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j ?09 L?? ' Att>?tlcan Malter?. Charleston, December 25.?Arrived ?steamships MauhattaD, New York; Falcon, Baltimore; Virginia, Philadel? phia. New York, December 20. ?The ship Newcastle was wrecked off Oook's Strait on the 19th of November, and sixteen persons were Ioat. Despatches from the West report the severest weather yesterday and last night that has been known for years. The King of the Sandwich Islands is dead. The steamer Wild Cat and the barge Swallow were sunk by tho ice below Cairo. Five girls and boys perished in Centre street, New York, by a fire. The Clifford Hotel, corner 31st street and Broadway, New York, was damaged by fire to the extent of $5,000 to-day. The guests escaped. The details of the accident at Glonse Creek, near Pleasant Station, are horri? ble. The oars were burning and there was no water, and only two axes. ?. H. Ball, telegraph operator, was killod. No Southerners in the list. Twenty-one were killed, sixteen of whom wero " charred beyond recognition. Three ad? ditional bodies are still uuder the wrock. The shrieks of the sufferers lasted nearly nu hour. Several of those rescued will die. A vigilance committee at Yisata, Cali? fornia, hung Charles Allen, a murderer. The rear car of yesterday's traiu ou the Indianapolis, Pennsylvania and Chi? cago Bailroad ran off tho track by a broken rail. Twenty persons were in? jured, three iatally. No Southerners. A heavy North-east gale prevails ut Fort Monroe. All traius approaching Philadelphia are delayed by suow. It is Knowing persisteutlv hero and at tho North. Only fifty passengers were on the train wrecked near Prospect, Pa., of whom twenty-five are dead and sixteen wound? ed. The passengers wero crowded into one car, the truck of whioh was crushed. A passenger train on the Atchisou, Topeka and Santa Fe Boad, snow-bound, was telesooped by a following traiu. Two killed aud four hurt. A nine-year old boy was killed by a snow-ball thrown by a playmate. Cheers iu the Spanish Cortes greeted the reading of the bill emancipating the Porto Bioo slaves, within four months, with compensation to the owners. The Russian Czarowitoh has the typhoid fever, seriously. King Laouea is dead?the last of the royal line, and named no successor. Philadelphia, December 20.?The enow crushed 400 feet of Whiting's oar wheel faotory. A number of workmen were bnried. WrxiUAMSPoRT, Pa., December 20.? The floor and coiling of the Baptist Church fell while 500 were worshipping. Fourteen were killed and thirty wounded. New York, December 20.?The Bow? ery Theatre aud Canterbury Hall were damaged by fire. Twelve inohes of suow. Teams and Btreet cars nearly ceased. A gale still blows from the North-west. Cars from six to twelve hours behind. Out-door business is suspended. All approaching mails are snow-bound. The storm con? tinues, and everything is stopped. Trains due from the South are snowed op at Newark, N. J. UC Mayor Hall proposes to give a publio reception to Judges Campbell and Ken? nedy, of New Orleans. Washington, December 20.?The White House is olosed until after New Year's. The President receives no offi? cial visitors. After Georgo Bard was confirmed as postmaster at Chattanooga, Tennessee, Senator Brownlow moved a reconsidera? tion, pending whioh Bard's commission iu withheld. Meantime, the present in? cumbent holds. Probabilities?For New England and the Middle States, winds backing to Northerly and Westerly, with clearing but partly cloudy weather; the former diminishing in force. For the Southern States, Northerly to Westerly winds and clearing but partly cloudy weather, with increasing pressure. From the Ohio Valley and Missouri to Lake Erie and the upper lakes, increasing pressure, Northerly to Westorly winds, and gene? rally clear aud cold weather. From Kansas to Minnesota, diminishing press? ure and Southerly winds. Mobile, December 20.?The eutiro through mail from New York for this place, of the 10th and 17th instant, has failed to reach here. Several later dates have been received. Tho delay causes great inconvenience. Philadelphia, Deoember 20. ?A man was found frozen stiff last night. Buffalo, N. Y? Deoember 20.?An Easterly storm for forty-eight hours has driven water out of Niagara Biver into tho lake. The city reservoir is empty. The railways aro embarrassed in getting water. The manufactories aro sus? pended. Memphis, December 26.?The river is nearly frozen over. Five negro women wero shot duriug Christmas; two fatally. The Memphis Bank, J. J. Murphy, President, suspended specie shipments yestorday. Financial and CommerclBl. New York, December 24?Noon.? Stocks dull. Gold firm, at 11%. Money firm, at 7. Exchange?long 9*0'; short 10,%. Governments and States dull but steady. Cotton nominal; sales 702 bales ?uplands 20M\ Orleans 20%. Flour and corn steady. Wheat nominally un? changed. Pork quiet, at 13.50. Lard dull?steam 7%(&lJi. Freights un? changed. 