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- - - ------ - - --- - -- - * * -~ - - - i- -- - -' --- -. -- -q r- - - - - ~MIN 1.i. DoAS A Y ix ] FOR THE DISSEMINATIOl OF USEFUL INTELLIGENCE. [INVARIABLY IN ADVAYCE. 6OL IV. --- WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18, 1868. N047 'y +i 1? " .r. WSD A y MORNING, SAt Newberry C. H., IIn'itafone, Obit 4 ns bsberv1ng private reaiaadvertieements. - a yo - heeh r aLYs8O 8 - . a fo r ~ '~EoUi..,yca who it wm--- it - b eu4aterSber, ertuu y ' AC _ 'I l *otbh k.zhe, ethe years - now e gone ;. nrhmsnbooda cars, AfL. le deodve m - - - - asir* elweiseod - lanesoe a. car .4 - daand ary ,-,,a - swieidr sa etau, - es. - -e otanudrear l&~~~LUIY4ID uder : ' " . ' ^ he Uross Roads. ' Mrry to reach home. f asu he-wild&est A4 n nm all ily - can-over which I v a 2~oun - f r rs C e and a comfoAoer tied - == $nd 'under -miy andcaghtmeby .e, "ou're just ''d u ?are wntec at the -to-ight' -oce was. te voice of ruf } I Y= . tryself attacke by a - : - -I I stoodfiaife etill, - 1 C "6 to -bhO :_o:hie yh my r et I wa abet prtet - elec- .ante J g'W yeessods fcrfor4raid I ~ ~ it w~d1 bner a ey e~~k~V~i t e~ theiire ?"s ~o answewAed anh - - se -nsiateedb - 4 aI mtade aaitake. to gftenp im.tBa - - t thear t maed? * . - -3 e id~ -UAidI sir, saidm the man. In In an - -,.. b oad mee I?rober, n - -y.h a de ide rm Bmy b pyarace tha Ilwas the por man to be worth the trouble. - - But*er all, Vthoutght probably -h. A:man -may 6 se~h ue i Whmout being a. * s nnnd sa'yery'sapper. -: ~ ~&t oI thereM and my * ".fej~V,who could beat - - - o1mis age for miles ~yUed a boy always to WI0 ndI Ithou; he had-exer ea& rhtto vote- al-eady in e'?sidental election. Whben was sver, and we had cbat-i an hour, we went up-stairs ~~ The ment Ben's .a tone,bed the pidlow, he always * u~f~lesp.. That.night, I fol ~ed his eiaIple4 But I dd not ~p t~p~ ithout a -dream-a iiwhich L eel a rough grip upon ny armn,.4d was arouse by a crimya.Oiars. "Wake up! You are wanted at the cross roads." It was so real, so palpable, that when I started bi.oad awake, I ac tually believed that some one was in the room; the man avho intend ed robbery or violence. But when I had arisen, and lit my lamp, the room was empty, except myself and Ben, who lay snoring on his pillow. I went to to the door; it was locked. I went to the window; the crash of rain against its pains, was all I heard. I even went across the passage to my mother's room. She was awake ; there bad been no unusual sound, she was sure. Only a dream born of my meet ing the strange man in the road, 1 felt, had awakened me. I went to bed and fell asleep again. Again I was .awakened by the same words, this time shrieked in my ear by an unearthly voice. "Wake up, wake up. You are wanted at the cross roads." I was on my feet once more, and caught Ben's hand as he came over towards my bed. "What ails you?" he cried. ."Nothing," said I. "Did you hear a voice?" :Yours," said-Ben, cyelling woke me up; you fairly frightened me." "Ben," said I, "wait till I light a lamp;I heard another voice. must be some one in the house or otaide, So I again lit a lamp, but we searched in vain. "Nightmare," said B., when I f told him my story. -"Ben,"said I, "what is there at he crosa roads. 4A house," said B. He had < fi,gL ani ihborhood -a" l bile, and Inot,long. ';One -ittle - house, :beside two s oak trees and a fencc. An old man lives there-a ric, man, and a bit of a miser, they sly. His < grand daughter keeps house for "Ben, that fellow may have meant larm to them. - I may be wanted at the cross roads." "Brother," said *Ben, "go to sleep. You h ad a nightmnare["and Ben plunged in between the blan i.ets; and was:Snoring again. I also, in 1en minutes, slept as sounly as before, but the awaken ng soon came again. * I pened my eys-o e irl taiding at the foot of my. bed. A1 grl in- white iobes, with golden air all about her sho.ulders, who wrPggher hands and eried: "Oh, wake up, you. are wantted at the ross roads." This time I .started out of bed, athe4 in a cold perspiration, I rembled ,bike a leaf. I had no inbt that I had received super-1 atural wai-aing. - "Ben," I cried, "Ben, for the third time I have been told that I am wanted a7t the cross rQads, and am going." A.ndlIbegan to dress mnyself as1 spedily.as possible, listeniidgeihe while to the storm raging wilder and wilder than at any other pe eod since.its commencement. B~en- remonstrated with -me in ain. At. last, he also