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TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. }? GOD ANDROP"! J O'O UNTET. ?{ ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. VOLUME 3. SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16. 1869. NUMBER 35. ,-1-?? THE ORANGEB?RG NEWS ?:o:? PUBLISH Kl) AT ORANGEBURG, S. Every Saturday Morning. ?:o:? "HAS. IT. HALL it- CO. PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. ?:o:? TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. On* Copy for one year. $2.00 " *? Six Month*. 1.00 Any one sending TEN DOLLARS, for n Clnb of New Subscribe?, will rety&We \n EXTRA COPT for ONE YE.VKTfroo 01 churge. Any one sending PJLY'E DOLLARS. Ter ?> Club of New Su^sjc^ibcrs, will receive ?an EXTRA COPX^tfr SIX MONTHS, free of ?charge-^^*"""^ RATES OF ADVERTISING. 1 Square 1st Insertion. $1.50 ?? ?? 2d " . 1.00 A Square consists of 10 lines Brevier or ?one inch of Advertising space. Administrator's Notices, .$"> 00 Notices of Dismissal of Guardians, Ad ministrators, Executors, &c.$0 00 Contract Advertisements inserted upon the most liberul terras. MARRIAGE and FUNERAL NOTICES, not exceeding one Square, inserted without ?ohaxge. 9&- Terms Gush in Advance, -?a law xotick, DeTreville & Sistrunk, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Orangeburg, S. C. *W. J. Dr.TRKVIl.LK. F. O. SlSTBDKK. junc 12 tf GLOVER & GLOVER, ATTORNEYS AMI CCUXSELI.OItS at law. ORANGEBURG 0. IL, S. C. Titos. W. Ui.uvkk. MuuTtMta Glovkb. jan 2* ly H?TS0NS & LEG ARE, ATTORNEYS AND SOLICITORS. Will attend the Courts in Ornngehurg, RarnWell and Beaufort, and thu United States ?Courts. OFFICE AT ORANGEBURG. S. C. *W. M. Hitsov. W. F. HCTSOS. T. K. Lien ARB. jan 23 c ly izlar & dibble, ATTORNEYS AND SOLICITORS, OHAXGEBi'IlC, S. C. Jambs F. Izi.ar. Symii:i. Dinai.r.. feb23 ? ly malcolm l browning^ ATTORNEY AT LAW, ?ORAXCaEUUKG C. II., So. Ca aug 21 ly fred. fersn er7 DENTIST. Will be in-Orangeburg every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Office in rear of BULL, SCOVILL & PIKE, feb 20 tf dr. fl. W. kennerly, O H A X (i! E It I! 1R (?! . HAVING REMOVED TO TH13 PLACE, Respectfully offers his Professional ?Services to the Citizens and Vicinity. Office on Russell Struct, opposite Bull, Scovill & Pike's. mar i3 2m DR. J. R. T00MER, OR AN G E RU RG, S. C. RESPECTFULLY INFORMS THE CITI ZENS of Orangeburg and Vicinity that, lie has resumed the Practice of Medicine, anil ?can be found at his Residence on HusscH Street. jan 10?ly XX W. liOBI-NLSON. 3FAS1IIOXARLE TAILOR, I hare the pleasure to announce to riy nti tnerous Customers nnd the Public generally, ?flmt having removed to a Central Position, 'handy and convenient to all, I am now pre pared Cut. Fit und make Up a GENTLE MAN'S WARDROBE with Neatness ami 'Despatch. Terms liberal aHd Work War ranted. Thalikfiil for the Patronage of the (past, I respectfully, solicit its continuance. Next door to Messrs. Bull. Scovill fc Pike, 1 ?tan be 'mind at all times. ?jsmlt?ly D. W. 'ROBINSoX. CRACK EItS A.VB C'.iliES. By the BOX ami s.t RETAIL, a choice ?assort mem of CRACKERS ami CAKES, ^Arr-ETS, JUMBLESs CREAM, SODA, *e.. Arc, ttOLASSES CAKES furnished at ion rates hy the Barrel or Bos. Call imcl see Samples. JOHN HAMILTON, oct V?:jin Court House Store. [From the "Chimney Corner."] called at my office, aud anuounced that he needed my immediate professional services. However, evincing no sign of my in ward satisfaction, I bid him be seated, assumed a professional air, and said: "What can i do for you?" "Hawthorne," he auswered, while I noted his troubled, even wild look, UI wish you to obtain my divorce from Mrs. Stillingfleet without one moment's un necessary delay." Had the President of the United States cutercd my office nnd tendered tnc the Treasuryship, I could not have beeu more astounded. Opening his pocket-book, he handed me a letter, saying calmly, although with tho utmost exertion to appear composed : "You, of course, need evidence; read this letter, accidentally intercepted by ute. Unhappily, I have but too much reason to believe that it more than war runts any legal steps you may take at present. 