo r-j o! obliquity about such a publica tion. Being satisfied with this effort, I looked around for other wor!dis to conquer, and it struck me that it would make good, in teresting matter to charge the edi tor of a neigh boring country paper with a piece of gratuitous rascality and "see him squirm !" I did it. putting the article into the formiu of a pa-ody on the Burial of "Sir John Moore"-aind a pretty crude p:irody it. was, too TI'hen [ lam outrageously-not because they had donme anything to deserve it. but merely because I thought it was my duty to make the paper lively. Next I gently touched up the newest stranger-the lion of the day, the gorgeous journeyman tailor- from Quincy. Hie was a sim perin~g coxcomib of the first waer and the "loudlest" dressed man in the State. lie was an inveterate woman-killer. Every week he wrote lushy "poetry" for the "Journal" about his newest con quest. His rhymes for my week were he'aded "To Mary in H-L," meanin whltetigo h Mary in [Hannibal, of i iece I was suddenly riven from cad to heel by what I regarded s a perfect thunder-bolt of humor, nd I compressed it into a snappy >ot-note at the bottom-thus: We will let this thing pass. just his once; but we wish Mr. J. Gor on Runnels to understand dis inctly that we have a character ) sustain, and from this time )rth wheo he wants to commune -ith his friends in h-1 he must elect some other medium than the olumns of this journall" The paper came out, and I ever knew any little thing at ract so much attention as those layful trifles of mine. For once he Hannibal "Journal" was in de iand-a novelty it had not ex erienced before. The whole town ,as stirred. Hinton dropped in lith a double-barrlled shot-gun arly in the torenoon, When he )und that it was an infant (as ho alled me) that had done him the amage, be simply pulh3d my ears nd went away ; but he threw up is situation that night and left )wn for good. The tailor came -ith his goose and a pair of shears; ut he despised me, too, and de arted for the South that night. 'he two lampooned citizens came -ith threats of libel, and went way incensed at my insignificance. 'he country editor pranced in Nith a war-whoop next day, suffer ig for blood to drink; but he en ed by forgiving me cordially and iviting me down to the drug tore to wash away all animosity i a friendly bumper of "Fabne to.k's Vermifuge." It was his ttle joke. My uncle was very angry when e got back--unreasonably so, I bought, considering what an im etus I had given the paper, and onsidering also that gratitude for is preservation ought to have een uppermost in his mind, inas uch as by his delay he had so ronderfully escaped dissection, )mahawking, libel, and getting is bead shot off. But be soft ned when he looked at the accountd ud saw that I had actually book d the unparalled number of 4irty-three now subscribers, and ad the vegetables to show for it, rd-wood, cabbage b)ans, and un ilable turnips enough to run tho imily for two years! Love and Legs of Mutton. Love and good appetite are said be rare companions. The con rary may well be inferred, how ver, under certain circumstances. n a besciged city, like Paris for istance. where cats and rats be aame table delicacies, a leg of iutton might well be considered di.h fit for Cupid. A -capital tory is told in one of the English )urnals anent this idea. The rites of it, leaving Ve rsailies, de red to carry with him into the cleaguered French capital a leg f mutton. But how to get it out f the gates of one city was the rst question, and how to get it uto the gates of tbe other was he second. lie says: "At the gate of VersaiPes, we rere stopped by the senti-nels, rho told us that no meat could i allowed to leave the town. I protested, but in vain. Mild, bic:e yed Teutons, with porcelain >ipes in their mouths bore or my~ nutton. I followed myl mutton ato the guard house, where I ound a vouthful officer, who ooked so pleas:tnt that I deter uined to appeal to the heart be eath his uniform. I attacked is heart on its weak side. I ex lainied to him that it wats the ate of all to love. The warrior ssnted and heaved a great sigh o his absce.: Gretchen. I pursued my ndvantage, passed rom generalities to prtientars. 3My hly love," I sai-l. "is in 'aris. Long have I sighed in vain. am taking her now a leg of mut on. On this leg hang all my ope of bliss. ltf I presentc my elf to her with this token of my ffection, she may yield to my uit. Oh, full-of-feelium. loved.of. leautcous Gierma:n warior'. ean -o refuse me ? lie 'gazed ont the rint that caused his shame; gazed .3d looked, then looked again.' ?he ba:t tde was won ; the vana uished victor stalked furth. for et ting the soldier in the main, and are ordlers that the leg of mitt ton bould ibe allowed to go foth I int ene Ilaving reacehed Paris I cont igned poorold Rtosmnante to his fate -the knackers-and. with my leg 1lmutton under my arm. walked town the Bou!veyard. I was nobbed, positively mobbed. 'Sir.' ad one man, "allow mte to smell t.' With my usual generosity, I id so. How I reached my bot<l ith myr precious burithen in safe y is a mystery. N. B.-The munt on was for a friend of mine; iretcenei was a pious fraud." Mott's Kit Klux il prop:.ces to ransfer the j.rrisieto of cases of ni ur er and1 ther violence to the Unit .1 tates Cour ts, anid to try thern h. for'e mties on which no person nl .o ca: n" .ie the test oath shouhl be allwe-d to' it, and to provide a suSiient r umziber rops to sustain a!!<' i!!<eta iC the exteu