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Vol. VI. WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1870. No. 39. IS PUBLISHED VRY WEDNTESDAY MORNING, AtNewberry C. H., B ., & R. II, renee, Editors and Proprietors. - Invariably in Advance. The paper is stopped at the expiration o ime for wbich it is paid. V- The i; mark denotes expiration of sub eription. i -E-DYING YEAR. rron'the old woods dim and lonely, Coines a moan : Thewe the winds are sighing only, "Summer's gone !" All the bright and sunny hours, An tie green and leafy bowers, Widrtbesommer's latest flowers, Are faded now, And the brow Of the waning .ear, a biia toined with dying leaves, ASd,the gathering sheaves Tell us autumn's here. .ew the winds go loudly moaning - TFirough the vales ; And the forest trees are groaning Mournful tales Of deeays that sisiftly gather, OT'te coming wintry weather, Of'ibe.snow that like a feather - Soon will fall; And the call Of death is sighing Over all the rippling streams, And the-summer's lingering gleams Are so sadly dying. 'Tis the waning, waning twilight Of the year Thit hovers now all strangely bright, Round us here ; And soon the year will pass away, Like the light of an .autumn day, Adown old winter's dim highway To its to-nb ; And the gloom Of the silent land Will rest on the bright years flown; And the winds of time will moan O'er the dreamless band. A Sad Story. ,An Ottawa, Canada, correspon dent of the New York World, who has recently been traveling over a portion of the "burn u district," re tatee:the following among other incidents of the great fires, by which large districts in Canada have been recently devaistated : Driving on wc were soon al most4overpowered by the stench from the carcasses of eattle which had perished in the flames, their white bones standing out in bold ielief against the blackened~ yonDd. Little mounds by the roadside marked where other ear casses bad been buried. And DOW we come to another scene of desolation, w-here there hadl been, but a few days b;efore, a eomtrit ble and happy home. Leavingr the road we drive into at fieldi toward two white tents, a fe,w hundred yards distant. On our righit werc the cello- ' .as on which a snug farm 1.ouse had stoodl; and the re m~ains of a neat little garden, where flowvers had bloomed and fruit trees blossomed and borne fruit. We halted near the smaller of the two tens, hnd out of' the larger one came the farmer's wife, a nice looking woman with a pidasant voice, and with a rosy little four year old girl clinging to her skirts. It was a sad story she had to tell. Tne night of the 17th ult., the house, barn, out buildings, and wood-pile were fired, as it seemed1 simultaneously, and in many places. From the house a-few articles of clothing and t wo feather beds, and from the barn a road wagon and( horse were saved, and that was all. The harn con tained two years' crop of hay and grain, having been hauled in that evening and left tupon the cart. Yinety cords of wood ready for market were consumed. Of eight cows, two were burned to death, and four so badly injured that they must go dry, leaving but twvo to furnish milk for the f'amily. Nine-1 teen sheep perished together, andJ were found in a dreadftd heap the next morning. Two porkers shared a similar fate. The money value of marketable produce alone deC-f stroyed here exceeds $1,000. The t scene was described as a terrible one. Fire rained down from over-! head, and forked tongues of flame l shot hither and thither. The ; stumps in the fields were all a-| blaze, and the ground strewn with t burning fragments. "We know not what to do or which way to!I turn," said the poor woman. I1 Finally she harnessed the horse 1 to the wagon (which bad but a| ingle seat), and placing in it her I i uncle and aunt, an aged couple,I three of her own children, and c Lbe few clothes and beds saved ( from tbe house, she stat-ted to t seek the shelter of her mother's t house, a mile or more away. Sheb had not gone far before five more e children wvere added to her joad. t and to make room for them thisv brave woman stood upon the step s at the side of' the wagon and drove e the horse dowvn the valley, with s the fire racing and roarting onb either side, and sometimes "close ni upon her. Indeed, the cotton b dress she wore was burned elr of v her, as well as the hair f'romn her head. The clothes and heddin- 1 in the w agon took fire and had to> be tntrown ouit. Theni, as the fires~ i elosed in and the smoke grewt denser, death came to the~ old b man, as told mf a formner letter.. Twic~e lie fei itnto the roa andI' was lifted into the' wagon again. e voidably left to his