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THE ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER * BTW. A-LEE AND HUGH WILSON. V . ABBEVILLE, S. C.", WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1875. YOLUME XXII-NO. 52. '|| CONGAREE Ooltxratoia, S. O. JOI1L1IMDIS, Pf^prietor. Manufacturer of Steam Engines and Boilers. Iron ai}4 Brass Castings of all Descriptions made to Order. I was awarded the first premium on castings at tho Stato Agricultural and Mechanical Society Fairs, held in Columbia, November, 1871, '72 *73 MANUFACTURE Cricular Saw Mills of all sizes. | ALSO Took tho First Premium at State Fairs held November, 1871, '72, '73 Manufacturer of Grist Mills Irons of all sizes. For Sale. | Gin Gearing of the following sizes. 9 feet wheel and pinion $30 00 ? 10 44 44 44 44 32 50 U 44 44 4 4 44 35 00 12 44 '* 14 " .. 45 00 14 " " 44 " 50 00 With Bolts $<L50 Extra for each set. Anti-friction plates aud Balls for Cotton Press $10.00 and $12.00 per set. * D. 13. SMITH, Agent, . - Abbeville S. C. Dee. 10, 1873, 35-tf /\TTT G4>AltA f 11UW KJlf UICi NEW GOODS!! THE undersigned have jiiKt opne? an entire new stock of GROCERIES. Provision and Liquors, As well as Other Goods in their Line. | At the Old Staml of A. M. HILL, recently TUOWBKIDUE & CO., where wo wjy be pleased to serve the public ! CUE A)' FOR CASH. i A M HILL. Jan. 29, 1873, 42-tt CARPENTRY. FH1HE undersigned hereby gives 110I. tice that he is prepared to d<? all L kind* of CARPENTER'S WORK und BUILDING. He also repairs [COTTON GINS, THRESHERS i AND TANS. * " - r riTV *rt1>t'DHT fA Illll BUppiJ" Ol ui.i .uauviiini. always on hand. Farmers are requested to bring their Giim up early in the seawon, to allow time to have them properly prepared. Also Agent for the Taylor Cotton Gin, tb* Iirooks Cotton Press, and all kinds ol fiiWjer and loathe! belting. ' D. B. SMITH, Abbeville C. H., S. C. July 15, 187-1 14-6m Mark the Spot of Your De ceased Friends. Marble WorksA FULL line of stock on hand unci all work sold at the lowest price, and work done iu the best workman-like < manner. Several hundred new and handsome designs on hand to make artl/?Afin?o fW\r*? \Vta trill hnnlicftia nifv nvivvitvuo HV..I. <t w - - 7 price in all monumental work, by which parties can save freight. Vary respectfully, J. D. CHALMERS. Sept. 1,1874,21-tf CT WEST & SONS, ALADDIN soif"y THE BEST OIL IN USE. irmnivTi'ti 1 nvnDWfi PTMV TVisT nantkAiiibi/ AWV ~ Water white in color. Fully deodorized And it will not explode. . It burns in all Coal Oil and Keroseui Lamm. TRY IT. Auk for "Aladdit Security," and take no other. C. WEST & SONS. 113 and 115 W. Lombard St., Bult. Md Nov. 7, 1874 g0-6m NEWFLOUR, LARD, SUGAR. BACON, COFFEE, TOBACCO, NAILS, &c., &c., at MRE, GAMBBELL & CO'S. Sept. 9 22-tf tb. 17,1875, 45-tf THE ALSTON HOUSE The Misses CATER, ANNOUNCE to the PUBLIC tho they still keep The ALSTON HOUSJ open to persons who apply for regula or transient BOARD during this year.Board reasonable. Fare as good as th Country affords, Jan 13-tf I iL STEAM PLAMG MILL Columbia, &r C. F. W. 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All our goods are guaranteed, both a to quality auil price. Call and see. DuPre, Gambrell & Co Oct. 21 27-tf DENTISTRY! DENTISTRY! Dr. H. D. WILSON OFFEItS his professional services t the people of Abbeville Count 'jand of upper South Carolina. Havin . just finished a course of study in th I P^nwevlvfinio rnllonro r%f ftlll gery, he feels fully competent to utteu ?]to all cases requiring the exevcisQ < J skilled Dental Burgery that may I; brought to him. asks the patronag of the people, and guarantees full an i complete satisfaction. He has procure la full set of first-class Dental Instri '; meats, and is prepared to do first-cla . I work at most reasonable rates. B3F OFFICE jnstovcr Post Officc. ! M. GOLDSMITH. P. KIN; Groldsmitli & "Kind, FOUNDERS & MACHINIST! (I'HCENIX IRON WOHKS, I COLUMBIA, S. C Manufacturers of steam e pines of all sizes; Horse powei 'Circular and Muley Saw Mills, Gri | and Sugar Cane Mills, Flour Mills, (J ; naraental, House and Store Fronts, Ir< {Railings, Agricultural Implements, el 'Brass and Iron Castings of all kin made to order on short-notice, aud < the most reasonable terms. Also, ma ' ufacturers of Cotton Presses. ou iK7'< 7.12m I iUUJ -w, iw.u, . '~ STAPLE DRY GOODS", Wood and Willow Ware, Boots and Shoes, lt Crockery and Glass War E A Full Assortment of Stap] fi Goods of every description i e|DuPre, Gambrell&Co'i it.. 21 28-tf I?????I Auction Extraordinary. I dreamed a dream in the midst of my Blumbers, And as fast as I dreamed it, it came into numbars; My thoughts ran along in such beautiful meter, I'm sure I ne'er saw any poetry sweeter; It seemed that a law had been recently made, That a tax on old batchelors' heads should be laid ; And in order to make them all willing f to?mary, The tax was as large as a man could well carry. The batchelors grumbled and said 'twas no use. 