Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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He thereupon dismounted, and entered the par lor in the inn, where he sat down beside a small table. '.'How can I serve you, Meinheer?" said the landlord. "See to my horse, outside," replied the guest, carelessly, but at the same time eyeing the landlord from head to foot; "and let me hare some wine?Rhine will do." The landlord was turning to withdraw from the stranger'R presence, when he stopped and said: "Which way, Meinheer, do you travel ?" "To Nanstadt," replied the guest "You will rest here, to-night, I suppose ?" continued the landlord. "I will stay here for two or three hours, but I must then be off, so as to reach my destination in the morning. I am going to purchase lumber for the market" "And you have considerable money with you, no doubt?" asked the landlord, innocently. "Yes, considerable," replied the guest, sipping at his wine disinterestedly. "Then, if you'll take my advice," said the landlord, "you'll stay here till morning." "Why?" replied the stranger, looking up curiously. "Because," whispered the landlord, looking around, as if he were disclosing a great secret, and was afraid of being heard by somebody else, "every man that passes over the road between this and Nanstadt, for the last ten years, has been robbed or murdered, under very singular circumstances." "What "Were the circumstances?" asked the stranger, putting down his glass empty, and preparing to fill it again. "Why, you see," the landlord went on, while he approached his guest's table and took a seat, "I have spoken with several who have been robbed. All I could learn fronfthem is, that they remember meeting, in the lonesome part of the wood, something that looked white and ghastly, and that frightened their horses so that they neither ran away or threw their ridera. They felt a choking sensation and a smothering, and finally died, as they thought, but awoke in an hour or so to find themselves lying by the roadside, robbed of everything." 'Indeed!" ejaculated the stranger, looking abstractedly at the rafters in the ceiling, as though he was more intent upon counting them than he was interested in the landlord's story. The inn-keeper looked at him in astonishment. Such perfect coolness he had not witnessed for a long time. "You will remain, then ?" suggested the landlord, after waiting sometime for his guest to speak. "I?" cried the stranger, starting from his fit of abstraction, as though be was not sure that he was the person addressed. "Oh! most certainly not I'm going straight ahead, ghost or no ghost, tn-niffht" o Half an hour later, the stranger and a guide, called Wilhelm, were out on the road, going at a pretty round pace towards Nans tad t. During a flash of lightning the Btranger observed that his guide looked vety uneasy about something, and was slackening his horse's pace, as though he intended to drop behind. "Lead on," oried the stranger; "don't be afraid." "I'm afraid I cannot," replied the person addressed, continuing to hold his horse in until he was now at least a length behind his companion. "My horse is oowardly and unmanageable in a thunder storm. If you will go on, though, I think I can make him follow close enough to point out the road." The stranger pulled up instantly. A strange light gleamed in his eyes, while his hand sought his breast pocket, from which he drew something. The guide saw the movement, and stopped. "Guides should lead, not follow," said the stranger, quietly, but with a firmness which seemed to be exceedingly unpleasant to the person addressed. "Bat," faltered the guide, "my horse won't go." "Won't he ?" queried the stranger, with mock simplicity in his tone The guide heard a sharp dick, and saw some thing gleam in his companion's right hand. He seemed to understand perfectly, for he immediately drove his spurs into his horse's flanks, and shot ahead of his companion, without another word. He no sooner reached his old position, however, than the stranger 6aw him give a sharp turn to the right and then disappear, as though he had vanished through the foliage of the trees that skirted the road. He heard the clatter of his horse as he galloped off. Without waiting another instant, he touched his horse lightly with the rein, gave him a prick with the rowels, and off the noble animal started like the wind in the wake of the flying guide. r Koinir mnr>h snnprinr to thh XIII; Siniuger a uvioc uu*?0 ? ?r other, the race was a short one, and terminated by the guide being thrown nearly from his saddle by a heavy hand which was laid upon his bridle, stopping him. He turned in his seat, beheld the stranger's face dark and frowning, and trembled violently as he felt the smooth, cold barrel of a pistol pressed against his cheek. "This cursed beast almost run away with me," cried die guide, composing himself as well as he oould under the circumstances. "Yes, I know," said his companion, drily, "but mark my words, young man, if your horse plays such tricks agaio. he'll be the means of seriously injuring his master's health." They both turned and cantered back to the road. When they reaohed it again, and turned the heads of their animals in the right direction, the stranger said to his guide, in a tone which must have convinced his hearer as to his earnestness: "Now, friend Wilbelm, I hope we understand each other for the rest of the journey. Yon are to continue on ahead of me, in the right road, without swerving either to the right or left If I see you do anything suspicious, I will drive a brace of ballots through you without & word of noOoe. Now push on." lite guide had started as directed, but it was evident, from his muttering, that be was alarmed at something besides the action of his follower. In the meantime, the thunder had increased its violence, and the flashes of lightning had beoome more frequent and more blinding. For awhile the two horsemen rode on in silenoe? the guide keeping up his directions to the letter, while his follower watched his every movement as a cat would watch a mouse. Suddenly the guide stopped and looked behind him. Again he heard the click of the stranger's