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* ^ A ???????^??^? ?I ? .,??? ^w^wi^p^^w?ppp?gpi8!?MI^MiMBHeeHHeg LEWIS M.J3-RIST, " |i6tjpM /amtln ftciospapfr: /or % |lnratotton of tbf |)olitical Social, ^gritullural rail Coarattrtial Interests of ifee jfcrtf. ^ ^ : *' VOL. 15. " YOBKVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, JA3STTJAR1T 38, 1869. , j .-; ag gv:.raMQ'.:.4' ? ... - , ? ; n : ... ? - .. corarnre-HotrsB alhahac foe isss. lOilif ! i : ? h i ^ i j 5 > hi j* 5 : : kj : : : : : : h : i : .t a n. ... ... ... > l 2 july ? % *** 12 3 n 5 ? 7 n 4 m r 8 910 10 1112 13 1415 16! 11 12 1314 1516 17 17 18 19 20 21 22 23; 18 19 2021 2223 24 24 26 26 27 28 29 80! 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 31 - ... feb. ... 12 s 4 5 fi auo. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7 8 910 11 12 is ' 8 0 1011 1213 14 14 US W 17 18 M SO) 15 16 17118 19B0IZ1 21 22 28 24 25 26 271 22 23 2425 262728 28 29 30 31............ 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It seemed strange that petty human Kfeoould go on as usual, with its eating and drinking, toiling, trafficking and pleasuring, while that "flaming minister," on his bilHon-leagaed circuit, was preaching the wonders of infinite immensity and power, and the nothingness of earth. But science has robbed celestial apparitions of their old portentous significance. The comet no longer runs his kindling race, like Yioh-Alpine's henchman, with his fiery cross, announcing war and disaster, Htrald of battle, rate, ana rear. He i8 on his own business; not oars. Under the tail of this particular comet doubtless many a tale of love was told?in the light of his swift splendors many a tender look exchanged. The astronomer coolly swept the starry field with his glass, unawed by the irregular night-guard patrolling the heavens, and the robber and murderer disdained the awful witness. He left ns as be found ns?joined to our mortal idols?wise in onr conceit, weak, and worldly, and wieked, but no castaways of the universe, after all. We remember that comet-summer, not so much for its great astronomical event, as for two singular incidents that uiore nearly touched our human sympathies, which will grovel in poor earthly affairs, even within sight of the most august celestial Dhenomena. One pleasant Saturday afternoon during the comet's appearanoe, an aeronaut, after a prosperous voyage, descended upon a farm in the neighborhood of a large market town, in one of the Western States. He was soon surrounded by a curious group of the farmer's family and laborers, aH asking eager questions about the voyage aud the management of the balloon. That secured by aa anchor and a rope iu the hand of the aeronaut, its car but a foot or two above the ground, was swaying backward and forward in the evening air. It was a good deal out of wind, and was a sleepy and innocent monster in the eyes of the farmer, who, with the owner's permission, led it up to his house, where, as he said, he could 'laifeh it" to his fence. Bat before he thus secured it, his three children, aged respectively ten, eight and three, begged him to Hft them "into that big basket," that they might sit on "those pretty red cushions.'' Whita the attention of the aeronaut was diverted by some carious questioners from a neighboring j fiixm, this rash father lifted bis darlings, one by' one, into the car. Chubby little Johnuy proved: the "ounoe too much," for the aerial 'camel, and brought him to the ground ; and then, unluckily, not the baby, bat the eldest hope of the family was lifted out The reKef was too great for the monster. The volatile creature's spirits rose at once, he jerked his halter out of the farmer's hand, and with a wild bound mounted into the air. Vain was the aeronaut's anchor. It caugfit for a moment in a fence, but it tore away, and was off, dangling uselessly after the runaway balloon, which so swiftly and steadily rose that in a few minutes those two little white faces, peering over the edge of the car, grew indistinct, and those piteous cries J of "Papa!" "Mamma!" grew faint and fainter, up in the air. When distance and twilight mists had swallowed up voices and feces, and nothing could be seen but that dark cruel shape, sailing triumphantly away, with its precious booty, like an serial privateer, the poor father sunk down helpless and speechless; but the mother, frantic with grief, still stretched her yearning arms toward the inexorable heavens, and called wildly up into the unanswering void. The aeronaut strove to console the wretched parents with assurances that the balloon would desoend within thirty miles of the town, and that all might be weH with the children, provided it did not come down in water or in deep woods. In the event of its descending in a favorable spot, there was but one danger to be apprehended; he thought that the elder child might step out, leaving the younger in the balloon. Then, it might again rise and continue its voyage. "Ah! no," replied the mother, "Jennie would ^^- ??- ? ? Tal% /xni TrtUnnm in never hut iruui me var, niuwuii vuuuw^ u uu> arms." The balloon passed directly over the town, and the children seeing many people in the streets, stretched out their hands and cried loudly for help. But the villagers, though they saw the bright little heads, beard no call. Amazed at the strange apparition, they might almost have thought the translated little creatures small angel navigators on some voyage of discovery, some little cherubic venture of their own, as, heading toward the rosy cloud-lands and purple islands of sunset splendor, they sailed deeper and deeper into the west, and faded away. Some company they had, poor little sky-waifs! Something comforted them, and allayed their wild terrors?something whispered them, that below the night and clouds was home; that above was ?i ii _:_Lt J_: fi. i.a i:_ Ijroa ; tnac wnerever mey uugub unit, ui uosu, living or dead, they wonld still be in His domain, and under His care?that though borne away among the stars, they could not be lost, for His love would follow them. When the sunlight all went away, and the great comet came blazing out, little Johnnie was apprehensive that the comet might come too near their airy craft, and set it on fire with a whisk of its dreadful tail But when his sister assured him that that fiery dragon was "as much as twenty miles away," and that God wouldn't let him hurt them, he was tranquilized, but soon afterward