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-iii feras :-i!?/i'> ?i- .'"JV ...).. IO iii 7d ;r j . ?tr DURI S OE, KEESE & CO* ."l.,H"<l?<l.?llM.?l?'?,'l<,<?"?<"'"'""l|MlV",??,'???pBmimitHII|Ht..l.l.,ll,.t|,ll|.l>1Hll?I.Hl^H?H??lll?U??il?li?UI?U'lillM?M||lfcMt?IMMrf^MM?MHitMi?iM?tl H'M ". EDGEFIELD, S. C., ME 17, 1868. : ^ mi? nm*..*. Principal Offii T^S .busin?8fc?f thia? STMCW NY is confina^ by'l^tfle^map,1 Policies issued on all* the approved at Stock rates, 25 per cent, under the its patrons to insure on the Stock plan th>4<ftrato? > 1 ft rr.JJ ,. fcthjfc.-d'ividends, in *igooi kap?ci?ly at- the South good returns. 90 per cent, of profits on *he Mutua all the Mutual-Pokey Holdars witho?l One-third Loan on Premiums given upon first loan. Where all Cash is paid, Policies wi! ont, and fc#ve 50 per cent, added to than the original sum insured. Ample provision against forfeiture c the contract' The Company will always purchase i^We^offar^he people of the-State th? JCorap?nie?, th? accumul?atrng "pr?mui?ti thereto a Capital commencing with $5 Millions of dollars have annuaUy hi tion of the South, in payment of pre benefits: Aerive? froia the investments ; real estate and securities, our people c then sustain our ?wn Life Enterprise, profite too *t- honre. , _Officer?; at j j WM: ? JC^??STON, Pres WM. S. HOLT, Vice-Presic1 GEO. S. OBEAB,' ,?^cr*tary JOHN W. BURKE, Genen j C Fy McCAY, Actuary. .C3 H Wi* MAGILL, Superinten JAS. MERCER GREEN, * J^-TJie, Cotton States Company is a prise, is a good Company, and is now our people. This State is ably represe South Carolina Disadtra ? . - <pr "v * . ? > l General Aj -WM. J. T.AYALL. Esq,,. Office, Colum m*Y, M. D-^dgeiield, S. JL New Spring . i ->f ?IMO* ) ft-)-; -o James W BROAD STREET, DEiLEfi IN FIRSTS [AS JUST RETURNED FROM N pared to offer to the public a complet BLE FTR?T-CLASS DRY GOODS. Great care has been taken to supph mum Am FASHION I articles-of tba Trade. The Cash System will Wu rtrw much-cheaper to pay 25 per cent , for Cash, thnn to buy them O?r time. The befct judges of Dry Goods, and requested to examine my present schec But such is a fact ! And if you wa or Bottle, go to SANDERS' DRUG S "TCLS at Ipw ffearf?. *Al?LIfiU' ?es, wbjcji is hjgjhest'proof. le77 mall Profite. GEORGI WEBER, -\?i?ksal? and j?etai? Staler in HU?S,; ixm.? SHQ?S. y.TTrW GOODS constantly arriving, which are offered at the lowest prices. No. 176 Brood Street, opposite Au- | gteifA Hotel.- . . . r- : . Align?t?, July 20 tf 31 j Doors, dishes, Blinds &c. .ri." .i'? Oi P. P. TOALE, Mannf ?cturer and ??aler, No* 20 Kayne St. and Horlbeck'* Whfir/, CHARLESTON, S. C. j^r-TM? ls tho largest and mopt com plote Factory of tho kind ki tho Sooth era States, and nil articles in this lino ean be famished-by Mr. P. P. TOALK at price.-; whick defv competition. jtiirA pamphlet with full and detailed list of all toKtte of Doors, Sashes and Blmdn, and the price? of each, will be sent free and post paid, on application to July 26 1 CAAKLKSTOX, SV C. ly 31 GALS. PURE OLD CALIFOR FA! BRAS DY,-a superior article, and highly c?miaended lor Medicinal purpo se*. MARKERI' <fc CIJSBYV Zfyy* tr 2i Um Repairing. THE Sulwcribt?r, >vith tho beriofit of n .practica! . experience for tho' lost twentv-fivo years, nftemhis service? t;? Planters of Edgefield wishing their GINS KEK.URED, SAWSSI?V?tPEXEl), tv-. ?<\, p^.wilt.atten 1 promptly and faith fully to nil orders. Term? moonabie. Letters iuldriMtttxl to him at Ed/cheld, _. f;.? ?ire of Mr. D. ll. Durisoa, v.iil re o-ivc Cnrlv attention. yVK'... W. B.MAYS, /ply 5, lm ..,28 STATES m Company, ce, Mace?, ?a. SOUTHERN and HOME COMPA jife. Insurance ^lone. Mutual plans. It also issues Policies mutual rate. But it does not* advise '[, that plan being very expensive in i Mutual Company'wi il average about and ; West, where* investments1 bring .1 business divided annually amongst t exception. when desired. Interest charged only ll become self-sustaining ; that is, pay their faces, which is one-third more H :i SSl lt i tl t >f Policies in the expressed terms of its Policies at their Cash value, i same financial security as Northern as1 ot the- insured, and in addition 00,000! ithert? been lost to the active circula imiums in Northern Companies. Tn made by "these Companies in Northern an never share on equal terms. Let ?nd thus keep our money and tha Tia con. Ga : idant. lent. k ,- . d Agent. dent ol Agencies, iedical Examiner. . Georgia and South Carolina enter fully identified with the interests of j mted in the general management by lAVAlt & ABNEY, gents for North and South Carolina. bia.S.C.,1 Q,rin J M ' 34 Dry Goods . Turley, AUGUSTA, GA" CLASS BOT GOODS, ? EW YORK, and is now fully pre ;ely assorted Stock of SEASONA reach Department with EVERY IB LE, as well as the more staple t Strictly Adhered to, and t for money, ?nd buy your Dry Goods i . the elofiest buyers, are particularly lule of prices. JAMES *W. TURLEY. tf 14 . BM THINGS ! nt fine LIQUOR, either hy the Gallon TORE, and you Will get a PURE ORS warranted. Examine for your tf 24 J. Sf. NEBLBTT. I W. H. GOODRICH OottonO-in Miril FACTORY. THE Uddersfgned resort fully an nounce to the people of Edgeheld and ndjoiK...