Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, January 16, 1867, Image 1

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Advertisements wi 1 be inserfed at the rate of ONE DOLLAR and FIFTY CENTS por Square (10 Minion lines or less,) for the first insertion, and ONE DOLLAR f r each subsequent insertion. ?3- A liberal discount wUl ba made to these wishing to advertise by the year. Announcing Candidates $5,00, in advance. Millinery ! ! MRS. C. E. REED, Importer and Wholesale and Retail Dealer in ?1-LJL?Jai'lftY? STRAW AND FANCY GOODS MAIN STREET, (Next Door to Fisher A Hein tish,), Columbia, S. C., INVITES THE TRADE to examine her F?LI STOCK and VARIED ASSORTMENT of BONNETS AND HATS, Trimmed and Untrimmed ; RIBBONS AND FLOWERS, Of all descriptions ; LADIES' HAIR, In Cvcry Color and Shape; Also, .Plain and French CORSETS, which will be sold very low. Columbia, Oct 22 3m 43 m E. BOWERS, HAMBURG, S. C., GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT, COTTON FACTORS, AND DEALER IN GROCERIES, BACON, LARI), FLOUR, BAGGING, ROPE, TWINE, TOBACCO, SEGARS, Ac, HAVING changed his Grocory A?oney into? GENERAL COMMISSION BUSINESS will take great pleasure in meeting the wants of his old Friends and Customers. He will pay tho HIGHEST PRICE for COTTON. COUNTRY PRODUCE, kc, or will receive the same on Storage. ?Sr Consignments respectfully solicited. Farmers and Planters, and the public generally, will find it to their interest to give me a call. S. E. BOWERS. Hamburg, Oct 1, tf ' 40 J. E. COOK. JILES M. BEBUT COOK & BERRY, LATE J. E. COOK k CO., Gr an it ev ill e, S.. C., DEALERS IN lt Y IS? I) >5 Groceries, Drugs and Medicines, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS AND CAPS, Notions, ?fcc. Graniteville, Oct 1 ilmAO D. L. Turner & Go., GRANITEVILLE,; S. C., AT THE NEW STORE, are prepared to sell DRY GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES, CAPS ?nd HATS, HARDWARE, GROCERIES, PATENT MEDICINES, kc, a* cheap at any man. Give us a share of your custom, friends, and we will give you satisfaction. Graniteville, Nov. 0, 3m 4M ~mm OF EWIEI?? I AM NOW prepared to wait upon you to th? best of my ability, and furnish you whatever you shall call for in thc way of DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, AND SUNDRIES. S. F. GOODE, Esq., lately associated with mo in the Dry Goods and Mercantile business, hav ing withdrawn his interost from the concern, I now respectfully solicit for myself a share of the patronago heretofore bestowed upon thc Firm. I am to be found, as heretofore for some months past, at the Corner-the old and well-known stand of Bland k Butler. I bare, and constant ly keep On hand, everything in the way of Dry Goods, Groceries, &c Usually found in a well-conducted Village Storr; all of which I offer for CASH AT THE LOWEST MARKET PRICES. J. M*. WITT. Edgefield, June 13, tf 2? CLOTHING ! CLOTHING 1 TPHE subscriber has recently opened in this Vilhge a good ?tock of READY MADE CLOTHING, consisting of Single Garments an l Cloth and Caasimere Suits. . Also a lot of CLOTHS and CASSIMERESwbich he will make up to order. Ile is prepared to furnish bis friends sn I phi customers with CLOTHING as luw a? thu Au gusta market for Cash. JOHN CO LG AN, Agent. Nor. 6, . tf 4 fi HOUSE CARPENTERING - AND XJJSTX^E?IT^K: UNTO- I THE Subscriber respectfully announces to the citizens of Edgefield District, that he is now prepared to ertcut? ALL BUILDING AND CARPENTER'S WORK with fidelity and dis patch, and on reasonable terms. He is also engaged, next door to the Advertiser Office, in the Uiidertakiug Business, And has on hand an assortment of BEAUTIFUL COFFINS, Rosewood finish, neatly trimmed, ami of the latest styles. Pricos very moderate. My fine NEW HEARSE, with goatU Hots?? and a good Driver, will attend Fun*ral5 whtn desired. During my absence from the shop. Mr. JAR. PAUL, who is conducting the CABINET BUSI- J NESS in the same Booms, will give his individual tjhmtim to ali orders for COFFINS, Ac Jf, A. KABAE&T. Vor.tr, lg , # I C. & A. i Insur?nc No. 221 Bi Represent (he following THE GEORGIA HOME. MERCHANTS... JEFFERSON . CITY FIRE_._;. MERCHANTS' A MECHANICS'*. STAR FIRE. NATIONAL MARINE AND FIR NEW ENGLAND. ASSOCIATED FIREMAN'S. NORTH AMERICAN-..,..... VIRGINIA.. UNION."".,... INSUUANCE AND SAVING.. SOUTHERN MUTUAL LIFE. SOUTHRRN" ACCIDENTAL . ^SS^MR. D. R. DURISOE ls our authorizec wishing to insure will find it to their interest to ci Augusta, Oct 22 lili .tUli.Ul) 3tablishedl in Charle st cn in 1337, And in Augusta in 1848. THE Subscriber takes pleasure in informing thc residents of Edgefield and the adjoin ing Districts that ho has been appointed Agent Tor the THREE BEST PIANO MAKERS IN THE \V?)RLD, viz: STEINWAY * SONS, New York, CHICKERING ? SONS, Boston, HAZELTON BROS., New York. And ho will soil their Instruments at FACTO RY PRICES, with freight added. Porsons wishing to pnreltaae a SUPERIOR PIANO FORTE will pleasosend for Circulars iud Illustrated Catalogues, and they will find they can purchaso from tho BEST MAKERS, at is Low Prices as they can of inferior ones. Illustrated Catalogues and Circulars sent free sf all charges. GEO. A. OATES, 240 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA. ^59-Also, Agent for Mason A Hamlin's cele brated CADINET OKGANS. Apr 24 tf ;17 ESTABLISHED IN 1850 THE .Sub?cri- diSy?