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Andrew Simpwlajfe Esq., Pres t 1st National Bank, Charleston, S. C. may 21 wt?o tf WASHINGTON HOUSE *rj . * ,a grw Mrs. M. W. Stratton, CORNER 'GERVAIS A ASSEMBLY ?TKEETS WLl'MBIA-, N. C. Vjenvenlest fe> the Greenville and Chariestrtn Kailr"CMa and the BCSincm p?rtiVu of RAte of tranMen't ? tWaVd-iTw? DolUtrW p^y !>?*.. RegntaV Heart** HKWved at Beaiobablo **es . ? v ? ??" ? 10 tf THE LITTLB S^OW-EOY. ?Y MRS. S. C. IIALL. Many who read this will remember the heavy snow that gaVo the New Yeat of 1867 so cold a reception on the dhy "after" ire birth, when all the people woke up to see tho whole of their world, were it town or country, shrouded in spotless white. Farmer Boyd's sheep, seemed to know what was on the wing, for they crowded together under"the tiecs on tho close of that New Year's day. as a sort of preparation for the uight. Tho next moruing, loug before day, the farmer aud his sons were in the meadow, heedless ol' the thick blinding snow, resolved to preserve the flock ; and if they had not been up and active, the greater number of F?nfter Boyd's valuable nouthdowns would have been buried in the suuW*driit, so sudden and violent was tiie fall, so deep and dan gerous were tho drifts. The farmer said luv should not have saved half hut for the perseverance of his little dog?tot a shc< p dog, but a small pet of his daughter's, a little sagacious creature 'that was olten snub bed b< Ciiust it was uot '-thorough bred," ond so they forgot that it- was thorough heart*t/: /a queer thing, who. with a species of animal economy, always rau on three legs, giving one of the four test, aud another a rest in its turn. Very early on that particular mor.iing, between scratching and barking ami whining, she had managed io waken her master before daybreak on tbe 21 of January. But that did not content her; when the door was opened she ran to ? he window, and the firmer, seting it was nearly blocked up by snow, roused tii> sons and set off to see after his sheep. The dog at first wished t accompany ?*lie party, but immediately on leaving j the porch she became buried in the j snoWj and (jujckly floundered hack again, i and alter being called "good dog" and 'wise Peg" by her young mistress, she sat quietly down mi tho warm kitchen health, tu t sleeping, however, but cock ing first one ear, and then the other, and quietly moving her stumpy toil wh n the master's voice was heard in th? distance. The farmer knew there | would be a still heavier fall, for the clouds were weighted with snow. , "Mary," he said to his daughter, when j he returned, "see that there is a good j lot of pea soup made ; the cottagers j beyond the croft "will be glad of it, for ' their masters are frozen out of work ! I already." Mary, like a good girl, said "Yes, j father ;" but while aho ?hook the snow- I flukes off his coot she- added. "Futber, what can poor dour Aunt Liddy and her one armed boy do this weather "What is that to thee ?" he answered sharply. Mary said no more; but she raised her beautiful large eyes to jier father's and he saw they were full of tears. Tho# trees all round the farm looked lovely, coated with tbe glitteiiug snow, and one of the farmer's sons cleared a j plaoe for the wild birds to food on ; "hey oloared it attain and again, for the snow I continued to fall. uO dear'" said Mary to her brother Tom, "I wish father would forgive his sister, aud let her and little doe come here to us; he is so kind, in bis rough way, to every oue. If she did marry baddly, sh ; only did her duty as u wile by refusiug to leave her husband ; and now that he is dead ?"Marv Hainan! Tun) rubbetl his curly red bead with his very red hand. Tom was called "practical." "I don't see what little. Joe could do here, with only one arm. Which ol them is goneV be said at last. "'Ihe left." "Oti ! well, he could 'tend day hidiool and iSiinday school; t hey might male a scholar 6f 'him more than ever they 'could make of mc ' "Dear Tom," said Mary, "wo must get ut father's heart somehow, and ail Will be wed. 1 rammt bear to think of their ?tiiiving, perhaps, in that horrid London.' - " 1 torrid Li'iidou 1" ropeated Tom. "1 like that I Oranges dow n here a penny apiece, and there Frank Fowlef got three for a penny?such beauties !" On New Year's Day tho^ "Auot Lidd" who had such a strong hold on Mary Boyd's sympathy was literally without lire, aud aI m ost without food ; the miserable attic ?b?