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THE dRANGEBTJR? NEWS. PUBLISHED Atf ORANGEBURG, S. 0. Every Saturday Morning. ?to:?. $AMmL DIBBLE, Editor. 'V..C. DIBBLE, Associate Editor. GHAHLES H. HALL, l\d,lishcr. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ^?nsCopy'lfer one year...l. $2.00 ' " <' Six Months..;. 1.00 -Any. one leading TEN DOLLARS, for a Glnb of New Subscribers; will receive an EXTRA- COPY !or ONE YEAR, free of charge. Any one sending FI?B DOLLARS, fe* a Club of Now Subscribers, will receWe an EXTRA COPY for SIX MONTHS, ifree af charge. ? : - '?? ~'0: RATES OF ADVERTISING. 1 Square 1st Insertion..... $100 *' 2d . 76 A Square consists of 10 lines brevier or one inch ?of Advertising space. .Administrator's Notices, if accompanied wdth the . cash.....?.....'.?.$2 75 IT not accompanied with the cash.$f> 00 Contract Advertisements inserted upon the moBt' liberal terms, , ?t . MARRIAGE and FUNERAL NOTICES, not ex ceeding one Square, inserted without charge. / -T?:?:? Terms'Gash in Advance. liefere tnc? the towering ^reeipico rising in majestic grandetuy with scarce a creviee to re lieve the monotony of perpeudioular face, near ly two. hundred feot heavenward; to the left, thti straggling broken chain of rugged moun tains, ecauty clothed with the hardy vcrduro indigenous to this - part of our country. To my right and rear, as far as eye could reach, the rolling prairie, whose single stream mean dering sluggishly front the foot of the hills through the tall waving grass until lost in the distance^; and nt my feet, the graves?the grave of the truo and beautiful; the grave of .the fearless and manly. I had halted for tho night within a mile of (this storied spot, and tuy octogenarian host, whose faculties woro still as clear as tho rip pling rill running past his door, had kindly promised to relutc to me tho mournful talc ?which-gave to tho precipitous mountain the namo of Enomah's Leap. "But,M JJaid ho$ "while suppor is in course of preparation, you should view the spot more olosely; it may servo to bring the last sconce more vividly before you." This suggestion I had acted upon, and the grand und gloomy beauty of the placo had pro pared :?iy mind for any legend, howover weird. Bat this, my host said, vrns no legend, but sim ple truth, for he saw and know the principal actors iu it beforo it happcucd, and was among -tho first of r,hc White ruce at tho scono of the - After U hearty backwoods suppor, vre twain coated ourselves, with our corncob pipes, upon ihcLfecDoh.before the door, in tho.<bright moon Jight, ant! tiro old niari cooiiiioaced : "It's as many as fctty yours ngoue, since this thing happened, hut I've thought on it so much, and drcatnpt of it so often, that I re-^ member it to-night, well as I did the day it transpired. 'Tisn't a story to bo soon forgot ton. "Enonmh vfas the only child of Manaonc, ono of the,fiercest and most relentless chief tains, of the Sioux. How ho camo by such a daughter is one of those mystorics' which will bo unraveled at the last great day, for setting aside her marvelous beauty?ho Was es ugly as sin?she was tho essonce of nmiabUUy. pity, aud devotion; something, I hayejofton thought like what a child's dream of nn angel is. "Glitnpso of House," some hunter from tho East hud christened her, but the name wasu't soft enough, and hadn't meaning enough for the settlers of this region who knew her full character, so they fell back on her own name of Enomuh, until the arrival at their out of tho way settlement of Harry Johnson, as fiuo a young follow as ever turned his back ou the bustling city, for a life of health and freedom in Nature's towns?the woods. Ho was tall?taller than most men, but you would Beurccly have thought it, ho waB so ad mirably proportioned, and his handsome uuu liml her left at si ,<j? -irieavtsease -'Oft', - 'red ^ yj^^j arm terribly lacerated as if with' the fuuga of spmo wild beast. It was on the day following, when a party of warriors brought in tho dead body of an enormous panther, claiming to have slain it, then she told her tale?