--^ ? ber would re- ?e??r,';/^?3? fcipeetfully in-&??? lorin thc citizens of Edgt field and thc surround mircountrv. that he kop.? a SPECIAL ESTAB LISHMENT for the REPAIR of WATCHES ind JEWELRY. All work entrusted to his :aro will >>e executed promptly, neatly, and warranted f-r one year. - At his Store will be found one of the largest Stocks of Gold and Silver Watches, Of the best European and American manufacture in the Southern States, with a seltct assort ment of RICH AjLD NEW STYLES ETRUS CAN GOLD JEWELRY. Sat with Diamonds, Pearls, Rubies, Oriental Oar nots, Cor?l, Ac. Also, SOLID SILVER WARE consisting of full TEA SETS, WAITERS, ICE AND WATER PITCHERS, CASTORS, GOBLETS, CUPS, FORKS, SPOONS, And evcrjthing in tho Silver Ware lino. FINE SINGLE AND DOUBLE BARRELED Cr U IV S . . Colt's, Smith A Weston's, Coopers, Remming tou's, Sharp's, Derringer's, PISTOLS. And many others of thc latest invention.' FINE CUTLERY. SPECTACLES, WALKING CANES, PERFUMERY, PORTMONIAES; AND FANCY GOODS Of oTcry variety to be found in a first class Jew elry Establishment. A. PROHTAUT, One Door below Augusta Hotel, 1G3 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. Oct 15 Gm 43 GUNS, PISTOLS, CUTLERY, ? STILL CONTINUE TnE GUN BUSI NESS at my old stand, 245 Broad Street, and my STOCK IS NOW COMPLET!., as follows : Doublo and Single Barreled GUNS ; POWDER, SHOT and GUN CAPS, all varie ties: ? FIXED AMMUNITION for all sized Pistole; Powder FLASKS, Shot BAGS, Game BAGS ; Cou'?, Smith A Wessons, and other PISTOLS Also, a fine Stock of POCKET KNIVES, of Rogers and Wefctenbolm's make ; Rogers' TABLE CUTLERY ; PAD LOCK:: and DOOR LOCKS, Ac. As my GUNS were mado to order in England expressly for me, they are warranted to bo an A No. 1 article,- iud to givo satisfaction, and ot price* t>: suit tLe times. REPAIRING OF GUNS don? promptly. . ' E. H. ROGERS, No. 245, Broad St., Augusta, Ga. Dec 3 3m 48 J. W. BAW. J. J- BACON J, W BACON & BRO,, Wholesale and Retail Manufacturers and Dealers in all kinds of SADDLES, HARNESS, TttUNKS, LEATHEK, R?C8ER AND LEATHER BELTING, Wood Hames, Whips, Valises, Carpet Bug?, Shoe Findings, Freuch and American Coif Skin?, And ali other kinds of J,rather, Ac, 1G9 Broad Street, UNDER TilE AUGUSTA HOTEL AUGUSTA, GA. j^r S ADDLES and HARNESS Repaired uad made to order. Augus'a, Oe 22. ?tn 43 Just Arrived! A LARGE Stock bf OVERCOATS, ranging in price from 312 to*&40. Now on Hand, A First Rate Stock of all kinds of MENS and BOYS CLOTHING. AU Goods nt Very Lowest Prices. J. At TAN WINKLE? Angsts, Ksirll . 4* j 3k HALL. e Agents, 'oad Street, r, Insurance Companies: .?f Columbus, Ga. .of Hirtford, Conn. .%.of Scottsvillc, Va. .-. of Hartford, Conn. .v.of Baltimoro, Md. .?. of Now York. E,.of New Orleans, La. ' ...of Hartford, Conn. ., of Baltimore, Md. . of Hartford, Conn. .of Staunton, Va, .of Baltimore, Md. ,.'.of Richmond, Va. of Colombia, 8. C. of Lynchburg, Va. I Agent for Edgefield and ^vicinity, and parties di on hui. 6m 43 J. D. A. MURPHY J GEO. n. HOPE of South Carolina. | of Virginia. L. SHEPPARD WITH !J. D. A. MURPHY ? CO., Wholesale and Retail -HEALERS IN Boot?. Shoes, &c,,.&c, Ne. 314 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, Respectfully solicits the patrtnnge of his friends of Edgefield District, S. C. Augusta, Nov. . Sm 43 9 J. M. YOUNGBL O OD, WITH R, C, & H. ti. EASTERLING GROCERS, AND General Commission Merchante, So. 130 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA., j RESPECTFULLY beg leave to inform their j friends ot Edgefield and the adj lining Districts, ?and ihr public generally, that they have on hand and are constantly receiving, A WELL SE LECTED STOCK OF Groceries o?' Every Description, Which they ofter at the tho LOWEST MARKET PRICES. Tbcj will also give strict attention to tbe Sale j of all COUNTRY PRODUCE Consigned to them. I And will fill all orders, in"their line, with dis I patch, at the lowest market pricer. Augusta, Oct 22 tf 43 JOHN C, BOHLER H. WARNER & CO., DEALERS IN FINE L I QUO RS, Family and Fancy (?recr?es, TOBACCO,* CIGARS * AND SNUFF, PIPES OF ALL KINDS, Powder, JSlxot. Caps, FANCY NOTIONS AND Musical Instruments, AND ALL KIND OF STRINGS. ALSO, DEALERS IN Ready Made Clothing, Stable and Fancy Dry Goods, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS AND CAPS, PERFUMERY AND SWEET SOAPS, No. 112 and 144 liroad Street, ACGUSTA, QA. Nov. 6, Cm 45 J. S. COLES, FACTOR AND FORWARDING JSdL ERO H -A. HST T3 111 y no Ul Street, (Near South Carolina Depot,) AUGUSTA, OA. \\\\\ Sell Cotton and Produce Gen erally, OR RECEIVE THE SAME ON STORAGE. Will Furnish or Purchase Planters' Snpplies. Au?usin, Aug 15 fim 33 BARGAINS! THE " LAMP MAN," Np. 172 Broad Strecl, Augusta, Geo., [N?ENDS to partly chango bis business, and will J?Tcr for TH I HT Y DAYS Great TSargains IN LAMPS, CHANDELIERS, &c, M 'St of bis doods will be ofTercd for " G rein Backe" AS LOW, AND SOME LOWER, thon thc Gold price prior to thc War. . This is a RARE CHANCE to all who need any kind of Lamps. And it ought to be known that Mr. FARR now sells the only ' .> . Genuine Kerosene Oil To l e found in Augusta, and at same prico of Petroleum. ^ST-Don't forge* that ho has moved to 172 Broad Street, ?pposite the Augusta Hotel, sign of tito RED LANTERN as bciuro. N. B.-Messrs. MOORE ,t BROWN, CROCK ERY and GLASSWARE DEALERS are located in same Building. * Augusta, Dec 10 lm 50 . Close Accounts. THE Undersigned would respectfully inform all who ure indebted to him on Accounts made in 1860 and 1801, that tho Accounts must be elosed by thc 10th February next, otherwiso thej will bo put into judgment lo prcvont them from going out of dato. Como and seo me, and you may save paying cost. JAS. H. SULLIVAN, ?al *i I Thc Rabbit on thc Wall. Tho cottage.work is ovor, Thc ovcning meal is dono; Hark! through thc starlight stillness You hoar the river run. Then spenk out, ono and till : "Como^ father,make for Johnny Tho rabbit on tho wall."' Ho smilingly assenting, They gather roiind his chair; "Now, grandma, you hold Johnny Don't let tho candle flare," So, speaking, from his fingers Ile threw a shadow tall, V-, That seemed a moment after A rabbit on tho wall. Thc children shout with laughter, Tho uproar loudor-grows; Evon grandma chuckles faintly, And Johnny chirps abd crows. There no'crwas gilded painting, Hung up in lotty hall, Gavo hali tho simple plcasuro Of this rabbit on tho wall. THE GROCER'S STORY. Ours was a quiet street at most times-a lazy, shady place