Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

< * *? ? , J? "* * BY W. A.LEE AND HUGH WILSON ABBEVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY. MAY 5, 1871. ^;' The Return of the Birds* I hear, from many a little throat, A warble interrupted long; I bear the robin's flute-like note, The bluebird's.slender song. Brown meadows and the russet hill, Not yet the haunt of grazing herds, And thickets by the glimmering rill Are all alive with birds. 0, Choir of Spring, why come so soon ? On leafless grove and* herbless - lawn? Warm lie the yellow beans of noon ; Yet winter is not gone. For frost shall sheet the pools again ; Again- the blustering East shall blow; Whirl a white tempest through the glen ; Au<l load the pines with snow. Say, for a tint of green shall creep fctaon o'er the orchards grassy Uoor, And from its bed the crocus peep .Beside the housewife's door. THE PASSING CLOUD. . "Do you want mc to get anything for you in town ?" Andrew Thurston spoke very calmly, and a chance listener might have thought that he spoke kindly. He certainly spoke deferentially; but his lips were com pressed, and there were lines upon his brow which were not usual. Ordinarily he would have said, as he was drew on his glove: "Now, my lore what can I get for you in town?" and he would have spoken gayly and frankly, with spiritJ.iness and sparkle; for they had been married not a year yet, and only the cay Deiore Anurew nau aeciarea mai they would never out ive their honeymoon. *'Ellie," he said with a kiss, "when we cease to love, wo shall have ceased to live; for life could be nothing without love." But now a cloud had come?very small at first?not higher than a man's hand?but yet a cloud. Ellie Lad nevor complained of fatigue or weariness, and yei he was Jar from robust. On ti>is particular morning she bad arisen with an aching head, but she did not mention it.. She did not smilo as was her wont, and her husband asked her what was the matter. Ilis question seemed to imply Ai t i i._ i v * j i.: lUUb Iler niiiitiier uuu irtiuu- linn ? there was almost an accusation in it ?and she replied, rather shortly "Nothing." "l?ut there must bo something." said he, "What is it ?" Tbis, to his wife, rendered orer-siis-ceptible by her headache, seemed a -disputing of her words, and she answered ; "I tt'll you?nothing." "But Ellie," he suiii, "\ ou wouldn't act so if thero was nothing tno mutter." ' Act how?" demanded his wife, flushing under this direct charge. "What have I done?" Wlint / /mill lior iinehnnrl rnr^TT tr? tliie? What single act of hers?what wortl, even, could hn point oat? Something in hrr manner had jarred npon tho sensitive chords of his heart, and a cloud had come between iliem; but how could he tell it? How could he give to another an idea, of tliat which had no f'urin nor substance and wh oh ho had only perceive 1 because it dropped a discoi d into the exquisite harmony of his jealous love? lie could make no plausible answer, and this fretted him still more. i;Oh, nothing, nothing.*7 he said, drawing back. "If you dou't choose to confide in me, all right." His Wile's eyes nusnea now, una she spoke quickly?spoke so quickly, and so feelingly, that her husband was, in turn, offended; an.J, with a j hasty word- upon her lips, he went! out into the hail, and made ready for ! the city, which was but a few miles distant from his suburban residence. J When Andrew Thurston re-entered ! the sitting-room, with his hat in his! hand, he asked the question we have already hoard, '-Do you want mo to get anything for you in town ?" JJow cold his voice sounded to wife, who sat, with bowed and aching head, by the curtained window. It did not sound like the voice of her husband, and she did not lo .k up. i She would wait until he came to kiss ' her, as ho always did before ho went j away, and then she might he able to j sneak?to speak upon his bosom,: where she could hide her face - but: she dared not trust her voice now. j She knew she should cry if she spoko, and she would" not have her husband' see her do that if he were angry with her. But he did not come to her. j He turned away without another j word, and was gone. Andrew Thurs'on knew that his i wife must have heard bis question, and as she did not immediately answer, lie allowed his anger to express itself in ! a slum of the door as he went out.. lie pulled on his gloves very vigorously, and stepped off with measured strides But not so long. The fresh i morning air fanned his brow with a ! cooling influence, and no oegan 10 i thinlf. lie missed something. For | the first time since he had been mar-, ried he was going away from homo j without his wife's kiss; Surely a i cloud had arisen upon the domestic j horizon, and something like a storm f had come upon their peace. He was! unhappy; and the more he meditated, | the more unhappy he became. "Ellie was to blame," he said to htm-' self. But this did not heal the wound. "I may have been hasty," he acknowledged, after further reeollec ??