*? eh.; starved and shivered let in live bittor wind, and that day littla Joe had douo everything but steal nf .beg to procure his mother food. One gentleman who bad tossed hint three pence fur holding his horse aaid he was a hue little fellow, uud it' he had two arms instead of oue, he would J get him into the, shoeblack brigade. Joe colored, but quick Jy recovering himself, ! answered : "Please, sir, R willing mind j is equal to another arm." | The gentleman smiled, shook his head, and trotted off. Poor Joe put up his hand to the remains of his arm it had been amputated just above the elbow in coosequeuco of an accident; "I only wi?h 1 had to do all 1 could do with one anu," he murmured. Ho wandered up and dowu the streets; the air was grow ing colder aud colder; he was very hungry, but he passed tho temptations of bakers' and cooks' shups, tightcuiug his fingers more closely on the little coin. "I may get something for mother ; I have another penny," murmured tho boy. He entered a baker's shop and asked for a penny loaf, lajiug down his three-pence.?Such a fat, jolly baker, rolling und l.iUghing behind a counter piled with cukes uud dainties, looked in tais pale, pinched lace, bluish from cold. "Only a penny loaf New Year's night, my little man ? Well, there it is." Joe took it up ; us the buker took up the coin he fixed his eyes on the boy, and said, steruly, "You are young to follow so bad a trade; this is bad money." '?Bad money," repeated Joe. "O, sir, I had it from a kiud.gentleman for hold ing his horse." "Have you no other money ?" . "Another penny." "And why did you not pay for the luaf with that "Please, sir, I wanted change ; I wanted to buy something more for my mother," and bis large blue eyes filled with tears. . "I must ktn^4^M>?l^l^ -*h ^ a shame fur a gentleman to do such a thing as to give bad money to a child like that 1" ? Please, sir, I know he didio't intend it; he spuke kiud to me; he didn't know it was bad." The jolly baker looked alteutively at the little boy. ".See here, my lad, if you knew the coin was bdd, the sin will be heavy on ?you; but I bpli.evv you did not ; you wanted too'd for your mother, aud you would uot let blame fall ou the absent ?two r'ght things. Gud help you child !" he added, pityingly ; "you look half starved ! Give me back thai loaf, and here is a bigger one; and, missis '. hand over one of those ouucesof tea and half pounds of sugar wc made-tip for our p tor customers ; and there's three penny pieces tor you, little one ; only always look to your silver before you pass it in future!" Joe could not speak for quito a min uto ; ho walked to the shop door, aud then turned back. "If you please, you do uot think 1 knew that woney was bad !" "No." "Thank you, sir, I'll?never forget it ?never, sir !" and giving vout to one large sob, he left the shop. There was feasting in the widow's at tic that night; to be sure, Joe was obliged 10 make a candle screen with his hat, or the poor thin little candle would havn been blown out by the wind that whistled through tho chattering window ; but. (hero was a bluish cup ol ??'?? ?-:**t .:. li'Tui v? v>.. mm milk, and a tiny little firo ; and there was much thankfulness fur what would have seemed to many vnry small mercy ; and there wa* earuest prayer, and, hud diud under thoir scanty olothing, tho mother and child slept aoundiy and ?iwok'c in the morning to the conscious ness that as tho snow, having found its *ay through the panes of the attie whi tlow, was heaped on tho floor, aud the leighboring roofs and chimneys wore tike mountains of "dazft?ug white," thore must have been r."heavy fall" during the night. ?? We're snowed up, Joe'" said tho poor widow ; "and tho eud will soon come ; this cold will kill mo." "Not a bit of it, mother," said (Uile Joo, cheerily, while moulding a 6uow ball out. of the snow uu the floor. ? I Khali go out as a suc-wboy, while you remain .there, just a? 1 wrap you up, aud see what lots of cash I shall earn God has sent the snow to be our ifVie?d.; the' fiitnc Snail make us uro," "?