Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Selected Poetry, j Fiom the lies Crot.tcnwcrat.) SPOONS I' BYT DAVID'I'AUIJONEs. As tlie moon went down one wintry ni'ght, A blear-oyed monster hove in night Of a fine old mansion in the South, Croaking aloud with open mouth "Spoons!!' With eye asqtint; with pockets wido ;. With steady louk, and stealthier stride With visage dark, wheroon was wro(e 'Th i motto which beneath we qnote "Whenco cometh 6hou" hegoood-host said, -'What. do you seek-our gold or broad'? Or do you from ilhe night air fly ?" Tite strange beast nade but one reply "S pools ?" "Oh, rob us not !" the good-wife cried, "These heirlhonia tro our family pride, 01h, itke whatever else ytu will I" Biut the luo coat hundered louder still "Spoons :" "Tien f akie ny watlh anl clinfi and'go 1." 'ile ob, naa said-ha itcelits low. 'The witcl wa ghbleil in a itrico, lit Still was board that strango device 'Foul fotid, woild'sl rob I lie old and weak Y Mhy sons are soldiers, them go seek A is, thoil ti too base to fight. 'ithut coward tlint dust howl at night" 'Spoons A guard or soldiers lrossed in blue, Soon sacked thu iiusehold' through, and I hrough ; 17'il, t. last-tho psin espied 1%ah one lurd voice the robbers cried "Spoous I" 'he spoils siectired, on plunder bent, 'Tleseo villins to tle neighbors went in every houts ltereniceless nigh, Wa5 lieard that. strange,,iungodly cry '"Spoons I" Ai I when at last, at dawn of tiny, The cook -eye-l nionster knolt-to I ay Ilon. liller's servant swears lio hoarde Hit lniter tlnt, acrttised word "Speone !." THEll WANDERlR'S SIG. Oi ! take ie to lily childhood., home ! I pine in sadness here; Again in gladness let inn roam Tho scenes tn memory dear ! In vain t ie tiowerels hero are bright, it v tin it'ir eattire smiles; All brightites: ftiles in sorrow's itight, A inid its sweetest wiles Ol ! 0ae m to Iny chi 1(hood's home f TO fri oilu and kId red der ; .l y heart grows ttiit at dity4 to como, It* lingering lonaely here ! The bt iglttest skii. tIho wootest flowers, 'lie iturauring st ri atualtt 'air, flave all here lost lie sotinliig powers, That lulled my spirit tihere! (ith ! take Inc to ily chlildhootti holine 1' long to brealh lho air Tlhat timis around that sacred dome, And hovers ever there. Oit engles' pinions let tio ify, Anad 'Inid its sweetness roan And lot tie brea ho my intost sigh Within lny childhootd's home Agricultural, [Firom the Chronlolo and Sentinol.] To Southern rarmera. Peramit, one() of your numbor to ad address to you a fuw wo-ds, the result 44 his Own reflectiotis tiponi the state of things as thev 1ow~ . Unaccuistom. -d to the utie of' the pen, hio does niot. iyXlttot to attract you by atnything but hiomiely, COmmon 11)se'so-. Whlin the pieoplti of the South, reitlized that their rsoniriees wero ex hiausted, and- their cause lost, they, with one voie, gave itp Ithoecotest, and ascepted' thio terms ltprooed by the GJove'rnmenttt, and it is a source of prideL to-daty, thtat they have adhiered to thet becrgain- 0n their side, t rongh "'evil and good report.''rThe lil Iterest enemnies we havt e, amidsat atll. thle abtuse am1 v'ituperation which they have niispatringly hen p(d upon its, ha ve nev et had hardihtood enough Lo charge tile contrary. \Ve were all bankrupt whten tihe war closed, and the qluestion forced utsell tupotn eaich one, "\Y hat ctn 11 best do to make a support for my'self and hoatn who de'pend ttpotn tmeF \Vo wero not all atgreed as to what out trtte policy was. Some of us thought wt( ought to pilant cottoni sparitngly, rand ratlse graint tand stock, so as to be inde pendtent of the rest of tho.gvorld. But the tmajority wero of different opiinion. Tlhey~ thfought, there wasu an oppol'r~tuity to regaim a portionof our lost wteahhl. Gottit was bearing a fine price. W e hand thto lan.Is. The old laborers wo i!l hire, and, by using what little meitns we lhad, and all the credit we cotild get, we wottld make a bold push for theo re covery of our rection from lt~s terrible 'oinditiotn of' bankruptcy and destitutionu. The itsat, season w~as ttnpropittotus, wh'lich with thio bedlevihtnentt of Bureaus, &c., Io e mdo a fitihure. We lost all wet had1(, but the Weost prosperetd as of y'ore,. for' we still botighat her corn, bacon, mteani whiskey, etc. The Eas~t mado bor usnal profita, because we still botght her products. TIhie Govoemont was Con.' lent becatnso wo' still paid heavy ditties ad onerous taxes. T1hao second year is comiing to a cltose, atit Our leavenily .lathier has beeni mor1 thanit uunally ben efient in.