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VOLUME XIL YORKVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22, 1866. NUMBER 31.
Heleriefo Jjoefrj).
LOVE AND AGEI
played with you 'inid cowslips blowing,
When I was six and you were four;
When garlands weaving, flower balls throwing,
Were pleasures soon to please no more.
Through groves nnd meads, o'er grass and heather
With little playmates, to and fro,
We wandered hand in hand together;
But that was sixty years ago.
You grew a lovely, roseate maiden,
A nH tit ill on r ofirlv Invr Ktrnncr
Still with no care our days were Taden,
They glided joyously along;
And I did love you, very dearly?
How dearly, words want power to show;
I thought your heart was touched as nearly;
But that was fifty years ago.
Then other lovers came around you,
Your beauty grew from year to year,
And many a splendid circle found you
The centre of its glittering sphere.
I saw you then, first vows forsaking,
On rank and wealth your hands bestow;
Ob, then I thought my heart was breaking;
But that was forty years ago.
And I lived on to wed another;
No cause she gave me to repine;
And when I heard you were a mother,
I did not wish the children mine.
My own young flock in fair progression,
Made up a pleasant Christmas row :
My joy in them was past expression;
But that was thirty years ago.
You grew a matron, plump and comely,
You dwelt in fashion's brightest blaze ;
My earthly lot was far more homely;
But I too had my festal days.
No merrier eyes have ever glistened
Around the hearthstone's wintry glow
Than when my youngest child was christened;
Sut that was twenty years ago.
Time passed. My eldest girl was married,
And I am now a grandsire gray;
One pet of four years old I've carried
Among the wild flowered meads to play.
In our old fields of childish pleasure,
Where now, as then, the cowslips blow,
She fills her basket's ample measure,
And that is not ten years ago.
But though first love's Impassioned blindness
Has passed away in colder light,
I still have thought of you with kindness,
And shall do, till our fast good-night.
The ever-rolling silent hours
Will bring a time we shall not know,
When our young days of gathering flowers
Wiil be an hundred years ago.
Artemus Ward in London.
Mr. Punch, My Dear Sir :?I was a little
disapioted in Dot reoeivio a invitation to
jine in the meetios of the Social Science
Congress.
I don't exackly see how they got on without
me.
1 hope it wasn't the intentions of the
Sciencers to exolood me from their delibrations.
Let it pars I do not repine. Let as
remember Homer. Twenty cities claim
Homer dead, thro' which the livin Mr. Homer
couldn't have got trnsted for a sandwich
and a glass of bitter beer, or words to
that effeob.
But perhaps it was a oversight. Certain
ly I have been hospitably received in this
country. Hospitality has been pored all
over me. At Liverpool I was asked to walk
over the docks, which are nice miles loDg ;
and I don't remember a instance since my
'rival in London of my gettin into a cab
without a Briten comin and perlitely shut
in the door for me, and then extendin his
open hand to'ards me, in the most frenly
manner possible. Does he not by this simple
yit tuchin gesture, welcum me to England
? Doesn't he ? Oh, yes?I guess he
doesn't lie. And it's quite right amofig
two great countries which speak the same
langwidge, except as regards H's. And I've
been allowed to walk round all the streets.
Even at Buckingham Pallis I told a gard 1
wanted to walk round there, and he said I
could walk round there. I ascertained subsequently
that he referd to the sidewalk instid
of the Pallis?but I couldn't doubt his
hospital feelins.
I prepared a Essy on Animals to read
before the Social Science mcetiqs. It is a
subjeck I may truthfully say I havesuooessfully
wrastled with. I tackled it when only
nineteen years old. At that tender age I
writ a Essy for a lit'ry Instoot, entitled is
"Cats to be Trusted ?" Of the merits of
that Essy it doesn't becum me to speak,
but I may be excoosed for mentionin that
the Instoot parsed a resolution that "whether
we look upon the length of this essy, or
the manner in which it is written, we feel
that we will not express any opioion of it,
and we hope it will be read in other towns."
Of course the essy I writ for the Social
Science Society is a more finisheder production
than the one on Cats, which was
wroten when my mind was crood and afore
I had mastereda graceful andellygant stile
of composition. I could not even punctooate
my sentences proper at that time, and I
observe with pane, on lookin over this effort
of my yooth, that its beauty is in one or too
instances mard by ingrammaticisms. This
was unexcusable, and I'm surprised I did
it. A writer who can't write in a grammerly
manner better shut up shop.
You shall hear this Essy on Animals ?
Some day when you have four hours to spare
I'd read it to you. 1 thiok you'll eDjoy it.
Or, what will be much better, if I may
suggest?omit all the picture in the next
week's Punch, and do not let your contributors
write anything whatever, (let them
have a holiday; tbey can go to the British
Mooseum ;) and publish my Essy entire.?
