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THREE DOLLARS A YEAR,] FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF USEFUL INTELLIGENCE. YOL. II. WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21 1866. NO4 THE HERALD IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, At Newberry C. H., By TEM8 F. & B. H. GBEN(1c VSR.n e PEa ANNUM, IN CURRENCY, OR PEOVISIONS. Ppumntnquired invariably in advanfe. n'o_es, aeral Invitations, Obits egF $N, mm==Cantna subeerving private b tae, are charged as advertiasements. FAIThIAR CNERSATIONS. NUMBER ONE. -h. Mr. Editor, I wish to ad vertise by the year in your paper. What will four squares cost ?" "Fifty dollars, sir." "Fifty dollars! Why, I used to get~it done for thirty, before the war. I can't pay any more now there is no justice or reason in such high prices." "Very well, sir, if you don't like the price, let it alone. I wish to buy a pair of good sewed shoes. What is the price ?" "Six dollars, sir-a very nice article." "Ahem! what was the price of such shoes before the war?" "From two and a half to three dollars, sir ; everything in our line, you know, is higher now." "Yes, sir. Have you some coffee-and what is the price ?" "We have very nice Java at fifty cents." "Fifty cents! What was the price before the war ?" "From eighteen to twenty, sir." "Well, Mr. Gaspall, let me see some of your bleached shirting. What is the price of that ?" - "Bleached shirting is worth half a dollar per yard, sir." "Did you not- formerly sell it at ifteen to twenty cents per yard ?" "Yes, sir ; but, as- I before re marked. everything in our line is higher than formerly." "Well, sir, I see I can't afford to buy dry goods and groceries ; but I am obliged to have some flour, bacon and corn. What are those articles worth ?" "Flour is from sixteen to twenty dollars per barrel; corn, one dol lar and a half per bushel, and bacon twenty-eight cents per pound.' "Don't you remember when I advertised for you for thirty dol lars, you sold flour at $5 per bar rel, corn at 60 cents per bushel and bacon at 131 cents per pound ?" * "Well, yes, I believe so." "How, then, do you expect me to pay from one to two hundred per cent. advance on former prices and not raise my rates ?', "Well, I don't know, Mr. Editor;f but it does seem to me your prices are very extortionate." !! ! Reader, the above is no fancy sketch; nor does it apply to mer chants alone. NUMBER TwO. URello! is the Editor in ?" "'Yes, walk in, Mr. Muggins take a seat, sir." "I just called to see about taking a paper, Squire. What are they going at now ?" "Four dollars a year, sir" " "Four dollarai why, I never heard of suech extortion." "Well, Mr. Muggins, I under stand you have some wheat-what do you ask for it ? "Three dollars a bushel, sir." "I also want some bacon. What is the price ?" "Twenty-eight cents per pound, sir." "I wish, likewise, to get some corn and fodder-what are the prices of those articles ?" "Corn is a dollar and a half per bushel, and fodder a dollar and a half per cwt. But hold on ;let us settle that newspaper affair. Can't you let me have it for less than four dollars ? I do not see any. good reason for asking more than you did formerly-which was two dollars, I believe." (Editor, somewhat excited.) "The thunder you don't ! I for-: merly bought wheat at a dollar a bushel-you now ask three ! 1 bought bacon at 12j-now you ask 28! I bought corn at from 50 to 75-you now ask a dollar and a half! I bought fodder at 50 cts. per cwt.-you now ask 150! And so on to the end of the chapter. Let us look at the practical work ing of the thing. I offer you my paper at two dollars-the old price-if you will pay in produce at old prices. This you decline to do, because it would take two bushels of wheat, which you es timate at six dollars. It would take four bushels of corn, which at the present price, would amount to six dollars. It would take 400lbs. fodder for which you now ask six dollars." "Hold on, Squire-don't go any farther. Here are four dollars ; put down my name. I find editors are not, after all, so unreasonable as some of the rest of us." [Athens (Ga.) Watchman. 