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BY ROBERT YOUNG & CO. WALHALLA, S. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15,1869. f [Re published, by request, from the Kooweo Cou* nor of Novombor 20, 1808.] The White Jessamine. , BY Mt8S MATTI? IIAI.SKY. Lines ex pressi vo of mother's fooling s on eoo Ing In hor boy's cold elaspod hands a cluster of tho pure, sweet flowore of Jessamine?tho last ~/$od tokon of a sister's lovo : Fair flowers of fragrant purity, I'vo over loved thy blossoms whbc, Roonlllng to my sorrowing heart Tho ?'long ago" when life was bright. When, with a heart untouched by caro, And eyes as yet undlmmod by tears, I revelled in my own ivild dreams, And pictured bright tho coming years. The etarry petals wooed the broozo Within my childhood's blooming bowers, And often since then rich perfumes Hath soothed my woary c?ro-worn hours. I . And now thy buds are dearer still, , Bad relics to a mother'* loss, Their beauty is foruvcr linked With one whoso spirit soars abovo. r . When last I saw my noble boy, As cold and util ho slept in death, A few pale stars of Jessamine Were fading on his pulseless broast; ,-? A sister's hand had placed them there, Sweet emblem in their early doom, Of tho young hero's high cai'ccr, [Cut short in manhood's opening bloom. A mother's blinding tear drops fell Upon the lovely drooping flowers, As gazing on that peaceful brow My thoughts flew back to happlor hours. He elumbors in bis early gravo, rr* ' And my ead heart must mourn again A youthful martyr to the cau^o For which no many hied in vain. The hero's cbaplct wreathes b!e brow h With leaves of fresh immortal green, I And glory's amaranthine flowers, f Dewy with toar-drops glittering shceu. I Hut brighter still, in realms above, Tho crown of everlasting life Which crowned that young heroic one Victorious in a greater strife. m, A soldier of the Great High King, * r Ho gloried in tho sacred name, Tho blood-stained banner of tho Cross Was dearer far than earthly fame. The radiance of a Saviour's love, On earth shed 'junlight o'er his way, And now bis ransomed spirit soars Where night is lost in endless day. While oherisbed in my mourning heart These flow'rcts shall forever bo, Mementoes of my sainted dead, They whispcrjym^^-?~-j y shall dawn again shall bloom when lifo is o'er, Withijfthat " land of pure delight" Wl/ro dear ones meet to part no more. ARIETY. port to the Postmaster General. i nao Postmaster G onorai gives a report in / dc/inient of thirty-eight octavo pages. ' Tho postal receipts for tho last year has ?n otased six per cent. : and tho expend? tutos eghteen por cent. ; tho excess being 8G.437, f*i)l. 85. Tho receipts of tho Department wore from postago 810,292,0(10,80, from the Uy?. Treasury for freo matter, (members of Congress uso) 83,800,000} steamship sub dies Now York and California 81,125,000; an Francisoo and China 8125,000 ; New York and Brazil 8150,000; for routes estab lished' by 39th Congre % $480,525 ; for maps post routes 810,000. Tho total receipts from postage and U. S. subsidies is 821,989,125,? S80.: Tho Department expended ovor and ?abovo all receipts 8741,4G6 85, for whiob de ficiency a special appropriation Is asked. The ordinary expenditures for the year end. ing July 30, 1870 (inoludod 8045,250 for overland and eca mails to California), are esti mated at 824,540,4.18. The total rovonue is estimated it 817,800, 1)00, leaving au excess of expenses td bo pro fcddcd for from the genual Treasury of f fy* |T40,413. During tho year 383,370,500 postage amps wore issued, of tho value of 811,751, 44, Tboro were in tho Department, on tho 0th of June last, 0,091 contractors for the ausportotion of the mails. Tboro were 8,? 20 mail routes, of an aggregato longth of 10,028 miles,' Of those routes, 80,018 oro by railroad, and 10,047 by stoambontfl. bo in,croneing length of routo ovor the pro jecting year W?e 13,088 inllos. During the par 858,010 8Q wos paid for new mail-bags.