^r Counties, that they are still engaged in the manufacture of Cotton Oins, Of tlie well-known and highly approved OGLES? Y ' PATTERN. MR, NIBLETT, who has fourtoen years' practical experience in making these GINS; will give his personal-atten tion to the business, and we feel confi dent of giving entire satisfaction to those favoring ns with their orders. EVERY GIN WARRANTED. Old Gins RENOVATED or REP/ JR, ED ia the best manner. ?KBLETT & GOODRICH, At Goodrich's Machine Works. jSfr-Csipt. LEWIS JONES, of l?dge field, is our authorized Agent, and all or ders received by him will meet with prompt attention. ' May 2 5m 19 ! Patent Medicines. JUST Received a large and fresh as sortment of PATENT MEDICINES of all kinds. G. L. PENN, Druggist. May 24 tf 22 BOOTS AND SHOES ! ?MADE TO ORDER OR REPAIRED All work well done at reasonable pri ce*, out of the best Leather, and by com petent workmen. Give me a trial, and I will give you good fit. Tcrma Cash. S. H. MANGET. _ Tuno7_tf 24 Bucbaa's Carbolic Disinfecting INVALUABLE for Washing Horses, Cattle, Dogs, and other domestic ani mals, for sale at G. L. PENN'S DRUG STORE. Apr 26 tf 18 Kerosene Oil. Kerosene Oil. JUST Received FOUR BARRELS No. 1 KEROSENE OIL. G. L. PENN. June 14_;_tf 25 SALIDA HOUSE. IVIRS. R. B. BOULWARE respectful ly announces to thc Edgefi?ld public that sho has opened tho SALUDA HOUSE, and will use every exertion to please all who may favor her with their patronage. Sho solicits tho encouragement of her friends. jz-ii-Board by the Day, Week or Month' at as low f gures as can possibly be af forded. Edgeheld, May 30 tf 23 . Just ileccived, ANICE Lot of HAIR abd TOOTH BRUSHES, at G. U PENN'S Drug store. Troth Doth Never Die. Though kingdoms, states and empires fall And dynasties decay ; Though cities crumble into dust, Ana nations die away-; Though gorgeous towers and palaces In heaps of ruins He, Which once were proudest of the proud, The Truth doth never die ! We'll mourn not o'er the silent past, Its glories are hot tied ; Although its men of high renown Be numbered with the dead. We'll grieye not o'er what earth has lost; It cannot claim a sigh- * For the wrong alone hath perished, And Truth doth never die I All of the past are living still All that fis good and true ; The rest hath perished ; and it did Deserve to perish, too ! The world rolls ever round and round, And t??e rolls ever by; And the wrong is ever rooted up, Bat the Truth doth never die I Bleed ea the Slag. -o An old man lay, moaning with pain, upon a bed in a large but squalid chamber of an ancient and dilapidated house alone in the half ruined suburbs of a large city. By the dim window sat a young j man of perhaps five-and-twenty, with | a book in his hand, which, however, he was gazing upon with a frowning brow, but abstracted eye, that showec its pages had no connection with, his j thoughts. A more than usually ddep groan caused him to turn his head towards the occupant of the sick bed. ? "Why does he not die ?" he mut tarred. " John, give me a drink," said the old man in a faint and broken voice. "Come! you won't,-ugh! ugh! have to wait long, my son, for-ugh ! ugh !-your money !" The young man rose, and taking a J ?racked glass from a small table, held it to his father's lips, saying, as he did so, " Oh ! you are worth a good j many dead men, yet, father. 1 have j seen you as bad before now." " No, no-1-not so had !"-.never so i?ad as this," whispered the. sufferer. ' But may l?e I'll weather' it. Yet, is you say, I'm w.orth a good many -ugh! ugh!-dead men yet, John. A.nd then you'll have to wait a little onger, eh 7- he ! he ! he !-ugh ! ugh ! igh !-eh, John ?"' " Hang it, father ! don't aggravate n'e-I mean don't exhaust yourself] jy talking. There-go to sleep 1 I'll tend Bridget up, arid go out for a rhile. I'm choking for a breath of j rar,*' And he seized his hat and ?astily left the chamber. In a few moments, the woman jailed Bridget cotered, and, approach ng the hecCasked the sufferer how ie did. "Do! Fm done, Bridget-done to ieath. John says I shall get over it, )ut I know better. I am sinking apidly, and shall go down with the iun. ?as Lizzie been here to-day ?" " Indeed she has, and begged me vith tears in her eyes, to let her up o you. But I sayj*, says I, it's no ise, Miss Lizzie, he won't see you; md if so I let. you up unbeknown, le'd drive me out o' the house that ninnit, dear, so he would. And so fou have said you would-more ihume to you, Mr. Henshard!" " Hush, woman ! I amadyingman, [ tell you, and I would see Lizzie are I go. They say it is never too late to repent. Will you go and fetch my son's widow, Bridget j" " That I will, sir, and gladly. Oh I how happy the poor son will be to think that you-" " No words ; there is no time to waste ! Go, quickly-quickly, I say ere John returns ?" The old woman was gone ere the last sentence left her master's lips. No sooner was* the sick man again alone, than he made a desperate ef fort to rise, and succeeded in sitting up on his'pallet. After pausing to recover the breath this effort had cost him, he reached his uncertain and feeble haiid over the head of his bed, and he lelt along the back of the headboard as if for some object concealed there. In another instant he had found and withdrawn it. It was a small, curiously-wrought steel key ; and he held it close to his eye, as though to make sure of ft? iden tity, then once moro endeavored to j place his feet on the floor, trembling, j and with a fearful rattle in his throat. At the very moment he had nearly succeeded in attaining his object, the door opened, and John Henabard made his appearance, with a flushed and angry face and excited manner. .The. young man's eyes were instantly caught by the glitter of the steal key ; and his father's unwonted position confirming, no. doubt, a previ ou? sus picion, he exclaimed : "Ha ! I knew it !" and sprang towards the bed. The old man instinctively uttered a cry, and, flinging himself back on his couch, by an impulsive action, aoick as thought, eugulped the key in his toothless jaws, and closed his j thin lips upon it. The next instant his son's hand was on his throat, and he saidhoarsely : " Open your mouth, father, or, by Jove, I will force it open !" The old man merely looked with a glaring eye into the face of the would-be-parricide, and shook his head. John's hand gripped closer and closer the wrinkled neck of his dying parent; but the jaws were as fi rm clenched as with rivets of iron, lighter and more desperate