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Humorous fcpartmtttt. THE WRONG BED. At a late hour Tuesday night quite a bridal party arrived in the city and put up t at one of our hotels. The bride was ac- j companied by two of her young lady friends, ' and the groom by two gentlemen. The ( names were registered in the usual way, * but in some way a mistake was made in ( reference to the identity of the bride. The < ' hours sped on towards the dawn and the 1 bride in her silent chamber waited the ap- 1 pearance of her lord. Yet he came not. 1 Surely, he was not sitting up all this time. ' The rest of the party had retired she was ' certain, since she had heard them in their ' apartments. What had become of him ? Impatience ' gradually grew into terror. 1 She rang her bell, and the servant knock- 1 ed at the door. f "Do you know where my husband is ?" I she inquired. "Ain't he in here, mam ?" * "No!" # ! "May be he stepped out into the city, 1 mam, and will be back directly." "I'm afraid; oh, do inquire at the office, ! and see if there is any intelligence about 1 him." # j The servant retired, and in a few moments returned with information that there 1 was none. The wife was now alarmed in 1 earnest. She never had a husband before, 1 and, like the man who drew the elephant in ] the lottery, scarcely knew what to do with 1 the animal. In her anxiety she went to the room of ] one of her bridesmaids and knocked at the door. "Who's there ?" was inquired in accents 1 unmistakably masculine. "Me, Mary; but, mercy, who are you ?" There was a sudden stir, and the sound of feet falling heavily on the carpeted floor. "Who the devil am I in bed with then ?" she heard the man say, as the door swung open and her husband's face peered. "Oh ! I'm distracted about you; where ( .have you been ?" ] "I've been here in bed; but, deuce take , me, I thought you were here, too." "Oh! James, it wasn't me." "Who is it, then ?" "Why, it's Sarah." "The devil* "Oh, no, James, it was Sarah." "Didn't you know it, James ?" "Blast me, if I did! I found her asleep, and thinking this was our room, I crept , into bed and went to sleep," replied James, ' evidently impressed with the idea that he , had a difficult case to argue. "Is she asleep yet, James ?" "Why, don't you hear her snore ?" But just then Sarah waked up, and seeing a man in her room, set up a succession j of screeches that soon filled the hall with ] people. And now the bridegroom found himself j in a delicate position. In the hurry of explaining the matter to his wife, he had neg- J lected to put on his pants ; and now in his | eager search for them he was dancing ( around the room like one possessed ; now and then imploring Sarah to hush? "I'm going; don't you see!" But Sa- ! rah was seeing too much, and she couldn't i hush; and the wife in the hall, hemmed in 1 by the eager crowd, had tried to explain ; 1 but, failing in this, had leaned her head 1 against the wall and was enjoying a hearty 1 cry. \ At last, however, the pants were found I and put on, and the husband and wife es- ! caped to their chamber, whilst Miss Sarah < doubled locked her door against all further ! intrusion. The next morning explanations i were gone into, but there's no denying that < the ladies were the least bit incredulous, i and it is said a perceptible coldness has 1 grown up between them whilst the uninten- f tionally offending bridegroom walks about l a good deal, his head down, and evidently 1 indulging m unpleasant meditations. ' 1 New Orleans Picayune. \ i ADVENTURE OF TWO COUNTRYMEN. ? A few evenings since two rustics, who i had made their first visit to the metroplis, < and had very naturally put up at the As- ? tor House, were examining the hotel with . surprise and delight. They went up stairs ! and down stairs?looked into the breakfast ? ?J rvn nfllina UtlU UllLUJg iuuuig, IUC buv V/UIUV) the saloon, the barber shop, and had many ' words of commendation for each. At last, 1 wandering along the corridors, one of them ' espied the elevator, the doors of which were open. 1 "Look here, Joe," said he to his friend, "This is a nice little room, but there's no ' bed in it. I wonder what it's for ?" Joe's curiosity was aroused. So he step- 1 ped into the elevator, and he and his com- * panion sat down on one of the cushioned ! seats. "This is nice," remarked Joe, "but I don't see exactly what it's for. Do you 1 Phil ?" # I While they were trying to find out what ! the nice little room was intended for, they : saw to their astonishment and terror that it was going up. "Hallo!" cried Joe, "what the devil does this mean ? It's runnin' away, Bill. Whoa! ] whoa! whoa !" 