Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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InrbinAa A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. invariablY in \Adva, ce.JO PR.T 7G The paper is stopped at the ex kition of k% Ue for which it is paidr. a < The x mark denotes cxpirat of sub VOL xIve WEDNESDAY MORN lIisceHe~S T~ES~AIBE LIDB1 Y. 1 East Lynne, by Mrs. Henry Wo0 10C 2 John halifax, GenL., Mi s Mu !0. 10 3 Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte 10C 4, A Voman.-Hater,C.Re-de s ne/ uo 5 The Black Indies, Jles Verne' latest.10c 6 Last Days of Pompeii, by B .nver. 10e 7 Adam Bede, by George El20c 8 Tue Aruudel Moto. M. Cecil Hay. 10" 9 Old Myddelton's Mo .. ,. hay. 10c 104 ~ ~ r hWoainWite. W. Col;ins. 2uc 11 The , o George Eliot. 20c 12 The American Senator, by Trollope. 20c 13 A Princess of Thule, by W. Black. 20c 14 The Dead Secret, by Wilhie Coliius. 10c 15 Romola, by George Eliot. 20c 16 The English at the North Pole, and The Field of Ice, by Ja les Verne. 10c 17 Hidden Perils, by Mary Cecil Hay. 10c IS. Barbara's History. Am. B. Edwards. 20c 19 A Terrible Temptation, by C. Reade. 10c 20 Old CuriosityV Shop. Chas. Dickens. 20c 21 Foal P"ay, by Charles Reade. 10c 22 Man and Wife, by Wilkie Collins. 20c 23 The Squire's Legacy, by M. C. Hay. 20c 24 Never Too Late to Men.d. U. Reade. 20c 26 Lady Adelaide's Oath. Mrs. H. Wood.10c 26 Aurora Floyd. Miss 31. E. Braddon. 20c 27 Victor and Vanquished. 1. C. Hay. 10c 28 A Daughter of Heth. WM. Black. 10c 29 Nora's Love Test, by Mary C. Hay. 19c 30 11er Dearest Faa. Mrs. A!exander. 20c 31 LoveMeLittle,LoveMeLong. C.Reade.10C 32 The Qaeen of Hearts. Wilkie Ccilins.10c 33 Handy Andy, by Samuel Lover. 20c 34 A Simpleton, by Charles Reade. 10c 35 Felix Holt, The Radical. Geo. Eliot. 20C 36 The.Wooing O't, by Mrs. Alexander 20c 37 The Mystery, by Mrs. Henry Wood. 10c 38 Antonina, by Wilkie Collins. 20c Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott. 20c Q he Heir to Ashley. Mrs. H. -Wood. 10c 4 White LIes, by Charles Reade. - 20c 42 flide-and-Seek, by Wilkie Collins. 20c 43 Hector Servadac, by Jules Verne. 10c 44 The Tower of London. Ainsworth, 20c 45 A Life's Secret. Mrs. Henry Wood. 10c 46 Heritage of Langdale. Mrs.Alexander20c -47 In Silk Attire, by William-Black. 10c 48 The Strange Adventures of a Phae ton, by William Black. 10c 49 Granville de Vigne; or, Held in Bondage, by "Ouida." 20c 50 Under the Greenwood Tree. T. Hardyloc 51 Kilmeny, by William Black. 10c 52 The Lost Bank Note. Mrs. a. Wood.10c 53 The Monarch of Mincing Lane. Black.10c 34--Under Two Flags, by "Ouida." 20e 56 A WinterCity; by "Otida." 10e -56 Strathmore, by "Oaida." 20c . 57 A Voyage Round the World-South America, by Jules Verne. 10c 58 Sifes Marner, by George Eliot. 10c 59 Chandos, by "Ouida.". 20c 00 A Voyage Round tie World-Aus tralia, by Jules Verne. 10c 61 Bebea; Or, Two Little Wooden Shoes, by "Oaida." 10c 62 Folle-Farine, by "Ouida." 20c 63 Dene Hollow, by Mrs. Henry Wood. 20c 64 A Voyage Round the World-New Zealand, by Jules Verne. 10c 65 The Nobleman's Wife. Mrs.H.Wood.10c 66 Rory O'1ore, by Samuel Lover. 20c 67 Castle Wafer, and Henry Arkel!, by Mrs. Henry Wood. - 10c 08 Five W eeks in a Balloon. J. Verne. 10c 9T5 the Bitter.Eid. MIss Braddon, 20c 70 Middlemarch, by George Eliot 20e 71 Ariadne, by "Ouida." 10c 72 Meridiana; or, The Ad7entures of Three Englishmen and Three Rus sians in South Africa, and l'he Blockade Runners. Jules Verne. 10c 73 Bessy Rane, by Mrs, Henry Wood. 20c 74 Rupert Hall, by Mrs. Henry Wood. 10c 75 The Fur Country, by Jules Verne. 10c 76 The New Magdalen. Wilkie Collins. 10ce 77 Mistress and Maid, by Miss Mulock.10Oc 78 Griffith Gaunt, by Charles Reade 10c 79 Madcap Violet, by William Black. 20c 80 Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot. 20c 81 Christian's Mistake. Miss Maiock. 10c 82 My Mother and I, by Miss Mlulock. 10c 83 Verner's Pride, by Mrs. H. Wood. 20c 81 20)000 Leagues Under the Seas, by Jules Verne. 10c 85 Marjorie Bruce's Lovers. M1. Patrick. 10c 56 Pat Yonrself In His Place. C. Reade. 20c' 87 A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, by Jules Verne. 10c 88 Two Marriages, by Miss Mlulock. 10c 89 The Lovels of Arden. M.E.Braddon. 20c 90 Mysterious Island--Dropped from - - Clouds, by Jules Verne. - ~1c S1 Toe Woman's Kingdom. Mulock. 