began to1 htdd1e oni his clothes. If you have gone mad, I xut4 ~with you and take care of you," "But faney another .man, going ut ie storm like this-to the cross oads, because a nightrmar~e-aused im to do so,-and what would you1 thnk of him ?" Isaid nothing. All I could have aswered would have been: "I-am compelled to go ; I must go. I dare not refuse, whatever ay be thbought of me ?" In ten minutq.s we were splashing2 throuhthbrmu'4 and rain along the road. ~It was perfectly dark; now and then a blazing red star in the4 distance told us-thiat a lamp was beaming through the rain in some cottage Winddw, but otherwise we would not have been conscious of 1 nm..m.nximity to' any hataftfion whatever. At last, nearing the spot where the road from S crosses the road to P-, we were indeed in as solitary -a place as can be imagined. The house, which abutted on the very angle of the roads, called in familiar parlance the Cross Roads, was the only one for some distance in either direction, and certainly on such a night we were not likely to meet many travelers. All was quiet as the grave. We stood quite still. In a moment, B. broke out in one of his widest laughs. "Well," he said, "how now ?" Will you go home now, and have another nightmare ?" But hardly had the words escap ed.his lips, when a shriek broke on the air, and a woman's voice, plainly coming from the interior of the cottage, cried: Help! help help !" "Ben," said 1, "we are wanted at the-cross roads," and then un derstanding each other, without more words we made our way to the window, through which a light shone. A muslin curtain draped the panes, but through it we saw n awful sight. An old man lay on the floor, and >ver him bent a ruffian, clutching is throat, and holding a pistol to is ear, while another man grasped ;he shrieking girl by the arm-a irl in a floating night dress-with uch long golden hair as belonged o the girl of my vision. Not a noment was to be wasted. Ben lung his weight against the slender attice and crushed it in, -and we kad grappled the ruffians before hey knew whence the attack :ame or how many foes were upon I do not intend to.dcsciibe he truggle;. indeed, I could not, if I vould. But we were strong men md inspired by the cries of the )ld man and the terrified girl, se soon had one of the villians )ond and the, other lying pros rate on the -floor. Then B. started for assistance, Lnd, before morning; both were in ail. Ben admitted, as we shook ach other by the hand, that "we vere wanted kt the .cross roads." The old man was not a miser, mt he had saved some few thou and .dollars for his old age, and ivagt miore plainly than he need iave done, had given rise to'the -umor, and so brought the burg ars -to the cross roads in the hope fbooty. The girl; a beautiful creature of eventeen, was his grand-daughter, ~nd'as no story is acceptable to the ady reader without a flayor of ro nance, I will tell them, that she be. :ame in after -years, not my wife >utthe wife of my darling brother Ben. The recent aocounts from Spain ould seem to it..licate that' the -evolution in that country is not o be cheated out of the usual feast f blood and rapine. ~ The lazza oni of Madrid, who collect in nobs 100,000 strong, are assuming laily a- more threatening aspect, bd have developed all the inhu nan passions which characterized he Parisian blood-hounds of '89. ien. Prim, who has more - than nce been called upon to baffle heir rage and-protect the victims >f their fury, has-already igenirred ospicion, and cries of muerta a Prim have -more than once echoed eneath his palace windows. The ibation of blood whiah popular iberty seenis always to demand a her'baptism, it is thought, will iot be long .evaded; the present torm may be quelled, but the ele nen ts of a new tempest is there hich lowers dark and threaten ngly.in the not distant future. A:Germanl wrote an obituary, mn t,he death of his wife, of which, e following is a copy: "If mine rife had lived until next Friday, bewould have been dead just two weeks. Nothing is possible for ,he Almighty. As de tree falls, ao mst it ait.nd." A .Weddig Night Shirt. It wasn't hardly the fair thing that the boys lid to Joe Thomson the night he w as married, but the temptation waa irresistible. They could not have helped it to save their lives. I'.1 tell you how it was. Joe was aboit the most fancy dressed buck -n town-over-nice and particular-a perfect Miss Nancy in manniers,-always put ting on airs, ard more dainty and modest