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TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. }> GOD -AJNTD OTJjU COUISTTRY. always in advance. } VOLUME 7. SATURDAY MORNINO, OCTOBER 18,1873. NUMER 38 THE ORANGEBURG NEWS ?:o:? PUBLISHED AT , Every Saturday Morning. BY TUB mANGEBUllG NEWS COMPANY ?:o:? TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Oat Copy for one year. $2.00 " " " Six Months... 1.00 Any one sending TEN DOLLARS, for a Club of New Subsoriborn, wiR recoive an EXTRA COPY for ONE YEAR, free of eharge. Any one sending FIVE DOLLARS, ?r a Club of New Subscribers, will receive an EXTRA COFY for SIX MONTHS, free of arg e. ?:o:? RATES OF ADVERTISING. 1 Square let Insertion. $1.50 ?? ?? 2d ' " . 1.00 A Squaro consists of 10 lines Brevier or one ineh of Advertising space. Administrator's Notices, ......$*'> 00 Notices of Dismissal of Guard ans, Ad ministrators, Executors, &c.$9 00 Contract Advertisements inserted upon the saest liberal terms. ?:o:? MARRIAGE and FUNERAL NOTICES, Dot exoeeding one Square, inserted without eharge. ?:<>:?? Terms Cash in dvance. J. 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C, DBALBB tB PRUG8, MBDICINES, TAINTS, ' mm mux soaps, a!id 0,ts BRUSHES AND ?UR? and LIQUORS S Medicinal tuee. PTEtWOODAant! m*.STWVB generally. A of TOBACCO a*d SRQAM. [From the Williamsburg Republican.] Wayside sketches. TRA YELLING IX THE SWAMPS BY OUR CIIKKAW COR RKf PON DENT. It is but a few days siuco the great balloon collapsed and oamo to grief. The thing was not well brokon to har ness, and, as many people expected, it kicked over the traces, smashed the vehicle behind it, scattered the by standers, and mixed things up generally; a consummation rather inglorious, per haps, but doubtless very comforting and soothing to the feelings of the proposed navigators and their families?that is, if (they are of my miud ; for, setting aside the perils of the upper air, the chances of paying an unwelcome visit to the moon, or of running aground on tho dog star, they escaped the still greater dangers lying in wait in tho great waters below. If thcro is ojc of the elements for which tho writer has unqualified con l tempt, and which be scrupulously keeps clear of on ell possible occasions, it is that deceitful medium which the school book tells us is made up of "two of hydrogen and one of oxygen." Never, siuce that fatal truth was impressed forcibly on bis youthful understanding and freely illustrated by the vigorous action of a piece of leather two feet long, making him revolve rapidly on his own axis round the school room un til the subject was clear from all obscuri I ty, and a beautiful glow of scientific ardur took possession of bis soul?nevor bos he hankered very much after icater, ? Good Templars will please understand that I am in uowi.-e "responsible" in thus unburthening my feelings, and tbey must, in every case, seek "satisfaction" from the editor of this paper only. Having settled that point, I am free to declare that my view of water in the nbstrnct is that ot an element calculated specially to terrify unfortunate little boys with chronic dirty faces, and hav ing the evil property of adulterating milk in citiof. and spoiling good whisky everywhere. Hut of all the manifold forms in which water can present it-sell to the discomfort of a dweller on dry bind, preserve mo from ever again encountering it in the I'ee Dee Str?mps. "Take any shape but that, ami my 8rm nerves ?Shall never treatble:M Now, J am not very easily scared in general. I have gone through railroad smashes and beou run away with by misguided brutes called horses; I have tumbled down trees und tried falling from the roofs of bouses, both inside and out ; I have seen ghosts and been chased by bull dogs; and I still live?live to chronicle an experience worse than all these combined. Hut to my tale. About a week ago it. was my ill fortune toset out with Col. Harris, of Kingstree, on a disastrous journey, whose cud and aim waa Conwayboro. Surely, the "ministen who wait on Nature's mischief" guided our way, after numer ous small incidents and adventures, to that ill-omened part of the I'ee Dee Bwamps, near which,"ns we were deluded into believing, is situuted Gallivants ferry. And there may be a forrr there; far be it from me to say there isn't ; for worthy and responsible penplo have asserted the fact. All I will say isthat we tried to find that ferry ; we searched diligently and gave nur minds to it, but had to come away in a demoralized con dition, without getting within several miles of that ferry, so far as we could judge. We didn't find it that day, and j what is mote, wo don't much caro if we never du. I should say that our journey went on sicimmingly until we struck the Pee Dee swamp, and much more so before we got out of it. We drove out ill-fated horso into the water, with high hopes and a good oournge, deeply sympathizing with tho animal, however, as time passed on and no dry laod appeared. We talked of trans-Atlantic voyages and diassters at sea, noting as wo tvont the oheering nature of the traveling arrange ments in those parts, and tho ingenuity with