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E, ? '- 4j>-' yJK! t 'V J.'"& >.* ** . -. ? *** <S^ "? ' -,? ; ?* ? V . ? ? L11TO?. 9BI8T,-Proprietor.| J^rabenl iitfespsptr:^^ Jfirr l^^romatiim of % ^ticri, JSoc^^^griniltar^ Commerditl ^irftrwfa^^f % ?01% . |TEsaca-*3BVAarc? muiSll7 ~ ~ TORKVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, SOYEMBER 2, 1865. ~ NUMBER 29.; l,' -i Tit rv 7 i i i ' y .jgfv $z\uitk PBOCOSi.9TI9rA.TION. _ - * rf ibrtune, with a smiling free, - ? Strew roses on our way, $W > When shall we stop to pick them up ? To-day, my love, to-day. . -J-' But should she frown with face of cart, * , And talk of coming sorrow, ^fS'^Wheu shall we plere, If grieve we must f .js^s- To-morrow, love, to morrow. . . . If those who've wronged as own their fealts, -??Today, my love, today. . *3 But 1f stem judgment urge rebuke, Ahd warmth from memory borrow, When shall we chide, If chide we dare ? To-morrow, love.to morrow. If those to whom we owe a debt, Are banned unless we pay, When shall we struggle to be just? love, to-day. But If OHf_ debtor fall our hope,~ . - . - (P* Ahd plead his ruin thorough, W??n shall we weigh bis breach of fhith I - URN-* To-morrow,love, to-morrow. If love estranged, should once a^in "His genial smile display, "" When shall we kiss the proffered Hps ? j. . To-day, my love, to-day. I But IT we should indulge regret, . .r Or dwell with by-gone sorrow, '5 When shall we weep, If weep we must To-morrow, lore, to-morrow. For virtuous acts and harmless Joys, When minutes will not star, Wefve always time to welcome them, *?ttca?''rSnttaen^J^y wnrds, * . 'i And unavailing sorrow, Come ftr too soon If they appear, To-morrow, love, to-morrow. ipstrilaams Sriiffesu . TEE HMCMirS MARRIAGE. : A IBOI 8T0BT. AA?r having passed the nammer in visiting the principal towns of Germany, the oelebrated pianist Lists arrived at Prague in October 1846. The day after he oame his department was entered by a stranger?an old man, whose appearance indicated misery and suffering. The great 'mosioian received him with a cordialtj which be would not perhaps have shown to a nobleman. Encouraged by his kindness, his visitor said : "I come to yon, sir, as a brother.- Excuse me if I take this title, notwithstanding the diit?ni>A that, divides na: luit fnrmerlo T oould boast some skill in pitying on the piWtof and by giving instruction I gained a comfortable livelihood. Now I am old, feeble, burdened with a large family, and destitute of pupils. I live at Nuremberg, bil l Same to Prague to seek to reoover the remnant of a small property which belonged to my ancestors. Although nominally successful the expense of a long litigation has more than swallowed np the trifling sum I recovered. To-morrow I Bet out for home ?penniless/' "And yoa have come to me ? You have done veil, and I thank you for this proof .of your esteem. , To assist a brother professor is to me more than a duty, it is a . pleasure. Artists should have their purse in eommon; and if fortnne neglects' some in order to treat others better than they deserve, it only makes it more neoessary to ^ preserve the equilibrium by fraternal, kiudi a698. That's my system; so don't speak of gratitude, for 1 feel that I only discharge a debt." As he uttered these generous words Lists opened a drawer in his writing ease, and started when he saw that this usual depositary for his money oontained but three duetts. He summoned his servant. "Where is the money ?" be asked. "There, sir," replied the man pointing to ,the open drawer. ^ "There! .Why there's scarcely anything!" ?I know it, air. If you please to remember, I told you yesterday that the oaab was nearly exhausted." "You see, my dear brother," said Listz, smiling, "that for the moment I am no rioher than you; but that does not trouble me, I have credit, and I can make ready money start from the keys of my piano.? However, as you are in haste to leave Prague and return home you shall not be f delayed by my present want of funds."* ^.v- So saying he opened another drawer, and taking out a splendid medallion gave it to the old man. "There," said he, "that will do. It was a present made me by the Emperor of Austria; bis own portrait, set in diamonds. The painting is nothing remarkable, bat the stones are fine. Take them and dispose of them, and whatever thev hrino shall ba vnnrs " ? v p J The old fcusicisn in vain tried to deolioe bo rieh a gift. Listz would not hear of a refusal, and the poor man at length withdrew, after invoking the richest blessing of heaven on his generous benefactor. He then ^repaired to the principal jeweler in .