- - > 9"Jj ' PORT IRCrsr^IL. Standard and Commercial. .r4 * tsivSi A - - ~~ ^ YOL. IY. NO. 9. ' BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1876. $2.00 per Aim. Single Copy 5 tab. . , j j - I TI.A VnJ nf 4Ka Vair " They Say." They say?ah ! wel), suppose they do, Bat can they prove the story true ? Suspicions may arise from naught But malice, envy, want of thought: Why count yourself among the "they " Who whisper what they dare not say ? They say?but why the tale rehearse, And help to make the matter worse ? No good can possibly accrue From telling what may be untrue ; And is it not a nobler plan To speak of all the beet you can ? They say?well, if it should be so, Why need you tell the tale of woe ? Will it the better work redress, Or make one pang of sorrow less ? Will it the erring restore Henceforth to " go and sin no more?" Tbev say?oh ! pause and look within; S ee how thy heart inclines to eiD, Watch, lest in dark temptation's hour, Thon, too, should sink beneath its power: Pity the frail, weep o'er their fall, But speak of good, or not at all. LEGALIZED ROBBERY. A Lectwre the Crimes of the Day. aad Striking Analysis of Them. Rev. David 0. Mears, of Cambridge, Mass., gave a lecture upon Yital Prob lems, the subject for the evening being Legalized Robbery. There are twc standards, he said, in every Christiar oommunity by which the acts of each citizen are measured?the moral and the legal. The one is the expression of the Divine will, the other the expression ol the principle of the State or nation. The one is never altered to snit the in clinatious of the community ; the othei varies with public opinion. Our civi1 code has been written by imperfect, fal lible meD, and it by no means follow* that because theso imperfect, fallible men are not condemned by the laws o) their own making, therefore they arc without reproach. Inquiring into the validity of the legal standard, we notice first, the uncertainty of right and justice in framing the laws. Lobbyists crowd our legislatures, and votes are boughl and sold and traded on the most important questions. Second, we notice the uncertainty of the laws as to their exe cntion. The same influences that wori against right and justice in framing oui laws work against their execution. IJ bribes are powerless in defeating the expression of strict justice, they are often powerful iu defeating the execu tion of justice. We have laws againsl gambling, yet under guard of tho police we may enter every gambling house ir Boston. In the third place, we notice the uncertainty of the standard of law. What seems right in thTs generation may be overruled iu the next; thus the legal standard as to the question ol slavery has been reversed ; and on the greatest question of to-day, the suppression of intemperance, the legal standardf vary. From each of these points we are driven to the irresistible conclusion thai it is morally wrong for as to rest satis lied in an appeal to the legal standard a; gaugiug our conduct. Yet men almost without exception act according to the legal standard ; members of the same church, sitting at Christ's table together, arc never sure of a business transactor until the papers are passed; n^t one mau in a thousand, becoming prosper ous after mice failing in basiness, tvei pays the old debts which the law liat canceled. The highwayman who plunders lih ?- ~l: ? A n Aflioi* m?n fa Victim 19 U AVJUA/CA. AUVSVUV*. uuu., .V specteu in society, under cover of tli( law defrauds his neighbor of thousands, and because it is legally done, he holdf his position as before ; the transaction if a legalized robbery. A moral wrong committed lawlessly or lawfully, is 8 moral wrong still. We live iu an age of great financial temptatious. Wealth can build cities and whiten the ocean with the sails oi commerce. It can erect palaces ami bring to homes many a comfort aud joy. It is a power, yet it cannot purchase contentment or love; cannot bny bach the virtue ouce trampled in the dust; cannot bribe death or win neaven. ii would ring counteifeit-like on the pavement of heaven ; its mansions would look gross and mean beside those which Christ has gone to prepare. Yet men ic their haste to be rich stiflo the convictions of conscience by saying their trans actions are legal. We notice, first, fraud at home. W< refer to the very common transaction oi deeding property to the wife or childrer in time of approaching disaster. A mac has $25,000, but borrows enough to givt 1 one t/w liia nnrnosi^s. TTf IllLLi IWj VVV ivi ^ ~ . takes $15,000 and builds a house anc deeds it to bis wife, and this is a lega transaction. As a matter of fact, he i; doing business to the extent of $85,00( on $10,000 capital, and as a matter o: necessity, the odds are against him What right has this business pretendei ?what moral right, to the house he ha; built ? What moral right has he to hole it from his creditors in case of hisalmos inevitable failure? Yet