pistol, and saw his uplifted arm. "Have meroy, Meinheer," he groaned, "I daer not go on." "I give you three seconds to go on,"replied the stranger, sternly. "One!" "In Heaven's name, spaie," implored the gnide almost overpowered with fear; "look before me in the road and you will not blame me." The stranger looked. At first he saw something white standing motionless in the centre of the road, but presently a flash of lightning lit np the scene, and he saw that the white figure was indeed ghastly and frightful enough looking to chill the Blood in the veins of even the bravest man. If his blood chilled for a moment, therefore, it was not throngh any fear that he felt for his ghostly interceptor, for the next instant he set his teeth hard while he whispered just loud enough to be heard by his terror-stricken imide: "Be it man or devil!?ride it down; I'll follow. Two!" With a cry of despair upon his lips the guide urged his horse forward at the top of his speed, quickly followed by the stranger, who held his pistol ready in his hand. In another instant, the guide would have swept past the dreadful spot, but at that instant the report of a pistol rang through the dark forest, and the stranger heard a horse gallop off through the woods riderless. * Finding himself alone, the stranger raised his pistol, took deliberate aim at the ghostly murderer, and pressed his finger upon the trigger.. The apparition approached quickly, but in no hostile attitude. The stranger stayed his hand. At length the ghost addressed him in a voice that was anything but sepulchral: "Here, Wilhelm, ye move out of your perch this minute and give me a helping hand. I've hit the game while on the wing, haven't I?" The stranger was non-plussed for a moment; but, recovering himself, be grumbled something unintelligible and leaped to the ground. One word to his horse and the brave animal stood perfectly still. By the snow-white trappings on the wouldbe ghost he was enabled to grope his way in the dark toward the individual, whom he found bending over a black mass, about the size of a man on i the road. As the tiger pounces uyon his prey, the stranger leaped upon the stooping figure before him, and bore it to the ground. "I arrest you in the King's name," cried the stranger, grasping his prisoner by the throat, and holding him tight "Stir hand or foot until 1 have you properly secured, and I'll send your soul to eternity." This was such an unexpected turn in affairs, that the would-be ghost oould hardly believe his own senses, and was hand-cuffed and stripped of his dagger and pistol before he fonnd time to ! speak. "Are you not Wilhelm?" he asked. ; "No, landlord," replied the individual addressed ; "I am not But I am an offioer of the King, at your service, on special duty, to do what 1 have to-night accomplished. Your precious son, Wili--i~ _? .i u J: ueiuj, wuu yuu uiuugut nua icauiug an imivwov sheep to the slaughter, lies in the road, killed by his father's hand.'' Two weeks later, at Bruchsale prison, in Baden, the landlord of the sign of the Deer, and the Ghost Robber of the Black Forest, who was the same identical person, having been proven guilty of numerous fiendish murders and artfully contrived robberies, committed at different times in the Black Forest, paid the penalty of his crimes by letting fall his head from the executioner's axe, since when, traveling through Schwartzald has not been perilous to life and purse, nor has there been seen any Ghostly Knight of the Road in that section of the world, COMPANY MANNERS. There is no greater education into vulgarity than home carelessness. A man or a woman brought up under such a system is ruined for all the reality ?1 - - r Tn 1: ox rbudbmeui xu auer years, xub huiiiucn iw often allowed at home, where children are permitted to be snappish to each other, disobliging and discourteous, ruins the manners as much as it hurts the mind. Hence, we come to company manners, to a sickly sweetness put on simply for the occasion, to a formality of speech and an oppressiveness of attentions, to an exaggerated politeness that is so terribly afraid of transgressing into liberties as to be absolute bondage, and all to the silly little affectations belonging to the condition. We never know any one whom we have not lived with, and even then not always. To be admitted into the Temple does not include entrance into the asylum; and we may remain for weeks in a house where master and mistress and maids are all reticent alike, and may know nothing of the reality underlying the surface. People of whom I once knew something, and who were notoriously illmatched, but marvelously polite, could keep their house full of company, and yet allow none of their guests to find out that the husband and wife were not on speaking terms. All the communication that was absolutely necessary was carried on by writing. Personally, these two, dispensing smiles and civilities to all around, held no direct intercourse. Yet they managed so well that no one saw through the screen. With oompany manners and company dress, there is also a company voice. Who does not - - " . n if* know that false voice or society: wincing or thrown boldly forward, flung into the chest or pitched up into the head, it is all the same?the company voice, accent, choice of words, and register?all artificial alike. And there are company gestures. People sit and stand and walk, and use their hands according to the different degrees of familiarity in which they stand towards their society. There is a vast deal of company make believe among us; and if we would only give half the time we now bestow on "looking pretty" and "behaving pretty" in society, to be sweet tempered, and amiable and careful of pleasing at home, it would be all the better for ourselves and our families, and a gain in the way of true civilization. jgtisttUiweous Reading. I ai Special Correwpondence ofthe New York World, 8] GRANT'S VIEWS. fi Washington, January 2. Without pretending to entire accuracy, I am 81 able no# to give you his expressed opinions about some other matters, and especially about men con- i? ten,!