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VOL. I---NO. 7.1 WINNSBORO, S. C.. THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23 1876 - In Adl'**, ce MISS HARPEWS iMID After the last voyage but one, the good ship of which I was first officer wont into dock for a thorough re fitting, and I had a longer spell at home than I had enjoyed for many years. I would not change this way of life for any in the world; but I was glad for once to strdtch my logs fairly on dry IFmn, and see some thing of green fields, brick and mortar, and my shore going friends in the neighborhood of Canterbury. Among the families in which I was most intimate was that of a Mr. Harper. He had made a com fortable fortune by trado, and now was enjoying his otium cum digni tate in a good house on the out skirts of the city. An only daugh ter kept house for him; for he was a widower. Now Julia Harper, when I first knew her, was a fine, handsome girl of two-and-twenty ; tall, well made. but on rather a large scale, with bright, restless eyes, and a profusion of dark hair She had a great many admirers, some of whom there is overy reason to sup pose, admired the old gentleman's money as much as the young lady's eyes, but they met with no great encouragement. I often met with Julia at the house of mutual friends. I certain ly liked the girl; and my vanity was flattered, because, with so many ad nirers around her, she showed me, as I thouight, a decided preference. She seemed to Le never tired of talk ing i bout the sea. She wearied me with que stions about it; and on more than one occasion said--very unguardedly-that she thought a voyage to India would be the most delightful thihg in the world. Of course, I made fitting answer, that with a congenial companion, a voyage anywhere would be delight ful; and, more than once, opportu nity being favorable, I was on the point of declaring myself, when an intornalqualm of consciencoarrested the dangerous avowal. Affairs were in this state, when an accident befell me which brought matters to a crisis There was a steeplechase one day in the neigh borhood of Canterbury, which I attended on foot. During the exciteient of the race, I attempted a difficult cut across the country, failed at a leap which was beyond my powor and had the misfortune to sprain. .y ankle. The injury was a very severe one, and I was laid up for ma-ny weeks in my lIdgings. You have often laughed at ne for taking everything so coolly. I assure you that I did not take this coolly at ill. I chafed. indeed, liko a lion in the toils; and was continu ally arresting the progress of my recovery by putting-in spite of repeated prohibitions - the cripplled member to tlh, groim. At last, I began to learn a little philosophy, and resigned myself to the sofa with a groan. The loss of my liberty was bad enough; but the loss of Juli Ls society was a hundred times worse. H1er father came often to see me, and brought me kind messages from his daughter ; but, if I had no more substantial consolations, I believe that I should have gone mad.' Julia did not actually come to me ; b~ut sh~e wrote me r'epeatedl notes of inquiry, and often sent me flow~ers and books, and other tokens of womanly kindnmess. The messenger employed on these occasions was Miss Harper's maid. She was gen orally enjoined to doliver the letters and parcels into my own hands, and sometimes to wait for an answer. She canme, therefore, into my dr'aw ing-roomn, and if she had occasion to wvait, I would alway desire her to be seated. The girl's name was Rachel. She might have been old, or ugly, or deformed, for anything I cared, or, indeed, that I knowv about her. I had a din) consciousness that she had a very pleasant manner of speaking ; but I give you my word that, after she had been half a dozen times into my room, I should not have known her if I had met her in the streets; I regarded her only as an appendago to the fair Julia, whose image was ever before my eyes, shutting out all else from my This, howe ver, did not last for ever. It happened one day that when Rachel brought mec a par'cel, I -in my lover-like enthusiasm started up from the sofa, and in cautiously planted my injured foot on the ground. The result was a spasm of such acute p~ainI that I fell back upon my couch with an in voluntary cry, and a face as colorless as marble. Rachel immediately stepped forward ; and with a cordial expression of sympathy, asked if she could do anything for me, and pro ceeded, with a light, gentle hand to arrange the pillows under my crippled limb. I felt very grateful for these ministrations, and as I gave utterance to my gratitude, I looked for the first time inquiringly into Rachel's face. I thought that, altogether, she was a very pretty girl, and, more over, a very genteel one. I observ ed now what I had never observed -indeed, had had no opportunity of observing- that she had a charm in g littleigrer. Her shawl hael fallen off while