The Fairfield herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, February 10, 1869, Image 4
DREAMING.
TO W -.
- Dreaming! yes I'm sweetly dreaming
As fond thought the past recalls
While behind the western hill-tops,
Tromblingly the daylight. falls.
Dro anmiig of the blissfnl hour,
T hy blue eyes first on tne beamed,
Of their puto unearth.-like powor
borrow'd lights from hleavon they seom'd.
Dreaming how in childish wonder,
Thy soul's depths my gnzo explored
how I found it, full of treastues,
Which my guileless heart adored.
How nround them, played forever,
Like twin spirits fron above,
Trut h--unwavering-fair as ever
Lluk'd with purity amnd love.
Ay, heneath the silken fringes
Of thy jowel'd eyes--it. seented
Deep within thy soul enthron'd
Naught, but love and beauty glenhied,
Theirs, the po-.ver that lent the witchery
To thy every whisper'd tone,
Theirs, the loneliness, which gently
From two eyes of beauty shone.
LOVE SONG.
IDC t'IIAJa.S swAiN.
I wish my lovo was some fair stream,
Soft singing ihrough her woodland way,
Au'l I smine siar,,whose loving beam
Might in her bosom rest its ray.
I wish my love wits like the !cw,
lHalf hidden 'noti htho ro'o's lip,
And I the young dawn, trembling thrdugh
The fragrance noue but I might sip.
I wish-like the flowers lhat fondly imeet
Ani cheer anid charm the humblest spt"
(sur lives might blend while life was sweet
And even death divido us not.I
[Cor, of the Cincinnati Commimrcial,
Buried Aliyo--Tho Effect of Iron Coffin,
upou Dead Bodies.
V,ASHlNotoN, Janiary ii .-I renu
inl the Intelliyunccr-a frightful stato
ncut of burving alive that is said t<
have occurred in New Orleans, and il
now going the rounds of .he press, t<
the intense horror of all sensitive peo
pie.
The mother of the unifortunate, it i:
claimued, wasq infornd c:f 1lhe horrib
event, through a dream, and imsistet
upon having the body disinterred, fo
investigation. On opening the grave
the horrible fact was mamested. TPh<
glass over the jaco was broken, the fim
was mutilated, and the fingers wound
ed.
Now, it would be well to let this pas;
as a warning to the thoughtless wl
hurry dead bodies in their graves befor
positive assurance that life is extinct
But the case is so horrible that it is bet
ter to know tihe truth. The corpse hait
been encased in an iron cofin, callrt
casket., made air-light. The consequtenc<
is that the gnses generated by the de
caying body produce tho most. friglttu
disfiguration, mnd in somo instance
shiver the glass over the faco. I kno0
all about this, for I had a case comic
inder my immediate observation, th
deati of a friend in the country, cause
by an accident, so sudden and uniey
peted that few of the friends and rei
tives could bo called to the funei
within the ordinary time incident t
Such occasions, An iron coinm wr
procured, the body placed in it, and ti
lid sealed and screwed down in the ust;
nanner, with a thick glass plate ovi
the head. 1To those wh'io watched t
loved face through tears t,bero soon aj
peared a ainguamr cimnigo ; thme veinis
t.he fo?%hmead began to swell, anmd soo
stood out like cords. Thety time fit
began to swell, and sooni thme eves par
ly opened amid time lips fell apart, gi vini
to thle. face a wrat.hmful, hmorrified expre:
RiOni timat wvas l)aimnftl to look uipoim,
T1hese chatnges continuted uint il time (den
seemed to be si,riving to breathmo, aim
strange noises wereo hoard insmiude. WV
meni shrieked amid fniitted, amid at last
cloth was thrown over' the glass, at
personse were forbid lookimng in. D)urii
t,he nuight, of thme socomid day (if I re'mmen
ber correctliy), anm explosion occurre<
accompanied by time sounid of broke
glass, a'td it wvas found thamt time pal
over the faco was shivered andt thu rool
filled with. time most sickonuimmg stenel
Tme dead body was horriblo to look a
mand it required nmo active streh of tI
imiagination to believe that life had ri
tutrnmed and a txuiegie ensued.
I doubt whether onie could returni i
life from tIme coumnterfeit condition tI
had beeni taken for death, while seak
-tup in omne of these, iron cases. Sm
return must of couirse, be slow, uncor
tain, and feeble. H-ow long time air
the co@nim would conttmuo pure enmou
to strenigthenm time lungs, so as to sta
thme circulation, I atm not prepmared i
say. .But 1 should think hot long
certainly not a suflcient lengthm of tin:
to enable the subject buried alive
miako nimuch of a struggle.