|SitLoityinordfir to sell the diamonds. Seeing a miserable dressed man anxions to dispose of magnificent jewels with whose value he appeared unaoquainted, the masted of the shop very natnrally suspected his hon, esty j and while appearing to examine the diamonds with olose attention, he whispered a few words in the ear of one of his assistants. The latter went ont, and speedily r returned, accompanied by several soldiers of police, who arrested the unhappy artist, in spite of his protestations of innooense. "Yon must drat oome to prison," they paid, '(afterwards yon can give an explanation to the magistrate." The prisoner wrote a few lines to his benefactor, imploring his assistanoe. Listz Hastened to toe jeweier. "Sir," said be, "you have caused the arrest of an innooent man ; come with me immediately, and let as have him released. He is the lawful owner of the jewels in question, for I gave them to him." "Bat sir," asked the merchant, "who are you ?" "My name is List*." "I don\know o? any rich man of that name" ^ / . "That may be; yet I am tolerably well known." - - "Are you aware, sir, that tbeee4iamonds are worth six thousand flouring?that is to . say, about five hundred guineas, or twelve thousand francs ?" "So much the hotter for him on whom I ii have bestowed them." li < (Bat in order to make sooh a present yon 1 most fes,ves^Wealthy." d "My actual fortone consists of three b Jucais." . a "Then yon are magician I" "By no meat*; and yet by jost moving U my fingers I can obtain as mooh money as tl I wish." * a. "Too must be a magieiao I" d "If yoo ohoose I'll disclose to yoo the p magic I employ." si Lists had seen a piano in the parlor be- p hind the shop, fle opened it and ran his a fingers over the "keys; then, seised by a 1? | sodden inspiration, he improvised one of w coose soaMOUQQiQg sympnomes peculiar 10 w himself.^- . ft As be sounded the first chords, a beauti- tl ful girl entered the room. While the mel- Rl ody continued, she remained speechless and n immovable ; then as the last note died a- p way she eried, with irrepressible entbusi- If asm :? i "Bravo, Lists! 'tis wondrous I" tl "Dost thou know him, then, my daugh- h ter ?' ' asked the jeweler. * "This is the first time that I have had " the pleasure of seeing or hearing him," d replied Bhe; "hot I know that none living s; save Lists, ooold draw snoh sounds from tl the piano." c : Er.pressed with grace and modesty, by a 6 young person of remarkable bean ty/this e admiration could not fail, to be more thao tl flattering to the artist However, after ma king his best acknowledgements, Ltstz withdrew, in order to deliver the. prisoner, i and was accompanied by the jeweler. Grieved at his mistake,, the worthy merchant sought to repair it by inviting the 3 two musicians to sapper. The honors of o< the table were done by his amiable daogh- si ter, who appeared no less touohed at the. e. generosity of Lists than astonished at bis ? talent. That night the musiofans of the city ser- tl onaded their illustrious brother. The next ^ day, the nobles and most distinguished in> b habitants of Prague presented themselves it at his door. They entreated him to give * some oonoerts, leaving it to himself to fix h any sum he pleased as a remuneration.? tl j Then the jeweler peroeived that talent, even * in a peonniary light, may be more valuable o; I than the most preeious diamonds. Lists E continued to go to his bonse, and, to the h merchant's great joy, be soon peroeived a that his daughter.was the cause of these ! visits, fie began to love the company of et the musioi^n, and the fair ohild, his only fc child, oertainly did not hate it. tl One morning the jeweler coming to the w point, with German frankness, said to Lists: S "How do you like my daughter ?" "She is an angel!" fi "What do yon think of marriage ?" e "I think so well of it that I have the b greatest possible inclination to try it" .. 01 "What would yon say to a fortnne of ei three million of francs ?" w . "I would willingly aecept it." 1 "Well, we understand each other. My s< daughter pleases you, you please my daugh- d ter; her fortune is ready?be my son-in* n law." b "With all my heart." t< The marriage was oelebrated the follow* G ing week. ' si Aud this, according to the ohronioles of fi Prague, is a true acoount of the marriage p of the great and good pianist, Lists. a: 1_. tl London Poet-Offloe. Perhaps the most remarkable place of 11 its kind in the world is the London Post ^ Office. Oar own post offioe, and that of K New York are cariosities to the uninitiated; tc but thej will not stand a comparison, for a 61 moment, with the London office. The bus- u iness done there is almost incredible. Some e' idea of the amount may be gathered, how- 8t ever, from the fact that it employs a force of ^ 2,903 persons, and that at least 350,000 P letters pass daily through the inland depart- ^ ment alone. r One of its most curious features is the 8' making up and dispatohing the Indian mails, whioh are sent off semi-montbly, on t< the 7th and 24th. The letters are tied in b packages, and then plaoed in iron chests, the v lids of whioh, when once shut, fasten with tl & spring, and oannot be opened without a ii chisel. These chests are one foot