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Vol. VI. WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 31, 1870. No. 35. TH HERALD IS PUBLISHED EVTERY WEDNESDAY MOINING, At Newberry C. H., By Thos. F. & R. H. Greneker, Editors and Proprietors. Invariably in Advance. 7 Tov paper i, stopped at the expiration o ine for which it is paid. . The X mark denotes expiration of sub cription. A Sad Story of the Sea. The following outline of the sad story of a citizen of New Jersey ;;pears much like the romantic tales found in our sensation week lies ; but the narrative is never theless true, as the distressed family of the adventurer, who still reside in Jersey City, can testify : Twenty years ago, a gentleman in moderate circumstances, living in Jersey City, determined to try his luck in China. Accordingly, lie invested most of his capital in goods suited for that market and embarked on board a ship bound f'r lIong Kong, via Liverpool. his family, consisting of his wife and seven children, were left with suficient means for their mainte nance until his return, which was expected to be within four years. Tho ship on board which our Jer ser1man was a passenger, had a tine run to Liverpool, where she completed her lading, and then azrted on a long voyage to China. Once only. (lid the family of the .rsevnian hear from him after leaving Liv erpool, and that was b" a letter received by a ship wiiceh spoke the Jerseyman's craft, :iftr ron-hiig the Cape of Good 1Ho 1e. Months passed by a'::1 no fur'ier news of the ship. She nlever" arrived at Hong Kong, and ie:n1-y a year after her departure from Liverpool, her captain re turnel to that port with the sad tale of her foundering in mid-ocean, Ind his own escape .vith most of his crew and passengers, from a fearful death. The Jerseyman was not among the saved. A dreadful storm. which continued many Jav- drove the ship far out of i)..r 'oi re to theSouthward,an final iv, after losing all her spars, she went down, giving her crew bare iv time to lower the boats before h nube vessel made her final t;,e. The boats, containing fhe .apin~u and most of his crew, ''tr)osinlguponi the sea for sev eI: 'tay f'inaly reached a grou p of islainds, where they remained six or sev.en months, kindly treated bthe natives, until taken off by ,i~trainsienit trader and carried to (crJuUa. where they secured a p:aeto this city. But the boat in wh:i wvere the Jlerseymian andl u ve ':anilen, was never heard of sicth~ riest ~ ight after leavingr T *e t er of sorrow, strug lni : pliri'vation for the Jersey Inib- ns. The noble-hearted while: Gutl mother fougwht against Io lis of~ ) poverty, keeping her ci!!I.ren undecr l'er own r'oof-tree, c e:n and fitting them well to ihtiebattle of life, and had the hiappinless of seeing thoem become Jraveu mn: and good citizens, hon or:ele amoung the most honored. .l.K-IZ all these long years of sor ro w and toil, she elung to the hope tha:t the husband of her youth woruld return to her ; his memory wa:s kept fresh in her heart, and :nas hecr only solace was the re callectioni of the happy hours pawedK withI him in their cottage X me, and thle belief that once molU\ .no( would be folded to his .:eart. T wenty years rolled slow ir ara:1: : childlren became men and womaei ; and strang~e y~oung fae wVeret. sen around the hearth stn T The suffering wife's hair wra mningwhite, and1 her trust i' he.art was well nigh broken Uma it longwaiting, when, six wjeI. a o, Vcm ai let ter from the w: r r..reciting his sad history. TE scon m'ornig after the wrk ohn waLs to be seen of uE t hecr boats. With but a smYallI n apov ions, the Jerseyman' aganthope. determned0( to shape their er' e South of East, trust in:t mak eO one of the many groups .of ina nowvn to lie in that di rdon ater ten days toil, du . . a e two of the seamen died i:s:a;.r :0tion, the party reached a*:n t ilnd, whien they were inI: 'ael seized by the natives Ia ' a:leniced to a life of slavery. T irapos were cannibals, and! !1:: m: zh to induce the white mePt j'in themIf in their horrible o ::Lei'bt hiling both threats n::ietreat iIs unavailing, they s uuly dsise.l. and allowed their w V dae to' cat such food as ther thee:les chose. One afterj .n(br o his wvhite companions~ d a i h .1lersemn wais left Sof servitude amnong 1 .ant so closely wats he wn-al1 Lough many ships he island. lie was un rn:nicate with them. scooner fronm Aus d a~nebhor durin ga h lat, in cove near * npied by the .l ersey bi'ng t .h firt to discov - c.ized acanioe and pad t':.bfoe anyy of thec 'L- air. So'l."ng hiad -nin th sc .avages, t hat