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0 1 I " ' ' ' mE fEEENYILLE ENTEEPRISS. . ^ t; ,- .^ _^^j;\^/Av^y^v^=^^^^s_^saB=as;aacaa^|aaa=aaa^aaBaBfcBaa>BMK3a|MaM8_s -SMaBa-a^^B=a3aE=s=_SBM!saate=_-_s:s-=a!jltess=!aBCBSIB!as^? * Dnrolto to Hftos, Politics, Intelligence, otto tl)e 3tn;prooeinent of ll)t Stole otto Country loRN C. BAILEY, EDITOR & PRO'B. GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, DECEMBER U. 1872. VOLUME XII-NO. 32. BodsoatrnoN Two DolUn per annum. J ADT^RTinaMBRfa inserted at the rate* of ona dollar per square cf twelra Minion llnea c Jtbta alia 1 typo) or loaa for the firat insertion, c fly eon to each for tba second and third Inter- f tlons, and twentv-five cants for subsequent Insertions. Yearly contracts wilt be made. I AM advertisements must hare the number f of Insertions marked on them, or they will be inserted till ordered out, and charged for. 1 Unless ordered otherwise, Advertisements j will invariably be " displayed." Obituary notices, and all matters inuring to to the benefit of auy one, are regarded as Advertisements. POETRY.""^ Only Across the Hirer. There's a beautiful land where angela dwell. And our loved ones are garnered forever; Where songs of deliverance in sweet anthems swell, Where sorrows ne'er come, their joys to dispel; It is only across the river There's a heavenly rest, a home of delight, Where sin and where death eome never. The Iloly of Holies, where taints, clothed in white, Rejuioe in the goodness of God, day end night; It is only across the river* There are mansions prepared foT the holy and pure, When from earth, death their spirits shall sever, When those who in Christ to the end, shall endure, BlikU J veil in his presence forever secure; It is only across the river. There's a robe and a crown in that beautiful land; Which Jesus, the glorious giver, fiball bestow upon those who are worthy tc stand, When probation is past, at the Father's rigbl V hand, \ It is only across the river Then we'll fear not tho gloom that hides thi bright shore, > . For Christ shall be there to deliver, Aud guide us in safety, though billows ma; roar, By the light of Ilia love, the dark water o'er; It is only across the rivci REMINISCENCES or PUBLIC HI E N BT KX-OoVKItNnR B. V. PKRRY. [Continued from last Week] ANDREW W. THOMSON. Tl.io irontlmnilM WRS. ftt tl?0 tlIII of hU death, the oldest practicin lawyer in the State. lie seeine to be, when I last caw him, in ripe old age, with body and tnin well pieserved, and as tnll of li and spirit as he ever was. IJ death was very 6iiddcn. I kne Wallace Thomson, as he was ge orally called, about forty yeai and had a great deal of iutorenur with him on the circuit, and Columbia, attending the Court Appeuls, and the sessions of t Legislature. He was1 a tncmb of the Legislature, with the exc< tion of a few terms, from 1824, to the period of his death, a 1 years since. We have pass many pleasant hours together, a had a g- eat many jokes on en other, lie was a genial, social and warm-hearted gentleman, was kind and generous, and li pitable. I had for him throu out our whole acquaintance, a v< sincere regard ; and nothing e occurred, at the Bar, or in Legislature, or in our private tercourse to mar or interrupt a moniont, our kind feelings i regard for eacli other. Mr. Thomson wag born in . L ryland, but brought up and e B - ca'ed in South Carolina. I h heard it said, as a remarkable f (r that all of the Marylanders 1 | have figured in South Carol f f were some what excentric or singular traits of character. I lustration ot the truth ot thii aertion, reference was made Judge Qantt, Caleb Clark, many years Solicitor of tho i die circuit, Major Smart, a p ticmg lawyer at Catndeti, am WallaceIhomsou. Mr. Thor was, in some respects, ditte ?frotn ordinary men, and stipi to ordinary men. He was most pertinacious man in clin to h't9 opinions that 1 ever And some ot his notions were crude and outre. At tho lb could 806 ana mane more pen hi* case than any other lawy The opposite counsel, and the < too, thought frequently the p made, were no points at all. if his Honor decided against he was cnre to take an appei once knew him to aopeal in t when the Judge had decidet ry thing in his favor. f Mr. Thomson was a well is lawyer, and a good lawyer. had a very