Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i * i * W. . jjpP?'.5 ' ^ I f it WEEKLY ?|? BUM II ' | ;.w .... pcrolcd (o glgrjcnlluri;, gorrtcuMur^ |)om$;>tiq <L\onomi?, ^^jjlitiui. and thq Current ^Icirs o)f the gag. VOI,. XII.?New Series. UNION 0. II., SOUTII CABOLIXAT"MAY 27, 1SS1. ?. -**1 ' * ' ? ? ?. -* 7 I . lUti UUH-ILIMli UOMKJY iiiitOittiiS A CONK- j LING TRAQEDY. Ai.iunv, Mn)' IS.? Thirty-five members of the ] Assembly, including Speaker Sharpe, met last . night in the rooms of the Republican general . committee. The utmost secrecy was maintained , as to the proceedings. The IS^t) Republican . committee adopted resolutions endorsing the action of (larfield an I Uobeitson's nomination. ; The Administration rn.'tubers of the Rcgisla- * lure arc a unit in their determination to vole ( for no man as Senator who is not known to he ) in cordial .sympathy with the Administration, f and they will under no circumstances vote for any man who has antagonized 1'iesident Gar- , field, or has avowed his purpose to do so. f The following arc the resolutions of the Re- t jiuhlican general committee of Albcny County : | Jicaolvcd/ That we decpiy deplore the course j recently pursued by tlA President in attempt- j ?ng to force the Senate of the United States to approve the nomination of Win. 11. Robertson ? to be collector of the port of New York when c no vacancy exists in snid otliee, and without t other cause than to pay a personal political ob- | ligation, which obligation was created through ^ the treachery of said nominee to the regular N ^^^Kcpuhlican organization in the Stale ; and that , ??v g.u inouj aim uiuii'iuiiiij i'xjih:^ lilt* ii 1J1C [ I that the Legislature of tiie Slate of New York will t piomptly stamp its condemnation upon the act ^ by re-electing Senators < 'oukling and Piatt to the \ positions they have felt called upon to resign iu j the Senate. v New VuitK, May IS.?The A'vcniny I'ust's Al- .. Lany special concerning tuatters in the l.egislalure says : "Two papers arc in circulation today for signatures. The first paper in general terms agrees to stand by the President. The ii Second commits the signers not to vote for Conk- n ling, l'latt or any other candidate who will act n in opposition to the President. The papers are p now receiving Signatures. It is asserted (lint Ii they will receive about lifty names. This after- c noon petitions, letters and dispatches by the Y carload arc coming in protesting against the re- Ii election of the ex-Senators." si It is pretty well settled that the Senate will f< not agree to go into an clectiou to fill the vacan- ti cies in the United States Senate. i I, Duly twenty-seven names are necessary to dc o feat the election of Colliding and Piatt ; and it p is said that over forty names have already been ei secured for the unti-f otikliag pledge. o Ur.i't'iii.u'ANs ItiMoieixu.?New York, May n IS.?When the news of Judge llobertson's eon- u tirmation by the Senate as collector of the port T of New York was received in the city this after- p noon, the members of the republican Club id' 1? which Sheridan Shook is the president, tired a ai salute of one hundred guns iu the City llal! p Park. h Sai.it;:s run 0\iirtr.t.t? vxn Koiikrtsox.? C'old Springs, N'. V., .May 18?The Republicans of this eity to-night tirod a aaWio of one hun- ~ drcd guns in honor of the President for iionii- 11 jiating Robertson. Ruimiksitu, N. Y., May IS.?The news of the confirmation of Robertson and Merrill was eel- u' ebrate l here this evening by firing one hundred 0! guns. 3.1-1 iisiis, N. Y., May IS.?The Administration | (' llcpnblicans here to-night tired ;i dilute of one j hundred guns in honor of Robertson's con- j 111 tiriiiiiiion. Petitions arc being circulated against j (lie re-election of Colliding and 1'latt. I W.vikutiiWX, N. V., May IX.? flic Hcptibli- " cans heM an enthusiastic meeting liorc to-night. Resolutions were missel censuring t'uiikliiig 1' If and Piatt an 1 sustaining the A-luiinistratioti.? The members of the Legislature from this see- 1 tion were asked to labor for the return of Sen- '' ntors in accord with the Administration. One l": bun Irel (runs were fired over 15 jberisuii'.s eon- XN firmation. Hnti'i >i?ct in v:tr. Statu Skxati:.?Albany, ^ May IS. ? ,\t twenty tninnles of 1! o'clock, while the Senate was in eoimnittee of the whole, a t el cgra|di operator entered and handed Senator ^ Robertson a telegram. A buzz of excitement ran around, and I itsincs.s wa.ssuspcn le i. The com- 1 mittec rose and the Senate took a lvccss of live . ' ol f minutes, and Senator Wowdin read aloud the t(] following telegram : ! To lleti. Win. II. Robertson : Vonr cinlirma- ! | t i >n just ma le unanimous, Accept my eongrat- ' illations. '* The wildest excitement ensued amid cheering P an 1 clapping of hands. Mr. Sessions jumped j '' upon his chair an 1 gave three cheers fur Hub- | *' crtson, while Mr. Ilnsted who had cotuein from ^ " the Assembly alsoleape 1 upon :i chair and ui le I ; '' in the ehevring. Mr. Looiuis then vailed for " three cheers for President (iarlield which were agven with a will. A (ietieral hand -linking followed, ami l which the Senate r.dj r.rned. i 1 ' it CoNKi.txu's IIaiii-Kvi:t.