'Twas'horrid injustice and horrid abuse, And declared that to save their own hearts blood from spilling, Of such a vile tax they would not pay a shilliBg. 9 But the rules determined them still to pursue, So they set all the old batchelors up at vendue: A crier was sent through town to and fro, To rattle his bell and his trumpet blow And to <*all out to all he might meet in n his way, u "Ho ! forty old bntchelors sold here today." And presently all the old maids In the town Each in her very best bonnet aud gown, From thirty to sixty, fair, plain, red aud nale. Of every dfacriptlon, all flocked to the sale. The auctioneer then in his labor began, And called out aloud us he held np a man, ? kntnlwilnp 9 wnilfs / XJ.UYV UlUl'U IU1 U U?W,I1VIU> to buy?" Iu a think, every maiden responded 'I?I." In short, at a highly extravagant price, j The batchelors were all sold on in a thrice 1 And forty old maidens, some j'ounger, | some older, ' Each lugged an old batchelor home on her shoulder. The Veiled Portrait In the year susequent to the great J Bengal mutiny, I found myself homo on sick lcavo. My health had been , injured by scrvicc in India, and by our sufferings subsequent on the revolt ; while my nervous system had been so seriously shaken by a grapeshot wound received at Lucknow, that it was completely changed, and I became cognizant of many things so utterly new to me, and so bewildering, that until 1 read Baron Reich, cnbach work of magnetism and crystaliam, I feared that I was becoming , insane. 9 Uearly a j'ear had elapsed since j the mutin3r. The massacre at Delhi, , Lucknow, Cawnpore. and elsewhere 1 had been fully aveuged by that army of rotribution which marched from 3 Umbailum, and I found mysell in > London, enfeebled, enervated, and, as - the saying is, "weak as a child." ' The bustle of the great capital stun, ncd and bewildered me ; thus I glad; ly accepted a hearty invitation which I received from Sidney Warren. i Who, thought I, that was lord of 1 such a place could dream of bioiling ? in India?of sweltering in the whitewashed barrack at Dutndun, or the l thatched cantonments of Delhi or ) Jleerut! My friend came hurrying forth to s meet me. , "How goes it, old fellow ? Wclj come, to my new quarter*," he exI claimed. l| "Well, Sidnej*, old man, how arc 1 j you V Then wo grasped cach others hands las only brother soldiers do. I found Warren, whom I had not 6een since the commencement of tho revolt, nearly as much changed and shattered in constitution as myself, lie received me, however, with all tho warmth of his old comrade, for wo had a thousand topics in common to con over a while, tho regiment, which neither of us might ever sec again?he certainly not, as ho had ' sold out?would prove an endless soureo of conversation. Sidney Warren was in his fortieth year, but looked considerable older. His onco dark hair and coal-black mustache were quite grizzled now. Tho expression of the face was one of intense sadness, as if some secret grief consumed him; while there was a weird and farsecing expression that B led mo te fear he was not fated to be long in this world. Yet ho had gone through the storm of tho Indian war I ? o I . I without receiving even a scratch?? Why was this ? Boforo I had spent two days with . Sidney, he had shown me all tho obI jects of interest around tho Warren audinit, though thero was one object which ho would neither fhow nor permit mo to look upon, and o which seemed to mako him shiver or y shudder whenever it caught his eye, 8 and this was a picture of somo kind ? in tho library?a room ho very rarely j entered. It was the size of a lifeportrait. but covered closely by a >e greenhaizo hanging. Good taste ! compelled mo desist from talking to 1(1 him on tho subject, but I resolved to x. gratify my curiosity on tho 6rst conss venient occasion; so ono day when he was absent at the stable court I drew back tho hanging of this mys ^! terious picturo. It proved to !