1 will see you ngaiu to-monow; for the present, good by." But Ilia pride gave way as I, his old friend, took his offered hand. He sat duwu on a chair, aud laying his head on tlie desk, svbbed and cried like a child. As hooU as he was sufficiently competed, I usked him wiierc he wus goiug. "Not home, you tuny he sure; I have no home now." After some persuasion, I made him promise to go to my bachelor home, whither I would follow him as noon as business hours would pcrtuit. Left alone with this strung link in the chain of evidence?this letter which hud broken one of the best hearts in the world, I asked myself, ''Can it be possi hie that so young, so beautiful and ap purcutly so devoted a wiie, could have thus irrevocably disgraced herself?" I looked at the letter with an unusual beating at the heart : I would have given much that it had not fallen to my lot to opcu it, but it was to be dune. It was a beautifully scented and tiny epistle, and ran as follows : "Dakmn? fjEBTRUDE.?Your letter would have beeu more acceptable hud it contained LetteT news of my Charlie. Do you really thinks he mourns for me ? I would have him here, but, alas! ho might be discovered, aud Frederick, who is oofsionnte, might shoot him. The last time he was here, I almost feared o dis covery. Yet 1 long to have hiiu with me again, aud as soon as I know that Fred will be away for a few days, he can come up. But remember, you must keep this secret, or you may guess the consequences to me." 'Iben followed other and important matters. So it was true ! This Charlie Feuron, this Juibis, who had pretended the elosc cst friendship for poor Fred, had hi his wile's ruin. "Devil I" I exclaimed, as 1 paced my office in a fever, "a bullet would be too good for you." Yet damning as this evidence ap peared, it was not legally conclusive. I could not believe that this fair and gen tle wife could have been guilty of more than indiscretion. SI;o had married, it is true, more to please her parents than tor ?1113- strong love she bore her husband, yet I had every reason to believe that she had learned to love Stillingflcet?an excellent, though impetuous man?ex ceedingly, if not passionately. Yet again, woman is enigmatical, nnd I was sorely puzzled; but, giving Airs. Stillingfleet the benefit ?.?' 'he doubt, 1 determined, however unprofessional it might appear, to visit the lady to whom this letter had been addressed, and to discover if she could, indeed, be party to ho disgraceful an intrigue Being iuti mutely acquainted with the lady, I should find the task less difficult than if she had beeu unknown to mo. On my way to S-, nu hour by rail from the city, I thought over and ma turud my plans, I was roooivod with evidont jrieunurc aud we chatted for a short time on .fauii ly matters. 'Presently she inquired : "How nro tho Stillingflccts ?" "Well, 1 believe. But 3ir. Stilling fleet is away front home, ami will be ab sent for some days," I nnsfrercd. ''Indeed," said Gertrude. 'Poor Grace ! she will be lonely. I must take this opportuuity of visiting her. Will you stay and take dinner with us?" I thauked her, but stated that I must go otT by the next train. "Then you will, at least, take a glas* of wine." And suiting the action tu the word, she entered the next room, leaving the door, partially open. I was looking over ao album during her absence, when I heard, td my surprise, Charlie Fearon's voice?not distinctly, but t could have sworn it was his. 1 listened. Silence eusued for a few seconds, when I heard Gertrude say, iu a merry voice : "At last, Charlie, you shall make a stolen visit to your Grace." And then followed most unmistnkably the sound of a kiss. "Infamous young woman!" 1 mut tcrec. '-Not only lost to a sense of shame herself, but she endeavors to en trap another !" When she returned, it was witl. diffi culty tbut I swallowed down tho wiue; then bidding her a hasty adieu, I hur ried nft' to meet the train. This Charlie Fearon, a wealthy, hand some, but indolent young man, was the pet of the ladies, but I bad never, until now, believed him to be one of those scoundrels, who make business for the divorce court. My next move was to call on Mrs. StsUiugfleci, nr.U inform hor that her husband would be away for a few days. She appeared grieved at the intelli gence, but she answered that she sup posed it was necessary, and that such ab sences were tho common lot of wives. She looked very beautiful and very in uoceut in her elegant morning attire; but I was too much a man ol the world to be deceived by a v/on an's