FaidHULirr ENeoUNrl:n wITH A MA
Do.-A few daiys ago, Mrs. Eckersoi
of Rocklaind county, New Jersey, whi|
going to time barnyard, was attacked b
* a large dog, and1( a greet portioni of ht
clothing was torn from her persomn. 1He
legs were several times between tm
jaws of the brute, bitt hter clothing pr<
vented time animal's teeth from pen<i
trating th1e flesh. Shme ran into time bar
to ier husband, hme clog following, an
sprmnAmg at Mr. Eckerson's throat.
Mr. Eckoraon fended ofi, and the dom
caught his hand and tore it dreadfumll
Mr. Eokersonm in his efforts to get on
hand out of' imo dog's mouth, had hi
arm torn mn a shmooking manner, and al
artery broken. The dog then eaugh
the-other hand, and literally chewedi
up, and retained -his hmold tintil Mlrs
Eckerson,'with presence of mind, thrus
a broomi handle down the beast's throat
wheonJ pt 9 d liild .of her husband'
hand,'anha was kaild w 4h an axe.-.
Phmysiaians aeon &rrived, who out off tIh
ha&eratea'flesi and are attemding Mr
a d i' Eqkerson. Mr. E. h$ie mad
IIa yingrinA,for death.
SqveI.aaa S4Anbob that fires 20(
shots A minute; e -
Notice these clippings "yo nigger
men," and then sneer at itmigration.
E'n1. N'i:ws.
Co1.oi':1 LAND OwNns.-A. con.
ptny of one hundred colored men have
purchaed a tract of land on Bull's Is.
inid. They have paid the first imstal
m"nt, and have three years to pay the
balance in. There are several similar
experim nits on trial in this State, and
it relaims to be seen what will be the
result oflthem.-C'/uriesto. News.
'l'o 'rut: u;iiron 01TIri: T DA itv N.ws
--Foit ol" EnIS-ro. S. (., Jan. 2'.
The supposition that everything in na.
ture is dial, I. hope will prove correct in
one countction at I .at. If it does, then
t.he evil of lid-rent'ng will not be
without its good results. For the past
two years the freedmen have exhibited
n inilomitabnl desire for land renting.
And no matter to what extent they
may meet with failare, this plan of man
uging Oil their own account thev,thus far,
still insist on. This year the idea has ex.
panded to still moro beautiful propor
tions, :iii such things as farm laborers
for wages are few and far between. The
conseTI'ences are, that the labor of the
imnnt ry hr.s become unavtalable, and
farmers are restricted to smaller areas
upon which to base their operations.
This, though, may be all for the better,
as they will no dou't make what they do
plant. yiold more to the acre.
Under existing circurmstances, renting
hinds to the freedmen is attended with
evils that would ot' otherwise obtain.
Ihey are poor in the cominon accepta.
tion of the term, and are without the
means which would justify any attempt
at farming within the~i'sel~ves. The
idea of a fhnily comprising t halt dozen
or more members, who probably have
not br id enough to last them three
months, renting eight or ten acres of
land, that will not produce three hun
(lred pounds of seed cotton to the acre,
and who expect to make a support, by
using the hoe alone in the cult.ivation
of the soil, is proposterous ill the ex.
t.remc. -Yet they manage to live, year
il and year out, all the deficiencies and
iconveninces to the contrary notwith
standing. In the meantime the stock
of the whites, such as hogs and cattle,
"to slaughter are condemn ied.'' This
statement may be regarded by some as
an act gratiii'.ously perlormed that
i iglit as well have been dispensed with.
Ju t facts aie stubborn thinga sometimes,
an'1 like murder, will "out."
IaiMIUAurioN.--Wo are more and
more impressed with tho necessity of
white inumnigration to thi material, as
. ,il as the social and political, interests
of tie South. F'rom all quarters ofthe
I country we see by the newspapers, the
c ry com es ulip "What has become of the
..iegru'? The planters cannot hiro
- enoughi to till their lands, the present
Ij ycar." We were talking to one of our
intelligent. planters, a day or two ince,
and lie ac.)unted for tho lack of negro
i hirelings, thus: lie said that a great
e mvtny negroes had rented land to farm
dc onl tieir own hook, and that they had
hired negroes to work for them, and
hc"l,ce, they were not. so many to hire
1 themselves to whie planters. This
o may he true but we do not, think that a
s sullicient number of negro laborers have:
o been liired by negro planters to account
it for the delicilenv.
r Some of them have gone to the Mis.
e sissippi, Louisiana and Arkansas bot.