7 P. M.?Money, after a stringent day, closed at % coramissiou. Sterling quiet and firm, at 0^@9^. Gold firm, at 12 ?12}4. Governments firm aud quiet all day. States very dull and nominal. Cot? ton?uot recoipts 438 bales; gross 5,001. Silos of futures 4 C00 bales: December | 19 3-16, . 196-16; January 19^, 19 7-16; February 19)?; JVIaroti 20, 20 1-16; April 20.%; May 20 11-16. Qptton in moderate request?upland's 20J^. Soulbern flour quiet and unchanged. Whiskey firm and irregular, at 97@9S. Wheat quiet and firmly held, at 1.65@1.82 for winter red Western. Corn decidedly in fa r demand, at GG@G7 for old, per sail, Western mixed, afloat; 75 for white Southern; 67 for yellow Western. Fork dull?new mess 18.75. Beef quiet?mess 10.00@12.00; extra mess 12.00@13.50. Lard quiet, at St. Louis, December 26.?General market very quiet; searoely anythiug doing in any article. Louisville, December 26.?Flour Arm. Oorn steady. Provisions quiet but steady. Whiskey 88. Cincinnati, December 26.?Flour in fair demand and firm. Oorn firm and unchanged. Provisions quiet and firm. Whiskey steady. Augusta, December 26.?Cotton in fair demand; receipts 1,956 bales. Savannah, December 26.?Cotton quiet; sales 900; stock 87.137. Baltimore, December 26.?Cotton dull; sales 75 bales; stock 10,577. Wilmington, December 26.?Ootton quiet; reoeipts 224 bales; stock 3,588. Norfolk, December 20.?Cotton quiot; receipts 1,728 bales; sales 100; stock 11,079. Boston, December 26.?Cotton quiet; receipts 1,368 bales; sales 250; stock 5,000. Charleston, December 26.?Cotton qniet; receipts 1,800 bales; sides 100; stock 11,175. Mobile, December 26.?Cotton firm; receipts 1,388 bales; sales 800; .stock 30,024. New Orleans, December 20.?Cotton in good demaud?middling 19y&; re? ceipts 6,807 bales; sales 6,500; stock 16,108. Galve&ton, December 26.?Cotton quiet; receipts 876 bales; sales 800; stock 66,186. How the Niagara Suspension Bridge Stands the Test of Time.?It is now some twenty years since the great sus? pension bridge was built over tho Nia? gara River. The question of its safety has reoently been agitated, and oritical investigation has accordingly been made by the chief engineer and directors of the Great Western Railway. The caps on the towers covering the cables found to be as perfeot in all respects as they ever wore. But most important of all, the anchorage of tho cables was tho? roughly inspected. The masonry over one of them was removed for about twelve feet, or below whore the wires are attached to the auohor-chaios. A por? tion of the cable is imbedded in wuter limo cement. For twenty years this has been thero, yet, on removing it and rub? bing the paint off the wires, the latter were fonnd as bright and perfect as when placed there, tho cement having preserved the wire and anchor-chains intact. The examination was made in the presence of competent engineers, who have expressed themselves as above to the directors of tho bridge company. Wonders.?Lewin beck tells us of an insect seen with a microscope, of whioh 27,000,000 would only equal a mite. Insects of various kinds may be seen in tho cavities of a grain of sand. Mold ie a forest of beautiful trees, with branch es, leaves and fruit. Butterflies are fully feathered. Hairs are hollow tubes. The surface of our bodies is covered with scales, like a fish; a single grain of naud wonld oover 150 of these scales, and yet a scale covers 500 pores. Through these narrow openings, the perspiration forces itself, like water through a sieve. The mites take 500 steps a second. Each drop of stagnant water contains I a world of animate beings, swimming I with at mach liberty as whales in theses. Eaoh leaf has a colony of insects graz-! ing on it, like cows in a meadow. Moral.?Have some care as to the air yon breathe, the food you eat, aud the waier yoa drink. We have great respect for the La Fayetto Journal?it tells a snake story so well. Says the Journal: "On last Fri? day; a citizen of Danville, III., was buried. After the funeral cortege had started, a snake of the blue-racer species was observed following behind. It con tinned thus to follow until the cemetery was rcachod, when the serpent jumped into the grave and coiled himself around the box containing the coffin. It there remained until the sexton despatched it