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BY KEITH, HOYT & CO. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1871. VOLUME Vi.-XO. 40. Jt-'rotessicmeA Cards. "ft^T> fVi^XTivvr JL . JL^.UJ-LI JW X .) A.tCorney and C o II II H v. 11 o r AND ?3olioitor in Equity., Will practico in tho Courts of Law and Equity, iu tho Eighth Judicial Circuit. OFFICE IN TUF COURT HOUSE, "Walhalla,-South Carolina. Nov. 1, 1870 3 ly T1I0S. M. WILKES, ATTORNEY AT LAW -AND Solicitor in. ZEqnity. -ALSO, United States Commissioner, For tho Circuit and District Conns of tho Uni ted States for South Parolina. Jd??f" Omen OS TUB COURT HOUSE SQUARE. ~YJ5a WALHALLA, S. C. July 22. 1870 40 ly J. 1?. KB KD, I ? W, C. KEITH, Anderson C. II. J { Walhalla. HEED & K EUI, ATTORNEYS AT T.AW AND Solicitors in lEGcinity. Have renewed their Co-partnership in thc prac tico nf Law, and extended it to all Civil and Criminal business iu thc Counties of Coonee and Picke ns. ALSO, At, l. BUSINESS IN TlIK UNITRU STATES COU HTS. Ollicc on Public Square, Walhalla, S. C. July 18. lKtiO. 41 tf s. MCGOWAN, K. A. THOMPSON, Abbeville, S. 0. Walhalla, S. C. TOWAN & THOMPSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, WALHALLA, S. C., Will give prompt attention to all business confided to them in tho State, County, and United States Courts. OFFICE IN THE COURT HOUSE. Tho junior partner, MR THOMPSON, will also practice in tho Courts of Picketts, Greenville and Anderson. January. 1870 tf JOSEPH J. NORTON, Attorney at Law, W A Lil AX LA, S. <J. All business for Pickens County left with J. E. II AG OOH, ESQ., l'lC'KKNS C. II?, WILL DE rn OM rr LY ATTENDED TO October 20, 18(58 4 tf J. II. WIIITNER. WIIITNER SYMMR8 WIIITNER & S Y MM S, Attorneys at Law, WALHALLA, S. C. ?@r* Oflico on tho Publio Squaro. "t?U February 1, 1870 10 tf s. D. GOODLJETTT Attorney at Law AND SOLICITOR IIV EQUITY, HAS LOCATED AT THE NEW TOWN OF PICKENS, S. C. Nov. 10. 18(58 7 tf AL'X.S. ERWIN, I ?O. 0. BENTLY Athens Ga. J j Clayton, Ga. -o ERWIN & BENTLY, Attorneys git Law, WILL PRACTICE IN PARTNERSHIP IN TUE COUNTY OP RARUN, STATE OF GEORGIA. Od ht 1809 52 tf DR. E. E. WHITHER, HAYvINO located in Walhalla, offers his Pro?t^sional Services to tho cltlxons of tho nineo nndsurrounoing country, "'??- tij/ij.CE-BIEM ANN'S HOTEL, -^a 'Fob. 1,187 f 15 ly _3P O E T Pt %[ . " ROWING AGAINST THE TIDE Il ?H easy lo glido with tho ripples, Adiiwn tho stream of time, To flow with tho course of tho river, Like music to some old rhyme ; But nh, it takes courage nod patience, Against tho current lo ride, And wc must have strength from Heaven, When rowing against the lido. We may float on tho river's surface. Wl?ile our oars scarce much tho stream, And visions of earthly glory, On our dazzled sight may gleam, We forget that on before us, Thc dashing torrents roar, And while wo are idly dreaming, I s waters will carry us o'er. But few-ah 1 would they were many Kow up tho "Stream of Life," They struggle ngainstits surges, And mind neither toil nor strife ; Though weary and faint with labor, Singing triumphant thoy ride, For Chi ist is tho horn's captain, When rowing against tho tide. For on through tho hazy distance, Like a mist on a distant shore, They scoaho walls of tho eily, With jfs banners {hinting o'er, Seen through n glass so darkly, They almost mistake their way, But faith throws light on their labor, When darkness shuts out their day. And shall wc ho one of that number, Who mind not toil nor pain? Shall wo mourn thc oss of earthly joys When wc havo crown to gain ? Or sholl wc glide on with the river, With death ut tho omi of our ride, While our brother, with heaven beforo bim, Is rowing against the tide ? Letter front Walhalla. Correspondent of Ike Charleston Courier. WALHALLA, July 15,1S71. Every visitor to this place is expected to make u journey to the delectable mountain yclept "Stump House," so named because many years ugo an old settler in building a house on the summit of tho mountain, rested one corne?