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FOR TE, DISSEEI4mF USEFUL INTELLIGENCE. (INvAAr Ii ADYmC. r 1 WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 9, 1869 NO 2 . THENEALD .isnvassno WT -WSDNRDAY -ORNING, es AJ aRu, IWeORMxCYf - 0. - - -- rI ri CAROLINA .m.-.. . JOAO&e .. ~ ~~ u mp 11 . t dAc . ar ,w t ..k Oor sae a "G.1a. i* PNW e tt -..m e R a' Sa x -_- Ar -stnt 171 C3 UMg& .; semy - e esimo tiene ......e es.esA.?.e a : 1 ?uir. sess e.ae.,WareNG sa... -: . pow Wof Oea inO go wU and Boiling, with a ymall Consumption eGFe; s eof Xinish; witlithe BRIDGEPORT, CONN., isto esept the meet.perfect weforward themn to - ant,at the manufko ., aorders sent throg Sbm..hmim.&We,. F. Sanos,wil sensiepreagmnte. Daec16 The Wife's First Love Adele, hearing her husband's approaching footsteps, hastened to extinguish the litle taper that was'burning on the table, and ad 'ustin her collerette and coiffure bfore the 'mirror, unlocked the door of the boudoir, and went forth to meet him with an unem barrassed air. 'Ahl my pretty hermit, said he, 'always in your boudoir I I was looking for yiu-on the Common this fne day. Truly. my incom parable, I shall begin to grow jeal oua of that crimson rocking-chair, whose arms encircle you so of ten., As Col. Preston (for that was the husband's name) playfully spoke thus, he drew his Adele af fectionately towards him, - but she oomplained of a slight indisposi tion, averted her face, ,and with tev herself from his clasp, point 4d his attention to some passing +oeet in the street, and began to lk of their projected tour to the Wliite'[oentains. Adele was a young and lovely New York-belle, who, at the age of event6en, had been rntroduced to Colonel Preston,'a Bostonian of family and. distinctipn. He be came deeply enamored. of her beauty and simplicity. The offer of his hand was graciously accept ed, and he brougbt her in triumph to his mansion in Boston, where, not withstandiig the little dissen sions that a difference of tastes and prejudices is apt to occasion. they lived in the very plentitude and perfeetion of conjugal cou". cord.. They had been married about a year and a half, when the Colo nel fancied he observed an altera tion in his wife's habits and man ners.. It nppeared to- him that his adored Adele was becoming less ftank;And, couBding. toward him ; she'was reserved and ill at ease. TIiere was an air of miys tery in her proceedings In fact, it was:evident thatehe z had some .secret with which 'the' was sedu loualydesirousheshould remain unp equainted. He was constantly nthe habit of finding scraps of paper scattered about the floor, for the appearance of which she accounted in various unsatisfacto ry ways.- He more than once sur-. prised her in whispered confer ence with old.Karl, an-old domes tid, who, having lived in her fath erie evice since the period of Adele's infancy, had, on the event ofther marriage, requested to be allowed to accompany his young mistress to Boston. On his ap proach, they would st:ddenly sep arate, and, as it seemed to him, in something of confusion. He had also on one occasion been exceed ingly perplexed and mortified, by overhearing two ladies in society, after extolling the, undeniable beauty, and ,grace, and aff'ability of Mrs. Preston, make an excep tion to her prejudice, (the 'partic ulrs' did not reach his ear) which was irmediately followed by an exclamation of 'My gracious ! it cant be possible ! What a beast ! Xow disgusting!I' He was not quite sure that the epithets were applied to his wife,but be more tilan suspected they were. It was not long after, that, on entering her apartment unexpectedly, he saw her rush toward tL,e open window and dash something to the ground. Bah, bab! Adele, why surely I have entered a perfumer's shop, in mistake for my own home! Es sence de Millefleurs ! Attar du Rose!i What are all these scents yon aroocattering about the room? You will suffocate me with your sweets. I have told you of my aversion to strong perfumes.' The suspicious husband having observed his wife, in one of her late meetings with the old ser vant, confide a large purse of gold. to his possession, hastily quited the room, full of vague apprehen sions and surmises, and fully re solved to take an early opportuni ty of satisfying himself in what manner his wife was in the habit of employing the intervals of his absence from home, which owing toa pending lawsuit, had become of late very reg uent and protat ed. Yet he loved and respected her too much to distress: her with open and direct . inquiries on the subject of her visible cofnsion. Aordingly, on the day following, he took occasion -during b'reakfast to signify that he was en gaged out on business for the whole of the day, and should probably be detained until the, evening of the morrow. Not long after the usu al hour of dinner, lhe made his ap pearance ; the old servant opened the door. a etyui 'hat -arl!'sIlf'vni the morning I find you in the eve ning. Always smoking I Is your mistress at home ? 'No sir, no.' 'No ? I think you are mistaken, Karl. I am nearly positive that I saw her close the blind of her boudoir this moment in a white dressing.