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TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM, y VCrLfJME 3. GOD vV3STI> QXJR C?UNTBY. SATURDAY MORNING^ APRIL 24. 1869. ?hmr?- -rtn.m ? ??-1-r?1 _7MM ALWAYS IN ADVAN08. NUMBER n THE ?R?N&EBXJRG NEWS. -:o: PUBLISHED AT ORANGEBURG. 8. C Krerjr Saturtlny Morning. -:?: ASDRK WS <fc HA L L, PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. :o: TKRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ?0?? Copy for one year. $2.00 " Six Months.? 1.00 Aar ?no sending TEN DOI.T.A RS. for a Clnb of Now Subscribers, will receive an EXTRA COPY Tar ONE YEAR, free of charge. Any one sending FIVE DOLLARS, for a Club of New Subscribers. Will twWm ?n EXTRA COPY for SIX MONTHS, Creeef charge. ?:o:? RATES OP ADVERTISING. 1 Square l?t Insertion. $1.00 ? I'd " . 1.00 A Square consists of 10 lines Brevier or oae inch ?f Advertising apace. Administrator's Notice*, .$6 00 Contract Advertisements inserted upon the most liberal term*. ?to:? MARRIAGE and FUNERAL NOTICES, not ex ?Oeding one Nquarr, inserted without charge. ?io:? ?0* Terms Cash In Advance, "?a feb 23 o ly POETRY. Building on the Sand. 'Tib well to woo, 'tis good to wed. For so the world hath done Since myrtles grew, and roses blew, And morning brought the sun. But have a care, ye young and fair. Be sure you pledge with truth ; Be certain that your love will wear BeyoM t be day a or youth! For if ye give not beari for heart, As wallas hand for hand, Yea'll Sna yltu've ployed Ute "unwise" part, And ''built upon the eao?L" 'Tis ?roll to saTe, 'tis well to have A goodly Btore of. gold. And hold enough of shining stuff, For charity ta coW. But .place not ?11 your hope and trust . lajAeA tW ?oay?nuc sewgs; Wecalnst live or yellow xtnsi, Unmixed with purer things. And urn who pile* up wealt h alone WiB often have to aland Beside his ?offer cheat and own, ' 'Tis built upon the sand." 'Tis good to apeak In kindly guise, And soothe wber'er we can; Fair epeoek should blind the human mind. And lor* link man to man. ' Bal stay not a* tke gentle word; Let deeds with language dwell; Tke one who pltiea starving birds Should scatter crumbs as well. ! Tke mercy that is warm and true Mutt lend a helping band, For those who talk, yet fail to do' But ''build lipon the sand." {Proas the Vmerican Farmer.] WINES' WORK. bt howard OXYNDOFf. ?PromUw ?t, Charliet" She Was leaning l?mjf"Hv over the back of | bis chair, looking down into bis f?cc. By "aha," I mean Mr*. Gale, and Charlie, was bei husband. He bud just settled himself for a quiet, after-dinner cigar. Rut Mrs. Gale bad jralieiouxly (matched it from his hand, threaten ing to withhold it until ho gave her the re quired promise. And now ahe laid one hand caressingly on hia forehead, and stealing the other under bis cbiu, she looked archly, yet ball earnestly, down into the deeps of his eyes with tender blue ones, as she repeated, "Promise me, Charlie. Now do, that's a de*r.? . '?Nonsense, Virginia ;" and he tried to put away her band. 'Oh! Charlie," reproachfully. "Pshaw, do let me go. You'll choke me," he said half impatiently. '"fco" I will," ahe cried, merrily. "If you do not promise me, this very minute uot to drink Mttytnitig <ii.?t???er thm? j>m? water at Cneic Logan's party to-night." And forthwith she made a small, but savage attack upon htm, pulling his head back as far a? she could get it, and making bcliovo to clutch him by the throat with intense mock ftary. ?'Stop, Vlrgie, atop ! Why what are you about ? Only let me get clear, and I'll pa; you for this, tittle mischief. There, now, you'll put out my eye with that pin in your sleeve. Oh, murder, my face! I'll promise. Oh, yew?anything!" She still persevered in her spirited mode ol enforcing an argument. fie shouted eat,''Yew, Yea! There, now, I hope I hare promised often enough to satis fy yon." "Ofc y#>rjc honor T* "Certainly. Yes, of course." "Oh, air, I thought i could bring you to terms. Recollect, you havo said on your honor 1 shall hold you to your promise." And she came around and seated herself on his knees, very demurely indeed, after tho manner of petted yonng wives, when they had just gained a point. "You saucy little puss, how dare you. And just see how you have scratched my face." "Shall 1 kiss it and make it well ?" she asked playfully. And then while her^ace grew earnest in its pleading expressions, she added ; "Oh ! Charlie, you do not know how anxious I have felt about this patty, ever since wc deoided to go. They always have such a gay time at Uncle Logan's. And you know, dear, though you would not do a wrong thing yourself, how easy it is for your companions to make you go too fur, because you are such u doar, good