fate. Not a dozen rods from where the old man perished the wagon halted by the roadside. To go further was impossible. To remain seem ed like tempting death; but still there was hope. The children and the old woman were placed under the wagon, and an attempt was made to shut out the flames by hanging up sheets and blankets. The horse, which was one the fair mer's wife had been in the habit of driving, seemed to understand the situation, and stood perfectly still, though the fires burned the hair from his body, and the roar ing of the wind and the flames was enough to strike terror into the heart of the boldest. The fiithful animal turned his head now and then, as though to see it the party were sate, but never moved an inch. Had he ran or even gone a few yards farther on nine lives more would have been added to the death-roll. The chil dren escaped with but slight in juries from the fact that they were dressed in woolen clothing. They "uttered neither moan nor cry," save that the youngest, a four year old girl, would sometimes say, as the sparks f,ll upon her, "I'm burning up." The old lady was badly burned from having on a cotton dress, and her recovery is considered doubtful. The party remained some six hours in this painful position. when, daylight appearing and the fire having somewhat subsided, they were en abled to reach a place of shelter. It, was learned later that the mo ther's house had been burned be fore the daughter left her own house. A Tell-Tale Overcoat. A few evenings since a party of' friends met at a social gathering at a fashionable restaurant. Some were bachelors, and some were in the enjoyment of "I-leaven's best gift to man !" The evening was cold and chilly, and most of them voreoverc-oats. Two of them were nearly alike, and were owned re shectively by Charey G- and Charley S , one of them mar ried am ! the other single, and a wild, rakish sort of a fvllow, who, as fist as he was out of one scrape %ras in another. his pockets were always full of rose-colored mis sivesanl delicate love tokens. ilis heart was desolate out of the sunny glances of woian.kind, yet his adventurous head never per mitted the matrimionia! ioose to curl around it. 11is friend Char ley G is a -lcr married man, cherishing a bright-eyed but jea lous-hearted little wife. who loves him tenderly. He found it diffi cult to obtain permission to attend the supper at all. It was given at last, with the understanding that he would come homne earlyr. lie didn't how ever, but sat late, so very late, in-f deed, that he slept soundly the next morning until after the sun was far advanced towar-d the zen ith. lie had met with a misfor tune, too, having stumbled on his way home and rolled over in the1 muddy streect. His wife, hiowever-, set about repairing this mishap the next morning, by cleansing the muddy overcoat. While en ~aged in this occupation her- hand,. by thc merest chance in the world, strayed into one of the side pock-i ,ts of his coat, and encounteringr i neatly-folded billet-doux, super scribed simply to CharleIy. read : "Do not go to that horrid sup ser, love, but come to me instead. L am so lonely. Your devoted KATE." Oh, my ! but the little blue eyes lashed-the e->lor came and went ipon cheek and forehe-ad-when he read the lines. There was a nomen.t's pause, as ir to still the ntensity of passion, and then Mr. was rudely shaken from his est. "What's the meaning of his, sir?" and the little white ands trembled with passion as he offendling paper was held up efo the culprit. "I don't know! Vho brought it ?" '-Who brought it. Sir?" I found in your coat-p)ockct. Mi-. G-, wan t an explanation ;I will have ne; Iwant a divorce, too!" Mr., --- was fully aroused by this ime. lHe protested to know no hinig of the note ; he did not know ow'the treacherous little thing ame in his pocket. He appealed o his wvife,'s good sense. She -Ould hear of no denial, but in toad, made another dive into the oat-pocket. A nother' little mis ye rewarded her seareb. It was rimfull of the tenderest endear ents, and dated only two days ack, bout was in anotheri hand nriting, very beautifuml, an d signed Jie." -'Oh, you Turk ! just >ok at that U' and while Chrarley's: ewildered eyes were perusing bec let ter, anther~'1 visit was made ) thle r'ecptacle (if love--anot her .ti_l camne ouit. it was equally1 elete. but I:uli of upt'raidin.