10c 92 Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles. Wood. 20c 93 Mysterious Island--The A bandoned, 'by Jules Verne. 10c 94 The Law and the Lady. WV. Collins. 10c 95 Dead M-en's Shoes. Miss Braddon. 20c 96 Love's Victory, by B. L. Farjeon. 10c 97 Mysterious Island-The Secret of the Island, by' JQles Verne. 10c 98 Harry Lorrequer, by Charles Lever. 20c. 90 From the Earth to the Moon, and Around the Moon, by Jules Verne. 10c 109~ A Tale of Two Cities..Char.Dicens.10c 101 A Noble Life, by Miss Malock. 10c 102 Hard Times, by Charles Dickens. 10c 103 A Brave Lady, by Miss MaIlock. 20c 104 Peep O'Day, by John Baniim. 10c 105 At the Sign of the Silver Flagon, by B.'L. Faujeon. -l'10 106 The Master of Greylands. Mrs.Wood.20c 107 Blade-o'-Grass, by B. L. .Farjeon. 1Oe 108 The Sea-King. b;' Captain Marryat. 10c 109 Eleanor's Victory. Miss Braddon, 20c 110 The Girls of Fevershamn. F. Marryat. 10c 11-1 A Tour of the World in Eighty Days,lc by Jules Verne.10 112 Ha~ Cash, by Charles Reade. 20c 113 Gol. n Grain, by B. L. Farjeon. 10c 114 Darrell Markham. Miss Braddon. 10c 115 Within the Maze. Mrs. H. Wood. 20c 116 Pauline, by L. B. Walford. 10c 117 The Female Minister. Eugene Lies. 10c 118 Great Expect'ations. Chas. Diekeus. 20c 119- Potronel, by Florence Marryat. 10c 120) Romance of a Poor Young Man, by c 0. Fouillet.10 121 A Life for a Life, by Miss Matlock. 20c 12-2 The Privateersman. Capt. Mlarryat. 10e 12.3 Irish Legends, by Samuel Lover. 10c 124 Squire Trevylyn's Heir. Mrs. Wood. 20c 125 Mary Barton, by Mrs. Gaskell. 10c 128 Erema; or, My Father's Sin, by R. D. Blacknmore. 10c 127 My Lady Ludlow, by Mrs.. Gaskell. 10e 1-28 Cousin Phillis, by Mrs. Gaskell: 10c 129 The Wandering Jew (First Half,) by Eugene Sue. 20e 129 The Wandering Jew (Second Half,) by~ .Euene S 20e 132 Jack Hinton, by Charles Lever. 20c 133 The Duchess of Rosemary Lane, by B. L. Fadeon. 10c -.34 My Brother's Wife. A. B. Edwards. 10c 135 Agatha's Husband, by Miss Mulock. 10c 136 Katie Stewart, by Mrs. Oliphant. 10c 137 A Rent in a Cloyd, Dy Chas. Lever. 10c 138 What He Cost Her, by James Payn. 10c 139 London's Heart, by B. L. Farjecn. 20c 140 The Lady Lisle, by Miss Braddon. 10e 141 Masterman Ready. Capt. Marryant. D0e 142 The Head of tile Family. Miss Mulock.20e 143 The Hannted Tower. Mrs. H. Wood. 10c 144 The Twin Lieutenants. Alex.Dumnas. 100 145 Halt A Million of Money, by Amelia B. Edwards. 20c 146 Charles u'Malley, The Irish Dragoon. Charles Lever. (Triple Number.) 30c 147 Rattlin, The Reefer. Capt. Marryat. le 148 A Blue Stocking. Mrs. A. Edwards. l0e 149 Joshua Marvel, by B. L. Farjeon. - 2c 150 Mr. Mid.shipma.: tasy. Capt. Marryat.loce 15: The Russian Gipsy, by Alex. Dumnas.10Ue 15C Arthur O'Leary, by Charles Lever. 2c 153 Ward or Wife ? - bOc 154 A Point of Honor. Mrs. A. Edwards. 10c 155 The Count of Monte-Cristo. A. Dumnas.40JC 15:; The King's Own, by Capt. Marryat. 10c 157 Hand and Glove. A. B. Edwards. 10e 158 Treasure Trove, by Samuel Lover. 20c 15'J The P'hantomf Ship. Capt. Marryat. 10c 160 The Black Tulip, by Ale'x. Dumias. 10c 181l The World WVell Lost. Mrs. Linton. 20c 102 Shirley. C. Bell (Charlotte Bronte.) 20c 16 Fraukl3lildmay. Captaim Marryat. 1c 14 A Young wite's Story. H. Auwra. 10c 15 A Modern Minister, (Vol. 1.) Chove lev Novel. 20c 1G Tue~Last Aldini, by George Sand. 10c 167 The Queen's Necklace. Alex. Dumas. 10c 1w$ ConC0al. hv Charles Lever. 20c 169 St. Patrick's Eve, by Ch9.rles Lever. 10c 170 Newton Forster, by Capt. 31arryat. 10c 171 Hostages to Fortune. Miss Braddon. 20c 172 Chevalier de 31aison Rouge. Duma. 10c 173 Japhet in Search of a Father, by Cap tain Marryat. .2c 174 Kate Donoghue, by Charles Lever. 20c 175 The Pacha of Many Tales. Marryat. 10c 176 Percival Keene. by Capt. Marryat. 10C 177 "Cherry Ripe," by lielen B. Mathers. 20c 17s Rare Good Luck. R. E. Franeillon. lUc 179 The History of a Crinie, (Vol. 1.) by Victor iugo. 10c 180 Armadale, by Wilkie Collins. 20c 11 Beatrice Boville, by "OUida." 10C 182 Juliet's Guardian. by -irs. Canieron. 10c 183 Kenilworth, by Sir Walter Scott. 20c 18.1 The Countess de Charny. A. Dumas. 20c i 1<5 The Little Savage. Capt..Marryat. 1uc 156 "Good-Bye, Sweetheart." by Rhoda Brougliton. 10c 187 Davic' Copperfield. Charles Dickens. 20c ISS Nanon, by Alexander Dumas. 10c 189 The Swiss Family Robinson. 10c 1N0 I enry Dunbar. Miss M. E. Braddon. 20c 191 My Lady's Money. Wilkie Collins. 10c 192 The Three Cutters. Capt. Marryat. 