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QUMTLE9AUM, . SURGEON DENTIST,' WILLIS row, s. c; Office over Capt. W. H. Kenbfed \ ’a ator ■ Calls attended throughout Barnwtl. and adjatent ccunties. Patients will find it to their advantage to have work done at hi*, office set 1 p Bit. J, RYERSON SMITH, OpwAiv* and NcrHaiiral lltintist. wili iston, s. c.. Will attend calls throughout this end ud- jaeput counties^ ^— "7 Opr rations can he more entiVsctorily per- formed at hia Parlors, which are supplied with all the latest approved appliances, than at the residences of patients. ^ To prevent disappointments, patiecta tn> tending to vi*it him at*-Willisten are rc quested tc correspond hy mail betore leav. ing home, :gepTIf VOL VI. NO. 43. BARNWELL, €. H., S. C., THURSDAY. JUNE 28, 1883. $2 a Year. THE YOUTHFUL PILOT. DEMME'S RESfUMIT, 238 King Street, Opposite Aendeiny of Music, • CHARLESTON S. £'? Rooms to let at .■>() rents n night. Mesls *. »11 hours—Ovsters in every style. Ales, Wine*, Liquors, decani. Ae.rmar.HOlv CHARLES C. LESLIE Wholesale nnd Retail Dealer in • Fish.fifime, Uhtm. Turtlfs, Tfirapins, Oysters, Kto. Ktc. SUlla, Nos-. Y8 and "0 Fj*h Maiket .CHARLESTON, S. C. AH orders promptly attended to. Term* Cash ot City Acceptance, angSOly] — ■ ... On the boerm of a river, Where the sun unbinds ita quiver, Or the starlight atreama forever, . Bailed a vessel Kghf and free. Morning dewdropa hung like manna On the bright folds of her banner, While the zephyrs rose to fan her Bafely to the radiant aea. At her prow a pilot, Bfehtaring In the fitrth ofr youth, stood dreaming, And he waa in glorious seeming, Like an angel from above ; * Through hia hair the breezes sported . And, as on the watealih flqKtedj Oft that pilot, angel-throated. Warbled lays of hope and lote. Through those loicks So brightly flowing Buds of knit! bloom were blowing, And his handa anon were throwing — Music from a lyre of gold, Swiftly down the stream he gHfled, Soft the purple waves divided, And a rainbow arch abided _ . O’er his canvas’ snowy fold. Amious her.rig, with fond devotion, 'Watched him sailing to the ocean, Praying that no w ild commotion Midst the elements might rise p • * And he seemed some young Apolid Charming sutttewr wind* to follow, While the Water-flag's corolla Trembled to his music-sighs. But those purple waves enchanted Rolled beside a el tv hsnutfd By an awftdajfclhtWdaunted Every Comer to her shore ; ^iglit shades rank Die air encumbered, And palo marble statue* numbered Lotos-eater*, where fhey rlumlierr-il" ' And awoke tn life ho moth. j Then thete rushed witli lightning quickness O'er ids face a mortal sickness, And death-dews in fearful thickness a there.! e’n. }.;* ft* I FI — And tliere swept a mournful mUnttUr y lough the lovely BoUthem summer, A* the Iwauteon* pilot comer Perished by that city thf iw. Still roll* on that radiant river, Atid the sun unbinds it”, quiver, _ Or tlie starlight streams fottver ,Ou its bosom, as before ; Brft Dial vessel's rainbow banner Greets no more the gay savannah, And that pilot's lute drop* manna On the pinplo waves—no more, Jfm* Pt,»A'sa*tTs, r riie X)eacon’s AVeck. BY ROSE TERRY COOKE. J; A. PATTERSON, Surgeon Dentist. Office at the Barnwell Court House, Patient* waited on at residence if de sired. Will attend calls in any portion of Barnwell and Hampton counties. —fSatistsction guaranteed. Terms cash. augBlljj ROBT. D. WHITE M The eommnnion service of .Tummy was just over in the church _at Sug.ir Hollow, ami people-were waiting for Mr. Pazkea h>_give out the hymiv lmt he did not give it out; he laid hia book down on the table and looked about tm his ohurch. He was a man of simplicity and aim c«|fity, Tally in earnest to do his Lord's work, and to do it with all his might, but he did sometimes feel discouraged. His congregation was a mixture of farm,. _ers and mechanics. Soho hid to con:, tend with Jho keen brain and skeptical comment of the men who piqued them selves orrpntver hr hammer at theologi- A R B Ttr-E -AND— GRANITE WORKS MEETING SPREE I', (Corner Horlbeck's 'Alley,| CHARLESlON, t 8. n i juntOly] "" H cal problems as well-as hot iron, withJhe en OTTO TIEOEMAN & SOUS —WHOLESALE— R. 102 and 104 East Bsy Street, augRUy ■ =rr_r T)evereux & Co. . ' ' DKI.LKR8 IN...... Lie, fenent, Laths, Platser, Hair, Slates and Marble Mantles, . Depot of Building Materials No. !