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?'j Iii // > X si A r , FIB8T OUB HOMES; THEN OUR ST A.TE; FINALLY THE VOLtfME 2 SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3, 1868. .1 n ATION; THESE CONSTITUTE OXJH COUNTRY. f THE ORANGEBURG NEWS. ?:o:? PUBLISHED AT ORANGEBURG, S.O. Every Saturday Horning %AitU&h.;WBBLEt Editor. Y> Q UIBBLE, Associate Editor. f&4RfiE8 H HALL, IWisher. ?:o:? TRKM8 OF SUBSCRIPTION. XStii Copy for bno year.,. $2.00 ? 4$ >? !??": 8? Month*. 1.00 Any ope sending TEN DOLLARS, for a Club of Hew JfobSCTlbt-r*, will receive an EXTRA COTY for ONJt" YEAR-V/freo of charge Any one sending FITE DOLLARS, far a Club of New Subscribers, ?ja-lll receive an EXTRA COrY for SIX MONTHS, free charge. R ATES Of ADVERTISING. I Square Jt-t Insertion..........;. $1.50 ** ?? ?* 2d 44. 75 A Square euasists of 10 lines Drevier or one inch ?f Advertising space. Admuri*?r?tor'a Notices, if uccotnpnnicd with the cask_......... $2 75 If not aoobwpanicd with the ensh.$5 00 Contract Advertisement* inserted upon tho most liberal terms. . . ?, ?to:?; . MARRIAGE snd FUNERAL NOTICES, not ex cceding cue Square, inserted without charge. a&- Terms ash in Advance, -^a feb 2? o ly DEMOCRATIC TICKET. FOR PRESIDENT, HORATIO SEYMOUR. NEW YORK. ']: FOB TICE-PRESTDENT. ERMeiS P. BLAIR. . OF MISSOURI. -o STATE ELECTORAL TICKET. ran ti/i: sta tu a t /.arge: <i EN KR AL .1. 1) K EXNEDY, OP KKIlSllAW*. ^OI.ONK^.T. I?. THOM AS OF niciii.AXD."""" ^^^i''W)At?*?f:SSif>.V.lf. district: COLONEL R. l\ GRAHAM, fi? MARlOX. \S2TCOXD COXCR3JSSIOXAL DISTRICT: OEXEN AL B. H. RUTLEDGE, OP CHARLESTON* JQTfRD .CQX^ORESSTOXAL VTSTRICTi A AJOWmh A. <0. IIASKKI.ro> OF AllllEVII.I.K. FOURTH COXGRESSWXAL DI&TJitCT: COLONEL X C. McLL'KK, OF CHESTER. SELECTED STORY, The Spatter's Wife, ? ?n ? BY T. B. TIIORPE. * * * Fatigued finally by expectations, Mag turned her eyes up the cool recesses of the ravine, and walking thitherward, she wan dered oil, admiring the beautiful mosses along, htf pathway, and gathering the delicate fern and* wild flower. Nature, over bountiful in its l^nodnces. had hidden away iu the quiet rcccs /c8 a world of beauties j evory footstep crushed ^thd'tiny flowers, and benoath every pebble pimped some gayly colored insect; the black bcetlo, sH/mt as a imita at a fuooral, thread^ .id Its Way along, and tlte little cricket, so fa miliar .fco the fireside, occasionally chirruped in pensive note. As Mag climbed on, ascending toward the light, new and more varied vegeta tion met her. view. From the upper soil a Jmndred trailing vines had run downward, rich in fruit and leaves. Knotted trees sprang If rum tho crevices, turning thoir limbs upward toward Mm light j nnd as the rising sun eeut its yiflws athwart the gloom, it made tho still lingering dew-drops of tho previous night, that hung upon the spiders' webs, glisten as if they wore necklaces of diamonds. Seating lierself upon tho stump of a fallen tree, she patiently waited tho signal to rccross the river und joiu her parents. Judge hor surprise, when she heard in this wild place, and over Jier head, the laughter of little children, in dulging iu niorry gambols j aud cvou. us she Jintened and looked, she discovered a flaxon dveaded tirohin, brown as n berry, projecting his bead over the precipice, with oyes glowing with ?curiosity, and a mouth pitckcred up as if ho wore whistling, The sight so unoxpeoted, caus ?d: Mug at first to rub her eyes, as if they de ceived her, until finally recovering her senses, .?W essayed to climb to the top of the bank, to inukc-accimiintaucc witli the young pioneer. ' . It required much exertion on Mag's part but it was accomplished, and before her stood three half clad ohildreu, two littlo boys und ? delicately formed girl, wild almost as partridges, and endeavoring to hide behind each other. Mag Bpokc to them in her kindest accents, and hold out her hand ; whether it was tho smile on her face, or tho glistening of a plain gold ring upon her finger, we know not, but the lit tle girl, bolder than her brothers, gnawing fiercely upon one of her lingers, came sidewiso toward her. Mag took the unoccupied ones within her ownj and, pressing them gently, asked the child its name. The littlo one stared about awhile with \tnmeaning eyes, and finally pointed toward what before was unobserved, somo ascending smoke, and