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Selected Poetry. MISERABLE SCREAMER. A i n-Beiutful Dreamer. ?liserable screitmer, over 1he way, :ullfrogs and toirents are echooing Ohy Ty bounds like thile own eacth ,unorning we hear, Jit as the man with the charcoal draws near. Misdrablo screamer, murd'ress of song, .1,1st while I beg thee to cease thy wild sceamis; (ono aro (by fearus of sleoping too long Misorable screamer, you've ruined ly dreams I Mkiorablo screamer you'vo ruined my dreams I Miserable screamer, out on the sea, lany it pojrpoiso is sighing for (he; O'er the blue waves liostroamer:i are horne, Oth, do buy a ticket and start in tho inorn I hiiserablo screamor, gladden uimy heart Cease that "queer" song Lilat disturbs miy peace ; It from tiat window you (o not dopart, liserable Sciemer, I'll call I th polico I Alisorablo screamer, I'll call the police I History of tho Mount Zion Sooiety, and tho Oollogo Establishod under its Aus pioes in Winnsboro, S. C. BY Di. 11. l'on'ilii'r. No. 9. 1778. Maj. Htendrson and Col. IHarden lotl took an active part in Cho levolutioia. ry campa:;ns in Soutlh Carolina. Itobert, Li:h1'gow served is a lielonant. John Laurouce was woundeil fi a c!tish near onufort., Fobuary t"(, 1779. Captain Iinglh 'ilillng, of tils District, ws very active in the cause of ladopen. donce. Io was once pursued by tories who entered his house, anud domanded inforina ionl of his wife as to (lie Captain's hiding plaeo. At that, very timo ho was conccal ed under one corner of his humble cottago. The enomy ran their swords down through the oponings in the floor to discover him but failing, they resorted to their accustom. ed cruelty to extort a revelation. They heated ho ltongs and applied them whilo hot to the limbs of Mrs. Milling, calling upon hor to tell whero her himband was, but tort uring could not, bring outl. the secret. So they gmve tip tho hunt. Capt. Milling served as shcritf one form. A ndrew P'ickotn commandel a compatny in the fortilied camps, tit. Ninefy-.Six, when IlIo garrisin thiere, minder Maj. Maytion and Androw Williamson ((th latiter subseputt ly icoming a memiber of the Molant Zion HoClety) wits nl ached by (the lories uider Maj. ihinson. Capiin Pickutns became distinguished afterwards for his gallaint con. dut, il the war fur lIberty. William St rott or, Jr., who joined Cto sooioty iis year,was the son or 1n. Strothier, one of i he early iettlers of Fairifehl. O(no of these Villinm Strother-s died in Ihoejail in Camden whilo it prisolner thereo at (hi limo Col. Winn, aind several patilos were hold captives Iy rord Raclon. Thlo rooord doca nut dtitu whoi or it vas to "8eitor" or "Junior" Wil. J1am. 1779. It appears that (lie active work d iianded by I ho military necessities of this year, did not. provent (le imeol ings of thme lociety. judging froin the contiited acecs. smions of now nombers down to the close of it, Alex. Alexanler, a schoolimnaster in Chiac'leion cast in his itnlhtence with Ithle buihllora til otf Aount. Zion College. ito was one of the 8ieoretarica, as wi'll be sebut heroitter. Alore I ian this, he wits Oneo of t.hoso twontly-tivo pitriuts who in Ih liFaill of 1 7Gii, after I le repeal of' ihe Stamtp Aet, invYited Christopher (indsdenm to nmeet t hem uinder thi .ie Oak in Chiailest on (which wats after titt mee't inig calied ihe "'Liberty Ock''), wher'e t hey hadl a collat ion prepCared f'or the ooonsiont, which was onte of mui tual contgratuilatiotn on the repeat of said Act. Theriet also biename membhers (lisa year, WjIlianm Irown, WilIliami Ihenson, Isano iRrad well, R1ichiard Buchmnastler, .1 eremniahI ihrower', Johniiihennell, Johnt Brya n, Julhn Jlury3, Daniel Iloll, John Unaddley,---whio was Otto or those confined otn hoard of the Prnison-ship TIorbay tha lnt hin uthle Charles ton liarbor it Mlay 1781 - enjmnin ('d. worth, Francis Cobdin, Gilbort Chalmers, J. .lwintg Calhtoun.-w~ho was a cousin of lion. J1ohnt C. Caltoun, lived it Abbevillo Dis tiet, andi was lho "flist person edutonted in ithe ntative woods of CarolIa." Hoe after wttrcs graduated at P'rncoton College, it Now Jersey, becamon emhlttnt as a lawyer, and cied white a Sonmator it Congrss. Clement Ccityers, Jolin Chappello, Georgo (Carteri, Pecterr Conyors, Nat han Ch ildo,--a prlint or of Charlest ont who puiblishe~d thie ''Rules" of (lie Society wichel have already appeitred itn these palters; Jaites Carmtn.. chnol, John Cox, WillIam Downes, John' D~av idson, Thoitas Darriogt on, Johni Frow, James Fagain, 'imton Floretinet, James Flolin, Field F~arrr, Jno. Fratzer, Ilonj* Ford, Thee. F~oll, Wmn. Filshboutrno, Jamies Fields, llenj. Giodfrey, Johni (Greon, Wim. Grahatm, Jas. CGready, Jino. Oliuore, Satm. Gtrtbetr, Wmt. Ha. (llbbes, John Hu ger,-. who was a member of thle Commtnons-Hotuso of Aembly frotm Pobruary 1773 to Soptom-. bor 1775, whient It was dissoolvedthent a meomber' of the 1'rovlnolal Congress, and also of thme Counoilof Saf'ety--thon elected Seeretary of State tinder is Exoellentoy John Ructledlgo; Thoe. Holmes, Wma. Hoext, Rloht. Howard, ElIy Korshaw,-a eaptain In the 3d reghtmont of Rangers, was itn the siego of Chiarlosbtn, and whon te City capitulated ho was put aboard a prison-shIp, witht miany others, sent off to Dleoudla, but umpon the voyage died of typhusa dysentery ;' '/oph. K(ingsley, Eldward Lacoy, Nathaniel LIbby,-another of the "Liberty .Tree" patrilog sroll as a captive ott the prison. shItp Tor'bay ; is trade was tht of a' ship carpentor In Charleston ; Etel Laurence, Jos. Laatr, Georgo Logan, James Mlooro, Jas. Midkeown, J. Mcoelloughc, Johnm hiun *orqof,-.