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Zimmkrman Davm eet 16 Cm '? ? ? ? ?? r? fc., i r? ._ i a\ F. Batata, it. R. Huikiiks H. C. Hvootjls. BRODIE <fc CO, COTTON FACTORS .COMMISSION M ERC IIA NTS, NOR TU A TLA XT/ C WllA Rr, CHARP.STON, S. C. Liberal Advanneu made on Consignment. ' Rxrr.a tx? Andrew Simonda, K?q., Pres t Is* National Bank* Charleston, S. C. "<S?ay21 wee' tf washington house Ij BY Mrs. M. W. Stratton, fcJCRVAlS k ASSEMBLY STREET: COLUMBIA, 8. a Oehvehleht to the Greenville and Charleston Railroads and the Biisiiiep? portion of the City, nate of Transient Board?Two Dollars per Day. Hegulat Boarders received at Resaonnblo ?**s. -? -.-TT IT Measuring tho Baby. i aiiaiu -i ?i\ ?<? We measured the riotous baby AgainM the ootmpe wall? A lily gre > at the threshold, And 'hi I ay was just as tall! A royal tig or lily, With spdts of purple and gold,. Anil a lies ft like a jeweled chnHoei The fragrant dew to hold. , i -a >1 jr 'ft > f Without the blue birds Whistled High up in the old roof trees, And to and fro at the window The red rose' nickeij her bSe.1 ? And the wee pink fists 01 fnc baby Were never n moment sti'I ! Snatching at shine and shadow 'I'll.-it danced on the laltico still 1 His eyea were wide a' blue-hells, His mouth like a flower unhlowrt ; Tr q little hare feet, like funny white mice Peeped out from his snowy gown I An I we thought, with a thrill of rapture, That yet bad a totlch of pain, When June rolls aroiiu 1 with her roses, We'll measure the boy again. Ah, me! In darkened chamber With the sunshine shut away, Thro igh tours that fell like a bitler rain. Wo nieasared the boy to-day ; And tho little bare t'^et, that were dimpled And sweet as a budding rose, Lay side by side together, In tho hush u! a long repose I Up fro-n the dainty pillow, W lite as tho risen dawn, The fair; little faoe lay smiling. With the light of heaven ihcroon ; An 1 the dear little haiuli, like rose-leaves, Dropped from a rose, lay still, i ever to snatch at the sunshine, That crept to the shrouded still! Wo measured the sleeping baby, With ribbons as white as snow, Vor the shining rosewood oaiket That waited him below: Ami out of* the darkened chamber We went with s childless nionn ? To t!i?* height of the sinless angels Our 1 if lie one ha I grown ! WINNING A LOY EU. M *? ? i f Mi T -MA ? f i "JJ 'Five dollars! Oh, Bridget, I wish I kni-'W of any way by which I could Cam live dollars.' Our scone was t:o silk lined boudoir, no pictuiVnjue wooded' ravine fringed with ferns and. musical with tb* ripple of moss brnWti waters, but only aSi un derground fi'y kitchen, with a gloomy range of wneh tur* mi one si-i?, and a scantily furnished dresser on the other. And Miuufc Akorly, a beautiful young girl of fcvetiteen, sat perched on the aforesaid tubs, swinging her pretty little feet to aud fro, while a stout Irishwo man, with a basket on her arm, stood opposite. 'You, Mi'*7 dear!' echoed Bridget Mai uy. 'But ?uro that's different thing altogether ' 'We need money so badly,' said Min nie soberly. 'And now that papa is ill, and has Itnt bis cilice, we have so little. Mama mended point lacs for Madame (. heriu laht week, s.nd got a little. And Sara advertised for a place as nu?-?ery governess, but no one answered the advertisement. I CQ?ld teach, I think, but every place is filled, aud Mr. Kus sel says there are ten applicants at least to every vacancy.' 'Tho pity of it I' sighed sympathising Bridget, 'when tho likes of me gett> more Work than she can do. For there's a jintlcman sent a dozen shirts last night to be dono up, and its tueself will have to send 'cm back.* 'How much do you have a piece ?' Min pic eagerly asked. 'A shilling, Mis?.' * 'That woi/ld bo twalvo Shillings?a dollar and a half,' said .Minnie medita tively. 'Bridget, woidd you let mo do ihoui?' 'You, Miss Minnie !' 'Do,' conxod the girl. 'I know I could. 1 did papa's hist week, and be never know that they were not ironed by a regular laundress. I should so 1 ko to cam a little money all of my own. I could buy mama some wine, aud Sara a new winter dress, and?Oh,' with a long sigh, 'I could^ do eo many nice things if ouly 1 had a little mon ey.' 1 Well, I declare/ said honest Bridget, rubbing her nose. 