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THE ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER, BY W. A. LEE AND IIUGII WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1870. VOLUME XVIII?NO. 7. THE COQUETTE. or JOBS (i. (Alt "You'ro clover at drawiug, I own," S'lid my beautiful cousin Lisette, An wo sat by tho window alone; "But any, can you paint a coquetto ?" "She's painted already," quoth I; "Nay, nnyl" enid the laughing Lisette; 'Now, iidiio of your joking, but t?y And paint ino a thorough coquette." "Well, cousin," ntonce I began In tho ear of the eager Lieelte, "I'll paint you as wt*ll us I can That wonderful tliiug, a eoi]uette." "She wears a most beautiful face, C'()f (>nnriU) " ratil (Iip I \ \ 1 _ 1" - 'J ""V.VV,/ And isn't deficient in grace, Or else alio were uot a cuqucttc.** "And thenshe's ?laiutilyJma.lo (A ainile fiom the dainty Liscttc) 15y people expert in Iht trudo Of forming a proper coquette." "She's tli<? winningest ways with tlx? lioaux, (' Go on," bniJ '.lio winning hisctto,) I>vit. 'here i?n't a man of tliotn knows The mind of the tickle coquette. 'SMi* know# liow t"> v.-eep and to sigh, (A sigh from the tender I.isette.) Hut her wooping is all in my cy> ? Not thai of the cunning coquette ? "In dimf n ~r " ("it hush." Ilio frownii-g "Willi ineioly the ghost of n heart? Eaough for a thorough cot|tulle. ' There?<lo not be angry?you know, My <lenr little oousin Li suite, y ?u tohl mc n tin niont ago To paint you?a thorough coquette." DARED AND DEFEATED. ,;Yoti will meet Wifftor Sutton at The Hoses; enter in 110 rivalry with him." This was tho postscript of 1113- father's letter, anil tho 0110 cloucl in tho bright ho i ;on of my hopes. I was twenty-three years oM, just released from college, a little pale ami woary with study, and bound for that paradise of the earjj), mv widowed ' lister Margaret's homo?Tho Hoses. 1 was to-spend the summer with 3Ing; and the prospect had boon or.c* of infinite delight. Jiut now 1 heard that Sutton was there. This Walter Sutton wan a 3*0linger uroiLier 01 flag's deceased husband, a millionaire's son, and a Parisian by education. At twenty ho Lad been familiar with the Mabilo. At twenty-six ho , was pronounced tho handsomest and . most dissipated man in London ; and now, a 3*ear later, I was to have his ( companionship for the summer at tho j house of my sister, 3Irs. Margaret ] fSutton. j The man had always had a fascination for me, while I despised him. His Apoliau beauty, his knowledgo of , tho world, his coolness, daring and * fearlessness, I regarded with wonder. , But I had senso enough to weigh ] these against his evninisin l.: w -J ? J J encd reputation, and his rakish man- j uer, which told its talc of unhappi- ( ness, and to keen cpiietly on my way, ] unenviou3 of his buccoss. At tho , timo I wont to The Koses I was, . moreover, les3 liable to impure influence, for I had just lost the noblest and dearest mothers. It truo I did not rolish meeting "Walter Sutton, but I was not ono to borrow trouble. It was Juno weather; "green and hluo were glad together and I was free. My horse arched his beautiful neck, and trotted slowly and proudly along tho road, while I looked across the sunny fields, watching for the first sign of my sister's mansion?trees rustling, flowers blooming, and birds singing around me. Suddenly I saw a carriage whirling in advance of me. I recognized the man on tho box and syurred forward. I l gained it. Tho stalely lady within it looked up, threw aside her uablo veil, andcricd, "Lewis!" "Are you goiDg liomo, Maggie ?" "Directly." "I am with you." At that mouieut I bccamc conscious of the earnest gaze of a pair of golden-brown eyes. My sister was not alone in tho carriage. A young girl, with her lap full of water-lilies, and a largo straw bat shading tho fairest and loveliost of cot. Iw?;/1a - ? _ V UV1| Wo looked inquiringly at each other but for once, my admirable sister for-' got the demands of society. In her pleasure at seeing mo she omitted tho introduction, ana leaning from her aeat sho questioned mo oagerly regarding occurrences at homo. .She uad not been there sinco my mother's unoral had taken Y>laco in tho wintor. Suddenly a light phaiton whirled by ub, tho driver of which lifted his hat as ne passed, giving a piercing look into the carriage. I followed it and I fancied I saw the young girl's hand tremblo among tho lilies ou her lap. "Yon know Walter is with us, Xiewis?" remarked Margaret, a little cloud on her face. "Yes. lie is looking well." "Ho always looks well," said Mag, significantly, t W* wore entering tho Avenuo. Two splendid rose trees guarded tho gate; the rustic trellises hold anjarch of blossoming vines above their heads.. I questioned Mag us to the gardon. "My gardenors say that they havo 'been very , successful this year, ;I think ifapprepiate the roses moire than usBAitais year, for Alice enjoys .tiium bo iuuuu. My aletor tumod as she spoke, with a fond smile tot the gttlftt her side, and then remembered to say, "Alice, this is my brother Lewis.- Mr. Verner, Hiss Lee." up tot Wine again, and my took of^2S?mlrfttion was tewarded with A Jiittle /smile, se sweet ihat X then and there fell ii itsd^nei*. 