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lewis m. qeist,proprietor.| |n f libepcnbent Jfamilj) Htctospaper: Jfar fjn promotion of tjje folitical, Social, Agricultural anb Commercial Interests of tjje Sontjj. jiBSMs-ta Y^^iansoz. VOLUME II. YORKVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1866. NUMBER 49. NEVEB GIVE UP. Never give up! it is wiser and better Always to hope than once to despair; Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter, And break the spell o1" tyrannical care: Never give up! or the buiihen may sink you? Providence has Mndly mingled the cup, And in all trials or troubles bethink you, The watchword of life must be, Never give up! Never give up! there are chances and changes Helping the hopeful a hundred to one, And, through, the chaos, High Wisdom arranges: Ever success?if you'll only hope on: Never give up! for ibe wisest is boldest, Knowing mat Providence mingles the cup. And of all maxims the best, as the oldest. Is the true watchword or Never give up. Never give up! though the grape-shot my rattle, Or the foil thunder-cloud over you burst, Stand like a rock, and the storm or the battle Little shall harm you, though doing thsir worst. Never give up If adversity presses. Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the beat counsel, in all your-distresses, Is the stout watchword of Never give up. j|? Original J%m WfUTTEN TOR THE VOKKVILLE KNQCIRF*. KJJ RA ID I OB, THE WITCH OF MANNILORE. A STORY OF THE SEA. BY J. WOODRUFF LEWIS, ESQ., Author of the "Outcast Child," "Wreckers of Abaco," "Spirit of the Ford," "Mysteries of a Night," "Game for Life," etc. CHAPTER III. THE DRUGGED COFFEE?THE WITCH OF i MANNILOBE. The benevolent stranger paused, and iNed j Bowers with Helen, who was now walking olose to his side, halted. Walla growled fiercely. 'What was that?' asked Ned. 'Was what V said the stranger. ?A scream?quite plainly !' The stranger shook bis bead and addressing the man with the lantern said mildly, ?'Did you hear anything, Job ?' 'Nothing!' was the brief reply. The party moved on a little farther, and tarniog suddenly to the right, they came before a large old-fashioned mansion, the topmost windows of whioh were just glit tering in the faint light of that stormy morning. 'Welcome?thrice welcome !' said the stranger, as be turned on the threshold of the house and smiled. 'Come in !' But Walla seemed to have some objection to the invitation or its acceptance, for be rushed forward a pace or two and then faoing Ned and Helen, barked furiously. 'What is the matter with the dog ?' asked the stranger. 'He does not want us to enter the house,' aid Helen. 'How strange!' Even as Helen spoke, a fuintness came over her, and she would have fallen, but for the protecting arm of Ned Bowers.? The lone, weary hours of the storm?the agpny and excitement of the wreok?and that struggle between life and death she had gone through in reaching the shore, had wasted her vital energies, and she no longer felt able to speak or move. 'For the love of heaven,' cried Ned Bowers; 'lead the way, sir; let the young thing have food and rest. Have you any womankind in jour house?' 'Oh, yes?that is, sometimes!' 'Sometimes ?' ?I will send for one of the fishermen's wives; my own, and only female servants have gone to Mobile. Oh ! there is one who will take every oare of her ! Mrs. Moore you have come in good time. Here is a young lady who wants your special care.' Mrs. Moore was not a very engaging looking female, but she advanced quickly into the room, with a show of kindness, and said : 'Certainly, Sir ! I shall be only too happy to serve you and the young lady ? Come this way, my dear?I will see to you.' Helen cluDg for a moment to the arm of Ned Bowers, and then, with a deep sigh, allowed the woman to lead her away But the dog now made a positive attaok on the owner of the house, and Helen was compelled, weak and faint though she was, to interfere. 'Down, Walla, down !' Upon this, Walla uttered a loud howl and fled away among the tnes and bushes, and in a lew seconds was lost to sight. 'If I can have some dry apparel,' said Helen faintly, 'and some tea, I will try then to think what is best to be done next.' 'You shall have whatever you wish,'said the master of the house. 'And if you, Mrs. Moore, will just see to getting a change of apparel for this young lady, I think she would prefer to then rejoin this gallant sailor, who has saved her from the wreck, and partake of some nourishment with him.' 'Oh, yes?yes ! I would much prefer it,' said Helen. 