eight h inches long, one foot wide, and ten and a b half inches deep; yet not less than one y hundred and twenty, on an average are dis- a patched every month. After being closed, e they are soldered, and the seal of the post- f< office affixed. They are then committed'to fi the charge of au agent, who aooompany them across France to Marseilles, never t< losing sight of them till they are placed on* t! board the steamer for Alexandria, whence e they find their way across the isthmus of u Suez, and down the Red Sea, to their final ri destination. tl Another objeot of interest is the dead P letter office. The number of letters, for 6 whom no owners oould be found, and whioh ? were therefore returned as dead, was, in 11 1849, not less than 1,476,456. Of these in A7Q An KalhA amamaJ MAMA ?*. ? * .*3 4A *VJV I WU wuiug v^uuou WUIO iUUUU w t; contain property to the amount of nearly fi two millions and a half of dollars. Fre- C qnently, indeed, letters containing money a are posted without any direction. Almost tl fifty thousand dollars annually come into a the London Poet Office in this way, and 3 sometimes it is with difficulty that the own- s era are discovered. Some time ago ?letter, ? on being opened at the Dead Letter Office, c Was found to contain hunt nnta? to the val- n ue of seven thousand and five hundred c dollars. A vast'number of letters are re- h turned, under the postal treaty, from the a United States to London as dead, no claim- fi ants for them appearing in this country.? On two several oooasions 24,000 were thus n sent baok. The dead letters are opened and h read, and if no due can be found to the b owner are torn up and sqld for waste paper, h At the General Post Offioe at Washington, e JV.'A ... ? * WPP?* - -V _ 1. ? , j "C ^ * ? , A . . s V.' " * \ * * **. '* - * - i > ^ V t is the practioe, we believe, to burn saoh jtters; and in this respect we think the London Office exhibits less delicacy than ars. The secrets of dead letters should e kept inviolate, and not exposed, as they re by a sale, as waste paper. Paokages not exceeding in weight sixsen ounces, are permitted to .be sent by be British mail; and many carious packgesin consequence pass through the Lonon Post Office. Game of'various kinds, lam padding, bits of wedding cake, lobars, and, strangest of all,' live mice and et canary birds have thus been forwarded, nd;safely delivered. In one oase, a lot of seohes were sent in bladders, several of hich burst, and the water having wetted be letters, many of the poor oreatnres were mnd crawling over the correspondence of be natihn. In . another instance a jar of irawberries was dispatched . through the tail, bnt being smashed in the bag oomletely destroyed a packet fall of valaable toe belonging to the late Qoeeu Adelaide. L mercantile agent, going bis rounds brough the ooantry soliciting orders, found e had forgot his piBtol; he wrote to bis rife for it, and she sent it by return of mail, ibeled, and loaded to the mouth with power, ball and slugs. A roast duok, a box of piders, and a live snake were also amoDg things forwarded in this way- Most urions of all, however, warfabank note for fry pounds, without an envelope, the two nds being merely wafered together, and 16 address written on the baok. Philadelvhia Bulletin. a | ^ | m . lie .facts about the Yancey hill' difficulty in the Confederate Senate. We find in one of the first numbers of the Fashville (Tenn.) Banner, au article which ompasses more of fiction and poetry in the bort space of half a column, than we had speoted to see in any paper this side of the fortbern sensation journals. j The writer discloses for the first time, I it startling "historical faot," that Mr. 'anoey did not die, (as has been* suppose'd y Dr. Hill and others in Montgomery,) of lflamation of the kidneys, a disease from j hich he bad been suffering for years; bat is death was produoed by a collision in ie Senate with Mr. Bon. Hill, of Georgia, ho, when assailed by Mr. Yancey ito sere t session, in a discussion of the Navy Sll. for vivincr him the lie. breakin? his ."J C o ? ?1 - v* o acb, from which he drooped away and died, b utter disheartenedand disappointed man. The man who got up that story, we modjfcly suggest, would be a model reporter ir the jjfew York Herald, the Harpers or ie Illustrated News. His talents will be asted on the "desert air" of this miserable outhern'land. Mr. Yanoey and Mr. Hill did have a difonty in the Confederate Senate, not, bowver, npon a discnssion of the Navy -bill, at of the Supreme Coart bill. Mr. Yapsy had spoken} Mr. Hillj-in reply, review3 Mr. Yanoey^s record in a. style wbieh as regarded as offensive by Senators. Mr. pancey arose, when Mr. Hill had taken his ;at, and remarked that as other Senators esired to speak on the question, he would ot consume the time of the Senate then, at &t the proper time he would endeavor ) do justice, both to the Senator from