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. - -.- j* ' ; * :: : >" '' ' " - ... \ ' nsj ^ ^ ' m ' ^ pjjy ^ v ^ ' g jjjjjj ? ^ ^ y-- " / t,7'' " ^^ ^^" """ ' * , .^" I . , i zzz?;? - :m~ n _u?j^ t> ... " .^^,^^555^==* BY W. A.LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1871. ; ^ , VOLUME XIX--NCU6. < : ; ' ' ?f ' , - . . THE SHIP. J - . . And see! she stirs! Hie starts?she moves?she seems to feel The thrill or life along her keel, Ami, spurning with her foot the ground, With one exulting, joyous bound, She leaps into the ocean's arms! And lo! from the assembled crowd rhqfo r<ye;i shout, prolonged and loud, That to iIk' O^'iu: scfeinod to say? "Take her, .0 inidegroorn, old and gray, Titk- bets to thy protecting arms, With all heryoutli;mdall her charms!" Row beautiful she is! How fair *<< 1 M'< within those arms that press w wiili many a soft caress " [tj U rne.W'nnd watchful care ! t - . ,it(>ihesea,'0 ship! v i 'daud wave, right onward jn * i . *? . . \ -* -r-i rvthe trembling lip, 1 ' a of doubt or fear. !,: ' > the sea of life, l-.vnig, trusting wife, ' f- ?m all adversity .. Din of that sea viiiTH and thy goings be ! ' ii.Ti-'iifss and love and trust I'cr-anjrry wave-ana gust; . lit- wreck of noble lives .ing immortal still survives ! SMITH'S NEW CLERK Jenkins met Smith, his Senior j partner, at the depot, who had been absent on a business tour. "How's busiuess?" inquired the latter. "All right; got a new clerk." "Got a new clerk, eh! Where 2_ T?? >" lb u umus : "Discharged him. An idle, extravagant, imprudent young ,dog!" ' True enough, and the new one ! wont be any better. Drinking, I gambling, late hours, and fast! Jjorses?that's the way with 'em all." . . And "Smith groaned. Jenkins' eye twinkled. He well knew the peculiarities of his goodhearted but eccentric bachelor partner. ry<v* "Well, the new clerk dou't drink nor gamble, I'm certain of that, j .and has thus far been very indut . J - 1 tnous ana aireimve* ; "Thus far?- 0, yes. - Wait aj month. Xew brooms sweep: clean." u0h, well, if tlie ue5V clerk don't suit you, you can send the new clerk ad rift, tlmt's all. I only took j hdr-Wjn! ? the uew clerk on ? Air-Smith stared at hi.s partner. "I suppose the new clerk has a li.'ime?" he remarked, dryly. "Oh, yes. Her, that is to say, the new clerkls name is "Gardner, j But here we are." As was his usual- custom, Mr. J Smith went through the store, pass- J ed the array of clerks -on either side of the counter, without glancing to the right or left. But when he reached his private office, at the ' irtiv .-???,! In* lrutlr*>fl tlnviiio-li tfiA junuvi.vinw) *4^ vv'-vH ?.v j glass"door, which* was so situated i that iinv-could sec all that was goiog ! on in the storey ? ; ' His eye iell on the occupant of a iki$k;$$tir the door, he started : * j that 1" . he said, turning sharply upon his "partner, who had j < lowed him. q -mzkI very composedly : . - i . slender form, whose *" * *. / j \ > . I'd was bent intently jr i " .H _ <- that lay open upon ? - j.' ' j " hy. t at's the new . ... :...>hed his eves and lookI \ it's a woman !" he exf .with au air of incredulity j i ror. i'?ul<l say it was," said Jencool !y, "anil a confounded . ty one at that," V-tnith gave his partner a look of virtuous indignation. -'Mr. Jenkins, this is no place for a woman." /'Think not? Now it strikes me t'.iat sU'ts the place very neatly." "The proper place for n woman .is in the sanctuary of home." This was a pet observation of Mr. Smith's which he had read feoinewhere, and which he considered as. a clincher in such an argument. "But suppose she hasn't any ?" That was a poser, and, in his efforts to surmount it, Mr. Smith got excited. .''Hasn't any! . Why, sir, she -piust?she ought to have one." "Very true. In fact so confident am I on that point, that . J. nayp some thoughts ct ottering yon mipo?or, at least, to share it with her." "Mr. Jenkins, this is not a fit subject for jest, "It's a seriouB matter, I know; so, on the whole perhaps I'd better' think it over awhile longer. Besides, there's no knowing if she would accept my offer together with the encumbrance that goes .with it." "Jenkins," returned Smith, ?eTrordlr "will cnn pmra tritliiicr An(i ,vivv f,,,i j vv* ~~~~~ * \ c* attend to the business iu hand? This woman must go." "Very well;you told me you wanted a clerk that would be faithful and industrious; that didn't ^ - - . l" j spend his salary, and all he could j steal, ou fa'st horses and faster wo- s ! men; and I got you one. It's an N I easy matter to send her off." * I "Of course it is," rejoined Smith, c brightening at the suggsstion. s "Just tell her she don't exactly suit, and that we shan't need her ! after to-day." t j "But she does suit?me; and if j ' you are not suited, all you've got 1- -i - *_ii i >> UU IS IU ICII IJUJ ? "You hired her." I "And for that very reason I 1 won't discharge her without