'Be it bo, then.' TTT'il aL! J . T T-r 1 . rr VYun mis uaaersianamg tieien weDi on with Mrs. Moore, and Ned Bowers followed the owner of the mansion into a very handsome apartment on the ground floor, where a blazing fire was glowing in the grate, and a most tempting breakfast was spread on the table. Come my good friend,' said the stranger; 'fall to, and satisfy your wants. The young lady will, no doubt, be here in a few moments.' Ned Bowers oould not refuse to do justice to the good cheer before him, and he ate and drank most willingly, beginning, ?as he felt the cheering influences of food and warmth?almost to forget his prejudices against the mysterious stranger. But still Ned kept his eyes fixed upon the door of the room, with the hope of seeing Helen enter; nor was he disappointed, for in about ten minutes she appeared, looking much recovered and moat becomingly at-! tired iQ a rioh brocade dress, which Mrs. j I Moore had found for her. 'You are better, I hope !' said the strau- j j 8eri 'I am, indeed.' j 'Why, little one,' said the delightedI Bowers; 'you look almost yourself again.' I There was a deep grief at Helen's heart, j but she strove to look obeerful as she sat | down by Ned Bowers. The stranger then , officiously presented each of them with coffee, the invigorating odour of which was specially inviting. 'Now we shall do,' he said when they . had each partaken of about half a cup of j coffee. 'Will you allow me, Miss, to ask ! your name ? Is it, or is it not Helen Sinclair V 'You know me, sir?' 'Then it is! And yours, my good sir ?' 'Ned Bowers !' 'Any connexion or relation V 'No sir. I was second mate on board the wave?mars an. ?Ah,.then it was the Wave, from Vera Cruz, that was wrecked on our coast last night?' 'It was, and all owing to a false light which was hung out hereaway !' 'Yes-I expected that would do your business !' 'You !?expected !?" 'Certainly ! The light was mine ! Take a little more coffee, and I will tell you aD amusing incident!' The stranger sipped his coffee quite leisurely, and went on calmly, as before : 'If I have one peculiarity gieater than another, it consists in my candour?my excessive oandour. I am well aware that there are persons who, when they have great objects to accomplish affect finesse and duplicity. I am not one of those persons! Your name, young lady, is Sinclair?I knew that before You, and your father and mother?after a seven years' residence in Mexico, and sendiog your cous'id Charles, four weeks ago to New York, with the bulk of your fortune?four hundred thousand dollars,?took passage for the same city iu the Wave ! You are wrecked, my dear young lady, on the worst and almost only rocky portion of the Florida coast ! You are attempted to be slain on the beach?an attempt frustrated by the sagaoity of your fine dog ! You there meet with a country gentleman who invites you to his house ! That is myself! You there change your apparel, and meet the generous sailor, who has brought you through the waves, at the breakfast table ! Your kind host then tells you candidly that by a series of circumstances he cannot just now mention, he has become po?<?es?od of the whole of the money sent from Mexico ! He also tells you that your continued existence is inimical to his interests !' Helen Sinclair made an attempt to rise to her feet, but a sense of 6udden oppression on the brain restrained her, and she could only exclaim in accents of terror: 'My friend?my preserver ! save me yet from this man ! Why do vou not move or speak V 'He cannot!' said the stranger. Ned Bowers, with a deep sigh, let his bead sink on to the table, and was motionless. Helen began to feel as if ber limbs were turned to lead. A rush, as of the sea was in ber ears; and it was only faintly, that the stranger's voice reached her, as he said: 'That phenomenon is easily explained? a powerful narcotic in the coffee !' 'Help ! Mother?father?Heaven 1' was all she could gasp; and as she slid senseless to the floor, the stranger Bprang to his feet, bis whole manner changed, and shouted in an exoited tone : 'What, ho ! Witch?fiend ! Be you who and what you may?see that I do your work !?I will, at once, to see !?Ho?within ! Kin Kaid waits for you, Oh, Haga !' Ere these loud-spoken words had ceased to echo in the apartment, a secret door opened in a panel, and an old decrepid woman. with white, dishevelled locks, and leaning on a staff, entered the room. She was robed in a long black garment, which had upon it strange hieroglyphics wrought with some glistening material. It is bravely done?bravely ! The young blood will not be wanting now, Kin Kaid ! ?the world's jewels, pure and unsullied, shall now be yours ! Helen Sinclair ! Ha ! ha 1 Sinclair ! My old lungs expand again ?ha ! ha ! And the father and mother? how many fathoms deep lie they! Ah, ha! How I hate such beauty !' She struck at the insensible form of Helen with her staff, and overbalancing her| self fell by the removal of its support from | her. Then, recovering herself by a violent effort, she continued : 'Captain Kin Kaid?thus far you have done well, but your task is not yet finished. ! Do not kill, but bide. To the island at! once ! To the island where you have stored { your gold?that gold which is but a grain of sand on the sea shore to what I can and will give you ! Take her there?and him ! But he need not live Her?the Sinclair ] ?touch not with violent hands. I want I her ! She's mine !' 