It will fill all your ooliumes full, and create
comment. Does this proposition strike
you ? Is it a go ?
In case I had read the Essy to the Sooial
Sciencers, I had intended it should be
the closing attraction. I had intended it
should finish the proceedins I think it
would have finished them. I understand
animals better than any other class of human
creatures. I have a very animal mind,
and I've been identified with 'em doorin
my entire professional career as a showman;
more especial bears, wolves, leapards and
serpents.
The leopard is as lively a animal as I
ever came into contack with. It is troo be
cannot change hisspots, but you can change
'em for him with a paint bru9b, as I once
did in the case of a leopard who wasn't
nat'rally spotted in a attractive manner.
In exbibitin him I used to stir bim up in
his cage with a protracted pole, and for the
purpuss of makin bim yell and kick up in
a leopardy manner, I used to 'casionally
whack him over the head. This would
' make the children inside the booth screan
l with fright, which would make fathers o
| families outside the booth very anxious t<
come iD?because there is a large class o
. parents who have a uncontrollable passim
j for takin their children to places when
| they will stand a chance of being frighten
| ed to death.
i One day T whaoked this leopard mori
j than usual, which elissited a remonstranci
| from a tall gentleman in spectacles, whi
said: '-My good man. do not beat the poo
caged animal. Rather fondle him."
"I'll fondle him with a club," I anserec
hitting him another whack.
"I prithy desist," said the gentleman
"stand aside and see the effect of hindoess
' * * - ' > J- :? .1,
i understand tne laiutsyuciuuieo ui tucsi
creaturs better than ye do." With that h<
went op to the oage, and thrustin his fact
in between the iron bars, he said, soothiniy
"Come hither, pretty creetur " The pretty
creetur come-hithered rather speedily, anc
seized the gentleman by the whiskers
which he tore off about enuff to stuff t
small cushion with.
He said, "You vagabone, I'll have yoc
indicted for ezhibitin dangerous and im
moral animals "
I replied, "Gentle sir, there isn't a ani
ma! here that hasn't beautiful mora), bul
you musn't fondle 'em You musn't med
die with their Idiotsyncracies."
The gentleman was a dramatio cricket,
and he rote a article for a paper, in whioh
he said my entertainment was a decided
failure.
As regards Bears you can teach 'em tc
do interestin things, but they're cnreliable
I had a very large grizzly bear onoe, whc
would danoe, and larf, and lay down, and
bow his head iu grief, and give a mounful
wale, etsetry. But he often aDooyed me
T. *11 I L ] ^ ^ UA nAARDlnr
11 will oe rememuerBU mai uu iuc uvbooiuu
of the first battle of Bull Run, it suddenly
occurred to the fed'ral soldiers that thej
bad busiuess in Washington whioh ought
not to be neglected, and tbey all started foi
that beautiful and romantic city, maintainin
a rate of speed darin the entire distance
that would have done credit to the celebrated
French steed, Gladiateur. Very nat'rally
our gov'ment was deeply grieved at
this defeat; and I said to my Bear, shortly
after, as I was givin' a exhibition in Ohio
? I said, "Brewin, are you not sorry the
national arms has sustained a defeat?"?
His business was to wail dismal, and bow
his head down, the band (a barrel origin
and a wiolin) playing slew and melanobolly
rnoosic. What did the grizzly old cuss do,
however, but commenoe dancio and larfin
in the most joyous manner. I had a narrei
escape from being imprisoned for disloyalty
I will relate another incident in the
career of this retchid Bear. I used to present
what I called in the bills A Beautiful
living Pictur?showing the Bear's fondness
for bis Master; in which I'd lay down on
a piece of oarpeting, and the Bear would
come and lay dowu beside me, resting bis
right paw on my brest, the Band playing
"Home, Sweet Home," very soft and slow.
Altho' I say it, it was a tuchin thing to see.
I've seen Tax Collectors weep over that
performance.
Well, one day I said, "Ladies aod gen
tlemen, we will oow show you the bear's
fondness for his master," and I went and
laid down. I tho't I observed a pecooliar
expression into his eyes, as he rolled clnm
sily, to'ards me, but I didn't dream of the
6cene which followed. He laid down and
put his paw on his breast. "Affection of
the bear for his master." I repeated. "You
see the monarch of the western wilds in a
subjugated state Fierce as these animals
natrally are, we now see that tbey have
hearts, and can love. This bear, the largest
in the world, and measurin seventeen
feet round the body, loves me as a mer-ther
loves her che-ild !" But what was my horror
when the grizzly and iufatnus bear threw his
other paw under me, and riz with me to his
feet. Then claspin me in a close embrace
he waltzed up and down the platform in a
frightful manner, I yellin with fear and anguish.