inauuer, aud us I returned home, I utmost dread ed to meet Stillingfleet, lest he should read iu my (ace the almost conviction that had forced itself on my mind, that there was something wrong. Poor Stillingfleet ! I had envied him once, but now pity took the place of en vy. It was a cruel blow. However, I told hi in that I was investigating the ii.alter, and, in spite of my doubts, en couraged him at least to hope. At 12 o'clock the following day I dispatched a messenger with a letter to Gcrtiudc, bid ding him wait an answer. As I had expected, he brought me word that she had left by an early train tor the city. "Now," said I to Stillingfleet, "you must return unexpectedly, i will ac company j'ou. If your wife bo really guilt)', there will be visible signs of agi tation, aud attempt will be made to con ceal this fellow, Fearon. You have al ready promised me that you will in any case forego a divorce, and arrange a sepa ration ; therefore, the step we are about to take is. I am convinced, the wisest," He had promised to control himself, and I knew that ho would do so. Using bis lateb-kcy. we entered the house, but not before we had been perceived by Gertrude. Without appearing in undue baste, we opened the parlor-door, aud as we did so, we saw that of an adjoining close, and I heard Mrs. Stillingfleot say : '?Charlie, we are discovered at last J" Toor Stillingfleet hoard her also, and as bis wife approached him, be seized her by tho arm with one hand, and pointing to the opposite door with the other, exclaimed, while his face was white with emotion : "You are too late, noadame'. Whom arc you concealing in that room '(" I shall never forget the momentary look of horror' "- that .swoct face, nor the delicious little laugh that followed it, as she exclaimed : "You darling old goose 1" At tho same moment Gertrude opened the awful door, and saying, "Hehold the culprit 1 Charlie, como forth !" exhibited to our astonished gaze, a beautiful littlo dog?a veritable "King Charles." "Thank Qod !" exclaimed Stillingfleet, as ho pressed his dear little wife to his heart; "I was a brute to doubt you I" It was now necessary to explain all to the ladies. How thankful were all par tics concerned that I had not boon pre cipitate ! I was now informed that Stillingfleet, having been bitten 'by a dog when a boy, had always evinced a mortal aversion to the canine race. Grace had,'therefore, during her engagement, cntruhted her littlo pet, the gift of an absent brother, to the tender mercies of Gortrude, aud was only waiting the titnojrhen she could ovorcouic her'* husb4?dJpprcjudicc to have him with her. rJcuee the amtrc If T had not commenced to prosper from that time, I believe Stillingfleet would have gone to law with his tailor or grocer rather than allow me;to be with out a client, so rejoiced 'was- he at my friendly handling of my first divorce King Solomon's Blacksmith. And it came to pass tthcu Solomon, the sou of David, had finished the Tem ple of Jerusalem, that he called uuto him the chief architects, flic head of ar tificers, and cunning workers in silver and gold, aud in wood and ivory, aud iu stone?yeu, all who had aided iu rearing the temple of the Lord, and said unto unto them : "Sit ye down at my tubjo; I have pro pared a feast for all my jchicf workers and artificers. Stretch folth your hands, therefore and eat and drink aud be mer ry. Is not the laborer trorthy of his hire ? Is not the skillful artificer worthy of honor? Muzzle not .the ox that trcadeth out the corn." ^ Aud when Solomon, and tho chief workers were seated, and the fatness of j the land and oil thereof ATero set upon the table, there came one who knocked loudly at the door, and forced himself even unto the festal chamber. Then Solomon, the king, was wroth, and s:iid : "What manner of "inn art thou?" And the man answered and said : "This fellow is no sculptor; neither is he a workman iu fine ntctals ;" nad ho who made the roof cried out : "He is not cunuii' ; in cedar wood ; neither knoweth I: ? the mystery of uniting strange j.ieces of timber together." '?Then said Solomon : "What hast thou to *?