640* A FORtUNATE KISS. The following pretty little story is narrated by Fredrika Bremer, who vouches for its truthfulness. "In the great University of Up sula, in Sweeden, lived a young student, a noble youth, with great love for studies, but without means of pursuing them. He was poor and without connections. Still he studied, lived in great poverty, but keeping a cheerful heart, and trying to look at the future which looked so grim to him. His good humor and excellent qualities made him beloved by his comrades. One day he was standing at the square with some of them, prat tling away an hour of leisure, when the attention of the young men became arrested by a young and elegant lady, who, by the side of an older one, was slowly walking over the place. It was the daugh ter of the Governor of Upsula, liv ing in the city, and the lady was her governess. She was generally known for her goodness and gen tleness of character, and looked at with admiration by all the students. As the young men stood gazing at her as she passed, like a graceful vision, one of them suddenly ex claimed: "Well, it would be worth some thing to have a kiss from such a mouth." The poor student, the hero of our story who looked on that pure, angelic face, exclaimed, as if by in spiration : "Well, I think I could have it!" "What ?" cried the friends in a chorus ; "are you crazy ? Do you know her ?" "Not at all," he answered, "but I think she would kiss me if I asked her." "What ? in this place, and be fore all our eyes." "Yes." "Freely ?" "Yes, freely." "Well, if she would give you a kiss in that manner, I will give you a thousand dollars !" exclaimed one of the party. "And I, and I," exclaimed three or four others, for it happened that several rich men were there, and the bets ran high on so im probable an event. The challenge was made and received in less time than we take to tell it. Our hero (my authority tells not whether he was plain or hand some ; I have my p)eculiar reason for believing that he was rather plain, but singularly god looking at the same time,) immediately walked up to the young lady a-nd said: "Mine frulien, my fortune is now in your hands." She looked at him with aston ishment, but arrested her steps. He proceeded to state his name and condition, his aspirations, and related simply what had just now passed between him and his comn rades5. The young lady listened atten tively, and at his ceasing to speak, she said blushingly, but with great "If by so little a thing, so much good can be effected, it would be foolish in me to refuse your re quest; and publicly, in the open square, she kissed hini. The next day the student was sent for by the Governor. He wanted to see the man who dared to seek a kiss from his daughter in that way, and whom she con sented to kiss. He received him with a scruti nizing bow, but after an hour's I conversation, was so pleased with him that he ordered him to dine at his table during his studies at Upsula. Our young friend pursued his studies in such a manner that it soon made him the most promis ing student at the University. Three years are now passed since the first kiss, when the young man was allowed to give a second kiss to the daughter of the Governor as his wife. He became, later, one of the most noted scholars in Sweeden, and was much respected in his charac ter. His works will endure, while time lasts, among4the works of science; and from this happy union sprang a family well known in Sweeden at the present time, whose wealth and high position in society are regarded as trifles in comparison with its goodness and love. We are now at Strasbourg. This was formerly a German Free Im perial City.-Louis XIV, seized it in time of peace and annexed it to France ; but this unwarrant able act did not make Frenchmen of the people of Strasbourg. They look German and generally speak the German language. French is taught in the schools. The great est attraction in Strasbourg is the celebrated Cathedral with its lofty spire, on which busy mechanics have been at work for 600 years, and have not yet reached the height of the ambitious architect. The Cathedral is one of the finest Gothic edifices in Europe; its spire is the highest in the world, being thirty feet higher than the great Pyramid of Egypt, and 130 feet higher than St. Paul's, London. This is one of the church steeples I did not have the courage to climb, as I was informed that peo ple occasionally dropped thr.ough the open work, falling a distance of some 500 feet ! The Bishops have found it necessary to issue many indulgences to procure mon ey to build the Notre Dame or Ca thedral of Strasbourg. The church is decorated with some fine statues, and numerous paintings. Its ex treme height has made it a mark for the lightning ; it has been struck more than a dozen times. In 1854 the spire was entirely de molished by lightning, but was soon restored. In 1728 an earth quake came near shaking it to the ground. Its stained windows are beautiful; one of them is unusually large, being fifty feet in diameter~. The rich painted glass was man ufactured in the 15th century. In 1793-a year long to be remem- 1 bered throughout France-the Ca thedral fell into the hands of the iacobins. They* -caused several hundred statues of Kings and] Saints to be cast into the streets and river, and converted t.he church into an