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I N THE OLD WOMAN AND THE CHOW.
At ft certain cross roads in. the State of
Alabama, stood a small grocery or whiskey
shop, previous to the war, where bust head
and chain lightning were dealt out to the
thirsty and unwashed at the small sum of five
cents a drink, or twenty-five cents a quart.
The presiding genius of this delectable institution
was one Bill Strikes, who had a domesticated
crow, as black as the ace of spades.
This crow had learnt, among other things,
to repeat quite plainly the words 4'damn
you," which he of course heard frequently
repeated in the grocery. Daring the prevalence
of a knock down and drag out fight;
one day, however, the crow was frightened
from home and flew into the woods never
to return again.
About three miles from the grocery was
a meeting house?an old tumble down, dilapidated
affair, only used on certain occasions,
when the circuit rider happened to
pan that way. In this building fhe crow
went, taking a peaceable possession; and
two days thereafter the church was thrown
nneri for nreaehfinr. and a crowd assembled,
among whom was "a very old lady who was
compelled to use crutches in walking, who
took her seat in the front pew, and was soon
deeply absorbed in the eloquence of the
preacher. The reverend gentlemen had
scarcely gotten under fall headway, and
commenced thundering his anathemas at all
grades of sinners, when a hoarse croaking
voice from above uttered the omnious words:
"Damn you 1" ,
The preacher and congregation looked
aghast at such profanity, ana each peered
into. his neighbor's face, to detect some sign
of guilt. Quiet was at last restored, however,
and the sermon proceeded; bat ere
ten minutes had elapsed the ominous "damn
Ton" again electrified the audience, and
j?St as the preacher <awt his eye upward to
Search for the delinquent, the crow new from
ttr perch, and alighting on the Bible, calmIt
surveyed the crowd 88 he gave another
"^Dwnnyour
The effect was electrical. Giving one
afeartled and terrified glance at the intruder
the preacher sprang through a window
carrying sash, glass and all with him, and
set off at a break neok pace through the
ifoods, closely followed by his horror stricken
congregation, who had piled out of the
Wilding pell mell after him. In the genUral
scramble, the old lady with the crutches
hid been knocked down in the church,
irfcere-shelay, unable to rise; and on seeing
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eatiflew down beside her very knowingly
ana croaked:
"Damn you!"
The old lady eyed him savagely for a
few moments, and burst forth in a tone of
reckless defiance;
'"Yes, and damn you too ! I had nothing
to do with getting up this Methodist meetingand
you know it, too!"
The poor soul had mistaken the crow for
the devil, and concluded to propitiate, if
possible, the wrath of his satanic majesty
by denying all complicity in the affair,
w The world is full of just such people.
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Jgy* The following, is related by a Boston
paper: "Col. JR. spent the winter in
Lexington; Ky. A friend of his went to
vi&hun. 'Come Sunday,' says the Colonel,
I want you to hearken to oar ohurch
bells here. There's four of 'em. Each
k gonads out its own denominational call."
^ here's the Episcopal. That is a heavy,
deep toned, sonorous bell. Now you see if
that don't ring out?'Postolic succession!
'Postolio succession!
Then the old Presbyterian?that's most
as deep sounding, and that says: Eternal
dam-na-tion 1 Eternal dam-na-tion!
The Baptist is quicker?a sharp, snappy
bell?mid that says; rapid: Come up and
be dippedTCome up and be dipped! Come
up and be dipped!
But the Methodist?that's a crowner; it
talks fight out: Room for . all! Room for
all! Room for all!
w Dust and Girls.?A few Sabbaths since
Eda was, at her own request, allowed to go
to Sabbath School, her first time, and there
ahe learned the startling intelligence that
she was made of dust. Little Eda's mind
was fully impressed with the importance of
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Tile grew imta, as was evmceu uy ucr irequent
reference to the subject, in the shape
of questions answerable. This morning,
howerer, she propounded a stunner, which
brought down the house. Intently watching
her mother sweeping, as if to learn the
art she most finally practice, saying not a
word, her eyes rested on the little pile of
dirt accumulated by her mother's broom.?
