..<>> $ hu '.if ni/ IHM.','/ t- .'n ..i- i .V;. .V^,< fed VOLUME 2. XES; TIT.KHST OTJI t STAt'J5; FINALLY T3rIx|^"^^TJOiSr.; .TI.-IKHJ3 ?ON8TITTJTE OTJK OOTJJSTTKX-..'^ SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 31 1868. NUMBER S .HE IT BUSHED AT ORANGEBURG, S C.* H\n--0 ??*? t! . " ? 2d ? . 7i> ' - A Square consists of 10 lines Brevier or one inch ?of Advertising space.. | / ^Administrator's Notices, if accompanied with the. cash.Si! ifi If not accompanied with the cash.00 Contraot Advertisements inserted upon the modt liberal terftiB. ?:o:? MARR1AGK and FUNERAL NOTICES, not ex ceeding otic Square, inserted without charge. ittir Terms Cash in Advance. T9a feb-^ o ly DEMO?BATIO" TICKET. ' FOlt l'KESIDKNT, HORATIO SEYMOUR. % ... ?. j OF NEW YORK. ?;n P -" , j FOR YK E-VRKSIDENT. FRANCIS P. BLAIR. K OF MISSOURI: , 0 ? .?-?-mS3PATK ELECTORAL TICKET. .?* -.f-jM ..... - .', .?rrr. ? ? . f fPjH THE STATIC AT LARGE:; <\ KNE11 Alf" J. I?. K K.NNEDY, . i)i:.Ki:i!(>tuic..., ^^iftl,fjsi{t; .1. 1*. THOM AS. OK RICIII.AND. l? - J-'IRST VOX Git ESStOXA I. It IS TR W T : COLONEL R: F. GRAHAM, oi, , t r. ,: oy .MARION. ?SECOXD COXGRESSloXAI. DISTRICT: GENERAL B. H. RUTLEDGE, Vi! -.. 0p "CHARLESTON. THIRD COXGRESSIOX?L DISTRICT: -COLONEL A. <\ HASKELL, , Jjjj * jjj ? ' OP ABBEVILLE. 'trti'QCRTJ! COXGRESSIOX?L DISTRICT} COLONEL E. C. McLLitE, OE CHESTER. [.'j 1. <: ' ,T . .? ... ? ? ...... >'r>/f coxkress, COLONEL J, I\ READ, OF ANDERSON.. MMN J ?SELECTED S.TORY. JESSIE'S DOLLAR. :r,/f'.'Therc'a pnmctliing to "buy sugar-plums wan," U.icle Mark said, with a good-bye to his little niece, Jessie. She kissed him and gave him a good hard hag, by way of showing her gratitude. After he had gone, she opened her hand nud smoothed out the rumpled note. It was a dol lar. Jessie Marsh was used to having considurn Mo spending money. Uncles, aunts and coils fus kct hur pretty well supplied. She was one of those bright, merry girls who are al . ways smiling and huppy, and a great favorite ' with everybody?ready to do a favor, hold a ?kein of yarn for grandmother, look up her papa's slippers, aud run up-stairs or down-stairs ,:i for a mispluced or forgotten article. Perhaps this was the reason why she received so many ^ifts of one kind and another; for even visi tors at tho house always went away with a pleasant romembrance of cheerful, obliging Jessie. Mr. Marsh was in very comfortable circum stances, and extremely indulgent to his little (daughter, fSivo Wim tho only girl, and there Were four boys in the family. If Jessio ox pressed ? wish for a book or u toy, he always brought It home to her. I am sorry to say that Jewio was rather earoless and extravagant. *To bo sure she made glad many a child's heart by gift" ?f m'-r playthings when she was done With themi but she tired of them very soon ?hod Wanted new ones, i'ennies, quarters, and v ven half dollars, often went fur some trifle that presently lost interest to hcf. Mrs. Mursh ?tvieM to ilwok this fault Itt her daughter but her father genyfally cuuio to her rescue. '?Let her take her own pleasure with tho money," ho would say. "I dislike to sec chil dren* mean and parsimonious." But Mrs. Marsh took every occasion to di rect Jessie, although her advice was not always followed., Jossie^.vvas still holding the dollar in her hand as tho mother re-entered tho room. .rv-t .if) i f*y%'j; rl 'Sec what Uncle Mark gave .me?to buy sugar-plunw with she said," aud.^radiant smile illumined Jessie's lace. "And only yesterday you were wishing for a dollar," her mother replied. The smile faded a little at that. Jessie had been listening to a poor woman's story the day before. Mrs. Marsh had given her some sew iug, as she was very; anxious to earn money enough to pay her rent. Counting up what she was likely to get from one and another, left her still a dollar or two short. Ordinarily Mrs. Marsh would have overpaid her, but now she had a mind to put Jessie's generosity' to the test. The little girl had been quite thought!*. 