10c 193 Memoirs of a Physician. A. Dumas. 30c 194 The Conspirators. Alex. Dumas. 10, 195 Madame Fontenoy. 1tc 196 Heart of Mid-Lothian. Sir W. Scott. 20c 197 "No Intentions." Florence Marryat. 20c 198 1sabel of Bavaria. Alex. Dumas. 10c 1'49 Settlers in Canada. Capt. Marryat. 10c 200 Nicholas Nickleby. Charles Dickens. ':0c 101 Catherine Bluni, by Alex. Dumas. 10c I z02 Mr. Gilfil's Love Story. Geo. Eliot. 10c 03 Cloister and the Hearth. C.Readc. 20c 204 The Young Llanero. W.H.G.Kingston 1c 205 The Mysteries of Paris (First Half,) byvEugene 20c 205 The Mvsteries of Paris, (Second Half.)'by Eugene Sue. 20a 206 The Poison of Asps. Flor. Marryat. 10c 207 The Children of the New Forest, by Captain Marryat. 10c 20W North and South, by Mrs. Gaskell. 200 209 A Jewel of a Girl. (A Novel.) 11c 210 Young Musgrave,by Mrs. Oliphant. 10c 211 Randolph Gordon, by "Ouida." 100 212 Brigadier Frederick, by Erckmann Chatrian. 10c .13 Barnaby Rudge, by Chas. Dickens. 20c 14 Winstowe, by Mrs. Leith-Adams. 10c 15 Birds of Prey. Miss M. E. Braddon. 20c 16 Legends of the Black Watch. J.Grant.10c 17 The -Sad Fortunes of Rev. Amos Bar ton, by George Eliot. 10c !18 Dombey and Son. Charles Dickens. 20c 19 "My Own Child." Florence Marryat. 10c !20 George Canterbury's Will, by Mrs. H. Wood. 20c 21 Poor Zeph, by f. W. Robinson. 10c 22 Last of the Mohicans. J. F. Cooper. - 10c 23 The Marriage Verdict. Alex.-Dumas. 10c 21 The Deer-slayer. J. Feni. Cooper. 10C 25 The Two Destinies. Wilkie Collins. 10c 2 The Path-finder. J.FenimoreCooper. 10c 27 Hannah, by Miss Mulock. . 10c 28 The Regent's Daughter. A. Duma.. 10c 29 The Pioneers. J. Fenimore Cooper. 10c !30 Little Grand and the .Yarchioness, by "Ouida.n 10C 231 ThePrairie. -by J. Fenimore Cooper. 1ul ,32 A Dark Night's Work. Mrs. Gaskell. 10c 33 The Pilot,by J. Fenimore Cooper. 10c i 134 The Tender Recollections of Irene Macgillicuddy. 10c t35 An Open Verdict. Miss Braddon. 20p 36 Shepherds All and Maidens Fair, by Walter Besant and Jas. Rice, 10c 27 The Wandering Heir. Chas. Reade. 10c 38 Beatrice, by Julia Kavanagh. 20c 239 No Thoroughfare, by Charles Dick ens and Wilkie Collins. 100 40 The Laurel Bush. 'y Miss Mulock. 10c 41 Tricotrin,'by "Ouida." - 20c !t2 The Three Feathers, by Wm. Black. 10c I13 Daisy Nichol, by Lady Hardy. 10c 244 Th4,Three Guardsmeh, by A. Dumas.20C 2> Jack Manly, by James Grant. 10c 46 Peg Woffington, by Charles Reade. 10c 17 Martin Chuzzlewit. Chas. Dickens. 20c 248 "Bread, and Cheese, and Kisses," Farjeon. 10c 49 Cecil Castlemaine's Gage. 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Every num ber has 128 pages filied wvith the most select and fascinating literature, ranging from the Sermon by the Editor (Dr. C. F. Deems, pas tor of the Church of the Strangers,) to stir ring Tales, general Topics and.Essays, iPoe try, Music, Fun, Science, History,- etc., in great variety. Each copy of this Magazine has 100 exquisite engravings of the most in Iteresting character. It has reached a circu ltion and prosperity such as mnalte it one.of the marvels of periodical literatuje. It is in deed a beautiful work. Buy it and-see for fourselves. Single copies are only 25 c2nts, and Annual Subscription Price only $3, post Ipaid. Address orders to yaAN LESLIE's PUBLISHING HousE, 537 Pearl Street, New York. Mar. 6, 1-6L HER ANSWER. If the love that you ask for I offer son here, Can I promise to follow you without fear? -Will you take my hands tn your own, dear, And keer Lem soft and warm? Will you teach me to trust each word you say? Will you keep my feet so they never can stray? Will you be my guide in the one right way, My refuge in every storm? Then I'll lovingly follow wherever you guide, Though our way may lie through a desert' wide; All through the journey, safe by your side, You shall lead me everywhere. It is sweeter to walk by faith than sight, If only you feel you are going' aright. May I trust you always to find the light, And g de me safely there ? FOR THE iERLD. "ROADBRIM'S NEW YORK LETTER. No. 62 r A Ramble among the Old-time Tanners-Remi niscences of Herminius Klock-Our Great I 6 Leather Trade-What New York is Doing - Remarkable Suicides - Eloperient from Brooklyn-- C Odds and Ends. To-day I thought I would just t take a stroll among the tanners, I whose abiding place is down in the i Swamp. There is nothing of the iconoclast in me. I dislike to see r the old landmarks