1 "Stop her, stop her," screamed Bill, en- . deavoring to climb out at the top. "Dash the infernal thing, it's goin' to blow up. Get out, Joe, or you'll be killed." And they both began to climb up the side, but were unable to escape. "Confound the luck, this is a wooden balloon we've got into, Bill. It's goin' right up through the roof, sure. When it gets on top of the house, lets break out and Jump for our lives. Let's watch now for our chance, old boy, or we're goners." Still the elevator ascended, and the two bumpkins sat still with pale faces and compressed lips, as if they were approaching the rapids of Niagara in an open boat. They evidently anticipated a death struggle, and were prepared for it. In a few more seconds the elevator stopped. They were about to step out, when down it went, to the new astonishment and terror of the bucolic pair. They then gave themselves up for lost, and when the eleva 1 x .L - C ? i. a A n-r.y.n tor rcuuucu me ursi uuui, turn tuejr nwv asked by one of the servants if they wished to go up again, they stepped into the corridor as if they had walked out of their graves. "What in thunder is that thing ?" inquired Joe. "It's the helevator," replied the serving man, who, being English, had aspirations of course. "Well, is it a trap to frighten strangers, or an infernal machine, or one of them velocipedes I've heard tell so much about ?" The servant endeavored to explain what an elevator is ; but he failed completely. IpsanimMus Jtdiclcs. OLD MAIDS. There is a stigma of reproach cast upon ;he term "old maid?too often justly so, I t idmit. But "where does thq fault lie ? I j snow two women who may be cast in this ? jategory?unmarried, forty years old, or j. thereabouts. Both are of good family, the 8 laughters of wealthy men. The one, some j iozen years ago, finding, as no sensible woman can fail to find that fashionble life had ( nothing in it to satisfy her, made a stand , for herself. She told her family that she l must have a life of her own. She had no c jspccial gifts, except a remarkable aptitude t for business, inherited from her father. In ( i quiet way she had turned her attention to \ fruit-growing, a branch of industry offering s many attractions to her, and into that busi- ^ less she determined to enter. Fortunately j ihe had sufficient money left her by her j grandfather, to be able to carry out her plans, despite the sneers of her fashionable . icquaintances, and the objections and obstacles raised by the home circle. She es- ( tablis ied herself on a fruit-farm in the i western part of this State. Her work pros- , pereo. Now she is the owner of several { hundred acres, and has constant and remu- t " i '1 1_1 ^ aerative occupation 01 a Kina agreeauie tu her. After a few years her father died, { and, instead of the rich man he was estima- ? ted, he was found to be bankrupt. This ? daughter had a comfortable home and sup- j port to offer her mother and invalid sister. t She has quite a settlement of work people, men and women, to whom Bhe and her sis- , ter minister in various ways. In fact, she lives a life which is useful to others and develops her own powers, and in the consciousness of that she finds happiness and j peace.?Lippincott's Magazine. Power of Memory.?Themistocles, an 1 ancient Grecian, could call by their names the twenty thousand citizens of Athens. Cyrus could repeat the names of every soldier in his army. Hortensius, one of the orators of Rome, after sitting a whole ' day at a public sale, could enumerate from 1 memory all the things sold, their prices, 1 and the names of all tne purchasers. Ben ( Johnson could repeat, word for word, all that he had ever written; and indeed, whole j books that he had simply read. Seneca, ' the rhetorician, was able to repeat two thou- 1 sand names in the exact order in which * they had been spoken to him; and on one ' accasion, two hundred unconnected verses 1 having been pronounced in his hearing, he 1 at once repeated the whole of them in re- I versed order, beginning with the last verse 1 and proceeding backward to the first. It is said of Paschal that he "forgot nothing I Df what he had read, heard, or seen." Sir 1 William Hamilton, on whose authority we 1 give the above facts, mentions the case of ( a young Corsican who would, with a moment's hesitation, repeat "thirty-six thousand names in the order in which he had i heard them, and then reverse the order and < nt.nnon/1 t.fl til A first." beinC able T ("UV"-VU ? ?, O to do this after the lapse of a whole year < between the time of hearing the names and c that of repeating them. g The "Sunday Stone."