grew the grip, black and livid the sufferer's I lace, but still the jaws moved not. ! It was a hideous scene, but the end drew nigh. John released the throat of his victim, and. seizing the jaws with a savage force, wrenched them partly asuuder and thrust his hand between them. A horrible convul sion racked the old man's form, and he writhed himself About his son like a wounded serpent. But it was only for a moment. His laBt vital strength was expended; his limbs relaxed; he utterefl a long, feeble wail, and sank on the bed, as the parricide drew his hand from tue gaping jaws, with the fatal key in his fingers. ' As .he did so, a small stream bf bipod flowed out upon the grizzled beard of. the murdered father, and the Angers of his uoatural au. sassin were dyed with the cri evidence of his fearful crime. The murderer, leaving his v as he had fallen, wiped, the 1 rapidly from his hand with his 1 kerchief, and going to the foot o bed, knelt down, and with som, fort draw forth a strong, steel-b box. This he opened with the in his possession, and searched gerly among its contents, which chiefly papers, till he found wha wanted. It was a document three seals ; and for a moment Henshard hesitated whether or n break them then and there. B noise in the street apparently < ded him, and thrusting the p into his bosom, he locked and placed the strong box, laid the under the dead man's pillow, stealthily but rapidly left the chai and the house. Ten minutes later Bridget arri without Lizzie, whom she had ! unable to find at home-t?n jain too late 1 The old woman entered her i ter's chamber, beheld the gha form stretched in death upon bed, with the blood still oozing f the dropped jaws; and instin recoiling from the awful shock, rushed down stairs and into the 8erted street, startling its soli' silence with the terriffic cry " Murder 1 murder 1 murder !" ***** Simon Henshard was a prodiga his youth, and a miser in his ag not an uncommon transition, married, for money, at forty, and children were Born to him, at : year's interval, the last of wh John Henshard, cost his mother '. life. For this reason, perhaps, it i that Old Simon (as he was even tl called) never loved his child, garding him somehow as the ca of his wife's death ; for he had co to look upon her not exactly w real affection, but as something cessary to his selfish comfort. Shor after her death, Simon removed the squalid quarters described abo rad commenced the sordid life tl became ihern, leaving the ' younj boy to the teachings, good and e* of vagabond chance, and his o inclinations. The fruit thereof v what had been briefly shown. 1 wind was sown, and the whirl wi inexorably reaped. The elder son, Lester, meanwh bad been taken by a distant relatr Simon averring that he made t much noise about thc house, and v, fi constant source of anxiety ratb than consolation ; and. was breug ap to manhood arny from the inti mces that his home life must jnevit bly have produced. But when young Lester waa on ind-twenty, his father had recall Hm, and for a year made him irudge and a 6lave. Then, howev( !ie rebelled, and put a fatal seal upi his rebellion by wooing and weddii Lizzie Marden, a soft-eyed, gent blonde of eighteen, good aa eh? w fair, but poor unto direst povert tod with, a cripplod mother to su port. For this, Simon Henshai irove his eldest son from house an heart (if ho ever had any) foreve So Lester had gone into the arm and to the battle-fields, and upc one of them had yielded up his Ji -so said the war-bulletins, thing: his body was never found. And h death, Simon, with strange incoi sistency, laid at LHui?'u door, instes of his own, and thenceforth hate her, and forbade her name bein mentioned in his presence. During this time, John Henshar had grown prematurely old and ha dened in evil courses, and was a bi ter thorn in the side of the old mise, his father, who had boon forced t loosen bis grip of many a belove guinea to save his name from infam in the person of Lin son. And lo ! he had had at least h: reward ! An awful reckoning ha smitten him. But that of his soi the parricade, the robber, was yet t come. Simon Henshard had died said the law-by violence at th hands of a person or persons ut known. John Henshard escaped suspicioi for the time, both on account of hi known abscence from the house s the moment of the crime, and fror the admirable counterfeited horror c the ikied, There was at first dispc sition to accuse Bridget of the fear ful act ; but she proved ii complet alibi in her errand to the murders man's daughter-in-law ; and beside! her faithful attachment to her mai ter was folly attested, both by Lizzi and by John Henshard himself. The effects of the deceased wer duly searched, and no will beinj found, the entire property went int< the posession of his only living issue John Henshard, the parricide. * * * * * ?O a comfortable chamber, with I bachelor and somewhat " sporting' air about it, sat three persons at ? table. The hour waa late, midoigh having just chirped fror? the bron?i clock on the mantel, and the tabb was covered with the debris of I feast which Was verging upon ai orgie. "I say, John," exclaimed one o the three boon companions, as bj filled his glass with Bsrgundy anc passed the bottle, if you didn't throt tie the old man, it must have beer the Old Boy himself 1 Come, npw between staunch friends, own thal you'squeezed'him. We won't peach you know." John Henshard swallowed a bum , per of wine before he spoke ; and then with a hollow, hi^-drunken laugh, he exclaimed : " I may be drunk, and I am; but I'm not such a cursed idiot as to con fess my sins to you, Will Drake-ii I had any to confess. Why should I murder my poor eld father, when he was dying aa fast as he could, and leaving me his money of his ovn ac cord?'9 " Ah, but cUd he leave it ti you ? ; -that is tho question