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VOLUME III YORKVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1866. NUMBER 20.
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OH WELL. DO I REMEMBER.
Oh, well do I remember
Bow sadly I tore
The first checkered apron
That ever 1 wore.
How I boohed and bellowed,
And flooded with tears,
When my mother gave me
A box on my ears,
Then a big piece of pie for the damage she'd done,
To her dearest, her darling, but devilsome son.
Oh, well do I remember,
(They're fresh in mind)
Those little white trousers.
All buttoned behind;
How I played in the puddle,
And daubed them in din?
How my grandmother shook me,
But promised to buy me a nice sugar toy,
If I'd but remember to be a good boy.
Ob, well I remember
My advent to schoolHow
I got on the dunce block,
And felt like a fool;
How I pulled out the paper
From Emiline's curls.
For which I was planted
On a aeat with the girls.
Twas punishment fraught with confusion and pain,
But Oh, I sbo'd like to be put there again.
Oh, well I remember,
when older I'd grown,
I had to spread clover
As fast as't was mown ;
AUU UIC uugvi v* ..?-j
Still points to the chum.
And the hated old grindstone
I dreaded to ram;
For I churned and I turned till as weak as a cat,
And sweat till as wet as a water-soaked rat.
Ob, well I remember
The old sorrel mare,
That took me to meeting,
To mill, to the fair?
I rode her a plowing
Till tender and sore
Became my poor "T'other,"
And I eouldnt ride more;
But oftentimes since I have heavily sighed
To think of the "horse" that 1 daily must ride.
pktllawmts.
Official Text of the Preliminaries of
Peace.
The Gazette, of "Vienna, of the 3d of
August, publishes the following as the text
of the preliminaries of peaoe:
Their Majesties, the Emperor of Austria
and the King of Prussia, animated with the
desire of restoring to their conn tries the
benefits of peaoe, bare, with that view, and
in order to fix the preliminaries of peace,
named Plenipotentiaries, viz:
His Majesty the Emperor of Austria,
Count Aloysius Karolyl and Baron Adolph
von Brenner Felsaoh :
And His Majesty the King of Prussia,
the President of the Counoil and Minister
for Foreign Affairs, Otbo, Count BismarckSohonhaussen,
who, after having exchanged
their fall powers, fonnd to be in good and
dne form, have agreed on the following fundamental
acts as bases of peaoe to be concluded
without delay:
Article 1. With the exception of the
Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, the territory
of the Austrian monarchy remains intact
His Majesty the King of Prussia engages
to withdraw his troops from the Austrian
territories occupied by thena, after peace is
concluded, under reserve of the arragements
to be made at the time of the definite conclusion
of peace for the guarantee of the
payment of the war indemnity
Art. 2. His Majesty the Emperor of
Austria reoognizes the dissolution of the
Germanic Confederation, such as it has
hitherto existed, and gives Germany, withnnt
TMirtiaination of the Emnire of Aus
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tria. His Majesty promises equally to recognise
the oloser union which will be
founded by His Majesty the King of Prussia,
to the North of the line of the Main,
and declares his consent to the German
States South of that line contracting a union,
whose national bonds with the Confederation
of North Germany will be the object
of an ulterior understanding between the
two parties.
Art. 3. His Majesty the Emperor of
Austria transfers to His Majesty the King
of Prussia all the rights which the Peace of
Vienna of Ootober 20,1864, had recognized
in him over the Duchies of Schleswig and
Holstein, with this reserve, that the population
of the Northern districts of Sohleswig
will be anew united to Denmark, if they
express the desire of a freely given vote.
Art. 4. His Majesty the Emperor of
Austria engages to pay to his Majesty the
King of Prussia the sum of 40,000,000 of
Thalers, to oover a portion of the expenses
whioh the war has occasioned to Prussia;
but from this sum is to be deducted the
amount of the indemnity for war expenses
whioh his Majesty the Emperor of Austria
has still the right of exaoting from the
Dnohies of Schleswig and Holstein, in virture
of Artiole 12, of the treaty of peace of
October 20,1864, before cited, say 15,000,000
of thalers, besides 5,000,000, as the
equivalent of the expenses of maintaining
the Prussian army, borne by the oountries
of Austria occupied by that army until the
conclusion of peace.
A?+ Cnnformablv to the desire ex
pressed by bis Majesty the Emperor of Austria,
bis Majesty the King of Prussia de
olares himself ready to leave substituting,
at the time of the modifications which must
take place in Germany, the territorial condition
of the Kingdom of Saxony in its ac
tual extent, reserving to himself, on the
other hand, to regulate in detail, by a special
treaty of peace with bis Majesty the
King of Saxony, the questions relative to
the share of Saxony in the expenses of the
war, as well as the future position of the
Kingdom of Saxony in the Confederation
of the North of Germany.
