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Vol. IX. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29, 1873. No.4. IS PUBLISZD EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, BY9."-0 KE Editor and Proprietor. !fr- The > mark denotes expiration of sub scription. CabinetMaker&Undertaker. Has on hand and will make to order, Bed steads, Bureaus, Wardrobes, Safes. Sofas, &Oof '1 kinds made a.d re paire&oi ibirak terms. Has on hand a fuel supply of Metalic, Ma hogany and Rosewood Burial Cases. Cofins made to order at short notice, and hearie supplied. Oct 9 40 tf. MARTIN HARRIS. "The odst an&)3* of the Electics." 1873. Eclectic Magazine. tv SUBSCRIBE N'W.! With the number for January, the ECLECITIC enters upon its twenty-ninth year. It gleans the choicest articles from the entire AeId of foreign The best REVIEWS. 2 The best CRITICISMS. The best BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. The best NOVJLS Tb The The bes TAR The finest STEEL ENGRAVINGS. The aim of the ECLECTIC is to be instructive without being dull. and enlertaining without be ing -a~~et i~srustian as w 011 ive it a tEw. ,Terms, ts. jaw=sa4-ems to club. TheCL C will be sent with any other periodical at lowest club rates. Address, E. It. 1ELrON, lublisher. Dec. 11, 50-tf. 108 Fulton Street, New York This XoguiezroweQ~ A iterxg an is recommended as being the cheapest Musi cal publication in the world. It is issued on the fifteenth of each mouth, and c*ntains in every number at least Four Dollars' worth of choice new Music, such - MUSICAL Songs, Due-s, Choruses, Polkas, Waltzes, Galops, Marches, Fantasies, Four-Hand Pieces, etc., by such authors as Kinkel, Hays. Tbomas, Danks, Strauss, Stewart, AMrtucken, Wyman; etc., etc. Peters' 3irnscif 4 thly M must be seen to be appre- ONT ciated, and as an inducement for you to test its value, we offer to send the six numbers J* tOne,Dollar?. Thn es 1iteholea new bertbatyou ean geLt,.. %4. by subscribing to Peters' Musical Monthly for the year1873. Single nu'nbers sent, post paid, for 30 cents. Address, J. L. PETERS, 599 Broadway, New York. Nov. 20, 47-3m. Bricks,Bricks,Bricks! GOOD BRICKS I S40ONY EBRI(KS FOR SALE .At the Brick Yard E. H. CHRISTTAN. Oct. 25, 43-tf. Free Transportation. WE are prepared to grind from one to *one hundred and fifty bushels Corn per day, and will furnish free transportation of their grain to and from our mill for our patrons free of charge. WEBB, JONES & PARKER. A pr. 17, 16-Lf. Fisks Meallic Brial Cases THE SUBSCRIBER has constantly or hand a full assota.ment of thedabove approved . cases, of differenO patterns,; besides coffins of his own mak~e, all of which he is prepared to furnish at very reasonable rates, with promptness and despatch. Persons desirous of having cases sent by railroad wili have them sent free of charge. A Hearse is always on hand and will be furnished at the rate of $10 per day. * Thankful for past patronage, the sub scriber respectfully asks for a continuation of the same, and assures the public that no effort on his part will be spare~ to render -the utmost satisfaction.A .C LMN Newberry S. C., July 31. RESTAURANT. -BAKERY. The undersigned respectfully informs the public that she is now prepared to furnish Meals-Fish, Oysters, &c., Every Day, and at all Hours. Also, Bread, Cakes, Pies, Wigs and Rolls, Fresh Every Day. No1, 4 KATE SHODAIR. PROiFESSIONAL. DR. C. W. ARNEY Offedlieservices to the community at large. Office opposite Gol. Win. F. Nance's residence, next door above A. R. Church, lormerly occupied by Dr. T. W. Thompson, decease'd. July 31, 31-tf. DR. H. BAE.R, WgoLEsALE AND ttETAIL DRUGGIST, NO.' Th1>EETING STREET, dHARtLESTON, S. C. May 3, 18-if. Interesting to All. My term of officee having expired, I re spec'tfully notify all persons who had liens, a debts or mortgages recorded during my res term of office, to call on Messrs. Jones & tori Jones, who will deliver the same. dec Nov. 27, 48--tf. THIOS. M. LAKE. iFant's Liver Regulator. One of the best preparations now befor the public. Hundreds of testimonials can be shown of its effcacy. Prepared after the m~1iost approved formula, especially for this ~limate, an sld by D.S..FAT How Softly on the Bruised Heart. How softly on the bruised heart A word of kindness falls, And to the dry and parched soul The moistening tear-drop calls; Oh, if they knew who walked in the earth 'Mid sorrow, grief, and pain, The power a word of kindness hath, 'Twere paradise again. The weakestand the poorest may The simple