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i Mi* ^^if^ST'OUR HOMES; THION OXJ31- STATIC; UTIST^VLLY TEC 2. &9 ; THESE Ci^?TI^?TE OXJH SATURDAY MORNING, <??BEE 10, 1868; tiH.'Jpet : .I'M . fir v * TEE ?RANGEBTJR& NEWS. .v-'iSs* ?:o:? ?PUBLISHED AI1 ORANGEBURG, S. ?. Evei'y Saturday Morning. >$AM{?EL DIBBLE, Editor. ''V. C. DIBBLE, Associate Editor. Gil ARLES LT. HALL, Publisher. TKHMS ?F SUBSCRIPTION. 'One'Copy'TH- one year...;... $2.00 : JN^ : ?* ?' Six Months....* 1.00 Any ono sending TEN POLLARS, for a Club of New Subscribers, will receive an EXTRA- COPY ?for ONE ? YEAR, free of charge. : Any one sending FI**FH DOLLARS, fer a Club of New Subscribers, wiH'rccciyean EXTRA COPY for SIX MONTHS, ?Trse af charge. . ?* ha* tj^HJA a i ? - >~?9*~ ? ? 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I'tgghdily from tho foot of the hills through the tall waving grass until lost in the distance; and at my feet, the graves?the grave of tho true and beautiful; the grave of Ahe fearless and manly. I had halted for tho night within a mile of (this storied spot, and my octogenarian host, who.?e faculties were still ?b clear as tho rip pling rill running past his door, had kindly promised to relate to mc tho mournful talc which gave to tho precipitous mountain tho nnmo of Enomah's Leap. "But,** said ho, "while suppor is in course of preparation, you should view the spot more <jlosely; it may Borvo to wring the last sconce more vividly before you. This suggestion I had acted upon, and the grand und gloomy beauty of the pluco had pre pared my mind for any legend, howovcr weird. But this, my host said, was no legend, but sim ple truth, for he saw and know the principal actors in it before it happcucd, and was among *ho ???t. of the white race at the scene of the ?tragedy, ?Artor h hearty backwoods supper, wo twuin re?ted ourselves, with our corncob pipca, upon ttaLbench.before the door, in tho bright moon light, and the old mat) commenced : "It's as many us forty years ngoue, since this thing happened, but I!vo thought on it so much, and drcampt of it so often, that I re-^ member it to-night, weil as 11 did tho day it transpired: "fiBn't a story to bo soon forgot ten. "Enomnh was the only child of Manaono, one of the fiercest and most relentless chiof tains.of the .Sioux. How ho came by such a tluughter is ono of those'.mysteries' which will bo unraveled at tho last great day, for setting aside her marvelous beauty?ho was as ugly as sin?she was tho essonce of amiability, pity, aud devotion; something, I haye'often thought liko whnt a child's dream of an angel is. "Gliinpso of House," some hunter from tho East had christened her, but the name wasu't soft euough, and hadn't meaning enough" for the settlers of this rogiou who knew her f?ll chnracter, so they fell back on her own name of Enomnhi until the arrival at their out of the way settlement of Harry Johnson, as fine a young fellow as ever turned his back ou the bustling city, for a life of health aud freedom in Nature's towns?the woods. He was tall?tailor than most men, but you would scarcely have thought it, he was so ad mirably proportiouod, and his handsome sun fu?'?WW^W^&Wi '??r<5u* J&?S ' i^u--.Y;llag^.>v:'ib- tdotiiiiig torn' and blooaj i'nuTier]fcft.'arm' terribly lacerated as if with tho fangs of sbuio wild beast. It was on the day following, when a party of warriors brought in the dead body of an enormous pauthcr, claiming to have slain it, then she 1 tuld her tale?how the monstor came upou her unawares, and sho hud expected nothing but a terrible death. The panther had already left the branch upon his deadly spring, when sho felt herself pushed ono side, and know that another had received almost the full force of the beast's decent, one of the armed claws, only, haviug reached her loft arm, the wounds fcnbled form, when ho took his first convalcs ocut walk. [ "Thou a change came. Heartsease, when sho saw her pationt regaining his wonted healt^rtecmod suddenly to have conceived an aversion to the cabin, aud many a weary hour did Harry spend in watching for her return. At last after a week had passed unohecred by her presence, he determined, weak as ho was, to seek the Indian village, and, if possible see the Indian maiden. "Ho was not destined to exert himself so much on that occasion, for scarcely bad he journeyed half tho distance when he can.o up on the objects of his thoughts, carelessly tos sing pebbles into a little stream which flowed at he foot. "Heartsease!" "My preserver !" And the guileless forest child sprang to meet, him; then suddenly checking her ardor she pnusod, and with a confused blush, gave him her hand. "Why havo you stayed so long from mo, Heartsease V inquired tho hunter, with a glance of unconcealed admiration. ?