than a girl. Well, when his wedding diy came he was dressed, trunk empty, and his pants, especially, fitted him as candle-moulds, and his legs can dles run into them. Tight was no name for them. Their set was immense, and he was prouder than a half a dozen pea-cocks. "Aren't they nice, boys?" he asked of the two boys who were to be groomsmen, and see that he threw himself away after ,the most approved manner. "Stunning !" "Gorgeous !" re plied Tom Bennett. "Never saw anything equal to them. But, I say, Joe, aren't they the least bit too tight ? It strikes me that you will have some difficulty in bend ing won't yoq?" "Pshaw, no; they are as easy as an old glove. See !" To prove tlhe matter, he bent down so as to touch. his .patent leathers, when crack ! crack ! fol lowed like twin reports of a revol ver. "Thunder " exclaimed Joe as he put his hand behind and found a rent in the cassiiere from stern to stern.. "Thunder,. the pants have burst and what shall I do!" "I sh_qlsL rutlher - think they had," xnsweredTo; m gettig pur ple in the face, as he endedvored to control his laughter; "but there is no time to get Another pair. It ondy wants half an hour to the standing up time, and we have got a mile to go-carriage wait ing, too." "What shall I do, oh what shall I do ?" - "I tell you what, if mine would fit you, you shall have them and welcome, but they are about a miile too big; they would set like a shirt on a bean pole. I see no way but to have them mended." "Who can I get to do. it, Tom ?" "Well I am somnething of a tai lor, and 'ean fix them so they won't show. IIold on a .mmnute, and I'-ll get a needle and thread." "Can you?'May heaven bless you.!" "Off with your coat," comnman ded Tom, as be came back. "Now lay yourself over on the bed, and I'll fix you in short or der."' The-command was obeyed ; the pants mended; the coat tails care fully pinned over, so as to conceal the "distress for rent," and all went merry as the marriage bell, until Joe followed the bride to the uptial couch. There was only a dim light in the room, but it enabled Joe, as he glanci bashfully around, to see the.i sweetest face in the world, the ro.sy cheeks and bright lips ; the lovely and loving blue eyes, and the golden curls just peeping from-mut the snowy sheets, and e eitintguished it altogether, and hastened to disrobe himself. Off ame coat, vest, faney nectie and ellar, boots and socks in a hurry, but .omehow the patrts stuck. The~ nore he tried the more they wotdn't come, and he tugged vainly for half an hour. "Thbunder !" muttered Joe. "What's the matter dear ?" came in the softest accents from the bed where somebody was wvonder ing if he was ever coming ; and forgetting his accustomed bashful ness, he blurted out: "Mtoll, that cursed Tom Bennett has sewed my pants, drawers, shirt and under-shirt all togeth 'It is too bad ! Wait a moment A little stockingless foot peeped I out' first, then a ruffled night dress, the lamp was lighted, a pair of scissors found. Joe released, and although he denies it, Tom Bennett swears that his wedding! shirt was of the shortest possible extent, reasoning a posti iori. Above The World. OBSERVATIoNs oF A MEMPIIs M.'s BALLooN JoURxEY.-Mr. C. Nourse, of _Memphis, who accom panied Professor Brooks in his late balloon journey from that city, gives the followmng interest ing account of his experience in the upper regions: We started up at twenty min utes to 5 o'clock. The balloon, which has only made one previ ous ascention, was filled with about 30,000 Cubic feet of gas,and conveyed to the park by thirty men in five hours. When all was ready, I got into the basket, and Professor Brooks stepped in after me and gave the order to let go, which was done with precision. A small dog, belonging to a little son of Mr. Byron, was suspended to a parachute below the car. We went up like an arrow, but passed radidly northward. The earth receded quickly, and in five min utes the crowd looked like an ant hilt, and the trees no larger than cornstalks. At an altitude of eight thousand feet Professor Brooks let loose the little dog. Owing.to too much handling by the crowd, the parachute was out of order, and collapsed as soon as let loose; hence the dog- went down s.wiftly, and the Professor remarked that lie thought thu:dog wva'killed,' which subse uentl was con Lne.