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Hr flEgjjra * * ? **^- * -^ *' ?.. ^ '** ? . *: I / ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ $?. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ I VOT, 2. NO. 6J BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1871 l | Single Copy 5 CcnU* ? : * 1 ~ : . ? 4 male and admired by the women. There " > were pciynoirs and dressing gowns, clearly ? furnished by Cbapon, the famous ladies' out-fitter in the Rue de la Paix, and all ?= wonderfu'ly elegant, but dusty and somewhat blue-moulded. The stockings of thread, silk, and Shetland wool were of gossamer lightness. An infinity of bath and toilet sponges were knocked down at a hundred francs. They were all of the best quality. The little lady said she would have been the purchaser if the auctioneer had guaranteed that he was selling her something which had actually passed through the Empress's hands. As for the boots and slippers, they justified the eulogiums passed by M. M. Franc and Lockrey in their report on Parisian shoemakers. Then there were, the ladies thought, delicious things in the way of petticoats, flannel bustles, robes de chambre, sorties de bain, and woolen wraps. Some baby's robes, which, according to the salesman's legend, belonged to P She i>nnfort I THURSDAY NOVEMBER, 2, 187] "fOETRY. AT the window. 1 . Only to listen?listen and wait P For his slow, firm step down tke gravel walk : To hear the click, click, <>i' Us hand at the gate And feel every heart?heat through careless talk; Ah, love is sweet when life Ls young, igjHI And life and lore arc both so long. Only to watch him at*>ut the room, Egj^B Lighting it up with his quiet stnil", That seems to lift the world out of gioom. And bring heaven nearer me?for a while, r A little while?since love is young, And life is beautiful as long. Only to love him?nothiug more; I Never a thought of his loving me: t Proud of him, glad in him, though he l>orc My heart in shipwreck on this smooth sea. Love's faith sees ouly grieC, not wrong, And life is daring, when 'tis young. Ah me 1 what matter T The world goes round, And bliss and bale are but outside things; I never can lose what in him I found, Though lovtf be sorrow with half-grown wingr And if love Hies when we are young, Why life is still not long?not long. Miss Muloc H Sale of the Empress Eugeni R Personal Effects. [Paris correspondence London News] IR&| Id passing by the new galleries of ISMLouvre, facing the quay. I heard tink e of a bell, and the voice of the c | inviting the public to come and buy w r remained to be sold of the Empress Eu nie's personal effects. Accepting the itation, I entered the little court sta ing in the midst of the Imperial stab Another bell-ringer was at the door the vianege where M. Buchon used to g Imperial Prince riding lessons. It ) occupied by old-cloths-sellers of both s es, curiosity dealers, a few friends of fallen dynasty whose faces I have of seen grouped around the throne of the ? le des Etata, some dirty students, a rep ter of the Gaulois, attracted, like my8 ? by the noise of the bell; and a spriDkl ? of those antiquated genilemen in wl k gaiters who passed their lives in hov L ing about the book-stands on the para I of the Quay Voltaire, and crossing a V recrossing the Pont des Arts. The a r tioneer was self-sullicient sort of comm " V I t - 1 i. J. _ place bourgeois, ne aiu ins uwsu tu jocular at the expense of the fallen grc ness. Each article he seemed to thi . was worth its weight in gold, if only as Y relic. The dresses, laces, shawls, i mantles had been disposed of on the j yios day; and it was the turn of the unc (clothing and "intimate house linen," be liquidated. Pillow-cases of fine a brie?so tine that one wonders how tl support elaborate embroideries and d real lace borders?were hotly con Us for by a "petite dame" of the Rue Victories and a party of buyers belongi I should say, to the (^uartier Breda. rj little tady carried oil'a dozen. It "pos * one, she cried, tittering as she spoke, press the pillow on which an Irnpe: f head reposed. The cypher E happei ^ to stand for her name, which she vol 1 teered to tell one of the old friends of ft fallen dynasty was Eulalie. As for 1 crown