Just as the dirt was to be swept into the
street, the little philosopher burst forth with
"Ma, ma! why don't you save the dust to
make some more little girls?"
t. A short time ago I employed a son
of Erin, who was just over, and who boasted
of hi experience in all kinds of farm
work. One day I directed Mike to take
the cart and oxen and remove a pile of
rubbish. Happening near the place where
it was to be deposited, as Mike drove up
with his load, I discovered he was in a state
of great perplexity, evidently ignorant of
the process of dumping. After studying
some minutes, a bright idea seemed to strike
him. Seizing his whip, and taking his
stand in front of and facing the oxen, he
roared out, throwing up both arms at the
same time "Rare up noo, ye bastes ! rare
up, wall yez ?"
J?* A certain green customer, who was
a stranger to mirrors, and who stepped into
the cabin of one of our ocean steamers,
stopped in front of a large pier glass, which
he took for a door, and seeing his own reflection,
he said:
_ "A say, mister, when does this ere boat
9'! , .
Getting no answer from the dumb reflection
before him, he again repeated:
"I say, mister, when does this ere boat
start ?"
Incensed at the silent figure, he then
broke out:
"Go to thunder! ye cursed sassafras
colored, shockheaded bull calf; you don't
190k as if you knew much anyhow!"
j$T "What are you writing there, my
boy ?" asked a fond parent the other day
of his hopeful son, a shaver of ten years.
"My competition, thir."
"What is thesubject ?"
"International law, sir," replied the
youthful Grotius. "Bat, really, I shall be
unable to concentrate my ideas and give
them relation if I am constantly interrupted
in thith manner by irrelevant inquiries."
IpKtllaflM JUticle*.
RAILROADS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
From an elaborate article on "Railroads
and Loeomotives?their Orign and History,"
published in the National Intelligencer,
of Thursday last, we make the following
interesting extracts in relation to railroads
in this State:
The first locomotive railway, or in other
words, the first railroad, either in this or
any other country, constructed specifically
ana exclusively for the use of locomotives
as motive power, was a road to connect
Charleston, S. C., with the Savannah River.
Six miles of this !road was finished in
1829. It was built on piles, often very
high above the ground, and this fact is conclusive
that horses were not intended for
the motive power. The engineer was Horatio
Allen, who had been also the engineer
of the Delaware and Hudson Road, in
1827, and who was sent abroad in the autumn
of that year by the Delaware and
Hudson Company, to purchase the railroad
iron and three locomotives.
The first steam propelled cars, running
regularly with passengers and freight, appear,
so far as our researches inform us, to
have been on the Charleston and Hamburg
Road, or, as it is now known, "The South
Carolina Railroad," connecting Charleston
and Augusta, Ga., the latter town being on
the opposite side of the river from Hamburg.
The first American steam^ocomotive was
put into use on the road of which we have
spoken, running fromCharleston, S. C.,
to Hamburg, on the Savannah River, late
in the summer of 1830. The engine was
built by the Kembles, at their shop in West
street, in New York, from a plan made by
?. L. Miller, then a citizen of Charleston.
It was a small, four-wheeled engine, with
upright boiler and water flues close at the
bottom, with the flames circulating around,
them. It was called "Best Friend," and
worked successfully about two years, when
it exploded, and was rebuilt with a flue boiler.
Upon this road, in 1831, the great American
improvement of two four-wheeled
trucks for locomotives and long passenger
cars was first introduced. They were
planned by Horatio Allen, who bad become
the engineer of this. road. This system of
double-truck running gear, including the
application of the pedestals to the springs,
have, with no essential change, ever since,
been universally adopted in this country.
The Charleston and Hamburg Company
offered a premium of ?500 for tne best plan
of a horse locomotive, and the award was
?"ven to. C. Detmold, afterwards of New
ork, who constructed a machine to carry
twelve passengers at the rate of twelve
miles an hour, the horse working on an endless
chain. "DON'T
LIKE MY BUSINESS."
11 ? A. 1J
Xfiere is no greater xaiiacy m too worm
than that entertained by many young men
that some pursuit in life can be found wholly
suited to their tastes, whims and fancies.
This philosopher's stone can never be discovered,
and every one who makes his life
a search for it will be ruined. Much truth
is contained in the Irishman's remark: "It
is niver aisy to work hard." Let, therefore,
the fact be always remembered by the
young, that no life-work can be found entirely
agreeable to a man. Success always
lies at the top of a hill; if we would reach
it, ire can do so only by hard, persevering
effort, while beset with difficulties of every
kind. Genius counts nothing in the battle
of life. Determined, obstinate perseverance
in one single channel, is everything.
