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. -w. . , _ . ^ .,.? : '. -J.. . ? .: $ VOLUME 29. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1869. NUMBER 14. - - - - ? ... m O (fu>:n>a A? tlialinA I II I SELECTED STORY. ? w f ONLY BOER WED. p Yeiy early in uij piofcrawoal lif<r> S eed therefore * great many year* ago, t t ww ?ooa*ftJted a gcntVeman of Urge e fortune, Well known on tlictmf, tinder a *he following lingular circumstances. It a -"seemed that my informant, in the course u of (bat year, had a tace-horse, which a Waa fit at favorite for one of ihe great a ' 1 ?v:? lu.ism Imil broken n T#CCH| inu I 11 Mb Vllia in??cv * ? ?. _ dowo mctt suspiciously while almost iu * the act of winning the race The own- s wt, {any call hiui Mr. Stanton, although that was not his real name*? wac exceed- \ ittgly annoyed and disgu>ted, aud par- 0 *icuUrJy displeased with his trainer and c jockey, by whota the animal was ridden. y tie resulted to dismiss the jockey, break ? lip his stables, and give "Op lire turf al j, together. The jockey, whose natue wsa Torn. c White, bad previously stood very well 0 ia the racing World,as a keen and Hon- ^ ActUd. He had been distressed be- m yond in cars re at his failure, and had n shed bitter tears in the moment -of dc- (I feat. He assured Mr. Stanton that the ^ - uocident oiact hare been owing to foul tl : play?that the horses had been got at p| ' totnehow?and that -without greater ft precautions than had been u>ed, no gentleman need attempt to train. c( Mr. Staoton believed that this was n -substantially true, bat was firmly con- w tioccd th t Mr. Torn. White was not un- m acquainted with the source of the cala- Q) unity. He therefore rcmirraed firm to w his resolution of seiliDg his stud, and hj dismissing White, which last be did.? p, Twm. got an engagement in the North, f0 wad left that district of country alto- tr gether. w Taut made but little remonstrance a- u, ? CsiMt %?dismissal. What he must w aeemed to feel was leaving the yearling j? eolts, inwhioh he'had taken much pride, |c land hi particular one of which he had great expectations, and had called, on af bis own account, the "Red Rover " He ar "was rather a bony, shapeless animal, and judges thought little ofbirn; but Tom, < who revered no one's opinion but his own, was always loud in his praises to w liia master. His last words, as he was ji( leaving,, were, "Don't 'ee sell the colts, j, wqooire?don't 'ee sell "Red Rover"? j 'be be a rare 'ua, he be;" and with this ^ friendly catttion, Tom White went out w on his way, and was seen no more. In the spring following, >*7. 'Stanton gj wdvertised his stud for sale. Two days ^ before the tiuie appointed, the stod- Q| groom presented himself to Mr. Stanton, WrhOe at breakfast, with a face of ashy ft| ipaleaeas and trcanhliirglimbs. j"Please, wtr. "Red Rover' be stoto," < VH all tiw faltering tongue <cowld exBt " 'Red Rofer' stolen 3 1 htft is hnpos- ti We, my lad. He was locked up in the t> ?table last night?I saw it dune uiysclf " 4, "They be off wi* him ibis morning, ,4 unjhuw," said the lad. "His stall was urnpty whoa we went at 7 o'clock, aud wo ?a*i't aee him oowberc." 0 Although !fcfr. Si an ton had not the 0 -watne exalted opinion ?>f "Red Hover's'' capacity that Tom White had, fac y thought him a promising colt, bat so t] * utterly aaformed as hardly to liavc v tempted a "professional"' to such an act. ]( 3tut the audacity of the ifccft made biui wery iodtguaot, and determined him to ( find out tibe perpetrator. The examination of the premises ^ ilrew no I:ght on t<he tny.-toy, exc?piiig ^ that it became certain that, however uc- ^ cotupihiiml, the theft had not boon com- ^ (bitted hy violence. Nothing was broken g ?nothing out of order. The locks were ^ entire, and the head wau in she stable* ^ Mar^nntmi thp Ud in ltteatinc that the doors were found lucked k the morning. , Such ?u the tale with which Mr. Stanton resected t? my adrtce. No clue v whatever could he found to the perpe- e trator, unless the ordinary and simple cm, that tha stable servants had coo- (j oived at the theft. But Mr. Stanton s owned that there had been nothing in ? the It manner to warrant this suspicion, u t although bo cat entirely at a loss to ac- v count far the outrage on any other sup- * position. J iSi nfl I could under the oircaca-11 I # 1 tance*. I advertised far and wide; I rtroed the great railway tinea, and ciniloyed the most eminent detective whom icotland Yard could famish. But not he slightest trace coald be discovered, xccp'ing that a man had been stopped t Hexham, with a co!t of which he rould girc oo eathdactory account; bat, s it was a prey, and "Bed Borer'' was reddi.sh