To make matters wuss, a low scurrilus
young man in the audiens hollored
out, "Playfulness of the bear ! Quick moosic
!" I jest 'scaped with my life The
bear met with a wiolent death the next day,
by bein in the way when ahevily loaded gun
was fired off by one of my men.
But you should hear my Essy which I
wrote for the Social Science oieetios j.i
would have had a moviu effeck on tbeoi.
I feel that I must oow conclood.
Very respectfully yours,
ARTEMUS WARD.
Bold Attack on a Railroad Train ?
On Wednesday night, about 2 o'clock, ae
; the train on the Louisville and Nashville
' Railroad was about five miles from Franklin.
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I Ky , the engineer discovered that the road
was barricaded He immediately slackened
; speed, but not until the engine, baggage
car and express car were thrown from the
! track and upset
The passengers being aroused, found the
; train surrounded by guerillas, who firechone
shot as a note of warning, which passed
! through the car without injuring any one
The guerillas then entered the sleeping,
car, aud ordered the passengers to go for
ward to the next car. As they crossed the
platform, each one was compelled to band
over his pocket book.
The whole transaction occupied not more
than five minutes, and, before the passengen
fairly recovered from their astonishment
the intruders were gone.
When the guerillas had departed, it was
discovered that the train was on fire, having
oaught from a stove in the express oar,
The passenger oars were pushed back out ol
danger, but the engine, express car and
j baggage car were burned. None of the
express freight was saved, though most ol
the baggage was removed. The safe of the
Express Company even was burned.
Atlanta Era.
i Cost of War in the Eighteenth and
f Nineteenth Centuries.
) The Fall Mall Gazette has the following
f observations:
i Au exhaustive comparison of the cost of
5 war now and formerly would be a most io
structive aod a somewhat appalling docu
meet . It would be impossible to draw out
; such a contrast with complete accuracy,
? but it might be done approximately. The
3 expensiveness of war to a country comprises
r many items; the size of armies and navies;
the cost of transport; the price of arms
] and ammunition ; the slaughter directly or
indirectly caused; the extent and oompli.
cation of the fortifications constructed and
destroyed; and the wealth and civilization
, of the district whiob is the seat of war.
; Some of these can be ascertained or esti,
mated; others can only be guessed at.
Thus the siege and destruction of a fortress
j like Sebastopol is incomparably more costly
I to both parties than the seige of a fortress
like Namur. A campaign in England, or
t in the heart of France or Germany, as
compared with a campaign carried on in
Russia, in Poland, or even in Spain, would
' be costlier beyond all measure of comparison,
both in reference to the amount of
property destroyed, and the delicate and
complex processes of civilized and indus
trial life suspended or deranged. In wild
and thinly peopled lands war may cost
nothing but gunpowder and life; in rich
' and populous countries far advanced in
| all the luxurious appliances of modern
existence its expense becomes actually in
calculable.
} A few facts may, howover, be noted down
by which something, not of an estimate,
| but of an idea, may be arrived at as to the
I vastly increased cost of warfare now and in
the days of our fathers and grandfathers.
One point of comparison is that the armies
1 we fight with are enormously greater than
they used to be. This is owing in part to
our improved facilities for the transport of
troops, materials and the commissariat.
Railways do now, and do far more rapidly
1 and cheaply, what bullocks and wagons -did
for Frederick the Great aud the Duke of
Wellington. In the campaigns of the last
century, in all the chief battles of the
Seven Years' War, the Prussians never
bad more than seventy thousand men in
1 the field, and very rarely half that number.
In only two or three cases did the aggregate
of the combatants ou both sides reach one
hundred thousand, Even in the early battles
of Napoleon the forces engaged were
what would now be considered small. Before
Wagram he never bad more than one
hundred thousand men in the field, and
seldom nearly as many. At Marengo he
had not thirty thousand. It was not till
the day of his downfall approached that be
began to deal with corps d'armee as numer
ous aud colossal as those with which the
' wars of our days are making as familiar.
At Borodino and Dresden a quarter of a
million were eugaged, and at Leipsio, if
1 figures can be trustred, not far from half a
1 million. The British force with which our
great Duke won the Peninsular viotories
never once, we believe?at least, not more
' than once?reached fifty thousand, and his
entire army, even reckoning Spaniards and
Portuguese, seldom much exceeded that
1 number. At the crowning viotory of Waterloo
the forces on both sides were under
' one hundred and forty thousand, and of
j these not one third were English. Com
| pare these armies with the three hundred
I thousand who fought at Solferino, the four
| hundred and twenty thousand at Sadowa,
and the multitudes, often exceeding a quarter
of a million, with wbioh the Americans
tried the terrible issues of ther civil coo|
trovcrsy, and the advance made in recent
I times, if it. be an advance, will be obvious
at once.