*I)id my white friend miss me, then." "Would you miss the bright sun should it ccaso to shine? Would you miss the pretty wild flowers if they grew no more ? Would you miss the twiukliog stars if they should sot forovcr? Even so havo I missed you, Heartsease,". r "I havo missed my friend too," said the In dia^ maiden, trembling with an emotion which sho could not conceal, "and would havo come to him, only I feared "You feared I? What did you fbar, my dar ling ?"1 For you aro, you must be my dnr ling;" and he folded the little trembler to his breast. "Think yon I have felt thoso sooth ing fingers on my brow, or mot tho glanco of these sweet blup eyes without knowing there was love in the touch and look? Tell o wbut you feared ?" "Oh, it was this I feared 1" sho murmured. "I feared that you would discover my lovo for you. and despise me for it, for how could I know that you would love mo in return? You say you do 1 You call me darling 1 Ami dear to you 1" "As life itself?nay, dearer than life; as my soul!" "Then, Harry, break with mo a stick at tho running stream, aud be true to me as to your soul." Taking up a slender twig, she held it to wards her lover aud with her blue eyes picro ng his very heart, she said : "When Enotuuh forgets you, may the Great spirit of her nation forget her, aud forever leny her entrance to the happy hunting grounds of her father and brothers." "Spcakl" "On the day that Harry Houston proves false to his Heartsease, may the good right liand which holds this twig wither from Iiis inn, nnd may his-Groat Spirit blot his name from the book of life." They scarcely waited till the pieces of tho broken twig had touched tho stream when they clasped each other iu a fervid embrace, for getting all the world beside. "Hut my father!" suddenly exclaimed Heartsease, disengaging herself from Harry's arms, "he will never consent." "No ? Is ho f>o iuvetcratc iu his hatred to our race ?" "Terribly so ! and more especially would ho forbid my marriage with one of you." "Then our only plan iB to journey two days toward the dawn, where we will find u mats-of ^^^ipSnW^Ais f rgmuessV we wlltpl lur uw;.pvHir.i tip ?Otting flun, whore wojwiit pass our lives in happiness and content-went-;' living for each other a?? our children. Shall it be so, darling ?" ? "I will do as you say, Harry; the broken I stick has mude mc yours." Fivo days after this wildwood'betrothal the hunter entered the Sioux village, leading by th? hand his happy, yet anxious bride. Hearts ease had been sorely missed by Manaono, but as slie Was in the habit of strayiug od" to the settlements; and remaining nbsout for days to gether, her disappearance occasioned no real alarm j nevertheless Manaono received her with a species of grim pleasure. "Was Euomoh lost, that sho is led home by the whito hunter ?" said her father, after a stately nod to Harry. "Heartsease remained silcut, whilo a dcepor crimson suffused her check aud brow. "No, Manabnb," quickly replied Harry, who saw that the power of speech had for tho mo ment left his bride. "Enonmh was not lost, bnt she has journeyed with mc to the lodge of a servant of Mnuito, who bus married us. Panther-slayer comes to you us u sou. Will you forgive us ?" "What! dog of a pale face !" almost shriek ed Manaouc. "The daughter of a great ohicf has become your squaw, and you hftv? come to mc for forgiveness ? Ha! ha! you shall have it! You shall have such forgiveness as the "wounded bear bestows upon one who steals her cubs. Ho ! Taoiuan !" Tho paiuted visage of a warrior appeared at the opening of the wigwam, aud the chief- continued, addressing him : "Lead forth the dog of a hunter, and sec that you guurd him well. To-morrow, at sunrise, either ho or you must die !" Although surprised at this reception, so dif ferent from what ho had cxpoetcd, Harry would have resisted to the death, had it not been that a number of warriors had