* bore are. npw in opora-tion in the United tes 26 railway postal linos, subdivided in 84 routes,' extending in tho oggrogoto ovor ,019. miles of railroad and steamboat, linos, pon 1,571 milcaof whiob twice-daily sorvioo being performed^ making a total equal to ,000 miles of railway postal eorviee daily aoh Way, an$ an iupreaeo of 8.370 miles ovo** servloe in operation in I.8u7; There are nploycd in this eorvioo 279 mon, as hoad orks, olorks, and assistant ol?rkV> nt salaries nglng froni $900 to $1,400 por aqm?m, ma n^';^n^g%i0 eoaV. of 8#29/(00 por. nix unW-an iporcaso of J19 men, at .n.c,oj&</ of] l^^Bpr/ovov^bo provi.oua year,. . r, ino aggregato amount of postago (tnlaud sen and foreign upon tho lettor correepondouco exchanged with foroign oouutr?ea was $2,153, 690 66. Of this amount $1,706,407 76 no oruod on tho letter mails exchanged with Eu ropean countries; 8809,516 43 ou letters ox. changed with the Dominion of Canada ; and $137,706 47 on letters oxchanged with tho West Indies, Mexico, frazil, Central nnd South America, tho Sandwich Islands, Japan and China. ' During tho year, 2,167 postofJiccs were es tablished and 849 discontinued- There wcro 26,481 in op?ration on tho 30th of Juno last; of these, 849 arc subject to Presidential up poiutmcnt, tho remainder being fdlcd by the Postmaster General. Tho freo delivery system has been in ope ration in forty eight .cities, and continues to grow in favor, but is operated at heavy. ex penso without return. Under tho provisions of tho second section of tho Postal Act approved July], 1S0I, postmaster arc. now paid stated salaries, in ac cordance with the amount of business done, instead of commissions, us formerly. These salaries havo to bo reviewed and readjusted once in two years. The readjustment for tho two years com monoing July 1, 1868, is now so fur comple ted as to show that the salaries of 26,481 postmasters will amount to $4,648,187. The number of money order offices now in operation is 1,468. Since the date of the last annual report 245 additional offices have been established and ouo office has been discontin ued. Tho number of orders .issued during the year wa3 831,937, of the aggregato value of $16,197,858 47. Tho Postmaster General calls attention to tho gross abuse of tho franking privilege, and estimates the loss of revenue from this cause at from one to one and a half million of dol lurs per annum. He urges that tbelaw should be amended so as to compel Congressmen to affix their written signatures, and that a frank, ing'clcrk bo appointed for each department, and for each House of Congress, to frank pub lic documents. [From tho (English) Cotton Supply Reporter.] The Cotton Supply. Cotton cultivation would still be highly re munerative und would furnish an ample re. Svurd f?r tho capital and labor expended, even though prices should somewhat decline.? Preparations will soon bo made lor next tow ing season, and the present ?tatc nnd pros pects of the cotton murk et. should exert u powerful stimulus in every direction. There is no doubt that this will be the case in Amor, ica, and that year by year strenuous effort will be mado to restore cottou to its former importance among the products of the coun try. Corresponding efforts, however, must be made elsewhere, especially in India, and without these there can bo no successful com petition with America. The progress of events in tho United States, and any advance made towards tho recovery of the pro-cmi nenco tu the production of cottou formerly enjoyed, must be of spcoial signiiionncc to In dia, and ought to provo an incentive to fresh exertion. To improvo tho quality of the cot. ton, to inorcaso the production, to open or remove all existing obstacles, to pr?vido bet ter roads and ample means of irrigation, and; in ? ort, to make diligent use of all the ap pliances which oxist, in order to retain and increase so valuable a trade, should bo an ob ject of constant solicitude. Never has so Splendid an opportunity been presented to any people, and though hitherto it has not been adequately appreciated, it still remains to bo used by tboso who have tho requisite wisdom and energy for tho purpose. Wo hopo that the now Govoruor Gonoral, from tho interest v7.hioh ho has already manifested, will bo pro* narcd ai?d ablo to exort a beneficial influence .. noting oxtonded nnd improved cul tivation ot' cottou *u India* and wo nro fully assured of his dcs> to do jlllhst he possibly can in this respect. ?^vcvcr> w0 nro most anxious that nothing eho.,lld b? *?,, ?