the evidences of a just commenced |(clcnriug." Prompted by cu riosity, aud won upon by the artlcssness of tho children, Mag followed on until she stood be fore a heap of rough-hewn logs; a place for a window, und u larger opening for a door, show ed it to be the rudest kiud of a habitation Tho noise of her footsteps, and that of the children, brought out of tho shelter a wiry haired dog, that showed his sharp teeth at the appearance of a stranger, and upon whom the two boys flung themselves so roughly for its ill-manners that tho cur was glad to escape. Mug stood a moment on the threshold, and then entered, ignorant that there was uuy ono within to hail her appearance. Two or three chairs with deer-skin seats, uud a table leaning against the wall for support, was all the furni ture that met the eye, unless we include a couple of kettles, that glistened from constant use, from under which the embers had moul dered iuto ashes, aud yet ret lined their shape. Mag waa about rctrcatiug, iguorant of the existence of an occupant save horself, when iu One comer of the room, upon a low bed, raised from the floor by timbers fastened in the wall, she discovered the pule face and cumciutcd form of one she knew at oucc to be the muther of the children about her. The sight of so much poverty an distress, so start lingly ueu to hor, sunk tu her heart?she leaned over the. patient with tenderness, scarcely breathing for fear of awakening her. The woman gave a slight groan, turned her face to ward the d 'or and opened her oyes. The pre SO.Ufjr' vf a. >tr?ng*g^wfin* alax$a34^cr^aod: Mag repented her curiosity as she watched the wandering eye and unmeaning expression. It settled dowu, finally, into a strange inqury, and, with a smile playing about her compress ed lips, she asked? "Are yo of Ilcavcu, stranger?so fair, and so unyearthly V "I am not," said Mag, with emotion, as she beheld the symptoms of the wandering mind. "I am not of Heaven. My father's boat is just below here In the river?what can I bring from it to relieve your sufferings ?" "Bring use some water I" ?. Mag handed her sou.e ia a gourd, which she drank eagerly, her hot breath almost scorching Mag's hand as it played upon it. "What arc you from ?" again she inquired of Mng, staring her in tho face. "Just from the river," was tho reply of the poor girl, almost overcome with excitement. "I'll go back and briug some one to help yon." "Nd, don't go V said the woman, clutching at Mag's hand?"dont go?the fever is off now, and the ague !" and tho poor sufferer pressed her baud upon her heart. "Marin?- inarm 1" sang out the oldest boy? "Mnrm, wharfs tho com ? Kit won't cat no moro berries !" At this appeal the poor mother showod that she heard the question of her child?but she did not reply; and the boy, after repeating the remark iu u wbiuing, complaiuiug tone a dozeu J times, dragged from the ashes some half-cooked meat, and, seating himsoli Wpoh th? door-siil, divided it between his brother aud sister. "I've boon mighty weak a long time," filial ly sighed the woman?"a long time?and roots and yurbs ha' not helped me?even doctor's stuffs ha' not holped me." As she spoko, the talking of her children met her car. "Whar'll be my children when I'm gono ? who'll take 'em to tho settlements ?" Mag leaned trver the sick woman, and en deavored to encourage her druopiiig spirit? but in vain. The intcrmittnnt fever, so com mon to a new country, had racked her syBlcm und preyed upon a naturally weak mind, until one had become almost insensible to pain, aud tho other to thought. Occasionally would she for a moment revive, and irscohcrjntly talk of things, evidently rcmiuixeonccs of her youth. Then sho would speak of hor children?then brentho short sentences of a prayer. But ex posure to tho weather, bad food, and the accu mulated ills of a frontier, exaggerated by iudo lonce, nnd tho want of all mental excitement, joined with constant discaso, had absolutely de stroyed the mind. The eye gazed wildly ubout ?grew every moment moro nnd moro inex pressive. A fearful ohango parsed ovor her features, and Mag staggered and fell against ' the rude wall of the eubiiK, us she almost faint od at tho sudden consciousness that tho woman had breathed hor last. A hectic flush uiantlod Mag's palo cheek, and the hot tears droppod from between her fingers, as burying