'Aud you Judge Akcrly's daughter !' 'Wou't you let mc Bridget?' Minnie had jumped off the wash tubs and come close to tho good uaturcd Irishwoman, with sparkling eyes aud checks deep dyed with the earnestness of her pleading. 'Please, I could conae to your house this afternoon, and pupa would think I was walking in the Park.' ?Pute you'd he kindly welcome, Mi??,' ac eued Diidget. 'Only? And away rati Minnie in great glee, to make nil necessary preparations for the afternoon work. 't woh't tell Sara,' she thought, 'nor mama, because they'd be sure to cry and muke a fuss over it. I'll just steal quiet ly away after I have made the omelette for pupa's, lunch. Only, if Mr. Russell should call?' and the long faco foil for a second?'but perhaps In; won't. Any way this is one of the opp irt-untltea to help myself that I have sighed f? r s ? long, and it will bo throwing luck away to neglect it.' And so >Sinnie Akerly stole away at two o'clock, much to the displeasure of her elder sister 8ara. 'I think she might have stayed to road to papa,,' said hhe, 'iiistvad of leav ing it always to nie.' 'My dear.' said conciliatory Mrs. Akerly; you must remember that she is very young, and needs more relaxation thau wo do.' 'Relaxation ?' If they could have set n Minnie at that moment, with flush ed checks aud sleeves lolU.d up to the fair round shoulders, working ns if her life depended upon it, tiny might have taken a different view of mailers and things in genural. And the |next day she went again to iron the hi.iris that she had washed 30 daintily. 'Shure, Miss, you're making them look like- while satin,' cried tho admit itig Uriduct. 'And it's yorsclf would make a daceni liviu' intirely, us a la undrew so you would ! (July ita make my heart auhe to see the little white hands of you all blistered and burned with the irons, printed with the euds.' 'My band?,' said Minnie contemptu ously. 'A little ^lycoi ine aud a week id' kid glaring and they'll be all rig'ul again.' 'M'.rriod !' said Kugine Rii'sell medi tatively. 'And why shouldn't I get married, Helena? Is Dot a man all lite happier for uniting his fortune with some truly congenial foul?' Young ladies iinw-n d iy* fltv all so rashly aud t?i\i:<l.' -iid Mr. Kussell's mature, a!rung-minded lister, who was sewing diligently away on red flannel shirts for the poor. 'Most young ladies I ^ra:it you,' said ilugcue. ?Rut nut all, Helena.' 'Rut you are tito Tory 000 to he im posed upon aud blinded,' Said Miss Hel ena Russell, who never yet left ofF re garding her younger brother as a very small boy, who required admonishing and lookiug after, in every respect. 'Now you arc judging unfairly, ITol cna. You have Uevor scjii Minnie Akerly.' 'l'vt: heard of her though,' said his wister. ?SltO waltzes, and sings, au 1 plays croquet.' Ts any one of these three a capita 1 crime, Helena?' laughingly dj.minded Etigeno. 'Nonsense?you know that is not what I mean. Rut it would ba lilSro tu the point if she could sew on buttons and iron shirts.' 'Perhaps she can,' suggested Kugenu UuSSch 'It is likely ?' contemptuously retorted Miss Hulctia. 'Suppose we declare a truce upon the subject,' slid her brother. 'It's quite plain thit wc never cau agreu upon it; aud in the meantime, what do you say in going around with wc to sec Mrs. Mnlouey the laundress '{' 'Mrs. Molonoy ? Oh, the laundress. Yes, I suppose we ought to see her about 4thc summer's washing. Rut is it necessary for me to go myself! 'It would be better, I suppose.' 'And rather grudgingly Miss Russell went to put on her walking habiliments 'And sad, disagreeable part of the city to come to,' the said, elevating at the same time her skirts and her patrician nose as they wended their way to tho regions of tenement houses, groeories and small thread and needle Stores that stretched westward, not far from the palatial residence of Filth Avenue itself. 'Yet people live here, Helena.' 