pittance give, And bid delight to withered hearts Return again and live ; Oh, what is life if love be lost, If man unkind to man? Oh, what the heaven that waits beyond This brief and mortal span ? As stars upon the tranquil sea In mimic glory shine, So words of kindness in the heart Reflect the.source divine; Oh, then be kind, wboe'r thou art That bteathest mortal breath, And it shall-brighten all thy life And sweeten even death. BUT THREE DAYS MARRIED. BY LUOLA LOVEJOY. "Ay dearest," said Fred, as we neared a little wayside station, "what do you say to some lunch ? I can step out here and get you anything you fancy. It may seem a dreadful thing for a bridegroom to confess, but I begin to feel quite sharp after our early dinner. If you don't mind my leaving you for five minutes-" I signified that an absence of that duration might be supported, and Fred started for the refresh ment room. We had been married just three days, and the glamour of the honeymoon was upon everything -the atmosphere w a a rarified beyond that breathed by every mortal-the earth glorified with a new beauty-the heavens with new light. We ate not bread and beef3teak, but some ambrosial dish untasted before, and drank golden nectar, etherialized from hot coffee pots. I watched Fred from the car window until be disappeared in the :-efreshment room. What a splendid fellow he was! Such ey6s-such a mind-such teeth such a heart-such a general com bination of perfections ! H o w charming; how delightful; how altogether inexpressible it was to belong to him forever, never to be separated morel when whiz! clang! Horrors! The train was off again -off, with Fred still discussing boned turkey in the eating saloon, and his faithful wife hopelessly quiescent in the ladies' car-off, sundering at the rate of thirty miles an hour those whom law and Gospel both declared only death should part. "What's the matter, mum ?" asked the conductor, noticing my excitement. "There-there's a gentleman left behind," I gasped. "Is there mum !" was the stoical reply. "Bless my soul, that's no thing new ! "But-but-he's my husband !" I faltered, blushing to my finger tips, as I felt that the fact was something new. Three ladies turned around to stare at me, and there was an un mistakable titter beneath t h e heavy moustache of a gentleman opposite. "Sorry, mum, but it can't be heledlfcents will stop at bar rooms to wet their whistles we can't wait for 'em." A bar-room ! Fred in a bar room wetting his whistle ! What did the odious man mean ? I tried to crush him ~with look, but I wasn't equal to it. Fred-MY Fred -in a bar-room ! "You needn't be alarmed," said an old gentleman, kindly ; "there will be another accommodation at eight." "At eight !" and it was now just half-past four. I sunk back upon the cushion in quiet desperation. What was to become of me ? With the entire abnegation pe culiar to the early phases of the honeymoon, I bid put my little velvet portemonaie, handkerchief and vinaigrette in Fred's breast pocket-not that I hadn't a pock et of my owvn, but there was such a delightful novelty in feeling that now I had a right to his. Was there ever such a confiding bride left in such a plight? Without a husband and without a cent, and -not the least misfortune to one inclined to the feminine weakness of tears-without even a pocket handkerchief. "Tickets, mum." The conductor was again making 'his rounds. "I-I haven't a ticket," I stain mered in bewilderment. "Two thirty, then, if you please mum, as far as Baltimore." "Ticket, sir." . "Two-thirty, as quick as yor can, mum-time's short." '-But my-my husband has m3 jticket," I faltered. "He was lef at the atioan, you know !" "Beg pardon, mum, but our or ders are strict. That sort of dodge has played out entirely on this line! Two-thirty, mum, if you please. Will refund at the office, when ticket is presented." The man suspected me, actually suspected ME-Fred's wife! Oh! dear, dear! How utterly Lonely and unprotected I felt, after the strong trust and sweet reliance that had been mine! "I haven't any money," I said in a faint voice. "You'll have to put me out somewhere, I suppose," I added, with despairing resigna tion. "Allow me, madam"-the mous tache gentleman was up, pocket book in hiand--;let me arrange this matter for you until we reach Baltimore. Your husband can settle it with me afterwards," lie said, giving me his card with a smile. If I hadn't been married, I should have fallert in love with that delightful man on the spot. As it was, I only murmured