?In one of the c English coal mines there is a constant formation of limestone, caused by the trick- i ing of water through the rocks. This water contains a great many particles of lime, 1 which are deposited in the mine, and as the water passes off, these become hard, and form limestone. This stone would always oe white like marble, were it not that men 1 ire working in the mines, and as the black c lust rises from the coal, it mixes with the , soft lime, and in that way a black stone is formed. In the night, when there is no coal dust rising, the stone is white; then igain, the next day, when the miners are at y work, another black layer is formed, and : so on, alternately, black and white, through the week, until Sunday comes. Then, if . the miners keep Sunday, a much larger iayer of the white stone will be formed ? than before. There will be the white stone ^ of Sunday night, and the whole of Sunday, 30 that every seventh day the white layer t is about three times as thick as any of the , others. But if they work on Sunday, they 3ee it marked against them in the stone. Hence, the miners call it the "Sunday * Stone." J Bearness of Cheap Dress.?Cheap slothes are the dearest. If you buy a number of cheap dresses, you must pay as , much for making as those that are dearer, if pou wish them to fit. Then they soon lose J their freshness, which, after all, was never worth much, but such as it is they lose it , lirectly. As soon as they have accommo- . iated themselves comfortably to the figure they are shabby and worn out. The gloss of newness is never pleasing; but when 1 oheap clothes have parted with that, they * bave parted with the only thing which recommended them. A really good dress, though it may may cost thrice as much as * another, lasts more than three times as 1 long, and never looks ill. But, above all, it is fit to be seen long after it has grown 1 comfortably to the shape. , Onions as a Medicine.?Hardly too ; much can be said in favor of onions as a i remedy for coughs and colds, especially for I children, they are invaluable. They may t be cooked and eaten at meal time, or, what is better, eaten raw with a little salt, or , stirred up in vinegar. A syrup made of them has saved many a child from an attack ' of croup or lung fever, and where those diseases were fully settled it has gone far ! toward a speedy cure. To prepare the sy- ! rup, slice an onion in a tin basin, pour upon ' it a teacupful of molasses, or, what is bet- 1 ter, honey ; add a bit of butter as large as ' a small chesnut, set the dish in the oven, ' almmop slnwlv for an hour. Leave 1 (bUU OltUVrUV* "?- ? * ? one of the oven doors open, so it will not 1 be too hot. Policy.?Nothing annoys a man more than to be eagerly questioned when he cornea home tired. Give him a neatly served dinner, or a pair of easy slippers and a cup of tea, ana let him eat and drink in peace, and in time he will tell you of his own proper motion all you wish to know. But if you begin at the tack too soon, the chances are that you will be rewarded by curtly-spoken monosyllables. Put down that piece of wisdom in your note book, girls; it will serve you well some day. Principles before men, says our statesmen; but that is reversing the order of things. Were not men made before principles ? Adam was six feet in his slippers before he troubled himself with a shadow of a principle; and the principal thing that troubled him after that was a wife. In the latter respect a great many men resemble Adam. gm tft* %kaw ?hcl?. THE POPLAR TROUGH. About sixty years ago, a man lived on he edge of a forest, whose father had raised iim very tenderly, and loved him very trustully, and finally given all his