- I t caile Chadeyi:ut' ermuh el.dse, e eit:'ul : sail 1 hat "Fan nie's bro!wn said his once loved darling would die early." The lips were white now with rage, the blue eyes all aflame with fire. the little willow form drawn up to its fullest heirht. Charley never saw her looking so indig nant. "You rake-monster! Why, Brigham Young would beashamed to do as von have done !" Another dive was made to the pocket, and letter after letter brought out, until adozen strewed the floor-all of them from differ ent ladies, all evincing the tender est love for Charley. Unable t) cope with the storm of indigna tion, he made a hasty exit from the room, and, leaving the house, left his wife to herself to medi-' tate upon divorce or suicide at leisure. A few moments after, however, the servant of Chancy S appeared with Mr. G 's overcoat, and respectfullysolicited the return of his master's. Spurgeon to Bismarck and Napoleon. Spurgeon, the famous London preacher, has written a letter ad dressed to Napoleon, Emperor of the French, arnd William, King of Prussia. We quote a portion : Did either of you ever think of what war means ? Did vou ever see a man's head smashed. or his bowels ripped open ? Why, if you are made of flesh and blood, the sight of one poor wounded man, with the blood oozing out of him, will make y ou feel sick. I don't like to drown a kitten ; I can't bear even to see a rat die, or any other animal in pain. But a mai! where's your hearts if you can think of broken legs, splinter ed bones, heads smashed in, brains blowed out, bowels torn, hearts gushing with gore, ditches full of' blood, and heaps of' limbs and car casses of' mangled men ? ] Do you say my language is dis gusting? How much more dis- r gusting must the things them- 1 selves be ! And you make them ! s How would you like to get a man < into your palace garden and run , a carving knife into his bowels, or i cut his throat! If you did that, I you would deserve to be hanged ; : but it would not be half so bad as i killing tens of' thousands, and you t know very well that this is just what you are going to do. Do t you fancy that your drums and I fifes, and feathers and fineries and : pomp, make wholesale murder one t whit the less abominable in the < sight of God ? Do not deceive : yourselves ; you are no better than I the cut-throats whom your own t laws condemn. t Better? why, you are worse, I for your murders are so many. I Think, I pray you, for your poor f peop,e will have to think, wheth- t er you do so or no. Is there so t little want in the world that you r must go trampling on the harvest L with your horses and meni ? Ist there so little sorrow that youi must make widows by the thous-i and ? Is death so old and feeble 'i that you must hunt his game for i him, as jackals do for the lion ?- I Do you imagine that God madec f men for you to play with ? Are c they only meant for toys f'or you to break ? O Kings, a ploughman t tells you that their souls are as r pr'ecious in God's sight as yours. they suffer as much pain when bullets pierce them as ever you c can do; they have homes, and c mothers, and sisters, and their t deaths will be as much wvept over lb as yours, perhaps more. e llow can you sit (down to eat a when you have caused war? Does fi not the blood rise in your throat e and choke you? Or arc you only p devils with crowns on ? Creatures t who were never suckled at a wvo- v man's breast, and theref'ore have f no human feeling? It will be p hard for you to think of' the blood g youi have shed when you lie dy- a ig. and hardIer still to bear the a heavy hand of' God whecn he shall ft :-ast all murderers into hell.- f< Whichever it is of' you that has ti jeen the cause of' this wicked war, [ say you smell of blood; you g >ght to he more hated than the e 30mmon hangman, and, instead of' a >eing called "His Majesty," you ii >ught to be hooted as a demon. t Siaxs is -ruz EAS.-For many t rears the 3Maine election has been 1 yoked up)on as a sort of political b )Aometer. Occurring eazrly in p he fall, its result has generally e ndicated the extent of the changes g a public sentiment which have 'I eenI gtoing( on during the previous b ~ight months of' the year. The b ndden r'evolution in its vote in u 8536 foreshadowed the conquest!n >f the Northern States by radical- b sm. MIaine has steadily adhered o the radical party until this year. s< t hias always been good for from is ~0,000' to 2,00 r'adicalI majority. Ii ruant had 28,000. The reduction v ri the imajority now to less than f O000 shw that the p)arty of' fau- ir a'ticism and'. iintoleranee is on its lj 'at leg. It foresChadoiw's the ti -oqet4 tile whole eoun.try- by t he~ I mm-re in( ' l Octob er andh N-i s I. . - U _. 