>0 Fa tB'y Sash, Blinds, Doors, Glass, Etc. “pTIyl CHARLESTON, 8. C. THOS. McG. CARR, KABHIONjl BI*K Shaving and Hair Dressing Saloon. ——Market Street, .*• (One Door East of King Street) maiROly] CHARLESTON, 8-C7” •6^ TRY^“^# MROUIH TOLU TONIC THE GREAT REMEDY FOR *- -- m- PULMONARY DISEASED, COUGHS, COLDS, BRONCHITIS, Ac., AND GENERAL DEBILITY; SURE CURE FOR laria and Dyspepsia IN ALL ITS STAGES. IfluFor Sale by DBUQGISTS. GROCERS and H. BI8CHOFF & CO., I Charleston, 8. C. Sole Manufecturera and Proprietors *l« » jealoiLsy and repulsion and bitter feeling -that has bred the communistic hordes abroad and at home; while perhaps ho had.a still harder task to awaken the sluggish souls of those who used their days to struggle with barren hillside and rocky pasture for mere foo i and oloth- ing, and their nights to sleep the dull sleep 6f physical fatigue and mental i ! vacuity. • The minister spoke; “My dear friends, 41 ' lie said, ‘‘you a 11 know, thougli I did not give you any notice to that ef- fed, that This week is the Week of Prayer. I have a mind to ask you to make it Rr this once a week of practice instead. Perhaps you ^will find work that ye knew sot of. lying m vonr midst. And let ils all on Saturday even ing meet here again and choose some one brother to relate his experience of the week. You who are willing to try this method, please to riiA.” Everybody rose except old Amos rncker, who never stirred, though his i\ if(j> pulled at him and whispered to him, imploringly. He only shook his grizzled head nnd sat immovable. Saturday night the church assembled again. The cheerfnl eagerness was gone from their faces ; they looked downcast, troubled, weary—as the pastoc expected. When the box for ballots was passed aliout, each one tore a/bit of paper from the sheet placed in the hymn books for (lie purpose and wrote on it a name, Ibe pastor said after be hail counted them, “ Deacon Emmons, the lot has fnllen on you.” “I’m sorry for’t,” said the deacon, rising up and taking off his overcoat, han’t got the best of records, Mr. Parkes, now I tell ye. “ Well, brethren,” he said, “ I am pretty well ashamed of myself, no doubt, but I ought to be, and maybe I shal profit by what I have found, mut these sfx days back. I’ll tell you just as it come. Monday, J. looked about me to begin with. I am amazing fond of coffee, and it a’n’t good for me, the doctor says it a’n’t; so I thought I’d try on that to lie gin with. I tell you it come hard ! hankered after that drink of coffee dread ful ! Seemed as though I couldn't eat my breakfast without it. I feel to pity a man that loves liquor more’n I ever dn in my life before ; but I feel sure they can stop if they try, for I’ve stopped, and Pm going to stay stopped. “Well, come to dinner, there waa an other fight. I do set by pie the' most of anything. I was fetched up ou pie, as you i^ny say. Onr folks always had it three times a day, and the doctor* he’ been talkin' and talkin’ to ma about palin' pie. I have the dyspepsia like everything, and it bakes mo hselcM by spells, and omMMde W a VDajiloi-fioclc. And Doctor Drake, he says there won’t nothing help me but to diet J was readiu’ the Bible that morning while I Hat waiting for W-eaWM^ Ibt- ’l Was Mon do.T', Ail'd Wiitt was kind of set back with washin’ and all, and I came across that part where it says that the bodies of Christians arc the temples of the Holy Ghost, Well, thinks I, we’d ought to take care of 'em if thtvv be; !»n*J Hee that they’re kep’ tileah find pleAsAnt; like the chnwb; S&V ttobody can bo clean nor pleisAnt that has dyspepsy. But, come to j ie, I felt as though T couldn’t! and, lo yp, I didn’t 1 I eat a piece right against my conscience; ifaciu’ what I knew I_ought.to do I went And done what I ought ntttte. 