-gown. Is she alone ?' 'Yes, sir-alone sir I to be sure she's alone-at least, that is-I will tell her you are come, and 'I thank you, I can inform her myself.' 'Why, no; that is-just if you please, sir, to allow me-maybe she might be engaged, or--' 'Engaged 1 how, what, with whom ?' 'Oh, with nobody, sir,.' 'Let me pass, old man ; what does this mean ?' 'Nothing, sir, but if you would only now-do, sir, only just wait a moment, that I may tell my lady, sir;*.she will be so frightened .-you will be so angry.' 'Angry, yes, I am angry at your unaccountable detention of me.' The colonel's brain instantly took fire. Imagination mastered reason; yes he-adopted a reasona ble course, in resolutely shaking the old man" from his hold and striding swiftly and silently along the range. of rmoms that led to his Adele's apartment. In a state of considerable excitemenThe pushed open the boudoir door with vehe mence,' but stdod transfixed on the threshold at the spectacle that presented itself to his view. His young and lovely wife was reclining listlessly in the large arm-chair, her foot resting on a low foot-stool, her elbow suppor ted by a small table at her side, while her delicate hand sustained an enormous chibouque, (Turkish pipe) from which she puffed clouds of fragrant incense ! His astonishment soon relaxed in itmmoderate laughter. ,so. my fair Mussulman, I h e caught you at last-now the secret's out, and the mystery, like most other mysteries, ends in smoke. That, jesqitical old Karl, too, toconspireagainst me. Truth, Adele, I don't know that I ever saw you. look. more gracefully charming-more femininely love ly. Nay, don't pout and blush and cry, and throw lown that magnificent chibouque so disdain fuly; I'll buy it of you, my pet ; will yQu sell it to me, eh ' and throwing his arms around her, he hid her tears of mortification in his bosom. 'And niow my sweet wife,' re sumed Cononel Preston, as Adele, released herself from his length ened embrace, we will put away this toy, if you please. Custom here is everything. Now, the Boston ladies are not yet accus tomed-tiat is, it is net yet the fashion here-in short, my love, the Boston ladies don't smnoke!l' WHAT Is AN OIw MAID ?-Nev er be-afraid of becoming an 6old maid," fair reader. An old maid is far more honorable than a heatt less wife; and "single blessed ness" is greatly superior, in point of happiness, to wed?ded life with out wedded love. ,"Fall not in love,' dear girls beware," says the song. But we do not agree with the said song on this auestion. On the contrary, we hold~ that it is a good thing to fall in love, if the loved object be a worthy one. Fall in love with an honorable man is as proper as it is for an honorable man to fall in love with a virtuous and amiable woman ; and what could be a more grati fying spectacle, even to the angels in' Heaven, than a sight so pure so approaching in its devotion to the celestial ? No!1 fall in love as soon as you please, ladies, provided it be with a suitable person. Fall in love and then marry ; but never mar ry unless you-do love. That's the great point. Never marry mere ly for "a home," or "a husband." Never degrade yourself by becom ing a party to such an alliance. 'ever sell yourself, body and soul, on terms so contemptible. Love dignifies all thing ; it enables all conditions. With love, the mar riage-rite is truly a .sacrament. Without it, the ceremony is a base fraud, and the act a 'human dese ration. Marry for love, or not at all. Be an "old maid," if for tune throw not in your way the man of your heart ; and though the witless may sne.,r, and the jester may laugh, you' will still have your reward in an approv ing conseinee and a .comparative ly peaceful~life. BaZt. Home Companion. OAawet planet.the bnnay,naan. A Wedding Race. Among the Hasanehs-a people of Asia--the following is the way weddings are managed : The suitors of the maiden, nine in number, appear in the field, all all unarmed, but mounted on the best horses they can procure ; while the bride, herself, on a beau tifal Turkoman horse, surrounded by her relations, anxiously sur veys the ground of lovers. The conditions of the bridal race are these. The maiden .has a certain start given, which she avails herself to gain a sufEciebt distance from the crowd to enable her to manage her steed with freedom, so as to assist in his pursuit the suitor whom she prefers. On a signal from the father, all the horsemen gallop after the fair one, and whichever first succeeds in encircling her waist with his arm, no matter whether disagreeable or to her choice, is entitled to claim her as his wife. After the usual delays incident upon such interesting occasions, the maiden quits the circle of her relations, and putting her steed into a hard gallop, darts into the open plain. When satisfied with her position, she- turns round to the impatient youths, and stretch es out her arm toward them, as if to woo their approach. This is the moment for giving the signal to commence the' chase, and, each of the impatient youths, dashing