the law allow; it. " Woo unto him 4hat buildeth hi; house by unrighteousness and his cham bers by wrong; that usetli his neigh bor's service without wages, and givetl him not for his work ; that saitb, I wil build me a wide house and large oham bers, and cutteth him out windows ; an< it is ceiled with cedar, and painted witl vermilion. Shalt thou reign becaus thou closest thyself in cedar ?" Secondly, the credit system. Th tendency observable in the last fifteei years is alarming. Men borrow in orde to carry on business, and if we are fc trust the results, it is but a poor invest m- nt for the lender. Corpo^itions ad vance a part and borrow the rest and eventually fail. Towns hold thei meetings and vote to construct a rail road or build a schoolhpuse, and borrow the money. Cities do the same. Churcl: es vote to build houses of worship, an do as every other organization, mortgag the building for the amount above wlif they have raised. If the words of th sacred book are true, " The borrower i servant to the lender," we are in a stat of bondage indeed. From such a bom age the doctrines of reputation and ii flation have sprung up. Leav ug out < account all persons fifteen years of b$ and under, every person in this oountr; | male and female, above that limit won] be compelled to pay over $100 to liqn cate the national debt. On the san ] basis $60 wonld be required from eve: i person to liquidate our State debt. Ac j to these the debts of counties and towi [ and the amount would be appalling yet we go on carelessly adding burd< j to burden. The whole system is pure legal, but it can scarcely be term* either scriptural or moral. Following this, we notice the syste of bankruptcy. It has few terrors f men of business. The bankrupt to 1 places his property mostly out of 1 hands legally, and then takes up wi the legal process ; and when his aff&i are settled he is congratulated upon tl result. Corporations pay their dividen and double salaries, while the ownei certificate of stock is so much was paper. And what corporations do i dividuals do under cover of the law. jase just entered in New York is point: liabilities, $143,000; assel $125 worth of wearing apparel, claim* to be exempted under the law. O: man can legally carry on business un his assets cover only five cents on eve dollar of liabilities. Another can leg* ly borrow thousands of dollars to-mc row and fail just after. In the sight God a thief is a thief; it matters n 1 jow, it matters now where or whoi Thou shalt not steal! , Fourthly, speculation or stock gar - bling. Speculation, robbery, despai r prison^ these are the steps on the dow 1 mi - rr.\ ) vara roaa. ine muuiu icouucd mn i of Wall street. Respectablo papers a \ vertise the names of brokers who > advice can clear $1,200 apon every $li ) invested, subject to call upon the Stcx t Exchange. The terrible scenes of "Bla< .Friday" did not break the fascination the ten thousand dreamers of wealtl : nor did it put a stop to the spurioi I companies, legally equipped but pu - frauds. The number of men who, du i iug the last few years, have gain* > wealth on 'Change, approximating f their expectations, we are told could 1 > counted on one's fingers. But the enc > mity of the evil leading to poverty a i hardly be appreciated. The par vali ? of the sales at the New York Stock E [ change reache s considerably above twe ; ty-two thousand million dollars annuall Speculations which in former tim ) swept over the street like a monsoi now produce mere ripples. But all th : is legal, and the vultures sometimes a among the seemingly devout worshipe f of Christ, that Christ who, twice > his lifetime, cleared His Father's hou > of the men of traffic as heartless as the followers of to-day. Honest busine t men need our heartiest sympathy sin > they have to cope with the dishone i who are shielded by the law. But what of the man who is in has to be rich ? The crown he aspires for i of gold, and can be won only here, f must be left with the body. The rac J is born for two worlds; yet as he hurri > forward he gauges his acts by hum* statues. He keeps the gains legally gc 5 ten from those whom God will defen > He hears the curses of those whom 1 t has defrauded, but whoso only appeal to a God of eternal justice, and not i the tribunal of man. He hasteth t be rich, but poverty shall come up< ) him. What though he gain the crov ) and wear it for a few hours ? When 1 , shall lay it one side and enter anoth i existence, where shall be his hop* > "The love of money is the root of t - evil, which while some have covet* after, they have erred from the fail ? and pierced themselves through wii many sorrows, j We must come back to the old tim - We are to bo judged by our motive ) Fraud is a sin; neglect of the Divii , law is a sin; and it is high time that tl j Christian church shall recognize th j fact. We need a firmer public sen time; r which, being stronger than the law, sh?' i