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if % *4"'" ' .-??* - - J \ . ? *. ft . I ?r + y ? v THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY PAPEB, PUBLISHED BY JOHN KERSHAW. SUBSCRIPTION HATES One year, in advanoe..... $2 CO 8ix months .X 1 50 Three months. 75 war Transient Advertisements must bo paid J for in advance. v.; ! , : -fciJST fr . "" 5 , . - - "? .. ;r,,. v J ' 1 )M' 11""" ' ' - I' V lii1.' VOL. XXXI. CAMDEN, S. O., TI1UESDAY, JANUARY 4, 18T13. - NO. XVIII Tbe Final Debate in the House on the Impeachment Question. the intelligent correspondent of the Charleston Courier, thus speaks of the closing debate on the Scott-Parker impeachment: Tim Hurley stated that what ho intended to say would not occupy much time, for he believed that the time for talk had gone. It 'fras now time for the people to act for them- . selves. When Governor of the State, (, ' under tho charge of high crimes in office, could come into the Legislature and buy ] ouough votes to get himself off, it was time , to act. The minority ot the House hud been ^ gagged, and were perfectly aware that the votes amounted to nothing. j Bowen next arose and said he availed , Vmself of the opportunity to say a few t words on tha_subject, because he supposed ] ?hat it would be tho last that ever would ( present itself. He protested against the ac- j **a*i a-PTInn ca in h 0 nain/> nf flio r?pnnli* I of the whole State. The man charged with e v haying stolen $6,000,000 from the people j has taken the means not to come up to the a issue, bat to dodgo it, although he might say that the Legisltffl^ had cxculpa- j ied him, yet so far as the actioh of the House n is concerned he will have faile'd to satisfy any j 'one that^he is guiltless of the charge. He g appealed to the whole people of the State n against this monstrous outrage that had been perpetrated. They were ground down to r the dust by taxation to allow th'ese men to a roll around in luxury, and when a rerolution j,] was introduced calling the thieves to account, 0 they boldly proclaim on the street that a small portion of the ill-gotten gains can de- r feat such measures. He was going from / i this Honse to appeal to the people of the ^ ' State to rise up and put down such outrages. The orator from Union, Mobley, here arose, and wanted to know in what way did ho mean that they were to be put down; by 9 inaurrection or Ku Klux ? ^ Bowen?I'll tell the gentleman. The peo- n pie nave Drougnt me case ueiore me jjcgis- Utate? and havo, moreover, convicted tlieui 11 ?a tbeir own figures; and here I would remark, that not a single statement has been controverted, not one figure of the charges made and proved, that does not remaiu un- l1 contradicted. When this House has failed ' to do its duty, the people have a right to go a into the courts of justice and demand jus- P t tice there; and should that fail, then there 'will, perhaps, one day, be an election, and $ they will have an opportunity to remedy , those evils. I shall appeal to the people . igainst the tyranny and oppression that has been heaped upon them. The Governor, v! up to the time that he was impeached, was c.' ^jVnfffip.* iTntiae want- ^ ed. to charge the Attorney-General with ^ these misdeeds, why didn't they,dojBO?_ . I g ' know CKat when the Governor was in New i York, he ran away for fear of being arrested. tj He left, however, a paper in the possession ^ t of a certain person, by which he tried to . make away with the sterling bonds. ^ v ; Here the speaker was interrupted by . - .Tmim whn rftiid a teleerram. said to have " O been sent by Gov. Scott to ex-Judge Barrett, on the 11th of November, in which Judge i s' Barrett is instructed, that unless Kimpton w resigned and settled as agteed before, he a 1 (Scott) left New York, to take legal steps a against him. . This Bowcu contended, was ' written, at the desk of the member who produced it. lie then went on with his speech. 