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! IjEnvis m. grist, proprietor. | |^n |nbepettbrnt Jfamilj ftctosppcr: Jor t|e promotion of tjje political, Social, Agricultural ani> Commercial Interests of t|e jJontj}'. {terms?$3.00 A year, IN advance. ' VOL. 31. /' YORKVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1875. ' V , 1STO. 36. I 1 jc Original' jttarg. !f Written for the Yorkville Enquirer. t THE SEVEN SISTERS OF TORE. D ' ? CHAPTER XVII. b "Virgilia," said Mr. Holdweg, suddenly entering his wife's apartment, "I wish you to ;. prepare for a journey, at once." ^ "A journey, Louis!" she echoed in surprise., "Yes. Do not pack up many things; we : shall not be gone long." ^ "Where are we going ?" J "To Wilmington. I have business there." ! "When do we start ?" i. "To-night. Come, don't ask too many (" questions; we have no time to lose." a "Isn't this a sudden resolve ?" asked Virgilia timidly. "Perhaps. Is that of any consequence to 1 * you?" j< "May I see my sisters before we start 7" j "By no means. There will not be time, i 8 You can leave a note explaining our sudden ; ^ departure. Say that business has unexpect-' n II i >> I V eaiy canea me away. . Virgilia, constrained to be obedient, implicitly followed bis directions. By dinner time all her preparations were completed, and in the evening they set out, leaving their house ! in charge of their one servant, with directions ; to let Virgilia's note be conveyed to Brierly ' ^ Farm the next morning. j "Virgilia's conduct is inexplicable," said ^ Edna, when she read it. "She was eccentric j enough before her marriage; but she is worse i than ever, now. To think of her pleading ill-1 w ness as an excuse for never coming near us a all this time, and now going off on a journey ! c in this sudden manner!" "As to Mr. Holdweg, I detest him," said I j Jennie. "I believe he is nothing more nor jj less than a hypocrite. Perhaps they have ^ encountered Hugh. He was going off" last j 0 evening, too, was he not?" "He was uncertain whether he should take ! ? the evening or the morning train." I 0 Hugh had taken the evening train, and j Q was, therefore, unconsciously, a fellow passen- i e ger of Virgilia and Mr. Holdweg. He felt I v himself imperatively called upon to return to j j, Wilmington, where he had put certain operations in motion, which, he trusted, would lead ' j to the removal of the cloud that obscured his j ? name. At all events, he resolved to spare no i a effort by which this result might be achieved. | j. He was not afraid that the scandal would | j be publicly disseminated, for the bank direct- j ors had implied to him that the knowledge of Ij his supposed guilt should rest with them. | a For the sake of his uncle's memory they were j ^ willing to shield his name from reproach, and j t Hendricks, having no interest in the matter, j had readily engaged to keep silence. But to a his proud and sensitive spirit, the fact that j v such au odium was attached to him, even in a the minds of a few, was sufficient to gall him I 8 to the core of the heart. Honor had ever [ t been his watchword, and the consciousness 11 r- that it was now tarnished by the breath of, c suspicion, robbed him of all repose. Alone, j this trouble would have been a weighty one to j j bear ; but added to his grief for Claribel, it j f was a load that seemed to crush him to the j ^ earth. It was now five days since the disap- j r pearance of the latter, and the conviction had j t impressed itself upon his mind that she had ; t come to an untimely end. j f "1 was marked out for misfortune," he said i to himself; "it is useless for me to hope for j happiness in this world. The brief glimpse 1 J I have had of it has been shaded by care and j r regret; and even that has altogether vanished,; r never to return. Would that I had remained : v in Italy. There I might, at least, have j ?.?j ? a : _ paoocu iuj uin pcauc, auu x;uj\jjxz\a tug wa- j j_ teem of my fellow-men. But now I have lost, t everything that can make life desirable ; and ; f not only suffer myself, but have entailed suf- | 8 fering on others." I ^ His thoughts, too, persistently reverted to i J Virgilia's letter, and he found himself weigh- r iug, again aud again, the possibility of the j truth of her assertion regarding ClaribeFs j v changed feelings toward him. He had at ii first utterly repudiated it; but constant dwell-' I iug on a subject, often seems to place it in a ; t different aspect from that which it at first pre- i r seuts, and encourages doubt to creep in where g it did not seem possible that any should exist. : c It appeared to hirn incredible that Virgilia g should, out of malice or ill-will, purposely mis- [ represent her sister's sentiments; yet he could | g scarcely conceive of a person being mistaken f on such a subject?and then the idea that there might have beeu some ground for her j a statements, gave new bitterness to his distress. ! <j It seemed as though a thousand scorpions j t were twining about his heart and tormenting > g him with their stiugs. I t He passed a wretched night, and was thank- v ful when daylight came. At seven o'clock i q they stopped for breakfast, and as the train ? was to wait an hour at this station to allow | c the up-train to pass, Hugh strolled off to some I distance from the house, finding it impossible c to eat anything, and willing to escape the c scrutiny of his fellow passengers, and at the s same time refresh himself by a little walk in i .? - i??