1 tell ye my con- sci'entee bade basic of mo considcr’ble, and I said then I wouldn’t sneer at a drinkin’ man no more when he slipped up. I’d feel for him an’ help him, for 1 see just bow it vra*\ 9tS that day’s prac tice giv' phl, hiit it leahit be a good deal bbre’n'T knew liefore. - “ I started out next day to look up my, Bible class. Well, ’twonld take the even in’ to tell it-all, bit I found one teal sick, beCn abed for three weeks, nnd was so glad to see m6 that I felt fair ashamed. Then another man’s old mother says to me, Ix'fore he oome in Rob tile ailed, says she, • He's beien a flayin’ that if folks Pbeliefs what they preached you’d ha’ come round to look him up afore now, but he reckoned you kinder looked down on mill-hands. I’m ftwhll %glad you come. Blethring, So Was t. I tell you tliai day’s Work did me good. I got a poor opinion of JLusiah Emmons, how I tell ye, but I learned more aliout the jord’s wisdom than a month b’ Sundays ever shownd be. “ Now come fellowship day. I thought that would be all plain sailing ; seemed as though I’d got warmed up till I felt pleasant towards! everybody ; so I went around awin' folks that WAS neighliors, And ’twart oltfiyj but^ tlcn 1 come home at hbOu Spell Philury says, says she, Square Tucker’s black bull is into th’ orchard a tearin’round, and he's knocked two lengths o’ fence down flatT We'll, the old Adam riz up then, you’d-better I’lieVo, That black bnll haa been break in’ Into my lots ever since we got in th’ aftermath, and it’s Square Tucker’s fence, and he won’t nia^o it bull-strong as he’d onghter, and that orchard was a-young one just cornin’ 'to hear, and all the new wood crisp as cracklin’s with frost. You’d better b’lieve l didn’t have much fellcr- feclin with Amos Tucker. I jest put over to his house and spoke up pretty free to :iim, when he looked up and says he, 4 Fellowship meetin’ day, a’n’t it, Dea con?’ I d mther he’d ha’ slapped my j face. I felt as though Pshould like to slip liehind the door. I see pretty di«- tinct what sort of life I’d been livin' all the years I’d been a professor, when I couldn’t hold on'tO ' ffiyTongue and tem per one day!” Breth-e-ren,” interrupted a slow, uirsh voice, somewhat broken with emor tion, “I’ll tell the rest on’t. Josiah Emmons come around like a man an’ a Christian right here. He asked me for to forgive him, and not to think ’twas the fault of Ins religion, because ’twas his’n and nothing else. I think more of him to-day than I ever done liefore. 1 A STRANGE ROMANCE THK KKAlAttHAflt.N. AjLINVOKY *N A rnKNcii Miw.LTSAmB. gnln’ to die.’ ‘Wh^, josiat tm* 1 ,, iibtt j-Hu talk I* 'Wet!, tclolhe’s so evcrlastin’ pienaont an’ goo^-natemi I can’t blit think he’s struck with death.’ “I tell yel brethren; I set ilglit dow.i m theto hulldi' sloli'S inn ttiefli 1 di.l, really. Seenied as thongb the Lord had turned and locked at me jeat aa He did at Peter. Why, there waa my own children never seen me act real fatherly and pretty in all their lives. Pd fffbwled and awtlded and prayed ai ’em, and tryfecl lb letcii ’biU up jbAt Afl thh t#ig is bcnl the tree’s inclineii, ye knbw, Tmt 1 hadn’t neVer thought that they’d got rifeht an’ reason to cxi>ect I’d do my port as well as theirtj. Seemed aa though I was findiu’ 'out more aliout Josiah Emmons’* shoi-koiriiilgx iiian Akae rfeal agreeable. “ Come around Friday 1 gbt back to rhe store. I’d kind of left it to the boys the early part of the week, and things was a little Mitering bHt t did Tiavo senSe nUt tb tear rotind and tise sharp words so touch as common. 1 began to think ’twafl getting easy to practioe after Hve days, tkfieti in cbtob Judge Hetrick’s wife alter some fchrl’in fcaiirtl. 1 htkl s lian’some piece, all done off with rbses an’ things, but there was a fault in the weavin’, every now And then a thin streak. She didn’t nbtioe it; Wit she Was pleased with the flgutea On’tj And said she’d take the*whole piece. Well, just as I wrnppin’ of it ilp, What Mr. Parkes here said aliout tryin’ to act juut as the Lord wotild in otlr plabe tJbme actons toe. Why, 1 Hinted as fed afl a beet, t know I did. It matte me feel all of a tremble. There Waa t, a doorkeeper in the tents of my God, as David says, really cheatin’, and cheatin’ a Woman; I tell ye bfethrenrHlOTSelf a thief. She had no advocate UYXAXtTE Iff ffiAtf!. fhe ReWla U t* mtf WaimS 4<M teii ye t was all of a sweat. 