0 . Alluding to the action of Byas, who had 0 signed the committee report advising im- a peachment, and subsequently working against ? the resolution, ho said the member from Orangeburg would come into this House and F look at the Speaker'^ rtand, and the next mo- 8 merit would, for a consideration,-swear that it wu not there. This brought Byas to his e feet on a privilege question, and sharp cross r firng was kept up for sometime. Whippor next obtained the floor, and made a his final speech on the subject. He said he c knew it was useless to attempt to fight the " robbers, who used their ill-gotten gains to buy tbe votes of the House; but he thanked v God that this was not the last resort. ^ There was scarcely a man in the House, except those whose political relations placed 8 'them above the reach of the slimy minions J of the ring, who had not been approached (bought.^ Talleyrand said every man had c his price, and that man (pointing to Byas) 1 had proven by his somersault, that he had 1 his price. In reply to a threat by Byas to 1 hold him responsible in a court of justice for ( his words, he replied : Justice! Great God, if \ justice were meted out, that man (Byas) would live in a place where the light of the 1 stars never penetrated. He then went on. 1 Although, he said, crashed bv votes pur- 1 c'nased with lucre stolen from the Treasury. 1 he had not yielded. The load of this infa- ' mous transaction had been saddled upon the Republican party, but he would not lend it his support. i j Hurley next obtained the floor*and made the first serious speech I have ever heard from his lips. Tliat "infinite jest," which is bo characteristic of the man, was for once put entirely aside, and he grew eloquent as he went on to say, that if there was any act .of his life of which ho was was proud, it was the fact that he had voted as ho did to-day oh this question. He would say to those members who Lad sold out for less than thirty pieces of silver, that ho had in his Docket a letter from one of the thieves, in which he (Hurley) was urged to vote against impeachment, and name his figures. lie Would say to the hirelings of the ring that his rote records the fact that they had not i enough money to buy him. lie had more interest in the State than all of them put to- j gcther. Byas here jumped to his feet, and said that he had known Hurley when he came to this State, and did not have two shirts to his back. Having said which, he saj down, with vague threats of going for him in the courts of justice. It was at this juncture that the* merry twinkle returned to Tim.'a eye, and with ' his usual comical blindness, which,had P ' * hitherto given way to a sternness quite unusual with the man, he begged to be permitted to ask the gentleman from Orangeburg a question. Permission having been aCcordod, he turned to Byas and said: Have you not now in your pocket a check for $12,203, which was given you last year for reporting the bill for fitting up the State House. This was a hit that staggered Byas, and with much swaggering talk and many muttered oaths, he left his scat and troubled Hurley no more. He concluded his speech by saying that wheu men so far forget themielves.as to sell their votes, he had svmnathv Tor them, but no contempt W. A. Thomas next spoke, and he was in ;urn followed by Yocum, the latter of whom jommenccd by saying, that he was one of hose hifppily disposed men who always, when le found himself in the minority, yielded to o the good sense of the House. But in this nstance, he was not disposed t yield to the jood dollars of the ring. Bowen closed the debate by saying, that le would make this proposition to thieves md robbers. They had asserted that the >ouds were issued in accordance with law. le challenged them to pick out an attorney, nd make up a case involving the point for he decision of the Surpreme Court of the State. If they did not agree to this, they lust plead guilty. At this juncture, a vote was taken on the esolution impeaching the State Treasurer, nd it was voted down by a larger majority ban Scott received. The vote was as follo'ws n the call of the roll: Whole number of votes cast, 89; ncccssay for the adoption of the resolution, 83? two thirds of the whole number of tihe memers)?ayes 27, nays 63. Murder and Pillage at Chicot, Aj&c. t v- i t. -l? J.i. .f A. A Mempnis aispaicn, unaer uaie ui me Oth, contaius tho following details of the cgro insurrection at Chicot, Arkansas, reviously alluded to in our telegraphic colmns: ' Reports previously sent in these dispatch- 1 J, regarding the killing of threo white men : y negroes, at Chicot, Ark., and the evacuaon of the town by all tho inhabitants, is illy confirmed to-night by the arrival of 1 >aie fifteen or twenty refugees from that lace?men, women and children, many of horn