1 ...E N I e Circulation of Matter. It is obvious, at a glance, that the soil does not furnish all the material which is required for the wants of vegetable life. The level of our meadows is not lowered by removal of successive crops, nor does the forest dig its own grave at its roots as it lifts its ponderous trunk,s into the air. The atmos plhere, as well as the soil, contri butes to the increase of mass, whether of wood or grain, and in directtv feeds all races of animal existelnce. The relation of the three kingdoms of nature is thus established. Water is one of the principal agents in the system of circulation of matter, which constitutes the life of the globe we inhabit. In the fulfillment of its office, it p'sses incessantly from sky to earth, now mingling with the currents If the atmosphere, and anon with those which form the arteries and veins of the great world of wrters. Lifted into the atmosphere by the sun, it descends again in dew and rain, corroding and dissolving the rocks on which it fails, and dis .ributing them widely over land mnd sea. It settles through the stony 3rust of the earth, into the dark -ecesses of the rocks where crys :als blossom out of the formless ,tone, and supplies them with the naterial for their wonderful archi ecture. It penetrates the soil, md supplies the same material to .be roots of plants for the still nore wonderful creations of leaf, mnd fruit, and flower. Again it lastens through brooks and rivers >n its course, and pours its burden nto the sea, for the use of the in iumerable forms of vegetable and inimal life which.inhabit its wa .ers. The coral insects build up olid islands out of the matter it )rovides. Countless shell-fish lothe themselves in the same ocky garments, and finally ea:t hem aside. to be buried under the lime of the sea and harden, in the ourse of ages, into stone. The vater which has served these va ious offices. climbs anew into the lcavens upon the solar rays, and gain descends in the rain, repeat ng forever its round of service .to he earth. The further relations of the hree kingdoms of nature may be >resented in a single picture. In .gine a giant tree, the representa ice of all the vegetation of the arth, spreading wide its branches s a shelter for man and beast. Jet us suppose them to subsist en irely upon its fruit, and to warn hemselves by fires made from it; ranches. The tree, through it: eaves, draws its supply of gaseous Dod from the atmosphere, and hrough its roots, its mineral sus. enance from the soil. It has pu. ified the air in the process, of ases which would become noxious y accumulation, and returned to the oxygen which is the vital. sing breath of the animal world. ~he mingled material of its food, lorse than worthless to animals, as, at the same time been trans >rmed into wood and fruit, and ther' forms of vegetable matter. At this point, without interrup ion in the circuit, commences the eturn of material to the atmos here from which it was derived. ~nimals that feed upon the fruit f the tree, already breathe much f it back again to the air while bey live, and the rest is restored y their death and subsequent de ay. Leaves that fall and moulder, nd branches that are burned as iel, make the same return of the lements of which they are com osed, to the great reservoirs of me atmosphere and earth. And -hat happens thus to leaC and -nit, happens also at last to the arent tree itself. One by one its iant branches fall and moulder. nd melting again into the air, i1d to its inexhaustible stores of' rtility, and provide the material ~r a new round in the grand sys ~m of circulation. What happens beneath the sin-I le tree, occurs also in every flow rthat lifts its petals to the sun, nd is a thousand times repeated ievery forest upon the face ofl me earth. No limits of distance! r of size restr'ict the mutual rela ens and dependencies of nature. he exhaled carbon of the polar rar feeds the lotus of Egyptian lainis, and the breath of the south-' -n lion is redistilled in the fra ranco of the Norwegian pine. he particle of matter that once irned in the fire of the poet's 'ain and floated with his song pon the air, now blooms in the ountain flower and anon lies iried in its mould. According to the view thus pre mted, it will be seen that the sun the great material source of the e of the world. lie wingrs the ipors that rise from the sea, and 11 again to make their minister eg ircuit in the earth. The so r- rays are the agents also, in the ansformation of matter, which kes placee in every leaf and blos. m. m rovidte the animal kind No less is the sun the source of all the mechanical power which is known upon the earth. The fall ing flood of Niagara is but the re coil of the spring which is bent in evaporation from the sea and earth. All force which is derived from the fall of water, is thus traceable to the sun, which lifted