* of the building upon tho stump of a huge tree which he cut down for the purpose. Thc house was known as thc stump house and the mountain has since tu ken the same name. This is the niouutuiu (brough which hus been partly cut thc STU M !?. Il OU? K T U N N K L. Our party, consisting of sixteen persons, left tho hotel nt, Walhalla immediately nf ter an curly breakfast, uud soon commenced the ascent of tho mountain. Thc road was execrable in some places, owing to the wash i og effect of tho mouutain torrent, and thc want of repairs since the war. Wc were frc qucutly compelled to descend from our N?bl eles aud walk up thc steep activities, the hor ses being scarcely able to drag thc empty hacks up thu steep mountain side. About half way up we stopped to refresh ourselves with a cool drink from a spring, the water of which bursts out from tho side of thc moun tain with considerable force, and often run' uiug along thc surface about fifty yards, dis appears again as suddenly into some subter ranean cavity, from which it no doubt makes, its appearance again nearer the foot of the mountain. Another toilsome ride, interspersed with occasional walks, brought as to thc summit of the mountain. Here isquite an extensivo tallo land covering several hundred actes, much of which has been cleared as it was thc site of quito a thriving village number ing us many us fifteen hundred souls, in thc good times, when ever)thing was pushing along the lines of the Blue Ridge Railroad. Hi re thc luborcrs engaged upon thc summit, hud their residences, and there were boarding houses, stores, grog shops, u church and oth er accompaniments of a railroad village. Several stationary engines were in uso herc and everything must have presented tho ap penrunce of u brisk town. But all is chang ed now. Thc engines wevo removed during the wur, tho laborers have been scattered to distant ports of thc country, even tho houses have disappeared, aud tho Church is crumb ling to ruius for wunt of priest nod peoplo. Two or th roo shanties still remain, inhabited by several Irish families who havo tenacious ly held on to the place, cultivating putchesof tho oloarcd land, and as ono told me, paying no taxes to Undo Sam or anybody else. From this point a fino view of tho Blue Ridge is obtained extending for over a hundred miles, from North Carolina into Georgia. A well of ice-cold water offered us a delightful drink, which wo were not slow in accepting all around, not forgetting tho bcusts which hud brought us up. Leaving our hacks and buggies boro, wo started to descend tho mountain again to tho point where tho tunnel pierces tho K?stern sido. This wo soon reached and wo spontan hour or two io examining it. lt is due tho work to say that it has boen well and thor oughly dono, but what shall bo said of those who, without judgment Ol' knowledge, and against reason and advice, determined to piorco this granito mountain, instoad of ei ther going over the top, which could havo been done with easy asoonding and de scending grades, or by socking a moro desir able routo, havo avoided it entirely. Thero aro many theories given for thip stupendous work of folly and mismonagomont. Some at tribute it to ignorance on tho part of thoso having tho location of tho road in charge; some a desiro to spite or disappoint certain land owners, who refused to givo ?u?fioiont "encouragement/' tho tochnionl torin for bribory, and some ?gain to -o desiro ol a fat job \ hioh should require long yoars to oo oorra .tah, during wbicb ampio fortuues oould bc made by all interested partie?. Whatever \va8the true reason, certainly it is, that hero exists un ever-lusting monument to someto dy's shame and disgruco. It is currently reported that thc route which wus to puss through this tunnel bn3 j been changed, a muoh easier one having been found, whereby tho mountain can bo crossed by easy grades, and the tunnel entirely avoid cd and abandoned j that this entire new routo will oust less money than it would to complete the still unfinished tunnel. Such a result would only prove the charges made against the original managers of the road. The only usc thc desetted tunnel could over be put to would be in future years, when Walhalla be comes a large city, some enterprising men can establish a larger beer brewery there, and and uso it for his beer vault It would keep everything