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TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. ) VOLUME 7. <:<>!> A N D OUT? <'< > 1 " N T I! V. SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 1873. ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. J> NUMER 39 THE ORANGEBURG NEWS PUBLISHED AT 0 jR Aisr citt; nur, g Every Saturday Morning. BY T1IK 3RANGEBURG NEWS COMPANY TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Copy for one your. $2.00 " ?? ? six Months'..:. 1.00 Any ene sending TEN DOLLARS, for n Clnb of New Subscribers, will receive an KXTRA COPY for ONF. YKAR. free of . ?b?rge. Any one sending FIVE DOLLARS, ?r a Club ?f New Subscribers, will receive ? ah KXTRA COPY for SIX MONTHS, free of arg e. RATES OF ADVERTISING. 1 Square 1st Insertion. S1.*>0 ?? " 2d " . 1.00 A Square consists of 10 lines Brevier or ? ae inch of Advertising space. Administrator's Notices.$?'> 00 ? Notices of Dismissal of Oc.nrdinnF, Ad ministrators, Executors, ?vc.$0 00 Contract Advertisements inserted upon the most liberal terms. ?:n:? MARRIAGE and FUNERAL NOTICES, not axceoding one Square, inserted without charge. ?:o:? 8ST Terms ("ash in d van re. -?a ^FELDER MEYERS, TRI Ali JUSTICE. OFFICE COURT HOUSE SQUARE, Will gi*?* pronjpt nttcntion to nil business ?ntrusted to him. mar20?tf Browning1 & Browning, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, OKANOEUIUU; V. II., So. lit. Malcolm I. Bnowstxo. A. P. Buowmnu. nov 4 AUGUSTUS B. KN0WLT0N ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR A T L A W , OB4XGERVRG, S. C. ? . July 8 If METALLIG CASES. THE UNDERSIGNED HAS ON HAND Stil of the various Sixes of the nbuve fuses, vrhieh can be furnished immediately on ap plication. Also manufactures WOOD COFFINS as Usual, and at the shortest notice. Apply to H. Ill COS, Saar o?Gm Carriage Manufacturer. w. wTriley TRIAL JUSTICE, Idcucc In Fork of jf.tli.sto, ..LU BUSINESS ENTRUSTED v ill be ??romptly and carefully attended to. ?aly23 ly Do You W<ant NEW GOODS! GO TO BRIGGMANNS. .y.ji... IF YOU WANT a CHEAP GOODS GO TO BRICGMANN'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND -tee Any and Everything.. iev2 ,f " DK. A. C. 1HJKES' ORANGElHTRtJ, S. C, DBALSa DRUGS, medicines, paints, and oils, fine toilet soaps, ? ' 'brushes and PERFUMEY, PURE W1NE8 and liquors for Medicinal m* DYfc-WOODS and dye-stuffs generally. A full line of tooacco and seoa rs. Farmers and Physicians Trom the Country Will And our Stock of Medicines Complete, Warranted Cennine nnd of tho Heat yuality. Lot of FRESH oak den seeds. ian 11 c t riain Fuels for'the People. Wo commend tho following extracts from the able speech delivered by ticn cral Butler at the Now Hampshire State Fair to all who take an interest in the practical questions of the day. Although the distinguished orator addressed him self to the agricultural interests of tho country, the hicts stated, and the con clusions reached, arc equally applicable to ull sections aud tu every branch of industry. In reference to (be liuuuciul conditiou of the country, tho General said : Tbc tendency of our people, whether iu their national, municipal, and social organizations, or iu their personal ca pacity, to go i. to debt, cannot have es caped the utteuliou of every discerning miud. Indeed, drawing drafts ou the future, payable by posterity, and bur dening the present generation to pay the interest, is the resort for carrying on all enterprises, and bus assumed Mich proportions, nnd i* fraught with such consequences, that the mi ud of the statesman and the philosopher of politi cal economies may well be. turned to it with tho greatest attention, it not alarm, because of its possible results upon our luturo prosperity. Our National Gov ernment is owing 82,000,001,000, ou which WO arc paying. :i* interest, an average of rising six per cent., reckon ing that interest iu the currency with which nil our products are measured At least three fourths of that amount i. due to foreign bankers and capitalists. It' this were nil, and no other COlisc in dices arose from it, there need be little anxiety, and it would hardly be w trth the attention of the statesman or econo mist iu calculating the I nure of the nation. Divided among forty million.