some ? [ good cause." j "No matter," returned Smith, with an air* of lofty indifference. = ' I can discharge her. I think I am ^ equal to that much." Jenkins, who had left the room, put his head back a moment later, t "Bet you a hundred dollars you v don't do it." 3 With this parting shot he disap- t peared. Now Smith had a nervous lior- J1 ror of women, as his partner well 1 knew?especially of young women s ?and never spoke to one if he could help it. g Had it been a mau he would y know what to say, and experienced i no difficulty in saying it, but a woman was quite another tiling. n But his partner's last words h;id t touched his pride, and summoning " all his resolution?, he opened the door and walked out. n But his courage failed him as he t came opposite the desk where she sat, and he passed by, glancing n sideways at the unconscious occu- y pant, who did uot lift her head at his approach. .. h After speaking to a clerk at the s fusther end of the room, he walked slowly back to where the young lady fi sat, and who as he paused by the desk, raised a pair of soft blue eyes shooting a swift bewildering glance . in Smith's that he felt to the toes ^ of his boots. "Miss?Miss''?he stammered. Y "My name is Georgiana," said <; the young lady, smiling. "Some v call me George, for short." "Well, .Miss George?Georgiana,! h I'm afraid that you will find your J' situation unpleasant. "Not at all, sir. On the contra- v rv, I find it very pleasant and com/...i .i.i..?? iunuuiu. # . uAhem, but I fear that you will J be hardly eqtial to the discharge J, of its duties." Ilt "I hope uot. v If you will run your eyes over the balance sheet, In yon wiil find everything correct." i tc With desperate hope that there j si would be something amiss. Smith i tl did so, but was disappointed,. | ' I hope you have no iault to n find?" said the clerk, rather anxiously, ou perceiving that he hesitated. "Yon are a woman." SI There, whether abashed by the j sudden, display of dimples in the. pink cheeks, that grew stiil more! pink at his rather- unnecessary us- |e{ sertion, Smith came to an abrupt-I ^ pause. _ . jdi At flits tho ftmilinor fnfft Kftttlftd !l/ into an expression of demure grav- tl ity. , si "I must plead gnilty to the charge of beino: a woman. . But d O # . ? 0 I though it may be a misfortune, it l} ean scarcely be called a fault; at P. any rate, it is one for which I am not-answerable!" t] "You understand me. ma'am. t What I meant to say was, that t there are certain duties connected _ with your office, such as opening s the ftore, going to post-office, etc, I which you cannot very well per- f form." t4I assure you, sir, that I shall (J like nothing better than au oeea- 3 | sional walk in the open air. And 1 | as to opening the store, and sweep- ^ | ing and dusting, I don't know that j it should be harder to perform that J I office for a store than for a house " , '"I claim no consideration for my t sex," resumed the young lady, cast- c ing a slightly reproachful glance at t the perplexed .counter ance of her i employer, "but I ask in common ( inatice. if I nerform mv duties Bat ; O ? -?7 r %/ isfactorily, that you will not dis- ( charge me siinpiy because lam a ! woman." j I* Muttering a disclaimer of some. , kind, lie hardly knew what. Smith , beat a sudden retreat to'his own room, assuming a bold lookashemet | his partner's inquiring eye, but ; v\ih an inward con8ciau8i\ess that i he had been totally routed by the j enemy. ; ' "Going?" said Jeukins, with 1 provoking non chalanctr. . "Well, no, not to-day. What the d?1 are you grinning at?" "0, nothing?nothing at all,'' responded Jenkins, throwing himself back in his chair, and regarding intently h fly upon'the ceiliug. j "What I was going to remark was," resumed Smith with qnite an 1 unnecessary assumption of dignity. ' "that I have concluded to let th? I young lady remain until I can find 1 Cftmn oitnatinn fni< hpr mOl'S ill E(i : OVSIUVJ OibUAfctVU ?v? * ?. -?? ?- ? coi^lance with her sex " "Very kind and considerate in you," said Jenkins, dryly, "especially taking into view that she does her work better than any clerk wo evei ^ , had, and for less pay, too." ?CBOUPPa^?????I??MM Smith was by no means the ogre ho th eeraed. A&idc f.-om his p: ojudica, ho re vas a sensible, kind-hearted man th Georgian a was not ealled upon to m< :pen the store or run errands, though all he offered to do both. th Curious to relate, as days and weeks an >assed, Smith's repugnancc to her a1 >resenee/iot only vanished with them ne mt he begau to regard it as a positive rir nua^uiu ?