under it mo /oi, she was just |B worthy to wear it as any else! The Unfriend was not loth to cultivate acqua gMbaace of the sparkling fair one. lie ass ^^Eted to this proposition, and volunteere* ?1 Budd a pillow-case, which the auction allowed her to take. The towel endless, bundles after bundles of (Kgpl^^ony damask napkins, all with the I the crown, the eagle, the busy carlovi lan bee, and profusion of laurel wreat were handed round the vaulted room be examined by bidders and then dispc of. Some DreaK-iast laoie napery, present of a king, now Emperor Willia first laudatory, was bought by one of former habitues of the Salle des Et He got it cheap. One of the old geu men, who happened to be deaf, was f ous when he found that he might h had the lot at 130f. I do not know why the brokers and dents were so jocose when an inside j ment was held up by two dainty li sleeves, and the public asked to exan it, as a fair specimen of the large bale f *vhich it was drawn at hazard. Amer; modesty cannot bring itself to name garment any more than it can speak shirt. If Paul de Cassagnac were as ? s his oft repeated oath, he would 1 run his sword-cane through the pro auctioneer's showman who held the i in questiou up to be sculled at by L the Prince Imperial's layette, were brought by a llussian lady. A snuffy purchaser near me shook her head incredulously at those belongings of Imperial Infancy. They were sumptuously gotton up she admitted, but nothing would convince her that they did notbelong to some distressed bourgeoises layette and were not palmed off by the auctioneer to enhance the price as haviug been worn by the Prince at whose birth, seventeen years ago, offcial France went into the excessive demonstrations of rier delight that ever hailed the advent of a kat royal child in our planet. ige iQ- ''Stick Your Heels into the nd Cinders." les. Of Doing Mount Vc*uviu?. ;ive A Naples correspondent writes a letter vas describing his ascent of Vesuvius. We ex- quote these paragraphs : the The cone of Vesuvius is certainly not ten easy walking. It is almost perpendicu >al- lar, and as it is mainly made up of ashes, or- one slips back two steps for every three elf, that one takes. Eich time Louisa stopping ed for a moment to rest, the chair was inlite vitingly thrust before her, while at every 'er- false step which I made a strap was danpet gled before me, and I was invited to take md hold of it. Women have more pluck uc than men, and I conftss that several times on- I should have grasped the strap had I not be had before me the example of Louisa, ev:at ery few minutes sternly declining the nk, chair. i a One by one our friends tailed off, and ind after climbing, scambliug and slipping for >re- an hour we triumphantly stood upon the ler- summit. My notion of a volcano?a most to unscientific one, no doubt?has always itn- beeu of a vast lake of molten lava perpethey ually seething aud boiling. I was awakeep ened from this delusion by the guide pointted ing to a small hole, about sixty feet in dides ameter, and sayiug, 'That is the small ng, crater.' A few steps further on we came Che upon the edge of a basiu of ashes, with a es" hole about thirty feet in diameter at the to bottom ; 'that,' he said, 'is the large erarial ter.' ned I sat down disgusted. It was now getun ting dark. 'Come this way,' said the the guide, 'and you will see the flame.' I did the gee through the mist and smoke a lurlid as light, which I was told was the hole from old which the lava is now flowiug. By this this time it was quite dark, and we were en" most choked with the fumes of sulphur. 1to The guide began explaining that he had eer seven children, all of whom he observed, were twius. Louisa became interested in line these domestic details, and would have E, sat listening to them for half an hour, but ng* it seemed to me about time to think of 'hs> getting down. to The guide took Louisa by the arm and 'sed said, 'Take long steps, and stick your tbe heei8 well into the cinders. He then dism'S nrmenrpd from mv view into the. darkness the with the wife of my bosom. I followed as ats. well as I could. Never, no never, did I tie- experienced a more disagreeable sensation uri- than going down that mountain of cinave ders. Every step I took, although I dug my heels into the cinders, I thought I was stu- going head over heels down some fearful ?ar_ abyss. Every few minutes the mountain ittle was lit up by a flash of lightning, which , enabled me vaguely to distinguish the rom guide and Louisa far below me, sticking ican their heels, too, into the cinders. At last this wre reached the bottom. a The boy who had been left with the ;ood | horses had lit a small lantern, otherwise lave we never should have found them. 