-toms and a few to the North. A large
>f niumber hvo de(ied, and' it is likely t hat
n they will continue to die faster than they
e are piropagated ; f'or wherever mortuary
L- sta tist ics (of hothl races have boon kept.
g since uniiveirsal emnancipation has taken
r- plat.e, tIhey' exhlibit the deaths in t.he
- ratio of' thiren or four negroes to one
d whild. Ilesides, thero aro not near~ so
LI many inegro births since as there were
>. befoio emoancipation. Various causes
a coinsp:iro to p)roduice this result-the ig
d noranciiie, care'lessniess, impr )iovidenece,
g filth and immorality of,. negroes, their
i nat tontion to health, and failure to em.
I, plcy phy'sicians and to use remedies
n1 when pr'escribed. They' are likely,
e from ilieso causes, to pass away, as the
ni poor Inudianis have done, andl, ultimately,
i. to hecome extinct.
t, WV hatever zmy be the cause or caus
e es the fact exists that there is not
-enough labor in the South to cultivate
the land, much less to engage in other
0 eniterpisies for the development of her
it latent, resources. Capital,' too, is nead
d ed, as nmuch as labor. To provide both,
h and to strt the $onth and give he~r
- good heaudway in a now caireor of
>f growth, prosperity and power, we must
hi have white imnigrats. This matter
rt hats already beeni postponed too long.
o It (demanuds the immediate attenition of
;our land owvners, Planters and farmers.
e Let them take the subject into conside.
0 rationl and( act uponi it, and, besides pro.
tmotimg each individual's material ad
vancemeint and welfare, they wyill have
D) the proud satisfaction of contributing to
', push forward the ear of progrese, which
C is to bear our1 glorious Southland to the
Y magtiiflcent destiny that awaits her.
I, ~ IJluntseille Democrat.
'The bill and speech of Mr, Synib, of
0?l ai no, dleserves favorable attention.
Perhaps his is a practical plan, that is,
to cancel greenbacks when Ilaid itnto the
Trasry adissue in the place of them
notes payable in gold at the end of a
year, and re-issuie them as fast as the
come back to the Treasury.-Wlaso
Cor4Carleston Courier.
s The Fronohu Government recently
Idetermined to substitute in oavalry
t. movemnts what is noivn 'as the
t"English trot' "for the ".Fronoji trot,"
e n the.grouuid 'that the foriner'Is loss
Sfatiguitng to hiorso and rider. Upon
,the promulgation of the 'ordq-ty at
a off'eer, an~ o fhoial recquest was reeived
-from En'gland for infol'mation ro'spoQ .
Sing the "English trot," with a vle* of
marking it known to the British caval..
Two clerks were burned to death by
the Phiiladerphit 1ire re'poried '6y leb'
.grpah F'riday lat
IDLE SAYINGs or AN OLD BACuBLOn.-The
secret 'of a woman's ago may ho said to be
the only thing that will keep in any ali. v
mato,
'['ho next style of women's bonnets will
be a bead and two inches of ribbon fastened' I
with a hair pin.
The women in the Distriot of Columbia d
are all going crazy. Witness the number of a
memorials for woman suffrage daily pro
sented to Congress.
It is stated that two young ladies of Iowa 1
have taken up lands in that State under 1
the lionio.teead Act, and propose removing o
upon them to runt a farm on their own
ncount. Thoy can't do it. Any man who
would engage to work'on that farm would
be a fool.
One of the womn's vetitions to Congress
for suffrage, in the 1)ivtrtct of Columbia,
was only four yaris long Disgracefuli
brevity.
A young gentlemann in a Wt-stern town
the other day was tined tire lullarri and cost
for witf ing at ladies in tlie ireets. That
man is a martyr. I
Honor women; they scalier heavenly
roses on the patt of our earthly life ; they
weave the happy honds of love; and be.
neath thu modest veil of the graces, they
nourish with a sacred handl the immortal
flower of nob!o sentiments. honor them,
but if you valuo your ience of mind, do it
at a respectable distance.--- Cu/wrleton Couri.
cr.
Tun PEAbony M,.tL.--On the 27th tit.,
the 'resident transmitted to time Senate the
correspondence bet ween Secretary Seward
and George Pea ody, Esq.
Mr. Soward informs Mr. Peabody, that,
in accordance with a resolution of Congress,
passed in 1867, "the President has caused
to be prepared for pre entation to you, in
the name of the United States, a gold med
al, with suitable devices and inscriptions.
in acknowledgment of your nmunificent do.
nations for the prometion of education in
the more destitue portions of the Southern
hnd Southwestern States."