rushed to the spot, upou hearing the thunder tones of Manaouc, aud thrown themselves upou him ere bo could draw a weapon. With his arms securely pinioned ho was led away, whilo tho gentle Eliomah sank iu a swoon at her father's feet. "Take hence the tfuitrcss to the memory of her lathers," be said to a squaw who was in tho wigwam, "and sec that she be restored iu time to witness the death of her palo lover." "But I am getting tedious stranger," the old man said, "so 1 will hasten with what fol lowed. The morning dawned bright and beautiful as that of a wedding day, and the wbolo tribe gathered in the ccutrc of tho village, where the four head chiefs were soon seated on piles of skins. "Bring forth the palo lace," said M.inaon., it tho -warrior of tho grcav Sioux \j* prpnouuctfihis doom." 10 ceutro of the oppu space before the icy brought the prisoner, with his hands'ffghtly bound behind him, aud Mana ono, tffjnng two steps forward; raised his right hand, -YflS'if to oommnud attention, addressed tho nimbly. "W^rlbra of tho great Sioux natiou, what do yo .whon.a sneaking wolf outers your wig wam jn your absence, glutting itself upon your papowc as it lies sleeping, aud that wolfe af ter wo?L. fulls iu your power? What do yo whcn^i panther springs upon the little ono that Pattys about your knee, and yc afterwards find panther sleepiug 7 Need I ask ?" ' A t/urmur of terrible import rose from the swaying, mnss^-swaying with tho workings of their Vindicative passions, and Harry Houston kncwl|fy tho eager bloodthirsty look in the eyes whiclf?surrounded him, that his doom was sealed*'V "Tap.paiohunter," continued Manaoue, whou the tlip murmur had died away, "came to us as a^ptid, and we opened our wigwams to his tiredvfect and gave him of the best to cat. he camd ; Ip us with honey on his tongue hiding the sting within his heart, bis words were like the fjrest rose, but his meaning like the thorn concealed beneath, aud with his doublo tongue he lured away a daughter of our tribe?my child/vEnoinah. What is thisfalso friend's doomr?" /'Death !" rang out from a hundred throats, "death by tho fire !' "Jhn". said Manaoue, and a dark, sinister sinilp played upon his features, "we will give liiui-^- chance for his life. He shall leap from tho bald rock; if he escape death thou, his Great-Spirit is stronger than ours, aud he shulb,he free. I have said it, aud it shall bo soil Xjwrp wcro a fow among the assembled warihbrs .who murmured because they could not havo the demoniacal pleasure of torturiug the'jointer, but the majority took the side of Mail-ioue, and tho victim was draggod, amid terrlip'whoops,.to. the edge of the prcccpicc? j youjMW it to-day. . -j . ring furth. my guilty daughter that she jehold her pale face warrior die," com tipf, and poor Heartsease, now stob'd. ealin and ulimoVed. A ^Luok^.catnc into his clear, dark pyc, ns she Ioftjior conductors ?md bouuded to his side. "Uarry, husband, must yo? dit-V" she waibJ. "fee it bns becu decreed by your stem fath er," he answered, softly, "but he has choscu fur no an easy aud painless death. I nm to leaj from this rock." "'Tis an awful leap,"said Euohiah, dreami ly, ? aud 'tis a loug distance to go?alone." "'. shall have ceased to breathe before I reach the bottom, darling, so I shall feel no pant." -Aud is ull ready ?" inquired Heartsease. *iWhon you have returned to your friends the signal will be given, and thoso warriors on out left will dart forward aud burl me from my foothold." Enomah's lace had a heaven-born expression ou it. as she looked up und said ; "Say one little prayer to tho Great Spirit, Hurry, aud 1 will pray* too; don't forget to a*k your Mouito to take me with you ? herevcr you go after death, and 1 will ask the Great Spirit of the Sioux to let uie go." Then, nftor buwiug her head a inotMo'nt, as if iu silent prayer, she turned her face to where Manaoue stood, in tbo midst of his warriors, and, with a look which haunted him until his dying day, she cried: "Farewell, father; in life or death I nm Harry's only !" As sho finished .?ho clasped her fettered hus band in her arms, and before a hand could be raided to shiy her, bouuded from the rock with a thrilling cry. You saw the graves to-day. It was on that spot they found their mangled bodies, be still clasped in the dead arms of his Heartsease, and siuco (hut day they have called the moun tain? Kuomah's Leap." VARIOUS. [From Moore's Rural 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 Ned Graham. "Ict'H 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, to a little girl who stood on one side, and seemed to shrink from joining them. 4 0h, never mind her!" said Nod, with :i little toss of bis bead,, "shu'a nobody, anyhow. Hor father drinks." A quick flush crept over the child's pale face as she heard tho cruel, thoughtless words. Sho was very sensitivo, and the arrow, had touched her heart in its tend crest place. ; Hot father teas a drunkard, sho knew; but to bo taunted with it before so many was more thau sho could boar; and with great sobs heaving her bosom, aud hot tears filliug her eyes, sho turned and ran away from tho ploy-ground. Her mother was sitting by the window when she reached home and the tearful faco of the little girl told that something had happened to disturb her. "What is the matter, Susie ?" sho asked, kindly. "Oh,, mother," Susie said, with the tears dropping down her checks, aS she hid h?r face in her mother's lap, <:Ned Graham said such a cruel thing about mc," and bore the sobs chocked her voico so that sho could hardly speak j" be said I wasn't anybody, and that father drirjks." "My poor little girl," Mrs. Eilet said, very sadly. There were tears in her eyes, too^ Such taunts as this were nothing now. "Ob, mother," Susie said, as sho lilted her face, wet with tears, from her mother's lap, "I can't bear to have them say so, and act just as if I had duuo something wicked. I wish fath er wouldn't driuk ! l)o you suppose he'll ever leave it off! ... "I hopo so," Mrs. Eliot answered, as sho kissed Susie's face where the-tears clung like drops of dew on u rose. "I pray that he may break off the habit, and I can do nothing but pray, and leave tho rest to God." That night Mr. Eilet cumc home to supper, as usual. He was a hard-working man, and a good noigbbor. So everybody said, but bo had the 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 be cumc through the gate, as she al ways did, but thcro was something in hei face that went to his heart. A look so sad, and full of touohing sorrow for one so young as sho! * i - ,: "What ails my little'girl ?" hp asked, as he pnttcd her cOrly head. "T Cltr.'t^ffl^XT"". father," sue answered, I -Why ?'AhVrfS?*-? "Bccauso it would make you feel bad," Susie replied. "I guess not," he said, as they Walked up to | j the dooi together. "What is it, Susie?" ;<Oh, father," and Susie burst into tears j again as the momory of Ned Graham's words catno up freshly in her mind, "I wish you j wouldn't drink any more for the boys and girls don't like to play with mc, 'cause you do." . ???<?? M.r Eilet made no reply. But something stirred in his heart that made him ashamed of himself] ashamed that he was the cause of so much sorrow and misory. After supper he took his hat. and Mrs. El let knew only too well whero he was going. At first he had resolved to stay at homo that evening, but the force of habit was so strong that be could not resist, and he yielded,prom ising himself, that he would not drink more than once or twice. Susie had left the table before ho fiuuhed bis supper, und as he pusscd 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 dou't let futhor drink any more. Make him just as he used to he when I was a baby, and the boys and girls can't call mc a drunkard's child, or say such bad things nbout mc. 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 hor, and knelt down by hor side, and put his arm around her, oh, so lovingly ! "God in Heaven," he said, very solemnly, "I promise to-night, never to touch another drop of liquor as long ns I live. Give me strength to keep my pledgo, and help mo to be a better man." "Ob, father," Susie cried, her arms about his neck, and her head upon his breast, "I'm so glad ! I shan't euro nbout anything they say to me now, for I kuow you won't bo a drunkard any more." "God helping nie, I will bo a man /" he an swered, as, with Susie in bis arms, ho wont back into tho house where his wife was sitting with the old patietit look of sorrow on hor face,?the look that had be en mo so habitual. I cannot tell you of the joy and thanksgiv ing that went up from that hearthstone that night. 