extensive pract Union, York, Chestcr? Spi burg and Laurens, in his yo days, but as age crepted on I noticed that his practice ft Clients generally think that a; lawyer has more energy an in conducting a case, than i one, and they are not far frr ing correct, Shortly afler t minado.i of the war, I alt k ii Juiou court, which is ost of toy th< (ircnit, to attend to nn important an :ase there, and was surpksed to II< lee that tny friend Thornton was cu learly ont of practice in the Lqoity mi :ourt. Younger lawyer* Lad stt monopolized the business, there Jo is a time for all things, we sA told ca in the Bible, and after being Whs Bi Bar for more than half a ceniry, no it is time for a lawyer to quit W w< iness, and prepare tor his app%r ]J ance at the other Bar, where ttAe th is no appeal for him or his cliet^. a titnn T mfAM a a tar W1 1 Alio UlOb VIUIO A V* VI onTT vv V lace Thomson, was the spring att\ 6x my admission to the Bar, at Sp? bi tanbnrg. He was defending Delill 0t Land for stealing feathers. Thlth court was sitting in the old jail^r and Judge James was presiding. Y The old Court House had been c torn down, and the present building was being erected. I reached Spartanburg late Monday morning, in company with my old friend, Benjamin Saxon. We went immediately to the Court House, or jail, where the court was sitting, and as I stepped in, Mr. Thomson was in the midst of his argument. I was greatly amused at his speech, the character of tho case, and the ! appearance ot the court and its surroundings. 1 had read, in Blackstone, of''Piepoudor Courts," the lowest courts mentioned by the learned commentator, as exist* ing in England, and 1 was remind' ed of this bumble court. Bui bust incss was not despatchei so quick ly. Blackhtone says, if I remember correct!;-, the court was so call ed, because it despatched business B as quick us one could Bhake dust from bis feet. Delila was cotivie f ted of petty larceny, by a jury of her peers, and Mr. Thomson took , an appeal. The law then, was the Court or Appeals would hear no r. criminal case unless ihe defendant was present in court at the argument ?>f the appeal. Delila had to go to Columbia, and she walked all the way, about a hundred miles * The next full, Mr. Thomson, moved by the hardship of bis client, in troduced a bill to dispense wit! the necessity of the defendant be ing present in the Appeal Court except in cases of capital felonies IC During our political excitement ? Mr. Thomson, was, in the begin J - - ? - % T T fU ning, iucimea to ue a union umu a but the popular current in favor o K' Nullification and disunion, set i *u too strong for him to resist it. '8 have frequently thought that h |W was like the converted Jews i nH Spain, mentioned by Barrow, i 8' his interesting book 011 Spain. II fe baid the inquisition had converte ,n. thein outwardly, but at heart the were still Jews, and secretly kej ',c up their ancient mode of worshi l( r Mr. Thomson sailed under the Nn 5P litication flag, but he long ente "P tained a tender leeling tor tl Stars and Stripes. Iti 1851 ar j 1852. when the whole State w going, as Judge Evans said, f IC'' Secession by default, w# started t |,le Southern Patriot at Greenville, a LJ11 ion paper. Mr. Thomson c 108 quired of me when we met at Spi K'1 tantmrg court that 6pring, if I h a copy of the Patriot with me? vor lie took it and read it ttiroiq '.',0 and eagerly sought for the subi 'n" qnent numbers. Judge Dawk f?r WiU} a subscriber, and in this w *nu i.a^t oaaaaa to the nai 1 IIUlIIOUli IIUVI ?~ - , , without incurring the odium of j ing a subscriber and patron '"ll* such heresies. That summer ave me^ lny triend Thomson at a re ac'? mental muster in Greenville, i . lo he proposed to introduce uie ',,R' Judge Farmer, and said 44 he i one of our sort." I replied tin 11 should be very glad to see Farn i HS for he was an old acrpiaintanci * to mine. That fall, Governor M ning and Thomson were in cou ny with a parcel of five eat^ri >rac- Columbia, who were cursing J A Southern Patriot in very str nson (e|.,ri8< an(j gome one of the con srent (ly appealed to Thomson for urior opinion, as to the character of paper. The Goveinor saw ?'nK he was in a tight place, ami met, coged himself by saying thai very oid not take the paper, and k ir very