where thegrcen blinds were forever closed, and where there was so little passing that spears ot grass grew here and there between the flagstones, and the stone eurbs of thc iron railed arcas were fringed with soft green moss. A very quiet place ajf most times, but late upon one autumn aiteV noon a strange cry sounded through it, which awakened all its echoes, and called curious faces to the doors and windows. ..Stop thief! ?top thief!" The strong voice of a policeman uttered the cry nt first, and the shrill treble of two boys at play near by took it up arid repeated it, aud by und by there waara full, deep cho rus like the cry of a pack of hounds-a sound you might have known at any distance, however ignorant you were of tko langnage, to be the cry of men who hunted something; Policemen with their clubs, errand boys with bundles, bakers with baskets on their arras, young gentlemen just released from thc academy closf- at hand, and ragged urch ins,'-whose schoc -house was the gutter, all joined together in the hot pursuit, and fut lowed the miserable object with barn, be grimed leet and hatless head, that Hilted along before them wit-fa a speed which only fear could lend to one so worn and wretched i-a speed which kept, thc crowd a lor^ way off, and made the'buriiest ol' his pursuers pant for breath. They were out of sight in a moment, but in a little while the cry was heard that the thief Iud balded them, and some amongst' the crowd rushed back to see if 'heir prey bad doubled on his track ; and others, sulky and indignant with thc result of their useless chase, came back muttering angrily or swear ing, with many violent oaths, that they would have him yet. Uao policeman, a well fed fellow with a Crimson fuee, made quite a hero of himself br asserting that he knew the fellow and would trap Kim before sundown, j There was a good deal o' sympathy expressed] for the gentleman who hud lost his pocket handkerchief, but none that I could henr fir . the poor, degraded wretch who had purloined , it, until a placid vjice nt my elbow uttered^ ? the following words, apparently in soliloquy1! g ,; Well, 1 may be wrong, but I somehow' I hope they wou'LcatcJjJum-lL^- J_'3 I" turned in surprise, and confronted our grocer, on whose steps I had sought shelter from the crowd, which at such a moment, could not be expected to think much ol the safety of a woman. Our grocer was a portly man, with a shin ing bald head, fringed by a ring of white hair, like tho tonsure of a Roman Catholic priest, and wearing at thc moment a Holland ; apron and a short blue jacket. ? i: Yes'm," he went on, ?' I really hope the miserable, starred-looking croat ure jrill get i ff. 1 11 Then you don't believe he picked the gentleman's pocket," said I. " Pin afraid it's only too certain that he did, : ma'am," said the man, shaking his bend. .! lie loo' ed straight ut me as be pass J. and he had hungry, desperate eyes that looked 1 like theft, and murder, too, for that matter." " And yet yu wish him to escape, when he has broken the law.? of the land, and will probably do so again ?" ? " (Jod forbid that I should help to break I thc laws," said the old grocer. " Good men i made thc?), and they are right ; but lhere are ; other Ians that i read in my old Bide Sun- 1 day nights, that seem to be as binding. One of them is-. DJ unto others as you would 1 that others should do unto you ;' and another, 1 ' Love thy neighbor us thyself.' When 1 re? member these words, I think that you may ! ba?too hard with a poor sinful fellow being, 1 and not go beyond the limits o( thc law either. "That rich gentleman who had his pocket 1 picked will go home to a line dinn-u and a tuttle of wine, no doubt, the wretch of a thief ? may have a crust of bread and a glass of ; burning gin. if he can sell or pawn what he ' stole for enough to ?et them. Somehow, if I could, J wouldn't have him hunted down to uigbt-I vow I wouldn't. "Still, I don't blame those young fellows ; 1 I'd have been as furious in the chase as any of 'em years ago ; but T learnt a lesson at : once that I never have forgotten, and hope I never may. I was a young man and a poor ; one, then, and had ?i hard struggle to make 1 my little shop keep my little fami'r. It wan only by pinching and saving, am keeping a sharp look out fer every bargain, that 1 man- 1 agea it at all. ! " Wo lived in a shabby street, and had only very poor eustomere. A loaf of bread, a 1 quarter of a pound of butter, and two ounces 1 of black tea was quite an order, and most of those who came wanted trust. 1 " As for laying in linc fruit or vegetables, I never thought of such a folly. Diamonds : would have been as saleable in that part of '< the eily, where washerwomen and thc poorest laboring men were the aristocracy. " Now aud then, when a foreign ship came to port with a load of ruined pineapples, or '. decayed oranges, I bought a lot of these, and 1 charging next to nothing, sold them easily enough. Although, I own, my wife used to say the miserable babies, who rolled about ' thc gutters, died off faster after every stock of damaged foreign fruit I sold in thc old shop, and I am afraid that she was right. Well, os 1 told you, I struggled along as best I might and alter a while things began to improve, and I bogan to havo visions of a clean store in a good street, when I laid dowu to rest at night. " So one day when I had been to market I brought home half a dozen hams and bung them np about thc door, faiore for a show than anything else, for hams were a grand holiday dinner in thoso regions, .and not an every day adair I can Iel! you. They went off slowly, as I thought they would. Now and then some one would come in for a pound, 1 and once I sold half of tho smallest one to a woman who wanted it for her Sunday dinner. She was to pay me on Monday morning, but she never did, for on Sunday night her hus band killed her with arum bottle and they