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m I > ^W1f J|L^T'[ " jltto^tr: Jor % |romoti(ra ct % |oli&al, ^oral, Igrimlturji atb Cmttrrn! Ittasts of % S^|. ^ ^ VOL. 15. YOEEYILLE, 8. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1869. A 3TO. 7. jfofeffed fteettg. k?PADDLE YOUR OWN CANOE." Up this world and down this world, And over this world, and through, Though drifted about, And tossed without, Why, "paddle your own canoe." What though the sky is heavy with clouds, Or shining a field of blue, If the bleak wind blews, Or the sunshine glows, Still, "paddle your own canoe." What if breakers rise up ahead, .With dark waves rushing through, More steadily try, With steadfast eye, To "paddle your own canoe." If a hurricane rise in the midnight sky, And the stars are lost to view, Gnide safely along, With smile and song, And "paddle your own canoe." Up this world and down this world, Over this world and through, Though weary and worn, Bereft, forlorn. Still "paddle jour own canoe." Never give np when trials oome,? Never grow sad and hlne; Never sit down With a tear or frown, Bat "paddle your own canoe." There are daisies springing along the shores, Blooming and aweet for you; . ~ - There are rose-hued dyes In the autumn skies,? Then "paddle your own canoe." fading. GROUNDS OF CONTEST - T? the 3eat ia the Forty-First Congress from the 4th Congressional District. Columbia, S. C., Deo. 30,1868. To William D. Simpson, Esq., Laurens Court House, South Carolina. Sir You are hereby notified that I shall contest your election and right to a seat as a member of the House of Representatives in the Forty-First Congress, from the Fourth Congressional District of the State of South Carolina, upon the following grounds, touching the election held for said District on the third day of November, A. D. 1868, and other grounds as set forth in this notice : 1st I charge that you, WiHiam D. Simpson, were a member of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, during the years A. D. 1858 and 1859, and that before taking your seat as a member of said General Assembly, you took an oath to support the Constitution of the United States of America. 2nd. That in the year A. D. 1860 you were a member of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina that called the Convention to frame the Ordinance of Secession for the State of South Carolina, and that you voted for calling said Convention. 3rd. That in the year A. D. 1861, you voluntarily entered the Army of the so-called .Confederate States of America as a commissioned officer (Major and afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel) and served in such capacity until the year 1863, and as such officer, you took an oath to support the Constitution of the so-called Confederate States of America. 4th. That on the 28th day of January, A. D. 1864, you were commissioned as a member of the CoDgres3 of the so-called Confederate States of America from the Fourth Congressional District of South Carolina, to fill an unexpired term, and| that on the 15th day of February, A. D. 1864, you were again commissioned as a member of said Congress from said District and served in said capacity until the close of the war; that as a member of said Congress, you took an oath to support the Constitution of the so-called Confederate States of America. 5th. That as said officer in the Army of the socalled Confederate States of America, you engaged in open insurrection and rebellion against the government of the United States of America, and that as said member of Congress of the so-called Confederate States of America, you gave aid and comfort to the enemies thereof. 6th. That during the period from the year A. D. 1860 to year A. D. 1865, at different times and in different places, you made speeches in favor of the rebellion and urged the men of South Carolina to enter the Army of the so-called Confederate States, and in a number of other and different ,ways, gave aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States, and that you are still opposed to itnuommont of the United States and to the tuw gVWAuiUVuw w? ? Reconstruction Acts of Congress. 7th. That you were disqualified from holding any office of trust or profit, either State or Federal, at the time you were voted for as a candidate for Congress from the Fourth Congressional District of the State of South Carolina, on the third day of November, A. D. 1868, and that you art still so disqualified for the causes and reasons heretofore stated, and that it was known to the electors in said Fourth Congressional District at the time they voted for you as a candidate for Congress from said District, that you were ineligible to office. 8th. That sometime previous to the said election, large quantities of fire-arms were taken into the county of Union and distributed among your friendg and partisans for the purpose of intimidation; that for sometime previous to the day of said election, threats were continually and openly made by your friends and partisans, that any man who should vote the Republican ticket, or for me, would be shot, and that several who were known to be leaders in the Republican party, were shot, assaulted, beaten and abused; that houses were broken open at night, by parties in disguise, who threatened the inmates of said honses, that if they did not cease to electioneer for the Republican party and for me that they would be killed; and that several parties were driven from their homes and forced to hide for some weeks, to save themselves from personal violence; and that large sums of money were offered to any one who would kill them. 9th. That for several days and nights previous to the said day of election, large parties of armed men, part in disguise, rode over said county of Union, threatening and intimidating all persons who intended to vote the Republican ticket, or for me; that in this manner several hundred legal voters in said county were prevented from going to the polls on said day of election to exercise their right of suffrage, all of whom would have voted for me. 10th. That on said day of election, (the said third day of November, 1868) parties of armed men went to the different election precincts in the county of Union, in said District, and by intimidation, threats, force and violence, prevented many legal voters, who were known to be Republicans, from approaching the polls, presenting pistols and guns at them and threatening to kill them if they did not leave; and that many were prevented from voting at said election precincts in said county on the pretense that