- 'ter that the buiiioon .shot up more rapidly, and we-experiensed a cooler sensation. I had been trying to keep dool the while and the Professor flattered me that I succe.ed pretty well. A small quan.tity of gas was per mitted to escape, and we descended rapidly until wjthin two or three thousand feet of the earth. Tten a few liandsful of sand were thrown out, and we went up to a height oft at least two miles. From this position the city looked, like a dim patch in the autumnal land scape so far below, and .h- M.issis sippi river,~ wieh was visible for at.least two hiindred miles, look ing lilhe a winding strip of 'silver ribbon. We were then about' ten -miles from the. park. The sun, to us, was getLing far away into the. gorgeous, West, but' long, dark shadows, like funeral plu mes, swept ov~er the world below. A strong current carried us toward Arkansas, and we had a fine pros pect of landing in a swamp, to take a tree .and listen' to the screech owl and wild eats all night,. or stay up all night in the cool re gions of boundless spacev until the next day. At 5.15 we begun to decenid slowly. A counter cur rent carried us further east, and the Professor decided to conme down if he coidld see a good. place to drops At. 5.20 he descried a corn field, as it proved to be ands ripping open- one side of .the bal loon by a peculiav contrivance, came down like a meteor, whiz zing through the air. It was a [moment. of great inxiety, but we q4uickly struck the earth, withi -no great jir and all were safe. JosH Bamo~s ON PnLs.-Josh Billings has been experimenting with pills and certifies as follows: "I never have used eny uv 'Doc tor Emanuel's Liver Consoling and Kidney Encouraging Pills," and therefore kant tell' you ho& influensal th'ey am, but ef you. are looking after a pill az mild as a pet lamb, as searching as a fine tooth comb, buy 'Doctor Ring bone's Silent Perambulatorf 27 in a box, sold by all respectful drug gers. These pills don't phool round, but attend strictly tew biz ness, and are az good in th'e dead of nite as an alarm clock. Forrest on Kilpatrick. Mmirnis Oct. 28, 1868. Hr. K. Shackleford. Esq., Newc Hfarc'm, Conn.: . Sin : The false and mendacious representation of me, macic by General Judson Kilpatrick ofNew Haven. on the 20th inst., to which you call my attention, is not the first in which he has indulged since his appearance on the hust ings in this canvass. I understand he freely employed his criminal capacity for ribald invention in all the speeches he has made since his return to this country, and that I have been the objective point of many of his unprincipled and indecent libels. The North ern masses have been so prone to misunderstanding any ap;pearance that I have been made in the present campaign that I have been content, heretofore, to forego any notice of General Kilpatrick's in ventions with refeience to myself and to trust that some future and more auspicious time~would afford me an opportunity of stripping the imposter and of exposing him, the base counterfeit he is, to the con tempt of all just and fair-minded people. My forbearance, however, is construed by him as a license to additional and more slanderous detraction, and I am constrained to notice his New Haven speech, as it appeared in the Register of October 21st,1868. In that speech he is reported as saying that "For rest had nailed negroes to fences, set fire to the fences and burned the negroes to death." The charge is but the offspring of Kilpatrick's common and meri ted fame as an, unprincipled and easy liar. It is -enough for me to say,-in whctw-r1rag lieved and sustained by every chivalric officer and soldier of the Federal army, -that what he has said of me in the speech referred to is the culmination of slanderous falsehood, rendered the more Qdious that 'it is deliberately for ged for effect upon the unthinking and too confiding portion of the people of the Ndrth, whose votes he intends to steal by such crim inal and disreputable invention. All -such reports, whether 'ema ntng from' any'ono else, which tend in any way to create the impression that I conducted my humble part in the war upon any other tban the strictest principles of civilized wvarfar'e, are utterly umtrue, and are the corrupt and feculent .fiction of designing and rascally slaniderc.rs. I am not prone to.intrude mat ters' of this kind upon the public ntice, and would have been glad t have- met Kilpatrick and settled this affair in a less public and more emphatic manner.; and if it should happen .that this not e should meet his eye, and hKe should make it the provocation of any ad ditional display