1 wish 1 could, but it was too (leap a joy which tilled the hearts of Susie and hor mother iu ho described. Was not Susie's prayer answered ? mm mm ???? w A train loaded with soldiers ran off tho truck near Gordonsville, Virginia, and four ? were killed and many Wounded. Tho Elective Fraticliisc. 1 ? ? To the J?cojiIe of Soutfr Carolina; It was referred to .the State Central Exccu- 'h tive Committee, by the lato Democratic Con- > vontion, to inquire into tho disabilities imposed, by reason of tho ?'war, upon a portion of our peoplo, restraining, them from the exercise of the olectiyq franchise, in South Carolina, and to publish tho conclusion attained, for the. information of the people of the State. The committee iu 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 the acts of CongVess, known as the Re construction act, ihe State having been of ficially declared to be in the Union, ? 2. That no such disabilities exist under the so-called amendment, known as the fourteenth amendment to tho Constitution of the United States, the disabilities therein expressed hav ing reference to office-holding, and not to voting. 5?v? .. 3. Thqt.no such disabilities exist by the so called State Constitution of 18G8, nnder which it is claimed that the State has been recon* structed and restored to the Union. The undersigned ; therefore, annouhce^that no such disabilities exist by force of any law? or supposed law, or authority whatever; and they urge their hitherto disfranchised fellow citizens, in every part of tho State, to exercise thoir right , to vote at the coming election for President and Viec-Prcsiucnt, of which right they have been so loug deprived by military power. By order of the. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Items. : . . ^ \- -r ';,-,v ; The Indianapolis pension agency has 12,000 names, and the annual payments amount to $1,800,000. The eastern shore of Lake Michigan furnish' cd Chicago with 50,000 bushels of peaches this season. - - - ? . ?' i 22 miles of fence inclose a farm of 13,000 acres in Illinois, which is subdivided by 70\ miles of hedge. The needle-gun has _bceu ihtrotluced into tire armies of Denmark, Sweden, Holland, a^d ?uiOAuJiutni St?t;kv' ,VVJ"The length of England, from Berwick to Lund's End, is estimated at 426 miles;' It is said that Mrs. John Wood, the actress; Jias married a London journalist. A Ecntuckian calculates that he has chewed . 1,825 lbs, of tobacco in forty years'; The wife of Priuce Napoloori is iti tho las* Btages of pulmonary consnmptioii. Chinese are flocking by millions to the* newly discovered gold mines' at CKcfoo'. Mr. Chandler of Alstcad, ?: H., haVveste^ ? crop Ot COf ? uo udyo ulier planting.' A New York milliner has built a\lWtfife? which is a marvel oi cheapness ?t ?125. The corn crops in tlio lowlands of Kentucky have been ruined by an' inundation. Competition has lotoefed the steamboat fares7 on tho upper Mississippi very much. Brooklyn's valnation is $161,317,560, an1 increase of eleven millions since last year. A regiment of United States troops eigtii hundred strong, has been sent fto'iti Washing tou to Nashville, Tennessee. Beast Butler has been rcnomin'aied for Cori-" gress by tho Bostonians. The government is to issue arms to citizens living on the Indian frontier. The United States will bo requested' id sec^' representatives to the European Pe?co Cbtt^ . grcss at Beruc. There was a grand Democratic demonstra tion at Mobile on Monday night. Twchiy fivc clubs, aggregating eight thousand persons,' marched in procession. In tho Surrntt case art appeal has beed taken from tho decision of Judge Wylie, ana a new indictment will bo submitted to the jury. Moro earthquakes and volcanic eruptions have taken place in the Sandwich Islands'. Tho reported sinking of tile southeastern shore of Hawaii is confirmed: Ex-President Pierce is* very feeble. His nervous systotn is quite shattered, and ti is very doubtful whether Ho Will gel nUout lllljj fall or winter?if at all again. The municipal election in Nasli villa, Tenth', on Saturday, resulted iu tho re-election of the present incumbont. Both candidates were Bo* . publicans. Confodcratc General J. C. ttfoo'lnah ,ni*. been assassinated at his residence, lleltena, ?rk; A man named Robhins, of Springfield MissdU ri, who served under him, his been arrestety ; but denies being 'ihe vn?rdor*r>