\ Son of the Forge, why I should not order thee to be scourged, and stoned to death with ; stone: And when the Son of the Forge heard this, he was iu no wise dismayed; but advancing to the table snatched up and swallowed a cup of wine, and said : "O King, live forever ! The chief men of the workers of wood and gold and stone have said truly. I am their master, and they arc my Bervauts." Aud he said to the chief the carvers in stone, '?Who mado the tool with which you carve ?" And he said : "The blacksmith." And he said to tlie chief of the ma sons : '"Who made the chisel with which tho stones of the tcinplu were squared ?" And he said : 'The blacksmith." And he said to the chief of the work ers in wood : "Who made the tools with which you hewed the trees on Le banon, and formed them into the pillars and roof of the temple ?" And he said : "The blacksmith." Then said be to the artificer in gold and in silver and ivory: 'Who makes your instruments by which you work beautiful things for my lord the king ?" And he said : "The blacksmith." ''Enough, enough, good fellow," paid Solomon ; "thou hast proved that 1 in vited thee, and thou art a chief artificer in art. Sit thou beside us at the feast ; aud be thou forever more honored among men.*' The Suiuter Watchman publishes the following communication : Mr. Editor :?I was present, with a number of others, at Fleming's Shelter, (Old Sardis,*) near tho swim mi ng i\ us. iu this County on Sunday, Sc, einher 17, and heard Dev. W. K. Johnson, col ored Senator, preach la bis sermon, ha told the colored people that Christ was an African, was born in Africa and preached his sermon in Africa. That Mary his mother, was a black woman, and Joseph, his father, an African and a black man. All this he said gravely and positively. Rev. Joseph White was present, I, Burrcll James another color ed member of the Legislature, contra dieted the statement, and demanded his proof, lie persisted in his assertions. May we not ask, "what manner of mau is this?" W. JAM KS. St .MTK.it. September 25, 18C9. From the herd of Mr. Crcighton, now in the West of Kansas, an ox was slaugh tered in February last, whose net weight, dressed, wus 10,000 pounds?more than 12,(100 groos ? This monster was fat tened on the grasses of the Plains, and never was fed o snoar of htiy or a grain of corn. The Ureat Flood. V N I'll EC KDE N TED DAM AUK TO -RAIL ROAD8 AND ALL KINDS UP PROPERTY. (From the New York Star of Friday.] The rain which fell so heavily on Sunday and Monday seems to have extended over a largo region of country, and to have done vast, and in some instnnens, irremediable damage to pur sons and property. The damage in this city was not very great, and the rain did more good than harm. The city was much iu want of water, and the Crotou dam is now overflowed, so the reservoirs will soon be full aud the supply bounti ful. But the storm did great dutnage for many miles on both sides of the Hudson River. ON THE Ht'DSON. A large portion of the Hudson River Railway at Cnstleton was carried away. Many bridges on the Rensseluer aud Saratoga, the Rutland und Washington, and the Roundout and Oswego Rail Roads were destroyed. There were a number of breaks made iu the Krie Canal. Much damage was done to streets, rouds aud bridges iu and around Saratoga. At Albany, the hiss to the city alone by. the bursting of sewers and damage to public works is estimated at more than 850,000. Schenectadly, Poughkcepsic, Roundout, Rhincbeck, Cutskill and other towns on or near the river, all suffered severe damage, and through travel was. and is still, suspended on the Hudson River Rail Road. Numbers of piers, ducks, mills, boats, and other properties aud roads bridges, houses, culverts, dauis, <\.c , Wf re carried away or destroyed throughout the regiou of flood. PENNSYLVANIA. The flood was equally severe iu Pennsylvania. Jn Philadelphia many streets were overflowed, and a large amount of public aud private property destroyed. The Schuylkill River rose to such a height as to stop the water works at Fiiirtuount, the water rushing over the dam in a flood sixteen feet deep. The Delaware and Lehigh Rivers also rose many feet,and uuuibersof mill works, bridges. &o., are swept away. The dam age iu Manayuuk was especially severe, the N orris town Railway was over-flowed, and the Reading road also under water in many places. The travel between this city and Philadelphia was and is uninter rupted, but the track between the latter city und Wushington was submerged iu several places, and the through trains have been greatly delayed in