which the roads aro run through as many swamps as possible, while in cases where this cannot be managed, Nature bring* up the swamp to overflow the road, 80 things went on till we had gone a mile or two (more or leas) througk the Water, when our good steed considered that he had had enough of it, and turning round, made clear hp intcn tion to come into tho buggy with ua, I out of tho wet. Harris worn a Tory ; grave face, aud apcculatcd as to the possibility of suing somebody or other for damages ; but rallying a little be ' whipped up our retrospective "animal and urged him forward until we got into deep water aud an ugly predica ment at the same time. A sudden turn brought us close on to tho river; a strong currcut caught the vehicle ; the borso plunged into a hole and took to swimming; tho water rushed into tho buggy with a gurgle and a great splash in{ ; two pairs of h-gs appearod simul taneously in mid-air over the dash board ; two valises filled with water, and one stout individual of the party?not myself?lay back in his scat and re pented in an undertone a string of loug woids which I never remember to have met with in any dictionary or spelling book. More whipping for that miser able horse, more kicking and plunging, another influx of water, and we cauio finally to anchor. It was a cheerful prospect on all sides; nobody could deny that. A river on the left, a thick et on the right, another river whore the road ought to have been, and no room to turn round in or do anything but go straight uhend. To the two vo3'agcrs, Bitting in a remarkably easy position, with their luwcr extremities elevated at an angle of forty-five degrees, all this was highly exhilarating. For tho first time in his life, as I believe, Harris made an effort, at this juncture, to quote poetry?a sure sign that some thing was preying on his mind "Water, water evcrywhore, Ami not adrop to drink," he multerod. g'oomily. "What a the matter, Harris?" in quired. ?'Oh, I'm thinkiug of that whisky that II -has upstairs," he replied. "We might have brought some, "for medical purposes," you kuow ; and here wo arc without a drop. A fiuc oppor tunity just thrown away." Waiting till his grief grew somewhat calmer, we resolved ourselves into a "committee of way? and roenin?," but found the way decidedly easier than the means. A it or holding council, however, I was told off for active 8ervice, while Harris constituted himself a reserve party, and remained in the buggy. I stripped off my clothes and committed ntyHclf to that treacherous atreara, alter nately weding aud swimming for a quar ter of a mile ahead, to reconnoitre. At that point I thought it well to asc;nd a tree, by way of going to the mtist-heud, and to "look out for n sail." Did any reader of this ever try to climb a tree without that covering which the shallow conventionalities of society "insist that man shall wear, und robed only in his own innoceucy ? If not 'let him take tho advice of one who has done and suffered much, and let him never atLempt it. I will not barrow nny one's feelings with the details. I uon't intend to apeak of the scraping on the bark of that tree every time I slipped (which was pretty often), or of that deceitful bough which stupped off aud let me down into the water with a suddenness I hate to recall, or of the thorns which enlivened my downward progress. I will only distantly allude to the plaster and ointtneut which I hays been purchasing at intervals ever since that day. After stating that 1 shall never again look on a gum tree without a shudder, I wijl draw a, veil over the ?cone foroTor. On my return to Ilnrria, his face wore a look of solemn abstraction, and hin lips were moving inaudibly. It was j only after repestod questions from me that he luokcd mo sadly iu the face and I said : "I'm prnying;" and then seeing my look of irreverent unbelief, he added : "Yea, I'm praying for a buggy six feet higher than this one, and a horse twelve feet high." Saying which, ho calmly proceeded to unrobe aud prepare to join me in my bath. I obsorved the caro with which ha wrapped Iiis wet boots in my under shirt (which was on tho seat bosido him), and tho methodical way in whioh he deposited a quantity of plug tobacco, pipes, and miscellaneous urticles of value, in my hat. It was than that I confessed admiringly what a fioo thing it it to be systematic in whatever one docs, aud wha* help it is, even in a swamp. The reaa? would liked to have seen Harri* take the water, stepping gingerly over th? buggy wheels nod try ing temperature with bis toes. Imagine a largo sized man?"a good portly man, i' faith"?in * state of natnre (excepting aa regarda a straw hat and a meerschaum pipe), wading in fire feet of water, beside a plunging horse, holding the reins in one hand and * Whip in the other, and you will see Harris as ho appeared on that eventful day. We turned that buggy round in the water, and we turned the horse too, one being nearly as difficult to manage as the other. Rut vre did turn them, and set out bravely for the shore, a mile and a half away. Our perils, however, were not ended ? not by any means. In one place, the horse, plunging