--W'ashiiigtoii, Thtirs- | lay, May 1'.'. -Speculation i . now being trans- ^ erre l 'o the contest which will shortly cotnu off (| at All/any. The New Vork Legislature stands J -< I o! us follows : Senate, Republican "Jo, l>cmucrat S: j ^ House, P.eptthliean x|t pcumcrat 17* Ilcptiljli- j j fm majority on joint ballot " !. The Indcpen- i (lent, or anii-C nkliiig iiiacliiue Republicans, j Control lite niaj nity of the surplus llepuhlieati \ ?otr.s. Tiierefore, if ('inkling and Piatt are, ,, Vetn.UM'd, liie breach in the ranks in New York j. will thus he greatly wid-n-d an 1 the Stale come j into the 1 ands of the demoera y at the next i n election. N-cw York Republicans here regard \ the political if-alion a.- exceedingly critical. - | p W ith tiie immense patronage of the N. w York ' ,. I'ustoiiilioiHc in tl.e bin Is of the friend- of tho > Aduiiiiistralieii it is net doiihte tlm! tlii- now- i erful lever will l?e use I to st?| j>1 ntit I'uiikliir.; itilliiciieu in the State. This will increase ihc 11 ^ bitterness between tlie llepubiieau faetions. j 1 wliieli is already now as i eletilless as I lint wliieh s i I charaelcrizcl (lie division in llie l?eniocrai:c ranks last tall. Say a Iti'j-nblic:.u Senator to j I iy on t lie N at ional out lo ik : " Tlic serious coin - ' j |ilieatiotis wliieh have arisen in the last few days fin I the elteot of this i'.inkling quarrel on Nnli-.-nal poliiies e iiinol be over e>tiniat'vl ITile.-s | .somel hi r.o turns ii|> to heal this terrible wound ^ to the | arty, we have nothing to ].> h forward | , lo lull deb at." ? .Vi a . ami 1 ' nnrr. Si.ai.n \iii. in \\ a. II Ibir.i ii r*-is. Vibany. ; Vnv I'b l! was announce I ymter hv afternoon i llmt I lie Ucpublican general committee, of which Tlnirl j\v Weed Harness is president, would serenade Senator Uoberts n at the Keutnorc Hotel, m I although a heavy rain storm prevailed, at ibout '.t o'clock a large concourse of people gathered at the hotel to congratulate the newly-appointcd collector of the port of New York.? 1'hc hotel was decorate 1 with tl igs an 1 colore I anterns and the entire front was illuminated. I hc general committee and a large procession of ;iti/.ens nrirchc I through the rain headed by a outid. Inside the hotel a number of Senators md Assemblymen were collected. Senator Uobertson appeared, and was introlucel by Mr. Harnes in a highly eulogistic ipeech, whicli concluded as follows: "1 have lie pleasure to present to you the Hon. William I. Uobertson, by the grace of all that is good n the Republican party, collector of the port of "Jew ^ Senator Uobertson was received with hearty ijiplause. He said: "Fellow-citizens, you have :onie here to-night to congratulate mc upon the :oiifirmatiou of my nomination as collector of he port of New York. Let me congratulate roil, or rather the country, upon the fact* that vc have a President whose intelligence, lirinicss and patriotism will protect the( onstitiitioii rum every assault, coming from whatever ipiarer it may. 1 did not seek (hecollectorship nor lid any one a<k it for me. I visited neither Yashiiurtoti lior Mi'lilor. 1 had no I'll! Icuvc nor communication directly or indirectly villi the President in regard to it. The bestow* 1 of the office under such circumstances was xcetdingly gratifying to me.*' ? FotiTt'nk's Fitt:\k-s. ? It was a remarkable coucidciice that at the moniont the imposing cereionics connected with the raising of a in ?nu?ent to (.leu. Morgan at Spartanburg were in regress, an unsucccs-I'ltl appeal in behalf of is dominate gront-gi-uudduughtcr was made to a abinct ollicer by a justice of t he Supreme t 'ourt, liss Minnie Heard, the young lady in i|Uestion, ighly educated and refined, with a mother and iek sister dependent on her, has managed by a :\v scanty dollars picked up here ami there by achi-ig, barely to keep the wolf from the door, utterly she has hud but one pupil, the daughter f a justice of the Supreme Court. 