- his seasons ;but cot ton has fllen bolowi the cost of produotionr. and( we are leib for behind where we startcd t wo years ago. These aro stubborti fncts, not of the lnmaginaton, butt facts wrhichi every man b'els. W~hat shall we do? Comphiim and Buowl and do * thme 8nmo thting over algain) ? .I hope not. Growling will do no good. WVo have' no righte to- comiplin about. Vrut, the biotton- atnd tobacco taxZ wore exprestsly in violation of the Constitu. ion, but we heave paid the tax, and sthll have to cent inne to do sOt Orowling only haketus contemptibia, anidt ie onml.y V n tff ltt eIl to the men01 wvh, WPP1-i.-ax, .Tho Viettm robs the tyranut of' the best halfloa ie triumph she .b)OArs8-hia opprossion with digiiy and ISttmness. S hall we apply to Con gress' for relIf ? Never lx d aIe you anly f'aith in a Congress eho now, when sihe Iact, is made manifest that ninety. tunes men in every hundt-ed- who planted cotton this year laav been ru,,d b.. he operation-the crop) not being . int to pay tle expense of nmakig "II. itill adhere to- a- tax of t wentyWfin w sent. on the gross production ? They >romigo to take it off the next crop. ' loble fellows! Does any body'behee here is any sincerity in their mtient pity the poor creature who is grce !nough for such credulity. Their .no ive is too apparent to deceive any mdy. If they had been in earnest in svishing to- help the South, they woudd atreth itbrth the hand now, when they' ao- the waves ongulphing us, No; ,hev see the game is likely to. work to heir own hurt. They fear we will not ilant, a crop of cotton unless some strate. ry is resorted' to. The West would Ike to sell more of her conimmodity to us; liether we prosper or go to. porditioni, md they hold out this balu to. Bet a irop in the ground, and when that is ecompliished and we are so fhr commit ed that retreat is cut of% an excuse will' , fmund to puit the tax on ngain. If e are iwise as ten vear-old boys ought .o be, we shall not be in a conidition to hank them to ta'Ce the tax off the ctop >f'68-we shall noa have a crop to take t ofA. Our present distress gro*s out, >A our idiocy in failing to raise our own supplies. If the forty o(1(1 millions of dollars tiat went from the single city of Atlan [a this year to the west, for provisions, were now in the pockets of our own people, where it should be, we- should not hear the hourly compliainos of ap. proaching starvation, 'The- truth is, the time of nnking money by farming is gone by in this section.. We never (lid make much above the natural increase of negroes, when we had the power to Lonce'ntrato ill the labor we employed. And now, wheni labor is so uncertain, iad daily becoming more so, it is im possible to Make anything raising cottoii. The people of the North may or may not beheve- what they assert. about the improvement of the negro. We will not dispute with them on that subject. We know that he is vastly more do moralzed and unreliable tn lie was as a slate. Ve know tit it is wortl his hibor to watch him anrd keep him from stealing more -han- hiu work will amount to, and if lie is left imnomployed, the responsibility is not with its. Ve were anxious to do the best, both for him and oursalves, bait baeked up as lie was, by the naents of the Governmeni, lie hams become lazy and trifling, and' to carry him firther vith it-e cotton tax on his back, is asking a little moro than I amtn willinig to bear. The Only road to independence Mbr us is in strict economy aid die cultivatiotn of such crops as will givo us a sure sup port at home. 'We have been the over seers for the rest of the word up to thii timle. We hand no agency in bringing 1he negro to kthis cotinent. I wais forced here by others for their own aggrandizement. Wo have had aill the pIaigue of taking care of him-havo ta ken all the cursing and abuse on his account-havo worn out orr lands to sustain him and build up other portions of ti,e earith; and as soon as they felt they could get on witliont hin, they have ruthlessly broken the bonds which bound him to his duty and turned him loose to poison our existence with his thefts and robberies, and now ask that ho shall rulo us for the timo to come. 11t I am not going to write anything about pohies. I am no politicin. .I have no' faith ini politics or politieianas. I onaly presenit tlihm Viewv to show you the lolly of relying on the negro as a laborer. Let him take care of hiamself. Let ius planit ontly cotton enzougi for thte consumption of t he nills in our nudst anad such as may be erecteid. There are' a variety of crops we can' ma'ke' fiar mairket. We hiave a good sale for wheat and' wvith the samte care atnd pains wve cani compete successfully with any portion of the Uanited States. Our wheat is heavier, mzakes more and bet ter flour thaan the wheat of the North, n'atd that we con get into market a month in advance of themat. We may raise our own stock of all kinds, an'd supply other markets after a fewv years. Hay mtay be miade very successfully with us. I speak from ex perienco when I say