'And him?shall 1 kill him here!' j 'No, not here. Hark! The wind and . the waves begin to lash the shore! The Gull is in the offing. There !' ! The sullen boom of a gun out at sea camo upon the morning air. It wsb soon j followed by one more. lIt is the Gull!' said Kin Kaid. 'It is j my own gallant craft. I sicken of the shore and long once more to ride upon the foam . of the deep ! When I was cast friendless and penniless, and half dead upon the rocks of Mannilore, you saved me. You j bought me the good ship which calls me ! master?you taught me the course I have 1 since followed, until the old cavern on the j island fairly blazes with gold ! you have j only to command?I obey !' ' 'All men wear two hearts/ said the hag ?'their own, and yet another's through which you must strike to kill the soul!' 'What mean you ?' 'Enough !' she exclaimed with an impatient gesture ; 'I was but communing with myself. Kin Kaid, I will make you the rubies I have so often promised. How many fathoms deep did you say they lie ?' 'The rubies V 'No?no ! The parents of this child ?' 'Some thirty, I should say' 'No?nol' shrieked the Witch. 'I would have them live ! The dead do not suffer ?I would have them suffer till tne prophe- j ey is fulfilled?and all for one! I tell you, Kin Kaid, the father of this girl has done me such an injury as time aDd blood j can never efface! More I will tell you another time?now, away with her!' 'He it sol'and stepping to a portion of the room which was oocupied apparently bv a lame book case, Kin Kaid opened one ; of the doors, aod there was a sharp soaod, as of the sudden withdrawal of a bolt.? Then both the chairs in the occupation of ! the insensible forms of Ned Bowers and Helen Sinolair began slowly to descend, as j the portion of the door exactly beneath them detached itself and lowered them | The Witch waved her staff and shrieked in a frenzied tone : iTo Mannilore ! To the island at once, i and kill him on the shore! Hide her in j the cavern, and harm her not! They kill- j ed my obild, and I will kill their child !? To the cavern ! I will make you rubieB in glittering heaps, but I must have the fresh young blood to mingle with the sparkling elements of the treasure ! That for you, Kin Kaid?and vengeance for myself! Go! go!' Kin Kaid made a iesture of assent and stepped, to all appearance, in the book-case, dosing the tall paooelled door behind him, while again the sound of two guns came ringing from seaward. CHAPTER IV. THE CAVERN?THE CAPTIVE MAIDEN? THE DOG. Ned Bowers bad oot wholly lost all sensation from the effects of the drugged cof fee, though he was powerless to move, and wild, strange and fantastic images filled his brain. He did oot know, however, when the descent of the chain through the trap door ceased, but suddenly he thought he was in the midst of a deadly conflict, for a voice rang in his ears : 'Up, up! and away at once! He must not kill you ! She so young and beautiful, too ! And you?I saw you bring the young lady from the sea! Oh, what can I do ? What shall I do ? They are coming again ! Are you better? Try it again !' What it was ho was to try again, or who were supposed to be coming, or what pungent essenoe it was that attacked his senses, Ned Bowers could oot imagine ; but, with a gasp*and a struggle he felt that he was sha i en .1 nr * r 11 ?; _ King on tne cnccts or roe narcouc. 'Avast there, niates !' he cried. 'What latitude is this ?' 'Hush !' A haod was pressed over his mouth, and he was forced back into the chair again, not with violence, but with a gentle sort of pressure, and a rustle of garments, that led Ned to suppose that it was to the pityiog ministration of a woman that he owed the relief had come to him. Be quiet, do!' ?I will. But the little one?the young lady ?' ?I will recover her, too, with the sal volatile.' 'Sal who?' Hush ! Oh, good heavens! No?I can't?I musn't stay another minute. My good young man, I can't now restore her ! You must get away at once ! Come here !' TMI with ' LW -V . * ---J 'But they'll kill you! Ob heavens? there they come now ! They won't hurt ber?but you?you'll be murdered ! You must hide ! I'm a captive too, and must not be seen here ! This way?you may find a chance to save her afterwards!' A confused noise as of the trampling of feet, came upon the ears of Ned, and the fiash of lights begaD to send faint reflections into the cavernous place where he was. The light enabled him to see that it was a young girl who thus spoke to him, and that while she pulled him bythoarm-she was, with the other hand, applying, no doubt, the same bottle of pungent essence that bad restored him?to the nostrils of Helen. But it did not seem to restore her ?she only recovered slightly. Now ! Quiok?come !' 