>o tho full-length por? | trait of a very bcautifui girl?a proud and stately one, too?bordering on blooming womanhood. Her features were clearly cut and classic ; she had n-ian olive colored complexion that "Si seemed to tell another land than England, yet tho typo of her rare ? beauty was purely English. Her attc. tirc was a green riding-habit, tho ds skirt of which was gathered in her left hand, while the light grasped n" tho bridal of her horse. It was not a portrait of his wife, whom 1 re? member to have been a fair Laired little woman : so who was the mvs terious lady. "Herein," thought I, "lurks Bome mystery which may never be cleared e up to me." But in this surmise I was . ' wrong, for ono night?tho night ot Sunday, the 10th of May. the first anniversary of the outbreak of Meerut. after we had discussed an excellent dinner, Warren became suddenly seized by ono of thoso confidential fits which many men unaccountably have at such times and whilo he un- v sparingly and bitterly reproached t. himself for the part ho had acted in ii it, I drow from him, little by little, p tho secret story of his lifo. v Some ten years before those days 0 of which I write, when i n the Guards, and deeply dipped in debt by 8 extravagance, ho had, unknown to t, hia family, married secretly a bcauti- c ful girl who was pennyless, at tho n very time his friends wero seeking to c Iretricvo his fortune by a wealthy jalliance. An exchange into the Lino y ?"luc suuing scaic ?uecausu licuuo- p ' sary, thus ho was gazetted to our regiment in India, at a period when p (his 3Toung wife was in extremely deli- p cate health; so much so that the h idea of her voyaging round the Capo t< ? tho was no P. and O. Liners?was _ not to bo thought of as it was ex- e| prossly forbidden by tho medical n men; so they were to be separated a for a time; and that timo of parting, j so drcacloa oy oonsianuo, citiiKJ iuua- S| orably. ft The last fatal evening came?the ti last Sidney was to spend with her. His strapped overlands and bullock- h i -l U-l u . trunk's, ins sworn anu cup, uuw? ]r eased, were already in the entrance jr hail; tho to-morrow's morning would jj; see him off by the train for South- jj, ampton, and his place would bo va- 0, cant; and sho should see his fond ^ hazel eye6 no more. g, "Tears again I" said he, almost impatiently, whilo tenderly caressing h, the dark and glassy hair of his girl- vj wife, "why on earth are you sad, Bj Conny,about temporary separation?" C1 "Would that I could bo certain u that it is only such!" sho exclaimed. tc ("Sad, oh, can you ask me, Sidney, ^ darling? Tho presentiment of great sorrow to como is hanging over mc." j. "A presentiment, Constance! Do not indulge in this folly." h, "If I did not lovo you dearly, Sidney, would such a painful emotion rack my heart ?" a "It is the merest superstition, g( darling, and you will get over it x wncn i am fairly away." al Her tender eyes regarded him wist p| fully for a moment, and then hor ,r< tears fell faster at the contemplation gn of the coming loneliness. or After a pause, she asked: "Aro aj there many passengers going out with you ?" \\ "A few?in tho cuddy," he replied f0 cardssly. "Do you know any of them ?" w "Yes; one or two fellows on tho 0r staff." ta ' And tho ladies ?'" she asked, after jj, another pauso. gC "I don't know Conny dear, what j^j do tho matter to me?" bc tlT IvAAM/l IMAI/j AntAlllf I hof?i Kflt. _ __ -L II Uti I U Ill^JUWIiiailJ V*?i?u VMMV Miss Dashwood is going out in your vv vessel." Q( "Indeed, I believe she will." 8h Constanco shivered, for with the j1( name of this finished flirt that her 8a husband had been moro once linked, jn and his change of color was unseen by her as ho turned to manipulate a cigar. So for four, perhaps six ju months, these two would bo together 011 the sea. y( "Sidney, darling," said she, energetically, "do forgive mo if I lim dull as and sad?so t.iste?this evening." "I do forgive you, little one." "You know, Sidney, that I would dio for you " "Yes, but don't, Conny?for 1 hate jy scones," said he, playfully kissing her j sweetly sad, upturned face, and the poor girl was forced to he contended t0 with this mutlcr-of-fact kind of ten- tc dcrncss. 