-how the nionstor came upou her unawares, and sho had expected nothing but a terrible death. Tbe panther had already left the branch upon his deadly spring, when she felt herself pushed onoside, and knew that another had received ulmost tho full force of the beast's decent, one of the armed oluws, Only, having reached her left arm, the wounds foebled form, when ho took his first convalcs ccut walk. j "Thon a change came. Hcarlscasc, when she saw her patient regaining his wonted hcnlf^tfecniod suddenly to have conceived an aversion to tho cabin, and many a weary hour did Harry spend in watching for her return. At last after a week had passed unohcered by her prcsonce, ho determined, weak as he was, to scok tho Indian village, and, if possible see the Indian maiden. "Ho was not destined to exert himself so much on that occasion, for scarcoly had ho journeyed half the distance when he came up on the objects of his thoughts, carelessly tos sing pebbles into a little stream which, flowed at her foot. "Hoartscnsc !" "My preserver!" And the guilcicsa forest child sprang to meet, himj then suddenly checking her ardor she paused, and with a confused blush, gave him her hand. "Why huvo you stayed so long from mo, Heartsease V inquired tho hunter, with a glance of unconcealed admiration. ?*X>id my white friend miss mo, then." "Would you miss the bright sun should it cease to shine? Would you miss the pretty wild flowers if they grew no more? Would you miss the twinkling stars if they should sob forover? Even bo havo I missed you, IIoartsoaBo." "I havo missed my friend too/' said tho In dia h maiden, trembling with an emotion which she could not conceal, "and would havo come to him, only I feared-." ??You feared f What did you foor, my dar ling?"' For you aro, you must be my dnr ling;" and ho folded tho little tremblor to his breast. "Think you I havo felt thoso sooth ing fingers on my brow, or met tho glanco of these sweet blue eyes without knowing thero was love in- tho touch and look? Tell mo! what you feared ?" i "Oh, it was this I feared 1" sho murmured. "I loured that you would discover my lovo for you. and despise me for it, for how could I, kuow that you would lovo mo iu return? You jay you do 1 You call me darling 1 Am I dour to you 1" "Ab life itself?nay, dearer than life; as my soul!" "Then, Hurry, break with mo a stick at tho. runuing stream, and be true to me as to your soul." Taking up a slender twig, sho held it to wards her lover and with her blue eyes picrc ug his very heart, she said : "When Enotuah forgets you, may the Great Spirit of'her nation forget her, and forever leny her .entrance to the happy hunting grounds of her father and brothers." "Spoakl" "On the day that Harry Houston proves Pulsr to his Heartsease, may the good right Imud which holds this twig wither from his irui, and may his-Groat Spirit blot his name from the book of life." They scarcely wuitcd till the pieces of tho broken twig had touched tho stream wheu they clasped each other iu a fervid embrace, for getting all the world beside. "But my father I" suddenly exclaimed Heartsease, disengaging herself from Harry's arms, "he will never consent." "No ? Is ho po inveterate in his hatred to our race ?" "Terribly so ! and more especially would he forbid my marriage with one of you." "Then our only plan is to journey two. days [toward the dawn, where wc will find a man of SMan'??tSSn^ruW'^-^ven^wowtirp 'iar iVh.iy runu-i l^V" siting SUM, where wcjvill pass our lives in happiness and confdidmcn'i; liviug for each other a?d our children. Shall it be so, darling ?" "I will do as you say, Harry; the broken stick has made inc yours." Five days after this wildwood betrothal the hunter entered the Sioux village, leading by the hand his happy, yet anxious brido. Hcarts caso had bcou sorely missed by Manaonc, but its sho Was in the habit of strnyiug off to the settlements, and remaining ubsont for days to gether, her disappearance oceasioucd no real alarm; nevertheless Manaonc received her with a species of grim pleasure. "Was Euomoh lost, that she is led home bj' the white hunter ?" said her father, after a stately nod to Harry. "Heartsease remained silent, whilo a deeper crimson suffused her check and brow. "No, Manaonc," quickly replied Harry, who saw that the power of spceeh had for the mo ment left his bride. "Enoniuh was not lost, b?t she has journeyed with tue to the lodge of a servant of Muuito, who has married us. Panther-slayer comes to you us u sou. Will you forgive us ?" "What! dog of a pale face I" almost shriek ed Muuaouc. "The daughter of a great chief has becomo your squaw, and you hnv? come to me for forgiveness ? Ha ! ha ! you shall have it! You shall have such forgiveness as the " vounded bear bestows upon one who steals her cubs. Ho ! Tuomau !" Tho paiuted visage of a warrior appeared at the opening of the wigwam, and the chief- continued, addressing him : "Lead forth the dog of a hunter, and sec that you guurd him well. To-morrow, tit sunrise, cither ho or jou must die !" Although surprised at this reception, so dif ferent front what ho had expected, Harry would have