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VlIIX*, WEDNESDAY MOR11NING, FEBRUARY 59 -1873. 77-TH RLO 1S PUnI8HE D - * EVERY WEDNESDAY M011NING, A Newborry 0. I., BY T9OS, F. URENEKER, Editor and Proprietor. invariably in Advance. ^f*'Thi paper is stopped at the expiration of t ine for wiich it is paid. U:7- lie mark denotes expiration of sub scripion. C. M. HARRIS, Cabinet Maker & Undertaker. the Ot Has on hand and will manko to order, Iled. steads, Hurealls, Wardrobes, Safes, Sofas, abou b6ttecs, Lonnges, &c. Ilk il Cabinet Work of all kinds made and ro t $46 aired on liberal terms. Has on hand a full supply of Metalie, bIa Mogany and Rosewood Burial Cases. The fe Cofllns made to order at short notice, and A 0 hearse supplied. autho0 Oct 9 40 tf. MARTIN HARRIS. Pape "The Oldest and Best of the Eeleoties." 1873. Eclectic Magazine. TW su-SRIBE NOW 1 3 With the number for January, the ECLECTIC enters upo its tweity-inth ear. 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One short, sweet year ago lie never inade her wait, As much too early then, As now he Is too late I Hlad Heaven bestowed on lte That little lady there, Whom love ha d ade so sad, And sadnesti made so mirl, Her haud, hler cheek, her mouth Should not tor kises wait: Were that sweet armful mine, I never could be late ! -From The Aldin. for January. THE MIDNIGHT PERIL; '06, Saved by a Phantom. Tie night of tho 17th of' Octo. ber-shall I over forget its pitehy darkness, the roar of tihe autum tial wind through the forest, and the incessant downpour of rain ? "This Comes of short cuts," I intittered petulantly to myself, us I plodded along, keeping close to the trunks of tho trees to avoid the dee) ravinie tloigh which I could hear the roar of' a turbiulont stream forty or fifty fect below. My blood ran cold as I thought of' the possible consequences of a mis step or move in the wrong direc tion. Why had I not been con tented to keep in the right road ? Hold on I Was that a light, o:' are miy eyes playing mec false ? I stopped, holding on to the low resinous boughs of al hemlock that grew on the edge of the bank ; for it actually semedit as if the wind wvould seize me bodily and hurl me down the precipitous descent. It was a light-thank Provi dence-it was a light., and no ignus fatuus to lure in on to destruction and death. "lItlloo-.o I" My voice rang through the woods like a clarion. I plunged onward through tangled vines, dense briers and rocky banks, un. til gradually nearing, I could per ceive a figure wrapled in an oil cloth cape, or cloak ; carrying a lantern. As the dim light fell up on his face I almost recoiled. Would not solitude in the woods be preferable to the companion ship of the withered, wrinkled old man ? But it was too late to re code now. "What's wanting," he snarled forth, with a peculinr motion of' the. lips that seemed to leave his yellow tooth all bare. "I am lost in the woods; can you direct me to R-- station?" "Yes ; R- station is twelve miles from here." "Twelve miles I" I stood aghast. "Can you toll me of any shelter I could obtain for the night ?" "No." "Where are yot going?" "To D)rcw's, down here by the ma pIe swampj." "Is it a tavern ?" "No." "WVould they take me for a night ? I could pay them well." II is eyes gleamed ; the yellow sttumps stood revealed once more. "I guess sto; folks (10 stop) there sometimes." "Is it far from here ?" "Not very ; abotut half' a mile." "Then let uis make haste and reach it. I am drenched to the sk in." We plodded on, my companion more than keeping pace wvith mue. Presently we left the edge of the ravine, entering wi hat seemed like trackless w o o d a , and keeping straight on until lights gleamed fitfully through the wet foliage. It was a resinous old pla1ce, wimth the windows all drawn to one side, as if the foundation had settled, and the p)illars of a rude porch near'ly rotted away. A wvoman n'nsw.ered my fellowv travellers knock. My companion whispered a word or two to her', and she tturned to mue with smooth, voluble wordls of' welcome. SIhe r'egrotted the poverty of their accommodations ; but I was welcome