property to lis son, as his wife and other children were ill dead and he intended to stay with his >eloved son as long as he lived. But the old man lived too long. He became blind, and lame, and foolish. He lost he sight of his eyes, and he lost the good lse of his hands, and, alas! he lost the love >f his son. His hands became so weak and ;remblv that he would drop the spoon or :up while he was trying to drink. He )roke so many cups and plates, and made 10 much grease on the carpet, that his son's vife used to scold, and said, "He's good or nothing, and in the way; he does nothng but break crockery, and make grease." And so the old man's life was very unhapiy. i One day the man gaw his old father drop i plate and break it. He burst out into mgry scolding, and said, "I will stand it 10 longer. I will make you a trough. You ire dirty as a pig, and you shall eat like " Paa*? nl^ ?af Knr I /UU JL UV4 V1U AWVUVi So he started out into the woods with his ixe on his shoulder. His little son, about lix years old, followed him. He soon found i poplar tree, cut it down, aud began to lew out a block for a trough. After a lit;le he was tired, and stopped to rest. "Pa, what are you going to do with that ;ree ? Are you going to burn it ?" "No, I'm not going to burn it." "Are you going to make rails out of it ?" "No, I'm not going to make rails out of t." "Well, pa, what are you going to do ivith it ?" "I am going to make a trough, my son." "What for, pa ?" "For your grandfather to eat out of." "For grandpa?" And then the little :ellow stopped to think. After a while he idded, "Yes, that will be so nice; and I'll nake you a trough, too, pa, when you get >ld and blind." The man let go his axe, and he began to ;hink. His little boy unconsciously touched trim in the only tender place. He sat down ind began to remember all his father's love ;o him when a little boy. He went back md told his wife what had happened. From ihat hour the good old man was kindly ;ared for, his wants supplied, his mistakes jverlooked, his weakness provided against )y constant attention till he died. Do you ever feel worried with the care pour parents or aged relatives need? Re nembcr how they cared for you once; md how vou mav need kindness from vour jhildren. ALLAN'S PRESCRIPTION. Allan had a cold, so his mother kept him n the house; but he had played jackstraws mt, he was tired of hammering, and he had 10 ears for more stories. He wanted to go >ut doors, that was what he wanted. He lid not, however, like to tease his mother to ;o; Allan was not a tease; so what did he lo? He dressed up in his papa's hat and coat tnd boots, and knocked at the door. "Come in," said his mother. Allan valked in. "I, the doctor, cora'd to see your little lick boy," said Allan. "I am glad to see you, doctor," said his nother; "pray be seated. What can you lo for him, doctor?" "I give him three pills," said the doctor. 'First pill is, give him his muffler and mitens; second pill is, give him his sled; and hird pill is, give him leave to stay a good vhile out doors. Mind this, and your litle boy get well in a minute. Now I go. jrood bye," and off marches the doctor. Presently the door opened again, and Alan ran in. "Mother," he asked, "ain't fou going to mind the doctor?" How roguish he looked! "Perhaps I had better," said his mother, imiling. How could she refuse the little ellow: for, after all, was he not hungry or fresh air ? So Allan had his mittens and muffler and iled, and a fine play in the yard. And hey are three about as good pills as can be aken; don't you think so? The Child's Paper. Giving the Heart.?"Mother," said a ittle boy, who had only numbered three lumraers, "what does it mean to give your leart to God?" The mother put down her sowing, and ooking at her boy, 6aid: "Charlie, do you ove anybody?" With a look of sunorise, the child ansvered, "I love you; I love my father, my lister and Henry." "Then you give your heart to your father, ;o Henry, to your sister, and to me; and pou show that love by doing all you can for is, and obeying our commands." The child's face looked bright with a lew thought. "And you ought," continued the mother, ":o love God best, because He gave you pour father and mother, and all your friends ind comforts, and He gave you His dear Son, Jesus Christ, who came from Heaven ;o die, that