-amother vlotim of te prison-shlp Thos. Ml'Crea, Jno, D. Millecr,-.woundled In the a (ne~tutar Deoanfort, 3d Febritary, 17795 af~I orrow, WIlliam Mtills, Jame Fur kois.Peter Prow, no, om., John Peak, Henry Peronnoau,-appointed one of the public Treasurors, 23d February, 1771 ; John Parkitlson, Philip Prioleau,--a prisoner on the ship Torbay; Jonj. Postell, Archibald lisk, John Italph,-woundod in the skirmish near Beaufort, Ad February, 1779; Wmll. Riddle, William Russel, George (lenorson, Uenfantir 3tussel, Peter Smith, Jaq. Smith, Wm1. 8.11! 'idge, James Sled 1nan, Jeremn. Seym ou;, Jamnes Stricktind, Alex. Smith,.William Smith, Robert Smith, DnAis SWienCy, John Sullivan, Bracey Singl oion, John Suteliffe, John Vander haost,-who was a lieutoiant in the third regiment of laugeris, and once owned land in what is now the corporato limits of Wmnnsboro, near (ho site of Mount Zion Collego Josiah Watts, Chrisfopher Willi. man, El h. l inohoisfor, William Wostona, Robert Way, Philemon Waters, Isaac Woth erly, John 1. Nixon, William Nesbit. No. 10. 1780. In the course of thia year oily about half as many auw memberns were received as had been the year previous. The Rloyal forces under Sir licury Clinton laid seigo to Charleston early in the camt paign of this year, and those interested inl the welfare of the Mount Zion Society had their attention called off to Inectiengs of moro imnediate importance than thoso of the Society itself. Still, up to the ti of lay, just four days beforo tho city was surrendered to the Iritish army ad navy, there had been about fifty names added to the list. And from that dato to (to 111h of March, 1781, there is a blanmk in the records of tho Society. 'As the British did not evncuii.'le - ' Ion until tho 1'ith of December, 1782, it is fair to infer no neetings4 of tho Society wero held in (te meaitime. Nor i-i it im. probable inhat ihlo records we e dest; oyed atier the fall of the city. Or Ihey itmay have been destroyed by Cornwallis' arily when quartered in 1780-31 in Wimnsboro, as it in not unlikely that they wore sent Up to (lie Comiitteo here for safe.eeping. Tho following are lhe naimei of those who were admitted to iammbership this year viz: Eanmuel Abrahms, James Beathlaman, Davit 1!urger, Peter Ioc.iuet, Lacob, Ilmino, Daniael Cannon,--aioi her of (lie twenty-five palriots vho in 1706 met unelor tho Liberty Tree to hear )Ir. GJaddetn ad dress them, and who was a plain carpenter by trado,--ho was also one of tho thirty mombors representing Charleton in (ie 'rovincial Congress ; William Clancey, Jno. Caldwell, William Doughty, .oseph lliot', J1ohn11 Ellison, William tiElliion, aJohn Grigg, tichard U oagl,- one of lie coimmui (teo of Cho larish of St. Jolin for carryl ig inlio excoutiii tlie Conmtineintal Association, &cu; Tucher llarris, Thomns l iarris,--one of (lao Torbay prisonl-ship eApt ives ; Williaim Hazard, Jauies Keninedy, Willaiam Keith, Sam. Logan, Charles .Lining, (leorge Logan, Jr., Lambert. Lance, Samtiamel AoCorkell, Anatlony Monteil, Wmn. Mitcholl, ly. Mou1l trie, Jr.,-who was in the battlo of Port Moil trio ; Wima. .cCrOm,, Wmi1. IAalarhy, Prn. Nicholson, Charles l'incaey,-who was ChJiaef Justice of lo Province of Souith Caroliia, lresident of (lie Provincial Conl. gress, oue of tho signers of the Federal Constitut ion adopted in 1787, aidii more than once Giovornor of the State ; he was t0o frather of Charles Cotesworh aind I hos. Pinckney ; Abraham Pearco, Michael Quit, Ilugh Swinton, James 8tedman, William Sooit, Chanrles Skirving, lRichard Savage, St opho n Shirowsbury, -a ibwisoner on (lie (tie shaip Torbaay, 1781 ; Richaard Thodld, Wmn. Ta'te, Abraam Waighit, Jno1. P'. Waurd, Wm. Witahaer, J ames Weehly, and Andrew Wi!, lii amsoni. As before stated, (hore is an inlerval of about two yeais, which is now reachled, and in which t hero Is no record whantever. Passing over this b~lank in (lie history of (lie Society (though it was a period of gr-eat sual'oring to (lao infant St ate), thie slyhectI or'thmeso papers now oponis intoi abroaukr elhannel, and thie prospect of'(lao growinag socie13y attracts nmore attention, iad elicits ga-eater intorest. Thlero is ono notable featuaro in this record so far as it per alins to (ho lint, of names already giv Jt is, (lout out of' all those gliven, an 1 mauny more which are yet, to alhpear-thint is of (lie four hunaidrLd ad thirty-three mneimer of thmo