to them, such as they were. "Whore is Isaac ?" demanded amy guide. "Hie has not come in yet." I sat down on a wooden bench beside the fire, and ate a few mouthfuls of bread. "I shouild like to retiroe as soon as possible," said I, for my wear'i ness was oxceasVe. "Certainily," the woman started up with alacrity. "Wher'e are you going to p)ut him ?" asked my guide. "Up chamber." "Put him in Isaac's room." "It's the most comfortable." Bunt hero I interrupted the whis. pored colloquy. "I am not particular-I don't care where you lodge me; only make haste, pleaso." So I w.as conducted up a steep ladder that stood in a eno-nm. of tho roomn, ito an ll apartment coiled with sloping beams and ventlated by ono small window, whero acot bedsteald, crowded closely against the board partition, and a pino ta ble, With tw%o chairs, formed the solo attempts at furniture. Te womani et the light-an oil lamp-on the table. "Anything more I can got you, sir ?" said sho. "Nothing, thitanik you'." "iI hope you'll slee) well, 8ir. I Whlen shall 1 call you ?" "At fou r o'clock in the morning, if 3OU )lease. I must Wlalk to II,-- station in time for the seven o'clock express." "I'll be sulre to call you, sir." She withdrew, leaving me alone in the gloomy little ap-tment. I sat down and looke(d around me witi no very agreeablesensations. "I will sit down and write to Al ice," I thought; "that will soothe my norvos and quiet me, perhaps." I desconded the ladder. The fire still glowed rodly on the stone hearth ; my companion and the woman sat besido it, talking in a low tone, and a third personl sat at the table, eating-a short, stout, vil lai nous-looki rg man, inl a red flannel shirt and very muddy pant. aloons. I asked for writing materials, and returned to my room to write to m wife. "M y darling Alice." I pa.used, and laid down my pen as I concluIded tle words, half smiling to think what, she would say, could she know of miy strange quarters. Not until both sheets were cov. crod did I lay aside my peu ad Preparoor fi slituber. As I folded my paper, I happened to glance toward my couch. Was it the gloam of a human oyo observing me through the board partition, or was it but my own fancy ? There was a cra k there, but only black darcness be yond ; yet I could have sworn that something had sparkled bale fully at me. I took out my watch-it was only I o'clock. It was scarcely worth while for me to undress fur three hours' sleep; I would lie down in my clothos and snatch what slumber I could. So, placiig my valiso close to the lead of my bed, and barricading the lockless doors with two chairs, I-extil. guished the light and lay down. At first I was very wakeful, but gradually a soft drowsiness seem od to steal over me, like a misty mantlo, until all of a suddon some startling electric thrill coursed thtrough my veins, and I sat, ip, excited and trembling. A luminous softness seemed to glow through the room-no light of the moon or stars wias ever so penetrating-and by the little window I saw Alice, my wille, dressed in floating garments of white, with hor long golden hair knotted back by a blue ribbon. Apparently she was beckoniing to me with outstretched hands andl eyes full of wild, anxious tender ness. I sprang to my feet and rushed toward her, but as I reached the window, the fair at~parition seem-. od to vanish in to the stormy dark ness, and I wvas left alonie. In the self same instant the sharp rep)ort of a pistol sounded-I could see the jagged stream of tire above the pillow, straight through the very spot where ten seconds since my head had lain. With an instataneous realiza tion of my dlanger, I swung my self over the edge of the window, juimped some eight or ton feet into tangled bushes below, and, as I crouched there recovering my breath, I heard the tramp of' loot Steps inito my room. "Is he dead ?" cried a voice up the laddr-the smooth, dcceitful voice of the woman. "Of course he is," growuled a voice back, "that charge would have killed ten men. A light there, quick, and tell Tom to be ready.'" A cold, agonized shudder ran through me. What den of mid. night murderers