ne vl every recolile n,adhad forgot e, lang'uage. After -....et < fte1 oner,UC able to utter the simple word "home." Finally, after many ef Forts, he made the captain under stand his story, which so atfected the noble-heaarted sailor, that he it once weighed anchor and sailed i for Melbourne, where he arrived after a short passage. Here the Jorseyman was kindly cared for by the authorities, but being too unwell to take passage by the first , steamer to Honolulu and San Francisco, he sent the letter con taining the joyful tidings of his safety. Last week, a letter, in a mouruiug envelope, from Mel- 1 bourne, was received by the Jer seyman's family. It was a city oficial, and contained the sad tid ings of the wanderer's death. Af ter twenty years of hardship and slavery, just as he was to embark for his long-coveted home, he was called to take a longer, more dreaded journey, and in that far off land, and among strangers, but] among Christians, his spirit took I its flight.-New York Herald. John as a Husband. The Chinamen may want wives, the Massachusetts spinsters may want husbands. It isn't every woman that would have John for ,i husband, and it isn't every wo man John would have for a wife; but human nature is human na ture, even in spite of antipodal di versities. If the Johns "do well" in Massachusetts, those now there will stay, and others will come. The longer they remain the more tolerable they will become, and it oes not require an excessive stra:n of the fancy to imagine a Lime when their oblique eyes, at tenuated shins, pig-tails, chop sticks, and heathenism will lose all their repulsiveness, and they them selves grow to be altogether lovely in the spectacles of the myopic Xfassachusetts Puritanesses. The very antipodes of the two par ties will accellerate their - ap proximation, and perhaps precipi Late the dreadful calamity. The missionary and proselytizing spirit will bre'ik out with renewed ardor n the bosoms of the redundant ,ex, and they will yearn to rescue :hie Johns from their benighted piritual condition. They will nave them at Sunday schools, at liurhi, at sewing societies, fairs, a'zaars, pic-nics, and so forth. John is a stubborn animal, tena :ous in his faith, in his habits, in his traditions, and in his views on things in general; but he would be as superhuman as the pictured Ioblins and monsters on his own battie banners if lie could stand all this. He won't stand it; he is clay, and yellow clay at that; he will yield ; he will forget the flow ery kingdom, he will forget Con fucius ; he will cut off his pig-tail; he will drop his slippers and put on North Adams boots; he will lay aside his blue cotton blouse, and put ou a bob-tailed coat ; he will 'wear eye.glasses ; he will get married to his kind-hearted Sun day school teacher; and he will bring over 45,G00 other Johns, like himself, to restore the social equi poise in Massachusetts. A f'ew years ago the immigration and multiplication of Irish in Massa chustty, accompanied by the mi gration and diminution of increase of the native populat.ion, suggested uncomfortable prospectives of a not fatr distant day when Boston would be a cis-Atlantic D)ublin, and the land of the Pilgrims b,e represented in Congress by a solid :elegation .of Irish Decmocrats. But the Chinese matter may in ererc with this prob:.bility after til. Boston may become a city of pagodas and joss-houses. and Ply aouth Rock the site of a porcelain :owr. Massachusetts may escape >eing IIibernian only by becoming hinse.-St. Louis .Republican. JAn:s L. OR.-Our exchanges vill do well to give publicity to he following which we glean from he Richmond Dispatch, one of he ver-y best papers published in irginia, so that ever-y Palmetto entleman c an1 know what is 1 bought of the Hon. James L. Orr, ,he would-be Senator of South Jarolina. Read and pass it around: ZANDD-~~e (Guardian. I G.um.-Weadmire the candor >f lion. James L. Orri, of South arolina, who, without circumlo ution, avows that he intends to tt with the Republican party be ase it is so strong that it will nevitably rule that State for ears to "come ! There are a num >r of patriots of this sort in Tir' ;inia as well as in each of the >theCr States. They are acting. tnd will continue for atime to act ith the Republican party because t controls all the Feder-al offices' )ut let the Democrats come into1 owr', and these ~same slippeiry naves will be among the bitterest nemies of' Radicalism to be found n the ranks of the successful par .y. Judge Orr, too, will of course 'esume his D)emocratic principles xheever' he shall see a