said, "I wish he would oome a little nearer, so I could warm myself?I'm so cold." Then Jennie took off her apron, and wrapped it < about the child, saying tenderly: "This is all sister < has to make you warm, darling, but shell bug you i close in her arms, and we will say our prayers and you shall go to sleep." ! "Why, how can I say my prayers, before I have 1 my supper ?" asked little Johnnie. "Sister hasn't any supper for you or for herself, but we must pray all the harder," solemnly responded Jennie. So the two baby-wanderers, alone in the wide , heavens, unawed by darkness, immensity, and si- ] lence, by the presence of the great comet and the ' millions of unpitying stars, lifted their little clasp- < ed hands, and sobbed out their sorrowfol "Car ( Father," and then that quaint little supplementa- , vjsaasRL*. ..L ~? Now I lay me down to ateep, . I pray the Lord my mo) to keep, If I should (He before I wake, I pay tbe Lord my aoul to take. . i "There 1 God heard that easy, for we are close ] to Him, up here," said innooent little Johnnie. , Doubtless, Divine Love stooped to the fitfcle ones, and folded them in perfect peace?for soon the younger, sitting on the bottom of the car, with his head leaning against his aster's knee, slept as soundly as if he were lying in his own Kttle bed, at home; white the elder watched quietly through the long, long hours, and the ear floated gently on in the still night aifr, till it began to sway and rock on the fresh morning wind. Who can divine that simple little child's thoughts, speculations, and wild imaginings, while watching through those hours? She may have feared coming in collision with a meteor?for many were abroad that night, scouts and heralds of the great comet?or perhaps being cast away on some xlssohte star island; or more dreary still, floating on, night and day, till they should both die of cold and hunger. Poor babes in the clouds t At length, a happy ohanee, or Providence?we will say Providence?guided the little girl's wandering hand to a oord connected with the valve; something told her to pull it . At ouce the balloon began to srak, botfly and gently, as though let down by tender bauds; or as though some etiistial pilot guided it through the wild currents of air, not letting it drop into lake, or river, lofty wood, or impenetrable swamp, when this strange, unchildlike experience might have been closed by a death of unspeakable horror; bat causing it to descend as softly as a bird alights on a spot where human care and pity awaited it The sun had not yet risen, but the morning twiK?V.f lias) sinmA whan rtio litflo vrrl Innlrincr fiver l&gUU uau W1HV} TI ?VIM VMV MWWW 0?. ? ?a the edge of the car, yaw the dear old earth oomiog f nearer?"rising towards them," she said. But i when the car stopped, to her great disappointment, 1 it was not on the ground, but caught fkst in the 1 topmost branches of a tree, Yet she saw they ? were near a house, whence help might soon come, t so she awakened her brother and told him the good news, and together they Watched and waited f for deliverance, hugging each other for joy and t warmth, for they were very cold ] Farmer Burton, who lived in a lonely house, on j the edge of his own private prairie; was a famous c sleeper in general, but on this particular morning ^ he awoke before the dawn, and, though he tuned c and tuned again, he oould sleep no more. So, at | last, he said to his good wife, whom he had-kindly ; awakened to inform her of his unaccountable in- c somnolence, "It's no use; I'll just get up and ? dress, and have a look at the comet." The next that worthy woman heard from her ( wakeful spouse, was a frightened summons to the < outer door. It seems, that no sooner did he step i forth from his house, than his eyes fell on a strange t portentous snape nanging in a large pear tree, j about twenty yards distant. He could see in it t no likeness to any thing earthly, and he half fen- < oied it might be the comet, who, having put out 1 his light, had come there to perch. In his fright f and perplexity, he did what every wise man would do in a like extremity; he called on his valiant 3 wife. Reinforced by her, he drew near the tree, cautiously reconnoitering. Surely never pear-tree 1 bore such fruit 1 < Suddenly there descended from the thing, a < plaintive trembfing little voice. "Please take us { down. We are very cold." 1 Then a second little voice. "And hungry, too. Please take us downI" "Why, who are you? And where are you ?" ; The first little voice said: "We are Mr. Har- 1 wood's little boy and girl, and we are lost in a bal- ; loon. j The second little voice said: "It's us, and we runned sway in a balloon. Please take us down." Dimly comprehending the situation, the farmer, , getting hold of a dangling rope, succeeded in pull- 1 ing down the balloon. , He first Hfted out little Johnoie, who ran rapid- j ly a few yards toward the house, then turned , rW-rxrv/3 -G-i* n flam mnmnnfp nurinnslv rVUIIU) OUU QVVVU IVl ? *wtT 41VM?VMVW1 J J surveying the balloon. The faithful little sister ( was so chilled and exhausted that she had to be ; carried into the house, where, trembling and sobbing, she told her wonderful story. ( Before sunrise a mounted messenger was despatched to the Harwood home, with glad tidings j of great joy. He reaehed it in the afternoon, and , a few hours later the children themselves arrived, ( in state, with banners and music, and conveyed in a covered hay-wagon and four. j Joy-bells were rung in the neighboring town, ( and in the farmer's brown house the happiest fa- j mily on the Continent thanked God that night , It would seem that this comet had some occult | maddenine influence on balloons, for during its ] appearance there occurred in another Western State an involuntary ascension, similar to the one I have related; but more tragical in its termination. . ( An aeronaut while, if I remember rightly, re- ( pairing the net-work of his balloon, was seated on | a slight wooden cross-piece, suspended under it; the car having been removed, and the balloon be- . ing held in its position, a few feet from the ground, by merely a rope in the hands of an assistant From a too careless grasp, this rope escaped, end in an instant the gigantic bubble shot upward, carrying the aeronaut on his frail support; a rider , more helpless than Maseppa bound to his Ukraine ( steed; a voyager more hopeless than a shipwrecked sailor afloat on a spar on the ocean. The