On the other band, His Majesty the Emperor
of Austria, promises to recognize the
ew organization whioh the King of Prussia
will establish in the North of Germany,
inoludingtbe territorial modifications whioh
will be the consequence of it.
Abt. 6. His Majesty the King of Prussia
engages to decide His Majesty the King
of Italy, his ally, to give his approbation to
the preliminaries of peace, and to the armistice
based on these preliminaries, from the
time that, by a declaration of His Majesty
the Emperor of the Frenob, the Venetian
Kingdom shall have been put at the disposal
of His Majesty the King of Italy.
Art 7. The ratifications of the present
Convention will be exobanged at Nickolsbarg,
in tbe space of two days at tbe latest.
Art. 8. As soon as the ratification of tbe
present Convention shall have been effected
and exchanged, their Majesties the Em
peror of Austria and the King of Prussia
will name plenipotentiaries, who will meet
in a place to be afterward agreed on, to
conclude peace upon the basis of the present
preliminary treaty, aod agree upon tbe conditions
of detail.
Art 9. To this effect, the oontraoting
States, after haviog settled these preliminaries,
will oonolude for tbe Austrian and
Saxon armies on tbe one part, an armistice,
whose detailed conditions, in a military
point of view, will be immediately fixed.
That armistice will date from the 2d August,
the day to wbioh the present suspension of
arm9 will be prolonged.
An armistice will be, at the same time,
concluded here with Bavaria, and general
Mantueffel will be charged to conclude with
the Kingdom of Wurtemberg and the Grand
Duchies of Baden and Hesse Darmstadt,
after these States proposed it, an armistioe
commencing the 2nd of August, and based
upon the state of military possession of the
moment.
In testimony of which, the respective
Plenipotentiaries have signed the present
Convention, and affixed to it the seal of
their arms.
BISMARCK, M P.
KAROLYI, M. P.
BRENNER, M. P.
From the Charleston Nctra.
Sons of Temperance.
We take pleasure in laying before our
readers the action of the National Division
of the Sons of Temperance of North America,
at its 22d annual session, held in Montreal,
Canada, June 21, 1866. We are indebted
for a copy of it to Major B. D.
Townsend, of Bennettsville, S. C , Past
Most Worthy Patriarch of the Order.
The National Division has acted handsomely
in opening the door wide, and preparing
the way for reconstruction. We
doubt whether any other body?political,
moral, or religious?has exhibited a better
spirit than this, and we trust that all true
Sons of Temperance at the South will appreciate
this fraternal and magnanimous
welcome, and reciprooate the greeting by
falling into line again. With the resolutions,
we copy also the circular letter of the
M. W. P.
The following preamble and resolutions
offered by Brother R. M. Foust, of Pennsylvania,
were unanimously adopted :
Whvr*.,* T?rnm noarlu nil Honfionu nf nnr !
jurisdiction in which Grand and Subordinate
Divisions now exist, we have the most
encouraging reports of the advancement of
the cause of Temperance, and the increase
in numbers, influence and efficiency of our
Order; and, whereas, in some parts of our
jurisdiction various causes have operated to
disrupt our organization, which causes iu
the providence of God have generally been
removed ; therefore
Resolved, That this National Division, of
North America, at this its Twenty second
Annual Session, deems it to be its solemn
duty to extend an invitation to all who have
heretofore been Sons of Temperanoe to take
their places again in our ranks and do battle
with us manfully against the demon Intemperance,
sharing with us the labors and
the fruits of the viotories that we may
win.
Resolved, That the M. W. Patriarch be
authorized and empowered, and he is here
by authorized and empowered, to appoint at
as early a day as practicable, in any portion
of country heretofore under the jurisdiction
of a Grand Division which has ceased to ex
ist, a D. M. W. Patriarch, with the following
power, viz:
1. To grant, in the name of the National
Division, to all persons who have been
Sons of Temporance within such jurisdiction
who may desire to resume their places
in the Order, and of whose constant fidelity
to the pledge of total abstinence he is
satisfactorily assured, certificates having the
same effect and carrying the same rights,
privileges, and honors as withdrawal oards
regularly issued by Subordinate Divisions.
2. To grant charters and to institute Subordinate
Divisions where the rales under
which charters are osually granted by
Grand Divisions are complied with, and
generally to have and exercise the authority
of a Grand Division until a Grand Divis'
ion shall be regularly organized.
Resolved. That Grand Divisions organi
zed in jurisdictions in which Grand Divisions
have heretofore existed, shall be deemed
successors of the former Grand Divisions,
with all their rights, powers and privileges
in reference to the granting of cards
and otherwise.