arsenal and place for com missary stores. TLie cut of the Jacobin sabre is to be seen on many statues paintings and church altars, not only in Strasbourg, but in Paris and other cities. In the Cathedral is an astronomical elock, almost as celebrated as the tall spire. Three German pro essors spent a lifetime in trying 1 to perfect it, but did not complete 1 their work. It is called the Clock of the Three Sages. This cele brated clock has racked the brain of the German mathemna ticians for 500 yea rs, a'nd was fi nally perfected by Sc.hwilgue, who] is now a resident of Strasbourg. T+ show the hour dar of -Jk of the month, the year, and many church celebrations. Precisely at twelve o'clock its full mechanism is set in motion. At that hour the crowd is generally so great it requires a number of policemen to preserve order. The figure of Death is surrounded by four fig ures, representing the four ages of life. Childhood strikes the first quarter, Youth the second, Man hood the third, and decrepid Old I Age the fourth (on the Continent the clock always strikes each guarter of the hour). As Death Strikes the hour, Youth turns over'] the hour-glass that he holds in his!: band. At noon the twelve Apos tles pass, bowing before Christ. I As they pass one at a time, our Savior lifts his hand to bless them. ] During that time, a cock, which is perched on the right, flaps his wings, and crows three times. Hr. Schwilgue recently added an ecclesiastic compute,with all itsin- i ai eations, presenting also the revo lutions and eclipses of the sun and I moon for an indefinite time. As < an intricate and fine piece of work manship, the old clock surpasses anything I have yet seen. Per haps to the majority of Americans it looks like an unnecessary ex penditure of time and labor. It proves, however, what skill and mechanism can produce. [European Cor. Char. News. EQUALITY IN LEGISLATION. When men legislate, we like to ee them pass laws for the benefit >f all classes of society alike,-the poor as well as the rich,-the in lividual as well as. corporations. he action of the Legislature in postponing the Session of the court, until next Spring, whether 5o intended or not, will operate -hiefly to the advantage of the rich, and of banks and other cor porations. Is not a man, who owes 1 ive hundred or five thousand lollars, as much entitled to pay is debt, as the man who is not ible to owe more than twenty or >ne hundred dollars'? If the pro perty of the former should not be b~roght to sale, neither should that of the latter. Why then did rot the Legislature forbid Magi strates and the District Courts to sollect debts, until next Spring ? (Anderson Intelligencer. TirE NEXT CoNGRESs.-There is n erroneous impression that pre rails in the minds of many persons, vho think the Congressional elec tions occurring this fall, will affect the character of the Congress that meets in December. The only in auence these elections can have apon that body, is a moral influ nce. The same members that 3omposed the last session of Con gress will constitute the next. The persons elected to Congress this fall, will not have seats in the resent Congress. The political omplexion of the next session will e, therefore, the same as that of he last session. (Carolina Spartan. ' INFORMATION WANTED.-DuringI he fight and stampede of Wheel- ] r's cavalry, at Shelbyville, Tenn., i bout the 22d of June, 1863, my r ldst son, J. W. Musgrove, a i Leutenant in the 1st Regiment of f .labama Cavalry-Confederate- j as, as I. learned, wounded and r' -aptured. I have never heard f that became of him, whether he 1 lied there, or was carried to some - rison and died. Any information j ibout him will be thankfully re- u eied. ~ My post office is Blount- a ille, Ala. P. M. MUSGROVE. d P. S.-Papers North and Sout.h ( vill confer a favor on ths subscri- e er by giving the above a place in a heir columns. P. M. M. t The Columbus, Montgomery t mnd Eufaula papers state there s vas a lack of funds in the hands a f factors last week to buy cotton. e t is saidl also that the same diffi- g ~ulty existed in Moble and New t HONORS TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD. We copy the following from :he Richmond Examiner : The bazaar to be held in this Aity in February, by the "Ladies' Hollywood Memorial Association," we rejoice to know, promises a ;uccess commensurate with the ioble spirit which has prompted t. It constitutes an important eature in the arrangements, vhich the ladies are consumma ;ing, with the view of obtaining he funds requisite to the accom )lishment of their patriotic enter 3rise. It is expected that the proceeds rom the bazaar and the subserip ;ions received by agents, to be ap >ointed in the cities and counties )f