Mr. Peabody replied, directing the medal,
qtc., to be forwarded to London.
Mr. P. expresses himself delighted with
the gift. etc.. and n'nn ,oee. his irtntir,
of depositing it in the 'enbody Institute at
his birthplace in apartments specially con.
structed for their safe keeping, along with
other public testimonials with which he has
been honored, there to remain for genera
tions, to at test tlie generous munificence of
the A mr .eun people in recognizing the ef
forts, however inadequate, of one of the
humblest of their fvllow-oountrymen to pro
mote the enlightenment and prorperity of
his native land.
A Lsoa Ansv.or.-Thirty six years ago
a nman living in this county (then Stokes)
was arrested for some violation of the law.
le was tied and placed on horseback and
started off to Germuantown, then the county
seat. After he was arrested his wife man
aged to slip himn a knife, and on the way to
prison ho cut his bonds, and being well
mounted lie made good his escape. Nothing
was heard from him after his escape by his
family. le had been married but a short
time, and his wife mourned for him as one
dead. A few weeks ago an old gray.headed
man stopped at the house whero she was
living and inquired for her. She came out,
when lie asked her if she knew him. She
told him she had no recollection of ever
having seen huiim before. iIe then madeo
hlimself knowif as tier long,absent husband;
and now, after a seperat Ion of nearly forty
years, they are again living together as hap
pily as a newly-niarried couple.- Winston
{ N. (7.) Sentinel.
IIAnu Ti)tus No Mons.--The Mteechacebe,
published in St Jean Baptist, Louisiana,
gives the following: "Th'le people living on
the Mason lills are rapidly regaining the
independtence and comforts to which they
were accustomed ini ante bCllu timies. The
woods are becomhmg wvelt stoeked with cat.
tlo and hogs, those necessary adjunets of
prosperity." Fortunately for the people on
Mason hials they hive in the interior, and
have not been daimaged by th% operations of
political knaves and Puritanical hypoorites
andi humbugs. "Ante Blellum times come
again-hard tmies no more," will be the
refrain beard fronm many Solithern planta
tions ore long--Worl<d.
11mu; Ti "-A "medical F riend of ours
wvhose advioe has often assistedl us even on
healthy oasions, oaths attention to the
following article. which we publish for the
benefit of the ladies :
"The Scientitic American tells its readers
what every physk-lin 'and student of physi
ology kno1s about the silliness and harm
fulness of wearing high-heeled shoes. Whben
the heel Is raised, as is the present eustom,
the bones of the thIgh, pelvis, and leg as
well as foot. are thrown into an abnormal
position ; and white the bones maIntain their
plasticity, the effect of sueti unnatural ten.
slon Is sure to be perpetuated int the shape
of crooked shins, bandy legs, elephantIne
toe joints, and a cramped, ungraceful gait."
A right sensible article, and its advice
should not be neglected,
A fearful picture was drawn yesterday of
DavIs and Blrecklnridge book in the Senate.
Such men cannot ret.urn to the Senate with.1
out accepting the situation and becoming
co-wrorkers in the cause of recnstruetion.
I do no,t knew any moe effliete way to real
reconstruction than a return of the leading
Confederates to office. I woid be glad to
see Davis an(l Breokinridge baok in the
Senate, and Lee, Longateet, and the rest ef
the army ouco mere in the Hlouse.--DonI
Piall's WaiIngton letter in Cinciunall Comn
m,ercil
A FilNNY LuotermAn..mTheIggigltut
of Illinois last Baiqidei j~'l~tg~~a
go to itralia'a, misued d i gqga~zg .gy~
litica), civil, and social power in the'Btat.
it itbe fpmale -portion oiLthe yoputtioti
abiovo th'gtbighye tI& ade
unlawful for any mae 9.... twlv --t i.
EXIT WADn.--No man will retire from a J
ublio life on the 4th of March with a
rorse grate than sturdy old Ben. 'tree
lefeats in one short year are alnost too
uo for him-first for the Senatorship;
hon for the Presidency in the Court of
npeachment, and then for the Vioo-Presl
lenoy at Chicago. To these may now be
ddei a fourth, in his failure to get Into
]rant's Cabinet. lie is ill.tempered over
ats disappointments, and suggests in his
nanner and disposition towari all who up.