society up to near lthe close of 178.1, there are not maore than a dozen who had a middle namea. As a contrast to that niow, it Is doubat ful, thme same number of names of personms liviing being taken promiscuaously, if thero could be found a dozen that, bore hut one name. IL, will lhave been observed thiatne intima tIon has yet been givenm of any mochool being established by theo Mount Zion Society, althmough (lie condition upon which it was incorp~oratedl lsreciteodas follows in thie Act of thae18tl(h of'February, 1777,viz: "Whereo as several of the ihbitants of this Ar nte have assoclatled thaemselves toget haer, under the name of (ho Mount Sion Society, for (lie purpose of foundingaf, ondowing and suppoa-t_ lug a Publio School in the Dint, lct of Cam den,* for (lho educationi and istruchtion of Yoth and have mado humble appliciuon &e. It Is not diflicult, however, for us to undoesanl wvhy this dciay was caused hav lng so reccentlhy a severe ilhust rat ion of' whit ani impediment to progress war is. *Abouit that (lane Camden District wasa divided Into counties of which Fairfiel was one. No. 11, 1788. When "grimn.visaged War [had] "smoothed hals wrinkled fro'nt," and Peace came gilding In with mulling face to eloer the land so lately bathedl 'I blood, there might have boon seen a few war-worn pat riots, and liberated captives assembled in theooity of Chanrleston on the 28th of Februanry, 1788. Thore was Charlos Cotes worth 1ickney, tbo ratatesman and warrn ar; thore too DanIel Cannon, the carpenter -acme Whose deeds are written apon the Indelible monuments of history, othere whose clvio and military glory shall ever remnain " unhonored and unsung." hin (hey have all met under the most auspici ous oircusaaos, and ,outl,. hert congratulatious nre iutually extended,' that. the war over and ludepeindenco gainsl, th o.jeot of their licouliar care, the Col lego o be0 efsabslel in Camtden li:rlct, coIccived nnid tie tgonies of i bloody strife, shold be born urAder file negis of 1iherly iad nmid tilhe hliciniigs of Peace. h'leqe cligrafulafions were net to be kept within he(l limits of tle Society. They it be extended to flie Commitleo whIlol had very early after tle formation of tho 8oclety been organIzed in Winusboro; as the following letter will allow: Charleston, March 7th, 1783. "Gentleinn : After congratulating you onl fhe nembers "of ite Mount ion Society having it once 'm re in their power to meet regularly, ''and again promuoto ciel a I:laudablo under ''taking; it is with siigular. plesutro I obey "the orders of the Society, ht ice in hig "you, tlint, at our anniversary,the 2','t h Feb "'ruary list, fhe following oijccers were thuly "'elected fur (ho enisuing year, except tle "'Directori wici Ogrecablo to tie toth ''rule, are for three years, iiz : "'.dohns Hinger, Plelctl ; Peter e "3enior Wattlens ; Tucker iarris, Jur-ior "WardIen ; llugh winton, Tr-easurer ; Wit "'linl- Itusel, Secrclary ; lehalbodi Aftwell 'and eorge Dolnor, Steward. -G ovornurs "'or Dirtectors, John 'iainn, Jos. Kirkltind, "John I chananJolni Woodward, Rtichard "W~vilitn, lluitry hlunter, John Milling, for "4he Coutilry--and Clarles C.- Pintchne y, "IoetKnox, John Dhaddeley, Pl.Lllnjami WlIler,1 liel Caunson,anid William Doughs "'ly, for tle loInn. "Inl Iopel Ilhit IhIto Sociely will shiortly "'louraih ts 'rapillv s hicIofor:-lIto, 'lave su(evibe mydf with rincero re spee I, Oenis. your mo-tt ubedient i'crvzanl, WV 1. ,:4 n .1.,p Bccretary." T)hai j letter i; adtdressed to "The Commatit c of .Uont liin Itill." Aid] just. hacre it i I ell to nof01 the origiN of (Ito niame of fihe &> ndy and Colhge which fourms the n-ub)ject. of the 1hitory. The render will ren et ai it the Iveninable to tihe iles is prefaccd with ait 4jotltiotn f'oa-1 tho prophecy of Iaiah. Ily refrenco to thar, quotal ionl it Will he enl (It Ilhat Ilic'nPci occtrS the w-ordl "Sion" (i e pteanf. rpell*ng i., nat ogether with a "Z"). '.nI it. is plainl ihat tihe Com tiie iln Witnm;boro 110 nIrcased ':It M1ount .'iont lill" lecuse. tlie College to which a1llahe Society's enlergy was devoted, ad all its hiopes directed, was to bo nih ilted itn IvnintAtsloro. Upon a lit O examoi aialionl, tite quotniion alhittle-I t) will discov er'itself ts pectliarly adapted to lito ue whichi is inalo ot' it. For ht peace, beaily, joy nid I.raisie was tihe w-reath of bltMints whilt ctowned tle liopes itf 1777, atid (ihe realtieut o i. At (the annivet ary meing allttded to in ilie le tir nhrn:e, a Czntnittco aipointed at a previouas i g oi tho atine year made a report nijon (th tate of I he Sociely after the war, a pIat of* withith oport. was trats mlitled throught l ec einry of the Colms mtifto it Winnsboro. Thia c:drsact reads (itits: "The Comniiiteo ont the state andi comil tiou of tie Monti Siott Society. 1lEIl011T. Titit.on en(juiry (hey ind ithe temporary school at WinitsboIo broke up1 by tile oie tay, ihe country books ai jomi-nal; of tle Soietly destroyed, It (lie temporary cthool ho w:e. boat dinu house andA otlher buildings ate stantding anid emalirely safe, and undelr t ecato'ot CIl. ilichainnti aIiit t ptresent. 