11 is symuthies were enlisted in her behalf, ami he sc. are 1 her more profitable employment, but only ; I* a temporary nature, and the young lady is j ovv without any income. On the day of the nvciliiig of the Morgan statue he went to the j rvasury Department ami ma le an earnest apeal to Secretary Wiudoin to give her a position, | ut the secretary said that he was unable to do j nythiiig for her. The President will be up- ; ealed to in her behalf, and it is sincerely to be oped that he will respond. . o WII AT Postmasti:u-(i I:\kiiAI.J \>:ks II as sav m. The following is^.stfttefeut in detail of^the i ef annual saving in the cost of star route an'f j eaniboat mail service under the administration j Po-tiua-ter General James: For the uiomh ! ' March, S-l*>, I'.'O: for the month of .\pril, \ |; 1 ; tor the niiiith of May 1 to Id, Sll*-',- ' Id; t vt.il. sir.'.Oll, This saving has been i'ecti-d without in any way crippling the ser- j ice or curtailing its c'l'cicucy, and has been ale i.n exact informal em gathered by in>peo- ! nined the various routes. Much of the reduc- j *>it is the result of the labors of the comiuivMoii i ;i! to Memphis to invc-tigatc the river service 1 unifying front that point. A very considera ' !c additional rc Ittciinu will be made on tlie ' hit of . I line next, when useless service will lie lowo 1 to lapse, tlnis saving the one month's , cum pay which won! 1 be due to cotitraetors etc the service to be discontinued at present. | e Tit:: Avii-MoNoroi.v I,i:\mi: on Siani.i.y j [ \ttiii.ws.?At a Meeting of the Ami-Moiioj oI.eague of New York city, Saturday evening, res diition was ad ij>ted denouncing the con- i rmatioii of ll ui. Stanley Matthews as an tisso- 1 ate justice of the Siiproinc t'oitrl as a ".-igiial i id alar in i ng proof of the purpose an I the power ' corporate monopolists, an 1 id' their purpose ' i pack the Supreme Court with judges who j ill reverse its decision in the <iranger case*, ilirniing the light of the pc >ple through their | egishilures to control corporations id* their' ower lo secure the confirmation of their can liate in defiance of the popular will manifested , irutiyh the pre-*, and agaiiml an almost iiiiaui- ; mas report ol tlie statesmen timl lawyers <d lit parties constituting the Senate committee . ii the judiciary." . ?, 'I'm Si vi:m i:i:n Yi:\i:s I.oci ?is. ?The latest ;uisati ui in tieorgia is the appearance of locusts 1 i various sections of the State. I n iiulidle (icori i specially they are very numerous, ami itch speculation is indulged in as to the probate result ol ihe visitation Immense numbers f itiem have appeared in the swamps l?t tow it jru -1 :i. As yt : l.o planters hit not nppreemivc. > Ti.nni "\?*ir\i. in Ft. on:*. Vish\i!!e lay 17. ? ISnlivrt henry's |>laning a:.'I turning nil k i> ilnstrnyo-l 1'V fire last night. i lit* loss > ftlmiit insurance light. A lire causing the loss of . ? M oceurre 1 ere at 10 o'clock this morning, taking in I lie i'estcrn I ni in Telegraph ollice, in the Noel lock, among the first Imil lings ?le?iroye l, an I lining oiv all ennininuioalion by wire. Two Timiii.ns 11 inNI:I . Franklin. Teiin., lay 1-> The I'onglass slalile was Ir.irno I list light with lift ecu Imrscs, inelu ling lllui'lamanIiiii* ami KntieM. two thoroiighhre I trotting tallions. I.os .\- I a.000 No insurance. e A celt 1,rated < <i r111:;11 | liy-'i* ian lias nil 'oi' itnl a new theory, am! thai is that all It nl should lm ealcti taw. instead ni' I wing keil ; anil lie c!aims that il' hi.s iiistrnci ins ai c irri d out. ami me it ami vegeiailes are eatcli in their natural stale, there .vi11 lm n i inure sickness, ami ]?? ill ili T n'ei age instca 1 (if disease. The thing > ?ks lea-ihl", hilt we shntilil like t a seethe Jcrin in <1 oel'ir try his own theory en l>e!o^t?:t sni'.-ig", ntul have to catch hi" dog. A PATRIOTIC PETITION. One of the most noteworthy and patriotic speeches at Governor Hagood's reeeption at t hoCowpens< ' -ntciininl Wednesday evening, the J 1th inst., was that in response to the ' toast to the Thirteen States made l?y (?ovj trnor Jarvi-. of North Carolina, whosp >kt ; of the centennials of the battles of Kind's Mountain and the (Jowpens and the eoiniiu celebration at Yurklowu and said, "As Yorktown was tlio end of the Revolution so uiay (Jod in His merry let it be the end o! strife in this land of ours, and in October next let us leave it friends forever." '1 he speech of State Senator Francis, <d New Jersey, in response to the eoast ol "The Middle States," which was proposed by the Hon. George Johns one, of Newberry, was also well received and loudly up pluudcd. "Til K DKSCKNUANTS OK MottOAN," Lieut. lhiiiiei Morgan Taylor, of the United States Army, who had journeyed all the way from Fort L -aveuworth, Kansas, to take part in the festivities of the occasion, made a most graceful and ehujueut response, as Follows : (iciitfrincn?I appear b fore yoil in resnoilCil Id \* i kill* ??