and laid it out upon the ground. A band of muBio beaded tho procession, and the question is whether it was that or some other cause which lod to the singular couduct on the part of tho snake." Bridgeport tells a enrions story of an unclaimed trunk. Fourteen years ago, a regularly checked trunk arrived by one of tho trains, and, no one calling for it, it was placed in the baggage-room. At the expiration of that time, a gentleman appeared with the duplicate oheck, and arranged to pay $2 for storage, promis? ing to call for his trunk the following day. Three years have since passed, but the trunk still awaits his return. There must bo something done to pre? vent those horrible mistakes of drug? gists' clerks. One of the careless fellows lately gave a young man in Louisville a bottlo of mucilage instead of cologne. The youth wont to church, and nfter ap? plying tho contents of tho bottlo freely to his handkerchief, and applying the handkerchief freely to his nose, ho was in no condition for devout worship. This thing is getting to be alarming. An exchange gives tho following sim plo recipe for "greasing tho griddle:" "Take a turnip, cut it in half and rub the griddlo with the inner side, and yon will find the cakes will come off nice and smoothly, and you will bo rid of tho disagreeable odor of burning fat." Labor and Errors in Popular Edu? cation.?The following is from the -New York Sun's roport of Mr. Boeoher's ser? mon at Plymouth Charoh, op last Bun day evening: > ?: Then Mr. Boodhor took his text from Ephosians iv., 28: "Let him that stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing whioh is good, that be may have to give to him that needeth." That is the pattorn of a reformed life, said Mr. Botcher. Some people gain their living without earniug it. It oauses suspicious of slight of hand. "Let him that stole steal no more." It is neces? sary to have been * thief to steal, bot I there is a groat deal of stealing not done by thieves, and I ad7ise all those who earn their living in an improper way to earn it in a proper way hereafter. Every man should earn his own living. I do not say it is a misfortuue to be boro rich, but I do say, that of one hundred men born with money and one hundred men born without it, the chances to find virtuo aud happiness are better in the laat hundred., lie who is born iu life to rise early, to work, to enru his living, is the happy man. A man who works is healthier aud happior than ho who does uol; and ho is, moreover, debarred from those temptations which spring from the possession of wealth, and those pitfalls which have ruined so many young meu. It is not only necessary to cum our own livelihood, but wo must rise with the suu in summer and before it iu wiutor, aud woik with our hands. Thoro is no de? gradation in labor. It exalts tbo man. It was not dise^tecmed in earlier days. Only in Groeoo and liomu it was de? spised, because tho Greeks aud Romans owned slaves. Tho nation to which we ow0 8o much, aud from which we havo learned so much?the Jewish nation? always honored labor. The Jews taught their childrou some little craft, and they were not drudges. A drudge is a mau who labors with his hand aud has no mind to control him, uo conscience be? hind it, no manhood. If I were a cabinet-maker do you sup pose I could construct a oradle without singiug a lullaby all tho time? [Laugh? ter.] Could I saw, plane and rub; saw, piano and rub, (imitating tho movements of theso tools,) and not put my heart iu tho work? If I did, I would be a drudge. Tho builder is a drudge who, every time he drives a nail, wonders where ho can got a pooror aud cheaper one. Meu tell us that a man's character may bo told by his writing. I can tell you the character of a builder and architect of a cold, big house. That mau would bo heartless aud bloodless. But go iuto a nice, warm, cozy house, and you would find out that the man who built it was a social, good man, with a heart and brains, too. Meu do not liko labor, because tho worker rauks below tho thinker. That's a democratic feeling. I say I'm just as good as any other man, because all men are equal. I beg your pardon, all men are not equal. They are not equal iu size, height, girth; not equal in virtue; bat all meu are civilly equal before the law. When a man says, "I'm just as good as any man," it may bo so, and it may not bo so. When the univeraul man says so, its a lie. That has boeu tho graud blunder of the CommunieLs and International^. They wanted all man equal with unequal means. The most productive part of mau is the animal part. A mau shears a sheep, and there are 500 men