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The Beaufort MMM Republican. AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLTTICS, l'JTERATURE, AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO IS-TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR. . VOL. III. NO. 11. BEAUFORT, S. C., TRITRSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1872. IS233tfSS: ?? ? i If W? Would. If we wonld but check the speaker When he spoils his neighbor's lame, If we would but help the erring, Ere we utter words of blame ; If we would, how many might we Turn from paths of sin and shame. Ah, the wrongs that might be righted If we would but pee the way! Ah, the pains that might be lightened Every hour and every day, If we would but hear the pleadings Of the hearts that go astray. Let us step outside the stronghold Of our selfishness and pride; Let us lift our fainting brothers, Let us strengthen ere we chide ; Let us, ere we blame the fallen, Hold a light to cheer and guide, Ah, how biessed? ah, how blessed Earth would be if we'd but try Thus to aid and right the weaker, Thus to check each brother's sigh ; Thus to talk^of duty's pathway To our better life on high. In each life, however lowly, There are seeds of mighty good ; Still, we shrink from souls appealing T*r;AK ? ?it '? VV liil a HiUiU li Ti V I/VIUV* ? But a God who judgeth all things Knows the troth is, "if we would." MARBIAGE UlfDEB DIFFICULTIES. It was Sunday, and I had returned from the morning service in our chapel at South Shields, Durham, England. The servant came to the dining-room to 6ay two gentlemen were waiting in the ]>arlor to see me. I found them to he Mr. Dickinson, the chapel keeper, and a big, round, jolly man, who grinned and bowed on being introduced as " Mr. Jobson." The former said it was the latter who bad business with me ; and, when I inquired, after some delay, what the business might be, Mr. Jobson answered : " Well, sir, I want to be married." "Avery natural wish," I replied, "and 'one that may be gratified. There is no difficulty in the way, if the ladyl?e in the same mind." "She's all right,sir." " Where and when do you wish to be married ?" " In the chapel that you preached in this morning, three weeks to-morrow, at nine o'clock." " I see ; as soon as the notice required bv law expiree. Yet you do not seem to have been in a hurry to exchange single blessed' iiess. Yon must be?what? Forty?" " Yes. I am more thau it." " Very well, Mr. Jobson, 1 will be there at the time." Intimating that my wite was waiting umner, I was proceeding to ojien the door for the gentleman to leave, when the expectant bridegroom asked, in a tone of surprise, if I could not "takedown tbe names." Certainly, if he des'red ; though it was not neoessarv then. After giving me his first name, he gave me that of his fiance?, Mrs. X. Watkins She had been married before. His anxiety that I should take the names, his " formal manner altogether in advising me thus early of the wedding led me?when I thought of the matter, a day or two afterward?to wonder whether he supposed that in order to give the legal notice he had only to speak to the minister. Mr. Dickinson, to whom I mentioned the matter, thought he could not make such a mistake ; but he could speak to his wife. She knew the lady and j would see her. The following Monday evening I was requested to step into their house, which was adjoining the chapel. Jobson had come to see me again ; and it was as I feared. Not until that day had he given notice to the public officer, whose duty it was to register the births, deaths and marriages in the district where he resided. Of course I acknowledged the compliment implied in his considering it quite sufficient to fell me about ; and endeavored to console him by saying the desired event would be |H>stponed only seven days, and \ single week was not long with one who had waited more than forty years. He admitted that; but could not see why persons eager to be joined in matrimony should have their patience tried twenty-one days before the great subject of their lives could be realized. Which 1 gave him to understand was not absolutely necessary, for bv special license he might have his matrimonial desires accomplished in two or three days. He was of a frugal mind, however; and, when told it would ).lr> mrii # lip thniltrKt li? chrtnlH tUDV tViJOIVIVlWVIV V y uv ...?v uiv? wait. The three weeks spread on rapid wing with me; but moved on Iead.-n feet, no doubt with them. Punctually at thejhour appointed 1 was at the chapel gate; but, finding them closed, I turned around the corner and knocked at the *xton's door. " Are these weddings come?" "Hush! h?u?s?li!" whispered that cautious dame, as, with winks and gestures, die signaled that I might be overheard, at the same time leading me through one room into the kitchen behind. There sat the jolly man, his ruddy countenance beaming like the rising sur. He smiled all over his fsee as he saluted me. A buxom lady sat on the opposite side ot the room, apparently "fair, fat and forty.' but so arrayed in a blue dress, a flaring j\*l shawl, a large bonnet, and a large green vail that her figure and years were partially concealed. So one offered to introduce her : so I addressed Mr. .lobeon : " Mrs. Watkina I presume " Yes, sir," said he. with a proud look. That's hi-r." I bowed to Iter. She rose, courtesied gr.icefully, and smirked : "Good-morning sir." " Is the registrar not come, Mrs. Dickinson. " Not yet. He's sure to In here soou, though." We fell into conversion. It being a fine morning. I congratulated the nuptial pair upon it, hoping the su ashine was typical of their future lives. When I could talk of the weather no longer. 