Resolved, That the M. W. Patriarch and
M. W. Scribe be authorized to remit to
any Grand Division so situated any sums
such preceding Grand Divisions may now
owe this National Division, and tbat'such
Grand Division may remit to any Subordinate
Division in their jurisdiction any sums
I they may have owed the former Grand Di[
visions.
i Tn onnnr/liinAo toifh f.hft nhnvfi rflsnlntinns.
I gladly extend an earnest and oordial invitation
to all those who have been Sons
of Temperance in times past, and for any
cause have ceased to be active in the work,
to once more unite with the noble band of
worthy Brothers, who are working for the
one single object of redeeming the world
from the blighting curse of Intemperance.
Thn mnUn nharaeteristifi of nnr Ord#?r of
love, parity and fidelity, is still portrayed
io the colors of the badge. We extend a
Brother's band and a Brothers weloome to
all who have filled stations of "trust, honor
aod responsibility," and who, if they
have been true to their pledges, will, nnder
the above resointioos, receive their wellearned
honors. It would rejoioe our hearts
to see ail suoh return to our circle of honor
and labor for the cause of all mankind.?
Wine is still a mocker. Strong drink still
rages. The land is filled with the viotims
of tne great destroyer. in ever was mere so i
much Deed of combined, aetive, persisteot'
and energetio work as now. The alarming j
increase of drnnkeness is turning the attention
of the community to some effective organization
where, in nnison with the gathering
hosts, they can oomhine their efforts
against the common enemy.
An efficient Temperance press and able
Temperance literature are already becoming
powerful auxiliaries to suob a movement
In tlbe Order of Sons of Temperance we
have snob ab organization. It now numbers
nearly 150,000 members, and increasing
more rapidly than for many years. The
wise and progressive legislation, leaving
with Subordinate Divisions the entire control
of their finances, admitting youths of
both sexes at fourteen and upward when
desired, and also admitting ladies to full
membership if two-thirds of the members
of Grand and Subordinate Division vote in
favor, together with a olear, practical, and
concise Constitution and Code of Laws, all
combine to make the Order the leading instrumentality,
and one eminently adapted to
carry forward the cause toward the final
triumph.
A Deputy M. W. Patriarch will be appointed
in States where Grand Divisions
exist, will grant cards to all who are entitled
under existing laws where obarters have
been forfeited or surrendered. The former
limitation of one year has been dispensed
with. I shall be glad to correspond with
any who may desire to know more of the
Order and assist in the further extension
of its principles and benefits.
J. N. 8TEARNS, M. W. Patriarch,
No. 172 William-Btreet New York.
[Published by Request.]
Stay Laws.
To the Editors, Legislature and people of
South Carolina.
The Legislature will soon be convened
for the purpose of modifying our Distriot
Court system, so as to meet the requirements
of the legislation of the late Federal
Congress. It is the design of a strong influence
in the State to use this extra session
for the purpose of passing laws to delay or
hinder the oolleotion of debts- I wish,
briefly, to state the effeot of the attempt to
carry out suoh a design.
Saoh laws cannot be made valid without
an amendment of the Constitution of the
United States. Lawyers who say otherwise
are badly informed or wilfully mislead the
people
Our present distress is owing, not so muoh
to the devastations of war and emancipation,
as to the shock given to our credit by
the passage of our late stay law. Otherwise,
New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore,
with millions seeking investment,
would not refuse to sell to us on a oredit.
This is not opinion but faot. The merchants
of these oities so say. They are
alarmed at the animus of our legislation,
and it will require at least one regular session
of our Legislature to pass, without an
attempt at the passage of such laws, to
restore commercial confidence. No law has
ever been passed, interfering with the laws
of trade, that has not produced evil and
barm to those intended to be benefitted.
There are cases where the prevention of
the collection of a debt wonld be almost a
moral crime. There are others where the
saorifice of a debtor's property would be an
act worthy of Shylook. An honest publio
opinion will regulate the arm of the law in
these oases Why is it that now, with
Sheriffs armed witb fi. fa.'s^very few levies
are made?
The agitation of the subject of stay laws
holds out false hopes, and prevents creditor
and debtor from compromising.
It is not true that the creditors, as a gen
era! rale, design the oolleotion of their
olaimB; they desire to have them secured,
which, being done, they are ready to grant
any reasonable indulgence
Oar legislature, if tbey close the civil
courts and leave the criminal courts open,
will thereby leave the Judges in a position
whioh will enable them, as Jionest Jadges,
to deolare all laws delaying or hindering
the oolleotion of debts, "repugnant to the
Constitution of the United States/' To
close the oivil courts, theD, all courts must
be closed. What follows? Tide General
Grant's order: "The United States military
will have cognizanoe of all crimes and
misdemeanors, without regard to the oolor
of the parties !" Liberty has already gone,
this will take away her shadow now left as.