ieorgia and himself. He desired only to sty then, chat the assertions of the Senator rom Georgia, in regard to what he was leased to term bis autobiography were false, od he knew them to be false when he made lem. Mr. Hill responded quiokly from his seat hat he threw the falsehood baok in his face. lyuu UlVIUVUj VWH k/VUUW HUUH IUVU DUV?UV ;ssion. Mr. Yanoey was then appealed to ) adjust the matter, bat reiterated what be dd and took his seat. Thereupon, Mr, H., oexpeotedly to Mr. Yancey, or any one Ise, threw a heavy glass inkstand, which ;ruok Mr. Yancey on the side of his face, raising it, and causjng the blood to flow rofusely, but not knocking him down, or oing any seriouB injury. Mr. Yanoey then ashed at Mr. Hill, but was prevented from inking him, and here the fight ended. . A committee was appointed, and retired, > report what was due the Senate for a reach of deoornm Whilst they were out, ariona speeches were made to reoonoile tie parties. Mr. Yanoey waB,,a long time, lexorahle, but when appeals were made to im as to the effect snub a rnptnre wonld ave npon the canse, he was disposed to ield to the importunities of friends. * To ggrayate the matter, the committee report d, oensnring both parties?Mr. Yanoey >r the langpage he had nsed, and Mr. Hill sr throwing the ink-stand. M" V* ? !> lUflt tkik nk/Mat UXk. JLauuoj piutcaicu ugaiuoi tuc icpuIU 3 the last; bat it was finally accepted by be Senate, and Was afterwards redonsiderd and withdrawn, tfpon condition that he ronld not prosecute his claim for personal edrees any farther, he reserving to himself be right to reply to Mr. Hill's speech in ablio, which he afterwards did, in a powrfal and overwhelming effort. The Senate ras engaged from aboat noon till midnight 3 the settlement of the affair. Members were boand to secresy, and no roe statement ooald be obtained except rom some of them since the fall of the lonfederaoy has made all this pnblio. We r? nnnfident. from intimations we had at be time from confidential sources, that this coount of the matter is folly as liberal to Ir. Hill as the recorded faots in the case, abmitted in JVlr. Yanoe/s protest to the lenate, would justify. The authenthio reord is probably among the private papers f Mr. Yancey, but oar statement, is suffiiently accurate for present purposes, being ad from the memory of a Senator who was n eye witness, and is generally oarefhl of r'_ A.- *** _ WW. It is thus apparent that this di$oulty had o effect on Mr. Yancey's rapid deolifle in ealth. In fact, abundant testimony could e adduced, if necessary, from bis physicians ere, to show that he had been a prey to disuse for yean. He had a violent attack of a c. ^'^SEgtT ? ^ *. .*-? Jg.. ' ^ \* ,-A* V * **>J ^ -'III I ' I??? spinal disease while he was canvassing for c the Washington Monument after the Presi- t dential election in 1856. from which it was i long doubted whether herald recover, and i this completely rooked and distorted his e ereot and small but powerful frame. He t was affeoted for manyyears with the disease a of the kidney,from wbich he died. Daring J his' last illness his pains were moet excrn- 8 dating, bat he bore himself like ar true Christian statesman, as he was, through all sufferings. He was at times delirious with ' internal agony, and would make moet eloquent speeohes, and imagine himself in line ' of battle charging triumphantly on the ene- ? mlesofhu country. He never despaired, C or for oboe filtered' in his devotion to c Southern independence; hut though! Mr. t Davis wanting in forecast, vigor and popular 1 sympathies for a great leader. As to his 3 con tinnal crying to be pot out of right, that * is simply made out of whole cloth, aiid a very thin texture at that. \ Mr. Yancey died, as he lived, loyal to his ? convictions. He forgave his enemies, and c prayed God to forgive them for the'misoon- < struction of his motives and his oondnet. A * simple marble slab was put over bis grave, t not because he wished his resting place hid from view, hot because rime was required to > erect a suitable monument. t But TflBt assured, Alabamians are not for- i getfol of their honored dead,' and will, io due rime, pot to shame those who would de- t fame her and her greatest and truest leader, ? It is at all times disagreeable enongh to i have to defend the patriotie living against ? calumny, but when the bones of our lamen- * ted 'dead'are dragged from the grave for the ? sport of ongen^ons foep, then, as painful as < is the task, we shall not he so false as to ? shirk the doty of doing josrioe to their mem- I ..If. Uui^XnMM. i/lMixhW I UrtDO* * 'iHi, -i? .. The Chinese in California. a "Mr. Bowles, in bis last letter to the c Springfield Republican, gives an interesting ] account of the Chinaman as Its is-found in j the for West. No fewer than sixty to eighty a thousand .representatives of the pig tailed i nation, are found scattered throogh the Pa. 1 cific