4 Mifl’ Herrick,’ flays f, 4 1 don’t lielieve you’ve looked real close at this goods; ’tain’t thorough wove,’ says I. So she didn't take it; but what fetched me waa to think how many times liefore I’d done such mean, unreliable little things to turn a penny, and all the time Bayin’ and prayin’ that I wanted to lie like Christ, t kep’ a trippin’ of myself np all day jest in the ordinary busincHs, and I was a peg lower down when night cope than I was s Thursday. I’d ruther, as far as the hard work is concerned, lay a mile of four- A» i'afarclvlpk ^Mthrc wte haa his S« s , Before the Civil Tribunal of Tarsscon, in France, in answer to the summons of M. Fournier, will appear M. Bernard Mistral, legal representative of the mil lionaire dean Mistral, oonffnfed for forty- five years in the Asylum of Pont Saint tkifcie At Montpelier. Afl this has be come a '‘Celebrated cafle” thb Mr$aagrr FrdnoO-Americaiti rehearses the story for the benefit of Its readers, 'the affair Mistral, saya that journal, grx-s back to tkh day following the promulgation of the law concerning trie insane. Joan Mistral Was ainbng the first affected by it. He Wafl the victim of an attempt to Obtain possession of his fortune, accord ing to the statement Of Mi Fournier a distant relative. ' On the 10tb of February, 1839, before the first chamber ot the Civil Trilmnid of the Seine, Over which M. Debelleyme presided, ah illustriotis member of the Paris Bar, M. Paillel, made a plea in the name of M. Francois-Joseph Mistral, a merchant of Saint-Remy (Bonches-du- tthOne); praying for the nullification of the inaTriage df Jean Mistral, his son, with Mile. Wilhelmine-'Christine Dom- browska. By some she Was said to be the daughter of a Polish officer who seTV«d. Under Napoleon, while others said her father Was a Carpenter of Thom, in Prussia. M. Paillel stated that this car penter had been seven times convicted of theft and that Mile. Dombrowska was Bern wall a H.. S.ft k '' and the marriage was annulled. Jean Mistral made the acquaintance of Christine at Warsaw, in 1833, while traveling In the service of his father. Becoming enamored of her he wooed her with all the ardor'of youth, he being then twenty years of age. He proposed mar riage attd sought his father's consent to the union, which was refused. He re turned to France and endeavored to persuade his father to alter his mind, bu to no purpose. He then went back to Poland, determined th do withont his father’s consent, and on the 16th of June, foot stone wall than undertake to do a 1837, he waa clandestinely wedded to ’" livin’ Christian duty for twelve Christine at Yarsovio. Christine was poor, and youn| Mistral had exhausted man s workin’ hours; and the heft of that is, it’s because I ain’t used to it and I ought to be. 44 So this momin' came around, and I of his son. felt a mite more cherk. ’Twas missionary mornin’, anil seemed as if ’twas a sight easier to preach than to practice. 1 thongbt I’d begin to old Mis’ Vedder’s. So I put a testament in my pocket and knocked to her door, bays I, 4 Good mornin’, ma’am,’ and then I stopped. Words seemed to hang, somehow. I didn’t want to pop right ont that I’d come to try’n - convert, her folks. 1 bis means. The wealthy merchant of Saint-Remy remained deaf to the appeals Jean had no other resource than to obtain his father’s pardon by 'presenting Christine to liim, in order that she might mollify her obdurate father-in-law. .They departed on their sad journey. The elder Mistral",“Tielug apprised by tetter of their departure, met them at Cologne. There was a violent scene, Christine being overcome with emotion. The. result was that a , - n , , few days latter she gave birth to a still- hemmed and swallered a little, and flnlly i, . . . ,,, -- .. , r ■. r «**T J U J ho™ infant. All of the family, however, I said, says I, We_don t see you to w Tnt , n „ vr was the one that wouldn’t say I’d practice, with the rest of ye. I thought ’twas everlasting nonsense. I’d rather go to lorty-uine prayer-meetin’s than work at bein’ good a week. I b’lieve my hope been one of them that perish; it ha’n’t worked, and I leave it behind to day. I mean to begin honest, aud it was seein’ one honest Christian man tetehed me round to’t.” Amos Tucker sat down and buried his grizzled head in his rough hands. 