1 *ajd to the janitor's wife: "Is the registrar usually late on o<casions of this kind?" " No indeed. He likes his fees too veil." We conversed on other topics. I had to explain why we could not proceed with the ceremony without the registrar. When Mrs. Watkins had the happiness of being led to the hymenial altar tefore, it was in one of the consecrated ediiees of the Established Church, and no such, officer was in attendance there No doubt but the wise and equal laws of England insist on one being present when even a marriage is solemnized in a Nonconformist meeting-hous*. Those dissenters are a mean lot, and not to be trusted. While we thus talked, an' old clock that hung over the mantel shelf kept on swinging its long pendulum nearly a yard each way, till the figures pointed to 9:30, 9:5o and 10 o'clock. I grew restless. " It is strange this man does not come. I hope there is no mistake again, Mr. Jobson!'' "'There cannot be, sir." " You gave notice at Newcastle ?" ' Certainly. I came down on purpose to tell you so." " And at Shields ?" "Shields! Shields, sir! What, was that necessary ?" ' AssurMly, seeing that Mrs. Watkins refides here J You cannot be married." " That's a bad job." "A bad job! I should think it is!" exclaimed a female voice on the other side of the room. " What a disappointment! You stupid! How came you to make such a blunder ? And it's the second time, too." " But you needn^t look and speak to him like that, though,' replied Mrs. Dickinson, promptly and gravely taking his part. " Didn't I tell you myself to tell him that he would have to give notice in both district;? in the town where he lives and in this town, where you live." " So you did." " Why didn't you, then ?" ' I thought it was enough for him to tell the people of Newcastle, without coming and letting everybody down here know about it. I didn't want the whole country to talk of it." " Why ? What is there to be ashamed or afraid of? Isn't your other husl>and dead, or something?" "That's my business, ma'am." " But you'd only told me, now," said Jobson, sorrowfully, but not reproachfully. " It's a bad job we've missed again." "Bad! What fools we must seem. Just now the bouse is full of people, invited to the grand breakfast we provided. His friends are there, my friends are there, my other husband's friends, and some of the neighbors. And now we must go back and say we are not married, after all. What a disappointment ; I never did meet with such a disappointment in all my life?never." What eould I say to comfort such disconsolate ones ? It was part of my profession to administer consolation; but I had never had to do with such mourners before; Was it not natural that I should be silent, as the rest of the comoanv ware, during the next few minutes ? At length a bright idea struck the disappointed lady. Would I be so kind as to go and confer with the registrar? Jobson had not a shadsw of a doubt that, if the two men of importance as he and I could Ik4 brought together, anything would be accompli*hed(that was not harder than merely setting aside the laws of England. Seeing that that would console them, I felt it my duty to go, though I knew it was useless; and they thanked me earnestly, saying they w?uld never forget my kindness as long as they lived. On my return, they both asked me. ever more earnestly : "Can we marry, sir ?" "Yes; but " " Thank Heaven !" exclaimed the lady. 44 Wait a moment. You interrupt ice, ma'am. You can be married ; but not for three weeks, I am sorry to say. The registrar assured me that the Queen herself could not be married again in this chapel without his presence, and that he would not attend a princess's marriage without being consul ted beforehand in the regular way." " What conceit! I wish the Queen were here, just to show him she can make him do whatever she likes. It's my opinion you can marry us just as well without him as with him. Will you do it, air?" " I could go through the ceremony as well without him ; but the marriage would be illegal. 4 What of that ? If it's all right in the sight of God, what doe* it matter if it's- not right in the sight of man ?" 