naturcd fellow. But now that you have promised me, I feel quite cosy. And, dear, do not forget when the young men begin to get too gay, to come up stairs to me and the baby." And he promised. Going out to an evening party at Uncle Lo gan's was no small affair, after considering that it was a good five miles ride from Glen dale out into the country, over rough roads, with Gunpowder river?swollen by recent rains?to be crossed. For this was in a re mote and secluded part of Maryland, distant from any railroad, and with no town near where a vehicle might be obtained. Besides, Virginia Gale was a first rate horse-woman. That she was rather rash and fool-hardy, will appear from tho fact that she resolved to cum ber herself with a burden, though of a very interesting kind. To be brief?it was still early, of a clear, frosty evening, when V?ginia came out, equipped for the rido. "Hero, Hester, hold the baby. Now, Charlie?" And giving him her hand, she placed her foot in the other, aud sprang lightly into tho saddle. "Now give him to me." The idea of such a mother bird as Virgie going awav fire tail*** tn o-- * ' "r^?,f.?fSi and leaving her baby, would have been pro nounced an insanity, if any one had becu ab surd enough to propose it to her. "Dour little follow, how bright he looks," she said, fondly pulling down the shawl. "Look, Charlie." And the little one gave a soft coo, in answer to papa's merry chirrup, r.s he looked into the huge bundle of shawls, and patted the tiny, rosy face, just peeping out of its snug enclo sure. Then after mamma had given her part ing directions to Hester?promoted to house keeper in her absence?they started off, the light, erisp snow cracking uudcr the horses' feet. "Give Charlie to me, Virgio," her hu?band said, when they reached tho river and reigned in his horse on its bauk. "Keep close to me," he added, and not another word was spoken until they reached the opposite bank ; for the fording of the river in its present condition, was a difficult aud dangerous undertaking. "I do hope the moon will be up when we cotuv back," Virgic siid. Then added anx iously, as she again deposited the child in her arms : "The river is deeper than I thought; and really it would be dangerous to cross in the dark/* Lights wero glimmering from the wiudows as they rode up to Uncle Logan's gate ; and the number of horses and vehicles already congregated around it, showed that the invited guests of the Christmas Eve party, were al ready beginning to drop in. Aunt Lizzie came out to the door to meet thorn ; uud took the sleeping babe from Virgic's poor, tired arms. '?Remember, Charlie," sho said imploringly, as they wore on the point uf separutiug?she for Aunt Lizzie's comfortable room up stairs?, he for the society of his boon companions. "Never fenr mc !" and he went gaily uway. Alas! for the promiso made to the fond, credulous wife, sitting up stairs, in the quiet, in.at runiy circle, with her babe on her knoe, so proud and happy, for it was her first, child. And what young mother ever failed to appre ciate the dignity of her position at such a time ? In less than half an hour Charles Gale had forgotten his promiso, wife, child, everything, and again and again his glass was filled, aud his voice raised iu riotous chorus with the loudest. The night waned, and the guests began to disperse. Virgic sat in the dressing-room, al ready equipped for the rido, holding in her lap, what scorned to be a huge bundle of shawls, but which was iu reality, little Charlie, who lay curled up in his warm nest fast asleep, with one little fat thumb in his mouth. "I wonder what ninkea Charlie so late ?" she said at last, impatiently. "Aunt Linie, win you pi ease send for fata., au<* say I aui '.waiting." He came at length, but the firet words he spoke told all. Oh, the shame ! She hardly dared to speak to him. All her thought was to get him away before he betrayed his condition to other eyes? "Give me the child," he said. And as she did so, she felt that his arm was. unsteady. "Oh ! I dare not trust the baby with him," was her thought, but she was silent. She could not beur that those around should kuow the mortifying truth. "I do wish you would stay nil night, Vir gie," spoke Auut Lizzie. "It is so late, and it is growing colder." Virgie thought ?f the dreary five miles rido with a drunken husband, and then the river ! She hud before refused to stay, but now she thought better of it. "What do yon think of it, Charles ? Hadn't we better stay ?" sho asked pcrsuasivoly. But liquor had made him sullen. "No, we must go home." She knew it would avail nothing to argue tho matter with him, but only lead to a pain ful exposure ; so she commenced paying