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Napi:s and Domestie Goods, and thousands of othlr goods too nulerou's to men tiou are now placed before our old castumers of the State of South Carviua, and we guarautee to the public and the people of this Sta'e es pecially, that thfrough our 11 IIIEIT FACILITIESI nd long established reputation with buyers and sellers whce MILLIONS f do!!ars have been exchianged through our house, that we wili give bet!er saisfac ton as regards Quality anad Prices in goods purchased from us than any other house South. OY7 SA:uPLEs SENT ON APPLiCATION. N. B.-Charges prepziid on all goods over and above S10, sent C 0. D. or for Post O0 fee Order. 07 Please name this paper in ordering goods. urchgott, Benedict & Co., 275 KING STREET, CHARLESTON, S. C. Oc. 30, 1878. 41--17 Where can I get the best and the most for the least money, in FANCY AND STAPLE DRY GOODS! ANi> THtE al?st. N0iieSf, Nec0ssi1ies and N0Aion OF THE SEASON? S0MED Sf ISFACT'ORIM !~ And espcCia!!ly so to myI friends anld pa von in Newberry, Lau rents, Edgefid and Lexington. The ORIGINAL LE A iiER OF LOW PRICES in the CITYX 01 CULUM IIA, :urswers the !l-aobing (luestion, anid states with eIr n he liu nowh in~ i store A ii AND oME. !. Ais E an.d ELEd ANT .ST0CK im all Ihi vri u ies or t he business., bougit rm! .ir-t housnes. .ui. seeeed winh p,art fen arrgadto all ca~ I h'dier iwats ofthe m)1l)ic, an whi WILL BE SOLD! F 1L Wi' S.\ISFACi0N J sENDl JACKSON, OF COLUMBIA. -i Samples sent by mail to any part of the country. OcGt. 1t;, .t-t f. Pas.en:ers onl Loth thme up and down trins have the usual time' for i)INNER at Aston, the junction ot the G. & C. R. R., and the S. U. & C. lR. R. Fare well prepared, and the charge rea so.aie.MRS. 31. A. ELKINS. ct 9, 41-tf. An Excellent Medicine. SrmNFIEL.O.Fe8. 1,477 This is to certify 11h,a I hzve usds VEG - -r]. m:mactured by 11. R:. Stevens. Jos ou, .2: :..:,., for ltheunml i:-.n1 and Genleral pr-ostratioi of 7te Nervous System, with gzoo: ,neO,.,1. I re-onnIlnd VE*TINE as anli excelleni mCdoei or such com)plaints. Yr0,is very troly. C. W. VANDFGl~t1FT. Mr. vn-e.rifz. oI the Irm-II of Vandegrift & H oTman, is a vell-known business man in this p1ace, having oine of the largest stores in Springlield, 0. Our Minister's Wife. Lor-svi.LL-', Kr.. Feb. 1G, 1877. 31H. H4. RIt -: : . lacar "ir-Three years ago I was sufering terribr with ItiniatoIy Rheilmat. 0ur IIister' wi:iavi-ed mne io take :king one bottle, I was emire clv riee . ~This year, feeling a re 1urn o1 the disea-e. I again comm(Iee takig i 1 m) )ig buirttedgreatly. 1; J!So -r-ativ improve: mr y va iit-esm11n. s 1sp" ct~fuil. Mus. A. BALLAlRD. 1011 West JklTfron Stret. Safe and Sure. Mi.. ii. ii. -TL.n:NM. In i'i2 yurn Veget ie wa.- recommenUCded to ne, and. vielding o ions of a r~i, I co)isent<it to iy. it, At the time I ws5 T:ring fromi gtieral debility and ner 'vous proiat~i;:, -up rinduced by over wor)k~ :...ir.....r habi its. its wond'erfuil trcrngt winl -n:o e.ti ice properties si-, to 0 re my i ~ ebltart-tl systeml Irn 01heII i dow;&t- anl 1n e I is..1 l)'-5fi' li''" I iz h'mi _-oo.!, fein.::e thii A, have 1o" i : ated t ()gv \ v- *ie'egtine my 1 mo-st. nl q I1 d -Aimt1orte t. us bein, a suz st alt ['stri the waslrnt sStcwtI tonlew lite e:V gn.-rgy. hegtine is te o!y m1.e!1:eie 1 u-e: anv us long as I live I never expect :o IiId a better. "ours truly. W. II. CLAiK. 120 Monterey Street, Allegiany, Penni. VEGETINE The following letter from Rev. G. W. Mans teld. forimfrly pastor of the Nethd-ist Epis copal Church. iyde Park, an( at present setfled in Lowell, must convince everV one vho rends his letter of the wni,(wrfrul cura tive (liualities of VEGI-TINE as a thorough cleanls-cr ami purl1ier of the blood. lYnD PARK, MASS., Feb. 15'. 1870. Mn. 11. 