it in the form of cloud and vapor. The energies of fire and steam, are only other forms of the force inherent in the solar rays, origi nally exercised in the organization of the vegetable matter -which serves as fuel. Immediately pro duced by oxidation and the heat which it evolves, they find their ultimate source, as: well as their precise equivalent, in the deoxidiz ing influence of the solar rays. The forces of the human body are fed by eonsumption of similar ma terials, and may therefore be traced to the same source. Every planet that surrounds with its orbit the great centre of our system, is equally dependent upon his influence. Held in their courses by his attraction, and en circling him in ceaseless revolu tion, they draw from the parent orb the strength and beauty which clothes their lesser spheres. What wonder, that in vague acknowl edgment of his influence, heathen have acknowledged the sun as their God, and worshiped at his shrine. How natural that Chris tian nations should fnd in his life giving power, a fitting emblem of the glory and beneficence of the great Father of the Universe, by whom all suns and systems, are, and were created. [From the New York World.] A Thousand Years Ago. It is certainly one of the great est curiosities in history that ex actly one thousand years ago, in the year of our Lord 870, the peo ple of France and Germany fought under their kings upon the same soil, that of Lorraine, -fur very nearly the same reasons, and with the same result. This happened as followt: The empire of Charle magne and that of his son who succeeded him, Ludwig I., called the Pious, was divided by his three sons, the grand-sons of Charle magne, in 843, at the congress of Verdun, between themselves in such a manner that Lothaire re ceived, besides the title of emperor. Italy and what was then called Middle Franconia, a strip of land running from the Nortb Sea to the Mediterranean, and their joining Upper Italy, a broad strip of land containing modern Holland, Bel gium, the Lorraine, the Alsace, and all that partof'Southern France lying between Rhone and Saone and the Alps on the east. Ludwig received Eastern Franconia, which was from that time called Germa nia, or Germany, and from which he, as GernTany's first king, was called Ludwig the German. Carl, who wvas called the Bald, from his bald head, received West cern Franconia, from that time called Franconia, or France. Lo thaire died in 855, and again sub divided his empire amongst his three son,s. To the oldest, Lud wig, he gave Italy and1 the crown and the title of emperor ; to the second, Lothaire, the southern part of his dominion, comprising a part of modern IIolland. Belgium, and the province called up to this dlay Lorraine or Lotharingen, the Alsace, and all the laind extending down to the Saone. To the young est, Carl. he gave all the~ land south of the Saone to the Mediteranean, under the title of Kingdom of Provence. In 869 Lothaire died without heirs, after he had previously be come possessed also of his brother Car['s Kingdom of Provence, and it was thlen that Carl the Bald.i King of France, stepped forwardi tc take sole possession of his ne phew's kingdom, comprising all the eastern part pf modern France, and extending from the Meuse to' the Rhine, and from the Rhone to the Alps, and from the North Scea I1 way down to the Mediterranean.1 Ie was comp)letely successful, for his nephew Ludwig, the Emperor' in Italy, and his brother Lud wig, the King of Germany, had both< their hands too full to claim their' share of the rich inheritance. But a year later, in 870, just one 1 thousand years ago, suddenly a arg~e and well-appointed German a.rmy crossed the Rhine, broke1 nto France, and defeated Carl the Bald and his armies at once, andI so completely that he was corn pelled to sign a treaty of peace in j hed sam year (870.) by which hei see ohsbrother Ludwig, the ?ierman, all the eastern part of those lands which he had appro-i priated from his nephew, and comn-< pi-ising the modern provinces of1 Alsace, Eastern Lor-raine, and the territories around the cities of l'rier-, or Ti-eve, Cologne, Mas tricht, and Utrecht, dlown to the miouth of the River Rhine. The first grand fight for the Rhine provinces on the part of France. and the Alsace and Lor raine on that of Germanv. which1 is, after all, if not the sole cause, certainly one of the principal causes of the present war of 1870, took place consequently just one thousand years ago, in 870, and with the same result. TRIAL, JUSTICES--IMPoRTANT DE cisio.