in the same township who can do tho same thing. Then the wool is sent to the manufactory, but there will not be 500 mon who oan weave the fine cloth. Tho result ia that the man who shears gets one dollar a day, while tho weaver gets three or four dollars a day. This is the result of brains and education. In Ohio, when I lived there, I knew eminently educated German gentlemen earning'a dollar a day breaking stones on a macadamized road. Measured by avo? cation, they were low; but they were thinkers, ranking higher?they were honorable. A man who has been a hard worker all his life says to himself, "I havo a smart boy. I'll givo him chances I never had. I'll givo him a good education. Yes, I'll make a lawyor out of him." [Immode? rate laughter.] In tho month of June there will be 500,000 blossoms ou every npple tree. There will be about LSU0 apples, and tho remainder will drop to the ground. It is the same iu all pro? fessions. Out of 500,000 candidates thoro will only bo 300 professional men. Tho great trouble is that men are more anxious to bo rich than to bo hap? py. I never knew a minister who warnod his people about being extrava gaut who rofuscd to receive a good salary. I never derided wealth, never exhorted you about being eoouomical, for I would just ai lief walk into my yard aud say to my cows, "Oh, Alder neye, be careful of your milkl" [Laugh? ter.] A man may ho rich nnd yet be a fool. Of one hundred who havo wealth, but one knows how to use it. Tho insane notion that if a man only hud wealth ho wouldn't want anything else, has boeu tho ruin of many young men. Sudden wealth and immense wealth aro the dream of many men in cities who havo left their farms and work-shops to come hero. I vonturo to suy that there arc 5,000 youug meu hero between twenty and thirty j ears of age who have nothing to do. I do not wish to bo disrespectful, but ask one of them if ho cau do a day's work. Ho will answer, "no." Aro you good on ship-board? No; I've never I been to sea. Can you make a chair? No. Are you u blacksmith? No. Aro you a carpenter? No. Is there any? thing ou God's earth that you cau do? No; not a thing. [Laughter.] Now think, what can you do? Well, I am a good book-kcopur. |Laughter.] They can do nothing, aud cau get nothing to do. Not alone is this the ca.se iu Now York, bill iu all thy large cities of tho Union. f Thoueauds of youug men would starve to death op 100 | acres of laod becauee they oouldu't raise coin. They would bo houseless and homeless iu a lumber yard?barefooted with all tho leather in the swamp at thoir command. They have abandoned work, and want some? thing nice and easy. I think that tho respectable German in his six by-nino attic, pegging away at his last, is muoh more respectable than the young man who has left his father's farm before ho learned to work. Yon ongbt to go to my house and see the number of appli? cations that are mado to me daily. Why, people must think that I own Central Park, and Prospect Park, and tl?? post office, aud the custom house, and tho navy yard. [Laughter.] They won't believe that I have no influence in Wash? ington. [Laughter. J But I never turn them away. I sympathize with them and assist them when loan. I never say, "Young man, go West." jLoud laughter.] 1 try to euoourage them. Mr. Boeohor next addressed himself to the wealthy members of his congre? gation, and said: Even if you are worth nifiioa to day, your son may be forced to b.eg his broad because ho can't work. Your daughters cannot be chambermaids, or cooks, or washerwomen?what's to beoome of them? [Laughter.] In one thing I would have yon Judaized. There is an old and true Jewish proverb which says: "He who briugs np his ohild with? out a trade brings him up to steal." The papers tell us of people going to seek their fortunes iu America. It should be work for their fortunes. Tell your chil? dren to work. They say it will kill them. Shall thoy live? No. [Laughter. | Shall they commit suicide? No. What, theu? Simply this: Eat the bread you earn, or don't eat. Mr. Beachor closed with a touching peroration, iu which, speaking of tho rising gouoratiou, ho snid: "Let them bo men who earn their living by the sweat of thoir brow, and who can hold up their big, hard hands, and say thoy never took a penny they did not earu." A Little Composition on tue Wiieel DJtlUtOW.?The Danbury Newsman says: If you have occasion to use a wheel? barrow, leuve it, when you are through with it, iu frout of the house with the handles toward the door. A wheelbar? row is the most complicated thing to fall over on tho faoe of tho earth. A man will fall over one