'Theay trecontemii Ibi.t, lhe, and (Iho rest of' the ciiitnt' y G ovrnors ort l'iitc t . , h erques so1Ps ti t'esiditi the 3:5 ihti ildingtd, ot' ol therwisei to let.l ihe ill ai mannerot most to the advant:a:'a o f theSoie y, till they are' ale to tetiuino thet oiina i piiilan of the schtool. Y'our C'oommittec areo of opstiiin tat, the schcool cannttot h~e erutled' on immiattl etc'y oat accouti of (the want of' a nmtatetr and btook. th scar'city cf pr'ovidons int tho coutriy, nndl (tho presen't. low sttet of the Socciety's fitamis. IThey recolmnendi that fihn (ov'ernors in the coaufry bcedireofed to enquitaro ini 0to furthecr coitiont.t of1 thle lihilitni, antd re. pi ieeoti to thut Aciety as early as p'os. oible." lyor' ler' of: tho Socicly, W. Ecr ssmn~.,, Secrteta.u' Hlov- tr'ue that htiit'y irepeatts itielt' I A repot opon tho sf ato and iondiit ion of the Booiety and schtool just cifter Hbielrman's destruietire marchn~, in almotst (lie ver'y words of thte tabovo, ntight htaye bootn corr'ectly 'VTohe blilingct alle to lan the report sf 11tood t' what is now the r'esidenace of' C'apt. Jordant, andl (the teto mietioln t. tho schtool the~re was brokeni uip by tho ene-. tmy is all thant is left uts of the uchtool 'ring theo levoluttiont. Whlo wtere the teacher's, or' htow long~ thet exel ciseS of' the school continu edl before the livasiona of hord Corniwaltiu, does5 not ahpear. Th'le ll-iflish troops coou pied WIinnshboro0 fr-om October, 1780O, uintil somet imo its Jantuaty, 1781i. T1hereo is no dout thte bcooks and joursanas of Ito Society and school wvero diestroyedl durting thtte~. viodl, nor were the exer'cie of theo schtool resmted unttil uomei time after (the watr ter - mtinttedi. A I~-taRn Coox.----Theo Lyntchburtg DI 'n iian ayei a white coon wits recen'tly captured neatr F~amville. Tlhat. coon htad nao righat to be white. It was disoyal. It ovitnced a rebellious spii. it shtowed tithe wits not elevatbed above low preiudices of' erast e andi clor. Heo ousght to be dlisftanisied. Somto.. bodly outght, to reconitn tt himit, andt f'inally conaflscatiotn would (1o him ntohatrm, and per haps mucthf good. The Nationtil lifo Is im-. prdedioc whten coot~ huist en being whlito. T'he mtost pastriotlo Cottgress thalt 'over sat otight to tatke tat coon tuder consideo'ation andti guarantee to htim a republican forms of goversnmentt. A colored mn in Mautry Couanty, TFot. whose itelont patohk had oft en beets invadied hiir'ed an'other colored man to watoh (the patcht at night, glviktihim a-gun and ordler- I nfg hti .0fire bit sottig any one In (tho vil-i nhy. Tito propt-letor- coneladedl tht Ito wotild walk ronud that night and see if lila' setinel was attending to hals duty. The entinel fired atnd killed hn itnis lttatl.-( MurchenW Densj..ucA. [Froan tho 8t. Louis Domoorat.] Wilkes rooth Again. A NEW GOLUTloN oU THE MYSTERY--A GoOD STOnY AwlYAYOM.Y TOlUD. We pulhlishi the following letor becauso it comcs to t froli a goutle man in whos.e tvIluhfinos we have ren,4on to ut conficonce, and who holds a potion v.ihich shaoult be al guaranitee of hi44 integri ty. .But thle story which be tells is a very stranlge one, aind i may have been imposed upon by the Alabama refugee, though he assures 'is that the said refu"ee was known to him ais "a gcniianmu lo uniinp-achable haracttr."' The isto. ry is as drinitie ai tlie topic upin whieh it bear.s is mysteriois Ea1trronts DEIMOVInA- : i-llavin heard s5o muItch conecrning this most 1iysteri oui of all mysteries, I ani led to re lato a story as it was told to tile by it gentloinan in the imonth of M ay, -1 86 who was tipwards of fift y years old. Thili man was not an entire :,Aranger to mizysolf, and I feel boin to say that so far na iny bushiess transactions with hii woro oncoriod, lie proved him self strictly h1onior'able. Il1 was a, refitgeo fromn the Stato of Alabama, and employed in 1864 and 186.5 inl tll) lulrtilitrmiter's department at Wlsingtoln , D). U. WO weru scated 1 oun evei11'g ex cln:1ging" our v ieVs :is to the bes't mlode of reconstructiig the Monith S4 itaot, whon ho stated : "You believe J. W%,ilces .11ooth is dead, but do not and at liy apparent surprise, he cn ttimlt "Ye V Iure!y h.elieve' thatd he4 was alive dun1e 1 , 1 8(, and my reas 01ts for so believing are these : I had just boon discharged from governmeint cpllII'.oy and was seatel il my roolm 011W Cvciinp, soon after tie iigmed Booth had been captured and ki led, whon I heard a low rap at my room door, and at a request to como il, a poor old bear entered, p~parently sixty years obl-gray-haired, w kIed visage, a id Ilumped back--carry ing a imiall Ilurile ofi clothe::. 