some unintelligible thanks and slipped his card into my pocket as a me mento of a wonderful knight. We were to have stopped in Baltimore. As the train neared the city a new perplexity seized upon me. Where could I go ? If i were daylight, I might remain in the ladies' waiting-room, but Fred would not arrive until nearly I ten o'clock at night. I had no money to pay a backman, to go to a hotel, or even to get my supper. A sudden thought flashed into my mind. Aunt Tabby lived in Baltimore! I had directed a let ter to-her, only a. few weeks be fore, atiouncing my approaching marriage. True, the reply was discouraging-being dismally pro phetic of all sorts of evils that awaited me, and darkly suggestive of the snares and pitfalls in that broad road that leads to matrimo ny and destruction. But Aunt Tabby took a vine gary view of everything. She never had felt the mellowing of a honeymoon. When we arrived at the depot, my moustache friend had left the car, so 1 was left unprotected again. An army of hackmen besieged the door of the depot, and I mime diately became the subject of a struggle. Oaths and whips re sounded about my ears, until I was finally seized upon and carried off by a red-headed 1rishman, whose success arose no doubt, from his national proclivity for anything resembling a fight. Having secured me a very dirty vehicle, he regarded me with a tri umphant grin. "If you will get my trunk now, please," I suggested. "Your trunk, whore is it? Where's the bit of tin ?" "The-what ?" I asked in per plexity. "The tin-the bit of' tin, to be sure. How am I to get it without the tin ?" My check ! I had forgotten that. Fred had the check also. Alas! for the powci-lessness of woman ! I saw my new Sar-atoga, filled with the daintiest of trousseaus, bundled up with a load of hotel baggage, and couldn't raise a fin ger to claim it. It was the last straw on the camel's back, and I drove in tears to Aunt Tabby's using my tissue veil as a pocket handkerchief, and thereby uncon sciously tattooing my face n ith streaks of blue. Even Aunt Tabby's monumen tal rigidity was overcome by my appearance, when she met me at her- immaculate doorstep. "Left you and only married three days! Pay that hackm an, Mary, and send him off before he sees any more of this family dis gi-ace! Only three days! The Lor-d have mercy on us! That I should have lived to see brother Henry's child brought to this. Taken all your money and clothes too! Well! well!! its nothing more or less than 1 expected. Only an accident! don't talk to me of accidents! If you ever lay your eyes on that man again, my name is not Tabitha Timstich ! The mean spirited scoundrel to leave you without a rag to your back ! You poor deludedinnocent! Put on the kettle, Mary Jane, and hurr-y up the tea; this poor child is trembling like a leaf, and well she may !" "Oh! ain't it dreadful, mum?" I heard the sympathetic Mary Jane murmur, aside to her mistress; "such a sweet young creeter as she be: And only look at her sweet face! I expect he's been banging ef her.'' Aunt Tabby pursed up her mouth, and shook her head expressively. "Let this be a warniug to you, Mary Jane." "Oh, I'm sure it will, um, was the feeling reply. She'll neverilay eyes on him again," replied Aunt Tabby, solemnly, "NEVE1Ll Lord bless my soul! Who's that?" There was a knock at the door that fairly shook the prim little housi. "Is my wife here?" asked a quick, anxious voice, and the next moment Fere' we was there. clasped in the strong brave arnis--crying aud laugh ing together on the bruad loving breast. i-How did you get here so soon? How did you find we' Oh, Fred, Fred! I have been so frightened. and miserable!" Fred's answer was a shower of kisses. "IIow did I come? In a coal car. There was a train of them just behind. It was'rt the pleasantest ride in the world, but it brought me quicker to you-poor little frightened brid(!" And as I met the glance of those loving eyes, I nestled closer to his heart arid felt, in spite of Aunt Tabby's expectations, I was at home aRaiu. Old Tecumseh on The Rack About the Burning of Co lumbia. General Sherman was examined be fore the American and British Claims Commission to-day, in regard to the buraing of Columbia. He denied that lie had issued orders to burn Columbia, but admitted that the army was greatly exasperated against South Carolina, and this exasperation was greatly increased by General Hamp ton s command firing into his camp a night or two before entering Colum bia which exasperation he and his