'k , We OmMre through clouds of perfumefo the doer. There were ladies and gentlemen npon the broad terrace. -M-* *- ? * I "I lmvc other gucste"/' said Margaret, aside. I had met sowo of them before? ail nice people. Tho summer promised to bo gay. I know that I was very happy that evening, singing with Alice Leo. But tlioro was an evil influence in tho house. I soon felt it. Sutton's wealth and extravagance bred a spirit of envy among the young men; his sneering sinilo blighted our pure and simple pleasures, and it exasperated tho masculine portion of the company to observe the influence thisMephisstophelea 1i;i(l nvr?r tlm Iio;iii1 il'nl iniim>i>iit i???. mantic girls whom they loved. There were those of the men whom he seduecd sit the. Htsirt. They copied his vices in less than three weeks. Then followed dissatisfaction and heartache among men and women. lint 1, who from the lirst declined to ]>lay cards and drink in Sutton's rooms, felt uncontaminalcd, and free to seek that priceless treasure in life, a pure woman's love. i tried to please Alice Lee, and succeeded. In July wo wero engaged. And then 1 just began to understand how good and sweet my darling was. 1 remember that I camc homo from fishing one day, with a lace nearly blistered by the sun. Alice, in her cool, white dross, with violet ribbon at the threat, peeped out the door at me as I came up the garden, where 1 had delivered I ho spoils of the day into the hands of flair's cook, and held up her pretty hands in mock horror. In truth, I was something of a spectacle, with my white linen suit illuminated with the juice M strawberries?tlso pantaloons thrust into the legs of my muddy boots? plentifully besprinkled with the dust of country roads, and liercely sunburnt. Hut I had boon gone all day, and Alice made up a face to kiss i;u\ "No." said I; ' ! will excuse you, since I have a blistered nose, and I am covered with dust." 1 was quite in earnest, and tried to hold her oil", fearing her delicate dress would get soiled if she touched me; but she won her way to my breast. rubbed a liiuo place clean on my 1 oreIs c.id with Isor embroidered handkerchief, kissed the .spot and laughed in my eyes. "Dear Lewis," paid she, "it's you, and I'm not afraid of dirt that will wash oil." The merriment softened in her lovely face. ' Lewis," sho said softly' "don't Lhink I love you for your clothes, or your complexion, or your whiskers, which all the girls admire, but because you tiro good and true, and I [eel that I cau trust you. Do you know what mado mo Iovj you at 5rat?" I shook my head. ' Because, all Sutton's wiles to draw f*ou over to his ect failed. You adire honesty and purity, and have maintained them so nobly, that I honor and admire j*ou. If you were i blacksmith I'd marry you and live n a hovel!" And with her beautiful ?yes sparkling with tears, my darling hugged me, and then pushed mo oil', and then ran away to liido how she w:.b crying. Blissfully happy I stumbled up stairs, plunged iuto a bath, and divested myself of all stains of earth. JtJut when 1 when 1 went into my dressing-room I perceived the fumes of Sutton's cigars. They wero of a peculiar brand, and no ono smoked tliem but himself. lie was sitting in the south portico, close to the door where I had met Alico. How long had he boon thcro? My hand trembled as I brushed my hair. Shoald 1 have been ashamed,of it? I think not. Sutton had a reputation of taking horrible revenges, and I had so much to lose.' But after a moment I braced myself, mentally and physically, and sat down to read. I was too tirod to go down stairs. But the fumes of that cigar sccmcu to have got into my head; tho pago was Lazy and indistinct ; I could sec nothing so plainly as Button's Greek profile and lij'aeynthinc hair, and suspecting I was ill 1 at length threw down tho volume and went to bed by starlight. I was ill for a fortnight with a low nervous fever. Aly valet took mo in charge, but Alico camo in every day with Margaret, and did mc more good with ten minutes* petting than Kugene's most patient attention accomplished the whole day. She kept flowers At my bedside, and stretched proprieties to tho utmost to seo me. At first her smiling eyes by my pillow wcro delicious; but ono day I saw she regarded me in a troubled, wistful U'fiv nrwl nflovworils f diHfrov ered that alio was growing palo. "Whc.t is tho matter? tell mo pot!" I said. "Ob, you got well bo slowlyeho said, a transient flush on her delicato chock. I did not dream what persecutions sho was undorgoing whilo I lay there but she would not worry mo with any complaints; bravo, faithful, loving littlo heart. 1 was nearly well ut last?sat up all day in my room, and sent word to my iriends below that i would bo with them tho following day. At midnight tho radianco of the moonlight awoko mo from a deep sleep. I could riover sleep in a room flooded with tho light of tho mo(5n, I rose, threw on my dressing-gown and was preparing to closo tho shut ters, whon I distinctly perceived the pungent odor of chloroform. Now if I l)ad been in tho body o] the house, I should have decided thai some unfortunate person among tht many inmates of the house, had ex perienced a midnight attack of tooth ache: but there were no chambers ir the south wing but Alice Lee's anc mine. . Mvefy pearly tooth in her ro sy mouth was perieotlysound, I knew so J was puzzled.; jTne. pert rovela tion was the propinquity of a horsed neigh. ' The horses belonging to tfce hoaM Were, or ought to have been,' at a dis t$nce fYom the house,- in a well-lock s ed etablo. This horse?nny, t\y>of them, and an elegant phn>ton?L4ould at tho front gate. At first I diu. not rccognizo tho ecpiippage. ' But I was impressed to beliove thoro was something wroug. A lark of Sutton's sot, I docidod to bo, whon I atjlongth rocognized tho carriago. I dressed and sat down by tho window, watching