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Volume 2. mm GOD AND OTT IT COUNTRY. xjrday morning, january 23, 1869. number 49, THE ORANGEB?RG NEWS. ?:o:? VtJBLISHKD AT ORANOEBUItG, S.U. Every (Saturday Morning. ?:o:? AXDfiEWS <f If A L L, PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. ?:o:? THUMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. "?nc Copy for one year. $2.00 " " Six "Months. l oo Any ono sending TEN DOLLARS, for a Clnb of l*ew Subscriber*, will receive an EXTRA COPY for ONE YEAR, free of charge. Any one vending FIVE DOLL ARB. for a Club of New Subscribers, will receive an EXTRA. COPY for SIX MONTHS, free of charge. RATES OF ADVERTISING. I Squnrc 1st Insertion. Sl.ftO *' " 2,1, " . 1.00 A Square consists of It) lines llrevicr or one inch v?f Advertising spnue. Administrator'h Notices. no Contmet Advertisements inserted umm the most liberal terms. ?:o:? MARRIAGE and FUNERAL NOTICES, not ex ceeding one Square, inserted without charge. *$r Terms Cash in Advance, "T?t feb -2.1 o lj POETRY. [From Peters' Ulve Hive.] If We Knew. If we knew when walking thoughtless, Thro' the noisy crowded way, That Borac pearl of wondrous whiteness, t'losc beside our pathway lay ; We would pause when now we hastcu, We would often look around, Lest our thoughtless feel should trample, Swine rare jewel in the ground. If we kn ow when genius struggled Thru" the weary nights and day*, Sighing for some word of comfort, Little woril of hope ami praise ; Boughs of b.ilni und leaves of laurel. We would place within th.-ir hands, Little deeds with pleasant mvsuingi-. Hungry hearts can understand. Closely prt >s r..-?<y -'(?od bye, Which among the lips that kiss us, First sitnuhl neath the daises lie \p Wo would throw our arms around them, Looking on then thro" our tears, Tender words of love eternal. We wituld ivfcisper in their cars. If we knew, alas! and do we Ever enroor seek to know. Whether herbs or bitter roses. In our neighbor's garden o'row, Detter far along life's pathway, Keep this golden rule in view, ??You should always care for others. As youM have them care for you." . V ? RI0U8. A Letter from tieu. Longstrect The Atlanta Ar?? Era publishes, the follow ing letter from General James Longstrect: Lynciibuuq, Va., Nov..24. My Dear Sir?Many of our Southern men been) to hnvo lost sight of the fundamental doctrine?the interest of the people?in their zeal to maintain their ideas of consistency which cousists in ndhcring to old truth? whether they work for weal or woe. 1 regret that T am not better prepared to meet youi wishes for information in regard to the future policy of our new President. Although have hud the pleasure ot several interviewt with him within the hist few years, I have uo| .sought to learn his appreciation of politico^ questions of the present or of the future, regmd his past course and decided chatacteF as the surest guarantee of his futuro eoursoj The floating idea thut has attached itself My jthe minds of the many that he may yet provlf .4? t*e a Democrat, is like ninny other specula tions that gain circulation and credence, hut only serve to deceive those who are credol?*?" ?enough to indulge them. If w recall to mind the event* of the last rwo years, we shall remember that Gen*"-*' Grant's position at one time wan suoh as to insure his nomination for President by the party that he might choose ;is most in uceord with his views of public policy ; and subsequent events indicate that his personal popularity is such as to have turned the balance iu his favor. It seems to mo unreasonable, therefore, to expect to find him, at this late day, seeking alliance with the old party. His antecedents clearly mark him as a national man, and of such he give* assu rance of his adhesion to the party whose basis is the Union, and thut the influence of his ad ministration will be applied to its o unplete und prosperous restoration. A fair-minded people must know, however, that no individual, un aided, cun accomplish this great purpose. He must needs have the assistance of the North, of the South, of the East and of the West. Having assurance of co operation from other parts of the country, he only wants that of tbe South to complete the combination which will Five Miles Above the Earth. ' c ?lull ?ny in August, just after noon, a hulloon rose in the air at tho foot of Cloct Mills on the Western edge of the central plain of England. It was inflated with the lightest of gases which chemical skill could with tremendous velocity. Four miles above earth a pigeon was let loose ; it dropped down through the air as if it had been a stone. The air was too thin to enable it to fly. It was as p^O?n bark laden to tho dock were to pass from the heavy waters of the sea into an inland uusalinc lake; the bark would sink at once in the thinner water. I'p, up, still higher! What a silence profound 2 The heights of the skv were as