disappear, and i even the onward march of pub- 1 lic improvement scarcely recon ciles me to the change. I would have broken Dowling's head with a club, as he broke the church windows and altars, if I could have rescued a wooden angel, i or -saved a baptismal font from des- z ecration. In fact, my habitual re- i verence for ancient things was a constant source of t,nnoyance to I that excellent woman, my mother, c whose savage assaults on my favo- I rite museum were frequently suipple mented by a big black strap, which often led mue to execrate the memory of the man who first invented leather. < From the block which is made< up. by the Suin office, on the corner i of Franklin street and Printing House Square, and the Tribune< office on the corner of Spruce street,i the hill runs down with a sharp de-] scent to what is known as the -i Swamp, where the tanners and cur- I riers dwell. Why it is called so would puzzle your modern geo-< grapher, for long rows of substantial brick houses line its well-paved 1 streets, where less than a hundred] years ago was a swamp of a mile in circumference. And if here and1 there some ancient landmark puts forth a claim to our reverence, they are only exceptions, which the de structive iconoclasts have forgotten, in their fury to destroy.4 Near-ly two hundred years ago Herminius Klock-the oldest son< of Johannes Klock, whose mill1 stood on the banks of Klock's Pond-erected here a tannery down in the Swamp, with a little wind-1 mill to grind his own bark ; and he) was the father of that grand old race of tanners which has held possession of the Swamp from that day to this. Kiock's pond reaQcd from a little distance below the City Hall, along the line iiGen ter street, taking:- in a goodly: portion of Canal street. A small stream crossed Chatham street, at Pearl, emptying its sluggish waters in the muddy bosom of the swamp ; and this stream was spanned by the Lovers' Bridge, where rural: New York did much of their woo ing on those long summer nights when a stroll through the green fields of the Bowery Lane seemed like the high Post-road to Elysium. A stout old burgher was Herminius Kock, combining the tr-ade of a butcher with that of a tanner-no uncommon thing in those days ; and wonderful stories are told of his marvelous prowess-of his pull ing in a refractory bull by the horns, and of his knocking him down with his fist. He believed there was nothing like leather, and always up to the day of his death went clad in a suit of his own tanning. Leather breeches were the fashionable wear of the old Dutch burghers, and stout leathern jerkins were not uncommon even for Sunday adornment. Klock's i tannery stood near the corner of f Rose and Frankfort street, on the I site of which is a shackley old brick i house which has occupied its pre- I sent site between sixty and seventy a years. Klock's pretty daughter < Fredrika was the pride of her S ather's heart, and presided over 2 bis household like a queen. The 2 knowing ones said that he had < eather bags full of guilders and a Spanish doubloons hid away in the 1 annery, which were to be the fair < redrika's dower, when her father c ould find a man worthy to be her usband ; but one day she eloped r vith an English suitor, and the E iext poor Herminius was found F n the bottom of one of his own i an-vats. The ruling passion being t trong in death, he no doubt wished 'I ;o illustrate, in his own proper t )erson, that there is nothing like t eather. D Times have changed since then. t ['he race that followed stout Her- t inius became great and opulent s erchants, some of the most sub- r tantial representatives of the leath r trade being found in the Society f >f Friends. Every guild has its s )wn oracles and saints, and it is f iot astonishing that names should p )e'held in affectionate reverence by b he tanners, the owners of which ( iave devoted their lives to improv- b ncg the soles of their fellow men. N In the narrow circle of 1 alf a n ile is done a business exclusively t n leather amounting to many mil- 1 ions of dollars, and croakers about s >ur national decline are here met by f tubborn facts which prove con f usively that every day we are I ding to our substantial elements t f wealth and are growing with a n -apidity that few except those who t nake accurate statistics their busi s iess seem to be aware. In 1870 New c ork shipped leather to foreign. t )orts to the value of $131,378; the. a ;hipment, though not large, was s isastro s to the shippers, even v hat small consignment entailing I erious loss. In '71 it exceeded a nillion and a half, and in '72 it had I ~xceeded that by over two millions r f dollars ; in 1875 it had reached i he- handsome sum of nearly eight f nillions of dollars-being an in-t ~rease of man y hundreds per cent. - n the enarse of five years. In i England, in '70, we found it difficult f ;o sell a side of American sole- f eather ; and in 1875, or orily five e rears later, Great Britain and her a ~olonies consumed thirty thousand i ides; twenty-two thousand went t o0 Hamburg, while Antwerp and t Rotterdam took ten thousand more. a ad are the reflections that press I ipon you as you pass through this i 3rolgotha of horses and dogs, cats, t heep, and -cattle. The pelt of a 'Mary's little lamb" is treated with c ao more consideration tha~n the skin i >f the fractious dog which the cow' vith the crumpled horn sent flying .1 ver the barn on a certain memora- I >1e occasion. The furry mantilla f your favorite cat and the wooly c vercoat of your pet poodle hang a aere, like Mohammed's coffin, dang- c ing between heaven and earth, in- I tead of enjoying the rites of a i eent sepulture, or being rescued g ~rom this infamy by cremation. In a e duge pile of leather on my left was 1 bhe hide of a famous race-horse. I c recollect the day very well, and that< aot long ago, when excited thou- 1 sands roared themselves hoarse as 1 de came thundering down the home- < stretch the winner of thousands of < dollars, and nowv his sleek coat re- < ais at fifteen cents a pound, which < is about the price of horse beef in I the shambles of Paris. There is i nothing in the way of a hide that 1 you cannot find somewhere in the Swamp-skins fine enough for the I daintiest lady's glove, and hides ] from the back of huge alligators i secured in the lagoons and bayous< of Florida ; walrus and seal skins, whose homes are near the pole, lie cheek by jowl with piles of hides gathered under the burning equator or amid the grand pampas of Patagonia. While the buildings have: altered and business has increased,1 there is probably less change in the general style of doing things in the ] Swamp than in any other class of trade in New York. Much of the: old-time mercantile honor is still in vogue there, as it is possible for a an to pay his debts among the anners and not be cc-nsidered a ol. Gentlemen who drive fast iorses and whose families visit all he great watering-places, and who ail about once every six months ,nd settle up for ten cents on the [ollar, are not regarded with very pecial favor by the old time den ens of the swamp. Among the iames which are remembered with special reverence are old Gid. Lee: nd Thorne, Watson's former part er, who with many others have re eived the honors of a tan-bark anonization. While every class of leather is epresented, sole-leather is the great pecialty of New York; the greater art of this is hemlock tanned, and Tew York State tans four-fifths of he leather sold in New York City. 'he statistics of '76 are not yet iade up, but notwithstanding the .niversal business depression, al iost without a parallel in our his ry, it is altogether probable at the leather trade of '77 will how an increase of at least two iillions of dollars over '76. We are growing no better very ist-about a dozen attempts at uicide-five of them sucoessful; >ur murders, and numerous des erate attempts at burglary have roken the monotony of the week. )ne of the would-be suicides was a eautiful and successful shop lifter. Vhen detected in her crime she ade a desperate attempt to shoot Le officer who arrested her. On londay, while being sentenced, he acted like a maniac, her screams r mercy being heard blocks away rom the court. The parting from er husband and child was one of he most pitiful scenes ever wit .essed in a court of justice. It ok four policemen, after a terrible truggle to remove her from the ourt room, and on her arrival at he Raymond street jail, she drank vial of laudanum which she had ecured in some manner, and came ery near finishing her career. nother case was that of a young lood who had the misfortune to be orn with a silver spoon in his iouth, to which was appended an definite supply of greenbacks and .nancial pap. He traveled all over he world, got sick