tho horses toss their heads under tho larches, their silver ' trippings glittering in tho moonlight. Suddenly >Sutton went walking rap-1 idly down the walk, bearing some- j ming iu ins arms wrapped in a clonic. It might have been the figure of a corpse, lor any life or motion il appeared to have, llo sprung into the carriage, placed himself ho as to supi port iiis burden, gathered up the reins, and whirled rapidly away. The instant lie was gone a horri. hie suspicion broke over inc. I sprang up and rushed down stairs. The chamber in which Alice slept was full of the scent of choloform, the window was open, and a long, glass door leading directly into the garden. There was chloroform among the roses. Alice was hot there I If an oath ever escaped my lips it did then. Never thinking to alarm the house, 1 rushed inthe stable, expecting to lind the hostler awake. 15ut 110 : the man was sleoninir sound-1 ly in 11is loft ?Sutton's horses had not been stabled that night?and only my violent bcleaguerincnt brought Jiim down. Bridling the ileetest and | liercest horse in tho stable, I sprang bare-back upon him, and tore out upon tho trail, Tho long road leading over the hill stretched white ami empty before me but by that way he must have gone. My noble black Hew after, snorting, and striking lire from the stones. The birds were twittering all along the way. 1 noticed that,"and knew I could not bo far behind him. ttuddenly I hoard the click of a carriage wheel. The next moment 1 pulled nn < l>/\ i ao/I <1 <**?< I v*|?5 jvyi t?IV 1VUM , wnv; J/cVLIi I lay over a stexp lull, tlio other entered the woods. I was close upon him, I was sure of that; but I eouM not decide whether he had gone over the hill or entered the woods, which looked dark and murderous enough. 11' 1 made a mistake lie would escape me. Just then I heard a cry? a woman's piercing shriek. Jfy heart leaped up; I plunged into the woods. That was his way. It was narrow and difllcult, and I knew ho had taken it in hopes to escapo me. lio must have heard the thundering of my horse's hoofs behind him in the road. We boanded under tlio boughs. Soon I saw tko carriage ahead. It rolled rapidly along, yet swayed heavily on its springs, us if badly driven. I shouted stop "Stop!" Tlio next moment a pistol shot whizzed by me. I could inako out the figure of Sutton standing in the carriage for a moment. Tho next instant in wna ." one. In mv rnrrlrlrKs ? 0 J ?- ? speed the bough of a tree struck mc in the facc ; but I heeded nothing until I was besido tho pliaiton. Sutton was not within; but my darling, all wild and white, stretched out bcr hands to mc. My horso, in spito of his speed, was manageable, I galloped close to their heads, aud contrived to stop tho flyine bays. "Where is Sutton ?" I asked. "He fell or sprang out; I do not know which. Oh, Lewis eavo Die from him!" "You have nothing to fear now," 1 answered. "My darling be biavel" tt J u ball through m3r head. I fastened my horse to the back of tho carriage, got in, and turned the heads of the horses. They were whito with foam, but obeyed the rain without much excitement. I wrappod Alice more carefully in a cloak, and guided them swiftly towards homo. Suddenly tho bays swerved 'and seemed to leap over some object in tho road, and instantly tho carriage passed over some obstruction. Alice's wild eyes flashed their terror into mino; a sickening thought passed ovor inc. Reining in tho horses I leaped out of tho vehicle, and retraced my way for a lew steps. Something dark lay among the decayed leaves. It was the corpse of a dead man?the dead body of Walter Sutton. lie had been flung from tho carriage. It is not probable that he attempted to escape, for he was heavily armed, and would have far sooner taken my life than have been defeated. He had probably driven over a stump, or log, and been thrown to tho ground ; and I had ridden ovor him twice 1 Thoro was a boot' mark on his forehead, audthe wheels of Hie phajton had passed directly over his 1 broast. Bat that fiuo, scornful smile was oa his lips, as I gazed at tho dead i face in tho moonlight, as if, even in death, ho cherished his revenge, and was yet confident of compassing it But tho abduction of which ho had dared ho had bceh defeated in ; and 1 happy in our marviago, Alico and I ? had no fear of the dead. I I ? Tho bill to change tho judicial cir> cuits as passed tho Senato constitutes > tho various circuits as follows; First i ?Alamo, New Hampshire, Vermont, . Massachusetts, Rhode Island and , Cincinnati. Second?New York,. . Third?Now Jorsey, Pennsylvania, > Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. Fourth^-Missisaippi, Louisiana, Texr as and Arkansas. Fifth ? North t Carolina, Soatli Carolina, Georgia, > Florida, Alabama and Tennosifce. - Sixth?Ohio, Miohigan, Kentucky ami West Virginia. Seventh?