COnscqucnO. llarrisburg escaped the freshet, but south aud north of that city much dam age was done to the Pennsylvania Cen tral and Philadelphia aud Reading Rail ways by the destruction of bridges and culverts, and tho rising of the Sus quchanua River. At Scrantou and Manch Chunk the railway tracks wore much broken up by the washing a way of embankments, and twenty boats were carried over the dam at the latter place. The Lucka wanna Mills have been stopped by tho overflow. The Delaware division canal was badly broken, and two aqueducts^were carried away. Finally, three persons were drowned at Norristown, but these arc the only lives reported lost so far. CONN KCT1CUT. The storm was severe in several parts of Connecticut. The dam at Harper's paper mill was broken, and it is said that great damage was done at Walling ford, and along the Xaugatuck Valley, but 110 details have been received, owing to the interruption of telegraphic com munication. A break was made iu the Hartford. Providence and Fish kill, Railway, near Manchester. Several largo mills were swept away, together with the new dam at Prnttsvillo, and the damage was severe in Mcridoil, Windsor, Locks. Talesvillc. South Manchester, and other towns in that region. In Moridcn alone the loss is estimated at $30,000. ELSEWHERE. The District of Columbia had itssharo of tin; flood, and Washington and George town both Buffered considerably. Rridgea woro carried away, the Chesapeake and Ohio canal broken in. sewers caved iu, houses undermined and the track of tho Baltimore and Washington Rail Road washed away iu ouc tu* two placos, caus ing, however, only a temporary detention of trains. It. New Jersey there "'as several land * alides nn the. Morris and Ksscx Railway, several turnpike bridges were destroyed, the Sussex Railway was submerged at several poiuts, and the damage to the late erups whs very great throughout the Northern part of the State. A good deal of public and privato property was also destroyed or injured in Jersey city, Lloboken, and their neighborhoods. Josh Billings on Gongs. "Josh Ridings rclatcth his first ex perience with the gong thusly: I can never eradicate holi from my memory the souud of the first gong I ever heard?I was s^tteu on the front stupe of a tavern iu the sitty uv Bufferlo, pensively smokiu. The sun was goin to bed, aud the hev<nis fur and nere were blushing at the performance. The Ery Kanal, with its golden waters, was on its way tu Albany, and I was perusin the line uv Italy (where I used to live) and and her goudolers. My entire sole, as it were, wuz in a swet. 1 wanted to klime, I felt grate, I nctuully grew. There are things in this life tu big tu be trifled with; there are times when a man bruks luse from himself, when he sees spirrits, when he can almost tuch the mune, and feels as tho he cud fil both bauds with the stars ov heven?almost Bware ho was a batik president. That's what ailed inc. But the course ov true love never did run smuth (this was Shakspcare's opinion ton.) Just as I was doing my best? dummer, dummer, spat, bang, heiler, crash, roar, ram, dutumur, dummer, dum ?with one trcmenjus jump, I struc the center of the sido-wok, with uuothcr I stoud iu the middle of the street, snorting like an Iujine pony at a band of musik. Gnziu wild despair at the tavern stand, tui hart swelled up as big as an out-door oven, mi teeth were us luse as a string of bedes. I thot all the crockery in the tavern Bad foil down. T thot ov fi.no uieuous, I thot of Ciabrcl nnd his horn. I was juit on the pint ov thinkin ov something else, when the landlord kum out to the front stupe ov the tavern, holding by a string the bottom of an old brass kettle. He kawled me gently with his hand, I went slola up to him, he katnmed my feeris, he sed it wuz a gong, I saw the cussed thing, he asked me if I wud hav black or green tea. and I sed I wud. Wno to IStromzk.?P.T. Barnaul, in his autobiography, while speaking of advertising. s 's: "I never pntronize a business that don't advertise, for the reason, that 1 invariably get cheated if I do. The penurious principle that prevents a man from keeping^ie-^iffuncas before the public, will prevent him from selling cheap." And l'rontice "never would buy goods of those who dou't advertise, because those who do, sell much more, aud as a cousequcuco sell much cheaper." A Catholic editor, iu