>]! It K. til . 1> I l.i.i 1 *>.. i ii ii 1 ly conscious that among the descendants hero to-day there are hi.my who are better tilted than I am to perform the task you have assigned me, I tit many years ago, when 1 first donned blue coat and bright buttons, I learned the habit at' coming wuen called, aud I have not yet gotten rid of it. 1 feel deeply touched by the vicarious honor which has been done me in calling upon mo to address you. 1 say vicarious honor, for I know full well that I owe the position iu which 1 now liud myself, not to any merit of my own, but to tin: fact that olio hundred years ago there lived a man of the people, who by manly exertion, simpleminded devotion to duty, and natural capabilities as a soldier, helped to raise the pedestal upon which this Nation stands to day, and makes her voice heard throughout the entire world when she speaks lor right and justice, and that in mo yon see but an heir of that man's name and blood. Yonder, in enduring bronze, upon its pedestal of grans ite. stands t ic counterfeit presentment of a typical American soldier, Tin; waco.m ;t or l ilt; at.i.ta;ii.\.\ l i;s, who, rising IV on the ranks of the people, became a brigadier-general iu the Continental army, and the bronze of his statue or the granite of its pedestal is not more linn than were his determination and constancy of purpose upon the field of Cowpeiis a century ago. Upon that field ho fought an 1 eouijuered, and 'tis hero wo meet to d iy to honor hia memory and that of the gallant "Captains who so nobly and elicetivcly cwrHert out his designs under him. I>ut is this all ? No! a thou in i times ?io! Our mission here to day is one la?g<-r than cm be compassed by th.'existence d'anyone or any do/, eu nienjhat ever lived. Here have we met to day to teach to the world that constancy of purpose, energy of exceuti >u ami devotion t-> duty an 1 one'.- country are wider, high -r. deeper and more enduring (hail mountain or valley or the everlas'ing sea. Time and the elements may deface and nnr fin? i?f <uir vf*ili? ? ??? 1 l.v n.v.? and granite uiay tail to perpetuate thojilory so fresh in all our minds to <1 ty, l?ut built itjt in the It -aiti ill" all those whom I see around in is aiiotler inoiium nt--a nieniory, which shall he transmitted from father to son. til! Time shall I c n > nunc. From father to son, down the ion.* vista of years to come, I see handed the principles to honor which we have met to-day. and even as the name of Marathon is remembered and to day sends the blood tin^liujj more briskly through the veins when it is mentioned, although even the dust of its heroes lias "one into unthiiiiMicss, so when this monument shall have crumbled away will there be an undying inonumeut in the hearts and lives of the d seen ! in! . of tho.-e whom I see around me. Let us see thai our child roil shall know the meaning of this tribute of a grateful people to lives made glorious by the most elevated sentinieiits with which J>ivino I'rovideiice ever endowed s ms of nn ii ? l ?vc of country, devotion to duly. Hero was no ijnestion of personal sti pretnacy, here no question of birth or birthplace anioiiust those \vh n lines adorn your column ! Node-ire of ; r.-mai lame caused any dilleresicc between the higher born .subordinates in that, littl t-omnriii 1 and their pleb. i 111 commando' M >r"an, but looking steadfastly on the twin "nihil; ; .-tars j of country and duty, witn their watchword (lod and our native land" imprinted deep; ly in their hearts, ilicy with their scanty I to!lowiny* j;ave battle to J'aileton's troopers, I i nk i i.owi:!: or t:ii: r.:tt ri-:i aiimv, with a ealin e 'ltraere I hat hui b d a shattered, routcil army !r??:n yonder !i -1? 1 ami dealt a i>lo\v t > llritish supremacy that Yorktowu 1 di 1 hut finish ! j All"! c!i ! .' lit! IIU'II nf lite 'I hirtccli t h i.;i' nil States! countrymen all ! I would, in? | iiijihl, ncall to you tin: fact that lie whose manly form .sands lacing the scene of his j jjia-at victory was a Jersey horn Virginian, j ami that he pursued his steadfast purpose i with etjiial vigor in whatever direction he found his duty lay. Whether hem ath the heetliu.; hlull- nf IJuehoc, or on Siilwater .s pi nions liehl, or here attain in S null t'.ro, iiua. what.- mver his iiamls found to do, that lie did with ail his niiuht. Since th -e days, my country men, hi- spirit, side hy side ! with those of Wayne and Sumter, idekeiis and I'titnam, has looked, down iiji >u th ir I common country, ihr wlii. Ii they ha I all .