-Ilhr nois, Indiana and Wisconsin. Eighth I ?Minnessota, Iowa, Nebraska. Kan sas 4fld Missouri. Ninth?California, T Oregon and Nevada.' The Sapreme - Qoart Justices, except the Chief Jtisi tice, are required to reside in their repective circuity t&A the Qhief Jus?Miosis to be known as Chief Justice -Iof the Supycmo Court of the United - States. , ft (From t'to (Jnlnxy, of Mny.) Tlie Story of the good Littlo Boy wlio did not Prosper. BY MARK TWAIN. Tlio following has been written at the instance of several litorary friends, who thought that if the history of "The liad Littlo Boy who did ]S*ot I Uomo to Uriel'," (a moral sketch which I published live or bix years ago) was worthj' of preservation several weeks in print, a fair and unprejudiced companion pieeu to it would deserve a similar mortality?Editor: Onee there was a good little hoy by the luimo of Jacob Jilivens. llo always obeyed his parents, no matter how absurd or unreasonable their demands were; and he ndways learned his book, ami was never lute at Sunday school, lie would not play hookey, even when his sober judgment told him it was the most profitable thing he could do. None of the other boys could over make that boy out, he acted so strangely. lie wouldn't lie, no matter bow convenient it was. He just said it was wrong to lie, and tint was suilicicnt for him. And he was so honest that lie was simply ridiculous. The curious ways uiiii jacoo mul surprised everything. lie wouldn't "p':iy bles on Sunday, Iio wouldn't rob birds nests, lio wouldn't gi>*o hot pennies to organ grinder's monkeys; he didn't seem to take any interest in any kind of rational amusement. So the other boys used to try and reason it out and conic to an understanding about liim, but they eouldn't arrive at any satisfactory conclusion; as 1 said before, they could only figure out a sort of vague idea that he was "afflicted," and so they never allowed any harm to come to him. This good little boy read all the Sunday school books; they were his greatest delight. This was the whole secret of it. He believed in the good i:? -1_ i ' < -- - - > ' nmc U'JJM invy JIUI ill llio midday school books ; lie had every confidence in them, lie longed to como across one of them alive once; but never did. TJiey all died before his time, may be. Whenever he read about a particular good one, he turned over quickly to iho end to see what had bccomo of him, because he wanted to travel thousands of miles to gazo upon him ; but it wasn't any uso ; that good little boy always died in the last chapter, and there was a picture of his funeral, with all his relations and tho Sundayschool children standing around .the gravo in pantaloous that wcro too short, and bonnets that were too large, and everybody crying, into handkerchiefs that had as much as a yard of stuff in them. He was always hoaded off in this way. llo never could soe one of thoso little boys, on account of ma tiying as in tne lasj. chapter. Jacob had a noblo ambition to be put in a Sunday school book. He wanted to be put in with pictures representing him gloriously declining to his mother, and she weeping for joy about it; and pictures representing him standing on his door step giving a pcnn}r to a poor beggar-woman with six children, and telling her to spend it freely, but not to bo extravagant, bocause oxtravaganco is sin, and pictures of him magnanimously refusing to tell on the bad boy who always lay in wait for him around tho corner aB he came from school, and welted him over tho head with a lath, and then chased him, saying: "Hi! Hi!" as ho procoodod. That was tho ambition of young Jacob Blivcns. Ho wished to be put in a Sunday-school book. It made him feci ft littlo uncomfortftblc sometimes when he reflected that the good littlo boys always died. Ho loved to live jrou know, and this was tho most unpleasant featuro of being a Sunday-school book boy. lie knew it was not healthy to bo good, lie knew it was moro fatal than consumption to bo Bupcrnaturally good, .as the boys in the books wero ; lie ho knew that none of them had been ablo to stand it long, and it pained nun xo inimc that 11 over they put in a book ho wouldn't ever sco it, or oven if they did get tho book out before he died, it would not bo popular wi'hout any pictures of his funeral in tho back part of it. It couldn't bo much of a .Sunday-school book that couldn't tell about the advice ho gavo to tho community when he was dying. So at last, of course, he had to mako up his mind to do tho best he could under tho circumstances?tolivo right and hang on as long as ho could and have his dying speech all ready wheu tho timo eamo for him to die. But somehow, nothing ovor went right with this good littlo boy; nothing ever turned out with him tho way it turned out with the good little boys in tho books. They always had a good timo, and tho bud boys had tho I broken legs; but in his easo thoro was a screw looso somowhero, and it all happened just tho other way. "When he found Jim Blako stealing apples, and went under the tree to read to him about tbo bad little boy who fell out of a neighbor's apple trco arid broko his arm, Jim fell out of tho troo too, but he fell on him and broko his arm, and Jim wasn't hurt at all, Jacob couldn't understand that. Thoro was not anything in tho books like it. At onco, when somo bad boys pushed a blind man ovor in tho mud, and Jacob ran to holp him up and receive his blessing, tho Elind man did not givo him a blessing at all, but whacked him over tho head with hip stick, j and said ho would liko to catch him shoving him again, and then pretend^ ing to nolp him up. ^his was not in accordance-With atiy of the book* Jacob looked them all ovor to see. . One thing that Jacob wanted to do was to finer lame dpg that hadn't any place to ntay, find waa hungry and persecuted, and pet Mm, and have that -dog's imperishable gratitude. adu a* iqsi ao xoum one ana wiua iuppy; bwght Wift hoae ?n4 fed him, tmtTwheo fa# .mm goAnt to pot him th6 dog fl?