-v He used often to look through the fin ;1jirs door, watching the graceful pa >oise of the head and the motions of th ho deft littlo fingers as they glided c-o iver the paper, until at last curious ha ancius seemed to' creep through his mi rain, and he began to indulge in to flowing dreams of how wonderfully w< ueh a little woman as that would th irighten up his lonely and cheerless n:t lome. * ed But he determined 10 proceed oau- th iously. IIo had it. His housekeeper at< ais about to leave, he would offer scl liss Gardner the situation?and w< hen! de Having formed this resolution, his icxt step was to request the young nc ftdy's presence in his private office, a ha ummons that was promptly obry- ra d.. sU ?? ^ * -1 - ?? - - il ?. 1- il. . Miss uaraner, aon d you ininK me mi ituation of housekeeping in a quiet foi lome, like mine for instance, would on >e preferable lo your situation here?" mi "Perhaps, in Fome respects it co night, said Georgiaua. coloring at th his abrupt inquiry, and the look "that w i ccompanied it. wi Was tho old gentleman about to of aake her an offer? T1 But his next word relieved her of gr his apprehension. wi "My housekeepor is soon to leave pa ie, and I should bo very glad to have tec ou supply her place." of Georgiana's cheeks grew red, and ou ier mouth dimpled wi'h smiles that an he strove vainly to suppress. I 1 "You arc very kind, sir, but tho ha ict is, Mr. Jenkin has spoken to me m< rat-" * hif "Mr. Jenkins?" bo "Yes, sir.. He asked me to be his hit ousekeeper, and 1 told him that I ov rould." no "But, my child, Mr. Jenkins is a th; oung man?it would not be proper hif or you to keep honse for him. is7ow hu k ith me it is different." his As Georgiana inwardly agreed with nu im, in fact, there wa6 all difference im \ Im tr\ Iviii* nil .4 vllt? |u tw iivl *? "But lie asked me to be his wife as sin ,'ell as housekeeper." eis "0-o-o-h!" lig Smith's first feeling was that of in- am ;nse astonishmenr, his next, of quite cot s strong chagrin. But it all ended hoi i an cmotiotf of thankfuluess that he we ot committed himself.. Hut his disappointment could not ave rankled very deeply, for he at- 1 mded tho wedding; viewing with niling tranquility, the- ceremony j uit transformed liis new clerk into ic happy wife of his fortunate part- jt er, Jenkins. ' . mj, . Gu SERPENTS. boc ;ories About Rattlesnakes?A Horri- ?01 ble Plaything. ^ ted The Lynchburg Republican publish- ftrr 5 the following "tnukc stories," and tur 1 hot' nnti Ka n ni i?tf Ai") Kit in .. \J O IHtJ V/UII uvy OUUOk^lllltiCLU J Oil isputable testimony. They urc only Xo )rne of the trifling experiences of doe jo mouutaineers with tho ruttle- inn lakes: wi*: "There are in the Blue Hidgo two < istinot species?the yellow and tho tra lack. The yellow was formerly sup- res osed to bo tho male, and tho black <rol Lie female; but the fallacy of th:.t ehi pinion is demonstrated by the fact liat in many localities only one of tbi hese kinds is ever seen and also by bee he great difference in size and form I'd -the yellow b'ing very thick and wo hort, and the black long and slender scr hit both of these species are bcauti- < ully ornamented with flowers, which gr< n the sunlight, partake of all the col- urn irs of tho rainbow. The yellow 0ff, nake is much less liable to rattle than mc he black, and therefore most to be Bh( Ireaded, though no dependence need ani >e placed in either, as it depends alio- th, ret her upon tho caprice of the mo- Up nent w.hen they retreat, advance, tic attle, or "play possum." Tho par- m, .iality of this snak?- for the company foi )f children has been frequently no- un ,iccd among the mountaineers, one wl A -A* 1*1 /?. ! i . . . _ nsiance or which is laminar 10 some i )f our Bedford readers. jul A few years ago a farmer whose dijabin (stood in one of the wildest lo- in jalities about the mountains, on com- at ng into the house one day discovered st< bis little daughter, two years old, sit- on ting up in bed, where she had been tl; placed when asleep by her mother, foi The child was laughing immoderate- sti ly, and showing by its every action W and expression of countenance that jm it was greatly pleased. Tho father ad approached, when to his horror he ry discovered that an enormous j'ellow ol rattlesnake, tho largest he had ever rii seen, was in bed with tho child, and i an actually coiled around her body. His th presonce instantly wrought a change It in the conduct of tho snake, which Ii dexterously uncoiled itself from rn around tho child and assumed an at- in titude of battle. Tho mountaineer's tu rifle hung upon a rack over the door ; cc Uo irrocn/iH if in l\ifl hnriH uritlt Pm.L Zl. ings which cannot be described, and ni awaite(f an opportunity to shoot. He tii iind no sooner dono bo than the snake et i-ommenced caressing the child by in rubbing his head fondly .against h?r w cheek, and darting his forked tongue m almost in her eyes. Then he would d< raise his tail and rattle so rapidly as n< 10 make one continued sound, at which the child was greatly Relight- ti ed. But upon the least movement on Ii 0 part of tho almost distracted pant, the snake would entirely change e tone of his rattle and swell to al:>st twice his