little about it. When ( ita in er,|0r Manning told me this, J er-? peated what Thomson had sa court t|,e regimental muster, and oints anxiety at all times to see the But triot. This was too good a him, for me to keep, and I told i *' I quently in Thomson's presenc i case As a member of the Legists 1 eve- Mr. Thomson took a very a part in all the discussions o read house, lie was good iu rnakinj lie geotions, and capita! in takin ice at coptions. AH his associates i irtan- Legielatu e, and they were nnJf0r many, daring fbrty years he him, ed there, had great respec 'II off. him. He had his hobbies young crude notions at which we all 1 anTh! et* heartily. lie was often >m |^0 tions too, but wo all took it in h? tcr Part? knowing as we did his ended good qualities. lie inani e same deportment at the Bar, 1 d on one occasion, he and Col. erndou got into a regular flstiff in open court. A terrible tu* i alt ensued, and the conrt was ill* 1 inly converted into a great mob. idge Gantt was presiding. He lied iti the sheriff to keep order, at there was so much excitement ? one heeded the Judge. All are taking sides for Thomson or erndon, and shouting for one or e other. The Judge picked up constable's staff, and seemed to i standing on the defensive. This cited the sympathies of a huge illy who was in court, and whilst hers were espousing one side or e other of the combatants, he iod out at the top of his voice, ^4 1 _ _ _ 1 J * . .1 w a in. no iook siaes wiiti me J sage, j rhen ordor was restored, the tort fined both of the gentlemen to hundred dollars each, and their names from the *Aof Attorneys. But the case up to the Court of Appeals, anWas ad'U9tcd in some way.? ThV son and Ilerndon became friends afterwards, and I knoV|,at when the Colonel died, Thohji felt his death very much. credit of Mr. Thomson, it mnLe Baid, that during all the time w as a member of the Legislaturoie never was a candidate for on, or sought to be a candidate nany office within the gift of thejgislature. lie was satisfied nvI being "the member from Union*hi 1st his associates were scramig for honors and office. Mr. lli6on was in possession of a lariroperty before the war, made his honest industry, and devotiio his profession. In iWc for the joke about the apent ignorance of the charnciif the Southern Patriot, ' Mr. Tfeon went to my friend Januevd said to him, that he 6aw thjiion paper on file in his 1 readinjbom, that he, Janne}* ' himsellis suspected of being a Union and if he permitted I this t>a to remain on tile, it would Information of the aforei said sujon. lie further said this woHamage his hotel, and , advised1 as a friend to remove the paplt of the reading room. , It was \ediately done. Soon i* afterwaiUme one called for the . I ? * , | 'timoi) una lounct it >f i was tnisfV Thomson sent word n I to me, tl^> doubt some Seces 11 sionlst hiCen it t,ff and burnt el it, and lnbught to enquire of nl Janncy aVjt. J thought it a n I matter of ^sequence, ar|d 8aid e I nothing aU Thomson, a day d or two a^ds, told me the sy I trick he b jRved off on my j>t I triend Jftnnnd had hoped to p. I interest me t matter, ll I |[)OONTtN^xjwEKK ] id I Honest V. Greeley. as I The N. Y. epeaks of the or I lion. Horace (tj jn ti,i8 way : be The mclancfbeath 0f the 68 editor and f?al,\the Tribune, in" I though for a fevL jt |ia8 not il| I been unexpected family and I intimate friendsl Upon us T~ I with all the shoclLucjjen ca? * I lamnity. He "^Wl indeed iC~ a ripe old age, bit not 1,18 laid its withering L on j^m I His splendid c"n\n easih* uef borctho strain of eV labor. ] his mind was as ir& gt,.ol,jr ?\ and suggestive as i?\ri,ne Qf . life; his generous iL were ?l: vmchilled by dishartV .. Uld ence. Through the tryl j 1 to which has just closed h i vi?nr his tact, ana J ler tua' act?vlt>r surprised^."6*5 e 0J who knew him best, a ? [an to Pro,n'3e many jflaif , ipa- r,CSf\ \ Ul } in It is certain that no \ the the most critical perid 0?g national lite can be w'.,r apa- which Horace Greeley J" his a conepicious figure. , the noblest career in his that l',at which is given t<f I ex- wants. The successful 11 j he tt,at which is worn out in) new with wrong and woe. TR 3ov. ambition worth following vi L re- ambition to alleviate humai id at erJ and leave the world a ?.;Q better