had I fallen into? Anid how fearfully narrow had been my escapeo1 With the speed that only motr tal terror and deadly p)eril can give, I rushed through the woods, now illuminated by a faint glim mer of' starlight. I know not what impulse guided my footsteps -I shall never know .how many times I crossedI my own track, or how close I stood to the brink of the deadly ravine, but a merciful Providence encompassed me with a guiding and protecting care, for wvhen the morning dawned, wvith faint red barsof orientlight againist the eastern sky, I was close to the high road, some seven miles from R--. Once at towvn, I told my story to the police, and a detachment was souL with me to the spot. After much searchintg and many false alarms, we succeeded in find. ing the ruinious old house ; but it was empty, our birds had flown; nor did I recover mv valina Lmd chai, which lat tor I had left undc mlly pillow. "It's Drew's ganlg" -Said tihe lea er of the police; "aid the1'y'v troubled us these two years. donl't thinlk, though, that they' Colo back her1el it presellt." Nor did they. But tho stranrgest part of In story is to come yet. Some thre weeks subsequeinly I received letter froim mlIy Sister. who wt with Alice inl her En'lglish homlle aletter whose intelligenico file mie withl smrprise. "I itust, tell you something vor" stratnge" wrote my 1ister, '"th happened to us oin th e night of' til 17th of' October. Alico lad no been wvell for some time ; ill fic sihe bad boeen collfinled to her be( iearly a week, aid I was sitting' beside her reading. It. was late the clock had just strtuck one when all of a 4uddollen she secemlet to fiint, away, growling white anti rigid as at Cor-pno. I h1114tonod t( call assistance, but all out efforta sceened vain to restoro het to life Mr tlimation. I was jist about tc seid for the doctor, when bei senlss returned as iddenly ia they left her, and 11 she sat up in bed, pushing back her hair and looking wildly around her. ''A iee !" I exclaimed, 'low you terrified us all. Are you ill ? "Not ill," she answered, "but I feel so strange. (4racio I havc been with my husband !" All Our rcason)il" failed to con. vince her of' the impossibility o her assertions. She persilst] to Lhis moment that she saw you and wis with you on tho 17th of' Octo ber, or rather on the morning of the 18th-where and how she can. not tell-but we thlink it must hlavo been 8omlio dream. She is better now, and I wish y'ou could 300 how fast she is improving. This i. my plain, unvarnishod ',alo. I do n pot, pootid to oxplatin )> a-cOun1t fo0r its Myster'ies. .1 dim'ply relate facts. Let psycholo (ists unravel the labrinthical skeinl. I am not superstitious, neither do I boliovo in ghosts, wraiths orap aritions but this thing 1 (10 know -that although my wifle wats in l'ngland, in body on the mornng, )f October 18, hor spirit sirely itood beforo me in Now York at the moment of the deadly peril ,hat menaced me. It may bothat to the subt-ile instinct and strength >f a wif's holy love, all things ar )ossible, but Alice surely saved fny life. Two Cumous Nksu.:.-The King of Prussia recently visitod ia i1eed0le manufactory in his king lom1, in Order to seo what maebi nery, combined with the human hand could produce. Ie was -hown a number of superfino nec :les, thousands of which, togeth r, did not weigh half till ouncle Anld marveled how such minlute >bjects could be pierced with an eye. But lie was to see inl this respect how even something still finetr and1 moro p)erf'ect could be (reatedl. The borer-that is, the workman whose business it is to bore the eyes in these needles asked for' a hair from the mon ar'chi's head. It waIs readlily given, arnd w',ith a smile. HIe lauced it ait 01nco under10 the boringr machine tuitrned a hole in it with the gr'eatest, car'e, futrnisherd it with n thread and then handed the sin gular' needle to the astonished .King. The second( curious needle is in possession of Qriern Victoria. It was made at the celebrated nee die manu111factory at Bedei tch, and repr*esenlt s the column11 i of Trajan in im inmiature. This well-known Roman column)r is