I" criedDrake, i " Wasn't there a bit of paper some where, signed and sealed, that said otherwise-eh, Jack ? A dtjciiinent of that kind is so pleasant bo find, and-confiscate quietly, you Jknow." John winced a Utile at tljis_ keen smd searching insinuation ; but ere he made answer he stretched ont his hand for the bottle to refill his glass. As his hand came under the gas-jet above the table a large opal ring on his fourth finger attracted th? eye of Drake,"who suddenly cried:--; " By heaven, John, your opal is full of blood!. Arid;;ah,':there's, ?one in your face now^Hensman} !" he ad ded, as the other grew deadly white "at this unexp etea and startling wit ness of Hia crime. ... He.recovered himself,, however, by a strong effort,' and ponnng out a full goblet of. wine, drainai it to the dregs at & breath, and answered : You're enough to : turn a fellow white with your infernaLsuspicions and melodramatic exclamations, Drake. The blood on my ring--" " Is your father's blood, John Hen shard 1 ' exclaimed the man who had not before spoken, in a deep, earnest' voice. Henshard started from his seat as if ia serpent had bitten him, and star ed wildly into the face of the strange guest for a moment, then sank back i nto his. chair. "It cannot be-no, it cannot be !" he muttered ; " and jet that voice ; but," -he had recourse to the wine ??ain--"ha, ba, ha! your friend frightened me, Drake, with his stage' voice and'his ugly mbg-he did upon1 ? my.8?u,l j" '.' The captain s ugly^ mug, as yon' call it, was made as it is by the haz ard of war, Henshard," replied Drake. "A caisson blew up-under his nose, and saved him the trouble of disgui sing himself, for the fut ure, in case ' he should want to avoid the recogni tion cf his former acquaintances. I invited him to meet ns to-night--the first of his arrival-in order to judge if the change weramo entire as he believed r. for the captain was known to you, I think." John Hensbard had listened to this with fast-increiiiing signs of agi tation ; and at the conclusion he again arose from his chair, and said, in a; voioe of conceritrateu* rage : " I-will stand thid mystification no; longer. I neither ?know nor care whom your grim-visaged friend may1 be ; but this I know, that I will be your sport no longeK and so good night to both of yoii," and he made a step towards the lloor. - But the captain, was before him, and placing himself with his back to the ppr tal, he said, sternly : " Out of this rodm you do not go, John Henshard, tul you render an account of our father s. mnrder ! Ha ! you know me now, for yon tremble. Ay ! I am Lester Henshard, vour elder brother, whom you would have killed by a lie, even as you killed my father by a more risible weapon! I saw the blood on y&nv ring, -and I see the stain on your soul, parricide ! On your knees and confess, or-" But Henshard waa by this time nearly crazed between his rage, the liquor he had drank, and the con sciousness that he hud betrayed him self, as well as rendered desperate by t)i.e startling and unexpected crinen in which bp fp?nd himself. "Out of my way, i inposter!" he cried, with clenched liandsand glaring eyes, and even as be spoke, he bound ed upon Lester like a tiger, and the two men fell to the ground, clenched in a deathly struggle. The ?trite would have been short, for John Henshard WAS a powerful man, and made infuriate by his men Lai and physical excitement, while the soldier wa? enfeebled by wounds and i .ness. But drake, after a des perate but vain attempt to loosen the parricide's grasp on thc captai i's throat, caught up a heavy decanter, from the table, and struck John Henshard a heavy blow upon the temple, which instantly stretched him lifeless upon the floor. "You haye killed him, Drake," ?asped Lester, as he arose with some imculty to his feet, " Not a bit of.it," replied the other ; " though I should not care if I had. I owe him as much. But the gallows will not be cheated this time. See, he breathes. Help me to lay him on my bed, and we will soon bring him to his senses. To his senses, however, John Hen shard did not return for several days, during which he was carefully tended by Lester and his- Wife, as well as by a physician. He had, meantime, been removed to his former residenoe, and-was it a mere coincidence ? placed in the same chamber, on the same bed whereon his father had un c-ergone his death agony. Drake had surrendered himself to the authorities, and after a careful ; investigation, had been released on bail, toVait the result of John Hen shard's wound. On his murdered father's bed the Sarricide lay, raving in the fever of elirium, and by his side, wiping his brow and moistening his parched lips, sat His two living victims, Les ter and Lizzie Henshard, returning good for evil, and thus heaping coals of 'fire upon his head, if only that he knew it. But alas ! he knew it Lester and Lizzie, I said. Yes, the maimed and, mutilated soldier had returned to the wife of his bo-, som; and despite his scars, she had known him, and clasped him with renewed love and joy to her faithful, sorrowing, long-suffering heart. It mattera not to dwell upon their meeting, nor recount the tale he told to her sympathizing ear, of the per ils he had passed and the woes he endured. He bad been left for dead upon the field ; he had been a pris oner, a fugitive, retaken, manacled, east into a cell,'refused the lieht of day or the welcome sound of the hu man voice; he lutd been ill unto death, he had been-what matter ? Here he was once more, alive, her own, own husband, now and forever more 1 It was nearly sundown on the sixth dav of John Henshard's deli rium. He had, been much calmer that day, and had; slept a ?opd deal, fitfully. At this moment ne lay teasing in i restless, mattering slum i ber. At last his mutterings became clearer, and. Lester and Lizzie. listen : ed with pale faces and bated breaths. '.QiV?tri? the'key p he ?.uttered, iuj^ J?a?ae; whisper. l' ?fvtf ma; * I say, father I In your mouth, Open it, cr-you will not? Then, Jove, I will !' He flung his arms wildly abou! moment, then lay an instant brea ing heavily ; then, .'