Hence, should any one of our young readers
be debating in his mind a change of
business, imagining he has a genins for
some other, let him at once dismiss the
thought, as he would a temptation to do
evil. If you think you made a mistake in
choosing the pursuit or profession you did,
don't make another by leaving it. Spend
all your energies in working for and clinging
to it, as you would to the life-boat that
sustained you in the middle of the ocean.
If you leave it, it is almost certain that you
will go down; but if you cling to it, informing
yourself about it until you are its master,
bending your every energy to the work,
success is certain. Good, hard, honest effort
steadily perserved in, will make your
business or profession grow, since no one
should expect to reach a period when he
can feel that his life-work is just the one
he could have done best, and liked best.
We are allowed to see and feel the roughness
in our own pathway, but not in others;
yet all have them.
IT WON'T DO.
It is curious how many thousand things
there are which won't do to be done, upon
this crazy planet of ours,. whereon we eat,
sleep and get our dinners. For instance:
It won't do to plunge into a lawsuit, relying
wholly on the justice of your cause, and
not equipped beforehand with a brimming
purse.
It won't do to twist a man's nose, or tell
him he lies, unless you are perfectly satisfied,
he has not spunk enough to resent it
by blowing your brains out, or (if you have
no brains^ cracking, your skull.
It won t do, when riding in a stage coach
to talk of another man, whom you have not
seen, as "being an "all-fired scoundrel, uri
til you are absolutely sure he is not sitting
, before you.
It won't do to crack jokes on old maids
in the presence of unmarried ladies, who
have passed the age of forty.
It won't do for a man to bump his head
against a stone post, unless he conscientiously
believes his head is the hardest.
It won't do for a chap to imagine a girl
indifferent towards him because she studU
diously avoids him in company.
It won't do, when in a hurry, to eat soup
with a two-pronged fork, or to catch fleas
with a fish net.
It won't do for a man to fancy a lady is
in love with him because she treats him
civilly and politely on all occasions.
It won't do for young men, who wishes to
retain a good character, to misbehave in
church or desecrate the Sabbath.
flfif An old gentleman in Arkansas re
centlv presented himself for registration
with his two sons, and the eldest of the latter
was asked by the clerk if he could write.
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happy to say my sons cannot read or write.
When I was a boy my parents sent me to
school, and after I had got a little start in
the world, I indorsed a note for a man, and
it cost me all my property. I then made
up my mind that no child of mine should
learn to write."
Jf/S" The Chinese olaim to have discovered
America from the West a thousand years
before Columbus.
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A QUESTION IN DIVISION.
A WHANG BEGINNING MAKES A WRONG
ENDING.
A boy named Bichard Walter waB on bis
way to school one day, with his slate and
books neatly strapped in a bundle under his
arm, when he frit a hand resting on his
shoulder, and on turning round he saw a
pleasant looking gentleman, who said to him.
"On your way to sohool, I suppose V'
"Yes, sir," said Bichard. "
"I see you have a slate in your bundle,
and I suppose you have an arithmetic, too.
What do you oxpher in ?"
"Long division," said Bichard.
"Will you let me try to work a question
in long division on your slate ?" 1;ne man
asked.
Bichard looked at him in astonishment,
and scarcely knew what answer to make, j
He did not know but what the man was era
zy; for who ever heard of a'sane man stopping
a boy in the road and asking permission
to use his slate for ciphering? However,
Richard thought he would see what
the man would do, and he unbuckled his
bundle, and handed slate and pencil 1b the
gentleman. The stranger took them without
strong anything, and. stepping to the
side of the path, figured away in silerffce
for two or three minutes. $y the time he
had finished, some half dozen of the schoolboys
came along, and stopped to see what
was going on.
"Good morning boys: I am glad to see
yon," said the gentleman. "Here's a question
in long division I've been trying to
work out, and I want you to look at it, and
see if its right."
Richard took the slate, while the boys
looked over his shoulders at these figures :
29)384,605(12,572 "Wrong! wrong I"
29 "It is wrong!"shouted
several voices at once.
74 What's the matter with
58 it, boys ? Where is it
? wrong?" said thegen166
tleman.