nt nearly a freezing point. In such nu event, if it does not provo thc grave of its original projectors, it might at least contain their bier. Leaving the tunnel, we descended n little further down the mountain to visit another beautiful fall, known us S I s Is. A N'KIONA l' A I,LS, or as it hus been corrupted here into Sisquc nu. A mountain stream herc falls over bro ken rocks n t a distance of nearly a hundred feet. Thc stream, though comparatively small now, must have nt one time been very large, os them are evidences of the water having extended overa much wider distance, und to have by continual abrasion worked it self backward many feet, it being now shu nted at the back end of a cove where almost perpendicular sides extend quite a distance forward. During the war thc water above the falls was made to do good service in fur nishing power for driving a powder mill, owned by your former townsman, Mr. Osten d?rft', but a file in the neighboring forest communicated to and destroyed the mill, of which tho only vestige uow remaining aro some broken pieces of machinery. These falls derive their name from an In d an maiden (don't let your compositor con vert her into a warrior, us he did till tho mai dens in my letter about Tomassen falls; tho metamorphose is rather too great ) There is quite a ROMANTIC I.KOKND attached to these lalls, which could bc woven up into u small-siacd novel. The tribe whioh inhabited the country adjacent to this moun tain, supposed to havo been the Oconecs, were attacked by a mighty tribe with which they were at enmity. The old chief of the Ooo noes had a beautiful daughter, named Siska weenn, who was betrothed to thc handsomest and most daring of the young braves of tho tribe, and often hod they wandered together by moonlight to those romantic falls, and there whispered their talc of love and mur mured their vows of eternal constancy to thc music of the falling waters. Hut dark days of trouble came, when their powerful foes swept down upon them, bent upon thc de struction of thu entire tribe. Bravely did the Oconecs contend for their homes ?md kin dred. Siskaweena saw her ?ged fathor, the chief, slain early in the struggle. Her lover performed prodigies of valor, lending on his comrades to where tho fight ruged thc fierc est, but all in vain. The Oconecs were dc feu ted and almost annihilated. At last thc maiden saw her lover stricken down as he was bravely contesting every foot of ground. Her first impulse was to rush from her hid. ing place, seize his apparently lifeless body, and with almost superhuman strength, boun ded with it in her arms, from crug to crng? down tho mountain side,- towards their old trysting place, thc fulls. Finding herself hotly pursued by several of tho hostile Indi ans, bent on her capture, und knowing thc terrible fate which awaited ber should slit fall into their bunds, she resolved not to out live ber fathor, her lover und thc tribe, bul clinging to tiie still lifeless form she bore and commending herself to the Great Spirit she sprang from the lofty prcoipico, expecting to be dashed to pieces upon tho jagged rockt below. But it was not so decreed by tho ora clcs of fate. A jutting rock, about fifteen feel from tho top, roceived her with her prcoious freight. Upon looking around she observed that tho sheet of wator whioh fell from tin upper rock, was hero broken into a numbci of little streams, whioh foll in cascades upon tho rooks below. She nlso observed that bo hind this unbroken shoot lhere appeared te bc a deep oavcrn, formed by tho ovor-hang ing of tho rook above. Darting through tin wator, ut its thinest part, she found hersch ontirely excluded from sight, whoro nou< would dare to follow hor. llor next ourc was for her wounded lover who begun to show signs of returning lifo Stuunchiiig his bloody wounds as best she could, and bathing his brow with water, sin soon wooed him buck to lifo. At night six stolo out from their placo of concealment and climbing up tho steep rocks, stealthily rcoonnoitcrod thc position, and finding thu all was quiet, she assisted her lover to react the solid ground, and together they returnee to their hitherto beautiful