It is some comfort to know that the
slaughter in our days, in spite of our
mightier artillery and our armes dt precision,
is not proportioned to the number engaged.
Why this should be so we are not
j prepared to say, and we are aware that the
| popular impression is a different one, but
1 we believe the facts would be found to bear
! us out. Id Frederick's wars the proportion
( of killed and wounded on both sides to the
I forces in the field ranged from one-sixth to
one-tenth, and at the peculiar battle of
Zomsdorf far exceeded this ratio. In Na!
poleon's campaigns it was still higher, often
averaging a fifth ; while at Eylau and Boro
' dino it is said to have reached a third. In
: some of these cases, perhaps, the "missing"
may have been included, but not usually.
Alison's calculation is that from 1792 to
1815 three millions of Fieuch soldiers perished
in the field or in the hospital, and at
least an equal number out of the ranks of
i their antagonists. Tho proportion of the
slain and disabled in the American battles
i is not known with any accuracy, but probably
no one would place it higher than one
I tenth; while in the Italian battles of 1859
' it is estimated at scarcely more than a
' twelfth, and at Sadowa about a fifteenth.
Still, though the proportion is less than it
i used to be, the positive number who fell is
s even greater, and the cost in life therefore
1 heavier.
If wt compare the cost of the arms and
! artillery uow in use, and their suitable amI
munition, with the ruder and cheaper
!! weapons which contented us in the last war,
IJ some of the figures are very startling. The
old calculation for a mau-of war used to be
> roughly X1000 per gun; a threedeoker
i cost, therefore, ?100,000 or ?120,000. A
, first rate iron-plated vessel cannot, we believe,
be completed under half a million,
i and some of our experimental ships are
> understood to have oost nearly twice that
sum. A Minnie or an Enfield rifle, with its
f cartridge, is nearly five times as expensive
1 as the old Brown Bess. Even before ooni
version into a breech loader, an Enfield I
F (complete) costs upwards of X5 We
> doubt if the old musket, when manufactured i
wholesale, cost much above XL The rifled j
twelve-pounder now in favor for field bat
tcries costs ?90, and eaob shell it fires 4s.
The brass pine-pounder, which it superseded,
cost ?80, and its shell 3s. But as this
would be worth as old metal ?50, while the
iron gun would scarcely sell for anything,
the true comparative figures would be ?90
against ?30 Lastly, the sixty-eight pounder,
formerly in use for fortifications and
shore batteries, cost ?100, its carriage and
slide another ?100, and its shot 4s. The
1- ?- I-- 4-- -lit
Armstrong oine-inon iweive-ion guu, wmi
which we should now arm oar forts, costs
ooe thousand two haDdred pounds, and its
iron carriage and slide three hundred pounds
more; while the steel shells it fires cost, as
we stated a few weeks since, nine pounds
each The Palliser shell, which will probably
supersede these, can be made for fortyfive
shillings If the more costly missile
be used, every shot we fire in the next war
from our great embrasures will be worth a
ten pound note.
Labor for the South.
We do not know what to say on this subject
the labor of freedmen, as the olose of
operations for the season, has proved to be
an utter failure. The experiment of introducing
white labor from the If*rlh is nearly
as bad, if not worse; so that the Southern
planter must be at his wit's end to solve
the problem of labor.
At Beeoh Island, in this State, they have
an agiicultural club, and the information
there developed shows that the great ques
tion of Southern labor has yet to be solved.
Mr. Jonathan M. Miller made a statement
to the society, which would induce the
planter to believe that foreign white labor
cannot be relied upon. Mr. Miller says:
"At the commencement of the yeur, I
employed as maoy negroes as I thought necessary
for the cultivation of my lands, but
in consequence of a portion of them being
dissatisfied, dismissed them, thinking I
could procure others in their places. In
this I was disappointed, and after repeated
efforts to obtain other negroes, and failing,
offering to pay them at the rate of $12.50
per month, I was induced to try white la
bor. Consequently, I wrote to my brotherin-law,
Muj. N. W. Smith, in New York,
to send me fifteen white laborers; which he
did?thirteen men and two women. They
arrived at Augusta on the 15th of March,
I paying their passage to Savannah by
steamer, and thence by railroad to Augusta,
at $25 each, was to pay them at the rate
?for men, $12.50 per month, and for the
women, $8. At the expiration of the first
month, their wages were paid them, and
they insisted that their wages should be
raised, for the men, $15, and for the women,
$10; notwithstanding that they had made a
contract for the first mentioned amount, before
leaving New York. I agreed to do 90,
as they worked very faithfully Their ra
tions were corn bread and bacon; as they
1 . . ? T . I_
were unaccustomed to tno corn, i gave mem
occasionally rye and wheat bread, with fresh
beef; also, vegetables, such as peas, tur.