their names could not be found on the registration books, all of 6aid persons being duly registered and legal voters in said county; and that any person who would vote the Democratic ticket, could do-so, unquestioned whether he was registrated or not 11th. That from the above mentioned causes at least one thousand (1,000) legal voters of said county of Union, who would have voted for me, were prevented from casting their votes on said day of election in said county; and that at least 500 illegal and fraudulent votes were cast for you on said day of election in said county, all of which said votes were counted for you. 12th. That at the eleotion precinct of Union Court House in said County of.Union in said District, bar-rooms were kept open during the day of said election and drinks freely distributed to those who would vote the Democratic ticket and for you; that at one time during the day on said day of election, two of the managers of election at said precinct left the polls and permitted other persons to take their places ; that one of the persons thus acting as managers fraudulently and illegally put into the box at least two hundred tickets with your nameou them; and that, at least, twenty-five boys under the age of twenty-one years fraudulently and illegally voted for you; and that at said precinct, at least four hundred legal voters for me, wore prevented from voting by fraud, force, threats and violence; and that the election was conducted in a similar manner at each and all of the different election precincts in said county of Union. lou. rru.A ^ law* JLUAfc Ui VUO WUUbJT U& JMIUiOUO iu MUM District, prior to said election held on the 3d day of Nottmber, 1868, aimed persons patrolled said county, shooting, whipping, beating and otherwise maltreating the oolared Republican voters of said County, for the purpose of so intimidating them that that they would not dare to go to the polls or vote the Republican ticket on said day of election, and to further this object all kinds of threats and intimidations were used and resorted to. 14th. That on said day of election, armed parties of men were'at the different election precincts in said county in said District, who threatened to kill every person who voted the Republican ticket, or for me; that by threats, fraud, force and violenoe, a large number were prevented from voting who were legal voters in said county aud who would have voted for me ; that many who were registered and legal voters, were prevented from voting on the pretense that their names oould not be found on the books of registration, and a great many from threats of discharge from employment, and other threats and intimidations, did not go to their respective election precincts, to exercise their right of suffrage. 15th. That in said county of Laurens in said District, at least twelve hundred legal voters in < said county, from the causes and reasons hereto- i fore stated, were prevented from casting their votes on said day of election, all of whom would have < voted for me for Representative in Congress, had 1 they been allowed to vote, aud that there was a ; large number of fraudulent and illegal votes cast ' for von. and counted for vou in said county on said day of election. 16th. That at one of the election precincts, at i Laurens Court House, (box No. ?,) in said conn- ; ty of Laurens, in said District, one of the m&na- ' gers of eleotion on said day of election was not sworn, and that the managers at said precinct, al- < lowed five or six of your friends and partisans to i assist them in challenging votes, and that said per- 1 sons opened tickets presented by legal voters, to i see who they voted for, and did all in their power i to retard and prevent Republican electors from < voting. i 17th. That for sometime prior to the said elec- i tion held on the 3d day of November, A. D. 1868, < mounted armed men patrolled the oounty of York, ] in said District, shooting and otherwise maltreating i and committing outrages on colored men, members 1 of the Republican party in said county, and that i threats to discharge from employment every one < who should vote the Republican ticket, or for me, were freely and publicly made to such an extent that large numbers of legal voters in said county who would have voted for me, did not go to the polls to exercise their right of suffrage in conse- I quence thereof. i 18th. That at the different election precincts in 1 the county of York, in said District, from the open threats made at said preoincts to discharge from employment all persons who should vote the Republican ticket, or for me, together with other threats, fraud, force apd violence, a large number < of legal voters, in said county, did not vote on said I day of election, all of whom would have voted for me; that for the causes and reasons heretofore i mentioned, at least eight hundred legal voters, in i said county, who would have voted for me, were prevented from casting their votes on said day of : election, and that from the threats and violence 1 used, many Republicans, who would have voted for me, were forced to vote the Democratic ticket, and for you ; that through the fraud and illegality practiced at the said different election preoincts, < at least four hundred fraudulent and illegal votes ' were cast for you and counted for you in said county of York, in said District i 19th. That in roe county of Greenville, in said ; District, for sometime prior to said day of election, < armed parties of men patrolled all parts of said county, shooting, whipping and otherwise maltreating colored electors of said County; that threats to discharge from employment, together i with threats of personal violence, if they should vote the Republican ticket, or for me, were freely and openly made, and that all kinds of intimidations were resorted to by your friends and partizans, to prevent said electors from exercising their right of suffrage on said day of election. That at the different election precincts in said county of Greenville, in said District, armed parties of men were stationed at said precincts, who, by fraud, intimidations, threats, force and violence i prevented at least five hundred legal voters in said county, air of whom would have voted for me, from casting their votes on said day of election; and that through the fraud and illegality practiced at said precincts in said county, at least three hundred fraudulent and illegal votes were cast for you on said day of election, in said county, all of which were counted for you; and that through the threats, intimidations and