still as the deepest depths of the occatii where, as was found during tho search for the lost Atlantic cable, the tine mud lies as un stirred from year to year as the dust which imperceptibly gathers on the furniture of a deserted house. No sound, no life, only the bright sun-shine falling through a sky which it could not warm. lTp?five miles above the earth!?higher than the inaccessible summit of fhitnborazo or Pawangiri. Dospite the sun-ihitio, every thing freezes. The air grows too thin to sup port life, even for a few minutes. Two men only are in that adventurous balloon?tho one steering the air-ship, the other watching the scientific instruments, and recording them with u rapidity broad of long practice. Sud denly, as the latter looks at his instruments, his sight giow.-, dim , he taki s a lean to help his bight, aud only msrk3 froaj tho falling barometer that th v lire testing rsnidly A sk of brandy lies within a foot of him ; he k'd to reach it, but his arm refused to obey s will. lie tries to call on his comrade, who s gone up into the ring above; a whisper in at deep silence would suffice?but no .sound mcs from' his lips?he is voiceless. The cei.sinan comes down into the car; o en s comrade in a swoon, and feels his own rises failing him. lie saw at once that life and death hung up l a few moments. He seized, or tried to izc, the valve, in order to open it and let it the gas. IIis hands arc purple with intense dd?they arc paralyzed, they will not res Mid to his will, lie seized the valve with is teeth, it opened a little?once, twice, thrice, he balloou began to descend. Then the irooncd marksman returned to consciousness, nd saw the steersman standing before him. Ie looked at his instrument; but now the aromcter was rising rapidly; the balloon wus cccuding. Brandy was used.-They had been igher above the earth than mortal man or ny living thing had ever been before. One ninute more of inaction?of compulsory inac ion?on the part of the steersman, whose euses were failing him, and the air-ship, with ts intensely rarefied gas, would have been touting unattended, with two corpses, in the ride realms of space. Bloody Trauedy at Moncjomeby, Tr.x is?Four Men Killed.?The Galveqtou Yeics, of the 3d instant, says: We learn from a gentleman who resides a few miles from the town of Montgomery, in this State, that a bloody tragedy occurred in that place last week. Four men were killed, und the town for a while presented the appear mice of a bat tic-field on a small scale. The circumstances, as near as we could gather them from a hasty conversation, arc as follows : A desperado, whose name we did not learn, re cently appeared in .Montgomery, and in a short time made himself odious to the citizens by his quarrelsome disposition. He gathered around him. however, several friends, who, it proved, lost their lives in endeavoring to stand by him in his difficulties^ This desperado waa a Too ?u?|icctc!i oi passing VoiliiterieiC" money, and of having been a horse thief. On the day of the tragedy he rode his horse int*? tln? store of Messrs. Smith & I'eal, and on being ordered out, he drew his pistol, but be fore he could tire it. he was fired upon by Mr. Smith or I'eal with a double-barrel shot-gun Although badly wounded, he ran out into the street, aud by some fatality met a party of citi zens who were hunting him for the purpose of arresting him for passing counterfeit money. He rau in another direction, when some one in the party find upon him and he fell. A Mi Oliver and two brothers named McCrew (who. it seems, were in the habit of associating with I the desperado) ran up to his rescue, with pi.. to Is drawn, when they were Gred upon by th< crowd, aud all three killed. A Fiuut with Knives and Pistols in a Ball-Room.?The La Crosse (Wisconsin) Democrat savs : A most terrible affray occurred down at Had Axe City, 12 miles below here, on Christinas eve. There was a ball given at the hotel in that small river town, ami many persons were present. A we'l-known desperado by the n iiue of John Oliver was there. There were also in attendance at the party three brothers by the name of Denilison, who had at some previous time crossed the path of Oliver, and on whom he had sworn vengeance. Those in the ball-room had heard it hinted that if Oli ver got another drink or two there Would probably be a collision. About half-past 10, Oliver commenced swearing and talking very loudly, nud imme diately drew a large Howie-knife. Denuisoii saw him coming, and in attempting to ward off the blow received it through the arm. just above the elbow. The other brothers seeing tlris, went to their brother's assistance, when Oliver stabbed at one of them, cutting an Ugly wound in his side, and immediately clinched the remaining one, and had his knife raised to give the latal blow, when one of the wounded brothers pulled out a revolver and shot Oliver through the head, and he fell to the floor and expired. Little excitement existed and no arrests will probably he made, for the universal \erdiet seems to be (of the villagers) that Oliver got what he wanted mid needed most. Tragic Shooting Affair nearChatta noooa.?A tragic affair oeourred on Salt Creek, forty miles below here, n few days since, the particulars of which are as follows: It seems that Mr. Boa no, a school teacher, at tempted to whip a boy named Hutchison, who resisted aud left school. A day or two after ward young Hutchinson, accompanied by his brother and a man named Smith, visited the school-house for the avowed purpose of chas tising Beuoe, and not fiadiog him there, they proceeded :o bin residence Bt-aafc s.