80 So the dreaded morrow came with be ite sad moment of parting. To muffle the sounds of tho departing wheels she buried her head, with its wealth of dark, disheveled hair, ol among the pillows of her bed, and some weeks?weeks of tho most utter hr loneliness?elapsed, ero she left it, with the keen and ardent desire to w recover health and strength, to the m end that she might follow her hus band over the would or waters anu m rejoin him ; but the strength and health, so necessary for the journey, so was long of coming back to her. She had hoped ho would write to her before sailing from Southampton 'l1 ?a single lino would have satificd tho hungry cravings of her heart; J"c but, as he did not do so, she supposed "( there was not time; yet tho transport lay thrco day in the docks after st tho troops wero on board. lie would 18 write by somo passing ship, he had t0 said, and ono letter, uatcci irom uiui ? Ascension, reached her; but its cold!^ and careless tone struck a mortal j^a chill to tho sensitive heart of Con-|?f stance, and the one or two terms ofj to endearment it contained were mani-l81 ly forced and ill-expressed. j ^ She consulted the map, and saw ^ how far, far away on the lonely ocean was that island speck. Months Ki had elapsed sinco ho had been there ; j}1 so she knew that he must bo iu India :? now, and she had tho regular mails ir to look to with confidence?a confidence, alas I that soon faded away. Long, tender and passionate was the letter written in reply; she fondly fixed the time when she proposed to . leave England and rejoin him, if he sent her the necessary remittances; . but mail after mail came in without jj any tidingg from Sidnoj',. and she felt all the unspcakablo misery of watching tho postman for letters that nev- f! or came! Yet she never ceased to * write, entreating him for answers and assuring him of unanswering af- 3 fection. Slowly, heavily and impcr- d ceptibly a year passed away?a h jwholo year?to heo now a blank o ieternity of time ! b j Iler old thoughts concerning Miss 6 I nAnliiHAAil n ofnnn/fA knl^l nf llPT ^ ! bUVP U UWIU v/* ??W. j imagination now; a hundred "trifles,0 light as air" catno back most gallant- v ly to memory and took coherent and r tangible shapes; but a stray number i of the Indian Mail informed her of t the marriage of MissDashwood?her t , belcnoiro?to a Major Milton ; and c also that the regiment to which Sid-; f ney belonged '-was moving up the j i - country," a phrnso to hor perplexing I e I and vague. 1 Her funds were gone?her friends vcro few and poor. Her jewels?his reasurcd presents?were first tamed nto cash ; then tho furniture of her retty villa, and next tho villa itself ?ith its sweot roso-garden, had to be xehanged for humbler apartments in meaner street, and, ere long, Contanco Warren found that if she was o livo, it must bo by her own unaidd efforts, and for five years she laintained a desperate struggle for xistence?two years! A lady going to India wanted a ouns: person ah governess and com anion." To India! On her knees Constance rayed that her application might rove successful; and her prayer was card, for out of some hundred letjrs?from a few which wore selected -tho tenor hers best suited the taste f the lady in question. She said othing of her marriage or of her pparcnt desertion ; but as her wed nf#.?intt wn'Hi wliir-h n. fnnrl sunor. "'fel " """ ? ? ?i? lition of tho heart, she ncvoi drew om her finger, told a talo, she had d paB3 for a widow. So in tho fullness of time she found erself far -from England, and duly istalled with an Anglo-India family i ono of tbo stately villlas of the luropean quarter of Calcutta?a verablo palace in the city of palaces, yerlooking tho eplanado heforo Fort rilliam?in charge of one sickly, but nnfln lif.tlrt nn.In-fVicr>r1 rrirl. w"",w t o She had been a month there when or employer's family proposed to isit somo relatives in Meernt, where ie heard that Sidney's regiment was intoned! To her it. seemed as if 10 hand of fate was in all tUJs. Oh i bo able to unravel tho horrible lystery involving his. fate; for by lis timo eho had ascertained that is name was out of the corps ; but er heart suggested that he might ave exchanged into anothor. On tho way Constance had an ad ilion to iicr ciiarge in tuo person 01 littlo boy, who, with bis ayah, was ring to join his parents at Meerut. ho little boy was moro than nnusuly beautiful, with round and diraed cheeks, dark hazel eyes, curly )!dcn hair, and sweet and winuing nile. Something in tho child's face its expression, attracted deeply tho tontion of Constance, and soemed stir some memory in her heart.? 