home, only to fine it and ali tho villago a blackened ruin. Soon others of tho tribe who had succeeded in cs oaping from tho bloody fray,roturncd to the! villago. Tho lovers wcro unitod in marriage tho young husband hoing ohosen chief of tlx tribo, and for many years thoy lived in poae and quietness. Tho falls havo over sino been known by tho uamo of Sisknwocna. Whilo ascending Tomaesco Knob, ns do soribed in a former icttor, wo woro shown b; our guido a oavo, to. whioh wo gavo tho osm of TUE COAVABD'rt OAVK. It was constructed by a man who lived ii th.8 neighborhood, as a place of retreat fror tho conscript oindcr during the war. liny ing moro regard for his worthless oaroa? thur) ho had for Iiis country, and tho cause of liberty and justice, ho determined to koop out of the army, und taking to tho mountains, ho dug this cave in the most secluded posi tion, bc could find. The opening is about two 'WJfif iu diameter, to enter which ono must crecAoii all toura. After crawling in thia umi^ff ;?mu6^hstiinoo, tho oavo iujrcasos in size, and ends io a chamber large enough for a 'man to sit up or lie down in comfort. To prevent outsiders from penetrating to his hi ding place, ho dug a dry well or shaft sever al feet from tho entrance into whioli any in truder would fall, uot seeing it in the d irk He kept u plank for his own use, upon which he would cross this hole safely, and then draw it after bim A man of such stragetical genius would have made his mark as a sol dier. These hills and mountains were full of deserters and shirkers during tho var, who committed depredatious upon the property of unprotected people in the vicinity, and even after thc war they continued their bush whacking operations. They are now all gone aud quiet reigns again. C. E. 0. Tim VAMJK OP EDUCATION.-If there were no other cause to prevcut rapid immi gration southward, the lack of educational facilities would be enough. The world now understands tho money value ; the material growth and prosperity, and the national strength involved in thorough education, and a poor tuan, -vlicn ho lands in New York will select a location where education is a cer tainty, rather than one where it is contingent. Tho spirit displayed by other States is in marked contrast with that exhibited here. In Wiunsboro', for example, thc town has loDg been without a decent school building for boys. Owing to pecuniury straitness, due iu part to thi i cause, otic trained tcaohcr hus left ttic place, who could have been retained. As to erecting *a school house for the girls, tho blank look of astonishment at thc utter luuaoy of even proposing the thing, which mcots ono upou expressing a wish for one, would bc an amusiug farce, were it not a se rious oalatnity. lu Iowa City, on thc contra ry, bpsides thc general State taxes for educa tion and other purposes, thc citizens assemble and cheerfully vote an enormous tax of two per^tnt. for erecting a High School building, costing over seventy five thousand dollars, cheerfully pay it, and have thc building up and the school in operation in a year. What a contrast I And do we seriously expect to keep up with the Western States in the race of civilization, and yet continue ns incapable of combination for sooiul purposes as wc have hitherto been ? No. If wo cannot learn tc combine to devclopo our various resources, we will continuo mere provincials for a ccntu ry.- Wiunsboro' 2\Teic$. OP TUB ANTEDILUVIANS.-It must have leen a pleasant thing to bc an Antediluvian one of tho men who lived five hundred ant sixty and two years, and begot somebody Antediluvian life bad its advantages. Witl a life of nine hundred and sixty niuo yean before him, a mau could accomplish much Ile could by personal observation settle tilt oft disputed assertion that thc pole-cat live; for two hundrsd years-he could, if a Hums or Shakespeare celebrate his own centena ry- bc could bc his own oldest inhabitant and could gaze far along thc vista of nint hundred years of early green peas and spritq chickens. When time was meted by years and, instead of eight day clocks, they hat eighty-year chronometers, a man could nnjoj thc luxury of lyin? in bed till September, o of going on a three years' drunk. Whet bidding farewell to his family, he might say "I am just going over to Motbusaluh's foi twenty years-don't wait lunch." And th hoary grandsirc of ten centuries might per mit his toddling grandson to go out to plaj until 1880, but he must return then, and no - cep his parents sitting up for him. Lift insurance would be cheap, and the rate of in tercst, when men gavo notes for four bundrci yours, renewable for tbreo hundred mort must havo been accommodatingly low.