1 for some time after Mrs. Adam's departure, and at last had said : "Oh, mamma ! I wish I had a dollar; I would givo it to Mrs. Adams. How hard it must be to earn money enough to take care of herself and those three little children!" ''Yes," her mother answered gravely. "Wo ought to bo thankful that God has placed us nbovu want." Jessie went to her bank. It never hud a very large surplus on hand. Twenty eeuts, that was nut near a dollar ! So she gave a lit tle sigh. This was what her mother's words recalled. She looked rather* sober over it foi several mo mcuts. "A dollar is a good deal for a little girl to give away," she said slowly, as the result of her thoughts. "Tt did not seem so yesterday. It is often easy to be charitable with that which we do I not possess. '?One r;in't give when one hasn't'anything," and the absurdity mude her. smile a little. ??And it is unfortunate not to have the heart and the money at tho came time" -wi.iilo did act i-^pJjr: - li wn?? -nearly wcliuot timo ; so she hunted up her hood, her squirrel tippet und muff, and her good warm cloak. She had never suffered from any cold or neg lect, and there was u sudden rush of gratitude in her heart, for it was a sweet, true and ten der heart. "Good-by. mamma," and she came to kiss her. Then sho strapped her books together, hung them on her arm, and run down the path. Should she give Mrs. Adams her dollar? There were so many things that she wanted. She just halted at Wafiicr's store window, iThere was a box of paiuts that were only a dollar?she had made two or three ineffectual attempts to save up itcr money and, get them. And there was u crying baby, with the love liest blue eyes. Her dolly was past the crying stage?she would just go in and price this one?it was such fun to have the squeaking little thing ! "Seventy-five cents." It was a beauty. And there was lovely toy, in the shape of a pretty carved egg-oup. with an egg in it'. 'When you touched a spring in the bot tom of it. the upper half of the egg Hew off, and the prettiest little fairy made you a bow. That wus a dollar. And a drawing slate, with such a charming variety of landscapes, castles, birds, flowers, and nearly everything. Oh ! what .beautiful things one could buy with a dollar 1 f * Will you take this baby ?". and the shop keeper made it cry like a real live baby, and all the while there was such a roguish look in its eyes. "Not just uow," Jessie said, faintly, and turned away. ??Oh! you like this cup better;" and thed the woman made tho fairy spring up so sud denly that Jessie jumped too. J low she could startle the boys with it! ?*I won't take auy of them now," Jessie said, with stuhlen determination, and then went out. She had to run to school to be there in time. . At recess Martha Lee displayed a beautiful rubber ring, with a pearl in it. Jt looked so pretty on her white slender fingers. "It cost just a dollar," she sard, "and I saved tip all my pennies to buy it." Then she let Jessie try it on. The boys had made .Jos sio several rings, but they had not the smooth finish of this. Aud then the pearl ! "1 mean to have one," exclaimed Bell An ders ; "1'vo about seventy eonts saved up." Jessie looked at her linger, aud decided that she wanted ono also. To ho sure there was her pretty birthday ring, with rubies, but that wnsu't black. Tho pearl looked so lovely in its jetty setting. : Poor Jessie ! By the timo she had gone homo to dinner aud come bank againt Warner's stoto seemed as full of treasures us tho magic cave, and there were so many things that cost just a dollar. Her money was fast burning a hole iu lier^oekw. * Itseoms etnibge that it should have ihis faculty, but it dues appear to produce a curious kind of combustion. Bid you never feel your fingers tinglo aud burn when you touched thrco or four pennies iu your pocket, and could not almost taste the de lightful tally candy that tho little old woman two doors from tho school sold ? Mrs. Adams' palo face and truubled eyes iuturfurred with Jessie's peace of miud. .She certainly thought yesterday that if she had a dollar she would give it to her. Why did she not want to nor? ? '?Clara Adams hasn't been to school to-day," Miss Trusdell said. "Who goes near her house Vi Jessie swallowed a great lump that seemed tu rush up from her heart. "I'll call, Miss Trusdell." "Thank you, Jessie. Clara ought not to miss u day. 1 urn afraid she i? sick." So Jessie went around by another path, al most afraid to pass Warner's again. It was a cold December day, cloudy now, and with the appearance of snow. Tho wind nipped Jes sie's rosy cheeks, but she did not miud. Here was the little cottage?rather cold aud forlorn looking, it must bo confessed. Jamie answered her tap at the door. "Oh ! come in. Miss Jessie !" Mrs. Adams exclaimed ; and Jamie shut the door quickly, so the bitter air would not rush in. "I called tu see why Clara wasn't at school to-day," Jessie said. Clara blushed. Mrs. Adams luuked rather troubled. "You're not sick if" "Xu, Miss Jessie, it wasn't that. Hut Clara hasn't any shoos. Shu