than he fouud it. T ItIO pa. had done it was the con* joke which brightened bis las t fre- a,)d **?oreu hitn that he hi 0 lived iti vain. It is not for tnre l'10 hour of our loss tc ctivo *''8 character or catalogue I f the tae8< Although for mon jsug have missed the inspiratior g ex- presence and the guidance n the w'8e counsel, his spirit has verv ceased to animate those ch< 8erv continue his works, and th ,t for bond of sympathy betwe and chief and bis assistants, ha angh? been broken. We leave hi frae to P??r w',orn i)0 8U< to the lowly whom he lift 1 g??d jo slave whose back h< really frbra the lash ! to the op tested whose wrongs he made hie Organisation of the South Carolina Peace Society. Some time since a call was iswed in the Christian Neighbor of Columbia, for such persons as felt interested in organizing a State Peace Society, to assemble in that city on October 22nd, for that purK?e. On the assembling of the elegates, Rev. Sidi H. Brown was called to the chair, and Mr. John A. Elkins was appointed Secretary. Mr. Joseph Lauhon opened tho proceedings with prayer. The chairman stated the object of the convention was to promote the cause of peace, and thereby to reuuco ana abolish war. After several of the delogates present had given their views on the subject, a motion was carried to proceed with the organization, and a committee was appointed todraf a constitution. The convention then adjourned till the next day. After the preliminary business of the next morning whs completed, and Revs. E. A. Bolles and Manning Brown received as members, the report of the committee on constitution was read and adopted. The report was rs follows : Wo, the subscribers, knowing that war causes a vast amount of expense, cruelty, suffering, des truction of property and life, vice and crime, and belioving war to be directly contrary to the gentle, meek, compassionate and peaceful spirit and gospel of our Divine Saviour, the I'rir.ce of Peace, and that it is His will that war should cease throughout the world, and also believing that it is the immediate duty of all men to be co workers with God in extending the kingdom of peace among men, do, therefore, term ourselves into a Society fur tho Promotion of Peace, and acept the followiug constitution-. Article I. This Society shall be called *4 The South Carolina Peace Society." Article IT. Tho officers of this Society shall be a President, a Vice President, Second Vice President, a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, and a Treasurer, who shull constitute a Board of Directors. In conjunction with whom shall be added one member from each county repre sented in ?his Society, to be elected by the officers in the intervals of tho annual session. itield ; Henry 11. Bleaso, dewberry : J. M. Burgess, Clarendon. Ll The chairman read letters of oxmitr.cndation of the peace movet\ent from George W. Williams, aJiarleston ; J. M. Burgess and u4G. Ben bow, of Clarendon ; Mrs. ? jlM. Mendenhall, of North Caroiis V, and John lleimnenway, of tbsine. i of\r. J. II. Kinsler offered the folof rg resolution, which was i nevfed : Men Volved, That it shall be the e elohf the Board of Directors, en tlAver circumstances may wars ncvcv take such measures as they is praisyroper for the organization scored \xiliary I'cace Societies ed np ;Y>ut the State. ) 6aved\ [Columbia Union. pressed \. ?r*7 a i own Vzootic has not yet made \ance in Walhalla. Article III. It shall bo the duty ot thie Society, according to its opportunity and ability, to obtain and circulate tracks and books in favor ot peace and against wap, among I he people at large; to hold meetings from time to time, as often as the President may think desirable, for prayers, singing and sermons, or addresses or discussions, for the purpose of showing that peace is agreeable to Chris* tianity and war not ; and it shall bo the duty of this Society as a body, and its members as individ uals, to endeavor to promote peace in, between and among nations and all mankind. Article IV. Any person, male or female, may become a member of this Society by signing its constitution. Article V. This Society 6hall elect its officers annually. Article VI. The President. VicePresident, or a Director, shall have power to organise, in person or by another, Peace