natural size. During this timo the child tightly grasped e snake with his chubby little hands d jerked and twisted him about in rery rude and unceremonious manr, laughing and talking to her hor1 plaything in a perfect ecstacy of light. This state of things was ally ended by a movement of the rent, which so enraged the snake at ho drew himself up into a tight il, leaped out of bed, and would vo buried his fangs into tho farir's face had ho not quickly dodged one side. As it was, the serpent ?nt over his shoulder and out at e dooy, where he renewed his sig1 for battle, but was quickly stretchout stiff in death by a shot from e riflo. Tho child cried iinmodcr2ly for her pretty plaything, and if t down in any part of the yard mid immediately toddle toward the ad reptile. A party of young men in the same ighboi'hood, only a few years ago, d a very interesting adventure with ttlesnakes which may be briefly ited. Early in the Fall of the ) ear, d before the snakes had 'housed up' * the Winter, this party went out c night on a raccoon hunt. About dnight the dogs 'treed' a family of ons in one of the largest trees in e neighborhood. It was.decided to ?it until daylight to capturc them, ih thi? Imno fli'ii tho. down tbc tree could be dispensed with, ic young men laid down upon the ound, and were amusing themselves th telling stories, when one of the rty, who was thoroughly acquain1 with the habits and peculiarities the rattlesnake, suddenly called t,'Lie still, boys ; don't move for ything. There's rattlesnakes here; leard one's rattles hit a rock.' lie d scarcely spoken when an enor>us rattlesnake came crawling over > foot, and following his. leg to the dy, crosscd over his breast, striking > next neighbor's face, and crawling er his mouth. The third party was t touched by the snake, except [it his rattles tapped lightly against 5 cap-brim as lie passed. The fourth ntsman heard the rattle, sprang to \ feot. and ascended a tree with reirkable agility. This snake was j mediately followed by another, not I ile so large, and then by four very | all ones, all of which travelled preely the same path. When dayhtcame the raccoons were shot, d then tho search for tho snakes rtmenced. ' The}7 were found in a How stuinp, but a few steps olf, und I re all killed." )o Not Forget Your Pocket-Book. Don Piatt, of Cincinnati, is not an ; :ouraging man to trust with a lady, I teems, from an account of a droll ! *ad venture which he gives in the luxy. He writes: '1 never left a depot yet that someiy was not put under my care. 1 i't know why this is; I suppose it lomething in my countenance ; if I j ( dw what, I would have it cxtrac-1, , J don't like having unprotected | lales and school b03*s and girls1 ned over to me. It's a little bard j a man. And what is it ^ood for? , body needs protection j if any one j ;s, it is a benevolent, good looking,;, ocent sort of a man?such a? the i iter of this. I, i WHS lUilVIII'^ MJII UIC HiUrUillg in once from Philadelphia, when a-i pectable looking old scoundrel in 1, d-ritnmed glasses asked me tp take 1 ( irge of his daughter. She could ' re taken charge of me. She was | ( rt}7, if a day, with u face that had j >n on the offensive for ten years, j, like to see any man attack that i man; I'd go odds ten io one on the j atch. 'The old fellow seemed to be in a j at hurry, and thrusting the lady. | der my arm, left the cars and drove j , In a thin, angular voice that was ] mnt to be very sweet, and was not, I j asked me to take her pocket-book j d get the necessary ticket. I left,! j car for that purpose, but when I ! proached the opening where the j ket agent, kept in solitary confine- j nit, snaps at the world outside, I 1 md that I had left my pocket-book dcr my pillow at the hotel, and i nit was worse, my watch with it. j had about twenty minutes, and | wiping iuto a hack I promised the j I ? Vi W v U U VIUU o IX 11U >v UUIU Ucll'K I time for the train, lie started oft' a furious rate, ran over an apple < md, crippled a venerable gentleman | the corner opposite, and in less ; an the time stated I and the driver i und ourselves marched off to the I ition in the hands of the police, j e wore taken before a corpulent xticfc of the peace, who had as much ipose in his head as most men car about their muscles, and it-took the d fellow just two hours to tr^, rep litlud, and fine us for our drunken id disorder!)' conduct. Of course i e train went off with my charmer. went off without her pocket-book.' never saw her again, although I j ade diligent search and ad^eitised j the daily papers. But ono urifornate day, some months after, 1 en luntered a male member of her fami', who made some serio'us charges | jaiust me connected with the deser[>n of a lad)", and stealing her pock-book. I tried to explain, but failg 10 get m}' words in satisfactorily, ; as forced to mako an assault on this ! ale member of her family thflt