would freeze her feet iu those uid ones; besides, they're out to the ground." Jessie east a furtive glanco at them?old and shabby indeed. She thought of her own hall'-woru boots, but, although Clara was a smaller girl, her feet was larger than Jessie's. No, that would uot do. "I ordered her a pair at Mr. Gregg's, and they're duiie?only he will, not let me have them until I pay down a little. And I've just money enough lor my rent, which is duo to uj?.. rt.r\Y. Mr. Dallas is ? nard landlord." "Then you have all the money ?" Jessie said gladly. "Yes, I am thankful fur that; but Clara must wait until next weck. I shall have to earn some inure. Jessie talked to Jamie and Charlie awhile, and listened to the praises uf her own dear mammy, who was always doing a kind turn fur everybody. And a plan came into her miud ; but she could not have a crying dull, nor a paint box, nor any of those charming toys that she half coveted. She said good-by i to them presently, and went straight to Mr. j Gregg's. A woman in a faded shawl was standing by the untidy couutcr. She had been binding some shoes, and brought them home. "I can't give it to you, because I haven't a cent in the place," Mr. Gregg was saying. ?'People won't pay mo, and I can't pay others." "Hut we actually haven't anything in the house?not a muuthful of dinner.even;" and hero the poor woman's tremulous voice broke down. -- _m Jessie felt like crying, too, but she winked away tho tears with a groat effort. Then slm usked Mr. Gregg about Clara's shoes. "There, they are," ho said rather brusquely, and nodded his head toward a stout pair standing on a little shelf. "Good, strong ones, too, and dirt cheap, and yet they can't pay for them. I'm dono trusting; its a poor plan, and it keeps mo like a beggar." Then ho hammered spitefully upon his lupstonc, aud looked savage. Ho was a surly old follow. "Will you let her have them if I give you ;i dollar now, and promise to pay the re.-l if they eau't?" Jessie nsked bravely. "Yes, Miss." Out came Jessie's dollar. Spent for a pair Of coarse shoes that had not a hit of beauty or grace, like the fairy or the doll, or twenty other things. The poor woman approached again : "O. Mr. Gregg-!" "Well, take it." ho said ungraciously. The thin fingers clutched it nervously, and she almost stared at Jessie. "Will you send them down to Mrs. Adams to-night? I'll ask papa for the rest of the money. How much is itV "Only a dollar, ('heap, enough, I must say; but I do my work for about uot hing." When Jessie was in the fresh air, trying t'> breathe out the smell of wot leather and shoe maker's wax, a hand was laid upon her shoulder. "Heaven bless you, child," a faint voice said. "You have done a kind deed tor a friond, and been the means of blessing a stranger. My poor old mother and i were Absolutely at starvation point. God must have scut you hither" Jcs^ivV heaH swelled loo fujl for UUcr.ir.vc Tho temptations in. Warner's window worn. nothing to her then. She ran down tho street^ with, a light, happy heart. ''H^w.lato you are," Mrs. Marsh said, as .Te-sie/outered. It was du*k in tho cosy silting room. 'Oiiiwma,''. she said presently, "I must tell you; .a have, spent my dullar. And I've had such t,dd time! l!m satisfied though." Thin Jessie tuld her mother the whole story. ] ,Mrs. Marsh kissed her tenderly. Ilu5 .th.it was uot the end oi'it. Jessie's dullar); was likely to have quite a history of its j own. , j .Some, time after, on one Saturday, old Matt, who game \ip to tho Marsh's to do chores aud rongh."wurk, made his appearance, iu a good, warin|; Woolen jacket. "liOw nice and eomlortable you are, Matt," , Mrs. Marsh said. "I was thiukiug a lew days ago how. much you needed such a garment." "And it came to me most like A present, a queer sort of way that I wasn't counting on. There's a poor woman who docs a little sewing, aud binds shoes for Gregg.-?She came over to our house for loaves of bread, and she'd run up quite a bill whou she stopped. For a while. I didn't he; i anything from her. 'We'll1 never ask the pour erector for it,' 1 said to mother; but last Wednesday she brought a dollar to pay up the back and get some mure bread. So says mother: 'Xuw, Matt,-..you must have a jacket right away, fur I neyer expected to got this money at all. Andj'I have fifty cents that I can put to it, and -it will just du.' So now I shan't bo so likely, to get tho rhoumatiz in my shoulders. The Lord sends everything round about right.' Jessie glanced up at her mother. Her dullar had benelitted even Ma?t. ?V-jll yuu toll nie where this poor woman lives?" Mrs. Marsh asked; and that after noun -she and Jessie set out to find her, aud word lu time to rescue two human beings from starv.at.tou. ""What a wonderful dullar!" f.'ncle Mark fWd&ns Jessie, sitting on his knee, recounted its ^.ventures. "I think I'll have to put ?