answor to an inquiry touehiug proper reading for young Bomanists, says: "As to that idol of a debauched generation, Charles Dickons, in regard alike to Christian faith, Christian morals, tho deoencies of life and the proprieties of our vernacular, he ought to be ex cluded i n in all lists of books fit to bo rend." A Western editor asks tho following question , "If a fellow has uothing when he gets uu-ried, and tho girl has noth iugj-are her things h' ?en or kixren hern ? Wo maintain the negative. Toledo, Ohio, has a society calling it self the "Ho Sorosis." There is a street in Charleston called Secession street. Charleston police are armed with 16 ? shooting rifles. Omaha is said to grow at rate of j30 houses per day. Isabella occupies sixty rooms in .a big hotel at Troville, and pays $20,000.? mouth board. Seventy women two years ago emigre - ted from Massachusetts to Oregon. 8ia ty-uiue arc now married. The mind is like a truuk, and if well packed, U will hold almost everything ; if ill packed, next to nothing. A horse-car conductor put off a pas senger in Chicago, and now the latter sues for $10,000 damages. Prinoctou being its college year with 304 students, the largest at the begining of any scholastic year I n ?Paris the Alabama and Chattanoo ga Kail Road is advertising a$3,000,000 loau at 88, being 10 per cent interest. Boston, like other American cities, is complaining of tho extravagance S?d incompctoucy of its office holders. A Ciuciunatiau has wagered $100 that he cau carry an anvil, weight700 pounds, seven miles without resting. Oh! Iu New York a good restaurant is said to be wanted, the present ones being "greasy and dingy." Boston is g"iug to try a new invention, by which all the street lamps in the city can bu lighted iu four minutes. Rev. Dr. Joseph B. Felt, the Massa chusetts antiquariau aud historian, died at Salem lust Wednesday, aged 80. Rev. James Durburrow, of Philadel phia, on Sunday evening, solemnised his 1000th marriuge ceremony. The Canadian ladles arc said to crowd Prince Arthur's apartment, when he is away to get a stgnt oi urn ctotues. Robert Bonner sold 375,000 copies of tho New York Ledger issued last week; ?the largest circulation in the word. There is a Welsh Baptist Church at Plymouth, Pa. All but three of the male members ; crished in the Avondale disaster. Three individuals in Michigan got lost in the woods. They told their dog to "go home, "and got there themselves by following him. The doll for tho Sultan's daughter, ^bou^ht iu Paris by the Viceroy of fcJgypt, cost, with its dresses, jewels, car riage, &c., $47,000 in gold. I Alexander Mitchell is described as the "railway king" of the Northwest. Ha lives at Milwaukie, and controls 2,000 miles of railway. A New York paper says: "There is only one thing that cannot be got in New York?an excellent dinner at a low price." A doctor in Watcrford, Ireland, quar relled with his wife about the name of their unborn child, and after killing her shot himself. A reckless girl in Mississippi, named Lucy Lee. advertises her willingness to marry an editor. Lucy, take the advice of a friend and some strychnine. An illiterate correspondent, who ig given to sporting, wants to know when the "Anglo-Saxon race," so much talked of, is to come off. ? It takes the Tennessee editors a great while to cnol down. One of them has just charged another with "lying infa mously, hellishly, and with forty-devil power." ???????^???i??? "Well, Patrick," asked the doctor, "how do you feel to-day ?" "Och, doctor, dear, I enjoy very poor health, entirely. The rumatica are very distressing indade. Whon I go to slape, I lay awake all night, and me toes is swilled up as big as a goose hen's egg, so whin I stand up I fall down immediate ly " _ It is said that there are in the oaves of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, im mense quantity of bat guano, which ana lysis has proved to be superior to the Peruvian. Those caves, of which there are eleven in number, have been infested for hundreds of years by millions of bats which have hatched, lived and died there without ever seeing tho light. The de posits that have accumulated from them are said to be almost inexhaustible. Qae of these caves alone is twenty-five rnilaa in length. The oaves are owned by five Confederate sofc?k?, -he ps^&*?? ' them for five hfpdrcd dollars.