the various Southern States, ,vill aggregate a very large, if not tn ample, sum. Every Southern ;ommunity should feel interested n preventing a disappointment of his reasonable expectation of the adies. The preservation from lesecration and decay, and the ap >ropriate decoration of the graves )f Confederate soldiers, is a high Lnd holy duty, from which the south could not escape if she vould, without a confession of in lifference to the noblest impulses vhich sway the human heart. Our poor boys who rallied to he defence of home and fireside, Lud of the solemn convictions vhich were the guide of our fore athers, fell in an unsuccessful trugle. Their blood baptised a 'conquered banner," upon whose olds, thanks to their glorious val )r, no stain of dishonor rests, and attened a land over which an au ;hority rules alien to that which :hey fought to establish. There is 10 "Government," State or Fede al, to gather into extensive ceme cries and showy sepulchers the )leaching bones of the patri )ts who fell in vain. Despite the odious charge of treason," which is sought to be 'astened upon their memories, :he graves of the brave "rebels". vho made Manassas, Shiloh and gettysburg the altars of patriotic ;elf-immolation, shall not want ~he marks of honor due their ser ices and the cause for which ;hey fell. With us, their memo ies should be hallowed as of the "Brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishesI blest." The humblest contribution, ;hough it may not raise an aspi ing shaft of marble or bronze, ~hall assist to perpetuate a laurel >r evergreen upon a patriotic p-ave. Hollywood should become L splendid necropolis of Southern 1eroism. and every spot of our hir land consecrated as the rest ng-place of a Confederate soldier hould emulate its memorial hon rs to the glorious dead. THE REBELS' CHEER A FEDERAL ;OLDIER.-At a recent tonrnament n Tuscumbia, Alabama, the prize vas won by an ex-offier of the ~ederal army. The Huntsville ndependent thus describes the nanner in which his victory was eceived :The thickest ie must relt. Cheer after cheer burst orth for the knightly victor. The udges, the president, General For est, and K. and Q. said hurrah or him and took him by the ands. The silver spurs were his -there was not a dissenting voice. nd just here we have the pleas re of rccording an impromptu et by the ~off-hand knight, which oes credit to the heart. Through ien Forrest he announced to the rowd that the spurs were offered s a present to the association for he cause of sepulture to the Con aderate dead. Well done, son of he North. You fought for -your ide in the war, we for ours. You re a peace man now, and no one an say you have not acted the entleman throughout, and at [ies when one's patience would e soely trior1.l NEW YORK llERALD OFFICE. The exterior of the Herald Building on Broadway is finished, and great is its magnificence. It will be the most imposing edifice on the street. No one but Ben nett himself knows when it will be occupied, at present the interior is hardly touched. The "old man" has relaxed some of his vigilant supervision over the present Herald office. He visits there two or three times a week, and fusses around, probably to keep his hand in. Yonng Bennett, a tall awk ward youth, rather bright looking, with a hustling air about him,-has the control of the - establishment. He sticks to his business bravely, and it is said by those. who ought to know, to have talent. The labor of keeping such a huge machine as the Herald in proper working order, is no child'splay. It requires a mind for organization and detail, like that of a General or a large hotel proprietor. The editorial staff, alone, of the Herald numbers over one hundred members. Every department has, its proper chief, and under him,'are subordinates ever at his back and call. There is a local editor, a literary editor, a dramatic editor, an art editor, a political editor, a marine edi-tor, a foreign editor, a musical editor, a telegraph editor, and reporters of police iterns, base ball, chess, law courts, political meetings, suburban news, religious doings, prize fights, military affairs, firemen's- affairs, German and French local intelli gence, and the thousand-and-one multifarious matters which' make up life in a great city.. There are an army of correspondents, also, writing from every part of the world. Besides the editorial de partment, there are others, devoted to equally important parts of the Herald business. In the compos ing room are a hundred type set ters, under command of a foreman. In The press room are fifty- engi neers, firemen, paper folders, wrap per writers and laborers ; and in the business office, under a man. ager, there are clerks to attend to the finaQnces, receive the advertise ments and subscr mons, sell the. papers, and .distrioute the ava lanche of letters received in an swer to advertisements. Directly and indirectly,.connected with the Herald are at least five hundred attachees, each one with his par ticular mission to fill, and all to contribute to th'e formation and perfection of that great engine of good and evil, the New York Herald. It requiLes a head to direct it, and if young Mr. Bennett is equal to the task, he is a chip of the old block. [N. Y. Cor. Charleston Courier. CousIN SALI.