took her body past my shop with its poor head beaten out of shape and bloody. "And so the hams hung there through the < summer and through the fall, and quite on into thc winter. " It was j?st as thc December nights began ' to grow long and dark and cold, that I uoticed a new policeman on our beat-a young, hand some looking fellow, with very bright eyes, ; but with such thin cheeks and hands, al- 1 though he seemed to bo powerfully built and ; made for rather a stout man, that I could not ; help watching bim, and wondering whether Le had been ?ll or not. Thc first time (?bat noticed him, was about sunset, and he passe and repasscd my window a dozen times, looli ingjall the while straight at those hams wilie dangled from the frame of the awning. " hope ho means to buy one," I said to nr wife, as we sat together over the tea table "and I shouldn't wonder if he did, for hi seems to have taken o,uite a fancy to them.' "But the evening passed, and though '. saw-bim every now and then on the othe side' bf the way, looking across with hi bright eyes straight at tho hams, he did no cqi? in or speak to me upon the subject And so I made up my mind that he WQUU send for it iu tho morning, and somehow mode sure of it that whenever I saw a decen looting woman go by with a basket on hei arch, 1 said, " That's the policeman's wifi coming after the ham." 1 wai mistaken hoverer, and after the street lamps wen ligated that night I began to sec thc man pacing up and down, up and down, up ant down, with, his eyes still fixed and as they had been the night previous upon tho hams Once.he caught mc peeping at him, and thou helurned so red and looked at me with a wolfish glitter in his eyes, that I grew angry an| said to myself, ' L's well that keeping an unsaleable article isn't arrime in this cjuntry forjiif 1t waa I should expect to be arrested.' SctI gave him back his look, turned on my heel, and walked hack into tho shop. I did nof; ?ee him again that night ; but long after everything had been taken in and locked up, and I was snug in bcd, I heard a tramp, trtmp, tramp, up^n thc pavement, and knew it was thc new policeman, and that bc was locking at the hooks where the hams hung, oswell as though 1 had seen him. " On the third evening lie was there again ; that, you may say, was no wonder, fo; it was l i; duty to be upon that beat and no other ; but irkas curious that he should keep on staring att'those hams with those bright, wolfish eyes ot" his. I didn't like it, though I could uot have said why. A vessel bad been wrecked at sea about that time, and au extra, with the latest news of the disaster, came out that evening. I bought a paper and sat down be hind the counter to read it. lt was a stormy night, and but few customers came in, and tioso were easily served, and somehow, be tween reading and thinking, time passed on, until the clock struck eleven, and I had not yet taken in my goods or put up my shutters. .'."Just cs I was about to do so, (in fact, 1 had already put my hand upon the first piece cSpthe shatter,) my door opened and an old woman came ic. She was a sottish, miserable creature, known abe-:: the place as " Irish Kate,'' and with her red nose, bleared eyes, and bloated limbs, was as ugly a figuro as ?ly one ever cast eyes on. 1 Another dram, ?suppose, I said to myself, going behind the bar at ^nc?, for I wanted to get rid of ber'iis soon as possible. But she, to my surprise, came close up to me, and put her great red jfa.w upon my an?, ? "I've made a eliskivery, muter," she said. RTou've not been keeping as bright a look ?j?t as yju should ; there's neon a lhare at Bork without this blessed night." I "What thief?" I asked. ' " More than I can tell yo," she answered. '/.Bat 1 think it's a policeman, no less, the blackguard." ' ,: A policeman !" I cried, find my thoughts RW"'at once to the man 1 hail seen staring at "" li's too dark to soo his face." she said : " but I caught the shine of ... star on the coa; he has on, and whoever it was took a batu from your pegs and hid i' in tho ash box be yant at the corner, i'l-'lt l?nd it t riere, if ye look; and now ye'll not refuse an old woman a sup of wbt-kef for the information i" "1 give the old creature what she wanted, hurried her out of thc sh p and put up tho shutter-, growing angrier every moment. "if it is the policeman I'll make bira pay dearly for ;;,'' as 1 slunk along the sidewalk to the corner, keeping in the shadow all the way, and when 1 stood be-ido the box ?md saw by ?be 1'ght of the lamp, cloue by, that the ham was there, wrapped in something which looked like a handkerchief, 1 bit my lips and clenched my hand with rage. Had it. been a common thief I should not so much have minded ; but a policeman ! it was more than I could stand. So i crouched myself in ii doorway and wailed. Hie watch were re lieved at 12 o'clock ; 1 knew that, ?ind knew also that, this would be the time when my policeman would come to 'ake the ham from out of its hiding place. And sure enough when the lime came I beard him challenge Lhe man who was to take his place and come marching down towards the corner. I let him get the ham well under hij arm before I stirred, but then I pounced upon him like a tiger. " I've got you !" I cried. " A pretty po liceman you are, indeed, but you shall suffer for it; you shall suffer for it I can tell you." " He struggled with me for a moment like x wild thing, and then all of a sudden drop ped the ham and fell down in a helpless sort jf a heap upon the ground. "I'm a ruined man!" he groaned, " a ru ined man ! there's no hope for me now. Oh my God ! my wife-my poor little wife !" and lie burst out crying, like a woman. "The sight softened me, but I was angry still. "You should have thought of that befoto ?rou became a thief," I said. "If the guar dian of a man's property is not to be trusted, what is to. boonie of him ? And you look like a gentleman-you