44 That is a bold but not a wise thing for a woman to say. A ministerial friend of mine married a couple of the highest position in a certain town in Lancashire. They went to Switzerland to spend along honeymoon. Before they returned the minister received official information that their marriage was invalid, owing to some irregularity about the person who attended to witness and record the marriage. The registrar was from home on vacation and had apj>ointed a deputy to act for him. who, as it turned out was disqualified in some way for acting in that capacity. My friend immediately informed the parents of the young couple, who wrote them to come home instantly and go through the ceremony again in private If that young gentleman had l>een a villain, and wished to abandon the young lady, he could haTe done so, according to the law. If he had been killed on his way home, and she, morally but not legally his wife, had l>ccome a mother, and claimed" a portion of his ex tensive property for herself and child, she could not have obtained a farthing by law. Marriage is a civil contrast as well as a religious institution; and of course, has its advantages in being right in the sight of man as well as in the sight of God. There is another difficulty in the way of my marrying you without the registrar. The law would punish me severely if I did it. 441 don't want to get you into trouble. But it is an unfortunate affair, very. I never did meet with such a disappointment. I'll not com* to a Dissenting chapel to be onw Am ' ' UldilKU C*J J J IUVIV. " You quite intend to l>e married again, ma'am ?" " One doesn't know what may happen." We relasped into silence again, which continued screral moments and was painful. Jobson was the first to break it. He sat on a low stool, with elbow on hi%knee and his face on his hands, al>soibed in thought and looking intently at the fire. Certain geometrical lines visible in the embers enabled him to solve the problem of the hour. Looking up suddenly he said to me : " I'll tell you what I'll do, sir." " What will you do ?" "I'll go this minute to the registrar here iu this town and give notice afresh." "That is manly," said I, admiring his decisiou and energy. " If tou proceed like that. you will get married." I walked along the street with him, instructing him in every particular. Never did 1 enter into such details with any one before or since. He expressed his gratitude for my kindness, which he asserted iu a very solemn and emphatic manner should never be forgotten. He would see me the following Sabbath, to let me know the.day and hour. Iu this he faild, for he did not appear either that Smiday or the next again. tsut on me imru monnay uie sexton eaueu on me to say that "that wedding" had to come off the following morning at 10 o'clock. That was an inconvenient hour, as I had an engagement in Newcastle at noon, ami must take the eleven o'clock train to keep it, which I could not do if there was any delay. For he it understood that the marriage service is sometimes a protracted one in England, and always much longer than in this country. People there would not consider themselves married at all by the utterance of the two or three sentences with which I have seen ministers here bind loving ones in holy wedlock. I urged Mr. Dickinson to engage some one else to officiate ; but he thought the parties would he in time, and wished me to see the end of the extraordinary affair. 1 wished it too, and accordingly was at my post promptly the next day. The gates not having been opened. I went to the chapel house, and was conducted to the kitchen as before. Mr. Jobson had arrived before me, and was there all nlonn in Kij vrli ifV ai\JLl\s 111 uio ^ IV* J . " Is Mrs. Watkins not coming fr" " No ; but she'il be here presently, sir." Witnin fire minutes the imposing form of the registrar made its appearance, passing the kitchen window slowly and stately. J f ever officer had a due appreciation ?f his station and gave responsibility, it was he ; though I may say, to avoid making invidious comparisons, that the mark applies to every one in the same office. It is not too much to affirm that a more just sense of his importance, dignity and right even Calcraft, Her Majesty's celebrated executioner, did not possess on the occasion of his arriving at a i'ail where he had business awaiting him (for le was late), but could not elbow his way through the crowd to the turnkey's door, i "Make way," hf called imperiously to the surging mass. " Make way, I say; nothing n< can be done without me." The instant the tl registrar's majestic foot crossed the kitchen threshold, he pointed to the aged time piece w over the mantle-shelf, and, casting a withering glance at Mrs: Dickinson, said : 1' Do you see that clock, madam ? Already four minutes after the time appointed for this marriage^ and the doors of the chapel and the gate leading thereto are still closed. a" It is contrary to the law, madam. I say con- E trary to the law." _ " Why, mother, how stupid it is of you," remarked an untidy young woman, who sat P: peeling potatoes at the table. " Didn't I xr tell you twenty minutes since to go and open , the door?" "That's the way my daughter speaks to fct me, gentlemen. The fact is, I had a fit a fj week since to -day, and I have been expecting another all morning and could think of *-' nothing else." ol Disregarding the chatter of these women, V) with the superciliousness that became him, and turning with a grand air toward Jobson, e: the public functionery inquired : 81 "Have you been to the office?" e, " No, sir ; but I am just going." "Just going! Why did you not go be- a fore?" ' c< Jobson did not wait to answer. " Where is he going, sir ?" I ventured to S1 ask. * it 4! To my office. When he came to me, ^ three weeks ago, I directed him to call there, on his way from the station here, and bring " the necessary documents along with him, and h save me the trouble of going." (The great