* whom ho would oatunUly talk, about thi. time. w his opinion about elihu b. wa8hburne. General Grant sayB: "Washburne was my friend er when I needed a friend?when it was no advantage n( to be my friend, and when I had veiy few friends g anywhere?scarcely any outside of the army. My tr fViorvrla *M worn nnmomiig now. I ofVp.n wonder T1 * ?J XI bow many of them would remain my friends if my tr position and patronage were taken away from me. g The friends of my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to re- ^ lieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who ^ are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my ^ prosperity. The newspapers cannot alienate me from Washburne by any abuse of him or ridicule w of his supposed influence oyer me." er WfiAT GRANT THINKS OF WM. P. FESSENDEN. General Grant says of Fessenden: "I regard him as the ablest statesman in the Senate. He is a a man of a high order of intellect, of catholic views, w of large and well-improved experience, and has g( that moral courage which is far more commend- i^, able, as it is far rarer, than physical oourage. I ^ have differed from him sometimes. When I did, I involuntarily recalled the kind words of Mr. Lin- ^ coin, 'I am satisfied now that you were right and g, I was wrong.'" tl< ABOUT SUMNER. "Senator Sumner," says General Grant, "is a ^ great scholar and a finished orator. I am not well e( qualified to judge such men as Sumner. He is a j~0 faithful representative of his State. If he had not been chosen by Massachusetts, I do not believe he would ever have been a member of the United States Senate.". in CONCERNING BUTLER. a General Butler is a man of very great force of yc character. He would be a leader in any count# p< in which he lived, and any cause wbicn be espous- jD ed. The Republican party could better afford to y lose almost any other of its captains. f0 GEN. M'CLELLAN AND THE CABINET. fu In answer to the inquiry about the newspa- in per story that he had offered a Cabinet portfolio to 01 General McClellan, General Grant said: ''There \x is no truth in the report that I have offered Gen- lit eral McClellan a place in my Cabinet" After a fe moment's reflection, he added: "I do not say that m I have not thought of doing it, and if I do it I vi know of no one who has a right to object. When of I am inaugurated I shall be President of the Uni- ar ted States?not the head of a party. I shall be the ar executive officer of the whole people?not t>f a Tl mere majority. If the interests ef the peqple can ur best be served by any man, I would have no right p< to set him aside because he did not voft for me. w Of course, all other things being equal, my person- th al or'political preference might justly decide the di competition. But I shall never remove a good hi man and a competent offioer who is a Democrat, to th make place for a bad man or an incompetent man of who is a Republican. I know something of politi- le cians. While I believe I was the first choice of re the masses of the Republican party, I believe I of was the last choice of a majority of its leaders. If le these latter had imagined there was any possibility ui of electing any body else they never would have nominated me. As we soldiers say of things we fo don't like to do, or doubt the right of doing, it is a gf military necessity; so the party politicians consid fn ered my nqmination a party necessity. Therefore, sii while I fully appreciate my indebtedness to the th men who voted for me, I do not overrate my obli- th gations to the men who nominated me. I do not in wish you to understand that I have not a - warm ca sympathy with the Republican party. As a party, rh I like it better than the Democratic party. As to th the masses who compose the parties, I regard th them as equally loyal, equally honest, and equally fit intelligent As to the leaders, I think there are er good men and bad men in each party; but I think no the controlling clement in the Republican party wi is more loyal, more honest, and more intelligent, fa than in the Democratic party. The great objec- ni tion to either party, in my mind, is the want of independent action on the part of its members. I th shall support the Republican party whenever its in policy oommenda itself to my judgment and con- In science, and I shall observe the same conduct to- th ward the Democratic party. So in regard to ap- th pointments, if I think the interests of the country er will be subserved by placing in office a man who sc rtnMrtPAfI mn ftln/jhAn tkle hi f for fonf. tTtl] nrtf. flpfPT In Upp'OCU UIJ UlV/VblUII) worn luvvvi imvv n*i? mv? ??.w. m me from making the appointment. McCIellan, 0t continued General Grant, is an able soldier, a good m citizen, and a pure man. He has great powers of qi organization. The Army of the Potomac was the <]< best organized, the best equipped, and the best 0r disci plineiarmy thq world ever saw. For accom- as pllshing this, at least, the country is indebted to bi McCIellan. Another remarkable fact is that, while w to a large extent McCIellan lost the confidence of tl< the country, he never lost the confidence of his p< army. I know full well when I succeeded to the u; command of that army I did not supplant him in n< its affections. He was its first love." to nis VIEWS WITH REGARD TO REBELS, am in favor," said General Grant to a friend, tfi "of general amnesty. When the war ended I was gt in favor of a more extended amnesty than was T either Mr. Lincoln or Mr. Johnson. I was in fa- tii vor of amnesty to all except the men who organized in the Confederate Government, or rather those lead- w ers who organized the movement which declared ts the rebel States out of the Union. Those who ad- m hered to their States after they had established a al ilcfacto government, and had nothing to do in organizing the rebellion, I thought it best to admit to amnesty. Now I would make no exceptions. (The conversation occurred prior to the appear- re ance of the President's last amnesty proclamation.) tr "I am in favor of peace, and I think the definition at of Mr. Burke the correct one.. Peace means reconciliation. In my final report of the operation.