whon ho would never think of falling over anything else. He never knows when has got through fall? ing over it, either; for it will tangle his legs and his arms, turn over with him aud rear up in front of him, and just as he pauses in his profanity to congratu? late himself, it takes a now turu and scoops more skin oil of him, aud he commencos to evolute auew and bump himself in fresh places. A mau never ceases to fall over a wheelbarrow until it turns completely on its back, or brings np against something it cannot upset. It is the most inoffensive looking object there is, bnt it is more dangerous than n locomotive, and no man is secure with one unless he has a tight hold of its handles and is sitting down on some? thing. A whoelbarrow has its uses, without doubt, but in its leisure mo? ments it is the greatest blighting curse on true dignity. Death of an Aged Lady.?Mrs. Su? sannah Donthitdied in Andorsou Coun? ty, near the Greenville line, on Monday, 10th iust., aged ninety-four years. She was born on the 11th of February, 1789, aud the widow of Rev. James Douthit, for many years minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. She camo of a long-lived family, uud spent a useful life. She was and had boon a mem? ber for many years of the church, the doctrines of which her husband preached, and died a firm believer in the saving grace of Christ. Mrs. Douthit was the grand-mother of Samuel J. Dou? thit, Esq. Fiarrrina the Indians.?Advices from Arizona to tho 1-ith of December have been received. General Crook's scouts have taken tho field from Dale Creek, Camp Whipple, Camp Verdo, Apache Camp, Camp McDowell and Camp Grant, and are moving toward tho couutry oc? cupied by the Ton to and Pinal Apachoc. The scouts aro assisted by Pah, Ute, Apache and Yuma Indians. The hostile Apaches of the Upper Verde river are retreating to the mountains. It is gene? rally believed that tho hostile tribes will bo brought to terms during this winter's campaign. A New York paper gives currency to the report that Theodore Tilton will pub? lish a statement in the Golden Age deny? ing the domestic irregularities recently alluded to by Woodhull ft Claflin. His statement has been ready for some time, but was withheld until the women were released on bail. Mr. Tilton at first de? termined to ignore tho whole matter, but has been so severely pressed that he has determined to make a statement. A Boston mau has invented a "pocket companion and guide to happiness," in tho shapo of a nottlo made to look ex? actly like a cigar. On tho cars, or oven whou walking with "tho pride of your heart," yon put the supposed cigar be? tween your lips, and boforo you have timo to ask whether smoking is objec? tionable, yon bito off tho end of tho cigar (ha! ha!) and a drink of old rye corrugates your throat iu a twinkling. Five students, in attendance nt the Sandy Creek Union School, keep a union bachelor's hall. Every morning one of them builds tho fire, another mixes tho battor, a third greases tho griddle, a fourth daubs the batter upon tho same, a fifth pries tho cakes oil', and the whole five thou swallow this result of co-ope rativo labor. A respectable young man in Spnldiug County, Georgia, got hold of some Grifliu whiskey last week, and immedi? ately went to stealing. It is uot surpris? ing iu the least, as we have some of the BS me sort dowu this way. Josn BiiiijNoa' Good Bezoiiushdms for 1873.?That i won't smoke enny moro cigars, only at somebody's else ex? pense. That i won't borry nor lend?espesbi ly lend. That i will live within my inkum, if i hav tew git trusted tew do it. That i won't advise ennybody until i kuo the kind ov advise they ure anxious tew follow. That i won't wear enny more tite! boots, if i hav tew go barefoot tew do it. That i won't swop dogs with no man, unless i kau swop two for one. That i won't Bware enny, unless i am under oath That povoity may be a blessing, but if it iz, it iz a blessing in disguise. That i will take mi whiskey hereafter straight?straight tew the gutter. That the world owes me a living?pro? vided i earn it. That i wont swop enuy horses with tho denkon. That no man shall beat me iu polite? ness, not so long az politeness kontinues tew be az oheap az it iz now. That if a man kails me a phool, i wont ask him tow provo it. That I will lead a moral life, even if i go louesum und losu a good deal of phun by it. l|hat if a mau tells mo a mule wont kick, i wiii beteave what he sez without tricing it. That tho best time tew repent of a bluuder iz just before the blunder iz made. That i will tri hard to bo honest, but it will be just my