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l"opz i.1m e~ a a z m Desportes & Williams, Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquirv, Indtstry and Litorature, H'*m---8300 >er Annm In Advance. VOL. VI.] WINNSBORO, S. C.., WEDNESDAY M "lN IN GAN LAUY 25, 7!. N. T EI E, FAIRFIELD HER ALD Is PnLIS'l nwASe:E W K.Y IY IESPOICS & WILU4IAMS, Terns.-Tu it nAJ.I ih puablished Week in the ''own of Vinnasboroo, at @3.00 in. Morea.by ins advance. Ef- All transient, advertisent(s to bc Tild in advance. Obituary Notices and Tribuits 01.00 per tiquare. A Coimunicatioll. We publish the following commu. liicati-)n verbatim, ad liter atim, ad punctuatuna. January 10th, 1871. To the JAditor of the Union : Wanted to no if it is expected that a School Coiumissioner with a County omabrooing over 75 Seventy five Schools and over 12 Twelve hundred Children going to School and with about Six Hundred Dollars Worth of Books shall i keep the Books at his bone, with his family whether lie had room for therm or not-and the School Com. inissior.er whose duty it is to furnish Books and Receive Reports of the Toachers-sial be compeld to (lse his oflice and follow some other Cal ling to the danage of Schools of this County This Would seam to be the teach. hig of the Daily Union-now we .ay let the School Commission h) Vell paid for his Services and let the Toun Make him discharge his duttics well, or discharge him from oiice-and let the pay be in accordance with the duties--if one Commissioner has seventy-five Schools and another has twenty-five, pay them in proportion to their schools, and let, each County stands on its own nerits if Retrench ment and Ie form is the Order of the day let it commence t Ilead quarters and comlie down to all so that all may share .in the General Benefit of Cur taling. If one Coututy has seventy schools and another has twenty-five thare cir tluly aught to be Somce distinction in Ret rance to Sutch Cases. We say let all Rocive pay in pro portion to what they'do. JUSTICE. 1REPLY.-Our correspondent at.ke us two questions, and as he evidently ex. pects a reply, wo give it, to the best of our abihajy. In the first place, we cannot under. stand what business a School Commis aioner has with six hundred dollars' worth of bookson hand, or even ten dollars' worth. What has he to do with school books any way ? Such things are usually kept by merchants, or stores engaged in that kind of trade but we cannot conceive what a Sohool Conimissioner has to do with them, as an offioer. Tf ha keens them as a source of profit, then we submit th.at it it his own personal matter, and something with which the State has nothing to do at all. He might aa well ask the State to furnish him with a stable to keep his horse in (if he has one), for the roason that he has to use him to visit some of the schools under his control. Let those who want books go to the proper places for them, and let the School Commis sioner attend to his legitimate du ties, if there are any. Keeping schooL books Is certainly not one of themi. "Shatll h'e olosri oflice and follow somne other calling to the damage of the schools of his county ?" To this we answer, that in about three-fourths of the counties in the State-judging fronm the commnunioations which reaoli us from oficeors of this kind-we are decidedly of the opinion, that they had better close their offices and go to plowing, or chiopping wood, or some other congenial emplIoynient, for we candidly believe the schools in such counties could not possibly suffer any damage by such a transfer. How in the name of reason a school co mmissioner can be kept busy with seventy-five schools, with less than twenty children to ech school, beats our coinprehension, and why he should bo provided by the State with an oflico whore he could "receive reports from teachers," also passes our understand ing. We are glad to be able to agreo - with our correspondent upon one point and that is, that "Commissioners should be paid in proportion to what they do."