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wm * ir , the Cancaster CeDgn:. VOLUME XV. L LANCASTER C. H., S. C., JUNE 13, 1866, NCMUER 18. ? ?? * Take the papers ?t M. P. WILLI!. Why don't 70a take the paper f They're the life of 1117 delight > Except about election time, And tliea 1 read for spilt. Subscribe I you cannot loee a cent, Why should you be afraiJ ; Eur caah thai paid ia money lent, On interett fourfold paid, Go then and take the papers. And pay to-day, nor pa) delay; A ad my ward for it is inferred, You'll live until you are gray. An old neighbor of mlnet While dying with a cough, . Desired to hear the latcat news While he wet going off. t ) toek the pwjKf and I read Of some lie# pltla in force; Be bought a bet?k.id Is he dead f No?heartier lhaa a hone. 1 know two men, as much alike, A a e'er you saw two alumpa, A ...I -l 1? -? * ' 41IIU UV plIITIIUlUglAb CV1IU unci A diflereuce in their bump*. On* take* the paper, and hi* lif* I* happier than a king's. His children all can read and writ*, And talk *f men and thing*. Th? other took no paper, and While strolling through the wood, A ttee fell down and broke hi* crofrn, And killed him; "very good." Had he been reading of the newe, At home like neighbor Jim, I'll bet a cent that accident Would not have happened bio. Why den't you take the paper*, j-or iron) (lie punier enook, lirrauae you borrow of your neighbor, The paper every week. For he who takea the papere, And pay hia bills when due, Can live in peace with (Jod and man, And with che printer too. BILL ARP Ii called before the Reconstruction Committee. (SUlTltESSED TESTIIIONY.) To the Ed itor of the Metropolitan Record l Mr. KijItoR : Murder will out, and an will cvideuco. Having aeon Dan Rico'a t atimotiv before the Destruction Com* til (tee, J have felt eorter slighted because ii* mention aim been made of minn. I uppose it bne been suppressed, but I em ot to be bid oil in obscurity. Our country is the,special jury, and by nod by this business will go up before it on ap peal. The record must go up fair and complete, and therefore I'll tike occasion to make public what I swore to. I said a good deal more than I can put do?n.1 Mr. ?ditdr, and at timee my UirguAge wee onnslHered impudent* but they thought that was all the better for their side, for it illustrated the rebellious spirit?1 heard one of 'em aay : 'Let him so on?the ruling pa?sion atrong in dsath. lie's goo'l States aviJeace." ' When I wae put on the aland old Dootwell awore nth roost fiercely and roltmtrl j to apeak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, nnd I obsa>rei) that ha was than entertaining abotlt a quart of double reetifiedi1 end it looked like it bad aoured on bia stomach. Old lllow waa aattin off on one aide with memorandum book, getlia ready to note down aoma "garble# extracts." Old Iron Works waa Cbairmae, and whan ha nodded bia .Republican head, old Bootwell ears ha: "Your name ia Arp, l baliava, air I" ' ' "So called,* ease I. ''You reaide io the State af Georgia, do you I" "I can't ear exactly," aayal. "I lira In Roma, right in the fork of two iejon rirera." ?l>* Qui* ?f n*?--1- - I ? ?#> %? VI V* ttarcaly, **In i liiti of uncertainty about Ibit," |aya^. "Wo don't know w Lather Georgia it' a 8tata or doI. f would likt for you tc atata you ttlfj if you know. **TJio into of tbo coi.otry requirat that ibit matter tbould bo tattled,v nnd I will proi food to atata," "Ntrtr mind, air," ttyo bo. MQow old or# you, Mr. Arpl" Thai dtpondt ou eircumetaaeee,'1 aaya I. *1 don't know what bar to count tha lati firo yaara or not Darin ibo war your folka an id ibnt .a Stata couldn't eatde, but thai while sbo wit hi a atata \ of rebellion she caused to exist. Now you st we got out and w? shan't get back again until 1S70. A man's age baa got somsthin to do with bis rights, and if we are not to vote, 1 don't think we ought to count the lime. That's about as near as 1 can come to roy age sir." "Well, sir," says lie } "are you familiar with the political sentiments of the cili&en* of your State!" "Oot no citiMna yet sir that we know of. t will thank you to speak of us as people? ? w-ii n l.