radorned with numtierouts scenies inl sculipturo, wh''rich immnortalizte TIrnjan's hoeroic atctions in warii. On this dliinu-i tivo needlle, scenes in the life 0] Queen Victoria are represenitedi in r'elief, but so fluiely cut and se small, that it r'equires a mnagnify. ing glass to see them. T'he Vie toi'ria needlle can, mnoreover, bc 0oponed( ; it containis a nuronber' of needles of' smaller size, wvhich art equally adorned with scentes ir relief'. TIhie heuaviest corn crop ever grown ir tho United States was that of last year wvhich the Agricuiltural Replort stater at the huge total of 1,100,000,000 bushels Not onily is this the lar'gest crop, but i is said to be corni of better quality and o greater intrinsic value than usual. Iowa was the banner corn-gr'owinig Slate, ibe average being nearly forty-one bushneb an acre. Unfortunately for some o those who would like to have the lowa corn, it takes tihe price of four bushel of said corn to get oneC bushel to the At lantic markets. This is one of' the rea eons why some people aro demanding cheaper transportation between th< WVest and the East. A RED-IIo'r Aatsv.-Figures are inex orable, and t.hey sometinmes cut furin capers. For instance, a letter appear: from Secretary Belknap, asking i'or special appropriaution) of' $100,000 to fur nish the army with stoves, $20,000 hay lnir been exhausted for that purpose As thero are 80,000 men inl the army, this would give each man a fouar dollai stove, South as well as North. The eu rious reader will ask what every man in the army wants a ton, doar .tv. r. From the N. Y. lerald, 5th. Slain by Snow. Tii E lVEAT STOICM IN IOwA AN MINNElsuTA-FUt,Y 30() J, Iy .o.'T-EPI8oDEs AND INCIDENT OFINTEREsT-A STAOE FULL 0 DFAD PASSENMEaN--FRtOZEN Tr DEATlI ON A nOORSTEP--A NEWLA MAIED COUPI.E SPEND TIlEI WFIODIN NIoIRT IN A SNOWDRIV s eoN SCi'OOIllllnREN FRO ZN-A HIUSBAND DIE8 SEEKINI j A 1oCTOit, AND THiE WIFE AN: NEw- BoltuN BAlly FREEZE AjONE. t WNoN A, MINN., J:1 uAry 20, '72 'The small wooklY pap-4ers hatv c'0e in, and every mail bring t u letters fIroim the interior wit fi-urther parltiiculars of the recen great storm. 'l'he aitieipatioml of the Iff'rald's correspondenl t haV< bCeen sadly realized, and there h: no doubt t hat the lives lost wil number fiuly thrte hu lindred. Poi instanwo, New Ulm ordorod Ono tlen co1ins on ono day, and a froim1 that place and Fort Itidge ley. TWity deaths a M Norri8 nitnc at Maldlial, twoity-foris al Sleepy Ejyc Lake, eight at Worth ingt,i tenl at, Malketo-so rn1 the fatal record. Inl this letter I propose giving some disconnected incidents and upisodes of tho fatal T %velay w liul may be of Ilnoros0 to .asiteln readers. Som-o idell of tihe dept'h of tiho snow-driftt may 110 be formed wh111en wo conlsidel that oi the Wednesday the snotw was piled so high about a freight trainl, blockaded on the Davon port, aind St. Paul 1ailroad, neat Dola ware (oI ior, that teams drovc right over the cars. Upon thc sato lino there are drift 3,000 lomg and fifteen feet deep. Near Blue l'arth 1101n 0ould pass on foot Ovolr the telograph wir-es, and at New Ulmt1 inl On11 drift was fouind a man firoz.0n to death while sit. ting ont the seat of' his sleigh, hi6 head being fully fivo feet untdem the surfiace. . sEYEN sIos001, CHILDREN FROZEN One of' the saddest incidents i reported from Fort Ridgelcy. Th( schoolhnis -ess discharged ior scho lars, telling thern to run home ome escaped with butt slight in juries, but seven of the little one lost their way in the blindinp (rifts ald Were Found dead, on1 with his books inder his arIm aud his little foot ift-d for a step-1 step which htd prOVMd a stop bo yond the confines of' hifo. Twvc others were found frozon to deati inl each others' arns ; tears, which the bittor Cold Or the niear ap proach of dealt had wrung from thenm, standing inl little beads ol ieo on their 1i11lnoceit cheeks. Hugh Jones, a teacher, near Now lm, kept, the fority scholar-s al Itis school in the schoolliouso fr-om1 Tuesday till Friday, risking hih life, like a practical, Insolfish io r10, OVOIy day inl a two-mil tramp7 tlrough dlifts foUI