'hero had sho seen those c\-cs bere ? Sho drew tho boy caressingly toard her, and when kissing his fair >en forehead, her eyes fell involun,rily on a ring that secured liisnecka mere blue ribbon. It was of >ld, and on it woro engraven tfco inials C. and S. with a lovers knot * ~ ~ ~ inAMa < l?naa AP hfti*_ !t WCUI1* X liVOU IT Viu wuv/ijv vt uv& ~ If and her husband, and the ring as ono sbo had seen him wear daily, instance trembled in every limb; 10 fell a deadly paleness overspread jr face, and the room in which sno ,t swam round her; but on recoverg her self-possession, sbo said : "Child, let me look at this ring." Tho wondering boy placed in her ind tho trinkot, which sho had not o slightest doubt of having seen ;ar8 beforo in London. "\Vho gavo this, my child?" shej ked. "My papa." "Your papa!?what is your name ?' j "Sidney." "What else ?'" she asked, impatient-! "Sidney Warren Milton." "Thank God ! Bnt how came you 1 be named so? There is some mysry in this?a mystery that must on bo solved now. When weroyou >rn, dear little Sidney ?" "In Calcutta." "What is your age, child ? "Next year I shall bo seven years d." "Seven?how strange it is that you ivc the name your bear I" "It is my papa's," said tho boy, itli a little proud irrritability ol anner. "Whoro did your papa live before ) camo to Calcutta?" "I don't know?in many places? ldiers always do." "He is a soldier ?" "My papa is Major Milton, and res in tho cantonments at Mcerut." "A Jittlo time, I shall know all," plied poor Constance, caressing the >y with great tenderness. On arriving at Mcerut, however, ic found herself ill?faint ana icver1), so that for days sho was confined i her bed. She had but one keen id burning desire?to seo Major Hilton, and to learn from his lips the to of her husband. On the evening the fifth day?the evening of the itith of May?when just as the sunit gun pealed over the cantonments, J ic <iyah brought her a card, inscri-, id, "Major Milton ?Staff Corps." '.Desire tbo major to como to rac!" lid Constance, in a broken voice, id terribly couvulsed by emotion; ir now she was on the ovo of knowig all. "Hero to the mehmmhib's bedside?" skod the astonished ayah. "Here instantly?go?go!" Endowed with new strength, as 10 woman withdrew, eho sprang i Unnnvij om her UCU, pui/ un uci ohj^v.^, irow around her an ample cashrncrc rossing robe, and seated horself in a amboo chair, trembling in every ber, In a mirror opposite she could je that her face wes whito as snow, 'he door was opened. "Major Milton," said a voice that lade her tremblo, and attired in unress uniform, with helmet in hand, cr husband, looking scarccly a day Idcr, stood gazing at her in uttor owilderment. lie gave one convulivo start, and then stood rooted to h<> snot: but no expression or glance f tenderness escaped him. His fhole aspect bore Iho impress of ter. or. Years had elapsed as a dream, and hey were again face to face, those wo, whom no man might put asun'er. Softness, sorrow and reproach iided from the face of Constance. :Ier broad, low forehead became item; her deep-set dark eyes sparclod perilously, her full lips bccamc ; - 1 set, and hor chin seemed to express more than ever resolution. "Oh, Constance?Constance," he faltered, "I know not what to say P* "It may bo well so, Sidnoy.? .-So, you are Major Milton, and the supposed hasband of Miss Dasewood t" There was a long pause, after which she said: "I ask not the cause of yonr most cruel desertion; but whence this name of Milton ?" , "A property was left me?and-r-. bat of course, you have long sinye ceased to love me, Constanee?" - , ' Ypn. aotually da're to take an upr< braiding tone to mo!" she exclaimed^ her dark eyes flashing fire. Tfieri looKing upwara appeaiingly, she wailed, "Oh, my God! my God! and this is the man for whom, during these bitter years, I have been eating my own heart!" "Pardon mo, Constanco; you may now learn that there is no gauge to measuro the treasury of which tho human heart in its weakness is capablo. Yetthero has boon a worm in mine that has never died." She wrung her hands, and then said something of hor old softness of manner: "You surely Iovod mo once, Sidno.v ?" "I did." Ho drew ucarer, but sha recoiled from him. "Then