p)rospec't f thme Democracy ruling South ''olinma for' a number of years. Judge Wardlaw's Letter. The letter of Judge Wardlaw to ieneral Kershaw, read by that 1 ;entleman at one of the meetings teld just after the visit of the Re brm speakers to Abbeville, con- I lenses the whole argument in olved in the present canvass in a ow pointed and earnest words. etired as Judge Wardlaw is from 1 tctive participation in affairs, his I ounsels are worthy the most so- 1 ious consideration, being the ut crances of one whose fine abilities, < ong experience, profound knowl- 1 ,dge, and high character, give him position which is already historic. ot our countrymen heed the ad- 1 rico of a good, just and able man: < AL 3EVILLE, Aug. 1, 1870. My Dear General : I regret that luring your hurried visit to this laco I had not an opportunity for 'ull conference with you. The abors for the public good in which I ou are engaged merit my hearty tpprobation, and I trust will be rowned with the success which ,hey deserve. Who is not for an honest ad uinistration of the affairs of the state? Abstract questions, upon yhich heretofore parties differed, tre now superseded by practical ssucs which involve the honor, >erhaps the existence, of o u r state. What is established must >e acknowledged. The means of1 mprovement left to us must not 1 )o neglected in idle discontent 1 vith changes which have taken I )lace. Is their corruption in the 1 idministration of our public af airs ? Are some of our public )ffices filled by men either incom )etent or dishonest ? Have there 1 >een shameful instances of bribery n the Legislature ? Have the uardians of the public funds been < ngaged in speculating with them or their private advantage ? Iave ur crippled resources been bur- I loned by taxes imposed arbitrarily 1 nd unjustly ; the public debt en rmously increased, and the public nonoy squandered in wasteful ex- < ravagance ? If these things be o, they must be corrected before I he return of the State to prosperity 1 an be reasonably expected. Ev- 1 rv man who does not derive some Ldvantages from misgovernment I as an interest in putting an end ,o it, and no way of doing this is ;o plain as by turning out of office hose who have misgoverned. 1 have withdrawn from public tffairs, but I cannot forbear from iving my hearty commendation o those who are striving to expose mnd correct public abuses. With high regard, I am truly 1 ours, D. L. WARDLAW. Papal Infallibility. This dogma, so little understood, utside of Catholic communities, has -eently been explained by Vicar-Gen ral Starrs, in St. Patrick's Church, Sew York. We give his explanation f it, for the benefit of those of our -cadrs, 'who, like ourself, have been mable to comprehend either its limit >r extent, and who have been anxious, rm some authoritative quarter, to -cecive a full definition of it. "The Pope," says Vicar General 3taars, "is fallible as other men, and o Catholic believcs that he may not rr in doctrine, in preaching and in ~onuct the samte as other men." Thc Vicar-General puts the case as arallel to the decisions of the Su rme Court of the Untited States rm them there can be no appeal, anid ire to be acted upon as if infallibly -ight. So with the Pope, the highest udge in the ecclesiastical judicial sys m. -lie said: Infallibility' means this, and no ueor nor less ; that the Pope, speak ngcx cathedra-officially from the :hair of St. Peter, declaring anything is to matter of faith-is infallible. ['his attribute belongs to all succes r of St. Pecter, the visible head of he church. Christ prayed for St. 'etr that his faith might not fail, and aid. 'Peter, thou art the rock ; and in this rock I will build my church, d the gates of hell shall not prevail *gaist it.' 'I give thee the keys of he kingdom of Heaven. Feed my heep and lamibs,' &c. "All that Christ gave Peter belongs o his successors. As Peter could not ive always, th.e power given him as icad of the church could not be per ituated except as delegated authori y. This doctrine is, then, very sim le and plain, when rightly viewed." IUOME CHIEERFULNESs.-Hany a hild goes astray, not because here is a want of prayer or virtue .t home, but simply because home acks sunshine. A child needs miles as much as flowers need unbeanms. Children look little eyond the present moment. If thing pleases, they arc apt to ek it ; if it displeases, They are rone to avoid it. If~ home is the ilace where faces are sour, and 1 ords harsh, and fault-finding is ver in the ascendant, they will! pend as many hours as possible i lswhere. Let every father and nother, then, try to be happy. 