-uf j I'eii d so much, stiitl seen it rent and bleeding ! with intern d strife. Here, in South Carolina, wore the descendants of the men who liitijht with him at Saratoga invading the | State that had given us a Sumter am! a IV: j kens, and the cables ol the A iloiMianics 1 lyoktd down from their eyries int j the fair [ val'eys of Pennsylvania :m<l \v? j>t to see tin; | ' 1 men of the State." of I.ighthorse Hurry Lee, j Marion an J Moultrie, as hostile invaders in the State when M uhlonb rg was born. I i it '.uav be sai 1 il at such things should not be touched u]>. u on such an occasion ? | that they should be forgotten ; but I say to , you, not so. Tiiey dmuid never be forgotten, but be remembered, that their like may j iKVcr recur. Let u- use the recollection of | them to fortify us in the certainty of a resolution that they shall never occur again, but that the lossoti that shall be banded down from gcncrutim to generation shall be that iiiscribeduj)on our eoluums,One People, no North uuSouth, no 1". i.-t, no \\ est, a cotnnion interest, (INK t'OUNTUY, (INK HKsTINY. Let us make of tliis monument, and of other like uiotiuuicnts, not objects of local pride, . ^iit of natioiiai ajouilicanco. Let u.s not j IfcilisSR^Slfif 'fltW'Say. "ThT* man or that was frosn our city, or our Stite," hut let us o//, irrespective of the latitude and loner itilde of the places uf our birth, shake hand-! together and say,'-This was our count'yin .11." I.et us teach our chil Iron to be loo large for anything smaller than a nation to hold them. Let us teach them to be too largo nationally to be confined within any imaginary lines of county, township, or State, but to look Ibr the limits of their nationality only to those natural boundaries, which the (iod of Nature has set as the frontier of our domain. Let us teach thorn to say not I am of this State or of that." wit "I am a Northerner, a .Southerner, from the Last or from the West, but with head erect and glowing eye to proclaim unto the world, "l J am a citizen of the I'uitcd States." Let this be the lesson which our column 1 shall teach, and this done, oh ! my friends, I old Ibiniel Morgan, wagoner, warrior, patriot," whose p ut in ail this pomp that tills [ the circuit of the summer hills, is that his \ grave is green?old Ibiuiel Morgan, with Washington and Howard and l'ickcns, will 1 look down from heaven's battlements upon a country greater and grander than their \ brightest dreams e'er pictured, and feel that j j dead they have won a greater and more en- i I during victory than they won on the li Id of j ('owpeiis a luuidr d years ago. ? - 111;vkit11; of tiik Kkmai.k Knrroit.? Mis.s llva (' Kiiiuo.", on taking the edit)- ! rial chair of the Lilis, Kansas, "J It adlight,' j 1 writes in the following light headed way : ; "I l>\v glad we are we've got to bean ediI tor at last. We always thought we knew t | just how to run a paper, and now we've got i such a -plendid chance. ' We'll show tlio.se stupid men exactly i how it ought to be done. Von won't catch us getting into any fusses, or rows or anything. No, indeed, we'll use tact,ami tact, _yu mo..."7*7,5 i u: principal tiling in running a paper. ' \\ e won't meddle in politics, and that will ?!..? .l.u .. ;.i .... i ..... ?.?.% . v, n mi jiujii h;i.iip, iiil'l we'll never swear?no, never. For thelile of us we can't sea I ho u-e el' .swearing in a printing office. It don't make type set itj sell' up ; it don't create items?unless you j happen to hit somebody with a club and j j have to pay the costs?and it don't pick up j | pie hall'so quick as lingers d >. Vet the editors all think they can't run a paper wilh| out it ; hut we'll show 'em. ' We're > > gl a 1 we're an e litor, and we're I ' jg--i:i_r to make such 1 >ts id money ; we won't ' sp.-tid it all lor beer and cigars either. No, ! indeed : we'll he benevolent and do good ; with it. We'll give lots to the missionary ; j .society ? make presents to all our friends? j ' buy books and (lower.-. lor the p >or, and? ! j oh y< <! maybe we'll build a chureb and en- \ do\v a eoltage, and have our name, painted I on one o|" tlie windows, with a d -sign.? ' Yes, of c tursc wo must have a de ign on , the wind rv. le t's see, a pair ol' scissors i i and a p iste pot would hi, appro rialc Would it not ? Or a hoy with a feller?but then ( roller hoys always have dirty faces, and the ! aiti-t wouldn't want to piitit dirt, wmiM . he y 1 "It's such fun to he an editor! Think j I of the sweet revenge we'll take when we stn.'l the product-' of some a-piring genius , into the waste hiskrt. And then with what an exqui-i'e tlirill of pleasure we'll take ( , our pen and write tie- author a polite note. ! | telling him we would l ave been delighted ; to publish his excellent article if wo only ! i had room, and wouldn't !i like to .