Suppose, however, the oivil courts to be
closed, what then ? The Freedmen's Bureau
will collect the debts owing to freedmen.
What follows? The white man will
transfer his dead claim to a negro ! This
is not conjectured?it was done in one District,
to some extent, before the annulling
of the late stay law.
Again, suppose the hands of creditors,
who are citizens of the State, to be tied ;
then oreditors, who are citizens of other
States, (now a large class,) whose olaims
exceed 3500, will sue in the United StateB
Courts, and the marshals will oollect, aided
by a posse of Federal bayonets, if neoesBary.
This is not all. Debts above 3500, found-1
ed on. bills or exchange, (Act 01 Sept. ti,
1788, Sec. 11,) promissory notes, (I Mason,;
251,) and notes payable to bearer, (II Peters.
318,) boda fide conveyances of titles
to land, (II Samner, 252), which four
classes of action will embraoe in amount
three-fourths of all debts, will leave the
State and become the property of citizens
of other States, who will sue in the United
OiA Hrttl i>ta
OMSLCB VUUllO.
Is it trae that creditors have no oonsoi-'
eoce ? Is it trae that all debtors are honest
? Is it trae that oreditors are always'
rich and the debtors poor? Is isjast to dis- !
regard the rights of the oreditor, although
a poor widow or orphan, and to protect the
debtor who may be in possession of the wid-:
ows' or orphans' property withoat any consideration
paid ? Is it not trae that those
who flavor repudiation and stay laws are,
as a general rule, either popularity-seekers,
or those who owe more than they expect to
collect from their debtors ?
I pity the man reduced to poverty by
the late war, and oan sympathize with him
in his struggles, ev8n where, in his extremimity,
he desires to stay the hand of justice;
but great is my oontempt for the lawyer, or
well informed man, whowill delude his fellows
and his oountry?for it is too true that
our honor and onr oredit are all that are left
as; take them away and we are poor indeed.
Let public opinioo alone, and fear not
! the bug bear of the poor debtor being (<sold
out of house and home home " i ask when
and in how many instances in our State,
from its earliest history, has a man and his I
family been sold out of house and home and <
turned out of doors by bis creditor, unless i
tbe debtor connived at it himself, in order i
to take tbe benefit of tbe Insolvent Debtor's ]
Act, or where tbe debtor was fraudulently i
making way with or soreeoing his pioperty ?
LAISSEZ NOUS FAIRE
Idleness. I
There is too muoh idleness in this oountry. '
It is breeding vice and immorality. It is 1
filling our jails with oriminals. Crime has 1
been on the gradual increase for six months. (
This comes of idleness; and idleness comes
in a great measure of that abominable idea 1
that a white man cannot be a gentleman and {
work. He must get money, for that is in *
dispensable. But how? That's it. Young '
men have not the dispositon to work, and (
by patient economy secure a basis for busi- 1
ness operations. They must have it now. '
This suggests expedients. These lead to (
temptation; and temptation leads to orime.
Hence, we have murders, horse thefts and
breaches of trust. }
Why should a young man consider it de- 1
grading or even undignified to work ? Pres <
ident Johnson pnrohased his present resi- '
denoe in East Tennessee with the proceeds f
of his labor as a tailor. One of the weal- 1
thiest bankers in New York oommenced the
world as a gardener, selling to the huckster '
the products of his own labor Gen Pat
Cleburn, at one time the head of the Ar- '
kaosas bar, subsequently the ruling spirit in 1
a powerful army, began life as a day-laborer. <
Judge Reagan, Postmaster General of the j
late Confederate States, was once a wood- 1
chopper on the banks of the Mississippi x
The world is full of such example*. But '
where can we point to a suooessfu! man who '
spent his early youth in hunting business 1
whioh he considered to be more genteel 6
than manual labor? Who has ever heard '
of a man succeeding who spent his earl;
manhood "waiting for something to turn
op?"
Young man if you would succeed, go to
work. If you cannot obtain a clerkship,
take something else. You had better be
rolling barrels, or plowing, or building
fence, or ohopping cord wood, or carrying
the hod, than doing nothing. Quit depending
upon your friends. Strike out for yourself.