tIs, for I have made ihe crab. grass hay the last summer, and sold it at tfi.y dullars'per ten.. Now, till this looks well, but will the people fall in ? This is thme ques'tionl. "A mn ' in favor ofi legislation on t hie subject ?" Bly no- means fI htave no macre~ faith 'it legislation t> make a man plant correctly thain T have to paty people out of' debt. But public opinion may db a great de'al to bring us to the right way. Now, berore ar rangements are made for another year, let us agitate. It, has been faishiontablo for somte years -o utse thte wvord "traitor" in cotiectiont with those whlo do not thtink thte man01 who will plant a hull crop of cotton tihe ntext year, will, whatever lie iends, prove an enemyv to his section. I am not asking others to do whlat 1 ant not doing mtyself. I have mteans to phantt a heavy crop of cotton anlothier soasont, witht thie hatd and facilities to make it, I will say egual to any ; but I have resolvedl not to do so. I matko this resolve m the spirit, of patrmotismt, and call upon01 liy coutrymettn to go with mte in this good work. Adopt thte plaitn and woe willdrive wvant fronm our doors, and be ind'ependent, lot the wind blow as it may. Follow our track and ruin and starving slavery will conitmue to be' oe heritage. G Monorn. PFrom the Amerlean Farm'er ] 'i'he old year and Its *or11 fihilihed up, the new one wflh its ongagemnents deomandcs attention.. A plan of work lag~ opoations for'-tie year uilottld be thoughtfully miado.. MlhO to- each prop its proper ground. D~etermho the extent of oeh, shunning alike the error of over cropping on tile one:' hand, and on the otheor of niot having enough to task well yoitr cropping ro.. sources. it Is a nico point and of much imtnoltanna to adat th w.or, of the Peuson to the available means of .Obrking and to-the capabilitf'os of the ingetydlanagetuent -is a groat power riouhurl1oborations, espe cially when these are on a scalo of any extent.. WftAT FIELDs. Look occasionally to those and keep tho water furrows ' open. bcaring in niind that it is excess of cold water rdtler-thuan exeesa of cold' whibb ous op winter killing. If there has been a good fall growth, graze with cattle when the ground is in condition for it, and if there has beco full fly, graze with sheep. voRTeen. Continue to strip tolaceo wlenever it may be inl order, and -lispatch the work, observing the suggestions of last muoith. Get in band stiff for hogs heads siding and head ing, so tha t they may be in readinos without consullm ing more valuable timo later inl the season. The timber for hoops should be out green whou waited fi' use.. TOACCo itt1vs. Havo cut carly, the brtsh and wood for burning tobacco beds, and take the first opportunity of the ground being in a condition for work ing, to prCI)are for seeding. It sooiCtuiies alippenis th1ab tilis oc cura in this latitude iii the iontth of January, and not again perhaps till very late in the season. Last year the spring season was so bad as to Imlake the' sowing of plants very I-ate, and such a spell of weather as we somi times have in January, thioughiwe had none last year, would havegi ven great adtvantage to the plantor. Some planters got rid of the great labor of burning by substitutintg heavy appli cations oft leruvian ('Nano, at the rate of six to eight hundred weight chopped in while preparing the bed. CAItE oF STOC M. Ilave horses, cows, calves, oxen, and shee), well looknd to according to last m1onth11. iotes. As ewes a pproach the sea'soni if lamnbing,. giae them.i a care ful oversight, and fed thei somIe grain, tha t they may be kept in good heart. Keep breeting F-ows ill good condition, if yon expelt. to raise from thei thrifty broods of pigs. Suippily all; delichiincies iil, the tluinber of work ing -toc. .CARTS AND IMPLEMENTs. flave carts aid impiIlenens oft all sorts, thoroughly repaired, if they need ill, and keep all well secnred from wcniiher. If there is not shed d itg or house room for every thing, provide it now, when the necessity is apparent, and you liave tile leisure for it. Have- all1 gentring overhauled, repaired and greased. ("ive tile blades of scythes, the knives of your reap~er and mower, and anythin g about other agricultural machin es or 0 imiple motts likely to sufior from rust, a thin coating of groase and becSwax Incted together. If there be trocs to )lant in Sprir g, dig out the holes inl any suitable weathr, and let there be no over hasto that. will provent its being well done. Sot stakes near thi e trees lan1t 0(1 out the past Fall, and fasten tile troes to them securely, with ropeCs of straw, to prevenlt tile evils produced by the winter winds. Turn over and exaino all piles of weeds and otheri trash, and kill the fIeld mice you will be sure to find in seome of themi. To year poach trees, go