violence practiced, a large number of electors in said county, who, if allowed to exercise their own free will, would have voted for me for member of Congress from said District, were forced to cast their votes for you. 20th. That in the county of Pickens in said District, for several weeks before said day of election, parties of armed men, friends and partizans of ' yours, patrolled all parts of said county, shooting, intimidating and maltreating colored electors of said county; that threats to discharge from employment and not to allow them to reside on their land, together with threats of personal violence if they should vote the Republican ticket, or for me, were freely and openly made by your said friends and partizans, and that all kinds of intimidations were resorted to, by your said friends and partizans, to prevent said electors from exercising their right of suffrage on said day of election. That at the different election precincts, in said county of Pickens, in said District, armed parties of men were stationed at said precincts, who,' by fraud, intimidations, threats, force and violence, prevented at least five hundred legal voters in said county, all of whom would have voted for me, from casting their votes on said day of election, and that through the fraud and illegality practiced at said election precincts, at least four hundred fraudulent and illegal votes were cast for you on said day of election, in said county, all of which were counted for you, and that through the threats, intimidations and violence, used and practioed by your > friends and partizans, a large number of electors in said county, who, if allowed their own will and choice, would have voted for me for member of Congress from said District, were forced to cast ; their votes for you. 21st That in the county of Ooonee, in said District, for several weeks previous to said day of election, parties of armed men, friends and partizans of youts, patrolled all parts of said county, shooting, intimidating, and otherwise maltreating oolored electors of said county; that threats were freely and openly made to discharge all persons who should vote the Republican ticket, or for me, on said day of election, together with threats of personal violence in the event of their so doing ; that all means were used and resorted to by your said friends and partizans to so intimidate and terrify said colored electors, that they would not dare to vote on said da^of election, knowing said persons, if allowed to vote, would cast their votes for me. That at each and every election precinct, in said county of Ooonee, there were armed parries of men, on said day of election, who, through fraud, intimidation, threats, force and violence, prevented at least one thousand legal voters in said county, all of whom would have voted for me, from exercising their right of suffrage on said day of election. That all the students attending the Lutheran Male College, whether residents of the State of South Carolina, and said county of Oconee or not, were fraudulently and illegally allowed to yote, and did cast their votes for you; that through the fraud and illegality practioed at the different election preciots in said county, at least one thousand fraudulent and illegal votes were cast on said day of election bjkparties not entitled to vote in said county, a large majority of whom were non-residents of said State, that all of said fraudulent and illegal votes were counted for you, and that through threats, fraud and violenoe, a great many electors were forced to vote for you, who, if allowed to make a choice, would have voted for me. 22d. That in the county of Chester, in said district, for some time previous to said day of election, threats to discharge from employment, all persons who should vote for me on said day of election were openly made, also threats of personal violence to said persons if they should so. vote; that for many nights .prior to said day of election parties of your friends all over said county, shot into the houses of colored men, firing off guns, and committing many, other acts, to intimidate and terrify the colored voters of said county. That at the different election precincts, in said county of Chester in said district, through the fraud, intimidations, threats, force and violence of your friends and partizans, at least eight hundred legal voters in said county were prevented from voting on said day of election, all of whom would have voted for me; and that there was at least R\ni> Vnndrod fiundnlonf and iTIplTftl VflfAW raflt fhr pou in said county on the day of election, all which were counted for you. 23. That in the county of Spartanburg, in said district, for some time prior to said day of election, threats were openly and publicly made by your friends and partizans, that any colored elector who should vote the Republican ticket, or for me, on aid day of election, should be discharged from jmployment and should not be allowed to reside on their land, also threats that any one who should jo vote should be killed; that on the day of said Section, a committee of three of your friends and partizans went to each election precinot in said oouhty to open ballots and take down the names of those who should vote the Republican ticket or for me, in order to carry out their threats and intimidation, and that force, intimidation and fraud were used at each of said election precincts to prevent legal voters in said county, who would have voted for me, from so doing. That through the fraud, intimidation and violence, at least 1,500 legal voters in said county, all of whom would have voted for me, were prevented from casting their votes on said day of election, and that a large nnmber of fraudulent and illegal votes were cast for you and all of which were counted for you. That at the different election precincts in said county at least three hundred votes cast for W. D. Smith were fraudulently counted for you. That there was no legally appointed managers of election for said county; that the returns of the acting managers of election of the different election * i - -? 