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IJIUv SS w 2p JW/ v iP 4^ <? VOLUME XVI. LANCASTER C. IL, S. C., NOV., 28, 18G7. NUMBER 42. SELECTED STORY, j will? INEMER TOLD, I o I am an engineer. lv/or .ince the C #ojkJ wj?s laid, I've travelled over it etfery day, or nearly ever duv of my life.For a good while I've bed iho same engine in charge?the San Francisco? | the prettiest engine on the road, and aa | rell managed, if I say it, as the best. It was a southwestern road, ranging, from A to y*. At A my good old mother Hv?d ; at 7.1 had the sweetest little wife under the tnu, and a baby ; and I always had a dollar or two put by for a rainy day. I vfaa an odd kind of a man. Being shot Op with the engine, watching with all your eye# ami heart and soul, inside and out, don't make a man ta'.kativo. Uy wife*. nam* was Josephine, and I called liar Joe. Soma people called wo wnarcrable, and couldn't understand how a tnan could feel friendly without saying ten words an hour. S >, though 1 had a few old friend*?dear ones, Joo?I did not have so m inv a -ipi tintanc* as most people, and did not c*ra to have. The house which held my wifo ami baby i/a# (he dearest place on esrth to me, except tho old house which held my mother up iu A. 1 never belonged to a club, or mixed myself up with strangers in any such war, and never should if it had not been for I Granby. You see Granby was one of | the shareholders, a handsome, showy feb f??. t i;i...,i -it una unna to milt o I HI 111 111 , HIIU WO | *we friend*. IIo often rode from Z to A and back again, and on?e lie said : "Yon outfit to belong to the Scientific Club, Guet'don." 'Never board of it," said I. *'| mi a member," said bo. "Wo meet Once a fortnight, and have a joliv good time. Wo want thinking men like you. "We have some among us now. I'll propose you, if you like." t was fond of ?ucli things, and I bad ideas that I fancia I might be worth something. It it then an engineer don't have" nigh> and days to himself, and the club vtUUld have one ovuning in a fortflight boat J 10. I said : I'll ask Iter. It site likes it, yes." "Ask whom!" said be. "Joe," said !. Mf (tvarv tnun liarl ual?A.I l?!a ?'^ mnitS wife wou'd have mill, 'can't spare you, itij' dear.' un?J >o should Lave bad uo^elah at all," tnij Granby. ,Mlut I made no anawer. At home 1 told Joe. Site said 1 'then if Granby belongs to it thoy must be superior man." "No doubt," said I. "It isn't everybody who could be made a member," said Joe. "Why, of coarse you must nay yes." 80 I said yr?, and Granby proposed me. Thursday fortnight, 1 went with him lo the rooma. There wore aonte men there with braiut, and aotno without.? The real business of the evening was the aupper, and so it * as every evening. I'd always been a temperate man. I actually did not know what elfect wine would have open me, but coming to drink more of it than I ever bad, at the sflttft table, T found it put tho steam on.? Xfler ao many classes I wanted to talk ; after 10 many more ! did. T seamed like somebody else, the words Verb so ready. My litt'e ideas came out | anil were listened to ; T made sharp bits; T indulged in repartee; I told stores; I even came to pans 1 heard one Bay to Granby : "lly George, that's a man worth knowing. I thought him dull at first.