'Yes, and I suppose they like it.? Why, don't they go West? I'd send 'em thore, if I Was the government, whether they would or not.' 'Then it is fortunate that you ar? not the government,' dryly responded tho brother. 'This is the number, I believe. Halloo! my littlo man'?to a dirty-f.iool urchin, piddling *in tho gutter?'does Nn. Bridget Maloney ttve hore ?' Master Maloncy pricked up hin ears. ?It's mv uiothcr,' h? said ; 'an' its in the basement you'll findt her.' Mr. Kussel, with his sister standing austerely by, tipped once at the door, twice three times, before* Mrs. Malonoy's tine contralto voice shouted out : 'Como in, whoever >you may be. an' do not stand there knock in' the door down. Och, an* beg. your pardou. 1 didn't know it was the quality.' But EugctiQ Kussel stood Btill in the doorway, his eyes glued to tho scene that met their gaze?Minnie Akcrly, in n buff calico dress atnl White apron, iron ing diligently away, with a pilo ofsnowy shirts "on her left haul), and a basket of sprinkled linen on tho right. And Min nin herself* colored ifko tho 'red, red r>Be,' for a minute. 'Why am I ashamod?' sho resolutely asked herself. 'Am I doing anything wrong? 1 won't be r-.uoh a fool I' And with this doughty resolution in her mind, she glanced calmly up, the pink shadows still glowing on her check 'Good-altei noon, MsVV Kussel,' she said calmly. And 1'iU^eri''stammonngly introduced her to his sister, who had stood judi cially eyeing the whola.-Scono. 'It's the ecu tic mad a wantiu* his shirts, an' sure tlvy laro they'er uot done yet, cried blundering Bridget. ?Hut tlwy wiit be s Km,' said Minnie ipiietlv?I am on the last one now?if Mr. Kussel will sit do ami aud wait a fe.v in in utes." ?You, .Miss Akorly, ironing my shirts?' 'Kven so,' M innio answered. 'The truth is, Mr Kussel, :4re are poor ; and although ironing shirtajs not so genteel an occupation us gi vingf.mn-ue lessons or unking wax flowers, I am giad to cam a little money in anyway. 1 believe those shirts will giro'fatisfact ion,' and ?die smilingly glatu'ol? tho completed pi!.. Miss Helen came forward with her gray c)c? fairly lumi'luis-with satisfac 'My dear,'' s.iiu she;-1 cou.JVt. have done them better myself, aud that's say iu? a gorrd deal.' A id she nodded, in an approving way at her brut her;' Minnie Akerl? went hint a with tho ' I.?!!??.?? ntid a h.tlt in hoc piuka<, tin* ..; .... triumphant little eapitaiii? you exjt oc 1 held. 'I don't think Mr. Hussol was very j much fihoeked,' sho said to her?ell ; 'tor j he said ho would keep my secret from papa, and promised to call this evening.' And three months afterward, when Eugene Kussel was married to Minnie Akcrly, ho wore one of the very shirts that had been washed and ironed by the bride's fair hands. 'I could not be half so proud oT it,' he said, 'if it Were f.nhi * tied out of cloth of gold. SATED BY A DREAM. BY KATIK UAl'li ST. JOHN. 'I do love yottj dearest Olive !' ex claimed Eldred Thornton earnestly, ntid ho gazed with admiration on the beauti ful girl who sat, with pouting lips, at the piano on which he was leaning. 'I doubt it not, but theu-?' Here Olive E*ty hesitated, and a deep crimsou suffused hor cheeks and brow. 'But then! what is it sweet Olive ?' exclaimed Eldred, quickly. 'Ah, l?dred, you know there is n great barrier between us, which, if uot removed, si.all ever keep us spirt;' ?A hairier ! What is it? 1 see none !' 'Dear Eldred, you do see it?you for get you iudtilge altogether too freely in intoxicating drinks. This is the barrier to which I allude, ntid oho which must be removed before I consent to bo yours.' said Olive, and Jtho expression arouno the ruby lips grow moro dotcrmitied. Eldrcd Thoiutou bowed his head in slience for fully live minutes; but when he raised it again, ho looked straight in to the beautiful blue eyes before him and, in a voice busky with emotion, said : 'Dearest O'.ivo, I confess 1 have beeu hitherto a toper, yet 1 sincerely hope that in the future 1 will kuep the promise 1 am ulout to make you to uight : 'Never will 1 