-L ,_u : A* . me uriBK, com moruiug air. al tue uisiauun of a hundred yards or so from the house, he came to the edge of a steep embankment which walled in the railroad track on one side. On the opposite side the ground shelved precipitously doward to a narrow but deep and rapid stream. A thought came into his mind of how easily a couple of leaps might bring him to the end of his troubles?one down the bank, the next into the swift water below. Then he thought how horrible it would be, if while a man were standing on the track, trying perhaps to gather courage for the fatal plunge, from which at the last moment he might shrink in fear, the mighty lo-1 comotive should come thundering around a bend in the road, close by?on, on, toward the wretch paralyzed by an awful terror, and unable to escape?and sweep over and crush him into nothingness. The idea made him shudder, and he instinctively drew back a step or two from the edge of the high slippery bank. Not that he entertained, even for a moment, the desire to adventure that "leap in the dark" which is a refuge to cowardly minds from the ills and woes of the present life ; for he was no coward, and moreover had too firm a faith in the doctrines of Christianity to seek an escape from sorrow through such a means as this. "That's an ugly place, is it not?" said, in broken English, a familiar voice close by. Hugh turned, and beheld with surprise the hirsute visage of Mr. Holdweg near his shoul ler. He stood with one foot on a stump, his Ibow on his knee and his chin ,in his hand, ,nd his glittering eyes fixed intently upon lugb's face. "You here!" exclaimed the latter. "I did lot expect to meet you at this distance from lorae." "Nor I you, nein H,err. Apparently we re bound in the same direction," quietly reained Mr. Holdweg. "You are going to Vilmington, nicht toahr /" "I believe, sir, it is very little consequence o you where I am going," haughtily replied dugh. "My business concerns myself alone." "Oh I I crave your forgiveness," said Mr. loldweg, with a very low and somewhat ronical bow. "I was not aware that I was sking an unpleasant question." "Pleasant or unpleasant, it was one pronjptd by idle curiosity, and as such, merits no eply," rejoined Hugh, who felt a growing lislike and irritation toward the man, minged with an association he could not jqfine.jOjf omething disagreeable m the past. "Ah! my good friend, you cannot tell that. may not be idly curious. I may take a rarraer interest in your affairs than you magine." "I cannot conceive, sir, to what cause I can ttribute the honor of being an object of inerest to you, in any form whatever," answerd Hugh, more coldly than before. "Perhaps," rejoined the other, "I may have ieard of some little dilemma in which you re at present involved, which excites an arent desire on ray part to be of service to ou." "I am much obliged to you," said Hugh, nth difficulty restraining his anger; "but I ra not aware of any dilemma in which you ould be of the smallest service to me." "No one knows until he tries," said Mr. loldweg, blandly. "If you would only beieve that I am not unworthy of your confilence, and explain to me how I could best be f assistance ?" "Sir," interrupted Hugh, with flashing eyes, I can attribute this persistency on your part nly to your ignorance of the laws and customs f polite society?at least of American socie ? ? ? i ty?wnicn iorDia unwarraniaoje luienejcute rith any one's private affairs. In your native and these laws may not be recognized." "See you, now," said Mr. Holdweg, epreadng out his hands in a deprecating manner. What a storm of anger my poor efforts have moused! I try merely to show you my disinerested friendship, and you treat me as though ! had made some hostile demonstration." "Keep your friendship for those who desire t," said Hugh, turning away. "I, for one, ira not ambitious for the distinction." And, without waiting to pursue the colloquy furher, he walked rapidly off. "So!" said the other looking after him with i malicious smile. "There is a declaration of var between us, it seems. So be it! Things ire getting in train, just as I wished. I was trongly tempted to give him a push down he bauk. The cars will be here in five min""J fkof fIma lio nniiM hnrHlv opt ni)t H.GO, O.UU II. V..C.U WU.V. J b if the way?but that would have been shortining the pleasure of reveuge. I have to )our a few wholesome truths into his ear beore I get rid of him?and, besides, this is too >ublic a place for such a performance. It night entail unpleasant consequences upon he surviving actor. No, no?with the opporunity I now have before me, I can hardly ail of success ; but caution?great caution, nust be observed." Hugh, as he retraced his steps to the eatinglouse, felt that he had, perhaps, been unwarantably hasty, and more uncourteous in his eception of Mr. Holdweg's overtures than he ras called upon to be. "It might have been his stupid foreign iglorance, which I resented as deliberate iraperinence," he soliloquized. "But I detest; the ellow?I never faucied him from the first, ind lately he has made himself particularly mpleasantto me. Well, I have given him a esson to let rae alone in future?I hope he'll etneraber it." On their arrival in Wilmington, Mr. Hold* veg carried Virgilia to a hotel, where he regstered their names as "H. Schaffer and wife." ie had their meals sent up to them, saying hat Mrs. Schaffer was an invalid and could lot come down stairs. The landlady, a kind, ;ood-tempered woman, asked if she could be if any service to the lady ; she had had, she aid, a good deal of experience in sickness ; mt her offer was declined, "Mr. Schaffer" aying that he could do all that was requisite or his wife without assistance. After tea, this gentleman of fertile resources tnd innumerable aliases, went off for a stroll [own town. It seemed that he had no paricuiar object in view save to look around him ;enerally, for he walked at a leisurely pace, ofen stopping to gaze in at the lighted shoprindows, while he puffed, with an air of tran[uil enjoyment, at a fine Havana cigar. He inally came to a standstill, however, in front if a building which we shall desiguate as the Srevoort House?a well-kept hotel, which has ihanged hands several times since the period if which I write?and keeping himself in the hade, lounged against oue of the columns iear the front entrance, still smoking, and larrowly scanning the tace and fagure or each lerson passing in and out. While the crowd which usually congregated about a