Societies among the colored people. Article VII. This constitution may be amended by a vote of twothirds of the members present, above the age of twenty-one years, at any regular annual meeting. The convention then proceeded to ballot for officers which resulted as follows ? Pi-Anirtrtnf T?r>w Sidi II. Brown ; First Vice President, John II. Kinsler ; Second Vice President, Rev. E. A. Bolles; Recording Secretary, John A. Elkins ; Corresponding Secretary, II. Bascotn .Brown; Treasurer, Chas. D. Standley. The following additions were made to the Board of Directors: Rev. J. II. C. McKennv, Spartanburg ; Joseph Lauhon, Fair FARM AND HOME Natural and Artificial ManureThe American Rural Home publishes a communication from F. P. Root, one of the best farmers of the country, on the subject of manures, in which he makes the following statement, showing the superiority of raising ana plowing ia heavy crops of manure over a system of negligence called manuring in a natural way : Two adjoiuing fields, divided by a tail fence, have been long under cultivation, and clover was often plowed in asa manure for a succeeding wheat crop. The fence was taken away, and the whole, as one field, summer followed and sown with wheat. The strip where the fence had stood, and wliero the grass had so long grown and decayed on the surface, did not produce near the crop which grew on the other aide where the clover had been plowed under. There were strong reasons for this difference. The grass which ?;rew and decayed on the surface aforded little else than vegetable mould. This could not enrich the soil several inches down, and did not possess in itself the fertilizing char* acter of clover. The clover was plowed in, and was intimately mixed and diffused all through the soil, where the roots of growing plants were to penetrate. The vegetable mould remained only on the surface, and could only operate as a mulch. We have heard 6ncl? facts as this cited in proof of the tolly of the practice of spreading yard manure on the surface, and never plowing in. The truth is, this modo of manuring would be of littlo use if it were practicable on cultivated fields. But fortunately, the very act of cultivating works in the manure, and it cannot, as a matter of course, remain at the surface, which the plow is throwing under. It is au excel lent practice to allow spread manure to remain on the surface for a time, especially through autumn and winter, until the water of rains and melting snows, diffuse the soluable parts intimately with the earth. When this is done, then is the time to plow under this enriched top stratum, and it will be worth double the same manure in lumps unmixed with the soil. Top-dressing without plowing under the manure is an exception, oecause me norouB character of the roots servo to carry down the manure in solution, which could not penetrate the compact layers of bare soil. But turning under the manure is often of great bene fit even on grass?more especially on thin upland. Surface manuring on such land, although beneficial to a certain degree, will not give it the power to grow heavy grass and withstand severe droughts. Men are apt to run to extremes, and having discovered the successful results of surface applications in certain cases, they may carry the practice too far, and omit the deep, thorough plowing, and by repeated harrowing, which can alone supply a rich and mellow bed of earth for the exten sion of the roots of the crop. _ Ashes and Gypsnm as a Top-Dress* ing for Wheat. Mr. Editor?I have seen recently in a Northern paper (I think it Was the Sun) a piece in which a mixture of wood-ashes and land plaster (gypsum) was recommended as a top-dressing for wheat, lhe recommendation is good. I have used tho mixture frequently, and always found most excellent effects from it, both in the vigor of the growth and the size and quality of the grain. I carefully gather up every year all the ashes that are made on my own farm, and all that I can get from my neighbors, and I mix with them about one-third ot their bulk ot land plaster. After the wheat is well up I scatter the mixture over it at the rate of sixty or seventy pounds to the acre, choosing a day when it is likely to rain. I find that the top-dressing gives the wheat, a good start, makes it grow stronger and quicker, and imparts to it that green color which indicates healthy growth.? This stimulant seems to last all the growing season until harvest. I think, too, that the mixture is a Freventive against rnst, hut ot this an: not as positite as I am that it is a good fertilizer. I believe, however, that it I could give the crop a second top-dressing of the mixture, when it takes its start in the spring, it would prevent rust and increase the yield. 