balloon rose rapidly, but unsteadily, swaying and pitching in the evening wind. As long as it remained in sight, the form of the aeronaut could be distinguished, swinging beneath it. And, as he was known to be a man of uncommon nerve < and presence of mind, it was hoped that even from his dizzy perch he might manage to operate on the valve, or at least to puncture a small hole in the balloon, and thus effect a descent. But such efforts, if he made any, were vain, as, for many days and nights, there was anxious inquiry and patient search over a wide extent of country, with no result. At last, in a wild spot, the wreck of the balloon was found, and that was all. Still, wifely love hoped on, until, a month or two later, some children nutting in a wood, many miles away from where the balloon was found, discovered, half buried in the ground, a strange dark mass, that looked like a heap of old clothes, but that there was a t something, shapeless and fearful, holding it together. It was thought that the aeronaut parted com; pany from his balloon by loosening his hold on the cords above him, in desperate efforts to open the , valve; but he may, after whirling in swift vortices, or plunging and mounting through cloudy abysses of air, have beoome unnerved by die awful silence of the upper night, by the comet's fearful companionship, by whelming immensity and infinity, and wearily let go his hold, to drop earthward. fpgttHattwttti fUading. laughable experience. Among the many familiar chronicles of the war, none excels in interest the "Diary of a Southern Refugee during the War," (Hale & Son, New Fork, 1867.) It is understood to be from the pen if a gifted lady of Virginia, wife of an Episcopal ilergyman, and member of a family connection widely known and esteemed. The humorous extract below strikes us as not mworthy of Dickens: We left Winchester in the stage coach fin: Strasjurg at 10 o'clock at night, on the 14th December, 1861. The weather was bitter cold, and we oonjratulated ourselves that the coach was notcrowdid. Mr. McG. and the girls were on the back teat, a Methodist clergyman, a soldier and myself, >n the middle, and two soldiers and onr maid Betley on the front seat We went off by starlight, i with every prospect of a pleasant drive of eighteen 1 nfles. As we were leaving the suburbs of the town, the Iriver drew up before a small house, from which ssued two women with a baby, two baskets, sever- 1 il bundles and a box. The passengers began to iboutout, "Goon, driver; what do you mean? ' here's no room for another; go on." The driver nade no answer, but the two women came to the soach door And began to put in the bundles. The 1 gentlemen protested that they oould not get in? 1 here was no room. The woman with the baby 1 laid she would get in; she Was "agwine to Strasmrg to spend Christmas with her relations, whar he was born and raised, and whar she bad not ! >een for ten years, and nobody bad a better right ; o the stage than she had, and she was agwine, md Kitty Grim was agwine too?she's my sister- 1 n-law; and so is baby, cause baby never did see 1 ler relations in Strasburg in her life. So, Uncle 1 Ben!" she exclaimed to the driver, "take my bag, jasket and box by you, and me and Kitty and ba>y, and the bundles and the little basket will go ( nside." All this was said amidst violent protestations from 1 he men within: "You can't get in; driver, go j >n." But, suiting the action to the word, she ' <l>n i)a? nnlllni. "Hrtmo Klftu " ffftf ATI ^ JJ/CUCU tile Ul/UI j VOUII15) WIMWf QV. VM he step and thrust her head in, saying: "If these 1 jentlemen is gentlemen, and has got any polite- ^ less, they will get out and set with Unole Ben, and et ladies come inside." A pause ensued. At ast a subdued tone from the soldier on the middle leat was heard to say, "Madam, if you will get off he step, I will get out" "Very well, sir; and why didn't you do that at irst? And now," said she, looking at a man on he front seat; "there's another seat by Uncle Jen; sposen you git out and let Kitty Grim have murseat; she's bound to go." The poor man (uietly got out without saying a word, but the rery expression of his back, as he got out of the joach, was subdued. "Now, Kitty, get in, and firing the little basket and them two bundles; they j von't pester the lady much." The door was , slosed, and then, the scene being over, the pas- j ;engere shouted with laughter. Our heroine remained perfectly passive until we jot to the picket post, a mile from town. The ( Iriver stopped; a soldier came up for passports, j She was thunderstruck. "Passes I passes for vhite folks! I never heard of such a thing. I ain't , ?4 ? nnllifli' Jo (Tifhr fjrim " TcncfrMtpd JUL 11U |;000) llUbUW to JAivv^ ? ?DO ? ,0 her to keep quiet, as the best policy. Just at ' ,hat time a Tennessee soldier had to confess that le had forgotten to get a passport. "You can't ] ;o on," said the official, and the soldier got out Presently the woman's turn came. "Madam, ! rour passport, if you please." "I ain't got none; nuther is Kitty Grim (that's ny sister-in-law); we ain't agwine to getoutnuth;r; 'cause we's gwinc to Strasburg to spend Christmas with my relations, and I ain't been ;here for ten years, and I never heard of white iblks having passes." "But, madam," began the official. "You needn't 'but madam' me, 'cause I ain't igwine to get out a?d I'd like to see the man frhat would put me out This is a free country, j ind I'se agwine to Strasburg to night so you might is well take your lantern out of my face." "But madam, my orders," began the picket "Don't tell me nothing 'bout orders; I don't jare nothing 'bout orders; and you needn't think cause the Tennessee man got out, that I'se gwine to get out?'cause I ain't Ain't I got three sons in the army, great sight larger than you is, and , they fit at Manassas, and they ain't no cowards, anther is their mother, and I ain't agwine to get jut of this stage this night, but I'm gwine to <. Strasburg, whar I was born and raised." The poor man looked non plussed, but yet an- . jther effort; he began, "My dear madam." "I ain't none of your dear madam; I'se just a Tee white woman, and so is Kitty Grim, and we lin't no niggers to get passes, and I'se gwine along this pike to Strasburg. Now, I'se done talking." , With this 6he settled herself on the seat and eant back with a most determined air, and the Jiscomfitted man shut the door amid peals of , aughter from within and