hotel door itill continued, his preseuce was no way renarkable ; but as it grew late, and the various jroups began to disperse, he seemed apprelensive of attracting attention, and moved off ,o some distance, where he slowly paced the iidewalk, while still maintaining his scrutiny >f the passers by. At length a figure abruptly turned the iorner of the street, and walked abruptly toward the hotel. Mr. Holdweg followed at a listauce, and saw him enter. "That's my ;arae," he muttered below his breath. "I'll wait a little till I think he's safe. I must do lothing rash." His next proceeding was to seek a restaurant iu a neighboring street, where he called "or some oysters and a bottle of sherry wine, [t would have been remarked by persons acrastomed to his usual phlegmatic demeanor, hat he looked anxious and excited, and that lis hand trembled nervously as he poured out jlass after glass of the wine, and drank it with feverish haste. He seemed to be trying ,o stimulate himself to the performance of iome deed which it required au unusual imount of courage to perpetrate; for he mutered, occasionally, below his breath? "I must try another! .Surely that will iteady ray nerves. Bah! What foolish weakness this is! I am not used to being >verconie by such babyish fears!" A waiter, partly catchiDg the sense of one ' t of these soliloquies, looked at hira for a mo- ? ment suspiciously ; but apparently coming to t the conclusion that he was an eccentric indi- f vidual, with whose peculiarities it might not c be prudent to interfere, passed on without comment. ' 1 Having finished his light supper, Mr. Hold- r , weg paid his bill, and sallied forth again into j c the street. It was'rfow quite late, and only I c the tramp of the watchmen on their beat, and t j the occasional echoing footstep of a pedestrian j hurrying homeward, broke the stillness that (1 reigned supreme over the tranquil town. r After a little more deliberation, he retraced I j his steps to the hotel and sought the night- j f clerk, who was dozing at his post. "Can I be accommodated with a room here ! s 1 to-night?" he asked. | t I "Yes, I suppose so," was the reply. "We s are pretty full, but we can put you away 1 somewhere. You had better have come ear- j c ^lier, though ; we could have made you more ; c j comfortable." j 1 "Oh ! I am not particular," rejoined Mr. j g Holdweg. "By the way, could you kindly j 1 | tell me whether a gentleman by the name of | f j Thorctou is stopping here?" | "Thornton?I'll refer to the book," said the s ' man. "Friend of yours ?" 1 s "Yes; I understood he was coming here, j 1 The fact is, I wanted to see him on a little j s business, aud would have come earlier, but \ was detained ; however, to-morrow will do as I well." a "Thornton?H. Thornton; is here?second j t ! floor, room 8," said the clerk, who had been i s j running over the entry of names. "Perhaps j I can get you a room on that same floor; I i t ; think there's one vacant, but it's a small one, | s ijust over the yard?not extra comfortable., 1 j We are pretty full, as I said just now. Fol- j a j low me, will you ?" j r | Mr. Holdweg instinctively trod lightly as I \ they ascended the stair-case; but tbe cierK t wore loud-creaking boots, which made a hor- s ' rible noise in the silence of the night, cuusing j his companion to glance uneasily around, as a if fearful of seeing some door opened and a 1 | head thrust out. No door opened, however, I r | and they reached their destination without j , encountering any one. ' I The room into which the clerk ushered him 5 was a small oue?a very small one?which, < in hot weather, would have been intolerably ; close, but was comfortable enough on this cold I night, owing to the fact that it was over the j | kitchen, where a brisk fire had been burning j j all day. The clerk again apologized for the 1 | inconveniences of the situation ; but Mr. j j Holdweg, apparently somewhat impatient of j his apologies, assured him that it suited him ! extremely well, and that he wished nothing i more than a few hours of repose, as he had j ( traveled all day, and was very tired. Upon j this hint, the man was about to withdraw, i ! when Mr. Holdweg again stopped him. j i "My friend, Mr. Thornton's room is, you I ] say, on this same floor," he said. "I want to i : see him quite early in the morning." i "Yes, sir, number eight?the fourth door s from the opposite end of the corridor. Shall 1 j I have a message carried to him in the morn- I ing for you ?" s "No, thank you. I will go to his room my- < self?or, stay?yes, I suppose I might as well j < send a message, just say to mm tnai air. , Stevenson is here, and would like to see him." ' "At what hour ?" j "At?say seven o'clock ; you need not dis- j , turb him before." j 1 "Very good," said the clerk. "I'll not fail | {to have him called at seven. Is there nothing i more I can do for you ?" "Nothing at all, I am obliged to you." j "Good-night, then." ; "Good night." j When the man was gone, Mr. Holdweg sat j down, and leaning his head on his hand, sat j i for a long while, thinking. Everything j j around him was profoundly still. His candle j i burned dimly on the table where it had been : , placed, shedding but a feeble light over the j ! room. Presently a clock in a neighboring j church-tower chimed the hour of twelve. The strokes rang out sharply on the night-air, each one seeming to fall with a curious force ! aud distinctness upon the listener's hearing. ; Directly after, the voice of a watchman was I 1 heard, crying loudly and clearly : "Past ( twelve o'clock?all's well." Then the pro-1 found silence again. | I Still the adventurer sat thinking?think ing. Thinking of what ? Something that; ; seemed to chill the current of life in his veins,; j making it creep sluggishly and slowly along ;! something that brought a fixed stony look : | upon his face, blanching it to the lips, and setting his teeth hard with a cold and cruel | resolution?a resolution that nothing could t shake. ! 