keep back from destruction those wl unwittingly are tempted thither. I United States Navy. f In the United States navy there a forty rear-admirals on* the retired lif who receive $4,500 per year salary. F< ! lowing the list of rear-admirals there a ' pears a list of thirty-eight commodore ! Thirty-five of these commodores are < the retired list and receive $3,750 p [ year each. L j There are thirty oaptains and coi 11 manders on the retired or pension li . { who receive an average of $3,000 a ye . j each. After the captains and commando 5 j come the lieutenants, lieutenant ooi i' ; manders, masters, ensigns, and ev< i I midshipmen. A "starred," or retire l lieutenaut-commander receives $2,25( ) j year, a lieutenant $1,950, a master $1,5C ,! an ensign $1,150, and a midshipm [ i $750. After these come the staff ol 1 cers, and the exhibit is somthing appa . | iug. There are twenty-five medical i ) reactors at $3,300 each, thirteen otb f medical officers at an average of $2,0 each, fifteen pay officers at an average r $2,000 each, and thirty-eight engines , | at about the same average. jj The Use of Fallen Leaves. 5 1 s I In the GardenerMonthly a wrif . | says: These have to be gathered u - S They are excellent to mix with lrot-b< ! material, and, where practicable, shou 1 be saved for this purpose. They do n . ; heat so rapidly as stable manure, and 1 [ this have an advantage; as temperii ! the violence makes manure last lon^ 0 and maintain a more regular heat. Th a PTpollf sleighs. The coldest year was that je | 1816, in which there wu ice in ev< y, mouth of the year. Id The Trenton Battle Anniversary. L*~ The Trenton (N. J.) State Gazette 10 thus sketches the mock capture of the 1 ^ Hessians in that city. It says: The troops, having taken their several posia8 tions, began to move about nine o'clock. >? The first division began to move down 1 ;n Greene street, in the direction of the < x Assanpink. The second division com- * menced the attack on the Hessians on * West Hanover street, and drove them to 2 m Willow, through Willow to State. Gen- 1 or eral Sullivan followed closely to Front c . street, through Front to Warren, down 2 j18 Warren to Factory, and through Factory * to Greene, where they entrapped the 5s enemy. The first brigade drove the * ae enemy through State street to Green to J , the Assanpink creek. While these move- * r 8 ments were going on the streets were * packed with people. The firing was 2 rapid and exciting. The division that c . came down Greene street; when at the c m city hall, became greatly excited. Shouts T rent the air. The poor Hessians were 1 3 making very excellent time down Greene 2 a? street, when a volley from the advancing 1 Americans started them on a run, while Y the crowds that filled the streets shouted * u" at the top of their voices. It was really 1 ,r" an exciting scene. Isaac Bonner, aid to c ?f General Washington, rode directly 1 ot through the enemy's line, amidst great ^ n* applause, on Greene, where they took a I stand. There were many laughable 2 f1" scenes in the odd movements of the ad- 1 Lr? vancing and retreating soldiers. There 2 J1" were some comical looking uniforms as 2 ae well as faces. Some of the Continentals c tried to make themselves as forlorn look- 1 88 ing as possible. The grand surrender * v; took place at the Assanpink bridge. The 2 Ijf swords of the Hessian officers were sur- 2 j rendered, and the Hessian troopsrevers- t ?* ed arms as an evidence of their capture. 2 1' They were then marched up Greene ? a8 street, between Hanover and Perry, i re where the orders were read. The troops ^ ^r" were then taken to the State arsenal, < 3 where they handed over their arms and ' IO on/1 Trrtrfl thftn marnhfld ^ UVAA/UVC1 iUUUVUj ?? "w w ?MV?. 30 to Washington Hall, where a grand din- c ,r" ner was in readinets, and of which they < ^ partook with great relish. j x- ^ n- Retnrning Home. r Whatever may have been the original j 68 numbers of the projected colony of ^ \n Americans in South Ameiica, it has 6 fniled, and for two reasons. The coun- ^ re try is not adapted to the activity of our i ,rs people ; and there never was any good t in reason why these immigrants should ^ 86 have left their native land. There is an 1 !ir urgent demand in Brazil for industrial t 88 immigration. The government has, by j 00 liberal and enlightened legislation, en- 1 :St deavored to attract colonies and individ- a ual agaiculfcurists and laborers. But, \ . after various experiments with Europe- a ~8 ans and Americans, it seems settled that 1 " the Chinese are the only foreigners who t er take kindly to the country. To Ameri- 1 es cans, accustomed as they are to facile I means of transportation, quick sales of t products, and reasonably short credits, 1 the primitive business habits of the Bra- t a.e zilians seem excessively wasteful and c 18 dilatory. The mines, like most mines, t require'a great deal of money to work 1 