1-. STEVENS. Dear Sir-About ten years ago mly health failed through the dleicting ctleets of dys pepsia: nearly a y-ear later I was attacked by tvuhoid fever in its worst form. It set led ii my back, and took the form of a large leep-seated abscess. which was lifteen 111on1ths in gathering. I had two surgical operations by the best slill in the State, but received no permanent cure. I suafered reat pain at times. and was constantly weakened by a proliuse discharge. I also lost sma! pieces of bone it ditiYereit times. Matters ri-an on thus about seven years. till May, 1874. wh-n a friend recommended ine to go to your oflice, and talk with you of the virtue of VEGETINE. I di'l so, an- by your kindness passed through your iiiau IaCtory. noting the ingredients. &c., by whieh vour remetdy is produceu. Bv what I saw ~and heard I gained some CoIIidCneC in VEGETINE. I coiicied taking it soon after, but felt vorse from its eilects; still I persevered, ain soon felt, it was beneitting ine in other -espects. Yet I did not see the results I desired till I had taken it faithfully for a lit tl more than a NIar, when the (i1LicUlty in he back was cur-ed; andi for nine months I ave enjoyed the best of health. I have in that time gained twenty-five ounds of tiesh, being heavier than cever be ore in nily lile, and I was never more able o peformn labor than now. DIuring the past few weeks I had a scrofu us swelling as large as my list gather on amother part of my body. I took VEGETINE faithfully, and it removed it level with the surface in a month. I think shonld have been eared of my main trou !e sooner if 1 taken larger doses, afte r aving become acecoustomed to its elets. Let your patrons troubled with serofula r kidney disease understand that it lakes time to cure chronic diseases; and, if they ill pattienltly take VEGETrINE, it will- in my ugement, cure themi. With great obligations I am Yours very Iruy G. W. MANSFIELD, Pastor of the MIethodist Episcopal Church. VECETINE Prepared by iL R~. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. VEGETINE IS SOLD BY AL.L DRUG6ISTS, Jan. 1. 1-5t. W\e e.l tim at te'ntion of our irie::ds and he1- publie generlly, to our stock of t-U EItU: RE~ADY MADE WORK on hand DOUBLE AND SiNGLE SEAT BUGGIES f the best sceeted seasoned ma.teri. '1.DE F/OR HOME USh, and at such prieS as cannotI fi to be~ satisfactoryv. ice us a cali, all who want good work. W'e Wi,l BUILD TO( OliDER~ any of Ie tes&t stVieS of BU(Gi1ES o- PiE ON>, v.ith ill1 the lat Limpro vemlents, odIi if noc. bulilt uccorinIg to order parties -, 1: he under no obligationl to take the wo;k whzen completed. PICES TO SUIT TiIE TIES. lid C'arriages and Buggies REXOVA ED and made to look as good as necw at esona ble ;riices. R-niring done with neatness and de A lihare of the patronage soli~cd. J. TAYLOR &CO. Oppwsite .Jail, Newvberry, S. C. Dec11. 50-1y. NEW 1'%I BEAUTIIUL BIX PAPETERIE. The handsomest lot of BOX. PA PEILS, en trly new patterns, selected with a view to plaea cultivated taste. 31tNIArL-ld BOXES, for little nusses, only 2') ets. dust received at t he HEALDl BOOK STORE.~ business you can engage in S5 to S20 per day madle by any.work er.u or e1ither sex, right in theu'own localities. Particulars adsm rIes worth $5 frece. Implrove your spare Cen Ponela.1 Mai n e - THE NIN ETY ASD NINE. There were ninety and nine that safely lay In fhe shelter of the fbid, But one was out on the hiPs away, Far off from the gates of gold, Awvay on the mountains wId and bare, Away from the shepherd's care. "Lord, thou hast here thy ninety and nine; Are they not enough for thee ?" But the shepherd made an answer, "This of mine Has wandered away from me; And altho' the road ba rough and steep, I go to the desert to find iny sheep." But none of the ransoned ever knew How dcep were the waters crossed; Nor how dark was the night that the Lord pas.-ed through Ere !,-e 1bmnd his sheep that was lost. Out in ihe desert ble heard its cry Sick and helpless and ready to ie. "Lord, wheuce are those blood-diops all the way, That mark out the mountains track!" "They were slied for one who had ,one a-t;ray Ere the slepherd could bring him back." "Lord, whence are thy hands so rent and torn?''T "Tihey ar pierced tc-night by many a thorn." And thro' the mountains, tii:der-iven, Avnd up from the rocky steep, Tber ruc a cry to the ;ate of heaven, Rejoice! I have found my sheep!" And tli angels echoed around the throne "Rejoice for the Lord brings back his own!' I~~~~ MSRYU AELLE01 -0 I bad been "doing" the continent in a rambling way and had stop ped for a few