- Columbia Un ion, Mark Twain writes the following answer to a correspondent: "Young Author-Yes, Aga'asis dhoes recom mend anthors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. So far you aro correct. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat- -at least, niot with certainty. If the specimen com position you send is about your fair usual average. I should judge that perhaps a couple of whales would be all you would want for the present. Not the largest kind, but almply good middling sized whales.'' "Ma," said an intelligent, thought ful boy of nine, "I don't think Solo mon was so rich as they say lie was." "Why, my dear wvhat could have pal that into your head ?" asked the as tonished mother.-"Because the. Bi ble says he slept with his fathers, and I think if he been so rich he would have a hed of his own." 3111t111ry Thlotiglts. I With this 11o11th begins the New Ycar of our time!. It i I nmed from the Roman deity J anus, which meaiin look behind and Lefore. The Roman Year originally began in imiarch, but in the time of N uma Pomphilia 13. C. 672, there were two mouths, January and February added to the year ; making the beginning instead of March, January. This 1111th hbhuld be spent the mjost part in refluction-looking be hind and before. We uanke io apology for our fre quent references to the social cle nienta of the household, for on the proper appreciation of these, depends tile good of the garden and yard' Look baoL. What has been our expenses anud our income for the last year. For this year our expenses suust be reduced if they were larger than our income last. To be strictly honest, this calculation must be made. We must spend less or no more tban we Imake. Have we accounta of obligations that were to b tmet at the end of the year ? If so, see after them. lave we a borrowed book or umbrella in our posestion ? If so, return it. % ith us it is expected that we all settle accounts ut the end of the year. If we fail in the least of these things, in the meeting of an obliga tion implied or expressed, we violate tile whole vow. "Pay thy debitv." Tle difference in any ease being in the degree of embairassmuent, it gives to the man to whom tile de-bt is due. The man who cares for the law, is careful alike about every obligation. . Look before. There is a vast fu ture, a road to travel, a sea to navi gate, a new work to do. It needs that we think well on it, both as to how it shall be With us and our fel lows. Ias the past been for profit to us and to thetn ? If not, how ? Let it in no wise happen, that our iniqui tiesshall fall oi our children or our frieids. It may be In this wise, if we be not thoughtful of every right for it has in the past happened so that we may buy, hoping to pay, and expecting to, but it so turns that our hopes are blasted, our obligations can't be met by us, and have to be met by some kind friend who has gone surety for us and who has taken all tile I isk, withan111It the lon, LApeC. tation of gain. While we in many cases, all expectation of gain and nothing to loose. In the futurc ask of no main such ia favor. Let us plant for a bad crop, and then do our best to make a good one. In entering oil the new year, let us so set out, as far as ill us lies, that if we go (own on the way, the family and friends left behind shall not be the worse that we lived, and that we be ready to journey in another and better world. L'-t us live rather as to our duty and moans than as to the course of our neighbor. Be careful alike to work the six days and rest the seventh. Out doors we can't do much. Con. tinue pruning and transplanting trees, and vines, nakingeompost and drain ing. We may plant bcan.s, radish, as paragus, garden peas, cabbage, beets, otlions, lettuee. W~e may, by plan tiag thus early, hlave aii earlier crop. Our peoplc usually do thleir planting of this season between thme Charistmasa cs .