-i ,1 tion. "15llt SlllJ, X1U USSUiwu iiiuiov.il, ..'she irritated me." Thus ho reached a point very far frptn soothing or satisfactory in its influence. lie was forced to acknowledge that he had allowed himself, in % i -i ' - . a moment of irritation, to speak has )ily and unkindly* When ho entered the train he took his scat in a confer, and pulled his hat down over his eyes. lie did not wish, to converse. When ho reached his office lie was moody and taciturn?very unlike the Andrew Thurston whose custom it was to come in with smiles and cheerful salutation. A little thing it was, to be sure, but it gave him great pain. A mote is a j tiny particle, but it. becomes a thing of pai ful raement wnen it is lodged I in the eve; and the heart that is made tender with a devoted, living love, is us sensitive to motes as is the eye. Hitherto the current of Andrew's love hud flowed on unbroken and untroubled, but this incoming oi obstruction had produced a turbulence as destructive of peace and happiness, for the time, as though the very fountain of love itself nad been broken up. In short, ho was brought to the self-confession that there could bo no more joy for him until this eloud passed away. A d how should that be done? IIow should the sunlight he let in again upon his heartstone? Ho j was proud, and he did not like to make confession of his fault. Would his wife make the first acknowledgment? IIe*boped so; for thus the evil might beptit away. As lie sat alorie in his office, he took up a paper, and sought to overcome hi* uuhappy thoughts by reading. He could not fix his mind upon the thread of long article, so ho read the short paragraphs; and at length his. vyc ? caught the following. ' Where there has been misunderstanding between near and dear friends, resulting in mutual unhappi ness and regret* the one who loves most and whose sense of right and duty is the'strongest, will-make the first adVawe toward reconciliation." Andrew Thurston dropped the paper, and rose to his feet. It was as ihouyh a voice from Heaven had spoken to him. 'I do not love the most," he soliloquized ; ''hut I am the strongest, and should show my love hy my works.'* Ho looked at his watch?it was almost noon. It was not his custom to return home till evening, but he could not lemain and bear the burden through tho other hours of the day. And he marveled, as he put on his hat and drew on his gloves, how even the resolve to do this simple thing had let the sunlight into his soul. ****** Eilie Thurston, when she knew thai her husband had gone?had gone wifhout giving h' r time to recover her stricken senses?sank down and j wept: and it was a long time before she could clearly think and reflect She had been left alone?alone with pain and sorrow, and she was utterly miserable. She blamed herself for nOt having called her husband to her; and she blamed him fur not having come of hi-; own accord. To her it seemed as through the death of joy had come She had never known such misery .before. By and I y, 1 1,1 ,.l Wlien S110 COllIU llimiv, SHU nunu^ibu if her husband would smile upon her, if sho would otter him the fir-t kiss, and speak the word of love. She would try it. It would be terrible if he should repulse her; but she could oot live so. Tne hours passed, and the young wife Pat like one disconsolate. She thought not of dinner?she had no appetite. She only thought could the warm sunshine ever come over again! Dili her husband love her less than she had thought ? Thus she sat with pale cheeks and swollen eyes, when she heard the outer door opened, and a step in the hall. She started up to listen, thinking that her senses might have deceived hOr, when the door of the sitting room was opened, and her husband entered. Hid eyes filled with tears when he saw how pale and griefstricken his wife looked, and with opened arms lie went toward her. ' Ellie, my darling don't let us be unhappj' any more." lie been ihinlcing, on his way home what he should say when he met her; and he had framed in his mind a sneeeh of confession which he would 1 make; but ho forgot it all when ho saw her, and his heart spoke as it would. The words burst from his lips, lovingly prayerfully beseechingly, uEllie my darling don't let us be unhappy any more !" She came to his bosom, and twined her arms about his neck; and for the kiss that was missed in the morning they took'many kisses now ; and they wept no more apart, but they wept together. That was all. The cloud had passed; and they experienced the exquisite thrill which all true hearts feel whnn a wrony has been made ri-rht, und when the warm joy-beams drive away tlie dark shadows of sorrow and Teg rot. It was a life-lesson to them both ; and they promised them selves that they would never forget its teachings?Arthur's Mmjuziue.'Remedy for Heaves.?A "Veterinriau". writes tho Rural New-Yorker: ' Heaves are caused by the enlargement, and often rupture, of the air cells of the lungs, and are incurable; for no medical skill can rebuild or repair the broken-down structure of the lungs. Much can be done for the relief of the animal, however, by the feed, which should bo nutritious and lie in little compass, as ouiKy ioou distends tho stomach and presses upon the lungs. Plenty of grain and j little hay, with tho dust shaken out ; and a little water sprinkled on, with steady work* or exercise, will do as ' inueh to relieve the horse and make him useful as anything." mm*manmm9nm*mzemtyrM-r~xi in i TALES ABOUT HEALTH. | . BY DlO LEWIS, M. D. i I have studied the subject of excri j cise for twenty years. 