en?d in some black eyes and bloody JBUH. "Now, what was the good of put-1 ng that aged fem^Jo under my caro? t, only led to her giving mo that : pockot-book and the catastrophe that followed. Sho could just as Well* have gone off on the Pennsylvania without a? with me. The thing is an outrage. If people want to put their femahjs under the care of anybody, let them try the conductors?they are hired for such purposes?and not impose on innocent passengers." She Catches Him. A lady correspondent of the New Yorlc Commercial Advcrliecr, writing from Long Brunch, describes her uneasiness at the loo lrcqucrit * and too protracted absences of her husband, who is spending the season thero with her. Finally, she linds him out, and reclaims him, as follows: 1 made a discovery a few evenings since which relieved my mind from a great deal of. worrimont. Our sex arc, naturally, suspicious and inquisi live. I was having a pleasant chat at the room of a lady friend, when I thought I heard my husband's voice over the fan-light of a neighboring room. We listened, and heard boisterous laughing which soon convinced us that both our husbands wcro there. Wo could hear distinctl}', ' Chip," "Chip,' 'Chip," 'Twenty better," "What ye got," and a score or more of odd expressions. Woman's curiosity was not long in being gratified Wo had no occasion to peep through the keyhole; we learned, to our entiro satisfaction, that our husbands were wedded to 'two pairs.' 1 wish 3*oii cotuu have witnessed my husband when he entered our apartment about 3 o'clock next mornintr I had been waiting for him ? had a sleepless night. Ho entered stealthily, and commenced undressing himself, lie was arrested for a moment by my snoring. I confess I snored, but only in fun. It was just to fool him. lie, poor fellow, stared at me with all the eyes in his head; ho had never heard me play before on the nasal' organ. I went it as strong as Levy, but with not quite so much harmony. There he stood, like patience on a monument, when I commenced talking in my sleep?"Chip,'' "chip," "chip," 'twenty-five better," "two pair" Wasn't he a picture, though. I could stand it no longer, and so roared right ought. 'lie confessed all, and promised to do bctte'r, and to give more attention to his deserted wife. ^ ^ CUNDUKANliW A Large Supply of the -Cancer Weed Coming. From the New York Times. The victims of cancer who have been anxiously looking forward ' to a time not far distant when they would he able to procure a supply of the South American ppe':ific, "cundurango," will be pleased to learn that Dr. D. M. Bliss,, of Washington, expects very soon toobtain a sufficient quantity to furnish all who may be in need of it. lion. A. LI. Laflin, naval Officer at this port, made application a few days ago, in behalf of a friend, for some of the specific, and in reply Dr. Bliss wrote, on the 15th inst., that he? had none to spare. He says: ""1 receive but a small quantity at a time, and it being my purpose to treat a few eases here, where {hoy can be tiuder my own observation, it will be impossible for mo to Solid any of it ....... 'I'l.i, nntno/lv HQ Wf>ll 11U mV. uy. iuii jv.mv tj, MU .. v.. *..j self, having been attacked, I desire to demonstrate to tho public what it will do, which necessitates the above course." In a circular note, however the doctor ?:iys he expects to receive a sufficient quantity by the 1st, or the 15th of August at the farthest, to supply the profession or the public as they may desire. Hp. says that enough has been developed by its use to assure him that it in the most powerful alterativo ever in the hands o? the profession, and that it possesses a specific influence over the poisen of cancer "From the statements of the physicians of Quinto, and my own experience in its uso, I am convinced that the 'cundurango' is quite as reliable as a spec ific in cancer, scrofula and other blood diseases as cinchona and its alkaloid have proved to bo in zymoticdiseases." * Food fou Chickens.?Chickens do not require feeding till about twenty-four hours old, and then they may be fed corn meal sparingly. Soaked pieces of bread are better for the first few days; jmd boiled eggs, mixed with a lime corn meal, moistened, are still better, especially for the first day or two after commencing to feed. After the chickens are old enough to eat meal ground coarse, it is better to feed such, .than that which is so line as to be liable to bake in their crops ; and when older feed barley, buckwheat, or cracked corn, and give tbenf-a wide range to catch insects, and they will seldom be?ome diseased.?Lkc Stock Journal. "When tlio Emperor of Brazil arrived at LisGon, the King of Portugal sent his Chamberlain to say that the royal palace of Neeessidatus had been specially prepared for his reception. But the Emperor, declined the offer, observing that he was in mourning, that he had come to Europe on