down on. your knees, with knife and brad awl, or other prtoblo, anld hunlit out the grub Use a good cushion, of straw to kneel upon.. MlAN 1HI1 . Gatfler materials for miure froma every source. Look espociailly to the accumnulation of thle hog pens. Soo that the spouting takes off well from1 theo manure heap thle water that would wash away its strength. J.1ME A ND AsiES. Spread thtese on surface lit any time that it may be convenient to do so.. POTA. Trors. Whero thle ground is light and drys, a few of tlie earl'y sorts, may n-w be planted. Xirt, and Mrs. Hu'imer--lio om~e timlo ago report that Mr's. Sumner wvas to come to Washington to presido in her husband's cstablishment has failed of verification, and the JIme Journal of tis week has the following, indica ting that thlore is no likelihood that such will ever he the ease: "We have good authority for stat ing that the differenceo betwoon Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sumno~r, whlich hlave caused so much unpleasant gossip and seandal, have been finally settled by a permanent separation, with the mutual conseont and dlesivo of both partiva,' and theoir best friends. TJhe direct cause of tis seyark'tion is simIl fly the coerthintyddisconevered only too late-that there exists between the parties -an incompatibility of temnpel'ament and opinlolt ulpon cer tain sediaul q1ubstions, wh'icih precluades the possibL1ty of their living happily together as man and wife." Fronmiu4 DYra4T or AN FRn:ro.-. Antongthejaitios wvhb were burned to denah)in the Anjzdla Railroad disaster, was Mr. Oharles Lobdeil, associate editor of the LaCrosse .DemocraA lie wvas on htis way.t Jridlgepgrtr .onnecticutr to get mamed.. .An unbrolfen r4Itlenyormtmicatioq now oxists bat~'en NeYorc and the Jasp of-the Rocky Mountai,0s a dlistanice of over t wo thonsand m~iles. A~ tempor rary bridge, recently erected across the Mlissoui river at Omaha, was ,theo last link of this line constructed. Won't yolifloate-For food Beasons,| The Honorable A. H. H. Stuart hav- I mg been invited by a committee- to a banuqet to be given in. Washington on. the 8th day of Janunry, courteously I declinou the invitation for very proper reasons. We give his letter below, and commend it most heartily. "Words fitly spoken are like apples of gold in pictures of silver:?' STAUTON, VA., January 2, 1868. Gentlemen : I pray you to accept my tiaiks for your kind invitation to at tend a banquet to be given at the Me tropolitan loti, in the city of Washing. t. oil the 8th instant, under thlie aus ?ices of lendi ng members or the Consler. vaitive Dernteiatic party. Uitnder ordinary circumstances it would be plculiarly gratifying to me to pwracipate im the festivities of that occa. sion, and to (nijy "thlie feast. of reason and (How of soul," whieb, I doubt Iot, will give zest to your e:itertinmient. But. situated as ' am-disfranchiled as a citizon, denied the political pri-vi leges which are accorded to my negro sorvanut, repelled froin the hal of the llu1so of Representative?, to which I wis elect ed ahlost by iclamat 1ion ;. my native State, thi proud old motler of Washington, nid Hlenry, and Jefferson, unlrecogized save as Mitary Dietrict NO. 1--I must confess I, wouild feel somewhat out of phlace at your board. In former days, when I visited Waslhington a represetitative of the people, or as the associate of -Webster, Crittenden and Corwin. in the executive Uonncils of the nation, I felt that, in the eye of the Inw at least, I was ;the peer of the lofiiest in the land. I was priv. ileged to think freely and to speak free ly on all matters of public concern. Wero I to join your circle now, I should feel painfullly conscious of the difference bettween your position and mina. No military order can consign you to a dtingeon beyond the reach of habeas crlnpus, and no persuasive bayvo ties admonish you to speak with 'ba'ted breat hI." With me the case might be itifferent. But be that as it may, wile V'irgia mourns I cannot rejoice. While the eypress encircles her brow f cannlliOt Lwite thI m yrtle rouid my own. lhit may I not hope that the present condition of things is temporary ? If I do iiot misinterpret the signs of the times ttbe iay is near ut hn- when, by the mnda1te of. an people 'the- shntellies will- be stricken from the limbs of Virginia and l her Southert sisters, and there ihiall be given un to them "bieauty for asthei, tit oil- of joy for moaiing~. and the gtarment of praise hir the spirit of heaviiess." When. tiit glorious day shalt have arrived I shall be li:ipply to neet yon and your fellow. patriots aroumi tie frs'.ive board, and. on behalf of Virginia, to offer a willing and hearty tribilk) of gratitude to flo, noble Conservative DImocrats who set her free. Respectnllv, your obedimit servant AAND 11xnI. H1. S-rUART. [Hichmond Disputch, Paosi'arr.vt- STARVATION IN TILE Sotr H.