officers participated in, and this was known to the men. A correspondence was then shown to General Sherman, purporting to have taken place be tween him a4d General Halleck while on his imaoAi to Columbia. The comimunication from Halleck desired him to destroy Charleston and sow it with salt so there iiglit no more nullification or secession grow up there. To this Sherman in reply wrote that Charleston and Columbia would soon be in his hands, and Halleck would have no cause to complain of his treatment of them; that he had the Fifteenth Corps with him, and that corps did their work well; and further that he (Sherman) would not spare the public buildings in Columbia as he had at Milledgeville. General Sher man admitted on his examination that this correspondence was authentic. He stated that he occupied Columbia with the Fifteenth Corps. In reply to the question whether he kept the men in ranks after taking possession of the city, he said "No." He could not have done so to have prevented the burning of every town in the State of South Carolina. These responses were drawn out by the re presentatives of the British claimants who allege that their property at Columbia was destroyed wantonly and in violation of the usages of war. General Sherman manifested a good deal of excitement during the exami nation - Washington Dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer. A CHILD SEIZED BY A PANTHER AND SAVED BY A DOG.-A panther recently nttempted to carry off a cild, in Nevada. The child, which was a little girl three years old, was playing before the open door, while its mother was sweep ing. The panther, which had rept near, suddenly leaped upon the chiildl, seized her by the should er, and turned to flee wvith her. when a powerful and ferocious mastiff that was sitting in the house, near the open door, dashed out and seized the panther by the throat. The wild beast dropped the child, which was not hurt, and then a furious fight ensued be tween the panther and the mastiff. Thbe dog tore open t he panther's throat with his teeth,.and the pan ther tore the flesh from the dog's sides with its claws. The mother of the child rushed out and res cued her darling from boneath the feet of the maddened combatants. carried heri into the house, and then, seizing a loaded rifle that was standing in a corner, she has tened to tho help of the mastiff. She fired almost at random, but the bullet struck the panther in the shoulder and passed clear through his body. He fell to the ground, and the dog, now utterly furious with the rage of combat, soon finished him. TnE T.MPERANCE AOITATIoN.-I'he National Temiperance S'eeiety, whose headquarters .ire in New York, have got ten up a memorial to Congress asking that the President be authorized to ap point a commission of five persons, to srve without a salary, who shall inves'l. gate the subject or prohibitory legislation and take testimony as to the results of the legailized liquor traffic upon the moral, social, intellectaal, and material well-be ing of the people, and to recommend if any Congressional legislation in the sphere of national authority to prevent the traffic in intoxicating liquors as a beverage would be beneilcial. A bill bas been prepared to carry out th,e wishes of the mnemorialists,which be willintroduced by Senator Wilson. Hon Wmn. Dodge, of New Yor'k, president of the society, and several other gentlemen will appear be fore the committee on the revision of thle laws at an early 4y, in advocaey of tbe project. IOne of the most important rules of the science of manners is an absolute silence in regard to your self. Brigham Young is the father of one hundred ar.d seventeen children, ac ordng o lasInt acconnts. Important Order Relating to Office Holders. The President on yesterday is- ( sued the following executive or- v der: By' the President of the Uritel li ,Sfates: Whereas, It has been bro.ught h to the notice of the President of the United States that many per- I sons holding civil office by ap- o pointment from him or otherwise g under the constitution of the Uni- ' ted States, while holding such i. Federal positions, accept offices - under the authority of the States o and Territories in which they re- a side, or of municipal corporations t< under the charters and ordinances t4 of such corporations, thereby as- A suming the duties of the State, y Territorial or municipal office, and at the same time that they o tire charged with the duties of th~e h civil offices under Federal au- t] thority ; it And, whereas, it is believed h that, with few exceptions, the si holding of two such offices by the fl same person is incompatible wi.th the due and faithful discharge of it the duties of either office ; that it w permanently gives rise to great la inconvenience and often results in ai detriment to public service ; and, g< moreover, is not in harmony with w the genius of the government.