man did not say whether Jobson had to see a " superior or a subordinate of bis at the office.) a " And he came right by the door of the office jj without calling, and now ir keeping me waiting here. I have business in court at halfnast ten. Tt is exceedingly inconvenient^ ! g exceedingly. My time is too valuable to be g wasted on such people. But here the man k, is back. He has not been long." " "If you please, sir, can you marry me w without the license, the doc?, the papers ci from Newcastle ?" u. " fVrtjurilv nnt, man Whv. where it it?" , 4' It's at Newcastle, sir." n: 4; What is it doing there ?" fr ' I left it." , 41 Why did you leave it V " I forgot it, sir." w " Fool! You cannot be married, and you s. do not deserve to be. What was said to you at the office ?'' CJ " The gentleman said I must come and y< ask you if you would marry me without it." ^ " Strange thing of him sending sucli a ^ question as that. I will go and see what he means." Then turning to me, and speaking w sub roct he added : " You stay here. I saw fj bis license three weeks ago, showing he had p given due notice in Newcastle. My testimony to that effect may be satisfactory " tl " You must make haste back, if I wait. I ^ have to take the eleven train. I must go." 44 And you shall, sir," broke in Mrs. Dickinson, who had just returned from opening the doors. " What do they mean coming here time after time making such a fool of our minister ? I'd go at once, sir, and not " l?other with them any longer. I tell you, c< sir, I'm not satisfied with this wedding. I don't know the other husband is dead or that there isn't some other legal 'pediment." ? "That is their concern not mine." Mrs. w Dickinson. Here is Jobson returning again, ty Where is the registrar, Mr. Jobson ?" . "Gone in the cha}>el, sir." f11 "All right. Mrs. Watkins; where is she?" "What! Isn't she come yet ? The woman must bo mad !" he muttered to himself, as be started off on the run to seek her. Q1 I proceeded to the chapel by a private cu passage from the house. Seeing me approach- .1, ing him very leisurely, the impatient public functionary said : si' "Come, sir, do make baste. Where arc m they ?" ? "Echo answers, Where." "What do you mean?" vv "Simply that the bride has not come, and ? At- t ! J 1 IxA,. 99 ; i uc unuegiuuui ntt? gvue w uuuv uu. "Extraordinary people ! They seem in1 capable of understanding how to act in these "( i matters. He talks sensibly enough, too, on til ! other subjects. It must be true that love is , blind. Holloa ! madam, what is the matter with you ?" jThis to Mrs. Dickinson, who W had just come in upon us at the side door, c] and was holding her sides, laughing im' moderately. He evidently thought her "fit" had come] "Are you in a convulsion, a madam ?'* * u. " The bride's found, sir. She's found. Our . Mary Ann was in Queen street, and found 111 her looking in the toy-shop window." tc " I will do the lady the justice to observe , that she exercises some fore-thought. Where P is she ?" tn " In our house," cl I went back to the house. . "Good morning, ma'am." " Good morning, sir." fc " We seem to be at cioss-purposes against ]r this morning." " So it appears." c( " Where is Mr. Jobson Y' st "Gone to seek me, I hear. Silly man ! He might have known I should come." " I fear I shall have to give you short meter in the service." cl TUn vilinrtnr thp better sir. 'Short the sweet,' qs we say sermons should l>e," f.Tobson came dashing in at the door, sweating fa jirofusely and breathing like a brokenwinded horse.] 'MVhere have you been? W hat a sight you ai e." " Come, never mind his condition. There * is no time to lose. Where are your wit- nn esses?" -m " Witnesses ? We have no witnesses, sir," "You ought to have had ; and you, who st have been married before ought to have ni known it. Mrs. Dickinson and Mary Ann, , you must lie witnesses." These two, mother and daughter, strongly 11 protested against standing with sueh people ir as those, and "in such clothes, too." But I insisted. Everything went right in the ceremony until we were interrupted by the ta spectators. A crowd had gathered, and the "sight of the big bridegroom and the buxom bride, and Mrs. Dickinson in her dishabille, ^ and Mary Ann in her Mushes for the company fc she kept, was too much for their gravity, p One general peal of laughter followed another, . so that we could not have got through at all if the registrar had not risen to his feet and b frowned. With commendable propriety did ^ the two who were undergoing the transformation from quality to unity "say after me" s' the words prescribed by the act of Parliament, g and we had reached tiie point of which the emblem of the bridal union should be forthcoming. " "The ring," said I as a hint for Jobson to produce it. "'Ibe ring," said he still " saying after me." .. " The ring," said I, a little lotider. looking 11 also as significantly as I could. o: " 1 he ring," said he, louder than ever. ^ When the lady shrieked : "The ring, the ring ! Find the ring." 0 He drew it out his vest pocket, among & some screws, buttons and a handful of other ? small articles useful to a bachelor. I pronounced the benediction, signed my name tl first in the register's book, and ran to the a depot, where I was just in time to be too late. I returned to the chapel vestry. The ^ party were on the point of separating. 