** Yet I knew it was belter to la quiat fad Gaaidon, with his tan words an hour, than the wins made wit I was. I was sore of it, when, three hotira after( I stumbled up stairs to find Joe, watting /or me, with her hate on her breast. * You've been der?lv:ng me," said Joe. j *1 it, but I wasn't sure. A aelentlflo club couldn't smell like a bar room." Which rottni I do," said t, waving is the middle of the room like a signal fNg at a station, and seeing two Joee. "And look tike one," aaid Joe ; and able went and locked herself and the baup in the spare bed room together, j "Ned," eat I she, "do you think a thing so uiuch like a battled up and strapped down demon as steam is, la fit to put into tbahanda of a drunken man I And soma day, mark my words, the time will come when not only Thursday eight, but all the days of the week will be the same.? IVe often heard you wonder what the feelings of an engineer, who ban about ihaaame aa murdered a train full of peo, jle> must be, and you will know if you V * *#?< don't stop wliere you ere. A steady hand and a clear hoad have beau your blessing all these years. Don't throw them away, Nod. If you don't caro for my love, dou'l ruin yoursolf." "My little Joo! She spoke from her hoart, and 1 bont ovor and kissed her. One club night, as I was diessod to go, Joe stood before m?i. "Ned," said ehe, "I never had a fault to find with .you before. You've bean . kind, and pood, and loving, always; hut I shall he sorry we ever met if you po on in this way. Don't ask tne what 1 | mean. You know." "Joe," said I, "it's only club night." "ll will grow," said bLo. Then she put her arms around my neck". "Don't he nfraid, child. I'll never I pain you ao a pain." "I mount it; but at 12 o'clock, that nigbt I felt that I had forgotten my pro- j raise and my resolution. I couldn't go home to Joe. T made np j my mind to sleep on the cluh sofa and i leave the place for pood next day. AN ! ready I felt my brain reel as I never had before. Iu an hour I was in n land of | stupor It was morning. A waiter stood ready to brush my coat. I sa w a grin upon his face. .\fv head seemed ready to burst; my nand trembled! I looked at my watch ; I saw that I had only five minutes left to reach the depot! Joe's words catno to my mind. Was I fit to tuko charge of tho cngino ? I was not fit to answer. 1 ought to have asked some sober man. As it was, I* onlv caught tip my hat and rushed awav. I was just in time. The San Francisco glittered in tho morning *un. The cara were filling rapidly. From my post I eon hi h?-ar the talking?bidding each other good bye, promising to writo and coine again.? Among them was an old gentleman I knew by sight?one of the shareholders ; .he was bidding two timid girls adieu. "Good bye, Kiltie?good bye, Lite," I heard him say ; "don't ho neivoua. Tho San Francisco is the 6af<-st engine on tho line, and GuelJon the uiost careful en ginoer. I wouldn't be afraid to trust .everv mortal I love in the world to their keeping. Nothing cou'd happen wrong to the two together." I said, 'Til got through it somehow, flr.r) .1 ha ult all nuvtr .?%.? ~ After all, it was easy enough. I roele I hs I spoke. I heard the signal. Wo were otT. Five hours froin L to I); five hours back. On the last I should he mv*?!f again, T know. I saw a red flutter, ar.d never guessed wont it was until we were past the down ^rnin at the wrong place. Two minutes more and wo should have had a collision. Somebody told me. I laughed. I heard hiin ssy respectfullv : Of course, r. GueMon, you know what you sre ubout !" Then 1 was alone, and wondering whether I should go slower or faster ; 1 did something, nnd tho cars rushed on at a fearful rata. The same man who had spoken to me before, was standing near mo. I heard oine questions, libw mmv miles an hour were we ma' kins; ! I did uot know. Ii?ltle, rattle, rattle, I was trying to slacksn the speed of the Shu Francisco.? I could not remntntx r what I should do. Was it this or that f Faster-*? onlv fa*' tor. I was playing the engine like n child. Suddenly there waa a horrible roar?a crash; I was flung somewhere. It waa into the water. Hy a ruiracie I was only sobered?not hurt. I gained the shore.? I etood upon the ground between the track and the rirer's edge, and tliero gased at my owu