-"Three millions of personil st.arving !" Stich is the startli ng an i. taonicement mare upon the authority of staitis collect(d by the Governors of thie Southern Staies. Three mil. ions of Ien an1d women, white andj black~', are in a sie 'ving' --condi'ition,. with out work, and without the means of baying bread. 1Bult is not, Congress "reconst ructingi the Southerin States? Is not, ihe "par ty loyahty-" entgagetd in thte work of "God( andt humniity" by keeping up a iiuiitary desplotism~ in the South, mlain.. Litaig mnisrule, reprossinr: industry, destroying credit, faith, and hope in the future, in orderi to exact guaranti ees thai tihese three millions of. s~ta-ving people wil not "l"new the "ebellion," over throw the Federal Governmnent, and establish thec Southern Confederacy! .If lie 'rnmp"' shouldl withdraw the unpi'emmne:iti it. has placed in the way of S~ith tern re'cuper'ation, whtat assurance has the "ri'um p" that theso t hre~e mtillions of starving people would niot m~arch. agamait the maionaf capital- and drigo the Giov.ernmehnr. wit h the President at the head, anid 'Thad. Ste vens al thei tail, anad O'rantt with a cigar in his mlothI anid the Wart Departmenit uder his arm, int1o t he Potomae river ? Dangerous people, terr ily gi ven to levyimg war, are three illions of stare-. tug pe 'ple in the South ? Let Coit. gress, therefore, when it hears their erv lot' bread, Send~ some more bayonets, s'o more iliitary doctators, seme' moreo reconstruction, anid- dimand sonme inure "guara-ntees" for the nation 's safety. 1't umiy not keep them from starving, but:0t may "help the party I" 1 ( CWieugo 71mes. A oson correspondent writ-ea: Dickens does not live with his wife, it is said, aw)~ this faict adds spice to thlis little stocry :A lady 'well kniownt in literary circles, on the evening of the first read ing sent Mr. Dickens a botuquet.. Theu tlorad oll'ering was returned wit h the thbanks of the rectpient, and the an nonnecement that a lady of' fondoin sup Plied himn with flowers for his button. hole, niot only in Enginuid biut A merien. 0, Chiarles I at your age I and with that bald head and that grey goatee!1. ---- ~~ e~ - - -- Qtues VoYAG.-Information has beeni received im this city which states that thu British~steamner P'ioneer,. which was freighted hero in December by Messcs. W. 13. Smith-& Co.,.arrived at Liverpool ont the 24th of thte same month, making the passage in the excel' lent timo of about fif(teen days, and es tablishing the character of the P~ioneet as a superior sea-going ship.-- Chariec.. eon New.. Partios i B'idgeport, Conn., are en gaged in getting ouit a novelty in the a 1p~.a wagon bpdy. The estire I boyis m~ade of t1bbr, hardened by the addition of' tin and iron in the com-t. position, and. is cast in, a ioutld, A -Twm I-EIG TYEARS' .CONIVCT. .9ot long since an elderly man, - bont timost double w-ith ago and work,. and n garments tattered and' torn,. while >assing through Rome, N. Y., stopped it one of the stbres and asked for )rend or money. He volunterced the 'ciark that lie was ashamed to bog, butstated as1-anl explanation, and inl. xteniation, the following as tho 1ause of his necessity: lls bome was it Saratoga, and he chanced to be in annada at the time of the rebellion in that country, in 1837. Ile was :harged with being engaged in that mutbreak, was tried and convicted: for being in complieity wvith the "Pa triots," and senteced to Vanl Dic man's Land for life. Ife saYs that lie was not guilty, but the feeling was so 56rong. against the "Yankees," at the time of his tribl, tbat it required but dight evidence to conviet. Ie ias then Som11 twenity-onie 01' twenty-two years of age ; he was taken to that polil colony, and tlere subjected to tle severest druefgery, and tile most inhuman treatment. IC and other 'onviets %were compelled to draw the plow and cart like oxen, and labor early and late, and treated not inmch better, if any, than the d umb heasts. Thus were twenty-eight years of life passed, nevor hearing fron friends or home, 11r allowed to comiiun icate therewith. lie, with others, was final ly pardoned, an1d a l lowed to reach' homei1 us best lie inight. I1e left the country a bale and hearty youth, crect and full of vigor; lie returns. 