145 "Why," said Richard,
? ''you made a mistake al210
most at the very start.
203 9 from 18 leaveB 9, and
? you've got it 7."
75 "And is that the only
58 mistake ?" said the man.
? "That's ail I saw,"
17 answered Richard.
"1 guess the result is all right," said another
boy.
"Work out the question yourself, and
let me see the resultj" said the gentleman
to Richard.
"Your quotient is 18,262, and is right.
Mine was 12,572, and was wrong; and the
boys were all wrong in saying that the only
mistake was that made m the beginning,
for as that was wrong, everything that followed
it was wrong. Those figures, though
right in themselves, gave me a wrong answer,
because of the error in the commencement.
"And that is just the way you will find
it in life. A wrong committed while young
will cling to you in some shape or other as
long as you live. And though you may afterwards
repent and do right, yet the results
of your life will be different from what
they would have been had you always done
right; for life is like a question in long
division, and yon are daily working it out.
The results which will be seen at the day
of judgement, will be the quotient. The
boy who lies, or swears, or is dishonest, is
making a mistake in the commencement of
this great question, which will very seriously
affect the quotient when the work is
finished.
By this time the school-bell rang, and
the boys went on their way, thinking that
the strange man had taken a strange way to
teach them a very useful lesson.
Montreal Witness.
DROWNING THE SqUIBREJLL.
When I was about six years old, one
morning going to school, a ground squirrel
ran into its hole in the road before me, aB
they like to dig holes in some open place,
where they can put out their heads to see
if any danger is near. I thought, now I
will nave fine fun. As there was a stream
of water just at hand, I determined to pour
infrt fViQ Vinln fill if. ahmilH hp full.
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and force the little animal up, so that I
might kill it. I got a trough from beside
a sugar maple, used for catching the sweet
sap, and was soon pouring water in on the
poor squirrel. I could hear it struggle to
get up, and said, "Ah, my fellow, I will
soon have you out now.
Just then I heard a voice behind me,
"Well, my boy, what have you got in
there?" X turned and saw one of my
neighors, a good old man, with longwhite
locks, that had seen sixty winters. ''Why,"
said I, "I have a ground squirrel in here,
and am going to drown him out."
Said he, "Jonathan, when I was a little
boy, more than fifty years ago, I was engaged
one day, just as you are, drowning a
ground squirrel; and an old man like me
came along, and said to me, 'You are a
little boy; now, if you were down in a
narrow hole like that, and I should come
along and pour water down on you to drown
you, would you not think I was cruel ?
God made that little squirrel, and life is
as sweet to it as it is to you ? and why will
you torture to death a little innocent creature
that God has made V " He said "I
have never fogotten that, and never shall.
I never have killed any harmless creature
for fun since. Now, my dear boy, I want
you to remember this while you live, and
when tempted to kill any poor little innocent
animal or bird, think of_this, and
mind God don't allow us to kill His pretty
little creatures for fun."
More than forty years have since passed,
and I never forgot what the good man said,
nor have I ever killed the least animal for
fun since. Now, you see it is ninety years
since this advice was given, and it has not
lost its influence yet. How many little
creatures it has saved from being tortured
to death, I cannot tell, but I have no doubt
a great number, and I believe my whole
li?s has been influenced by it.
Now, I want all the dear little boys,
when they read this, to keep it in mind ;
and when they see pretty birds or harmless
animals playing or hunting their food, not
to hurt them. Your Heavenly Father made
them; His care is extended over them ; He
provides food and shelter for them through
the winter and at all seasons. Ever treat
them with kindness, for they are the creatures
of God your Heavenly Father.
JSGf* A tender conscience is an inestimable
blessing; that is, a conscience not only quick
to discern what is evil, but instantly to shun
it, as the eyelid closes itself against a mote.
JUfricultural Department.
^ ; ' FENCES. '
The only country in Europe, we believe,
in which the landed proprietor is saddled
with- the enormous expenses of enclosure to
protect himself from trespass is England;
and there thehecfoe has been to a great extent
substituted tor that other costly nuisance,
the fence, in the enclosure of farms,
and their subdivision into fields. We have
inherited the pernicious system from our
British ancestry, and in early times when
the country was partially and thinly settled,
when timber was not only valueless but an
encumbrance to be gotten rid of by the
most expeditious means, there was some
reason for its toleration; but now the case
is far different. When we come to consider
that the cost of building and repairing
the fences of the United States is enormous,
almost beyond the power of computation,
it becomes matter for surprise that the agricultural
community does not seek, by a
total or even partial abolition of the system,
to rid itself Jorever of a burden far
more onerous than the federal taxation to
meet the annual interest on our billions of
national bebt.