-??x chan ye. MEMPHIS, July 10.-A storm oceurre last night V/hioh surpassed anything boro i years. Tologrupb polos wero prostrated treen uprooted and vast damage dono to th crop. Tho night express train on tho Mon phis and Charleston Railroad, henoo fe Chattanooga, when near Grand Junction, ra through a trestle wnshed nwny by tho fleet Thc engineer was killed, aud 12 or 10 put scngers wounded. MEMPHIS, July 20.-The rain has wnshe away thc trestle of tho Memphis and Charla ton railroad, a milo oast of Grand Junotior Tho eastward bound train, engine, tende baggage and two passenger cars wont into tl ditoh. Killed-George Gibbs, tho eiminee Montgomery, tho fireman, aud several passel gcrs woro hurt. ANOTHER HOAD FOR COLUMHIA.-W loam, says tho Phoenix, that tho Wilmingto and Columbia railroad hnvo determined I extend their roud to Augusta. Mr. Geo. \\ Earlo, an experienced engineer, will begin 8urvoy of tho now route at an oarly day. Oolonol H. ll Bridgea, tho President of tl Wilmington and Manchester railroad, Maj? Townsend, President of the Ghoraw and Sa isbury railroad, and Mr. Earlo woro in C lumbla yesterday, and wo loam that tho visit was in reference to tho extension of tl Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta railrot to Augusta. LONDON, July 19.-A Shcfliold oxprc train, going south on the North M id hu Railway, ran into a freight train near Cht tcrfiold station. Two pnssengors wero kill outright and thirty aro repot ted injured, sot of whom will dio. Letter nom Gen. Ci cor go If. Mc Clellan. DEAII Silt: I have tho honor to acknowl- ; edge the receipt of thc invitation to tucot i with tho Tammany Sooioty upon thc occasion > ot tho celebration of thS approaching, ludo pcndcucc Uuy. I regret that circumstances will not per mit mc to bc in the city then. At a ti ne like the present it is right to express once more my deep and abiding in- , tcrest in the great principles advocated by thc | Democratic party; and remembering thc for mer relations between the party and myself, ; perhaps it will not seem officious if, in accor- ' dance with your requests, 1 proffer a few j words to those who honor mc so highly in a I season of dilbculty. Although 1 have retired from public life, it has been impossible to avoid forming opin- j ions upon public affairs, and what I have to ; say must bc regarded simply as the senti- i monts of a private citizen. The Presidential campaign, so soon to bc opened, is destined to bc one of the most ?rn portant of all that have been conducted. I trust that every Democrat will recognize the magnitude of the issues at stake-no less, j it would scorn, than the very existence of the j free institutions our fathers gave us, the true ; foundations of peace, bappillCSS and prosper ity--to bequeath which to our children we should bc ready to make any honorable sacri fice. I trust that when thc moment for action ! arrives, there will bo found uonc in the Dem ocratic ranks who will for a moment hesitate to sacrifice personal advantage or private feel- ' ing for the public good ; for our object should ? be uot a mere parry triumph, but the rescue ! of the couutry from the hands of tho.se with whom personal aggrandizement and party ! ends outweigh all reverence for the vital spir it of onr institutions and desire for the real good of the entire nation. I trust that our leaders clearly see which of the issues that have so long agitated thc country arc inevocably settled, and that wc .shall not be called upon to contend for a corpse. Lot us leave behind us thc dead is..ucs of thc past, aud look only to the present aud thc future Slavery is dead-dead let it remain forev er, and let no ouc disturb