'Ile igged lem to pity th lorriv.ows of a ptoor old lali, who had just lot his Only son1 inl the ion armV, ani ak ed shelter for the night. ~. g:avo him1i a 1)b(1 inl l a pairtment separiatod Irolm1 ily owl 1by planl l Itpliorarl 13ily ntail ed upright, which had beti don011 by other emphuyees, who vero then di'; elarged and gonle hottme. I gave the old begg:Ir 1mly lam1p ald refired to my cot. Fromii where F lay I could sec all him ilovemnctits within tile lit Ie rootim flit toui a knot hole Il the plan1k, and 'I nloti e'd lie was extreme ly particulhr about a M.lind for the little window, and he even f ook of his cont and used it for a blind :he t10(hen scated him.elf i at a small table aid le gain writing with . a pencil. I watched liiti closely, aid he wro' ' perhaps tenl minutes and thlou walked out into myi root0m and asked the way out, saying that It was .ok. I opened the door for him and'hiwalked out, and I re sullod ily bed. li1 had niot been out long when some11 one askel him in a low tonto if ho Was ready. He replied, "Yes, what news 7' and Vas answered, "Nono , only Mr. JAhnon wishes you to mako hasto. 110 usnyvs, ie cannot breatho easy tintili you aro oi board tle vewsel." "And no donbt ie wish es tili vessel may founder," was my guest's reply, ra ther hoarsely antil scarceely audible ; but ho conttinued, '"1 ntu't be ofif in thie m'orn ini', so fare well, Jack.'" Th'len lie returned to hiis r'oomi, antd I asked himt if lie wats going~ across tihe oceant', whtjl jic quet ion somacd to i tar Hle hiim ; atnd a fteri a short pattse, lie relied thait ha expected to be oil' eatr whien inlorniing camrie, he was gone atnd( I hiave ttever seen himi since'. WhIien iswep itng outI my little ealhin n~ext miornI, I. pi cihed upl f'romn the iloor4 rix tomallI bitts of palper' near the tale where the beggar wast~ wtrit inrg the igh t b~feore, t hey hav in)g been torn u1p friomt somie causes. I phlaced themit toget her, but could( ee0 no0 senso( in the wriitim -n yet beCingL s0ioo t curtious to kntme wha~t i.timeant, I lput the, ieces inito a smtall enivelope, and labd it awayv, andl never thiought of it ag~taituitil '-n 13', when 41II wias overhauling mny ol lpa-i pers' thtis envolope drewCi miy afttention, atnd. I thon pasted all the hita. otn a scrapi of cleter plaper. I could See) iin a tioinout that it was cyper', anid moy curiosity' was cxcited1 to tselve thie miys.. tory. Wreek after week I. p'erpiexed miy brain ovecr it, and~ finallly, avhenm ab~out to givo it up, luck favored mte, atnd I stumib~ed uplonl the key, anid the following tranislaftion was~ imy r'eward: DEAR.n JNRI; i: I shlall-ever' i'ememi boCr youri kindness. Tl.he J. 1D. gover'n mionit cannot'ad a o n10 ow, and if' I fail to) escape, God only kntow.; my fato, atnd your arma will bo powerless. Itf y~ou Suic~ced ig your' part, I shall1 ro turn ; other'wiuo, nover. Yes, 1I leave to..morr'ow. Yotu's, in lifo anid dleath , Juno 1, 1865. J1. W. 11. "Now," cotinued this old mian, "this lotter' csplains miy reason for ho lieving Uootl oscaped. I1 believe the old beggar vas no other than . Wilkes Dloat ~, thia assassin." Huc wtis hia3 story~ word for word, as no0 ar is I cani retniber', aind such is theo my~stery coninected with the terriblo riaged1y of April l-ith, 1865. August 30, 186'7. W. W. Z. ossion of tha1board for the voting riecinot of 4ui~tor, on) thie 2d, 3(1 au11 Ith days of Sep'toiubor, resulted as fol Whites,...... ....-...2 Colord2..............318 '. (Sum ier Neows. CoWFEURn&TJ. IIONDS.-WO learn rom the Charleston iferary that the F'irst National Rank, of Washington, ). C., adveortlas that .it will purchase ho eight por cont. Bonds of the lato Ionfederato States. No prico is nlamed. ~ht does ,t man? Agricultural, LFromn tho Sonlthern Cultivator.) Tho Kitohon Gadeii. Plants have, liko animals, an assem blage of orLgaons Icess.ary' for their support-na me Il y : moutls, uing.s and exeretory ducts 'Th'ougl devoid of is tion, he~yjposse the power, to a certran extent, of selecting their food from fhe .oil, an1d this lood, to be available, inust be il v, -olule1 stato. The old theory, that tho soil itself was ab.orbed, has been proven to be utiirie. The roots of a plait are by ihir the most curious part of its structuie. They,.tcrminilate in .uch 1mall filiain ts as oily to be seen)1 wlici examinied by the aid of a Iiii (ris"opco. Thl eare the mouths of the plautlk. W ater forms the meiuim by whi ch food eliters the plant, and any sub uAilce whi0ch the watr hohlas in solitioi n aV pa: in with it. InI this way plnits receive iheir food, and cannot receive anything whicn is not (i-solved in water. Bit the roots have anothler propery which il as yet uneiOXplain ed. While they absorb iniost ubstaneo dissolvd." in water, ther are sonmo wichl they reftuse to receive inl their cie'Iiatil alhough read ily dissolved in water. Tho.;hi the routs hae t1,N h i powr IiI SOmO de gre) it is not liniversal ; for Solo :mh:tan~cs are absorbjed wich act as ji'Ans4115 and r1lIidly destroy the ptlint. I , has been su!gsted that valuable tiltiber trees miglit be colored like u i 1 rots to ab sorb Some coloring m1atter. It is very generally known to our lady reIders that they enn change the color of the lowers.of t~ (Pihe