of words, any one who may hear him is at.Ii berty to assure him that I am ready to meet him in any way that he may choose, and whilst I am averse to personal conflicts, I should much prefer to gratify any wish he may herish in that way to being the further subject of his unmanly defamation and unsoldierlike mis representati-on. I think the public wilI'jusnffy me in denouncing, as I now do, Gen eral Judson Kilpatrick as a black uard, a liar, a acoundril and poltroon. If he is-the heroic figure e would have his Northern people believe him, my friend General Basil W. Duke, at Louisville, Ken tucky, is authorized to receive on my behalf any communication he may choose to make. *Respectfully, N. B. FORREST. A learned doctor, referring to tight lacing, avers that it is apublic benefit inasmuch as it kills all the foolish girls, and leaves the wise nes to grow up to be women. In New York city last week there ere tio hundred and fifty weddings. Gov. Hoffman's Speech. The Charleston Coarier's New York correspondent, Pink, says o. Gov. Hoffman, the Democratic can didate, after the election: Our new Governor nade a eapi tal speech to the Democracy, who serenaded him. -He very j. 's claimed the credit of havingmen - tained peace in the city in the fAo of almost unparalleled provoca= tions, and while the Radical.Plice Commissioners had actually-called . " upon the military to shoot down, the people almost goaded to mad ness. As to his policy during the: - - past two years and his, relations toward the federal Governmenti Mr. Hoffman said: "General Grant is to be Plsi dent of the United States. aIn s e whole course of the canva&jt closed I have not spoken one udr kind or disrespectful word of'him. While I have denounced thepr which placed him in nomination I warmly advocated-the' election of our own gallant standard bear er, Horatio Seymour. [Immens - - applause.] General Grant Lse - been successful. I do not eongrat ulate him for I know the earee which await him. I prefer to en courage him. He may have .tre power yet to serve this nation.' f he will exert his great official in' fluence and moral strength. to re unite all sections and all our peo4,7. ple, to 'restore. our nation to'a - healthy financial condition, to lighten the burdens of the people,. to economise the expenditum - the government, and to redue ..i - . taxes and restore constitti liberty all oier the .ad, A" Ut find the Dem;erae everywkereg4 to sustain him; and hepeop- .t : will be at his side..' If he wilt le vate himself- above party{ 'nd show in the- present heur of i; e - nation's peril the firmnesalie c_ s. played when he comuaiinded ie armies of the union, and-themoj' eration and magnanimity beh& 4". _ played when he accepted :the.sur - . render of the-armies of the rabei lion-, he will gain the gratitede,f the whole natin.; andAhe se'pfor of all true patriots. If bvlo ' be should yield -to the deiad the Radical partisans, -w'bosep . dy is based on sectional iate a prejudices, he will fail as no -*an ever failed before, and fall s 10 o man has ever fallen "'The election is- over. d.et vanquished be content. Ldt the people everywhere for a wbiej~ aside all bitterness aud- st What we need-is peace anod mony and Union, and not pozU - ued strife and discords Let us& deavor to build up, ad riot~4v stroy. ~The mass of the people seek only the good of the constry, and they-will have rest;after 'This great struggle.. I thank gou fo - your services in thecasef t41# Constitution. I thank the --- ocracy everywhere. I th'ak tIi young~ men ot the State of N. York for their energy and ~their order. I will endeavor, wirh .ll ., the talent my God has,gtveadmir, - to discharge the duties of myi~ offee honestly and faithfully,-an4 I look-for my reward to - the 59 pie, who thus far have alwayipt (-~ tained me" These words, as fitly spoken*~ the man selected to preside ~.r e the Empire State during th-:nezt two years, show the -sentimiidf the metropolis at the present turn of national affairs. If thiat power ful sentiment only be heeded in proper quarters, all will yet be well. A sad accident, resulting in the death of a son of Mr. Robert Bell, of the upper portion of Abbeville. District, occurred on Monday of last week. He was a lad of about sixteen years, and was supwjn tending his father's gin, and whilst attempting to fix some part of the. running gear, was drawn in and. crushed by the machinery before assistance could be'rendered. Hq snrvived until the next day.