again touch liquor or frequent the tsveru. Erom this day forward I wiil do all I can to atone for my past life. ?So help me, Ood 1' 'Thanks thanks, Eldred !' exoluimod Olivo, in dolight: 'now I can be yours without one cause ibr regret.'J AH Kldrud Thornton said was to shower kisses on the pretty face held so outicingly up to his. Then turning over a leaf of the 'Home Companion,' which lay before Olive on the piano, he joined with her in aiuging Balfo's beauti ful strains : ?'When otbor lips aud other hearts Their tales of love shall tell." * * * * ? '(Jet out, you little sursu 1 Let'? hiccup?'me alone. I won't go home. D'ye -hear that now 7' 'Oh, father, do come, poor ma is very sick,' pleaded a little girl of about ten years, as sho looked imporingly up at the inflexible face of tho man who stood before him. 'I tell you I Witt not. Enough?so clear homo with you, aud don't bother me any longer.' Little Edna Thornton, for she it was, with three convulsive flobs, turned slow ly from the door of the 'Beehalt Tavern, aud walked towards her cheorlcss home, while Eldred Thornton staggeringly entered the den of infamy. Sitting down in the m >st quiet corner of tho tuvirn, he rusted hid head in baud ami fell asleep. While in this state he had a dream ? duo summer days. lie thought he was once more stand ing at the piano, pleading with Olive for her consent to their marriage. Ho went through the same speech which he had gone through on that night, when promising to abstain from iutoxicating drinks. Then he heard a loud voice saying : 'See, Eldred Thornton, how well you have kept your promise?behold the wicck !' Then he saw the youug and beautiful Olive?the blue eyed girl whom he had promised to love and cherish lyiug cold and dead in a cheerless room, and by her side little Ivlna, nryiug as if hur I lulle heart would break and murmur ? I ' . ! 'Oh, oianitna, mnm*m, I to!! hi:n yoii w<t- kick, but. he would u <t come. He .??in ke r ? roughly to me, tmij the papa that used to he so kind to us. OV dear. I .i .-.?? ?!' ?od the cnild'a wail of anguish rang OUt mournfully. Suddenly K. Ircd Thornton awoke, aud found th'u terrible scene was but a dream ; ami he murin ircd : ?My Cud; 1 thank thee 1' Thea flashed upou him the words he heard his little daughter speak about a ball*un hour ago. 'Oh, father, do conic, poor ma is very sick,' aud, perfectly tcrriflod, ho ex claimed : 'IlcavcDs! has it really ootue to this !' ?What is it you say ?' asked the bar tender, blandly. ?Nothing sir. What do I owe you?' 'Seventy cents.' 'Here you are sir. (Jooddny.' Leaving the 'Beehalt l'avcin,' which had become his general place of resort only lour fchwrt yars alter his marriage with her to whom he bad promised to abstain from Iii? previous bad habits, he walked rapidly towards his residence. A great change had come over Ed ward Thornton. 'He now felt how un just were his acti' ns, aud as he walked along, he turned over in his mind many a plan, which might enable him to re trieve his former standing in society. Then again ho thought how he would endeavor to utoue to Olive for the dis tress he had caused her And poor little Kdna, his only child, how could he meet her after the brutal language he had used in addressing her? At last he arrived at his homo, and with burning brow and besting heart, he entered the Ionise, prnyiug inwardly that his neglected wife was not sick a* his child had informed him. Finding no one in tho small though tidy parlor, he vent iuto the kicheu?uo one there! NN hat ! Where are his wife aud daughter ? Surely there cannot be anything wrong ? Softly he approaches the bed chamber and taps lightly on the paucl ofthc door. In a few minutes he is admitted, and all his fears vanish. His wife ii propped np in an arm chair with Kdna, the only solace of her life, kneeling beside her. 'Olive, oh, denrcst, Olive !' 'Ja that you, Eldred ?' 'Yes: here I am craving pardon for my past life I' Eldred tank on bjsknecs, while a ook of as.i*mWm\i ov* Oliver's pale, sorrowful "sVc*. To what was owing thin sudden cranes 7 It was surely the work of Ood. Little Edna lifted her dark bine eyes to her father's in blank dismay. 