'But I?Oh ! I have saved ber from the sea!?and I?I cannot leave her!' 'Then you will kill her, and abandon her, by being killed yourself, when you may i > - e ?. I save ner Dy niauig, aDa ocmg ineu iree to follow her?aud to rescue !' 'No?do !' 'Quiok, then, come !' Ned allowed himself to be led by the arm < | rapidly from the spot. He stumbled over some articles that lay loose upon the hard beaten earth of the cavern, or cellar, for 6uch it seemed to be. At the same time a dash of light illuminated tht place and he thought he would be seen, but his companion led him into the shelter of a number of casks which stood in one corner. 'Help me !' she said. IIow? Ob, yes?the barrel! Down went the cask over Ned's head, and he found himself in total darkness.? He heard the loud, angry tones of a man, and a trampling of feet. 'Why, there's ooly the girl here ! Call the Captain ! This won't do?wLere's the man ? By the sword of Morgan ! call the captain ! How did he get away !?Moore ?' 'Ay, ay !' 'Keep a good look-out?the fellow's hiding in the cave !' ?Ay, ay! He can't get out! I want one clip at his head with my marling I i-pike! Why, he's very Dearly dooe for like my brother, what he pitched into the sea, after the dog bad well-nigh took his head off?I'll fir him !' j 'Silence ! fore and aft there ! What is ; it ?' said a soft mild voice which Ned re| cognized as belonging to the treaoberoas ; host 'You said a sailor sod a girl, Capt. Kin Raid,' replied the man in command; 'bat | there's only the girl here ! the other chair j is empty.' %/ ?Ah !' It was with a ferocious yell that | no one oould have rsoognized as coming 1 from the same penon who had before uttered suoh dulcet soands as Kin Raid usually affected, that he dow shouted : 1 'Treachery! There must be treachery here ? Guard all the outlets to the cavern ! The man was here?and he is here now ! Kill him at oDce !?what iB his worthless life compared with my objects!' There was a great commotion now among the persons present, and Nod thought that his chance waa small, indeed In vain he felt about his apparel in the vague Lope of hading some weapon?but he had not even a jack-knife. Again the voice of Kin Raid rang through the plaoe : Down to the beach, some of you?dowo to the beach 1 Be may have gone throogh this passage to the gorge, and you, blind moles, have not seen him !' 'No, no, Captain ! Two of our men are down there?he could not pass !' ?Ha ! who comes?/ Oh, that is you ! Well, take oharge of the young lady, if you wish.' 'Yes, sir,' said a voice, which Ned Bowers recognized as belonging to the woman who had assisted him 'Yoq need not be in a hurry to bring her oat of it! She'll come round soon enough !' '.Very well, sir.' 'There was a quiet, subdued sort of tone about this young womau now, in her man e ;i-: xr;~ Tr?:j 'icr Ui rupijiug iu uapt iviu i\aiu, taav was most essentially different from the eager sympathy she had exhibited to Ned Bowers, and he began to wonder if, after all, it was the same person. Look sharp, Cole !' said Kin Kaid.? 'There'* only the other entranee, or outlet to the cave, and that's round the well !' 'Thunder and guns, Captain ! That's it! The salt air which comes up here from the sea brought him round, and he got off the chair it) the dark, and has fallen down the well !' 'It may be so?and if so, saves us trouble! I would fain be rid of him. Bring the lights this way ! Nearer still ! It is deep 1' 'Too deep to see the bottom ! He'.s there fast enough I' 'Yes?he must have stumbled in ! He was upset by the drug?and his attempt to escape has done the business! But finish examining the empty casks!' Ned gave himself up for lost! Each moment be expected the cask would be tilted up and himself discovered and slaughtered in cold blood, for he could hear nilliano. ranirtln rt I onlnm n a hnrrpll y*- ?"? b ? ia the search. In a moment he felt the cask move, and was certain that some one had flung his arms about it and was on the point of swinging it from its place. It was but a forlorq, hope that Ned now had of being enabled to shuffle along as the cask moved, and go in its bhadow, providing it was not actually turned up, be able to escape observation.? He made the attempt. The man who had taken hold of the cask only wheeled it around on its edge, and Ned Bowers managed to follow it. His life might be said to bang upon a thread, and had not the man who moved the cask struck it against the leg of one of his companions, who swure at him for so doing and thus distracted his attention, he must have felt a Blight opposition, notwithstanding the dexterity with which Ned moved along with it. The man let go the cask. 