you may live forever." + ? Give Your Child a Paper.?A child oeginning to read becomes delighted with t newspaper, because he reads of names and ;hings which are familiar, and he progressis accordingly. A newspaper in one year s worth a quarter's schooling to a child. Every father must consider that information is connected with advancement. The mother of a family, being one of its heads, and having a more immediate charge of children, should herself be instructed. A mind occupied becomes fortified against the ills of life, and is braced for emergency. Children amused by reading or study are of course more considerate ana easuy guveined. How many thoughtless young men have spent their earnings in a tavern or grog-shop who ought to have been reading! How many parents who have not spent twenty doliars for books for their families, would have given thousands to reclaim a son or daughter, who had ignorantly, or thoughtlessly, fallen into temptation. Fine. Language for the Poor.?The folly of using fine language to poor, ignorant people, and the strange mistakes it gives rise to sometimes, is thus illustrated: "A clergyman was sent for the other day. The man was rather deaf to whom he was called. ' W hat induced you to send for me V pompously said the clergyman. 'Eh?' 'What induced you,' he repeated, 'to send for me ?' 'What does he say ?' said the man to his wife. 'He says what the deuce did you send for him for?' " JUjticttltural ?rjrattmettt. PLANTING IN GEORGIA. MORE ACCOUNT OF THE COTTON ORACLES OF GEORGIA?-HOW MR. DAVID DICKSON ANE HIS NEIGHBORS MANAGE. A Georgia correspondent of the Ne^ York Times, writing from Sparta, Hancock County, says: Of all the counties outside of what is called par excellence, the cotton district ol Georgia, this Hancock County is the mosl productive.' Here reside and plant Mr. David Dickson, Mr. Simpson and Mr. Turner, with a number of faithful imitators and disciples, and nowhere can there be found more thoroughly skilled professors of practical farming than the gentlemen I have named. It is incalculable the good thej have done in their neighborhood, and indeed, in every part of Georgia their example and precepts have proved beneficial. They have demonstrated the value of scientific agriculture, of system and of intelligent industry, and have exposed the wasteful fnlltr rtf +V.o nlrl avQfAm nf 9nrn.t:f?hincr thr "" V4 VI*V *v~- * e ? surface, extracting crop after crop until the land becomes perfectly exhausted, and ther repeating the process, never dreaming oi using manure, and believing that breaking the land more than a couple of inches kills it. The individual, in the fable, who killed the goose that laid the golden egg, was provident compared with the farmers of the old school. Thousands and thousands oi acres in every county now grown up ir stunted pines, and presenting -a barren red surface, were once good land. They are now the slaughtered geese that laid golder eggs. Messrs. Dickson, Simpson and Turnet have proved that lending money to theii land is the best and most lucrative investment, and that improving the land thai they have got pays better than buying "new ground" when the old is exhausted to barrenness. At first they were regarded af crazy men. Plowing the soil with two and four horses, and with large turn plows, anc using guano and ' commercial fertilizers, were considered "all foolishness." It waCs thought they "must break at that business,' and that applying from ten to twenty dol lars' worth per acre of that "stuff thai smells so bad" was, in itself, sufficieni proof of lonacy. Alter some time, nowev er, it appeared that they gathered and seni to market a much larger number of bale; of cotton than their old-fashioned neigh bors; that their corn cribs were fuller; tha they had more wheat in their bins; thai their horses, mules, cattle, wagons, harnesi and implements were in better conditior and lasted longer than those of the pri mitive school; and that they never owec anybody a cent, and always had plenty o money. They were, the first to use th< commercial manures liberally, and the firs to find that it paid better than any othei investment of capital to use them, at a cosl of even $20 per acre. The result is now that no county in Mid die Georgia produces as much per acre o: arable land as Hancock County, althougl