his pointed heels into his coursers sides, darts like the unhooded hawk in pursuit of the . fugitive dove. The savannah is generally extensive, say twelve miles long and three in width, and as the horsemen speed across the plain, the favored lover-soon becomes ap parent by the efforts of the maid en to avoid all others who might approach her. On a certain occasion, after two hosrs' racing, the number of pur suers were reduced to four, who were altogether, and gradually gaining on the pursued ; with them is the favorite, but, alas! his horse suddenly fails in his speed, and. as she anxiously turns her head, she perceives' with dismay the hapless poeitiop of her lover. Each of the mor fortunate lead ers, eager with anticipated tri umph, bending his head upon his horses' mane, shouts at the top of his voice-"i come, my Peri ! I'm your lover!" But she, making a sudden turn, and lashing her horse almost to fury, darts across their path, and makes for that part of the ohuinmon (plain) where her lover was vainly endeavoring to to goad on his weary steed. The three'others instantly check their career, but in the hurry to turn back, two of the horses are dashed furiously against each other, so that both steeds and riders roll over on the plain. The maiden laughed, for she well knew she could 'easily elude the single horseman, and flew to the pit where her lover was. But hr only pursuer was raruly mounted, and not so easily shaken of. Making a last and desperate efort, he dashed alongside the maiden, and stretching out his arm, almost won the unwilling prize ; but she, bending her head to her horse's neck, eluded his grasp and wheeled of. again. Ere tl~e dis comited horseman could again ap proach her, her lover's arm was around her waist, and amidst .the shouts of the spectators they turned toward the fort. Ax Awrun BroR.-There was an' awful little girl who had an awful way of saying "awful" to everything. She lived in an awful village, w'hich was an awful dis tance from every other awful place. She went to an awful school, where she had an awful teacher, who gave her awful lessons out of awfui books. Every day she was so awful hungry that she ate an'awful ansount offood, so tht she look awful healthy. Her hat was awful smali and her feet were awful large. She went to an awful 'church, and her minister was an awful preacher. When she climbed awful hills, and when she got awful tired Rhe sat down under an awful tree to rest herself. In summer she found the weather so awfail hot, and in winter awful cold, When it didn't rain, there was an awful drouight, and when the awful drought was over, there was an awful rain. So that this awful girl was all the time in an awful state, and if she don't get over saying "awful" about every thing, I am afraid she will, by and by, come to an awful end. A po ide always oHilns to A Real Hero-A Scene at Sea. Two weeks ago, on board an English steamer, a little ragged nine years' boy was discovered on the fourth day of the outside voy age from Liverpool to New York, and carried before the first mate, whose duty it was to deal with such cases. When questioned as to the object of his being stowed away, and who brought him on board, the boy, who had a beautiful sunny face, and eyes that looked like the very mirrors of truth, re plied that his step-father did it, because he could not afford to keep him, nor to pay his passage out to Halifax, where he had an aunt who wai well off, and to whose house he was going. The mate did not believe the story in spite of the winning face and truthful accents of the boy. He had seen too much of stow-aways to be easily deceived by them, he said ; and it was his firm convic tion that the boy had been brought. on board and provided with food by the sailors. The little fellow was very roughly handled in con sequence. 'Day by day he was questioned and requestioned, but always with the same result. He did not know a sailor on board, and his father alone had secreted him, and. given him the food which he ate. At last the mate, -wearied by the boy's persistence in the same story, and perhaps a little anx ious to inculpate the sailors, seized him one day by the collar, and, dragging him to the fore, told him that unless be confessed the truth in ten minutes from that time he would hang him to the yard arm. He then made him sit down under it on the deck. All around him were the passen gers and sailors of the mid-day watch, and in front of him stood the inexorable mate, with his chronometer in his hand, and the other officers of the ship by is side. It was the finest sight, said our informant, that we had ever beheld-to see the pale, proud, sorrowful face of that noble boy, his head erect, his beautiful eyes bright through the tears that suffuspd them. W hen eight minutes had fled the mate told him he had but too minutes to live, and advised him to speak the truth and save his life ; but he replied, with the utmost simplici ty and sincerity, by asking the mate if he might pray. The mate said nothing, but nod. ded his head, and turned as pale as a ghost and sbook with tremb bling like a reed with the wind. And there, all eyes turned on him, this brave and noble little fellow, this poor waif .whom society owned not, and whose own step father could not care for him there he knelt, with clasped hands and eyes upraised to heaven, while he repeated audibly the Lord's Prayer, and prayed the dear Lord iesus to take him bomne to Heav en. Our informant adds that there then occurred a scene as of Pente cost. Sobs broke from strong, hard hearts as the mate sprang forward to the boy and clasped him to his bosom, and kissed him and blessed ~him, and told him how sincerely he now believed his story, and how glad he was that he had been brave enough to face death and be willing to sac rifice his life for the truth of his own word.