without. In a few moments we were quiet again, and all began to settle themselves for sleep, when the silence was broken by our heroine. , "Kitty, is you sick?" "No," said Kitty. "Well, it is a wonder. Gentlemen, can't one , sf you take Kitty's seat, and give her yourn ? she ( mAnofrAMO oirtlr nrl\nn cVin !Q fl TTlt.ll llPr I^UVO UlUllOblVUO Oiva nuvu DUV w aavuu^ h mw* back to the horses." There was a death-like silence, and my curiosity , was aroused to know how she would manage that point After a few moments she began again. "Kitty, is you sick ?" "No," says Kitty, "not yit" "Well, I do wish one of you gentlemen would give Kitty his seat." Still no reply. All was becoming quiet again, when she raised her voice: "Kitty Grim, is you sick?" "Yes," said Kitty, "just a little." "I knowed it; 1 knowed she was sick; and when Kittv Grim gits sick she most in general flings up." The effect was electric. "My dear madam," exclaimed both gentlemen at once, "take my seat; by all means take my seat" The Methodist clergyman being nearest, gave up his seat and took hers. The change was soon effected amidst the most uproarious laughter, all feeling that they were fairly out-gcneralled the third time. Cases op Conscience.?There i3 a man in Benedicts, Me., who raises a large quantity of apples every year, and sells them for fifty cents per bushel, as he thinks that is about what they are worth, while he might often get fbur times as much. Neither will he sell more than four or five bushels to one person, as be is determined his apples shall not be speculated upon. We also know a man, says the Machias Republican, who Bells his potatoes at fifty cents per bushel and no more. He says the Almighty revealed to him, face to face, that if he made a practice of that, his potatoes should never rot, and he says they never have. BODILY AFFAIRS. A man, now and then, has the misfortune to lose his nose. What would be the greatest conqueror that ever lived without this useful appendage? Many a man would as soon lose his life as his nose; hence theskill we see exerted to supply its place when lost Of old, the organ was modeled, as far as possible, in the form of the old member, and then the permanent structure was shaped out of beaten silver, which wbs enamelled bo as to match the complexion. The metal proboscis was oommonly secured to the faoe by means of a pair of spectacles which skillfully hid the line of structure. There was one advantage in this artificial |nose, it needed no pocket handkerchief; but then it suffered the drawback of possessing no power of smell. Gutta pereba has lately been used in place of metal $ butby means of the Rhino plastic operation, the skuted Surgeon has of late years taken all the repairs crdt of the hands of the 1 orthopractic artist This surgeon calls in Dame Nature to his aid at once. Having made a washlather of the amount of skin required for the nose member, he marks the triangular outline upon the 1 patient's forehead, with the base upward, lie now dissects the skin down to die bone, lifting the cellular tissue, together with all the blood vessels that nourish it The stomp, or so much of the nose as is retained, having been pared down so as to give gOod shape, the flap of the skin is'twisted upon itself just between the brows, so as to maintain the circulation, and then it is fastened upon the superstructure by sutures. In a few dajB, adhesion takes place, the circulation is thoroughly re-established, and a very fair proboscis is the reBult Harelip, apertures in the cheek, are now repaired at the smallest notice, with admirable results. In short, the skilled operator thinks no more' of shifting patches of skin about from one part of the frame to another, than the gardener thinks.of re-sodding a bare place in the grass-plat Even dips are made; but not in this manner. When these have to be restored, the modeller is called in, who models the features in silver, and colors it In these days of artificial heightening cf color, even this deception may pass muster; but all attempts at kissing must be left out, for obvious reasons." A very ingenious method is adopted of repairing the hearing, when there has been do loss or rupture of the drum of the ear. It often happens that the shell, or folds of skin which form the outward ear, is defective. Some cunning craftsman noticing this, has contrived to model lowers so that they shall fit in the opening of the car. I saw a pair of convolvuli thus fitted and so fastened with wires that they looked like adornments of the head-dress; and, no doubt, were veiy useful in collecting the sound and driving it upon l-Vio nflwu Wa thinlr VA huVA sllOWTl tug auutivtj uvitvi vvv wu>h? .. w that art is capable of repairing, after a fashion, it s is truei every conceivable damage to the outward c Form; but it is just as far as ever, however, from ^ attempting to imitate the living principle within, f rhe smallest nerve fibre, the minutest artery, show t i workmanship it never even dreams of copying, i Nature keeps her secret, and will continue to do c jo till the end of time.? Once a Week. t r 1 A NORTHERN HAN'S OPINION. ? The editor of the Lancaster (Pa.) Intelligencer, 1 bas recently made a trip through some of the I Southern States. He was not favorably impressed i by a close inspection of the Virginia colored people i For he says: 1 The blacks in Virginia seem to be more discon- I tented than those of the other States that we have c been in; at least we saw more of them idle, and 1 jomplaining of rates of wages and want of work, f rhis may have been owing to the season of the t year during which our -visit was made. The rates 1 af wages range from six to ten dollars per month \ in all the Southern States. To this is added a ra- e tion of three and a half pounds of bacon and a j peck of meal per week, a hut to live in being also i furnished them ; and very little work do they for the money. We presume .Northern larmere, who would go into the fields themselves and say to the blacks "come," might get more work out of them; e but they are constitutionally opposed to labor, and 8 require constant driving. We were greatly as ton- v ished at the immense profundity of their ignorance. ( They are utterly improvident and unable to take J care of themselves. The rags in which they are * clothed would astonish the most accomplished beg- I gar in Italy. They are expecting the government 1 to do great things for them, and have got an idea * into