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i?mmMm^^ .??<aTofBt?s^ ? ^?r--y^c ! _ . ? M? , a ?-- --==-1- i BS i ea?ag ? ?.' ??? ? .-?wsa? .. Daily Pceser $20 a ?tanth. ' i ' '. "Let out just censuro * j Tri-Weakly $10 a Mos th . J Payable, in Advance, f Attend tlia tinaj evenVShakspfare. . - ( Payable ia Advance. BY ?t. A. WBT. COLUMBIA, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 08; 1865. ^?t id. THE COLUMBIA TH*?MX . 'i mun? ?JJ LT SSW TU-VfiULT, BT JULIAN A. SELBY. t The Daily M issued avery nornire, except . BandaV, at ?20 ?mouth. Tri.Weekly,.Tusaday, Thsrsday and Saturday, at ?lt) a month. in vs-^ riablv ia advance. Single copies tl. - I,. Adver?ement? inserted at $5 per square (ten Imea) tor each insertion. iMBBaneBi III 11 ?fi! ait i ? u-,;'-!! . t ? v ?Original.] ! By UM Ruma of the Burned Methodist Church. if ?tal stead beside thy crumbling walls, Thy eharr*d and blaeWd walla, ?ad weep thy fate, thou blessed Chureh, Ohl how any heart recalls The times and seasons, psst and ?ona, Bear, dear to meaaory, " -?.. Binas? an thy dadiaatioa norn, ' A. fair, saw sanctuary, I ''Like #>vea ?ato their Windows,* oama '. Gad's worshippers, to thee! How I reeall, within .thy walla; ^Tbe tn?mph? of the cross "When, q?iek and powerful prov'd tho word. Mea, counting all this?? loss, Se Christ were gained; when acores oa seores At thy bleat altar kassl'd, Aad found the pard'niag lore of God ; Thara, to their souls revsal'd, Prev'd there the atoning biped pf Christ His eorensat had saal'd. , ^ ~? To pany, thou, a Bethel place, Bat alli te mine ?ad ma Thou wast, by all tho presto** past, Sacred to rn amory. - A thousand. theasaad thoughts wall up . The blaeken'd wells beside AH, thoa wast to say heart sad hope** Oh! Church, with dqore thrown wide, That all might to thine altar fas, . - And SA fe?y there abide. i To all, to all, a heart ol prayer. But moat nota tho poor, ? ftu-od evermore, by day and night, Thy wide and;apea door; . riut, sh! the poor maa sad the alare, ."Who found a Weleams' thara, Those crumbling walls sins all they ssa GT that bleat boase af prayer; , Yea, all they aaa of that sacred Church ls the blaeken'd ruin thara. ?f - 6?' God', aranga thy rain'd Church; Build up ita walls, ere Jong, And ?top tho wide, destrovine; so arah . Of those.who work auch wrong To the church aa of tl; is Christian land To the poor and to tho ?lava .. ' To the human race; they're hurrying feat . T*? an untimely grave. A od now to itt, in our sore need, - v Oh! seek us out aad sa ve- M. If. An CTid Trapper'a Reminiscences. 'Boys', said/?ld Reuben Hardinge, ai with three of his companions, be eat befo, his camp.fire in the deep wilderness of' th far "West, it's right amazing bow o?d , recol? lections* will plump down on a feller event now and then, and make him about as fit for his business as a turkey buzzard is far a singing bird.\ " % '"VThat's up now, Bube!1 inquired oneal the others, as he lazily inhaled and puffed out a volume of tobacco smoke. . '"Well, Joe, I war jest thinking back to I the time I fust pat eut for these here dig-] ?ginge, and the.-right smart chance for a I muss that made me do it.' i *I never beerd the story, Rube.' , 'I reckon none of us ever did,' said; H Bother. 'Spose yen tells it ef youre in the mood' for it'.-put in the tbiid. .Well,' ?ejoiaed Rube, ?Ia'pose I mought as well tell it, as*lhink about it-1;->ughj thar's mighty few as ever heerd. it-fer if amt ODO of the things as I likes to her cut ?cross my track putty often, * 'Let me see now?' pursued the old ?mountaineer musingly, 'thirty years, I reck? en, would take me back, to a right smart I looking young man. Now you needn't grin eti about that, beys, for it's a fact by thunder. I warnt slays *jje scar rifled, ! stoop-shouldered, grizzly-faced, gray-head ,ed granting old beaver -yon sees me now, I can tell you-but a right smart'chance of j a sappliog-six ft ot high in my moccasins, bair as blaek as a crow,- eye like ? young ?agle's and with everything about me as limber and supple as a two year old buck. Yes, that's what I war ?