>roach him the familiar idea of a boar with
t sore frontispiece. If he were as familiar
vith Ifumo as he is with Mother Goose, he
vould quote the dying words of Woolsey,
ltered to suit his purpose, and lament that
f he had served his God as faithfully as Ie
ins a rred his party, he would not desert
dim in his declining days. But political
)arties are oven more ungrateful than Re.
publics, su4 dQ aot hesitte to kick sturdy
>ld Ben aside after eighteen years of ser.
rice, consisting, for the most part, in ho'd
ng oflice. Aleck-Sands has been here for
sonio timo trying to manufacture a place
)f some kind for sturdy old Ben, but ho
inds none this side of the solitudo and
ecolusion of Ashtabula. All of which is bad
ror Wade, but worse for Sands. Poor old
Bon iHe must pack ,'up his trunk pret ty
i mou, and bid adieu to offhoial life and its
,ares and vexations. Let us hope that in
ho midst of his retirement he will be con
soled with a fow lines from his favorite
lassio, which assure him that
While he lived he lived in olover,
And when he died he died all over."
Exit sturdy old Ben I MAcK.
"AnsoLUTS EQUALITY."-Wisconsin has
looted a Senator named Matt. i. Carpen.
er, a gentleman of commanding presence
nad a reputable lawyer. Mr. Carpenter, as
In duty bound, treated his partisans to a
speech. Among other choice things, we
select thuis:
"We are now at liberty to return- to the
Irst principles upon which the Government
was founded, and secure for all time the
absolute equality of all men."
In the very teeth of Southern disfran
Ahisemont. With Tennessee, Missouri,
West Virginia and many other States be.
rore his eyes. With the overwhelming
drfeat of negro suffrage in Eastern and
Western States. With thousands of Irish"
nton outlawed politic4ly in Rhode Island.
With Annie Dickinson without an Ethiopian
lord, and "no d-d niggers" admitted to the
inauguration ball. With the.e, and more
than these, staring him full in the face, this
onspiouous hypocrite lifts his tall figureo
to thme sky and--tells a fib which he does
riot believe, and only tells it to tickle' the I
thousands of gulls who preach the same
Jootrino, but never practice it.
(Augusta Constitutionali8t,
A RMARICADLX TRANCR CAsx.-A.num
her of the Milwaukee physicians have been
rxnmining a remarkable case at Burling
on, Iowa--that of Mina Rousehe. On the
Bth of January she called her father to her
hedAide and told him she was going to
aleep, and that she should sleep a long time.
She said she would look as though she was
dead, but she should not be dead; and
mhde her father promise that he would not
bury her. She then sank away, and lias
laid in that state since the 8th of January.
On Monday last a vein was tapped. and the
blood flowed as naturally as it would in a
living person.
The Duke of Alba is a Spanish grandee,
descended from the merciless soldier of
PYhilip V, whose eruelty drove the Nether.
lands to revolt. Them Empress Eugenic was
once desperately in love with him, and tried
to commit suicide by laudanum when ho
chose her sister instead of herself. IIis
wife is now dead, and he has squandered
his once enormous fortune in dissipation.
ilis estates, which are entailed, have passed
into the hands of his creditors, by whom
they will probably be managed as long as
lie continues to live.
PAssAas Or hun BILL TO Cauxs CutoAGo
TO INDIANA.-A bill has been passed In the
lower IIonse of the Illinois Legislature by a
vote of 78 to 9 separating the city of Chica
go from Illinois and ceding it to Indiana. A
bill has been introduced In the Senate to
repeal the river improvement act.
| This seems to be a strange proceeding.
[t must be a hoax, or else it was in the In
diana Ilouse that the bill was passed.]
STANToN.-Don Piatt, the Washington
iorrespondent of the Cininmnati Conmmercial,
has recently seen Stanton, and says that
gentleman would not receive a Cabinet
Dffice, and regards his life as a public man
inded. Mr. Stanton makes this. statement
wnder such circumstances that,. there is no
luostion that his resolution is fixed not to
ake office, says the Commercial which says
a this instance only what as true, seeing'
hat Grant's intention not, to give him any
>ffioe Is also ''hxed."
GUN. OaNT ok Tns SukraAcs AMSND
ISNT.--Gener'al Grant, this morning, in
tonversation with a prominent Republican
tenator, expressed himself as unequivocally
a favor of the suffrage. amendmrot to the
)onstitution, saying- that what was right in
heSo.uth must be rightin all parts of the
ountry.-Dispatc c A. h Baltimore Ameri
an, February 2d.
The progress of the Sues canal seems to
'e satisCagory. A sociooner has recently
issed throughout its entire length, and M.*
to Lesseps states that in six months ships
>f three thousa,td tons ,burden will be able
o traverse it, 'eltherv sailitig or by steam. f
reucesothenepiewill doubtless
heItmsof Panama. cuthog
Veo.s 'russn CakouTAanu.The fol. C
owitig is an inscription. on a tonibstone In
Iassaohusetts, la is beautiful .