* of people, in b country of the expanse and resources of ours, it would be easily iiituiii^cd. But every State iu this I ii ion, with hardly nil exception, has debts mi.minting in the uggrcgulc to quite $400,000,000. Hut our indebtedness docs not stop there. Quitecvcry country, every city and town in every 3l ito in the Union owes debts, uio.n or ics, to nn amount in the nggrey ito to perhaps one half as much us tho debts of tho Mates, including the advances, nude for municipal, railroads, and other like enterprises. Nor do we stop there Our railroads have borrowed, und arc owing a bonded debt of 8000,000,000. Nor docs the furor of indebtedness yet, stop. A lino t every college nnd institution of learning, | from the modest academy up to the university, each and all owe sums ul which an approximation can hardly be made, und which no statistics show Nny, we go still further. W'e draw up on posterity to get tho means of bearing the Gospel. All know that a very largo majority of the thousinds of churches which the census shows have buildings dotting our lands, have been built on credit given, in fact, by the coming generation. General Butler then showed bow tue proceeds of ?^e war debt of tho nation and of the bulk of the State debts were destroyed in the war; that costly public or educational buildings do lot add to productive capacity, and that of the 8120,000,000, which wo must annually pay abroad, only $50,000,000 arc the product of our gold and silver mines ; the rest must be paid from tho products of tho soil, exported abroad. Ho con tinued : Now, as our statistics show that, ns a rule., for the last eight yeirs, not to go buck further than the conclusion of the war, nur imports of loreign merchandise annually exceeded our entire exports, including gold from our mines, which all goes abroad, you will naturally nsk me, how bus the interest in the mean time boon paid, and bow the balance yenily found against us of the difference between the umounts of our imports and exports? 1 luve just stated to you that wu owed substantially none of these na tional and Slide debts contracted during the war to the foreign bankers at its close, but we have been paying the bal ances ol trade, which have been Against us year by year, by expanding our inter est-bearing bonds running for twenty and forty yours, and Selling them some times ns low ns sixty cents on the dollar to pay the interest on the bonds thorn Eolvc8, then already sold, nnd balances, until we have sent out of the oouutry our notes or bonds to tho immense sum beforo stated. Now, thero must nnd will come a time when this sale of bonds abroad must ?top, because our na'.iouul income cxcoeda our expenditures,- aud we shall nut incur auy now debt, and nothing will bo left us with which to pay the interest Upon what WO owe to foreigners, unless WC export more than we import to nn amount sufficient. In the production ol* that which is consumed to support life ,of men and animals, wo have, as agriculturists, bcon skimming the very cream from our Jnnds, and at no very distant period shall 11 o obliged to go back ami g<> over them ogaiu and romovo those which we have worn out. The time is within the memory of many who.-it bo Coro mo whun the ii incsco valley produced the wheat and Hour which led New ICngland ; yet within five ytnm wheat raised by labor costing SI 50 per day has been brought from Califotuiu, lil'.cu thousand miles round the Horn, and ground wi the mills of Itochcstcr, in tho centre of the State of Now York, to food its people. New England and New York noxt received their wheat from Virginia raised on lands Mow ovorgrown with dark j? ino Fuplings, worn out by waste ful and exhaustive culture without renovation. Then St. Louis Hour was tho favorite bland in mir markets. Now our bread is grown still further west and north., and Miunomln and Iowa are. the wheat producing sections of the couutryj ami wo hi.?k for our com, which wo once produced at home, t.-, the lands .if Indiana aud Illinois prairies, where, I admit, it i> still produced ill such quanti ties that, because of the exactions ol" railroads in their taiiffs of freight for transportation of coal, nu n is th<> cheap est material for fuel, won: it not thai he who burns it is burning the very heart nut of "tl o Foil that cut not always bear the drain of its life-bl.I "vithout replenishing. We have b en boasting and noting as if we could suppl y the world with bn id stalls ? uiul 80 Wc liavodrtitS almost, anil can do, if the iron horse is permitted to draw our wheat and corn to the sea board without too ?roat charge, and n >t cat up the crop be lore it reaches, th ? consumer. lint wo iitusl reniuiihcr that for every buh 1 uf wluat tint crosses the ocean, nothing cu.ues hack which goes on to the land again, even if wo do not pay our dvbts, nutiouul or individual, with it Silks, satins, and broadcloths, which wo receive in return, may dross our sons and daughters in the goodly array I .