her adicux. By dint of gentle coaxing she induced him to give the babe to hor before thoy started. As they rode away, Unele Logan shouted out to them : "Look out for tho river !" Virgin's heart was too heavy for reply, but Charles shouted back with maudlin cheerful ness : "All right V As they rode on she saw that he was sink ing into a drunken stupor. Oh, if they were only safe at home, how glad she would be! And then she thought of the river yet to be forded ; aud every breath was a prayer. She determined not to let him have the child when crossing; but to trust to her own courage to carry herself and the babe through. She hoped he would not think to ask. her for the child, and was nerving herself for a refusal, in case he should, when they came in sight of the water. xne moon shone down nt*lcSn*? ?? ~? 1 -'cr1-* as day. Virgie thanked heaven for that! But sho shuddered as the sweep of waters fell on ber ear; aud she saw it foaming white in the moonlight as it swept on in a strong curreut. Charles aroused himself. "Where's the boy ?" "Never mind, dear! he's asleep, and I don't like to di-turb him. I can carry him over. I'm strong euough for it." 6 "What is the woman thinking of? You car ry him over indeed? Give htm to me." "But, Charles, you are not in a condition to hold him. I shall be thankful if you can guide your horse over safely as you are." "Ha ! What do you mean by that?" She made no answer. "Do you take me for a fool ?" he said roughly and angrily. "No, Charles don't do so! You know your arm is very unsteady just now. It is indeed !" "Ah, I understand you now. So, madam, I suppose you think I am drunk ?" Again sho was silent. "Give me the child '." he said fiercely. "Oh, Charles ! For God's sake?" "Give him to me, I say ! Do you think, to br; \ t me so ! Give him to me this minute!" Resistance, she knew, was useless. It would only serve to infuriate him, and what will not u druukeu man do ? Uncovering the little sleeping face, she kissed it once?then drawing closer the thick shawls which enveloped the little figure, she covered the face aga/in, ??d gave him into her hus band's urms. "Charles, for tho lovo of heaven bo care ful !" "Don't be a lool." So they plunged in, aud she did not take her eyes from the other two, uutil they had nearly reached the opposite bank. Then her horse stepped on a stone, aud slipping, nearly precipitated hor into the water.' When her attention was again free, they had reached the other shore. "There he is," said Charles triumphantly, as I he placed the bundle in her arms. "What a simpleton you were to think I couldn't bring him over safely. How very light it waS ! Good heaven ! She moved it nlong in her arms?pressed it close? then uttering a fearful shriek : "My child! My ohild ! My Charlie ! Oh, my child !" Both turned simultaneously back to the wator. The quick eye of tho mother was just in timo to catch one brief glimpse of a little rosy, pitiful upturned face?and then it disap peared down the current, aud tho rapid, pitiless waters flowed on. In his drunken unconsciousness, Charles had let the sleeping infant slip out of the shawls, and nothing oould be heard above the noise of the waters. He did not know it until the mother screamed, j There was no help. Oh it was pitiful? heart breaking ! Poof young mother. The home of tho Gales is very still now. Virgto's pale face seems paler yet, from the contrast with her black d ress. The cradle looks so desolate, standing always back in one comer of the nursery. She novcr passes it without baring her heart wrung anew; and he will sit for hours, folding and nnfoldings the little clothes, and her hands linger loving ly among them. There is a pair of tiny shoes in the drawer of her work table, and a lock of hair?soft, baby hair?in the Bible. ? Let us hope that Charles Galo is a better and wiser'man; for ewer since that fatal night he has given up strong drink I How nut LoTengood Exploded. _ 1 ? 1 ft BI8 EXPERIENCE WITH SODA POWDERS. &ut related the story thus: "George did you ever see Sicily Burn es? Her dad lives at the Until Snaik Spring, nigh to the Gregory line." "Yes, a very handsome girl." ?'Handsome! that w rd don't kivor the case; it sounds like callin' good whiskey water, when ye are at Big Spring and the still house ten miles off, an hit a rainin' an yer flask only half full. She shows among wimen like a sunflower as compared tu dog fennull and smart weed to jimsin. But thar aint no use tryin' to describe her. Couldn't crawl thu a whiskey barrel with both heads stove out, if hit wur hilt sturdy fur her, an good foot holt at that. She ways just two hundred au twenty sis pounds, and stands sixteen hands high. She never got into an arm cheer