1 Bless the Lord!” said the quaver ing tones of a still older man from a far corner of the house, and many a glisten ing eye gave silent response. 4 Go on,' Brother Emmons,” said the minister. 44 Well, when next day oome, I got up to make the fire, and my boy Joe had forgot the kindlin’s. I’d open my month to give him Jesse, when it come over toe sudden that this was the day of prayer for the family relation. I thought I wouldn’t say nothing. I jest fetched in the kindlin’s myself, and when the fire burnt up good 1 called my wife. 44 ‘Dear me!” says she, ‘I’ve got such a headache, ’Siah, but I’ll come in a minnit’ I didn’t mind that, for women ore always havin’ aches, and I was jest a goin’ to say so, when I remembered the tex’ about not being bitter against ’em, so I says, ‘Philury, you lay abed. I ex pect EttUily and. me can get the tittles to-day.' I declare, she turned over and give me sech a look; why, it struck right in. There was my wife, that had worked lor an’ waited on me for twenty odd years, ’most scar’t because I spoke kind of teelin’ to her. I went out and fetched in the pail o’ water she'd always drawed herself, and then I milked the cow. When I came in Philury was up fryin’. the potatoes, and the tears a shinin’ on her white face., She didn’t say nothin’, she’s kinder still, but'she hadn’t no need to. I felt a. lee tie mean er’n I did the day before. But ’twan’t nothing to my conditlmi when I was go in’, toward night, down the snllar stair* for some apples, so’s the children oonld have a roast, and I heered Joe up in the kitchen say to Emmy, ‘I do blievs, Em, meetin’ very frequent, Mis’ Vedder.’ 4 4 4 No, yon don’t!’ ses she, as quick as a wink. 4 1 stay at home, and mind my business.’ “‘Well, we should like to hev you .•ome along with us and do ye good,’ says f, sort of conciliatin’. 44 4 Look a here, Deacon !’ she snapped, 4 I’ve lived alongside of you fifteen year, and you knowed I never went to meetin’; we a’n’t a pious lot, and you knowed it; we’re poorer ’n death and uglier ’n sin. Jimhe-drinks and swears, and Malviny dono her letters. She knows a heap she hadn’t ought to, besides. * Now what are you cornin’ here to-day for, I’d like to know, and talkin’ so glib about meetin’ ? Go to meetin’ ? I’ll go or come jest as I 1 | darn please, for all you. Now get out this ?’ Why, she oome at me with a broomstick. There wasn’t no need on’t; what she said was enough. I hadn’t never asked her nor her’n to so much n» think of goodness before. Then I went to another place jest^ike that—I won’t coll no more names ; and sore enough there was ten children in rags, the boll on ’em, and the man half drunk. He giv’ it to me, too; and I don’t wonder. I’d never lifted a hand to serve nor save ’em before in all these years. I’d said cousider’ble about the heathen in foreign parts, and give some little to convert ’em, and I had looked right over the heads of them that was next door. Seemed as if I could hear Brim say, 4 These ought ye to have done, and not have left the other undone.’ I couldn’t face another soul ■ • A- -r ' v to-day, brethren. I come home, and here I be. I’ve been searched through and through and found wantin’. God be merciful to me a sinner!” He dropped into his seat, and bowed his head ; and many another bent, to®. It was^ plam.ihat- the deaeon’r experi ence was not the only one among the brethren. Mr. Payson rose, and prayed as he had never prayed before; the week of practioe had fired his heart too. And it began a memorable year for the church in Sugar Hollow; not a year cf excitement or enthusiasm, bnt one when they heard their Lord say ing, as to Israel of old, “Go forward,” and they obeyed His voice. The’ Sun day school flourished, the' church vices were fully attended, every good thing was helped on