work. The engine was in fragments, the cars in splinters ; dead, dying and wounded wore strewn around?men, women and children, o!J ago and tender youth.? There were groaus and shrieks of despair. The maimed cried out In pain ; the uninjured bewailed their dead ; and a voice, unheard by any other, was in my ear whispering, "Murder !" The news had gone back to A, and the peorle came thronging down to find their loot one*. Hearehing for an old ninn'o daughter, I came to a plaeo nnder tho treee, and five bodies were lj ing thoro ip all their rigid horror-?an old woman, a young ono, a f.ahy and two little children. It was fancy?it *M pure fancy, >>orn to m? angnieh?they looked like?oh I groat Uaaven ! there were old mother, my wife, tny children I all cold and- dead. Ilow did thay come 00 the traio I ? Whet chance had brought thia about?? I gated on the good old face of her who ' M dh $i ? ! had c;ivf?n me birth, on the lovely features ! of my wife, on tho innocent children. I I called them by name ; there whb no nn? swer, Tiieio never ? > .Id ho :V.tr on ] I be. And an I comprehended thie, onward up the track tliund jrin ? another train.? lu rod eyo glared on mo ; I llun^ myself before it; I felt it crush me to nloma ! , | "llii head is very hut,", said some , I body. I opend my eyes and saw my wife, "llo v do you fool ? ' alio said, "a little bettor ?" | I was reioicol and so astonished by the I si^ht of hot thfct I could not speak at | first. She rsposted tho npiestion. "I must l)o crut.hr.1 to pieces," said !, for tliD train went over me; but I fool no j pun." I "There ho (mcs nhout the triin attain," remarked my wife. "Why, Net! !" j I tried to move; I ant up. I was in my ! own room, opposite the crib in which two children wore asleep. I My wife and children wore r-afe! Was 1 1 I delirious, 'or could it bo ? ? j "Joe," cried I, "tc'.l mo how it Imp j p.:nod." ' It's nine o'clock," Raid .Too. "You ' cmne home in such a dreudf 1 state from the club that I couldn't wake you. You J were not fit to manage steam and risk 1 | people's lives. The San Francisco is half , 1 way to A, 1 suppose, mi l you have lieeu j . frightening mo to death with your dread* ! ful talk." And Joe hegan to cry. It was a lire an?onlv an awful dream. ! 1 *ut I had livtJ through it ftil as though it whk reality. "Is tLeru a Uible in the Louse, Joe," a A ill I. * u i?re r.o heathens!" a lid Jo.*." "(live it to mo this moment, Joe." S* ? broU:;bt.it, and 1 put mv hand on it and t .ok an oath (too eolomn to hn ro? pentrd hero) that whst had happened nover should occur a^a-n. It no?or hn?. I And if thn Sun Francisco over comes to grief, tlio verdict will not he, as it ooelit (to bo so often?thr (nfjhwcr f/ot drunk. Gen Marion's Utvorcl. We were shown a few days AfOj \ y Philodoie S. IV', T'- j, i niembor of the bar f f tli'.* c 11*, the id :.t;c i! sword worn l v tl.e famous partisan fi,liter, General , Marion, in the tirsl w nr of the K public. , 'I he sword vt ti eapturr ~ by Captain K.I; war 1 M cKaige,(th?n acting master U.S. ; S*xy.) May 1st, ISO J, nt St. Mary*a, Gs, It was f nnd eoncea Vl in the top of an | ouj wnrurube iu &n aoc.eut storo l ouse.? II was presented !?v Captain McKeiga to Commodore Mead*, of l!;o N'.tvy, who presented it to M ?j >r Gtotrsl Georq .. ; Meade, ??i)0 Again preset ted it to !:o gon1 | lltmian in whose pose- . n it now is.? I . > The blade is an ? kc< ed.n '.line .mo. Tiio mottoes on the ! ! i Id are characteristic of olden chivalry, ex:>r. *- n * < 11 t no s Me : J ''jVq me saquct si.i rorcin," (''Never draw in* without cam**.') and on the other, "Ao me ntihair)(j sin honor." Never sheathe mo without honor." Ocn. Msri( on's natno is rudely en. . 