a tour of study aod observation, and that he should feel that he was less in the way of his royal relations if he stayed, like any of the private gentleman at one of the hotels. *\ ' ' 1 Romance of a Bale of Cotton, We clip the following from the New York Journal of Commerce, and commer.d it to the attention of our farmers, as furnishing an example worthy of immilation: The^ cotton market was surprised yesterday by the sale of a single bale of short staple Alississidpi, (Leo county) cotton, at fifty cents per- pound, il. _ U..1- 1 f I I J uiu uuio weigning lour nnnuiuu ?nu forty-tbreo pounds. It was raised by W. Ji. MeShaw on liis plantation in Leo county, Mississippi; picked, and then taken into tho parlor If his residence, where it was carefully cleaned of soeds, sand, leaf, bark and other impurities by the fair hands of Mrs. and Miss MeShaw. It was sent to the agricultural fair at St. Louis last Octobor, and received the first premium, $500, for the best bale of Bhort staple cotton. It was al60 entered for tbe 81^000 prize, sweepstakes, for the best bale of either long or short staple, and won it. It was then presented by Mr. MeShaw to tho Southern Educational Society, and by that society sent to tho St. Louis Corn Ex chango for sale. It was sold to Mr. D. G. Tuft at thirty cents per pound ; and b}7 him presented again to the same society, who sold it at twentyfive cents per pound and afterwards for'thirty-eight cents. Tho society once more received it as a donation; then raffled it for $1,000; sold it twice after that for prices not quoted, and at last disposed of it to Messrs. Shy rock & Rowland, of St. Louis. It was then sent to gladden the eyes or tho New York Cotton Exchange, and was exhibited by the well known firm of Norton, Slaughter & Co., for whom it was sold at the price given above, fifty cents, by Messrs. Mann, Son & Co., brokers, to Jonathan Earl, treasurer of tho Norfolk and New Brunswick Hosiery Company, at New Biunswick, New Jersey. It is the intention of tho company to manufacture tho bale, and to escertain if it will not surpass in texture any cotton goods yet mado in America. Mr Earl has shown considerable sagacity in purchasing this celebrated bale of cotton, and it is possible that the fancy price paid for ic may stimulate southern producers to improve their methods of cleaning and packing uutil they obtain similar results. - . Diamond Cut Diamond.?A correspondent writing, from Saratoga relates this incident: "Among our visitors, is a young clergyman. lie is smart and has his eyes op*n. He is a churchman and will make his mark. An incident will illustrate this. His college chum? is settled in the Baptist ministry. Our church friend made a call on his chum. It was Sdturda}', and he proposed to spend Sunday with bis old associate. He was made welcome, but with the least bit o? embarrassment that he did not fail to observo. At length the Baptist brother spoke. 'I should be delighted to have you preach for me to-morrow. But the * ?-_ * nr.. iact is, ic is our commucion. nc have it directly after our morning service. It would bo very awkard, you know, for you to preach for me and then go out of the house with the unregenerate, for by the rules of our church, you, not being baptized, cunnot commune with us.' The churchman laughed, and 6aid: 'Oh, don't be uneasy. I will preach for you.' But were I forty times baptized, I could not sit down to your table, for by the rules of our church, you know, are. not ordained, and cannot administer tho ordinances at all.' And so ho preached, and at tho close went out to his dinner, while the saints sat at their table." Farmers in Wiiconsin have engag? ' *" ? AAnoMAMnKla 'Avfonf in cu iu n vuijr tuusiu&ittuiv, uavvuv in tobacco raising, the fields Mnging in extent from the garden-paten to forty acres, with mtijority from five to ton acres. So raany children Jiave been placed at work in xhe fields as to seriously affect the schools. A merry, light-hearted damsel rushed into a citizen's arms at Savannah, claiming, "Oh, you ar^ my long-lost brother!" She soon discovered her mistake, and rushed of in a confused manner, accompanied by her long lost brother's pocket-book. Quilp and his wife had a bit of contention, the other da}\ "I own yon have more brilliancy than I," said the woman, "but I havo the better judgment.', "Yes," said Quilp, "your choice in marriage shows that!" Quilp was'jusily informed that he was a self conseited brute. Henrj' "Ward Beecher preached the other Sunday from the tost, "My soul cleavelh unto tho dust." It cer tainly does; and a $20,000 salary is a pile of dust well worth cleaving to, too. j Tho recent census returns for Irej land, .contrasted with th06e of tho past thirty years, shows a steady decrease iu tbo population. In 1841, jtbe population was 8,196,587. In j 1851 it yvas-6,574.278, whilo this year it is but 5,402,858, nearly 400,000 