'We iane had better,' said the guide, 'take a short cut, as it will ruin soon.' The short cut ^ie , seemed to me a perpendicular cut. "Why the horses did not roll over I cannot ima ine. It was too dark to see what the were doing, but as far as I could distil guish, my feet were almost on a level wil my horses'ears. Just before we got the bottom of the mountain it came on rain in torrents, and, wet to the skiu, v took refuge in a small pot-house, and o dered wine, which the father of the twir drank. Torches were then lit, and in a another hour we reached the Hotel Di< mede, tired, stilT and drenched, and turr ed into bed. Who Should Not Smoke, uTs smokincr injurious?" This is a ? ?o X) everyday question apt to be put by p? tients to their doctors. Like most broa questions of the kind, it involves far to many considerations to admit of bein answered by a plain yes or no. A medics man, Dr. E. B. Gray, who has long bee a moderate smoker, and watches the effec of the habit on himself and others, her offers what he believes to be the true an swer to the question. First of all, there must be an under standing about the quality of the tobacc to be smoked. Bad, t, e, rank, quick 1 intoxicating and prostrating tobacco (cei tain kinds of shag and cavendish, for in 8tance)must always be injurious. Fe? can smoke them at all?none habitually at least?with impunity. So too with re gard to quantity: even good tobacc* smoked to excess will to a certainty be in jurious to the smoker, sooner or later, ii some way or another. Of the variou evil effects of excessive smoking, mor will be said presently. Next, as to the smokers. There ar people to whom any tobacco, howeve smoked, is simply poison, causing, evei in smaller doses, vomiting, pallor, aw alarmiog prostration. Such people neve get seasoned to its effects, even after re peated trials, and if they are wise the; will forever let it r.lone. Thev will die I play still further wisdom by not presum ing to make laws for others who have no the same idiosyncrasy. No one can enjoy smoking or smok with impunity, when out of health. Th phrase "out of health," though it ma; sound vague, is definite enough to fram a general rule. At the same time it i useful to know what, if any, are the par titular disorders and conditions of healil in which tobacco does special harm. A far as the writer's knowledge goes, tlusi have never been specified by medical wri ters as clearly as is desirable. To begin, a roan with a bad appctili will, if he smoke, most assured eat still les ?a noteworthy fact for smokers or other recovering from a wasting illness or "of their feed" fr^m whatever cause. Thii effect of tobacco, by the way, while ai evil to the sick man, who cannot ea enough, becorms a boon to the slarvet man, who cannot get enough to eat, ai ample illustration of this was furnisbe< among the French and German soldier iu the recent war. Again, no mau sbouh smoke who has a dirty tongue, a bad tast in his mouth, or a weak or disordered di gestion. In any such case he cannot rcl ish his tobacco. It should be a goldei rule with smokers, that the pipe or ciga which is not smoked with relish had bet ter not he smoked at all. Indigestion ii every shape is aggravated by smoking hut most especially that form of it com monly known as atonic aud accompauie< with flatulence. Diarrbtea, as a rule, i made worse by smoking. One of the commonest and earliest ef fects of the excessive or untimely smok ing is to make the hand shake. Thi gives the clue to anther class of person who ought not to smoke?persons, name ly, who have weak, unsteady n ervcs and sufter from giddiness, confusion o sight, tremulous hands, tendency to stam mer, or any such symptoms. And if to bacco