-A case of assault and bat tery was tried in Williamsburg District, before a trial justice, who found the defendant guilty. A writ of prohibition was moved before Judge John T. Green, to restrain the officers of the law from carry ing into effect the sentence of the trial justice, on the ground that trial justices had no jurisdiction under the constitution to entertain such cases. Judge Green has decided that the act of the Legislature giving jurisdiction to trial justices in mat ters of this sort, is a plain and pal puble violation of the Constitution of the State, and has ordered that the decision of his lordship, the trial justice, be set aside, and the sentence of the court be not en forced. No one expected any other de cision from the clear head of this able judge, fbr even a layman on reading the act of the Legislature, creating the office of trial justice, and comparing it with the provi sious of the constitution, could not have arrived at any other conclu sion. i.t appears to us that the only safe course for trial justices to pur sue, is, after a preliminary exami. nation, if they see probable cause, to bind the defendant over in such cases to answer in the Court of f Common Pleas. The case was carried up by E. J. Porter, Esq., an able. lawyer of Kingstree.-Ueorgetoicn limes. A TALKING MACHINE.-On Sat urday an exhibition of quite a novel character was opened at the new building called the Palais Royal, Argyle street, Oxford cir cus. It is an exhibition of a talk ing machine, which by mechanical appliances is made to give forth utterances resembling those of a human being. It is the invention of Professoi' Faber, of Vienna, and has been constructAd and patented by him, and is certainly a wonder tul specinen of human ingenuity. It is true, the question may arise, where is the utility of it, seving that every man, woman and child, possesses a talking machine, more or less perfect, of his or her own. But the machine has its utility nevertheless, for it illustrates a much neglected science of acous. ties. Moreover, it is highly inter esting as showing how far inge nuity may go. The machine has a mouth, with tongue and lips, which are set in motion by a me :hanical apparatus which sets free t portion of air from a large bel ows, aud so contirols it as to pro luce the sound requiired. It pro nounced, wvith. great clearness, avery letter of the alphabet, many words, and a fewv sentences perfect; act merely set words, but any words the audience chose to name. [t also laughed, and uttered other :uries expressive of human passions, L.o the astonishment apparently of avery one who heard it,. (London News, August 20. CHOLERA APPRo-ACHING. -The twful news of the approach of Aholera reminds us of an old in idious and unconquerable enemy. [n IIavana it is spreading with. rightful rapidity. There were ifty-three deaths in one day andI ~ighty on another. The victims re taken from all classes-from he aristocracy and the chain ;ang--equally. In the shipping n the harbor its ravages have een very great, and letters dread est the epidlemic make such bead vay as to fill the city with mourn ng, and to take the population off' n1 countless numbers. in France ye hear of the cholera among the 1erman troops. In South-eastern tussia it is rapidly extending. C'he JIournal de &t Petersburg, of he 11th inst., announces twenty hree eases and ten deaths from he epidemic at Rostow, anid nine ases and fonr deaths at Kertch. ['he appearance of the disease is dso announced at Odessa. in a ommunication dated the 4th inst. [he latest news from Taganrog tates that from the 25th of June othe 18th of .July, 118 cases of! he malady occurred in that town, eventy-five of which ended fa ally. Ihn CLADs.-Great Britian has orty-one iron clads and seven >uilding ; France twenty-eight ron-eladls and twenty floating >atteries; Prussia, five iron-edads' ,nd two building ; Austria, eleven! ron-clads; Russia, three iron lads, eleven turr at ships, and six nonitors ; Italy, six iron-clads ; pain three iron-clads; Turkeyv even iron-edads; and the United tates, forty-tive iron-clads, (chief y turret vessels forcoast defence,) .n four building. A Mormon rival of Br;iha Young says bat we are to have a great r.a: onal wa.r in Make Home Attractive. No child, however sentimental, will love a home simply because it has the name of one. If we would have our children love it, we must make it lovely-we must give them something so love in the home. Now if the principle ideas which a child has of his home are, that it is a place where he gets his meals and where he sleeps; where, if he is little, he is perpetually found fault with; where be must keep quiet; where at night-fall he must sit stupidly waiting till bed time; or, if he has grown older, he can