days at Venice. Here 1 met my old college chum, Dick Glover. The latter had become a famous doetor within the last f,ew years. Having at last married a rich and handsome young widow, he had concluded to take a short period of relaxation, and hence his presence in this distant clinic. Ot course he was overjoyed to see me, and having been there long enough to know something f the place, he volunteered to show me around. "B3y Geo rge !" I exclaimed, sud dcn ly, as we stopped before the piazza San :Mairco. "There's as andsome a picture as I ever saw. nnocence personified." A young and most beautiful irl stood before us, engaged in feeding the pigeons. The birds were marvelously ame, and approached her fear essly, even lighting on her hands. "Did you ever see a more at tactive sight !" I asked my friend, nthusiastically, as we passed on. "Rum! 1 don't know," was the ather doubtful reply. "Rumor. as been busy' about that lady's ame of late." "In what way ?" I asked in ignantly. "I never saw a sweet er face in all my life." "Well, I'll tell you the story as ear as I've heard it. The wo an is Countess Ardotti. IIer usband, the count, is reputed to e immensely wealthy, while the ife was but a 1poor peasant irl when he married her. Of ourse the general belief' is that she wedded him for his wealth. lhis would not amount to much ere it not for the fact that she makes no effort to show her dis like for her husband's society. I appened to be present at a large bllI given here a few weeks ago. On that occas(in the countess flirtedl shamteful ly withi a youn g Ital ian, the sont of some noblemnan. Ier coniduct attracted universa! a.ten tion, but she did not seem to hed that in the least. N ow *youi siec why 1I am rat her mzor~e dh ubt fuli of her. innocence thtan you are." "Still yon me.y be mistaken by your p)rej udice against her,"' I re torted gaily. WXe arrived home at about four p. mn., and the doctor's wife met us with a took of horror on her face. "Have you heard the news? she gasped. "Isn't it perfectly horrible ?" "What news, dear ?" asked the doctor, in surprise. "You'll have to enlighten us on the subject, I'm afraid." "Count Ardotti has been mu dered !" Th octm.om looked gre m. this intelligence, and glanced to vard me. As for myself, I was tre i Lns with Conficlting UNIO t:o~s. 'Let me hear the particulars ?" I asked, quickly. " & will tell ou ail I know." re plied t he lady. "The count v ns found sitting in is chair with a poniard drivcen to the hilt in his.; heart. ie ist have fallen asicep and been attacked in that state." "What time did it occur asked ; h doctor, briefly. "About three o'clock they dis covered him, and then his body was not quite cold. The countess was immitoltcv suspcuted of the crI i me. She was engared in feed ing the pigeons when they arrested her. anl there was blood upon her dei,.-nte hands." .YouI. was rather i mistaken in Vy1 judgment that tine,' said the dtor aiUddressitg m. "I suppose yu'il admit it now ? "Ne.ver !" I replied. "It strikes me that there is some 1,d) mS - crv at the bottom of this, and t h at te (01111tess is-still inocent." "Your legal irstinc. is wrong" this time, I'm afraid," said the doctor's wife. -The poniard with which the (Ied was done belonged to the countess, and has bevii al ready idontified." "Pooh !" I retorted ; "that is proof positive of her innocence. No one but a fool would have left an article behind that would have convicted them." "I left. the doctor, and proceeded it once to the police officials. I found them in perplexity, some of them believing in the innocence of' the countess, and the rest firmlyv believing ber to be guilty. I had provided myself with a letter of introduction from the doctor, and was politely received. Stating that I was a lawyer by profession, and used to unraveling mysteries, I offered my services in the present case. I was accepted without hesitation, save by onej member of the board, who was mrost bitter in his hostility to the ountess. This;. man alluded tob showed uch an am3ouut of strong' dislike o me that I resolved to find ont the cause. All I could leatrn. ho w ver, was his name, and the fact that lhe was the father of a half witted