*y peer niurroed child V whispered tbc widow to Ucrcclf, fci.it God bp gra. ciously^ ^cPnluiTP^W^ neart'!" Tho snow had rarWj as^heavily and as tapidly in London*^? in the county. When Joe got oat at tfe street door the streets wer? uoaily^locked up, the uii i nib uses did not jj10? tne CRbs that appeared came^J&^t with all the dignity of horses; bu$o? most remark able thing of all was fi* interna silence of the immonse city. Although Kensing ton is generally ocWpdered a quiet, dignified suburb, Mp it has, io our opinion, a more thnuJf 'f.?bare of noise and bustle; but ou'tW^d of January it was as though we wdp"striojten with a plague. The only ao*nd in our villas was made by the roughf^ioes of specula ting navvies, who kerJjBoutinually sug gesting that we nioa$ have the snow cleared. "Clear your snow ! clear your snow !"?terrifying tfie sc.Vtnts by in formation conveyed d^? lh? areas that if we did not "clear <'ar snow, we'd be had up aud punifihed."*""w"rHC than not sweeping chimneys raejnJar it was." Boys crept abou3|wllh*s1ioveb3 and brooniB, but were "k^pt^n, awe by the navvies, who monopol^ed the trade. Littlo Joe was s&sWruU perplexed, after bis deienmn>i| iou to go out as a "snow-boy," the factj&at he had neither shovel nor broom, After a little confederation, heedless of aunw drift or siflM'*8 bower, he took bis way to tbe bake^'s> and entered the shop hopeful. "l>rnt those boys,X! eatd' the baker's wife, "they neithcrt^rve uor take rest ! What do you want wiM ?" "IMease, ma m, jilvj-had a broom and a shovel I could earntsomcthiug for my mother by clearing aw"}' snow." "Well !" \ "I thought the ?$8 gentleman here, who was so kiud to rj^e yesterday, might lend them to m<\ Another and 1 had a beautiful tor. lu4t wght?thank you, ma'am; but we haw very little of aiiy tbjnv !';.r to bf. .it?i^Pk~?~- . The baker euterci'iho'shop b. fore his wife had time to answer. "A shovel aud a broom, is it ?" paid tho jolly baker. "Aud because 1 was" kind to you yesterday, you expect me to be. kind to you to-da}-?" . "Hope, sir, not quite expect." "Oh! oh!", said tho baker, "chops words, dees it? And if I did lend them, how do 1 know yoirwmld return them?" .%. . - -? ,VI would promise pou, sir; mother knows I ucver told a lie in my life; you might go to mother and ask her." The baker lent the child what ho re quested; tit five o'clock he had uot re turned. "I told you so," said the baker's wife. "Yes, my dear; but as you did not believe what you said yourself, how could you expect -mo to believe you ? The child has an honest face ; has, I am sure, bceu well brought up, aud, more over, is very like poor Liddy Boyd." "She was a fool/' said tho baker's wife. "Becauso she married the man she loved ? Did not gou do the same ?" "I did uot marry a scamp," answered the baker's wife; and though she was dusting the counter with her apron, she looked proudly at her husband at the same time. "Here comes our little snow-boy,'' said the baker, as doe, weary and foot sore, but smiling. Wont past the window. "Here's your shovJfcarid broom," said' tho little fellow, ."und many thanks, sir; and; please, i want a two-penny loaf; and hero ore tho coppers?.1 made ( leu peri ce halfpenny ; aud at oue house the lady, besides the money, gave me this tract, and a great bun." "Which yo? ate?" said thu baker's wife. I 4'0 no! be exclaimed; "I kept it for mother." I "What is your mother's name ?" in quired the baker. 'Mrs Loyd sir " ".Mr?. Lloyd?" he repealed. "Liddy Lloyd V "1 dou't know, sir, as to the Liddy ; I never heard her called anything but Mrs. Lloyd. I call hor mother." "Was her uame Boyd beforo sho mar ried '!" "It might be, sir ; she has a brother, I i know?Uncle Boyed." j "Docs he not take caro ofhor?' '* j "No, sir ; he's very nn?d, sir, 1 know, to mother; and (die prays so i^uch for him; double to what she do?