do not seem fikc a scoundrel j how have you ever stooped to do such a disgraceful thing as this 1 "He was stauding beside mc now, and the lamplight fell upon his face. It was white as luy corpse's and his eyes glittered terribly. "I'll tell you what made me do it, ho said j " it was the only thing which could have driven me to an act like that; my wile and child are starving-starving, 1 tcll'you, iud I had nothing for them !" "Policemen's families do not often starve," I slid with a sneer. " My God ? can't you believe me-^-won't you believe inc?" panted the man. "I have only been appointed three days-I have not receitcd a cent of salary yet. I have been ill a long while, and bad neither money nor credit. Last night we went to bed supper less ; to-day there has not been a crust in thc house', and thoie hams tempted me so. You can ?ever know how awfully they tempted me, n'A I meant lo pay you afterwards." " Ile covered his face wil li his hands, and I couti see great tears dripping through his lingen, and before I knew it my own cheeks were tioist, and so we stood silent with thc ham Iring between, us on thc ground. " A; last he turned towards mc and said, . 1 Do wLat you like with mc. Thc last hope , is gem?.' " Bit I put my hand on bis arm and said, 'God bi hid that I should take the la^t hope from you, that I, of all men, should be tho i ono to ruin you. If your story ia true-and 'i I believe ?t ?s-I pity you more th?n I blame I you.' i "Holooked at mc in a short .bewildered ? way ns though ho scarcely understood me, and I tjok him by thc arm and led bim back to the shop. There I filled a basket with j ucead and butter rind coffee, and put thc ham . on top nf all. 'Take it homo to your wife,' [ said, you'll pay me when you get your sala ry, andifyou arc in need before that time, j come to me. I'm a poor man myself and can feel for other poor men." " I slall never forget that man's face in t all my life, so wondering, so thankful and so J awe-stricken. All ho said was, 'God bless { you,' bit there was a whole sermon in those i three words, and I slept better ior them." 1 " On ?Christmas night he paid me every 4 cent, and from that day lill I left the nc horhood ho dealt willi mo regularly, times-grew so much better that I took a s in a good street at the other end of the U and one way and another saw no more ol paliccman for three good years. " One night, just such a cold night ru on which I lirst saw him staring at my hi I was awakened long after midnight by cry of fire, and started up to see the fla through the floor, a d to know thc store d stairs was all ablaze. The stairs were lire also, and when, as I opened the ei door, the hdt air and smoke rushed in attc most smothered me, I gave up all hope getting my poor wife and our helplc-s 1 ones ont of thal burning building alive safe. Help came to us, however, and tho in clambering down thc ladder I slipped ; broke my arm, I was thankful when I s as I {houghton were side. I was so fi and ill from thc accident, you sec, tha hadn't all my witsabou, me, and belie there was no onemissiug. My blood ran c when my wife, clasping iier hands, with awful look upon her face, screamed out: " Our little Lucy, our little Lucy, is behind." " She had slept with cur hired nurse si her baby brother was bor.ij and the won in her fright had forgotten her little c There she was at tho top of tbe burn building, out of the reach of anv human lu it seemed to me, as I looked up at thc wt a great, red and yellow sheet of (lame, v, blue gleams herc and there, as though de ish heads were peeping oui and grinning us. Still, hopeless as ii was, I should ht gone back into thc burning house and sai my baby or died with her if I had been a to stand. No one else wculd venture, would bc a foolish sacrifice of life, they sr for no doubt the child wt.s already smothe; by the smoke, and though I raved and plc ed and made wild promises, they shook th heads and onry bade nie have patience. "Patience?"' I thought that I was gol mad as the face of my little girl-my sw pet-rose up before me. But just thci tall mau dashed through thc crowd and cai towards me. " Quick !" he shouted, h which room is 1 child in-speak quick-which room ? " The back ot.c on the upper floor,' groaned, and kc dashed away from me. ps mg the throng with his strong arms, and another moment I saw* him mounting t ladder, r-heard them calling him* tu cot back, bidding him bc-Wf.ro, and speaking him aa though ho were dead already. I be never heeded them, and as I saw him h den by the black smoko which poured fri thc window, I covered my face and pray that the angels who walked in the fiery fi naco might go with him. .'Pcr.'nips they did. Something strong than an earthly thing ..vist have been thet for in a Cew'minutes-ttey seemed years me then-we saw him corning down the la der with-something in his arms, 'The bm body of tho child, jiorhaps,' 1 ihouahr, b as he came closer I saw that it was my ov laughing, living darling, with her blue ey open and her little anns about his neck. " Thc roof fell in thc next moment, b my treasure was safe and that was all 1 car for. u What shall I say or do to lliank yoi [ said, as 1 grasped his hand. " I'm a rm cd man, Mid I can only give you mr bles'sin; but let nie know your mme at least." "Have you forgotten jue? don't your member me ?" he said, as he bent over m ' Look again." .. 