-co before me, but they do not dross tho land and the oiled h.i been that the wheat producing sections of our o< uiitry recede westward, eating up new lauds day by day, in tum tu be given u;>. until jumping the alkaline plains, tho Kooky mountains, and the Sierras, wc arc bringing the food for the population uf Kastern "cities from the western slope of tho Pacific, raised iu the rich fields of California, by lub ir drawn from the mines, tho only other source ?f production Irom which to pay our debts abroad ; and after these shall be exhausted, neither tho 'Star of Empire" imr tho nrodaction of f..od can further "westward take its way." Let me five you an illustration of tho man nor in which wo have used up another natural product necessary to tho health and comfort uf man, which wo dealt with us if boundless, and indeed it seemed to bo, :in.l inexhaustible, as indeed it was not. liow have wo destroyed our pine forests, extending in a belt between the two oceans, and of the width of tci degrees of latitude above and below tho great l ikes ! With in two generations wc have so devastated uur foicsts, sending lumber all over the world, besides using it rocklesily and extravagantly lor oursclros, that wc are now depending upon tlio Dominion of Canada for the eatce menus of building and furnishing our houses with the same material that our fathers u-t 1 in building theirs, unless WO quintuple the price, nnil in uddition content uur.selves with usiug a much inferior quality. In the satno manner wo hnvo taken all from our l^nds year by year, and returned nothing. Crop has succeeded Crop, until in many Cases tho fauns arc abandoned fur tho purposes of tillage, because the production in a few yoars does not moro than pay tho increased price of labor and material cx ponded. Thus, you will see the double drain up on tho cutintry ; first, that the produuo is sent aboad und sold to pay the inter est on a debt which has not aided and docs not aid production; aecondly, if anything clso is brought back it is nothing that profitcth the hind. We arc literally, therefore, iu this rogard, burning thocundlo at both ends, ami it becomes a problem of the deepest mo merit, to the statesman aud agriculturist ho. far this can go on ui.J not s ip the mition'l wealth. Nay, not only this, hut there is very lit tic roturned to the land j from that which we use at home. Sent into cities and town?, and there con sunicd, thai which might he caved from it is lost by our wastefulness and washe d by tho great sewers into the livers and harbors, choking them with filth, aud endrngoring the health of lluir people, by throwing that away which, if brought again upon the laud, would bo rich productiveness and untold wealth. There can be no more instructive example of our rccklessnoss as Agriculturists than tho wastufulnoss of tho very menus we have of curichiug our lands! We boast of our civilization and advancement in knowledge and the arts of agriculture, and we speak with scornful c uitompt ol the Fomi-barbnrous Chiuc.se; yet they Utilize every atom of matter which may enrich the soil, and are thus enabled to produce more of the means nf sustaining lite ami feeding a people from a rod cd' hind than we obtain from an aero. Hut i tlii; drain up ui our resources by the payment of our debt abroad, from which we get no return, is not the only evil of our system ol iudobtment. 'I he invest tm tit of money at interest simply, nnd not using it iu manufacture, agriculture, or otherwise in aid of the production or prepara ion of the comforts and necess aries of life, raisesjip und supports, or necessity, a class of non-producers which, living upon incomes, the principal ol which dors not aid in production makes ! them the vory drones of society, eating ' out a sub.->t..noj which they do no: iu \ any degree bring into being. There i: not so expensive a class in a community as those who merely live upon incomes derived from the investm .s of money fur nun-productive purposes ''They toil not. mittle: >i i they Spin ; but the lilies o;' the valley uro out arrayed like one of these." 'j ho entire address 1?= very able m I iiitor'stiug, and we should bo glad to n jni. It h .I #ci j :t u it : rlt km room. How to Buy a Uor.se. Ilev. W. II. Murray, iu bis new book 1 on "The Horse," gives ns the lull owing: lb: sure that the horse you jiiirchusc has symmetry, viz : is well proportioned : throughout. Never purchase a horse because he has a splendi 1 dcvchipuu tit of one part ol bis urganiKation, if he be lacking in any other. Above all, kc?p well in mind wha^: you ute buying for, . and buy the hor.