\T at Mm and tore nil the fclothet off hira oxCopt thde'e; that wcro in front, and mado a ppoc v^^^w"",w"w',l^l^^g1 V tncl\of him that was astonishing, ilo examined authorities but could not unUorstand tho matter. It was of tho fiamo breed of dogs that was in tho boqks, but it acted vory difToroiitly. Whatever tho boy did ho got in troublo. Tho very thiugs tho hoys in tho books got rowardea for, turnod t- ? *? "" uui> lu mm 10 oo ino most unprolitaf bio things that ho could invest in. | ' Onco ho was on his way to Sunday school and saw Bomo bad boys Btarting off pleasuring in a bail boat. Ho was filled with consternation because he knew from his reading that boys tliat wont Bailing 011 Sundays invariably got drowned. ?So lie ran out 011 a rait to warn them, but a log turned over with him and slid him into the river. A man got him out pretty soon and the doctor pumped the water out of him and gave him a fresh start with his bellows but ho caught cold and lay sielc abed nine weeks, lint tho most unaccountable thing about it was that the bad' buys in the l>oat had a good time all day, and then reached home alive and well, in in the most surprising manner. Jacob lilivcns paid there was nothing like these things in tho books, ile was perfectly dumfimndcd. When he got well he was a little discouraged, but. ho resolved to keep on trying, anyhow. Jle knew that so far his experiences wouldn't do to ^o in a hook, hut lio hadn't yet reached tlic allotted leruv of life lor good little boys, and he hoped to be able to make ] a record yet, if lie could hold on till his time was fully up. Jf everything el.se failed, he had his dying speech to fall back on. I Jle examined his authorities, and found that it was now time for him to go to sea as cabin boy. ITe called for a ship captain and made his application, and when the captain asked him for his recommendation ho proudly drew forth a tract and pointed to the words: "To Jacob Jilivens, from his affectionate teacher." But the e:iptain was an ignorant, coarse, vulgar man, and he said: "Oh that bo Mowed, that wasn't any proof that he knew how to wash dishes or handle a slush bucket, and he guessed he didn't want him." j. ins was altogether the most extraordinary tiling that ever happened to Jacob in all his life. A, compliment from a teacher on a tract, had never failed to move the tenderest emotions of ship captains and open the way to all offices of honor anil profit in their gift?it never had in any book that ho had read, lie could hardly boliovc his senses. This boy always had a hard time of it.. Nothing ever camo out according tp Jiis authorities. At last, ono day, when ho was around hunting up little boys to admonish, ho found a lot of them in an old iron foundry fixing up a little yoke on fourteen or fifteen dogs which they had tied together in long procession and were going to or-* namcnt with empty nitro-glycerino cans mado fast to their tails. Jacob's heart was touched. Ho sat down on one of those cans?for ho never mined greaso when duty was beforo him? and ho took hold of the foremost dog by tho collar, and turned Ins cyo on wicked Tom Jones. But iustat that moment, Alderman McWcltcr, full of wrath, slipped in. All tho bad boys ran away; but Jacob Bevons rose [in conscientious innocecno and bogan ono of those othor stately Sunday-school speeches which always commence with "Oh, sir 1" in dead opposition to this fact that no boy good or bad, ever starts a remark with "Oh, sir I" But tho Alderman never waited to hear tho rest. Ho took Jacob and gavo him a whack in tho rear with tho flat of his hand; and in an instant that good little boy shot out through tho roof and shot away toward tho sun, with tho fragments of tliOBO fifteen dogs stringing after him liko tho tail of a kito. And ihcro wasn't a sign of that Alderman or that iron foundry left on tho faco of tho earth; and as for young Jacob Blivcns, ho novor got a chanco to" make his last dying spcech after all his troublo fixing it up, unless ho mado it to tho birds; because, although tho bulk of his body camo down all right in a ti*ce-top, in an adjoining county, tho rest of him was opportioned around among four townships, and so thoy had to hold five inquests on him to find out whethor ho wni r1rn.fl nv nnt. ntwl lintv it. nrroii-rnH You ncvor saw a boy bo scattered. Thus perished tlio good littlo boy who did tho best ho could but could not como out according to his books. Every boy who over did as ho did pi-ospcrcd, oxccpt him. Ilia caso is truly remarkable. It will probably never bo accounted for. ^ ^ Couht is Over??On Saturday torminatod ono of tho most trying and disgracoful visitations that a rcspeetablo community has ever been called upon to endure. An infliction, tho contemplation of which was never entertained, and tho reality of which wo Bupposo could scarcely have l\Ann AAttru/t Kir 4 K A irr\ An f nn/lnrtt UUUU I/UIIVWIVVU VJ, Kfjf l/UV tUWO V UiUVllb and thorongh rcconstructionist of all tho now regime. iNino days of tho twelvo occnpicci in tho session wero consumed in tho murder case, a caao unparalleled almost in the annals of murder, tho murder, of an inoffensive, harmless old man, brutally struck down in tho dead of night whilo on his round of duty as watchman at the No\yberry depot, and .whoso body was thrown oat to become'a foast of ravenous hogs. A murder that was ac kqowledgsd and confessed by two of tho prisoners, and proven on at least three of the four, And to-pay. those criminals stand unconvicted, remanded to jail on a mis-trial I There is no safoty fpr life or property, now that justice is prostituted. The privilege of challenging tho jury was carried to extent whjch never before court, an4 ?? great pain to the community; and a repetition of whibh, it is hoped, -will never again he