States and Territories, and they nam- a ber from one-sixth to one-eighth of the en- c tire population. This harmless, industrious t people are engaged in almost every ooonpa- f tion?the work of women as well as of men. t Chinese labor is building the Pacific Bail- t road; these yellow workmen oatr, by their t steady industry, do nearly as much in a day t even in this roogh labor, as the average of a white men, and they oost only about half as t much, say $80 a month against $50. t White j labor, too, is not to be: had in sufficient t quantity for the work. Useful to. a new a country as the Chinese are, however, they i are oppressed rather than protected by the !] laws. Their testimony is inadmissible a- j gainst a white man, and as miners tbey sre j subject to a heavy tax, while they are the e victims of mnoh abase snd cruelty from in- c diyidaals. They bring their own manners and customs with them, and are, as a-class, a idolaters and sensualists, although the-labors t of -the few missionaries among therm have c been to a limited extent successful. ] The Chinese merchants of San Francisco are intelligent men, and Speaker Colfax and his party were entertained* at dinner by them before leaving the oity. ^ The dinner, or rather series of dinners, consisted of three parts, at efoh of whioh a doxen or twenty different eourses were served, and of eaoh of them each person was expected, to take only a mouthful. Between eaoh dinner the guests retired to another room, and smoked or listened to musio. This ohop* stiok feast was a marvel of elegance, but conveyed very little gaetronomio satisfaction to the American guests. Mr. Bowles writes: "I went to the table weak and hungry; but I fouud the one universal odor and flavor soon destroyed all appetite, and I fell back resignedly on a constitutional incapaoity to use the ohop-stioks^nd was sitting with a grim politeness through dinner No. 2, when there oamer an angel in disguise to my relief. The urbane ohief of police of the oity appeared and touobed my shoulder: 'There is a gentleman at the door who wishes to see you, and would have you bring yonr coat and hat.' There were visions of violated oity ordinances and 'assisting' at the police court next morning. I thought, too, what a i polite way this man has of arresting a stran- I oar tr, tha nitv "Rnt. howine mv exouse to fc>-- " -? 1 my pig tail neighbor, I went joyfully to the a unknown tribunal. A friend, a leading I banker, who had sat opposite, to me during ' the evening, and bad been called out a few 0 momenta before, welcomed me at the street v door with, *B , I knew you were euf- c faring and were hungry; let ua go and get a something to eat?a good square meal!' So F we crossed to an American restaurant; the * lost appetite oame baok, and mutton ohope, ' squabs, fried potatoes and a bottle of oham- * pagne soon restored me. My friend insist- 1 ed that the second course of the Chinese 1 dinner was only the first warmed over*and that that was the objeot of the recess. However that might be, this is how I went to the grand Chinese dinner, and went ont > when it was two?tbirds over, and got some- 1 thing to eat." 1 . ? : s * KwStwKf ft t flrK f fWAlliV fl iujffiwno.--vu " e?? >nv.v . minutes rarely pass at any partof theearth's 1 surface without the appearance of at least one meteor. Twioe a year (on the 12th of e August and the 14th of November) they x appear in enormous numbers. During nine i hours in Boston, when thgy were described f as falling as thiok as snow-flakes, two hup- t dred and forty thousand meteors were ob- t served. The number falling in a year might 1 perhaps, be estimated at hundreds or tbous- t ands of millions, .and even these would coo- 1 stitute but a small portion of the total crowd i of asteroids that oiroulate round the sen.? 1 From the phenomena of light and heat, and i by direot observation on Eneke's comet, we i learn that the universe is filled by a resisting j medium (the ether), through- the friotion < of which all the ntasses of our system are t Irawn gradually toward the raw. And hough the larger planets shoW, in historic uses, no diminution of their periods of erolpgjw* it may be. otherwise with, the imaller bodies. In the time required for he mean distance of the, earth to alter a ingle yard, a small asteroid may bave'apirotohed thousands of miles nearertothe tap.-" -V ,'.j .r;:' Fran the Angaeu CoTutltutloruUifrt. Po the Stockholders of the Columbia and Hamburg Railroad Company. Since your last annual meetings great md radical ohanges hate taken place moor icuntry. No civilized people ever realized ;reator political, military cod social revoltxions in so short a period. These causes tare rendered it impossible to carry on any ystemctie operations io construction of the Oad? ,'V -.:V"i?