Learn at once the greatest of all lessons,
that of self-reliance. Have a head, a
will, a purpose of your own. Go to work
and watoh your opportunity. The soil up- ^
on whioh you have been reared never re- *
fuses a competence to those who are willing 5
to dig. Then, if you can do no better, dig. 8
It will pay to dig. Nor is there anything *
undignified or vulgar in it. It is honor
able, if you choose to make it so. Then dig 1
and watoh your opportunity But don't
stand iaw ana "wait ior Bometning 10 turn ?
op." 1
J
U. S. Spies and Confederate Traitors. ?
The Richmond correspondent of the New '
York Times, ?E. Cin his letter of the (
7th, relates the following noique story : I
The ooantry will remember that during s
the winter our Government obtained assur c
ance of the hopelessness of the rebel cause f
by coming into possession of the testimony o
of Geo. Lee before a committee of the rebel I
Congress, which was never reported to the a
House, except in secret session, if at all ?
A full history of the manner in which the t
Government obtained that information p
would be more interesting than any romanoe, 1
but it is too soon yet to do more than out i
line it. * The evidence of General Lee was g
taken late in the winter by this committee, g
and long before the oommittee had deter- ii
mined what coarse they shoald pursue?al- t
moat before the ink was dry upon thoir 1<
notes?the entire statement of their rebel b
General, word for word, was in possession c
of President Lincoln at Washington. In b
the room where the committee met was a g
closet, and from that closet immediately af- a
ter their adjournment, came the priceless h
information. Oatside the hoase it at once p
changed hands, and a second party walked 3
leisurely through the streets of Richmond s
with it, uutil upon the environs, be encoun- p
tered one of the common country carts of h
this section proceeding with the half of a o
newly-killed beef toward the rebel lines in r
Butler's front. No communication that the
most lynx-eyed could perceive passed be- e
tween the man and the oart, but the former a
gradually changed bis direotion, and was n
Boon walking baok in the direction wbenoe
be bad come. Tbe can went on, resooea
and passed through the rebel oa.mps with- c
out molestation and reaobed tbe piokets, b
where it halted, as a matter of oonrse. Tbe v
beef was destined for the house of a planter p
just beyond the rebel lines and in plain 1
sight of their outposts, and about equi-dis- a
tant between them and our outposts. The 1
explanations made and a careless search of b
the cart by the rebel sentry, that is, a look tl
into it, the cart prooeeded on its way.? a
Just as it neared the house, a small party n
of our oavalry made a dash at it, and to the n
utter surprise of the rebel piokets, who saw li
the whole affair, our men only hovered a a
moment around the cart, then galloped t
baok with one more than they oame with, b
leaving oart and beef, and driver and mule n
behind them. They did not know it then, ^
bnt under the beef was a man, and the man c
had a package, and the paokage contained e
'be statements of General Lee before the
jommittee of Congress a few boors before.
In outline this was bow the thing was
lone. It may seem strange, bat Lincoln
md Grant knew, long before many of the
highest officials of the insurgent Government,
tbe sworn statement of their commander
as to tbe hopelessness of farther
resistance. Knowing that the Government
md Grant had this information, explains
many things in connection with the arrival
within our lines of Hunter, Stephens and
jampoeii. at tbe time ot the uampton
Roads conference, whiob, at tbe time, were
inexplicable. The feat of obtaining this
Information is unrivalled in tbe annals of
irar, and gradually, as tbe faots come to
light, it will be found that Grant had every
lay snch particular information from tbe
rebel capital that he knew what Jeff. Davis
was talking about eaob day in tbe most
private of bis conversations with his Cabinet
and members of his Congress
- ?H?? ?Davis
in Prison.
The editor of tbe Abbeville Banner has
seen permitted by a kind friend to make
;he following extracts from a letter lately
reoeived, which gives some true aod interesting
information concerning the President
)f tbe late Confederate States.
This letter, which was written without
iny idea of publication, is in the familiar
ityle of a friend deeply impressed with the
roth of the subject of wbioh she writes,
mparting in almost every sentence a sense
)f that deep and fervid attachment which
ill the women, and most of the men, of the
ate Confederate States feel for tbe illustriins
captive.
But to the extracts :
"My friend, Mrs. B. (Mr. Davis' niece)
irrote me she was going to Fortress Mon oe,
and invited me to join her. Not reviving
her letter in time to meet her, we
followed her to Fortress Monroe, and after
tome little diplomacy got permission to ener
and spend the day the (4th of Jnly.)?
We had the happiness of seeing, listening
:o and dining with our illustrious President
?illustrious by his misfortunes, his talents,
lis high positions and bis many virtues,
fhioh shine more resplendent in this day
>f gloom Dr. Cooper (like Dr. Craven)
8 entbosiastio in his praise of him, says that
t is impossible to entrap him into one
ford of bitterness or impatienoe towards
lis enemies, and shows himself greater in
lis magnanimity, his patience and gentleless,
his wonderful self-control under petty
iligbts and indignities, than in the days of
lis power in the Confederacy We saw
lim first walking feebly across the parade
Tom bis look opto the case mate where his
fife lives, the nnrse and baby by bis side,
lis emaoiated figure and tottering step teling
the tale of hardships and ill-treatment.