- t ? - ? II VII, air, iaf> na, I 11 (turner your ebstiaaey. Are thtj*o/>k of your Stat?" "Don't speak of it at a State ?ir, if you please. I'm on oath now, and you must eftcuae rae (or being particular.? Call it a 'eection.' "Mr. Arp, are the ptoplt of your section sufficiently humbled anJ repentant to come back into the Union on auch terms as we may think proper to impose ?" "Not much they aint," says I. "I don't think they are prepared for it yet. Tfcey ' wouldn't voluntarily go it blind Against your hand. Toey say the deal 'wasn't fair and you've marked the cards arid stole the trumps, bet at the same time they don't cars a dsrn what you do. They've become indifferent end don't care nothin about your Guv Pawkes business. I mean no respect to you, gentlemen, but I was swore to tell the whole truth. Our people aint a noticiu you only out of i curiosity. They doa't expect anything decent, or honorable, or noble from you, and they've gene to work diggie and nlowin and nlantin .nl .1.11 dren." r ' Right here the man with a memoran dum icratched down a garbled axlract, and old Boutwall taya ha : "What do you mean bj that, air f What inference do you intand f" Tin statin facta," aaya I, "You nauat draw your own* inferences. Thty art raiting bay thildrtn. Any harm about ! that ? Anytraaaonf Can't a man raise boy children! Perhaps you'd like to amend tha Ganetitmiea and atop It.? Old Pharaoh triad to atop It among tha laraelitaa, but it dida't par. Ua fin ally caught tha dropsy in tha Red Sea. YVe are raiain boy children for tha tuo of it. They are a good thing to hara in tha bona#, aa Mra. Taodlaa would aayH 'Mr. Arp are no* the faetinga of your people vary bitter towards the North I" "I beg your pardon air, hut you'l have | to split the rjueMioa.or ! I'll split the ?ns??r. Oar people'hhve aver? high regard for honorable man, brara man, nobla hearted man, and thara's a hasp of tbnrn North, air, and there's a hasp of widows and orphans there we are soiry for, but as far this hare Radical party, lUev look upon 'am like they was byenaa a seratchin up the dead fur a livio. It's as natural to bate'am as it is to kill a snake. It's utterly impossible for ina to tall tba strength and length and bight depth ar.d breadth of tblir contempt for that party. Tbay look upon a Radical ae?as?as?wall as a beggar on horse beck?a buzzard sailin round a dead eagle?a luck egg dog creepin up to tba *.;i J i:? TI .-il _i . ?nu vi m u?mvi liua 1 M?J (MIK HUOUl hirin Brownlow to abuse 'em, to um language on 'am, lik* b* did fur years Co whsa h? *pok* against I'ryne. If (hay do bira Brownlow ba'l spattar 'am, he'l daub 'ana all orar, and aiima 'am and slobber on 'am about right, and It will lick, for tba pore* areopao and tbair moral* spongy. I'd lika to aland off about taa rod* and haar him apraad himself It #auld ba worse than a squirtgut) full of cow slop, and I bar* no doubt would gi*a ganaraI satisfaction." "That's sufficient, air," says old Boatwall. "Bf it was in tbair powar to do so, would your paopla ranaw tba figbtf "Not unless tba? could fight tba Radi? cals all alone, and all tha world agraa to 'bands off.' Sean than thara wouldn't ba no fight, for wa couldn't eotob you." "What da your people say upon tba subject af negro equality I" v ' * "Tbay say it's ? lie, sir?it don't ax* ist by nature and naear can in practiea. Folks ware net crested free and equal. Tfcat may ba a thaora'ical troth, but it's si way b??s a practical Ha. Tbaia'a gradao of aociaty avarywbara. Tbsrs'a mas I fits ilia aidawalk to, asd thara's isae that give* it to me. There's men that I vete, | and men (bat vote me, a*d the grades go l up, up, up, step by step, from my sort to Mr. Davit and Mr. Stephens, and Qtn. Lee, and Howell Cobb, and Ben. Bill, and tbeir sort ; for they are the highest i In the nation ; and then again it goee ,i from me down, down down to the niggers, .. and the Republicans and the Radicals, and that's as low as thsy run. There aint?o equality, and you can't make one. We'l vote the niggers certain. I'll vote i T'p, and Tip's a 'bead center.' He'l vete about forty, and the first thing you know we'l elect seven bir. black, trreasv nicfers to Congreae. We'l do it cartain?seven of 'em 18 carat* strong, with African musk, The other rebel States will do the same thing, and yoti'l have about fifty of 'em to draw seats with, and you can all stick your legs upon your deski together, and swap lies and vermin, and be sham pood at the same shop, and the fair sexes i can set together in the galleries and mix odours, and fan their scent about promisi cuous. We'l give you a full benefit of your Civil Rights bill, see if we don't.? < You go on?play your cards. We are bin dm our time. Wo are payin your taxes and your duties and baefc ration* for 1864, aad licenses, and your infarnal revenue, and obeyin your laws without havin anv hand in m*kin""em, and we ... ...i ?ur.,w.. _?: ?i ---Li- i-i n.w vu? uh Mom *n?j puuno mnaRj And you sold s poor mtin'i etil! ia mv county the other <lny because he couldn't pay your tax on aome poach brandy he atilled for hie neighbors two yonre ngo; and aoon you'l be eelliu the land for the land tax, and you're Iryin your beet to pine the detril generally ; bat youl catch it in the long rua. flee if you don't.? Talk abeut Feniane. When the good men ef the North and the South al| get together, they'l walk over the track ro faatthat you won't have time to get out of thelray. You'l eubaida into obscurity, and your children will deny that their daddiee aver belonged to euch a party.? Exeuee ma gentlemen, but I'm a litt'e excited. Five cente a pound on cotton will axcita anybody that make* it. Tax nrt inHiiaifv ?a* */! ?a!I lion tariffs for Pennsylvania and fire cents a pound tax on Southarn eotton?half it's average worth?and your folke will man age aomt way or othar to steal tha other half. Mv advice to you ia to quit thia foolishness and begin to travel tba only rosd to peace" Old Blow could'nt keep up with hia garbled extracts. What tnakea the President ao popular at the South !" "Contrast, air?contrast. The more ha ain't like your party, the more popular he ia. He would treat us about right, I reckon, if you would let him alone, but you bedevil him so, that sometimes he rion'Hsnderstaad himself. I don't think he knew for a while whether his Peace Proclamation reatord the writ of habeas corpus or not. Rut do you go on and Impeach him, and that will bring matter* to a focu*. I'll bat you'd ba in Fort Dataware in a weak, and tba Southern member* be hare In their aaata, and tbey'l look roan J at the political wrack and ruin and plunder and ttaalaga that'* been goin on, and they might exclaim, in the lan* guage of the poet, 'Who'* pin here sine* T*h pin gone?" ''Mr. Arp. auppota wa thould bare a war with England and Franca, what would tba rebel* da I" "They'd follow Oan. Lea, and Get. Johnaan, and Longatraat, and Bragg and old Bory. My opinion ia, that Gen. Lea would head tha Union arm?, and Gan. Grant would ba hia chief of ataff, and Gan. Buall would rank mighty high, ?b#" "What would you do with General Sherman f" "Sorry you mentioned bins. We'd bar* to hira him, I reckon, aa a camp fidler, and make bimeing "Hail Col mm I kirn" kv Are lioht. aa a warain In ika lw?w? hew mean it it td hura eiliaa and town*, and make war apoe dafaeoalaaa woman and childraa. No, a:r, oar beya wouldn't fight andar no aiiah." At thia lima the man with the mamo, rand una pat dowa aoma mora garbled ailracta. "Do yea think, Mr. Arp, thai if the Swath rhoald e??r bold tie balaaoa af i i 4 ' I power, they would demand pay for their negroea V* "I can'i any, air. But, I don't think the South baa loat anything that way.? we got meir labor before the war for tliair rittels and clothes and doctor's bills, and wa gat it now for