*w tin ta cowing, and anticipating the errand, armed hie.self, a* also did Mr. Moore, who happened to be at hia house. On (heir arrival Hutchin son said they intended giving Bcane a thrash ing. Moore remonstrated, when Smith drew a pistol and shot him dead. This was a signal for all to produce pistols. Beane shot and In stantly killed Cyrus Hutchinson, brother of the school-hoy. He had scarcely fired, when Smith, who had killed Moore, tired another bacrel at Henne; the ball struck but failed to immediately disable hint. Beane then turned on Smith and lodged 3 balls in his body, inflict ing wonnds which resulted mortally in a few miv.nies. Twenty minutes after the affair com menced, Moore, Cyrus Hutchinson and Smith lay dead on the ground within a few feet of euch other. Hutchinson's brother was the o#ly person who escaped unhurt.?Kentucky Ex. A LlYINU IIKADI.r88 CHILD.?The De posit (N. Y.) Courier is rcspousiblc for the following marvelous story : in the vicinity of Spoon river in Illinois, is a child that was born and has lived five years without a head. Mrs.-, the mother, is Jhc widow of a soldier, formerly living in Marshall county, who enlisted in the 65th or Scotch regiment and was killed at the battle ol Lexington, Missouri. She was standing beside her husband during an engagement, when a cannon ball carried his head complete ly away, his body falling into her arms and covering her with blood. The shock affected her greatly. When her child was born there wit* not the semblance of a head about it. The limbs are perfectly developed, and the should ers where the head and neck should be arc smoothly rounded off. Hut the niMSt surprising thing of nil is that the face is situated in the breast. Of course there being no neck, the power of turning its hCad is wanting, except as the whole body is mOved ; hut this difficulty is overcome by the tingulur faculty it possesses of turning its eyes- in their sockets, enabling it to sec quite .11 well on either side as those more perfectly t'n?iKv|. The upper portion of its l?dy is "*!mreas itn^pii ?%.-??. Oauvmu*... , tv.,n? th* ??<>;??? downward is blood red. This strange creature, now an active boy of five years old. as if to compensate for his deformity, possesses the most clear ami bird like tones ever listened to, singing with singular correctness everything it may hear, and its voice at this early age ac complishes two octaves easily Tim Practical Hkai tiks op Mormon I'oi.vc.vMV.?A Gentile woman in Utah lately gave a correspondent of the Cincinnati Com nurcittl this little, but telling sketch of the ! practical workings of the Mormon system : "Now, there's Kph. Roberts, over there," pointing to a stone house near the mountain ? "he brought a real young, delicate wife from .NC? York, now going on sixteen years ago, and she worked hard, 1 tell you ; why, I've known her to do all her own work, whwu Kph. had three hands and the threshing machine at his house, and sometimes she worked out in the ticld. bound wheat and raked hay, which you know is awful on udelicate New York woman ; 'taint, as if she'd been raised to it, like we folks ?and after all, just last year Kph. went and married another woman, a real young one, not over twenty, and dou't you think, this spring she knocked Maria?that's his wife?down with the churn-dasher and scalded her. Kph stood by and just said; 'Go in, Luce; kill her if )tiu can.' It all started about a chum, too. Itoth wautcd to use it at once. Maria had it, and her butter was a slow a-comin, and they got mad, and Luce struck her. and then .