'Saved !' thought Ned. 'No one here, sir.' 'Then he fell down the well! It is time we were off for the island ! Where is the Gull V 'Utt and on, sir.' Come, then, all of you. Moore will take care that all is safe here until our return. You can wrap her in the boat-cloaks! Well, well, you may go, Miss Redrnon ! But on your life, not a word to her of who and what we are. You have volunteered to serve me, and if you keep your faith, you shall be well paid?if not, tremble !' <1 intend to be faithful, sir, and I hope that heaven will help me to be so !' 'Sword of Morgan !' muttered Cole; 'what has heaven to do with the Gull, I wonder?' 'Silence !' oried Kin Kaid. 'Is the mist still on the sea ?' 'You can hardly see a cable's length, sir,' replied some one who had just come up. 'Men to the boats! Thesignals from the Gull will direct our oourse.' 'Is the island far away, sir?' asked the woman who had been called Miss Redmon. ' - vr_j n ?,;?k It was evident to iUU uuncin mm LUC uigu tone in whioh she spoke, was to warn him to note the answer. Bat the Captain only replied gruffly : 'You will know soon enough, when you get there?come on !' ?Yes?good-bye, old cave! A brave heart always succeeds, and I hope you will succeed ! Good-bye, I have got to like you by this time, old cave !' .Ned knew that Miss Redmon addressed part of that speech to him, enigmatical as it was to the others, and in a few minutes all was still in the cavern. 'Alas! poor young heart,' said Ned as he thought of Helen. 'But I think she's safe so long as she is with that Miss Redmon ! I don't think the dear heaven that held her up, and kept the breath of life in her young heart in the midst of the wild sea, will desert her now ! Oh, no?no 1' A strange shuffling noise sounded outside the cask. 'What io the name of all that's odd is that!' said Ned in a low tone, as he listened for a repetition. The sniffing and scraping came again, and Ned Bowers, with immense gratification recognized the presence of his late oanine friend. 'Walla?Walla !' he whispered. The dog gave a low cry of recognition. 'You were right! Walla, boy?' uaid Ned. 'The stranger was a rascal?though he seemed to know your dear young mistress and all about her! But his coffee was too strong for us !' At this moment there was the report of a pistol-shot in the cavern, and in the confined air of the place it was very loud, quite startling Ned who was on the point of leaving the cask You infernalhrute !' exolaimed a ho>*r?* cnioe. ?r hone I had von there !' It was the ""?I ? ?I * ? voice at Moore, who had been left in charge. <1 hope yon did'nt,' thought Ned, as the echoes of the pistol-shot died away. All was still?The dog made no sound. Then Ned heard the voice muttering : Oh, hang them ail !?hang them all ! I only just wish I oould get hold of my share of the swag?I would, and leave them all to swing ! But Kin Kaid keeps it so close ?and he won't divide till the five years are up, which we swore to?and which he makes us keep 2 A wonderful man is the Captain! We maybe pirates, and we may be wreckers?but he makes us do just as he likes ! Yes ! a wonderful man is Kin Kaid! But what the deuce did that dog want here, I wonder?' The man who bad uttered this soliloquy now gave himself a sudden hoist, and sat on the top of the cask beneath which was Ned Bowers. He sat quiet for a moment J 'L? .^rnniminir flio tioplol HUU I Lieu UULUUJCUUCM UlUiiiiiUiig w.w WW against the cask, finally broke oat io a whistle, aod thea spoke in a tone of soliloqay as before : That Witch is Ihe capVs weak poiot I should say. He gives bis mind to her, and takes what she tells him as law and gospel! I do think that if there was a sou'-wester, she'd persuade him it was a squall from the nor'-east! Whisht! Hush!?What's that? Some one on the path in the gorge, or I'm a Moore?Dutchman ! Let's see?what's the cap'n's orders! Settle all who may come up by the gorge from the beach unless you know 'em, as they are sure to be survivors from the wreck of the Wave.? Hash !' Ned Bowers now listened as intently as did the ruffian seated on the cask, and he thought he heard footsteps on the rough pathway which led from the beach to the level country, though he could Qot imagine how it was that the cavern was so near the gorge as to enable him to hear footsteps upon it. He determined to suddenly make an effort to overturn the cask, and then grapple with the ruffian ; but he remembered that he was entirely unarmed while the pirate bad pistols. He resolved to wait the course of events a little longer, and it was well that ho did so, as we shall see 'Yes,' muttered the ruffianr'some one is coming,' and as he spoke be dismounted from the cask. 