- p1 In view of the premises, therefore, jc the President has decided it prop- y< er thus and hereby to give public c! notice: That from and after tie w 4th day of March, A. D. 1873, ex- oi cept as herein specified, persons A holding any civil office by appoint. ti meat under the constitution and le laws of the United States will be p. expected not 1,o accept or hold any of office under any State or Territo rial government, or under the bi charter or ordinance of any muni- w aipal corporation ; and, further, bi that the acceptence or continued la bolding of any such State, Terri- a torial or municipal office, whether sc -lectivo or by appointment, by bi any persons holding civil office as u] tforesaid, under the government w of the United States, other than 11 judicial offices under the constitt- ti Lion of the United States, will be ly Jeemed a vacation of the Federal )ffice held by such person, and ju will be taken to be and will be m treated as a resignation by such Federal officer of his commission tl or appointment in the service of Ic the United States. The officers di ofjustices of the peace, of notaries b. public and of commissionsrs to take the acknowledgment of st deeds, of bail, or to administer s( oaths, shall not be deemed within ir the purview of this order, and are n, excepted from its operation, and w may be held by Federal officers. tl The appointment of deputy mar- it shals of the United States may be u: conferred on sheriffs or deputy st sheritfs ; and deputy postmasters, tU the emoluments of whose office tI does not exceed $600 per annum, st are also excepted from the cpera- o: tion of this order, and they may t< accpt and hold appointments un- b der State, Territorial or munici pal authority, provided the same A be found not to interfere with the discharge of their duties as post master. Heads of departments and other offcers of the govern ment who have the appointments g of subordinate officers are required e to take notice of this order, and fi to see to the enforcement of its V provisions and terms within the I1 sphere of their respective depart- 5 ments or offices, and as relates to e the several persons holding ap- e pointments under- them respect- t ively. By order of the President. n: (Signed,) HAMILTON Fisn, t 'Secretary of State. t Washington, January 17, 1873. .1; It appears to be understood that the g' election of John J. Patterson as Senator from South Carolina will be investigated by the Senate before he is a!!owed to C take his seat. The cnarge that he was elected through bribery and corruption has become so general that many Sena- I, tors are of the opinion that the committee a on privileges and elections should look r into the matter. Among the most prom- a inent and specific of his accusers is the lHon. Robert B. Elliot, colored member of the House from South Carolina, who was himself a candidate before theLegis- 3 lature for United States Senator, It is 8 undertsood that as soon as Patterson's I credentials are presented they will be re- I ferred to the committee on privileges nad elections. So much has been said re cently of the manner in which SenatorsI have secured their election that the more respectable members of the Senate are disposed to have a thorough investiga tion.- Washingtou Correspondent of the Philadelphia Press. Crars CnRCC-MSTANCEs CoNCERNINo MiRS. VtHARToN's TRIAL.--ANNAPOLrS, January 15.-A Jury was obtained in the Wharton case, and the trial has com- I menced. A curious fatality has attend. f ed the trial of this prisoner. During the trial for the murder of General Ketchu m,i several deaths occurred in the families of1 the jurors, and last evening John R. Ar nold, Deputy Sheriff, on going home after leaving the Court, was drowned in the river by breaking through the ice. Ar nold has a brother at present on the Ju ry. Attorney-General Sylvester was called away from the trial on Monday on account of the illness of his mother-in law, Mrs. Susan Harney, of Hagerstown, and that lady died before he reached home A Pair of Lavender Brides. Eli Perkins, of the New York 7onmercial Advertiser, is "on the ring." He