* for me. Good oijiht, sir, an?. mistross!" He paused, and then asked, "If it was to suow again tonight, air, would you please, loud me them things again ?" "I'll lull you aj mi go alcuc," answered the baker. "I shall go with you to aee your mother." Joe wna.Very glad when the baker,in closed hs solitary cold band in his large wann che ; and when the child said he must stop and inquire at the coal-thed about coach, his friend only laughed and astonished him by the rapidity and the magnitude of his purchases?hotsuup and meat from a cookshop, ten, sugar, three large caudles, and a hundred of coal, and all for Joe's mother ! At last the child burst into tears. "What is the matter now, little, snow boy ?" inquired the baker. "Nothing, sir ; only mother will have all she wonts without my help I" "2fo, my child; it is all through you that she will receive this little help from an eld friend. If you had not practiced self-help, and loved yout mother, you would nbfr have enlisted my sympathy and had my help 1" "Mother was afraid ol the snow," said little Joe, "but I told her it came for good ." "Did you ever hear this, little snow-1 boy," inquired the baker?" 'That all thiugs work together for good to thoso who love the Lord '!' " ."Yes, sir ; mother has said it, though she's so dull at times. This is the house, but I think yon are too broad aerosi the shoulders to get up the top stairs." For an instant the baker doubted and looked inquiringly at the child ; could it be that he had made up a story about his mother. But Joo added, "You can get up sideways, sir, as the landlady does ?vheu she comes for rent. I think we all know b$ this time what a kind heart the baker had, and can be lieve that he felt very sad when he saw the once pretty and bright village girl n faded wornout woman ! "Joe should not have brought you her*?. Mr. Glascotc," she said, drawing a threadbare blanket around her. "I dn i.ot want to iutrude uiv poverty on any one." - ' "Mother/' interrupted Joe, "the gen tlcmau's very kind, but wc have money of our own, mother. I earned ter.pence half-penny as a snow-boy ; did 1 not tell you the snow came for good ?" i "God sends poverty as well as riches,' I observed her visitor, "aud if-wc knew ' all, one is often as great a blessing as I the other; your life fell among hard i lines, but that will make you the hap- ' pier, perhaps, by and by. At all events. ! among all your trials" (the baker laid his hand on Joe's head as he spoke) "he gave an angel to your bosom." 'That's true/- eaid the widow,; "but see how greatly even my pour child has been maimed and afflicted J"' ?* "Losing my arm'" exclaimed little Jue. "Why, mother, that's a blessiog ! ?I'll have the one-armed boy lor my doo,' said oue lady, and the gave me two pence, and wheu the other lads said they would do it quicker, she repeated, 'Slow and sure.' A great big navy, who at first pushed mc off the pavement, when he saw I had but oue arm, patted mc en the back till I shook again, and said 1 was a brave little man. and he would let mc sweep where I liked ; he spoke as if the street belonged to hi in. Mother, my half arm gets mo smiles and kind words and friends; I was right about the snow, mother; I was right about the snow !" It is wonderful whut good may be dono by a little thought, and a littlo time well laid out. 1 ' .-Uuu i.jo way iu i'ir. Boyd's farm, aud iu a very few days at, "tcrwavd the farmer's widowed sister aud hor little Joe were beneath the shelter ?f his roof. Mary's mother had been ' dead two years, and Mr. Boyd's sister ii? considered even by Tom to be ti comfort in tho house; und Joe?even now Joe can do with his r.n?-? arm what Tom with j his too, 1 am sorry to Bay, is never like ly to accomplish?ho can write his uo cle's letters, and past up his uncle's bills; and what is better, he is bright and cheerful and grateful. His um lc says tho littlo "snow-bo}-' could find etraw berries in a bed of nettles 1 Tho conjunctive mood?thought of matrimony. What gkows bigger the moro you contract it ? Debt. The best authorities on the borso condomu the use of the check reiu as cruel and injurious A man in Middlebury, Yt, attempted to commit suicide the other day by touching off a can ol powder in his Luad ?lter Ghsefey-Wfcatf THK CONQUEST Of AMERICA? TH*i OON SEQUENoEs) OF HORACE GUEBLEY'h EJECTION?rROPUETIC TAL?. Tho following is supposed to have been written in 18?2 by Max Adcler who was a witness to the terrible scenes which occurred at the time of which the story tells : "You ask me to tell you, my children, of tho eveuts which immediately pro ceeded the destruction of the once great Americau Union, and the capture of the country by its present European rulers; and to say something ?lso of the causes which led to these deplorable results. 