1 did, ? saw a pair of bright gray eyes, face I knew, and something glittering on h breast. And the scone at the corner of tl liny little streeton a .vet December nigh Mine back to mc, and 1 saw my policema ince more. " It is you," I said, K and you have save my child from aiicli an awful death." And what did you save me and rajri rrom ?" he said, with tcirs in his eves. "Sta ration, ruin, utter degradation. I should hal seen a felon, and my little ones paupers th light, but for you. 1-have not paid tho debt I never cnn ; but when I heard that it w; r.nir child that lay at the top of that burnin building, I prayed that I might save it, and know dod beard uie." " And Iben he told mc what had brougl Iii m to tho neighborhood on that night cf a ithei i in the year. " I had lost ali, for I was not insured, bl lie was prosperous and stood by. me like brother ; nursed mo through my illness, an loaned me money for a new sturt in life. " S that in a little while things grew bright agait md here I am, you see, as oom for tab lc a most p opie." "And thc policeman ?" I asked. " His hair is as white as my own now, ;aid thc oki man. " And my daughter, th lillie otto he saved that hight, is married t Iiis son." -? --?- * . ?5r"* A young lady at Bellvine, Ohio, swai owed two mouthfulls of strong lye in mi.-: a!:e for cider. Thc immediate application a nr?per remedies, it is bc ped, will preserve he life, though her condition is critical. ??F An exchange says more than a hun ired negroes from Georgia passed througl [lolly Springs on Monday of last week, Ol :hoir way to Arkansas. The Georgia ne jroes do not bear the highest reputation it .be Trans Mississippi ; they aro reportei is being too lazy to work, but not too hones :o steal. ?gy Albert Pike says in a lafc letter tha he completion of th?; new Arkansas an< Tennessee railroad, is :en times as Importar, is getting into thc Un oti and electing sena ors, and all that." ?3T They killed Croesus, the rich ole iloinan, by pouring his own moultcn gob lown his throat. Gen. Butler's silver spooiv diould be melted and poured down Lia. I'rQiitis. ?3*-Some .ex-siaves of Gen. Taylor, al Newport, Ky., have recovered, through .thc Joints, property bequeathed them by theil brmer master's will, jS^ST The Dutch Gnp Canal, it is said, viii soon be among the things that were. The owner of tho farm through which it is mt, finding that ho cannot yet ata portion if his land in any other way, bas filled up me cud of the canal in order to make a ?auscway. Egvpt has this year produced a cotton :rop estimated at $100,000,000. 53?" A scriblcr says life is too short to Iriuk poor whiskey or to mako lov? lo ugly vomen. ??3>" A father out West kicked his datall er's lover into tho street, and thc lover re 'enged bimsoli by causing a stick of wood died with gunpowder to be placed in tho dd gentleman's stove-effect to be ?mag ued. BS?" The Memphis Avalanche says: Some if our Southern-born people-good " rebels" n thc "lost cause," who could not dwell in bc samo Southern town with tho Federal illicials-some of them are sending their laughters to the Ncrth " to be polished." leaven savo tho mark I ??J32T ? Western paper reports thc salo of he " Marshal Plantation," ?n Bossier Parish, L,a., containing 4,000 acres, for $100,000 in mid. The " Dixon Place." containing 028 icres, sold for $80 per acre i:i currency. This o'oks as though some people believe there ' is life in the old land yet," Jflfik'?'"??.li All's Well. ; Tho day is ended. E'O I sink to sleep i My weary spirit seeks repose in Thine ; Father forgive my trespasses, and keep This little, little life of minc. With loving kindness curtain thou my bcd, And cool in rest my hurtling pilgrim feet; Thy pardon be tho pillow for my head So shall my sleep he sweet. At peace with all the world, dear Lord, and Thoo, No fears my soul's unwavering faith can shake; All's well whichever sido the grave for ma Thc morning light may break ! [From tho New York Day B?ok.] Never Despair. The New York Express makes r> remark which ought to sink deeply into every man's mimi, lt says :-" There is no moro danger ous period in the history of a free peopk,t?nn when they despair of the future-as so many now do at the South; or when they-are indif ferent to thc future-as is the case with '.cns of thousands both North anti South." These arc words of important warning. No Ameri can has a right to be indifferent as to the fate of his country. In its future is bound up the fate' of his own children, and the welfare of unborn generations. Nor ought any man ever despair oi his country. So long as there are enough true mer sincerely attached :,o the glorious principles cf Republican institutions, to support even one organ of public opmion, they should not despair. The men of this generution have, no doubt, lost to rr great degree tho knowledge of those principles o? government which were so thoroughly dis cussed in onr revolutionary period, and which were thought to be forever settled. But the unexampled prosperity which has attended our country, and followed our experiment of self-government, has made us unmindful ol the causes which contributed to it. ??Wt have got to begin de nevo, and educate a genera tion to understand them. Eventa arc soon to do a great deal in tbi3 direction, but no ef fort should be spared by true mea to arouse thc apathetic and encourage the laggard. People do not yet see tho real ohject of the Mongrel politicians. They prctenu to ;e the frieii'Js of .Republican institutions, but they arc their most deadly enemies. As a conten? porary truly remarks : " These propositions to enfranchise negroes, give women the right of suffrage, and to dis franchise w hole classes of white men, ire tu disgust the people with republican institu tions, and lead them to seek refuge from con fusion and disorder in a .strong government, in which they will secure themselves and their party in thc power of the government. No set ol' men, with' any rational - design tu support republican institutions, would act as they do. Tho masses, it is true, ht>.ve no such purpose." '. No, surely not, and when they discover tho real purposes of these men, they will be torn into'pieces by popular fury, as they will justly deserve to bc. Thc persons wh-j sup .pose that tiffs immense country is to bj gov erned by despotic power, count withoui. their host, i'ho land will breed Booihs. Tucnoxi limn who interferes with the freedom