-Neto York Sun. PUaITAN PRAYING.-Choptanks had his wife ai-rested for assaulting him with a fire-shovel while at his devotions. It was an aggarvated ase. But Mrs. Choptanks asked th be heard,and she said that little Chopy "didi't dare give her any sars in his tulk ; but he abused her in his preyers, and on this occasion he wa.s on his knees, with a crowd about the door, gathered there by his 'hollerin' and a callin'-on the Lord to forgive this black hearted woman ; make her tell the truth, 0,- Lord,' he hollored, 'and make her quit gaddin' about and lyin' to the neighbors,' and I couldn't stand it, and just took him a swipe with the fiat of the shovel, and I'll do it again." In reply to a young writer who wishes to know "which magazine will give me the highest position quickest," the Petersburg Express advises "a powder magazine, if you contribute a fiery article;" Charlotte Thomson, the actress, will gather the crop on her cotton plantation in Alabama, and then go to San Francisco to fulfill a professional engagenlent. We don't like School Boards-took a pmjicagin' 'em when we were pad The Influence of Pretty Wo men in Washington. The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Republican, a Rad. ical sheet, writes as follows: But just as long as women are weak and men are powerful, some of the evils of the department will never be remedied. It is so much more comfortable to a jaded man, worn out in the arduous duties as head of a bureau, to see a fresh, young, pretty faced woman at an adjoining desk, rather than one with all the sweet juices of life squeezed out of her. whether by age or misfortune, it matters not which. The first one is the oil of the machinery of every day life; the latter is the adhesive gum which needs cleansing away. Women who look with longing eyes to an active life in the Departments at Washington, had better consult their mirors first, unless Secretary Boutwell makes new laws to meet individual cases. It is true, a few "crones" may be found in the base ment of the building, but as you ascend into the upper realms of the castle, new visions of beauty greet the eye until the spectator is lost in a dazzling dream of en chantment as glorious in its bewil derment as a Turkish harem. In many cases these handsome young women belong to Washington fami lies. They have good homes, with the comforts of life, without pay ing for them. This enables them to spend their wages in the adorn ment of their persons. These are girls whose lives Mrs. Swisshelm so bitterly deplored. These are the women who practice the Gre cian bend, and- who dot our ave nues of a brilliant afternoon as the butterflies do the clover heath. Petted darlings at the Treasury, no wonder they are spared their duties if they have a headache, or a new dress to make. No soldier's widow or starving daughter of the Republie caa drive them from their warm nests, for the Teason "that a thing of beauty is a joy forever." Gen. Schenck safs' he has tried in vain to get a place for a young girl who had two broth ers killed in the, army, and who lost her father also in the army. There are other beautiful women there, tho, mention of whose names is enough to bring the blush to every honest woman's cheek, some public man's pretty play thing, and yet for such as those the widows and daughters of our noble soldiers must stand aside and sing the "song of the shirt" or another quite as sad. Has the sun of another day arisen? With trembling form and bowed head we shall wait and see. . "It has," somebody says, "been dia covered that fish can be made dead drunk with brandy, packed in straw and sent on a ten days journey without any other damage than that which their morals suffer. When restored to the water they sober in a few hours and are all right again." A giant has bought a farm near Al gonquin, in McHenry County, Illinois. He is seven and a half feet high, and weighs 614 pounds.' He is a native of Jerusalem, came to this country nine years ago, and speaks twenty languages. Thease is a.man in Chicago who pos sesses so remarkable a memory that he is employed by the various benevolent so ceties to "remember the poor." "Uleanliness is next to godliness;" and this is the reason, my little dears, hy you are put in the tub on Saturday nmgh't, before being taken to -church on Sunday morning. A medical student says he has never