them. Farming, which was held out as v a profitable industry without serious t rn labor, proved to be a delusion to the en i 10 ergetic American. Buckle has succinct c ly summed up the case when he says of c ' Brazil that: "The progress of agricul- r | ture is stopped by impassable forests, ci . and the harvests are devoured by innu- J merable insects. The mountains are too t high to scale?the rivers too wide to c bridge." If the American colonist was 1 e" ambitious and hard-working, he eventu- t 8 ally became discouraged and ceased to c 16 contend with the forces of nature arrayed a.e against him. If he was indolent and c llf fond of his ease, he readily fell into the i n,, negligent ways of the country, and fail- 1 ed to make a living from a soil to which 1 J0 he brought neither his own labor nor t that of hired servants. So, in 1869, f about one hundred of the refugees took f passage on two United States men-of- 1 re war which had been ordered to give 1 it them this opportunity. The frigate 1 5l' Swatara has brought back the last in- < p. stallment?about seventy-five, all told. >8# A few others have returned by pritate 5n conveyance from time to time. er j Wliv she Should Ho West. , :8f According to the last census Massa- i iar chusetts had, in 1870, 49,993 females ! more than males. The Boston Advtr- I ir8 finer discards many theories in regard to I this excess, such as the migration of i P11 men to Western States, some occult law (j governing births, etc,, and attributes it I solely to the incoming of women from 10 other States to work in the factories, i aiJ particularly from Miiino and Vermont. ) g_ This seems a some what plausible theory, J g. yet every State in New Euglaud, except- ] jj. ing Vermont, has a large excess of *fe,er males. Maine has the smallest, viz.: : 00 700; New Hampshiro and Rhode Isl nd .1 0f about 7,000 each, and Connecticut 6,914. ' < ts Vermont in 1870 had an excess of about j \ 1,000 males. New York State has an ; i excess of 56,301 females, and the District of Columbia 7,316 more females than males. A proportionate excess of i females over males is found' in almost i every Eastern and Middle State, and yet \1 the census of 1870 shows an excess of j 328,757 males over females in the i'clock one day, the daughter, Jennie, ras preparing the evening meal for the logs, which were squealing in the pen, i log in closure a short distance from the louse. A sudden change in the cries jmitted from the sty, and the furious larking of the dog, Joe, caused both nother and daughter to run to the door >f the cabin and look out. What was heir surprise to see a large black bear rith a shote weighing sixty or seventy jounds, tucked in under one fore leg md trying to climb out of the inclosire. The Butlers had lost three hogs dready by the inroads of bears or other mimais, and the women resolved to ressue this one if possible. The dog was naking a great fuss on the outside of he pen but was afraid to jump inside ind attack the bear. Mrs. Butler seized i heavy manl, used in driving wedges in he logs, and her daughter snatched the tx from the woodpile and the two moved it onoe to the pen. They both jumped nside the inclosure, emboldened by vhich the cog also leaped over and 5ommenced harrassiDg bruin in the rear. Che women rained blows heavy and luick on the bear, which presently Iropped the pig, and, turning on the log, had him in his embrace in a twinking and crushed him to death. The eforts of the women to dispatch the bear vere redoubled. The bear was now aging with fury, and advanced with his aws distended upon the girl, who was vielding the ax unmercifully. With one iweep of his great paw he struck the veapon from her hands, and the next nstant had pressed her into a corner of he pen; but the terrible blows that vere showered upon him by Mrs. Bnter with the maid forced him to leave he girl before doing her any great inury. He rushed furiously upon Mrs. Sutler, who managed to elude his grasp ind retained possession of her weapon, ehich she used to good advantage. She houted to Jennie to hasten to the louse and bring the rifle and shoot the >ear. The girl jumped from the pen, ler clothing nearly all torn from her >erson, and hurried after the gun. The flood from the wounds inflicted on the >ear by the ax and maul poured on tho loor of the pen and over the shaggy ' - * L? !Oft[ OI (Q6 zuuiiaucr xwuuu ojliu JLv/uuu he inclosure the -contest waged, until at ast the bear struck the woman's weapon rith his paw and sent it flying out on he ground. He pressed Mrs. Buttlor nto a corner, where she dropped in a Touching position and placed her hands >ver her eyes, expecting to be torn to* >ieccs the next instant. Jpst then her laughter returned with the rifle. She mshed the barrel through a chink in he log and fired. The bear staggered >n his liaunches and fell back dead. The >all had entered and passed clean hrongh his heart, as was afterwards iscertained. With the