brown, the m?pi"trate not only rould not detain the man, but r*prilanded the police ft r apprehending him rhcn they had the description of ti e toieo horse iu their hands. Nothing had been heard of Tom Vliiie Bi??ce his departure, nor did any nc know whither he had gone. It did ro>8 Mr. Stanton's mind that if Torn Vhiie had bean in the district, he was >t unlikely to have been of use in the Kfwity. Hut no one ha I seen or heard f hitn, and Mr. Stanton was obliged to anient himslf with a second dismissal f his servants. The detective was al ays under the impression that the man t Hexham was truly the thief, nnd tadc no secret of his that the umgis ate who liberated him was a donkey ; at he was a taciturn potentate by na8 ire, and never condescended to ex. lain a clue which he had uevertheles dlowed up until it broke. Two years afterward there was some iriosity excited at one of the great tees of the year about a horse which a* so completely "dark" as to be a Iest out of the be; ting altogether. The ime i f the owner under which he ran as a turf-name assumed for the oceeaon; but ho was understood to be the ropcrty of, or at least to be vouched r, by a well-known half-squire, hafl aiuer. But svbat he was, or where he as, no one knew. The "outs" were ;tcrly at fault. 4 Tl cy could not dis >rer the place at which ho was thin-! g, and as no effoits they made hud d to any result, unfriended as the annul was by backers, there was consid )Ie expectation created on his nppearice. The horse could not be heard of the ' ? ? ??rv .? ? i._j igni oeiore. "lrcwnrr uuu uuv it rted himself. Hut when tho ground as cleared fur the preliminary cauter 3 appeared, and great was the ru>h to te front to sec hiiu. The first glimpse ' him allowed he was foi mida'ole ; the ngawinging, well extended stride with Lien he took his canter impressed all ic knowing ones, tie was large and newy, powerful as well as handsome, at his culor was a kind of mottled chesut, such as is rarely found iu the thorighbrcds. Mr. Stanton was there, id, to his surprise, saw his old friend, ou White, mounted on the cynosure [ the day. The race was ctrer m doubt. The raugcr, hard held, remained behind te front horses until 300 yards from ic post, aud llicD, I i our, rau nuitic uj iuieelf, auiid the shouts anil acclawuotrs of the multitude. The lace over, "Deserter" vanished i iny>teriously as he eaiuc, aixJ, iu spite f Mr Stautou's ioquiiics, no tidiuga t' 1\ m Wliite could be discovered. A w.ek afterwards-a g-rooui arrived lr. vMuutuu's, leading a icddi&h-hiown tioroughbied of great power, au.l dehor ed to Mr. Stautou a note to the lol?*ing effect: Alt. Utantun?Silt: I Scad you back Ihj 'Ked Hover,' as 1 borrowed two ears ego 1 knew ho c?uld do it, it got htui away frotu the nobblirs. rfo 1 jrrowed htui, an i I beg your paril-.ii [ it was wrong, I have pii I iutoyuur ank lor )ou j?2,5UJ, which was toe takes, and I hope \<ki w ll overlook lie tiuie when 'Kev. nge' was nobbled, four luo-t obedient a. rvaot. T. WHITE. ' I aui off to Australia, aud we have iiadeaprcj'y penny b> tiie "Desert r," which wa- 'it? d ttovw" However incgular To u \\ bite ? way - - - r.... if (lotDl>U8ini S' War-, ui I'uumv. auvi uul) a ru.-uJt, Mr. Sauloti c?u!d hardly iu J iault wiih it- lie Bent uiu tho uoio, d 1 begged of *ue to timi Tom Wut? Hid -learn tmiiK) iu<>r.: p rtieular>; and nth bun it) difficulty, 1 found nim Liverpool about lo Bali fur Australia ? 5vbea I Mtured him I had do hostile intentions, but quite the contrary, he gate me full account of his proceedings. I translate Tom's Doric into vernacuiar. . ... .. "You see sir," said Tom, "Revenge' he was hobbled. Not that ( knows who did it, but [ knows no other scoundrel but one who conld havo done it. I punched his head handsome for it, however, soon after. But I durst out have split, and had to go; and serve mo right. Only it broko uiy heart to lose the race and leave 'Red Rover.' "There's a nuaoy people," said Tom, "thit-ks they're judges of a horse.? Them swells think it, and snobs, and kuowing coves of the ring. Lord bless you, sir, they knows nothing. They goes, and they looks, and feels, and " ' ? - 11 IA/<Itq tries a walk ana s guuu|>, uuu iw&? wise, and thinks they are fly to everything. If you want to learn about a hoise, you must see him all day and every day. They are like the women sir. Unless you see them in all weathers, you will nevor know anything about them, and even tbonit is not much to. ftnowed <Rcd Rover.' He was a rough 'un to look at, and no one but myself bad a thought of what he could do. But I knew that fur his age he was a fl)cr and a stayer such as I never mounted afore. "Well I hears that 'Red,Rover' was to be