Keowee courier. (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, January 15, 1869, Image 1
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.