1 on the handle, j bearing date 177.1. It is probajbio that the sword wi . li i its way back to Geor. gia.? 1'hiladclp! i i Mercury. Rp*t vms srrcksfi.? It is worth while to notice the almost wonderful success achieved by >om? business i -ti in this j city who commenced with only moderate , capital. The iii" uis adopted hy our most prosperous merer .tit>*, wo If irn, on ii iiry, are, lii?t, une-asipi* aaaiduitv to their | business, ami watchful attention to all its i details, great ami small ; second, a deter ininalion not to encourage the desire to j grow suddenly rich ; and, thirdly, to make a reputation and establish a l?0"d and I reliable namo. A reputation, in a retail business, is made, in a grout degree, by j liberal advertising, io being satisfied with a moderate protlt, and hy making it a rule not to miarepr.'sont the arieles sold. A noted millionaire! says, to realize a for1 tune, you have to do but two things ;? first, get bold of a good thing, and then let the whole world know c-f it.? A'. V. ' Horn* Journal. In Sumter county, A'abanvi, the p'an ters have boon considering the eul j.wct of the labor of freedinen. At a recent meeting, they adopted resolutions, insisting uj? on a future f^itliful compliance of freed* tqeu with their crop contract*, on penalty of being discharged, and thing one fourth of the crop as the ahare of the laborers | when provisions aro furnished them, onethird when thcr furnish their own pro I vinim s and pay half the expenses. They ' also recorohrend $10 n month as war?<-* of first ?U*s field hands, ?0 for second 1 class and for third c!??s, with ten hours* work a dsy from April 1 to October 1, nnd nine hours for the rest of the [jeer. | | Anticipated Ifesro Insurrection i STAUTtrKO IN'FOHM \TlON*? A D E V I. I 8 II l't.oT ?:sc'jVKi;nD. Wo cv;. iho following nrlic'o from iho Lynchburg (V . ) Xcios. Itdbeb.yes ono of tha most di ?b mini schemes as y-1 , concoetc 1 ; ) tlio Sialo h'neo iho Southamnion insurrection, and shows conrlnI aively that mischief is brewing, and il behooves us to bo prepared to uuct iho issuo: Wo ore no sanAal'ionisls, Lul wo cannot shut our eys to tho alnrminsj fact that thu neirrofls mean mischief. On S,i?nr.1 iv ft nevro nf Cona>:rvativa principle*, n'ltuI ( i lWnard it rook*, 'oij;ed complaint with Jmtice 1 trace, ft mngistnito of Cambel! county, tliat Jacob Jones nn<) Jacob Johnson, twonorrro radical*, living in the county near McAllisb r's shop, wore prepariii!* to kill him, and usl;.*d for ft warrant for their arrest. The wnirnat was issued and placod in the hands of Constable (i-eo. M. 15ruot>, and .!>o accused were arretted nr.d brought to Iho ci'.v, win-re tlu-y wen parti illy ex ami nod before .1 uslicos i). 1'. l*e? o, James M. La */ borne, and Geo. M. i truce, whi 'i r.; ? 1 * 1 In Iho prisoners l? ing committed to? ill for farther bearing <> ; FriJ t- rr'Xt. Among the witnes. t ex unim 1 was Mrs. I 'r. McAllister, wh > s'.at ! that r.o1 crroes to the number of lif!v or more, hid been ho! lip.g Ir oo ?t m< '"?s\ wi !./.? husVnttid'a p'antntion, bd<w t!if? "Hr, on t! n Kiel .ootid roi l, ni ! tint h!io fin -illy li i l her suspicions nr.v-.-.vj to fueli a pitch tilHt s'ro dotormi : to eo what w?s point? on; Friday night she went to the ho iso where a inee?!*' ' \vi I 1'i-inr* he'd n- ' noon neHtTc found n d*>" I . . tied, is she ?.<-.pp.vn.l to give t' r> Rlarm, should n"v on p] ?*- r ir<eh. Ketnrnint* to i h(,r own louse no-?r hv, she provi 1- 1 h-r " If with brfv; to ft'vo tothed"g to h'-ep him miiet, urce* led in lirr p' in, and ti ! nally reached the cabin undiscovered.? i Tin ro si. lie rd the r ?^roPR difeu- -'ng \ the nioJo hv which different white people in tha nciyhborliood uoro to I a hi!!ej( i amongst whom was her husband, v.ho I was to be shot. Other whites were pro i . .1 .t 1 nouncec! i >o mean to ho granted so rcspee , tnhlo a (J. .'h, ii". I 'i r;r.apa vino hnltor , w:is doer?