sold. I was mortal sorry, for I thought to myself that he would help the squiro to win buck the money he lost on 'Rcvcngo ' But selling was a thing [ could not suffer. So I resolved to steal him?for the ?quirc. "This was the wny on it. When I I was a bit of a boy, I used to travel with l>ucrow, and learned a secret or two in hone-paintiug worth knowing. None of your stupid dyes, that you may see j when the sun shines* making the coat hard and stary, like a pi <stcrcd gable. Thirt is a thing that won't wash off.? Nothing takes it off hut a preparation wieh is a part of the secret. So I 6teals 'Red Rover' walked him off easy at 2 in in the mourning, for I had a key of my own?ri.de hint forty miles across the country to a ijuict place I knew of, and painted him a splended grey. It was really, sir, a pretty thing to look at.? We then set out together for Scotland; and barring that sharp-nosed bobpy at Hexham, who must have been up to the dodge himself, no one challenged me.? . - J A ? It would ha\e done your neart goou iu have heard the jolly beak pitching into the bobby that a grey horse could not a gray horad could not be a ohesnut. "I was then Ferving a master who was training another hur.?c ou the sly across the border. I put hint up to uiy plan; and he went sharer, as a gentleman should. And now you have my rale." The matter was kept very close at the titne. Mr. Stanton made some inquiry to ascertain whether "Deserter's" rather eccentric proceedings were in conformity with the rules of the Jockey Club; but he fouud everything square in that respect, and thought it unncces sary to take uny further steps. What Smoking Does for Boys.? A cenain doctor, struck with the large number of boys under fifteen years of age, he observed smoking, was led to inquire into the effect- the habit had upon their general health. He took for his purpose thirty.e'ght boys 1 ?' on ft Ajirpfullv agcu truui nine tu uhvv.ii uuvi v?. ? ?--j examined them. Ia twenty-seven of litem he discovered traces of the habit. Iu twcniy-twu there were various disorders of the circulation and digestion, palpitation of the heart and more or loss taste for strong drink. In twelve there was rather frequently blccdiug of ..he nose; ten hud distuibcd sleep and four slight ulcerations of mucus membrane of the mouth; which disappeared * / on ceasing from the use ot toDacco ior some days. The doctor treated them all for weakness but with little effect until the smoking was discontinued, when health ai ^ strength was soon restored. Now Cilia iio "old uives' talc,' as tlicso facts ure given on the authority of the British MedtCal JoUrn .1. Glory is a poiaou, good to be taker i in small do#ce. i Keep Tour Bye on Your Neighbor. Take care of them, do not let them a eiir without watching. They may do c something wrong if you do. To be sure j you never knew them to do anything , bad, but it may be on your account they t have not Perhaps if it had not been 0 for your kind care, they might have G< disgraced themselves and families a long e tim? age. 1 hereforo do not relax any 0 effort to keep them where they ought to j. be; nevermind yonr own business; that j, will take care of itself. There is a man c Dossing along?he is looking over the j, fence?be suspicious of him, perhaps ho D contemplates stealing one of these dark ^ nights; there is no knowing what queer t fancies he has got into his head. ]( If yon find any symptoms of any one *j passing out of the path of duty, tell a every one else what you see, and bo ^ particular to see a great many. It is a a good way to circulato such things, ^ though it may not benefit yourself nor t any one else particularly. Do keep j something going?silence is a dreadful thing; though it is said there was sileuco Q in heaven for tho space of half an hour. do not let any such thing occur ou earth; it would be too much like heaven for this mundane sphere. If, after o ill jour watchful care, you cannot see n anything oat of the way in any one, you si may be sore it is not because they hare g not dom> aoytluog bad; perhaps in an * unguarded moment you lost sight of ri them?throw out bints that they are no c better than they ought to bo?that you a should not wonder if tho people found * oat what they were after awhile, that si tbry may not carry their head* so high. Q c Ll*e Like a River.?Bishop Heber, upon departing for India, said in his ^ farewell sermon: "Lifc^ears us on like the stream of ^ a mighty river. Our Doat at first goes down the mighty channel?thro' the ^ playful murmuring* of the little brook, ^ and the willows upon its grassy borders. ^ The trees shed their bossoms over our ^ young heads, the flower* on the briuk ^ seem to offer