of the pre-*, or arrests aman without a warrant, will probably bc shot down in his tracks, and thea let a monument be raise; to I1?3 merso ry (bat shall last longer than thc-Pyramids o! Egypt. Is it any wonder that the pnbiic mind bas been five years under a pall, crushed down by brute loree, when Democrats stood by quietly, and saw their newspapers sup pressed, and thc most resolute defenders ol their principles dragged oil' to dungeons and basifies? Two-thirds ot" thc people of this country arc this day opposed to the present Mongrel faction, ll is but a shell which only needs a vigorous blow in tlc right spot to shatter for ever. Thc Democratic marty now neither knows its strength nor understands the principles which can load it lo victory. When* it docs, it shall rnaks short work of the baseless fabric ol' fraud and delusion which now sways thc destinies of our unhappy coun try. At all events, whatever betides ns, no American worthy of th;; name wiil ever des pair of his country, or refuse to aid in what ever shall tend to "restore ber to her once glorious position. Novia alone OK COMM UTI:; G Scram-:. The following extraordinary account of a de termined attempt at suicide i* gravely related ? 'by the Epoca ol' Madrid : '-The individual in question being tired of his lifo, resolved to take such measures as must infallibly ensure bis death. To'lhat end he started for thc sea shore, provided willi a ladder, a rope, a loaded pistol, a bottle of poison, and a box ot matches. Having sonic time before dis covered a post sfanding a little way out in the watRr, bc fixed his ladder a?ainst it. and ascending, fastened one end of the cord to the top ard passed a slip knot arou id bis neck, swallowed thc poison, and Striking a light, set fire to his clothes ; then plac.ng thc p stol to bis ear. kicked away the ladder, bi" in doing so, his'hand swerved, and, as he fir ed at thc same moraont, thc builct. instead of penetrating bis brain, divided the rope, and he fell into thc sen, extinguishing his burn: iug garments ; also, a-quantity of salt water he swallowed caused bim to throw up the poison he had taken : so that be scrambled ott the shore, convinced that his tim-: had not yet arrived." " Go TO BOSTON." AX INSULT.-Bill P. is , known all over, and Bill was at the ball in all bis giory. AH his necessaries for pleasure were on hand-g"od music, pretty girls and excellent whiskey. The evening passed off rapidly, as it always does, and Bill had, at ?boot o'clock become pretty happy. Step ping up to a young lady^ he requested the pleasure of dancing with her. She replied that she was engaged. '" Well,"said Bill, "are you engaged for thc next set ?" She said she,wan, " Can I dance with yell tba firxt. then ?" " I am png'iged for that als9.!l " Can I da:icc with you to night ?" " No," with some hesitancy. " Go lo Boston," said Bill, highly indig nant, and turned on his heel. After a few moments Bill was accosted by ? thc brother of the young lady."ami charged with insultiug his sister. i Bill denies ; but professes himself willing to apologize if he has done wrong, and ac cordingly sieps up to tue young lady, when , th-; following conversation ensued : " Miss L., I understand I haveinsultcdyou ?" , " You have sir." " What did I say, Miss L.?" j " You told mc to go to Boston." " Well," said Bill. "I have come to tell you . that you needn't go." Young lady is .satisfied. . A paper asks very innocently if it is any barm to sit in the lapse of ages. An , other replies thal it all depcuds on ti e kind ( of ages selected. Those froid eighteen to twenty five, it put down as extra ha?ardous. Thc Sultan of Turkey is building a ! hot-house at an expense of $100,000. With J thc number of wives ho bas, we should think 1 he had a hot house at home always. ?fcjy* At a schonl in Connecticut a pupil ^ owed bis teachc* $20, and as a receipt for j ?20 or over requires a two cent 6tomp, thc . man gave tho boy a receipt for $19 D9, and . gave him back one penny, thus sar og one , ceut. I ftS** General Butler says that President i Johnson " docs not like to show his hand," i Mr. Prentice adds: ,c If he wero.'-o show i both his hands and all his pockets, and the : inside of his hat, his cock-eyed assails : t wcul d : soe no silver spoons in ?xetsa? ? ." [From tho Anti-Slavery Star daru, Dec. 20.] . A Little Very Plain Talk. Every anti slavery man remembers what a dead lock: to all progress tbe .Supreme Court of the United States bas been injimcs past. To-day that samo Gourt stands the sanie jm movablc obstacle in our path. It is under stood that five Judges out of the .due support tbe President. It is said that tbey decided, a year ago, that t.?o " iron clad oath" was un constitutional, and all that the Chief Justice could do wai to delay tho formal announce ment of the decision. One of those Judges, appointed bj- Lincoln, ba3 joined tho enemy. Thia state ot things is au almost insurmoun table barrier to s-.me measures which an: in dispensable to ai:}' safe and permanent recon struction. Eut all men ara mortal. Two ot these Judges are very old, one other infirm rb health. Jt is very probable that Mr. John son may, within two year-, h a vc-the appoint ment of iwo Judges, perlaps inore. Of course, his nominations arc subject to the Senate's approval ; but we Jill know be may select men of fair repute, bi t wedded to bis policy, whom it would bo impossible to pre-' vent the Senate from confirming. Such is one of the dangers of leaving a ' rebel at the head of the Government for two years more. ' We ma}', and probably shall, have the Supreme Court reinforced with fresh, young blood, to last another quarter cf a cen tury, and be always the refuge of abuse's and thc foe of progress. If his crimes have gjven us sufficient grounds to remove Johnson and avert'this momentous danger, it is fool-hard}', it is madness, lo leave the criminal untouched and run all