-e best adapted to tho ! work V' ti will require of him; and when such au animal is yours, be content Never jockoy. An occnsiouul exchange 111:13 bo allowable; but this daily s vip ping" ol horses udvortiscs a man's iucompitcucy lor anything higher. Auother caution in this: Never pur chase a horse Until you have > en him move, ami under the same conditions to which be will be exposed in the scrvieo you will expect of bun. If fur a draft, see him draw, back, and turn around in both directions j if for the road, see how ho handles himself, not merely on level ground, but going u| sharp declivities ; ami, above all, '11 descending them. In this way you will ascertain tho faults or excellencies of both his temper an 1 st ructure. Iu these exercises hire h in your .elf The reins iu a skillful hand, aided by the whip or liiotlth, cm be made to conceal gravo defects. Let him move with a loose rein, so that ho may tako his natural gut, an 1 11 it his nrtifici.il ; j fur, by so doiug, you will detect any j mistakes of judgment you have mad ? when looking him over in :i state of activity. JMany a time unGoundn will oppear in motion, which no inspection j of I lie'eye and linger, however close, can ascertain. When you have walked him and jogged him, if he is to serve any other (ban mere drult purposes, put him tu his sjie. d, and keep hi 111 at it for a sufficient distance to tost his breathing capacity ; then pull him up; jump from tho wagon nnd look at his flanks ; in spcrt his nostrels, and put your oar eloso lo thes.de ol hiscllCSt, iu order to asecr. tain if the action of the heart is normal If this exercise has caused him toper sjiire freely, all tho better; for you can BOO, when yuu take him back to the stable whether bo "dress ?>fl " quickly, as all horses do in perfect health. The rarest thing in the World- What i- called cuinmou sca>c? Why ( lover Improves The Soil. Professor Tocklcr Ilms explains tho action of clover increasing the fertility of the soil; "All who arc perfectly acquainted with the subject must have seen that the best crops of wheat ire produced by being preceded by crops of clover for seed. I have come to the conclusion that the very bejt preparation, the best manure, is a good crop of clover. A vast amount of mineral manure v- brought within rcnoh of the corn crop which otherwise, would reu a n in a lockcd-up condition in all the soil. 'I he clover plants take nitrogen from the atinospher, and manufacture it into their own sub stance, which on decomposition of the clover r o(8 and leaves, produces abun dance of ammonia. In reality, the grow ing oi clover is equivalent, to a great ex tent, to manuring with ['eruv.tin gua no. Take foi instance red clover, the b si of all green manure*. Tho groat En glish chemist, Professor O ay, of the (loyal Agricultural College at Circoces tcr, made n perfect analysis of dry rrd clover and found 0v< ry one hundred parti.- to coutuiii as foll)Wi : Silica. 0..*)0 Lime.25.G2 Magnesia. 4.08 < Ixidc of iron. 0.29 I'ot.sh.39.45 Soda.60.00 Chloride of Potassium. 2.39 Chloride ol Sodium.2.53 Carbonic A sitl.23.47 Phosphoric Acid. G.71 Sulphuric Ac id. 1.35 99.45 Tin; Invention of Ihe Cotton Gin. As it is pretty well known, Kli Whit ney in the year invented the cotton saw gin, acd thus laid the foundation for the cdifi.f litis country's greatness a? j .a cotton producing ttrca. Whitney was a native ol Massachusetts and moved to Georgia. \v ith scarcely any appliances usually considered rcquisito, ho set about his work, which he brought to a so icsslul issue, though various and v i-1 improvements have been since made upon Whitney's mechanism. Whit- j ney died iu 1S25, and is buried in the cemetery, New Haven. Conti. While in Georgia, Whitney boarded with u lady named Green, who owned a largo plantation near the city uf Sa vannah On < nc occasion a number ol planters were invited to dine at Mrs. G icon's house, nud iu thu course of the day a discussion arose upon cotton and ita management. One gentleman of large experience, observed that if some means wcra devised whereby the seed could ho separated from the lint, cotton planting iVOtild become a great business. Mrs. Green, aware probably of the proclivities ui her lodger, invited him to mke part in the conversation. Ou the requirement being mentioned to him, he stated that he could iuvcui machine to do the work. How he kept his word is Well known, fur soon afterwards np| cared the >aw cotton gin. In spite, however, of