1 mean to try it next spring. Last year I had not quite enough ashes to top-*dress all my wheat, and nothing could bo more marked than the difference be tween tho dressed and the un dressed parts of the crop. The cost is very small?nothing \ compared with the value of the ^ result?and every farmer can eas t ily procure the ingredients. I use \ leached as well as unleached j ashes, and am inclined to believe ( that the one is quite as beneficial . as the other. 1 am no chemist < and cannot explain the reasons j why this is so. I can only speak < froin experience and observation, , and I wiite what I know for the , benefit of others, in the hope that they may find the application of ( the mixture as profitable as I have found it.?D. McC.?in , Farm and Home. \ \From the American Farmer.] Cultivating tbe Orasses at the SouthIn our last we noticed the fact that considerable interest is being aroused in the Sonthern States, in h regard to tbe cultivation of clover and the grasses, and referred to a ( remark of Mr. Wbitherspoon, of ( 8. C.T that one of his neighbors had cut eleven tonB of hay from five acres. We have since received orders from Beveral others, who have been eqnally succesful, forsuppiles of seed-and Mr. With J erepoon lias duplicated another or der for seed. * * * Mr. With- j erspoon Bays: 44 On? of my friends is now sowing 30 acres 1 in clover and grate. I believe if we ever get laws to protect our property, we will sow grass extensively, and become stock raisers to a much larger extent than we now are. There are thousands of acres of land on our rivers, now uncultivated, which no doubt would bring clover finely. Our labor is becoming more unrelia ble every year, and we will be forced to try some other crop than cotton. With our short, ( mild winters,stock raising would be a profitable business, and many of us would be glad to engage in it? but at present we are alinoet without law. I hope to give yon a good account of the seed you send mo. I have given my land a pretty thourongh preparation I think for the seed. I plowed it well with a bull-tongue or a scooter with two mules, crossed with Mill-fee's subsoil plow, and then crossod with the bull tongue again, then threw into ten foot lands with two horse Watt plow, after harrowing it?followed by Watt plow witli Thomas' smoothing harrow. Will this dot [We should think it would?Ed]?This was a piece of our stiffest bottom land, which had been resting five years. 1 burnt it off in September, and it was so dry that a heavy growth of weeds and briars were burned green as they stood, leaving a considerable covering of ashes. Land that was planted in corn in June, and in September perfectly clean, I propose plowing with a Watt two horse plow, running the Thomas' harrow, and sowing the grass and clover seed. ? * * * I saw clover la9t, May, that was sowed with timothy in March, on the banks of tbo Pee Dee river, which was three feet high, and some ot the timothy measured over four feet. This was put in very roughly?the land plowed over and the seed sown, but not covored even by having a brush drawn over it," It is reported that some of the hangerson of the State Govern ment in Columbia, who are steeped to the eyelids in the slough of official sin, are organizing a legis I tivc revolt, whoso ohiect is to ' ? -J | browbeat the incoming admims tration and compel them to backdown from their position as the defenders of the people against the Shylocks and the Rings. The movements of these mutineers are known. Let them remember that only he who is without fault may cast the fir6t stone ! Messrs. John T. Shaw and R. A. McCorkle hare been bailed by Judge Mackcy in $1,000 each, for their appearance at the March term of Court for Yoik County, I to answer to a charge of killing a | man in that County in 1871. The commission which has been