I y14rangen, by the a p lica tion1 (o coloring mat ter to the uoil. ont pla ite'rs hlatve ObSo'vcd Low soolI the cotion plit h'ocomes sickly and rust:-, in t b soils t hat abound iii stil phate of iron in excess. As wo hiave soon the miiouths of plati ar. t tw extronities of the lie root4. It is important in cullti on, t A salve as iany of these as i l and furh1:11 thiei with penti' "I plait food. The i iportan1e o' (thoroug'h tilla is well-known by o ., r1ners, tvinough the reason for it is not alwalys iderstood. If the soil is hard, the roots cannot penetrato it in search of nourishincnt ; inor can it be dinsolved by water, uiless it is re duced to a fitne powder. Every per son has observed t dill'crent, results, whenl a new grain hIas been tested in 1 highly cultivated garden, and the .m11110 grin1 planted in the field, re comilng the usual poor cult ivation. The carly promlisie is seldom realized. 1lece the imiportaneo of deep and thorough preparation of' the soil be fore thle Crop is planted, anld conitinl ued but shallow cultivation as the roots extenid. The leaves are to the plants what the lung are to animals. During the uay, anu under' the ilfluellee of light anl heat, the leaves absorb carbonic acid which they decompose, using the carbon and giving off the oxygo. During tho night, this process is re versed. All persons have noticed tho dilferico between the upper and the under ide of a leal'. Oino side absmorbs moisture from iote atmospliro, while frinm the tother, evaporation takes place. JIonco we see how deliente the hbalance0 is bet wecen the roots and the leave.s and the imi>rop riety of cutting ol 'ff lr i brnches I uiringe suunner'. Th'le rceeds plhanted last mionthi, for the renewal of' vogetables, aro niow supposed to be up~ and growing rapuid ly, underci the stinu111lus of heat and mioisturile. Urg2'o them oni, b~y slightly cultivating the soil nbar the plants, andt dee ply at a distance, so as5 not to inur a single ro.ot. Apply terti lizer's in al lhluid ic, to the roil, not on the plant. When ai:ppl ied in this man n1er, it is wondecrfutl the irapid ity of If' the turn'iipo lanited Ilast month have failed to comel nip, or have been destroy od by inisects, plant again, selecting an carlier variety. Sulphate of Lime scat er-d over the tuip s wvh ile tho ~dowl is on t hemn, we have lound of great service inl dri ving off' insects. 'i'ho winter cab hiage ut. 1be lookedl closely a fter, for two hinds (if wormts attack thenm durinv tifs mnonth, completely destroying t hem. ' he only way to get rid of' them is to pick them ofi andt destroy them. If a leaf is br1oken off and laid oni top) of the cabbtago in the morninig, all the wvormis are collectedl on thle uindersidoe of it, for pr'otetion fr'omi the dewv, and be easily killed. Would it not lie easier to dlrowni the moths beforo they tdeposit. the ri e:ss ? It is a night, flying miller. This cani be tdone by placing a hlamp in a largo tub of' watuer. The miillers are attracted by the light, and fall in the water. I lundlreds of' h)0l worm miltiBr have been destroyed in 02ni ght in this wily. Com 0t'rr.Pollk Watson, color oil, publishies a card in the Franklin (Tenn.) Review, in whIch ho says: "I dleemu it my; duty to state thaI. I wvas a member of the Loyal Leagno in tuma placoe but after being a member for somo1 time ; and finding that, it wvas no0 placo for a colored man; I have I withidraiwn.4 "In withdraw~ing, I wold appeal to my colored fellow-citizens to abandon the League and let us join the great Conservativo party, wvhoso motto isI 'umiversal aminesty and impartial auf.. frage." You are right Polk. No decent no gro ought to associato with the white material of whiich the Leagnes aro com poe, and wo prodiot that it will not be long before overy rospectablo "culludf pusseni" will po ashamed to confess thatr lhe over hand any conniection wvith the dhirty concern.-Gcorgiap. What crop is that which is none the worse for being backward ? Tile pork- I kroP. If you don't bhlhove it, tyy it e bward.* Filtering and Other Purifying Agonts. The London Lance, in adition to its ordinary duties of journalism, vol. untoers investigations on a large scale, ror public benefit, into sanitary Mat tCrF, thus givilg to itself a wide range, and we may venture to say performing higher servicos than when it is the record of medical and surgi eal proceedings, valuable as this is. It was alanitary collnission of its own, which has published two reports on the interesting subject designated by the heading of thi3 article. In the lirst report it stated the following fil ters had been examined: First, the yphon filter of tho London Water JP'urifying Company, inl which tihe fil tering and purifyiig material is aid mai charcoal; second, the moulded rarbon filter ; third, the silicated car bon lilter, aid fourth, the magnetic uarbido filfor. Of these fou" the comn mission gives a decided preference for the filter last named, the composition mid general merits Of which we des er'bed in