Dips, sweet and Irish potatoes, as soon as
I raised them. I also furnished them coffee,
likewise their bedding, tbey furnishing
their own clothing uod paying their doctor's
bill. At the end of the second month, seve
ral of the best workers amoDgst them insis
ted on their wages being increased still
higher, two of them 817 per month, and
one who acted as a gardener to 825. I put
up the wages of the two to 817, as they
were the best hands, and the gardener I
dismissedj several of the others left; one
of the women I made cook and wash for the
men."
_ Jdr. Miller goes on to say that the plan
of introducing foreigo white labor through
the ageooies of New York emigration com
panies is all a humbug. These societies,
when they get orders for laborers, send out
runners and gather up the dregs of the city
of New York, and all such as they oan pick
up, and make from three to ten dollars per
head for each hand furnished. They charge
both parties, the employer aud employee?
the former for hiring him laborers, and the
latter for getting situations They bind both
parties in contracts, which might do in the
North, but as we have no laws to enforce
such coDtracts in the South, arid as there
is do honor io such characters, Mr. Miller
looks upon these companies and must of
their laborers as mere swindlers?the sole
object being to make all the money they
can out of the South?the societies by fur
nishing them, and the laborers by obtaining j
a free passage to the South.
This labor problem is one of the most important
that the Southern people have to
solve We believe that the labor of the j
freedmen will turn out worthless, and that j
some surer mode of securing farming labor, j
than exists at present, should be at once j
eDtered upon. Agents should be appointed
to go to Europe direct, and there make j
the contracts, shipping the laborers direct- J
ly to Southern ports. Irish and German (
farmers should have leases of farming lots,
aod, in time, become proprietors of tho
farms they work. Foreign labor is what
we have to depend oo, and the easiest mode
of getting it ought to engage, at ooce, the
attention of Southern agriculturists.
Lincoln's Last.?We have heard an
anecdote of the late President Lincoln,
whioh unlike some of the stories attributed
in Knliaco on nntiinl fnnt, T)n
CU UlUi) IOj IIXj MWiiVfv^ -M ?
riog Mr. Lincoln's practice of his profession
of the law, long before he was thought
of for President, be was attending the Cir
cuit Court which met at Bloomington, Illinois.
The prosecuting attorney, a lawyer
by the name of Lamon, was a man of great
physical strength, and took particular pleasure
in athletio sports, and was so fond of
wrestling that his power and experience
rendered him a formidable, and generally :
a successful opponent. One pleasant day j
in the fall, Lamon was wrestling near the j
Court House with some one who bad chal- j
lenged him for a trial, aDd in the struggle j
made a large rent in the rear of bis unmen-1
tionables. Before he had time to make any
ohauge, be was called into court to take up
a case.
The evideoce was finished, and L&mon
got up to address.the jury, and having on
a somewhat short coat, his misfortune was
rather apparent. One of the lawyers for a
joke, Btarted a subscription paper, which
passed from one member of the bar to another,
as they sat by a long table fronting
the bench, to buy a pair of pants for Lamon
"he being," the paper said, a poor bat worthy
young man." Several put down their
Dames with some ludicrous subscription, and
finally the paper was laid in front of Mr.
Lincoln. He quickly glanced over it, immediately
took up his pen and wrote after
bis name, "I can contribute nothing to the
end in view.
Familiar Conversations.
number one.
"Ah, Mr. Editor, I wish to advertise by
the year in your paper. What will four
squares cost ?"
"Fifty dollars, sir."
"Fifty dollars ! Why, I used to get it
done for thirty, before the war. I can't pay
any more now?there is do justice or reason
in such high prices "
"Very well, sir, if you don't like the
price, let it alone. I wish to buy a pair of
good sewed shoes. What is the prioe ?"
"Six dollars, sir?a very nice article "
"Ahem I what was the price of such
shoes before the war?"
"From two and a half to three dollars,
sir; everything in our line, you know, is
higher now."
"Yes, sir. Have you some ooffee?and
what is the price 7"
"Wc have some very nioe Java at fifty
cents "
"Fifty cen's! What was the price before
the war 7"
"From eighteen to twenty, sir."
"Well, Mr. Graspall, let mo see some
of yonr bleached shirting. What is the
price of that 7"
"Bleached shirting is worth half a dollar
per yard, sir."
"Did you not formerly sell it at ffteen
oeuts per yard 7"
"Yes, sir; but, as I before remarked, ev
erything in our line is higher than formerly."