> 3fr On two oeoaaiona over Are hundred hands rere at work and contracted for in the gnu I nation. At one period eight-tenths of themtire grading WM let, end the whole of it KTUld have been finished by this time, but 'or the rapid transitions in the condition of he country. After the din of battle ceaaed came the toolitionjof slavery, deranging the entire laior system of the country. This so earndetely paralyzed the efiergy and capital of he entire Sonth as to* render it impossible o get contractors. No twiths tan ding all these liffioulties, a small force was kept at work ly the. company. This has recently increasd to about two hundred hands, now at rork; and aa; the confidence and energies if the people begin to revive, and the farurtra on the line evince a disposition to take ion tracts, it is believed a force sufficient to irepafe the road bed for the rails by next pring can soon be ptaed on the graduation. In the present condition of the company's issets, it would be difficult to submit an saturate estimate of their value. Fortunatey for the company, one of its principal obects of investment was ootion, jand uotwithtanding the losses by the casualties of war, t still holds over fourteen hundred bales. Phis is an, addition to what has been-sold ,nd the proceeds applied to the work. Intependent.<of other .means, the proceeds of he cotton now on hand will be more than suficient to complete the entire graduation of he road bed. It is, however, manifest that he means of the oompany, after finishing he graduations, delivering the oross-tids md paying forth* right of way, will not be offioient to purchase any considerable por ion of the rails. It will be necessary to irovide foods for this purpose as early as Day be praotioable, . .5To?* oharaotergkbai icq pie authority to raise foods, .both by the ssusDce of new stock and sale of bonds.? [be opinion is entertained that, witu your >resent basis of oapital and oonrmasding >osition of yonr road, the foods can be raisid, in a fair state of tbe money market, necessary for the completion of the work. The oonstraotion of this road is rendered ilmoet a public necessity, since the compleion of the Peidmont Railroad, rendering the listanoe less by that route than by any other, indeed, this road is the last important link b the great Central line between Washingon City and Vioksburg, and if oonstrnoted it a reasonable cost, most prove a profitable nvestment to the stockholders. All the travel ooming sonth, not going to ir through Charleston; after passing Biohnood, whether it oomes via Danville, Peerabnrg, Norfolk, Weldon or Wilmington, rill find this the shortest route, via Colum>ia, over yonr road to Angusta; and so with ill travelers going North through Augusta, >n all tbe roads concentrating attbatoity, rill find it their shortest route by over sixty nilea. When completed, it then becomes the funtel of a very large stream of oonverging and llmavmiam t v\ han two ita! a n/1 f?ia /1a n f aa/lll livctgiug uuiuu^u uavci auu biauo aw cauu erminas. Besides, the greater portion of the ine passes tbrongh one of the most prosperins, wealthy and productive regions of S6nth 7aroKna, wMle the remainder of the line ias8ea through a virgin pine forest of great ralue to the country, as well as of great, imlortauce in the economical construction and naintenanoe of the road. These considerations unquestionably? >rove that the road, when finished, will oomnand a very large local, as well as through meiness, and with fair managettfect must irove a source of profit to its stockholders. As the subscription to the capital stock ^mounts to 81,933,971, and was made and ?aid when the oarrenoy of the country ras materially depreciated in value it is relommeded that it be reduced to its real alue. This suggestion is made for two ibvious reasons : to avoid undue taxation, tttd to enable the new contractors to take a lortion of the stock of the oompany at par n payment of their oontraots, b j several and-holders have expressed a detire to do. lis believed that the capital may thus be . ? II ? I_ ? xL nacenauy increased, shod is me cuuuucuue a the stock as investment. Wm. Johnston, President A- Modern Luorjetia BofcaiA.-~The chelations in regard to the operations of lira. Grinder, of Pittsburg, Pa., are of the nost startling character. It appears that he has for years been engaged in poisoning ili whom opportunity placed in her >?ay.? CBe Pittsburg Chronicle says : "By her pretended piety and kindness ihe has snoeeeded in rendering herself pop-' liar among the sick of her neighborhood, tod while performing the duties of a good Samaritan, she rarely failed to introduce inio the food or medicine of the patient some inbtle drug. Her . object oould not have >een to gratify malice, for it ia wall known hat several of the victims who fell by her rot by any possibility have done anything 0 excite her ire. Neither ooold the love if gain been her reason, as nearly all her mbjeote were poor. We hear of her at tea Mtftiee, and on several occasions it is charged that immediately after taking of the fbod til were taken ill except herself, and from V- ... the description of the symptoms, there can be no donbt that said siokcess was caused by poison?and that poison administered by this fiend inhuman form. The most astonishing chapter in her career remains yet to be told. It reveals nothing leas than a settled determination on' her part to destfoyjhe entheffomily of her ha3btad, and The motive in the latter esse is believed to have been a desire to secure the family property, which was large, for her husband. The brothers were soldiers, and had recentlev A'om ffia arm* mKon alia rv^ioAn * J *S???MW? UVW WV Vf?