their heads that from this source they are j each to get forty acres of land, a mule and farming | implements, and provisions enough to last them * until they can make a crop off their lands. They r conceive that the government owes them this. If 6 they get that mule it would not live three months, nfftwrntiAn f\P f.lla ? UUb YTUUIU U1D VI Dbai TUU1UU j uiu* v? .. would be even too careless to lead the animal to water. The planters can trust very few of them * with their stock, and they require constant watch- ^ ing. It seems incredible that any human being j would let his dumb beast die for want of water, " yet we are assured that it is often done by blacks who attain to the ownership of a horse. John Randolph, of Roanoke, tried this experi- s ment of fitting out freedmen with farms; by his 1 will he freed his slaves and directed that they * should be settled in a colony in Ohio; each to be c provided with a bouse and lot of ground and farming implements. They were, moreover, to be un- 1 der the superintending care of a white man until 2 they got fairly started in their new career. It was * all done as directed, and to-day, after the lapse of 2 twenty or thirty years, not one of those freedmen owns the lot that was given to him. c What a mockery it is to give these people, with 2 their present degree of education and intelligence, 1 a voice in the administration of our Government t Colored suffrage South will not long continue to be 1 a reality. It may exist in name for a few years, 2 but even then the vote will be but the echo of that < of the white man. The freedman always agrees 1 to what a white man says; in all our conversations y with him we were never able to meet anything but 11 the most ready assent to every proposition which 1 we advanced, no matter of how contradictory or t absdrd a character. 2 f How a Woman got Mixed Up at a Dog c Fight and Lost Her Hoops.?1The Fifth ward is remarkable for pugilistic encounters among men, j says the Philadelphia Frets, and any one who de- ^ sireg a fight need not go far into its precincts without being accommodated. Last evening a fight t occurred in which a man, a woman and two dogs t were singularly mixed up. The history of the ex- ? traordinary proceeding is, as near as we can gather ( the facts, as follows: Lieutenant Goldey, at Fifth j and Spruce streets, had his attention attracted by j the cries of a boy who complained that his leg had been injured by a fall. Two women stopped and expressed sympathy with the boy, and while they j and the Lieutenant were endeavoring to alleviate , his condition two dogs got to fighting. One dog i ran around behind one of the women, and tho i other dog pitched at his antagonist, taking the < shortest course, under the dress of the woman. ] The result was, the last mentioned dog forced bis ] head through the hoops worn by the woman, and i in this position seized the other dog. Aa the dog i that was fastened ih the hoops plunged forward, < away wont the woman with him, and as he at- < tempted to pull the other dog either way, the wo- I man had to come along. The woman screamed i terrifically, and her companion did likewise. A ; crowd assembled, and the woman whose skirts were ] entangled by the dog cried lustily that she was be- ' ing eaten up. Lieutenant Goldey chased about the woman until he obtained hold of the dog by the hind legs, and he pulled with all his strength, but the frame of the hoops had curled tightly around the dog's neck, lieutenant Goldey now reached Jlis band toward the dog's head, and the wimal became infuriated, the oonsequence being that dog, man and woman idled on the pavement in a heterogeneous mass, the other dog jumping iround all the time to seise his enemy. The Lieu* Consul - flnallw frotrfl ? forrifin inrlr of f V?q liAAna kujctuv g?#tu m iiw1iuiv jvta huv ?wvjwj j which parted at the waist, and the dog started off, ' Iraggiog the woman a short distance, when, she i jecame disengaged from them, and the dog went ] )ff with the skirt, his head still in chancery. The I woman demanded a new skirt from the Lieutenant, 1 n which she was backed up by her new friends, 1 whereupon the lieutenant, hawing become exhaust-' I id at the dog fight, beat a retreat, he not desiring ? have a woman fight > - > '< THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN. Mr. Grew, the famous diver, tells singular sto- j ie8 of his adventures when making search in the ( leep waters of the ocean. He gives some sketch- \ ? of what he saw on the river bonks near Hayti c t "The banks of ooral on which my divings were j npde, are about forty miles in length, and from J en to twenty in breadth. On this bank of coral j b presented to the diver one of the most beautiful < ukL sublime soenes the eye ever beheld. The wa- ? er varies from ten to one hundred feet in depth, | md is so clear that the diver can see from two to t ;hree hundred feet, when submerged, with little ] >l*(niAtinr tn fVio TVi# hnttnm of the ocean . n many places upon these banks is as smooth as ] i marble floor; in others it is studded with coral f lolumns from ten to one hundred feet in height, | ind from ten to eighty feet in diameter., The tops j )f those more lofty, support a myriad of pyramid- ( il pendants, each forming a myriad more, giving \ i reality to the imaginary abode of some water- . lymph. la other places the pendants form aru. ( ifter arch; and, as the diver stands on the bottom t >f the ooean, and gazes through these into the ( loop winding avenue, he feels that they fill him ( vith as sacred an awe as if he were in some old , sathedral, which had long been buried beneath 'old } wean wave.' Here and there the coral extends ( iven to the surface of the water, as if those loftier c solumns were towers belonging to those stately s emples now in ruins. There were countless va- c ieties of diminntive trees, shrubs and plants, in e ivory crevice of the corals where the waters de- j posited the least earth. They were all of a faint f roe, owing to the pale light they received, although t )f every shade, and entirely different from plants \ [ am familiar with that vegetate upon dry land. , 3ne in particular attracted my attention; it re- j embled a sea-fan of immense size, of variegated ( olors, and of the most brilliant hue. The fish t ?hich inhabit these silveiy banks I found-as different in kind as the scenery was varied. They y vere of all forms, colors, and sizes?from the sym- a netrical goby to