1 At last he arose, and softly turned the ; f latch of his door. It turned easily, without 1 j creak or jar. Then he tried the lock, holding ] the candle near that he might see how it t worked. It was of simple construction, and : f I I not very strong. ; j "No difficulty here," he murmured. "I t j suppose they are all alike." He re-closed \ 1 the door and set his light iu a corner on the j i floor, putting a screen before it to preclude ] : the possibility of its rays shining through the * j cracks of the door or window. Then he re- ( moved his shoes, substituting a pair of list \ slippers which he had in his pockets. Then c he drew something from the breast of his e coat and looked at it, bending low over the ( candle's feeble flame. As he did so, there j ! was a sparkle and glitter as of burnished steel, t He touched the thiug he held lightly with his . 1 finger, nodded his head in a satisfied manner, t I and then replaced it in his breast. 1 "Now I must reconnoitre," he said to him-: i ! self. "I must be cautious?I play a bold t I game; but faint heart never won success, t .First of all, do these chambers all front the r same way ? If so, there is a row of windows j on the back street, with a balcony below 1 them?that will simplify matters amazingly." ( He looked through his window, opening the r I blind very gently to avoid the slightest noise, v Only darkness visible met his eye?no light f burning anywhere in sight; not even a street- I lamp was to be seen from that point of view, j j He was disappointed in his calculations; s there was no balcony, and no other window t but his own, his room being a corner one, and f differently situated from the others. t "Deuce take it! I must have got my ideas v | twisted somehow," he said as he drew in his ( i head again. "I've lost the points of the com-I c pass. I must try the passage, that's all. But 1 j I'll leave this window opened, because it will ; t be au easy means of egress when I return." j t In another moment, he had slipped out into ! \ ;he corridor, and after listening a short tin ipparently convinced that there was no ri >f discovery, he made his way softly by t aint light of the lamp, suspended frum t :eiling, to the door marked No. 8. Arrived there, he applied his ear to t tey-hole aud listened. The sound of de< egular breathing came from within. T >ccupant of the chamber, worn out by fatig >f body and mind, had found refuge from 1 roubles, though but a temporary one in slef Mr. Holdweg tried the door with a lig laud. Contrary to his expectation, it w jot locked. The latch turned as easily lis own had done, and in an instant more, bund himself inside the room. There had been a fire in the grate, and mouldering embers still gave out an unci ain light. By this flickering gleam he cou ee the outline of Hugh Thornton's form, le lay with his head thrown back, his bro ;hest>upturned, and one arm tossed careless iver his pillow. Looking steadily, the 01 irie became more defined, until, his ey (rowing accustomed to the gloom, could plai y discern the sleeper's position, and even t eatures of his face. The intruder, approaching the bed, look teadily upon him. Then his right ha: ought his breast, and drew from thence ong, glittering steel blade. In another i taut that blade would have been crimson vith Hugh's blood. Just then the clock in the church-to^ truck again. More clearly and sharp han before, the hour of one rang out on t ilent air. The sleeper started, suddenly awakened he sound. His eyes opened, and fixed the elves upon the murderous face bending o\ )iin. Down came the shining steel, but werved in its aim, for the unexpected int uption shook the hand that grasped it. Thf vas a half-stifled cry, a sudden leap, and t wo men closed in a desperate struggleitruggle for life or death. Then voices were heard, and moving foi iteps. Hurrying lights appeared, and t andlord, followed by an excited crov ashed in. [conclusion next week.] It i s torn of ^ittoliui Written for the Yorkville Enquirer. HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE Early Settlement of South Carolfn BY REV. ROBERT LATHAN. (continued from last week.) When Charles Craven entered upon t luties of the office of Governor, he made, \pril, 1712, an address to the House of Co nons, in which he declared that the highi lira of his ambition was to advance the pr Derity of the colony. Placing the colony i proper state of defence, and making it t nost flourishing colony in America would, laid, be more pleasing to him than all t *lory that might be attached to the fact of 1 being Governor of the province. The 1 ' ? . . n i !_ iL. . sembly had the utmost connaence 10 me a jerity and honesty of the man, and, con quently, the words which he uttered were 1 Sieved, not only by the Assembly, but by t people. Charles Craven was not only a pc ular man, but he was a pure man. The habitants of the colony were aware of tl fact. New energy was infused into the pi pie, and the arts of civilization began to gri ind flourish under his benign influence. In June, the Assembly voted seven thoi ind five huudred dollars for the purpose 'building a convenient State house for t molding the General Assembly, courts of ji ;ice and other public uses." This sum, ^resent set apart by the Legislature for bui! ng of a State house, would be niggardly scat ind indicate a miserably low state of civilii ,ion ; but when we consider that the co ly was only forty years old, and that it h jeen involved in heavy expenses by a ra nvasion of St. Augustine under James Mooi hat it had been invaded by the French ai Spaniards, and that it had suffered by floe ind disease, and its progress had been iraj 1 1 I _?