of good things -tried getting drunk ;- even that .id not make him happy. He kept st horses and all sorts of other ist things, and still was not a suc ess, and desiring to vary his musements, on Monday last, in a isreputable house, he attempted o blow out his brains. This proved be deadest failure of all. He made n ugly hole in his head, but no rains have been. disturbed. The ~octors declare that the left lobe of he brain is gone, and that there is n entire absence of the right. In ase the physicians succeed in fin hing him, the verdict may be, No brains and too much money." would like to take just about one Lalf of his complaints. Our burglars grow bolder every ay. There was a time when they aited for you to get to sleep and onfined their visits to the wee ours of the morning. It is not so LW. They get mad if you don't o to bed by half-past ten, and are ,pt to revenge themselves on your aince-pies and champagne for any etention they may suffer. The ~ther night a party of burglars aade a raid on a fashionable house p town. They lit up the gas, got t cold chicken, lobster salad and hampagne. They topped off with rackers, old stilton, and coffee, and ny retreated when the sixth bot le of Heidsick gave them warning hat their loads were about as eavy as they could carry. Joseph Lopez, the Spanish gamn >ler who succeeded in trapping old dorrison's foolish daughter into a narriage in hopes of striking the >d man for some money, has sud enly come to grief. He went for ool and has come out shorn. A lecree of the court has annulled he marriage, on the ground of fraud, nd the gay Joseph has been ar ested for perjury, and it looks at ;he present time as if the State vould have to be responsible for iis board-bills. A dashing young spark in Brook yn, aged twenty-three, eloped with woman of forty-eight, who was ~vall-eyed, red-haired, and had six ,he. H-e stol two hundred dollars to pay the expenses of the trip. The Philistines had him in side of forty-eight hours, and now it looks as if he might luxuriate at Sing Sing for the next five or ten years. Moral: Never run away with a red-haired woman, or, if you do, don't try it on other people's money. Many worthy people are apt to think that such a proceeding is not exactly the thing. Old Probs. has been giving us all sorts of weather, but the-bud dinv trees tell us that winter is i past. There is trouble among our clergymen. One is accused of pois oning his wife, another of getting drunk, and a third of robbery. For the honor of the cloth, I am happy to state that in each case my clerical brethren have been able to make a complete vindication. Some miserable deacon or dissatisfied trustee was at the bottom of the persecution-desiring, no doubt, to prove how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in harmony. Yours truly, BROADBRI1M. LAWS OF GENERAL INTER EST. SOME OF THE LEGISLATIVE WORK OF THE PRESENT SESSION. The following are official copies, verified by careful comparison, of Acts passed and approved at the present session of the General Assembly A Bill to protect the Crops of Planters and Farmers in the hands of Mer chants and Factors from Attach ment and Levy for Debts due hy said Merchants and Factorm. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sit ting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: That after the passage of this act all crops and produce of any planter or farmer which may, by consignment or otherwise, come into possession or keeping of any merchant or factor shall be ezempt from attachment and levy at the suit of auy creditor or creditors of the said merchant or fac tor ; provided, however, that should said merchant or factor have made any advances of money or provisions, or both, to said planter or farmer, said crop or produce may be sold in the regular mauner, and out of the pro ceeds of the same so much shall be taken as will pay said advances, together with interest thereon. Approved February 14, 1878. A Bill to amend Section 330 of the Code . of Procedure, in relation to the Costs of Plaintiffs. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sit ting in General Assem~bly, and by the authority of the samne: That subdivision 4 of Section 330 of the Code of Procedure be amended by striking out all the woris down to and including "dollars" in the second line of said subdivision and inserting the following: "4. In an action for the recovery of money where the plaintiff shall re cover twenty dollars : Provided, That in no case shall the plaintiff be al lowed costs to an amount exceeding the amount of his verdict or recovery." Approved Mlarch 4, 187h. A Bill to regulate the Sale of Guano - and other Fertilizers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, not met and sit ting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same : SECTION 1. That all persons en gaged in manufacturing in this State guano or other fertilizer, or in sell ing in this State or other guano fer tilizer manufactured in another State, shall attach to each sack, barrel or other articles containjug the same a tag, either written or printed, contain ing the nameor names of the person or persons, or the name of the com pany, with the names of its individual members so manufacturing or selling such guano or other fertilizer, and a true analysis of such guano or other fertilizer. SEC. 2. That if any person or per sons shall offer for sale in this State any guano or other fertilizer in re spect to which the provisions of this act have not been complied with, or of which the analysis at:.ached is as certained to be false in a material par. ticular, such person or persons shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than dve hurdred dollars, uor more than ive thousand dollars, or by imprison met in the State Penitentiary, at hard labor, for the period of not less than one year, nor nure than five years, or both at the discretion of the :ourt. SEc. 8. This act shall not apply to land-holders or farmers selling or fur aishing fertilizers to their tenants or 7wployees. SEC. 4. That this act shall take effect immediately after its passage. Approved March 4, 1878. A. Bill to amend Chapter CVII, Title I, Part III, of the General-Statutes, relating to Attorueys, Solicitors and Counsellors. Be it enacted by the Senate and [louse of Representatives of the State )f South Carolina, nox met and sit ;ing in General Assembly, and by the Luthority of the same: SECTION 1. That Chapter CVII. ritle 1, PartI of the General Statutes, relating to altorneys, solictors and .ounselors, be amended as follows "Strike out Section 2 and insert he following, to be known as Section 2: "Any male citizen of the age of twenty-one years, having read law in Whe office of any practicing attorney of good standing in the State for the period of two years, or graduated at iuy recognized law school in the United States and shall produce the ,ertificate of a practicing attorney of good standing in this State that he is x person of good moral character, shall, >n examination in open court by three 2ie.mbers of the bar appointed by the Supreme Court for that purpose, who ihdll certify that he possesses the :equisite learring and ability, be ad 3iitted. if the examination be satisfac ory to the Court, to practice in all of he courts of this State as an attorney, 3olicitor and counsellor, upon taking he oath prescribed by the Constitu bion." SEC. 2. Strike out Section 4 and nsert the following, to be known as setion 4 :"That no license to prac ~ice as an attorney, solicitor or coun 5ellor, shall hereafter be granted ex ~ept by the Supreme Court." Approved March 12, 1878. A.n Act to declare the Law re specting the powers and duties of Circuit Judges of this State. without the limits of the Circuits in which they reside. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives f the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same : That every judge while holding the :ircuit court for any circuit pursuant to the provisions of the law of this State shall he invested with powers equal to those of the judge of such circuit, and may hear and determine all causes and- motions and grant all rders in open court or at chambers which it is competent for the judge residing in such circuit to hear, de termine or grant, any law, usage or austom to the contrary notwithstand SEC. 2. That every circuit judge in this State shall at all times have urisdiction to discharge and perform ill the duties of his office within the ~ircuit wherein he resides. except the hiolding of circuit courts therein when some other circuit judge shall be en gaged in holding said courts. SEC. 8. That no ,xtra term of any :ircuit court shall be ordered except by the circuit court of the county for wvhich the extra term shall be held >nly by