1 have invent, ed a system of gymnastics, which lias j been introduced into nearly till the schools in America, into most of the | English gymnasia, and was introduced ,! into the sciiools of Berlin a few years i years airo, with public ceremonies 1 1 have been the recipient of honorj able testimonials from American Col- ] i leges, many important educational 1 bodies, and from many sources in < England and Germany. ; j l'lease excuse this parade. My ob- I j ject in making these statements is to '< | give a just emphasis to an opinion I j which 1 wish now to express. It is ' j this?that wntkiht/. when /noj/erly ma if ' ! t/rjtd, is the best of all exercises. | j None of the artificial exercises can I { be compared with it Every impor- > j tunt muscle works actively in walk- < ing. Notice an active walker. See i how every part works ?legs, hips, ' | arms, shoulders?the man works all 1 over. Brisk walking gives even the I upper half of the body fine play. 1 Then walking costs nothing. You t are not obliged to join a class and < pmnlov n. fp.iichi'iv A tmin wnllftrwr ' i'- J ? # 7 ^ takes you into the open air and sun- 1 shine, while in gymnastics you art* I in the dusty atmosphere of a hall; * and it is not a small advantage that, t in walk you enjoy a succession of i changing scenes?suggestions of new t tnought. And walking with a friend, j the conversation may he interesting J and .instructive. All this may be I ! found in natural and active walking. < But if the ankles were shackled so * that the feet could be moved hut a f few inches, the great value of the t exercise would he at an end. . ? I asked you to note the arms and i shoulders of an active walker. How f they swing, and wriggle and wiggle * ?how thoroughly alive even .the i upper half of the body is I The phy- t iiinJrufYr /-if* f It ? t nn vf rvt* f V? n i n t walking is this: the shoulder is :i i sort of center for .the. muscles of k the chest. They start from the t shoulder, and spread out in every di- a rection like a fan. Thuse muscles, 'J which' run in every direction over z the chest, around, .ahout. up, down,- I crosswise, and interlocking with each n i other-in a wonderful net-these mus- jd c!es. which dctermino whether the j I chest shall be full, strong and active, }i or thin, weak and inactive?these j1 ; muscles, about the chest, which de- v j termino whether the vital organs v I within the chest shall be large, active ii | and otrong, or small, low and weak? v these muscles which may contribute It more than others in the body, to the h strength and activity of life - these t< muscles, I say. depend for their activ- ii ity, for their development and b strength upon a free and vigorous tl motion of the shoulders. Brisk walk- h in, with a swinging of the arms, gives p the required movements of the shoul- c dure. Now we understand how it is a that active wnlkmg contributes so tl much to the fullness and strength w of the chest, and the Organs within" ti the chest. e Please put your finger down there, ti and look out of this front window v with me. "It is a bright day, and the h ladies are out in force. c Now let us notice how they walk. Why, the}* don't swing their arms at V all! Their arms must be laced down n upon tLeir sides! No; they are hot<J- o itnj their arms xiil/, and see, they havo J lucked their hands into those large h fur rollers which they carry on their ; ? stomachs. Their arms look, for all i d j Luc world, like the wings ot a Uhrist- s mas turkey, all tied down, and ready b to be put in tho oven. It nuist be c hard work to walk in that way! d It is verj* hard indeed, and you see a they have to walk very slow, and s wigg;e their hips. . f< j What u funny motion that wiggle b | is. I should think fastidous people h might call it vulgar and immodest. S Oh, well, that depends upon the e fashion. Tbat wiggle-waggle is all a oo oo the go now. n I should think it would lame them J1 across the back. 11 Itdoes; there is not a lady in twenty who is nut lame across the small n i nf I lin h'wl' T,f>l fi miii ii'iKit' ! ulxiii'l ^ and hold it together in front with his I1 band*, and he will nut walk far be fore /lis back will ache. It is u hard , strain upon the spine to walk without swinging the arms. American ladies have muscular s legs and hips; but look at their arms, (eand e dips No. 8), their' angular ' shoulders, and their flat, thin chests. A large nart of this uglitiesa coines j t of cariying their hands