1 undertake the task with a heavy heart, for whenever I revert to that terrible | time I cannot help contrasting our proud j condition up to that fatal year; with the I humiliating position occupied now by the American people. The story is aj short one. In th? fall of 1872 Iloraoe Grecley, the editor of a newspaper in I New York, was elected President of the United States. The people voted for him because they believed him to be an honest man. But he was vain and weakr and he eutertained certain fanatical and preposterour notions?about agricultu ral matters, for instance he was deter mined to force upon the people at all hazards and despite *alLopposition. He believed, among other things, that every man ought Uf go to the West to earn his bread, and long before be *7as chosen President he used to advise -e arybody to move to that region as a cere for all j the disasters |wbich could be.all the human family. "As soon as he reached the executive mansion, which we used to call the White House, President Grecley organ* ized an army of two hundred thousand i men, and proceeded to force the Seaboard States westjrard' at the point of th* bayonet. The utmost violence Was u*edv Those who resisted were shot down, and their dead bodies were carted off to a I national factory which trie President had ' established for making domestic fertilis? era All tho large cities oP tbe East I wore depopulated, and towns Were empty. The"'army swept befo.e It millions of men, women and children, untH'the va*t plains west ,ot Kansas were readied, when the pursuit ceased, mid the army was drawn up iu a continuous liuo with orders to shoot any who attempted te visit the East. Uf course hundreds of thousands of these poor creatures per ished from starvation. This seemed to frighten President Grecley, aud he sent a message to Congress recommending that 700,000 volumes of a cuinic book of his, entitled 'What I Know About Farming,' should be voted for the relief of the starving sufferers. This was done, aud farming implements and seeds were supplied ; and then the millions of wretched outcasts made ou effort to till the ground. Of the results of this I will speak further on. "Iu the meantime the President was doing infinite harm to tho country in another way. His hand-writing was so fearfully and wonderfully bad that no living man could read it. Aud so, when he sent his first annual menage to Con gress?the document was devoted whol* ly to tho tariff and to agriculiuro?a sentence appeared which subsequently was ascertained to b? ,J :-'"v^?,ilou I of rutabagas uud beans is the only hope of tho American natiou, I am surje.' The printers not being ablo to inter pret this, put it in the following form, in which it went forth to the world : j 'The Czar of Russia could jjnot keep i cleau if he washed himself in the whole I Atlantic Ocean once a day.' TMs perversion of the message was immedia tely telegraphed to Ku?sia by the Russ ian Miuister, aud tho Czar was so in diguaot that ho instantly declared war. ' Just at this time President, Grecley undertjok to write some letters to I Prince Bismarck upon the subject of ; potato rot, and after giving his singular views at great*length, he couoluded with the statemeut that if the Emperor WU? j liam said that sub-soil ploughing was I not good io light soil, or that guano I was bette.- than boueduM, be was 'a liar, ja villian and a slave.' Of course tho Emperor alt-o immediately deolared war, and became an ally of Russia and of England, against which latter country Mr. Greeley bed actually begun hostili ties^ already, because She Queen in her speech from the throne, had declared tbe Tribune's advocacy cf j tar:*" ch pi~ _j_ , aasaaaaaiayaaassay iron incendiary,; sad calculated 10 ?