girl. I haLd two interviews with the ountess, and each of them tren gthe ned my belief in her in ocence. I endeavoredx to find the young oblemian whose name had been oupled with hers, but he bad left he country. Of course this gaveI astill darker look to the case, but [ did not despair. One niight I was proceeding omeward at a late hour, when I eard a stealthy footstep behind ne. I turned quickly, arid just in ime to catch my assailant by the ro. A keen stilletto was in his and, and my prompl~t action had aved my life. Snatching out my evolver, I leveled it at his head, nd ordered him to move on, at the same time keeping a firm hold ponf his collar. The muzzle of my weapon was acon vincintg argument, and he id not dare disobey. I marched im straight to the house of my friend, Dr. Glover. As I marched y prisoner into the doctor's resence, I~ for the first time, aught a glimpse, of the fatce be enoth the slouch hat. I started back in astonishment. [t, was iio less a personi than my strangeC enemyV amng" the poli'ce >tlicials. I knew then that he as able to thbrow some light upon he mystery. "Se'e here,"' I said, assumingm ereest tone ; "you are fairly cor ered no0w. Confe2ss what. you now concerning the murder of ount Ardotti, and you shall1 go ree, otherwisel1 sball give you in to custody for your attempt upion my life."' The man, frightened by my manner, told all he knew. IIis !sane daughter had been so made by the count's former attenitjons. Iaving betrayed her, lie bad cast er off, anid she had brooded over her wro:ngs until she had become langerously insane. Afte thencont's manriag she hail sworn ri-tvenge. andt ecame so violent that -hc required constant watching. On the day of the Cunht's murder she bad sQcce" ed in Cluding the vigilance of her fri C, I (I S* .Her father was the first to miss her, and fclring hieri purposc. had gone1 str1aighL 10 the count.'s en tra nc. H1 e had :!rrived ju"t in time to see his crazy daughter ecSaping by a back entrance, and shrew(ly guessed that the deed had beenl perpetrated. His wish for revengo upon the new CoutesS for usurJping his (aulghter's rightfui place, and his fear ihat the crazy girl might have to pay the pentdy (f her act with her life, Wd led to his silence. Strange to say, the sight of Lur 111Mrderel lover had brougrt back the girs w, iunering senses, and II she wVas legally hiable for thcnt. Th~e doctor l istened in open mou"tiled astoishmeLunt, while j dr-ew up the statCm en t in legal form1, aid coml peleitd Lhe man to sign it ; then we ccompained him home and had the tri.th corrobo rated from the unwil!ag lips of' the daugrhter. The cotinLess was quickly li'be. rated, and public opinion swung round in her favor. The real murderess was never prosecuted, Opinion seeming to be that it was an act f jLStice. Such is the story, as told me by a lawyer friend on his recent re turn from ab'road. His wife was the former Countess Ar,dotti, and she was, indeed, a most beautiful womnian. WO II. ILnw J5-iflanmi11. THE EDITORS. The editors of Indiana had a grand reunion at Lafayette, the other day, and I was constrained to stop ard join thm. for verily were they not going to open a keg of naiils and cut a melon ? Happy, innocent, guileless men, these editors! How little they know of the world and its sordid ares ; howv little they know of te wrangling strifes and its noisy wars ; how little they see of its rredeemable and fluctuating cur rncies ; how sublimely, maguifi entiy seldom do they light upon he combination of its safe lock. Ah, men of a busy, heartless, oney-getting world, editors have o money. We have something etter. We have calm, unmoved und unmnovable, sleeping con ;~iences, that you couldn't quicken vith a stroke of iightning. W hat i. priceless treasure is such a con ;ience ! Journalism is the p:-ofes ion u ithout jealousy. I don't be ieve there is a profession inl the . orld so free from jealousy as this. ook at musical peopleC. Thiey are ,be worst in the lot. Muisic bath -harmns to soothe a savage, but it as no power to tame the ferocit.y f people who play. and sing, and eab it. An opera comnpauy, without a black eye, is anu r. eard-of wonder. All through the pera