these risks. There is yet another consideration urging us ia thc same directior. The readiest, quickest way to secure a true reconstruction seems to be I his, ibr thc firs: step at, least, brush away these phantoms, the pretended State government, and set up Territorial governments in ouch of thc lately rebel States. There seems some evidenc?: tbat Congres intends to take this course. But suppose the Radical members achieve this result, wh: t next? Why, the nomination of all Territo rial officers belongs to thc President. -Ho can so shape Iiis nominations as to ko p this*? governments wholly subservient to.bis policy. We see, therefore, that it is impossible to make one step iu thc direction cl thorough and permanent reconstruction while Johnson remain? in office. We have tbe legal right to remove him ; the country, indignant and disgusted, demands it ; thc necessity of the Situation requires it. Delay is dangerous, and may be fatal. Who dares to trust .such a maa as Andrew Johnson with thc power thc3 to baulk the plans of the conqueror-with the power beside so to complicate our domes tic with angry foreign questions as to post pone any settlement for a dozen years? Wo regard this question of impeachment as being in fact the decision of the question whether the Republican pirty shall succeed in the next Presidential eidetic n. There is von* little chance of its doing so unless it re moves Johnson out of its path. Give h'm another two years, and it will be almost v. miracle if ever bc or his S-'i.te Secretary arc witless enough to allow themselves to be de feated. What their scccrss means every ene knows. WENDELL PHILLIPS. A Monument ol' Murder. It seems that tome of thc- naples creatures that Abraham Lincoln and bis crowd dri ve from their comfortable homes, havo boon.in duced to subscribe for a monument for that .'great man," and a certain Miss llcsmer, it is said, has designed a mode! lor the purpose, li wc can suppose such a monstrous.crime as .he ''abolition of slavery," orin oilier word*, that tho negro population of these States wilt hereafter be left to their own volition, and tho country south of 3(1.30 ab.xndoncd lo wild animals again, wc only nc d so take-the cen sus returns of Massachusetts, &c, to know when they would bc who!!;.' extinct. Ci r? taiuly mere would not bc one typical negro . left in tho ^States one hundred yeafs hcr.ee, for while in the centre of thc continent, an I isolated, they ".tight return to their natural aptitudes of obeism and snake worship, the census returns show that in juxtaposition with us they would utterly perish within a century. If, then, this nigger monument were erected to the memory ol' Abraham Lincoln, as proposed, and t:ot a solitary ni-.c .id left in the land a hundred years bene'.*, what would it mean? Wh}, simply and ex actly, from tho negro stand-point, that Abra ham Lincoln bad murdered four mwlicns of God's creatures ! Ile made thom for happi ness, to enjoy existence, to multiply and t > pletiish'the earth . but Abe Lincoln issue 1 a decree under which they sickened and died, and within a certain period utterly perished from the earth. What an evil and terrible destiny this man was doomed to-to in.Tct such boundless and illimitable wrong, pain, and suffering on four millions of human crea tures, that within a century they utterly per ished from existence! And in view of ihe protracted agony of these helpless creatures, would it not have been a'supreme thcrey to mow them clown with thc cannon at once, rather than doom them t) gradual cxiinciion through a century of u freedom!'*-X. Y. Day Book. The following arc thy reasons siver. by the Arkansas Legislature for rejecting thc Cen stitutional amendment : 1st. Arkansas does not know t hat tbe amendment was adopted by such a Congress as thc Constitution provides for, one-third of ihe States being unrepresented in it. 2J. It was never submitted to tho President for sanction as tbe Constitution requires. 3d. Tbe enormous power" it seeks in ptvo Con* gross would virtually abolish nil local and domestic State laws. 4th. It seeks -to force negro suffrage on the States, as shown i:i tho second section, while 'he filth, and third sec tions disfranchise thc wisest ar.d best citizens of the State, who, having performed all tho conditions of surrender and general amnesty, are entitled to restoration to tho stains they hehl before the war, and ibero arc no reasons for believing its adoption would secure resto ration. The committee rt com moud a quiet ?md dignified course of endurance, rather than purchase restoration at a sacrifice cf the prin ciple of self-respect. That careful old moncy-'maker, Stephen Girard, who was never known to spend a dol lar for less than a dollar's worth, thoroughly understood the'advantages of advertising. [Ie often said that he never spent money more profitably than when he invested in printer's ink during hardtimes. Pic considered it a ;oiden opportunity never to be neglected, those who advertise liberally will always ?ive thc best bargains and work thc cheapest. - ?j-S?? Cincinnati " steam refined lard" is nado from carcasses of hogs that die without :ho butcher's aid. jfj?SF* Whipping the devil rouud thc stump, s now rendered thus : Elia Tophctian Ma eaty is being flagellated about the circomfer ;nce of the inearthed remnant bf the fallen nonarch of tho forest" SERIOUS CONFLAGRATION.-We learn from ihe Charleston News that a fire occurred in ihe King8treo jail ? few nights ago, which :onsuraed the whole building and caused a jonsiderable loss of life. Twenty-two freed inen are supposed to ha?e perished in tho Hames. The fire originated in the cell bf DUO of the prisoner-, and before assistance :ould bc procured, th'e building was wrapped inflames. In consequence of the absence pi all facilities, and thc jail being in a compara tively isolated position, the efforts to save she . property were futile.