vigorously, set bis foot, in an impressive manner, on Harris's corns, causing him to perform many surprising feata in the water, of which I didn't believe him capable, nud pretty often the affinity of twisted roots for our feet had an equally lively cfioot on our movements. But worse, alas ! was to come. A treacherous branch of a tret was lying in the way ; it became entang led in tho wheel on Harris's side ; it revolved with the said wheel under water, and in due course of time it caught that devoted officer just behind his knee, and caused him to revolve likewise. Turning my head round at that moment, I saw my friend describing an arc of a circle, till, "with his face turned to the skies," he disapoared, with a mighty splash. The horse was stopped, and a rescue attempted ; but before I reached the spot Harris em-jrg ed, still alive, althoug a floating hat, an extinguished pipe, and a volley of un scriptural observations attested the severity of his atrngglea. Time would fail *o tell of all that be fiel us np to the time when we joyfully set foot on dry land. But once there, we pot on our wet garments, baled the water ont of the baggy?having it tilted up for that purpose by the help of a fence rail?and left "that spot. I trust, forcvor. Harris bid the "Dismal Swamp" an affectionate farewell, an 1 turning to me, with an air of settled eenvietion, he observed : "It's my opiniou that tho Pee Dee is a great river?a very tine river. Yes, sir," be added, after a thoughtful pause, ??a very fino river?to keep out of." "John Pnul" on the Tunic. H t GivjETti an Illustration. John Paul having returned from Saratoga, and being obliged now to take his favorite waters out of a bottle, feels more than evers like moralizing, and thus delivers himself iu a letter to the Tribune to day : We all knew this storm was coming. But I have yet to see the man who thought it was coming just yet or took in hit> lower sails, if he did bis topsails. When it came 01 showed itself near at hand would be time enough to be dodg iug, they thought. Aod my father ouce had a horse in his stables, a fine spirited creature, which I was. fond of fooling around. Tho old gentleman warned nte that be might kick, hue I didn't thank hint for that; of course ho might kick? any horse might, for thu rn tttcr. But I hadn't been round tho stabies when supposed to bo at school for nothing. I had noticed that when a horso kicked be laid his ears back. So I waltsed .around "John tho Baptist"?that was the eoble animal's name, though why so christened, unless because ol his ability to kick a path through a wilderness I do not know--just as usual, and relied on a religious observation of his ears for safety. At the least dropping of that barometer I stood roady to jump. One day, having business about his manager ?business not wholly unconnected with a hen's nest?I approached by what may be designated as a flank movement, and requested him to stand over on the other side of the stall, as I wished to come in. That there might bo no mis take about my meaning, I made it quite clear by pricking tho flank most in my way gently with a pitchfork. But I was careful to watch his oars vory ctre fully while making* the request. Now, if you'll boliove me, I didn't see his cars drop, neither did I soe his foot rise. But I did hear a boy about my site strike against the other side of tho barn with a bang. And after an hour or two, when I had collected ray scat tered thoughts and picked up the jew harps, and jack knives, and green apples and watermekno that the indqa trious animal had kicked out of me, and climbed up in the hay loft Tor the double purpose- of picking i> the top of my head?whinfe* fling to all evidence of tlie NBJM, moat have landed there? and getting a hotter view of what was going o? down below, I remarked that that horse's ears were laid down on hie back, ae flat aa though a tailor's goose had lit on them. Hut the warning did me very little good then. And when I went into the house and the old gentle men said that ho told me so, aud that it would ouly have served mc right if the horse had kicked mc into tho middlo of next week, I found "no relief for my bursting bosom till I had emptied the red pepper cruet into the manger of "John the Baptist"?turning his clover bay into the very wildest kind of honey ?and set him meeting till thess coa founded ears of his stood up so stiff and straight that they raked forward like a jack rabbit's. And 1 made up my mind then and there never again to let my liking for a brisk business bring me round anything the further end of which one has to watch to noe what the nearer end is going to do, especially when that -nearer one Still, and a rearer one Yet than the other, has a way of lifting so quick and eaey. It is sound business judgment to avoid the vicinity of any animal whose akin is so short that he oan't drop his ears without raisiug his heels, the more so if he happens to be so particularly lively that he can go through both mo. tions at once. Further than this I don't know that there's any special point to my story. But I was a good deal hurt at the time, aud my nose ever since has borne considerable resemblance to a badly turned pancako. It has been some satisfaction to feel that I am more fasai I liar with the habits of the horse than I was before the accident happened, and if say one fishes a deeper moral out of my story, it will further gratify me te know that ay nose was not flattened in vain. Marriages in Englaud. 