1. F hinted to Jobson that it was usual to give the chapel keeper a trifle. He banded Mr. Dickinson sixpence. She asked him if the 8 minister were not to have something for his t< trouble." "Certainly, certainly," 6aid he. I understood he had to have half what I gave the ii registrar. He's bad all the work, and I shall e: ever forget liis kindness as long as I live? lat I will not He then plaoa la coin in my hand also- It as a shilling. A Kent aeky Anecdote. General Leslie Combs made a speech ; the raising o f a clay pole in Paris, [y., during the ^campaign of 1844. He as so confident 011 this occasion, that he romised to climb that tall pole backard, from the stai ichions at the bottom > the raccoon cage on top, if the Kenicky statesman sh ould be defeated by le unknown Candida te from Tennessee, i was a rash promise, and the memoiy f his hearers affterw.ards exhibited a sry annoying tene>city. In his stump sercises after that the enthusiastic and inguine General could nevec indulge in rtravagant promises or rose colored preictions without encountering flashes of Diintry wit that put him on the defence. He never got dome explaining how ; was that he never climbed that pole ^cording to his promise, only because it ad been cut down a od removed before e could get there. Recently it transired that two section b of that same blue sh pole were still star iding as gate-posts 1 Paris, and in order to stop the clash ? x i:i ?i x I IR6 COUDtry CUli-vi? iwuuu uuuui, tuc eneral consented to appear on Thanksiving Day and performed the long de)rred feat of climbing. Sure enough .hen the day came he arrived on the ir,s, and was welcomed to a sumptuous reakfast, and he made good his prolisa, and made besides a happy speech 'orn the top of the gate post. His air was us black, his eye as bright 1 hen he did this as when he ftade the >eech that led to it in 1844. Ho was a iptaiii in the war of 1812, and is still so outlif*l in spirit and appearance as to ' e regarded with a sort of superstition 1 y the people of Kentucky, As time ' r' is no wrinkles on his genial face 1 ley begin to think he came over with once de Leon, and was the only one of ic party that found the fountain of ealth. A Fenian Prisoner. Mr. Reddin, one of the Fenians sen- j meed to live years' imprisonment for mnection with the rescue of Kelly in [anchester, has published in the Dubliu Express an account of his imprisonment, hich is a horrible revelation of brutah- ' ' on the part of the prison ofiicials who ul him in charge. Mr. Red<lin spent le principal part of his imprisonment i Mooreliousc jail, where ho was freleutly punished beoanse it was physiillv impossible for him to accomplish ' An Atin AO/>O. I ' te worn, UBBigucu. iu iiiui. v/u umj <a , on lie was ordered to the parade round, and being too ill to walk, he was agged first by two prisoners and afterards by two warders, after which lie as thrust into the penal cell, where he as stripped naked and left for four ours. While suffering from paralysis te most cruel experiments were resorted under the pretence of ascertaining ketlicr he was shamming. These inuded burning with hot irons, piercing is legs with needles, the application of galvanic battery to various parts of his ^dv, and the novel expedient of thjowig lnm up in the air and permitting him ? fall en his bed. Finally lie was laced in a solitary cell, where he reained until a short time before his dislarge. Other brutalities, too revolting >r description, were iuflicted on the uji>rtunate man, who, at the expiration of is sentence, left prison paralyzed and impletely broken down. Mr. Reddin's atements in regard to barbarous treat- ^ ient lie received are vouched for by * ro witnesses, and his friends have lallenged the Government to institute public and impartial inquiry into the 1 icts. < \ Remarkable Turkey Adventure.? ( he sloop Sarah took a load of produce \ ear Sag Harbor, L, I., and sailed for < t\ ! 11... ew XI ft veil, l/urmg wiu uiwruuuu sue ( ruck oil Sachem Head, about fifteen \ tiles east of New Haven, and shortly 3 fter sank, the crew escaping. Included ] i her assorted cargo was a box contain- ] ig twelve live turkeys, which a fanner t 11 the island had intnisted to the cap- ( tin of the sloop to be marketed at New j [aven. On the following day the farmer j ho had shipped the turkeys twenty- 2 >ur hours previous was somewhat sur- 1 rised and almost dumb founded to find t le identical box of turkeys on the i each near his house, together with a ] atcli and a fender belonging to the < loop. The turkeys were all alive and i obi ding. He is still at loss to account i >r the preservation of the fowls during ' leir perilous sea voyage. i < \r t-v ? ( JlAltLM- Ui.