>' to increase our supplies of cotton \iCm la? we trust that in other countries thoro v??J k? a larger area than over, planted noxt ecason. In Turkoy, ospooiolly, thoro ought to bo ro nowed exertions toiooroaso the growth of cot tou. Further suppli?e of Amorioan scod would bo of groat aorvioo to that country, as woll as more stringent, mensuro? on tho part lof ??ovommpoji to protcot tho ouUivafcore from tho deprodntious and oxact'mrje: of whfoh they so often complain. Cottou oultivution, if fostered and encouraged, might b.o modo an ^-increasing souroe of wealth and.prosperity to tho Ottoman ompirb, . -? ? ' ?? Nevedl a coptcmpjotivo .Digger Indian ?a* wnto'.iirtg a party of taso ball pia/, ove, whO'BJComc?J to him to. be working very hnvd. Turni.bg to/ono of thorn, ho askod, " How touch uV you got a day ?" ,< i.vi, ,l~ *.?:.? . Beauties of Bible Language. If wo need higher illustration not only of the power of natural objects to adorn language and gratify tasto, but proof that here wo find tho highest conceivable beauty, we would ap peal at once to tho Riblo. Those most oppos ed to its toaohing* have acknowledged tho. beauty of its language, and this is due mainly to the exquisite use of uatural objects for il lustration. It does, indeed, draw from every field. Rut when the emotional naturo was to bo appealed to, the reference was at once to natural ohjects, and throughout all its books, the stars, the flowers, and gems arc prominent us illustrations of the beauties of religion and tho glories of the church. ' The wilderness and tho solitary place shall bo glad for them, and tho desert shalj rejoice and blossom os the rose." "The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into einging, and all the trees of the field shall clap their bands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the briar shall como up the myrtle tree.'; Tho power and the beauty of tho same ob jects appear in the Saviour's teachings. The fig and the olive, the . sparrow and the lily of tho field, give peculiar force and beauty to the great truths they wcro unod to illustrate. The liiblc throughout is remarkable in this respect. It is a collection of books written by authors far removed from each other, in timo nnd place and mental culture, but throughout the wholo nature is exalted as a revelation of God. Its beauty and sublimity aro appealed to, to arouse the emotions to rcaeb the moral and religious nature. This clement of unity runs through all the books where references to naturo can be made. One of the adaptations of tho Bible to tho nature of man is found in the sublime nnd perfect representation of the natural world, by which nature is ever made to proclaim the charaoter and perfections of God. No lau. guago can bo written that so perfectly sets forth the grand and terrible in naturo and ils forces, as wc hear when God answ?l'd Job in tho whirlwind No higher appreciation of the beautiful, and of God as the author of beauty, was ever ex pressed than when ouv Saviour said to the lillicsof the field, "I say unto you that even Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these;" nnd thou adds, "If God so clothe the fichi''?ascribing the element of beauty in every loaf nnd opening loud to tho Creator's skill and power. Prof. Ch?dbournc. Politeness in Busiueae There is a great deal of sound philosophy in the following, which we extract from the columns of "Wall-Nuts" in the Christian Reg ister : What a pleasant thing it is to deal with pleasant men ! How much a tone helps a trade, reconciles you to a price, and sends you off with a hoaror feeling of an equivalent for your outlay. smile and a 'thank you' go a great way, and when they arc cheap costs so little and go so far, one wonders that they arc so dear, and that po little of minor courtesies enter into the intercourse nnd interests of men. It is a very pleasant thing to go out of a staro with the sense of a favor conferred. Indeed, one stands a little pretty evident cheating with a placid complacency, if only the cheater adds tho suavity of manner and of tono to his art. And what nn art that is which makes you buy when you bad determined not to, and reconciles you to a price you kuow to bo not only abominable, but one you ought not to pay I Is there a harder thing to face than that very insidious store phrase, 'is there ony ting clso to-day?' Only let a man get tbc right tono and mnnncr, and you. havo moro moral oourago than most people if you don't bogin to bo rntber ashamed of tho smallncss of your order or your purchase, look about and remember that there is something else nnd so run up your bill or deplete your pock et-book from want of courngo to meet ster co-typed business phrase?tho moral history of which your tormentor perfectly understands. How mean a man feels when walking homo, bo realized tho littlo trick of trado to which ho b.