. Hush !" he m ter ed ; " hush ! he is dead-def See the blood! Oh, the blood! chokes me ! But the. key ! the ki .Ah! here is the willi What? all Lizzie ? Curses-curses-" Again he lay still, awhile; th taking up the current of the seo that haunted him.once more ''All #safe! he said, Ha! I Will? There is no will, say you? '. will ! So all is safe ; bufc-ha ! 1 ring'! there ?B blood on the rit Off, liar ! Off, I say !" and making sudden violent effort, he flung t bed-clothes off, and sprung from t bed upon the floor. For an insta he stood there swaying to and f and then isank into hisbrother's an in a swoon, and was gently replac on ti bed, still unconscious. When he re-opened his; eye? to hours afterwards, hie fever and de ri um had left him, his gaze was de and strangely softened, but his pul was very feeble, and his voice h.i gone from him forever. Lo ok ii earnestly into the.face of his broth and sister, signed feebly to them come nearer. They bent over hil and he tried to whisper isomethih but in vain ; they .heard nothing bi a low rattle. He then made otb* faint signs, ?nd they understoc him, and brought paper and pene: With the greatest difficulty, and afb many vain efforts, he at lengl scrawled the following words in s indistinct and wandering hand : " Forgive-yray for-^me-the wi -all for Liz?ie-pray 1" ' As they deciphered it the eyes i the dyipg man grew premature! bright, with a look of entreaty thi was terrible. They saw it, an bending over him, took each one * his hands, "and together said, " W forgive, even as we pray Heaven i forgive." Then kneeling down, the prayed earnestly for the soul of th parricide, and rising in a little wbili saw that the soul was already befor its Final Judge. * * * * * The will wai never found ; bu what matter of it ? Were not tar loving hearts re-united, never mor to part? And besides, was not Caf tain Lester Henshard the eldest an only surviving son of the late miser and did not the wealth of right bc long to him and his? He took il then ; and is making a noble use of il Drake was tried for m?nslaughtei and acquitted. He is now wot kin out a new and better life among th grassy plains of California-for, read er, .Irus is. a true story. . Ail Episode at Long Branch. A correspondent, writing fror Long Branch", says ; The wife of gentleman at our hotel tells a gboi story at her husband's expense. It i well understood that they did nc live pleasantly together, but evident* of this is rarely seen ip tmblje, Th other evenipg, when taking thejr usu al drive-they are both high-spirite< and hard to curb, und ' When thei tempers are aroused there is no con trolling them-one word brought 01 another, when the husband said. .' You will drive me mad." "I Bhould call that.admirabledriv ing," retorted the wife. " By-! exclaimed the husband "if you say another w.ord I will drivi down into the sea." They were thei I near one of the rondn, in the vicinity I of Gen. Grant's cottage, that lead down to the beach. "Another word!" screamed tb< lady. " Drive where yoi} please/' sin added, " into the sea. I can go ai deep as you dare to go, any day." He became furious, tpok her at hei word), and drove the horses and vein c?e into the ocean. They began t< swim. He held in, looked into he: face, and she laughed in his. Whv do you stop ?" she demand ed exultingly, exhibiting not th( slightest alarm. " You are a devil !" he exclaimed turning the horses about, making foi the shore with all expedition. "Pooh! pooh!" laughed the tor mentor. "Learn from this that thew k no place wher.e you dare to gc where I dare not accompany you." "Even to--?" " The only exe ption," she answer ed, with a chuckle. "There, my dear, I leave you." She had conquered. The pair re turned to the house, and the only evidence of anything extraordinary having occurred was the appearance of the poor horses. The lady repeat ed tho story to one or two female friends, and, of course, such things are too good to keep. PROSPERITY.-We are always glad to see among our citizens the fruits of honesty, intelligence and enter prise. Last week we quoted from the Georgetown Times the information that Representative Rowley,' of that place, is building a splendid dwell ing, which will pe ap ornament to the town. We are glad to be able to chronicle a corresponding instance of growing prosperity in our midst, iir highly esteemed colored fellow citizen, Senator Hayne, has purchas ed the Wayne plantation at this place, and is building upon it an ele gant mansion, with marble mantle pieces, &c, &c. Mr. Hayne.'s admi rable talents are evinced not only in tho fact of his prosperity, but in the rapidity with which he. acquired it. He came here after the close of the war a very p .or man, and for a good long time was occupied as the teach er of a negro school in the woods be ?ond Catfish swamp. But turning is attention to politics, he has io the space of about three yeats got upon the righ road to wealth and fame. In the meantime our highly respect ed Senator has lived a life of gentle manly ease and pleasure, showing that he is one of those gifted geniuses who are able, with email material the per diem of a member "cf the Legislature, ?c-to accomplish.large results.-Marion dreacent. j 5jj% - ' HT Not on squeezing terms any moro, is the way a Prairie du Chien young lady describes the relation between herself I ajrdJw^loYar. Brevities ami Levi i ie s. v ?^"'A co temp orar>r mentions the ar rest of a Woman, '. in the street ' ! with nothing on her persons but a love letter and ?