or five floot d1p to get food for them. TIllC STA(IE OF DEATII. A stage left, Madolia for' St, James, h)avinlg eight, >asengere and ai( driver. Onl \rednesxcday morn'ling, not having arr'lived, seas-cl wals mIado for' it. it was found on) thte road, the horsex frozeni to death, the dr'iver a grin mng1 corps on the seat, with thcI rein still in htis hands, antd eight butndles of' rob 3s and clothes in' thoe bottom of the sleigh, eac h o which containted a soulless lumi of' icy flesh. Mrt. A. K. Jontkins, of' the Clove, land, Ohio, Bridge IJomtpanly, whc) waIs supterintending the building of' art ir'on bridge, at Rtock Rapids Iowa, was tr'aveling by stag4 thlonee to Ribley. Artrived at thc( hIsttetr place0 the other p3')assenger'i dtisemtbar'ked. IIe did( not stir -iTheoy called htitm, they toncho<( htims, and ho ! Death had ridder with them for' some timo11, and1 tht body was already rigid. 5[,AIN so NEAR SAPETY. At Oshanwa, about a huIndlret y'ards1 from the railr'oad station wor'o f'ound two hor'scs har'nesset to at cutter', inl whIich, sitting boll upr)tight, wvere two men drosso8d ir warm buffalo Coats. They wor<4 fr'ozen stiff and dead1(. Johln lIIa gamever, of Elizabeth, star'ted t< go fr'om his house to his black smith's shop, 150 var'ds away lIo was found two miles distant fr'ozen to deathi. At IIorman, on the St. Paul an< Pacific Rtailr'oad, a man wasfr'ozoi r to dleatht going f'romn the station t< the tankhouse. At Nicollot, within twenty yar'ds of the railroad station, man wtas found fr'ozen to0 death ii his sleigh, In the samol village another mali lost his life while tr'ying to clos i barn (door, bloced by a snow drift. .Mr. Charles Doeming, mail ear rIor' between Vermn-illion and Swal Lake, hung a buffalo robo ove; the whool of his buggy and spen twonty-six hours in the 10e o this poor shelter, fr'eozing onD foGt and one band. When th< storm ceased ho round himsel within forty yards of a-honne. FAMII,IES UNITED IN DEATII. At Fort. Ridgeley thro broth. era wore hailuling grain when tie k storm cameon them. They soughti S hOlLtor in their grainl elibs in an 6 opon field. All throo wore found F tber dead. Mr. Lee and his son, aged thir. - teen, left t1heir house, near Sioux City, on Tuesday for a load of' wood. On Friday they wore 'ouid about eight vards apart. E"Vidently they had freed their L cattle and thenl goni( on, Iistak ing their way. Bo"lh woro thinly clad. The boy's arms were cross od, as if' lie had tried to leep his buttonless ovrcoiat closed. Tle fiithfiu dog was found besido his dead t1aster. A witdow is left destitute with four (children, the eldest only seven ye:ars old. Near- Madelia a m:an unhitchedt his team :a1 vent. to searci for a house, leajVi)g his wif0 in the1 Sleigh. She becaino anxiolus, and followed him. Both were frozon to death. A Mr. Tomins, his son aid lis son'ti wilf started from Fergis Fall for Elizabeth. Becoming locked inl a drift th e mo took thie mules iand wont for assistance, leaving tho womaln inl the sleigh. Fathol' and son were frozon to death, and tho woman cannot re Cover. LOvE AMONU THE SNOWS. A couple just married were on t their way hoie, to Lemars, when the storm overtook thom. They I turned the horses loos ) an11d over sot the sleigh, then crawled uil- 3 der it and wrapped themselves in t the robes. It was a str,antge bridal t room, tile box of i sleigh in a drift out on tho prairio, but they 1 passed two days and two ights 3 there, and woro fially rescued 1 alive, though badly frozen. TwO FAMILIES RUINED. Near Correct.ionvi lie Joh n Sparks antId Joseph Sanders went, out to get some wood at, a distance of t four miles. The ntorin caught I them, but they pushed on. W1h1n - a mile and a half from home they I throw out their load to go on I more quickly, but just beyond the s roa(d made a curve ; they passed : this curve Without turning, and i so overy stop afterwards was a I stop from home. At night they camped under the sleigh, about 1 throe miles from home. A trapper N heard their shouts, but thought l them but the hooting of owls. All day Wednesday, Wodnesday night i anid Thursday the men woro