stopped at Homer the ther morning for breakfast, and ad the good fortune to meet a quartette bridal party," of which e thus discourses: This morning at the Syracuse louse I breakfasted with a pair f brides and a pair of bride rooms-a sort of bridal quartette. hey were from Cortland, I think, i the country. I knew they ere just married from a variety r reasons. First, when they lighted from the omnibus to en r the hotel both young ladies >ok the arms of the gentlemen, ho said, "Dear, let me carry our satchel." Just behind them came some d married people. I knew they ad been married some time, for ie men pounced out, starting, vggage in hand, straignt for the :tel, leaving their wives with nail satchels to follow, single *e, behind them. At breakfast the brides appeared bridal lavender. Everything as lavender-lavender dresses, vender hAts with lavender strings id lavonder gloves. If ever I .t married Mrs. Perkins shall ear (if she pleases) a suit of' ain black, and then we can en y our honeymoon in peace. Thei )ung husbands both wore broad-I oth suits and black hats. Both ore paper collars and cuffs, and ie wore a paper shirt-bosom. las ! what a shock such decep )n must be to a young and guile ss wife! Why, in my opinion, a Lper collar is no more indication a real shirt than a clothes-line ! At breakfast these young hus nds didn't help themselves first hen they sat down at the table, it they turned to the brides in vender, and said lovingly, "Have roll, dear ?" Then they put me butter on the lavenderl -ides' plates, and they looked > and said, "Thank you, dear," ith a smile too happy to describe. 'hen breakfast was over one of' e young husbands smiled sweet and said : "Now, darling, can't I smoke st once-you know you said I ight!" "Yes, Charlie ; just once !" and en the two brides stood and oked vacantly out of the win >ws till their sweethearts came Lek. When the old married-people t down there was a different ene. The old fellows scooped their beefsteak and sausage, %ver looking up to see how their ives were getting along,and when iey got through they shuffled off to the reading-room and loaded meerschaurn pie with the rongest cavendish. Then they ~lked politics, expectorating on ec stova and around the zinc ove-mat without once thinking their poor wives, who were left amuse themselves with neigh >rhood gossip. Very Remarkable Case of Want of Appreciation in a Woman. A few days since, a well-dressed entloman, apparently in good rcumstances, came to this city om some point on the shore, !here he had been engaged in imbering operations, in a feeble bate of health, and has since been 2nfined to his bed. Recently his, ondition was such that, although be attending physician saw no nmediate cause of fear, the spa ient was disposed to feel that bere was a probability of an ear 7 death. So strong had this feel ig grown that the unfortunate ian communicated to the attend ig physician his fears, and re nested him to convey the news ently to a lady in IRomeo, Mich ran, whom he loved more dear y than life. He cautioned him gainst broacbing the matter too udely, as she was atender fiower, nd the shock might be too great or her sensitive nature. The doc or, in strict observance of all in unctions, wrote to the lady as de ired. The answer came back romptly, and to the point, as fo'l ows: "Dr.-: I care nothing for hat Mr.-, nor to hear from imn. You will please tell him to end me no word. "Mrss P--. "P. S.-Kill him." The doctor, it scarcely need be ~dded, was touched with this un xpccted display of affection on he part of the tender-hearted naiden. As he does not care to bllow the feminine advice, but opes to restore his patient to ealth, he has concluded to keep he result of his correspondence a ecret.--Saginaw (.A'ich.) Courier. The yield of precious metals from the nines of the great West for the year 872, amounts to $62,238,913 89. An xcess over the former year of $58,284, u29 66. A woman who tells fortunes rom a ia cun is a aunoress Life in a Printing Office. The subjoined article. rrom the Prinig Gazette, contains so much fact and good common sense thai we specially commend it to those of our readers who may be dis p'osed to regard the pub!ication of a nc%wspalper as a mattc of .nise ment : Few pecple are aware of the in side workings of a printing otlice. nor of the annoyances attendant upon the publication of a news paper. It is impossible to form anything like a correct idea of the number of men there are in every community who make it a point about