Presently we followed him, and not one of us
int kissed the emaciated hands which he
leld out to welcome us, wetting them with
ears. He talks cheerfully, but with diffi
lulty, his voice is so weak, and every hour
key give him a teaspoonful of brandy, aod
ie lies down often to rest his back.
"I Could understand the temptation of
[)r. Craven to set down his conversation,
10 wonderful is it, so pointed, so strong and
10 forcible, every sentence so concentrated
is to seem the very essence of wisdom. I
onnd out through Mrs. B., and Dr. Coopir,
bis opinion of Dr. Craven's book; it is
lot reliable.
"He says he is often misrepresented and
iftener misunderstood, not that be thinks
Dr. Craven would falsify wilfally, but Col.
Elalpin, who wrote the book for Craven, haw
garbled the oonversation to suit his own
riews and wishes. Col. Hatpin was on
}ene?al Hunter's staff, hence he maker,
ilr. Davis guilty of the inconsistency of
aying, "Hunter was his model of a sol
tier." Whereas, Mr. Davis said in our
tresence, 'Hunter is simply a brute.' In
>ur early days we were muoh associated, and
thought him conscientious, though a fanitio,
but he is entirely ohanged since then."
"While Mr. Davis rested we were taken
o see his apartment in Carroll Hall, which is
treoisely like the apartments occupied by
ionB and tigers in a menagerie. The back
a closed and three sides of iron bars, and
;reat padlocks. Before tbese bars three
;uards walk gazing at him, walking, sleep
g, washing, dressing; not even a unrtain
o protect him At 9 o'clock A. M , he is
et out, and at snnset the trnmpet sounds,
lis guards appears, and he is locked in his
age. A bright light, from two lamps,
ilazes in his faoe, which with the ohallen;ing
of the passers by, the changing of the
entinels every two hours, effectually keep
lim awakp. He walks out upon the ram
arts from 5 to 6 P. M., Mrs. Davis and
rlrs. B. supporting him. When the signal
ounds for the look up and the guard ap
lears, be says never a word, but turns from
is companions with a look of so much agny,
mingled with fortitude, as is heartending
to witness.
"The most toughing sight I ever witnessd
was to see him lift bis emaciated hands
nd say graoe?thanking God for all his
leroies "
An Odd Taste.?A great many artifiial
tastes exist in animals as well as human
leiDgs. The goats in Mr. Lynn's ship yard
rill scent out tobacco if you have it in your
ocket, and beg you to Bhare it with them,
'be deer in the public square have acquired
n inordinate taste for the same artiole.
'he oddest oase of a perversion of natural
aste we have yet seen, is that of a horse at
be brewery of Messrs. Abbott & Co. The
nimal will drink, whenever it is treated to
t, a bucketful of porter, and would take
aore of it if its thirst was sufficient. The
iking for the beverage has been gradually
cquired, just as many people are obliged
o eat tomatoes, by nauseating degrees. The
lorse was a pet In hot weather, the draynan
would sponge his mouth with porter.
Vhat might have been at first distasteful,
ame to be sought for with the greatest
agerness.?Philadelphia Gazette.
Good NewB for the Htmgry.
The New York Journal of Commerce,
of Monday, the 20th ultimo, publishes the
following, whioh will give oar readers some
idea of the inexhaustible fertility of the
Western conn try:
Within six weeks?that is to say, by the
1st of October?will be harvested one of
the largest corn crops ever prodaoed in the
United States. Nothing can lode more
luxurious than the fields of growing oorn
that cover thousand of notes in the vattfee
of the Ohio and Missouri Rivers, where
one-half of the entire orop in the United
States is prodaoed. A writer io one of the
| Western ^papers calculates that, as a bushel
' of corn contains sixtv solid Dounds of erain.
the crop of the earront year, even if it
should not exceed 80,000 bushels, will amount
to 4,800,000,000 pounds of graio,
besides an equal weight in fodder. The
value to the country of suob an aggregate
of agricultural wealth, springing from a single
crop, is not easily ooDoeiTed. Though
wheat realizes a higher price per bushel in
the market, its positive value as a life-sustaining
product is muoh inferior to that of
maize, ainoe the former averages but little
more than one-third as muoh to the aore in
the quantity grown. The statistics of the
production of oorn in the United States for
the last twenty-five years are as follows,
viz:
Bushelt.