does harm in mere functual weak ness, still less allowable is it in actua organic disease of the nervous system; as for instance, where there exist any degre of paralyses or other sigu of degenerativ change in the brain or spinal cord. Th improper use of tobacco does beyom question somewhat interfere with du nutrition of nerve substance. An illus tration of this, familiar to oculists am medicine men, is the so-called tobaccc amaurosis, a failure of vision occurring i excessive smokers from mal-nutrition c the retina. Another class of persons \vh i ought not to smoke, are those who hav weak or unsteady circulations and com plaiu of such troubles a9 palpitation, cai g. diac pains, intermittent pulse, habitually sy cold hands and feet, or chronic languor. i- Lastly, there is reason for believing th that the habitual use of tobacco is likely to to retard the due growth and developa ment of the body. If so, one should not bere come a smoker till he is well past the ^ r- period of puberty. Boys, moreover, have is no excuse for smoking, for they are spared 1 n the hard wear and tear of adults life. 3- Now, after eliminating those who from * i- idiosyncracy cannot, and those who from bodily ailment or from tender years should not smoke, there will still always be a 1! large residuum of happy folk who can c smoke, enjoy smoking, and are indeed the better for it. These are they who use n tobacco without abusing it?use it, that i- is to say, in moderate quantity, in due d season, and honestly for the sake of the o comfort which it gives them?a comfort V g every bit as legitimate as that which ^ il drinkers of tea, coffee, or wine extract in n each case from their favorite beverage. :t I e A Sinaular Couple. l" t< The circumstances which, more than ^ o anything else, obtained, in the dingy old y town of Hexam, England, a lasting place - in my memory, was our taking lodging i- with an extraordinary pair?an old man ^ v and woman, husband and wife?who lived ', by themselves, without child or servant, subsisting upon the letting of their parlor 0 and two bedrooms. They were tall, thin 1 - and erect, though each seventy years of 1 age. When we knocked on the door for s admittance they answered together. If ^ e we rang the bell, the husband and wife inn variably appeared side by side : all our re- ^ e quests and demands were received by j r both, and executed with the utmost ex- . ti i actness. 1 The first night, arriving late by the r coach from Newcastle, and merely requiri ing a good fire and tea, we were puzzled to ^ y understand the meaning of this double at- c j. tendance ; and I remembered my brother . rather irreverently wondered if we were t alway to be "waited upon by these Siamese twins." J e On ringing the bell to retire for the e night, both appeared as usual?the wife ^ y carrying the bedroom candlestick, the ^ c husband standing at the door. I gave ^ 0 her some directions about breakfast the 3 VI following morninsr. when her husband 3 from the door quickly answered for her. s "Depend upon it she is dumb," whise pered my brother. But this was not the case, though she rarely made use of the faculty of speech.. Q They both attended me into my beds room, when the o d lady, seeing me look s with surprise toward her husband, said : Y "There is no oil once meant, ma'am, by . g my husband coming with me into the j chamber ; lie's stone bliud." ^ "Poor man! " I exclaimed ; "but why, I then, does he not sit still ? Why does he accompany you everywhere?" j "It's no use, ma'am, your speaking to ? g my old woman," said the husbaud, 'She j can't hear you , she's quite deaf." j e I was astonished. Ilere was a compensation! Could a couple be better matched? Man and wife were indeed one flesh, for ^ he saw with her eyes, and she heard witli r his ears ! It was beautiful to me, ever after, to watch the old man and woman in 1 their insep ableness. Their sympathy ^ with each other was as swift as electrici- . ' , t? . ty, and made their deprivation as nought. Q 1 I have often thought of that old man ^ s and woman, and can but hope that as in ^ life they were inseparable and iudispensi- n . ble to each other, so in death they may j . not be divided ; or that cither may be 3 spared the the