every other time thl meet you, to tell you of some im portant fact that ought to be no ticed by the paper, pro bono pub lico. Generally, however, it turns out that the item referred to is one in which the informant has an axe to grind, and the newspa. per is to be the free horse on which he expects to ride into pub lic notice and confidence. Or, if not that, he is constantly annoyed by a multiplicity of communica tions, which are always lengthy, and contain nothing that any one cares to see in print or know any thing of whatever, except the writer, and perhaps one or two other particular individuals, and foi whose exclusive benefit it was written, it not for a moment oc curring to the writer that com munications for a newspaper should be such as would interest thousands of readers. The news paper business is very exacting on all connected with it, and the pay is comparatively small. The proprietor risks a large amount of money for smaller profits, and the editors and printers work harder and cheaper than the same num ber of men in any other profes sion, requiring the given amount of in telligenc- and training. The life has its charms and pleasant associatici,s scarcely known to the outside world ; but it has its earnest work and hours of ex haustion, which, likewise, are not known to those who think the business all fun. The idea that newspaperdom is the charmed cir cle where the favored members live a life of ease, free from care, is a mistaken one. Business is business, and the journal that suc ceeds is the one that is ran on a square business footing, with the same system as a banking estab lishment. How He Knew. Brown was in a strange city for the first time in his life. It was raining, and Brown was carrying his umbrella unfurled ; an um brella, by the way, that Brown had carried for a long time, and was rather choice of. "Good morning to you, Misthur Brown," said an Irishman who was passing him, with a very low bow. Brown was slightly confused. He knew no man in that place, and wasn't aware that any one there knew him. He was quite sur-e he had never seen the Ir-ish man bofor-e. How should any one there know his name. As he plodded on, the more he thought of it the more puzzled he became. At length he got so curious about it he turned around and walked after the Irishman. OvertakiDg him, he said: "You called me Mr. Brown, just now, I think ?" "Faith, I did, sur." "Ever see me, before ?" "No, sur." "Ever hear my name ?" "No, indade, sur." "How, then, did you know my name ? "Will yer honor be afther giv ing me the price of a drink if I'll tell ye how 1 knew your name was Brown ?" "Oh, yes." "Bedad, sur, I saw it in your umbrilly !" A ghost drove an entire family tumultuously from a house in Os wego at a late hour on a recent Sunday night. After a while their excitement was allayed, and on investigation they found that a cow, on a foraging raid, had made her way into a rear kitchen and inserted her head into an empty flour barrel. The barrel became fast on her horns, and, unable to escape the encumbrance, the terri fled animal commenced a frantic rampage about the apartment,with the result above described. The word "embolism," used to ex press the cause of Napoleon's death, is derived from the Greek "emnbolus" meaning anything acting or inserted in another like a wedge or the piston off a steam engine. In pathological science the term is applied to express the for mation of a clot, either in the heart it self or in one of the large blood vessels, which operates as a plug or like a piston that will n'ot work. This clot is said to have been the immediate cause of Napo leon's death ; and we suppose there have been hundreds of strong men in common life who have died in the same way, and nor.e of their friends knew they had "embolism." ADVERTISINC RATES. Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1 .50 per square-one inch-for first insertion, and S1 for each subsequent insertion. Double column advertisements ten per cent on above. 