"Well, sir, I see I can't afford to buy
dry goods and groceries; but I am obliged
to have some flour, bacon and corn. What
are those articles worth 7"
"Flour is from sixteen to twenty dollars
per barrel; corn, one dollar and a half per
bushel, and bacon tweuty-eigbt, cents per
pound."
"Don't you remember when I advertised
for you for thirty dollars, you sold flour at
85 per barrel, corn at 60 cents per bushel
and bacon at 12} cents por pound 7"
"Well, yes, I believe so."
"How, then, do you expect me to pay
from one to two hundred per cent, advance
on former prices and not raise my rates 7"
"Well, I don't know, Mr. Editor; but
it does seem to me that your prices are very
extortionate." !!!
"ii i... a. .i r. .u.i.L .
ixeauer, cue auuve is uu iunuy oaciuu ,
nor docs it apply to merchants alone.
NUMBER TWO.
"Hello! is the Editor in ?"
"Yes, walk in, Mr. Muggins?take a
seat, sir."
"I just called to see about taking a pa- |
per, Squire. W hat are they going at now?"
"Four dollars a year, sir."
"Four dollars 1 why, I never heard of
rach extortion."
"Well, Mr. Muggins, I understand you
have some wheat?what do yoa ask for it ?"
"Three dollars a bushel, sir."
"I also want some bacon. What is the
price f"
"Twenty eight cents per pound, sir."
"I wish, likewise, to get some corn and
fodder?what are the prices of those articles?"
"Corn is a dollar and i half per busiiel,
and fodder a dollar aud a half per hundred.
But hold on ; let us settle that newspaper (
affair. Can't you let me have it for less
than four dollars ? I do not see any good
reason for asking more than you did former- '
ly?which was two dollars, I believe "
(Editor, somewhat excited ) "The thunder
you don't! I formerly bought wheat
at a dollar a bushel?you now ask three! I '
bought bacon at 12$?now you ask 28 ! I
bought corn at from 50 to 75?you now ask *
a dollar and a half! I bought fodder at 50 ^
cents per cwt.?you now ask a dollar and a 1
half I And so on to the end of the chap- 8
ter. Let us look at the practical working (
of the thing. I offer you my paper at two j
dollars?the old price?if you will pay in
produoc at old-prices This you decline to 1
do, because it would take two basnets ot
wheat, which you estimate at six dbllars.?
It would take four bushels of corn, which t
at the present price, would amount to six
dollars. It would take four hundred pounds *
of fodder for which, you now ask six dol- <
lars." I
"Hold on, Squire?don't go any farther. s
Here are four dollars; put down my name.
I find editors are not, after all, so unreasonable
as some of the rest of us " t
Athens (Ga.) Watchman. 8
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A Family without Young Children.
?"You have no children, madam?" said
the particular proprietor of a quiet bouse be- |
fore letting a lady the best apartments ?
"They are in the cemetery," was the gloomy
reply. A tear was attempted on the part I
of the landlord, the agreement was signed, I
and the next day the lady arrived with a c
oouple of youngsters. "I thought your l
children were in the oemetery," said the I
landlord. "So they were yesterday, sir," ti
was the reply, "placing a few flowers on li
the grave of our former landlord, who was i
nervous, and, to tell the truth, so irritable, t
that"'? "I understand, madam, I under- r.
stand," said the enraged owner, "yourchil- e
dren killed him." v
Energy.
Brigadier General McCallum, Director
and General Manager of United States military
railroads daring the war, has just presented
to the War department a report, of
which the following brief resume is given
by the Herald:
On General McCallnm's assumption of
u:? \t. v._?? u:_ k.n.
mo uuvico) i'ii. ubouiuu &avc uiuj vcfuaujf
this NapoleoDio order: "I shall expeot you I
to have od hand, at all times, the necessary
men and materials to enable you to comply
promptly with any order giveo?nor must <
there be any failure."