'Dearest Olive,' he murmured agaih, 'I hare come to be forgiven, and renew the promise I made yon long ago 1' ?Thank Ood !' said Olive fervently. 'Do you forgive V 'With all my heart. Oh 1 Eldred, I hare prayed fervently for this hour I' Eldred covered his face and sobbed bitterly. 'Ob, my door father, don't cry!' pleaded littlo Edna, she laid her little hand softly ou his hoai.j, In another moment, sho was pressed to her fathor's heart. O, what a happy moment for these three?one strayed sheep .restored?a husbaud and father saved from a drunk ard's fate. Ciladly will wc draw a veil over sjuch a scene SB this* for, though one of 'hap piness, the heart is strangely moved at such a flow of feeling wiiich character izes one like this. 'A Eldred Thornton faithfully kept his last promiso, and was ever kuown, after wards, as a man of exemplary habits. He soon regained the position he had lost, and with Olive and his darling little daughter, resided agaiu with honor iu the houso of his forefathers, which he had the happiness of again calling his own. The First Cabinet. TUB MEN WHO lUBROUNDBD WASHING TON. Mr. Parton, in the Jan nary Atlantic, tho* describes Washington and Ills first Cabinet: Age had not quenched vivacity of either of the four Secretaries: J?f fcrsoii, 17; Kuox, 40; Randolph, H7; Hamilton, 33. When in the world's history, was so young a grouped charged .villi a task i,o new, sj difficult,* so luo mcntous 7 Such were the gervlemnn who were gathered round the council table at the President's house in New York in 1780 : at the head of the table General Wash ington, now fifty-eight, bis frame as erect as ever, but his face showing the decrepitude of a thousand anxious hours he had passed Not versed iu the lore ol schools, but gifted with a great sum of intellect the eternal glory of this man is that he used all the mind he had in patient endeavors to fiud out the right way, ever on ihe watch to keep out of his decision everything like bi*j or pre judice; never deciding till ho in 1 ex hausted every Bource of elucidation within his reach. Some qusstioes he could not decide with his own min i, an 1 he knew he could not. In such oases he bent all his powers to ascertaining ! how tho subject appeared to minds GtteJ j to grapple with it, and gettiug them to I viow it without prejudice. I am delighted to learn that Mr. Car lyle can seldom hear the namo of Wash ington pronounced without breaking forth with an cxplosiou of contempt, especially, it is said, if there is an Ameri. can within hearing. Washington is the exact opposite of a fell ?Jarlyleau hero. His glory is that ho was not richly an- I do wed, uot sufficient unto hituicelf, nur indifferent to human rights, opinionsaud preferences; but feeling deeply his need of help, sought it wlaeiv it aloue was to be found, in uiiu?*sTrit<.d by nature aod iraining to supply his lack. It is thin hoartfealt desire to bo right which shines so affaolingly fiom tho plain words of Washington, and given him rank so far above the gorgeous bandits whom hero worshippers adore. On the right of the Presidobt in the place of honor, sat Jefferson; not forty ?evon, the seuior of all his colleagues, older in public service, too, than any of them ; tall, erect, ruddy: noticeably quiet, and unobtrusive iu his addross and demeanor; the least pungnacious of men. Not a fauatio, not au enthusiast ; but su old fashioned whig: natured upon "old Coke," enlightened by twenty five years intense discussion?with pert, tOQgUQ aud sword?of Cokean prluoipla* ^r?an from the latest com mouthy Upon Coko ?the ruins of thb fc as tile ?still his red Taris waiscoat and breeches, he was an object of particular interest to all men, ' and, dottbtloss, often relieved the severty | of busin ess by pome tsrilliqf iriWiW , out of hie heCpr^B^iiL' expsrience. r.j^fc Opposite him, on the Pr?sident'? lejlj. baa the place of Hamilton, Secretary or the Treasury, in all the alertness and yigof of thirty-three year*. Tf time