in ite way, and peace reigned in their homea and hearts, imperfect, perhaps, as new growths are, but still an offshoot of the peace pest understanding. ' And another year they will keep an other week of practioe, by common con •sni—27to OonffreffatUmaU* did not abandon young Mistral. A consin living in Provanoe, a good man who was known as Father Mistral, corresponded with him, encouraged him and main tained him. His young wife having recovered,-Jean pursued his journey and they at test ar rived at SainLRemy. The cider Mistral refused ^ receive them and the family quarrel became a public scandal. Fi nally the young couple, having no mcatoi of support, were forced to qnit Taras- cod. journeying on foot, walking by day and sleeping in barns at night. ~ Chris tine bad a sweet voice. She sang ip the villages the songs of the people, while her husband passed around his hat among the crowd to gather a few sons with which to buy bread. Such a life could not last, and on the advice of some friends the xrimderers returned to Saint- Remy to make a last effort to move the heart of M. Mistral, bnt it was not suc cessful. In every mark of esteem and sympathy shown to Jean the inexorable father saw only an ontrage against his authority. M. Fournier, the kinsman who now cliampions the cause of Jean Mistral, al- leges-that as soon as the young couple re turned to Saint-Remy they were, at the instigation of M. Mistral, arrested as common malefactors. Christine was then thrust into the street without resources and Jean was confined in his father’s house. He states that this outrageous conduct provoked public indignation, the people of Saint-Remy being divided into two camps. M. Mistral had his par tisans and Jean bis, the latter being gether the more numerous. As Jean re fused to submit to his father he was finally confined in an asylum. His fathei died in 1867, leaving .real estate valued at over 6,00(M)00f. l all of which passed to Jean’s sister, who married M. Bernard, who ia now summoned to appear before the court at Tarsscon. M. Fournier de mands that an exact accounting be made, and that the alleged lunatic be set at liberty. ~ There was recently discov ered in Poland an old woman with bent back, cracked voice and beautiful hair. She is Wilhelmine-Christine Dombrow ska. She has not hesitated to return to France to lend her support in the cause for the unfortunaft man who for forty- fivs yews had suffered f other sake. The drama haa been long in the acting. Now it will be seen whet epilogue justice will make. ‘ A tetlCT from Si Thomas says;—It « very difficult to get any Aews from Hayti, end what is obtained tarie* greatly. Adherents of the hi*tfrgents who have fled from the ialands say (hat the Govcnment troops have met with reverses and are likely to be ultimately overthrown, Ch» the othef hand sn porters of General SaMnton tsy thal rebellion is Itisignific ait Cnd triH lie sup* pressed Without the slightest difficulty. The town c f Mirsgoene i« still in the hands of the rdtel*, but it is reported that the Water supply hkn been Ctrl off by the state forces. All sides of the town are guarded by President Salomon’s troops, which numlier in all aliout 6,000 effective men, well *nj plied with a'ms and ammunition. Inside the town itself there are only 700 defenders, and tbeae also hafe to guard themselves against an attack by the citizens, since many of the latter ate known to favor the State cause. Since the watef was cut off tlie complaints ( f tile latter have increased in strength. The relief jBoldiers, they say, are carefully storing aw y for them selves all the fmd in the place, ao that only the citizen* may suffer the pongs of hanger when the resistance ha* been ;>r tracted to extremities. A few day* igo the citizens became desperate when the course the insurgents intended to pursne liecame clear to them. Six hun dred of them stole down to the water side during the night, and, notwit' • standing the cries of the rebel sentinels, managed to get on b ard a Norwegian bark, which set sail for Port an Prince, which place the fugitives reached in safety. - These citizens tell