whence this cruel change?" "Does not some one write, we love, and think we love truly, and yet find another to whom ono will cling as if it required these two hearts to make a perfect whole ?" "Most accursed sophistry! But if you have no pity, you have not fear? "I have groat fear," said he in a broken voice; "thus, Constance, by tho love you once bore mo, I beseech you to havo pity, not on mo, but on my littlo boy, and his poor mother? preserve their happiness." "And sacrifice ray own ?" sho said in a hollow voico. "Sparc, and not cxposo mo?my commission?my position hero1' ? "Neither shall bo lost through mo," sho replied, in a voico that grew more and more weak j "but lcavo me? leavo mo?tho ah* is suffocating?the liirht has left my eyes." "lie drew near to'tako her hand, but she repulsed him with a wild gesture of despair, and throwing up her arms, fell back in her seat, with a gurgle in hev throat, her head on one 6ide and her jaws fallen." "Help?help 1" cried ho; but. no help came, and ho hurried away; the sudden din of musket shots, of shrieks and yells, announcou mac tne great revolt had began at Meerat, and that i tho expoctcd massacre of the Europeans had commenced. In that butchery, those ho loved most on earth perished, and midnight saw him, wifeless and childless, lurking in misery and alone in a mango topo on tho road to Kurnaul. ****** White listening to the narrative of my friend Sidney, whom I bad always known as Warren, rather than Milton, the clock on tho mantcl-picco struck nine, and he said in a broken vi ice: "It was at this very hour, twelve months ago, that my toy and his mother were murdered by tho 3d Cavalry, at the moment that Constance was dying!" As ho spake, a strango white light suddenly filled one end of the smoking room, but amid it there came gradually, but distinctly to view, two figures, one was a little boy with golden hair, the other a woman whose left arm was around him?a beautiful wom:?n, with clearly-cut features, masses of dark hair curling over low broad forehead, lips full and handsome, with a massive chin and classic nil- j ?:A throat?tho woman 01 mo vuutu pitture, line for lino, but to all appcaranco living and breathing, with a beautiful smile in ber eyes, and wearing, not tbo riding habit, but a floating crape-like white garment, impos-:kl? ilnonmkn 'Phni'O WflS }l StraFUTO DIU1U bU uvownvu. .. 0 weird brightness in her face?tho transfigured brightness of great joy and greater love. 'Constance?Constanco and my child 1" cried Sidney, in a voice that rose to a shriek; and like a dissolving view, the light, and all we lookpri nn with eves transfixed, faded vw w ** ?? -J away 1 I was aware of an excess of sensitiveness, and that my heart was beating with painful rapidity. I did not becomo insensible, but sometime elapsed before I became aware that lights wero in the room, and that several servants, whom my friend's cry had jummoncd in haste and alarm wero endeavoring to rouso him to consciousness from a fit that seized him; but from that fit he never recovered. Ilis heavy stcntorious breathing gradually grew less ana i less, and ere a doctor came, ho was dead. His death?sudden as hers on that eventful night, but si retributivo one ?was declared to bo apoplexy; but I knew otberwiso. Sinco then, though the effect of tho grape-shot wound on my nervous system had quite passed away, I feel myself cominpiinrl tn ncrrao with tho hackneyed I""""" *" "n remark of Hnmlct, that "there are mora things in heaven and earth than aro dreamt of in our philosophy." "How does your brother get on in New York, Parker?" "Very well indeed, ma'am, thank you. He's only thore three months, and ho's already boginning to speak the languago beautifully V?Punch. A T St.nwart once naid $40,000 for a painting forty feet long, and ever since then ho makes a practice every night of saying tu himself: "Stewart, you are the bigest jackass in Ameriica." Deacon Ladue, of Wisconsin, went to the barn the other day and hung himself with a log chain because his " " '-'-"--J ^te nri^ wire piayiuny kickuu ijio nut vu. exclaimed: "That's the kind of a clothes-pin I am ?" "ir.i Mrs. Gubbius says her husband is ike a tallow candle ho always will i jmoko when ho goes out. AFTER THE STORM. Patience I for the strife Is o'er; Weary wave and the dying blast Beat and mourn abouHhe shore! Peace must come at last. ' LoT the sea gull's silver wing Floshealn the ?unstt gold: :M Walt, another.mdurn.ajwul.'b'ring Gladness, as of old. And the bittei draught is (ireaineJ, Nevertilll the storm is done, Shall thy rest be gained. Waves and winds fulfill His word: Thou, like them, shall do His will, Waiting till his voice is heard, Saying "Peace be still." A COLLOQUY. . <) The following dialoguo took placo recently in tho vicinity of Duo West: Mrs, B.?"Aunt" Lucy! where is Wesley?" Aunt Lucy.?Gone to do Depot for Joanna." jjlrs. 