only deem it a dreary room in which he must employ himself as best he may, while the father sits at his paper or dozes in his chair, and the mother is silenty , busy with her sewing orher book ; t if such be the aspect of home, one C need not wonder that children t learn to look elsewhere for pleas- 3 are and seek to find amusement in C other circles, or that home is for saken as soon as it is possible to ~ leave it. It is practicable to make it so t delightful that children shall have i no disposition to wander from it , or prefer any other place ; it is pos- a siblo to make it so attractive that t it shall not only firmly hold its v own loved ones, but shall draw f others into its cheerful cir- i, cle. Let the house, all day long, t be the scene of pleasant looks, pleasant words, kinu and affection- ( ate acts; let the table be the hap- v py meeting place of a merry h group, and not a dull board where o a silent, if not sullen company of e animals come to feed ; let the meal t be the time when a cheerful laugh I is heard and good things are said; let the sitting-room, at evening, be the place where smilling company settle themselves to books or ti games till the round of good-night v kisses are in order ; lot there be n some music in the household, mn- b sic not kept like silk and satins to p show the company, but music in ti which father and mother and 'I sister and brother join ; let the ti young companions be welcomed o and made icr the time a part of F the group, so that daughters ti shall not deem it necessary to 1( seek the obscurity of back par- d lors with intimate friends, or to 1 drive father and mother to distant t apartments; in a word, lot the A home be surrounded by an air of h cozy and cheerful good-will; then ti children need not be exhorted to b love it, you will not be able to a tempt them away from it. R The ties which bind a child to r home are created not so much h out of great as from little things; ii some of them I have hinted at, and r: many more will suggest themselves b to a wise parent. There should ti be a good many holidays in the e: home. I believe in anniversaries, a; and I love, by observing them. P to connect time with events, and t< so give to both a deeper interest. b The birthb-days of a family should be always noticed, and in some wvay, celebrated. The busy prepa- a ration of' the whole household to A make some present to father or mo- SI ther, sister or brother on a birth-day ii or holiday; the many plannings, the fi workings in by-corners at odd h times; the bundling of work out E of sight as the step of the favored b; one is heard ; the careful stowing fr of gifts away till the appointed e: time; and then, when the looked-for et day has come, the presentations, 0 the confused and merry voices, the n tilled eye, the choked voice, the g beart too full to speak in words, h memory touched as with an an'gels' e~ band, love that can only look its h thanks-all these! who can tell o~ their sweet and mighty' power? ai A. home familiar to such scenes, cm Ivill it, can it be one that children y; shall not love ? No, no; from it, ei wvhen the inexorable time comes c: :o go away, daughters shall pass vith sobs of sorrow, and sons with 3ressed lips and swimming eyes, v mnd while mother lives it will be a G -mome still, home, though years si ave gone and other homes have V; daimed themn.-Aikmnaa's Life at h; tloome. p, THE ISRAELITE PRATER BOOK. () -The Israelites are revising~ their [Prayer Book. At the late Jewish b< 3ynod, held at Leipsie, the fol- , owing was resolved: "No bitter Ib< >r harsh expression shall be con- t ained in any of' the prayers un- g icr revision or to be newly qpm- e sosed ; the contents shall embrace ill human beings of the universe, si mnd nothing shall be said therein with regard to the chosen people s which might in the least offend ur brethren of ancther creed. it 1)n the other hand, the new pray- p rs or those under revision, shall ay stress upon the religious ms ~ion of Israel, the providential uidance in its progressive devel-b pment, a future universal know-I ti edge of the AlImighty's commands, i t love of peace anld justice and he-0 rnanity." Large numb,ers of men have sailed fromC he I~nited States for the Cuban army. Oneh hird of the 10,0 m0 men f.r the C'.an re roforcreent.!eftiet week. Shoekirg~ hu ADVERTISINC RATES. Advertisements bserted at the rate ofS1 50 per square-one inci-forfirst insertikmn,abd Si for each subsequent insertion. Dott column advertisements ten per cent on ahove. Notices of meetings,obituaries and trihten of respect, same rates per seuare as ordinary advertisements. Special notices in local