the soil generally is extremely poor fron the ill-usage of the ante-Dickson days, and no county in proportion to its size uses anything like the same quantity of th< guanos, phosphates and land plaster. Mr. David Dickson who, I believe, com menced life as a storekeeper (dry goods &c.,) in this village, is now universally ad mitted to be the best, most successful anc most intelligent planter in Georgia. He if not by any means the largest planter, how ever. Mr. Lockett, Mr. Lee Jordan, Cap tain John A. Cobb, and others in South' western Georgia, plant double and treble the quantity of land, own double and treble the number of mules, horses, &c., and employ very many more laborers; but at the end of the year take the number of bale.' per acre of all the plantations, and Mr, Dickson incontestibly carries off the palm He raises from a bale to a bale and a hali on all his land, and on parts of it produces as much as three bales, or 1500 pounds oi lint cotton. To look at his plantation yor are not struck by any particular neatness, fancy fences or evenly-aivided fields. Or the contrary, you are disappointed at the rough, untidy appearance of the face of the farm. But the stock looks well. The plowing is admirable, the hands work systematically, and the crops in all their stages ol growth look more vigorous and healthiei than those of other people. Mr. Dicksor is an eminently practical man. He has nc idea of aesthetics. He does nothing for appearances. He does everything to make money. He is ill-educated, an old bachelor, and devoted to putting one uonar on tne top of another. Year after year since he wenl to farming and quit dry goods, he experi mented with manures of different kinds foi cotton, at first on a small scale and cautiously, until he discovered that the combination of genuine Peruvian guano, landplaster, dissolved bones and salt was th( "perfect manure" for cotton, and onc< found, he "made a note on't," and has usee it lavishly, being, I believe, the largesi individual customer of Mr. Merryman, oi Baltimore. He has contributed many use ful, instructive and eminently practical articles, or the substance of articles, to th( Southern Cultivator, in which he has giver detailed accounts of his mode of culture Without any pretension to scientific skill and without using a term that every farmer cannot understand, he has explained the whole process of cptton culture in its smal lest minutire, and has described all the im plements which are used and which are th< most effective. He seems to have devotee all his intellect to the study of how to rais< the most cotton on a given quantity of land has pursued the study laboriously and pa tiently, and has found that by deep cultur< before seed time, and heavy manuring, am by very shallow and frequent culture whih the plant is maturing, he can produce fron two to three bales per acre upon the ordi nary uplands of one of the poorest countie: in Georgia. If he is to be honored wh< *-Tfr\ Vklqrloa nf ffrncQ nrrnw wViprv UUII murtc tTTu un*uvu v* w n one grew before, how much more is Mr Dickson to be honored, who has made tw< or three bales of cotton, worth $150 pei bale, where one hundred and fifty pound; of seed cotton, worth $13, used to be madi before ? This year, stimulated by the high prices and encouraged by the large sums he re ceived last year, Mr Dickson has plantet very largely, with great care and with grea quantities of guano, dissolved bones, plastei and salt. He sold all of his cotton seet that he could spare, at from $2 to $5 pei bushel, in a few weeks after it was knowi that he would sell them, thus adding fron $60 to $150 per bale to the value of hi; cotton, and daily receives hatfulls of letter asking all sorts of questions as to "how he doesit." I have written chiefly about Mr. Dickson, because people speak of him more ' than they do of others. He has been more "written up" than Mr. Simpson or Mr. Turner; but, personally, I am confident r that Mr. Simpson is quite as skilful, quite . as successful, and quite as intelligent a farmer. He raises a species of ootton sui perior to Dickson, more prolific, less given p to weed, and of earlier maturity. Some . people call it the cluster cotton, from the bunches of bolls close to the stalks and on [ the short limbs. The staple is very fine, I and all who have tried the Simpson cotton I are satisfied that it is equal to the best. From all I'can learn, Mr. Simpson makes as many bales per acre as his better known fellow-citizen, and while he says very little, does a great deal. TERMS?IIV ADVANCE ? 