season the frightened air is ull of the loud wran glings of arrng tenor and sop)rano, con ralto and basso. Every mail brings o our ears the crash of another ootstool Ch ristine Nilsson has cked over. And a church choir -why, I neve-r know but one hoir that didn't ha'.e a chronic ow on its hanids datiniig ba ck as ar as the taritf bill, anid more :emplicated than the Loiin in. ~estgation. Arnd that one broke p the first Sua.Oeof the frst i ndications of a revival in ihe hurch is when the soprano and d:o get on speakinrg terms wvithi ab Other. And at a musical stival. did you ever~ notice how he chorus stood back and giared Lt the solo ? It is awful. But ith us there is none of that feel ng. We love each other. And when, in the coturse of our politi al duties as standard bearers, we e constrained to call an es eemed contemporary a '.measure ess liar." he knows we mean usiness, and if be is a man who ' will get mad at a little trivial hing like that, he comes over with a club and mashes us, and t.at is t he end of it. We mayl bave oCca5ion to deIoUce him, ii the heat and passion of the con liet, as a "moral hyena, whose foul and fastering chops drip gall and aqpalloriis. a mocker and de stro\er of the tiutb, upon whose Vicious lips the dear .pure truth, if OVer it could spring from a heart SO b.UIckened and stained with Cim1C.tUOrns to ashes an(d bitterness bere it can be uttered." We may feel it our duty to call an es teemed Con tem porary a "palter ing sla-ve to a ring of 'pe-tty ty rants," ;-au unprincipled scoun drel, whose grovelling earcass, Wailowin-g iU the cesspool of*polit iCal coriruptlion, steeped to hiis thievish eyes inZ abhorrent parti san infimy, pursues its Iefiriouz trtflie to the very shaduo- 1 the m gallows it ha .1Sitd too lVng." We gct mad at. these thigs soretimes, dreadful mad. aw ul mad. But we get over it, especiaiiy if the other man is the bigge~.. When t hejealousy Of UniOn gen era's nas brin-ging disgrace and deteat on the Ution arms in Vir ginia, the newspaper correspon dents husng together and car-ried on the war and won victories and slaughtered iucbels by the coiun -doublie-leaded brevier. People love us for this unseitihness. Our tranquil lives imprint up)n our faces the beautiful and tendcr ex pression which people always ire member so long after they meet an editor, and which makes them go home shuddering, to dreaui that every night they met a man who had starred to death, and had crawled out of his grave to stcal a pretzel and couldn't find his way back. We eat weli, and we don't care at whose expense we dress well, we sleep well, and we drink-well, only tolerable, only tolerable.-Eawkeye. THE YEALR WITHOUT A SUM One of the old residents of Der by tells us the year of 1816 is what is known as the "year without a sumrmer." 01(d New England far mers refer to it as 'eighteen hun dred anid starved to death." Jan uary was mild, as was also Feb ruary, with the exception of a few days. The greater p)art of March was cold and boisterous. Anril opened warm, but grew colder as it advanced, ending with snow and ice, and winter cold. In May ice formed half an inch thick. buds and flowers were frozen and corn was killed. Frost, ice and snow were commion in June. Al most every green thiing~ was killed. arid fruit was nearly all destroyed. Snow fell - t the depth of three inches in New York and Massa uh usetts, and ten inches in Maine. J uly was accompanied with frost and ice. On 5th ice was formed of the thick ness of window glass in New York, New England and parts of Pennisylvania, and corn was nearly all destroyed in certain sections. In August icc tormed half an inch thick. Corn was so frozen that a great deal was cut down and dried for fodder. Very little ripecned in the .New England and Middle States. Farmers were obliged to piay four or five dollars a bushel for corn in 1816 for seed for the next spring's plianting. Thej first t,wo weeCks (f September were rniild ;the balance of the month was cold with frost, and( ice form xd a quarter of an inch thick. Detobher was morec than usually :old, with frost, and ice. Novem-1 er was cold and blustering, with mlowV etinugh for good sleighing. Decembaer waus quite mild and 30mifortable. - nuderm)ere (Ct.') Weekly Forum. lHe who learns and makes no ise of his learning is a beast of jurden with a load of books. LCo mpre hendeth the ass whether be carries on his back a library or .bundle of fagots? ? Strength of mind depends upon I robriety, for this keeps reason un ;louded by passion. Divine vengeance comes with I eet of lead, but it strikes with i iands of'h-on. ADVERTISINi RATES. Advertisements inserted at the DaM lf 1.00 per square (one inch) for first insertion, *d 75 cents for ech subsequent insertir. 