^?reotype." Well, really^ the weather has'been hot enough to justify the wearing of jost that sort of clothing -in doora, at least; but, for street wear, perhaps it would be as well to add ? dia mond ring or gold watch. . ?ST Ont West they tell a Btory of a dog who was'greatly interested in music. He attended a singing school, and was subsequently found in the yard with a music book'in front of him, beating time with his tail on a tin pan, and howling " Old Htmdred." jar A Mississippi negro was recently set upon by a party in disguise and Eu kluxed. On being questioned; he said ! his K. K. friends were of the colored persuasion. He was asked, why he thought so. " I smell 'um massa," Was the short and convincing reply. ?&~ A man in Jersey City, who had' forcibly kissed a school girl, wrns fined by a magistrate, horsewhipped .by the girl's big brother, and snatched bald headed by his own wife. And it was not; much of a kiss after all, he say?. ?&- The Gold Hill, Nevada, News speaks of a County which it describes as "out- Weat," where the local papers1 chronicle the hanging of a horse thief tims: uMr. Jim. (lemonton, equine abductor, of Minnesota; was lately the; victim of a neck tie sociable." An exchange says that it knows of ? boy who accidentally swallowed a \ silver half dol?an They gave him warm water and tartar emetic, and antimonial wine, and poked their fingers down his throat until tho boy thought ho would ^ throw up his toenails. After awhile a doctor came along who understood such ? cases. Ho administered a small dose of patent medicine, and In less than ten] minutes the boy threw up tho half dollar j in five-cent, pieces. Sci6nee is a great thing. ySf One of the negro legislators of Mississippi shot a white mau fo- refusing to argue politics with him. The Boston Pott thoa expresses ita indignation: "if a negro can' t compel a white man to an swer when spoken to, what in the world is thc use of civil rights?:' . /ar* A Georgia man incurred tho de rision of hie townsmen by shooting at his wife twenty-seven times without hitting her. ?St- An Alabama editor having read Dr. Hall's lecture advising that husband* and wife should sleep in -separate apart ments, says that Dr. Hall can sleep where he-chooses, but for himself he intends to sleep where he can defend his wiro against rats and all other noe taral foes, aa long as he has got one to defend. A youngster, while.pursuing a chap ter of Genesis, turning to his mother, in quired if the people in those days used to do sums on the ground. It was dis covered that he had been reading tho passage, "'And the sons of men multi plied upon the face of the earth." ?&- A lady had a favorite lap-dog. which ?ho called Perchance. "A strange l?ame," said somebody, "for a beautiful pet, madam. Where did you find it?" ..Oh," drawled she, "it was named from Byron's dog. You remember where he says, ' Perchance my dog willhowL'" pt" The genius of a Boston composer is at last to supply the nation with a j national hymn founded on compromise principles. It is to be made-up of a'com bination of Yankee Doodle and Dixie, and to lie culled Dixie Doodle. "How did you manage to got along in Paris without knowing thc French language?" inquired a gentleman of Mrs. Shoddy. " Oh, wc had an inter rupter with us," replied the old lady. The same jady, haying arranged some statue? in ap. adjoining room, requested the sam? gouUewan to step into the next " impartment and see ber unties." He went. ' ?ar " El' I had been antin' dried ap ples for a week an' den took to drink in' for a mont*, I couldn't feel more swell'd up dan I- am dis minn it *rid prido an' wanity at scein' such full tendance har dis evenin'," said a colored preacher hi Louisville. Shooting Affair. "We learn from a passenger on the Greenville train, that a shooting af fair occurred on Monday night, about 9 o'clock, at a camp meering, which was being held about two miles from Greenwood, by which a colored man was severely wounded.-being shot through the fleshly part o: both thighs. The circumstances of the case, as reported to UH, are asfollows; A. camp meeting of colored people began at the above place on last Fri day, and had been continued up" to the night of the ehooting. Monday night, two men rode up to within a short distance of the congregation, when a colored man, who seemed to be acting as a kind of guard to the road, hailed them with "Who are you?" The mounted men replied with the same question, when the colored man again asked, " Who are you?" The party on horseb.-ck, evidently thinking that their pas sage was to be interrupted, fired upon their interrogator, wounding .him in the thigh; whereupon, the. colored man attempted to run, when he was fired upon the second time, and" wounded in the oth-r thigh. Some twelve or fourteen shots were fired, but with no other damage, nearly all the balls passing high over the beads of the congregation. A spent ball struck a. woman on the neck, but did not hurt her. Our in formant says that the parties who did the shooting were not disguised, and that it was evident, from the effect of the shots, that they did not intend to kill any one, but merely to frighten the man who had questioned their passage. They rode oil in the direc tion of Cokesb ury. Great excitement prevailed at Greenwood for a short time, oh account of the affair, but it .was believed that it would quiet down as soon as the . matter: was properly understood. -It was no Ku-Klux raid. -^-Columbia r^?enix-, 2d. f&h The latest' smart girl ls Miss Mid dlebrook; of Maryland, Who, although scarcely out of her teens, isised last year over five thoosan d ea bbages, ' Chris tm aa Eve she 'sold, 4tt ;Sail?tabre,;'bv?r five hundred jpitmsi'dfa' ' ;<)^-^Bu4ra^ji of her own raising, ?t twenty: tekfo^per pqond, and Binctrthe 15th day of October last, has knitted over three dosica; pairs of ?eeks. ku Klux Outrages and Negro