fled without a change of clothing or >od, so great was their terror. They report lat the negroes to thomumher of three hunred took possession of the town, patroled ' le streets and pillaged the stores and pri- : ate houses, and set fire to several. The itizens say that the sheriff is powerless, and jilti gh * ropnhlifnn ho dare not venithoritierhmT 6y ^To'ie *'inr 1 mfirms that portion of the statement. In rvcral *histanceS"the-'"hnve rfcfeol*i?d, > rapine, and under no consideration would : icy permit the burial of tho three men kill1, and to-day the bodies are probably lying i the woods a prey to the buzzards. Those ho arrived here, walked fifteen miles thro, le woods, at. night, to escape tne negroes, nd are without the necessities of life. A jbscription is now being raised and they ill be cared for. One of them states that t the time the negroes attacked the town s high as one hundred dollars were offered >r skiffs with which to get away. Governor Indlcy of Arkansas has been fully notified f this, but whether he hastakeu any action r not is not. known. Further particulars re anxiously looked for. Latku.?A messenger has just arrived rom Chicot Arkansas, with letters from iromincnt representative citizens and the hcriff of the county to the authorities at Vashingtou begging assistance. The messnger states that those who were not able to ;et away are now compelled to remain in he town by the negroes, all of whom are rmcd. One boat that contained a family scaping for refuge was fired into by the nc;roes and one person killed. The negroes hen ordered the boat to return to the shore * * ----- a?"w.'.-i-o rhich it did. A reign ui ic-riui cawu. ? Chicot. AIiDNIGllT.?It now appears from the tatemcnt of a passenger who just arrived icr steamer from below, that the plot to rceasc and hang the three white men at Chirot, Arkansas, had been communicated to he negroes living in Mississippi, and that i number of thcui aided in the cold-blooded uurdcrs alluded to in the previous dispatchis. It also appears that the origin of the lifficulty was a discussion between G. W. Wynn and John II. Sauudcrs, the former a aegTO lawyer recently from Washington, as to the vote of the county subscribing money to railroads?one defending and the other opposing the vote?resulting in the killing of Wynn as previously mentioned. Saunders and two friends were confined in jail until the 15th, when a body of 100 armed negroes rode into town, and, on pain of instant death demanded the keys of the sheriff, which ho I delivered, and the prisoners were taken out as before stated, and killed. It seems from the information rccoivcd tonight, that the negroes have a majority of over fiv to one, and that they are controlled by republican office holders, whom Governor Iladlcy would rather not interfere with.? Hence the application made to-night to President Gru;it to ,;cnd a regiment of troops " -1!-*?i 4 thereto rjucn tne cusiuruuuuu uuu iuiw w.~ negroes to return to their homes. It is further stated that all the negroes within a radius of fifty wiles 011 both sides of tho Missj issippi Ilivcr have collected at Chicot, and defy the Plate as well as tho Na-ional Government, threatening to burn, kill and ravish if any attcwotis made to arrest or punish them. Jle.ct and turnip leaves if put into pits when the temperature is near tho freezing point, and beat down very firm, and then lightly oovcred with earth, will keep through tho winter, and be more valuable next March (because more needed) than if fed out now. Select a dry, sandy knoll and be careful tr pack them solid, and not until steady cold *oate is about to pot in. Advice to Old Men. j ^ BY A BOY. 1 oannofc pick up a newspaper} rithout "Advico to Boy8" stares mo in the! face.~ Old men write it, Ts'pose. Nobody else is capable of giving advice to boys;' course not! They know all about us, t! jy do, 'cause they've been there. Advice is good thing to have, no doubt, and no om should be without it; but a feller dont wan to be crammed with it aJJ t ho time, to th< Jezclflsion of all other diet. | Now, old men need advice eccq Anally; but in looking through the papers t don't sec as they get it. So I thought that ywoold. just write a little advice to old men,' jnysclf, if I am not presuming too much (a % Aunt Chloe says), and I presume that I asjl t? .1.- c?a. _i? ? j ?i .jLa.