I came in the moiine it was Spring,
~'And I smiled;
I *alkeil%ut at he'on-it was Summer,
..............;...4 d I was glad ;
I sat moe down at even-it was Autpma,
And I was gtd;
1 laid ste &own af.igih--it seq Winter;
'And IslepI.
Que tlaoqsand s~ies of the Union Paeoldo
aihroad are now is .Mttual- olVeation, and o
sly tje.o bugdCe4 *ft' A atiles remaine to
* built'
roper.Pronunoiation of Fronoh Words in
Common Use,
Paletot in,pronounced paldlo.
Chignon, shinyon. t
Attache, attashay.
Au fait, o lay.
Bijou, be.zhoo.
Bas blow, bah blow.
Esprit, espree.
Clique, kleek.
Chef d' oeuvre, .sha doocvr.
Cl devant, se de vong.
Coup d' otat, koo da-ta. t
Douceur, doo.-su'e,
Debut, de.ba.
Debutant, deb-u-tang.
Esprit do corps, es"pre..de kor.
En route, ang root.
Expose, eks-po-za. 1
Ennui, ang-we.
Fauxpas, foe pa.
Hors de combat, hor de coin bah,
Jon do uots, ilia ka ma.
marquee, marskce,
Melee, ma Ia. t
Mal apropos, mal ap ro-po.
On dit, on de e
Penchant, pan-shang. -
Ac-r WisE.w IF You Wouc,n uo
V ....--' Once upon a tino"i a certain
nan was granted all he might be able i
o carry across the sea in a great ship. l
lie employed laborers and 1"aded his I
hip with costly merchandise to its ut
nost capacit V. lie set sail with fond
untictpation- of -he great wealth he was
Lbout to po.mtss. 3efore the voyago
vas ended he tealized his fully. Hun- S
ler ^nme and would not be appeased
vith the hope of future feasting, or a
leaps of riches. Fortunately, a provis
on laden vessel was met, and our avari.
ious man was but too glad to exchange
ialf his wealth 'or ship stores. This
till left him half, after all the pangs of
munger and trout,le of loading and un
onding. But, hold He was only en.
itled to what he carried across, and of
onrso had to render an account of what
es took away, and did not carry across; r
o this took the other half ho had
eft.
MORAL.-Plant all cotton, starve and F
tint through the working season, aid
hen giv your cotton crop to pay for
he corn you have used and will need
intil you make another crop.-Colum-- i
us Sun. e
The difficulty of fixing a permanent
>lue upon wool has been st.ccessfully
>vercome in England, and fugitive
>lues are being completely superced
Id. The patentees are working night t
lnd day to supply the demand, and I
tre making preparations on sueli a
tcale as will permit of its being intro
luced in America very shortly. In 1
lyeing, this is one of the greatest dis
over}es of modern days.
AN ANM1:RtcAN LtoN.-A party of
mnteis hadl a fearful encounter wiih a
ull grown American lion. near the
Belt Range of Mountains in Montana I
P"rritory, one day lst month. The
inimal received seventeen bullets before
te succumbed. le measured eight feet
ro nose to tip of tail, and was nearly
our feet high. The contest was desper
ite and protracted, and several of the 1
lunters received ugly wounds. t
Mr. Charles Dickons says that "the
rst. external revelation of the dry rot
n mencf is a tendency to lurk and lounge ;<
o be at street corners without initelligi- 1
ble reasons ; to be going any where when
net; to be about many places ratber
hian any ;to do nothing tangible, but<
~o have an intention of performing a
imber of tangible duties to-morrow or I
hea day after."c
A Liberal candidate in the recentC
~lectioni in England wvas jeeringly askeda
n the hiustings by a Conservative to
bvhat old fiamily lhe belonged. "Myd
amily," lie replied "is so old that it w as
wvorn out before I becamie a member of
t.; so I started fresh, as I he-pc to do in I
~he coming parhiament."
Snow foil in such abundance in St.t
Petersburg and its suburbs in the hat,
er half of December, that in several
treets it rose to twelve (cot in heighat.
accounts from the provinces state
~hat whole villages are buried under
hbe drift.
The general opiniona of Congress
non is that the first session of the
Jongress, commencing on the fourth r
>f Marcha, will not last over four or
lve weeks.
F?lorida planters are preparing for
>lanting oottoh largely this year.