^s succumcd !' A Quaker broker in Now York having had bag <tf??\??? eagles (coins) stolon from bis counter whilo ?<> sipped into his back room for a moment, ne; or mentioned tho loss to anybody, but quietly bidou his time. Scv oral months afterwards, a ncighbO1' being in hie oflico, earnestly aakod, " Havo yo.u ever board anything about that bag of eagles thY-t yon lost?" "Ah, John!" cxolnimod tho Quakor, (' thou art tho thief, or thou oouldst not hayo .known any tiling about it 1" Tho Rlirowd old Quakor t Was right, and tho gold wan restorod, with/intprost. Mies VAWnyvhh, ono of tho prom Inont woirion'e right* epoakors of Groat Brit ein', says that out of 0,000,000 women of England 2,600,009 aro iin?narwc<b. 1 . ? ?'???' tii'fc' 'n ' if" -'? '? ?ko lier warm ! dry warm placer' throwing a ble e spot previe Consumption?The Disease Alleged to be Infections. Dr. Henry Bowditoh writes as follows to the last number of the " Atlantic Monthly :" It was our fortune to attend a man slowly dying of consumption, who while hopelessly and helplessly ill, was devotedly cared for by his wife, who at the time felt herself and seemed to bo in perfect health. ,.?ycars after her h?i ?band's death, and whon bfavoly battling ngaiint the disease, whioh commenced its insidious attacks immediately subsequent to his death, sbc related to moth following facts, but only on wy definite i quiries ns to how intimate her relations been with him during his illness that ofton in wintry nights, th man would arise from the side o who wiislvrnjan^U^his clothing or withjJ|ifi j r, Reusing dis^ wou ing had just lo kot over it, ; ly occupied by Upon our expressing a horror at the thou of the danger she had run,*^lnd which appa rcntly had told with so much power upon her, she quietly remarked that she knew at the time the danger aho was incurring. She had no thought of danger to herself, and only of her husband's comfort. 'But,' added she, ' I then got what never recovered from.'? A corta i u vitality seemed to go out of her; and though her nature contended for mauy years against the incroachmcnt ?^jf the disease, she finally died, always believing that she had taken consumption from her husband, b with a certain martyr like joy that suo,,-i really been the faefcr* We have now in our mind o ogous cases, as for c their first of their si necessit sister "strcn mother the in up alni without, of-door c'x tressed to find persons gradii digestion, dob the symptonm o stances, in fact, the the life of the origina These facts are very signifie" we arc well aware that, in somo oTT or elements of disease may have had fatal iniluot?cc, still the cases have bceu full of suggestions e to the necessities of greater precautions than we in this country have usu ally taken in this matter. Hioii-Handko ?onduot of Necikoes at Dauien.?The " Suvanuah News, of 4th in stant, says : We learn from a gentleman who camo up from Daricn, on Saturday evening, that there was groat excitement in that place whon ho left, consequent upon the action of a band of negroes, numbering eighty-four in all, who were armed with muskets and bayonets.? They came from about ten or twelve miles in the country, bringing with them as prisoners two white men, whom they mnrched up to the jail, where they commanded the Sheriff to place them iu irons and imprison them. Tho negroes woro expostulated with, the Sheriff telling that men could only bo put in jail on a commitment, and by regular process of the law. Thoy declared that if tho Sheriff did not put the wen in jail and lock, them up, they would shoot them at once. Tho Sheriff, by " force and arms," and to save the lives of the men, had to put irons on thorn in the pres ence of tho negro guard, and lock them up in cell, the nogroes remaining around to see that thoy wore not released. ?Some white cit. i'/.ens of the placo would have interfered on their behalf, but tho counsels of the more prudent prevailed, and they wcro allowed to romain in tho jail, ns thoir lives woro consid ered more sceuro thoro than outsido. From whntour informant could learn, some of tho negroes had boon Ahot at onco or twioo by pnrtio? in the country, and thoy took it up on themselves to arrest theso young men as tho ones that had fired nt them. The gene ral impression, from the character of tho par tics, was that thoy wore totally mistaken.? Ono of tho men was named Sallust ; tho name of tho other wo did not lonrn. This is one of the most high-handed outra ges of modern Radical reconstruction. - dor this tilling, armed negroes may arrest and oau80 tho confinement in jail of any whito mon whom tney may fancy hns injured thcm,-%ith* out any rcforoncQ to tho law or justico of tho aot. The,n%t#cs i" that section ovidently need ja litti^ooking after. ^ x\ drinj^n^^?