in muffs, or I folded in 1'ro .t, or under shawls?in ! j, j brief, from not swinging their arms j J( i in walking. Ah, when those beauti- t. j ful fur mittens and glomes, which are t | now becoming fashionable, shall bo j t ! generally introduced, and our girls ! v j are able t to walk oft' in that brisk, L | bright way, which we all, so admire ' t | not only will their cheeks take on a | : warmer hue, but their arms,shoulders j and chests will not will become r, plumper and finer f but better fitted t j to perform the duties, and enter into the pastimes and pleasures of life.? r Woo l's Household Muyazine. ? , m , i t The Emperor of l'razil is likely to i have enough work on his hands for j j ! some time to come. Simultaneous | ! /Ifwrrntf*lifcffVfrt hi* lir.a Kniu* I jchosen as arbitiator to settle tlie Ala- . I hutua claims, und that a revolution i has broken out in his own empire, and i i ecently it \va8 stated that he was | ointc to Europe with hid wife ou a j rand tour, MY FIRST LITERARY ADVENTURE. BY MARK TWAIN. I was a very smart child at the age of fifteen?an unusually smart child, I thought, at the time. It was j then that I did mv first scribbling, and j most unexpectedly to me it stirred j up a fine sensation in the community. It did indeed, and I was very proud ' of it too. I was a printer's "devil," and a progressive and aspiring one. My j uncle had mo on his paper (the Week- j Uj H-nriilal Journal, two dollars a ' fear in advance -500 subscribers, and j they paid in cord-wood, cubbages, uid unmarketable turnips,) and on a lucky summer's day he left town to l?e. gone a week, and asked me if I .hought I con id edit one issue of the paper judiciously. Ah, didn't I want : to try! Hinton was the editor of the rival paper. He had lately hecn jilted, ' :md one ni^ht a friend found an open tiote on the poor fellow's bed, in which he stated that ho could no onger endure life, and had drowned '< limself in Bear Creek. The friend 'j an down there and discovered llin- j :on. wading back to shore 1 lie had 1 . oncluded he wouldn't. The village ' vas-full of it for several days, but [Jinton did not suspect it. 1 thought 1 :his was a fine opportunity. I wrute 1 in elaborately wretched account of he whole matter and then illustrated < t with villainous cuts engraved on ! he bottoms of wooden type with a *1 ack-knife?one of them a picture of Hinlon wading out into the creek in .] lis shirt, with a lantern, sounding the i lepth of the water with a walking- < 'tick. I thought it was ;ie8perately ! "utiny, and was. densely unconscious ? hat there was an)' moral obliquity 1 ibout sir li a publication Being sal- I xfied with this effort, looked around I or other worlds to conquer, and it 'truck me that it would make good, 1 nteresting matter to charge the edi- 1 or of u, neighboring county with a < liece of gratuitous rascality and "see t lim squirm!" I did it, putting the < irtielo into the form of a parody on > he Burial of ' Sir John Moore"?and i pretty crude parody it was, too. i Then lampooned two prominent citi- i ;ens outrageously - not because they i tad done anything to deserve it, bui i nerely because I thought it was my i lut}' to make the paper lively. Next i gently touched up the newest stran- 1 ;cr?the lion of the day, tho gorgeous 1 inirneyman tailor from Quiney. lie 1 ias a simpering coxcomb of tho first ? rater and the "loud' st" dressed man i ti.e State. He was an inveterate f. .'oman-killer. Every week he wrote c ishy "poetry" for the Journal about ?' is newest conquest. - His rhymes i jr my week were headed to "Mary ' j II ? L," meaning to Mary in JIanni- t al, of eourBe. But while setting up i he piece I was suddenly riven from, ead to heel by what I regarded as a i' erfect thunderbolt of humor, and J ompresned it into a snappy foot-note t t the bottom? thus: "Wo will let * his thing puss, just this once; but i ;e wish Mr. J. Gordon Runnels to' | nderstand distinctly that we have a 1 haracter to sustain, and from this imn forth when he wants to c mmune ^ rith his friends in h?II lie-must se;et some other medium than the olumns of this journal !" The paper came out, and I never new any little thing to attract so t lueh attention as those playful trifles f mine. For once the Hannibal 1 ournul was in demand?a novelty it j ad not experienced befoce. The . .