her face in her hands, she wondered why a scene.so dreadful should have passed before her. While thus speculating tho door durkened, and, looking up, sho beheld a man, with a sallow faco, shooky head of hair, and long board, bending under the weight of the hind-quarter of a deer, around whom clung with demonstrations of pleasure the three chil dren, crying?"Dad?dad 1" Mag at once comprohonded tho relation of the man to'the deceased, and, as embarrassing as was her situation, she at onco looked him in the face, aud, with the tears still upon hor cheeks, told him she feared his wife was dead. The man, with stolid look, gazed in the direc tion of tho corpse, and then throwing his bur den on the table, and placing his rifle in a corner of the room, sat down upon a low block, resting his elbows on his knees, and his face upon his hands, gazed unmeaningly into va cancy. Mag, in the meantime, passed quietly into the open air, and, gathoriug strength, walked rapidly as sho Co'uld toward tho rivor. * * * * fr" * * As Roducy reached the ascent of the ravine, he met Mag?hor eyes still betraying that she had becu weeping?in fact, tho agitation of her whole face was painful. "What has harmed thee tu tho young man inquired, with unaffected earnestness. "Suflbriug aud misery," roplicd the stricken girl, almost ready to sink to the oarth?"such a scene?so dreadful!" "And sho covered her face with her hands, as if to shut out from her memory the thiugs she had witnessed. Rodney half supported her as she descended to the river side, using at the same time the most persuasive language iu his power, to re cover her spirits, and to lourn the cause of her distress. A few broken scuteuces from Mag gave Rodney au idea of what she had scon ; he silently directed the skiff toward the Ariel, and restored the poor girl to her parents. Morgan had been most auxiously waiting the appearance of Reo, aud was somewhat out of humor at his absence : in tho excitement he itatl tit.it &sJi#ig?-rfe;;? ^.Vif3.r*?:??-.' ??" '.w** thought nothing of her sudden disappearance into the hold of the boat with her mother; al ready had he given orders to unloosen tho ''flat," when Roduey mentioned to him the particulars of the trip ashore. Morgan, in stantly counterraaudiug his order, wcut him self below, aud soon returning, he jumped iu to the skill', and bidding Rodney to follow, thoy were soon across the river, und as they were landing, tho squatter presented himself. "I am glud, strangers, yu've cum'd across," said he, saluting Morgan and Roduey, "perhaps you'll help a poor man iu trouble ?" "Most cortainly, we will," answered Morgan, "we have left the boat for that purpose." "God Almighty bless you for't," said the poor fellow with evident emotion, "und mabe it was your darter that closed her eyes ?" he continued, looking at Morgan. "I presume it was," said the father, affected to think of the sorrowful task imposed upon his child. "Well, she's done now," said the man sor rowfully, "aud must have a Christiau's bu rial." Morgan comprehended the duty imposed upou him at once, and explaining to Rodney what humanity required, ho gavo some geno rul directions, and sent him back to tho flat. The squatter iu the meantime, talked as one walking in his sleep, and seemed at times al most idiotic, and finally sat down and gazed steadily into vacancy, apparently without feel r.~ ?1w>??ht. 1115 V? Wi?V?.Jjw. "How long was your wife sick?" asked Morgan, endeavoring to rouse the man iuto some consciousno s. "Ever sinco spring," he said, unmovcdly. "What ailed her?" persevered Morgan. "Jist ngee?she shuck powerful every day? she tried yurbs, and I went down lo Limestun for doctors stuff?but she died." "What brought on the ague ?" iuquircd Morgan for the purpose of keeping up a con versation. "Rich land, and no pine knots to warm by," said the man, musingly. Rodney returned with some rough planks, torn from places that made them not positive ly necessary to the flat, and with a saw and hammer, and assisted by Morgan, they wore carried after the squatter as he led tho way to his desolate houso. Tho rudest possible effiu was soon made, t ad tho body of tho poor wo man, as death overtook it, wus laid within it by tho hands of Btrangers, her littlo children all tho whilo gazing on with intonso, but igno rant curiosity. This duty performed, beneath