-A few days ago, we saw a box at the landing, which was marked "Win. Potts, Medical Purveyor, C. S. A., Afont gomery, Ala., C. S. A." We had not seen it long, before an indi vidual more than two sheets in the wind,, came hiccuping and staggering among the barrels, bags and boxes on the levee. He was not long in gyrating upon the box we have mentioned. He saw the address and gave two or three arring hiccups in speedy succes sion, before he could get out a punch-like laugh. He finally traightened himself up with the ravity of a punchinello and ex laimed, "how are you, Cousin ~alie ?'.' "Well, old C. S. A.," he1 ontinued. ."I thought you were ead, Cousin SaIl, your initials ust now read, Confidence Strenth ms Affhections. You've had a hard road, old gal, and the Radicals in end to send you across Jordon, ut keep a stiff upper lip, and. I rou'll come out right after all."' t lec took his leave by giving some alf dozen hiccups, and saying, ] 'Old C. S. A., I have fought, bled C d died for you, but hang me if I ver shoulder a musket again for I nybody."-Memph is Appeal. SPECIAL NOTICE TOT'EE 'Pazimik?. - A SAD PIcTURE.--The very sadde one except' the original- is excellent - photograph i taken by Mr. Kuhns'of the terious Hospital Patient," sti"- 'e sealed volume,. and still in hospital at this place. The fdb article we wrote concerning th 4= y truly unfortunate mans was doied into most of the Southern, ai -4 " almost all of the Northern pape~.. , Will the same papers sympathizing with -the& tunate, state that a :crredt lik.. ness of the nfortunate, ma be obtained by enclosigg fifty .cen-t.s to Wm." Kuhn;s, Tallaha se ,-w Florida ?-Tallahasse &ntinel. The "local" of the L'n ' 2 (Va.,) News thus describe.a: - py sight, which we witnessed Monday, in that city: We"a a woman, yesterday,. f,om thean try, promenading Bridge. re - - underneath a new spoon " hat, decked with a'rooterfea - " naide- of a tilting "skeert'' be -+ a huge waterfall,, having in h mouth a corn-cob pipe, and nhw arms a baby, -a b ut a*o n old. She looked- like she she was in Mahomet's h. Heaven; and was just -Asy to exclaim, "Cut my stra - let me go to glory." She :-. . curiosity. Messrs. Theirs, Gui o e Hug, Lamartine, ou0in0 , Sands, and other illustrins :s , ,. ters, are'actually engaged-in Mr1 ting a book upon Paris, in 'ie1 each of them are to conteii y chapter. The book will a at the French Exposition as . fresh monument. of French genisE jbr and talent. Rev. J. Knowles, a form8r Irn t ister of the Methodist Churecx and at onetime the- editor Journal & Messenger of [ao . -, was ordained a Deacon in Protestant Episcopal' Cf .rd Atlanta, on last Sabbath. - A'mechanic at Albany, X has invented a new acton~' with the great merit of being poi- . table. A targer per leentag - cotton, it is also claimed, issae by this gin than by the one no~ in use, while the length of th at4~ pie is preserved. Since the process -of photgrK -~ phing a1pon Bilk and linenhse~; perfected in Fran~ce, many perso(a N have their portraits upon the'. linen instead of their names o .i C.~~ itiais. They are not injured3 washing. A wife in New# Orleans hedb - a divorce and obtained it ond established testimony thaf Ept of'beIt-ribbon and a h&ir pia. 1 longing to another womnawo> found in the plaintiffPs bed"idd " Mohammedane Bra kmins vairious other sects have fiuxed '1 on the year 1867 as a period to be marked by some greatland - 9j~ velous change. ' --- Washing the head with ce ~ black tea once or twice & -ees will keep the hair from falling.o1 prevent its growing~ gray, a 4re it a fine, lively luste ~ An Eastern editor asked hia mubscribers to pay up, that he may pay a similar joke upon his credi ;ors. We like to see a good joke ;o round. Alice Ashley. "one more unfor unate" keeper of a house of ill 'ame in New York, committed su cido on Monday last. One of the new boulevards in kitoscow has been named the Bou e'vard Amerikunski. Apples and pumpkins never lourish well the same year- flej, h~er do war and babies. If you remedy dyspepsia.-diet, f you- would remedy gray hair-. ye it. An Illinois wife, 16 years old, Las applied for a divorce. A girl of fourteen was marrie4 n Greenie, Ct., lat week.