-ubsei ib.> f->r our piper. of get Us up a club All, | we've had experience. 'I'll it'.- the way tho j , men editors used to do l?y us when wo were I 'only a writ, r.' And sweeter still will he 1 our revenue on those editors themselves, 1 1 who u>ed to cru-h our budding genius with [ their cru dly polite sarcasms. There's that ; horrid old hear of the IIay City Sentinel, when he published our sweet, little poem | about llirdie," instead of remarking ou the j smoothness of the measure, or pathos of its : sentiment, he intimated that we'd been ! sighing for a lover. It wasn't true a bit ; but ah ! little did that rash man think we were one d iy to be hi< peer. Hi, <1 ar 1 it's getting 1 ite ami another | eohitnu of type to go up, n> copy ready, I an 1 all these adverti-i'in nts behind time? ! but it's lots of fun t > 1> an editor."' 'I'm: 1 >vtn*?s IhtoKKtt.? A clergyman stood by the bedside of a dying broker and s i; 1 to liiin : "My In ii 1, there are only two road- for you I ? eh ' i-e. (hie is narrow. contracted. tlmrnv : but it leads above J ' # # ' I lie other is \vi< 1? , broad. pleasant, llowery ; but it It- nls to death." " I 'on't talk to lilt! about a choice It_ ! wt'oti your broad ^11 i^c and narrow giiii;i; road", au-wered tin- broker : "why. they'll bo cuiis.didate 1 in less ' tli iti a wis it, iiikI then you're all ri^ht il you hold stock in cither.''?A )*. Shir. o A cruel miss: " I In re's my hand !" lie i exclaimed in a moment ol' c miMp: and canI dor, "and my heart is in it." Hie glanced at ti; empty palm extended toward in r. ami j wieki; i!y replied : "dust au ' supposed ; you're get no heart." THE HUNTER'S STORY. He w:is a noble specimen of (lie original hunter and miner. "Six loot one. without his stockings," lie said; broad chest and j shoulders, an arui like a sledge haiunuT, ' and a (jueer little gray eye that could set) a deer i i the luisli a (juarter of a mile away; I onu id' those rcstle-s, wandering spirits, doomed to walk the width ut'the earth, ami preparing the way for coming civili/iiio?, then pushing on I".?r tic re "elbow roo.u," lie took the first pack train into Vosotnilo; the gfld fever carried him to Australia; lie sought for diamonds in (Jrazil; prospected the Andes; then came hack to California to drive ox teams across the pi lins^lightiug Indians for a pastime. lie drove cattle in the mountains, took contracts lor keeping the camps in meat, and so on. I threw myself down on a blanket, tired; that comfortable tired feeling that comes after a lane: day's tramp, and makes rest so sweet. ' Well," said he. as he again poured the frying pan full of h itter, "you got away with that old bruin at !.i.-t. didn't you I had come across an old bear and her twi cubs, and she gave me considerable trouble j dodging around the rocks, a id my nr>gi zinc aim >st emptied before she fell. "Well, I laughed as 1 seed you, a peekin' and do Igin' round liiat rock, and it : ..lindei me of a lectio skritnunge I had otiec. I was up in lddio a pro>pcciiu\ 'I'llore was about eighteen of us. (hie night we win waked up by the yell of the Injuns, and the arrets thin' thick as hail. I shouli say, all -hut three of us, they wus fairly pinned to the ground. Wo took to the brush, and tiny run off nearly ail om horses. hi the tnornin' we touk tin rest, and sweariu' vengeance, started 01 the trail. "Wed, one tnornin' we cum on them, jus at day light, in a big canyon, 'i'iicy win all dismount d, and a lot of squaws win hoi lin their horses while they wus mukiu' : ford across the stream. They didn't seen to be expect in' us, and the roartti' of tin torrent kept them ft om heariti' us. Wi scattered, and took our positions. Only lil teen of usj- ' ile they wus utorc'n a hundred besides the squaws. 1 got on the right behind a big boulder, like the one you wu behind to-day, and soon the boys npcuci tiro. At the crack of our guns they gavt a yell, and broke across the stream, leavin a dozen dea 1 down by the squaws. "I drawed on the old chief but my Win chestcr snapped. I pulled agin, and r.gii it snapped. J?y this time they wus hid bit hind the rocks on the other side, and tin sharp shouting began. I guess a half : dozen get their eyes on me, and seeing didn't shoot, turned their artillery on me IIuW the anvrs flew ! My rock wasn't bi; enough to cover me froui their scattcrci lire, ? I'd dodge shis way only to sec ai arrear whiz past loo that way. "Fur nigh throe hours this went on. I: I wns ever near bcin' rubbed out. L wu then. Look here how they vaccinated tne, and ho held up his thuniblcss right hand "an, look here," he raised hi-; heavy inns taehe, showing ;i :>car on his uppei lij>; "ail look here," as he unbuttoned his hiou-a and uneoverod a great se.itn across hi shoulders "1 have another remembrance on tin* calf of my k g, an" if my shoe wu oil I 'd .