3 * -1 MaltAlIn atll) precincts in kuu cuuuty were nuunj uuyeixc^b uuu illegal, and that the return of the Board of County Commissioners was not sworn to in accordance with law. For these reasons I claim that the election in said county of Spartanburg is null and void. 24th. That at each of the different election precincts in the said counties of Union, Laurens, York, Greenville, Pickens, Oconee, Chester and Spartanburg, in said district, the managers of election at said precincts allowed friends and partizans of youre to be presept at the receiving and counting bf the ballots cast on said election, but prohibited any friends of mine from being present. That the said mauagers of election opened all ballots cast, before said ballots were plaoed in the different boxes, and kept a separate and distinct list of the Democratic and Republican electors. That the said Managers of Election gave certificates signed with their names to all colored persons who voted the Democratic ticket with your name thereon, certifying in said certificate that the person named therein had so voted, which entitled him to certain privileges therein specified. That a number of said managers of election were not sworn according to law; that said managers of election did all in their power to retard the voting at their different precincts, allowing your friends and partizans to cast their votes first; that when my friends and partizans came to cast their votes, under the pretence that their names could not be found, so retarded the voting of said last named persons that numbers of them, legal and registered voters, had not succeeded in casting their votes when the hour of closing the polls arrived. And that all the fraud, illegality, intimidations, threats, violence and outrage practiced by your friends and partizans throughout the said counties in said district before and on the day of election, was done bv and with your full knowledge and oonscnt. 25th. That during the month of October, 1868, on the cars of the King's Mountain Rail Road, in said district and State, a friend of yours said to you, "Mr. Simpson, you need not be fearful about the results of the election, we will carry York county, if we have to do it by force," to which you assented. 26th. That in the spring and summer of the year 1868, an extensive combination and conspiracy of persons residing in different parts of tbe State of South Carolina was formed for the purpose of compelling the electors of said State to vote for the candidate supported by said combination and conspiracy at the election required by law to be held in the several Congressional Districts in said State, and to prevent from voting at said election, all electors supporting candidates in opposition to those supported by said combination and conspiracy. 27th. That in pursuance of such conspiracy, candidates were agreed upon to be supported by said combination and conspiracy, for the offices of members of Congress to the Forty-First Congress of the United States of America, from the several congressional districts of said State, and among others that you were put forth as one of the said candidates and supported by said combination and conspiracy for the said Fourth Congressional District. That in consequence of the aforesaid objects and interests of said combination and conspiracy, pub lie meetings were called at various places throughout said State by the persons so combined and con- gr spiring, at which it was among other things pub- [1 licly resolved, as follows : 1st That do eleotor in this State opposing the wl election of said candidate supported by said con- all spiracy should be employed by persons belonging in to said combination and conspiracy, or should be oo retained in the services of said oonapirators. cb 2d. That no such elector Bhould be retained in the employment or be permitted to reside on the I ' lands of said conspirators. * 3d. That all electors supporting said last named 071 candidates should receive support and protection ^ as citizens and neighbors from' said conspirators in their lives and property. It was publicly announced that unless the people of ootor in said State should support said last m' named candidates, that they would be driven with 11 violence from said State ana prohibited from re- ^ maining or living within the same. m That in pursuaooe of the interest and object of said conspiracy, the public newspapers of said State were almost without exception influenced and required to give publicity to such determina- tb tions and objects, and by other public aud secret means, including the persecution of all opposing the acts of said'conspirators, the majority of the za people of said district were compelled to oonform ' to and oomply with the plans and purposes of said conspiracy. w That for the farther pursuit of the aforesaid a purposes and interest of said conspirators, armed bodies of men were formed in different parts of this State, especially in the Third and Fourth j? Congressional Districts, who patrolled said dis- ^ tricts by day and by night fpr many weeks prior to j* said election, giving out with threats and acts of personal violence, that persons opposing the elec- ^ tion of said last named candidates would be killed *r' or driven ont of the country; that many persons ^ were actually killed for said causes by said armed bodies and the people of said Third and Fourth . Congressional Districts were intimidated and over- 111 awed to snch an extent that large numbers were 101 prevented from voting for the candidates running an in opposition to the candidates supported by said an conspirators, and that in consequence of such un- n lawful acts and influences at least seven thousand e electors of said Fourth Congressional District were ff1 prevented from depositing their votes for me as 0 member of Congress of the United States from said District, which votes, if deposited, would ? have given me a majority of the votes cast for such ? last named office. 28th. That at each and all of the different eleotion precincts in each of the counties heretofore mentioned in said district all and ev^cry of the fraudulent and illegal votes cast were cast for you, an and counted for you, and that I shall demand a j comparison of all the ballots with the names and Qn numbers of the votere on the registration and poll- ^ books, and a comparison of said books of the aQ different election precincts heretofore mentioned in ^ said Congressional District 29th. That it wonld be impossible for me with safety to myself to go into some parts of said dis- ?a trict for the purpose of taking testimony on this fri contest, and that there are many important wit- ^ nesses, residing in different parts of said district, mJ whose testimony I cannot obtain, as said persons wj would not dare give testimony from fear of person- we al violence or dismissal from employment jt And further that I was the only legal candidate for the office of member of Congress to the Forty- ^ First Congres of the United States of America j from said Fourth Congressional