-Reonstr'ucted Former. "'COMlNQ EVETs CAS-r TruF.lR H A n ows REFORE."-Truly the ills of our Congressmen do not come singly, anid at long intervals. Hon. C. C. llowenm, a Representatives in~ Congress from this State, comes in for his due share, which is the lion's shmare. A few days since the telegra ph informed us thlat this honorable gentleman had been indicted by the grand jury of Washington City for Bigamy, in that he hlad a wife living in Louisville, Ky., we believe, wvhen lie was married to Mrs. King, in August last. Oni Saturday Iast, another wife than the Louisvlle one, whloso namie we believe was Ta bitha Pakre, put, in an~ appear atnco at Charleston, and petitioned the court for alimnony, claiming that she was the lawful wedded wife of C. C. Biowen, hlaving been joined in nmatri moniy on tile 8bit (lay of October, 1853, and that said mnarr-iage contract had never been dissolved,.1This lady's mnaidlen lnme was Franceis Hicks, as shIown by tile marriage certificate, which we have seen. - 'lhe stories of tile correspondents at the Prussian headquarters are not reassuring to the apprehensions of thle stock exchange. One0 is that Moltke has already preparedI a complete p.lan for the invasion of England, and the P'russian oflicers assure thmeir English friends that its execution will not be at all difficult. Around P'ai is the rieh furniture of hundreds of' villas has been burned to warm the soldiers. "Nothing burns so well as piano wood." At Versailles thley are eating all the cows, and the destruction of every young animal s soon ais born will mnake famine in tihe future. At one point we are told of fifty thousand men sleeping in the op en air on a frosty night, warming themselvyes from time to time at huge fires of untllresh-t ed wheat, which added their glow to the fires of burning villages. ihc Pope's Curse. Victor Emanuel, King of Italy, has iakenl pos:-essioni of ionie, and made it v a par of hi- kingdom. The Pope has issued (tie follov ing anatheia iagaint A By authrity of the Almighty God, the Father, the Son and Holy Ghost.; and of the holy cannon ; and of the C undeiled Virgin Mary mother and f nu'se of our Ra iout, and of the celes tin virt lies. angels archangels 9 thirones, domniniolw, powers eherutbi, -1 and seraphii ; and of all tie holy i patriairelis and prophets ; and of atll I tie apostles and evanigolibt-s, and of t all holy innocents who, in the sight P of the Lamb, are found worthy to sing t( the new song ; and of the holy mar- Li Lyrs and holy confessors ; and of the " holy virgins ; and of all the saints, to- tl gethor with all the holy and cleet of 'od-we excommunicate and ann- w ,hmciatize him, and from the thresh- . hold of the holy Church of God Al- ci inighty we sequecter him, that he may C bic torniited in internal exerutiating 0 -ul'orings, together with Dathan and I Abiram and those who say to the p Lord God, "Depart from us, we want fd ione of thy ways." And as fire is b lucnchd with water, so let the light 9 Af him be put out forevermore. 01 May the Father who created man ,urse him. May the Son who died 1 ror us carso him. May the 11oly , Ulhost which is given to us in baptism a 3urse him. May the Holy Cross c which Christ, for our salvation trium- a phing over his enemies, ascended, d ourse him. May the Holy and Eter- ' ml Virgin Mary, Mother of God, ' ::urso him. May St. Michael, the ad jtt vocate of holy souls, curse him. May i h ill the angels and aroh-angels, princi- ,C palities and powers, and all the . heavenly armies, curse him. Mlay itt at John, the precursor, and John the to Blaptist, and St. Peter, and St. Paul W ind St. Andrew, and all other of ' Christ's Apostles together, eurte him. tc And may the rest of his disciples and tI Four Evangelists, who by their preach ti