-how you about a halt' of a big toe "The business was g'utin' serious, and saw my only chance of gittiu' my on reus out of there wits by my gun ; so I took nil my knife, and removed the lock, while tin Hint wus a knocking fire out o' the rock al round me. I found tiie trouble; a littli slick h id run in ! -id. s the linn' pin as rid through tiie brush. L screwed her to ga lln r agin, an' when I put her to my laeo she sung oat slia.p and clear, and an Injus left his rock. 1 tell you I wasn't long on now. for they got hold, thinkiu' 1 couldu' shoot, and exposed themselves. "When the game was up, an' wo earn down to the fold, it was a siekeiiiu' sight Ah ,ut sixty mjii iws and Injuns lay aloni (lie stream. A> 1 came down the eatiyoi I seed a sight i can't foget. A. young pan poose, not utore'u four or live years old, . hangin' on to a dead stjiiaw. The boy gathered 'round, and when we got mar, i ran toward us. and as we tried to touch it would kick, an' bite, an' scratch like ymuig bear ? then run an' fling itself dowi '!? the bre a*t !' the dead .-.pta\v, itu* how uu' cry. i iio b iyV blood wus up, and orn ul' tluni. rai-iu* his j.Ut i), ycdicd : ".Shoo t V young lvd varmint ; he'll soon bo 01 iho war-path a shootiu' :invi>." '*! a i i) t pious, nor nothiu. I 'arson, bu there wus somethin g"t in my throat thai nearly choked n:", and 1 looked at tha young red skin a nioanin' on the breast o its mother, and 1 ju?t stepped before the nil raised pistol, saying : "Touch him il yoi dare ; have you lbrg.it you had a inothe once !' The hoys laughed at my airnest uess, an' liually let me have my way. went toward the little critter, but lie lough like a young tiger ; an' it wus a good whil a lore I could tame him down enough t handle him. "What to do with him was a puzzle. [ couldn't hear to leave him there to die, l when we'd g??t the horses I put him 01 I a lore me, an' we started hack. The firs lay lio would not tat anything, an I cull! hardly limit!lo Itiit) ; hut (lie* second lie ^ as taaio a-> a dou, iili'l would cuddle u | close to mo at iiL-ht ; and Winn wo cunpe he'd follow nie about, sometimes jableiii j and cry in*, in a way tint made my Ilea i aclie. Nunc of the p -t could touch bin ; The hoys would lau^li at mean'ask if I w. ' j^oiu' to Mopt him. \\ lien wo ^"t a in i-l hack, one d ly ; saw liidiii* lit hind miiio rocks throe oi I erotics of m|U iW5, that had hculi left bream they con!In t travel S > I took him to then an' when I left Ikiin he howled an' crie | :i'n'iu ns made the tears como to niy even for, soiiit -how my heart "ol kind o' sot n the little I lib:;;, ai d I tell you what, l'ar.-ol | talk a yi.n |?!e?; e, the,, omcthiu' liiiina abott* (he Injttn artcr all." | THE SAD EXPERIENCE OF A SAMPLE OF THE LARGE MAJORITY. j Many men lost bi^ laonoy here lust week, I ami a few men won thousands. It was :i j b ad week on tlie "knowing ones," take them ! all in all, ami a good week lor a favored lew. (bio man in Middle Tennessee left t for home 1 i>t night happy in tlie possession of -^7 GOO won during the week ; another ! man to >k in I oOO, a S'.ate Senator j and a well km wri horse trainer ?."? .">00,? (In tlio losing side eau be tiiontione 1 a thoroughbred sport par itig with t?li).o00; I another devotee of the race track short j 5^7.r>O0, a Nashville merchant ?1.(100, anil j a Mississippi cotton planter liall'of his next year's crop. A talented and promising young man from a well known town in Tennessee came hero T today. His ardent | desire from youth w is a trip to Kurnpe.? ! Hy economy and energy he had accuuudated 11 about ?0OU to make the trip, and h id made j all arrangements to sail .'rem New York the latter part of this month, lie came here with about lifty dollars, and concluded to i go to the races. He went, bet his money , on the wrong lsor.se and lost. That trght, . at the Maxwell, lie got a "pointer"?a dead thing?on the winning horse. He gave a e .eek for -S-o') and bought pools, lie I felt confident of more than doubling his money the next day. and then he would i not bet any more, and the money won would i enable liirn to extend his trip in Kttmpo' through Italy. Mis favorite' lost, "only I beateu by?sir. a half a nose." He got stuck, badly, demoralizingly stink. lie gate another check Ibr >\100 and again