'Notices of meetings, obituaries and tributes of respect, same rates per square as ordinary advertisements. Special notices in local column 20 cents per line. Advertisements not marked with the num ber of insertions will be kept in till forbid and charged accordingly. Special contracts made with large adver tisers, with liberal deductions on above rates JFO Pziffa Done with Neatness and Dispatch. Terms Cash. The Fascination of Money. HOW IT IS ENGENDERED BY OUR MODERN CIVILIZATION. A recent English essay on che subject above noted will be found applicable, in some of its partica .1rs. to the American disposition. The struggling professional man, says the writer, looks on a quarter of a million as Aladdin's lamp, but if lie had it he would in ten years, wonder why he could do so little. His first emotion would be a desire to make his mo ney quite safe ; his next, unless he was abnormally un-English, to possess a "place;" and his next, to be rid of the worry of careful su pervision. When he had obeyed those three instincts, he would find that he had invested his money -the purchase of land included, at about 31 per cent., that he had two establishments to keep up, that he had lost his old scale of calculation about all expenses, and that the 48,000 a year he was re ceiving was a very moderate in come, out of which he if gave away a ten,h he would be very liberal indeed. The idea of giving on a great scale would frighten hi, as it frightens Vice-Chancel or Mains, who on Tuesday decid ed. no doubt wisely in the case before him that great gifts were io improper that a solicitor who Irew up deeds conveying them :ught to be soundly fined for lend ing his skill to assist in such de plorable acts of weakness. Until be reached a very high figure, in Jeed, the s.ense of wealth would aot come to him, and even when be had reached that figure there wvould remain the reluctance to part with capital, and a new sense >f the difficulty of doing anything reat, that is scenically great, mt of the surplus income. two millions will accomplish much but a year's surp!us-say ?40,000 -will do but very little. The in berest of ordinary life being gone -for aflter all, it is diffcult to work anything except politics when the money payment for the work has lost all meaning-he would have to discover a new one, and would find it either inaccumulation, or in building, or in buying, the latter a taste which can become a sovereirfn passion. The Medi cean habit of mind would come upon him like a cloud, and he would find thbat of all of his dreams not one could be realized without immense self-sacr-ifice, wvhich he would have rather less energy to make thai' in days when he dream ed of making. And yet he would not be changed, but would only feel the old fascination of money in a new and slightly less imagi native form. We are inclined to believe that this fascination of money. this de sire for it as an instrument of power, increases immensely with the spread of culture and of what we call civilization-that so far from its being felt mainly by vul gar minds, it is affecting powerful and liberal minds far more deeply. They realize the might of cash much more strongly than their in feriors. You can mark the truth of that sentence in the writings of men like Beckford, of "Anastasius." Hope-of Edgar Poe-a born mil lionaire who never had a shilling --of Ben Johnson-of the heaps of modern writers who use wealth as the instruments of bliss. This spirit is not sordid, it is not even mean ; but it is earthly and it be gins to be injurious. Tell a group of State servants, all of the higher and more intellectual class, that the modern hanger for salaries is all wrong, that honorable poverty, real poverty, is the best condition for the servants of the people, and they look at you and answer you as if you were teaching that an officer or an official should be de. barred from all righteous enjoy ments, are, in fact. not so much disaffected to the theory as hurt and chagrined as its production. It is then like an insult. Yet when Gibbon first made the re mark, it was welcomed as being wise and with a ring in it of true nobility. A JUvENILE Ku KLex PARDozn. Included with the prisoners sentenced to eight years' imprisonment, at Albany, at the last April term of the United States Court, at Charleston, was a fine-looking youth, David Ramseur, in whose case Judges Bond and Bryan took an earnest interest, on account of his youth, and because of his having not taken a pro mninent part in the ctrme charged against him. They therefore, most heartily re. commended him to the Executive clemen cy, and he has been unconditionally par doned. There is in Detroit a young man who has on the right side of his face a heavy black beard, and has also a moustache, while his left cheek is, and always has been, en tirely beardless. He is now 19 years of age, and his beard upon the one side began to grow luxu riantly when he was a mere infant. The post offce at Tumbling Shoals, in Laurens, is discontinued. So says the Harald.