removal of the great tension >n her nerves, Jennie fell lifeless to the 'round, and it was a long time before ler mother could summon strength suficient to climb out of the pen to her lid. She finally got her into the cabin ind succeeded in restoring her to coniciousne88. Neither of the women were lurt to any great extent, the daughter laving the flesh torn under her arm ivbere the bear seized her, and being .'Considerably scratched about the body. A Canadian Romance. A curious romance lias just come to light in Canada, with a girl and $400,J00 to make it sufficiently spicy. An ulvertisement lately appeared in the London (Canada) Free Press, offering a handsome reward for the disclosure of the whereabouts of one Hannah Dutton, 1 woman now thirty-four years of age. When a pretty girl of fifteen, it seems Miss Dutton was either kidnapped or induced to leave her home in Canada, iiud, a diligent search failing to find her, the parents subsequently removed to England. Recently this woman, if living, has fallen heir to an estate of ?80,000, and, under this stimulus, 'the father lias returned to Canada, and is mfikinc another strenuous effort to dis cover his daughter, and thus incorporate the handsome fortune descended to her into his family. A Costly Republic. "When the insurrection in the island of Uuba broke out in October, 1868, there were on the island : Regular* of all arms v 15,200 The annual arrivals from Spain since that date, as per figures from books of consignees in Havana, have been as follows: In 1869 20.450 lu 1870 11.283 In 1871 15,899 In 1872 9.260 lu 1873 12,536 Iu 1874 8,112 lu 1875 (as above) 27,940 Total to Doc, 20, 1875 120,689 Racing Statistics, During the year 1875 eight hundred and eighty races have been run for stakes which reach the aggregate value of $390,000. These stakes have been divided between two or three hundred owners of race horses, but the greater portion of the money went into comparatively few hands. Mr. McGrath alone netted over thirty-three thousand dollars as his share of the year's stakes; eight of the leading stables will account for over a third of the whole amount; twenty stables for more than half, and fortv for over two-thirds of the winnings of tht year, Qnestions and Answers. How can I cement emery together? Answer. Use the best glue. How can I make a good washing fluid ? Answer. Make a strong solution of ( washing soda, and render it caustic by the addition of quicklime. How can I make a good baking powder? Answer. Take tartaric acid five J parts, sesquicarbonato of soda eight parts, and potato flour sixteen parts. Dry them perfectly, mix, pass through a : sieve, and keep free from moisture. i Is it healthy to keep plants in a sleeping room? Answer. Plants in a sleep ing apartment are not considered as conducting to health, and some of the medical authorities claim that they are ( very injurio .s. Can you give a good cure for cracks i in the skin or hands? The points of i my fingers and thumbs are badly crack- j ed, and although kept as clean as possible, glycerine being applied, they will i not heal. Answer. Try spermaceti oint- ] ment. i Please give me a recipe for making oil 1 paste shoe blacking for shoes? Answer. 1 Take ivory black sixteen parts, treacle 1 eight parts, oil of vitriol four parts, 1 diluted with water two parts, oil iwo *! parts, gum arabic one part, soft water (for final dilution) sixty-four parts. Mix j well. j Am I running any risk in using tubs . made of old petroleum barrels for wash- , ing underclothes in, or can I in any way make them fit for such use ? Answer. , In a short space of time, by the use of soap, the barrels will become deodorized and will suit your purpose perfectly. By what means can I detect petroleum J or cotton seed oil in so-called linseed ] oil? Answer. Petroleum may be de- ! tected by its property of imparting a 1 fluoresence to animal or vegetable oils, i and by its aromatic odor en burning. : An oleometer may be used to distinguish ] cotton seed oil from linseed oil. I am very much troubled with my \ hands becoming very rough from con- j stant use of copperas water. Can you , suggest a remedy? Answer. You may avoid this by wearing a pair of india ' rubber gloves, so as to avoid contact ( with the iron solution. Use a little good , glycerine or glycerine soap as a remedy. ' A pane of window glass may be out i into pieces, by being rubbed by a small < portion of the white ash obtained from < the ignition of certain woods in contact i with air. The ash is to be placed on ] the glass and briskly rubbed ovor it with 1 a flat piece of wood. Are the cutting : particles crystallized carbon, and can i they be utilized ? Answer. When plants, etc., are burned, a portion of the silicic : acid (sand) and soda, lime or potash be- 1 come fluxed together by the heat to i form minute particles of hard glass. < I am straining my eyes by working in 1 whito wood and reading by lamplight. 