investigating the ontracres on the Rio Grande border, has reported [ at length, and the amount of dam age which it finds to have been done is rated at $30,000,000. At an English funeral lately, one of the six bearers slipped and fell, the others dropped the coffin, and it foil upon the prostrate man in snch a manner as to inflict injnries of which he died in less than a week. F. Stobo Farrow, Esq., formerly of Spartanburg, was an independent candidate for Mayor of Atlanta, Geo. Swallowing a Kan. John Thomas was a man o' teen wit and strongly tinctured rithf lore of the humorous. He iad been down to Concord, and lad seen the Fakir of Ava per* or in his wonderful tricks of lager* leinain. lie was relating his ex* >erlence in the bar-room of the Donway bouse, and among other binge, declared that he haul gain*. ?d an insight into many of the uoet wonderful tricks he oonld perform himself. " For instance," said he,-" I can iwallow a man whole " Bah 1" cried Tom Stables, a red faced woodsman, weighing at east two hundred : " perhaps yor ;ould swallow me V1 " Yes." " I'd like to see yon do it." " I can do it." ** i n Del you fifty dollars yo san't." 44 I'll take tliat bet." 44 Then let's see >on begin." 44 Not now. I have just eaten my supper. I will do it to morrow morning, in the presence of is many witneses as you may choose, and it shall be done in the >quaro in front of the hotel." This was agreed to, hvA the money was put op. By the fol* lowing morning the news that John Thomas was to swallow Tom Staples whole, had become widespread, and a vast concourse, embracing uien, women and children, had assembled to witness the wonderful fear. At the appointed time the chief actors appeared in the square.? John Thomas was smiling confidently, as though sure of succes, while Tern Staples looked timid and uneasy, as though not qnte at rest concerning what was to be* come of him. 44 Are you ready!" asked John. 44 All ready," answered Tom ; 14 begin as soon as yon please." 44 Will you have the goodness to take off your hat ?" 41 Sartain." 44 Now yonr boots." Tom removed his boots. 44 Next you will remove your coat. Those big brass buttons might stick in my throat." Tom took off his coat, and as he threw it upon the ground one of the cooks came out from the hotel with a pail of melted lard and a whitewash brush which be deposited by the side of John Thomas. 44 Now," pursued John, 44 you will take off your stockings, and then remove your pantaloons and shirt." " El) ? D'ye mean for me to strip etark naked I" queried Tom, aghast. " Of course I do. The agreement was that 1 should swallow yon. You are meat, bnt your clothes are not, nor were thev ia the bond. If you will strip fwill giv^ you ft thorough greasing, awl double the bet if you wish; I know I can swallow you?or, at all evonts, can try 1" Tom gave up the bet, and invited his Iricnas iuto the hotel. Dr. G.. an old physician and quite a wag, was making a professional visit one night and while on his way home a fire broke out. Not heeding the fire, he still pursued his way home, when passing a clothing store, a young man steps out (not knowing the doctor) rnaely accosts him with : " My dear sir, can yon tell me whoso domicil is being consumed by this raging conflagration ?" The doctor locks at him a moment, takes his pill-box from his pocket, se* locts four pills, and says: "Young man, when yon retire take two of these. If they should not operate take the remaining two, and yon will be entirely cared." The Grand Lodge of Ancient Free Masons, of South Carolina, will convene in the city of Charleston, on Tuesday, the lOtb of December inst. Reidville Female College, Spartanburg County, S. C., is said to be the cheapest, healthiest and most retired institution in tho South. Mr. Daniel S. Ilart, late of the ? "?- ? " ? 111111 ui xian <s \JO.y Ubarlcsto hardware merchants, has rccentl been appointed a traveling sger. of the South Carolina Railroad. There are now fifty-three students at the Theological Seminary in Columbia, S. C. Four more are expected soon. The tow n of Marion has been gerrymandered-one mile added all round the edge?and it now baa a Republican majority of twentyeight. The corps of engineers begat their labors on Monday, 25th nit., in loca'irg the Greenwood at ./ Augusta Railroad.