- ! '' "Mi. The r.o.?ro rr.o:.t! tied nltovc, Fleron: ! !' ;<* !{?, was included in | tho list of those wh were to be killed J his oticneo being his cm sr.short work was to ho nmdo of !.i::i wit1, a grapo yh >. Farther developments of the plans of those blood-thirsty villinns , wore made, and tho lady became completely satisfied from what she heard, that they were preparing to carry them ; into spec !v execution. Amort? the r.erwoes nresant on thn nn. casino, Jacob Johnson and Jacob Jones were id-T.tiii- !, a: 1 others a! >, warrant* I f. r whoso t were . *> to 1, tin 1 will he at once executed. The n<-under n.rrr*st are the lowest and m at iffnorsnt' of their class, and are ju?t such creatures as can he relied on to do tli.' murderous work, which tlic tenchinpi of the white scoundrels liirvc prepared them for, and r.ro uri?ii?;_j litem to. These <li ibolicsl men, with while fik'ns bnt hV(< hearts, will ret 1>0 caught, ; an 1 theii f r them ? a grnpo vino and the nearest tree. The i:tekiu:a?'' Srrnrr.? At r Democrat'.: meeting in MiMsboro, O., dor ing the Into p ditica! canv .^s, the chair, man, Jilson by name, before introducing Mr. Vallandigham, the principal epcakei of the occasion, announced that lie liad j received a letter, and would like to rend it. ITo read r.a follows : I.v Hem., Hooiu No. 11,150. To the Itlaek Hepublicans of Ohio : 1 nna here suffering torments for mv crimes aod pstirpations while on earth. I vn reminded of mv great wickedness,and r.cnd tK??e wor is* to you that von may take warning, (reorgo Washington pa's . oil me on the other aido of tho grest gulf, but oniv looted at me with (mutter1 aide scrn. 'l ake wsmine c.f mv fnt<* |^i o 3<l] Abraham Lixcotv. T! o reading of the above choice proun. ::on wa? loudly Applauded ; bat it is j j?t to aav that it was greeted also with a storm of hisses. f,oor> nti;wa for tfirc 1'oor.?Tiro Nftshv ilo Cji/ .'tB says: "Men conversant wills nattors agricultural assure us that from ten to fifteen fold tlio usual amount of wheat will ha sown this fall. Our plantar* have become hcartilv s:ck cf cot ? too. TliouRAud* on thousands of acres devote i laat voar to tire delusive staple will b? sown in wheat. The call for seed wheat is most extraordinary. From two to three thousand bushels cotild be sold here daily if obtainable. Tho mills have ceased malting (lour because it is more profitable to sell the wheat for planting." "What V/ill C snrfrcss Do ? Thero in nmh rpeslion and discuss*on j | nn to whiit.lho President will do in viow . ! of tlio roui'.t (<f the elections ami the as . s inhiit.^ of C >Ti_rrc-', and tliaro aro sto- j < f anni"'4 and disarming militia and I mustering of tro'-rs, and other nets of . pit?'nI mngni 1 ^enco o-i the part of the' ' Chief Ma??a<rat?. But his is not the j | case for disc-mion. Wo know scry wall i j wliat the President will do. l!o will do' for onco just. what ho on?fit to?stand I | Mi!!. Or if ho coirr-n't s any offence aj gainst pnMic propr'ety, it nil! onlv ho In ' ji ' "*s-i,'i. in;tr.iiv? some interpretation rf tin* re en', emotions as nnrxt ! | pression iri support of his policy. It is of j f.?r more importance to tho country to i I tho country to Know" what will he the I course (f the National Legislature.? | j What will Con rr"~s do ? Will Con<*ro?s I j l>e:?r in good n.K| he governed by 1 i tho d*'cUratioh of tho people, that recou j I structioii on the nigger supremacy basis j i is not to their lilting 1 Or will it refuse i to rec -n.I/to this voice and rush blindly ' f rw?i !, i ''.nil s of any result but the real :', ition of a fa: all a! idea ? Congress | , tnav see, if it will", oxactlv what will suit | ! * ' j , the i r.t - n. It must' *? content to retrace the r*'. at <!r<'u 1 .1 atrid '9 of the radical I revolutionary ; j , r.rd must cloarly and squ .