- D of the armies 1 expressed the hope that we might fr live in perpetual peace and harmony with that as enemy whose manhood, however mistaken the er cause, drew forth such herculanean deeds of valor, bi As we are compelled to live together, it is far bet- bl ter that we should forget our differences and strive $e together to eradicate all the ill feelings engendered tn by the war." ar NEGRO SUFFRAGE. In answer to an inquiry as to his views upon ne- I gro suffrage (in the same conversation) he 3aid: tli "Negro suffrage is inevitaCle. I was bitterly op- m posed to it until it was forced upon us by the logic vi of events. The extension of suffrage will not for- ro bid the supremacy of intelligence.'' m HENRY WARD BEECHER. th Of Mr. Henry Ward Beecher the General says: di '*1 guess Beechcr don't want any office; but be le would be a better preacher if he were less a politi- a cian, and a better politician if he were less a U| preacher." b< CHARLES A. DANA. ( I "Dana is a man," said Grant, "for whom I ought m to have a great contempt, but to whom I owe in nothing but good will. lie came to me a spy up- to on my good conduct. He reported favorably. If fa it had not been for his favorable report I should at probably have been removed from my command, cli [e is a shrewd man, and a man of letters. He is ery susceptible to flattery. My staff read him, ad captured him. So far as I know, he is not an pplicant for office under me. He is eminently i tted for journalism, and l should consult his in- i rest in declining to remove him to any other 1 )bere." s ] JAMES GORDON BENNETT, v | "Bennett is a Sootohman; no man born in Soot- | nd ever became acclimated in this country. His ( randsons may, but neither he nor bis sons-are 1 rer true Americans. I .am of this desoent myself, ( id therefore speak candidly. No Scotchman ev- , 1 expatriates himself except from necessity, and J ithing here is equal to the 'Auld lang syne.' j ennett, like a true Scotchman, is ever ready to , ade upon the misfortunes of his adopted oountry. , - A* rv%A lo fVia rtonn. 1 e cares not uuw wjmuiu - ?uw *% m ??? ?u? w?? y if it is only a good time for the newspapers, e made his paper famona by making it infamofls. mattered nothing to him who was harmed so int he made money. He has always conducted s journal upon the principle enunciated J>y the 30tchman whe advised his son John: When you any, marry a woman who has money. For ony oman may turn out ill, but, Gad, the money nev will." raymond, seward, and weed. "Raymond always reminds me/' he replied, "of j urn ping-jock. He is heads up or tails up just i Seward or Weed move him. When Raymond >es wrong I always feel like forgiving him, for he iows not what he does; nobody supposes him to ; anything but the mouth-piece of Seward and reed, though he is a brilliant writer if he would i independent and strike out on his own hook, sward is a man of very great ability and very Kti principle. If he had not entrusted his politics Weed he might have been a statesman. Weed ;ing a very corrupt politician, Seward was dragid,down from the elevation of statesmanship to the west depths of demagoguery." HOW PICKPOCKETS WORK. lour artistic pickpooket is a gentlemanly lookg fellow, wears neat boots and gloves, always has new-looking hat, and is altogether the last man >u would suspect of aoy sinister designs on your icket. He lives in first class hotels and boardg-houses, often frequenting the same house for nrs. totallv unsuspected, and remarkable pnly r bis quiet and gentlemanly demeanor. He care- 1 lly chooses four companions, equally respectable ' appearance, to form what is called a mob, each ( te producing a certain Sum to make a bank, to 1 ! used in case one of them falls (taken by the po- ' :e), in order to provide bail or to pay his counsel 1 es. They then ffequent railway stations, public eetings, or any place they can find a crowd. A I ctirn is quietly selected as a probable find. Two 1 'the mob then place themselves in front of him, 1 id two remain behind, occupying, as it were, the 1 igles of a square of which the victim is the centre. 1 bese are called the front and back stalls. The * ifortunate victim is then fanned; tlfat is, his >cket8 are softly padded to find out the one in 1 hich he keeps his wallet; the sign is passed to ' ie operator, who is termed the wire, who imme- ' ately proceeds to work. He does not place his 1 mds in the pocket, that is a fatal error, but with | ie two first fingers he gently draws up the lining ' the pocket to the opening; and with it the wal- 1 t, and the trick is done. This system is called 1 sefing. The wallet is immediately passed to one 1 ' the back stalls, who quietly, though quickly, aves. The most dangerous place for money is idoubtediy the pocket of the pants. Again, one of the front stalls passes his arm here your face to touch the other front stall on the ' loulder, to say, "How are you?" but the wire om behiud has your diamond pin in his possesr\n Tf nneuihlA thev return the emntv wallet to r ie pocket to avoid detection in its possession, or j ie dangerous necessity of throwing it away. For stance : two gentlemen sitting at one end of a ir get into an angry altercation, high wordg ensue, ie attention of the other passengers is attracted to leir dispute, and the young lady who sat next to >at nice looking man at the other end of the car ids on arriving at Stewart's that her purse is npty. The angry gentleman and the nice looking an are simply confederates. This they term eeding. A correspondent of a newspaper lately st $800 in this way while riding in a Fourth avele car. Pickpockets are necessarily very migratory in icir habits, finding a long residence in one place convenient. This renders it almost impossible to ake any estimate of their probable numbers in lis city. They prefer a locality for the scene of teir operation that has numerous lines of rail to rnble them to separate in various directions as ?on as they have a good swag, and to meet again some other town. These men stand by one anher in trouble, and are strictly square in their utual transactions. A curious instance of "hon among thieves," is found in the following anecite: The elder Mathews and Theodore Hook, on le occasion, went together to the theatre; while