the great boon, which he conferred upon the country, Whiinby died a poor man, like very many of the world s j^roatest benefactors. Siiging; to Cows. Cows arc sociable, and undorstnn d more than we suppose The way I came in possession of thif choice bit of kn >wij edge, Tim and 1 used to sin^ to our COWS. They knew very quick when we changed from one tttno to another. We have tried them rc|catodly. When wo s.mg sober church hymns, they'd lop their e.irs down, look serious and chaw their cud very slowly, reminding iuj? no irrovcrenco mcditatod?of tr.tc old ladies in church, lislouiog to the words of the preacher, yet ill tho time tfua chiug cloves. Then we'd change to some quick air, "Yankee Doodle" ur the like, and they would shako their lu ads, open their eyes, blink at us as much as to Bay, ? Stop, don't you know, wc are th deacon's cows'/" Hut when we would stop entirely, every cow would turn her head, as if asking us to go on with our singing. If it was pleasant, wc generally saug together through the entire milking. 1 love tha dear ani mals that add so much to our comfort. I!o\ s, will you not be kind to the cow? ? Canada Farmer. Ciillivatiou of Wheat. Touching tho subjoct of tho cultiva tion of this cereal, M. L. Dunlap, uf 111. writes: Tbc culture of Spring wheat has been :i series of cxpcriiuouts, and has succeed ed after :i lung struggle. In the early settlement of the country, when the atmosphere was saturated with moisture from the low lands that b'td not been ex posed to the drying winds the hc:it and moisture combined to give the straw a too luxuriuct growth, and, if sultry weather occured at the lime of the fill ing of* the berry, the crop was certain to be struck with rust. On the other hand, if at the period of its gro Wththo weather was cool, it was followed with a large yield?often thirty or forty bu*h els to the acre. But the culture of the prarics, by plowing and pasturage, brought a change in the hygromclric condition of the climate, und the result is a less luxuriant growth of straw a dc creased danger from rust, and a less abundant yield in the favorable seasons, so that now the seasons proluce a more uniform y ield of the grain. Thon agtin, wc have learned that although tho wheat crop may not take from the soil more potash and sand to eont an acre of corn yet that amount is required at a much earlier period of the season; hcneei a different treatment of the soil is requir cd, in order that this supply shall be iu readiness. Important County Sunday ScIud! Work. With a view to assist in organizing and establishing schools, as well as help ing and encouraging those already exis ting, a gentleman has been laboring for two months past in Westchester county, with good success, Nut in the interest ot any ono denomination of Christians, but his aim has been simply to aid in the organization of new schnobt lenvim the church connection tu bo desidod by j the parties themselves. This mi-isi.i.i ary, the Itev. Wut, II. Cain, reports that for the past two months he has walk- d and rid len nearly eight hundred miles, and visited about four hundred families, whilst pro-ccuting his wotk. lie has established and put in working shape quite a number of. schools, iu lo calities wh?.r. uono had benrc existed: and resuscitated many that h id been sus pended for a year or more. A large part of tlto county is still to be gone over, and it is to be hoped the work will go on and be completed, as vigorously as t has beeu begun. Mr. '.icorge H. Petrie, of Spuyteu Duyvil, who is cor responding flucetary Irotn this county, tor tin' New York State Sunday Te tell er's Association, has the work under his personal supervision. A Ntrango Sight at Sea. In the year 17S2, the captain of a Greenland whaling vessel, found him self at night surrounded be icebergs, and -lay to" until morning, expecting every momcut to be ground to pic In the morning he looked about an 1 saw a ship near by. He bailed it, but ro ceived no answer. Gotliug into a boat with some of his orew, he pushed out for the mysterious craft. Coming along side tho vessel, he saw through the port hole a man :.t n table as though keep ing a log b ?ok, frozen to death. Tho last date in tho log book wis 17G2, showing that the vessel had been drif ting for thirteen years among the ice. The sailors were found, some frozen among the hammocks and others in the cabin. For thirteen years this ship h id been carrying its burdon of corpses?a drifting sepulchre manned by a frozen crew. An AiiLKOKu Discovert of Impor tanck.?The scwiug mnol ino in orcsts nro greatly