been able to discover the bone of conten tion, and desires to know whether it is not situated near the jaw bone. There is a movement in the Ohio Leg islature to remedy the alarming evil of celibacy, by a law making it criminal to remain single after the age of twenty fie years. A paper "down East" makes this cor rection: In our paragraph yesterday concerning thirteen ministers who ha~d been spanked in infancy, for spanked read sprinkled." Returns from Abbeville and Union in dicte the entire Democratic ticket for County officers was elected. In Dar lington and Fairfield. the Republican nominees were successful. It is expected that the present season at Niagara will be a very prosperous and brilliant one, and preparations have been made accordingly at the hotels and by the storekeepers. Large numbers of immigrants, partic ularly Swiss, are pouring into Grundy County, Tennessee. The Swiss are erec ting many romantic cottages in the vi cinity of the colony lands. A number of influential gentlemen in New York have organized a land company, under a North Carolina charter, with a capital of a quarter of a milhion of dollars. A young lady of Staunton, Virginsia, keeps a list of her male acquaintances in a pocket dairy and calls it her devotional bm book, T2e 'acmc Kauways. There is a Union Pacific andy Central Pacific, and a Union P' cific Eastern Division, and 4 Northern Pacific, and a Bouth western Pacific, an Alantic and Pacific, a Central branch of the Union Pacific, a Southern Pacife and an International Pacific. The Union Pacific commenei at Omaha and runs westward. The Central Pacific runs from Cal. fornia eastward. These, joint. ly, are what are usually known. as the Pacific Railroad.--The Union. Pacific Eastern Division runs fomr, Wyandotte, Kansas, westward through Topeka and along the Smoky Hill route. Its westernh terminus will probably be Denver, at which place it will connect wit,h a branch of the Union Pacific. It is also proposed to diverge a branch in Western Kansas; to run south westerly to Guyamus, on: the Gulf of California, in Sonora, Mexico,. passing through Santa Fe. The Northern Pacific is the route proposed to connect Lake Superior with the Pacific via Port* land, Oregon and Paget Sound The Southwestern Pacific and the Atlantic and Pacific form a conk tinuuus line from St. Louis south. westerly through the Indian Tor-. ritory, New Mexico, Arizona ant California to Francisco. The Central Branch of the Union Pacific, toconnectAtchison, Kansas, with the Union Pacific, at or near Fort Kearney. The Southern Pacific has proposed to run from Little Rock, Arkansas, through Northern Texas, to the southeast corner of New Mexic;b thence westerly, through Southern Arizona, to Fort Yuma, the soadl eastern cornerofCalifornia:thenos to San Francisco. The International Paeifcis posed on an almost 4irecb.te from Cairo. Ill., through Arkansas and Texas to Rio Grande City; thence via Monterey, Saltillo and and Zacatecas, to -San Blas, on thi Pacific coast of Mexico. From tili road, branches are proposed fros Rio Grande City and Monterey, to meet at. Victoria, and. run thence to the City of Mexico. [Colton's Journalof Geograky. There is a ,sign in West- Broad. way,' New 'York, announcing a "sausage factory, by Augustus Mouse." Mississippi has had -a hail storft in which fell hailstones, accordig to the local papers, the sise. ot .. man's head. Bishop Colenso, unwilling thst either Oxford or Cambridge shaM have the exclusive honor of edve eating his sons, sends one to each. The Methodist Bishop Kings. is about to start on an Eic~a missionary tour around the woM. the first ever made. "A tax on bachelors thirtyyer old and upward is proosdin Paris." A tax on od staid, "thirty years old and upward" wouldn't yield much revenue. The Edgefield Advertiser has att orginal conundrum, by a little boy of that town, "Why is Judge Zeph Platt like neccesrity ? Answet Because he knows no law." Chicago is trying to exe in everything. Her latest. "chama. pion"' is a four million dollar ba4. rupt. An exchange says: "What arS i.lI the young men in 'our counitry Idig There are none, anywhere, leirning trades.'' They are all playing balig. t learning to ride on velocipedes; An agent of a St. Lonis immigraidtda porting house is at Selma, Ala., int.lifg contracts with planters for Chinese Is borers. Thirteen divorces were granted in Hlampden county, Mass., last week The parties are all "natives and to the manner born." In Illinois a farmer set fte is the grass on his praii ie land th4 dilfer day and burned up his two ehildteu who wore out at play. Strakosch has eagged Alboni to sing in Ro,sini's Mass, for two mouths.Imths fall. He pays her $80,000. Brigham Young haa just reached three score anid ten by taking his seventieth wife. Passengers have arrived in St. Louis, from San Francisco in six days pasep from the latter city. Burke County, Georgia, has been visi. ted with a severe shock of earthquake, which caused considerable alaru A waste of raw material'-two young ladies kissing each other. So sys our "D'e'il!" IA self-maid man--Dr. Miss Na, rq Walker.