['hey th ink the unusually cold weather
hero has destroyed the caterpillars,
A medical student says ho never (
mas been able to discover the bone of a~
'ontention, and desires to know
whether it Is not situated near the I
aw bone. 1
The tears we shod for those we love
are the streams which water the gar
Ien of the heart, and without them It A
rould be dry and barren, and the gen
le flowers of aff'ection would perish,
A pig with one head and one neck
'one, two perfect bodies, two tails and
ight legs and feet, has put in an op
earance im Scott county, Ky,
The had morals of New York no.
essitates the widening and deepening
f "Hell Gate." A
Judge Carpenter has rendered a A
coree on the constitutionality of the
ometead law, which will be made
ublic in a short time.,e
The New York Sun says: "We
arn that the Tribune Association has A
snured the life of Mr. Groeley for the
andsomeo sumi of $100,000.
Gareful experiments at Paris are
aimed to ishow that coal ashes are A
rorthiless if not actually injurious to
hants.
Things Wise and Otherwise.
LITTLE THINGS. --The preciousness
f little things was never more beau
ifully expressed than in the following
)orceau by 13 F. Taylor :
Little martin boxes as homes are
enorully the most happy and cosy.
Little villages are nearer being
toms of shattered paradise than any
hing we know of.
Little fortunes bring the most con
ont, and little hopes the least disap
Ointment.
Little words are the sweetest to
oar,
Little charities fly farthest and stay
ongest on the wing.
Little lakes aro stillest, little
carts the fullest, and little farms the
est tilled.
Little books are most road, and lit.
le songs the most loved,
When nature would make anything
specially rare and beautiful she
lakes it little-little pearls, litto dia.
1onds, and little dews.
.Mudlum in parvo--mnch in little
s the groat beauty of all we love best,
opo for most, and remember the
oangest.
Nature creates merit., and foPtune
uts it in action.
As every thread e j I is valuable,
o is every minute ti e.
Slander is the rovenie of a ooward,
nd dissimulation his defence.
Valno the friendship of him who
tands by you in a storm ; swarms of
usocts will surround you in the sun,
hine.
Man is a result, the growth of many
resterdays.
Against slander there is no defence.
[ell cannot boast of so foul a fiend,
for man deplore so foul a foe. it
tabs with a smile. it is a pestilence
valking in darkness,spreading conta
ion far and wide wL:ich tho must
vary traveler cannot avoid. It is the
ieart-searchiung dagger of the assassin.
t is the poisoned arrow whose wound
s incurable. It is as fatal as the
ting of tho most deadly asp-murder
ts. employment, innocence its -prey,
md ruin its sport.
AN EquIs EPITAPI.-.A tomb.
tone in a village cometary in the in.
crior of Pennsylvania is adorned by a
siece of sculpture which brings in ro.
ief a colt, a boy, and a tree.
The colt repecsented as kicking the
>oy in the stomach ; and the epi.
aph is in this wise
"Sacred to the memory
of
henry IItrris,
Born Juno 27, 1821, of Henry !Ihr.
-is and Jane his wife. Died on the
Ith of May, 1837, by the kick of a
olt in his bowels, peacefully and
luict, a friend to his father and moth.
:r, respected by all who knew him, and
rent to that world where horses can't
ick, where sorrow and weeping is no
nore.
LurF 'at )owx IASIiKn.-A pious
Id negro saving grace at the table, not
mly nsed to ask a blessing uponi hmu
oard but lie would also petition to have
ome deficient dish supplied..
One day it was known that Cato was
mit of pot atoes, and suspecting that lie
vould pray for some at dinner, a wag
>rovided himself' with a small measure
f the vegetables, stole under the win
low, next which stood thei table of our
colored christian. Soon Clate drew.nup
chair and commenced,
-"0, mnassa, Lord will dow in dy provi
(ent kmndness condescend to bress ebery.
hmng before us and be p)leasedl to be
tow upoa us a few taters--and all tihe
raise."
(IHlre the potatoes were dashed upon
he tauble breaking plates and upsetting
hie nmustard pot.)
"Deim's 'em, Lord," said Cato, looking
nih 'urprise ; "only just, luff em down
.little easier niext, time."*
~The eellege-building at Adrian, Miechi
an, was gartially destroyed by fire this
orning. Most. ot'the contents were saved.
oss5 en the buildink, $20,000; insurance,
6,000.
Plhe Fastest Route North or South,
via Chiarlotte & S. 0. and 0o
lumbla & Augusta Railroads.
IJIANGE 01F SCHIEDUL4E.
Co!.UNDiA, San. 24, 1860.
and after Sunday, the 24th lnst.. the
Mall Trainas over these Roads will run
a follows :
ooINo NeoRrn.