& TT UWU OWV ^VtSVU" I ed them. One of them declared before he died that she had poisoned him, and would ] poison the whole family. A sister was poisoned abont the same time, bat recovered. About a dozen others?-children andi adults, some relatives agd some not?are mentioned as having been poisoned, bat not fatally, by this fiendish woman. - ?*< .?rr' Petition for Jefibrspn Davis. The following memorial to the President in behalf'of Jefferson Davis, was signed by nearly all the members of the Alabama State Convention, and forwarded to WashlDgt?D ' State Capitol Montgomery, Alabama, Sept 27, 1865. To Bis Excellency Andrew Johnson, President of the United States : The undersigned delegates to the Convention of the people of Alabama, now in session, respectfully and earnestly .address your Excellency, in behalf "of Jefferson Davis, late President of the late Confederate States. Mr; Davis is in confinement, as we are advised, under a charge of treason against the. United States; ' whiob, if sustained, must be sustained upon the ground of aots performed by him as President of said Confederate States, or as Commander-in-Chief of its forces. Mr. Davis was,' by .the nnanimons voice of the members of the Provisional Congress, oalled to the Chief Miagistraoy,.and by the unanimous voice of the people of the States composing said Confederacy was elected to the Presidency; and for a considerable portion of the term of his service he was.snstained by the people with almost entire unanimity. We do not propose to argue the question of the right of the States to seoede, and to maintain that right by force if necessary. The argument on both sides' is exhausted; the appeal to arras has forever setfred the question, and the people afthe South arc daily giving unmiatakeable evidence of their acquiescence-in the decision. State after State is wheeling into line; the authority of the United States is everywhere admit* ted and. willingly conformed to; and the Southern people, with as great unanimity as tbe^ endeavored to dissolve the Union, are now willing. snrTdeeirous to resume in a fraternal spirit, their oid relations. In view of these facts, we respectfully submit that any additional punishment inflicted upon Mr. Davis is unneeeieary to deter other* from a like course. A government and a people which overcame the united efforts of eleven States'on well afford to be magnanimous. * Ilcspectfally and earnestly we entreat that whatever power the Executive and government of the Uoited States can rightfully exercise may be used in favor of the eminent citizen in whose behalf this appeal is made. B. FITZPATfilOK, President. .H? ^ t \ Steel Pens. The'following interesting particulars are from the London Builder: Steel pens are almost entirely manufactured by women and * young girls; and it is probable that ont of the 2000 persons or upwards now engaged to the business, not above 100 or 150 are of the male sex. The mannfaotare of penholders and penboxee, " ? I I give employment w an uainoou buuivoi of women and children variously estimated from 200 to4Q0 persons. About the year 1820 or 1821, the first gross Of "three-slit" steel pens were sold, wholesale at the rate of ?7 4s. the gross. Io 1830, they had fallen to 8s., and In 1882 to fts, the gross. A better arfciole is now sold for 6d. per gross. One factory alone in Birmingham, produces them at the rate of im loss tlmn 40,000; .gcoss, or 5,. 700,000 in a week?very nearly a million, or 960,000 pej working day, or 289,528,.000 per annnm. At the very lowest calculation,'Birmingham produces 1,000 millions per annum. The cheapest pens are sold as low as 2d. per gross, wholesale; and this prices rises, with the elaotioity and finish of the pens, up to 3s. 6d- and 5s. per gross. *>:-!