-.latched the kettle right off the Move and poured hot water on her feet, so she fell down when she tried to run out. Ami what was the result finally '! Well, Maria left him, of course?she had to, or be killed. It's very nice, though, for the men. I had a dozen chances to marry old Mormons; but law ! I wouldn't give that for all of 'em. Why, just turn things around and let n woman have two or three men, and see how they'd like that. There wouldn't be no murderiu' done in these parts?oh, no ! And 1 reckon a woman has a> tine feelings as a man. I tell )0U, if my hus band ever joins 'cm. or tries to get another 1 wife, that day I'll hunt another (jlenti e. Ret I your life on that." A Lmvkr in tiik Closkt.?A short time since n very enterprising young moruhaut. who is the happy possessor of a wife as beautiful as heart could desire, had occasion to visit Mobile. He was gone but a week, and retur ned sooner than was exacted. Reaching home ot an hour when the gray of the morn ing was mingling with the shades of night, he of course found tho family all in bed. Pro ceeding directly to his wife's apartment, he rapped for admission, at the same time announ cing who be wus. At the mention ot bis uame bo thought he detocted a boieihefcd exclama tion of surprise, n?d then souic ono pot hur ridly from the bed and sought ref?ge in a closet, adjoining his bed-room. A? this lie heard distinctly, as ho waited in the cold, with the demon of jealousy tugging away at his heart. There was some one in his wife's room, there could be no doubt of that; and that some one had sought refuge in tho closet was equally clear. Who else oould it be than a lover? Mad with jealousy, furious and indignant, he could scarcely wait for tho door to be opened before he bnrsted into the room and made for the closet. His wife interfered and begged that he wouldn't open the door concealing this dijtnrber of domestic peace. He dashed her aside furiously, but she clung to the tails of his coat. The strain made up on those useful appendages at last compelled them to give way, and the angry benedict threw wide open the door of the closet, and, lo! instead of the cunning libertine, his as tonished eyes rested on oue of the prettiest girls imaginable. She was passing the night with his wife, and trying to avoid meetiug him in tlitJuibiiff:, brought about a rather em barrassing denouement. The gentleman, how ever, it may be as well to state, prosecuted his searches no further, aud, instead, made a hasty rotreat.?ilcic Orlcan* Picayune. j Wuy General Grant Keeps Aloof ?'rom Andy Johnson.?It is a matter of surprise to many that General Grant refuses to hold any intercourse with President John son, and in their forgettulness of not long past events nttribute it (with expressions of sur prise) to political reasons. Hut any such thought docs Genera! Graut injustice. He is doubtless as free from the folly of permit ting political differences to interfere with social courtesies as any of us, who find it quite pos sible to cat an oyster, smoke a eigar, or drink a cup of tea with a political opponent. Gene ral Grant's autipathy to Johnson has a better I foundation than this. It dates back to the Stan km imbroglio, when Johnson substantial ly accused Gen. Grant of falsehood in his in terpretation of some of the phases of thut difficulty. This touched the sensitive soldier upon a tender spot. A million men might, as they did, declare him in their opinion unfit tor ?iTB^nes&enuyj*- *'i"... ?it???u** orbing hia temper or changing the cordialit) of his friend ly salute. Hut to be accused of falsehood was a different matter. Coming tram the Presi dent he could not meet the insult in a soldier ly way, and so was obliged to treat it as an offence to be punished by gentlemanly con tempt. This is why General Grant keeps aloof from Andy Johnson.?Albany Evening Journal. Drop that Paper.?Yes, drop it. Too niggardly and mean to subscribe and pay for your county paper, which is steadily laboring for the promotion of the welfare of society? for your welfare?you have been sponging on y?ur neighbors ever since it was established. Von arc always eager to read it. and frequent ly, before it reaches the hands of its honorable owner, it is crumpled aud toru by your filching ? lingers. Drop it ! Never pick it up and read it again, unless you can do so with the proud consciousness that you have the right?a right secured in a legitimate way. If you are too poor to aid in sustaining it, let us know, aud we will send you the paper gratuitously- But it is downright meanness in you, when yr?u are as able as your neighbor, to send your ?hil drcn through the snow and sleet, and raii> to j borrow it.?Alton Reveille. j The Palindrome.?The palindrome is a j line that reads alike backward and forward. One of the beat is Adam's first introduction of himself to Eve : '?Madam, I'm Adam !" Another is the story that Napoleon, when , at St. Helena, being asked by an Englishman j if he could have sacked London, replied : "Able was I ere I saw Elba." The latter is the best palindrome, probably in the language. HUM 0R?0S. Put Him Through. Not long since a brace of lovers from the in terior entered an up-town photograph saloon, and wanted their picf ::es taken. The lady gave precedence to her swain who, she said, '?had to be tuck fust and real natural." He brushed up his hair, pave his neck-tie a twist or two, asked his girl if his eollor was O. K , aud placed himself in the operators chair, where he assumed the physiognomical characteristics