'J he London correspondent of the Missouri Republican writes : Parental authority is seldom employed iu making marriage plans; but paternal influence and maternal diplomacy are very potent. Whoever comes into the drawing room of an Kuglish house does so by an invitation from the mastor or mistress. It is scarcely possible for an English girl to make the acquaintance of a gentleman except through her pa ? rents. Gentlemen do not expect it and do not attempt it, aud daughters do not expect and do not attempt it. Gtrie* are not under surveillance, but the parents think and the daughters are made to feel that they c. 10t take oare of them - selves, so some o. is always w/uh, them to take care of them. Thoro is not a wide range for matrimonial choice, but it is not needed. A good many insecuri ties are eliminated to start with. The '?respectability" and incomo are secured from knowing the family aud a woman has little iu consider bcyoud the matter of personal attractiou an d habits Cut an Englishman of "good family" is not likely to have habits that aro fatally objectionable. He bat inherited his wars, and he has many restraints to keep him in those ways. He is not likely to to gamble or drink immoderately, nor in oilier ways to outrage the public de cencies. Or if ho should chance tobe addicted to any excess- his family will not lose its geoial place. Respectability cannot be thrown away in one generation. He may have a bad temper and beat his wife. It is said that this trestateut is uot yet wholly a tradition in any grade of English life, but just iu proportion as it is uot unusu al, is it less likely to break the wife's heart, and as domestic life is soshut off from the world, the knowledge ef it need not ssoapo from tho home. Something likely to end in smoke? the report of a gun. To keep the feet warm?use hob nails in your boots. Tt is said that Fred Douglas employs a white coaohman. The Grangers have started an organ on 11 od the Scythe. It will cut political bummers. Why is a yoang lady like a bill of exchange??Because she ought to be settled when oho arrives st maturity. A practical argument; ?Maria, have yoa given the fishes any fresh water ?" "No, sir WhaVs the use ? They bavn't drunk up wet's hi there yet" Emma's Secret. "Emma and Jim and Will com* to spend tho daj with me, mamma," cried Tom Jooos. "How glad I am 1" "I am glad too," aaid Mrs. Jones. "The poor children do not ollen hare a holiday, snd I hope they will make the most of this one." " Yes, that they shall; and I will holp them to do it," said Tom, catching off his hat and throwing it into the air. "Off with you, thon,"said Mrs- Jones: and the happy childjen wero soon oat ii tho barn playing in the hay, with shouts of laughter that might bo heard over half tho farm. Tired ef this at length, they began to hunt fer egge; then they fed tho chickens; then Tom said. "This is all good fun, but I am tired of it. Let us go down by the bridgo and skip stones en the water." "Will jour mother let you go so far?" said littlo Will. "And won't we any of us fall into the water and get drowned?" Tom laughed. "I guess I would not ask you to go unless I was sure my mother would iei me," he said- "And as to falling iato the water, we shall not be ouch geese as Uhat." "I thought it was ducka that went into tho water, aad not gesso/' said Will. At that they all laughed aud ran along the path that led to cho river. ' Oh dear ! what a nice plaoe this is!" said Emma ns they came to the green bank by the water's ?id<? "What a pretty little bridge, and what grand old trees ! If I lived there, I should apend half of my time on this very spot." "No, yon would not," said Tom. "You would have lessons te learn and work to do, and all aorta of tiresome things to keep you from having a good time, just as I do." '?Why, Tom," said Emma, "t do not think it keeps us from having good time because we have duties to attend to. "I do," said Tom. 'JI lnve to play, and I hate to work- So there!" He stooped down, took up a atooe and prepared to throw it into -the wa ter. ' Yes, perhaps you do," aaid Emma. "But then wo do not live to please our selves, you know." "What do we live for then?" said Tom. "Why, to please Jesus," said Emma -'My mother saya we ought just to live for that, and I am trying to do it." "Bother!" aaid Tom, impatiently, as ho turned nwav from her. "I don't prefesa to be be a Christain." She laid her hand gently upon him, *ud gars him a sad but earnest glance as she said. "But, Tom, you ought to be a Chris tain. If you are not, you must be shut out from heaven, and from God, and from all things that are good and pleas ant." "I want to live in heaven," said Jim. "It is such a beautiful place?ever so much prettier even than this." "How do you come to tnow so muoh about it ?" said