about tba aatna.? It'a all aettjed down that way, and your Buraau eouldant halp it. Tba only difi ference ia in tha distribution. Soma of ua don't own aa many as wa uaad ta, but arerybodr hat got a nigger or two now, and tbav'll all rota api or turn am off.?, A nig jar that wouldantrola aa I told ' him, shouldent black my boots." At this tima tha Committea lookad at ooa aaolhar, aaeroin ta ba botharad and astoniahad. Garbled aztracta wara put down with a rim. Mr. Boutwell aays ha,''Mr. Chairman, I think, air, we ara about through with the witness. I think, sir, bis testimony tattles the question as to what wa ought to do with Southern traitors." The chairman give me a Republican nod and remarked, "Yea, tir, I think we do. The acoundrele burnt my iron worka." Whereupon I retired, having given general satisfaction. Your# truly. Hill Art. ? <~+ mm Husbands and'their Habits. Some husbands never leave home in the morning without kitting their wivea and bidding them "good'hye, dear," in the tocea of unwearied love, and whether it be policy or fact, it bat all the effect of fact, and those homes are generally pleat, ant ones, providing always that the wivea are appreciative and welcome discipline in a kindly spirit. We know an old gee* tinman who lived with hit wife over fifty years, and never left home without the kim una in* "Rood Lya, danr." Som* huabanda abak* band* with lb*ir wirea and hurry off* ?a feat a* poaaible, aa though th* effort w*r? a something that tH*y war* aaxioua to Target, holding their h*ada dowa aad darting arouad the ff rat corner. Som* huabandt, before leaving bom*, aak very tenderly, "What would you lik* for dinner, my d*ar I" knowing all th* whil* that ah* will aaleet *om*tbing for hi* particular palate, and off b* go**. Some buabanda will leave home without aaying anything at all, hnt thinking a good deal, aa evinced by their turning round at th* !a*t point ef ohaervatinn and waving an adieu at th* pleasant faea or fac*a at th# window. Som* huahard* ner*r aa? a word, firing from tha braak inn ikdii wun nifl io?ty (soinarenre or a lord and going out wilh a heartless die regard of those left behind. It it a for tunata thing for thair wires (bat they caa find sympathy elsewhere. Seme hue* bands nerer laare honse without soma unkind word or look apparently thinking that such a course will keep things straight in tkeir absence. Then, on returning, soma husbands coma home jolly and hap py, unsourad by the world; soma sulky and surly with disappointment. Some husbands bring home a newspaper or a book, and bury themaelees for the seening in ita contents. Some husbands are called away'erery arming by business or social enjoyments; soma dose in spaacbt less etuprdite on a sofa until bedtime.? Soma liuabande are eurieus to lenra of their wives what baa transpired through the day ; otbar are attracted by nothing abort nf a child's tumbling dowa staira or tba hoaee taking fire. "Depbnd upon it," aaya Dr. 8penc?r, "that homa ia the happiest where kindt oaas, and interest, and politeness, and at* tent ion are tba rule oa the part of tba bustands?of course all tbs responsibility rests with them?tad tamptatiao flnda bo footing there." Honesty and integrity HIV tba traa cri tenoned nobility. It QMUara nat wheth ar oar aaeaaiara came dawn tba stream of tiraa oa a lumber craft or wara shaken out of a sycamore traa ia a barricana, ao that oar o?a impalaaa and aetions arc jaat aad honorable.?Lorento Dow, Jr. ????Tba weman aha aadartook to aeoar tba wood* baa abandoned tba job, owing to tba high price af aoap. Tba I art that waa heard of her aha was skimming tba Mb*. | * ^ # A Thrilling Incident. Returning from a visit to New Orleans, we were fortuuote enough to secure a passage io a steamboat with few passem gera. Among the ladies, one especially interested ue. She .was the widow of a wealthy planter, and was returning with hd on iy cuua 10 uer miner s home. Her devotion to the child very touching, end the eyes of her old black