* turb; the peace of nattou*,| -Unhappily, ta? Was measure of oar daastcrs. Tho smaaakmV had scot to the Empeeot of enpy of his book, ?Abo?tWbatlKooV Ac,' with hi* autograph upon a flf4eaf. The Emperor mistook the signature for a caricature of toe Austrian eagtej afta be readily joined in war against ??? United Sutes; whim Prance Waa*** roked to theanmo act hy tho'fo*? that wben the French Minister came to call on Mr. Greeley to present his credentials, the Preiidaot, who was writJo? aa torial at the tiseo, not comprehending the Frenoh language mistook the bassador for a beggar, aoa without looky iqg. up banded him aqss*t^?s*?? order for a clean ahirt and a grabbing hoc, and said to hiss, '??W<?^Pil| man?go West? ' * ^ "So all these nations joined in making war upon the United Stoffe l'hay swooped down trpoo our coast and landed *tti?h<mt' oppoiitsw, ^ J^P* oa**** portions or oar .ta^Npjn^Duuiry woto absolutely desertod. ?he President Wae afraid to call away the army from Kan sas at first, for fear lbs milfapWf people? would come East In spite of him. But at last he did summons the army to hie aid, and it moved to meet the enemy. It was too late I Before the troop reached Cincinnati the foreigners had seized Washington, and all the cona?ry east of the Ohio, aud bad hung tho Prcsideut (whose loss was not regretted,) the Cabinet aud every tnomber of Con* greas. Tho army disbanded ia alarm and the invaders moved ? to the Far West; where they foandtao ?BgoilltoO dying of starvation became shay ha* followed the advice of Greeley,? hook to 'Try for your first crop to raise limes, and don't plant mote tha* a bushel of quick lime in a hull' Of course these wretched people mere at the am*3f of the enemy who?to his credit be it said ?treafed them kindly, red thaav aa? brought them back to their home*. Yoa know what followed ; hbW PriaOe Itei crick William, of Prussia ascended the American throne and tkfrOttttdlltfaW tions that ensued- It was a feaf FW blow to Republicanism, a blow ftwm which it will novcr recover. It made us, who Were freemen, a caticra of slaves. It was all th<* result of our blind coo fideuce in a misguided old mas who thought himself a philosopher. Msy Heaven preserve you, my ohildren, from tho remorso I fee! when I tuiatarOUt thas I voted fur that bucolic editor."? Cincinnati itimet. Young alligators, for bets, are hawk ed in the New. Orleans streets. An organ grinder' of flfeftlKfetlrfaai, has a bank account of $10,000. The new leap year style of popping the question?'Don't yoq^JjfaW to wash dishes tor yoW^^PRaJrP' A papor, iu puffing a certain map, says it is the "best ever-made for a dirty/ man'e face. We have tried it, end therefore ought to know." A policeman asked a drunken ftsthiop whom he could scarcely see iu tho dim light, ol a cell, "Are you colored?"' "Colored, no ; dis yer chile bora so.** Researches in Chinese archives chow that the architect who designed and the engineer who built the groat wall wore women. Chii>??"? !fl ??*'? * s?? - -- pav- i-" .,& ? -wv oamoiisa* meut of some Holy Tree coffee rooms for the laboring classes; and with Spat prospects of success. A salute was fired Jon the fhaloi Irland shore in honor of tho Democrat to nomination. A kiod %es?tsd Irish woman, hearing the guns said: ?There they go again! trying to bring op another dead body. "Ceorge," asked the teaoher of a Sunday school class, to whom all other shall you wish first to so* wheo yow gat' j to heaven. With a fao* brightening tip I with anticpatioc tbe little shouted, j ,'Gerliab." The last joke on the autber of ?? What I Know about Farming, is a re cipe, whioh is attributed to him, for the cultivation of fish balls. It ia as follows: 'Never pat over five potatoes in a bill with u codfish if yea woald in. sure a crop." The postmaster Pepsrttatet has de cided that thO new postal cards shall ha three inches Wtfts ?afr Iva ?cd oa& forth ioehos tog. the stamp and Hae? to be engraved on them in a variety of col ors. All ot the colors now io iu?o 00 pclj^c 'iiatpp will be u^d