alivo I and wandering pl) and down, be. I wildered by the terriblO stOrm. Thle trapper followod them all a(liy I Wednolay, but could not find t the) . On Thursday night their horso ( caime home, and following back i his tracks they found the two r mon seven miles away, about two foot apart, frozen stark and stiff. The dog which had accompanied theni rmained with the bodies anid had1( kcept them from being coveredl by tihe snow. Each man left, a wvidowv and childiren, tile lat, ter' all young. Saunders' family is destitute. The aged mlothier and sister of Sparks have gone madl, and will probably die. Such areo a few of' tile scores of aistanices reor)ited, wvhichi requIIiro no embellishment of' r'htoio to enchaini the attention and impress the i maginattion). Cure for Neuralgia. WVe find the following in the coluimns of' the Charleston .Vews, I cont.ributodl by somie 0one who hats observed it in one of' the D)entah Mon ',hhes. Wel r'eprinlt it in tihe I hope that it will be found efilca-< cius ini roliovinug the tor'turiing< pains of that distressing malady,< tneuiralgia. Any of our p)hysicians Ior' apothecauries can no doubt make uip the~ pr'osciption. If' the mat- i ter' shlould be tested by any one0, we will be pleased to be informed Iof' the result,: AN OINTMENT FORl NEURALGIA. Albumen of egg..............,........dr. j. Rh ln -- . .. ... . ....2 iv. on of' peppermint ...................o. 13. Collodion and chloroform, of' each..*..oz. 3. Mix and agitate occasionally4 >for' twenty-f'our hours, andl by go.4 -hatinization, a beautiiul semi-soli. -(difited,opodeldoc.look ing compound ,results, which will retain its con sistenlcy andl hold tile ingredients, initimately b)lenided, for months. In tihe above we find a local 3 4igent of signal potency in all nou. ralgic affections, and for the relief of pain generally. DIRECTIoN.-Apply, by smart Ifriction withl the handl, or' gently with a soft brush or mop, along tile course of tile nerve involved. Too miuch wheat, It seems, wras raised in CalifornIa last summer. There are -not enough storehouses there to hold thme 1 crops or ships enough coming to San r F1ranclisco to carry away thu surplus. .Many thousanids of bushela remain un fthrashed in the field., and although freights are doublo the rates of' the pre. vlous year, a hundred shIps at l east could be filled up with the wvheat now stored In San Franeaco. Truly the Got. den Horn Is a horn of nienty The Shooting of LockWood. The New York AStin of' WedIes. tldy, u4jltainls the following ac Coll 1t It le shoot i ng of Loek wood ll that city oil tho (113' proviotis "Yestel12ay% morning Coroner' IernilN weit to Bel.0vtlou 1LOSpital Ititl took the (iW morlem desposi. tion l' ( Chareice Johnstonl lljoelk n'ood, who was shot at 154 M1adi. ionl strt by Marshl1l M1agimler ,M M olnlay eVt!111in1. Lock wood 15 2-1 yoars old and at nataivo of "olth1 Catolina. Ho itdo t hiis a t()n sati(iy night hist, wo ad i party of 01 youn.g ladies and 'eitlem]en! in the Iouse whero I ouled, 151 ladison street. I as %*ell as others, drank considerable. \ L : o'cloi 811iu-1y 1n0u li,-I I ook a Fw inlvited ladies to their tome at. 133 'r na st reet. I thien vent b:wek to mly bonalin ,g house. rriving Lbere at 7 o'clock in thi iorning. I met several of the Ilrty inl tho parlor, and I wvent to liss Brown, a young lady with vhom I had had soio misund14e' tand1(ing s,omli timle ag4o, anld told er that fle should not b angry vith me any more, tind to let bv. lonles bo passod, as I wianted to he riendly with everybody. While aki1ng to her, Marshall Magri. ler, who was sittiig n101ar' her,0(1id o me1 'you have no right to speak * hter. while I am proseit.' lie hen puslied mo back. Whilo he ras1 .pushing me back I slapped iin in the Face. lie then said to no, I'll shoot you liko a (log, as -of] alre, Oin Monday.' I thon went o my room and ti oppd ttoppod uni til ,e ,fternoon. On Monday I went, to Ily worc ais priliter oil tho (Clipper, ii the Clipper building in Centre t et. Not enring to work, I took wallc and ret.tirtiod homo aboutt, O'clock, anlid laid dOw1n for a otiplo of' hours. "'At