_ ! L'.l ? L leu oy civil Dicaeringsanu contentious; wn we consider all these thicgs, we are prepar ,o conclude that seven thousand five hundr lollars appropriated by the General Asserat >f South Carolina, in 1712, wa9 a large 9U ind indicates the liberality and refinement ,he people at that time. From the occi ence of the word "convenient" in the title ,he bill, we may infer that previous to t.l ime no suitable house was in existence. At the same time that an appropriation w nade for the purpose of building a Stf muse, five thousand dollars were appropriat or purchasing a tract of land and erectinj louse upon it for the use of the Goverm u the preamble to this act, it is stated th he appropriation was made to obviate, 'uture, the necessity of the Governor living i great distance from Charles Town, and th he assembly might "give an instance of th rery particular deference and respect, whi s so justly due to the birth and merit of t iiight Honorable Charles Craven, Esq., o )resent Governor." This preamble ve dearly indicates the good state of fecli vhich prevailed in the Assembly, and com juently in the colony. Three Coramissic irs?Charles Hart, William Khett, and Huj jrange?were appointed to purchase the lai ind build the house. They were charged n o purchase less than one hundred acres ...wl nni. tn ll o n hlltlHrpH T f. W UUU, 1JUI UIUIO K1IUU VkfVW UMMV.. ... o be within six miles of Charles Town. T muse was to be a brick building, construct n such a manner as to be convenient. Pri o this time, the Governors had resided i heir plantations, except when necessity c nanded their presence in Charles Town. During the Bame session of the Assembl aws 'were enacted establishing schools Jharles Town and in the province. Sums noney were appropriated to individuals wl vould erect saw-mills, inventrice mills, orii irove the mills already in use in the colon 'remiuras were offered individuals for raakii >otash, and liberal offers were made to indu ettlers to come into the country. The co ention9 of past years died away, aud t] rauds ceased which had been practiced hei ofore in the elections. Chief Justice Trc vas engaged in arranging the statutes, ai )ol. William Rhett was appointed to sever ffices of importance. The business in whi< [Yott was now engaged was more congeui o his nature and education than the broils vhich he had been a conspicuous actor. Trc vas a lawyer by profession, and evidently le, man of decided talent and extensive erudition, sk William Rhett was a quarreling, carousing he creature, who could live in peace with no he ' one; but the vast amount of work which was now imposed upon him, kept him at least he quiet. Taking all things into consideration, ip, perhaps the colony never had been in so flourhe ing a condition. ue j But in the history of nations as in the lives lis ' of individuals, two extremes are seldom far jp. apart. The happy laugh is often quickly folht | lowed by the wail of sorrow. Adversity as j treads on the heels of prosperity. The Inas : dians throughout the entire province, embra' 1 L .1 /-I I? I ne cing coin ^aromitis, ueuaiuw giauuouj iw: friendly, until they broke out in terrible hosits tilities which, for a time, threatened the very sr- j existence of the colony. The cause of these Id i Indian hostilities was the unscrupulous conas I duct of the traders. To say that the Indians ad | were never in the wrong would not be true; ily but it is most certainly nue that the whites Jt- i were more frequently the aggressors. The es, traders, as a general rule, had no respect for in-1 the rights of the Indians. In fact, it was taken he | for granted by the Europeans generally, with ' the exception of William Penn, that the Ined : dian had no rights. During the contentions in d the colony regarding elections and ecclesiasa tical laws enacted by the civil authorities, the in- traders had perpetrated many outrages on ed the poor sons of the forest. To some extent these outrages were, if not sanctioned, at least 'er winked at by the inhabitants generally. In ly the colony, at this time, there were fourteen he or fifteen hundred Indian slaves, and Indian slaves formed a part of the exports of the col by ony. Great numbers of these poor untutored ra- savages were, iu one way and another, rerer duced to slavery or kidnapped and seut, some it to the northern colonies and some to the Spaner ish dominions. There were two classes of In ;re dians in the province. One class was regard he ed as the friends of the English, and the othei -a class as the friends of the Spaniards. The Spaniards, on the one hand, incited their In ot- dian allies to make invasions upon the territohe ry of the Phigliah, and the English urged then ?d, Indian allies to mal-treat the Spanish. The cruel practice of scalping, if not practiced bj the whites, was indirectly encouraged. The difficulties of the present period com| menced in North Carolina, on the Neuse river, J The cause of the outbreak was this: Some ? - I ..1 Un/1 fVl/i Tn. 1 unscrupulous liaiiCio nau ucnauuvu ?uv au | dians. This incensed the Indians. Aboul ! this time John Lawson, Surveyor General oi the province, laid out some lands which were a, claimed by the Tuscaroras. This invasion ol their rights, added to the fraudulent acts of the traders, infuriated the savage3, and they de termined upon vengeance. Lawson was aphe | prehended, and, after a hasty trial, was conin j deraned and put to death. Individually, m-1 Lawson was guilty of no fault, and the In est dians seem to have been conscious of the! fact os* They became alarmed lest the surrounding in settlers would fly to arms and avenge the he blood of Lawson. To avoid this, they conhe certed a plot to exterminate the whole settlehe ment of whites. The 22nd of September, (lis 1711, was set apart for the work of utterly dels stroying all the colonists south of Albemarle in* Sound. They divided themselves into small se- parties and commenced the work of death, ip- The thine- was keDt a profound secret. Thej he went from house to house, putting to death >p- without regard to age or sex, all the iDmates, in- One neighbor did not know what was going bis on in the house of his nearest neighbor. One bo- hundred and thirty of the North Caroliniant dw fell on that bloody day. Those who survived this horrid massacre us- greatly alarmed, sent