'So far, so good,' thought Ned. 'I can bound out at anv moment.' 'Ahoy!' cried a very faint voioe 'Help ! .?is there do ODe at hand ? Ahoy !' [to be continued.] From the New York Herald. Sketch of Emperor Maximilian. Ferdinand Maximilian, Joseph Archduke of Austria, and so-called Emperor of Mex ico and the head of the Mexican branch of the Hapsburgs, was born at the Austrian Imperial residence at Sohonbrunn, on July 6, 1832, and is consequently in the thirtyfourth year of bis age. His father was the Archduke Francois Charles Joseph, Archduke of Austria, and his mother Sophie Dorcthee, daughter of Maximilian I, King of Bavaria. He had the misfortune to be n onnnnri ?nn onH hoq in nnnapnnpnnp hp. a avwut. ~1 come a sort of royal adventurer His father was never Emperor of Austria, as has beeD stated, but beiog like Max, a second sod, was only Archduke. It was Maximilian's uncle, Ferdinand, who was the prede cessor of Francis Joseph. WheD his uncle abdicated, in 1848, the father of Maximilian and Francis Joseph renounced his place in the line of succession in favor of the present Emperor. The abdicating Emperor in giving up his throne unequally divided his dower, and gave an advantage to the Archduke Maximilian, to the detriment of his elder brother. Such is the origin of the constant, and at times, very warm differences which have arisen between the Maximilian was brought up at the gayest capital id Germany, but does not appear to have much taste for frivolities. Ho spent a greater part of his youth in traveling. He has boen a sailor and has seen a good deal of the world of waters, at least for an Austrian Arohduke. In his early years he sailed about the Mediterranean, and visited all the adjaccDt countries?Greece, Italy, Morocco, Freoch Algeria, Spain and Portugal?with great seal and activity. At the close of twenty-two be was placed at the head of what is termed by courtesy the Austrian Marine, and with a squadron visited the coast of Syria and Palestine. He went also to the R.*d Sea, and took great interest in the works of the Suez Canal, which was then just beginning. In all this ho showed himself a young man of proper manners and active habits, desirous of emancipatiog himself from the fetters of worn out and obsolete habits, aud the narrow-minded principles and punotilios of his race and family. It is related of him that when at Trieste, in 1S52, he heard by telegraph of the elevation of Napoleon to the Imperial throne, and immediately assembled all the foreign Consuls there at a sort of banquet, plaoing the Freoch Consuls at bia right hand, and proposing the health to Napoleon III, before he had been recognized by a single European sovereign. Perhaps the above incident has not been without effect upon his present fortunes. Besides being Archduke of Austria, Maximilian held several other titles and dignities. He was, as has been stated, Yioe Admiral of the Austrian Navy, orcommander of the Imperial Marine; commander of the Eighth Regiment of Austrian Lancers, and chief of the Third Prussian Regiment of Dragoons. in 1855 he went to Paris and spent a fortnight with the Emperor at St. Cloud, , very probably confiding to him his troables with his brother, Francis Joseph. The' consequence of this interview was that Lours Napoleon took the young man under his protecting wing, and in the following year H* bob onnmntA/i Vinnrnu r.f the Austrian " *" -rr~ j -- possession in Italy, known as the LombardoVenetian kingdom. This Governorship? it was nothing more?lasted until 1859.? Maximilian made himself highly popular with the Italians, and in consequence still more unpopular with his brother Francis Joseph, whose action eventually resulted in Maximilian's removal. It is related of the latter, that while Viceroy of Lombardy and Venice, he- used to walk about the streets of Milan and Venice quite alone daring the fetes and among the crowd, and would never allow the police to be on the watch. One day at Venice, when the Italian nobles had plotted to make a hostile demonstration against bim on the Plaza St. Marco, he disoomfited them and quite converted them to his side by tucking his wife under his arm and coming among ?k/.m O ft/] On frtAf 1X7? fVl Q /lAtl f. tUCUJ UUAVICUUVU UUU uu ?UUVJ n??u u vvui age and frankness that disarmed every one. Another time, just after Orsini's attempt at Paris, his life was said to be also threatened and his friends begged him not to expose himself; but he immediately ordered his carriage to go to the theatre, to whom he said, laughing, ?if I am to be blown up, it shall at least be in