she was arranging my pillows, so that I could see her delicate waist and the graceful out line of her lightsome form. I was interested in her now for the first time; and. was sorry when she took her departure, with the expression of hope that I might not suffer further inconvenience. I hoped that she would come again on the following day, and I was not disappointed. She came with a note and a bouquet from Julia; but before delivering either she inquired after me with-what I thought-gonuine concern. I an swered kindly and gratefully; and before opening her mistress' note asked her several questions, and drew her into conversation. The more I saw of her the better I liked her. She was at first a little re served-perhaps embarrassed-but after a few more visits this wore off, and there was a quiet self -possession about bor which pleased me migliti ly. I could not get rid of the im prossion that she was something better than her social position seemed to indicate ; at all events, she was very much unlike all the waiting-maids I had ever seen. I soon began to delight in her visits. She came almost every day with some letter or message from her mistress. I looked forward to the time of her coming, and felt duller when she was gone. I thought that it would be delightful to have such a handmaiden always about me, to suooth my pillow and bring me my meals, and talk to me when she had rothing better to do. I was interested in Rachel, and enjoyed her visits; but, believing still in Julia Harper's fidelity, I was faithful to the core myself. But cir eumstances soon occurred which shook my faith, and then my love began to dwindle. Rachel brought me a note one day, and a parcel containing a pair of worsted work slippers, which her mistress said she hoped I would wear for her sake until I was able to leave my room. She did not actual ly say, but she implied, that she had worked them for me herself. When I said something to Rachel about the time and trouble Miss Harper I never said "your mistress" now must have expended on them, I observed a very curious and signifi cant expression on the girl's face. I had observed it once or twice be fore, when I had said something in dicative of my confidence in Julia's sincerity. It was an expression partly of pity-partly of disgust; and seemed to be attended, for 1 could see the compressure of her little mouth, with a painful offort to repress the utterance of something that was forcing its way to her lipsi. I was thinking what this could mean when a piece of folded paper fell from the parcel; I picked it up, and found it was a bill-a bill for may shippers, which Miss Harper had bouiht. I knew now the meaning of tie look. Rachel saw that I had got a glimmering of the truth, and I thought that she seemed more happy. Sue had wished me "good morn ing," an~d was5 about to depart, but I toldI her that [ could not suffer her to) go. It was altogether a dleplora b)1 le dy-what we call in the log equally,. There was a great deal of wmqud--a groat deal of rain; and just at this moment the latter was coming down in torrents. After some per1 saasion she consented to remain. Then I asked her if she would do something for me ; and, with a bright smile she answered :"Yes." I had a new silk neelothi waiting on the table to be hemmed She took it up, and then, tur'ning to me, asked naively how she was to horm it without needle and thr'ead. T1o this question--for which I was well pr'epared-I replied that in the other table drawer she would find something containing both. She searched, and found a v'ery pretty Russian leather case, silver mnounted, with all the applliances a seamntress could (desire. Then I begged her' acceptance of it--said that I had orderod it to be made on purpose for her use, and that I should be, bitterly disappointed if she (11( not accelpt it. And she did accep~t it with undlisguised pleasure. And a very pleasant thing it was to lie on the sofa, and watch her neat little white hands plying the needle in my behalf. I had been longing to see the hand without the glove, and I was abundantly satisfied when I saw it. She had hemmed one side of the handkerchief, and we had conversed on a great variety of topics, wvhen the weather began to clear up, and the sun to shine in at the windows. Rachel rose at once to depar't.I said that I was quite sure it must be dlreadfully wet under foot, and that I was certain she was thinly shoed. "Not very," she said. But I insisted on satisfying my self, and would not be content until she had suffered to peep out be mneath the hem of her gown one of the neatest little patent leather slippers I had ever seen in my life. 12 said that they were vei-y dainty little things, but altogether fine wveather shoes, and not meant for wet decks. But I2 remembered presently that 12 had seen in her~ hand, when she entered the room, a pair of India rubber ovjrsbaoos, and I2 reminded har of them. "They are my mistress'," she said "I had boon desired to fetch then from the shop." "Wear them," I said, "all the same-they will be none the worse, and will keep your little feet dry." ".But how can I I" she answered, with a smilo; "they will not fit me at all." "Too small ?" I said, laughing. "Yes, sir," she said, with another smile, even more charming than the first. I told her that I should not be satisfied until I had decided that point myself, and at last I persuad ed her to try. , The little rogue know well the result. Her feet were quite lost in them. If I have a weakness in the world, my good fellow, it is in favor of pretty feet and ankles ; so, when Rachel insisted on taking her de parture, I hobbled as well as I could to the window to see her pick her way across the mud puddles. I satisfied myself that the girl's ankles were as undeniable as her feet; and she was unequivocally bien chaussee. I could not help thinking of this long after she was gone. And then it occurred to me that Julia Harper was certainly on a rather large scale. She had a good figure of its kind, and she had fine eyes ; but Rachel's were quite as bright and much softer ; and as for all the essentials of graceful and feminine figure, the mistress' was far inferior to the maid's. I kept thinking of this all the evening, and after I had gone to bed. And I thought, too, of the very unpleasant specimen of Julia's insincerety which had betrayed itself in the case of the slippers. The next day was an auwpicions one. Looking prettier than ever Rachel came with a. noto from her mistress. I was in no hurry to opening it, you may be sure. I asked Rach a great number of questions, and was especially solicitous on the score of wet feet, which I feared had been the result of her last homeward voyage from my lodgings. She had by this time habituated herself to talk to mc in a much more free and unembarrassed manner than when first she came to my apartments ; and the more she talked to m the more charied I was ; for she ex pressed herself so well, had such a pleasant voice and delivered such sensible opinions, that I soon began to think that the mental qualifica tions of the mistress (none of the highest, be it said) wore by no means superior to those of the maid. In deed, to toll the truth, my good fellow, I was falling in love with little Rachel as fast as I possibly could. I,'his day, indeed, precipitated the crisis. We had talked some time to gether, when Rachel reminded me I thought that there was an expres sion of mock reproachfulness in the ittle round face) that I had not read her mistress' letter. I opened it in a careless manner; and had no sooner read the first line than 1 burst out into loud laughter. 'Bravo, Rachel," I exclaimed. "You are a nice little messenger, indeed, to carry a young lady's billets douxi. You have given ine a wrong lettor." She t >ok11up the envelope, which had fallen to tnme ground, andl showed mec that it was directed to "Edward Bloxhmam, Esq1." "All the better, Rachel," I said ; "but this begins, 'I am so dleligh ted, my dear Captain CJox'- Hurrah for' the envelopes !" I lookod into Rachel's face. It was not easy to read the expression of it. First she seemedl inplined to laugh-thon to cry. Then she blushed ump to the very roots of her hair. She was ovidently in a state of in('ertitude and( confusion--puz zied what course to pursue. I fold ed up the letter, plaWcd it in another envolope-not -aving, of course, r'ead another word of its contents. WVhat was the cause of Julia's exces sivoe delight I am not awvare up to thuis moment ; but I could not help asking Raichel something about Captain Cox. One question led to another. Rlachel hesitatod at first but at last, with faltering voice and tearful face, told me the whole truth. She said that she had felt herself for sonmc time in a very painful and omn barrassing situation. She recog nized her duty to her mistress, who had been kind and indulgent to her -b~ut she could not help seeing that mneh that h ud been (lone was extremely wrong. She had all along boon ashamed of the duty on which she wvas employed, and had more than once hinted lher' disap) probation ; but had been only laughed at as a prude. She had often reproach.. ed herself for being a party to the fraud which had been prIactisedl on me. She had not at first fathomed the wvhole extent of it ; but now she knew how bad a matter it ws. The truth was, that Miss Harper had for some time been carrying on something more than a flirtaton with Captain Cox. But her fatner disliked the man, wvho, though very handsome and agreeable, bore any thing but a good character-and, therefore, Julia had acted cautiously and guardedly in the matter, and hmad feigned an indifference' which bad deceived Mr Harper. WhP~len I first came to anchor at Canterbury, Captain Cox was on "ibavo of absence ;' and, as he had gone away without making a declara ion, it }had appeared to Julia thait an overt flirtation with nie in