District for the , suffrage of the electors of said district on said day , of election, (the 3d day of November, 1868,) and that I am entitled to the seat in said CoDgress | from said district by virtue of having received a an majority of the legal votes in said district K1 [Signed.] ' .. ALEXANDER S. WALLACE. MR. BEECHER ON LYING. at Henry Ward Beecher has reoently written an amusing article, in which he discusses the ques- W tion whether men can remember what never hap- ^ pened. He shows that such a stretch of memory ^ is possible, by one or two instances. We extract a part of the article, the whole of which is in Mr. Beecher's happiest vein: Some eighteen or nineteen years ago, soon after j coming to Brooklyn, I heard the following story told of the now venerable Dr. Samuel^ Cox, the ^ father of many brilliant sayings, as well as of Bishop Cox, of Western New York. The story ran ^ thus: "On a Sunday morning in August, Dr. Cox, ^ rising to the sermon, without warning or prefix, on began, 'It is d?d hot' Looking around in a calm and pious way, he wiped his forehead and again m( said, 'It is d?d hot' Waiting till he thought the da words had burnt in, he proceeded, These words, f0I my brethren, I heard from the lips'of a profane yy young man as I entered the doors of the church.' ga Thereupon, the story goes, he proceeded to give an edifying discourse on the sin and folly of pro- tei /? I , iaue sweariug. ^ When I first heard it I recognized the story.? re? It was an old acquaintance. It had been doing no service in England. It was told of Rev. Rowland m( Hill, only in his case, the topic was not the weath- aQl er, but the theatre, on which the young man's cji, profanity was expended. But stock stories, like on couriers, like to change horses. Before I knew it, a r the saddle was shifted to my back, nor have I ever en been able to shake it off. I have denied it, twice C0I in print, many times by letter, and a hundred tjn times in conversation, all in vain. The saddle jj, sticks, and every month finds a new fool riding it ^ Denying one of these stories is like fighting Ca- ga nada thistles. If you cut them up, ten more will att sprout from each root, and if you let them alone, wo a million more will spring from the seed. The on- na ly way to exterminate the Canada thistle is to plant f0I it for a crop and propose to make money out of it Then worms will gnaw it, bugs will bite it, beetles a(J will bore it, aphides will suck it, birds will peok it, m< heat will scorch it, rains will drown it, mildew and bh blight will ride it Its nature helps weeds and an< runs down crops. We are afraid to deny it. It sic would start off walking like Weston. A new batch cia of letters would come moaning and inquiring at our door. Fresh vigor would be given to its with- cij ered limbs, and, like the Wandering Jew, it would bri go tramping up and down creation till the last day. p0 No, for safety's sake, we do not propose to deny Hi it any more. It would be the ruin of innocent <ja souls, as this narrative which 1 now shall give will ch prove. And the narration bring3 me baok to the be; question whether one can remember what never fee happened. It will be seen that he can. Sitting to at a friend's table one evening I was telling an in- gd cident that befell me?in this wise: ga "A young man from Buffalo called to see me to- pl( day. He said that he had heard a young lady, in 0f a large company, relating the story of my begin- H< ning a sermon with the phrase, 'It is d?dhot' tw He at once contradicted it. She affirmed it posi- ml tively. He replied: 'I have lately read a pub- tei lished denial of the story from Mr. Beecber him- jn self.' She answered: 'Why, I was present myself y< at his church, and heard it with my own ears.' Jja Of course he could not say what he thought, but ]ej replied, 'I am going to New York, and I will my- pa self call and see Mr. Beecher.' " tje The case seemed so flagrant, that I said to him: So "When you go back I wish you would take occa- he sion, before witnesses, to say to this^lady, from me, of 'that she lies, and that she knom that she lies, sti and that she knows that I know that she lies.'" ch This was very improper language, but I was an- 1 y, and, besides, I had been reading tbe Tribune. < Dril communications corrupt good manners.] < When I bad got thus far, a sweet young girl < bo sat opposite me, brought up under iby eye most from the cradle, and as incapable of knowgly telling a falsehood as a rosebud would be of 1 mmitting burglary, this innocent and charming < ild of fifteen looked over at me and said: ~ 1 "But you did say so, didn't you, Mr. Beecher? < heard you!" < For a moment' there was silence. Then came a ish of laughter from the whole company. Con- 1 Bed and blushing scarlet, she said: < "Why, I always thought that I heard you say * r t For the first time I then believed that a person 1 ight distinctly remember what never took place. * take baok the message to tbe Buffalo lady, and < tmUy apologise for supposing that one oould not ' sail a thing which never happened. . t . t A HUNTER'S STORY. t The Southern hunters tell wonderful stories of c eir adventures in the forest I would not care 1 vouch for them; bat it is proper to remember 1 at what appears incredible to the man of crwili- t tion seems to be quite probable, and even com- f roplace in the Western wilds. Let us tell a sin; story, to illustrate some of their exaggerations, t ikh was related to a circle of Southern men on j Mississippi steamer, and did not seem to bo \ nbted as an authentic incident, by one of them, c The peccary is a creature of the hog species, r d is utterly fearless. It pays no attention to rifle 1 lis, unlesB they hit it, and never hesitates to air r :k any one that comes acrom its path A relent- j a war is raged against it by Southern hunters, much for their own safety as from any love of g o sport It has gained the reputation of being ] e only wild game which the experienced hunters s rays ran from instead of stopping to fight 1 A Texan says that once when he was shooting 0 a swamp he killed a peccary. (This creature t tms in flocks numbering from ten to fifty). In instant the whole oompany turned upon him, d be at onoe ran to a tree and sprang into its a inches. One, two, three hoars passed, and no p ip came. He was separated from his friends, d d did not dare to stir from his position. Getting s Bessy both in body and mind, he moved a little s make his seat easier," and losing his balance, 1; 1. Luckily he dropped his rifle, and caught u Id of a lower branch of the tree and clung to it