terrible calamity of being i s left alone in the world. A Norwich authority tells a pathetic p f little story about a pigeon which became - fastened by a long string hanging from its >- leg to a telegraph wire. Two or three - boys wanted to throw stones at it; but a 1 kind gentleman, telling them not to hurt r< the poor bird, got a ladder and carefully h e unwound the string, and put the frighte cned, llutteriug little creature tenderly tl c into liis bosom while he descended. The J d next evening he remarked that it had h e made a much nicer pic than he expected, a d Saratoga girls organized an anti kissing d ) society, recently, the rules of the society f; u imposing a fine of SI for every kiss bc>f stowed upon the masculine gender. At fi o i the end of the first week some of those : t e girl were actually indebted to the society ' li l- ! in sums ranging from to S2o. The as- ; t r- i sociation has disbanded. ! t An Unpleasant Dilemma. The Evening Journal, of Jersey City, ii esponsiblc for the followiny : The other day a lady and gentlemai 9-ere walking along Exchange Place 01 heir way to the ferry, when suddenly ant maccountably the lady stopped. Sh< lushed her face, trembled violently, anc hen resorted to that happy female expe iicnt, crying. "Why, my dear Louisa, what on eartt 3 the matter with you ?" exclaimed he] ompanion. "Oh, dear me, what shall I do? I cau'i ix it." The crowd surged by ; some looking it mazement, while others stopped for ar as ant gazing at the crying lady and bewildered gentleman. " Why, Louisa, what is the matter i jet us move on and not raise this crowd jre." "Oh, no, indeed, I can't; oh, what shall do? What a fix I'm in!" The erentleman evidently felt as if he, 30, was in a truly pretty fix. What was e to do ? "Tell me, Louisa, what does ail you?r Just then a boot black came along and ffered the desired information. "I say, mum, you'd better hitch up hem 'er undergarments of yours." Something had given away. "aking Things Without Ask. ing. When I was a boy, I was playing oui 1 the street one winter day, catching ides on sleighs, and it was great fun. toys would rather catch rides any dav lan to go out regularly and properly to ike a drive. As I was catching on tc ne sleigh and another, sometimes having nice time, and of times getting a cut from black whip, I at last fastened like a arnacle to the side of the countryman's utter. An old gentleman sat alone on the iat, and he looked me rather benignantr, as I thought, and neither said any ling to me nor swung his old whip over le; so I venture to climb upon the side of is cutter. Another benignantly look rom the countrjman, but not a word. Inbolden by his supposed goodness, I entured to tumble into the cutter and ike a seat under his warm buffalo robe eside him, and he spoke. The colloquy as as follows: "Young man, do you like to ride?" "Yes." Do you own a cutter, young man?" "No, sir." ' 'It's a pretty nice cutter, isn't it?" "Yes, sir, it is, and a nice horse drawig it!" "Did I ask you to get in?" "No, sir." "Well, then, why did you get in?' "Well, sir, I?I thought you looked ood and kind, and that you would have o objection." "And so, young man, because you loughtl wasgoodand kind, you tookadantage of that kindness, and took a favor ithout asking for it?" "Yes, sir." "Is the ride worth having?" Yes, sir." "Weli, now, young man, I want to ill you two things. You should never ike the mean advantage of the kindness f others; and what is wortli having, is 'orth at least asking for. No as you ambled into this sleigh without asking ic, I shall tumble you out into the snowrift without asking you." And out 1 went, like a shot oil* a shovl, and he didn't make much fuss about : either. I picked myself up in a slightly ewildered state, but I never forgot that ;sson. A Precocious Youngster. Johu, of Watertowu, is fond of childen, but has none of his own. One day is house was visited by mothers each rith boys four or five years old, smart title fellows and bright as silver dimes, ones had occasion to harness up hi? orsc and to go to a store a few mile3 oft', ud as the lads were playing on the lawn, e took them in his open buggy for the rive, not imforming their parents of the ret. On their way to the store the horse got tightened and ran away. Jone3 was brown out, but escaped injury. The ivc year old lad crawled under the seat oi he buggy and tumbled from the rear o he vehicle and was picked up unhurt while the four-year old grasped the dasher with both hands and remained in the buggy. 