witnessed.?Newberry Herald. ?; The Southorn Staple. From tho timo-when bo good a furmcr as Cieorgo Washington had o hundred cows in his yards, and yet bought bultor for his table, tho South has ueen a standing illustration of a system that scorns to bring wealth, but in fact leads to penurj'. Ten years ngo, she wont to war, trusting mainly to tho fact thai sho could do one thing to perfection?grow Glean, long staple upland cotton ul a cost oi less than ten cents a pound. .She had not then learned that national strength depends on doing many things well; she is not in a way to master that lesson now, though it. has been enforced with tho lrloomv rliplnrip. nl j the cannon. She has yet to learn the ! omnipotence of concerted action and j diversified industry. For instance, ! the last decade has proved conclusivei Jy ihiit England will put no limit on j the price she is willing to pay lor a I certain amount of goo.d American I upland. Jlcr spindles and looms arc 'all-titled l'or just finch cotton as I America can grow ; and if she must ' pay a gold dollar lor a. pound of it, | she will pay the dollar rather than ! dispenro with the cotton. The scan! ly crops of 1807 and l.SGS reduced the supply in her factories s<? she has been willing to give twenty-live cents a pound, Jiut the 3,000,000 hales of l.SG'J have gone so far to till the void that the price has declined, and may descend to a point at which the production of cotton hy free labor hccomcs uuprofitahle. if in January and February the planters of the South could have met in convention, talked these matters over, and agreed | to plant less cotton, and more ol ! <?L-n < I 1 ? . iikj \iwui*i iiavi: con! trolled iho price and held it at twen ! ty-fivo cents and over. As it is, tlx: old infatuation of one crop, one stylo of farming, lias crept back upon the Southern mind, and with it, in many cases, an exaggerated estimate ol' the importance of the Southern staple to the welfare of tho world, instead ol this being true, the cotton crop, as an element of national and international strength, ceases at 2,500,000 bales. When cotton is cheap, England uses choice American for both warp and woofj now she mixes it with the short and kinky staples of less favored climates. When cotton is cheap, it creeps as a dull adulterant into all our fabrics, it hardens the surface and chiUs tho warmth of our woolens, il takes tho gloss from our silks, il makes our linens limp in texture, il uiiwo uvuvi ituu muro lasting gOOUt out of t lio general market, discourag ing tho wool grower, tho silk worm foodorandthe llax producer?delaying tho introduction of ramie and of mohair as profitable American sta pies. All this subtle mischief a greatcroj of cotton works in tho world, while tho curao.of one-sided and exhaustcc tillage rests over all tho cotton fields Tho planter will float corn a thousanc miles down Western rivers, and ther haul it fifty miles over muddy am narrow roads, that ho may cling witl a closcr and moro ruinous devotion U his single staple. Ilis cattloare Bmal and bony. They pick a scanty living in tho eanc-brake, ticks worry them mosquitoes tormont them, and poach ors kill thom, so ho learns to depend on Kentucky for his beef. Ilis hogf aro wild and restless all summer, gain ing no flesh and but littlo bono. Ilif ;c r? ' ? ? ? uuin jo iiiouuKjiuii u iui' ma jjiow nurses and he learns to depend on Cinciunat for his pork. Ho needs artisans of all sorts neai him?wagon-makers, tanners, shoe niakors, ropo walks, plow-makers and cotton-wcavcrs. But theso persons find that, while wages aro a little higher, food is a good deal dearer that the roads arc narrow, and dust} when not muddy; that tho streams keep all who aro not well mounted weather-bound for a day after cvci*} rain; that tho undraincd swamps brcod myriads of mosquitoes; and that where tho lands aro rich they abound in malaria. Arguments like theso must continuo to drivo tho mochanic from tho cotton Status, certainly; while, in addition, he is made to feel that neither James Watts, nor George Stoplienson, nor liobcrt Fulton, if landless, would bo as mueb honored as the wild owner of a tho*uBand acres. "Wo aro awaro that tho South lias .suffered from tho struggle and starvation of a long war. Wo admit that the proclamation and tho surrelidoi destroyed a vast amount which, b>' tho constitution, as it then read, was t T.1 1 - * r* - rar uo it irom us, wiic justly prize tlio thrift, tho enterprise, tho invontlon, and tho.progress of the Northern character, to draw invidious distinctions, or fan a scctional prido, But wo wish to show tho South how sho is chcatcd by that insane loyalty to old, tyrannous, and now uncrown' ed, King Cotton. Sho wants bread and ho gives her a Htono; she asks o fish and gets a scorpion. Cotton givet her gold, but for all important endsol national nowor that gold is dross. II buys nothing of that which makef nations groat and keeps them, so. Il has littlo power to fell forcstB, to drair swainpe, to bridgo streams, fill schoo houses, and change villages into citics Tho fundamental mischief in thai sunny, and for tho moat part fertih land, ia not the negro, nor the Bureau nor thp bayonet, nor the armv worm bat a political cconomy. fal$o in it) first principles and ruinous in iti working. The Soatb spends so mod on Actors and shipping merchants she keeps ort the road such longtrainj Of wagons; she supports sueh an*ar my of steamboat, hands aBd sailor and clerks and brokers an4 insurance agents?lu short, ab& pays go large i Bhare of what she earns in origer.fc get a cKanceta buy what she, wants that'sn<> miut oontinue to Vmwv,lo^ cabins ana ride in fori d lo -patbp. iWlha she most needs is a atatesm^, iar-fec greatness and dtew her fbet fttto it.? ,Jiew York TiiOuni, s Gon. Jordan on the Cnban Situation. General Jordan's intorviow with Secretary Fish lust woek upon Cuban | . affairs was altogether pleasant.? . Though informal, there was a good i deal of conversation relative to tho re- j , sources of the insurgents and tho courso pursued by tho United States j i government. Gonoral Jordan is to | ; boo tho Secrotary again upon tho sub> ject. Tho rccont. proclamation of Do , .Rodns, Captain-Gon oral of Cuba, det" daring free tho slaves of tho insurgents, in characterized by General Jordan as a mcro Lrutum falmev, as ; Iheso very slaves have already been frr?