a wide spreading beech, that stood upou an eminence near the house, was chosen a place for the gravo. While theso terrible prepara tions wcro going on, tho husband Btood by, gazing, as if yet ignorant of the extent of his misfortune j his children, accustomed to take care of themselves, went on seeking such ox rilctuunt us|?ffored, pursuing tho nimble grass hopper, orraiy butterfly. The funeral was an unostoiitatu'us one indeed, the chiuf mourner in the rcar|?f the two coffin bearers, formed tho ptocosffljpn; tho children, for angels in spired thcn&'went whoopiug off in the hollows hard by, aiyd were spared the first impressions of sorrow, djjtv.it would probably have scared their little',hearts had thoy been present, as their mother was forever hidden from their view. ? The worfeaccomplished that mysterious pile of earth tBlMb speaks so eloquently of mortali ty, marked JJbc spot where lay the body of the squatter's vjhfc. How like the history of thou sands thonjjud since. No tear of her own sex nouc of *Ji?fj;delicacy of a womau's hand or a mothcr's hjatirt, to sanctify or bless her grave. Obscure, .ay.it among earth's humblest, her spirit, diverted of its cluy, in eternity will brighten w&tli that intolligenco, aud expand with tliat?hought, which poverty, and the cares of a <|old world here denied her. J&A RIOUS. Tlyp Municipal Elections. The fpil?;!ng hill is iiOW n law: A bill to |foWc /'or the (lection of the ,tj}kcr* of the in?fjjoratetl cities and towns in the State of S(\t/i Carolina. ictcd by the Senate und House of yes of tho State of South Carolina, ud sitting iu Genend Assembly. 'Authority of the same : |;Thut his Excellency the Gov oh or im mediate 13- after the pussagc rder an election to bo held on the ?dtiy of November, in tho year H incorporated cities and towns in for the election of all officers pro ?J?te charters of the said cities nnd Sec. 2% .Ifhe managers of elections appoint ed in purftliauco of an act of the General Ass(Mubly,,Tjirisfied at the special sessiou of 18ti8, are Jhereby- authorized and required to coinj^c^j^^l^etioris herein provided for, and ^w^hseque?^>?*fc*.;C. ,,.j?. i?.|,i \n Buch cities' and towns, until otherwise provided for by law. Sec. 3. In order to secure tho free ex pression of all persons qualified tu vote as here inafter provided, the managers of election shall open their respective polling, places for three days next preceding tho day lixed for the election herein provided for. commencing ut 7 o'clock A. 31., and closing at 5 o'clock 1*. M. each day and shall, during these days, record the names of all qualified electors, and their place of residence, in a book to bo furn ished by them, the managers. All persons who present thomselvcs for such registration shall, before their names are recorded, take nnd subscribe the following oath : "I,-,do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the Unitod States; that I have been an inhabitant of this State fur one year next preceding this day, aud fur tho last sixty d-iys a resident of this city, town or village, us the euse may be; that 1 reside iu this ward or polling precinct." The managers shall, after tho election, turn over the registration hunks to the Mayor or Intendant, who shall oause the same to be put up iu n safe and secure placo; they shall rcccivo a sum of money to eoYer expenditures for books, stationery, iDc, together with their pay as heroin allowed from the treasury of such city, towu Or village, wherein such elect km is IkKI. Sec. -1. The qualifications vi* an Sector shall V* wtuse required by tho Constitution, together with a residence of sixty days next preceding the election, within the corporate limits of the city or town, and that he has been duly registered in tho ward ur precinct in which he offers to vote. Sec. 5. The managers of election shall meet at ten o'clock, A. M. on the day succeeding such election at sonic publie placo within the corporate limits of the city or town in which such election is hold, und proceed to count the votes under oath, stating the whole number of votes cast fur each oaudiduto or person voted for, and shall transmit their report iff the same in a scaled envelope to the acting Mayor or Intendant, of the city or town wherein they have been uppointcd; und if there be no acting Mayor or Intendant in any such city or town, or