with all possible speed of for succor, to South Carolina. So soon as the he messenger arrived, great solemnity pervaded us- the minds of both the Assembly and the peoat pie of South Carolina. The 19th day of NoId vember was set apart by the Assembly, as a ill day of humiliation and prayer. This, so fat i&- as we know, was the first day of the kind thai lo- was observed in the colony. An army, 01 ad rather a few hundred men, were hastily raised sh and placed under the command of Col. John e; Barnwell. This little array, of which Col. nd John Barnwell was Commander-in-Chief, conds sisted of six hundred men, most of whom )e- were Indians. The Cherokees were command TTo Qnfl T .Huffin fllfl till ' C'i UJ uujjkaiuo iiai iui u uuu , .... ed Creeks, by Captain Hastings; the Catawbas, ed by Captain Canty, and the Yeinasees, by Capily tain Pierce. m, It is at present scarcely possible to imagine, of much less describe the difficulties with which ir- these men had to contend in their march from of Charles Town to the Neuse River. The dislis tance several hundred miles, the country one unbroken forest. Numerous small streams as and several large rivers, together with a mulite titude of dismal swamps, lay between them ed | and the place of their destination. No wagr a j ous could be conveyed, and consequently nc or. j supplies could accompany the array. The iat! men supported themselves on this march by in 1 hunting. Notwithstanding all the difficulties at with which Col. Barnwell had to contend, he iat crossed the Neuse on the 28th of January, iat j 1712. He at once commenced operations, ch | Fifty of the hostile Indians were killed and two he | hundred and fifty taken prisoners. Col. Barnur { well marched directly against their strongry j hold. This was a wooden structure erected ng on the Neuse River. The garrison consisted ?e-; of six hundred Tuscaroras. This fort, Col. m-; Barnwell could have easily taken by storm, gh j but he proposed terms of capitulation which ud were accepted by the Indians. The treaty iot: concluded, the allies were disbanded. They of immediately set out for home. Col. Barnwell as sent t.n Charles Town lor a slooD to convev his he wounded and disabled men home. Barnwell ed himself was wounded. This was in July, or j No sooner were the Indians apprised of the on fact that Barnwell's forces were disbanded, te-1 than they violated the treaty so recently made and commenced hostilities again. Aid was y,: again sent for to Charles Town. Col. Barnin well, not having recovered from his wounds of and being also sick, the command was entrusbo ! ted to Col. James Moore, son of the former m- j Governor. An army of eight hundred Iny. j dians and forty whites was raised. They asng j sembled on the bauks of the Cougaree, and ce ' Governor Crayen went up to inspect them, n- ; Whatever may have been the difficulties athe tending Barnwell's march, that of Moore was *e- attended with greater difficulties. It was in >tt! the dead of winter. The army assem bled on id 1 the Congaree, in the month of December, al 1712. After a march which beggars descripch tion, Col. Moore arrived at the Taw river, al There he found the enemy fortified and well in armed. Unawed by these circumstances, he >tt j boldly laid siege to their fortification. The a I siege lasted but a very few hours. An engage I meat took place which resulted in the com; I plete discomfiture of the Tuscaroras and their | confederates. Two hundred were killed and 11 eight hundred taken prisoners. The prisoners ; I were claimed as spoils and were brought to , Charles Town and sold into slavery. ' Col. Barnwell was greatly censured by the | North Carolinians. He was blamed because i he made any tready with the garrison. The : censures were not altogether just. Colonel | Barnwell was out of supplies,and no doubt he j ' did-what would have.appeared to any. other | man as beat under the circumstances. His j Indian allies, after being disbanded, plunder- j i ed some of the Tuscarora towns and carried j off some of the inhabitants and sold them as slaves. Barnwell was charged with this. i i But every one who knows any thing of Indian j character, is aware that it is impossible to re-1 i strain them when they are victorious. No ; ; doubt the reason the Tuscaroras proved faith- j i less to the treaty concluded with Barnwell, J i was the fact that after it was made, their! ' towns had been plundered and their citizens carried off by the Indian allies of Barnwell. Col. James Moore received the approbation of all parties and was voted by the Assembly five hundred dollars extra pay. [to be continued next week.] 1 ???? |Hi5Cfllaticons fUaditttj. THE FARMER'S ALLIES. i At the recent meeting of the Michigan Poi mological Society, Dir. Edward Dorsch, in the . course of an interesting address, remarked : | Many of our farmers feel great satisfaction , if the spade kills a harmless mole, whose only crime is the little hill of earth he raises in our meadows when he goes upon his hunting ex peditioos, and which cau be battened again by the foot of the farmer before it hinders the motion of the scythe or mowing machine. Nature has given us the mole as a never, tiring destroyer of all kinds of fruit-worms, larvae and other vermin which live on the roots of our grass and grain-bearing plants and fruit trees, and at a place where we cannot follow them. Nature has given him such > a tremendous appetite that he dies if he has r nothing to eat for six hours, and his only food is meat, as far as insects and worms furnish . itHundreds of moles have been dissected ' and their stomachs examined, but not the least 1 vegetable fibre was ever found except it was brought to it by devoured insects. Experi; ments have shown that in case of want the f mole eats up its kind and own family rather , than touch any vegetable. I know very well P that the eyes of the lady fill with tears if she finds, during her morning walk, a few of her ! pet plants almost dying on account of the ' burrowing of a