column 20 'ents per line. Advertisenments not marked with the mnm ber of insertions will be kept in til forbid und charged accordingly. Special contracts made with largc advew" isers, with liberal deductions on above rates Done with Neatness and Dispat&. Terms Cash. MYSTERTOUS DISAPPEARANCE. Dn Friday. afternoon, a man'named aeo. W. Bennett, forseveral ionths . ast working on the Cb lotte, Columbia and Augusta 'Railroad >ridge,- mysteriously disappeared. rom Augusta, leaving his wife, to. vhom he had been married only ive or six months, in an entirr lestitute condition at the old Bagle and Phcnix Hotel building, n that citV, where they had been esiding. The circumstances at ,ending his disappearance have >een reported to us as follows: or some time past, his wife4s nother residing in New berry Dis. net, South Carolina, ias been reating, through Bennett, with olonel T. E. Benhler, Real Es ate Agent, for the purchase of place near this city. She remit ed by express $580 with which to lose the trade. Bennett.obtained he money from the Express offree. nd left his room between 4 and 5 'clock Friday afternoon, ostensi. ly to purchase the property de ired by Mrs. Morgan. His pro racted absencefor the entire nigM ud yesterday excited the most tense anxiety in the mind of h4s rife, who is left penniless and in pitiable condition, she. think0ig batperbapshe had beenfoo>lydest 'ith. All exertions, however, ailed. to discover his whereabetR the city. It is now thoug , bat he left the city at 6 o'cleft n., of Friday, on the Charlott olumbia and Augusta Railrcd4 itb full purpose of abandons is wife and pocketing the mone r her mother. Some papers di >vered among his effects justifyr ne interence that he is -frorw ridgeport, Connecticut. [Columbia Guardian. If there is any valid exensn for ie commission of crime, it is thf, ,hich a woman has for killing the an-not who has seduced 1herr ut who, failing to gain her love, ersistently blackens her reputa-~ on and makes her life mieerabe-. lie Gilroy (Californist Advocafe ills of a tragedy which recently acurred near Gilroy, andin which rudence Page, nee McNamcee ers. ced Beckwith Kelly to a 'wil-. iw copse and there shot him cad. The reason of t,his was-that elIly once wished tomarry her, but 'as- rejected ; and she married's [r. Stout. Kelily lied basely aloiu er, and~ did all in his power to es" -ange ner husband's aftectioiis ut could Dot. Mr. Stout died. nd Kelly renewed his suit, bus 'as again rejected, the lady mar' r'ing a Mr. Page. Kelly kept upv is outrageous course of slander-e ig her, and finally caused a sepa-. ition between her and hecr hu* tnd. Thereupon, Mrs. Page re irned from San Francisco--whith Kelly's lies had. followed hey;. 2d where she had lived with- Mr. age-found the man, and as said,. ~ok him to a lonely place and shot in. A SOUT HERN SAisON.--Thero' man liring in Calhoun County, is. who is supposed to be tao rongest man in the State, if not the entire South. lie is thirt'y re years of age, and weighs two uindred and twenty-five ponfda eC has been known to carry tibei irs of railroad iron, wvhen.it talires 'om thbree to fire ordinary men,1t9 rry one. Hle .ean take a eaw' >ntaining forty gallons of whie e water (the former is prefeirTed. - e presume,) and raise it frot tw 'ound and drink out of the 6an% >le with as much ease as otherc >uid out ofa common pitchei;:an~d a has frequently taken a- lhtreI 'flour under each arm, and-2 baf-. icing a sack of salt on his head~ Lrried them for several hutidre4 ards with appa"'ently but little fort. He offers to- bet. &a hu mn lift 1,300 pounds. DISCOVERIES OF PO-rShisi ' AD.-ThIe commissioner of the eneral Land OffBce hae reeeived mples of potash salts frona- Ne" da, where extensive deposits wve been discovered. Tie irn >rtant new sonree of otifr Ain. LI wealth not only ferisbie new e very purest potash, but the 'es resulting therefrom ha've also ~comne available for bromine.- The urces of bromine, hMtherto,- have ~en the mnothei Iyes, resatigfrm e. evaporation of the sea water in >nthern France, the kelp or taree Lower Bretagne and England, bd the water of the head Seat. nee the discovery of the potash sposits in Stassfart- all these urces have been ng.available, hiue in Stassfarti, an~d in Nevada, has become of daily growing im >rtance. An American lady in~ Paris, am tie-ns of notoriety, is said to at act atten-tion by appearing at ~e Grand Opera without jewels -fir>wers, he r only Ornament be g a live snake coiled around he? rist. The snake is constantly imnbing up and down her arin nestling in her hand, enjoying er* fan and words of endearment., very opera ;-lass is fixed on he.r