its grave. The negro has the right to vote-let him keep it; but strive to educate him to fitness for the high privilege conferred upon bim. Show him wiio bis real friends are, and we will eventually turn in our favor the weapon so carefully forged for our destruction. Let us hope that thc enunciation of thc fi nan cial principles of thc party will bc so clear that no one can cast a shadow of a doubt upon our intentions as to fulfilling in the broadest sense all the obligations of thc na tion ; rather than iudulgc in abstract discus siens as to thc meaning of this or that obli gation, let us advocate, and when in power pursue, such a policy as will make thc paper dollar ns good as thc gold dollar, so that thc question will practically settle itself. To secure this result it must bo clearly un derstood throughout the world, that every dollar of the priucipal and interest of thc national debt will bc fully paid wheu duo ; tho expenditures of the gcucral government must bo confined to thc sums requisite to meet the interest upon thc di>bt, and tho ex penses necessary to maintain tho efficiency and dignity of the government ; tho sums drawn from this generation by thc t ari fl and internal taxation should be limited to the pur poses just mentioned,and the C?Toit to reduce prematurely thc priucipal of thc debt at tho expense of the general prosperity of tho na tion should bc abandoned. Wo havo borne the burden of tho recent war, and should bc called upon to do no more than moot thc full interest on thc dobt ; an other generation, more wealthy and numer ous than this eau readily take care of thc principal. Tho issues of thc present and tho futuro aro distinct enough, and afford us tho most ample and bost battle-field for tho approach ing contest. Univorsal amnesty and suffrage ; thc pres ervation of thc rights of tho States, ns guar anteed by thc letter and true spirit of tho Constitution, onco held so sacred ; the pres ervation of individual liberty ; the inviola bility of thc right of thc hubcus corpus; tho maintenance of tho purity and of tho rela tive powers of tho three great branches of the general governmont; striot oconomy in tho administration of thc government; tho relief of tho business interosts of tho country from thc ruinous pressure of all unequal, ilbar ranged, and unnecessary burdens ; these con stitute some of tho main issues upon whirh we may confidently hopo to rest our chances of success. With tho hopo that tho prinoiples publish ed to tho world ninety-five years ago may throughout all time guido tho action and com mand tho rovoroi'coof tho Amorionn people, and apologizing for having trespassed so long on your timo nnd pationco, I am, with great rospect, very truly yours, GEO HQ KB. MCCLELLAN. jjgjr A mombcr of tho Arkansas Legisla ture, who goes for economy in public expen ditures, in speaking of an extravagant appro priation, indignantly exolaimod : "Gentle men, talk about 'adequate compensation of public servants.' Why, sir, during tho late war 1 was in thirty seven battles, was wound ed thirteen times in tho oause of tho South, and tho entire pay I roocived was $30 in Con federate monoy, and ovory ocnt of which I gavo for ono glass of (dd ryo whiskey," nco,.. Now York last wcok had SOO births, 150 marriages, and 710 dca tbs. Narrow .-UKI IiroadGteague Ilairoad. Tho comparative odvantages of narrow and broad gungo railroads, forua a general theme for discussion all over tho country ot thia time. Thc five feet, or broad guago ia tho ooo now in general uso. Tho narrow guago is three feet, costs less, and is said can bc built and used where tho broad guago is ut terly ?rn practicable. The whole tendency of the agc is to cheap en necessaries of life. The concentrated focul power of invention is being directed to cheapening thc cost of tho great practical utilities of the day. Thu sewing machiuo cost originally from one to two hundred dol lars. Now good ones can bc bought from ten to twenty-live dollars. Su with agricul tural labor saving machiucs. To simplify, cheapen and put within tho ready reach of the poor, is thc constaut aim of laborious and speculative ingenuity. Tho cheaper these things, the