had matured hie tallent, It had not l4s*>H eued his solf-sufGcienoy , becaase, a* vet, all his short life had been ?ueccfts, and , had associated chiefly with men who possessed nothing either of his flnency or his arithemetio. A positive, vshs*1* roent, little gentleman, with as firm s> faith in the apparatus of finance ss Gen* oral Knox had in great guns. He wise now in the fall tide of activity, lobbying measures through Congress, and organi zing the Treasury Department?the' m?eS couspicous man in tho administration^ except the Presideut. As usual, hid unseen .Work wM. his best. In organizing a systom of collect* ? ing, keeping and disbursing the revenue he employed so much fact, forethought' and fertility gthat his successors hsVefJ each, in turn, admired aid retained his 'most important devices- Ho arranged ' the syslom so that the SeWary 0$ >t&* Treasury, at any moment, could survey the wholo working of it; aud he held at command all the resources of the United Stales subject to lawful use, without be-' ing able to divert ono dollar to a pxtr* pose not specially Authorized. He cou!d: not draw his own pittance of salary without the signature of the four chief officers of the department ?; >mptr )ller, treasurer and register. OitANiiY Coi?i?e:i8.?The firstceppcr coinage of the United States vai tnMe in the yoar 1737, and JonnooCiput, Qoujfc claim the distinction. These coppers were mado at Oranby, by .Toho lligley, a blacksmith. At that time' Uratiby was almost a wilderncj^aqd money was to be had with gre ?t dim?irlty. The few coppers coins in circulation were British half pennies and fartoing*.- Uigley d^Mfibt* less obtained theeoyper from!thc fsmeusr old mind near Oranby; and it woukj seem to have beou valued three times as much as old King George's half-peaniea? The coin itself represents a dW, Ma also hears tho inscription: ''Value me as you please," the reverse being, Ml'anf good copper, 1737, with three, aladgw hammers crowued indicating thai jtolys lligley thought that labor yet would bo king in America of the future. On the other side, "I cut my way through" wftht a broudaxe in the esst et, isai^tSashasj again that A igley's idea *he axe would o?t its waj thrpagh ,^ftyny eal forest of New JfjBglasd. Of law Granby eoius there are not a dosen gen uine ones in existence. _ i w ? -' - '_ Gold is a speciality of Oalifoiflia bat must people will be ustoaUh.pl learn that California gold exists iu other de prosits than those of the. gulches and pourtz hills on the Golden States!' Re cently an inn keeper in Switzerland ifcii dcrtook to carve a Califotiiia hats gnd d scovered deep down in the/ porpjne strata a nugget of purs gold of the size of a walnut. This discovery, may give a new direction to the effort of gold hun ters, aud wc may yet live to see pig gold quotod from the bills of lading of California ships. The mining of Cali fornia hams, if carried on to any; great extent, will, of course, greatly increase the price of pork; but if it proves to be as suceessful as the pearl fishery we shall soon loo!; upon the pig precisely as' ws do upon the pearl' oystef?as only' the worthless en vef >pVcdvorlbg the ptacious deposit within. Probably those gentle men who formed a company to, collect the diamond and rubies of Arizona will lose no time iu? forming . a pig mining gold compa^jfinf proceed* to pre-empt all the wild pigs of CalrfoydW.? i* Tho heathens idcaa/pf fehe uses and habits of deep ses telegraphic cables are rather peculiar. Some of these innocent Confuciaus make a living by fisning Up the wires, cutting them and selling the pieces. Occasionally they bury their dark ways by resetting the cable like s> verbena or a geranium, in order that it may grow aud serve for future pro vis ?-. ,? skI I0U. The simplicity that believe* *! i *U0 MstsaasW arc the innumerable -~ ., . ids of (jod s shin ing finger** . , ptorctug the hoavens, is ? u .uttely more blessed than tb* astute ' skepticism that believes nothing. You may glean knowledge by resd? ing, but you must separate the wheat from the chaff by thinking