the globe-like sun-fish; from those 8 >f the dullest hue to thechangeable dolphin; from e he spots of the leopard to the hues of the sun- j >eam; from the harmless minnow to the voracious ] hark. Some have heads like squirrels, others { ike cats and dogs, one of small size resembled a t )ull-terrier. Some darted through the water like c neteore; while others could scarcely bo seen to j. nove. To enumerate and explain all the various j rinds of fish which I beheld while diving on these >anks would, were I enough of a naturalist so to lo, require more space than my limits would alow ; for I am convinced that most of the kinds of t Lsh which inhabit the tropical sea can be found c here. The sun-fish, the saw-fish, white shark, d >lue or shovel-nosed shark were often seen. There 1 vere also fish which resembled plants, and remain- y id as fixed in their position as a shrub. He only e >ower they possessed was to open and shut when t n danger." ii ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS. ' On a certain occasion Hon. Alexander H. Steph- t ins, of Georgia, was engaged in a political discus- j, lion with Hon. Benjamin H. Hill, of that State, r rhen the latter charged him with saying that he c cnuld eat Judge Cone for breakfast, y rimself (Mr. Hill) for dinner, and Governor Cobb or supper. To which Mr. Stephens quietly re- j died: 'T never said it; but if I had, the arrange- ? nent of the meals would have been somewhat dif- t erent I should not have taken Mr. Hill at din- z ler, where he has placed himself, that being the leartiest meal of the day. In fact, I should pre- , er him for supper, in accordance with the wise <] ule of medicine, which prescribes a light diet to leepon." t At another time, Mr. A. R Wright, of Geor* 8 W. is said to have drawn the lire of the "Great t Georgian" in the following way: Mr. Stephens, at. a he time of the great Know Nothing conflict in the ? iouth, was accompanied by a favorite dog named fe itio, and the intelligent animal was almost as well j mown on the hustings as the statesman. y Mr. Wright, at the close of a political speeoh ^ urnecfto Mr. Stephens and said: "Sir, I demand a . list of your appointments. I intend that the j >eople shall have information. I want to know c rhen and where you are to speak, for I intend to a log you all around this Congressional District" c "Then," retorted Mr. Stephens, pointing his g ong, thin finger to his dog sleeping on the stand t it his feet, and lifting his fife-like voice to its high- I sat note, "then I shall send Bio home. One dog c it a time is enough." r Among the thousands who have read the speech t ^ QiA*vh/\no aP Haav/inrtoInet *% II V ICC XICBJUCUU ULCyuwiO! Ul uwigia, wfetuiw.. r ecession, made November 14,1860, there are pro- l jably few who have heard of an amusing incident I hat followed it At the close of the speech, the t eaderof the opposition party, Hon. Robert Toombe o trose, and after complimenting Mr. Stephens as L me of the purest patriots, moved that the meet- I ng give three cheers for him and adjourn, which v vas done. Governor Herachell V. Johnson, Who c vas present, met Toombs on their return to the i lotel, and said to him, in substance: "Sir, your acion to-night, coming from so prominent a secessionist, deserves all praise, and I, for one, cannot orbear to congratulate you upon such handsome 1 sonduct and admirable behavior." - r Toombs put on that droll look which always e jrecedes his beat hits, and said, dryly, "Yes, I al- 1 vays behave myself at a funeral." > An overgrown political opponent once undertook ^ a sneer at the diminutive size of Mr. Stephens, t ind said, "I could put a little salad oil on you, and 1 iwallow you whole." To which Mr. Stephens at ? jnce replied, "And if you did, you would have f nore brains in your bowels than you ever had in t rour head.' '?Harper's Magazine. A Bead Man Before an Arkansas Court, i in Arkansas correspondent of the New Orleans 1 Picayune tells the following story of the rigid man- a jer in which justice is meted oat to a man in that e region: Some years ago a man without a family a )r relatives lived in a county in this State, and was a possessed of an estate worth $5,000. Be went to x New Orleans and was absent for years without be- f ing heard from. The Probate Judge granted ad- i ministration upon his estate, wound it np, and dis- i foarged the administrator. The'man at length re- t turned. He had been to Mexico. He applied to f the Judge for his property, when in open Court a the following dialogue took place: Dead man?"If < pour Honor please, I want my effects returned to t me, as you see I am not dead yet" The Court? i "I know?that is, I as a man, know you are alive J ? ' md in Court, but as a Court I know ytra are dead, far thrrecords of the Court say so, and against their verity there is no averment, so srgw Lord [Joke and a good many otherbooks I never read." Dead man?"But I want tny property, 'and if* no matter to me whether your records lis or not I un alive, have not transferred my property, and to ieprive me of it without my oonsent is without all law." The Court?"If you insinuate that the resords of this Court be, the Court will and you to aiL" Dead man?"Sends dead man to jab-?" rhe Court?"Mr. Sheriff, tale this -apparition jut" Sheriff?"Bethou ghoetorgobBn damned, t?ll apeak to thee. Come on, let's go tale something to drink.'' The Judge stuck to it, that bo Ear as his Court was oooOereed, he was dead, sad US should stay dead. The poor Mow went into <PMt ?a U gcioo. 