1 I want to uso spectacles, but I am told ' that if I once use them I must always use them. Is this so? Answer. Spec tacles of the proper kind may be used to ; assist the eyes to see indistinct objects ; , but if there is not light enough to see well without them, their use would cer- ! tainly be injurious.?Scientific Ameri- 1 can. ( A Noble Example. j According to the Savannah (Ga.) ; Neivs, a very unusual scene occurred j in the supreme court at that city. Upon , the opening of the court, after the usual j preliminaries, Colonel Albert R. Ramar, the soliciter-general, arose and said: May it please the court: Before the , grand jury retires I desire, in my place ( and as the first officer of this court, to . make the following statement: As I j left the court-room during a recess, 1 \ was assaulted on account of official action , by Philip M. Russell, Jr., Isaac Russell, Waring Russell, Jr., Waring Russell, i Sr., R. Wayne Russell, Philip M. Russell, Sr., and Thomas J. Sheftall. I was followed by these parties from th? court-room and accosted on the street 1 TP just at tlio court iiouse aoor. 1 was abused by Philjp M. Russell, Jr., iu the most opprobnous terms, aud struck in the face^by the same man, while the rest stood around with their hands upon their arms. If I had attempted to use the privilege that the law accorded me on this occasion I had not been here now to make this statement to the court. If I had yielded to the impulses of a man and of the moment I would not now bo here. If the premeditated attempt to assassinate me had been successful it would have been only accomplished in order that crime and criminals might go unwhipped of^justice. If I had yieled to the impulses of a man I would have been arraigned at the bar of this court for the violation of that law which I have solemnly sworn to maintain and uphold. I have.determined, if your honor please, at my own instance, and by the advice .of wiser and cooler heads than my own, to ask that the majesty of the law be vindicated in its officer rather than that an officer of the law should attempt to vindicate the sanctity of his own person. The grand jury being promptly charged, found indictments against the Rnssells, and they were all held for trhd. Knowing People, There are almost always some people in every community who imagine them> elves, to use a common phrase, *1 very smart," and they are generally of the busybody kind. One of these can do more harm in a town or neighborhood I than a dozen good people can set at! rights. Wo minister ever comes iuw a place but what these "smart" ones can pick any amount of flaws in his everyday walk, or his sermons are always too long or too short, too soft or too hard, or "he wm't preach," and a hundred other imaginary imperfections which the less pretentious never think of mentioning. But these knowing ones do not stop here ; for no enterprise was ever started but what is entirely contrary to their views. Other folks never build a pigpen, a smokehouse, a corncrib, a barn, a dwelling, a schoolhouse, or a church, to suit these babblers; and no newspaper ever was "run " according to : their ideas of the busineea, "and I won't ! have nothing to do wilit it, and I'll k*ep i ?very body el?a from it that I can," \r* A Si'UKI run rnc Mill iTiin, A Lire Plctnre Carefully Drawn and Clasely Flfired up. The brief account of a life which ended in 1875 may prove a suggestive story with much direct bearing on these motives and plans of ours. It was hardly what you could call an obscure life; the man from his earliest boyhood had both the purpose and knack of keeping himself before the public. He was by no means, be it understood, a fraud or dissembler; he had a keen sense of justice and of human rights, and never espoused a cause which did not advance both. He first made himself known as the advocate of the public school system in one of the border slave States, where education was at its lowest ebb. He was a young fellow?not eighteen at the time?working at the anvil by day, and studying Latin, and Constitution, and Dugald Stewart, at night. In a New England village he could have run easily in the ordinary groove up the hill of knowledge; the track is there ready laid; the laziest passenger is dragged up almost against his will. But in this neighborhood of well-fed planters, whose stables were filled with the best racing stock in the State, and whose bookshelves with the Spectator, Burke, Beaumont and Fletcher, he was not likely to find much help from outside, or to have any clear idea of how best to help himself. The one thing he did know was that he meant to win fame, power, and money. His only capital wa? brains. , As for those colonels and majors | whose horses he shod, who loaned him books, who patronized and boasted of him as a species of Blind Tom or learned pig, he hated them all with the virulence and force which a heavy-jawed, fat, lymphatic man puts into his hate, [f