nurse would fill with tears at the besought her mistrets "not to love that boj to aiuch or the Loid would take him away from her." We passed through the canal at Louis villa, and stopped a few minutes at the wharf, when the nurse wishing to see the city walked out on the guard at the back of the boat, when by a sudden effort the child sprang from her arms in the terrible current that swept townrd the falls, and disappeared immediately. The confusion which ensued attracted the attention of a gentleman who was in the forward part of the boat reading a newspaper. Rising hastily, he asked for tome article the child had worn. The nurse handad him a tiny apron the had torn of! in her effort to retain the child in her arms. Turnitg to a splendid Newfoundland dog that was eagerly watching hit countenance, he pointed first to the apron, and then to the spot where the child had gone under. in an instant lb* nobis dog leaped into the rushing water, and be also soon dit appeared. By this '.ia<a the excitement wee intense, and some persons on shore supposing the dog was lost, as well as the child, procured a boat and started in search of the body. Just at this lime the dog was seen faraway with something in his moulL. Bravely he struggled with the waves; but it was evident that bis strength was fast failing, and mere than ooa breast gave a sigh of relief as the boat reached him, and it was announced that he had aavad the child and it was still aliva. They ware brought tbs shore?the dog and tho child. Giving i singto glance to satisfy bersolf that tb< ebild was really living, tha young molbei rilftK^ it\T rsi rwl ainlrines ^ ' dog, threw her arms around hi* neck am hurst into tears. Not many could visa the eight unmoved, and as she carressec and kissed bis shaggy head, she looket up te Lis owner and said?4 Ob, sir, ] must have this dog I I'm rich, take al I have, everything, hut give me nr>y oliild'i preserver !" The gentleman smiled, and patting his dog's head, said?"1 am ven glad he has been of service to you, but | nothing could induce me to part witk him." ? A ledy of our acquaintance, young lovely and intelligent, called on a celebra | ted physician to do "something" for t rush of blood to her head. "I hare been doctoring myself," saic the laoguid fair one, with a smite, te tin bluff, though kind M. D., whi|,e he wa feeling her pulee. "Why, Lbare taken Brsndeth'a pills Parr's pills, St ran berg's pills, Sands' sar saparilla, used Dr. Sherman's lozenge and plasters, Jay ne'e expectorant, an< "My Heavens, Madam," interrupts* the astonished doctor, "al! these do you complaint no good 1" "No 1 Then what shall I take !" pel llshly inquired the patient. "Takef exclaimed the doctor, eyein her from head to foot; "fake exelairr ed he after a morosnt'a* reflection, "rrbj lake oflf your corsets I" A men wee brought into court on th charge of having stolen some ducks frot - r m mroivr. "How do you jtnow tbey are your ducki ashed the defendant's counsel. "Ob, 1 should know tbetn any w bete, replied tbe farmer, who proceeded t describe their peculiarities. Why," eaid tbe prisoner's eouase they can't be eueb a rare breed?I has some eery much like them in my yard. ''That's not unlikely, air," said tbe fai mer, "as they are not the only ducks I'v bad stolen lately." The a%xt witness wa? called. Mrs. Partington complains of baring; romantic affection in her shoulder, th oecrology in her bead, and tbe enibarg in the lorn bard y region, besides a swe! iH of bor jocular reins. \ The Bible Cause. E. A. Boiled, Agent of the American Bible Society for South Carolina, makes the following statement in the Phccnix, for the information of all interested : Since my re-appointment as Bible Aj^ent for this State, on the 1st of July, 1865, I mrougn the liberality of the American .Bible Society, I have been instrumental in placing the Bible, without note or com* ment, at the disposal of auxiliaries and twenty three newly organized Bible Com* mittees, in twenty