criminal mole, which selects her rare buds as its hunting grounds and . throws up his hill next to her best geranium or heliotrope. ' But if the fair lady would reason a little, she would tender the errav culprit a hearty ' forgiveness, and tb&nk him for the extinction > of the restless enemies who feed upon the roots of her cherished plants, and she would press down the earth again and water the in. jured flowers, which will afterward grow so much better because the ground has been [ loosened. ( Prices were paid in former times by stupid communities in the old country, for every 1 mole caught. Men have spent time and money in catching this benefactor of mankind ' only to And themselves punished for their ig, norance by being over-run with bugs and beetles, crickets and caterpillars. Neverthe? less our boys are still permitted to torment | and kill these inoffensive but much slandered vermin hunters. 1 But the time will come when his virtues will be recognized, as it has already arrived , for the toad, for which the English gardeners | pay four shillings a piece with pleasure now, , to set them as guards, in their salad beds, I against snails and bugs, after having found out the good service they accomplish. What horrid tales has superstition not told ' about this harmless Batrachian ! Its bite is . poisonous it has been said. Who was ever x 1*? - J ^ tnitva U tt tto nA f Aotll ? U1Uy 21 IfUZUi 1 lie JATTO ua v? uv ovuvu ; no sharp, horny edges like the turtle. But, . says an old wiseacre?who may be saw it in a school book of 1701?if it can't bite, its saliva and the juice oozing from the warts on its back are poisonous. Natural science of to-day denies it. The toad has as little saliva as the frog?hardly enough to keep its tongue moistened, which is always sticky and clam, ray, to glue on the insects it catches, and the , slime oozing from its warts cause perhaps a reddening of the skin, but will poison nobody. When the cool evening draws the dark ' cloak of night over the face of the earth the toad emerges from his moist resting place and , he begins to look for snails, flies and bugs, i Slowly it creeps forward, and narrow is the region of its hunting ground, but it goes over it systematically, thoroughly knowing the hiding places of spider and slug as a worthy 1 member of the order of St. Hubertus. i ? Let the Babies Dig in the Dirt?We i once asked an old Winnebago squaw how it . was that she cured her sick la.jily by simply ( covering them every day with fresh earth, leaving only a breathing spot for their noses, 1 - * * ? .t and she said: "i^artn our mower. jDarui | make she, and Earth take good care to make j i she papooses strong ; squaw-mother make she i papooses sick. Earth-mother make she papooses well again. She can't tell white squaw any more." Now this poor Indian was wise "according to her lights." Without knowing why, she saw that the earth was a friend to her children, and therefore gave them to its healing embrace. If the mother be fortunate enough to live in the country, she has the cure for many of her children's ills quite at hand. Encourage baby to play in the fresh earth, preparing it properly for its enjoyment and cure, with as careful an eye to the comfort of the little thing as you would if it were j to take another sort of a bath. If it has no old j dresses, make it a suit of cheap print, tie upon its head a light bat that will protect its eyes from discomfort, and give it freedom to ! delve in the warm, soft earth, where the sun- j shine can comfort and invigorate it. If it is | a city child, and circumstances forbid a trip 1 to the country for the sake of the weak con- j valescent, have a sand heap made on the j j warm side of your yard. Its instinct will teach it to dig, and digging hardens the mus! cles and brings strength to the bones, while from the heart of the earth rises a subtle and strong power of healing that we can neither explain nor understand for ourselves, though we have both seen and felt its potency. Keeping Meals Waiting.?Little things often interfere with our comfort very much, and one small annoyance is for men to delay coming to dinner when called. Sometimes i .L? l? __ u ?-r , ,?u;nu I LDey nave t&Ii UUU1 ui iuuic U1 nuia nmvu : they will do before quitting, and then they go to the house to find the dinner cold and the cook discouraged. Nothing is more disheartening to a tired woman than a table full of dirty dishes, ornamenting the table an hour and a half later than usual. Punctuality is a virtue that men should learn if they are in the habit of being uncertain about coming to their meals. Any woman worthy of the name of housekeeper, will be regular with her I meals if it lies within her power to do so. T^eou^l? in Prospective.?Afflictions seen in prospective are more appalling than when they actually arrive. For there are few but are attended By some alleviating circumstances that deaden their force. Why then should we disturb what little happiness we may have by anticipating trouble, and reflection on what might occur, which may possibly never transpire with us? The folly of this is aptiy'illd'strated in the following anecdote:' A mother, desiring to visit her neighbor, set her daughter, a giri of sixteen, at work in the house, and gave her particular instructions concerning thebread, which she was to bake. The mother departed, and after remaining away some hours returned, and found the stove red-hot, and her daughter in another room in the greatest agony of tears. The mother was amazed, and inquired the cause, and, after much entreaty, the daughter answered : "I was thinking," said she, "if I was married and should have a dear little child, and it ohmilH Ht7A t.n run ahnnt. and I should be baking aa I am, and I should leave the stove door open, and the dear little thing was to crawl in and burn itself to death, what a terrible thing it would be. 0, dear! what should I do?" Let us not smile at the imaginary trouble of the girl, while half the ills we