ing converted the universal world, and may the holy and wonderful com pany of. martyrs and con fesors, who m by their holy works are found plead- tr ing to God Ali'ghty,curse him. w May the Choir of holy virgins, who di for the honor of Christ have despised of ,he things of the world, damn him ; i inay all the saints who from the be. E ginning of the world and everlasting iges are found to beloved of God, tl Janmn him; may the heavens and the ti -arth and all the holy things remain - w ig therein, danin him. b( May he be damned wherever he t< be, whether in the house or in the v( ield, whether in the highway or the ir byway, whether in the wood or the a1 water, or whether in the church. vi May lie be cursed in livitig and in is lying, in eating and drinking, in fast- ft ing and thirsting, in slumbering w tnd sleeping, in watohing or walking, G lu standirg or sitting, in lying down ei or work iug, mingeido oaneando, and P in blot d-letting. a May he be cursed in all tie faculties 01 of his body. May he be cursed in- A wardly and outwardly. May he be al 3ursed in his hair. May he be cursed I in his brains. May he be cursed in ti the crown of his head and his temples. in In his forehead and in his ears. In e his cheek. In his jaw bones and in ci his nostrils. In his foreteeth and in A his grinders. In his lips anid in his t throat. In his shoulders and in ei wrists. In his arms, his hands and in a his fingers, it May tbe be damned in his mouth, ce in his breast, in hisi heart, and in all die viseora of his body ; may lie be Tlamned ini his veins and in his thigh N and genital organs, in his hips and his o knees, and in his legs, feet anid toep sails! it May he be our~sed in all the joints fe and articulations of hsis metmbers. w F"rom the top of his head to the Bole f,~ af his fceet may there be no soundness b'V in him. I May the Son of the living God, ft with all the glory of his majesty, curse is bitm ; and may Iheaven, with all tbe 81 powers that may move therein, rise w up against him, and curse and damn him I Amen, So be it. Amen., 1n his lecture at New Orleans, Gen. 2 erat Penidleton, of Lexington, Va., ri said :"A few hours before the clos. a ing scene at Appomattox Court a House General fLee sent for General 0 Pend leton to have a private confer. once on (lie dlesperate condition of a affairs. In that conference General." Le'e stated that front the first-takingr into consideration the limited moans at our commard and the unlimited " resources of the power that opposes us 0 -I have never believed we could succeed, unless under Providence some foreign power should lend us fl assistance. I know it was to the inter- o eat of foreign powers to do so, I be- 0 lieved it was their duty. While re- hi alizing fully thme tremendous odds " against us, and all the difficultmes Ih againt whichuwe would have to con. 0 tend, 1 felt there wore groat princi- n plea to be maintained, a holy cause a to ho defended, and) determained tipon b may course." . . h A Portland man. s'as ' a barber' for *10,000 damages for cutting off Is monstanhe. .Y A lerversion of Ilit~ory. r The two IliidrCd and liltilb ann Ti: errary of the bindini f t( f N:-..,. ' : |gIland l'Ilgriins 1.j1ype:1r; to h:im i, een celebrated this year bty theii t .., eeend ant with even more than usu. veo I noinifestatitis of a compiacetit anI I b.:i Alf-glori lile t otionaIian . A t. lte Th -lebration at I'lymout h, we Iiiid tlie \i ere >lowiig amnong the r, gular tasts : is t P'lymouth and4 JPmeto -te ' i ilit%. rimls anid ti. ( Livliers -- freedlO ini and t 1O avery ; ihey met on t- fie.! olfOet- wii I 'shurg, and freed om cot.uieted." .t, I here nay be some C.Lptionu critics. i mn to Baltimore Sun remarks, who, Oin "boo n rely historical round, will obje-t %io the truthfulnei of the antithe i., I ... Ius torsely stated, and of the parallel- to tI in sought to le establisled between the it tc men and ideas of 1620 and 1870 . s. t hey may even presume to questi.n anu a hether the issues which "the field of wortl ett ysburg" is supposed to havo de. or me11 ded are e.