^ote deperto. ill soon \\dH\% , Lime Lime is a direct constituent of aj] our crops. Prof. I. F W. Johnston states tho weignv -?<? lime carried off in 2 ; bushel'? of wheat, 9 lbs; 50 bushels of oats, 91bs ; 38 bushels of bar Icy, 1 5 lbs ; two tons of clover, 126 lbs ; 25 tons of turnips, 140 lbs; aud other analysis givo two tons of wheat straw, 14 lbs ; two tons of white clover, 86 lbs; two tons of oat straw, 43 lbs ; two tons of pea straw, 51 lbs; two tons of pea straw, 51 lbs ; two tons of bean straw. 92 lbs. This includes lime in all its his it will be seen that lime the soil. Some ime to supply and years. his it will be sc ifaa?kof>t'io lityin a friable, sun, permits the air to circuii renders it warmer and the harvest iT lier. For this purpose it should bo applied fresh from tho kiln, in a caustic state, and well mixed with the soil. Where the soil is defi cient in vegetable organic matter, lime is least aluablc ; and most vuluablc where the soil anic matter, or is of a cold, the best for agricultural my be told by its white ed or gray limes make ontain {sometimes con proximate too near to become hard in the soil, bo applied to tho acre mado often, arc consid (uantitios at long ih s slowly and sinks in is found better to is butter to apply bushels every preference to j itered into an 'nnd capable of food. Besides, iall per contago of is still more valuable found a better effect from ten bush els of shell than twent y bushels of stone lime. The oyster and cium shells should all be care fully saved and burned for application to the soil. These arc very cosily burned, by dig-, ging a tre oh, putting in the bottom a few stones on which to lay the wood a foot deep, then on the wood placo a layer of shells one to two foot thick, cover these lightly with oarth, olay is host, leave a small vent at the opposite end for smoke, fire tho wood and your shells will be burned to lime and the olay will retain much of the organic matter, and be also a good manure.?Rural New York .Toiin C. BitROKiNRlDOB.?John 0. F>rcck inridge is not rich. Ho io poor; but is not a sockcr of office. It is quite possible that ho might havo returned home any time du ring the hist eighteen months without risk. Ho was urged to do so by many ; and on ono occasion, at Paris, in the autumn of 1866, the Governorship of Kentucky happened to bo suggested, when he said : "I would not ac cept any onice within the gift of the pcoplcj if I could get ono. 1 could not hold one out side of Kentucky ; but if I oould bo returned to my old place in the Senate, and should be permitted by Congress to take my scat, I would not consent to go baok to Washington. I am growing in years, and bave been losing ?n fortune. .My family is increasing?I need money, and look to my profession, not only as the surest, but as tho most suitable and avail able and agreeable means of providing it." In speaking thus wo doubt not ho was sin cero. Iiis enemies will givo him credit for a keen, discriminating judgment, for Mie etriotost personal integrity, and for rcmarka bio prudence?Louisville Courier-Journal, December 29. Destitution in New York??Tt is esti mated that no less than two hundred thousand persons are now residing in New York city who havo no work, no real homes, and no means which insure thorn alivo'ihood. Some of them beg or steal outiight; but a large number okc out a miserable ixistonco by run ning into debt for lodging en I bond, or by borrowing from wook to week of whomsoever will lond thorn, or by quartering themselves on roluotnnt relatives or frionds. Tho result ?8j"?ported to bo an aggrogato of want, squili bri misery and dogtodation fpnrt'nl. to contem pi ate Curious Freaks of Lunatic.'?David Liter is the name of a patient at the Esorti Luuatic Asylum, ??