sending the staircase Mathews playfully took a j indie of papers from Hook's pocket, when he | as touched on the shoulder from behind by a gen- i imanly looking man, who handed him his own i jeket-book, apologizing for taking by it saying? i [ didn't know you were one of us," and pertiintly adding?"but what a d?d fool you must be ] > carry it there." ' Pickpockets, however, never save money, for i ley are all bitten with a mania for gambling, and, ' range to say, are generally unsuccessful at it. i heir language is most peculiar. Their depreda- 1 ins on the public amount to a very large sum i the course of the year, a considerable portion of hich is never recovered, from the general inabili of the victims to give any description which i lgnc I6BQ 10 lUCnUUUaUUIl, tucjr u j.r\soe?as*vj lowing you to haye a full view of their face. < New York Tribune. I Bathing in the Dead Sea.?From a work cently published in England, the annexed exacton the buoyancy of the waters and the appearlce of the Dead Sea is taken : "Though in breadth not exceeding ten miles, the ! ead Sea Beems boundless to the eye when looking om north to south, and the murmur of the waves, 1 i they break upon the flint-strewn shores, togeth- I with the lines of drift-wood and fragments of i tumen on the beach, give to its waters a resemance of the ocean. Curious to experience the 1 nsation of swimming in so strange a sea, I put i i test the various accounts of the extreme buoy- i icy felt in it, and I was quickly convinced that i i^rfl was nn #?** iteration in what I had heard. 1 found the water almost tepid, and no strong that i te chief difficulty was to keep sufficiently sub- < ergcd, the feet starting up into the air at every i gorous stroke. When floating, half the body I se above the surface, and, with a pillow, one 1 ight have slept upon the water. After a time i ie strangeness of the sensation in some measure i sappeared, and on approaching the shore I care- i ssly droppedxny feet to walk out?when lo I as if i bladder had been attached to each heel they flew i jwards! The struggle to reoover myself sent my I iad down ; the bitter and briny stuff, from which i had hitherto guarded my head, rushed into my t outh, eyes, ears, and nose, and for one horrible I oment the only doubt I had was whether I was i be drowned or poisoned. Coming to the sur- ' ce, however, I swam to land, making no further / tempt to walk in dead water, which I am in- f ned to believe is almost impossible." M THE MANUFACTURE OF BRUSHES. We produce do bristles of any consequence in this country. A comparatively small quantity is annually saved, and. goes into the manufacture of scrubbing, shoe and other coarse kinds of brushes; but for bristles in general we depend npon transatlantic sources of supply. There iB another kind of hair that costs immensely. It is the hair of the badger. It is used for making the brushes of trainers. The tails of the animal alone supply it. Die price in gold is thirty dollars a pound. Most af it comes from Germany. For the last four pears none have been procurable. The Prussian government got into its noddle a notion to adopt the badger's tail in its infantrymen's hats, much is our bucktail regiment sported in the caudal appendages of deer. The result was that grainers < -?J ?*-? ? .? .Ukl? round lueir uruaiiea huuui aa h?iv? <u umuu/ wuoets in fashionable churches. The idea of camel-hair brashes is sorely a pleasant fiction. It is like calling a small-bladed knife i, pen knife. Nobody makes qaill pens in this era and no camels offer their hair for brashes of any kind. The material of all this kind of brash we are indebted to the tails of the raccoon, opossum, silver martin, skank and Hudson Bay sable. It is not less queer than true that, while all these fan are produced on oar own soil, we mast go to England to bay the tails. The furs are shipped to Europe, tails and all. The shipper won't cat them [>ff, lest he mar the integrity of the skins. There has always been an active demand for long goat hair for brush making purposes. Every billy-goat carries an appendage beneath his chin from fqurto ten inches long. Eugenia took a fancy to it as a trimming for her pelisse, and, presto I all the supply was lifted far beyond a price that would prove productive to the brash-maker, to be used as an article of trimming. The retail traders give to the irtide a fanciful name, bat the chances are that the tippet or muff known as Angora goat floece, ivas once supported by a four-legged ranger with a pair of horns surmounting his caput. There are many ways of preparing hair and bris w i .i f * il Lies, ana some ways, aiso, or citing our :uc suppiy. Manilla produces a grass that in second class brashes can be so intermingled as to deceive the eye of anybody but an expert Shred whalebone was formerly employed in no considerable extent, but the only available kinds of whalebone are very nearly now as dear as bristles. In tbe manufactory of brashes the struggle is now between this country and Europe. The French make goods showy and poor. - The scarcity of materials of all kinds for making brushes is gradually increasing, ind endeavors are now being made to utilize the cast quantity of American bristles that annually SO to waste in the big norkeries of Cincinnati and Chicago. At the asylum for the blind, the manufacture of the commoner kinds of brushes is a prominent branch of industry, and it is touching to see the manner in which the absolutely sightless can perfect their work. In a mechanical point of view the art of brushmaking is a difficult one. Few branches of industry prove more remunerative to the artisan. Tbe borne manufacturer, owing to circumstances he cannot avert, has to compete with foreign workmen. The only troubled is that the French and English manufacturer can put into the market an article at four dollars a dozen, only distinguishable after being used, from an article costing treble the money. And that's what's the matter with the ? * . * *r ,1 n Drusn trade.?isoruiern raprr. PATENT-RIGHT MANIA. A visit to the Patent office in Washington would convince any one that the inventive activity of Americans is unsurpassed in any country. It