*hole town was stirred. IIin ton f popped in with a double-barrelled- . hot-gun early in the forenoon. When e found that it was an infant (as he f ailed me) that had done him the c image, he simply pulled my cars u nd went away : but tie threw up bis v it nation that night and left town j Y ?r good. The tailor came in with is goo>e and a pair of shears; but ' 1 e despised me, too, and left for the I c louth that night. Tho two lampoon-1 j d citizens came with threats of libel,' nd went away jneensed at my insig-1 ! iticanee. The country editor pranced j 11 with a war-whoop next day, suffer- j jug for blood to drink; but he ended j ^ y forgiving me cordiall* and inviting 11 ie down to the drug stoio to wash ' t way all animosity in a friendly bum-1"! er of "Fabnesiock's Vermifuge." I I L was II19 IICWU i 1 My uncle war* very angrr when j J ie got back, unreasonably so, I I ^ hought, considering wiiat an impe-! c us I- had given tnc paper, uud eon-1 ^ idering also that grutitude for hisL (reservation ought to have been up-j . icrmost in his mind, inasmuch as by j lis delay he had so wonderfully es-!' aped dissection, tomahawking, libel, J 1 ,nd getting his head shot off. But j 1 :e Boltened when he looked at the ' ccouuts and saw that I had actually j t looked the unparakdhd nunilte;* of P nuty-mree ne.v ^uuHiriuers, anu nan h ho vegetables to show for it, cord- j ( vood, cabbage beans, and unsaleable j unrips en.-ugh to run the family lor ! . wo years I < The Murder in Cuesteefielp.? ' rheChcraw Democrat gives these ad- f lilional particulars: < Mr Melton dieJ about sun-down t ruesduy evening. The family were ; iroused between 1 and 2 o cluck Mon- ; lay morning, by the barking ofj, )f the dog. and, on going out i j :o peo who it waat were fired on. j, Mellon received two wounds, one in I the stomach and one in the hip; Mrs. | Melton received one wound in the hip. j A. hat and pistol were at the gate; I he assailants left, going in the. direction j of the Charlotte and Camden Head. ; The jury of inquest were tillable to gain any clue as to tko perpetrators , of the murder. The Triumph of Old Age. [From the Methodist.] What is happening to the old men? According to all established precedents they should retire, give themselves to contemplation, and leave t.he busy affairs of life to a younger race. That may have be. n the 'practice in ancient times, but in our day th'-y hold fast to work, and rule the world right r<;\-ally. Von Moltk?. quite ju venile at seventy, plans and. executes such a campaign as modern ages have never witnessed; his sovereign, cough as onl^at seventy, roughs t on the field as jaunty as a young lieutenant. Von Roon, tho Prussian War Minister, older than cither the General or King, directs from lirrlin the marshaling of hosts and gathering of supplies. Nor arc these wonders confined to the German side of the conroverey. Theirs, at seventy-five, flits with the vivacity of a boy from one camp to the-other, is u negotiator of peace, und the executive bead of the French government Of hi i associates, Dut'aure, the Minister of Justice, is seva. t ? . a.a. rr.v t . ni 'i iMjiy-inree ; ixiuzoti, n.ing j;ouis runippe's ex-Minister, though past eighty writes books with as much precision und force us when he occupied a professor's chair. In England, where men are reckoned young till they are past fifty, tplendfd examples of vigorous old age liave not been wanting Palmerston L^ndhurst, arid Brougham, octogenarians all of them, led public opinion in Great Britain to the end of their Jays, and died in the harness. It is :?aid of the first of the three, that liter afield night- in the House of L'ommons, he would be seen at day ight walking home at a pace which a foung man could hardly equal. .Thomas Curly Ie, over seventy, abates lOthiug of his intellectual vigor; ivhilo Lord John Russe I, though reeping toward eighty, still yltend> ;ho Upper Ootise of Parliament Jur own country, ton, furnishes us ttriking instances of hearty old age. Stewart, Drew, and Vandurhilt, ihc money kings of the city, are old men, is the years are counted, but still lold firmly in their grasp the great nlerestB which they . control. The ^rave has just closed over Dr. Skiliter, who nearly half a century ago vas famous as a preacher, and of tvhom t ma}' ho said that to the last his eye Waxed not dim, .nor did his itrength abate. Physiologists tell us that with a greater prevalence of the knowledge >f the laws of health, the vvoi Id may xpect. an increase of the average dilation of liumau life. A re we already oapin^ the fruit of this better knowledge, in the prolongation of llie hiinun species? 'Ihe cases we have jiven aro not of an old a<^e enfeebled, etired and barely tolerated, luit of ige still bearing the armor, militant, riumphant. Oii*j eotild almost peruade himself that the golden era is iear, and that those splendid exani1I08 are the first tokens of its apiroaeh. [OUNG NEW YORK IN THE VAT-! ICAN. .1 The New York correspondent of heJIJoston Journal tells this story: J One of our most eminent brokers 1 las a portion of lii's family travelng in Europe. Among them is a onng son, who is preparing by ravel to join his brothers in the. )usi 11 ess of the street. In com- j any with' some friends lie made | me of the party who were to have ] in audience with the Pope. As is' veil known, these audiences are j ie!tl in the Library of the Vatican.; The visitors who are to have the j niiior of an interview are ranged j >11 either side, single file. The 5ope passes down the line. As he lasses slowly along, devnut Oatho-, ics kneel and kis? the slipper;' piasi Catholics kneel and.kiss the I iuiul of His Holiness. Othersstand