In 1840, total crop ..377,631,876
In 1860, total orop 592,671,104In
1860, total crop 830,451,707
In 1866, total crop(estim'ed) 1,039,000,000
The writer, whose oaloulations we have
notioed, remarks upon this showing as follows:
"The increase being at the rate of
four per cent, per annum, the aggregate
orop of 1866 will be over one thousand
millions of bushels ! Estimate this at six
ty cents per bushel, and conceive, if yon
can, the feeding power of this enormous
quantity of Indian corn*.
No wonder that the farmers of the West
exult in the prospeot afforded by their luxuriant
fields. I bey have surely been disappointed,
as no staple of agriculture seems
so well adapted to resist the changes of our
olimate. Taking the last twenty years to
gether, the average yield per aore in the
"Buokeye State" is not far from thirtythree
bushels. Corn is a commodity which
should not be despised.
Secretary MeCullooh on the Finances.
Secretary MeCullooh, being on a recent
visit to bis native New England, was invi
ted to dine with the solid men of Boston.
Tbe letter failed to reaoh him till after bis
return to Washington; baton tbe 18th ultimo
he responded, showing why he coald
not accept, and speaking of the national
finances as follows:
"Although it was hoped that ere this the
currency of the oouutry would have been
brought nearer to the speoie standard, lam
sure tbe people have cause for congratulation
that our finances are in so healthy a
condition as they are.
"Since March, 1865, the war has been
brought to a successful conclusion; immense
armies have beeu disbanded; every soldier
has been paid before being mastered oat of
the service; all matnring obligations of
the Government have been satisfactorily
provided for, while the national debt is
nearly $250,000,000 less than it was estimated
it would be at the present time, and
the redoction of it has averaged, for the
past year, more than $10,000,000 per
month. If no other nation ever rolled up
a debt so rapidly, none certainly ever com
me need the reduotion of its debt so soon after
its creation. If oar carrency is depreciated,
wo have so far escaped the financial
troubles that usually occur among nations
at the close of expensive wars, and wbicb
there was reason to apprehend would happen
to as at tbe termination of the great
war in wbiob we have been engaged. If
tbe business of tbe country is conducted
upon a changing and onoertain basis, it has
been subjeoted to no severe revulsions. If
our taxes are heavy, our resouroes are almost
unlimited, while tbe disposition of the
people to bear cheerfully their burdens, is
a surprise even to those who have the
greatest confidence in tbe honor and good faith
of a free people. In my opinion, tbe
people of tbe United States are to make
republicanism illustrious among the nations
by establishing the faot that the securities
of a republican Government are the safest
of all securities, and that the people who
impose taxes upon themselves are the most
jealous of their national oredit.
I do not, however, disguise the faot that
great financial difficulties are still to bp overcome
: that our present prosperity is rather
apparent than real; that we are measuring
values by a false standard; that we are, in
faot, exposed to all the dangers which attend
an inflated and irredeemable ourrenoy,
whioh diminishes labor?the trnesonroeof
national wealth?and stimnlates speculations
and extravagance, which lead invari- <
ably to tbriftlessness and demoralization.
Before tbe country becomes again really <
prosperous, tbe speoie standard must be restored,
prices reduced, industry stimulated,
the products of the oountry increased, tbe
balanoe of trade between the United States i
and other nations cease to be against us?
all tbe great interests of the country cared
for and proteoted by wise and impartial
legislation, and all sections of the country
t 1 t-A * ? 3
to do orougni again into narmomous ana <
practical relations with the General Gov- i
eminent.
That the country will be again thus really
prosperous is as certain as anything in
the fntare. That it should be so at an early
day, and that, too, without a financial
crisis, it is only neoessary that there should
be proper legislation by Congress, economy
in the pablio expenditures, and fidelity on
the part of those who are entrusted with
the management of the publio revenue. '
Trusting that you will pardon me for
writing so long a letter in acknowledging
the receipt of your very courteous invitation,
I remain, very trnly, your obedient servant,
HUGH McCULLOCH.
/ v/y i j
Autographs of Eminent Persons.
Qaeen Elizabeth : She was taught writing
by Roger Aseham. Her first oopy book
is to be seen in the Bodleian Library. She
began well and improved rapidly. While
a princess she came to write a beautiful engrossing
had?clear and regular, almost an
engraving of letters. But another signature,
made after she bad been queen a long
time, shoved a remarkable and melancholy
change! The letters were now tbin, spiteful,
the lines irregular?an ugly, old maid'i
version of her former band?and the signature
wae a thing to make one Mess one's
self! It was an immense, thin mounts
bank's letter?and then another such a let-'
ter, with a signature worked between, the *
whole hating the appearance of an outline
of some wild scaffolding, whereupon stood
the pale, grotesque, skeletons of fireworks,
as they look before explosion. Martin
Lather; Firm and legible, though not eery
equal nor very straight. It appears to be
characteristic of the man; as he had strong
reasons for what he did. Sir Thomas
Moore: By no means displaying the chltaa
firmness be possessed; the lines crooked
and tumbling down bill. Bubeni: Manly,
bold, with a careless ease and clearness,
denoting mastery of band Lord BaOOa:
Very like an elegant moderti shorthand.?