* in ian nrtsi piace, juu uiu :<* get'over tolling how much smarter Ware when you were young than they arp/ioww^r You believe it yourselves, of coure^fcfeaqsfe you've told it so often, but wo boys ospt se? it. "Wo have a notion that boys a&boyB. pretty much the world over, (except'some that are girls,) and one generation of thorn dont lay over another generation to fclarming extent. Only let you tell it, and you couldi rifcftin out-jump, out wrestle and out-anythj ig-e]se the rising generation of to-dav whto you was a boy. Grandfather, who Las the gout and halfa dozen*different kinds of rhennyttinm, h always saying that. "I heard bin singing "I would I were a Boy again." I would he were, too; if I couldn't boot him running, and flop him on his back, sidjp hold. I don't want a cent. I would not go so far as to say fttrenfs obey your children) but I would suggest to fathers that they give us a hearing occasionally on matters in which wo aro the. ones mcst interested. Don't make us $ and slide down hill when we want to shore, and try to make preachers of us when we'jwould much prefer to run a saw mill. Thief* figurative but I guess you know what by it. j After giving us boys sage au-ioe about our conduct and how to behave, you old coggers ought to be careful how you get fto relating your boyish scrapes to eaoh otl&r and laughing over them before we aro outpf-eq* shot. The other day grandfather rea$ me a long lecturo about the right of propert^.temperance and Sabbath-breaking. : ?'?/. Thixt very night, an old crony of H^oajdieto visit him, and they had a glass of .puUflifc together. They thought I was csle p 2tjtt the sofa, and the way they ran on abo?t tljil fun they had when they w.ere boys to^thoi*] They told all about robbing Lyoq'aJmelijp patch, and it turned out'it was on qani^ay night, too I' When I went to bod th*3^g*g; know grandfather's rheumatism was a'greaF Aotti-v/ursc tho next 4ay, onddfir puW^htrtl a great deal about his liver. OW men ought to be very careful about taking too much punch. I have noticed old men hate to give up that they can't stand so much as they used to, or n9 younger men can. They get mad if a feller like me hints that they can't.? We've all got to play out some day, and when he feels he's losing his grip, why not come down gracefully and acknowledge tho corn? Now, in the above remarks, I don't mean any disrespect. I like old men in their place, but I don't want so much of their advice. Give the boys a chance. Chinese Method of Preserving G?mrc?TmvaWk inform US that tho I V? UUA MJIJ, v.w. Chinosc have a method of preserving grapes so as to have them at their command daring the entire season, and a reeent author gives us the following account of the method adopted: It consists in cutting a circular pieco out of a ripe pumpkin, or gourd, making an aperture large enough to admit the hand. The interior is then completely cleaned out, the ripe grapes aro placed iuside and the cover replaced and pressed in firmly. The pumpkins are then kept in a cool place and the grapes will be found to retain theirfreshness for a long timo. Wc are told that a very careful selection must be made of the pumpkin, the common field pumpkin, however, beiug well adapted for the purpose in question. Imagination.?Grace Greenwood, writing from Denver, says: " Nature did antc? " ill turn nriirinallv. in affixing to 1UJ7CO UU v~. 0 v/ w them a mark by which they can be seen and 'a bead drawn on them' at a distance. It renders them especially liable to attack in the rear?which reminds me of a little story. A small Colorado boy, who had been out playing, ran into the house in a state of great excitement, saying he had seen some antelopes in a gulch hear by. At his entreaty his mother went out to look at them, but nothing of the kind was to be iound.? She became iucrcdulous, and said at last: "I don't believe you saw any antelopes, my child, it must have been your imagination." To this tlio little mountaineer indignantly responded: 'Ilumph! I guess my imaginanation isn't white behind!'" r\ . ?iTorvn TTaid RpnTnnvnK.?A X/AKIJblVUI Uni.lQilaiuuuv.v. correspondent of the Country Gentleman says he has under his care two invalid ladies. One has been paralyzed on the right side for nearly three years, and has been utterly helpless most of that time. Her vision has been very imperfect; her knowledge of pasteventE has utterly departed