the captain's absence-something that would nertainly ranh his arm..mUh stimulate him to greater activity, and elicit an unretractable avowal. Her flirtation with me was intended, also, to impress on Mr. Harper's mind the conviction that she was really attached to me, and ho ceased, therefore, to trouble himself about Captain Cox. He liked me, and he encouraged me, on purpose that the odious captain might be thrown into the shade. Such was the state of affairs at the outset of Julia's flirta tion with me. But Rachel assured me that I really had made an impres sion on the young lady's heart, though she had not by any means given up the gallant captain. I asked Raehol how this could be --how it was possible that any heart could boar two impressions at the same time. She said sho supposod some impyressions were not as deolp and ineflzaceablo as others. Aal events, she believed that to Miss Harper it was a matter of no very vital concern whether sho mar ried Captain Cox or Mr. Bloxham ; but that she was determined to have one or the other; The fact is, the girl was playing a double game, and de ceiving both of us. All this was very clear to me from Rachel's story. But she told me it was her own belief that Julia would determine on taking me, after all -thiit for the very cx cellent reason that Captain Cox was engaged elsewhere. At least, that was the story in the town since his return to the barracks. Poor Rachel shed a great many tears while she was telling me all this. Shte said that, having betrayed her mistress, she could not think of remaining with her. She was decid ed on this point. With warm expres sions of gratitude, I took her little hand in mine, and said that I would be her friend-that she had done me an inestimablo service-that I was glad to be undeceived-that the little incident of deception in the slippors had shaken my belief in Miss Harper's truth, that altogether my opinions had changed, lld that I knew there were worthier objects of myaffection. Then Ispoke of her own )osition --said that of course bor determination was right--but that she would confer a very great favor on mc if she would do nothing until she saw me again. This she readily promised ; and it was agreed that on the following day, which was Sunday. she should call on me during after noon service. I preRsed hor hand warmly when I wished her good bye. She came at the appointed hour, looking prettier and more lady-like than over. She was extremly well dressed. I shook. hands with her and asked her to seat herself upon the couch beside me ; and then asked her, laughingly : "What news of Captain Cox ?" She said there was not the least doubt that Captain Cox was engaged to be married to a lady in London ; and that Miss Harper, ol the precoling evening, not before, had been made aequalinted with the fact. . I then asked Rachel what the young lady had said on receiving back her lotter to the captain : and learned that sho hlad been greatly excited by the dis cover'y, and had bieen ver'y eager to ascertain ho0w much of tile letter I had read. WVhen Rtachiel told her' that I had read only tile words :"I am so delighted, my1 dlear' Captain Cox," she somewhat recovered her spirits, but this morning she hlad pleaded illness as an excuse for not comling down to brealgjast, and hlad not since left lher roomn. There was at this time lying un opened on my table a nlote from Miss Harper, wvhich had been brloughlt b~y hecr fatherm, anl hiour before. I askvd Rach~el to give it to me, saying : "Now, let us see, Rachel, wihether' any nowv Jight is thrlownl up~on tile subject." I think her hland trembh!e:l whlen sh1e gave it to 111. I open~ed and read : "Mv DEAnI MR. BRLOXHAM : Ver'y many thlanks to you for your prlompti tuido in retuirninig tile note, which, stupid little bunlgler that I am" ("Not so very little, is she, Rachlel?" I paused to remark) "I sent you by mistake--I am very glad that I had niot sent tihe other to Capt. Cox--for althlough it do0es not mluch matter if one's letters to one0's acquaintLance fall into tile hands of one s friends, it is not at all pleasant if Onle's letters to one's friends fall into the hands of one's ac qaintance. I wrote to Capt. Cox only to tell hlim ho0w delighted I was to hear of hlis ongagement.