greater the coi,sum tion and the more the prolit. This lesson is being applied to railroads. From thc Knoxville Chronicle we take an ex tract by Captain O. G. Vuudcrhoff, civil en gineer, giving some most interesting facts showing the comparative cost of two systems of railway, lt will bc found to repay peru sal. The following is a comparative cost of tho five foot gunges after graded and prepared for thc track. No definite figures can bo mado in reference to thc grading, os it would vary iu different localities. Cloding per mile will average between 81.000 and co.000 according tu the locality and thc amount of bridging uud masonry to bc put up. FIVE-FOOT UL'AC? K-RAH. FIFTY FIVE POUNDS TO THE YAKI). ST ?ons of nuls at $7000 per ton, $(3.090 00 600 rail-splices at 1 t;0, 600 00 5.50 spikes at 5 cents, 375 00 2,040 erosstics at 50 couts, 2,320 00 Laying 1 mile track, 600 00 Total $8,0X7 00 Til REE? FOOT GUAGE-It A11. THIRTY POUNDS PEU YARD, 47^ tons raiis at $75 00, $3,502 50 330 rail splices at 50 cents, 105 00 3.C50 lb., t-pikes at 0 cent?, 211 00 3,000 crosutics nt 27 cents, 750 CO Laying 1 mile track, 200 0O Total $4.083 50 Difference in favor uarrow gunge $3,508 30 Coat of re?ing stock-Engines half leas than the broader guage : Coaches, cars, etc., over half less, according to style and finish. .From this estimate, a fair statement can bo made that a three fourth narrow can bc built for one-half less than tho wider guage. Comparative weight and capacities of cars . FULL GUAGE-BIO UT WHEEL CAR Weight of car empty, poundx, ?0,000 Weight of car loaded, pounds, 40,000 Pay "freight, pounds, 20,000 NARROW OU AGE-EIGHT WHEELED CAR . Weight of car empty, pounds, 4,500 Weight of car loaded, pounds, 12,500 Paying freight, pounds, 8,0000 Hero thc narrow guage lias thc advantage in paying freight-giving larger profit per car than thc broader guago. First class narrow guage loeomtives cnn bo built for between $4,000 and 80,000. Pas senger cars according to finish, will cost from 8100 to G300. Freight oars from 8200 to 8500. Passenger oars used will scat 80 por sous, and from all information to bo bad, the passonger rides with as much caso and copifort as on the wide guage. Locomotives used upon these lines can haul from 80 to 100 tons over sharp ourves and gradients, at tho rate of 20 to 30 miles per hour. With these estimates thc three-foot guago will not cost more than from 80,000 to 88, 000 per mile, oud yielding, in comparison to the present income of roads, dividends from 5 tn 10 per cent, on tho capital invested. .illa uta Constitution. A STARTE; NU EXCLAMATION.-Thc New Orlcuos Bulletin publishes tho following an ocdoto of tho celebrated Dominican friar, Itocco, at Naples : "Ono da/ bo was preaching to a crowd in thc market place. 'This day,' said ho, *I will seo if you truly repent your sins.' Thereupon ho commenced ft penitential dis course that made thc hair of the hard hearted multitude stand upright ; ?nd when thoy were all on their knees, gnashing their teeth, beating their breasts and putting on all imag inable signs of contrition, ho suddenly cried, 'Now you who truly repout of your sins hold up your hands.' Thoro was not ono present who did not immediately stretch cut both arms. 'Holy Archangel Michael,' thou ox oluimod Rocco 'Thou who with thy ada mantine sword stands by tho judgment scat i>f God, hew oh0 every hand that has boen raised hypocritically.' Instantly overy baud dropped, and Kocoo poured forth a fresh in vectivo against tho tdufulncss and porvcrsity i)f his audience." Out of three hundred and sovon million people carriod on English railroads in 1809, only seventeen wore killed by oouscs beyond tb vir own control, wliilo in tho streets of London ono hundred ond forty porsons were killod, and it is ostimstcd that the or ango peel on London pavements kills moro pooplo than all tho English railroads. , --*+ . . jar Narrow goage railroads, it ia thought, will soon be introduced into this State. It is in contemplation to ?"Un a line of that kind from Nowborry to Laurens) another linc ia also proposed aer?se Loxington county, cou? noding tho Greenville and Augusta KaUiroadi, via Lexington Court House.