good company.' Maximilian remained idle after his removal from the governorship of the Lombardo-Venitian Kingdom until 1863, when Napoleon decided on making a oat's paw of him in Mexico. The crown of Mexioo was offered to him by Napoleon in August, 1862, and the diplomats were set to work to arrange for his acceptance and occupancy of the throne. Nearly a year was occupied in this work, and it was not until the 10th of April, 1864, that he formally aocepted the proffered crown. By the terms of acceptance he made a conditional renunciation of the right of eventfal succession to the - * e * - - - j J:.: [Drone 01 Austria, auu au uuuuuuiuuuai renunciation of his share of the family estates, amounting to 20,000,000 of florins. The condition reserved in the renunciation of the right to the succession, was that such renuDoiation might be revoked should Max imilian, finding his foothold in Mexico insecure, choose to resign within six years from the date of bis acceptance of the crowDof Mexico. Two of these years have now nearly expired. Soon ufter his acceptance of the crown Maximilian left Austria for Mexico. His entry iDto the city of Mexico took place on June 12, 1864, when he immediately assumed control of the disputed people. His first official act was thp offer of terms to President Juarez looking to his submission ; but these were rejected. Since that his ef forts have been devoted to putting dowui tbe Republican or Liberal Government; but bis success has not been very brilliant One of his principle sohemes for strenthening bimseif in Mexico bus been by efforts of attracting emigration of Southern rned thither; bat bis project i9 already looked upon as a failure. Every day makes bis position at home still more insecure, while tbe late demonstrations in this country and in Congress will be understood by j him as omens of rapidly approaohiug evils. ! General Sherman on the Burning of Columbia. S. C. The following is the letter of Major Gen| eral Sherman on the burning of Columbia, S. C , an abstract of which has already been given in our columns. It will be seen that he is opposed to the payment of Southern war claims of even the most - ? ? - . L t 1 wortny cnaracter, mougu ne expresses sympathy for those who sustained losses: Head'qrs Mil'y Divis'n of the Miss. St. Louis, Mo , March 8, '66. Benj Rawls, Columbia, S. C, : "Dear Sir : I have yoar letter enclosing a petition to the Congress of the United States, asking to be indemnified for the loss by fire of yoar hoase, and contents, at the time of our occupation in February, 1865. I assure you that I feel deeply for you and all others who lost their property in the fire ; but if the United States were to assume the liability, it would be an admission that we bad done wrong. This is ? -1* l t - C iL not true, xne ngntrui auinomy 01 iue National Government had been resisted in the State of South Carolina for years, and we were compelled, at a great cost of life and money, to oondact thither a vast army, and our progress was resisted by all the force the State could obtain. Your own citizens resisted oar approach, not only with arms, but by burning the bridges over the Edisto, Congaree, Saluda and Broad rivers. They burned the depot in Columbia before wc entered the city, because it contained corn aud stores they supposed we needed, and set fire to thousands of bales of ootton rolled out iato the streets, and which were I burning before we ontered Cclumbia. I [ myself was in the city as early as noon and | saw those fires, and knew that efforts were made to extinguish them, but a high and" | strong wind kept tbem alive. I gave no I orders for the burning of your city, but, on | the oontrary, the reverse, and I believe the j conflagration resulted from the great impru' deuce of cutting the oottoo bales, whereby the contents were sproad by the wind, so that it became an impossibility to arrest tbe fire. I suw in yoor Colombia newspapers the printed order of General Wade Hampton, that on the approaoh of tbe Yankee army all i;he ootton should be burned, and from what I saw myself, have no hesitation ia saying that he was the eanse of the destraotion of your property. Yoor true remedy is against him; and sooh others of your own oitizens as conspired with him and made the military ooonpation of yoor city an absolute necessity. I hardly think it is fair that Congress should tax tbe people of Ohio, Illinois and Missouri to pay -suoh losses; but ar it is not my provinoe to judge in suoh matters, I send your petition according to its address. "I again assure you of my personal sympathy by tcmou of your ago and infirmity, wrnm must nortwj % wrong principle. "I am with great respeot, your obedient servant. "W. T. Shkrman, "Major General." A Radical's Description of the