4 From the New YodcJeamal of Commerce. STEAL BftfATlfAgfJf flf. They manage things neatly at .Washington. Suppose that the purehaaer of supplies in oUftdf he departments wants flour, sugar and such things br his private pantry, he does not neoerearOy buy ind pay for them as common people ao. no. ne gives an order (say) for two doceo hair brushes, >24; and do. do. oombs, $12?total $36. These ire supposed to be for slicking np the heads of lecretaries, comrniaaonerB, chiefs of bureaus, &a, io that after their arduous labors of the day they nay go -forth into Pennsylvania aVonue with their imbrosial looks (or wigs) arranged in the most radsh and captivating style. Oddly oaonghi the xder goes to a grooer. The grocer, not dmftag argely in hair brushes and oombs, (perhaps being ntuaUy short of those articles,) thinks it would >o just as satisfactory to all concerned if he sen* to he department one doceo brushes, $6, and do. da jdmbB, $3?total, $9; and ordered his porter: 10 ake to the private readenee of the gorronuaeat jurohaser the following nutrictous suhstanees: [be barrel flour, $10; sugar, coffee, dm, $17? total $27. A person ekilled in addition will per?ive that these items figure np $86, (same as two loeen brushes and oombs would have dene). The government purchaser, having ordered in writing *uahes and combs, as afbmsaid, duds it math saaer and pleasanter to oertify that foe two dosea f each had been received, than to have foe flour, agar, &c., wagoned back to the grocer's, make orrections on the books, and incur no end of bothir. This plan of laying in groceries is capable of ndefinite application. Bureaus, sideboards, sofas, rardrobea, carpets, drop-lights and gas fixtures nay all gradually swell the personal effects ef these tuyere, and be paid for as brushes, oombs;and rhat not For such men to retire at the end of hree or four years' service with 670.000 to $80, K)0 would not be remarkable. It is only a queaion of buying enough hair brushes and odmb& Another curious problem that they work out rery prettily at Washington is how to get horses md carriages at government expense. Various olutions are offered; bat the beet is that invent* id by the commissioner ef to important bureau, lis department has official horses and >aanug?. Phese he sends round to his own stable?where hey cost to take care of (say) $70 a week. This noney is paid out of department funds. When a arriage is really wanted at his offioe, a hack.is tired, and that goes into "contingent expenses." "feat, isn't it? Well worth taking a patent for. ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE. Several years ago a young lady in TaseweH couny was wooed by a young man. He obtafaifd her onsent and the consent of the old folks; but three lays before the wedding-she took a freak into her tead and went off and married another man. The oung man was heart-broken, and. packed up his Sects and went to New York city. There he hid tis grief, buried himself in business and, engaging d speculations, became wealthy. A younger sis er of the girl that had jilted him,, moved, by sympathy, commenced a correspondence with him to oitigate his sorrow. The oarrespondenoe became otereating. The young girl grew up, and, as yearn oiled ob, ripened into a great beauty. The sight f her photograph awakened in the young man's! losom the love that h*had supposed crushed forver, and he proposed to her and was accepted, ler father was a widower, and was anxious to get named himself as soon ss his daughter was out of he way, so he urged die match forward. The neans of the lover now admitted a brilliant wedling, and preparations were piade for it They rere to be married last Wednesday in style, sad tepart immediately for New York city. A few lays age the expectant bride reoeived a letter from ler betrothed, stating that he had entered into a peculation that* would keep him in the city, so hat he oould not possibly be with her at the time p pointed, and asking her to delay the oeremony or a day or two. He also referred to the time he xpected to be united to her . sister. Provoked to bink that be still remembered his former love, the oung lady wrote him m a passion, and, sitting town, at the same time wrote to a cousin of hers, , farmer in Iowa, who had long loved her, telling dm she had broken her engagement, relating the ircnmstances to him, and ending by saying that he was all ready to be married, and if he would ome and be there at the time set for her wedding, he would marry him. He oomplied. Her berothed in New York, astonished to reqeive her etter, dosed up his business as best he could, and ame to Tazewell county by the next train. He eached the village where she lived, and was hasening up to the house to fulfil his engagement, rhen he was met by some friends who told him that lis bride had just been married to another man. le fainted away on the spot and was taken to the ioteL When the bride was told of it, she was iverwhelmed with remorse, bnt it was then too ate. She was legally married to her cousin. The few Yorker, twice heart-broken, left for his home rithout seeing her, and she passed through the ity yesterday, on her way to an Iowa farm, lookng very dejected, and like anything hut a bride. Peoria (72.) TratiseripL The English Nave in Nelson's Time.? Chose whose naval experience is old enough to each back to the time when Trafalgar men were till to be found afloat, are not likely to forget this agenda of the age which Dibdin painted. The nary bad a system of ethics of its own which might yell appal Exeter Hall?though we venture to say, bat it was less corrupting than many a fashiona>Ie novel of our own time. 'The service" and its ifficiency was pretty well all that commanding oficers took into consideration; and for the rest hey were content to hope with Nelson, in one of{ lis letters, that there was a large, allowance made or them in the other world. They floggedamao, tot for drunkenness, bnt for being drank on duty, rhat he should get drunk on shore, was accepted is a mere matter of course. Indeed, we are (Twelves old enough to remember a seaman serving ifloat, who regularly, as the anniversary of a great tction in which he had been engaged Came round, ised to appear on the quarter deck and respect " ? j?i. vr .v. uuy ask permission w get uiuujl. i?k? vuu worthy man neglect to avail himself ofhiacaptain's ndnlgence. As for Poll and Nan, die captains of he old school were equally tolerant IfaWs ingers were pretty, they did hot <3beely it them for a wedding-riqg ;,J&lid our ships swahnsd in harbor with "wiv^t," "aunts," "sisters'* md "ooosins"..of.all. hands. These respectable axnOy appellations were the "homage," to use fochefocauld's famous maxim, that the service ptud to the prevailing religion ot tnoeonnory. Ana . if yon Mked a captain nboct it aH, he oould only aknty Ha1 shoulders and s*y, "What am I to do? IF(!h^ metf go idfaoH I ^all Ioee^a tot ofthem^ and the ship musthemapn^d" Inaoertain case, there two men of war war? lying together?at S pithead, if our memory J9fcrv61a8--the captain of one of them set his fiu?