resisted to tho death, had it not been that a number of warriors had rushed to the spot, upon hearing the thundor tones of Manuone, and thrown themselves upon hiui ere ho could draw a weapon. With his arms securely pinioned bo wus led away, whilo the gentle Elioinah sank iu a swoon ut her father's feet. "Take hence the traitress to the memory o! her fathers," ho said to a squaw who was iu tho wigwam, "and sec that she bo restored iu time to witness the death of her palo lover." I "But I am getting tedious stranger," the old man said, "so I will husteu with what fol lowed. The morning dawned bright and beautiful as that of a wedding day, and the whole tribe gathered in the centre of the village, where the four head chiefs were soon seated on piles of skins. "Bring forth the palo face," said M.tnaom. rising,i,dthat the warrior of tho great Sioux nation-may pronouuee^his doom." Into-tho ceutrc of tho open space heforo the judges, they brought tho prisoner, with his hands;f.lghtly bound behind him, aud Mana onc, tiding two steps forward, raised Iiis right hand,V,fls if to. couimaud attentiuu, uddrcsscd tho nrriCpibly. . "Wjifriurs of tho great Sioux natiou, what do ye whon-a sne .king wolf outers your wig wam ui your ab.icnce, glutting itself upon your papoose us it lies sleeping, aud that wolle af terwajfo : falls in your power? What do yo whcn^?jrpauther springs upon the littlo one that ]Mays ubout your knee, und yo afterwards find panther slcepiug ? Need I ask ?" A yurmur of terrible import rose from the swaying? juasfH-swayiug with the workings of their ^indicative passions, and Harry lijuston kncw'l^y the eager bloodthirsty look in the eyes which^surrounded him, that his doom was sealed. "T&?palo hunter," continued Manaone, whou the ihn {murmur had died away,-came to us as a-Jj^ciid, and we opened our wigwams to his tiredjfcot und g.ive him of the best to cat, he caind;Ho us with honey on his tongue hiding the sting within his heart, his words were like the f-jfest rose, but his meaning like the thorn concerdcd beneath, aud with his doublo tiaiyuo he lured hwuy a daughter of our tribe?my child/;; Enomah. What is thisfalso friend's duoui??V.: / "Death?!" rang out from a hundred throats, "death: by tho fire !" '?jfo-j1' said JIanaouc, and u dark, sinister smilojplayed upon his features, "wc will give hiuif^chauce for his life. He shall leap from tho 'bald rock; if ho escape death then, his Great Spirit ib stronger than ours, aud he shall -he free. I have said it, aud it shall be so V' T&orc wero a low among tho assembled warriors who umrmurcd because they could not Imvo the demoniacal pleasure of torturiug the ^n-tcr, but the majority took tho side of Ma; ione, and the victim wus dragged, amid tcrr .io whoops, to the edge of the precepicc? *iw it t&ttoy. ring forth my guilty daughter that she ^hold her pale face warrior die," eom 11 ml poor Heartsease, now stood, calm aud unmoved-1 A came into his clear, dark eye, as she left jior conductors-?md. houiided to his side. "jlarry, husband, mmi y?ju ui?>V" she i waited. ] "Bo it has beuu decreed by your steru futh er," he answered, softly, "but ho has choscu for no an ea.sy and painless death. I am to I Oil j from this rock." "'Tis uu awful leap,"said Euomah, dreami ly, 1 and 'tis a long distance to go?alone." shall have coased to breathe beforo I reach the bottom, darling, so I shall feel no -And is all ready ?" inquired Heartsease. fWhon you have returned to your friends the signal will be given, and thoso warriors ou our left will dart forward and burl me from in) foothold." Enoiuah's face had a heaven-born expression ou it, as she looked up and said ; "Sa)' one littlo prayer to tho Great Spirit, H irry. and 1 will pray too; don't forget to ask your Mouito to take me with you w hcrevcr you go after death, und 1 will nsk the Great Spirit of the Sioux to let me go." Then, after bowing her head a m?mdtit, as if iu silent prayer, she turned her face to where Mhnaoue stood, iu the midst of his warriors, and, with a look which haunted him until his dying day, she cried : "Farewell^ father ; iu life or death I am Harry's only !" As sho finished she clasped her fettered hus band iu her arms, and before a band could be raised to stay licr, hounded from the rook with a thrilling cry. You saw the graves to-day. It was on that spot they found their mangled bodies, he still clasped iu the dead arms of his Heartsease, and since that day they have called the moun tain? Unoiuah's heap." VARIOUS. [From Moore's Kural New Yorker.] Susie's Prayer. it, was half holiday. The children were gathered on the