^?ywr^jaiLi? tashjon," 4vTtV sweeter than sugar-plums," Jessie returucd with a winsome laugh."?The Methodist. VARIOUS. Speech of (Jov. Seymour at Buffalo, Now York. Gov Seymour, at Buffalo, arguing the fail ure of reconstruction, concludes: Anuther great objoet and end vjas tu lift up the African as fur and fast as cuuld be wisely dune. Humanity dictated this; tho interests of the white population of the South detuaud ed it. As the twu races were tu live upon the same soil, their common interest called fur har muny of purpose and of fadings. Under this state of tacts wise men would seek aid of the must intelligent and influential men of that section of the country, taking cam to guard against any influences springing from their projttdices. Have these obvious truths been regarded by the meu in power ? Has nut re construction failed because they disregarded j them 'i The first step towards restoring order and producing harmony between the races was always to minister to tho prosperity of that section, which prosperity would bo shared ' alike by the white man and the negro. Tho industry of the South should he made profita ble. IIulos the employer made a prulit upon his cotton crop he could not pay the lahurer. Fail ing to do this the disaster brought not only poverty but confusion aud discontent. True statesmanship would have stretched out a help ing band. But what was the first act of the men in power. It was to put a monstrous export tax , of six cents a pound upon the Cotton raised by the labor of the negro upon the plantation of the white. Struggling with the evils of pov erty, with the difficulties of the new positions and relationships, tho lir.-t feeble efforts of these people to gain the means of livelihood were blasted by an unwise, selfiVh and vindic tive act. 1 say unwise, because it has much to do with the lot tire attempts of the Republi cans to restore order at the South. The negro, exasperated by the failure of his ruined em ployer, became hostile to him. The employer, losing the little credit that he had before in the North, renewed his efforts under still greater difficulties than before. 1 say it was a I selfish act, because it was done in the interest of the. Kastem manufacturer, already wealthy from the war. protected, as he was, by enor mous tariffs. This tax of six couts a pound upon all cotton exported was simply imposed so that he might buy it for a price six cents j less than it was worth in the markets of the woild. I say it Way a vindicative act, for if you will read the debate In Congress, when this tax was levied to eoVer tho selfish interests thai prompted it, you will find that it w. 3 urged uj'ou the members front the Western States, who voted against the interest? of their constituents, upon tho ground that it was to bo imputed upon the South as a penalty, aud thus we find that the black and the white men of the South were alike strippcdjOf the market value of their staple product Under circum stances of such great difficulty that they were hindered and not helped on the read to pros perity by theuien in power. [Applause. 1 might go on and show how in addition to this wrong they were trampled upon by military despotism aud how they were placed under the unrestrained power of vagrant men who gained wealth and official position by min istering to tho passions of the public and keep ing alive disorder. These men who are now iu the .Senate of the United States, without Constituent*, vote down the Senatorial repre sentatives of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, gained their power over the South and over us because they ministered to the passious in the North and stirred up disorder iu the South. Who of the fair min ded, thoughtful Republicans will calmly sit down and look over this action aud not feel that tho policy of his party bus been unwise and hurtful. QUESTIONS FOR RapICALH.?If reconstruc tion is a success, why isu't tho array with drawn ? If tho Radicals want peace, why did they propose to arm the negroes ? If the Radicals mean equal rights, why do they advocate one currency for capital and an other for labor? If tho negroes can vote for themselves, why pay the bureau to teach them ? If