he had been one of them, he would have been a conservative, holding to every atom of his power ; as it was, he was a radical, a believer in public schools, newspapers, abolitionism ? anything which should turn the wheel, lift him and his congeners, and grind his patrons in the dust. His articles (in behalf of the public schools) roused a fury of debate in the country, but they somehow did not help the cause a whit. The war gave him a chance to reach the surface. He was a member of the 3tate Legislature, spoke often and vehemently ; nobody denied his weight and force, but somehow his own party distrusted him. It was a time when 3very man became a judge, his own life and property being in the balance; leaders were put to sharp, decisive trial; there was something rotten, everybody felt, beneath all of this man's courage and love of liberty. The measures which he urged were the best measures ; nobody brought such logic or eloquence to their defence; yet when they were adopted, he was left in the lurch, withnffice or emolument. He went into the army; became captain, colonel, brigadier-general. Titles were cheap. He deserved them too, probably. No volunteer officer had a better knowledge of tactics, or cooler conrage in tne lieid. But liia men did not follow him readily. There was no sense of kinship between him and them; he lacked the magnetism Df a generous purpose ; of any purpose, indeed, outside of himself. It was soon discovered that he was not efficient in the field,and he was shelved; md after the war was overhi3 brief mili- i tary record was forgotten. He came to New York, went into Wall street with but little capital, but a keenness of judgment and foresight that approached intuition. He made money hand over hand, and then suddenly withdrew from the market. His aims were not to be a 3implyjdch man. He became a member of a lelmng Christian sect; his name was forever blazoned in the papers as foremostan every good word and work, and there can be no doubt that the man was faithful to the doctrines he professed as far as he understood them. The trouble was that he understood them solely by the light of his own tremendous egotism. Christianity was a fitting completion?a polish to his publio character; ho adopted it, therefore, just as he would have done Mohammedanism. For the same reason he was known as an eminent humanitarian; ho founded libraries, endowed a female school for the blacks in a Southern city, used the Sunday-school, missionary and Christian works and enginery for his own advancement and success as he had used Wall street or his military office. Now comes the odd part of the story. He never advanced or achieved any success beyond that glare of puffery of which everybody knows the worthlessness. His library and college were conducted not in the mode to help the beneficiaries, but as advertisements of ! the "public-spirited donor." People | looked suspiciously at every benevolent society ?or undertaking which carried his name as a dag of triumph. Quiet, devout believers reminded each other that the Great Master did not sound a trumpet in the streets. Meanwhile this great philanthropist had no personal friends. Intolerant selfishness always throws off the cloak of religion by the hearth at home or at the table. One child after another left his roof to shift for themselves with a sense of indignant wrong, his wife subdued into a dull, sileut woman, perplexed perhaps with the strange aspect which horyor and life, and even God himself put on, through the medium of thi3 man's influence. One day he di$d. Suddenly, without time torconsider that dying he could point to no goo^ work which should serve as -his monument, nor to one human being who would shed a tear over his grave. He has time to 1 think of these things now, wherever he j has gone. Iu our own little plans for the New ; Year, it would be well for us to take the j time to consider that it is the motive of a life which gives it not only real mean- j ing but success; and that the selfish man, no matter how sound his principles or fair his professions, is seen through, and labeled at his small value by the very men who praise and puff him.?Neiv York Tribune. Mayor Fulton, of Galveston, Texas, writes to Mayor Cobb, ot Boston, that j the latter city gave ifeore money to aid tho sufferers from the Texas floods than all the other cities of the "onntry eembinedt J lie JUUU VI IUV BV Wftf A candle in its socket lying, Flickering, fading, brightening, dying ; The antnmn leaf fast rustling by, A strain of music's latest sigh, The summer wind's last, failing breath? A mournful tone which tells of death ; A fire whose embers scarce are burning? A spirit to its God returning; A enu extinguished from its place, A system vanishing in spaes? Thus all things end save God ! Thus all things end! ah! said we so ? Can anght have end that lives below ? Is nothingness the end of strife ?. And void the crowning point of