from her; recently she appears to be recovering her recollection, and can count as high as twenty. lie attribute: her prostration entirely to the use of pop ular ' hair restorers." The other case is no i bo bad, but bad enough. For the past yea: ; her eyes have been the occasion of constan I torture. The retina hns'bccomc bo sensitive ! to the light as to make a dark room indie i' pcnsiblo. Wheels of burning flame rcvolv , | constantly before her eyes, attended by light > nine-like flashes, which arc terrible to beai 11 She is another victim to the poisonous lea 1 contained in the s>aiuo pojnulai uo&tnua. q From the Elmira Gazette. A Victim of "Pasters"?A Humorous Incident of the Beoe# Election. Among the candidates for office at the late California election was ens who was very anxious. On the day before the election several acquaintances suggested that he most secure pasters. . ( u You oan never win old fellow, unless you can get pasters," said they. " You need a great number, too, for every body will 4 scratch' in your favor." The.suggestion was pleasant. The candidate counted his cash capital, which lay in his right hand pantaloons pocket. Afterwards he walked to a printing house and ordered the minting of thirtv thousand co* i pies bearing Lis name. . will have thCiji gammed and cat, of course/' said the printer. " No, I think not. I'll do it myself," replied'the canfdidato. Dubiously did' the printer man look at him, but, asjthe cash was paid, he said nothing. Tho printing was not done till aftornine o'clock at night, and the candidate, wbo^had been walking up apd down the hatchway, marched triumphantly toward home with his thirty thousand pasters. "About one half of thorn will be wasted," thought he; "the balance added to the straight tiokot, will render my election cerThoy sat up all night " fixing" the pasters '?the candidate and his wife, and his wife's mother and tho eldest daughter spread mucilage over the backs of the printed sheets of paper; the daughter hung'them on a line against the stove to dry; and the wife and the mother ent until their hands were stiff and swollen.. One o'clock, three o'clock, five o'clock dfune, and still they worked away, yawning at every clip of the shears. The carpet was strewn with scraps of paper, the table streaked with mucilage, and the 1* i i i in JLIL. i candidate rymseii was peramuuiaung courtplaster, so gummy was he. " My dear/' said his wife, at half past 5, haven'tyou enough? My thumb is almost cut in two with' the shears, and grand ma is quite done up.'' " We had bettor keep on my love," replied tho candidate; I'shall surely need them all." "De* me!" said she, "I didn't know there wdlre thirty thousand voters in the city." " Of course you didn't; women are not expected to know anything abont politics." The candidate had no sleep that night, and at an. early hoar in the. morning sallied forth to distribute his thirty thousand pasfera. Then he " worked" all day, spent a ^focyhi^kn^nr-d a &>o d _ another twenty hours to See tiie ballots counted-, fn this?preeim^?the some in ,jvhick he had worked so hard?eight hundred votes had beon polled, and of these he received two, one Doing Dy means 01 a pas tcr. Ilis luck elsewhere had been no better, mid he went home. His wife greeted him with smiles; she was sure that her hubby-bubby had been elected. And in response to her congratulatory caresses, the brute turned most savagely upon his wifo and said? " My love, yesterday morning I circulated thirty thousand pasters bearing my name. Ip the whole city I have received just thirty votes. If over you say 'pastor' to mo I'll sue you for a divorco. I am going to bed." Scolding.?If laughing begets fat, it is no less true that scolding is the parent of meagerness. Who ever saw a plump termagant ? The virago is craggy?cragginess is the badge of all bcr tribe. It would seem that the attrition of a fierce, exacting temper gives sharpness to the human frame as inevitably as a gritty grindstone puts a wire edge on a broad-ax. Artists understand this fact, - t? i mi and govern themselves accordingly, juicy invariably represent ladies supposed to be given to "the rampage" ^s remarkably high in bone. Shrews are thus depicted in comic valentines, and all the illustrations of "Curtain Lectures" have presented the rib of Mr. Caudle without a particle of fat. Lavater, referring to