>il I.olli !i\r lliwi-" m-idlfira niul l>w ... ' ?? "V their masters and by tho Cuban gov' eminent. Tho Cubans, according to i General Jordan, have a very complete civil government, organized in all its departments. A coast-guard of Cubans observes all arrivals and departures, and none can come in or go out , without being known. The General has the fullest faith in the final success of the Cuban cause, and cites the fact that no Spanish-American rcvolt, ed colony has ever been subjugated by Spain. Tho principal dilliculty is in the matter of arms, tho number of these being very limited. The Uritish government has, for purposes of its I own, issued careful instructions to all i its colonial authorities not to permit any shipment of arms to the Cubans. Whenever there arc arms ready to be supplied to tho Cuban General Jordan declares that the revolution at once breaks out. The steamer Upton, which sailed lately with 'JOO or MOO ! Cubans, has, by this time, received on the high seas a supply of 5,000 arms j to be landed on the inland. Many of ! the negroes and Chinese, tfl' whose I fitrlil litif /i nnli I i<\ j (- ...... 1 I .1.. ? i -j-mii vi'-.i vjviiviiii juiu;ui I speaks very highly, are armed solely , \vil!? Ihc niuchct., a short sword tnan, ufacturud in Jlarlford, Conn, and with this weapon they arc very elective in close combat. There are , o(?,000 coolies in Cuba, and all are , ready to embrace the Cuban cause. in respect to food I hero is no dilliculty. Tho supply ol' hed' is excellent and inexhaustible. The hogs are equal to the host American animal, | and arc plentiful. There arc also enough of fowls to make an impor, tant elements of food. Tho insurgents are destitute of codec, the plantations being all in the western part j of tho island. General Jordan says [ tho destruction of property in the theatre of war has already been very ' great. Many plantations have been totally destroyed. ' Tho revenuo of J. tho Spanish government in carrying on the war is derived from tho sugar , and colfeo plantations, which aro worked by slaves against their own I will, and often against that of their masters. Spanish garrisons. ar? ..cmlilnvo/l rrn n v/1 otirl AnfnwnA ^" |/.VJ wv? WW gliuiu UIIU VXUUltig lUiO Itt" bor of the slaves, thus used to dofeat theirown emancipation. Among the various Spanish goncrals and Officials, General Jordan regards Valmascda as must the ablest, though tho most cruel and ferocious, of them all. According to General Jordan the late winter campaign, on which Spain expended so much money and resources, resulted in a total loss to tho Cubans of ono or two hundred men. As for tho surrenders of which so much is said by the Havanna prosB, General Jordan says they are all bosh ; that there aro no capitulations by persons of influenco or valuo to the Cuban cause, and that thoso porsona who talco tho amnesty are persons living under tho immediato control of a Spanish fort, and too pooi' and holp. loss to re mo vo. General Jordon gives a very gloomy picturo of tho atroci I tics practised upon prisoners.? Wash. j Cor. World? j WALKING ERECT. | "Walking ercctly not only adds to [ the manliness of appoarance, but devolopcs the chcst and promotes tlio i general health in a high degree, bo^ cause tho lungs, being relievod of the prcsKuro mado by having tho head 1 downward and bonding the chcst in, " admit tho air freely and fully down " to their very bottom. If an effort of I ii.~ ?:?.i i , - tuu iiiiuu is inuuo lo in row uic shoulders back, a feeling of tiredness and awkwardness is soon experienced, or it is forgotten. Tho nso of braces to hold up tho body is necessarily pornicious, for thoro can be no braces which do not pross upon somo part of tho person moro than is? qui to natural; hcnco it cannot fail to impedo injuriously tho circulation of that part. But were tliero nono of these objections, tho braco would adapt itsolf to tho bodily position, liko a hut, or shoo, or now garinont, aud. would ceaso to bo a bracc. ( Ta seek to maintain an crcct poeitioo, or to recovcr it when lost; in a manner which is at onco natural, easy and ofilcient, it is onlv necessary to walk habitually with tho cyos 1 fixed on an object ahead, a little hfghk cr.than your own, tho eve of a house, ' tho top of a man's liat, or simply ^ keep your chin abovo a horizontal ' lino, or, it will answer to walk with | your hands behind you; if cither of ' theso things is done, the necessary, 1 easy and legitimate effect is to relieve ' tho chest from pressure, the air gets a in moro easily, develops it more fully, and permeates the lungs moro. e*teny sively, causing a more perfcct purifij r cation, of tho Dlood, imparting a high? er health, more color to tho ch$A/ J