-' !y pl .r ? it If on that amendment1 to the Con?t:t'.:lion which lias been ac 1 c< pU d 1 e t'.o N wti. trn rnnPb'>. whose , jmr.rp!. or ruind and saf.>, and promI i-a a r r m '* j n that will bo natural I ar.'l peaeeab! >. This h too only courso fir Cm : < <. I' r.ui t wipe out the false I recoflstrue'ion r.f tho last Con^rtsf, jaft as that Congress wipe 1 out tho reconstruct i lion of ll'.o Pre i lout, an I, starting frotn 1 the C >v * i' al an', ml.-nent as accept j j oil, base all reconstruction on its princl ! p!os. Will Congress do this? [ \':>n York ITcrahl. \ A Thief Caught* In tho Rpr' v of 1805, while tho ftnii. ' ] lies of Gen. Wade llatnp'nn and tier, j John S. I'reston, were r.*fts??e?*s in this torn, a !ar ;? ; 'n of the f.'.niily pinto an<J jewels worn conceal 1 ia retired spot, near tho villus, to protect them from Sherman's "birnm rs." The "bum* i rj" <: I n< t >11 .s was expected ; but t' ! c ! v..' . il>] s wore stolon from I their liidim; place, and not until a fuw !. \ ; a^ di I tho most vigilant searches avail anything toward* a''.discovery of thoir whereabout!1. !' <*>n Saturday last, Gen. Hampton rei ceivod a telegram from Knoxville, Tonnes see, annour.c; ig the arm L of one Uobort ; McLaln, wii'? ??iaa of tho lost valuable* i.i hi. pors. dm; and a.so a statement from MoL ; : , v.l.^ro the remainder might be ' und. Oa Tuesday evenin^; a haul was made upon t; rt m.i n> ; imiclea which were conceal.-d in the house of a brother Al pheus Mi Lain, about throe miles from : this placo. This property is of a very i i i i vhui.v.mg character, comprising jewels ar.d ' plato that have an unto! 1 value to tlie 1 1 owners as family hidr-looins. Tiio actual : 1 value of the articles recovered in Knoxi ' i vilio ami lu re, is probably about livo or 1 1 aix thousand dollars. Very few of the ' j articles are yet musing, and these of tamall value. McLdn will probably be 1 returned to' this place fi r trial, lie states ' >hat ho found tho box containing tho val1 uablcs, whi:e out hunting, a fow days ah ' ter it was hidden; and inning once ap propriated it,% he could not command ' | courage enough to return it to its lawful ' owners. Very likely!?Vorkville En H Mirer. Tho Shenandoah Herald tells a story of a newly enfranchised negro named Ctour, who voted in the Into election : The day of election camo. Caciar put ; his litt.u s.;g of paper into tho mysterious ballot I a. lie bad voted ! lie cxprc**< cd his opinion?yts, Lis opinion, on a ' great question ! lie was met bv one of ! hi.4 white friends, who accoste I him thus: ' Well, Caesar, did you veto J" 1 , "Yen >h!i, I did vote.' j. "Well, how did you vote!' "Don't know, rah ; 'twon't ho known . for several d u s. When do vote's count ed den I'll know all about it.'' Very intelligent darkey! Ho know 'now to vote, lie had learned a thing or two in the "Union League," Rknatou Wilson's Dkclaiutios.? i Senator Wilion. of Massachusetts,.in a letter to Jamc* IT. Liar, is, a colored man i of Raleigh, who is a candidate for the j State Convention, says: ; "Do not fear Congress. We will not , retreat ft single inch. Congress will stand like a rock in defence of its policy of Ret ( construction. I >epand rr.on this." What it Cost3to Reconstruct and Govern tho South, A man once bought an elephant xt what be regarded a moderate price, but found beforo very long that be, and not tho big animal, bad been sold. So il seems to Le with our Federal authorities in tho matter of the reconstruction and restoration to the Union of tho Southern Statea. As figures never tell an untruth, we have ouly to cite in support of our statement the fact that the report of Paymaster Stanton shows that so far $200,000 have been