less than ton years ago. Tho excess ofawomen in Great "Brittain, as revealed by tho recent census is exciting mucn attention. The disproportion between the ?exos is 913,163. % 1 +*> A Brief History of Long Branch.. ^ ?Long Branch takes its came from a brook, a branoh of the Shrewsbury river. In the year 1793 the place 0j was inhabited by Indians, and was styled Land's End About that time four men," named respectively Parker, M Slocum, Wardell and Hewlett came irom Rhode Island and established a , settlement there. A considerable portion of the land which they obtained cobtioued in the possession of the alocums Until thirty years ago, ana. some of the laDd wai rants are still in existence. A fow years later other, y hardy settlers from neighboring provinces bought land in Long Branch at twenty shillings an acre, built dwellings and occupied themselves with farming and fishing. It now c; embraces a population of four thou- n sand live hundred. The Liberty.Pole is the name given to the village, from a flag staff c erected there during the war of 1812, 0 while the coast portion, upon which the cottages and hotels are located, is f( known as the Shore, fronting the a ocean. Land purchased at the edge- . of the village by Mr. Samuel Laird, in 1863, for 2.5D an acre,: was sold for * $4,000 in 1870, soon after tho Bnr- s lington Pathway was opened. The first hotel erected at Long Branch , was the Ocean House. There ore * now accommodations for twenty 11 thousand people. -Three years ago '8 Blythe Beach, south of the present West End Hotel, comprised only far- c ming lands. To-day it is laid out as a 0 park, with, new roads from seventy c to one handred feet wide, and beautiful sites for cottages, r Of these there are now.two hundred. c . ' t Haste and Health.?It is not at all wholesome to be in a hurry. 1 Locomotives *have been reported J to have moved a mile in a .minute for short distances; But locomotives have often come to grief by " such great rapidity, Multitades in " v. ai r Vioofn f a fir a i*inn^ I ^ VUVli VV UV| AAVU MA W * UAUVVt every year. The. men who do things maturely, slowly, deliberate- j ly, are the men who oftenest sue- I ceed in life. People who are.hab- l itually in' a hurry generally have to do things twice over. | The tortoise beat the hare at last Slow men ( seldom knock their brains but , against a post. ; Foot-races are ininjurious to health,-as are all forms of competitive exercises J steady 1 labor in the field is the best gym- J nasium in the world. Either labor * or exercise carried to exhaustion, ' or prostration, or. even to great r tirednessj expressed by "fagged c out," always does - wore-harm than t the previous exercise has done good." All running up stairs, ruu- j niug to catch up with a vehicle or t ferry-boat, are extremely injurious r to every age, sex, and condition of life* It ought to be the most press- f ing necessity which should induce f a person over fifty to run twenty yards. Those live longest wh,o are tj 'deliberate, whose actions are meas- t, nred, who never embark in any enI terprise without "sleeping over it,", and who perform all the every day B1 acts of life with calmness: Qua-! *Jj kers are a proverbially calm, quiet people, and Quakers .are thrifty lolk. the world over.?Dr. MaU. ^ tmt . * ft M. Gaml etta is said to be more e p ipular than any other man in the A cmv That nart of the armv which votecl for Paris gave him upwards of s< 1,700. while General de Ciese/ onlv ti obtained 1,300, and Andre anl Wol- o ow?ki, tho Alpha and Omega of the anti-petroleum party, received only 1,100. Gambetta proposes to sit for I1 the Va, in order to offer the elders of Paris the opportunity of retufflig ? hie friend M. Kane, who is regarded by the extreme party to which he n belongs, as tlie ablest nian in that n party. a , m, c A Newport correspondent says: , "Let me nere say that one of tfio b greatest nuisances at a hotel is a hand- n some young man. He is an intolera- e ble bore to all the ladies of good sense g in fho house. If I might be allowed h j a suggestion I would advise overy ' father who is threatened with a hand! some man in tho family, just to take a v clothes pounder and batter his nose to ' a pomice." ^ It is paid that when Brigham t Young was asked the other day which b ?~ l.n/4 Waat. Prtint. tha nnnun. ' DUU UU U*M\JL ft ?w ~ drum so staggered iiini, that he was obliged to refer to the family record *! to solve it. 'Do they miss me at 1 home?" is not much sung in thatfam- 1: ily. \ *' ' a One of the negro legislators of Mississippi shot a a white man for refusing to argue politics with him. The i Boston Post thus expresses its indig- c nation: "If a negro can't compel a c whito man to answer whqn spciken to, i what in the world, is the use of civil f. rights?"