luck to miss it. That i wou't grow enny kats. Sponta? neous kats hav killed the bisuess. That i will love mi mother-in-law, if it takes all the money i kan earn tew dew it. That i believe real good lies are getting skarser and skarser every day. That when i hear a man bragging on biz ancestors, i won't envy him, but i will pity the ancestors. Finally, i will saroh for things that are little, for thiugs that are lonsum, avoid? ing ull torch lito prooeshnus, bands ov brass music, wimmins* rights couveu shuns, aud grass-widdera generally. A Pastor's Reward.?That good, faithful pastoral work is appreciated in the State of Ohio, as illustrated by the following incident that occurred in Iron ton. A revival preacher, who had woo fame by his power in the pulpit, oamo to Irontou for a week's work. He was very zealous, preached every night, ex? cited cousiderable interest, and was vehe? ment iu his exhortations to the unre newed portion of the congregation to c?mo foward. On the lost evening of his labors, he outdid himself, but not a person ruse to como forward. Discou? raged, ho sat down; whereupon a grave faced, anxious-looking man got up, and said that tho older had been working hard and laboring faithfully among them, and, as a token of their apprecia? tion, he moved that tho congregation give him threo ohecrsl It was done right heartily, aud that contrite congre? gation went quietly out and silently home, satisfied that they bad fully and faithfully performed their duty. A Balmforth avenue man, whose wife kindles the fires, and gets the room warm enough for bim to move around comfortably without putting on hia nother garments, sat down Sunday morn? ing on a chair whioh was already occu? pied with a scalding hot lid-holder. He has had a new plaster put on himself, and some on the ceiling just above the chair, aud now kindles the fire himself? at least, so says tho Danbury News. A Bridgeport man attempted to make his ohildron afraid of fire by scorohing the ends of their fingers, but his wife took him aud eo thoroughly toasted a much larger surface that he has taken no comfort Binoe. Ho wants to know what is to become of tho social fabric if family discipline is to be undermined in this way. / An Irish gentleman of a mechanical turn took off his gas metre to repair it himself, and put it on again upside down, bo that at the end of the quarter it was proved with arithmetical correct? ness that the gas company owed him threo pounds seven and sixpence. "Well, farmer, you told us your place was a good plaao for hunting; now wo havo tramped it for threo hours, und found no game." "Just so," said tho farmer; "as a goneral thing, tho loss game there is, the moro huutiug you have." Bashful youug mon who feel religious? ly inclined, yet fear to enter the sacred portals, will stand iu front of the church doors ou Sundays, this winter, leaning languidly on walking canes. Of course those whose wardrobes are incomplete or dilapidated will not be expected to do this. A man who disappeared from Syracuse five years ago has just made his astonish? ing appearance, and finds his heirs as comfortable as could be expected on what ho considerately left behind in his absenoo. No Enoch Arden case, for a wonder. A Cincinnati editor thinks that war, pestilence and famine always follow ono another. Wo havo had war, are now having pestilence, and, ho thinks, will soon havo the famine. Like Joseph, of Egypt, ho is laying iu an immense sup? ply of coin; only he takes it in its fluid form. Iu Germany, when tho veto of the jury stauds six against six, tho prisoner is acquitted. A vote of seven agaiust five leaves the decision to the court, .und in a vote of eight ngainst four tho pri? soner is convicted. All unclaimed young Chinese ladies in Buddhist convents are to bo married at public auction 1)3' order of the Govern? ment?tho religious establishments in question being entirely suppressed. A lot of colored emigrants from Geor? gia passed through Live Oak last week, on their way to Southern Florida. Alfred Tennyson baa performed a feat by which he will secure the admiration and gratitude of a considerable section of the fair sex. In describing a nose he has actually bronght the up turned snub within the range of poetical expression. Hitherto this nasal organ has not been more delicately described than as "celestially inclined," but now the Laureate, iu the last published of hie "Idyls of the King" denotes it thus: "Lightly was her slender nose Tip-tilted like the petal ot a flower." "Tip-tilted" will henceforth take a prominent place in oar language, and will oome aptly to the aid of