c > life; with his feet within a oouple of yards of t 3 "sile." ' v "This," he added, "was very okkard, and I ctld see the peccaries jumping np to catch hold q my feet Fortunately they couldn't reach me, o d I thought I wasuafe; but only see the can- n )g of them critters I Several of them lay down ? their stomachs and others on their back, so as e form a platform. The head peccary got on it, t d jumped, seized me by the heel of my right t ot I kicked at him with my left foot like a \ ree, and when we were strugglinVthe other <j ccaries rolled from under hhn, and left him y nging on to my heel by his tusks, while his 1 ends were gruntm' away like mad all 'round.? c ley made a most dreadful noise; and I began to e ike up my mind that I'd have to fall and try 0 tat a rush would do among them, then crack t mt a rifle, and down went the biggest peccary, g took me so by surprise that I dropped to the t mnd, and saw that my friend had come up.? t it he was soon in as bad a fix as I had beep my* t f- s The peccaries made a rush for him and he wai \ id to do what I had done?drop his rifle and s it himself up a tree. I made for my rifle, loaded c and fired; when the pesky things turned on me, j d I had to drop it again and run up a tree dou- c i quick. Then my friend he came down, took <j i rifle, and blazed away at them again; they t :nt at him full pelt; then I came down and fired them; and we Jcept on firing tarn about, until u may believe or no, stranger, as you please? } i done this fifteen times, and killed the thirty f ccaries between us." ? This story with occasional variation was told as ( xue story of a Texan hunter's life. Whether it c is true the reader can determine for himself. t ? a "A NEST OF VIPERS." ( Several months ago, a man by the name of c ritchell, in Philadelphia, with his wife as an ac- g mplice, murdered his mother-in-law, a Mrs. Hill, t ritchell has recently been convicted of the crime fi d has been sentenced to be hung. A cotempo7 gives the following sketch of the whole family, both sides: "The person murdered was a Mrs. Hill, the )ther of Twitchell's wife. Both mother and ughter had led adventurous lives. Mrs. Hill * many years kept a house of bad repute in ashington. It was splendidly furnished, and a mbling apartment was attached. She accumued wealth, and attempted to bring up her daugh-, a beautiful girl, in a respectable manner. But i influences of the mother's establishment iched the child, and as she grew up, she took t only one, but a good many "false steps." Her >ther sent her to the Sunday school and church, d attended regularly herself, being piously inoed and devout in her worship, while carrying her establishment of death and hell. Finally, nan named Martin married the beautiful but -ing daughter, hoping to reform her. But he aid not tame the passions which had for someae been let loose. This marriage resulted in a rorce. The'mother sold out her effects in Waington, went to Philadelphia, purchased an elent mansion, joined or regularly and devoutedly ended church, and behaved herself like a good o man. She won the love of a rich old miser, t med Hill, who married her, not knowing her t mer career. e The daughter came to Philadelphia, but was not c mitted into Hill's femily. She seduced a young r irehant, a married man, and lived with him un- o ishingly, to the great unhappiness of his wife t d family. After wasting his property, she got g k of him and shuffled him off, taking a physi- t ,n of good standing in his place. The physician b pported her luxuriously for a while; the asso- j .tion became notorious and infamous, when he b Ae off the connection. The mother then sup- t rted the erring daughter, without permitting t 11 to know it In a short time, however, the a uehter made an alliance with George S. Twit- s el], an elderly roan, who took this depraved t auty to his home in South Jersey as house' i eper. Twitohell and hisjhouse-keeper conspired a bring a wealthy dentist into a black-mailing t leme. The dentist had made advances to the r y serpent, but he discovered the plot and ex- c )ded it Young Twitchell, son of the old master a the "house-keeper," then appeared in the play. Q i seduced the beautiful house-keeper, now about r enty-five years of age, away from his aged father, I ich to the annoyance of the old man, who at- a npted to save the fair one by boarding her out ( a repectable family; but it was of no avail, r )ung Twitchell married her. Soon after this alnce, Hill, the miser husband of the mother, died, iving his wife quite wealthy. Sho played the j rt of a first-class saint, giving liberally to chari- t s, churches, etc. A few months since, of a f inday night, the widow Hill was murdered in 1 r own house, and the place robbed of a large sum 1 money. The daughter was arrested as the in- a gator of the crime, and her husband was also i urged with the act. A curious chain of evidence c taSiOUOaMM, Spa ? mniiug. ??iw shell guilty of murder; but the daughter has been liscbarged &om custody for want of sufficient evi- , lence. u- j ?ja ??.?.. ? Operations op a Whiskey Ring.?'Data,'1 j he Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, gives the following aooouut of a neat transao- 1 ion by which a "ring" of whiskey deafen tuned 1 he reduction of the whiskey tax to their advanage: "It will be leuwmbered that daring all the early j period of the last session of Congress it was given 1 rat by members who, from their position, woe 1 upposed to be authorised to speak for that body, < hat there would be no reduction of the tax, and ! he committee ef ways and meant had reported 1 hat there should be no reduction. Daring aB this : ime the four grand managers of the scheme, 1 raowiogwbat was tooome, purchased nearly att he whiskey In bond, amountingtofifteenorsix- i ?en millions of gallons, paying for it prices tam- < fiug from five to fifteen oente. When these par(bases wets completed, it im mmmoti a the- < Flo use of Representatives tint the tax was to be i educed sot only on what was to be made ia fa- I ore, hot on what was in bond, which already the government held for tax. < The price of bonded whiskey at once advanced ' o 60 and 65 cents, thos 'netting to the ring, the mrchasers of bonded whiskey, about $8,000,000, rhich was divided among the smart manipulators if the schema How many members of Congrem eceived dividends in this gigantic frick, Trill jjroba- ' >ly never be truthfully made known. One of the 1 ing, already a millionaire in ?ew York, added 1 >2,000,000 to his fortune. Instead of this redaction of tax being a great . pin to the