female fire-brands, says, flatly to their faces, that their noses are sharp. We have a dim idea that he mentions some exceptional cases of ladies with snub-noses, who are given to snubbing their husbands; but those form a mild variety and only a small proportion of the genius soold. IIow to Cook a 11am.?The late Gcnoral Winfield Scott, an acknowledged authority in the culinary art, was of opinion that few cooks knew how to cook a ham, because they did not boil it until soft enough to bo oaten with a spoon! A great artist told tho writer never to servo a hum under one year old; it was then to bo soaked all night in soft water, and if possible, running water; it was to bo put on fire in a largo pot of cold water, and slowly boiled at least twenty minutes for every pound it might weigh; and as for skinning a ham, he held it to be an outrage, a sacrifice of quality to a inero appearance, which no sensible man should be guilty of. If your hani is served cold, as always done in Kuropc, it should be souzed in snow or icewater immediately after coming from the pot, because the sudden cold prevents the flow and escape of the juices. i Among tho odd "applications made at a i prominent druggists in this city recently, [ says the Charlestown Chronicle, were the " " " u1 ,. -nira rvp kIipII 3 following: -J.YTU 1UT.Q / . powders." "I wants rochelle powder? t which paper is that buzzes" "fire cents r worth of distracted senna" (extract of sent na);-"sulphur and ink for eye-wash" (sule phate of zinc); " bully moniac," bole Arinenia); "tyrants appearance," (Tarrant's e aperient); " ten cents worth of gentleman's > magnesia" (calcined nmgnosia); "ten ccut.< . worth of Russian salve for an absence;' d " one box of Wright's individual pills" (vc j getablc.) A How General Polk was Hilled. An ex-Confederate, writing for the Westminster Review, gives the following account Of the death of the Bishop General: " The death of the distinguished man oeourrcd while our army lay in front of Kenesaw. Johnston, with a group of officers, among, whom waa Polk, was making's reconnoisance of the enemy's lines from the summit of the Pike Mountains, a lofty,'solitary mount which jutted outfrom the range, and formed the apex of an acute angle, on which our line was arranged. The situation 1 was a very hazardous one, being commanded ; or rathor reached by guns from any portion of the enemy'rl :; 3S. " The unusuid assemblage w such a con* ' 1? XX X?J xi :_:i x f spiucuus piaue euou mtrauieu wu vi^uujji. ?u- my. A battqry in froat immediately fired one shot, which we.^aftersenrds'found. out f was but the prelude to one of the most fear- 1 ful shellings I 'ever witnessed. The group was standing between Young Beauregard's battery and. the, fifth company of Washing- 8 ton artillery, Johnston being on the works 9 looking through a field gloss. The first shot could not have missed him two feet, but the v only attention paid to it was to turn his I flosses.to the battery that fired it. Polk ad, in the mean time, separated from the group and was walking thoughtfully away, with his left side to the. enemy, his head down and his hands clasped behind him. "The second shell fired at the crowd s struck him in the arm, passed through the e body,' tearing out' his heart, and then ; crushing. his right arm above the el- B bow.- Ho dropped on one knee, waver- j ed, then fell on one side?dead. I had hardly turned my back, when I heard the murmur of horror run through the line,: 7 1 General Polk is killod.' Johnston said not a word, but ran to him and lifted him up in his arms. Hardee uttered^'cry, and h also rushed forward. He was past all k human help. The members of nis staff tenderly lifted and bore him frojn the field." r ....I. i.i - ^ --- u " Lovb Toub Moth*r.?Little ones, do you love your mother ? You will never meet , an eye as tender, a hand as gentle, or a heart as kind as herV No love will ever be as ? strong as that which she bears you. It. was 11 she who nourished you in your infancy, and soothed with pleasure, your feverish cries, n whon all other ears had grown weary of- n them. She would cool the heavy brow, h change the heated pillow, and answer your countless calls till the stars paled in the he a- ^ veils, and yot no repining words escaped h$r ^ tip?It was your mother, who watched over p you in childhood, taugtyryour lisping tongue its &st nmdivuud .jtui % hy'uui cinmtsU1 liUlLTt WUfl Hill W"ll your brow was. clouded, with, loving words and gentle manner, she was ever reedy to 0 disperse it. In youth, she guided tne feet j, which were so prone to err, into the paths of c peace and wisdom. Then we must love her who so much loved us. ? When you go forth into the world, if you * are in prosperity, many hearts will be thrown n at your feet; but so soon as fortune frowns, .1 " * ? Ml J L vnn.A : tnese incnu^ wm uuauri/ juu iui uuv; luuiw n favored by fortune. ;Tis tbeu a mother's 1< love will shine brighter; and in the depth g of her devotion will make you forgot that the world is cold and cheerless; that friends c are false, and that life is a disappointment. k Then let your mother see that you think a of her; perform those nameless little atten- s tions which can only answer tho domauds of a loving heart. t (i Hotel Accommodation in -Texas.?One 8 of the exhibitors at the recent Texas State Fair, gave an amusing account of his experi- ^ ence at the hotel which illustrates the crowd- ? cd condition of the hotels at that time.? g "TVhen I got there I just said, 'Captain I ( wrote you about six weeks ago to save me a room; I hope you have done so." 'Certainly I have; waiter, show the gentleman toXo. 91/ : I'm blessed if there wasn't forty others be sides myself in the same apartment, and when ) they went to undress at night the room look- J ed like an arsenal, for every man had a kjfife and a six shooter or two. My partner had \ an immonse pistol which he coolly took off t and placed in bed between us. 'Say, stran- i ger,' says I, 'if I had to carry a thing like t that, blamed if I wouldnt put it on wheels.' 'Guess if I choose to wear it, it's nobody's ( buisness,' ho replied. 'Well,' says I, 'is all ] of this artillery company in this room ?'? About half tho occupants were changed ev- ' ery day, and I could tell every new arrival j the number of his room as soon as I set my ] eyes on him. 'Hallo Coloucl, just got iu ?' I would say, 'Yes?just in, and lucky enough to get a room.' 'What's your number V I ( would ask. 'Ninety-one/ was euro to bo the reply. Forewarned.?A singular instance of premonition of evil is related by a correspondent of the Bangor Whig.' A certain musician residing in that city, after playing at a ball in a town some miles distant lost Monday night, retired to rest as usual, but was restless and unable to sleep, and a sensation of dread of something wrong took hold of his mind. lie strove to shako it off, and in vain So stroncr did this uuui i\;u oivv|/ *u i G uneasiness become that ho at length arose and took the first train to Augusta, and immediately went to his home, where he found his wife and littlo son of four years of age both nearly suffocated from coal gas. It was a long time before they could bo revived. Had he had been absent an hour longer they would doubtless have both been dead. A Pennsylvania paper says: "Chicagowas . probably the most populous eity in tho world, i previous to the conflagration. Some fouri teen millions of her'destitute citizens' have , passed through this city in tho past three ' weeks. You can't throw a cat in any dircc. tion without hitting a 'sufferer/ The dodge is becoming threadbare." V ' Wh ' . -w ' : : 1 ii . ' i. f1?i ADVERTISING- RATES. , Space. IE 2M. 8M. (JM. IT, 1 ? 1 square 8 00 6 00 8 00 12 00 W 08 2 Squares G 00 . 9 00 12 00 18 00 *86 00 8 squares 9 00 13 00 16 00 24 00 86 00 4 squares 12 '00 16 00 28 00 80 00 48,00 i column 15 00 19 00 24 00 84 00 60 00 | column 20 00 80 00 40 00 66 00 80 00 1 column 30 00 60 00) 60 00} 90 00ft60 00 All Transient Advertisementa#will be charged Onb Dollab per Square for the'first and Ihfv*'* '. TT-rivE Curia per. Square for each subsequent insertion. ' PARAGRAPHS. The way to keep your silk umbrella?on!