To comply with these exaoting requirements
General McCallum organized a transportation
corps to control the movements
of trains, and maintain the rolling stock,
and a construction oorps to lay, tear up or
repair railroad tracks, build bridgee and 1
burn them if necessary. In the Department
of the Mississippi bis construction
corps, five thousand strong, was organized
into six divisions, each a distinct body in
inself, provided with all necessary tools
camp equipage and field transportation, and
ready to move anywhere od emergency ; his
transportation oorps numbered 12,000 men. 1
Some of the achievements of General Mo- '
Callum's department deserves to rank with '
the most remarkable engineering feats of 1
modern times The wonderful bridge over
tbe Chattahooche, seven hundred and eighty i1
feet long and ninety-two feet high, was '
built by the construction corps in four and (
a half days j the bridge over the Potomac 1
creek, at Acquia, four hundred and four- 1
teen feet long and eighty two feet high, was '
built ready for trains to pass in forty work- '
ing hours. In their leisure time this corps
rebuilt the Chattanooga rolling mills, which
1 ! t .1 i * - I
tumea in a tew montns nearly tour tnous- 1
and tons of railroad iron for the Government,
and were sold at the end of the war
for a hundred and seventy five thousand
dollars. With justifiable pride Gen. Mc
Galium classes the attempt to supply Sherman's
army of a hundred thousand men and
sixty thousand horses and mules from abase
three hundred and sixty miles distant, over
one line of single track, as one of the bold
est ideas of the war. Whole corps, and
even armies, were frequently transported
hundreds of miles on the mere verbal or
ders of their commanders. In 1865 the
Fourth Army Corps were transported from
East Tennessee to Nashville, distance of
three hundred and sixty miles, without delay
or difficulty?this herculean task requiring
nearly fifteen hundred cars
Nor wero the services thus rendered unattended
with danger. Guerillas and raid
ing parties dogged the footsteps of the construction
corps wherever they went. In the
first six months of 1865 one wrecking train
picked up and brought into Nashville sixteen
wrecked locomotives and nearly tbree
hundred carloads of wheels and bridge iron,
the destructive handwork of rebel raiders.
Hood was a thorn in McCallum's side; but
the damage he did was repaired with won
derful celerity. In October, 1864, Hood,
passing round Sherman's army, tore up
thirty-live miles of track and burned four
hundred and fifty feet of bridges between
Chattanooga aod Atlanta. The damage was
made good and the line put in working order
again in thirteen days. Between Tunnel
Hill and Resaca twenty five miles of
track aod two hundred and thirty feet of
bridgiog were reconstructed in seven days
and a half.
A Brother.
?AU hands on deck! take in sail ! was
the hoarse shout of the mate down the
oompanion way. and I tumbled out of my
hammock, rubbed open my eyes, aod hurried
on deck. The sky was cloudless, clear
and blue. The ocean was smooth as a "sea
of glass."
"What is up, Mr. N ?" said I.?
He pointed towards the west, without a
word. A little cloud, no larger than the
hand, wus swiftly moving up the horizon
I had been in the tropical latitudes long
enough to know what it meant.
I was second mate of the ship, and tho'
out a mere boy, had become an expert
holmemnn and in times r*f duntrnr incnrinhlc 8
> ? ? ? I
:ook my station at the helm, beside the sea- 8
nan who was on duty there.
Darkness came dowD upon the ocean as
though a mantle had been thrown over it a
[n twenty minutes all was dark as the darkest
night, and the howling winds threw the J*
'oam high over the deck, and dashed the 1
vaves upon as with stanning force All 1
tail had been furled. The sailors aod offi- 0
sers had been holding on, or were lashed to 1
.he spars and rigging. Nothing was said, a
'or no voice could be heard above the storm '
hat raged around us !
I put my lips to the ear of the helmsman, Q
"Bill, did you ever see such a storm os a
his, before?" 8
"Aye, aye, my boy, many of them. I c
vas once ship-wrecked off this coast, was ^
Iritted ashore on a plank, and should have ^
)een eaten by canibals bad it not been for f,
l brother."
Brother ?" shouted I. 8)
"Yes, a brother. Just as they were a- Q
>out to roast me, I saw a venerable chief c,
ipproaohing; and without, for a moment, ^
hinkiog what I did, I gave him the sign Q
hat Masons give when danger is nigh.? Q
3e looked at me in wonder, and on my re- j(
testing it, he rushed up to me, took me in
lis arms-and olaimed me as his brother."
My mind had not then reoeived the b
iight of Eternal Truth ; but sinoe that day
] have wondered at the almost superhuman d
ompleteness of that system of brotherly d
ove which has endured since the days of ai
n o_ l m t it
vmg common s lempie. ana Deen ever p
rae to its Great Teacher, even in heathen h
mds. There, among the worshipers of ^
dots, and the devourers of human flesh? ic
here where ail was darkness, superstition d:
ad ignorance, the Light of Eternal Knowl- sj
dge shone through the clouds and left its tt
?arm radiance upon the human heart. at
A Paris Miser's Breakfast.?A miser
recently died iu Paris, and bis ways of
living were oertainly novel in the extreme.
He boasted that bis breakfast never cost
him more than a half penny, and that it
always consisted of bread and batter, or
bread and fruit. This was his economic
plan:
Every morning be bought a soar roll of
bread. With this he went to one of the .
markets, ana if it was winter, be began by
tasting the country-woman's batter. A bit
of this was put in his month, with a bit of
bread previoasly deposited. Somehow the
kiltfOi* tbaa nlnnna kn/1 a* Ka/1 oAfna Aava*
wuwwii vraa otvwujo uauj vi uau oviuo uaivi
be did not like. Not to be rude, be swallowed
it, bat made no purchases. Id summer
be fared more luxuriously, especially
io the time of the cherries, the strawberries,
the plums, aud the grapes.