>rrectly mtated. 'Mr. Fred. 111< 'ick I)tuglhis, tle poplami r colorel are a 'ator, lit a rectit celebrutioit of tOw ertI i ine k ind, passed h1 is clai n to p-n iii- Th I Ito upon the m cl-known h. ti-rica' vet ii Ct that the M flower-, whie , A nAt. rought over ti,iims, wasPsud . pon senitly eiloye)d by her Ptitani old sn1ers in lringing over a ei rgo tf an. ilb aves. lorumni one of these tien ! i t. voluntary "pilgrims," .\lr. l).ngla s v i aimed to be lineally desceidd, n ijzk id to have therefore it le.st an a ford( laal interest in the Ma) flower with uit Io iy Fon o New Englaniitd. That the tri k I >seendants of the Pilgriiv had far Ne vl ore to do with the introduction and ponm tablihmient of slavery in this co). now d y than the descendaits of tie U.tva- ii.coii Drs, no one with the slighitett himwl- e)ip. C1-e of colonial history will pretenid deny. It is not improbable even A at among those who drank to til yea ast we hai1ve quoted, tiere Were 'o0e 4 e' hose ancestors had att ained to hith (erm malth and social position ill tile good ig, I wn of Boston in the olden time iv the I cir SuCooshful participation in the N ,V affio in human fluch. ho 1 THE WAn AND lFINANC11 JN O1- WhiiC ANY.-The following interestingr ex.- expr 0 act from a letter addressed by a paper all known banker in Germany, no- tion o ir date of December 20, to a c ;i hipvI New York, gives an intere:-tin.g in. whei de view of things in Germany id in I w'.rih urope generally. The writer. sa ladi "There seems to be no enti ybt' to pi is lrussian-Frenoh war, altloigh wi itt e Germans begin to got tired ; Ilit util lien it is over I think there will heart a very large.emigration of Geinans dear . America. Ii Europo noney is aftert ry abundant now, bee.use busiine- haisd general is at all entire stnd -st ill, blaick id moneyed men do not want to in. Field., -at their money but when the war ice. over there will be such a dmnid and I r money that the rate of discount It is s ill go considerably higher. France, boat ermany, Italy, Turkey, Russia, and The i ren Spain, all want money ; and if a curt russia, while victorions, had to give five per cent. loan at 92A, what will In: ,hers have to do? The chances for rough merica to sell a four per cent. loan sing v par, if ever there were any, (which jects i doubt), are over. Should, however, enter to war with France last f. tir or five a ball onths yet, I think revolution will ed th tme in Europe ; in sneh a ease the word ipital of Europe will all fly to behuin merica, and there will be aL chanice level issue a Joan at au lowv rate of inter- reminn t. When such a time does come, floor, d I tell you confidently I am afra id have will comie, then wvill be your Ie th muntry's financial opportunity." the c< +- - -- -ly as M us' Prnasnscmun So~rnnonv.-Th'Jle "WVh. orthern Meothuodia Churchl whtich is up th ily anl aetivo faction of the raidical urty, wearied out withl tile resting of Trw ieir sword of persecution since the aqu 11 of negro slavery, have declared onie " ar on the Free Masons. It is agrati- lowi'n rinig reflection that the fanaties are 103 1U aund to be whipped in that fight. Tei he Free Masons, in all quarrels, aro in wi und on the defensiv-e, and the fauct fi iemi1 historical, that nobody has ever yet <xpia toceeding in putting them to tile meiet all. m ian .. m~a. ...will Rl.Arr'oIwrMEN1r FORl Cosotr, a.-- (ItorM' he new bill fixes thie Iu 11beIr atdin B0 beginninag withI the 4131 Conigres.4, presentatives of the Sentues admnit ted i 'ter its assemblage to be counted a UI nii Iditional. If thi.s bill is adlhptetd consn ily two States (New Hlampishire't amil henh ermont) n ill l.oso in represetttion river rid all but eleven othiers v. ill 1be in. 4nith eased. Only Massachluaets, of the i .lu 'ow England Statee, will gain in I i ii lpresentat ion. Naturally, thle min - $150l ecrease will be in the growing States >oilNt r the West. rniekt . .. . .