/ lend your cotton one. The best safety match la eaid by tho jVcto York Express to be marrying a rich wife ^ferriage is often the end of man's trouble?bnt -which end? It is said that more fashionable ladies have 'dyed" young this year thfin erer before. A boot and shoe store on 6th avenue, New Vork, advertises "Women's Rfehts~-?ad Left**The population of Virginia is said to he declining, on account of the people migrating .0 more proeperons regions. Providence K. L has a dog on 'its. police 'orce, And he is one of its most efficient mem* >er s, J The H. I. Kimball House, in Atlanta, is idvertised to he soft in January at Sheriff'sI. ale to satisfy a laborer's lien. * * AJhx containing the mutilated fonaa of a romWhas been found at the Gn aid Trunk tailway depot in Quebec. A Memphis man who invested 81,000 in , lottery drew two prizes of $5 each. Anther .invested 810 and drew $35,000. A newspaper, like a man, must have Hut serous and active enemies it it would' sno* eed.?J5ayen<r?u? Jonct. Yon look as though yon was beside yourel$ se n wag said to a fellow , who1 wap standag oloee to a donkey. The Emogration Commissioners of new ork, have a large number of unemployed tborcrs on hand who want to go South. Rumor states that a Michigan Fjra^nan ? bo short that when ho is sick, he aoep*not now whether-he has headache or corns. The friencfo of a suicide out. in Pooria, 11^. jsurrected the remains to get $400, .which he unfortunate had hid in his boots.' A Baltimore workman lighted a match to iscover the leak in a gas meter. He dis- . overed it, but will never communicate the itelligence. ' ' . A young lady on her way to he married ios run over and killed. An elderly smgle dy savagely remarked, "she has, escaped a iore lingering and horrible destiny/' ifo^rKiNS, a Mormon, tried for polygamy as been convicted. It was considered a at, and no donbt settles the long daputcd oint as to the guilt of tho Mprnxoiia. rtTchildren a pension of$1,200. # Malicious boys in Buffalo adotn the coat f a gentleman on his way home from dinng out on Thanksgiving Day with 4he pl*./^-?^ ard, "Choice poultry inside/' An Englishman about to be hanged fot lurdering his wife, sorrowfully remarked on ho i "T Ipd Tior to* the Aalfcur. and iow sho has led me to tho 'alter." Vaccination parties are the rage out Wert n these small-pox times, and 'sentimental overs delight to receive the virus from their weetlieart's arm. Two prisoners recently escaped from the 5an Francisco jail, digging their way through , ten inch brick wall, by the aid only of a poon and pieoo of wiro. A negress speaking of one of her children rho was lighter oolored than the rest, said: 'I nobbor could bear dat, cause ho show dirt o easy." According to a Sacramento pape^ tho rild geese are so numerous along the lino >f the California and Oregon railroad' that mow plows are necessary to keep the 'track dear. . "Yon dont think so highly of tho hymenitl knot as I do," said a wife to her husband. 'Yes I do," he replied; "it is only when you ,vish to make it a double beau knob tbati ob cct to it. , 'i , It having just hccn discovered that there vas no law to punish the forgery of Corigrestional franks, a bill will be introduced firing i fino of 8500 for tho hitherto popular inmsoment at "Washington. A foppish youDg dandy who had just re:urned from abroad, appeared at a New York sail lass week, elegantly attired in full dress sait, with diamond studs and sleeve buttons, point-laco neck tic, three-buttoned gloves, tiair powdered with blonde powder, trench heels to his boots a strong suspicion ofrougo on his checks and a piece of court plaster on his forehead. Tbe girls made so much fun of him that ho retired boforo supper. .. A man oat ia Logansport, lad., bad a jackass palmed off on him as a mule colt, and it lias proved to bo an elophant on his hands. lie tied it in his back yard, and waited patiently for his neighbors to 6ffer him a bonus to remove the little animal out of car shot, for he was satisfied they would soon grow weary of the deep bass voice of the long eared "colt." A gentleman who "passed by on the other side," yesterday, reports that Mr. S. was sitting on the door-step with his ears stopped with cotton, while his noighbors were hunting an attorney to bring an injunction suit against the jackass. A Schenectady man saw his daughter into the cars and passed round to her window c.? ?> WTiilft he was lur <* IUUA. ?w uv*t WW ...... passing out tho daughter left, the seat to speak to a friend, and at the same time a prim looking lady who occupied tbo scat with her moved up to the yjindow. Unaware of the important change inside, our vcucrabio friend hastily put his face up to * the wiudo.v and hurriedly exclaimed, " One more kiss, sweet pet." In another instant the point of a blue cotton umbrella'caught his seductive lips, followed#}' the passionate ! injunction,'' Scat, you'gray headed wretch!" j and bo scattered. 'M