The late Nicholas Biddle, in one of his
able agricultural addresses, delivered, some
thirty years ago,?estimated the cost of the
fencing for the State of Pennsylvania alone
at $100,000,000 annual cost of retrain
at $10,000,000! An able writer on
National Wealth, says : "Strange as it
may seem, the greatest investment in this
country, the most costly product of human
industry, is the common fences which enclose
and divide the fields. No man dreams,
that when compared .to the outlay on these
unpretending monuments of human art, our
cities and our towns with all their wealth,
are far behind; in many places the fences
have cost more than the fences and farms
are worth. It is the enormous burden
which keeps down the agricultural interest
of this country, causing an untold expenditure,
besides the loss of the land the fences
occupy." We heard the late Charles Calvert,
of Prince George county, Maryland,
a man who, notwithstanding his hereditary
wealth, was eminently practical, estimate
the annual tax for fencing on a farm of one
hundred and fifty acres, properly enclosed
and subdivided, with post and rail of chesnut,.$134.
In colonial times, in the older
States timber was an encumbrance, taxing
the ingenuity and industry of the farmer
for its removal; how the reverse is the case;
it is daily getting more scarce and valuable,
and the period is not far distant when, as
now in France (once the best timbered
country in Europe), we will be compelled to
buy it by the pound for domestic purposes.
True, in many parts of the country the
hedge is being substituted for the more expensive
fence; but that is a mere palliative,
the substitution of a lesser for a greater
evil. Beautiful as the hedges are in England,
the publio voice is being raised against
them there, because of the enormous amount
of land required for their support. Each
hedge is five or six feet wide at its base;
and it will exhaust the land on either side to
the extent of fully five feet. Where the
divisions and subdivisions of an estate are
as numerous as ^judicious rotation of
crops will frequently require, the abstraction
of ar able land amounts to a serious aggregate.?Turf,
Field and Farm.
UNFERMENTED MANURE.
Many excellent farmers have an idea
that manure, to be most efficient in raising
crops, should be welL rotted; hut this is a
mistake. Manure loses a very heavy percentage
of its real value by decomposition.
Fresh manure, dripping with animal urine,
hauled directly from the stable on the land
and plowed under, is worth nearly double
that which has decomposed to a saponaceous
consistency. When it is convenient
for farmers to haul their manure on cornground
from the stable as fast as it is made,
it saves handling twice, and forwards the
work in busy spring-time. No fears need
be entertained that the atmosphere will car
ry off the strength of the manure if left on
the surface. ' The only danger to be apprehended
by this method, "Will be in case of
the ground being frozen and covered with
snow and ice when the manure is applied;
if upon sloping land the virtue of manure
might wash away ;but on level land there
is no exception to this plan of operation
during the entire fall and winter season;
Germantown Telegraph.
Daily Consumption op Hay.?It is hard
to lay down an absolute rule of -the specific
number of pounds of hay. to be fed to each
animal; but according to the subjoined table,
indorsed by the Country Gentleman, of
Albany, it will be seen that the daily consumption
does not vary much from three
pounds to each hundred pounds of animal.
This table will prove useful to farmers
who wish to find out beforehand how long
their hay will last during the Winter. One
ton of hay in the mow will occupy 500 cubic
feet:
Pounds.
Working Horses, 2,08
Working Oxen, 2,40
Milch Cows, 2,40
Young Growing Cattle, 3,08
Steers, 2,84
Dry Cows, 2,42
Sheep, 3,00
Elephant, 3,12
On Eating Pork.?Hall's Journal of
Health has a sensible article on eating pork*
in which our views are well expressed as
follows: "There is no trouble in eating
pork in a cold climate.- It is needed?or
fn+tTT moat for the sunnort of life. I
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while at the South vegetable diet is better.
But whether the hog should be eaten, depends
on the manner in which he is kept.
If he be kept as a mere scavenger on filth
and rottenness, the meat would be unfit to
eat, as its food must enter into its composition.