*5irty sweat ago-but that thirty year bas tuk it all down amazing.' The trapper paused for a few moments as one lost in contemplation, and then re? sumed: 'Yes, thirty year ago-ft dont seerp i -great, whits, nyther, though Ive done i heap o' tramping and seen a beep o. rougl and tumble sence then; thirty year ago ii war, and jit I can fotch it all back as cia as ef it war yesterday; and the way. ly looked, and the way she looked, and th? way f felt, all stand out afore me as plan as the nose on your face, Joe-and you wost enemy'll be apt to allow that youv< gotjome nose.' 'put you 'wont understand me, boys, on less I begins a little back o' that.par ticker! a time, and so I'll do it. . You see the wa; af it war this: X war raised do wa in Ten nesaee. on to a plantation that would he been my father's, ef he only bad all hi defctepaid, which he hadnt; and on anothe plantation, aBout halt a mile off, t$e>.1iye< Neil Waterman, who war a colonel ii the militia, and a squire-in law, and some * punks ginerally ?irrot?nd.* <. t 'Kow Colonel Squire Waterman bad ^ darter named Lucy, that was the purti?st speciment/of a dtek in them parts-shin, 8'i.raigbt, plnmpdippfed, rosy cheeked and silky-haired with' two blue eyes, that nd ? fotch tl >e faltest brute of a human righi . down on bia marrer bones afore he know ed what ailed him. - 'Well,- to git along into * the meat of tko thing. ? fell bend over beela in lore with Lucy, from the time I war big enough to say boo Jo a bar: and I kept on that way; ? oniy gitting wusser aa I growed older; and ef Lucy, didnt love me back again, she * made believe to-do it, and that did me.jest as well for she tim?v ?* 'But the difference tween tee and Iffley, * as we both growed older, -war, that I'd only one to pick from, and ?he'd ererbody-for every scamp in the diggings war arter h er and some 0 the feller? 'I " used to think roeugbt be a heap better looking to her than Rube Hardinge--though I could out? run, out jump, ont-sboot, out-holler, and out? ? lick the hui Jdt| and stood ready to do if, * ? any m ?DU te that anybody wanted to try it. ' ' Well, the. pint lan coming to ar this: Things had gene on one way an3 tother purty considerable-and me and Lucy ba* quarreled and made up agin about a -bmir. . died ti rp es-and I'd kicked the clothes off*, rn y bed erery, night for two months, in dreaming as now I war kicking, som? mean sneak as war trying to get on to ibe blind' side of the ga) of my affections; tb inga war gitting on this way, I say, whet* Colonel Squire Waterman be gin a cern 'husking, ' and ask?? in alf the boys and gals around them parts. I wax that, in course, and I went thar determined to keep poor Lucy' from peing bothered with . palavers from them as. : she mout not like; but, for* some reason er other,*the gal had. took a. notion jest' then that nobody war no b?th'?r to her ' . - ceptroe, and ?hat I war nlayar inkier way 'when T happened to git along side - o 'her. That thar sort o thing naturally riled roe ?p . and made me leal wolnsb;"and wheo I spoke, V T ginerally said somthing that didnt alto?. gether set well on the stomachs of strm. pf the crowd-though aa td who lilied it, and, who didnt, I. never stopped, to-ai. Now, amongst the ugly mugs aa war try ing to tote off the affections of Lucy, thar war one called Pete Biodget, that I'd tub a. mortal hate to; and jest as et* theyd bo*h . planned out how they could best fotcb the caterroounTodOtf me, he squeezed himself Concluded on fourth pagel