60- it, after nearly tv ,enty-ni:Ic years of ab sence, i decrepid 011 man bent over witi age and worlk, and with broken health and a shattered constituttion. The narrat ion lie gave of his life there, and tle cletails of his treatiient fuilly impressed his leicaers with the truth of his stateients, and that 11e was no impostor. lie was on his way homo, not knowing that le would find a being Who knew him whllen he was a boy. is a curioui circmonslanie, and not, gtun r,1y knowna, that, m1any of the ois which are called sjaoneeous are aiit a ed by thle squtir-rels. Thle lit-tle animal1 has perfum.a'ed the most esetiLini service to the I3ribish Na vy%. A g'imlman waVl king one day ill a wood. hLlonging tothe .)liDke of al ort tnearI' Trev. hojue, in the conm1ll.y of Monmotmib. hamd his attenltion- di'verlel b) h a styiirrie11 which sat, very composedly on the groil. l:e siopped to) oIer've his llolious ; im a fe Inoments the squirr'l darted to the p Of) of tle Iree bent.akth whieb ho had been sitting. A a in a istilant, lie was down witil an acorn inl his imioiti, id begain to burrow inl tIe eartii with his paw. After digging a hole, he stooped down and deposited tihe acorn ; tien Cov)e'ring it, ho durted lp tie tree again. Ii a moniont. lie was down with another, which lie buried in the sam1e manner. This he contniued to do as long as he thought proper to w'atuli The industry of this little ainial' is directed to tIhe purpoqe of securing him self against want in winter, and, as it is probable tit his memory is not suffi lientily retentive to eti'Jle him to re. mem.iber the Spts, in wie ho dep'host fedbY evrcorni, thme indiistrioums little fel~,no doubt, loses a hew every year. A few spring~ npj anid a distieti to silpply the place of the pairent tree. Thius, in Great,3 Britatin, in somel mieas utre, i debt ed f'oi' hier mercanit i great.. ness to the indiist ry and ml memory of a squirrel.-Merry's Muis., n. A Fs-r' Pamei~r.-A fewv weeks ag~o the Pi'ince of WVales was on a visit io Par'is. A foreign corresponident thus records one of tile little itncidents of the Prince's stay there: ''Letoi't is the namie of the Pa risiaii money-broker who reccentl y exti'icatod Lhec Prince of Wale~s fi'omia vei'y na pleasant scapo.i~ The Pri'nce was in. :ognito in Pairis, and had bought of a jewoller there (1iamon~lds a'nd bracelets, wvorth- about f fey thousand francs, which lie presented to a good looking nemiber of the demi-mnonde. Ho then we to the Cer'ole des Eti'angers, la1y d at baccarat, and lost every franc lie tud 'withl him. Next mnorning the leweller came to lhim and wanted his imonecy. As thme Prince- told him lie md not got a franc, and that he~ would. uceid him1 his si u'foim London ; t li' eoller waxed wrothi, and thbreatenod 0:o-sno the Prince and seize the jewel. Inl the hands of the tn-ette. The 'rince was at a loss how to ::ccur'e the noney, as lie was in Pais contrary to us mother's wishes, anid he was ov'er eoyed at the otl'er which the above ienmod broker mtade to advance the Ifty thousand franc.'r Snesini.t; A rica o1" A Cor~on,:! Pauu'Acsa.---Dr. J. C. Hi'own, a venme rablet colored preacher, putbliaheis in t he bouisville Courier s letter al~dressed to thie fireed men of Mississippi: "I hear wvith sorrow, paini amu regr'et that many or you hiav'e been ad vised to teizo upon the l'ands of vour former )iwners, by' fore or'mujsorr'ctIlon. I nlow beseech y'ou, for God's sake,' to take thle rdvice' of one i and ruany of' your friends 4etitfied wi'ith yiou in prosperit~y and' ad. versity. Any maen or sct of .men 'that woulld encourage yon to plusue suchi an uolawful cour'se surely must ho your most in veterato .enemy, de'siring youlr ltter extermination from the faco of the arth, like Lo.p.Qor Idian, lotthem be whites,. bilbcks, .or mlulattoes. Yes, while yoursel'es,. wives -and children were anflbring by ro: and sword, such nen woltld dance in1' sight nfy u ise. Coun- or xrs.-'No. sindera tan&Uiat91 iof Justice D)unkin and, tis a oAbinies'have .prdere4 a ,spqelal erin of thle Court 'f "KAp~lical to 1be told in Charleron, comniicoing on rhrsa net9hintn.--hnx LAPr. DIsuovERIEs AT JRUSALEM. The discoveries recently made by Lieut. Charles Warren, R. E., exploring for the Palestine Fund- in Jerusalem, will gr-itify all persons who are interested in, Biblical studies.. ft noi seems definite. ly established that the South wall Cof the sacred enclbsro which contained the temple i hu.riod' for a greater depth than the height emerging from the groun'i, and that if ba-red to its founda tii , the wall'wonltlpresent an unbro. ken flice of solid masonry nearly 1',000 feet long and 150 lbet in height r N1,he vall, as it 8t-inds, has excited the won der of the- world. No one has done more than speculato on the depth of its Ioiimdat:ons or Ilie minor discoveries rnado by Lient. WAi-ren, which, as the Secretary of the Exploring Society writes on the II lth instant, have coml pletely changed th contiivions. of re s-arch in J-eriina!vin. The sites of the Tniple, Cavalry, tho Holy Sepnichre, ihe Pool of ieihdia, are hoped. to .be discovered ; and if tho exploriig paity is provided with funds, Lient. Wirren 0oes not despair of surveying and desig nin ihe bouidatries and chief localities of the n, icienr t Jtrnisalom which the Sa. viour sa w and which Josepius deserib ed-N. Y. Times. ANCrEN- TREss.