r went to the track, lie asked the opinions ;! of ali the knowing ones, all the wise ones, i' all the horse joekeys, ail the newspaper reI porters, and all the wise looking cx contraL t hands. Theu he went to the pools and, *| feeling certain that he had the right horse s this time, he put the remainder of his. II I'luroj eau money on "Long Taw." Hong i j Taw was a good horse, and 1 believe is still u ^ a good horse, if they do say he broke down is. at Nashville. Hut no matter how good a '. horse Long Taw may he he did not pass his , nose under the string first, and lost the race. , My T. and IV friend groaned and ordered s the hackuian to drive him to town or hell, 1 lie didn't care which. The haekmau did, i | though, and drove him to the Maxwell.? ' j lit: slowly alighted from the carriage, drugj god him-elf to the bar and drank ha'l" a . | class of bra oily. That did not help him, i j but lie thought it would. It made matters - j worse. He bm rowed lifty dollars ami went > ! to the "Senate" to try to retrieve his lost i fortune on king faro. He struck the bcasV I at the wrong time. It was ugly and had. . been scratching all who came near his green r cage that day. The visitor bought a stack 1 of reds at a cost of The coal black ii eyes of the tiger glistened as he placed the money in his little drawer. The player f split his chips, placing half on the nine and s the other half on the four. They were " both double cards. A friend in the game ; remarked : " \\ iiy don't you pliy the cases - ] more ? ' but lie made no reply. The 1'our i' | split ami the long, shapely hand of the \ ! dealer (there was no diamond on the little a linger) reaeh.ed forth and took half of the r ! chips. The player ''pressed" the nine spot s hot v.ith the ether half, and the next turn i. was nine king. The voracious jaws of the 1 boast took in the chips. *! bet you twvutys | live on the nine," hissed the player. Turn t, after turn and no action. I'ina'iy it was a j J turn and a call. An ace, six and nine re^ 1 ' iiKiim.il in the box. The player tool; uj > | liis bet. placed half of it on the ace and 1 called it to the ace from the other >wu cards . i with the remainder. The turn came ace , nine. '1>? n my fool soul !" was the iiimIi do in d remark of the unlucky gamester as t j he turned and quitted the lair. Our friend t was frantic by this time by l.is losses. Ilo i cursed the races, faro banks, Nashville, e | over} thing and everybody, ami took another ;. 1 glass of brandy, lit: then hollowed ?50 g inure from a Mc.Minvillo friend and got up i a game of p >ker. Of course hn lost, and I i- ! mot I;iin in the lobby ol the Maxwell la.-i a night, lookiur pale, haggard ami wretched, s 1 11e will go h mie to-morrow a s id ler, but t ; perhaps a wiser man This is a true story, , j hut it is nothing new. Incidents like the i ; above occur daily, hundreds of them.? i (iauibiiug is mi ineurahle disease, ami may 1 1 be blanked if I don't think nearly all the > i pc<>i>le in the world have got it ? men, wot ' men and childia. n. i | So let the vice go i.ii it. ?:n; I The young an I n!<J go play ^ Fur some must lo*u wliile others win Thus gambles tlie worM away ! . lhit our young and talented friend will I* not see "\ eniee ami die" this Summer. I Jo must go with me to West Baden Springs, lf in Indiana, il I can get him a pass, or ho ,. may he able to r p- ml a fo / days at Crab j Orchard or (! ray sou'. 1 feel sorry fur him, I but can't assist him, for I have not yet re: eoviii <i from the election in Indiana last ball.? A i?>/.('<*!'. I ii'lf iU- Count r 0 j tfouriittl, * 1 ! As l\s \M' lsi-s. ? (>m: day a beautiful ) I Nullum v..is driving in I!iu ."Strand hi :i very n ' lo\v iiii I very elegant coup. Tin-street was ^ . Mock,elt'il fur a inoiiieiit. anil (lie noble >1 lady put her 111<I out to urge the eoaelti it ' man to drive on. Jn-t at llie instant p stabsait coal lieavit was going by on tlio 1 si !< Walk, and finding himself lace to faro i' with her I mini no other method of express* 1 ing In- admiration than to scire her lace i Ij? t\v- n liis two hands ami ki-- her. The is c ' s! IcaVer Was aria sted ; he Was tak< n l.ei I'ore a mac :-t i ate where m> tiiiiny be .-up? I 1 111. i lie lady demanded hi? condign pund 1 i-!i. rait. "We!!, what do I eaie fur all the n> 1 pmiislimeiit in the world !" cried tile culi. | prit,anient!y. ' I've ki--?jl the handsomest d woman in the three king 1 mis !" Wherej t'p. a ll'.e angtil' of the lair l.nlv Was ap ii , j * . i > ii i' \ il >( *11. .iiiu (ll! ii i II ^ in UK! i | i; itc >ho snui uouxiii^ly : <>ii. |>1 imj ii | lv t iiii.s jujor man g?? ; lie is insuie, jv\\, fee!