the mhet terrible stories of cruelty and the wholesale deal ing of death and destruction by the in surgents. They state that shortly be fore they esciqs'd from Miragoane dyna mite was placed under a bridge which *as filled with passenger*. The rebels then exploded the dynamite and the whole mass of human beings were blown into the .air. The details are to sicken ing for narration. It is snpponed that at least 200 men, women and children were killed outright and at least that many more were wounded. - Many of tlie latter were ptpbably so badly injured that their names also will be added top the list of those already dead. The little town is filled with mourners. Hospital accom modations there are none. - Those wounded the least did their best to re lieve the sufferings of others. Many of them are with<*t shelter and exposed to the rays of the tropical sun. —44 shoidSTLe saidj, however, that the adherents of tlie insurgents who are here deny the truth of the story. A Itoat which recently ran the block ade at Miragoane recently arrived at Kingston. The blockade-runners were four rebels who carried letters to .General Baselais, assuring him that the garrison can hold out against the Government troops for at fcast four months. General -Baselais is understood to be considering plans to raise the siege and make a hostile movement against President Salomon. Outside of Mira goane the country is onderstood to favor the presenr Government, although there is a rumor that the town ot St. Marc is in arms — not for General Baselais and his friends* but tor another headed by General.Piqnant, Several noted persona at Gape Hayten have been arrested, for what cause baa not been learned, bnt it is generally understood that they were sympathizers with the rebels. President Salomon haa issued a gen eral decree whicb he has ordered to be promulgated all through the island, declaring that the properties of political offenders shall henpeforth be held as security for all war expenses. The decree has already been carried out in many cases, as the Government has mortgaged several fine properties which belong$d...to man- known to btf ardent supporters of the canae of the insur gents. “The streets at Wsaliington, paper aorrespondent toils «a, ” with oM hattomd wreck* that the waves and winds of potttiea have east aahem from time to than. A young mao with ability and ambition, bat with i is hired to Washington by th# light of social and potHtoal paumtnasw* I do not care whether ho comas to A* House, whether ba comes to the Bangle,' whether he la the head of • boro—, an officer of Congress, or even a department clerk. The life ia gay and easy, and most hi tiling and aednstiva. Money comes easy. He forgets to look on it for what it ia worth, and is gradaaUy drawn into the thoughttesa/ 1 selfish hfa and habits by which he is surrounded. He does not study, he does not improve, but year by year be becomes leas fitted for self-support. He loses hia energy if ho ever had it; he loeea hie amhttioclii But there comes a flood and he if swept 1 from his moorings. The party has changed, or hia political ‘ influence' baa changed, and be finds himself with the same idle habits, but without a sal ary. He cannot or will not go back to bis old home and begin anew, but he stays here, and year by year hopea yet to get back into office. How he livea in the meantime heaven only knows. There are honorable exceptions, but they only serve to fleiablish the rule. Some of the richest and moat prominent citizen* began life in Washington as de partment clerks. I will not mention names. It is a fact, however, well known here, that a majority of thoae who are forced out of public life, and settle in L Washington, turn—out as 'ne'er do W6cls # * “ I know a graduate of Harvard college who was himself the President of a col lege, a Senator in Congress, and subse quently in a position of almost unequal power, who ‘settled * in Washington. Drink and sards brought him to ruin, and he was, if I am not wrong, once in j.iil nnd manv film s in the station-house. He was a superior scholar, an eloquent speaker, ana an able thinker. It