~ phant "Man wanits but little hero below, 501(5 ar wants that little long," is a libel y tan wants everythin'hia can see,or- liear iI v, and never is willing to let go of T is grab. Whienever 3 n find aI man edito lho is thoronlgbly sati'fied with what the 1N L a ot u will find( either an idoot const 'one whoiaz tried hard to got some It ral oro and coutldn't do it. .The older situa man grows, the ziore watchful ho grant me gashb o)4 n~l*o seohne unit3 a in I igolar grows gripp'y,.... 1iln OjLdStat irn 1 ne n '5 uit l hat th h a m il, 1* ttt 1 I r d I i., , I cgea. of "ex t 3 ear wdl A d I . 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I i Q s-ft nW v) ploir ee .n n andtl .1 '1.- 1!wim vh-unst, I O fi " 'it i III, -5 i vor ;aw, .L - I-..''.I:' \ ,e : ril t' I n-lIh r L tw 'ler its i I th y e :il 4 'o w- s If t i % o if .1 u n ni~ttof, ill s'. i kI.Iy 1 tht ugh hat thi iiha d ;lm usv f t1 e. l i k n. i t t p ard-til) o ne Il rsi W int n e to lrifydteiYasnke lI&t e L itll a ld t ~I LtI 1S )1 ., II( I wi I . t'I*I I k vtt IS e ill I I - I v t (I:I I Il I I I - it'' i 't l I !il- " '' m nill. in ly Ieit .ldt th .''h 1 1 1''1 ht' ri IL Liti I 1t I n ity li Ilel - 1i them1V hol c ilt upon "hl VIS Iti 11.1 y I 114 rtV I ti te h ill. :i1, 0 1e ina n th tw il dv e a o iXal I ria f-i i e r . up e : Ias itvut b i fl l won s or delac hat thn Wril i n ( wruW, verd Noh nL dpt lighesi tlw -m'elera ineam Once wns o i to twlyebure Ale aber'shrigad, ave Frdeicksrbr I I ill ~ tI~tlo.',I ; its' 8lt I f* i t.(.I I lile h tI I hitu It ory 111 t1o1 the Arm.oo o ther otonne," but w he rov.l ex i wo.d ht i. ~ o .o .b1 (hI the t)mliIy to teo th ti ill ll " peop ! 111e iftstn i t t 1i .1, ow ml fc, h erIl felow- Plao n IIll'en wvier ho e ier siw up rtanho IV i0It 1 )0 II t 011 11-t ut.OV a I even i f t hel n LI ti 't a ngeh~lIIiS ~ It-- 'llurii itr. I d t I1 ar t Itlg anid t~lh ItI it o hI r. yI oe S fl I w l, 11t t y 111 itp tat ofh Peasnyin hse ion vlvod by J'ithel lover tiehte ha .n \bll I N the tT I X. a g m iA LarisII I i g ahol (lit I e tu it C dlle1plwb he I, thile s il\emont, i an dbe, r o lapr th axtoui~ bor' t'imler in stevern rO ho z th o it rit en the're hoet it" meen ew Y m ilidertey C yl wa ILu 1, m st ab i oon I houIICl nt. of i ha fel mlarg curo"I the uptei tli my!, fotingeroos wrl croig 0 I '.o o 1, liX lil bforear tly I.'4 Ir O i mantdV' 'y plce:,t ad in fo r pm :t ' of It'th ot i ts)' o ng c1 nt ]ibnoane b'if yI'nt d precedent.II VOn theis Plin ot readI oi tho tns ourhe fici a~l ~Itlllrd being snoweda d p o dlayeo y ~rthec wthftilL' I1.nwndeni .h UllO't1IIa t r ela N h en souI ito ax. allo oa, th0 fedh tortrh Pr iioita TioI t a Ac 'rrpain hi'ytinu ler tho twrd s n fgrv mgfo the b i asoi , ies h p bcet t rn A. ne hinthe ntionn he amomtent au f bes e rct from th lea eyo t at i ioent ofitree alo ' hestopnde t Byoin ig the ro oftswi'ly havetm hour n in and bIe reaotdy o.a x-ci that'r tht re o i re gr nite. witer, xcet hen the gon A.me deeply fr buwhet noved ith iore sfety nrya -= " nmwa llI I lhlllered. h~ e': we: a wil!, rollicking b . nho -i~enttooA of htis timue inl ailspreveing, wh Iile his wife, N,) It! at home to do tho in thu e. I .,n: Certain oocasionk Joe 1h home11 to l back, "U ie said, that ritilit. Nigtlo came, b.uit Joe did not. I T nxt (y passed ; about suiset L o. Jo !nlles nip in the wolst condition ft ' tl b -hi:. el-the. were dirty and d t' n, ono e v inl deep inolrnilg, and ht -u to1 enited nmore the appear. fn e tf r-v micnt than an y thu ci s. l'tlll et hi at the r dol an1d, notI11ng: hi.; appe-arnnee, \Vh .110, what in the world is 6 Il'lly,'' said .Tte, 'do Vou klow - .!tm Anirews ? Well, him and m r had a ilit." - \Wllo whipped, Joe P V "'olly, we :ad tile hardest fight. o.i < ver did see. I hit him, and he it Ime, :nd1l then we clinched ; ain't stipper mst rade:ily ? I ain't had any v I 11inl ogm eeysterd ornling.", ilt first tell Iio who whipped, Ie contilued Polly. "l'olly.," cuitintue.l J oe, "I tall you, Pl i never did Se such a fight as me and him had. When lie clinched me, tI jerled loose from him and111 theln gin L im i threc or four of the iilli-suficient I kicks youl over Iie:rd of. 1'olly, ain't f sujIpper mo10st ready ? I'iim nearly ,Istarved. 