in the absence of such Mayor or Intendant, the same shall be transmitted to the Clerk of the Court for the county in which said city or I town may bo. The said Mayor or Intendant or Clerk of Court shall open the report of said managers, and shall announce and publish the whole number of votes cast, and the whole number cast for each candidate, when the sover.il candidates receiving the largest num ber of legal votes for the offices for which they wcro voted for shall be declared duly elected. Tho managers of el- elion shall decide contest ed cases, subject to tho ultimato decision of the Boards of Aldermen or Wardens When Jlc it e>{ Representnil now met fjf aud by thej Section ernor shall} of this act, j second Tig 18G8, in J this State.1 vided for b;, towns. organized, except when the election of a ma jority of the persons voted for arc contested, or the managers charged with illegal conduct, in which caBe the returns, together with the ballots, shall bu examined, and tho case in vestigated by tho acting Board of Aldermen, who shall declare the election; and their de cision shall be binding upon all parties. Sec. 6. In all elections held in accordance with this act, the polls shall be opened at 7 o'clock A. M. and kept open during one day at all the polling precincts and in the various wards, and shall close at 5 o'clock P. M. Each ward in the city of Charleston shall constiute i at least ono polling prceiuct. Sec. 7. The officers elected under this act shall, on taking the oath prescribed iu the Constitutiou, be iuductod into office on the Monday succeeding their election, and shall immediately enter upon the discharge of their official duties. Sec. 8. Said officers shall hold their offices up to the regular time fixed by charter for the election ot the same and for one full term thereafter, and until their successors arc elect ed and qualified. The oath of office may be administered by any officer of the State who is authorized by Is w to administer the same. Sec. 9. The managers of elections shall re ceive as compensation for thoir services the sum of two dollars per day for the time actual ly employed in such election, aud also for the LiTT.C employed in the registration of voters. I Sec. 10. All bar-rod!!!.* aud drinking suloons in the town or city where such eleetiort is held shall be closed on the days of election, and any person who shall sell to any persons any intoxicating drinks on the day of election shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be fined iu a sum not less than one hundred dollars or more than three hun dred dollars, or be imprisoned for a period not less than one mouth nor more than sixjmonths. See. 11. All statutes providing ngaiust ille gal voting, or the bribery and intimidation of ! votcis, passed heretofore and not inconsistent I with the present Constitution, arc continued i in full force; but all acts or parts of acts : inconsistent therewith supplied by this act, are hereby repealed. ?iaM^i^_jj A correspondent from Mississippi writes: On Saturday, General O. O. Howard visited Jackson. Tho General has a theory that the rising generation of negroes, with all the bless ings, of liberty, education and the freed man's bureau, must be rising up far superior to their slave born nnccstors, and ho is traveling to collect facts to support his theory. In pur suance of this object, tho General waited upou the Mayor of Jackson, who, being a military appointee, it was presumed would bo found re liable and Republican. That functionary re ceived the chief of tho bureau with all cour tesy. "I have called," said the General, "for in-1 formation as to the condition of the freed peo ple of this district?I mean as to their morals aud general conduct." "Bad, sir; very bad." "I mean the younger people," remarked the General. "Bad, sir; d'-d bad," returned the civil Kalstaff. "In what respect do you mean, Mr. Mayor?" "The men are all thieves, and tho women arc all no better than they should bo." "You mean the older women, drj yev nolj" asked the Gollern), anxiously. '?No, Oon^rj^ I ii?v,;t. t mean from twelve years old and upward.