green and a right merry time they were having. I think children always do enjoy themselves on such occasions. '?Come, girls and boys," called out Xed Graham, "let's play hunt the squirrel." All assented eagerly, and a large circle was formed with Ned Graham for leader because he was the largest.? '?Come, Susie," said one of the boys, <o a I little girl wlm Mood on one side, and seemed to shrink from joining them. "Oh, never mind tier'}'-' s.'dd Nod, \Vilh h littl? toss of his head, "she's nobody, any how. ilor lather drinks." A quick flush crept over the child's pale faco as she heard the cruel, thoughtless words. Sho was very 'sensitivo, and the arrow, had touched her heart in its tenderest place. II er father iras a drunkard, she knew, but to bo taunted with it before so many was more than she could bear; and with great sobs heaving her bosom, aud hot tears idling hor eyes, she turned aud ran away from tho ploy-ground. Her mother was sitting by the window when she reached home and the tearful face of tho little girl told that something had happened to disturb hor. "What is tho matter, Susie?" sho asked, kindly. "Oh, mother," Susie said, with the tears dropping down her checks, nS she hid her fuce iu her mother's lap, "Ned Graham said such a cruel thing about me," and hore the sobs chocked her* voico so that she could hardly speak ;" -he said I wasn't anybody, and that father drinks." "My poor littlo girl," Mrs. Eilet said, very sadly. There were tears in her. eyes, too^ Such taunts as this were nothing now. "Oh, mother," Susie said, as sho lifted her faco, wet. with tears, from her mother's lap, "I can't bear to have thcin say so, and act just as if . 'J^ad douo something wicked. I wish fath er wouldu't drink ! Do you suppose he'll ever lcavo it off I "I hope so," Mrs. Eilet answered, as she kissed Susie's face where the-tears clung like drops of dew ou a rose. .. "I pray that ho may break off the habit, and I can do nothing but pray, and leave tho rest to God." That night Mr. Eilet came home to supper, as usual. He was a hard-working man, and a good neighbor. So everybody said, but ho had tho habit of intemperance so firmly fixed upon him that everybody thought he would end his days in the drunkard's grave. Susie kissed him when ho came through the gate, as she al ways did, but tbcro was something iu hei face that went to his heart, A look bo sad, and full of tpuohing sorrow fur ono so young as sho! . * "What ails my littlo girl ?" hp asked, as he patted her cftrly hoad. "I Oftr/ii*!'' y??> father," she answered, | - Why ?,?N'ho-Ti^ttri-~~*~?~....jU*? -- j ""Because it would make you feel bad-," Susie replied. "I guess not," he said, as they waited up to the dour together. "What is it, Susie?" "On, father," and Susio burst into tears again as the momory of Ned Graham's words came up freshly in her mind, "I wish yon. wouldn't drink any more for the boya and girls don't like to play with mc, 'causo you do." .. . /. a M.r Ellct made no reply. But something stirred in his heart that made him ashamed of himself; ashamed tuat he was tho causo of so much sorrow and misery. After supper ho took his hat, und Mrs. El let knew or.ly too well where he was goiug. At iirst he had resolved to stay at homo that eveniug, but the force of habit was so strong that he could not resist, and ho yielded,prom ising himself, that he would not driuk more than once or twice. Susio had left the table before he finished bis supper, aud us he passed tho great clump of lilacs, by the path, on his way to the gate, he heard her voice and stopped to listen to what she was saying. "Oh, good Jesus, please don't let father drink any more. Make hint just as he used to be when I was a baby, and the boys and girls can't call mc a drunkard's child, or say such bad things about me. Please dear Jesus, for mother's sake and mine." Susie's father listened to her simple prayer with a great lump swelling iu his throat. And when it was ended he went up to her, and knelt, down by her side, and put his arm uround her, oh, so lovingly! I "God in Heaven," ho said, vory solemnly, "I promise to-night, never to touch another drop of liquor as long as I live. Give me strength to keep my pledgo, and help mc to bo a bettor man.'"'' "Ob, father,!' Susie cried, her anus about his neck, and her head upon his breast, "I'm so glad ! I shan't care nbout anything they say to mc now, for 1 know you won't bo a drunkard any more." "God helping mc, 1 will bo a man}" he an swered, as, with Susio in his arms, he wont back into tho house where his wifo was sitting with the old paticlit look of sorrow on her face,?the look that bad becomo so habitual. 