Preai/t dent. Tbe Hon. John D. Baldwin, member of bongress from Massachusetts, writes this desoriptioo of Andrew Johnson and bis late speech. Baldwin is of the Samner-Stevens stripe polilios: * * * "What the President said is before the country. How be said it, my poor words may fail to tell. For the first time, I stood near and looked oloeely on the man. In the coarse of so eventful life, I have seen many men of wilfdl power and force, but never before have I looked on one so thoroughly embodying the evil spirit of revolution. It will not do to underrate Mr. Johnson. He is terribly in earnest, and, withal, most vindictively cool. A thoroughly-paced demagogue, his inconsequential logic, bis egotism, his repetitions, his thorough belief in himself, and his popularity, are all elements of strength, when he faces such assemblages as were arrayed about him yesterday. Andrew Johnson is an able man?how able, I never realised till yesterday. All results are involved in his 1 II? U*A Via n PoKinaf oa akin in/) ftfl pUIIUJT? uau ug < vbuiuuh w ww*v ? ?? desperate, the dire resalts wbiob the near future would bring, oould hardly be named now. We stand on the verge of a fierce strife, to meet wbiob the oountry should gather its strength and gird op its loins.? This man is no weak Buchanan, and be means to crash Congress or be crashed. 'Mr. Johnson is a man of starlwart mould. Jast above middle stature, be is so broadshouldered, firm-set and deep oheated, as almost to seem below it. He has a large head. It is a compact borne for bis fiery will and brain. His faoe is marked, strong oval outline, powerful uoder jaw ; well-defined, but rather sharp chin; a wide, straight mouth; full, flexible lips; skin, coarse in texture, but firm; complexion, swarthy; hair, coarse black, streaked with grey j a nose small at the root, but fall and large at the nostrils, which expand and lift as he speaks ; broad, room; forehead; beetling, bash; eyebrows, beneath which are a pair of the coldest hazel-grey eyes I ever saw in a human head; these are the outlines of Andrew Johnson.^j United States Treasury Notes.?A very important decision on the subject of the value of United States Treasury Notes, making tbem equal in every respeot, in legal contemplation) to similar denominations in gold, has just been rendered by the Genera! Term of the Superior Court. The de cision goes farther than any other yet made in this State, former adjudications merely going to the length of establishing that oontraots made before the passage of the act of 1862, and providing for payment in the then legal correnoy of the country, could be satisfied by payment in United States Treasury Notes. The agreement in this case was to pay freight mooey in gold or silver dollars on delivery of cargo in N. York. The plaintiffs, John Wilson & Co., owners of the British skip Atlanta, in Jannary, 1863; chartered the vessel to Gillanders, Arbuthnot & Co, of Calcatta, and the oargo was consigned to Edwin D Morgan and others of this city. The vessel arrived here in Jane, aod the freight money, amounting to thirty two thousand six hundred and thirty dollars, was tendered in Treasury notes. The offer was refused, and payment in specie was demanded. This was refused, and the controversy oarried to the Superior Court. After the usual preliminaries the case was brought before the General Term, and the decision written bv Judge Monell, lays down the law to be that all debts can be satisfied by a tender of payment io United States Treasury Notes.? New York Herald, 16tA. A Little Matter or History.?Some time since the papers were busy in the work of ventillatiug the pedigree of Andrew Johoson and in hunting up inoidents in the life of his father. Among other narrations it was stated that the latter, Jaoob Johnson, saved the life of Dr. Henderson. The fact is, that Dr. Henderson had plunged in the creek to rescue Mr. Charles Dudley, the father of the venerable man of types, D. C. Dudley, now living in our midst. The elder Dudley clasped the Doctor, and both were drowning, when Jaoob Johnson went to their resoue and saved the brace instead of one. These are the facts. mar? nnf Ko nmnfAvaafinn fn aou thit WW UU4Uk?iVDblUg w WJ our present beloved President, who was apprenticed to the tailoring business with Mr. Selby, in this city, had an inveterate aversion to the quiet habits whiob distinguished his master. <Andy,' with other impulsive boys, made it a rule to meet almost nightly in the upper part of J. O'Rorke's carnage shop for fun, and fearing to return to his i home at unseasonable hours, frequently bunked with old Bandy Lockett, a very much esteemed oolored man still resident here, whose recitals concerning the President's boyhood are decidedly interesting.? Raleigh Progress, 1-Uh.