the Ledgcr nearly a year ago. Tho filtering substance, some of our readers may remomber, is a black oxide of iron, or red ochro, with saw dust. The filter for domestic use, we now state, consists of a stoneware jar, divided into threo chambers-the lmowor for storing the filtering water; tie middle for holding tihe filtoring material, and the top for receiving the water to be filtered. The lower par tition, on which the filtering substan oes rest is provided with a hole, pro 0ected by a patented invention for keeping these substances from gotting through. On this partition is placed i thin layer of sand, and over this a hop layer o' image'tic carbide, inl oarCse powder. Tihe upper partition is perforated with holes, the upper mrface of the perforated part being lovered wifh a stoneware dome, usual ly left open oil top, but intended to he loosely stopped, when the water to be iltered con taills much suspended mat ,ers, and thus to prevent clogging of he filtering bed. Wo are assured by he Laucet Sanitary Commission that his lilter has not, only the property )f removimg nearly all dissolved rganMic matter from water, but it et-Ains the power of doing so for an mlimited period, therefore requirin g to renewal of material. This opinion s repeated by tihe commission inl its cond report, in unqualified terms. -'ed with water from a' noted Thames valor works, stored in a housecistern, t gives a rapid supply of water, of xcellent quality,biright and colorless, ioc from odor, even when warmed or torca up for d'ays, and containing ily an exceedingly minuto cnantity if organic matter. It has not been 'ound to coimunicato any substance ;0 fie water. ''lie silichted carbon filter consists if a mass of "silicated carbon," made of coke, ground to powder and incor [orated with pitch by the aid of heat. ft is then formed into cakes by pres sure, and subjected to a high tempera ture so as to carbonizo the pitch, the filtoring mass is arranged in the filter by placing a layer of animal charcoal, mixed with paiticles of silicated car boni, between tw-o propared cakes cemented into the vessel. The water yielded by this liltor does not pass in desirable quantity, mid it is not so free from organic matter as that yield ed by the filter prleviously mentioned, nor is its act ion permlanient. The sinfple-mnoulded carbon filter is analo gous iin its comporition to time one Inst mientioned :it does not find favor with the commission. The~ samoe may be s'aid of the animal charconi filter of th e Lond On comipan y. Tho (cistorn jilter acts umuch thmo .same as the last namecd. - .-. - Beautiful Faces and "Lovp," Thme author of '1Leah, thme Forsaken," forever bound him to that large ariny of g~rls whose beauty to use a homely expression, "will never set the Nortli Itiver onm fire," when tho put into the mouth of Rudolf, the lovemr, a justi fica tion of his affection :"No man loves a woa b)eause she is the most bean tilbml in the worl, but because she is hel miost beautiful to him I" A plain, >r even an ugly wvomanm, if she cnnot nako horselfI ha ndsome, can alway's natke herself desirable, to sonme one, and iing ilius desirable, sho is more beauti uml to him than all the other women in us5 knowledge. This is whaimt is meant by he saying that "a girl is seldom ulnmai ied save through her own fault." E~d nunimd Yates says : "Every woman gets nanly chances if shin bitt know them ; not ivry wvoman, however, will recognizo ho lover whose infatuation is suflicient y> pr'ofoulnd and desperate to bring hiim o0 thle p~oint. Unreasoning admirers, it' adios bu know it-admirers .who are ~aught with eyon, or 'tangled in Nmrca's ~oldenm hair,' make as good husbands as t.e most sensitlie and speculating of'ad wirers. A man who has pluniged hlope essly into a sentimental attachmeat, receepts the situmation after a will withl 8 teady and enduring pertinacity,if onily airly encourage.d ; and nothing will rmg him more swiftly or more assured y to this state thban thme sight of a type ma manner of face on which some sub Io emlotion is stirred within him when ver he sees it. Thmis is all true. Men will cling to heir ideal of a wvoman's face years after lie woman, throughm ago or familiarity, ris negativedl every expectation t~o vhich it gave a prompting. And a nanm will watch as piali'ently and as per eoringly sometimes for thme duo senitm nent to reappear upon the surface, and lay upjon1 it as in thO past, as thmo angler vatchies the trout stream on which hlis lies float. This is what makes mautri nony always young, and constancy Iways ondurable to the good andl strong, airls, cultivate tile exp~ressionsli .A Hartford author is engaged on a istory of' womnan's progress from tile arbiest ages, to be entitled, "From thme A Cat Story. A groenhosior, who had followed a bacon wagon from Tonnessee, found himself for the first time in A ugusta, Georgia, and in pursuit of a frcsh sup lly of "tangle leg" whiskey. lie slowly, as a coon approaching a trap, entered a highly decorated saloon, and