seems that the most complicated machines are the product of intense thought, but they are not the most productive as prop<jjty. Those inventions which have brought the largest returns, ordinarily, have been simple and easy of construction. Inventors rarely receive much pecuniary benefit from theiij discoveries. Persons who have had the capacity for foreseeing how they might be manipulated, obtain tbe largest share of the advantages that accrue. Inventors sometimes singularly stand in their own light in the matter of compensation for their inventions. Elated by a delusive prospect of becoming suddenly rich, they refuse to listen to advantageous offers for a Bale; so that many who might have been comfortable, bad they been reasonable in their expectations, in the end get nothing at all. A mania for wealth won, instead of being earned, is fed and nourished by inventors more than any other class of persons. They see a clear way for realizing a million of dollars when they refuse- to accept of twenty thousand, and after a while come - - - _ A 1* . t% .% to their senses with a mortifying realization ot tne mistake they made, when they cannot sell at any price. Within a year or so, a young man engaged in handictaft hit upon a pretty plan of making an ornamental appendage to a cravat of paper. For the patent, which in the hands of a business man might have yielded a gratifying profit, he was offered thirty thousand dollars. He was urged by a friendly acquaintance to take it. He would be independent with that sura securely invested. No; he saw a river of wealth flowing into his empty pockets, and scornfully rejected the offer. A company was formed and bustling preparations inaugurated for flooding the market with the newly devised tie. The concern failed; leaving operatives unpaid, debts in abundance, and the inventor worse off than any of his associates, without receiving a single dollar. He is now oppressed with liabilities, broken-spirited, and at work again for accustomed wages. This is a specimen of the reverses and disappointed expectations of ardent inventors deficient in judgment. Those who succeed best in' the broad field of patent-rights are such as know enough of the uncertainties of life to strike when the iron is hot, according to the blacksmith's proverb. The Influence of Sleep. ?In the Rev. Dr. Bushnell's volume on the "Moral Influence of Dark Things," we find this truthful and suggestive passage: After some years, prejudices begin to be tired of being slept over. Jealousies rankle as long as they stay, but they get tired of staying when we do not stay with them, but go to sleep over them. We cannot hate an enemy, save intermittently, but have to begin every morning?which we have less ind less appetite for, and finally come to like that morning best that does not begin it at alL Were it not for this arrangement, our malignities might burn us up. But the taking away of our conscience is a kind of compulsory Sabbath or truce if God. No hatred burns in the unconscious man; no revenge or jealousy lowers on his face in that soft; hour of oblivion. If he went to bed Seated by an ugly conversation, if he was severe ind bitter in bis judgment, if all charities are worched-away by his fierce denunciations, be will rise in the morning cool and Bweet as the morning, * -? -> e : III that hp *na me gemie cneer 01 uis vuiuc wiu ouun bim? mv | 8 clear of this bad tnood and likes to have it tnown. A maD must be neztto a devil who wakes mgry. After his unconscious Sabbath he begins mother day, and every day is Monday. How beautifully thus are we drawn by this kind economy of sleep to the exercise of all good dispositions, rhe acrid and soured ingredients of evil, the grudges, the wounds of feeling, the hypoohondriao suspicions, the black torments of misanthropy, die morose fault-findings, are so far tempered and - - - sweetened by God'B gentle discipline of sleep, that we probably do not even eonoeivehow demoniady bitter tbey would be if do such kind interruptions broke their spell. THE SOUTHERN COLONIES IN BRAZIL. The Mobile Tribune prints anaccount of the experience of an Alabamian, James J. Selby, who went to BrasQ in 1867, and has just returned: Mr. Selby landed first at Bio and took passage from there for Para, in the government steamer, for the purpose of joining the colonists who went from Mobile trader the guidance of Major Hastings, n/t W Mttlul on mo Jitiinm nn the Amazon. The Brasiliau Government had pledged itself to transport American emigrants to any part of Brazil they might wish to settle. The experience of Mr. Selby of the manner ip which. that pledge was kept was anything hat grttifyii*. After great trouble and numerous delays he. seemed a ticket and went on boatti the steamer. Daring the passage, that lasted twenty days, he 'was night sod day in the open air, and afforded no ahiel^ir from the sun and rain. Bo was furnished two meals * day of farina, which were served in a huge basin aet odt upon the deck for the accommodation' of the deck passengers. The colonists who went out with Hastings were promised supplies for ax months or their equivalent in money, with which to purchase supplies where they might deem proper. The official *ho is charged with furnishing the settlers with stop plies is Vice-President of the province of Phi*. With the money he had received from the government for the purpose designated, he established a store on the bank of the river, filled it with the cheapest groceries he could obtain, and forced the settlers to buy from him at the highest cash price, or starve. The settlement is distant from the river about eight miles; a sandy deeetrprithoot shade intervening; and onoe there the settlers had to trudge under a tropical sun bearing on their backs the poor but costly groceries supplied by the enterprising Pinto. Delicate women from Alabama had often to perform that fearful task. Of the families that went opt with Hastings, only four remain at the settlement; the rest having gone to Para, as a first step towards getting back home. Those that remain are the following: Vanghn, Mendenhall, Steel and Emmett. While the Hastings colony has been reduced to a remnant, all