*eavo Granitoville at 7 20 a m
cave Columbia 12.80 p in
W Iinnsboro, 2.42 p m
" Chester, , 4.40 p in
"Chxarlotto, 7,45 p in
" Greensboro, 1.00 a in
rrivo at Rtiehmnond, Va- 10.00 a vs
Making eleoeeonection here, with trains
r the North.
CoMINo soUTH.
eave New York, 8.40 p ms
" PhIladelphia, 12.16 a mn
" Baltimore, -4.16 a vs
," Washington, 7.00 a ms
" Rlehhmond, 2.00 p ms
" Greensboro, 1.00 a in
" Charlotte, 0.00 a mn
" Chester, 8.50a vs
" WInnsboro, 10.27 a ms
rrive at Cojumnbla 12.26 p im
rrive af, Granltoyille at 6.00 p in
N AOCOMoDATION TRAIN WILL RUN AS Yon
Mondays, Wednesdays and FrIdays.
eavo ColumbIa, 7.00 a ms
"Winnsboro, 10.46 a in
"Chester, 2.00 p ii
rrlve at Charlotte, . 6.60 p vs
'k'uisdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
eave Charlotte, 0.40 a m
" Chester, 11.26 a tu
" Wlnnaboro, 2.06 p in
rrive at ColunmbIa, 6.10) p m
Cl BOUKNJIIHT,
.an 24 .Superintendent.
SOUTH CAROINA RAILROAD
OENERAT. SULRINTENDUNT'e Orrici,
Charleston, S. C., March 20, 1808.
ON and after Sunday, March 29th, the
Passenger Trains on the South Caroli
na Railroad will run as follows, vis :
FOR AUGUBITA.
Leave Charleston, 0.80 a m
Arrive at Augusta, 8.80 p to
Leave Charleston, 7.80 p to
Arrivo at Augusta, 0.45 a m
FOR COLUMBIA.
Leave Charleston, 6.80 a m
Arrive at Columbia, 8.50 p a1
Leave Charleston, 6.40 p as
Arrive at (olumbia, 0.20 a m
FOL CIIARLESTON.
I.cave Augusta. 0.00 a m -
Arrive at Charleston, 3.10 p at
Leave Augusta, 4 10 p mn
Arrive at Charleston, 4 00 a mn
Leave Columbia, 0.00 a n
.\rrive at Charleston, 8.10 p in
Leave Columbia, 6.80 p mt
Arrive at Charleston, 6.80 a m
SUMMERVII.LE TRAIN.
Leave Charleston, 8.40 p rm
Arrive at Summerville, 6.10 p rs
LeaveSummerville, 7.20 a mn
Arrive at. Charleston, 8.86 a w
CAMDEN BRANCHi.
On Mondays, Wredneadays and Saturdays.
Leave Kingsvillo, 2.20 p m
Arrive at Camden, 6 OOp in
Leave Camden, 6.10 a m
Arrlye at Kingaville. 7 40 a to
11. T. PEAKE, Gcn'l Sup't.
mar 31
F. A. SOUTER & 00.,
(Successors to H. II. Blese.)
DEALERS IN
COOKING, PARLOR & OFFICE
STOVES,
OF T!R ,OSTIIPROVED'ATTERNS.
Also Manufacturers of and Dealers in
aill, Japained and Premsed Tin'
ware, House Furnfshing Goods, ke.
U&- Store two doors below Bryco's Cor.
ner, Main Street., Columbia, S. C.
F. A. SOUTER, N. IIALLMAN6
nov 10
DUPONT'S
S11WOULD invite the attention of dealers to
mny Large and Well Assorted stock of - i!
POW)DE, consisting of
Rifle Ilfg, in kegs, half and quarter kegs,
also im one pound and half pound canis
tees.
Deer iRf, in kegs, half and quarter kegs,
also in one pound and half pound canisters.
Eagle Sporting and Rifle, in 61 pound kegs,
ono pound and half pound canisters.
Eagle Ducking, in 121 and 6} pound kegs,
five pound and one pound canisters.
Blasting Powder, intwenty-"ve pound kegs.
Sporting, Mining and Shipping Powder
of every variety, manufactured et the eele.
breted Mills of E. J. DUPONT DENEM.
OURS CO., Wilmington Delaware, whose
reputation has stood unrivalled for slity
eight years
I am prepared to fill all orders, either Re
tail or Wholesale, allowing a lberal di.. -
count in lots of twenty-flve kegs or more.
J. N. RO BSON, A gent,
Nos. 1 and 2 Atlantic Wharf,
dee 8-8 Charleston, S.'C.
RIOSA DAMIE
Purifies the Blood.
For sale by Duuggsts Everyw.up.
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