>AMiin.?ouuimnjo ui ujaume disasters for the month of October f- the present year, from the Internaonal Register oj Shipping, dated Novemer 12, show that during October 240 riling vessels and 18 steamers of all ags have been reported lost. Among re former, the number lost, above ten, re as follows: 118 English, 21 Noregian, 18 Dutch, 17 German, and 14 rench, The American loss of vessels as 9. Of the steamers lost 9 were F.nlish, 3 Dutch, and one each belonging ) the United States, France, Brazil, forway and Sweden. Among the saillg vessels are 5 and among the steamrs 1 reported missing. / The Weed. When Chriitopher Columbns discovered the island of San Salvador in 1492, 1c he sent two Spaniards into the interior to examine the country. They related, h on their return, that they had met many 1c of the inhabitants holding some herbs h in their hands, and inhaling the smoke, w when lighted. This little firebrand was t< called tobaco, a word which has been fi ad opted all over Europe, and in Havana. ^ They still say, jwobar un lobaco, for smok- d ing a cigar. It was to Sir W alter Raleigh a that we owe the introduction of this g favorite indulgence into England; ri whilst Jean Nicot, ambassador of France 1 to Spain, brought it into his own coun- ii try, it being already well-hnown in S Spain and Portugal. Catharine de' y Medici adopted the nfiw plant, imagin- u ing it to be a cure for every ill that J flesh is heir to, and in her honor it tl oecame the Queen's herb, the Medicean b herb, and the holy herb. The fashion f< being thus introduced, the use of tobacco extended itself by degrees, though not fl without meeting with considerable op- h position. Aumrath IY. commanded t< that those who took it should be beaten k in a mortar; the Shah of Persia content- tl ed himself with cutting off the delin- f, quents' noses ; Innocent VIII. condemn- tl ed tliem to eternal ruin; and James Jj I. wrote a book against tbern full of h wise sayings. All was in vain ; tobacco p was to conquer its adversaries, triumph a over every obstacle,and become a strange lj kind of aliment, which the tyranny of s) habit was to render indispensible to a I great part of the population. Tobacco tl is now consumed in every possible form; "J the makei-s try to invent new combina- 0 tions; in order to satisfy the passion of i certain amateurs who appreciate a good cigar as others do a glass of old wine. Smoking has superseded the snufibox of our forefathers ; it is allowed everywhere ?iu public gardens, clubs, cafes, and most private houses; perhaps, after a time, it will be so at the theatre, as it I now is in Holland.?English pa,per. a ? s Horace Greeley as a Boy. g Faithfulness was the most striking a moral trait of the boy Horace Greeley, t] says one of his biographers. ti "Come," his brother would say some- h times, when the father had set the boys tl a task and had gone from home, "come, b Hod, let's go a-fishing.'' "No," Horace si would reply, in liis whining voice, g "W.'u /1m our stint first." "Ho. was al- tl ways in school, though/' says his brother, c< "and ;ts we hoed down the rows or la chopped nt the wood-pile lie was perpet- si lally talking about his lessons, asking is piestions, and narrating what he read. " o! When he fished, he fished for fish, not el 'or sport. He could never be induced to f( ihoot anything. When he did accom- fc >nny a shooting party he would never lc any or discharge a gun, and when the tl rame was found he would lie down and w jtop his ears till the murder had been h lone. ol When liis father was finally driven to ai bankruptcy 011 the barren New Ilamp- ta jliire soil, Horace was too young to un- ai lerstand the "justice" of the Sheriff's 81 visitation. The story is that he seized m i hatchet, ran to the neighboring field h md began furiously to cut down a fav. w Drite pear-tree, saying, " They shall not si liave that, any how." But his mother called him off, and the pear-tree still stands. Another story is that he went to one of his mother's closet", and taking w is many of her dresses as he could grasp h iu bis arms, ran away with them into 6' the woods, hid them behind a rock, and al then came back to the house for more. e: el Desire of the Dying for Rest. In their hist hour men and women *r vant physical rest and ease above aught ^ ilse: and I have known instances in e' vhich the replies of persons near their lissolntion were in such'sharp contrast ^ :o inquiries made of them as to become grotesque. I was present when an ac . * . , i i. 3 w piainranue, naviug ueen sirucjt uuwu m :he street by a falling chimney, was car- *' *ied homo in a dying state. As soon as ?' le had recovered consciousness, his wife, Dl lalf frantic with teiTor, leaned over the al lofa on which he lay, and said, "O! my 111 larling, do you really love me ?" The response was, " Yes, if you will pull off C( ny boots;"and those were his last words. \ gentleman; long ill of a wasting fever, c* lad reached that condition where a doure for rest usually heralds the grand ;ransformation. His betrothed, who !iad devotedly nursed him, said, "Dear?st, do you die happy?" "I should," vas the answer, *' if that infernal fly ^ vouldn't bother me," and spoke no more. Q) 'Wouldn't you like to see your father?" ej nquired a doting mother of her only m >on, us Ins iiie was ebDing last. " tc jourse I should, but I'd rather have my w face washed." Such words, apparently x larsh and unfeeling, come from persons ^ ji natural sensibility and tenderness, jecause in their dying hour the desire 'or material comfort often crowds out w" ivery other consideration. 