government, it was a monstrous loss, j f this whiskey had paid the two dollars tax, as it hoold have done, it would have produced for the FVeasury thirty millions of dollars, instead of seven 1 r eight millions, which is churned by the schemers 1 o be such a large advantage to the government." j The Earlt Rranto Nuisance.?We do not lesire to be regarded as one who sets a bad exam- 1 ile for the rising generation, nor do we folly en- 1 lorse the sentiment of John Gh Saxe, that the res- 1 on Thomson wrote so. charmingly about the sea- 1 ou8 was beeanse he did it at "10 A. M.," while 4 ping in bed; bnt we freely admit that the follow- 4 Qg facts, as told by the Saturday Review, meet I or cordial support, and we are folly convinced of 1 heir correctness, Franklin "to the contrary not- ( rithstanding:" " , 1 Of course to rise early is a virtue of the highest 1 [oality, if yon want to catch the first railway train, 1 r if yon want to get through a certain quantity of ! pedal work or correspondence before beginning 1 uc routine of business of the day. Bat who does lot know a creature of the ascetic sort, who will ell you at Dine o'clock, with invincible Pharisaism hat he has been up ever sinoe six, has had his ireakfast ever so long ago, and that he cannot en* lure to lie in bed after sunrise? You ask him rhat he has been doing with the three hours which lis heroic fortitude has thus given him. The haaoes are that he has been doiBg nothing except ontemplating, in Brahminie fashion, the beauties f his own perfection and oom paring them with he miserable weakness of men who lie abed until even or eight o'clock, because they know that here are still hours enough in the solid day to use ip all their energies. On the whole, perhaps, a nan might as well he comfortably recruiting himelf in bed as stalking hither and thither over the louse, round the garden, into the stable, thinking ill the time how good and great a being he is be* a use he goes in for hair shirts. Eating and drinkng give men of this temper another fine chance, if which they never refuse to avail themselves, of lonning the hair shirtssnd the laurel wreath which hey suppose to belong to it Sever* Punishment op Deserters.?On Wednesday of this week, three privates of the oroe garrisoned here, named respectively Strong, Springsteen and Madden, all belonging to copmany 3, twenty-fifth Infantry, were tried by a general curt-martial upon the ^charge of desertion, and >eing convicted, were sentenced to have their heads haved, their left hips tattooed with the letter D, signifying deserter,) and to be dishonorably disiharged from the United States service. This entence was executed yesterday. In the morning he barber of the battalion performed the job of having the hair from their heads, Jeaving them as tare as a clean shaven face. Then their pants pere taken off and the letter D stamped with Inlia ink upon their hips. The officer of the day, ogether with a guard, supervised the execution of hese penalties, and the soldiers, however much hev might have wished to make a resistance, made tone, and they submitted to the disgrace in silence. 1 In the afternoon, at the dresB parade, the unfor- | unate fellows were brought out in their undress, rith their shaved heads uncovered, and marched headed with the drum corps, and followed by a [uard) in front of the whole command, through ! he navy yard to the various offices,- and then into ^ he city through several of the prominent streets. Lfter being exposed and paraded in this manner ( or some time, they were then formally dismissed, md ordered to leave the garrison, which they did j rith an air of deep shame and mortification, better ( onceived than expressed. Strong had been a olerk n General Grant's headquarters in the army, and tad deserted once before, but was restored to duty >y order of the General, on probation. . Memphis Fbst, 27 th ultimo. j Parrots.?A parrot belonging to some friends J f mine, was generally taken ont of the room when he family assembled for prayers, for fear lest he * night join irreverently in the responses. One 1 vening, however, his presence happened to be unioticed, and, for some time, he maintained a deooous silence; but, ut length, instead of "Amen," 1 >ut he came with "Cheer, boys, oheerl" On this ' he butler was directed to remove him, and had j -A ? M it. J -I'... iL. U_J 1 ,W 88 1ST 88 UiO UUUTj WUUli UIO l/UUf ]A)iilA|/o hinking that he had oommitted himself, and had j etterapologize, called out, "Sony I spoke!" The J >arrot of a relation of mine also need, whenever 1 le dropped anything he was eating to say, "Pick 1 ip Bobby's crustbeing doubtless prompted by ; he same train of associations as those whioh led * mother parrot, which I knew well, invariably to ay, "Thank you," whenever anything was given * 0 him. Some"parrot fanciers had agreed to meet \ n a years' time, when each was to show a bird for \ 1 prize?proficiency in talking to be the great cri- 1 erion of merit On the day appointed all the 1 est came, each duly bringing his parrot One ( inly appeared without his, saying that he was such i stupid bird he was quite ashamed to bring him. [his excuse was held to be inadmissible, and his ' caster accordingly went for and returned with him. J to sooner was he introduced than, looking round J t the large assembly of birds, he exclaimed, "My 1 3?! what a lot of parrots 1" The prize was im- 1 nediately voted to him by acclamation. 1 Valuable Advice.?To avoid criticisms of < 'our real faults by acquaintances, the best plan is i o affect some eccentricity. Wear a hat without a im, or a coat with only one fiap; or shave your 1 >eard on one side only; or never out your hair; I ive on pigs' tails and salt, or keep a tame hyena, < ind you will have thrown a tub to the whale whioh < rill prevent his molesting you. It is told of Al- i dbiades, who was rather a fast youth, that find- 1 lug #ur wwum?