about 6 o'clock in the eve ing, MAgr uldo~r Caile to my 10011 nd said to me: 'Leookwiood, I old you that I would shoot you ike a -- log, as you are. Now, -- you, I will (10 it.' So Saying, 1o shot at m--at iy face, a1s I hought-but, h1e miisscd. I then tepped toward him, wheti he gain shot, at me. This took effect n my abdomon. I then becamo I lco1sciolus, and I thinc I fell. TIhen I rocovored consciousness, Jagriider Faid '--- you, I told -mi that I wonld shoot you, and have dono it. You have got nopigh now. I shot you, and I .m glad of it.' Ito said that inl he preselneo of' several persols. had no pistol, not' any other veapon about me at the timte, and avo nover had since I Came to his city. I came to this city boit, i year ago. 1t1n it imantive ' Spartalburg S. C. I never had .nly quari'Cl with Magi'udor, and ather liko him. 'C. J. LOCKWOOD.' "The jutry found in accordance vith this statemOnt, and Coroner .orman comitted Magruder to ttnswer'. "A roporter visited Magruder n his cell yeostetrday. lie was .Ianding at the dloor', wit,h hat and vorc1coat on, ats if' rcady to stop at nec in to freedom. lI appeairanlce 10t iot unprJlop)ossessin1g, about ve f'oot tein inches in height, and paro'ly built. Trei10 was nothing n mtotuld 0or featur'o that indicated he dosper'ato character evidencod >y his crime. IIis eyes wVoro somc vhat sun ken, and the black circles round thorm miight be attr'ibuted ither' to the habittual (dissiplationt if his life or to a night made 810oop. es8 by thoughts of' his crime. rlhcre was nothing in his demean r to indicate the l atter' cause, as as manner and matter' of speech 'vinced a coolness that the most asuail commtientator onl such a led could scarcely have attained. "Whien asked if he desir'ed to nake any statement Concerning he affair', lie said that lie belijeved 1o did not just then. The f'act vas lie did not feel quite well, and ad rather not talk about it. Ini 'eply to questions about his histo 'y, he stated that he was born in lie teighborhood of Lynchburg, Va., and had been a r'esident in his city for some ninio years. IHo ~amo of' the same family as Gen. rah J. B. Magruder, the Confed r'ate leador'. Having given these inswors, he turn'ted to the rounds. nan and asked 'if anything more tad been heard about that ---' orking his head to indicate the iictimn. The roundesman could give him no0 news, atd told him o, adding, 'lie may get over it,.' 'I hope lie maty,' rejoined the >rtsoner, in a tone as devoid of 'eoling and apprehension as if he and nio possible interest in the re mitt. Hie then inquired htow long would he have to stay whoro lie was. The roundaman stated prob. Ibly until the rosuilt of the injuries iotuld be known, unless thley want id the victim to Identi fy him. There Is no use of that,' said the trisoner', with some animnation. Tlhe abootilng is admitted. Out. idors may not think as I do, but fool justified in ohooting him. LIe slapped me in the face, and hen with a theatrical ai. told me ADVERTISINC RATES. Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1.50 per sqtare-one inch-for first insertion, and $1 eor ach subscquent insertion. Double col it mi advertisements ten per cent on aove. Notices of meetings, obituaries and tributes af respect, same rates per square as ordinary ad vertisemnents. Ipeclal notices in local column 20 cents per line. Advertisements not marked with the num ber of insertions will be kept in till forbid and charged accordingly. Special contracts made with large adver. tisers, with liberal deductious on above rates FoA PAr.wri g Done with Nestness and Dispatch. Terms Cash. to get satisfaction. I told him that I Vold ; to go fixed, as I wouild shoot hin on sight. I kept my word. It is n0t, my fault that he had tiot a pistol I0th him. I tol him to have onle. I wont for satisfitetioi. Tie coolnoss wVith which this was said isindescribablo. AS he0 seemed to have 'had hiislsay)' I$o iloH,t. was made to induce filrther reemarks. It was thought last evening that Lockwood night recover, but the ebabceSd as him. Tihe ball s beyond the reach of probes, and l n' stirgeons Vill make