-" * c ? ? t Mrs. Claflm, in the last number cf her paper, lays this down as ? social axiom: If a rigid analysis of thepresent condition and the general re- ' suits of the marriage, as dow practi- 1 cod, wero to be gone iuto,. we doubt i if there Would be found a single cir- 1 cumstance to recommond its contin- * uance. 1 . i m t 1 A man, commenting upon the ruins t of Pompeii, said that it was a very e mposicg city, but very much out of i epair. ; a*. - ' - - * ' - s >*,-">7.'rv SCRAPS. . *' -J Vi Nevada is vegetating in minerals ' all kinds. Mobile export# more oranges th*n iesaina. # - W- : St, Louis lias * forty-eight schoolauses, valued at $1,730,000. *\ V. . Wj * * v * **' A Toledo genius starts , baulky or&es by blowigg.in their ears. Boston sells 40,000 bean-poles ft ear to suburban agriculturists." ' * . ' ' - * . 1 * .'-f - ' An Illinois man preaches Sunday* nd drives stage week days. * Ib Heligoland all foreigners are ailed "skit,*'which in their, dialect leans dirt. ' '' ' In New Orleans recently, as%<Mnan hoked herself to death with a pair f suspenders. " * r-' ?. . ' t The Empress Eugepisis in treats >r the sale of her diamonds, which re valued at ?320,000*.. If you are afraid you ehonld scream rhen your tooth is being pulled..you neuia noia your jaw. -' ? v ?"*- ' ' ' v > A Philadelphia judge has decided hat a procession has no right to aterrupt the ordinary travel .on the treets. - "f <'i: ' i An exploring party Id Wkhit^ ouoty, Texas, found an arrow head f pure gold and very fine specimens if copper. - . . Gov. Holden's impeachment trial oet the people of Carolina he nice little snmof $61,540. The wife, of Colonel Alexander lamilto^, son of the great Hamilton, nd a niece of President Monroe, died X New Brunswick on Friday night. fun, commenting on the proverb Peace: hath her victories,'*, says, Just so; more fall in Love than in ear." i>> ~ t-lg ?' iw; ' ** ;* A sale of oak trey is reported in Unnlan/t in TirKtnk Ifcvma tlMUntkt na iM '?"?wu ytvwyiy w# iigh as $360. TheywerQcut for imber. . / * \ ?. ^ .? ;' : : j /The New York Herald shrewdly raggests that "no public mad in tbepe lays can afford the luxury of & qatf- f rel with a newspaper."** * *' *" ^ riz~Q '.X "Worth, the celebrated French male {> nodisto, has returned to Paris, and is toceinore catting and fitting, dresses ; br ladies'of the. nobHity. ' The Tredegar Iron "Wotks at Rich* nond, Va., are reported as turning . mtflvotons of iron nOw to every one. rned oat before the war. ,*f - ' In the Kentucky lottery -proseeaion, a lawyer for the defence claimed hat lotteries were' '-a great moral, eligious and Christian institution,!! L'Mende, of P?r2fe, proposes that Joraica be tendered to the Pope an iviolable residence, by which means, ; claims, the supremacyoi' France aa be defender of the faith will-be suifnlined. ^ The O'Donofcue,' Mi P.,, Who has pent a targe ( fortune, haff made an rrangemebt wftV "his-,creditors, aed tie bankruptcy proceedings will -fce nnnlled. . ; ,,i A patriotic Indiana youth took his ither's cow to the* pound, and -replied fifteen cents for Fourth of. July xpenses. Bismarck.had to kiasi< sixty hand ame joang1 .'uuies ax u rceeuu rwop* ion, and did it without the assistance f a clerk. v' , . *, ... ' A parliamentary speaker lately rejarked that innocence is like an nm< rella, when once we h&ve lost It wd . lay nover see It again. A sarcastic young la<jy says, she ever was so much in love with a ' Ian tbay wo rainy days together in country house would not' effectually ore her. . t . A little boy, after watching the urningof the schoolhouse until tbe ovelty of the thing had ceased, tftart d down street, saying: "Golly! I'a lad tbe old thing's burned; didn't ave nrp jogfry lesson nohow J" A Virginia paper is puzzled to know whether whiskey should be spelled nth an e. Spelled any way it is a ad speli for most people, and... it jnnlft tint. hA had to dwin all the let. ere and so get rid of the word, ia ? ope the thing itself would follow.. There is but one peddler in all Xreind. He takes his certificates jfrom he county of Down. 'The &ct aplears in a parliamentary return, and ccupies a whol^page. "Th^ aw itx Sngland and, Wales 66,964 peddlera, ,nd in Scotland 11,862. M. Rockifort has had his troubles ncreased by the elopement of his laughter, aged 15, with a young man >f 18. She was schoei in Jersey, it 8 said, whence the pair went to Lon? Ion and were married.. The mother >f the bridegroom, however, followed # .hem, seized her son and packed him )ff to the colonies, while the bride E?as sent.back to Jersey, Dolly Davenport broke his leg, in rexas, recently, and nursed by his hnen stavinc at the Wash* nriAVy ?*? * o ? ngto Hotel in Galveston, His landord called at his room die other day lud presented bis bill in full for six ,veoks. Dolly examined it and r?narked that it wdh receipted. ''Well," taid the old fashioned landlord, "you ihould always take good care of your -oceipts. It's just a littlecomplimfftt, ij-pu sco. Goodmcwftiog*