feel are equally imaginary ; but meet those that exist with fortitude, and they will become less formidable in proportion as they are met with firmness. Neatness, Boys.?Why shouldn't boys be taught to be neat as well as girls; also to be industrious ? Why should three or four mas; culines sit all the long winter evening idle, while the weary wife and mother has never a leisure moment she can call her own ? Mothers, if you woiild have your boys strong and self-reliant, and at the same time neat, careful, methodical men; and your daughters strong-nerved, healthy, self-sustaining women?train them up together. Teach the boys to be handy in the house and let the girls lend a helping hand out doors. Both will be the better for it. The girls should work out doors as much as possible. As I have watched the woodman at the foot of some large tree, the thought has come to me, that here is where you get your strength and courage in mastering obstacles above yonrself, and in inhaling the fresh air of heaven. If your mightiest implements were the mop and ?>i'l kraotkiner Kmnrrhf nn mirflr uiuuiii) anu j wu* ui vMvutug v*vv<gMW r " air to the lungs than most kitchens and sleeping rooms contain, you would be as nervous and sickly and timid as the majority of women are. In the summer when I find myself getting nervous and fidgity, I fly to the garden and there find a sure panacea for many of the ills that poor woman is heir to.?Aunt Botsey, in Maine Fanner. Look Before Leaping.?-In country towns, where young ladies see few, if auy strange gentlemen, the advent of a good looking specimen of the masculine gender is apt to cause much heart-burning and jealousy among the steady stay-at-home young men of the place, on account of the singular predilection for strangers manifested by their townwomen. We've seen girls toss their heads at the honest, well-meant attentions of many fellows with good hearts, whom they have known from childhood, while if a trim dandy from abroad appeared upon the?scene, they strove eagerly to attract his attention. Is it any wonder, then, that so many thoughtless young ladies draw blanks in tbe matrimonial (lottery? Be careful, girls, or you may rue | the day when you throw away hone^worth, and accept in its stead arrogant asffinption and brassy mediocrity. Secure an honest, industrious lover; if you have known him all your life, so much the belter. Don't trust your earthly happiness to a stranger, simply because he makes a good appearance; ascer " ' -i? L- i? i?:? tain, nrst, wneiner ne una uiaiuo ui nun taster. Remember, one thoughtless step may cost you a lifetime of sorrow. Be careful. Water Diet and Typhoid Fever.?Dr. Luton, of Rheims, states that for the last four years he has treated typhoid by an absolute 9 water diet. Nothing but g/??j> fresh^ltered water, occasionally iced,^i$|erm^^^^o be taken. At first, he says, it isuM^^Kvidity, then in moderation,anfl^^^EMBLigQs of satiety; it is sometinjflj^^^JBnpirst, but is soon tolerated; at the treatment the bowels may bell^Mpwlaxed, but they soon become moderate iwness offensive, and after a time constipation may ensue. The duration of this treatment depends upon the progress of the disease; that is, between four and five days of water exclusively may be required, if the fever be treated as a whole, but three or four days suffice if only the intestinal element of the disease be considered. A light alimentation may then be allowed?milk, unboiled, may be mixed with the water, and given by spoonfuls, and if well supported for a time, to be followed by broth and soup. Under this treatment the mortality is very low, no evil results ensue, and serious complications, including visceral congestions and bed sores, at once disappear. ? Better Tactics.?A young mechanic recently got married to the girl of his choice, and the happy pair went to house-keeping. After the honeymoon was over, the young wife discovered that her hubby's temper was none of the sweetest, and that attempts at mollifying him by sweet smiles and kisses were generally flat failures while his dander was up; so, like a sensible young woman, she resolved on another plan of action, and soon bad an opportunity to try it. Hubby was rather captious about his steak, but she made no excuse. "It's tough," said hubby "and it's not cooked half enough !" The young wife smiled, but made no defense. Then hubby got fearfully mad ; he lifted his plate, and dashed it on the floor, with the remark, "Curse that steak !" His wife raised up her plate, too, and dashed it on the stove, with the remark, "That's me ?" Hubby stared at the plate, at bis wife, then at the floor, and said, "Why, Eliza, you should not mind me. If I am a little hasty, I soon get over it." And so he did. Ear-Rings.?According to the Mohammedans, Abraham invented the practice of earpiercing. In one of Sarah's jealous fits respecting Hagar, she said that she would not rest until she bad dipped her hands in Hagar's blood. In order to quiet Sarah and enable her to redeem her promise without further upsetting his household, Abraham pierced Hagar's ears and drew rings through them. From that time ear-rings became the fashion. A statistician says that married women live two years longers than spinsters. An exchange, therefore, charges that every man who refuses to marry, shortens some woman's life just two years, and thus practically commits homicide, and follows up the allegation by calling on the grand juries to find bills against bachelors over thirty years old. The World.?To understand the world is wiser than to condemn it. To study tba world is better than to shun it. To use to*.' world is nobler than to abuse it. To make the world better, lovelier, and happier, is the noblest work of man or woman. A man out West who married a widow has invented a device to cure her of "eternally" praising her former husband. Whenever she begins to descant on his noble qualities, this ingenious No. 2 merely says: "Poor, dear man ! How I wi3h he had not died!"