-Tio celebrated chesnt, on J'itna iuntst be a thousand years old at leat.. The Buobab trecs of the- (Green Cape demand of us, no cording to tliefr thickness and theinum he: of nones in. sore- oO theiir branch es,, an' age' of fonr tliousand years, or thereabouts. The gigantie Cypress at Santa Maria del Tile. sEI miles east of Oaxaca, in Mexico, has a cir cuinfereice of 124 Hpanish foot, about 40 fot in diameter. Now, stvppoe that every annual zone measured one line, the tree must be nearly three thousand your-s old. It. is historically certain that it is older than the con quest of Mexico by the Spaniards. The ago of the great liaagoon tree' at Ciotava, in Teneriffe, 1i suppoself to he five thousand years. These exam. piles are quite snfficient to prove the po.ssibility of a:sompound plau4 living on without end. I..DIAN CommissiONERs.- Geo. W.. ltislyhead, (chief,) Johnson Gruskey, Juneorinka and Stamper, Cherokees,. who have been appointed by tihvir tribe Comm issoneors to visit Washing ton, arrived in Columbia yesterday and took up their quarters at the Central I fouse. Their business i.- to confer with-tho anthorities relative to I the remo-ral of the reniant of the Cherokee tribe, of Indians-about 1,000-now remaianing in North Care lina, Tennesseo and the upper part of this State, to the West. One of the party is seventy-eight year-oltd, and was one of to- Commissioners who arranged the treaty stipulations and reservations with Gen. Jackson, on the conclusion of the ,:pr,-Pl nx, 4th, A t a recent firemtli's celebration. in Chalrleston, the ! lowinlg ingnriionuo aid nppropriate toast, bringing in the morne of every white fire company in the city, was offered: Our Guests of the Fire Department *I'the( City of Charleston With a Pio. nee9inChrlestou may wo ever f&>pe to hnve an eye at- Vigilant' as the A'agle to the int~eresais of om Palmetto Stat~e, and mayv we always revere th" memrorv of onr revolui' nary hero, A/aurion. Young Amri'e' is pronde of her Germ-,a.i element, and esteems he~r ls~tn Thmereforc', we trust that no volcanic Altna may ever disturb the harmony of feeling that shmould exist amongst us, for we sl onid, like a Phaenix risince firm the flanmes,. with- renewed energy 'h bt t" with the d'estructive e-lemnent,'discord, and 'stand firm as thme Stonewall in the dischairge of' duty. There is mnmlh sumffering a the North, and intense s'uffering at thme South, and all the world ms full of' it. London journ al's speak of the "teni of4 thonsanids of imen and wvomen starving in East Lons doni, and in Liverpool and orn-walti"' and: the account-i ot the aggravar'd miso. ry of these he'lpless imnliindes are most horrib. Ini mannfataring (listricts, and in mainy lines of business, the pres emit condition oft ting. is dull,. a'nd- the' prospc.ts gloomy). Thme New Ihaven logiste,' lha'r ' patch from NQw. York, which states fthat Mr. K. T. Stewart, of that eity, has received a low. letter from Gene ral Grant, int referoneo to h-ienomimi tion for the Presi'deney b~y tfie l'ate moss mteetin~g at Cooper hIstitute,Now York. Thme dispatch adds that Gene ial Olrant accaepta-bhe r-esolutions and. authorizes the eommittee to use' Flik r-anme for the Prues~fency.. A woeman in Illinois recen~tly sold- h'er husband' t' aniother lr0mnfb for *ia2'. All parties, husband included, seemed' satisfied with the bargain, and the trans fer wats made by 'mntiual- consent. Wife selling is not nincommioun m nglanmd,bmit sneh transaciiona shoulid be foreign to American soi4W Thaddeus 8tovens is engaged In the preparation of a speech in ravor of thme Alaska appropriatiop bill. Ho Insists that: hlia health is not as peer aselith or his friends or enemies think it is. Thin Democrats' of Lieavenwortb, Kitannas,- have . oraanlzed a olurbof which thme particular object is'todon.I ate General Willian1 T..8hea~fe the Presideney. Austria had t-dbeli Maxiiiin of his title of Emnp~ei'-r before It could get' hia Body.: lb w'as styled "the Jate Arehdutke" in alcommauibations with- Jrzares;. b.T Ven tb a receng law,' mir as. tera iet theGospel who .have coated t o. perform theothor duties of-their sacred offce are -no loniger, authorised ,to sl. Omnhze -marriages. :~~ Anezxlhango saysa tiladle, *4nld father face a mad bull than not have. their. dresses Iored. BEGINNING- TO ]3ELIEVE.-"Bub bles," of the California Golden Jra, gets off the following : I begin to believe, now-a-days, money makes the, man, hnd dress the gentlemaa. J.begin to believo- that the purse Is more potent than the sword and pen together. I begin to believe that the- who sin the most during the week are'the devoutest on .Sundays. I bogin to' >ulievo that lonesty is tho best policy-to speculate- with until you havo- gained every.body's confi denco--thon lim- your pockets. I begin to' Beiteve in humbugging people out of their dollars. It is neither steeling nur- Begging ; and those- wim are' bunbugged' have ont theinselves- to blane.. .I begie- t0beitove that a man was' not made't'o eijoy life, but to keep himself miserable in the pursuit and possession of r iebes. 