md salute the hand which is ex- j ended to all. The young New; Worker was the last on the line.! Je did not kneel to kiss the shoe, ! mi* Hirl ho kiss the outstretched uuid, but seized it, and gave it a rood, I earty Yankee shake. The lonsternution at tlie audacity of lie young man was very marked. Plie Pope, who was evidently taken >y surprise, was tjie tirst to recover limself. He shoo.c his ringer oguishly at the youth, laid his land on his shoulder and said.:' 'You are from Now York, young! nan, I presume?" '-lam a New iforker." was the reply, "i thought. o," said the Poiuitf, as ho passed >n, intimating that a New Yorker viis qu.to during enough foranvhing. When questioned how lie lured do stu-h a thing, Young America rej lied: "Dare do it? I diook hands with Gen. Grant and Sen. ^eott, and why should I not shake hands with the Pope as with mv other eminent man ?" The iiiFair is.quite the talk of the street where the young man is well known. It will make him quite us famous as the net of Raleigh when I lu? finny his cloak in the mud be-' fore Queen Bess. *<Z>* ? The "Riili'ijjh T* lepra m 'naya that a qui'1 died in (Iwit city, Saturday, of iihuiifi n /'Oh/. who hud. iii filit'cn days, consumed niuetet'ii gallons uf whiskey. No wonder bo died. ANECDOTE OP BEECHER AND CHAPIN. During their summer vacation | Henry Ward Beeeher and Dr. Cha! pin were traveling a short stage I route together, and, according to their wont,-rode upon the outside. At one <>} their stopping places on the route a countryman asked them, "Could they make room for him up there?" which they cheerfully did. Soon after taking his seat Mr.. Beecher entered into conversation with him, and fiudiiig that lie had recently returned from a visit to New York, and, to use hia own expression, had seen 'enough of it, asked hint if he stopped over Sunday and went* to meeting there lie said be had, and went over to Brooklyn to hear a fellow preach; he did not hear liis name. "Henry Ward Beecher?" suggested l)i\ Chapin ?" 'Yes, that was his name." "Ilow did you like him?" said Dr. Chnpiu, slyly winding at Beecher. "Oh, very well," said the countryman. "Did you hear him in the afternoon ?" said Mr. Beecher. 'No; I went up town to hear .another big fellow. "Dr. Chapin?"* suggested Mr. Beecher. "Yea; that was his name." "And which did you like best?" said Mr. Beecher, winking at Dr. Chapin. "Uli, tnnn err saw tne countryman, uDr. Cliapin can preach Beecher right out of his boots!" . You had better believe there was a pretty bud shout went out from that coach for a little while?a sh ut that astonished.the countrymau, who faiJed to recugnize the jovial ieiiow travelers; A Cure foii Dtspepsia.?In the Gazette Hcb'Jomaduire, Dr. Gontaret recommends for the form of dyspepsia in which there 19 difficulty in the digestion of starchy articles of food, the use of the nitrogenous substance developed in buds and grains during their germination, and known as dudase or maltine. This substance, as is generally known, induces in h.vdrated starch the process of catalysis, by which it is converted into dextrine and glucose?the forms which all starch and sugar must assume before they are fitted for nutritii n. The organic matter contained in the mixed saliva, and the fluids of the small intestines, are, in health, sufficient to establish this process; but'in a condition of the alminary tract characterized by alteration or deficiency of saliva or intestinal juices, this substance promises to do for btnrch and sugar in intesti- | nul digestion what pepsine does ( for the albuminoid articles of food. , lie employs the remedy in doses of : two .0 six grains after each meal, , an'1 says that it iie"*j; acts prejudi- , eially on the digeafrve organs. , ] Taxation on Railroads.?This 1 question was before I he United States I Circuit Court yesterday, under bills i of iriiunctinn filed bv stockholders of j the South Carolina Railroad Coinpa- t uy, of the North-eastern Railroad ( Company, and the Chcraw and Dar- , lington Railroad Company ogainst I he tax collector* and sheriffs of the State, in the case of the taxes imposed by the State, and against the City 1 ouiifil of Charleston and its officers ( in the case of taxes imposed by the < c?ty. The stockholders of the Kail- ( road Companies claimed that the ex- ( press exemptions gra ted by the Leg- ( islature to the several companies by their respective charters were con- ' tracts between the Slate and the cor- , porations. which were beyond the power of the Legislature to impair. J After argument, the court (Justices 1 ijoiiu mi(1 Jiryan) susf.ineu the claim i ' of the Jlailroad Conipnnicsof exemp- ? tion from taxation'under (heir char- i ters, and granted the injunction per- | }>i'tual. This decision protects the ] Kailroad Companies from threatened j confis ation, and throws the shield of! j the United States around those who I ^ would otherwise become the victims! of the powers which at present, control iho Statu and city.?Charlatan News. ' . 