exercised over an alleged discovery among tho English patents It is said that a patent bus boen found, dated July 17, 17110, granted by the British Government tu 1 homas Paint, Dpuuibored 1,764, for a sewing mjohine^ having all the essential features of the American invention?a horizontal table support, a perpendicular oscillating needle bur, un eyo puiuted straight needle, a perfoct horizontal autuuttie feed, au upper tousion for spacing the stitches, a ??take-up" to tighten them, and a spool on the top ot the arm. This cau be easily verified, as thero are copies of tho English patents at oar public libraries. It is supposed to ii.validate all the carlj American pa tents by priority of invention. If eor* rcctly stated, It pisses belief that fach a record should have so long remained. undiscovered. A Ui'Qcn 31 out)tain Boy. "'A hat do you charge for board V asked a tall (ireen Mountuiu boy, RS he walked up to the bar of a second rat? hotel in New York: ' what do you ask for a week for board sod lodgings?' "Five dollars." "Five dollars! that's too much: but I s'pose you'll allow for tho time i am absent from the dinner and supper V* "Certainly; thirty-soven and a half cents each. 11 arc the conversation coded, and tho Yankee tiok up his quarters for two weeks. IM.ring this timo he lodged and break lasted at the hotel, but did not take either dinner or sapper, saying his business detained him in another portion of the town. At the expiration of the two weeks, he again walked np to the bar, and said, 'S'pose we settle that ac count; I'm going in a few minute*,,' Tin: landlord handed him his account: <? |*wo weeks board at five dollars "'tea dollars." 'Tiere, stranger," said tho Yankee, "this it wrong; you've not deducted,tho times I was absent from dinner and sup per?14 days, 2 meals per day, 28 meals st 37 1 2 cents each?10 dollars and 50 cents. If you've not got the 50 cants that's due, I'll take' a drink and the balance in cigars!" A Procession of Turtles an? Frogs.? For some days post the weath er bad been dry, and the ponds Ott tb? prairie failed iu water. Tho turtles and frogs that had been living in the viciaity of one of theso stood it for a day or two, but it tin illy bacamo too dry for frog*, and they decided to migrate. The near est pond that contained water was three miles distant; and to this the turtles and frogs started in s ditary proctssion, tho turtles iu advance, sag tci >u<ly dilating the way. nnd the frogs bringing up the rear, with their deep bass and shrill tenor cries: "Go it 1 ' ".Go it 1" "We tcr!" "Water"' Tho procession stretch, cd out over the prarie a quarter of a mile long, and steadily marched to the goal, when such a rolioking scene as en sued can be bettor imagined than describ ed. The Chester Reporter furnishes the following: "During the argument of one of the !?" rued counsel of this bar on last Friday afterno>n, the presiding judge discovered that Reuben Stroad, a colored member of the jury, was taking a little of "nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep." He ordered a bailiff to awaken him, and proceeded to impose upon him a fine of one dollar. His Ilooor stated to him that tho fine was made small because his nap was taken during the argument, saying that he would have fined him at least twenty-fire dollars, if he. had gono to sleep while the testimony was belm_' taken. As cool a person, under the ciret stances, as was ever heard of, was a young nobleman, who, in a frightful railroad accident, missed his valet. One of the guard came up to him and said; "My Lord, wo have found your servant* but ho is cut in two " "Aw, is he?** .--iid tho young man, with a Dundreary drawl, hut still with anxiety depiotedoQ his countenance, "will yon be gwood, enough to see in which half he has got tho key of my carpet-hag V Tho New Orleans Time* gets off the following bustliog poetry : Mary bad a little lamb, >\ ith wliio hstio used to tussle. She snatched the wool all off its back, And smiled it iu nor bustle. The lamh soon saw he had been fleeeed. And in a passion flew; Hut Mary fret upon her ear And stuffed the lamb in toe. A Methodist clergyman gives, as a part of his experience, that sinners after ?inleas perfection ears easily managed but that those of hisflov/C who attain Use become thenceforward exceedingly erowk cd aud contrary sticks. Tho new postal cards does act seem to bo well understood in Augusta. A. young man received one yesterday, and after tearing at it for some time, said to a friend staudiog by> "See here, Jaok^ I can't got the darned thing epeu,"