Mobs ii the S?rth. The very virtuous radicals of the Congressional Committee who arc 1 pretending to investigate the alleged j Ku Klux outrages in t?e South, are I ready, it appear.", to report a stupen dous budget of horrors. They are j already issuing semi-official state- j me nts to that effect. True, they have j not had much time to investigate the : matter ; but party and politrcal ne cessity urges an early, thrilling re port against those villanous, incura ble wnite "secesh" of thc South and" \ in favor of the poor negroes. This is evident from tire hasty action cf the republican party in Washington, which hus already put in circulation a campaign document, which is a di geet of the pretended facts brought to light by the Congressional Inves tigating Committee, and has request ed the republican newspapers to serve their cause by publishing the docu ment in full. We see, then, what a farce, and, at the. same time, what a gross imposition upon the country, this radical Ku Klux report of the Congressional Committee is likely to be. But is it not playing with fire ? Is not such a one-sided inflammatory report made for party purposes calen-, lated to do much harm ? Will it hot make the negroes', who are already in. the ascendant in some parts of the South, and who are committing most diabolical acts, more presumptuous and disorderly ? ' Wnp has not heard of the atrocities of a band of negroes in Chatham* county, and adjoining counties, in North Carolina? And yesterday we reported a fearful, bloody and drunken riot by a body of five thousand blacks at the Repub lican Convention in Goldsboro, in the same State. Of course these horrors will scarcely be noticed by any radi cal Congressional committee, because they are perpetrated by the " poor J negroes"-by the allies and support ers of ike radical party. It is the pretended white- Ku Klux that is [.made the bugbear to abr-m Northern voters and to give the ?idministratioi chance to exercise a.. military des potism in the South. The radical carpet-bag and scalawag public men -and among them was a Congress man by the name of Thomas-and Stanley, the President of a railroad, seem to have been the abettors of the riotous acts atGoldsboro. Well,may we despair of peace in the South while the party in power makes misrepre sentations of the state of things in the South for political objects, while . it gi yes all its support and sympathy to the negroes ana endeavors to crusl the native white people of that sec tion.-New York xieru?d. A Second Husband Gives up his Wife and Three ihiWren. From the St. Louis Dispatch. The assertion that '" truth is stran ger thon fiction" is certainly illus trated in the following sketch, and we are indebted to J. C. Ryan, the clerk of the steamer St. Luke, for the principal items : During the first year of tho war, J. M. Waldrup left his pleasant home in Central Missouri and shouldered his musket to fight for what he con sidered right, and to spill his blood, if ne.cef.sary, in dc-fenco of the Con federate cause. At home he left young wife and one child, and from that time till last Sunday they never even heard from him. Mr. Waldrup passed through the struggle safely, and was paroled in St. L -uis in 1865. So soon as he could earn money enough he started to lind his wife and cnild. He visited his old home, and called on his neighbors. But his search was unsuccessful. The only information he received was that his wife had taken the child and gone to live with some relatives in Callaway County. Visiting Callaway County, he obtained work on a farm, and set tled down to ponder over the where abouts of his wife and child, and tn earn money enough to continue th? search. In the meantime Mrs. Wald rup had heard that her husband was dead, and had gone to live with some relation near * Cedar City, opposite Jefferson City, Missouri. Here she became acquainted with a well-to-do blacksmith, whose name we have not j learned. In due i me they were mar ried, and last w?ek were living in their comfortable home at Cedar City, and Mrs. Waldrup hud blessed the blacksmith vith three fine children, the eldest five years old. Lust Sat urday Mr. Waldrup rode leisurely into Cedar City, and halting at the ?blacksmith shop requested that worthy to shoe his horse. While conversing.! on the heat of the weather, crops, &<;., the blacksmith learned Waldrup's story, and having heard, his wife tell about her lost husband, surmised tho truth, and in his blunt honesty invit ed Mr. Waldrup to go over to the House with him. The recognition was mutual,'and the wife fainted in her first, husband's arms. After the first agitation Mr. Waldrup went back to the blacksmith shop, and the men talked the matter over sensibly and coolly, and agreed to allow the wo man to decide as to which man she woUld cling. After pondering the matter over in her own mind ' thc doubly-mated lady decided Iago, with her first husband, on condition that tl-e second allow her to take.the chil dren. ? By some process of reasoning, inexplicable to us, he decided to give, up wife and children, and Mr. and Mrs. Waldrup decided to come to St. Louis. Yesterday the St. Luke stop ped at the lauding, and Mr. W. came on board and engaged passage for himself and'three children, and the blacksmith assisted bis wife on board, and then brought du the children. Then cam? an effecting scene that] bnitight tears to the eyes of captain, clerks and passengers. The deserted \ husband took first one child ami then theotbex rn his arms, and kissed ihem? paasmnately, while the tears rolled ?c'vn bia1 cheeks. Then ho bid'good-bye to his wife, who seemed deeply affected, and 4aatly to; Mr." Wajdrnp; The two men gased into eich otherWaces, shook hands doug and earnestly, and then tho black smith, by ? strong ?fort of will; re . leased the hand of ??r. Wuldrup and I walked quickly ashore, never turning ; his facn toward the boat. THE CA RPPT-B AOQKP.R on THE DOWN GRADE.