themselves to our young ^ hands; we are happy in the hopes and grasp eagerly at the boauties around us; the stream hurries on, and still our ^ Sands are empty. Our course in youth and in manhood is along a wider, deep er flood, and amid objects morestriK- ^ ing and magnificent. We are animated by the moving picture of oryoymeet and ^ industry pawing us; tee are excited by our short lived enjoyment. The stream ^ bears us on, and joys and griefs are left b^iind us. We may be ship wrecked, but we cannot be delayed ; for rough or smooth, the river hastens toward its r home, till the roar of the ocean w in our ^ ears, and the waves beneath our feet, and the floods are lifted around us, and we take our leave of earth and its inhabitants, until of .our further voyage there is no witness save the iufioitc and . Eternal." 11 Readtuisto Your Sweethearts. ? ?The character of a community depends much on that of the youDg women. If the latter arc cultivated, intelligent, accomplished, the young men r will feel the requirement that they themselves should be upright, and gen- t tlcinanly, and refined; but if their fe- t male friends are frivolous and silly, the ?? ? 5II lv/> found to he dissina- I C JlVUUg wc .. ... ted and worthless. But remember always, that a sister . is the best guardian of a brother's in- 1 tegrify. She is the surest in culcator of faith in female purity. As a daughter, j she is the true light of home. The pride of the father oftencr is centered ^ io his sons, but affection is expended on his daughter. She should, therefore, bo \ the sun and centre of all. r Mr. Davis at a Banquet.?Tho 1 . New Orleans Picayune of a late date j says:?At a banquet on Thnrsday night' 1 ex President Davis, Gen. Ilood, and c other gentlemen wero present, General 1 Hood proposed the health of Mr. Davis, ? which was drunk in most respectful f ( silence. Tho latter replied with a pleas- ? ( out compliment to the fidelity and fear- t lessness of General Hood, who, ho said, wouM stand upon hi* crutches to the 1 hist, defending home interests, and con- ] tending for that be believed to be right. ] " : Ho?, many, either of the "weaker" or itr onger sex, Could exercise, in like cir 1 iUinataoTCs, the self-possession of t < rounggirl in Davenport, Iowa? A lady ' rent from home for a visit in tho counry, leaving her daughter, Sixteen years < ild, with two or three other smaller chil- > [ren, in the house. That night a burglar ntered the house, and rummaged a- f ut generally. The young lady heard ^ iim. but lav tremblinz and quiet. At ' ' W ^ o ? ut the scoundrel entered her bed room, ihe pretended to be asleep?lying with i ier face to the wall. The burglar went < ip to the bedside, bent over her, placed lis hand under her cheek, deliberately ; urned ber Face upward and took a long 1 Dok at it by the aid of bis dark lantern- 1 'be young girl never moved a muscle, < nd the burglar let the face carefully \ ack to its resting place on the pillow, I nd left the room and the house. The ouag lady caught a glimpse of his face hrough ber eyelids as he looked at her. ' le wore a mask, and that is all Bhe can ' all about his appearance. Nothing was lissed from the house the next wornA Slight Mistake.?A gentleman f unquestioned respectability went omo late at night. Toe moon was hining brightly, and after entering the ate and in approaching his house, he ras surprised to ace the figure oiaman isc suddenly and faco him. The cirumbtauce was well calculated to make \ oy one tremble. Burglars and robbers f rere in the city. It was reasonable to \ oppose this was one. But the gentle* c ran has always understood that in such < mergences it was t est to put on a show ] f courage even if you didn't feel any. f 'o this end he put his hands in his 1 ocketand then withdrawing if, extendd it towards the suffposed outlaw Is * he had a pistol in it and meant to 1 hoot him. The man did the same.? J iow, the gentleman was only making c clievc he had a pistol, for he had none; c ut he was not certain that the intru- ? er was equally deficent in fire-arms.? 1 In contrary he thought he was armed, c nd the steely glitter of? pistol he was 1 arc was flashing before his eyes. IIis * air bristled with horror and he cried c u,! - i "Stop you rascal, don't shoot, don't hoot!" c Bat still the arm was extended, and e lie fear of death was heavy upon the ' entleman. He shouted muader, thieves, * nd robbers 1 The loud outcries of the frightened ' itizen aroused his wife, who came ushing to tho door, terror-stricken, inuiring the cause of the alarm. j "Why, that rascal is going to shoot j icl" "What rascal, my dear?" inquired ] ha lady. . "There, don't you sec him?" point- | og to the still