4, -. lumn advcrti:enents len p,cr ceut. on above. Notices of meetings, ohitu:tries and tribut< s of respect, same rates per square as ordiiiy advertisements. Special Notices in Local column 15 cents per line. Advertisements not marked with the num be!r of insertio!:s wi! ie kept in till forbid, and chargea accurdirqy. i SpC-Ci:1 Comraers made w.h large adver tibeis, itl beral dedue ionson .-bove rates l 'NE A 1T11 NEATNE6s AND DISPATCH. TERMS CASH. iiARD TIIES IN 1S19--'20. People who now coni>lain so Nalich of hard tires would do well o1. read the following from Ben. on's "hirty Yi:irs' Recollec tions." 1" Sa say : "h --"rs o. 1819--'20 were a periodI ot ;.nm nd agzonyI. N o money, eth ::~guld or silver; no paper, Con N i bin to specie ; n o m easu re er ; iandat of value left remnig. Thii e ocal banks, all bult L:se of New England, after a bricf rearoption of specie pay. ments, again san into a state of SUSpe1si1n. rhe Bank of the United at <-roated as a rem edy )r all the-ce evils. now at the head of the evil, prostrate and heipless, with no power left but tilat of suing its debtors and sell iong their property,. and purchasing tI itself at its own nominal price. No price for proipcrity or pro duce, no sales but those of the Snriff and the Marshal ; no pur eh,sers at the execution sales but creditor or a hoarder of money no employment for industry ; no demand for labor ; no sales for the product of the farm ; no sound of ham mer but that of the auctioneer knocking down property. Stop laws. property laws, the replevin laws, loan office laws, the inter ventioni of the Legislature be. tween the creditor and the debtor -this was the business of legis lation in th)ree-fourths of the States of the Union-of all South and West of New England. .No medium of exchange but depre eiated paper; no change even but little bits of foul paper, marked so many ceuts and signed by so many tradesmen, barbers, or inn keepers; exchanges deranged to the extent of fifty or one hundred per cent. Distress, the universal demand. thundered at the door of all Legislatures, State and Fed. eral." T HE -CZAR's LIBERALITY.-The czar is said to be a child in money matters. A most intimate friend, Count Adlerberg, is often in debt, and tho czar since his accession to the tbrone, has ungrudigingly paid millions to release him from his embarassments. One day last winter, the count appeared at sourt coughing violently and look ing very ill. "What is the matter with yon, Adlerberg?" asked the azar. "Severe bronchitis, sire," replied the count. "My doctor says that 1 ought to go to Nice for a couple of months." 'Then why don't you go? I will give you leave." "I cannot afford the journey, sire." "Never mind the expense ; I1 will defray that." The count brightened up. "I will defray the expense," in the em peror's mnouth, could not mean .less than ten or twenty thousand r'oubles. The next morning his majesty sent for the count, and graciously handed him a five hun. dred rouble note-less than 8350, it the present rate of exchange, for a two months' trip from St. Petersburg to Nice a-nd back again. Count Adlerberg got rid f his bronchitis in Russia. The character of a wvise man ::ousists iu three things; to do him self what be tells others to do ; to ict on no occasion contrary to ustice, and to bear with the rveakness of those about him. With every exertion the best nan can do only a moderate mount of good ; but it seems in he power of the most contempti >Ie individual to do incalculable nischief. Affection, like spring flowers, >rcaks through the most frozen ~round at last, and '.he heart vhi-h seik but for another heart