1 cannot tell you of the joy and thanksgiv ing that went up from that hearthstone that! night. 1 wish I could, but it was too ocop a joy which tilled the hearts of Susio and hor mother to bo described. Wns not Susie's prayer answered f in? ???--<??? A train loaded with soldiers, ran off the ! traok near Oordonsville, Virginia, mid four were killed and many w'o?rtded. The Elective Franchise. To the People of South Carolina: It was referred to the State Central Execn-; /' tive Committee, by the lato Democratic Con vention, to inquire into tho disabilities imposed, hy reason of tho war, upon a portion of our people, restraining them from tho exercise of the elective franchise in South Carolina, and to publish tho conclusion attained, for the. information of the people of the State. The committee in discharge of that- duty, announce that they have examined,the subject, and beg to state: ., , . 1. That no such disabilities now exist by or under tho acts of Congress, known as tho Kc construcHion act, tho Stale having been of ficially declared to bo in the Union, 2. That no such disabilities exist under thd so-called amendment, known as the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the disabilities therein expressed hav ing reference to office-holding, and not to* voting. ; ' 3. That.no such disabilities exist by tho so called State Constitution of 1868, under which it is claimed that the State has been recon structed and restored to the Union. Tho undersigned therefore, announce that no such disabilities exist by force of any law? or supposed law, or authority whatevorj and they urge their hitherto disfranchised' fellow citisens, in every part of the State, to exercise their right, to vote at the coming election for President and Vice-Prcsidcnt, of which right they have been so long deprived by military power. By order of the. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Items. The Indianapolis pension agency has 12,000 names, and the annual payments amount to 81,800,000. The eastern shore of Lake Michigan furnish' cd Chicago with 50,000 bushels of ticacbes ... tins season. ; . .-?.:.>;?? '. . 22 miles of feuco inclose a farm of 13,000 acres in Illinois, which is subdivided by 70s. miles of hedge. The needle-gun has been introduced i?>to Alie armies of* Denmark, Sweden, Holland, and S^ituiutcii States. The length of England, from Berwick to Land's End, is estimated ai 426 miles. It is said that Mrs. John Wood, the actress, has married a London journalist. A Kentuckian calculates that he has chewed ; 1,825 lbs, of tobacco in forty years'; The wife of Prince Napolootf is iff tho fcistr stages of .pulmonary consumption.^: :' A'^}!' Chinese are flocking by millions Co the* newly discovered gold mhies" a't Ciicfbd'.' IMr. Chandler of Alstcad, jJ.'H.', harvested^ a crop of com 150* duys after planting. ? v x ? A New York milliner has buitt a1Wn'Bte? which is a marvel oi cheapness at $125*. The corn crops in the lowlands of Kentucky have been ruined by an' inundation, i, Competition has lowered thd steamboat fares1 on tho upper Mississippi vfcry much. Brooklyn's valtfirtion is $101,317,560, an increase of eleven million's since last year. A rcgimeut of Uflitod States troops oigtifll' hundred strong, has boon sent from Washing ton to Nashville, Tonnossoo. Beast Butler has been rcnominaied for Cori grcss by the Bostoniuna. The government is to issue arms to citizens living ou the Indian frontier. The United States will be requested to senii - representatives to the European Peace Con gress at Beruc. There was a grand Democratic demonstra tion at Mobile on Monday night. Twchly fivo clubs, aggregating oiglit thousand persons; marched in proccssiou. In tho Surratt case arf appeal hak feoc4| taken from tho dcfclSloh of Judge ">V*ylie, aha a new indictment, will bo submitted to tho jury. More earthquakes and volcanic eruptions have taken place in the Sandwich Islands". The reported sinking of tllfc southeastern stioro5 of Hawaii is confirmed: , ? v ?' ? i t, " ?. Ex-Prcsid? pt Pierce is very feeble. His norvous system is quite shattered, and it i's very doubtful whether-ho will get abo?t Ulli fall or wiuter?if at all again. Tho municipal election in Na?llviiio, Tettil.; on Saturday, resulted in tho re-election of the present incumbent. Both candidates *VeroRc? , publicans. Confederate General J. C. Hln'iiman na?^ been assassinated at his residence, Helena, Artb A man named Robbins, of Scringficld Missou ri, who sorvefl under him, htra been &rrc*tebV but dctiies being the murdcran