1"1 Je, do tell me who whipped,'' - contuntled P'olly. S "l' replied Joe, "you don't know inotling about fighting. I toll -you we fought like tigers; we rolled and tumled-tirst him oil top and then lit(! --then the boys would pat me oin the shouider alld holler, "Oh, my I Stetson ! We gouged and bit, and tore up the dirt inl Seth ilunnol's i gricery Nard worso nor two wild bulls. Polly, ain't supper most Sreatly ? In' monstrous hungry."I ",Joc Stetson,'" exclaimed Polly, in a one bristling with angor, "will you tell lilt who whipped !" "I'olly," tsaid Joe, drawing a very long sigh, "I. hollered." A 16nr~.Wia rr en. -I Justin Me Ca-i r ty, t le nevor-ond ing story writer, agreedl, not, long siice, to furnish the MessIrs. I larper forty-five abort for their periodicals. The stories wore to average four thousands Wor1ds 1each, or about. four colunins of Ilarier's \Veekly or Bazar, and his cm0111 pensauLion for each was ono bun drii dollars. fin is said to have written forty-five stories in forty-five I days, at the end of which time 1he re eeived teil forty-fivo hundred dollars. During the time lie was engagod on thm hi waiilso employed in writing for the Atlantic Monthly, Lppincott'm Ma1.gazinle, the Galary, thle Indepen dent, and several family papers, be t sid lecturing constantly, composing a book on A morica, an1d reading the newsaiaper pull's of his various arti - el es. SlIAur Boy.-A clergyman was once catechising a class of children be longing to his congregation and com. Sng toi a little boy who was somothing of a rogne, asked him what bo knew. "'I kno13w somelthing,"' replied the urchin, with a signicant look. "WelI, my son, what do you know 2" Irepdlied thle pastor. r "I kniow wvhere there is a bird's nest,'' said the boy ; "but I shan't tell you, for fear you will steal the eggs." II met hotr b.y thie ellar (Jeer the loksegive 111 was cohil and sternii hier eyes lookeid pitchfork~s in~to mine, and iino looked pit chforki into lhern, I or wehiad loved inl days gone by; and liar ddysaid that I might tako her ;but, alas, for my dreamn of wed ed biss sh go upandgot wt DiI~utch shoomake2. No more girls for me if I knows it ; no more frauds m'y love to dim i ; inl the words of the poet, Itnoi~t for Joseph ; anid ho might have added, "niot for Jim." Mark Twain writes the followIng answer to a corraspondent :"Young Anuthor--Yes Agassiz does recommend if anthtois to eat fish, because the phbos a phorus in it maikeh brains. So far . you are correct. But I cannot help t to a decision about the alimunt you 0 1nee(1cat-at loast not with eortainity. 0 If the sipecimen comrpoitiono you send a is about.your fair usual average, I m- should judge that porhaps a coublo of' whales would be all you wouild want for the present. Not the largest kind, h but sim ply good, mi ddl ing-sized di whales?' Es The late Andrew .Johnson has come n to thme conclui~hot. in his Tennescoo 4 hiome, that this cotuntry has gone to the devil. If thero are any officos for distributioni wo'll guarantoo that An. ~drew will be on hanod---provided, the Sdevil don't imnpeaoh him and have n hltm swung "around the oirole," .n I'ltward Everett declared that Mrs. John Qulnoy Adams, when tistress of theo white IIouso, ha d the bestm tahiers re of any woman he had over mob Iu b te worldh . I OnstAl ubal)cj1 g Idying of consampi -