Tom, shortly. "Why, it is all in the Bible/aaid Jim. "It is easy enough to find it. We read it very often?Kiuma and I do." Tom began to ukip stones, and to tslk very fast about other things. Ho never liked to think about serious sub joete. Pretty soon tho tea-bell rang, and they all went in to Qnd quite a lit tle feast prepared for them by kind Mrs. Jones. After tea the told them stories till it was timo for the ohildren to go home. As they came to kiss her good night, she aaid to Im ma: "Well, my doar, havo yon had a hap PY aay?" "Oh, so very happy !' said Emma; "and 1 thank you for being so kind to us." Mrs. Jones stood in the door to watch them as they walked away. "Poor things !" "she raid] they do not have many bright days." "Yes, they do," said Tom. ? I do not know how it is, but Emma is the happiest girl I ?vor saw. How she can be happy in that poor plaoe where ehe lives, and with such a lasy, cross father as ehe has, I cannot imagine * I oan tell you Emtqn's secret,' aaid Mrs. Jones. "The real home thai ahe lives for is all glorious in beauty. 8he lovts ihn Savior, and known that she is going, after this life, to lire with him in hsaven. $o when troubles seem all dark aboui her daily life, the ed to see GoaVs lore shining thrc-agk them and to look beyond them to e glo rious home. Jom -whistled end walked away wit* a careless air, and with hie hands la hie pockets, bat there wee a thought ia Ua mind which he hever lost ia all his tsf tcr life. This was tho thought: "A secret like that must he weffk something, and I mean to try what it will do for me. I am sure I do see want to be shut eat from all pleasant things any more thara Jim dose. I ought to be a Christin; I must. f will." That thought was pot info Topi's i by the Spirit .>f God. Tern acted it, and it bore r.?V rr-lv. He Wee i sorry for it. I hare no doubt that the very good Spirit has often pat such i into yoar mind. If so* what did yea 4a with them ? How She Painted her Floor After. The Danbury Newt tells it: An old lady who lives a little die from the small Tillage of Queshy, Vl., writes a friond, went to the store m thai place a few days ago for a pot of jnist, rith whiuh she designed ornamenting her kitchen floor. She told the clerk, who went down stairs to prepare the decoction, to put to plenty of drying ma terial, and he honestly intended to'*eo?eo, but aliasing some pomatum Irons esse side of hiamcustaehc, the loss so> anaoy cdehimothat ha .omitted paying tint at tention to tho order which it r<x*ruired, sad instead of turpentine, poarsd k> a generous quantity of syrup. That srea iog the old lady painted her fleer, aesi tho next morciag made an examination of it, to toft its condition. When , aVa opened the door, her eat, which was Al lowing, piayfully jumped into the and then stepped. The old lady , diatuly showed the animal, bot it dieVl , shew. It pulled sway and tore one foci I from the floor, and set it down again *e> poll np another, which neca*mtate*$patt? ing up the first one again. Shew ietfied the experiment over again, bat wrlivthe same resql t. Finally it lifted one foal, sod kept it up until the other wa* lifted This gare the animal the appeer?tkea of trying to stand en its head, bat ite plaintive cries indicted that such was oof its purpose. While thus raised^ *t at tempted to lift the third foot, best iw to doing fell over, and cams down oo ite side in the paint, and there it stock* clawing the air with its paws and wit ting forth the most venomous soano>. The old lady got a board and laying ^kt to the cat, succeeded with some difflesd* ty in rescuing it. Bat she could not understand why that paint should he so moist. In the afternoon the tested tb^e floor again with her finger, hol the j " was still sticky. The next mor was the same, and also in the The third morning there was no improve mcnt, nor any in the afternoon. She was astonished- When Bhe touched her finger to the paint this time, she treat* ferred her finger to her tonguo, then opened her eyes a little wider, and tat ted again. After that the pat on her things, harnessed her hose and started for that store* And that evening the clerk shaved off hie moustache, etat buried his pomatum in the aaiiltjde of? the forest, Joko on the Judge, The Pioehe (Gal.) Record of ber 10th, relates this incident I? a Po lice Court: About the first ease that came up before Bense Van Hagaa, oar new Justico ef the Peace who took hie . seat, last week, wss that of a worthy gentleman who had unfortunately imbib ed so freely of the flowing bowl that hie sooial qualities became developed to tosh an alarming extent as to make the ge**> diant of the public peaee feel njmsWtitt to provide him with a eights entertain** ment at public expense: Appearing*; before his honor the following morning rather dilapidated as to the outer Taten but with a remnant ef the evening's drollery gleaming in hie eye, he thaw accosted hint: "Be aa light on me at yew. can, Judge; I'm tolerably hard up. and? and?you know how it it y?ureeHT* Among those who remembered Tea ia the palmy dayt of California, the "gay est of the gay," it wae believed the poinA wat "well takan;"