Clear, neat and regular. The signature involved
with broken lines, as it k fly had ,
straggled tndf died in a spiders web. Vol- ;
taire: Very olear, regular, steady and
straight, evidently not writteo rapidly, but
with a continuous ease, which might go on
writing book after book in just the same
way. Oliver Cromwell: Luge, bold, legible,
steady, sharp and straight. The signature
made up of halberds Sod palisades.?
Bat another letter of bis was not at kit of
this obaraoter. It displayed a perplexed
and nodeoided mind at the time it was written.
Prince de Conde: Not at all in accordance
with the strong expression and
bnfflalo features of his fiaoe. Charlotte Cor- ,
<fay: Firm, dear, steady, bat not without
emotion. Cuvier: Very like the writing
of Charlotte Corday, but not so strong and
compact. Danton: Willful, daring, without
method or care George IV: Not at
all the gentle manly hand moat people wonld 1
expect?rather like a housemaid's. Pope : '
Very bad, small, fall of indecision ; a very
hedgerow of oorreotione and emares Cardinal
Wobey: A good Juad,' disturbed
only by nervons energy and self will. Porson
: Correct and steady; the reverse of his
personal appearance and habits.
Sleeping Caes?It is not, perhaps,
generally known that the "sleeping cars"
used upon all the principal railroads in the
United Stateu are a monopoly, the profits of
which are enjoyed by a few patentees, who
have formed themselves into a corporation,
and, by buying up all the new patents, now
have the oontrol of the entire sleeping ear
interval m tue uuuuujr, iuu ujr rigurwuBij
guarding it, prevent the railroad companies
from contracting and running can of this
kind for themselves. The bargain made
between the patentees and the railroad com*
panies is that the patentees shall famish
the can and keep the upholstery and bedding
in repair, whilst the railroad company
is to fnrnisb the motive power and^ keep the
car in repair The company is thus saved
the oost of a car it woald otherwise have to
bnild, whilst the patentees, by oharging extra
fees of the passengers, make money
qnite easy. A sleeping car costs about
$5000, and its anbnal expense for attendants
and incidentals is abont $2900. The
average receipts are said to be $30 a daj/
for each car, or $9000 annually?a yearly
profit, when the expenses is deducted, of
$6100 upon the original investment of $5|000.
On some of the great railroads, how**
ever, the profits frequently reaoh 800 per
cent, per annom.?Philadelphia, Ledger "
Wx Object?The New York Etenvna
Post appeals to the Repoblican orators to
take tbe stomp in tbe Sooth to extend the
influence and organization of that party.
Hear tbe Potfs appeal: "'Ttli' special I j
important that tbe Sootb sboold be 'stomped
and we sboold be glad to see forty or
fifty leading Repoblioan speakers ondertake
this work. Tbis is the troe missionary
groond of tbe party progress in this ooontry."
We beg tbat we may be spared this visitation.
We are afraid Botler will volonteer
for the work, or that Sberman will tarn
aside from the path be has beet) panning
in tbe North, and seek aodienee in these
parte. Tbis we coold not stand It woold
prodaoe consternation in all tbe oities,
towns, villages, hamlets and ooontry districts.
Old women woold oommenoe bory
ing their bacon hams and silver spoons again.
There would be a general ripping of seams
in dresses to hide greenbacks in, and snoh
confusion wonld prevail as has never had*
parallel except when Sherman canvassed
our country several months ago. ' hi
Wilmington Dispatch.
Something for the Ladies Colored'
starch is the latest and greatest novelty of
the season. It is made in pink buff, the
new manve, and a delicate green and bine
will soon be prodoced. Any article starched
with the new preparation is completely
colored?dyed we should have said, but as
it washes oat, and the garment that was
pink to-day may be green to-morrow, tod
uff .ft.?mb nan hintfv saw *'
"WU WUUOj IfV ww? j j
It is ioteoded especially for tboee bright bat
treacherously oolored maslins, that are costly,
wash oat and perplex their owners. ? If
the pattern has been mauve, they oUlfneed
the maove starch ; if green, green starch;
and they can be rendered one even and
pretty shade, thai beooming not only wearable
agkin, but very stylish. White antimacassars
or laee curtains may also be colored
in the same way, and infinite variety
afforded.