waa not unusual for him to acoo*t his fontar friend* and ask for a quarter to buy him something to eat Where he is now 1 do not know.”""" What He Waatofi. The following communication, re ceived by us several days ago, explains itself: 44 mb. EDITOR: kmolokid please fipd wM which I hope may be accepted by you for publication. In the btbnt of your making USE ot tame, please ave PRINTERS put in type in EXACT accordance with cndxbsookino, punctuation, ETC, at ra COPY. Printert pxxquxntlt take GREAT libertiet with manuscbift, thereby DI8- the AUTHOR’S meaning almost beyond recognition. The PRICE of the article is Five DOLLARS.” We allowed onr compositors to print the above in exact accordance with our fastidious correspondent’s lavishly un derscored copy, and, after seeing the proof, we are free to confess that we would hesitate to print hia thrxi column AKncLa as be daaitai that 8 should ap pear for leas than NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS.—Gtocinnatt Saturday Night A Childless Mother. Passing down Broadway near the great iron Stewart store, says Joaquin Miller, I saw a nurse maid attempting to cross the crowded.roaring and rattling street with a little child joat big enough to run about. In- the middle at the street the maid—a French or Swiss girl who could not understand the shouts and cries of the drivers—seemed "to get confused and to quite lose her presence of mind. After standing a second with her hand* raised helplessly to her earn, she turned about aud tried to run back. The poor little child tried to follow bar, and wae run over. Some one caught ap • *" ^ the child and carried it to the paveiee.it nnd handed it to the trembling inaid. The maid waa too weak or too mrs*i frightened to hold the child in her anas, and so tried to stand it on tne sidewalk. Bat the poor little thing fell down as if dead. It could not stand. Both ita legs were broken. Then the poor maid fainted and fell down also. Then a great crowd gathered around; the police came; an ambulance came, and the two were hurriedly placed in it and taken to tlio nearest hospital. I followed to try to be of some use if poaeibla, and afao to see how seriously the child had been hurt. When fatten out of the ambulance the child waa dead and the maid waa still unconscious. On further inquiry ,1 learned that the mother of this dead child waa one of our fashionable ladies, who at the moment of the accident waa driving with a friend in Central Park. Tlie baby, maybe, wae not wanted. Maybe it would have been in the way in ^ the carriage; maybe it waa a bother and trouble to have it play about the par lors and laugh through the hotiae and 1 upset things at its play; mid so it waa sent out with a hired stranger from another land to be gotten rid of for the day. It wasn’t wanted, I reckon, this poor, motherless little baby, and ao God took it back again. And ao now the happy mother, whose baby who died in the hideous black am bulance as it rattled over the ■tones and sounded ita startling signal, can ride aD lay with her gay friend, drive and dine. | go all the time now, and never be troubled by those two little baby handa reaching out to her for help any mors this aide the grave. - Natnre. , — - A Washdioton paper seya Dorsey is a kind man. If so, some other kind of a man ia preferable. — Texas Si/tingt. A Cabslxss Shot.—A two-year-old girl fell flat while playing with her little brother, and she thought that a sharp stick punctured her neck. Bo did her parents; but after the wound had re tracted heal, and a physician had ax- fuaed toa bullet the boy confessed that he had shot hel rith a toy pistol. It ia a curious trait of human nature tliat men who are constantly exposed to some special form at danger are the l.ist to take the obvious against il It <ia no for example, for a sailor to of sarimining, if indeed this may not ba said of the majority of aaBcra. The : bell-rower is liable at any momant to be tipped ont of hia crank and fiiaaay craft; yet Edward Waning, the pion, ooly learned to swim bat i aud can even swim b«t * few the muaekn at hia enough for ao pusmMai Itecouung tired.