the otjier colonies hate been utterly broken np; the colonists ooming iti aii bestthey coPTd to the nearest seaports, generally in on absolutely destitute condition. % HABITS OF THOMAS JEFFBH801?. Mr. Jefferson kept a journal of all letters and papers written by him and received, containing the date, time and plaoe, when and where written or received. He also kept copies of all letters written, extending to letters to members of his own family. His letters and papers were copied Jjy the polygraph as they were written, prior to 1806. by durable ink, and this paper is such as is now used by bank officers and others. Mr. Jefferson not only furnished anecdotes, facts, and documents for Wirt's life of Henry, hut Mr. Wirt submitted his manuscript to Mb Jefferson for review and criticism, and he did review and suggest alterations, which were made, and when Mr. Wirt flagged or hesitated as to its completion and publication, he urged him on. In writing of Mr. Henry's supposed inattention to ancient charters, Mr. Jefferson writes: "He drew all natural writs from a purer source?the feelings of his own breast" Any one who will peruse the letters of Mr. Wirt published in this work, will acknowledge that Mr. Jefferson's appreciation of Henry was even higher than Mr. Wirt's. I was thirty-four years old when Mr. Jefferson died. I was more intimate with him than any other man I have ever known, young or old. I enjoyed his entire confidence on all subjects. Having access to his room at afl times, I would often find him writing letters in which he felt unusual interest He would stop and read his rough drafts. 1 never heard him utter a word against Mr. Henry. His eloquence was ever the theme of his admiration, saying that he spoke as Homer wrote. Mr. Jefferson spoke freely of the political cooduct of bis opponents, but never commented on private character. He spoke freely of the good qualities of men. His habit was so marked in this respect that superficial observers supposed him defective in his appreciation of character. On - one occasion, when he had spoken veiy favorably of some individual, -I suggested defective points in the man's character; he replied by asking me if I supposed he did not see these points as clearly as I did; that he always left to others to note defects of character.?T. J. Randdph. NIGHT-WORK. Tom Moore spoke truly when he said that the best of all ways to lengthen our days is to steal a few hours from the night Only, we must steal for a good purpose, not for pleasure or dissipation, else we are losers instead of gainers by the theft. Moderate night work does not hurt bodily or mental health, but rather the contrary, I fancy, and I speak from experience. Note how watchers retain their strengt h and faculties. Look at astronomers, whom in our mind's eye we always regard as snowy locked, yet vigorous-minded, strong-framed men. And are they not, as a rale ? Remember Gallieo living to 78, Hevelius watching till he was 76, and Copernicus till he reached 70. Take oar English astronomers, royal, too. There was Flams teed, who, in spite of a disordered body, toiled by night and by day, harder, as he said, than a corn-thresh er, and yet reached 73; Bradley, who did as muob night watching, ran oat the allotted period of three score and ten years; and his successor, Maskelyne told fourscore, all but one year. Then call to mind grand old Herschel, whose daily labors and night-watchings lasted so long, and were performed 60 well that he may be said to have done the work of three lives, and he reached the good age of eighty-four. And have we not his son, a giant in science, who stole hour after hour from the starry nights of his youth, and gives us now sparkling essays and sound leteons, fraught with the experience which seventy-six years have gathered^ his garner? Lastly, learn that Maedler, who it Uow seventy-fonr, came to the British Association \ meeting a few weeks back, and told the savans i something that proved his eye?after an operation for cataract?and bis intellect to be as good as they i were when, thirty years ago, be made his noble j map of the moon, a work that most have involved 1 night-watching enough to send an ordinary eight hour sleeper inttFan everlasting dose. Whosoever i wishes to rob the night to the best advantage, let ? him sleep for two or three hours, then get up and i work for two hours and then sleep out the balance i of the night Doing thus, he will not feel the loss of the sleep be has surrendered.?Ohcc a W&k, I ?> i How an American did Europe Cheaply.? ) A Mr. Eeeler is lecturing in Boston on the subject of his undertake s t0 make the "grand tour*' of Europe upon the sum of $181 in greenbacks, his .< starting point being Toledo, Ohio. Mr. Keeler is j evidently a Toledo blade, of great keenness. He i got a free ride to the seaooast, bought a steerage!) ticket in New York for London^ got a glimpse* ofl the World's Fair in the great city, sawtheEmpe-j ror's fete in Paris, and at length arrived at Hadel-I berg, where ha took lodgings in a sky parlor at ar rent of two gulden or eighty cents a month. Here] he pursued his studies at the University, and sue-l< taineda deoently eouuumoie existence upon biwIHStt, TOUTKl CiRSQJS) OT tHT66 OPDiSHpWCC, IQu Wp* pore that came to fonr cents for each one. Being ft graduate of ao American college, his tuition fees at the University were $10 the half year. He travelled over Germany in the disguise of ft tradesman's apprentice, whioh secured him a good Sue at the lowest poesible oost Three times he was reduced to nearly .bis hat sou, and three times he waft sated bp- remittances from newspapers) to which he had sent contributions. One morniag he fbmdhimseftonthePOBt'Nebt in Paris, when he had not ft centime to bless himself with, and bad eaten no^ing-flie day before, and was sated firoin.suicide only by-falling in with an unfortunate girl, who had reached the spot intent upon her own destruction. He made thetoor triomphaatly, and nosr heisat home. OLD 4BIK6S. Owe hie oldreotgs, thoas eocqoiste bests of uatxh jjEflfl ihlWsd the lyres of the inspired poets and minstrels of long ago. Every note has borne 'on the air a tide of jpf and rapture, of sorrow and sadness. They tell of days gone by ; and time has given them a voioe that speaks to us of those who breathed thoaemeloifies; may they.be mine to bear till Hfe shall end ; as "I launch my boat" upon the seaa?f*teraaty may their echoes be wafted on toy ear, to ebeer me on ay passage from earth to fatherland. Give me the old paths where weharelrandeted and culled the flowers of friendship in the days of ''AhU Ina^Sjme.'' Sweeter far the daBi whore echoes have answered to ow voices, whose turf is not a stranger to our fbotstaps, and whose riflshanre in childhood's days reflected hack onr tore* wed those of oar merry playfellows -from whoa we hate parted, ?)d meet no more in-die old nooks we loved so wdL Hay the old paths be watered with Heaven's own dew, and ha green forever in my memory. Giv&me the old house, upon whose stain we seem to bear fight footsteps, ?