-?o ?? fatti?iarly called "??ohs Liter,"' and io his way, is a curiosity. He is un.v?r the happy delusion thut he owns the asylum ti?A all the lands attached, nnd that Dr Chiploy au] his assistants aromeroly so many accommodatin!4gcntlcuicu, who Lavo taken the management upon themselvos to re lieve him of the responsibility. Ho is a great trader and puts at every visitor wi>q comes to buy eight or ten millions' worth of pt-^perty, just as a pastime. Ho amuses himself by driving a wagon, and in this way is very use ful. He astonished Dr. Chipley ono day by buying a drove of mules from a man passing along the road, and had them turned into tbo grounds, where they ran looso for somo hours fore the owner could collect them. In pol s, Boss is a Clay Whig, and has never vo any other way. He is terribly down on io Abolitionists for stealing some four or fivo thousand negroes from bini, as he thinks, but io claims forty or fifty negro patients who are in tbo asylum as so many restored to bini, and is under tbo impression that ho will get them all back. Doss is a respectable farmer looking personage, and oonvcrscs very intelli gently on many subjects. His only cause of tuubappincss is the immense quantities of pro vision which it requires to subsist bis largo family, but thinks that the Slate will reim burse him in time for his pretit outlay. [Lexington Gazette, A Touon Story.?There is a placo in Maine so Rocky that when the natives plant corn they look for crevices in the rocks, and shoot the]grains in with a musket ; they can't raise ducks there nohow, for the stones are so thick that the ducks can't get their bills be tween them to pick out the grass-hoppers, and the only way the sheep can get at the sprigs of grass is by grinding their noses on a grind stonc. Rut this ain't a circumstance lo a place in Maryland?there Uie land is so poor that it takes two kildeers to cry " kildcer," and on a clear day you can sec tbo grass hoppers climb up a mullin stalk, and look with tears over a fifty acre iicld ; and tbc bumblebees have to go down on their knees to get at tho grass ; all the musquitocs died of starvation, and tbo buzzards were obliged to emigrate. Rut there is a country in Virginia which can beat that ?thore tho land i? so sterile when the wind is north west they have to tio the children to keep 'em from being blown away?there it takes six frogs to raise ono croak, and when the dogs bark they have to lean against tbo fences?the borscs aro so thin that it takes twelve of them to make a shadow, and when they kill a beef they havo to bold him up to knock him down ! Dkmooratio Cowardice.?Now that Grant io elected President, (says tbo "New York Demoornt," "Prick" Pomeroy'e paper,) it is humiliating to know that bore and tbcro in nil parts of tho country are mon who bavo profcsiod to bo Donioorats, plotting and plan ning for place or position under him in any capacity. They wish to bo postmasters, clerks, agents, consuls, collectors, nuytbing to bold some office. And they say they wore original Graut mon, or tboy did nothing to. make Democratic votes, or tbey influenced Demo crats to stay from tbo polls, or to vote for Grant. "The Democrat who would opply for office under Grant, or during bis administration, deserves twenty months in pillory, and a bun drod lashes a month. Wo ore disgusted with such political dead-beats. Grant is to bo President. Ho bas a little job on band. Let him succeed if be can?let him try, and when he gives up, a9 be will, cut looso from tbo de'struction?8ts, openly proclaim himself a Democrat, and fall back to constitutional Dem ocratic principles?then will be timo onough for Domocrats to ofler their services. If Grant appoints Democrats to office, bo deserves banging in effigy by"tbo Republicans who elected him." Tue Great Raim?oad Case.?Tbo South Carolina vs. the Columbia and Augusta?bas at last been concluded. According to tho order of Judge Plat, a jury was summoned in Kdgofiold County, which, after carefully examining the matter, nnd proceeding over the disputed points of tbo road, at a lato hour on Saturday night rendered a verdict of 8110 as tbc amount of damage sustained by tho South Carolina llailroud. Tbo money, wo arc assured by Prosidcnt Johnston, \?c3 promptly paid. A lifo insurance ngont applied to a Texan " to tnko out a policy ?" but the Texan re-, plied : i( A fellow's life is so confoundedly uncertain in this country, it nin't worth in?, I suring. _ Xhe only book" that nro believed to boon-.. tin%.free from typographical errors ore an 0*%4 edition of tho Riblo, a London mA I I^cipsic Horace, and an m?riam reprint uf I Dento.