of u poor mortal in the dentist's hands, and about to part with one of his teeth. "Now look purty," begged the lady, casting one of her languishing faces., Tho picture was taken. When produced it reminded the girl, as she ox pressed it, ''just how Josh looked when he got over tH moa. sle*"> and as this was not no era io her lover's history particularly worthy of commomoration she insisted thit "lv should ?o-?:n " He obeyed end she attended biui *o tbe oliaif; "Josh/' laid rtlie. "just luke kinder smiiin , aud kinder don't." The poor fellow tried to follow the indefinite injunction. rtLa!" aaid she, "you look kinder nil puck ered up." One direction followed another, but with as little success. At last, growing impatient aud" desperate, she resolved to try an experiment, which she considered infallible, and exclaim* cd: "I don't keer if there is folks 'round." She enjoined the operator to stand ready at tbe camera. She then set in her fellow's lap, and, throwing her arms around his neck, man aged to cast a shower of flaxen ringlets as a screen between the artists and the proceedings, which were betrayed by Bounds which re vealed what was taking place. When the billing and cooing had lasted long enough to produce the desired effect, the cun ning girl leaped from Josh's lap, clapped her * hands, and cried to the nstouished artist: "Now you've got him?put him through." Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowc admits it. In telling ' How we kept Thanksgiving at Old Town, in the Times of 1780," she says : One after another began joining the dance, which, commencing first with the children i and young people crept gradually uprurds among the elders. As it was, grandmother stood with her pleased face radiant with satisfaction, as the wave of joyousncss crept higher around her. till the elders, who stood keeping time with their heads and feet, began to tell each other how they had danced with their sweethearts in the good old days gono by. Aud the elder women began to blush aud bridle, and to boast of steps that they could take in their youth, and into the dauce they went. "Well, well!" quoth my grandmother, "they are all at it so hearty, 1 don't see why I shouldn't try it myself!" and into the Vir ginia reel she went, amid screams of laughter from all the younger members of the popula tion. "Why ?houldtjXLdjocc 1'" she said^ when she arrived, red and respmmVjinWn'Weioot oP" the set. "Didn't Mr. Despondency, and Miss Mnchafraid, and Mr. Keadytulult all dauce iu the Pilgrim's Progress tn Items The Senate in executive session has cow firmed the nomination of Mr. C. J. Stolbrand as Superintendent of the Peniteutiary, and Mr. llcubcn Totulinson as State Auditor of* South Carolina. A gentleman of Plainfield, N. J., seventy four years of age, is now cutting a third set of I teeth. The dentists are not called in to help ihc work forward, j A Hosten Gentleman, a few days ago. dined ' with a club and invited its members to dine. ' with him, on Tuesday. At the time appoint ed they assembled at his house?not to a din ner party, but to attend his funeral. The next Senate of the United States, frotu indications presented by recent elections of new members, and the complexion of the StaU- Legislatures yet to make elections, will stand, politically, just as the present one does. Rets are already being made about the length of General G rant's inaugural message. It is .said that it will be the shortest ever de livered. General Graut authorizes the statement that the articles written by an '?Occasional Corres pondent" of the New York World, and pur porting to relate conversations or furuisn'oyM?? ions of his iu regard to public mutters aud' public men, are utterly without foundation. At Plymouth, Mass., there is a cat which, in the summer time, will go to>Q biook, plunge in aud seize trout swimming along, which she will bring into the house alive and lay on tho floor, ??ailing around them, aud apparently claiming praise for her piscatory feats. In a'?kerosene murder" in New York, on Saturday, by which a girl was killed, the ooro ner'.s jury rendered a vordiet of "culpable con duct" on the part of th j?c who manufactured aud sold the kerosene. aMts. Kliza Garth, of New York, aged seventy-four, has sued1 Richard Howcll, of Flanders, New Jcrsy, aged seventy-seven, for $5,IR)U, awl got it, for trifling with her virgin affections aud marrying another girl. A ('Mpc Cod yaukeo has been peddling sea1 ed tiu tubes full of corn nical as c-a elaritier of kerosene oil." A Christmas goose, scot by a krudi friend to* two prisoners iu a Canudo jail, was stuffed with files and steel saws. The Springfield Republican says it would like to sec somo of tbe "splendid military talent of the South" baek in the army. ? 9 Thieves lately stole the carpet from a church uaat CiociooaUi, and when it was newly car peted brought back the old one and took- the at<\f one