rlcnt figure. "Why, my dear, that's your tha~ !oic /" , "Whatl" . "Your shadow." "Blessed if it ain't?I thought it j ras a man." "No, my dear, it is only tho reflec- i ion of a brute, and a very tight one at hat." , And the "salubrious" citizen was i onducted to his couch. i There is a good deal of colored talent ( n this city wich wo should wish to see nlisted in any enterprise which would ako it outsido our cty limits. We | iave had a good deal of experienco < rith colored talent in tho ncw^apcr | )usiness, which can be accredited with >ieine four forms during the past year, ( lamaging our press once or twice, to say lothing of the many articles stolen from he office at various times. If the pro- 1 cctors of the above named newspaper j rould like to invest in some of this olored newspaper talent we should be ?appy to recommend two or three in- ' lividuals of the colored persuasion, who, 1 rom their experience in this office, would 1 loubtlcss do much better if better facili- i :C3 were but afforded them. 1 Savannah Advertiser. ' The South Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical Fair culminated on Friday ast. < J, liE OAHl}AlU M1>tJMViuuo vu iuv mmw of your jourocy, arc not your journey's snd, but each one brings you nearer.? 3uch is "the Lord's day." A haven is not home, but it is a place bf quiet rest, where the rough wares arc stayed. Such is "the Lord's day." A garden is a piece of common land, and yet it has ceased to be common land, It is an effort to gain paradise. Such is "the Lord's day." A bud is not a flower but it is a premise of a flower. Such is "the Lonfs lay." Tbe world's week tempts you to sell four soul to tbe flesh and the world.? "The Lord's day" calls you to remembrance, and begs you rather te sacrifico ;arth to heaven and time to eternity, :hau heaven to earth and eternity to :ime. Printer's Roles ?The ten cemaandments adopted by the "craft" tad ;o be followed are: 1. Eater softly. 2. Sit dowo quietly. 3. Subscribe for the paper. 4. Don't touch the poker. 5. Eogage in no controversy. 6. Don't smoke. 7. Keep six feet from the table. 8. Don't lounge about the office.. 9. Hands off the papers. 10. Eyes off the manuscript. Gentlemen observiog these rules *hen entering a printing office will jreatly oblige the printers. Hie ladies vho sometimes bless us with their pre* " * ??p? not exnect lence ior a itsw iuuuivum, ?-? ? id lo obs.rve these rules very strictly.-rBoys, unless accompanied by their athcrs, aro particularly requested to ccep their bands in their pockets. Mr. Geo. Pcabody the great merchant ind philanthropist, dietfrn Londtarro Thursday last. | There is no merchaat if this generation who has attained so ;rcat a celebrity as Geo. Pcabody. He .ommcnced life a poor boy in Danvers, Massachusetts. He afterwards carried in business as a merchant in Georgeown, Dist. Col., and thence removed! o Baltimore. In 1837 he went to LouIon and in connection with his branch louse in this country has carried ea msincss until the growing infirmities of ild age disqualified him for further czirtion. Mr Peabody amassed an imnensc fortune which for some years >ast ho has been appropriating to vanius charities in this country and in Engand. Work for Bora.?The New York Journal oj Commerce, on training boy*, 3 in favor of agriculture first, mechanical trades second, and says: "We would not train the boys tewwy mercantile business, as that department s overflowed by the boys who are orought upjto look down on manual labor ind to aim at a clerkship as the only fit employment for dainty persons wbo dislike dirty work." Calvary is a little hill to the eye, but it is the spot ou earth that torches heaven. The Cross is foolishness to human reason, and a stumbling block to bumau righteousness; but there only do mercy and truth meet together and righteousness aud pcrrco kiss each other. Jesus Christ was a man of low condition, and died a death of shame on an accursed tree; but there is salvation in no other. A fellow who was nearly eaten out of bouse and borne by the constant visits }f his friends, was one day complaining bitterly of his numerous visitors. j tm1 ?!! \>nmf r;,f "Olirc UIJU X II IClt J W uvn w gvv )f 'cm," said the maid of all work. "Pray how ?" "Lend money to the poor ones, and l)orrow money of tho rich ones, and oather sort will ivertrouble ye again. Fanny Fern thinks "there is no man who would not rather bo shaved by a woman than to have a great lumbering man pawing about his jugular vein, and poking bim in the ribs to get up when mother man's turn comes. I don't say how his wife might like it; but I am very sure ho would, and as to his wife, why?she could shave some other man, couldu't she?"