--for lhe is going to be mlarried to a Miss Fitz Smiythe---a very ledy-liko girl whmo was spending som1e timoe here withl tile Maurices, ando was really quite a friend of my own." I hlad not patience to read any muoro. I know it to be all a lie. So I tossed the letter inito thle middle of the room, and said : "We have hadI enoungh of thlat." I was inoff~Ibly disgusted. One thiing, howvever, was certain, that Julia Harper' was now to be hand by me for the asking. I[ had other views for mny humble self. Rachel, I found, on inquiry, was the daughter of a Mrs. Ernehaw, the widow's means of subeistonco were slight, and her daughlter had obtained a situation as, what people called, Miss Harper'? maid. My good felo, i en 1hay4ly tell you what hanewe pkr this. I have a confused recollection of hayv ihg looked inquiringly into Rachlel's fasce; ' ead whiole chantern of Joava in in it ; then throw my arms roun her waist, pressed her fondly to my bosom, and, while I untied her bon. net strings and removed the obtru sivo covering from her head, said tc her : "We sailors have all boen sworn never to kiss the maid when we can kiss the mistress--unless we like the maid better than the mis tress, and Heaven knows how much I do I" After the lapse of two or thre weeks, and very delightful weeks they were, too, Rachel Einshaw be came Rachel Bloxham, and I the happiest husband in the world. I have got the very best of little wives, and never, I assure you, for one moment, though we havo little enough to live upon, and I cannot bear these long separations, have I deplored the loss of Miss Harpor. TLo ineligible Electors. WAslNOTON, Novembor 14.-A surprising, if not serious, and most importantiturn has been given to the aspect of the Presidential muddle by the discovery tu-day that two of the Republican electors, one chosen in Oregon and anothor in the State of Vermont, were until yesterday in the ono and until to-day in the other case, office-holders under the United States, and therefore, as is now insisted upon by the Denio crats, disqualified to servo in the capacity of electors of President and Vice-President. Whatevor force, little or great, there may be in this argument of the Democrats, the discovery has alarmed the whole Ropublican cam1p; I for, should the claim of the Demo crats be made good and prevail, Governor Tilden will have at least 186 electoral votes, irrespoetive of the result of thole iction Iml .>uth Carolina, Louisiana and Florida. The two persons referred to aro John \V. Watts, late PostmLas ter at Lafayetto, Oregon, and H. N. Sollace, lato 1Postllaster at Bridge port., Vt. The word "late" iu this connleection does not, however., and~ unfoltunately probably for Gover, nMWr Hayes, Indicate sniflliieat ati.q llty to save t!o ganle to tile Re publicans. Tie resignation of lie Oregon postmaster is datedt only upon yesterday, Noveibor 13, was forwarded by telegraph and took all night to Come a crosS the Contillelt from Sian Francisco, so that it got into the hands of the Postmaster General only this morning. The resignation of the Vormont post master was written, sent and receiv ed to day. Both resignations were at once accepted by Postmaster General Tynor. The trouble likely to arise out of this matter is 11 follows: In the first place, both men were holding an office of trust and profit under the United States upon and subse quont to the day of election. In the second placo the Constitution, in Article 2, forbids tiat any person "holding an oflice of trust or profit uider the United States shall be appointCd an elector." The Demo cIrats argue that the election by the people wits tile appointment con temlplated b~y the Constitution, and a good many Repull)icalns are honest enloughl to feaur thalt tile Demlocr'ats are righlt and1( that thle R(eputblican parlty in Oregon and Vermlonlt have made(1( a mlost egregious an1iecu able couple ofblunlders anid thrmown away the election by3 tile grossest "pooh, p)oh" tile matter say thlat the electora are not appointed1 in thle sense5 of the Colntitution until thecir certificates are made out, at Itute in every detail and givenl into the(ir possession ian ilnterpreU tation of thle Constitution and( law which would in vest the two gen tie men "wiichl was postmnasters" withl the full, capacity of electors, nlow~ thlat by resignling thleir office they certificates come to be made out. At best it is a most awkward and embarrassing complication for the Republicans. Should, as tile Democrats conltend1, tile two 1m10n be disqualified to servo as electors, tile conmsequence wouild be that in tile States of Oregon and Vermont thle caindidlate on each of the resp~ective Democratic electoral tickets receiving the hlighlest popu1 lar vote would be chosen3) .Presidten tial eloctor' inl comlbinlation with tihe diiniishied nlumlber of Rtepulblicanl electore, theO result being a gain of two( votes for Mr. Tilden. It miight he0 thought that thlere is a ti(o vote for tihe parallel and( rival set or IDemocratic dlctors, wvhich would still further c~mliicto tis~ extrator dinay mtter, bult it is tile Olepo riceC (of erelybody whol( has ever n spoteo the result of an official c.m.i vases thait names, OvenI inl so compa):ct a tic(ke(t as that of tile Electoral College of any politic'al paty3, are~ so frequentfly and inerouslhy scrated as to make comparatively wide differences iln thle votes cast for tile canididatos 01n the same0 ticket. Tile extent (of the impression created inl official and( political cir.. cles may be soon1 in) the fact thalt the p lroblemnatical status of tile two elec. tors wvas the subject of a portion of