'et them talk to their children,I 1 'specially the little ones, in suchc Southern Patience. The St. Louis Republican pays his just tribute to the Southern baracter: "Patience was not )nco esteemed a Southern virtue, ut afflictions sometime reveal aoroic attributes that prosperity nd success cannot developo. Dur Southern brethren w e r e hought to be brave and passion ite, but the slow-burning furnace hey have been subjected toforfive rears past has shown that, with )at being less brave and passionate han we esteemed them, they pos ;ess profounder properties of he roism than they have been credi ;ed with. Their condition at the ,lose of a four years' exhaustive mnd unsuccessful war, in which absolute failure had followed the )xpenditure of all their resources, xas pitiable to a degree that has ;eldom been witnessed. Defbated, Jisarmed, and utterly impover shed, would appear to make up he full measure of misery to a >eoplo; but in the case of our Southern countrymen there was idded to this the rare humiliation )f being placed in political subjec ion to their own slaves-an igno. niiny which none but themselves .an fully comprehend. For a time the accumulated burdens seemed more than they -ould bear, and the commence nicnt of a despo:.dent migration o Brazil, was apprehensively re arded as the initiative of a novement that might possibly make the South the desolate, Ox lusive home of semi-barbaric Af icans. But fortunately for the outhern people themselves, for unately for their Northern kins nen, and fortunately for the Gov rnment that seemed resolved to irive them to despair, the South rn leaders came forward and ex )rted the personal authority which aad demonstrated such notencv in .he war. They condemned the Bra il movement, and advised their >eople to remain at home and ac ept what might come. Their ,ounsel was obeyed, and they thus >ecame the instruments of saving o the country an element which ,hat country appeared anxious to et rid of, but which it will yet earn to appreciate. Beaten in the war, disarmed, leprived of the political rights vhich were a part of themselves, arrassed by constant military nterfer.nce, and annoyed by the >ffensive conduct of the ignorant nasses into whose hands had been mntrusted the authority they once eilded, there was nothing left hem but to seek a partial oblivion )f their afflictions in hard labor in ;heir mortgaged cotton field, while ;heir ex-slaves wallowed in fran ,hises they knew not the valueof, nd an unfriendly party in. Con ~ress spent year after year in assing measures to perpetuate he subjection of four million A.mericans to four million Afri ans. It was this weary ordeal >f five years, in which Southern leads were smitten down when sver they dare to lift themselves ap,~ that has added to the South arn character a fortitude that it was not supposed to possess, and uch as fewv peop)les have ever ex ibited. IInd this people been >rave and passionate only, they nuld have broken out in repeated utile resistance to the Federal uthority. But they made no such resist mnee. Their submission at Appo natox was absolute, and has been n~aintained and unbroken every lay and every hour since then. rbey recognized that it was their lty to suffer, and they have en lured their sufferings, not with ipathy and despair, but with an inmurmuring patience thoroughly ~eroic. They have added their aluable little cotton crops, pro uced by their own labor, to the wealth of the country ; they have ssisted to pay a debt that repre ents the cost of their defeat : they 2ave submitted without opposi ion to orders and processes issued by those who were once their ser ~itors ; they have seen their hard y earned substance devoured by ~reedy and characterless adven urers from distant States, and hev have done and borne all this ritiout either resentment or in lifference. In view of the spectacle they ave thus presented, and are still >resenting, it may be asked in :heir behalf, if it is not time that .heir oppiressions should cease ? [Ias the Government of the UTni ed States, this day, more valuable Lnd virtuous citizens in any part >f its entire domain than those yroscribed white people of the outh? And can any govern nent, with justice to itself, per st in oppressing and disabling a >eople whose only answer to the fliction is the mute eloquence of fortitude that has scarcely a~ ,arallel ? "De'mocratic at all times and mder all circumstances," has been Iropped from the title page of thej What is Our Duty? The Georgetown Times asks, What is the duty of those who, like itself, doubted the