life ! Annihilation ! is there aught Save madness in the monstrous thought ? We boldly say a tiling is ending? We mean some change is o'er it pending; For matter changed, and changed most be Forever, like eome changing sea; Thus all things change save God ! The year is ending, quickly flying, Tet lingering still amongfe, dying; With faltering footsteps, failing fast, A few more days and then the last. His books are closed; each broken tow Recorded there against as now, In fearfal sameness there most stay ; Each thought, each scene, now passed away; Aye, past and ended though they be, The end of all things we shall see; Bat that end is not yet. Where goee the candle when it dies? The leaf, the mmic, summer's sighs ? A finish'd though t, a world, a death, Where is the home of parted breath ? Where goes a year, an age, nay, thine ? Where is the end, the great sublime ? . All, all but center round their Being, The Great, Omnipotent, All-eeeing! Unending, and unchanged forever \ , In vain the end from Him we sever*? All ends are hid in God! , i, x to Items of Interest. It requires less philosophy to take things as they come than it does to )fert with them as they go. * "If there is anything which will ir ake my mouth water," said an old tnnflr. "I don*6 want to see it." "T 9 ? ? Mrs. One-Wlto-Holds-the-Lodge-PoleWith-Hands was before a Dakota grand jury as a witness the other day. ' A schoolmaster said: '" I am like a hone?I sharpen a number of blades, bnfc wear myself out in doing it." An Indianai>olis witness testified the other day that he kept a fire burning in his stove all night to save matches. . A girl of San Lnfe, Mexico, struggled with a burglar and .assaulter for three hours, at the end of which time ahe killed him. The lady who fell back on her dignity came near breaking it; and the man who couldn't stand it has taken a seat, and is now quite comfortable. ' 1 A nice point for casuists has just been nised in Montreal. Two men were quarreling on St Francis Xavier street, and A knocked B down, whereupon a horse, alarmed at the straggle, kicked B on the head and killed him. What is A guilty off . A simple looking country lad, to whose lot fell the leading questions in the catechism, "What is your name!" replied: "Carrots!" " Who gave you that name?" "All the bqya in the parish, sir," wliiningly replied the redhaired urchin. " Charles," said a youug wife to her husband, as they sat at the window watching the fashionables on their way to church, " when yon die and I get hold of the insurance money I intend to have a fur capo and muff just like that lady has on over there." In Germany there is popular hostility to Americans because toe latter are sup posed to have favored France in the lite war, and because American travelers make hotel living dear. The German government and its newspapers, however, try to cultivate friendly relations with us. To all whom it may concern. A philosopher says: I never vet heard a man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and transfer any suspicion or dislike to the person who appeared to take a delight in pointing out the defeets of a fellow creature. An enthusiastic young produce dealer, a few evenings ago, in a serenade to his inamorata thus recorded his high resolves: ' I'll chase the antelope over the plain, and the wild spring chicken I'll bind witn a c jain; and the cauliflower, so fierce and neat, I'll give thee for a nosegay sweet" It is over six years since the terrible disaster at the Avondale coal m'nes in Pennsylvania, which resulted in death of 110 men by suffocation. The sum of ?155,146.11 was subscribed throughout the country as a relief fund for the families of the victims, and this sum wm increased to $174,222 by interest The fund has just been exhausted. The Baltimore dealers in terrapins keep them in nearly air-right chests, packed layer upon layer, and deprive them of food. They grow fat under this treatment, although the fatness doubtless is the result of disease. They must each measure seven inches across the under shell before thev are considered fit for the table, and are then sold at $24 a dozen. According to a recent calculation, Lowell, in Massachusetts, now manufactures forty miles of cloth per hour, and fifty pairs of hose pec minute! The. beginning of this enormous business dates back to 1813, when the first attempt was made in America to manufacture cotton by machinery. la that year Major Josiah Fletcher erected a wooden factory in that place. He came back to his mother looking very forlornly, with a big red swelling uuder his left eye, and four of fire handfnls of torn shirt boiling over his breeches-band, " Why, where on earth have yon been t" she asked. "Me and Johnny's been playin'. He played he was a pirate, and I played I was a duke. Then he put on airs and I got mad, and"? "Yes, yes," interrupted his mother, her eye flashing, " and you didn't flinch ?" " No'inTD^ the pirate i Laked."