in her life, an you can lock the top of a churn ur a big dug collar round her waist. I've seed her jump over the top uv a split bottom cheer and never show her ankle or ketch her dress onto it. She keried devil enuf about her to fill a tour boss waggin bed, with a skin as white as the" inside of a frogstool. checks an lips as red as pearche's gills iu dogwood blosom time; an sich a smile! Oh, I be dratted ef its ony uso I gjjjlgL 33uf nfflM sWtasiff/wW^ ur dad, cf she jist hinted that she wouted sich a thing dun. "Well to tell it all at once, she war a gal all over, from the piut uv her toe nails tu the longest har on the highest knob uv her head ?gal all the time, everywhere?and that of the exeitinest kind. Ov course I leaued up tu her as close as I dar tu, aud in spite ov long legs, appetite for whiskey, my shurt scrape, aud dud's act in' boss, she sotter leaned up to me, an I was a beginnin to think I war the greatest an comfortablist man on ycth not exceptio (He Buck or Brigham Yung, with all his radii cullercd, wrinkled wiiumin, cradels full of babies, and Big Salt Lake thrown iu. Well, Wim day a cussed deceivin, palavc rin, Yankee pedlar, all jack-knife and jaw, cum to old man Buruea, with a load of apple pnrius, callickcr. ribbins. jewsharps an s-o-d-y p-o-w-d-c-r-s. Now mind I'd never beam tell ov that truck afore, an I be darned ef I dou't want it to be the last?wus nor rifle powder?wus nor percussion?three times as smart an hurts wus, heap wus Dum him. Dum nil Yankee pedlars, and durn their prin ciples and pructisia, I say. I wish he hud all the sody powders they ever make in his cussed paunch, uud a slow mutch fixed tu him, an I had a chunk ov tire, thn feller what found a piece of hiiu b:g enuf to feed a cockroach, ought tu be king of tho Sultan's harem a thousand years for his luck. They aint human no how. The mint nt Filadclfy is thar heaven; they think their god cats half dimes for break fast, hashes the levins for dinner, an swollows a cent on u dried apple for supper, sets on a stamping machine for a throne, sleeps on a crib full ov half dollars, and measures men like money, by count. They haint one of them got a soul but what cud dance a jig in a kabbsge seed, and leave for the fiddler. "Well, Sicily bought a tin box ov the sody from him, un hid it away from tho folks a savin it for mo. I buppcu'd to pass next day, an ov course I stopped to enjoy a look at the touipter, and she wur mighty lovio tu mc, put one arm around my neck and tuther one whar tho circinglo goos rouud a boss, tuck tho in!un ou mc with her loft fut au gin mc a kiss. Suys she : "Sutty, love, I've got somcthin fur ye, & new sensation"?an 1 believed it, fur I begun to feel it already. My toes felt like little minuers were a nibblin at 'em?a cold streak a runnin up and down my back like a lizard with a hen turkey arter hhn in setin time, my heart felt hot and onsatisfied like, and then I'd shot old Soul ef she had hinted a needsisity for such an operashun. Then she poured ten or twelve blue papers ov the sody inter a big tumbler, und about the same num ber of white oues inter tuther tumbler, an put ni onto a pint of water on both ov thorn, and stirred om up with a case knife, lookin as solem as an ole jackass, in a snow storm, when the fodder is all gin out. She hilt one ? witilo eil?? told on to drink lather. I ow&i lowed it at one run?tasted salty like, I thot pieces than thar is aiga in a big catfish. The Ljevengoods is all coufouuded fools an dad ain't the wust ov cm." A Tasteless Fruit.?Tho apple of the eye. Motto for an Arab Tribe. Up and Be douin '?Cash Advances."?Marrying a rich wi dow. Pugilistic Photographs.?Striking likenes 68. A Face without a Blemish.?The face of Nature. Wanted.?A feather from the dovotail of a carpenter. i?C fj were of speech spring from tho root Working for Bare Life.?Making clothes for a new baby. Now Axiom.?A thorn in the bush is#worth two in the hand. Whcu is a wagoner like the moon??When he is on the wain. Which is the oldest tree in the world? the elder tree, of coureo. Something Odd.?That hens should always ait when they lay. The only Plot in which there is no Mystery. A plot of gruss. Why is the letter F like a cow's tail? Be cause it is the end af beef. Why is the letter K like a pig's tail ? Be cause it's tho end of pork. What animals are admitted to the opera ? Pup-pies and white kids. The most productive Grounds ever Known ? The grounds of suspicion. When does a haystack most resemble a Welsh mountain. ' When it's snow'd on." Why is a laundress like an insult ? Be cause sho gets up your collar. Singular Reflection.?Many people lose matrimony because they can't patrimony. Anomaly.?That matrimony, when a matter of money, shot A. aioo be a suggestion of Cupid-ity. pj^Bjj?i i I? i' -r-? .Mr :?! , ? ? SJ/uy should you judge the Amerieaa V jHtobo fond of perfumes? Because.they ?By cents nboat thorn. '.'viii* Bfr?y m? bat made of beaver like land that H&ys yields lue crop? Because it may be ' Hed fertile (fur tile.) ItBVhat is the difference i>ctwccn n blacksmUaV la cobblerf One shoes old hacks, and H| other hacks old shoes. An Important Legal, Moral and Social ?stion.?Is the being tender to another HB1'" sweetheart a ': legal tender?''