the discussion in the Cibmnet at tihe session (thoroodf recently, withl whlat result has not transpired. The rather curious feature of the comlplication has captured tile fancy of those who are yet warmly can vassing the probabilities of the quetion of the@ next..raadan, and for the nonce has set aside all con jecturing as to the result in Louis iana, the twenty-second joint rule and other matters which have formed the staple of speculative discussion during the past eventful week. That the Republicans are uneasy and aux ions, if not alarmed, is quite evident They are searching authorities tC find precedents for maintaining the position that the two ex-postme - tore are disqualified, and if t.Ae point of disability is raised, as it certainly will be, they will be forti fiod with opinions in support of their position. The negative argu mont is already advanced by them that a scrutiny of the names in the Democratic college of electors would reveal office-holders under the Uni tol States, such as commissioners to take depositions in the soveralStates -national notaries in fact--and other similar potty officials, equally disqualified with the two ex-post masters to sevo as Presidential electors- Cur. Chronicle and Senti nel. The Cause of the 'Splosion, "I would invite you to my house, brudder Jackson," said Deacon Johnson, as he emerged from church last Sunday evening, "but I dunno as wo'll got any supper dis night, de cook stove am so druffully out ob repair." "What's do matter wid do stove ?" "Why, you soo cold wedder am comin' on and wood's gottin' skase an' high, an' I've 'structed do folks to be berry oknocomical in do usin' ob W. We'se bin buyin' in small lots, an' last night, boin' out ob fuel, I sent one ob my boys ober to a neighbor's to borrow a few sticks. Do man or his family had gone to bod owin to do latouess ob d hour, in' (it boy, who would 'spiso to do a unhoncst transaction, wrote out his noto for do value ob do wood, an' droppin'it in a prominent place in do woo I-Ashd, shouldoted an arm fil an' brought it home." "JSeH so." "We'l, a fire was kindled, do toa kittle put on, do ole woman she is gittiu do supper. All ob a sulden pnufT went do stove, zmn; ke swish, kiuslhi went something, and as I tuiblod over I saw do olo woman nakin' for d roof wid do tea kittle and the stovo plates followin' her, whilo do boys an' do gals was as braclc wid smuiit as (10 aceo of spades. Do stovo's goose was cooked for a fact." "What was do cause ob de 'spl->shun ?" 'Im strongly 'clined to believe dat dar was powder in dat wood, an' dat do powdor was done put in dar by dat white man to kotch some thievin' darkoys wat nobber buys no wood, an' brossod of I don't think dat man spoolts me, kaso ho couldn't find (it note, and won't make any 'pologios." "Dat am an outrage." "For a fact, an' do children's supler was spiled, too."--Keokuk C'onstitution. A Materialized Hole. Tako a shoot of stiff writing paper and fold it into a tube an inch in diameter. Apply it to the right eye, and look steadfastly through it, focussing the eye on any convenient objoot ; keep the loft eye open. Now lauce the left hand, held p~alm up)ward, odgoeways against the side of the paper' tube, and about an inch or two above its lower end. The astonishing effect will be produced of a hole, apparently of the size of the cross section of the tub~o, made, through the left hand. This is the hole in which we pr~op)os to mate rihlizo another and smaller hole. As we need a genuino aperture, and it would bo inconvenient to make one in the left hand, Iot a sheet of white pa~per be substituted thorefor and similarly held. Just at tho part of the paper whore the hole eqnaling in diamoeter the orifice of the tube ap peal's, making an opening onoc-fourth in diamnotor. Now stare intently into the tube ; and the second holc, defIned by its difference of illumiina Lion will bo soon floating in the first hole, and1 yet both will be transpa rent. Tne illusion, for of course it is one of those odd pranks ou~r bino cular vision plays upon us, is cer tainly one of the most curious over dlevised. Besides, here is the actual hole clearly visible, and yet there is no solid b~ody to be seen to define its edges. It is not a more spot of light, because, if a page of prnnt be regarded, th~e lines within the boun dauries of the little hole will not coinci lo at all with those surround ing it and extending to the edges of the large applar'entapor'ture. Eaoh eye obviously transmits an entirely dlifferent impression to the brain, and that organ, unable to disen taingle thom,- lands uts in the palpa bale absur'dity of a matoralizod hole. I--~A&iinti/lo American. One of the lieutenants who was on dutty in South Carolina during the election was arrested imme dliately on his return to Atlants, and suspended from duty until charges agamnst him of being a Domoorat can be investigated. The Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad is making rapid progress nwd its comp letion maybe loolgdJ for at an early day. Wen finished lit will be an important link between .Oharleston and the aret West. Under the Sea. For the most part, the diver does his work, if not in utter darkness, at best with only as much light as renders "darkness visible." His oc cupation is not a pleasant one. At the sea bottom he encounters an awful solitude and silence. He is liable, at any moment, to find him. self in close proximity with. the ghostly romains of the dead, and there is no small risk to himself. There seems to be no special dis ease induced by the occupation of diving when the regular dress in worn, but it is generally believed that it has a tendoncy to shorten life. Some very high authorities hold a different opinion. Mr. Siebe, a distinguished physi ologist, mentions instances of halo and hearty divers, well advanced in years, who had been sickly and weak in the lungs in their youth, and bolievos that they derived posi tive advantage from diving. His theory is that their breathing of compressed air, by producing a slower action of the lungs, caused the absorption of a greator quantity of oxygen into the tissues. Four or five hours a day is re garded as a good amount of a diver's work. This, of course, in cludes a considerable portion of time spent out of the water. In a general way, about twenty inimites is the time that a man, in the waters of the temperate zono, can reminl under the surface, oven with the aid of a diving dross. He may exceed this when out at a great depth, and when the wiater is at a high temperature, but this mamy not be often repeated. TL.'he diver who wont to China, and who is thero still, his been able, inj the waters there, to remain down hv1mw, It It depth of twenty-four fatlhulin, for forty minutes. This, which is mt doubted, is a imcjst. exeptioIal caiso, and could not bo acihievo I in the Atlantic ocean. There doos not appl)ear C h mbu''h danger in the vork of diver.. titm, a man's hold upij n life woull svoe'm to be preenitrious, while he is C. ing about the intorior of it fhilip ovorhanging cargo, and Ih-agging out boxes and paelmges, his bmetnL all the while depoiding on a long trail of tubing, an unlucky twist, atn accidental squeeze, or the sudn(ln rupture of which would be instait death. One chief source of dalinger is in the transition from varying degrees of pressure. In the experimonts for testing the powers of divers at thir ty fathoms, one mn111 remained blow for an hour and a quartur. H ought to have been brought up very gradually-say in twenty to thirty minutes-but ho was hauled up in seven minutes, and, on coming into the air began to expand, and died nine hours after, from congestion of the lungs. In his case, on reaching the dock of the vessel, the tissues, muscles, veins, etc., are said to have been "charged with an atmospheric pros sure of about sixty-five pounds to a squat e inch, whereas his lungs were a comparative vacuum." There must often be a strain upon a diver's sensibilities every whit as great as that upon his physical frame. A man has need of a cool head and strong nerves, whlo is to work safely, for three-quarters of an hour, a hundred and forty-four feet under water, and itimy be, perhaps, down in that fearful solitude, with bodies of the dead floating around his helmet. The diver has sometimes sad duties to p~erform, as happened in the case of the steamship Daho usie whieh was sunk near Duandes, on the eastern coast of Scotland, sozmo years ago. The divers had, in that case, to go into the cabins and re. move the bodies of the drowned. Some weore in the attitude of pra~yor, others appeared as if they were on gaged in tihe impotent struggle with detwhile the most affeactinig ights of all were those in which children were found clinging appeal-. m ly totheir arents. rIrvs, witout any lengthy pre liminary trainig, easily earn an average income of five dollars a day, which is about double the amount of wages p)aid to skilled muechanies in England. The famous Yosemite valle~y has a rival. It is on King's Rtivor, in Fresno county, California, is forty-. five miles long, east and wvest, andl averages half a mile in width at the bottom. It is 5,000 foot abov'e the level of the son, an I its wis, which mre about 3,0i(0 fot high, armo very7 precipitous. It has a y~rovo of the colossal redwood treos, one of which eclipseai anything yet found in Cdli. fornmia. The circumferenco of this tree, as hiig'ai as a man can roach, is a few inches less than one hundred and fifty feet, and itms height is esti mated at one kmmndred and sixt~y feet. FATA MDIAmo. MISrAKRE. - The death, on Monday, of Micajah Bailey, a4 prominent provision broker of twenty five years' standing in Cini cinnati, was caused by the uutako of a druggist, who put ;ip eo klo (.f potasm istpa4"o preud ^uf irs'tah, oe was at4ee hocitwl, dg'his error, ad s,*ofesses khs ingnhss to auffer the conIse. qunees. -.