We see this in the difference between
the hogs fed on acorns and those fed
on corn. Any animal that lives upon the
filth and waste^ of cities, should be rejected
as food. But if the hog can be kept cleanly
and on proper food, pork is as healthy
as beef, or poultry, or fish."
Cure for Scratches on Horses.?An
exchange paper says : Feed horses one
or two tablespoonfuls of sulphur per day
(in order to cleanse the bloodj for three or
four days; wash the feet m clean, soft
warm water; then put on dry sulphur,
and wind a linen cloth around the sore,
and twice or threetimes a day drop in dry
sulphur between the cloth and the sore.
[Be careful to keep the feet dry, as it is of
ho use to doctor the feet unless the blood is
pilt in order. jwtyom fails in the
worst of cases.
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THE NEW
WEED FAMILY SEWING MACHINE,
Styled F. F., or Family Favorite.
The weed sewing machine company
ill addition to their -well-known and highly
appreciated No. 2, or JVheel Feed Machine, are
now introducing their New Drop Feed, or F. F%
Machine, confidently asserting that it is the most
simple, durable, compact and beautiful piece of
mechanism ever presented to tne puuuc.
It not only rotams the principal essential points
of the formor, but combines with them thd many
and desirable advantages which render a positive !
four motion feed so admirably, adapted to light
family sewing, and at the same time capable of ex- L
ecuting, with the most unerring certainty and precision,
all the heavier grades of ordinary work.
Principal Agencies: 618, Broadway, N. York.
349, Washington street, Boston, 102, Washington |
street, Chicago. 1315, Chesnut street, Philadel- ,
phia, Pa.; and sold at most large Business Centres. |
Local Agents wanted everywhere. I
The Weed Sewing Machine was awarded the |
highest medal at the Paris Exposition, July, 1867. <
September 26 22 6m j
. * .'to printers
THE undersigned offers for sale the Printing (
Material mentioned below: cheap for Cash.? .
24 lbs Leads?cut to 14 ems Pica.
150 Advertising Rules?cut 14 ems Pica.
[ 47 Brass Dashes?cut 14 ems Pica.
23 Parallel Cross Rules?cut 14 ems Pica.
13 Double Cross Rules?cut 14 ems Pica. '
6 "short" and 6 "long" Column Rules. Also, .
the "Head Rules" formerly used on the "Enquirer."
i
One 36-inch roller mould, in good order, and sev- 1
eral book, newspaper and Job chases. The roller .
mould will be sola for flo.
Also, one 3-inch Screw Standing Press with 800 *
paper and 10 wooden boards. The Press, Ac., is
m good order, and will be sold as it stands?for one ?
hundred dollars in caslL ' Cost $140 previous to the I
war.
Also, 350 lbs Nonpareil?but little used?at 40
cents per pound. L. M. GRIST.
THE BEST TOXIC Iff USE. .
\
Dr, O. F. Panknin, j
CHARLESTON, S. C.
January 24 39 ly*
brown & cuyler,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
142 Pearl Street, New York.
Two "Pevrrra RnftW* formfirlv of Brown. DoRos- _
set <fc Co. S
Rioh'p M. Coyler, of Georgia.
"IXTILL make liberal advances on Consignments ff
of COTTON and other PRODUCE.
Refers to?John R. London. Esq.. Rock Huh I
S.C. ; Dr. Alex. N. Tally, ana m. H. Tally)
Esq., Columbia, S, 0. ;?and Gen. John A. Young, c
T ! I I I M
^w^^^Rie reoord w^kept by a broker long
loin* business in that city:
1861. Gold Premtoun. Fo* fl in Gold.
January December 15.~~121 00
rulyl io 1804 I
October 1 12 January 1?. 4 21 00
Jctober 15.... :.... 15 January 15......... 20 00
December 1 20 February 1, 20 00
December 15... 80 February 10 21 00
1862. . . .. March 1.... *y MA)
January 1............. .. 20 March.15............ 20 Oo
January 15 ?20 April 1 19 Qq
February 1... 25 April 15...... 21 0q
February 15 40 May 1... 20 00
March 1 50 May 16 18 00
March 15 00 June 1 to July 15 18 00
April 1 76 Jnlyl5toAug.l5 20 00
April 15 85 August 15 22 00.