1 begiir to leiinvo that the i est remedy for hard' times and a tight money market is an extravagant ex pendituro on the partof the individu al-to keep the money moving. I begin to- beol'eo' tlint' nono but knaves are qualified to hold office tin dor Government-with the exception of a few natural born' fools and luna tics. I begin to believe-tbat a piano-forto' is-moro necessary in a family than. meat and potIntoes. I begin to believe that a boy who d'oesn't swear, smoke and chow tobtio en muy be a very good boy,, but natu rally stpild. I begin to believe-that if the devil should die, one- lval'f of the- world wuwrld be-blown out of, employment. A Secox U,.yss.--A- old man- of very acute phisognomly, ansbverin to t hli name of Jacob Wilanot. was brolgit before the police courte f Philadelphia. IIis clothes looked as if thy inight. lve-been boight. secomiIllimi''Od, in. his yolth'ful prine. for they had suftred! more fron t le rubs of the world than- tho proprietor himself "What business do yolt follow, Wilmot ?" ",Business ? Nonel; I'm a traveler." "A vagabond, perhaIps?" voe not, far wrong;. travelers and engnbonds are nbout the same t-lhii 'itilo dilforence is that toe latter travel wiliouti money, and the foemer witlhntit. brains." "Where have you traveled ?" "All over the continenb."' "I- or what puroso ?:. "Observat itu" "Whatt Have you observed ?" "A. little to c e nd111i11e,,,, munch to censure'. aild very much to I. t: nIi." ''U-npl :'iid 'wint dlo you coininend ".A, hianilome 'vont .ha1t will. sISv nlk honie, nit cloqlueit prelier itliat will pienici a short sernion, a gnod writer that. will nt, write too much, and a fool who lin senso enouigh to hold his tongue." What, do you eenvtire T" "A, tn- wous marries a girl for her fine clothing. a youth whio stttdios law or imed1 cine while lhe has the use of his hind', and people who elect a drunkard or Llockheald to office." "Wha't do you faigi at ?" "i litugh III a itan who expots his poi. tion-to command that respect wliqh his peraonal qnalities and qualifications do not, mnerit,? 15% wih% dismissed. MARIAGE EXTItAORDINAR.-The Phemni of yesterday contains the fot' lowing : Married, ontho 26th instant, at Boylear ifl' Pod Poorhouse, in RicMh land District, by the Rev. Uriah G. Lae, Mr. Wtm. Boatwrighmt, aged siix ty-seven years, to' M~rs. Ann Oxindine,. aged ninxety years.. floth of tl'io- abofe are inmates of tht District Poorhouse, and are in good: health. Thtis is tho bride's lifth huwibanxd and t-ho~ groom's second wife. r1r.oNG-ssMs.-Thecro nind no Ojn oral rule foi l'xap .:noss ; a mian bex tua be measured' for his happiness. ji.t az he does for his' hoots, and even then lie' don't always git a good fit. Jogwill: make a manm change ends q'uitlker' than sorrow. lfa young men kant find anything. else that he i~t fit for. I like tu seoo hiim- carry a gold-hnodded kane. reciem d'outot gives the floowing: Ponl A aice itess hke5 sents wurth rubber' isoants wurthi ealomioy, 'f sents wurth sulfur, giivo' t-ho hoss onet a day,. whtni the b-os gat 1dliked,. hol o'pott.tlho modua son. Th foing joke is going the rotnnxl: in the west ern pnpers: '1lh' supeorintend'nt of. thys tfaylet'twv & glnointiati Railway, dlis charge'd a oandlotor lhhonginf to thma. road.' * * ll." uaild he, "U was disoharged for. g ying a free p ass."' '.What snde you suoh afoo as to Mlve a free pass t" . '"Well, you eti," replied: tie Conduot or. ".I got tit'ed,- of' #lding alono-, and 5ave a friend 'of fusn a free~ pass t16 get him lo go along for oomnpa-. rn repily to I1ke a question of "wchaf Mr. Seward meant when ho .sai wantod St. Tihomns for a coalinu ,:ta ion ?" Mrs. Partington, (after rubbimig hier torehead.thoulghtfully for a monienut with the bow of her silver .specta'cles,) replied,, "it mnst be becanse it shakes so, Isani', and to thei.forn a good, pla t o sift the se,...{rfot'i Ir you youpl.Ppp. Woatkt- iop f rom slips,. -Five things observe with care Of whomi you speak, To whomx you speak. And how, and when, and who e, The "Whitoa Pan wiHl be the, nort attraotionsat Nlblo'*, surpassing. in grandeur anid offect the "Black Orook," with inpre oinen but less Thore is a-nlan Itn Totuess so witty. that his wife manufaotuires all the but. tor that sheo uses from tho oroain of' hs joks,; -Duaring 10j7, fromi Jngnanry lst until Chtristrjisq day,.280%005 limmmgfanhts ar-. rtved at. New~ Yok,nq f9. n~ped, wit h 227,443 durimg the s'ame period of'- lg* Tear,.