expediency and policy of the Reform Conven tion ? This is its answer: "We speak for ourselves, and say, we eee but one course open to us, and that is to give a hearty and cordial support to the Reform movement. Considerations of in I terest alone, if no higher motive prompted, should move every man who has the honor and welfare of South Carolina at heart, and who has anything at stake, to use ev ery effort, and to do all in his power, to drive from place and honor the greedy and insatiable vultures who are devouring our substance, and soiling the fair fame of the State. Whatever scruples some of us may have had about the platform of the Reform party, should bo hushed into si lence by the common dangers which threaten us in the success of the present men in power. The platform upon which Ianmp ton and Kershaw, Butler and Con ner, Kennedy and Bonham can stand, can bring no disgrace, dis honor or reproach on any man. No breath of suspicion has ever, or can ever, attach to the integ rity, honor or patriotism of either of them. Slander, with its foul mouth, who spares so few, has never dared to hurl one of its darts at either of them. Men in .whom they can confide, may be safely trusted without any appro hension or fear that either the honor of the State or the inter ests of its people will suffer any detriment when placed in their keeping. Ve, therefore, call up on all honcst men of all parties and all cobrs to rally to the sup port of Carpenter and Butler, for it is an i%uo of honesty against dishonesty, of truth against false hood, of decency against shame less pzfligacy, of good govern ment against a venal and corrupt govercnlent that is now on trial. Federd polities have nothing to do wii the issues involved in -he present contest, and the efforts to drag them in is the desperate de vice of the Ring to distract the attontioa of the people from the real questions boi're them. This effort vill avail them nothing. Every part of the State will be canvassed, and the veil which now rests on their dark doings will be lifted, and their venality and c.rruption-their selfishness and plunder-exposed in all their enormity to the indignant gaze and lenunciations of a deceived. plunlcrod and oppressed people!" Tie Chicago ladies, in search of "a mission," have happily hit up on one that will suit the boys to a car2. With a wealth of love whidi passeth human understand ing, and a laudible zeal in the cause of regeneration, they have formed themselves into religio-so cal societies, and, going out into the highways at night, invite all young men found lying around loose to walk into their parlors. Here they are supplied with ice creare a'nd good counsel, music and chicken-salad. The warnings of the sin ner-'s fate are lisped to them in sympathizing numbers, and their depr-avity is rebuked with speaking eyes, rising on a sea o:' affectionate compassion. They ar-e lured from further cvii ways not with ghastly threats of the worm that never dies, but by the winning softness of woman's pursuasive eloquence. Of course, the mission is destined to succeed. Not a2 engine, base ball or target company, but what will be ready to attend, en masse, as long as the ladies and the supper hold out. But there's the rub. Will not this mission prove too successlul? W~ill not the candida-tcs for regenera tion s-rel to such alarming pro p)ortions as will bankrupt both larders and hearts ? Will not the little mischievous blind god slip in and play the deuce with all se rious ealculations, and occasional episodes occur, in which the sin ner widl capture and carry off the angel? We fear all this. The dream is too bright, too glorious, to last. Still we advocate the at tempt. We are willing to haunt the highways in the neighb>orhood of all houses with large and com fortable-looking supper rooms. Conversion upon such terms would be no agony of hardship, but sim ply bliss. ~Wo would be willing to be converted over and over again, until the patience of ourfair coun selors, wore itself out, or stern pa rients grew too economical in the suppers. The Chicago ladies are now on the right track. We wish them honor, success and legions of imitators in their new mission, which promises as its fruits a greater revival than the world has witnessed for many a long day. Modern German scholars as;sert that Verngil. and not Virgil, is the corect sp)eliug ojf the great Latin A Comparison of Wants. From an article which treats of the Chinese, %%o extract the ful lowing: The rate of wages is said to de. pend on supply and demand. The rule is sound, but so equivocal that it is worth