* S)ld Singleton says that he only knows of I thing better than a Wedding present?a gSSding absent. ?Bcientific Intelligence?At the next meet B of the Zoological Society a paper will be Bd "On tho Tcaru of the Crocodile." BY little girl once hearing the remark thai ?people had once been children, artlessly !u? Bred, "Who took care of the babies 7" HY Boy's Idea of Pulling a tooth.?The eW*. I hitched oa to me, pulled bis best, and just Hforc he killed me the tooth came out." flgU a recent wedding party in Pittsficld, ?ss., a young lady wore $30,000 .worth of Hmouds. Which did the bridegroom value ?farrow Accommodations.?Is it hospitable Hon you ask a stout friend to come and see Hp, to tell him you will givo him a spare bed. ?'It is very curious," said an old gentleman Bus friend, "that a watch should be perfect' jjgdry, when it has a running spring inside ' ?What is the difference between a watch ?ker and a sentinel ? The ono keeps the Hurs by the watch, and the other the watch I the hours. ?A smart chap in Massachusetts "shoved" a ?Bunterfeit bill on the clergyman who married. Bn, and afterwards stole the reverend gentle ?n's umbrella. HA conceited man, who had built a small ?use in a sequestered part of his grounds foT ?ivatc study, showed it to a friend, remark- . Kg. "Here I sit*reading from morning tilt ?rht, and nobodv a bit th* ?-?-??? H^artiauy Clad.?A witness spose 01 a par? Bular person as having seen him "partially * Bad." "Was he not quite nude?" asked the Kamining counsel. "No, sir," replied the ?tness, '-'ho always wore a pair of spectacles.'* ? Law and Grammar.?When a Kentucky ?dge, some years since, was asked by an ?tornoy upon some strange ruling, "Is that - Hw, your honor?" he replied, "If the court Hidcretands herself, and she thinks she do, it Be!" I "Well, wasn't that a finished sermon we Bid this morning ?" asked one lady of another, B they came out of church. "Finished V was Be reply; "yes, it was finished at last, a!* Hough I began to think it never would be/' ? A gentleman in giving a lecture to some B)'8> waa explaining how no one could live Hi tho at air. He then said, "You have all ?Lard of a man drowning?how does that ?ppen ?" The ready answer was, "4Csuse ? can't swim." ? A Musical Turnkey.?The authorities of a prison in Canada advertises as follows: "Wanted, a respectable man to act as a turn key prison. One who understands music, can play the organ, and sing bass would be pre ferred." The Rev. Rowland Hill onoe said, on observ ing some persons enter his chapel to avoid the rain that was falling. "Many persons are to be blamed for making their religion a cloak ; but I do not think those much better who make it an umbrella. "8eo there 1" exclaimed a returned soldier to a gaping crowd, as he exhibited with some pride his tall hat with a bullet hole in it. "Look at that, will you ?" You ace that if it 1 had been a low-crowned hat, I should have been killed outright." A small tradesman was invited to a parish dinner, and a dish of ice cream was placed before him. It was a new dish to him. Ha ' tasted it, then beckoned to the waiter, and .said, audibly. "This is very good podding, but do you know it's froxe." What is it??Ai the steeple of a chuch was being painted recently, the attention of a iistks girl was attracted to the scaffolding pat about it. ? She appeared unable to compre hend : but finally, after a moment's reflection, she said, "It is the crinoline." Mr. George Rose, onoe turning a corner, came suddenly upon some young barristers, who were in tho act of aping his walk sad gestures. "You mistake, gentlomaa," said the good natured wit, accosting them, "that is I not the air of the rose : it is only the stalk." Cutting.?A young lady, possessing more I vanity than personal charms, remarked, in a i jesting tone, but with an earnest glance, that "she travelled on her good looks." A rejected lover bel?g present, remarked, he "could now account for the young lady's never having been found far from home." A moral debating society out West is engaged in a discussion on the following question: "If a man deserts ms wife which hi the more abandoned^ the man or the woman :" .if. *