and compelling a throwing out jaflHe 3 toes.. To derive the. highcft]b^6itiefllj 1 from walking, hold up the&eag, k;c$p >. tho mouth shut and move * L"* i J3MTS <rr: ? "A Treatise uport tho Chtfctiati , and contains nikygrtvT)bicaI i(k6k5h 61 I tho authors ffie ^nptamtioft- > oftttti t work 1 dwoiiid^sl^'w raa^yh6ng^n-u -Tright wKit* tfcsfWthbr urKMfttfrocally *t dpniejC-t.; :.? ? { 'j*>'- ? vi ..tf? ?"PP????????1 SCRAPS. Gen. R. E. Loo, has rcachcd l is hoiuo ivt Lexington, Va., fVotn 1 .; visit South, much improved in Ucullii. Bishop Simpson will Icavo Amnv . on Juno 8th, to proside over tho <Jv; man and Switzerland Contcreiu , which meets on Sunn lGth. A newly invented cotton gin in fr . Louis is Baid to diftpcuso with t!,v hand labor of picking cotton tho bolls. A Southern paper announcos tb. , the editor ia fortified against siui! liil.cH. Sfimn nnn 1... i.: i... ? uuo OV;il Li liilli a UfcU rol of whiskey. Mrs. Stovcns mado tho astoundir. dcelnnition, ut u recent women's} sr.'frage meeting in San Francisco, th. . "women could not bccorae men il' th y tried." .Surveying parties arc busily engr. ed laying of tho ronto of the propo ed National Itailroad from Phiiu'Je. phia to Now York, in opposition IheCanidcn and Amboy. Tho Palalka (Pla.) Herald is cru'ii Lably informed that thero is a ma', j living in Orango County who men . | arcs nine feet and six inches in height I and otherwise proportionately large In Cincinnati, 1>. P. Hodman, Jr., has obtained :i veldict for SS,0()0 in snit against IE. C. Culbertson, for seduction of his wife. A young lady being a.-*kcd by a rich bachelor,' "If not yourself, who woul i you rather l>eV" replied sweetly a*-:<A modestly, ''Yours truly." It appears from recent investigations that tho Southern Methodist Church is rapidly losing its colore i | membership. there boiii" but. 7,000 members this year, aguiust S:.',000 last year. Tho Mississippians are world U:j and maneuvering lo negotiate a transfer oi' Mobile to that Stato, in wliicli event Pensaeola would be tho seaport, of Alabama. The (Jovcrnor has sent a commission lor tho purpose to Alabama. The Mormon authorities, at Salt Luke, took forcible possession of tLo United States Court in that city on Tuesday, but surrertderod- after a parley with tho Judj^o and Marshal. A Mr. Wilson Wallace/ of Mceklcnburg County, N. C., while .on his way home from Charlotto, was forced to dismount ft-om his horse, on account of sickress, when ho was assailed by four colored men and robbed of nearly $-1,000. General Walker, Superintendent of tho Census, in his instructions to Assistant Marshals says thatr no graver offenso can bo committed by them than divulging information acquired in tho discharge of their duties. The. work of enumeration commences on the first of June, and intermission of duty will bo sufficient cauiSe for removal. The Assembly adopted a pastoral letter declaring that the obstructions preventing fellowship with the Northern Churches wero not created by tho Southern Church, and they could not allow tho Southern Church to bo placcd in a false position. Tho Assembly adjourns to Huntsville, Alabama. Mrs. Mary Powell, in her lecturo on tho Indians, makes a curious statc~ : ? uiuuii tuiiuviunig uunurui), wiutlll Ul'O fastened to birch bark and their limbs kept confined till they are two years old. "I have socn," she says, "as many as two hundred of them togcthor at one time, and no noiso . came from their lips. They nro healthy and comfortable, and havo no need to cr}\ Their arms of courso aro not confincd, only their bodics^ind legs." , Important railway works is-r Peru aro progressing most favorably. Moro than forty miles of road aroj ironed betwoen Molondo and Arequipj^ and nn connJ distnnnn is fnn 4.?;ia Scvcntoon locomotivos and Boveral hundred cars aroin daily motktti 'on tho road, and by tho first of July? it is cxpectod. that tho first train*, jyill reach Arequipa from tho coast, $pd prosago tho prosperity of that liith-, erto unfortunate city. K > r A firo occurred at Codar Kcj^s, Fla,, on tho 20th, which caused considerable' loss. Tho fire originated On 4V,? ? . T_.-S_C ?''1 uvi.iu viiu Diumiici' uuuiauur^ wuuu discharging freight at tho. wharf of tho Florida Company. The . wharf and tho shed of tho Company <w.er? cntiroly destroyed, with about* ono hundred and sixty bales^sea. island cotton, four carloads of goods,tbirtyfive tioroes lard and ibrty barrelsflou^ > . mostly covered by insurance, ti The Tier ah?* now^'telegrams from China forwarded by \?ay of Boipbay, India, and through tiie Atlantic pablo from England, gjTf^^ost; jflatfejrlng . and cheerfttf acoflitrnts of ib^ prospect of the tea and silk, crpps ;ln ; ?he, cm,- , pire. ^ TbiH*'glorious news for thqIadloS/ ^t may bavotbe.offect of revolutwbi?ipg'' tl?0 aspect o?, the JW9- . ^&jnjt^^tsj^ I - ,wK?k ICwaia',;'.Writ08'/abonit tih.a mw. > Orftne : 'insanity,". <asi< follows ? Intortity osriai'nfr *m? toindroasa . fin tipjworia,??ad Jmese'iB Mtgioafc* ': irktavA OM foAil/Murar-AnV wnrrtArAta^.. i jbOna*wortlr mentioning1, atanV into. OETannsrh^tfi yoUkiU6d *>iisan,itwaa po?fuWa tbat yoit .w??# itfisano^-b^t now3ci? a mao it U evideaoe , tbiU.yoa,?r<v,alafa*ija.bIn the^e daysv flwiuy w4 ^ high ?ntfrbt a tending ntwln anything, Iboy oatt ;|fcukkj^WMaoum> apd 'mml ' JkiSMO ttw IlmlM 4#lum. : Jtfpom I*M JA kigk tamdtog*; saBftpder* Ms ' fortune id dlaipaAio*, iMtdbaes his^ ' 6arMrc?Hih ctsr3nf3toia? tor/a- bullet^, twapokw^abWratJbu" ia- what w^ 7 ike tronblo.witb Mm* ? i'.i i.*ui?-[ y ;'.u\: !<; ' .cm.l