1 Parental opinion is divided as to i the best method of disposing of little i child.cn. There are those, who think I that letting them play with loaded guns is the moat effectual, though 1 sliding them down stair banisters in a j six-story hotel has its advocates. : It is suggested that as man partakes of the nature of the animals ho 0 nsum'es for food, tho French of Par- [ is owe their present fighting propensities to tlu lions, tigers. &c. theyconsnmed during the late siege. o ? ? 1 * . Marie Twain, in introducing a1 friend by letter to some residents in | California, asks thorn to do all they can to entertain him, and suggests, j ftirinn^ other tilings, that they cull I : out a vijjilaneo committee and hang a man or two. THE KtJ KLUX ACT. ' ' " ' ' " 1 . . S . The Louisville (Kentucky) Courier- . Journal says: "The most atrocious piece Of; legislation which hag blackened the annals of Congress of the United States has just passed .into a law of the land. The Ku Klux bill, which strikes do?vn States and citizens alike, carries us back into the middle ages. It is an act of war. By it all that freedom dreads is TT?* J?- -4. ? ? ? *- ? I<utoii/ic. uiiucr it, every outrageupon civil and personal "liberty fnay be easily and safely accomplished. And" yet, in spite of all this, it creates not half so much ado as the appointment of a negro mail agent on the line of communication between Louisville and the capital of Kentucky"Why will our people delude themselves with the negro quea-. tion, which is beyond their control, whilst their liberties are being weighed in the balance and parceled out among: a predatorv horde of political plunderers ? * ' A people who are proscribed can not afford, either to be proseriptive or tolerate proscription; Every act of intolerance, ou our part, tends to rivet the chains that already bind us, and to forge new manacles for our hands. Our mission is, if we may be allowed to quote the eloquent -words of the Democratic address, 'to revive in all hearts the feeling of friendship, affection and harmony, which are the best guarantees of law and order, and to throw around the humblest citizen, wherever he may be, the safeguards of that personal liberty which is the fundamental law of the land.' " The negro question will settle itself. Meanwhile, if we expect it; to be settled in a wav that will benefit us, we must treat it in a spirit of liberality and kindness. A greater question lies before us. The freedom and enfranchisement ot the blacks are beyond our reach. It is the liberty of the whites that is now at stake,' and everything niu&t be ignored lor the sake of uniting all the conservatism of the country agaiust its united radicalism." s. ' ' Capacity of the Human Mind. ?I find this problem stated and differently answered by different philosophers, and apparently without a knowledge of each other. Bv Charles Bonnet the mind is al lowed to havo a distinct notion of six objects at once;" by Abraham Tucker the .number is limited to four; while Destnett Tracy again , amplifies it to six. TJje opinion . of the first and last of these phi- j losophers appears to me correct. You can easily make the experiment for yourselves, but you must beware of grouping the objects into 1 classes. If you throw a handful * dF marbles on the floor, you will Bud that it is difficult to viefr at \ Dnce more than six, or seven at the j most, without confusion; but if you t ?roup them in twos, or threes, or i fives, you can coinorehend as manv i groups as you cau ffnits, because the mind considers the groups only 1 as units; it views them as wholes, J aud throws their parts out of con- 1 iidcration. You may perform the ( sxperiment also by.an act of imagination.?Sir William Hamilton. 2 , An Idea.'?Professor De Morgan, ? the great metaphysician and mathjmatician, lately dead, preferred ' luring hia lifetime to be account- 1 id- a skeptic falsely and lose by it, I -ather thaft to be known as a [ Christian and gain by it. But a t passage in nis will reads tnus.: "l iommit my future destiny with :iope derived from experience to ( Almighty God, who lias been and A'ili be my guide and my support; j :o God, the Father of our Lord u Jesus Christ, of whom I believe t n my heart that God has raised c lim from the dead, and whom I 6 lave not confessed with my mouth 11 the sense usually attached to * :hesc words, because such a con- 11 'ossion has been in mj> time the \ Diily way up in the world." j IIow to Grow Hogs.?A practical jrcedcr gives us tho tollowing advice which in the main, we think sound, ' x?r those whoso heard is not too large, 1 xnd who are engaged in mixed hus? [ kni.Hw J > I / "To handle hogs to the best advan-1 tage, a pasture is needed of mixed grasses, clover, bine grass and timothy, 1 and it is beet if there is no running water or stock ponds in tho lot. Hogs do hotter where there is no ' stock ponds or branches to wallow in. ( In place thereof, have good vvell-wa- ] ter pumped for them, Have troughs made, nail strips across, eight inches apart, to keep tho hogs from lying in , tho water, and let the hogs bo put on floors, to keep them from digging up wallowing holes. If any feed bo given it should bo soaked in will barvols for twelve hours before fcerlinir? 