after Iuch misgiving and besi tat ion, the premonitory chills of a "big skecer" chasing each other in rapid succession down his back, he modestly ventured to ask the attendant to fill his jugy and while this was being done, he chanced to raiso his head, and his eyo fell on a throo by seven mirror behind the counter, in which he was fully represented ; but Ie did not bag' 1.0 know himself. Behind him, on 1d wall, was a fine large painting of a Royal Bengal tiger, in attitude ready to spring forward. .le instantly dodged aside, shouting as lie went : "Run, you cussed infun'l fool, thar's astriped boar cat as big as a yearlin fixing to kiver you!" Pale and trembling, lie strode to where the bar keeper was filling his jug. "Say, gin me that jug jest as it is, empty or full, an' run and shut that ar doro (pointing to the mirror) durn quick, of you don't want your glass struck ground ip, and your hasslet tore outen you, for thar's the devil to in that ar back room !" Seeing the bar keeper rather slow in his motions to suit his hurry, lie pit for the street with his eyes stuck out and his hantls orect saying : "Durned of that feller don't hava sassidge meat to sell soon of his life's spared. Well, I've seen cats, but oh my, sich a Cat /" I fore lie stolo a suspicious look back at the house, and scratched his head. "I wonder of that ar breed of hoss cats am plenty around here ? Say, mister, how far is it to the Tennessee lie ?1" l Fo beat the wagon back to Tennesseo in six days, and the Uniitel States lmitl two. And lie is telling his ginmid child.ren to-night about the 'orful hoss cats they keep ruihin' round loose inl Georgia, as big as yearlin's, and ven tures an opinion how they procuro thar yerthen war' and "sassidge neat, by skarin smart fohs away from thar jugs, and lettin the cats chop up the darned fools," and wondershow Geo gia manages to hold her own inl popu lation, considering the latitudo the "hoss cats" have. One man took a paper, and his life was happier than a king's ; his chil. dren all could read and writo and talk of ien and things. Another took no paper ; and while strolling through the wood, a tree fell down upon his crown and killed himn-as it should. Had ho been reading of the news, at home like neighbor, Jim, we'll bet 'a cent that accident would not have liaponed to him.-Lyons Reublicean. Editors know lots of such stories. They don't often tell tlenm, because they don't wish to harrow the feclings of their readers. We will add this, however, as a solemn warning: A youig married man was solicited to tako a paper. Ie declined on the ground that any village paper wasnot worth a DAM ; though wO do0 not know whether le meant a female beast, a saw-mill dam, a coff'er-damn, or the other kind. 'Well, the evening of the same day, not loving his wife as lio should, and1( having no0 virtuous emi- 4 ploy ment on hand, and not hav'ing a village paper to read, lie went into "b~y andi forbidden p~atha," slipped ddwn and broke his leg. If lhe hand beeni a subscribchor a village papier, and had been at home r'eadling it to his lovely wife, or had1( been listening to her reading of it, this seriomus accident would not have happened. But worse than all, lie dared not have an account of time acci dent sent to the village paper ; anmd his wife wept many hmours beause lie had no right to have his name in the pa per's. lie had six weeks to figure up the value oif a oAM. Let uts hopie that others will be warned b~y this tragic affair, not to spea5k profaniely of v illIage papers, nor act pirofanely, in not subscribing for them, and paying in advance.--vFx "Amelia, for thee-yes, at thy conm mand, I'd tear th~is eternal firmament imto a thousand fragments-I'd gather the otare, one ,by one, as they tumbled from there~gions of etherial spaco, and put thorm im my trowsers' pocket; I'd plueck the sun-that, oriental god of' day, that traverses the blue arch of heaven irt sucai majebei spleindor -I'd tear him from thme sky andi quench his brigh efl'ulgee it the fountain of my eternal love for thoe I" A molia- iDon't Hetnry, it would bo so very dark.' .I say old fel'ow, what are your poll. ties? sid one friend quinzing another. Domiocratia, tny father was a demo crat, ho replied, A nd what is pour religion ? contin ed1 the ' other. lbrotestant, my father was a Prtestant, And whyr are you a baelor ? said the other. JBecause my faither wasn a --lh conmfounad it! dhoi.' bother mo with your' stuii)d questionms. Hie w~ho weds a bele must lookout for the elapper-this never-i seen un.. til after thme ring. ]34 sure to ascer.. tain whether the ung lady is "sound" en such thinng as pie-mnak ing, else your house wvi allM be pi at a timte when it will be imnpessi 1)1 to "set 'em up again." GJoDJn.Y$ nir.vsOU)A.-.Dissolvo half an oune of opium and one dralihm of aassafras., in two ounces of spirits of Wino.- M'ix four pounds of treacle widh one gallon of boiling water, and. when cold mix together. tIhis is thmo .colobrgted cordial so much used for childreni.