but little. Rate of wages really depends on what the work man thinks will buy him the ne cessities of life. There are men in England whose highest idea of life is to work sixteen hours a day, go naked, eat meat once a day, herd, both soxcs, and all ages,with cattle under one roof, and need only two hundred words to ex press all their ideas. Such men will work for enough to supply those natural wants. When wa ges fail far below that they steal, starve, or wake to an intellectual effort to better themselves. Their idea of necessities does much to fix the rate of wages. A Yankee farnior's boy must have good clothes, schooling, ample food and something over. These are his necessities. When wages will not buy them, ho ceases to belong to the ranks of "supply," and carves out a now career. There is good food and high wages in the kitch ens of Now York; more than many trades afford. A great "de maud" there for American girls. No "supply," nevertheless. We know that it is only a sentiment that provon:,s. But that sentiment is rigid as iron and inexorable as fate. "Supply and demand," there fore, are to be understood with a qualification. The "ideas" of the "supply" are a most important el ement in the calulation. What are the ideas of the "supply ?" These regulate his wagos. The Chinaman wnrks cheap because he is a barbarian, and seeks grat ification of only the lowest, the most inevitable wants. The Amer ican demands more, because the ages-becauso Homer and Plato, Egypt and Rome, Luther and Shakespeare, Cromwell and Wash ington, the printing press and the telegraph, the ballot-box and the Bible, have made him ten times as much a man. Bring the Chi nese to us slowly, naturally, and we shall soon lift him to the level of the same artificial and civilized wants that we feel, The capital ist and laborer will be both equally helped. Fill our industrial chan nels with imported millions and you choke them ruinously. They who seek to flood us artificially with barbarous labor are dragging down the American home to the level of the houseleas street herds of China. If the workingmen have net combined to preveat this it is time they should. When rich men conspire poor men should combine. RaisE YOtR CoLTs.-It has struck us often, in onr observa tions on the rural economy of our people, that we are verygenerally chargeable with a great oversight in our neglect of iising wor-k stock. We speak experimentally when we say that under most un favorable circumstances a colt can be raised for about twventy-five dollars, to a working age, and a mule for about what it takes to raise a calf. If one doos not know what a broomisedge pasture is good for. let him try mule rais ing by its help, and he will see. It certainly cannot be mere fan cy in us wheni we avow our strong conviction of the superior value of a Southern raised horse or mule. We do not heEitate to say that we much prefer the animal which has been reared hortc to one matured further North. Much of the ad vantage in the difference, we thmnk, results from the mode of raising probably more than in the fact of climate. A colt of any kind, which from its birth, is forced and brought forward with all expiedition, that a prize may be had for him as soon as possible, must, we think, come into market with a confirmed softness and an immaturity which will not be very conducive to a strong con stitution or much durability. We have known Georgia raised mules which, in their rearing. fared little better than calves, which wore as gay colts, at fifteen years of age. A Tribune correspondent says that most of the Southern gentle men at White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, are the worst dressed and the best mannered men in the civilized world. Judges go to dinner in linen coats, and Gene rals breakfast in dress coats of an ante-bellum cut. THrE F.ir36%'SOATEtIf-A t the recent Fat Men's Gathering at Bridgeport, Conn.. they were assembled one hundred and four pcrsons, whose gross weight was twenty-three thousand fire hundred and fifty-four pouends ? T he hea-; vi-est man. en the list weighed thre-hundred and tu-eire pounds. Chrestonl can furnish a few men who will beat 3121 At the next athering we hope Charleston will e represented b>y one or more of~ he weighty men. A SUGGESTION FOR SCIOOLS.