3! The horse dashed on like wild terror, and at last plunded down an* embank* 1 ment, where he smashed himself and the 1 buggy. Jones arrived at the wreck as * soon as possible expecting to find the 3! child dead or terribly mangled, but to I his surprise he found the little fellow * still grasping the dasher, standing on his feet and entirely uninjured. 1 "O Willy!" cried Jones, running for: ward, "are you injured?" 'Injured!" said the lad, ia a tone or k surprise, "no I ain't hurted, but I'll tell you what it is,"assuming a confidential 1 air, "Mr. Jones, this is the goldarndest 1 horse I ever did ride ofter in my life!11 > A New Rendering of an Old I T ext. Spending a winter as invalids at Aiken, [ South Carolina, the Hon. Thnrlow Weed ' and Mr. Thomas C. Acton whiled away one Sabbath afternoon by attending a i negro church, and were accompanied by Mr. John A. Kennedy, who was on a ' visit of a few days to Mr. Acton. When I they entered the primative temple the preacher, who was a pure African, was > grappling with all the fervor of his race with the old, old subject of the fall of man. Sketching that day in the garden with its terrible results, he excoriated Mr. Adam in this fashion. "Now, Bredren, when de Lord calls Adam to 'count did he stan' up like a ; man, confess his sin and ask forgiveness? ; He didn't do nufiia of de sort, brederen, but he says: "'Lord, de woman dat Dou gubest me ? gub me for to eat.'" "Dar, brederen, you see dat mean, ; skulkin' Adam was a try in' to sneak oat i of it by frowin1 all de blame on de Lord . hisself!" i This new idea of an old question was too much for the distinguished "white.' i trash," who had fortunately taken seats near the door, and they retired into the fields to indulge in irreverent laughter.? Cltt lnrrn Billings for 1872. It is a fortunate circumstance in estimating the liberty taste of the age, that the old almanac, annual, and year-book system, as in vogue with the last generation, and always popular in Germany, has been resuscitated. Josh Billings, through Carleton, is out early, and presents all the quaintness, and humor, not unmixed with indications of keenness of observation, which rendered him so popular. Very clever, for instance, and, withal, not lacking in point, is his advice TEW YUNO KLEIIGYMEN. Don't preach the gospel for less than 850 dollars a year, salary payable quarterly in advance. A congregashun who kan't afford tew pay oou aonars a year, warn a imsaiuuttrj more than they do a klergyman. I3e sure and run the church ; don't let the church run you. Az i sed up at the top, git az mutch ov yure salary az possible in advance, for i don't kno ov enny det so hard tew kollekt az a minister's salary, after it once gits kold. Equally clever and telling is his exhortation 1 TEW YUNG MEN. 1 Dcn't be discouraged if yure mustash dou't gro ; it sumtimes happens whare a mustash duz the best, nothing else duz so well. Don't be afrade ov enny thing that is honorable, and don't forget that the best 1 friend that God has given enny one iz hiz conscience. Larn tew wait!?this iz a hard gait for a yung man tew travel, but is the surest way tew git thare. If you have got sum wild oats (and a phew won't spile yu) git them in arly, and sow them deep, so they will rot in the - ground. One more quotation must suffice as an indication of the Billing's flavor. Most particularly sensible and rather satirical ' withal, are his directions TEW YUNG DOKTORS. 1 Hire an oflisa on the main street in the village, and stay in the offliss. When yu do go out.alwus go on the ; jump. * " ? 1- * . Don't never talk muicn on enny suojek, but alwua look kussid raisterious. Seldum go tew church, but when yudo, ; alwua leave before the church duz. 5 Charge everybody like thunder and lite? niug. j. If yu pholler these rules clu38ly, and | don't suckeeed, yu kau kurn tew the konf j klushun that the doktrine bizzuess ain't , j so good as it waz last year.