*d under whom poroh a merry laugh seems to mingle with the winds that whistle through due old elms, beneath whose branches lie the graves of those who oooe trod the hp& and made the ring with glee. And O, above all, give me the old friends, hearts bound to nine in Ufa's sunshiny boon, end a Knk so strong that all storms of earth night not break it asunder; spirits congenial, whose hearts through . life have hint in unison with theirown. 0, whet death -shall still this heart, I would not ask for aught more sacred to haQoWmy dttst thin the tear of mold friend. . PrimottoBook-Keeping.?The Mtoeo (Ga.) Telegraph relates the following: VWe havejost been handed an Afriean batter and milk account for a month, on a slip of paper as long and narrow as/ our pencil Long marks, we are told, mean quarts of milk, and short ones, in the same line, mean pounds of butter. The account shah be squared, and a receipt taken by throwing the bill into the stove. This kind of aooountiog puts us io mind of the Ter mor merchant's bock-keeping. We dare say some of our teaders can call the man's name, for the story is a true one. ~ Tar Hirer did a heavy mercantile business for that country?be was rich?he kept his own books, but he could Deitber read nor write. His manner was to put the outline of his debtor's face at the top of the ledger, and underneath were pen pic? ? i 1 _ 1 tures or tne articles pttrcnasea, or, wnere tnsi ?u impossible, some cabalistic sign which the maker understood. One day there was a disputed account, Purchaser was charged with a cheese, whioh he denied buying. 'What should we want with a cheese when we make more at home than we can eat?' It was a poser, and Tar River could only insist, in reply, upon the accuracy of his hooka 'If there's anything I do value myself on, it's the accuracy of my hooka' 'Impossible,' saysdebtor. 'It must be so,' says Tar River; 'now think over what you have had of ma' 'Well, I have had a saddle, trace chains, hoes, axes, and?a grind* stone.' 'Good heaven,' says Tar River, it pos* mwuthu in charging that grindstone I forgot to make a hole in the middle, and so took it for a cheese? I can hardly credit such an error in my books."' Dxad Iran's Gulch.?In California a miner' had died in a mountain digging, and, being much respected, his acquaintances resolved to give him a "square funeral," instead of putting the body in the usual way in any roughly-made hole, and saying by way of sendee for the dead, "there goes another bally boy under!" they aongbt the services of a miner who bore the reputation of having, at one time of his career, been "a powerful preacher in the States." And then, far Western fashion, all knelt around the grave, while the extemporised parson delivered a prodigiously long prayer. The miners, tired of this unaccustomed opiate, to while away the time, began fingering the earth, digger fashion, about the grave. Gradually looks were exchanged; whispering increased, until it became loud esough to attract the attention of their parson. He opened hiseyea and stared at the whispering miners. "What is it, boys?"?Then, his eyes fighting on sparkling scales of gold, be shouted, "Gold, by Jingo! and the best kind o' digging: the congregation's dismissed !" Instantly every man began to prospect the new diggings, our clerical friend not being the least active of the number. The body had to be removed and buried elsewhere, but the memory of the incident yet ? un .j.ti ?_ 11^86 io toe name 01 me ?cHuiy, ior jjvwu vutu Gulch" became one of the richest localities in California. A Dilemma.?A few days ago a workman on the Louisville and Cincinnati Railroad, was sent to tighten the bolts on the bridge which spans Bollock Pen Creek, in KeDton County. Arriving at the place he mounted the bridge, which, by the way, is eight feet high, and soon performed the work entrusted to him. Unluckily, however, while he was screwing down the last bolt, he somehow or other got his pantaloons also screwed down fast and tight to the bridge, and to make matters worse, jost at this critical moment be let his wrench fhlL Here was a dilemma to be in. After looking around in vain for some one to relieve'bim from his unpleasant position, he' slipped off bis boots, and after wriggling, twisting and hjuiruling, for about ten minutes, managed to get out of his pantaloons. He then climbed down, reoovered the wrench, returned to the top of the structure, and got his pantaloons loose. A woman some distaoce off, seeing the man divesting himself of hiscio * -? > ? 1? . i !. tMOg, tnongnc ne was cnuy sou auovt to coaraui suicide, whereupon ^he ran off to akrjn some men who were at work a few hundred Tarda from her boose; but before she got back, the auppcesd lunatic had domed his garments, and was quietly seated on the bridge. . pi 1 * w NEDFS^aTla Spongers. ?An exchange makes the foUimfeg eWMible remarks: "There are many fiedple fn the worfd who make it a business to iponge the reading of their county papers without tygr expense to themselves. They are Found wherever the paper is left?in a shop, ofiee, store or bather shop, and often borrowing R before the OWner has an opportunity of seeing it This is done by very many who are abundantly able and whose doty it wookl seem to be to sustain their ceantiy paper, tp subscribing and peyingfor it."