0{ RESTAUBANT3 AND COLORED GUESTS.? bl rhe Criminal Court of the District of sr Columbia, in the celebrated ice-cream tli rases which came up on appeal under the gi Divil Rights bill, decided that it must be nadc to appear that the refusal to enter- ar ain guests was distinctly made upon the ^ ground of color or race. This feature q1 lot being established, this mnch-litigsf>ed case was dismissed, oz A Boy'a Letter. . A Cincinnati paper publishes the fol- < >wing amusing letter written by a boy : Dear Sue?The horses is all got the orse disease very much. Us boys had >ts of fun the other day. Little Frank's obby horse had glue in his nose, so e knew he had it, and we took him in3 the bath-room and got some of ma's ne towels and rapped his legs up in hot S 'ater, and burned sulphur matches uner his throat, and swinged his main off, ? nd the paint come off his legs, and the lue all come unstuck, and Frank can't ide him any more. Wasn't it jolly ? n hen the matches put us in mind of hav- 0 ig a Boston fire, so we coaxed Sister adie to give us her box of Swiss houses 0 ou brought her from Urip; and set 'em is p and touched 'em off, and let her rip. S( 'he town went like blazes, and we lirowed some of sis's dolls in for dead ^ odies, and then saved the arms and legs ^ 3r trophies. But you bet we got scared when the ames went so high, so we turned on the K ose, and that fool Jim Blain let the wa- s ?r run all over the floor and down the ? itcheu onto the cook's head, and she bought the pipes had busted, and run r dt a man to fix 'em, so ma caught us j, bere, and the boys run home, but I got fi eked. It didn't hurt much, cause I iad on tliick clothes. Our Frank is in * ants. He went in last Sunday, l got J new girl, she is a bully one. I don't E Ike Jennie Bird any more, or I guess he don't like me any more, cause when J give her a handful of peanuts she ? browed 'em in my face, and I expected ? im Blain told lies on me. I'd lick him nly his father keeps a candy store, and L git all the candy I want for nothing. s Your affectionate brother, t Charles. fl P. S.?Please bring me a Goat. I Scenery of Labrador. 1 Bleak and savage as are the shores of c jabrador, yet the aspects of nature there re often pictnresqne and grand, and ^ ometimes strangely beautiful. The s Teat dark cliffs along the coast, beaten c nd torn by the storms of centuries, rear ^ beir giant forms, that have been sculpired by tempests and moulded by the ands of frost giants, and hewn into ^ beir present shape by the thundering t t # il. . a il 1?.?- 1 Ml T tl. _ V lows oi tne Aiiaimc s uuiows. iu me t immer evenings it is grand to see their ^ rent shadows falling on the surface of ie waves, as the sun is setting, and the * jaseless music of ocean is heard as it ^ ives their jagged sides. But grander e ill is the sight when the grand Atlantic b i lashed into iury, and like the bnset f an invading host the watery battalions large up the lofty cliffs with desperate * iry, as if determined to carry the g stress, and fling their spray over the i< dtiost summits. Then, what can equal h ie stern and awful beauty of the ocean F hen laden with ice-argosies ; when the uge floes are grinding against one an- a kher and dashing each other to pieces ; J' id the stately icebergs, with their fan- I istic shapes, their glittering pinnacles r< id dazzling white towers, are sailing ^ owly past, caryiugin their bosom fraglents from the Arctic mountains to ^ elp in the erection of a new continent, -j here now the ships are sailing over the ^ lbmarine banks of Newfoundland. a w A Warning for Merchants.?A case as been decided in a Liverpool court, F hich, the law bearing upon the case I1 eing the same in this State as in En- c, land, should warn dealers in luxuries p gainst selling too freely oh credit to h ctravagant women. The wife of a nier- ^ lant in moderate circumstances con oi.lpd a }>itl trifli a liair-rtrpsHpr far hair leaching, false curls,complexion washes, X'., amounting to about one hundred , t< ollars. The husband may have noticed a le general effect of these beautifiers,but ^ robably he ascribed it to nature. lie as undeceived, however, when the bill ^ as presented for payment which he re- ^ ised, He was sued, and upon the trial [ the case he swore that his wife had ^ o authority from him to bin* the things " 81 id that his financial condition would at admit of such extravagance. The adge decided that a husband cannot be impelled to pay for luxuries bought by is wife, unless he is aware of the purlase at the time, or his means sufficient VJ > afford them. , k Destroyed.?Palazzuolo, a flourishing sf iwn in Sicily, was recently struck by a 1 irrific hurricane, and one-third of it d id in ruins. Twenty-two iiersons were ^ illed outright, many more were sen- N jsly injured, a thousand families were itirciy deprived ?f their homes, and ^ inny hundreds found that they had left them only one little corner of what as once their dwelling-house. The ir ene was strange and almost incredible, ir oofs were torn tc splinters ; balconies, w mtters, timbers, and trees were sent ai ping through the air ; kitchen utensils hi ere blown through roofs ; heavy pieces tt : furniture flew through windows; tr lilding materials were crushed into at all fragments. The fierce power of e< ie elements is something awful and w and. hi No less than five, female franchisists b1 e prosecutiig or being prosecuted in h< gal tribunals in connection with the C( ght of suffrage; Michigan, Missouri, regon, Connecticut, and New York ? iing severally the scenes of their doing suffering. o: Brevities. Chance is an unseen cause. The fear of ill exceeds the ill we fear. Children are the to-morrow of society. Time is the herb that onres all diseases. Vulgar nature suffers vainly.?Meredith. Patience is the key of content.?Jtfaoinct. The May of life blooms only once.? 