-3,." General Howard left by the next cars for Vicksburg. A mass meeting was being got ten up for him by tho negro leaders, but he did not wait for it. There is one matter which General Howard, with much advantage, might have investigated, but which he (lid not touch. The malaria caused by recent heavy rains has given unu sual prevalence to malarial levers in and around Jackson, and the disease has assumed a fatal congestive type. Among the old and infirm negroes, it has proved very fatal, for lack of proper remedies. They arc too poor to buy medicine. The claims on the charity of the looal druggists have been so excessive, that they huVC been compelled to refuse further gratuitous supplies. Meanwhile the Freed mnit's Bureau, which Congress tor political purposo continued, raises not a finger in their behalf. "Why don't you go to the Bureau doctor?" I asked au old woman, whom want and feVcr had reduced to a living skeleton. "Do booroo ain't ho good td mo," she "said, I -'Dcy only cares for dem dat kan take care of deuiBolves." Elliott, Whippcr and Wright, all negro members of th? Moriagerie, have been admit ted to practice as Attorneys by the Supreme Court. Each of them exhibited certificates of having studied law in other States-. -.?. \h> Item?. There are nine thousand Jews in Chicago. The applo crop of Long Island is a ljtilurc. Grasshoppers are sucking grapes in OWo? ih A Havana firm has failed for $e,000,0*>0. London cabmen are again on a strike. There are 20,000 Americans ttoW in The Persian throne has lost tta %?\r t>y cholera. ? ? Peaches are 50 to 75 cents u bushel in Kas tern Texas. Butter is seventy cents a pound ill Phila delphia. Montana will hate a bountiful Imtcst this year. It is said all the lakes in Utah have Sea serpents. Elliot, the portrait painter, left a fortune of $30,000. . - ? The Pacific whale fishery is a failure this year. Dartmouth College has graduated 3,550 students. Russia is to hold a great horse chow at Mos* cow next year. . * The Siamese twins have left for l'aris.to seek a separation. Utah is paying twenty-five cents apiece for apples. The Virginia tobacco'crop is the best since 1860. St. Paul haa raised ft ,200 to rclietc iho Red River farmers. - Italy has realised $32,000,000 from the safe of church property, Wild liuncv is gathered in large qnatftrtfci? V* in Arkansas? Missouri claims to have plumbago ffintigti " to supply the world. The Viceroy of Egypt is build log a ps W to cost $2,500,000. The Baptists have 191 churches and 71,478 members In Sweden. 1'arWo peFce'nfc."a xnbhtb is the cotfnBolf Calf*' fornia rate of interest. Southern Kentucky mouiises twice aa much tobacco as last year. An escaped hear has been roaming in the streets of New Haven. Jacob YoU?g and wife were murdered neat Indianapolis lately. Taxable property in Brooklyn increased eleven millions last year. The Hahncraann College building In Phil adelphia is now completed. The Chief of the Oncida Indians preached in New York last week. The White Mountains have had seven thou sand visitors this season, The Pennsylvania oil wells turned out iify 235 barrels a day last month; American hay from Nebraska has been sel ling in Liverpool for f 2d a ton. Tho Springfield, 111., postmaster is abosft $12,000 short in his account; ? Gen. Sherman is to hate anothef cavalry regiment for the Indian service; Mail agonts on tile Union Pabiflli jitilroad arc armed wit!: Spencer carbirieai A quarry of red! FreHcIl btifr illiHol?tte has been found in Southern Illinois. Two-thirds of all tho gloves said in New York aro said to be made bf rat ?kiti. The largest corn fctop ever grUWti in Minne-., sota ij nearly ready fur harvesting-. The game season for quails attd prairie chiekcus has opened in Illinois and Indiana. New York letter carriers i? tho upper dss trietsarc to be mounted on vclooipedes. Cornelius Yundorbilt cad draw his check, for $0,000,000 any time, and get it cashed. The Baltimore arid Annapolis oystermen have commenced operation* for the season. France and England have copies of each other's official publications for several hundred yearfr. The largest iioman Catholic church in the United States is to be completed in Brooklyn! New York. Sixteen Office holders, five women, si* boys and a short-tailed ddg constituted "a Urge ami enthusiastic Grant meeting" in Illinois. The gingerbread and peanut vender* of New Orlcaus all congregate before the Capitol and do a big business among the legislators. All the Justices of the Peaco elected in Shelby County, Ala., are negroes, and. not oue of them euu read or write.