--The Springfield (Mass) tie pubiicctv, (Rad.) adds its kicks .to that oi Ciretley against the carpet baggers. There is pith, point , and sense in ivJmfc it has tosay :. They the carlet- buggers] are doing more jam to rho country to-day than the ocust. or caterpillar, or any other . iindred pe.?t. They are teaching the csa intelligent and' discriminating Southerners to despise and hate the Northern people more heartily than ever ; they aro debauching tie lreed men ; they are bringing disgrace upon the greafeRepublican party and upon tho National Government. That their rapacity is insatiable, and that they steal every penny they can lay their hands on, are comparatively trivial counts in the indictment against them. Yet this constant plundering is a se rious matter to the comm unities which are plundered. It means increased indebtedness and heavier taxation. It is just such rascality that is ma king the name ol' Republican a stench in the Southern States, and bringing suspicion and enmity upon honest immigrants. And matters will not mon'! much so long as needy and greedy adventurers ?re appointed to responsible Federal offices, and fel lowshiped by Northern Republicans on the floor of Congress." MWi FEM nu; STAUNTON. YA. JOHN HART, If. A. - - PBIKCI'PAL. Aided by a Full Body of Teachers. THE location Ls proverbially healthful. Thc course or study in all the De partments very full and" fhdreogh. jThe rtccom'modationa fbr^boardcra aro good. About $35(1 will cover all exponaos Jhr a. full Literary and Scientific coarse,. jb> eluding Ancient and Modem Language*, with Music. extracts from Testimonial--. (From'G. Freck Holmes, L.L.D., Prof. Eng. Literature, University of Virginia) I have known Mr. Hort lote and welt, md have been aeq uaintcd with thocondui t of his school and the remarkable profi ciency of his pupils. I havo felt a specii? ?rratincatlOu in noticing the great atten tion which ho uniformly pays, in his course' ot instruction, to the English Lan s;uagcandtoitsrichand varied literature. (From Rev J. C. Hide?, Wilmington, N.C. After a long and intimate acquaintance with Mr. John Hart, Principal bf tho Baptist Female Institute, ii. gi ves me pleasure to state that I regard him as one ul'the most thoroughly conscientious, ca pable and successful educators that I havo ever known. (From Rev. J. P. Boyce, Greenville, S.C. Those desiring the thorough education of their daughter*, cannot do better than to place them under the charge of Prof. Kart. His thorough scholarship andJhia . indici?os sentiments as rb what F?rH?!e Education should bc, eminently tit him for bis chosen vocation. I can conceive no higher advantages than are offered by his school. (From Dr. B. Scars, Staunton, Va.) I take pleasure in commending .to tho confidence of my fri ends and the pub; ie generally Mr. John Hart, and thc y<.,.:ig ladies' Seminary under his charge*' (From Rev. A.B.Woodtin, Mobile, A i.) I have long known your school, ;.:id there is none in tho land of which I hu ve formed ?i higher estimate. From Rev. W. H. McGuffey, University of Virginia. There are few men so well qualified to ii ve instruction to any class^or' pupils as I know Mr. Hart to bc. jj&^Ciroalars giving full information can bo had by applying to the PriucipaL July 19 . ' 4t -?0 ME CHA M ICS' MILLS, AT GRANITE VILLE, S. C. THE Undersigned herewith announce to t.'io public of Edgciield that they have Mtablished at GranitoviJlo, Firs?-CiasK Custom and Merchant Milln. We have put into our Mills all thc la test and Best Machinery, that we may be rmahlcdto give as Fine an Article of Flour, and as much of it, as any other Establishment South of Mason and Dix rm's line. Besides GRINDING WHEAT, wo de sign putting into our Mills a good RICE CLEANER. AndwomrthennowThresh md Clean Wheat, and Pack Cotton. So Soon as thc Toll Ssason is over, we shall go into the regular FLOURING BUSINESS FOR MARKET. And we would say to all parti*? living convenient to Railroad who may send ns their Wheat to grind, that wo will liant thc same to and from tho Depot in Gran itcville free ??/' charge; and ior every Five Bushels of sound and clean Wheat, will return One Barrel of as good Fkmr na the Wheat will possibly make. AU our Different Grades of FLOUR, MEAL, GRITS, ?Sc, will always be as Good as thc Best and as Low as the Low est. Trusting to our Thorough Practical Experience in this linc of Business, and prqmising our best efforts to give aniver sal satisfaction, wo respectfully solirit for the MECHANICS' MILLS the patronage of the pnblic BRENNER & BAKER. July:? tf 31 State ofSoHth Carolina, EDGEFIELD COUNTY. Coan* of Common Pleas. A. J. Crews, 1 vs. Mary GomilHon, Ad's.'; \ CopySummons Lovett Gomillion and others Defendants. J To tho Defendants Samuel P. Goode and Marv Goodo his wife : YOU are hereby summoned and re quired to answer the complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy .of your answer to the said complaint on the subscribers at their Office, at Edgofleld Court House, S. C., within twenty daV* after the service hereof; exclusive of tL'a day of such service; and If you fail ta answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in thia action wL'i apply to tho Court for the relief demand, ed in tho complaint. WRIGHT A NORRIS, Plaintiffs Attorneys. Dated J,uly 10,1871. To tho Defendants Samuel F. Goode and Mary Goode: Take notice that the summons in this action, of which the foregoing ia.a. copy, was tiled in the Office of tho Clark of the Court of Common 1 ces for EdgeAeld County, at Edgefleld Court Houne, s. C., on the 14th dav of July 187L WRIGHT A NORRIS, Plaint"*' Attorneys. Edgo?eJd C.H., Aug lat? 1871. ?32 VfB- WAHf;, J. GOOD ?asoj^ent of TIN1 WARE L kept constantly on hnd. W. F. DO*?80E,8r. Jun? 21 lm 26