1 ' no longer?and fed to them as drink." ? Garnim town Telegraph. ??? The frost did great damage in Mis-; suuri and Kentucky Saturday. Ico i formed an iuch thick. The Memphis Appeal states fhafc the caving in of all the bluffs on the eastern side of the Mississippi, ftom Cairo to New Orleans, has led'to curious results. Fort Pillow has entirely disappeared. There is not a vestige of the earthworks erected by General Pillow- and others at Randolph. 'I he river has cut cavernous depths for its strong currents beueath the everlastiug.hills, aud the8.e have slowly crumbled and fallen, a grain of sand at a time, into the abysses of the mighty deep. Now. and then the hill-sides have disappeared in a single night, and, furiously enough, this, work of desolation goes on mainly upon the eastern side of the river. Here at Memphis, as at*- Vicksburg, Columbus, Fort Pillow :and Randolph, the resistless, fathomless river, whose course none may anticipate and none can resist, pursues its appointed tasks with a force and pertinacity which "has lessened property values between Fort Pickering many millions of dollars. . The Mississippi *Pifat is informed that the high water in the btit torn,,along t?o Yazoo Valley, is now within eighteen inches of being as high as "that of 1867. Many line plantations are entirely submerged, and serious apprehensions are entertained that 'if. the flr.oci does not subside quickly, the cotton crop of that section will be. a failure. The incessant rain, in connection with the breaks in the* Mississippi river levee, is the cause of the overflow. A Natural Curiosity.? Silver Spring, Florida, is one of the greatest curioaitiee in the Sooth. It bursts forth in the midst of the roost fertile country in the State, It bubbles up in a basin nearly one hundred feet deep andaiboutau acre in .extent, andsendingirom it a deep stream sixty to one, hundred feet "wide, and extending six to eight miles to the Oeklawaba river. In the spring itself fitly boats may lie at anchor?quits a fleet. The spring thus forms a natural inland port, to which three steamers now \ run regularly from St. John's, makingclose connections with the ocean steamers at Philadelphia The clearness of the water is truly wonderful. it seems even more transparent tnan air; you see the bottom, eighty feet below the bottom of you* boat,- the exact form ol the smallest pebble, the outline and celor of the leaf that has sunk, and all the prismatic colors of the rainbow are reflected. Large fish swim in it, every scale visible find every movement distinctly seen. If you grow go over the spring in a boat you will see the Assures in the rock/ from which the river pouta upward like an inverted cataract. I m, ; , The daughters of a Southern planers are now slaves in Brazil. They smigrated thither'at the close of tue var, and was unsuccessful.' The Brazilian laws are such that when a citizen becomes in debt, if he baa no jroperty,. lm children are Bold as slaves, the nrices thev briner sroinff to :he payment of the obligation. Our Viend, says the -Nashville Republican Banner, when ho raachcd Brazil, un-' wisely bccame naturalized and a South American citizen, .and subject ,o the laws, thus, by his own volition, expatriating himself from his native ' ;ountry and its protectiou. 116 be:ame involved in debt to some Brazilians. Thus, his two daughters, iow grown Tennessee young ladies, ire slaves, doing menial work for un- ' ottered masters artd mistresses in Brazil, their price paying a devoted jut unfortunate father's debt 1 Tho imount of the debt, we understand, is 11.200 in gold, and steps have been aken to have the amount placed in ho hands of the father. Emmtghation from Ireland.?The >orlc Herald expresses astonishment it the continued drain of the Irish >opulation. which, it says, is going on is steadily now as in the most' disurbed years Queentown is already irowded with emigrants, although the eason has only commenced, and it ia sxpected that before summer tho veekly departures from that port will iverago 2,000. The people como )rineipally from Clare, Tipperary, Meatii, wesim?ain auu iuo,aiug? Jouuty. Tlio New York Herald says the 3rospect9 of the Democracy for carrying the next Presidential election lupends upon Uie Southern members, is the party in the North and the Congressmen from all sections, as ihown in their address, are on the iglit tcack. ?i? Short costnmcs are universally vorn for dancing, by young4 ladies, specially when inado of thin matefM 4 I A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul. IIeavy Plum Cake Pudding.?. Soak in milk, add soda and cream of tartar, and bake or boil as pudding. Broken Cake Puddings.?Soak t'io cake in domestic wine, and 6erve with cold custard : heavy cako can be used in the same manner.