May 1... 00 September1....... 20 60
May 16.... 95 September 22 00
June 1.... 05 Oaoberl............ 27 00
For |i m Gold, October 15.26 06
June 16:....; ....$ 2 00 November 1...... 20 00
August 1 2 20 November 15..... 28 00
September 1 2 60 December 1..**- 82 60
November 1 8 00 December 15 86 00
1868? : December 81....* 60 00
CoKnun. i in lafts
I'OI/IUIUJ A !* V *v AWV.
March 1 8 26 January 1
March 15.; 5 00 January 15 ?J 05 00
May 15...-....;., 6 00 February l..,..._ 50 00
June 1 6 50 February 15 46 00
Juhq 15 mm 7 50 March . ;W M
July I.... 8 00 March 15 57 00
July 15 10 00 April 1.......:.. 70 00
August 1 14 00 April 15 80 00
ss
September 15. ?14 00 April 27..W..U?.. 800-00
October 1-.. 18 00 April 28....;........ 500 00
October 15 12 50 April 20 -sr... 800 00
November I... 13 00 April 80 1,000 00
November 15.....?. 15 60 May 1..1,200 00
December 1....?.- 20 00 .
?Which was the last actual sales of Confederate
notes.
VALTJE OF C0JU&J)E&ATE GVERJVWX.
ANNEXED is a table showing the value of''Confederate
currrency'Vln United Stateaourrency
for the last, four years?deputed from the average
monthly rates of the respective currencies, in gold,
at New York, Jttchmond and Augusta.
-As the rate of stamp duty upon documents uxor
cuted. during the late war is based upon the value
of theconsideratlon in United States currency, this
table will be found very convenient in fixing that
TABLE SHOWING THE RELATIVE VALUE OF "CONFEDERATE"
AXDU. & CUBBXKCT FOBEOUB YEARS.
?p ?r-n
MONTH. 1862. 1868. . 1864. 1965b
' '
Value in Value in Value In Value ha
. . Con. cur- OotLCUr- Con. cur-Con curAverage
for t tenoy. of jNoeyv of renoy ol
month of ,illlCt.a6iin^.?.|Sfejt|?.Bi
curicy. curicy. coricy. curicy.
January..? ? 62.00 $18.50 $26.90
February.? 2.19 18.79 ~i> 2Sw
March ?. .........t 2.96 14*7- .-84*0 :
\prll ; 8,23 l2ifl
\lfly MH?MN 8.87 ICsW HNftM*
Fuhg ? 4.85 8.11 -..V t
July ? ... * 6.89 7.79 1 ? ' j
A.uguet. ......... 10.58 8.85
September.. $2,19 9.71 10.66
October 1.95 9.70' 12,80
November- 2.29 9.90 12.55
December... 2.28 12.80 18.26 1.' ........ j
? .' < 1. ' 1 . ! : - L..A
To ascertain uie vaiue oj a given amount ujaxwfederate
currency, divide the number of dollars by
:he figures in the oolnnm opposite the date sought
for, and the quotient will be the amount in United
States currency. .c!
E.R. STORES,
BOOK - BINDER,
BLANK-BOWJ^^nRER,
Opposite J. C. Dial 8 Hardware Store,
MAIN ST., COLUMBIA, 8. C.
Blank-books Holed to snyFtttera, Paged
and Bound In the best Possible Manner, with
Printed Headings wbra. required. The attention
of Clerks. Sheriffs, O. inanes, Commfastonenrlh
Equity, Railroad OfflcialB, and all'p?Mie'Offifcttfc
is particularly invited. r.n- . via .?>- \'
a large stock of B j^ank-book PAPER, of the
Beet Quality, always on hand. ; ^ 'i
Special attention given' tothe bindingof KM,'
old. Books and Files, and all other work in plain
or ornamental style.
Orders sent to, and contracts mads directly with
me, will save money, as I km prepared to do work
at a very smalhadvance on New York Prices, w i <
My bosineea motto is "Promptness, Economy
sndBlil*B6ailti.WerlB/^-w>1- November29.186U.
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THE CHBOHIOIS AHD 8EVTI1ZL.
"PUBLISHED Dally and Weekly in Augusta,
. j Go., is the oldest newspaper in the State. Established
in 1794, it has over since tha{ time been
one of the leading papers in the South, and if still
maintains its place in the front rank of Southern
Journals.