--We commend to the earnest persual of parents the appended suggestions upon a subject of paramount im portance; They have a delightflil cuatom in the Swiss schools for boys, which might be adopted with great advantage to all concerned in thiscountry. During the weeks e the summer vacation, it is the habit of the teachers to make with their pupils, what are called vog ages enzigzig; i. e. pedestrian tours among the sublime mountains and charming valleys of that land of beauty and grandeur. Squads of little follows in their blouses, with their tough boots drawa on, and knapsacks on their back, may be met, during the season, on all the highways, and sometimes in the remotest passes on the Alps, as chirrupy as the birdsonthe boughs, and as light and bounding as the chamois who leap from crag to crag. They are perfect pictures of hcalth and happiness, and the treasures offine sights that theylay up in their memories, during these perambulations, it would be diffi cult to describe, We know of more than one urchin that has thus scaled the summits of the Faul Horn, looked down from the precipices of the Bevent, walked over the frozen oceans of the gla ciers, and gazed in rapture upon the sunsets on the Jungfrau or Mont Blanc. Their tramps are made without danger and without much expense, a n d the life is one of incessant enjoy. ment and rapture. But why could not the same thing be done here, where we have the Catskills, the Adirondacks, and the White Mountains, the exquisite Lakes of the North, the river St. Lawrence with its rapids, Niagara, and the lovely scenery of Western Virginia, which we are told, is scarcely sur passed on the continent? Over the long intervening stretches the rail road will bridge the distance, while the country inns are not ex pensive, and the country fare wholesome and nutritious.--Put nam's Magazine. With all his humor, his activity, his manly voice, his rapid walk, his evident command of his fac ulties, Dickens' face was proof that he was a man who had been hard worked ; who had, as they say, burnt the candle at both ends, and almost worn out. The wrin kles about his mouth and eyes and in his checks were deep, and gave him a sorrowful look ofexhaustion -the expression of a man who had been tired out so often that wear iness had became a habit. Evi dently he had not, since he had been famous, led a life of idleness or self-denial. He had been pleased with the applause of the nations, and while doing the vast work that is evidence of the fertility of' his mind and perseverance of his app)licationl, he had not avoided the dissipation to which he was invited by universal adulation and the smooth flatteries of society. [Cin. Comnwrcial. BRANDIED PEAcnEs.-Ilaving bad inquiries regarding the prop er method for p)reserving peaches in brandy, we clip the following from an exchange, for the benefit of those desiring information on the subject :"Gather peaches before they are quite ripe; prick them with a large needle and rub off the down with a piece of flan nel; p)ut them into a preserving can, with cold water enough to cover them, and let the water be come gradually scaling bot. If the water does more than simmer very slightly, or if the fire be fierce, the fruit will be likely to crack. When they are tender, lift them carefully out and fold them in flannel or soft tablecloth in several folds. Have ready a quart or more, as tLe peaches require, of the best white brandy, and dis solve ten ounces of powdered su gar in it. When the peaches are cool, put them into a glass jar and pour the brandy and sugar over them. Cover with leath.r and a bladder. IsNFAoUs FALsEUOOD. In a late number of the Charleston Riepnbli can, a paper which is always read y to slander and endorse base fabri cationis against the good people of South Carolina, the editors assert that the life of Colonel HI. J. Max well, of Scott's militia, had been threatened by citizens of this coun ty, if ho continued to drill his militia. This assertion ~-as the~ first intimation that wc helof su 'l a threat ever having been m, , and upon inquiry, we learrmsbat even good Republicans her*fnever heard such a report befge. We pronounce thb~ assertion a base and infamous falsehood. fbiae to accomplish some political end, ard we demand of the Republican the author. Tbis cowardly slan :erer of the good people of Marl-: bore will have justice meted out to him if his namneis made known~ to the public. i RenncftsvilTe Journal. ADVERTIS1NC RATES4 } Advertisements inserted at the rate of $i50 per square-one inch-for first insertion, and Si for each subsequent insertion. Donbn column advertisements ten per centon abov. Notices of meetings, obituaries and tributs of respect, same rates per square as.ordinary advertisements. Special notices in local @bmn 20 aenie per line.