those who wish to describe a certain nasal forma? tion without offence to the wearer. A new peril has been developed., for unmarried doctors; a Western widow having escaped paying a bill for medical treatment by pleading that she thought the oalls were social and unprofessional. Esculapian callers upon marriageable ladies would do well to draw a distinct lino between professional advice and society small talk, and between pills and kisses. Quite an excitement has been created among the colored people of Detroit by hearing that an old man living on Indi? ana street, who has married flfteon or twenty oonples during the past year, has had no authority to warrant him to per? form uny such ceremony, he never having been a minister. A Radical politician at Whitewater, Wisconsin, wrote two letters after his election. One was to his son, containing the single word "Hurrah," the other full of consolation to a weeping friend who had just lost his wife. In his excite I mont, he got thorn mixed in direoting, and the result can be imagined. The United States and Spanish Go? vernments have just concluded an agree? ment for jointly taking testimony in Cuba, to be used by the commission holding its session in Washington, for adjudication of the claims of American citizens growing out of the present re? bellion in that island. Wedding cards in Denver consist of the "Jack of Diamonds" and "Queen of Hearts," with the names of the con? tracting parties on eaoh. If the bride's I mother-in-law is living, the "Ten of Clubs" is also enclosed. MARRIED, In Columbia, 8. 0., at the residence of tho brido's mother, on the 231 of December, by tho Rev. David Derrick, Hr. J. B. PHELPS and Miss HENRIETTA 8. JOY. Palmetto Lodge, No. 5,1. 0.0. F. TBE regular me st? ring .of'this Lodge will be held in Masonic Hall, THIS (Friday) EVENING, at 7 o'clock. By order of the N. G. B.. B. McKAY, Dec 271 _ Secretary. Acacia Lodge, No. 94, A. F. M. JL A CONTINUATION of the Regular '^^'Communication of this Lodge will bo /V\held in Masonio Hall, THIS (Friday) EVENING, at 7 o'olook. The installation of officers will take place. By order of the W.. M. F. Mi D?ENNAN, Jb., Beo'y. Dec 27 ?- 1 - Annual Meeting of Stockholders. THE regular annual meeting of the Stock? holders of the CAROLINA NATIONAL BANK will be held at its Banking Houso, in Colnmbia, 8. 0., on the seoond TUESDAY of January next, being the 14th of that month, at 12 o'olook M. W. B. GULICK, Cashier. Dec 27 _fm7 Furniture?Columbia Female College. PERSONS having in their possession any FURNITURE or other articles belonging to the Colnmbia Female College will please at once deliver the same to Rev. 8. B, Jones, President, at tho College. JAMES E. BLACK, Dec 27 3 Secretary Executive Committee. BELL SCHNAPPS, Distilled by the Proprietors, AT SCHIEDAM, IS HOLLAND. AN INVIGORATING TONIC AND MEDICINAL BEVERAGE. Warranted perfectly pure, and fiee from all deleterious substances. It is distilled from Baulky of the finest quality, and the Auoiu tic Jcmiper Bebby of Italy and designed expressly for cases of Dyspepsia or Indiges? tion, Dropsy, Gout, Rheumatism, General Dobility, Catarrh of tho Bladder, Fains in the Back and Stomach, and all diseases of the Urinary Organs. It gives great relief in Asthma, Gravel and Calculi in the Bladder, strengthens and invigorates the system, and is a certain prcventalivo and euro of that dreadful scourge, Feveb and Annie. CAUTION 1 Ask for "Hcdsox G. Wolfe's Bell Schnapps." For sale by all respectable Grocers and Apo thecarios. HUDSON G. WOLFE A CO., Solo Importer*. Oflice. 18 South William street, New York. Sept 27_3mo _ Valuable Pharmaceutical Preparati ns fob su,k by EDWARD H. HEINITSH, established Columbia, 8. C, 1843, dealer in CHOICE D RUGS, PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS Family Medicines. 9 BROMIDES CALCIUM, Sodium, feArnmouiuru, Bromides Potassium, r Morphia, Oadmioin, lodidos.Qoinia, Chlor, Propvlamia, lodoform. Bon dalt'a ropsin. Wine of Beef, Vinnm Cibi ot Ferri Cnm Cinchonia, Wine of Beef, Iron and Barks, Pure Tasteless Cod Liver Oil, Elixirs of Bark, Popsin, Bismuth, Elixirs of Gentian, Wild Cherry, Iron, Beif and Whiskey, Valor Ammonia, Beef and Hrancly, Hyponliosptiites, (Churchill's.) Acid Phosphate, (Horoloid'a,) Lite Food and Nervo Force. Proprietary preparations of recognized worth. Queon's Delight Compound talies tho place of barnaparilla, a valuable alterative. Blood und Liver Pills, nn alterative rill, nn anti-dyspeptio and dinner Pill, mild yet effectual in its action, nicely sugar-coated. A desirable family medicine, worthy tho atten? tion of Physicians. Pre 211