the Radicals mean equal rights, what do they put the negro above the white nfan for ? If the Radicals want impartial sufTrage why does their platform say one suffrage North aud another .South? If the Radicals want peace, what are they running their candidate on his military merits for? Is it impartial 6ufTrugo to enfranchise the black aud disfranchise the white man ? The Radicals, now that they fancy they have elected General Grant, arc throwing off the mask boldly. Ihc Evening Post is already agitating for laws to deprive foreign citizen* of tho right to v**te ibr a year after they shall have been naturalized : Tho Southern negroes^ who have never been uaturalized at all, may vote at "once. The Irish and German emi grants, who belong to our own race, have been bred to freedom, and make up the great army of our Northern workers, are to be put on probation. If the Germans aud the Irish object to this, of course they will be denounced as "rioters," and "put down," we suppose,,by the black regiments of the regular army. Let US have peace.? World. Items. The majority against Mr. Ashley iu tho Fifth (Toledo) Congressional District it- 717 It is estimated that the Republicans spent ?'J,OUO,U00 iu Pennsylvania. The St. Louis bridge across the Mississippi will cost four and a half million dollars. Mississippi has. in some sections, raised three crops of hay this year. The feeling in New York regarding the proposed change of candidates is said to be intense. Despite the many unfavorable criticisms on the Grecian bend, this new fashion appears to be on the increase. It is stated that the tobacco crop in Vir ginia has been seriously injured by the late frosts. The radicals are hying to ascertain who is the. "wickedest man" iu their party. It is nip and tuek between 1 littler, Forney and Logan. Returns of the municipal elections in Con necticut indicate !V,000 majority for the Demo crats. The fashion iu New York this season is said to be to have no groomsmen at the wed dings. Boston lias trouble with its gas works. The gas Company won't make enough gas to supply the city. New Jersey ( along" the coast) i* said to be frightened becau/c the sea is encroaching upon her. Trains are running three hundred and twenty-live miles east of Sacramento on the Central l'acifu: road. The (treat Kaste n steamer is now receiv ing on board the new telegraphic cable which is to be laid between France aud America. The largest shipment of shoes ever made from Boston at this season of tho year was that of this week, amounting to thirty thousand cases. Appetite?The most ungrateful, of friends. The more yon-do for it, tho sooner it forsake^ you. . iftui uauUUukl -nlT Candor?The effrontery of innocence. Caprice?A semblance of lovo on his side; a semblance of preference, on,, hcxs. , Xutgik^t semblance of hnpnineAJ. , , . . ' , Caricature?Criticism dramatized. Chaucc?The author of our disaJieiir''4t ways; but never of our success. i ^pHi T Chocolate?A nutrituous paste, contaiui?fr, a little of every thing?even tho cocoa 'bean. . Cockade?A weather-cock that change* its color with the wind. . { ; Common-place?Be absurd, shocking,' para dox ial; but, for Heaven's Sake, don't be eom mou-place. 1' '' ' >'* \Mi* Common-place?The invalid soldier of truth. Compatriot?At home 4 stranger; abroad a brother. - . ; rX ?; -,-*?]> . Condescension?A manner of raising, oftef self?by stooping. "Condoleucc?A little play of phyainogomy. If you would really console a friend let him weep and weep with him. Constancy?Tho indiscretion of love. Consult?To ask some One else to be of .yon* opinion. . t ? ...... -. ic'/.u tnil l/a* ? Coquetry?The absinthe of love, it sharpens the appetite which it will not satisfy. Couple?Tho union of two, who seldom make a pair. ? ? r''M Danger?A bath ; freezing when you enter it, too warm when yon are in . it, delightful when you leave. t fail Decrepitude?A rag to which we are more attached than to a new garment. Despair?The state of a lady who-e dress is too largo, or uot low enough in the neck. Distrust?A fruit that you never cat until you arc mature. Doctor?A demigod when you arc ill; an empiric as soon as you are well again. Egotism?A preference generally, ill-placed. Electoral Franchise?The ass's choice of Jb^B rider. Enchantress?A woman who divinesour best Kuvy?An implicit confession of inferiori ty. Faith?The humility of reason! Falsehood?Imagination traveling incogni to, ? Fan?A little instrument used in giving om 's self airs* Flower?The bntterfly'e hotel. > Fork?The epicure's ?