"Have you good cherries to-day?"
"Yes."
"How do you sell them ?"
"Six sous a pound."
"Can I taste them ?"
"Certainly."
He takes two or three cherries, eats them
with a mouthful of bread, and says, "Hen 1
heu ! they're a little sour," and he passes
an to the next stall. Before be got half
way dowD, he used to breakfast perfeotly.
Of course, after time, the women who
sold fruit and butter at the various markets
began to know him, aud amused at this eccentricity,
they seldom refased to let him
taste their goods. He has recently died?
seventy years old?very rich, having never
breakfasted on dry bread, or at a cost exceeding
a half-penny.
t&* A good Story is related of a Congressman
who in bis early days refused to believe
io the telegraph and expressed his incredulity
even after the line from Baltimore
to Washington had been many days io successful
operation. A certain friend of this
honorable gentleman happened to have a
little joke upon him. Walking late one
fine moonlight night in the Capitol groonds,
the Doctor caaght a glimpse of his distinguished
friend in company with a lady very
much prettier than his wife. Lest the jealousy
of the latter should be excited, the
pair hastily separated to avoid observation,
and ooming over to the Doctor, the Congressman,
with a communicativeness entirely
uncalled for, assured his friend that he
bad wandered up the grounds "to get some
?rass to feed hia rabbits." The Doctor consented
to keep his joke to himself, with no
restriction upon his own enjoyment of it.
Now when this same Congressman one day
entered the Baltimore telegraph office to
iemand an experimental proof, and they
:old him to name whom he would oall in
Washington, it happened that he named the
Doctor aforesaid. In a very few minutes
ie was surprised to get word from the Doo:or,
of some commonplace import. He still
juspected a forged message, and ordered
;bat that faot be communicated to the Doc:or.
The response was prompt?"I want a
irtle grass for my rabbits." The operator
vas coofounded. The incredulous honora}le
looked at the message With a blush
le tore it up, exclaiming. "The thing
vorks, for that is Doc, or the d? 1."
Massachusetts Colored RepresenrATlvES
? The Springfield Republican
,hus endorses the colored State representaives
chosen :
Two negroes are chosen as represents*
;ives to the Legislature?Charles L Mitch*
?H, who is elected from the richest and most
irisfnrtrntin ward of Boston, which also han.
pens to have the most colored people in it;
tod Edward G. Walker, of Charlestown.
rhese men are chosen, not as a joke or a
latire, bat ia honest earnest, because they
ire fit for the position, and because they
lave rights which white men at least respect.
Vlitobell is a printer, formerly lived in Hart'ord
and Spingfield, and was employed for
;ome months in the Republican office.?
iVe found him a capable and intelligent
vorkman, and his brother representatives
ire assured by our old printers that they
vill find him "all right." Tftis is the first
ime, we believe, that black men have held
eats in our legislative halls, and taken a
hare in tbe conduct of the Government.
A Celestial Hotel ?There is in Pekin
i "House with Chicken Feathers," where
louseless vagabonds may sleep for one mill
the tenth part of a cent) a night. In an
mmense hall the floor is covered two or
hree feet thick with chicken feathers. The
ustomers are introduced into this ball and
ake tbe first place they can find; they disppear
in the feathers as if they were in
rater All ages and both sexes lie pell ell
together. Over this downy bed hangs
canopy as large as the hall itself, the canpy
is made of felt and is perforated with
s many oval holes as the hall may contain
leepers. When the hour is struck for the
losing of doors this canopy is lowered to
he floor Every sleeper hastens to thrust
is neaa tnrougu a noie, in order to breatbe
resh air and escape being sofFooated by the
gathers. At the boar of rising a gong
sands and each sleeper palls his bead oat
f the bole to avoid being strangled by the
anopy, which is palled ap to the ceiling by
looks aDd pulleys. This seoares the waking
f all the lodgers. They then go to tbe
ffice and pay their mill for their night's
)dging.
Very Well Pot.?Some one writes
oth gracefully and forcibly:
"I would be glad to seo more parents unerstand
that'when they spend money jaioioasly
to improve and adorn the house
nd tbe ground around it, they are in effeot
_ _ lL Mia Aktldv/tn A ?v?/irvii(im a ntn n a4
ayiDg bucii uuiiuiou o picuiiuui it\j owajr aw
ome as maoh as possible to enjoy it; bat
iat when they spend money unnecessarily
i fine olothing and jewelry for their chil?
ren, tbey are paying them a premium to
tend their time away from home?that is,
lose places where they can attract the most
Mention and make the most display."