no flrlther eflort ho extract it. It is thought t hat t le 10f't kidney is injured, a3 iS 11iso I he lower part of' the spinal chord, or somo of' the nerves emergig f r it." A Gigantic Railroad Schome. Another extremely ambitious raoilroad1I se mo1110 has boon in troduced in the Senate in tho 9hapo of' a bill to incorpo rato the "(ront Northorn and Soulthern Hailroad- Corn panly.", T.his is 11uderstood to bo a por tion of the remarkablo railroad project recently introduced in the Unlited States SenatO by Mr. Saw 3er, of this Stato, wVhich proposes to au1thorizo tle coistruction of' a railroad f'romll Port R1oyal, S. C.1 to tho Ohio River, with certain Very extraordintry priviloges and immuillnities, amlong whiichel -0Ox. emlptionl from11 Pedoral taxationl the right to engage in any sort of business w'hatever, and the right to consolidato by purchaso or oth erwiso with any other railroad. Tho bill also contemplates tlo in (orporation of the Comlipanly in oneh of' the States through which it is proposed to construct, the road, and it is understood to be in puruaneeo of' this plan that the present hill was introducod by Senator lLollinishead, of Abbeville. The bill proposes to incor>orato the "Great, Northern and outlth ern iailroad Company," with au thority to build a railroad froml Port Royal on the Atlantic coast through the Counties of Heaufort A bb)evillC, A n clersont, Groonvillo and Pickens, and the States ot North Carolina, West Virgfinia and Tenneso to the Ohio 1River at the mouth of the Big Sandy. The following commnissioner's are designated to open books and re ceive subscrip)tions: In Pickonis County, .Jatmes llagowood ; in Ab bovillo Couanty, James S. Cothran, W. Joel Smith, Jeroe Iollinshead and .J. 1F. C. D)uPro. Th'le capital stock of the company is fixed at $1,500,000 in twenty-five dollar shares, with author'ity to increaso the sanme in the discretion of the directors andl to issue mortgago bonds and establish a sinking f'und for their redemption. Express p)ermissio)n is given to any county through wvhich the road is to pas to subscribe to the capital 8tocic of' the company upon01 a popular vote in favor of' such subscription, aind to pay therefor either by the issue of' bonds or by the levy of' a special tax. The company is to be exetmpted from State taxation for (lhe period of twenty years, and the bill prtovidCs that th-e property of' the road shall not af ter that period be assessed at more thtan its actual cost. The bill also cotntainas a numb Il er of other cur-ions and( utnusutl pr-ovisions, which, ta ken altogether, promise, if' they are p)assedl, to constitute one of the most valuable franchises that were ever granted. Section9 prloscribos that the p)resident and dlitrector' of' the company shall take oath that they will wvell and fatihlf'ully discharge their duties. Another section declares that it "shall not be lawflul fot' any other roadl to run 'latterly' (thoe suppo sition being that the author means laterally) within fifteen miles of the r-outo adopted by the com pany. The rates of freight are fixed atthirty-five cents por~ hun dried weight, or ten cents per cu bie foot for each one hundred miles, andl the rate of passenger fare is fixed at five cents por1 mile. The bill also provides that the said company shall possess "such additional powers as may be con veniet" f'or the dlue and success flu uxecution of' the powers grant ed in this chattr, and for the con str"-tion and management of the wor a, and a provision is made that the charter shall not be amoendablo by the General Assem bly except upon the unanimous petition of' the president and the directors of' the company. A rural gentleman, standing over a register m a Dan bury store, attracted genoral attention to him self by observing to his wife: "Mariar I guess I'm going to have a f'ever, I feel such hot streaks a runnin' up my legs. An Ohio man sleeps'with a pis tol under his pillow. He awoko the other night from a dream of buglars and found the pistol Ia his hand and a bullet in his-leg. The capital of the ten natlofial bank. in North Carolina amount, to $I,959,. 5nn.