paid out by him towards defraying tho expenses of registration in Virginia, and ho ostimate9 that it will require the disbursement of $10,000 more to complete tho payment of all of the ac* counts. From January 1st. ISO?, to October 31st. 180*7. il roniilroil finn nee ... , F?JT off the troops stationed in and around this city and at Fredericksburg and Peterc* bur,*. The troops at OM Point nnd Norfolk, and in that soclion of the State, received their pay from Baltimore, and the troops stationed at Lynchburg from the pay* master at Washington c'.tv. Tire dis? hurssments to those 'acidities for the same period has amour tod to $3,000,000 more, it is estimated, making nn aggregate of $3,000,000 alono for the military guardianship of the State.? Whig. Brigham Young on MarriageA few Sundays ago, Young treated his audience to a very quaint kiud of a speech. He wants ail tho young women married off inatauter, and wants all the youug men in Zion to marry them ; and he openly threatened, if the young men failed to do | the job, that he and the bishops and tho i elders would tako tho matter in hand, and . > marry them a!! themselves. Marrying for I lovo had played out; that old fashioned | way of getting married was exploded.? It wouldn't do here ; because, if a young ; man allowed himself to love a young girl, I and then married her, tho dickens usually whs to pay when lie wanted to take a second wife. Sho had his hearf, and vt i was impossible to divide tho affection with f two or tnoro wives. Hut lie insisted that tho young men, as j a duty, a religious duty, should go for tbo j young women and marry them all off.? | They wero instructed to marry them by couples, and pairs, and triplets ; to quad* j ruplo, quintuple, and sextuple, if they j could support them. The only consider! : ation for a prudent man was to inquiro ) how nary wives ha could &upport. Tba ! }oung women, also, wore ordered to mari rv whenever a young saint went for them, j and to become mothers in Israel. ! Thr Cotton* Tax ?Tho Macon Jouri nal and Messenger contains tho following I gratifying intelligence, which wo are sure j will ba hailed wuh delight l>y every wellj wisher of tho South : 'We loam from a prominent fellowcitizen, (Col. E. S. Shorter,) who has heen i in correspondence with Senator Ilenry i Wilson, of Massachusetts, in reference to : repealing tho tax on our great Southern : staple, that he hss received loiters from ; the Senator, and also from Colfax, the | Speaker of tho House of Representatives 1 announcing themselves in favor of a i a prompt repeal t>f the tax of two and a ' half cents per pound on cotton, and njaj king the repealing law retro acting in its | operation, so it will go hack to the first ! of last September." bankrrrtci Decision in Richmond. J ?1 learn fron Richmond, Va., this evenI ir.g, that Judge Rond, Register in Dank' I ruptcy, delivered to-day an opinion in regard to applications for bankruptcy, j similar to that of Judge Dlanchford, of New York. It is that property acquired , or inherited after an applisation is filed is not liable (or the debts of the party applying for bankruptcy. This decision, it is said, will increase materially the number of applicants in Richmond. [Cor. N. Y. Herald. 1?? *. w . Right hard against a hasty temperAnger wili come, but resist it strongly.? , A spark may set a house on fire. A fit , of passion may giro you causo to mourn j all your life. Never revenge an injury. A man should know when to laugh or smile in company, Tt shows much more stupidity to bo grave at a good thing than to bo inorry at a bad one. A smile may be bright when tbe heart in sad. Tho rainbow is beautiful in the air, while bonoath is the morniug of the sea. A crest mind, without il.a ~/ n ? ?w?nviuu vi I jKhewty would star?*, 1