_: v__ all an/1 nna JDlfUliUgUWU f/IVUUUCO tUBUi WIJ MM WWV establishment has the distinctive mark of 600 different dealers in all parts of the country, as well as on the continent of Ed' rope and America, for whom he manofaetares according to order. The sheets of steel received from Sheffield are reduced to the required tensity by successive, transits through the rolling-mill operations, tended by men and boys. Then rednoed to ?be thinness of a steel pen, length 2 feet, breadth 2 1 2 to 8 inches, the sheets are ready for punching out the blanks. This process is performed with great rapidity?one girl of average, industry and dexterity being able to ptznoh oat 100 gross a day; The next operation is to place the blanks io a concave die, on which a "slight touoh from a convex punch produces, the required shape, that of the semi-tube. The slits and apertures to inorease the elasticity and tbe maker's or vender's name or mark, are produced by a similar tool. Previously, however, the pen undergoes a variety of other proo mbm. When oomplete*?ll hat the slit is soft end pliable, nod may hie heat or twisted in the hands like a piece of thin lead. Being oolleoted in 'grosses/or 'greatgrosses/ the-pens are thrown into little square iron boxes by. men and placed in a i. . . - fornaoe where they remain till the box and pea aw of a white^3^_ Theyare the* 1 oiUnke of oil, when they may be broken like ao many wafers; after draining they arcmade to revolve rapidly in a perforated oylinder. !%- ? *- . jrg? JZ' . A Energy of Character. A bold, tigoroca man, what a ion* k* , gives to the company he may he in, to the. MFga society in which he lives, to the nation wherein be was bom! Men seem inebriated with the atmosphere aroand'him, so completely are they overcome by his pres. enoe, Heia never weary, never languid; I there is nothing enervating fells from him . in action or speech. He strengtbma and aroosea; be sots men or no .confidence on ^ A lliniti firiit * ii <t llM?l iculn hut ,k? liia Am * ~*Vk" -v- *"** yj ' mym w f't* ? P?n?t<^ wpnAjto a.XsM -I IBjpy to the timid, those who went, eonfidence, and who frney they are bytemperv "meat or situation preclcded from possessing Energy of^ character js eontin^ . J by some noble fellow'who'fignres in the pac tion is astonishing.' One jovial, fte^fae^ ed, generous stranger, coming byaeddont or otherwise amone us, wilt often aneet and reinvigoretea oli^of friends Cae^. completely trained in, to dulaest- iflH. . J tomary quiet. The enthusiasm of tbe<^ j| meat overbear. aU onrp^^ed notions of order, our silent and respectful deeomaj; our fear of giving offence, that pitiful but oommon vice, which makes us careful, even of this roan's spirit rolluig thypuj^ Jis, and the day, the time, whenever it ie, i? fksrttt / thenceforth a bright spot in our bistory.-^ ;.. It is from this, public meetings derive thfeffiT - neat man who will cheer tts, give as keeaer,^ fuller 'aensatiooff, and thpa The New York Times, the special org^L of Secretary 8eward, and edited by the Hod. Henry J. Raymond, a member of the next Congress, and prominent for the Speak ership, contains, in a recent isane, a long article, under the above caption, some extracts from which #e pve boloir: > canvass of "V irginia tbeirtf' & a geneialAj* position. to leave the field exolusirely io *> \ candidates who can hike the stringent Congressional oath that they have never participated in the rebellion. Out of the eight Congressional" Districts, five have oxidates' running who dan all meet the Congressional requirement. But in the Aecbmac Dintriot, the Lynchburg District, and the Charlottesville District there are candidates who avow that they .will not and cannot take the . cannot and will not re&se to admit them. In this last district A. H. H. Stuart, Secretary of the Interior under Mr. Fillmore, being a candidate, declares his inability to take the oath, yet deties Congress to keep him out, if eleoted. He asserts that rite oath is nneonstitntional, and that the Republican party will never dare to make practicable application of it. In all kindness, we advise Mr. Stuart, and these whom he seeks to represent, to. act upon do sach assumption. It is moral- | ly certain that no man will be admitted to a seat in the next CoDgress who does The applicant's opinion that the law UT uareturns and qualifications of its own?members." The Hottee of Representatives will exercise that exclusive power, and beyoud all question will exercise it in conformity, with-the statute of 1862. The oonstxtutiou a very large majority in both branches of 1 Congress. The arguments wbioh were con- ' 9 olusivo then are as oonclosivenow. The 9 still aa strong as ever. 11 The Southern people, if they have shy |? wish regard to their own interests, will re- 9 speet the laws of the land, and re'faae to m give their votes to candidates for Congress |?j who tfcey know are not entitled by law to |? hold seats in Congress._ Arrogant claims Mi will only recoil agaiosVthem, They will be 9 taken as evidence of an impmetaoable tern,- 1 per, fit rather for stern justice than for mag- 9 nanimoos clemency. ' 9 iiaOi fl & The Hair of Woioh.?A German pro- |? fesses to have counted the hairs oaths heads |?B has jast published tile result: On the head egf of the blonde there were 140,419 bafre; on M that'offche brown-haired woman, 109,440; ngj on that of the black-haired, 102,962; and ? ascertain how muoh gold if in St. I #9E I