= Advertisements not marked with-be.um her of insertions will be kept in till forbid and charged accordingly. Special contracts made with ar,adVer tisers, witt liberal deductions on above rats 4Os PaaraW Done with Nestness and Dispatch. 'fTrms Cash. WUnT BiEAKs Dowx YonY MEN.-At is a commonly received notion that hard study is the n healthy element of college k But from tables of.the mortality of Havard University, collected by Professor Pierce, from the 'laet triennial catalogue, it is clearly -demonstrated that the excess of death for the first" ten years after-' graduation is found in that portiot of each class of inferior scbolarship Every one who has seen the cur riculum knows that where Xschy las and political eeonomy injure one, late hours and run pafchet use up a dozen ; and that the two little fingers are heavier than the lion of Euclid. Dissipation is a sure destroyer, - " and every young man who-folloWe it is, as the early flower,. opsecd - to untimely frost. Those wbu - have been inveigled in the patl of vice are named Legion.- A fcir hours'sleep each night, highiving atnd plenty of "smasbes." maku war upon every function of Ah. body. The brain, the heart -the lungs, the liver, the spine, ther - limbs, the bones, the flesh; evey part and faculty are overt"asled and weakened by the terrificemer gy of passion loosened frobn ret traint, until, like dilapidated manr sious, the "earthly house of tbia tabernacle" falls into ruinous de cay. Fast young men, right about. The New ork Times says-. "After all, the war has been -too much for the Evangelical Alliance. The meeting which was to -bave been hold in this city during tb fall has been indefinitely postponed The president and secretaries- of to the alliance are about to publish's statement in which -they will dc- - clare that th3 "Divine will is most - clearly expressed in- the. migh r events now transpiring in Europe' They also say that 'the Infniis - Wisdom which has ordered tlit result will, we have no doubt, a o overrule the postponement (of~ the meeting) to theo futheraneof ide Gospel.'. This is at -least an origi nal view of a war which seems to set most of the teachings of the. "Gospel' at doenance, and perlian< it may be doubted whether any body is quite competent to inter-I pret the Divine will in the mat ter." TUAT DusTEa.-Queer things sometimes happen in the-dark,as witness the following: A gele men took passage on the Boto express from NIew York a short time since, yust as the train, wast entering the Harlem tnnnel ha opened his hand-bag and took out, as he supposed, his linen dneter, spread it over the back of his seat to reserve it, and then went ftr ward to the smoking-ear. After finishing his cigar he returned to his seat, and as be enter'ed hi'seg, he was astonished to find the ps. sengers bent double with laughter over some unwonted spectacle. Looking around for the cause of this unseemly levity, his eyq fell upon, not the linen duster which - he supposcd he had left, but, hoftor * of horrors! upon his night-ebirt luxuriously spread out overu tlse entire seat. Hie picked up his linen and-dusted. WhAT Is TBoUGDT OF JUDOREhu AT IloMIE.-The Anderson Intelli gencer, noticing the recently pub lished letter of Judge Orr upon the political situation, says: "We are not surprised :at this course of Judge Orr's as we have known for some weeks that he contemplated its adoption. It carn only bie rbgretted, how-ever, for his own sake, as his old friends and supportt.rs in this section trill not followe his adrice, and the Radical party will not be strengthened, - nor the Reform party zceakeaed by this accession openly to Scott's - supporters. Judge Orr has been virtually connected with the Radi.-. cal party for some time,- antd thzis ' letter is simply an open-declarationi. of his proelivities." - A BELuEmso 1IVsuA1. . rig the trial of acass i . yiule, last week, a witnes i. itold in testifying to what -ietl him. i'l' this, of co 'te at torneys objected' et wo uld o out by the jadg e "whuld how i eeed" wgant e attorney would sn ,"e W do yo know that ?" " t, i d me," was the answer. This .repeated several times. fPre ly, the judge, becoming un aJ# contain himself any longer, - rrupted: "Suppose your wife were to tell you the heavens hadl Fallen, what would you think ?" 'Yell, den I dinks dey vas down.' Hlozrsv CAK-.-Mix with cold boiled hominy an equal quantity ,f white flour until perfectly smooth ; add a teaspoonful of salt, ud thin off with buttermilk, in. part of whieb a teaspoonful ofsoda bas been dissolved ; when of the onsistency of griddle cakes, adda desertpoonful of' melted butter and bake as usual. Ont of debt out of d.anger.