<5 mm/ ? \thani, and haajag a very fine dog which he had given alarge sum of money for, be cut off his tail, which wa?Teckoned?great ornament His friends tofd him that the whole city blamed him for bo foolish an action, and talked of nothing ebe. "lhatia what I mean," said he, MIhad tather they should talk of my dog'b tail, than scratiniae my conduct" - Tna Niffio nt Fbangz.?Among the wealihy foreign residents of Paris are fifty negro aodmqfctr to families, who hold intercourse with a greai many aristocratic French firaifies on terms of perfect squaKty. M. Pontchery, a wealthy negro "from Port au Prince, lives with his family in one of the fine* booses on the Chapsee d'Antin, keeps half a doses white servants, and was invited last winter to all of M. Bouher's parties. He is a millionaire, and has a very fine gallery of paintings and atataaiy. Another negro resident of Paris is Cantoris, whose fhther owned a large plantation on the island of Mauritius. The son sold the -plahtatarioh, married an English' woman at Capetown, and west with her to Paris, where he lives Dow in brilliant style, is one of the boldest operators on die Bonne, and is oonaidered very rich. His ohikhea are almost white, aodtbe oldest daughter, a belle of eighteen, Is courted by a great many young officers and others, who. seem not to care a fig for her oolored descentBelfide, a very blade apgro, has two or three large badness hoqps In Paris, where he settled-thirty or forty yearn ago, and made mousy in ribs oyster trade. He is also married to awhite woman. His daughters are all married to Frenchmen. A Tepe Lady.- A true lady is easily reooguked n public plaoes by her neat and tasteful drees, by ler quiet, and unostentatious demeanor, Sod?if there is oocasioo for her to speak?by her gentle' roioe and choice language. A load, hazsh voioe utd "alaag phrases" coming from those who in rther respects appear to have been wefl brought ip, always jars unpleasantly upon the hearer, there is a long list-of unauthorised words and phrases, which are in common use, and are suppoled to giyea certain aest to conversation, but which >*? Bflnr fimr finm Lain* nWnnl HlM m iw'inflit 0 various places?in the boarding school, in the wflege, in thestore, and on the street One by >ne, they enter the family circle, and become disagreeably common. A man who oonturaaQy interards his conversation with words which the dksionary ignores, does not, thereby, increase our -ogard for him; and when we hear a woman babitlally using "slang," we cannot but fed that the is ranting in that delicacy and refinement which are ;he brightest ornaments she can wear. Indeed, t is very certain that the frequent use of coarse md vulgar Words begets a disagreeable condition >f mind, which may not be realised by the poeseslor, but which is very apparent to associates. 'A New Anu-Masonio Wab.?The Washingon oorrespondent of the Baltimore American ays: "Mr. Wifeon has presented to the Senate 1 petition of certain citizens of Ohio, praying a reteal of the Act granting a charter to the Madonio lall Association of the District of Columbia. The >etitioa sets forth that smch secret organiaatioos ire dangerous to a republican form of Government; hat Masonic societies have directed their efforts o the support of slavery and the inception of reunion ; that they teach the youth of the country he pernicious practices of conspiracy; that they ire bound together by barbarous oaths; that their Mwer is used against a good administration and or a corrupt one, as is shown by a recent appeal of the Executive to the Knights Templar of the Northwest and of Boaton, and to the Baltimore Odd-Fellows; that no trust can be repeeed in any department of the Government administered on Masonic principles, and a good deal more similar nonsense. The petition was oonsigned to the Committee on the District" Cheerfulness and Mobosenbss.?If* we are jheerful and contented, all nature smiles with us, the air seems more balmy, the sky more dear, the pound has a brighter green, the trees have a richer foliage, the flowers.a more fragrant smell, the inrds sing more sweetly, and the moon and stars ill appear more beautify. We take our food with relish, and whatever it may be, it pleases us. We feel better for it?stronger and livelier, and fit for ixertion. Now what happens to us if we are illtemnered and discontented? Why, there is not anything which can please its. We quarrel with food, with our dress, with oar amusements, with our companions, and with ourselves. Nothing oomes right for us; it is either too hot or too sold, too diy or too damp. Neither sun, nor moon, nor stars have any beauty; the fields are barren, the flowers lustreless, and the birds silent We move about like some evil spirit, neither loving nor beloved by anything. His Excellency the President.?How few people seem to know that his Excellency the President is a misnomer, the official designation of the 3hief Magistrate o^the Republic, so for as he has me, being simply the President In the convention foaming the constitution there were various propositions as to the title to be given the Executive, and among others, one that he should he tfyfed Excellency. This foiled, as did all the others, the decision being that he shouhfbe styled {imply what the constitution itself calls him, It rill be noticed that Mr. Seward, who is scrupucmsly exact in these matters, invariably addresses lis communications to the President, and perhaps, igidly ample as this may seem, it was meant to )6 as fotil of meaning as the plain title with which uyjdty appears, not his Majesty or his Christian yiajerty. or his Catholic Majesty, but "The King." Power Of \ Growing tree?-A story has been ping the rounds about a filbert tree which grew ip through the bole of a millstone, filled it aod lltimately hoisted it off the ground and wore it ike a ruffle around its trunk, although it was five ind a half feet iu diameter and seven inches thick. k?me are skeptical about this story, but nevertheeas growing trees have a great lifting power, as nay be proved by sight any day in the cemetery at )ld Cambridge, Mass., where a small tree, which las apparently sprung from a seed enclosed in a leavy stone tomb, has grown through a chink beween two stones, lifted the heavy snperincumbent nasses of stone some inches and pushed a stout ion raiHng off the perpendicular by the force of ts growth. It is quite a carious thing to lock at, tnd fhrnbhes very decided evidenoe of the power if patient perseverenoe on the part of Nature. Thz Trundle Bid.?The balmiest sleep we jver experienced, was when we were nestling in die old trundle bed, with,a curly headed brother, nst turned out of the parent nest to make room or a new customer. But trundle bed dreams were toon at an end, for when the next customer came, ire were crowded out of the trundle bed, to make -oom for the next that was turned out of the parjntnest, and so they kept alternating for years, mtU we were fairly turned out into the world. 01 where axe the little heads, that we have rjmwd a thousand times o'er, as they nestled in the old trundle bed? Some of them have grown )ld and gray; and others are resting upon their 3 ve Hasting pillow in widely separated lands. We ire always sad when we .think of the old trundle xd