'chiller. To know how to wait is a secret of sue* ess.?J)e Maistre. Study the past if you would divine the atur e.?Confucius'. Mr. Samuel N. Pike of opera house otoriety died suddenly, at his real-estate ffice, in New York, of apoplexy. It is stated that the mest marked feature f the book trade at the present moment i the large and increasing demand for cientific works and periodicals. nm? ~ TT*,VIn titno aKan^nnAfl hv J. lit/ Silip U tiJLUa n oo auouuvuvwi vj ier crew while on a voyage from Quebec ar Bristol. Eight persons were washed ft the vessel and drowned. The Boston Transcript thinks " The rcent rise in the price of leather will do omething towards making up the losses ustained by many dealers by the great Ire." An indiscreet youth in Cairo has been ined for violently kissi^ the school aa'am. She was so homely that the udge said there was absolutely no excuse or him. "Justice" writes to the President from few York enclosing $50 to be applied o the internal revenue service. The etter was sent to the Treasury Depart nent. # By authority of an order issued by fudge Durell, and by the aid of United Itates troops, Marshal Packard took K>ssession of the Louisiana State-house n New Orleans. The steamship Creaswell, from Falnouth, England, for Cork, was lost at en during the late terrible storm along he coast. Twenty-one of the passengers .nd the crew perished. All unclaimed Chinese young ladies in 3nddhist convents are to be married at mblic auction, by order of the Governnent, the religious establishments in [uestiou having been surpressed. The widow of the founder of the city of Ldrian, Mich., the late Addison J. Comtock, recently died. She was mother if the first child born in the city, and t the time of her death the oldest resilent. The stockholders of the Wallkiil National Bank and the citizens of Midlletown are determined to make good he capital stock and reconstruct the >ank, providing the banking officers at iVashington grant sufficient time. At a late wedding a calcium light was brown on the bride as soon as she left he church, and was so managed as to [ood the carriage with light, and thus xhibit the toilet of the blushing ride and grcom to an admiring multitide. In the Court of General Sessions of Tew York, James O. Chambers, member f a trades-union, was sentenced to the tate Prison for seven years for fetonDusly assaulting a workman last summer realise the latter refused to join the arties then on strike. A deputation of Americans had an udieuce with the Pope at Rome and resented an address expressing the deotion ot American Catholics to the Toly See. The Pope made a feeling esponse, and concluded by giving his leasing to the Catholics of America. The largest turkey ever brought into toston was received from Rhode Island, t weighs thirty-six pounds aud a half, 'wo other turkeys from the same State 'eigh together forty-eight pounds; and nother, twenty pounds, making a -eight of 1011 pounds for four turkeys. One of the tanks for frying out lard at 'laukington and Armour's packingouse, at Milwaukee, exploded scatterlg boiling lard in all directions and arrying the top of the tank 200 feet, 'ortunately it happened at an early our when the workmen were not on uty, and no one was injured. A Severe Gale. The terrible storm in England appears d have been felt over a wider area than ny which are recorded since November, 821, and to have been more severe than ny which have been experienced since 'ebruarv. 1801. During the course of he last named, part of the Crystal Palcc was blown down and the steeple of Ihichester Cathedral fell. The late gale ?ems to have been marked by no casuIties of a character so striking as the bove, but the damage done throughout le country must have been immense, ad it is to be feared that the record of recks in the Irish and English channels, ill prove to be a long one. What is nown in English annals as " the great ;orm occurred in November, 26-27, "03, causing a loss of property in Lonoo alone, estimated at ten millions of ollars. Just seventy-two years ago, on ovember 8, 1800, there also occurred a orm which did immense damage ironghout the whole of England. A Terrible Accident.?The scaflfoldig in a new building at the Water-works i Cincinnati fell, carrying down eight orkmen, killing four of them instantly, ad wounding four others. The scaffold ad been erected by a sub-contractor for le purpose of putting up wroughfc-iron fl usses for the roof of the building, and ; the time it gave way was over-burden 1 with the weight of three iron trusses eighing many tons. The workmen ad been warned by the engineer of the oilding that the scaffold was weak, but eedlessly added to the mass of iron imposing the trusses until the scaffold ave way, precipitating ell of them to le ground and water beneath, a distance f about eighty feet.