the judge ordering the same : Provided, The same shall not interfere vith the power now lodged in the ~hief justice in the premises; and, ,rovided further, that no cause shall e tried at an extra term of any cir ~uit court, unless the said cause shall mave been previously docketed upon ~ome of the calendars of the last pre ~eding regular termh of such court. SEC. 4. That all acts and parts of ects inconsistent with this act be, and ;he same is hereby, repealed. Approved Mach 1, 1878. It was a Boston man who went some early in the morning, and neeting t ho sad, reproachful eyesj >f his wife, apologized: "My larling, I think you'll be sorry 'm- this when yon git sbober." A KEEN BIT OF IRONY. if the religious press gets ahead of the El Paso Journal, says the paper of that name, 'we give it a fair warning that it must get up on its spine. We have stood the "Sleeping Cherubs," by the Chris tian Union; we have gazed on the picture of the wall-eyed virtue with which Brother Talmage ropes in subscribers from the rural dis tricts unmoved ; but when the Christian at Work sends us a pie ure of two sore-eyed dogs watch ing three merino lambs, and wants us to pay $20 for it, then indeed the free spirit of an American citi zen is aroused. We want it distinctly under stood that we are in the chromo business ourselves. Hereafter every sihscriber of the El Paso Journt. .i receive a beautful chromo, entitled "Mrs. Snooks Washing the Children." It is one of those beautiful home pictures that at once appeals to the fondest and holiest affections of the heart. Every man who sees it will at once "would he were a boy again," when being washed and getting soap in his eyes was one of the regular Sun day afflictions, next to his cate chism. In the foreground is Mrs. Snooks. Befcr:e her is a tub, and one of the orphans is struggling in the water. The artist has seized upon the moment when the in fAnt has just opened its mouth for a prolonged solo, but is dexterous ly checked by his mother's swab bing his voice with a 6ponge. The manner in which a stream of soapy water is represented run ning into the urchin's right eye is very finely done. In the other eve is thrown all the added emo tion of pent up grief and "sorrow that knows no tongue." We defy any man to see this picture with out being stirred in his inmost depths. Mrs. Snooks' face is a study. It is such an expression of motherly love, housewifely zeal and beautiful devotion to duty that can be likened to nothing ex cept that seen upon the face of oursnothers on wash days and at house cleaning times. Tbree of the children have al ready been washed. Tbeir rosy countenances, bright with tbe ex uberant health, ha,ve been further heightened by the art of the lim ner, who has depicted them suffer ing with colds as one result of their baths. A t the same time their complexion forms an agree able contrast to the three behind the tub who have not yet bathed. This is finely done, and cost a world of labor. The whole forms an agreeable con tra'st to the naked cherubs sent out by the religious press. It is a domestic scene, full of holy joy and tranquilized by a sweet and dream like peace. In order to convey the idea that even in so nerfect a home a& this sorrow must enter, the artist has depicted one of the children suffer ing with the measles. The way in whbich the measles blotches are struggling with the dirt on his nose, having capturd the last named organ, is one *f the sweetest things in the chromo line that has ever been presented. We are prepared to furnish these chromos to every subscriber of the El Paso Journal. We ap pend a few certificates from prom inent individuals : "True to life. The very atmoE phere smells of soap."-Heniy Ward Beecher. "I assure you, on my honor, that the chromo is so natural that one of my children actually caught the measles from looking 'at it."-Ben Butler. "Reminds me of the time when they used to wash me, now many, many years ago.-Susan B. An thony. "Send me 15,000 dozen of your chromos, 'Washing the Children.' We want to offer them as pre miums."-Christian at Work. "It shows domestic misery in the highest degree. :No woman ought to be allowed to have seven children."-Victoria Woodhull. We trust these testimonials are sufficient. WYe could append many thousands; but we forbear. how let the honest masses shew their appreciation of art by cominfg and taking- the Jornat.