^inst thia flox of Tiatars, while hie neighbor permitted it freely. In an hoar or two the crew -of the inhospitable gentleman's wani wore in a state of mniiny, and he harried off in gfcefcnnclteinent to report die fiwt to the portadtairoL The port adfiiral beioaged to "the old seheOf' Mmnlf, ud noted with decision. .The moment he knctar the ehwrmataaees, he hoisted a signal,""Fffry Women from the Vengeance to he sent to the BeQerophoo," and orderwas speed2y restored, Such war tW navy of Which Dibdin wosat'aaoetb-" Tyrtteqenpd $he Anaoreon, He ?wft?qd.Mfc porta with- ppqit-i and one cannot wonder that the HannohMntanriiaol should hare prteteftiri against finch nbord's being oeantecaooed by tbe gDvenHnen t.?(xrmhiR Mafftictne. ' f . - i?w i., -i . ; . reiiamm.e ibmoium. MagEabetehi, the fbtmder of the great library at ftofencej'ha&W wte^rMi tosteory Ihit CHbbon of his life. Seneca ooulct reneat two thousand words precisely as they had been prooouwed, . Gassendi had acquired by heart six thousand. Latin. veraes. In order to, give hu memory sufficient enclose, he ma in the habit of daily recitir^ six hundred ?w? from different langaafcee.. Saopderfon, anether laathinwrtliao, tmsafafctoiepeat afl Horaoe'i odes, and a great part of dther Latin authors. LaCrose, after listening to twelve vereesin aamany Isngoages, ootid not only repeat them in the order in which he had heard them, but could also trans_ Amy personshave amoped themselves py looking through hie i writings, and pointing oat how often he had brought it into play. -He was aide to tarn with great readiness tothe precise pieoe m a book whdr^ho had seen uy passage that had. struck him. John Leyden had a very peculiar faculty for getting things by rote, and he ootidrepeat correctly any long dry document, such as a .Peed or Act of iSrHsment, after having frmsdjjtjeadjbat if he wsatedaqy siDgle paragraph, he waaobliged to begin at the wmmenoement, and proceed with Ida recital until he came to what ha required There was a French novelist who, being a printer, mmnAvy] IrrthnM in HmM niu) thllM thft fattb was printed without havingbeen Written. Bishop VTarburton had a prodigious memory, which he taxed to an extraordinary degree. His 'Divine Legation" would lead one toitippOee that he had indefatigable ooOected and' noted down, the inmir merabie facts and quotations there iDtrodnoed ; but . the feet Is, that las ouiy note-book was an old almanac, in winch he occasionally jetted down a thought Scaliger obtained so perfect an acquaintance with one Latin book, that he offered to repeat any passage with a dagger at his breast, to be used against him in case of a failure of memory. _ _ _ ' - * * ' Fasr Society in Southern California.?A sti anger, visiting a southern California town, was taken about the streets by a prominent citizen to seethe Eons and Eonesses, and thos tells how they were interpreted to him: 'Ton see that man over there ?" he remarked to me, upon one oocasion, at the same time pointing with a finger which resembled the tongue of an ox cart, to a dilapidated looking shrimp with a yard of tobacco jniee coursing its way through a ditch in his whiskers. I answered in the affirmative. "Well, air," rejoined my cadaverous companion, 'Tm going to introduce him to you. He's the smartest man in this town?he shot a fellow at a ball about thieextoekaaco/' A short time after, my companion's fist fell upon my shoulder like a trip-hammer, and briagmg bin enormous index finger to bear upon a biped of about 900 avoirdupois, he ejaculated, "there's a man I want you to know?Be shot a Mexican right through the head last Wednesday." Hardly ten minutes had elapsed when down came the ponderous fist of my. ruffian acquaintance upoa my apn, with, "There 1 there's old Puck; you most know him; doggoned my buttons -he's a brick, you batyour bottom dollar? he put a charge ofbuckshot into a Dutchman last week, and dug a hole into his head big enough to saw.wood in." I was on the point of making somC expression of sympathy ft* the unfortunate Teuton, when my attention was turned to a lymphatic looking female, right aerott the; Btreet, with, "There! by juniper! there's the smartest girl in thWWtrn; you ought to know her?her father's jackass* took the first prize at the ftir last fell?you bet she's smart" I wanted to ask him if she'd shot anybody within a week, but for fear that I might get a dose of buekahot which would dig a hole in my head big enoughUneaw weed in, I affected indescribable amazement at the brilliant creature, to the much joy of my cicerone. - HEAD'S MAXIMS. Franklin said, "Tunc is money?* Now I tried to pay a note with time ; I tried to pay . my gro- * cer's bill with time; I tried to pay my printer the same way, and the only satisfaction I got was, that "It was time to pay up 1" They didn't see it as Ben. <fid at alL "Time is money" only when it "passes." "Neoessity is the mother of invention." Now, I have known ho*, personally, all my Efe, bat I could never inyent any way to get a firing without work. Going to bed is a goo4 institution; getting up is thunder, and I'm down on the manthkrnyented k It is said to be healthy to "rise with thelark," if you have not been on a "lark" the sight before, when it ain't healthy. It is said, too, "that the early bird catches the worm,", but you don't want ?tyv worm*?thev ain't healthy. So you need not hurry about getting up. By taking the various remedies for dtferent diseases advertised in the papers, you will be a healthy invalid, and will help a healthy growth of quaoks. You will also assist in supporting seme doetor, and after a short time, the undertaker. When you are hnngry, it is beat to eat something. If you board by the week or mouth, the more you eat the nearer you will ombe to getting your money's worth. "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it" Then most people don't show much for their training, that'sah : "Contentment is riches," perhaps; hot it won't pay board and washing. '' III i * Couldn't Fool Htm.?I knew a nice old farmer who never had a paper in his house till he was fifty years, of age. ?G* father left him two hundred acres of ehoioe land, which he worked as well as he knew bow, and made a comfortable Irving. One qwinw the postmaster told him that if he would suhwmbe for en agricultural paper, read it oaiufiaQy, and work according to instructions, that be Would warrant him to dear a thousand dollars that year. On these oottfitioaB he paid for the paper, read it, worked faithfohy, and at theedd of the year, -he figured up carefolly and found he had cleared $960. He sued the rascally postmaster for the other forty, hot fay Mine dodge of the law the villain cheated him out of it Ever gnoe then the old gent baa been down on postmaster* and newspapers.?Rural New Yorker.