15.?"Ivor Joannar wtiat Joanna?" Aunt Lucy.? "Joanna, Joanna; you donno Joanna V Mrs. B.?"No! Como by the cars ?" Aunt Lucy?"Yes! I b'licvo so; como by dc car." Mrs. B.?"But who is she? what Joanna? I don't know any one nn?v?nil Tnnnnn #!-?? f li f\ hrt ffAnft for?" Aunt Lucy?"Well! Did any one ever hear the beat of it! I mean de I Joanna dey puts on do cotton!" (and then, still seriously, turning to Mrs. B.'s daughter who has been richly enjoying the colloquy,) "3Iiss Jano! Young ladies ought not to laugh at dcre mother. But children will laugh when dero mother makes mistakes." A Brilliant Lecture. Cokesbury, S. C., "I March 24th, 1875. J Editors Frcsa and Banner : Col. (Jaughman delivered a lecture in our town on last Wednesday night, nrnAi If rr nf *ViA?irrhf. JinH '"""'I lyJl 1-"" literary rcscarch is rarely over equaled. His discourso was very elaborate and replete with interest, but I can attempt nothing more than a synopsis. He gavo a scriptural view of tho primeval condition of the human raco, in opposition to tho theory of Infidel scientific writers, and showed tho evil influenco of these infidel writings upon tho youth of tho country. JLLo presented a tncory oi luenegru race drawn from tho sacred Scriptures, and demonstrated tho plausibility of his theory, by showing that the declarations of Holy Writ have been ver. ificd by tho history of tho negro race in every country where they have had an existence. . ilo oxpressed a desire to extend to them all the advantages of education and Christian influcnco of tho age. Yet with all this fostering care, in conscquencc of their great inferiority in point of intellect, he entertained the idea, that tho race, as a race, would never reach such a status of citizenship, as would entitle them to become an integral element in the administration of this Republican Government. Respectfully, M. G. ZEIGLEE. Lucius, Quinctus, Ciucinnatus Lamar One of iho foremost of the Southern Statesmen, has recently been interviewed by a correspondent of the Atlanta Htrald, on pending issues and party prospects. lie thinks the defeat of Grant will depend upon the proper Imvmonv of all the elements of tho opposition. He saj's: "The victories of last Fall were not strictly Democratic victories. They were anti-administration victories. They were not achieved by the Democratic party as a party, but by Democrats, Uonsrrvatives, Liberal Republicans and anti adminitration men,j fighting for the timo under tho Democratic flag, just as tho Democrats in tho Grcely campaign fought under the Liberal Republican flag. They were allies of tho Democratic party; not converts to its doctrines. It is all important for us to realize that it was a triumph achieved by co-operation, not by conversion. l",. ,, u c?;il 1 DOSC Utiles, IUUU?U lla-uui; wvw> vv, tbc Democratic party, and hostile to the present Administration, are not bound indissolubly or evon securely ours. If they aro content to tight the next fight with us wo will whip it. If they aro driven off wo will loso it." The Democrats must show proper moderation and adopt a conciliatory policy if they would hope to achieve success. It is tho high price of slato pencils that is driving the saloon-keepers to tho poor-house. Two things in this world that -i?i,i ?? u? wl ?nfli?n. woman's jSHUUlU UVO uu muvu m?v.. ? [opinion, and the business end of I u wasp. An excutive officer?the hnman's. jfflSI "^Common please?pleaso shut thoUg^ The scale of goodffirading?B natJ A poor relation-r-leUing^Hi^^H^ Carpets are bought by the yirof^; and by the foot. Waisting sweetness?putting yonrr^t'^ arm around a pretty woman^ rap " iJyPy, An vnn Mnnnt. ftunt/1 vftnr flwn' .: Y. J " j . company make it as good as possible. Instead of saying "looK op," the <v*., v Texan exclaims: "See hyar, old fel- fcV low!" > - Habit is a cable. Every day wo weave a thread, and soon wo cannot # ' break it. Mrs. Beocher is