Ably edited and tbotfchosen mldhun through
which the master minds of the State address"the
people, its value as a conservative political taper
v second to none, while Its numerous and reliable
correspondents make it a first class NEWS AND
FAMILY JOURNAL.
' TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
d&ily^ one Month, $ x ,00
44 Three Months,, 260
" . One Year,... 10 00
Weekly One Year, f ? ? 3 00
" Six Months, 1 60
J/St- Subscriptions for the Chronicle and Sentinel
received and forwarded at the Ekqitixkb Office.
August 16 16 ; v tf
THE CHARLESTONMERCURY.
TIE CHARLESTON MERCURY is now, as it
has ever been, a true Carolina paper, in the
hands of Carolinians, and an exponent of the prevailing
sentiments of the people.
As an advertising medium it offers advantages
that cannot well be surpassed. Its circulation extends
throughout the whole Sooth as well as
through the Northern and Northwestern States,
and is rapidly and steadily increasing.
THE MERCURY contains all the late* pottti-1
denied and attractive form! uad^uTbe found to
be all that It claims?a live Southern newspaper.
Terms of Subscription for Daily, see annum
, $8.00: for Tri-Weekly, per annum, $4.00.
Conducted by
R. B. RHETTABRQ, w*
F. W. DAWSON, Assistant Editor.
March 28 f 48 tf
STATES OF SOUTH C1HOLGU,
York District.
Lewis M. Grist, vs. Seth W. Fowle a Co.?In the
Common Plkas, -?A ttachment.
WHEREAS, the Plaintiff did, on the 9th day
of February, 1887, file his declaration against
Lhe Defendant, who, (as it is said) is abseafftom
ind without the limits of this State, and has neither
wife nor Attorney known within the limits of
she, same, noon whom a copy of the said declaration
might oe served. It is, therefore, ordered,
that the said Defendant do appear and plead to the
Declaration filed against him, on or before the 8d
lay of March, which will be in the year of our
>therwise final ancf^absolute judgmrai'wifiPbe
given against him.
J. F. WALLACE, o. ?. a r.io. s.
Clerk's Office, York District, S. C.
March 7 46 lytjf
THE CHARLESTON COURIER.
PUBLISHED by A. a WILLINGTON A CO.,
City Printers, NO 111 East-Bay, Charleston,
South Carolina.
Terms.?Daily, one year, $10; Daily, 6 months,
)5; Daily, three months, $2 50; Tri-weekly, one
rear, $8; Tri-Weekly, six months, $4.
/22T- The Proprietor of the Enquirer Is the Agent
of the "Charter'* for Yorkville. He will take
pleasure in forwarding subscriptions.
January 3 . 86 tf
PARISH AND LATIMORE,
Chester, 8. C.
\ JT ANUFACTURERS and Dealewln NEW and
IYJL SECOND HAND FURNITURE, Looking^
3lass Plates for Bureaus, Ac.
Constantly on hand COFFIN MATERIAL, ol
;hebest quality. They are prepared to furnish
30FFINSatafowhours'notice. Cane-Seat Chairs
Re-Bottomed.
Shop and Ware-Room in the old Thespian
Hall, over Heyman's Store.
November 29 82 tf
THE HISTORY OF GREGG'S BBI0AJJ&
* PRICE REDUCED.
Tkmown flS as GREG'S, and subsequently
is MoGOWAN'S BRIGADE, by J. F. J. OaWvelL
lately an officer of the lsi Regiment, 8. C. V.
L vol. 12mo., $1.00 in currency. A few copies for
??le at the "MSLomuj-tuittt" ujtx xva.
June 27 9 : tf y
W.W.BOTCE, v '
(Late of South Carolina,)
A TTORNEY-AT-LAW, willpractloe iupdtaL\
preme Court and Court of Claims. Office No.
581G Street, Washington, D. C.
August 8 ' 15 'it .
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core one should do Boat oboe. Homy sn M^mitted
byexpreas, or a draft or check sent oto any
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Fisher, Bn.t and the Dean
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Review of Homoeopathy; a work en thaHktary
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Surgical Journal, Ac., Ac. It ia a royal octavo of
WO pages, and contains a fhU description ofaA dlseaaeaknown
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provedmettjods. Prtee fT^poatage 50 cents.
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