five. Districts of this State. It ia hoped soon to supply the i auxiliaries in the remaining Districts of i this State with the word of God. So far an the auxiliaries and committees have been heard from, they are searching out and supplying the destitute within their respective bounds with commendable earnestness. It is pleasing to state that several efficient clergymen and laymen in various portions of my field, have ren* Iderfd much valuable service as Bible colt . porteurs. A highly esteemed clergymen in one of the Western Districts of thie State, when Bpoken to in reference to our society, said : "The American Bible Society must be sustained. Send me three hundred Bibles nnrt T?tom?ni. oi-<t T i will take great pleasure in distributing them among the destitute." Another clergvman, who is an active pastor in one of the Eastern Districts,said : "Please , secure for me several hundred copies of i the Scriptures for our District. The desi titution is very great, and I will take great pleasure in placing the hooka in the i hands of the people." And a Bible Comi mittee, in one of the upper Districts,said: "The American Bible Society will confer i a blessing on this community,if they will send us jive hundred copies of the Word i of God." A highly esteemed layman, also, who is the efficient .President of ia i Branch Bihle Society, in one of our up* i per District!, being concerned for the wel? i tare of the freedmen, and requesting Bii bles and Testaments for their use. save: r "I would respectfully report that the nu* i meroua freedmen in this placs^^d vicini* ty are in the process of learning to read, while somo can flo so already ; and bene* we anticipate a considerable demand for the Word of God, to be placed in their hands." Mr. Rial North, local ageot of the Bible Society in Columbia, who ret ceived a grant of one thousand Bibles and Testaments at his depository last au> tumn, reports more than half of this number distributed to destitute persons in this city and in Richland District. During the war, every community in this State was drained to meet the call* , for Bibles and Testaments for oursoldiera, and hence the present urgent demand for i the word of God in th'.a State. A& the freedmen, whose predominant desire just I now seems to be to learn to read, are in s prospect of the Attainment, importuning s us for Bibles. With sincere regards, yours truly, i, E. A. BOLLES, Agent A. B. S. for South Carolina. i Secretary Seward's Speech. Secretary Seward, made a speech at rt ? i kt \r V .... - Auuurn, is irecently, in w melt be said, r the solicitude which perraded the count try would perhaps justify him in ad* 1 dressing tha paopla upon political topics, candidly and patriotically. When good g Union man ware suspicious of lha change ( io tha viawa of defeated rebels and their support of tha President's policy.?lie, r' from tha first, rejectad tha idea that ebaoga was accomplished for treasonable purposes. Reconstruction is not needed * because tha eountry as constituted long u ainca haa not been destroyed. What ia needed is reconciliation between the Sen* j< ators now acting and those who, being loyal, bare been or may be elected here* ? after from the Southern Statea. With ' few exceptions, the Southern people could* # ? justly be accepted as fellowcitizena. The Southern States hare for the last four |( years beeo merely disorganized. They * e are now organized, and nothing ia need* ed but conciliation. The President'^ plan of reconstruction ia that ao far and to fast as unrapraaanted Southern States nr*?e?t themselves in a loyal attitude by representatives unquestionably loyal, they are entitled to representation. Tbie plan in practicable. No plan proposed by Con* * press so (ar in immediately practicable.? |4 He wan aware there wee a difference be* tween the President and Congress, but ? hoped that difference would not cause the ' I Union party to loaa it* grnat inOuenoa In guiding tha country to parfact reatoralion. t