an awful homely woman, but then hor bread is never heavy. "May heaven bless and keep you from your own tr?e love, Benjamaln Herrick." was the wav the letter en ded. . . vgg "Teeth in exchange for|wheat pork ' , or potatoes," is what an enterprising ijt dentist in one of the State towns ad- SKf vertises. . A grocer when complained to about "... ~ selling bad eggs, said : "At this season the hens ain't well and very often lay bad eggs." A voteran shopkeeper says that although his clerks are very talkativejduring the day, they aro always ready to shut up at nigbt. Josh Billings says: "There liop . any thing that will completely cor? * laziness, though a second wife ha? been known to huny it some. %%?$$. A Rhode Island woman sayf t&at ' she'd rather have the nighmaro . ge^ Ven straight nights than tell Her has* band the flour barrel is empty. When a Chicago man gels rich, he writes to Eastern publishing houses and tells them to send "half a ton of books with gild on."?Milwaukao. news. * *? Miss Eastman, in ber woman suffi'finrA nrnrnmrmf. nn In t.kfl Sf.nf.A TTnusA ussd tho 6emile. "Eyes as bright as buttons on angel's coats." She's getting brassy. Give your son a good education and settled purpose in life, and when ho is a man be will not be contentto sit back of a grocery stove and crack his finger-joints. There is said to be but one divorcein England to every ten in America. Comparatively few English people' marry for fun, it would seem.?Louisville Courier-Journal, Tho New Haven Rkgitter relates that an actor at one of the theaters was called out three times in ono evening, not long ago? twice by thesheriff and oneo by the tailor, An Annapolis man rode clear toSa- vannah to lick afcHow who called him a liar, and the undertaker said he never saw a dead man look so much liko a qaarter of beef. "When tho postmaster of Vicksburg was on his dying bed tho other day, twenty-eight men hurried past tho house with petitions praying that they might bo postmaster. The saddest thing in life is the spoctacle afforded by a young person burnt all her hair off her forehead with a hot slate pencil and cannot afford to buy a row of curls. A musician noticed that his friends wearied at his performance, remarked : "You awaro that this is a tery difficult passage." '-I wish it was impossible," replied one. The Detroit Free^ Press asks, if Mr. Bcrgh can send a man to jail forihreo months for killing a mad cat, we'd like to know what ho can do with a boy who feeds marbles to a parrot? A little American lad who had just commenced reading the newspaper asked his father if the word "Hon." prefixod to the name of a number of Congrese meant "honest." The ghost of Noah Webster came to a spiritual medium in Alabama, not lolg since, and wrote on a ship of paper: ',It is tito times." Noah was right, but we are sorry to see he has gone back on his dictionary. The New 1'ork Times publishes an interesting account of the sickness of the late emperor of China. The emperor ttas taken with the first symptoms of small-pox on the 3th of December, and by one of those curious coincidences which the Chinese are always lookin^ for. and to which they attach so much significance, the attack was thought to he connccted with, or refforable to, the transit of Ycnus on that day. The oraperor being a descendant of the sun, nothing could occur to him tho purity of that orb, that would not be portentous to its earthly representative. Thus the planet, as it crossed the sun's disc, was likened in size to a pea, which in Chinese is called tan, and tho pestules of small pox arc likewiso called tan tho characters which stand for tho two words resembling each other. Hence, to tho Chinese mind, a clear connection between tho transit .and 4-Ua imv\At?in] QU?I/n/\CQ On the twelfth clay of tbo attack a great religious ceremony was performed; an immense number of effigies wero eollcctcd and burned as a propitiation to the goddess of Bmall pox- Besides the effigies there were a dozen pairs of banners and stato parasolf, thirteen pavilions with food and fruits, cisrhty-four tablos | bearing clothing, nino largo boats and , three hundred trays of various articles useful to complete an outfit in (the next world. Theso numerous : simulacra, costing several hundred I thousand dollars, all wero consigned ' to the flames, and translated, liko Elijah, in a chariot of firo to .t,ho re'gion of spirits.