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May 13 li> tf * IN THE DISTRICT COURT i Of the United States for the District ofS. C. In the Matter of 1 T? JOHN CANTEY, ] In BA->KRurTCY. At Yorkvilte, ul the said District, on the 20th day ? of May, 1SC9. - XTOTICE is hereby given that a Petition has i IN been tiled in the said Court, by JOHN CANTEY, of Kershaw County, In said District, } duly declared a Bankrupt, under the Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to Establish aUniform System of Bankruptcy throughout the U. States," Approved 2nd March, 1867, for a discharge and . certificate thereof, from all his debts ana other claims provable under the said Act; and the 14th 5 day of June, I860, at 12 o'clock. M., is assign> ed for the hearing of tho same, before W. I. Clawson one of the Registers in Bankruptcy of said Court at his office in Yorkville, South "Carolina. 5 when and where the creditors may attend, ana , shew cause if any they have, why the prayer of the said Petition should not be granted. > J. P. M. EPPING, U. S. Marshal as Messenger. By T. W. Clawson. Deputy Messenger, p Mav 20 20 3t , IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE U. S. F For the District of South Carolina. i in tiie matter of C. C. HAILE.?In Bankruptcy. ' At Yorkville, in the said District, on the 20th day of 1 May, 1869. i OTICE is hereby given that a Petition has been i IN filed in said Court, by C. C. HAILE, of Kershaw County, in said District, duly declared a " Bankrupt, under the Act of Congress, entitled . "An Act to Establish a Uniform System of Bankp ruptcy throughout the United States," Approved, ' 2d March, 1867, for a discharge and certificate there* of, from all his debts and other claims provable . under the said Act; and the 14th day of June, 1869, at 12 o'clock M., Is assigned for tho hearing ) nf tho unnio hnfnro W. I. Clawson. one of the Resr . isters in Bankruptcy of said Court, at his ofiice in Yorkville, South Carolina, when and where the 5 Creditors may attend, and shew cause, if any they have, why the prayer of the said Petition should . not be granted. 1 J. P. M. EPPING, U. S. Marshal as Messenger. ; Bv T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger. May 20 20 3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE U. S. For the District of Soutli Carolina. In the Matter of 1 - ? . ANDREW W. RALEY J ln bankruptc\. ? At Yorlcville, in the said District, on the 20th day of May, 1869. THIS is to give notice that a Petition has been filed insaidCourt, by ANDREW W. RALEY, , of Kershaw County, in said Districtduly declared a ^ Bankrupt, under the Act of Congress, entitled "An f Act to Establish a Uniform System of Bankruptcy throughout the United States," Approved March 2d, 1807, for a discharge and certificate thereof, * from all-his debts and other claims provable un> der said Act; and the 14th day of June, 1869, at ' 12 o'clock, M., is assigned for the hearing of the 1 same, before W. I. CLAWSON, one of the Registers in Bankruptcy of said Court, at his office in Yorkville, South Carolina, when and where the i Creditors may attend, and shew cause, if any they . have, why the prayer of the said Petition should not be granted. J. P. M. EPPING, U. S. Marshal as Messenger. By T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger. May 20 20 St IN THE DISTRICT COURT~~ Of the United States for the District of S. Carolina. WM'DI1 MILSTER. } Is BANKRUPTCY. At Yorkville, in the said District, on the 20th day of May, 1869. NOTICE is hereby given that a Petition has been filed in said Court by WM. D. MILSTER, of Spartanburg County, in said District, duly declared a Bankrupt, under the Act of Congress, entitled , "An Act to Establish a Uniform System of Bank ruptcy througnoiu ine unuea states, -.vppruveu - 2nd March, 1867. for a discharge and Certificate 3 thereof, from all his debts and other claims provable under the said Act; and the 14th day of 5 June, I860, at 12 o'clock, M., is assigned for the ? hearing of the same, before W. I. Clawson, one of the Registers in Bankruptcy of said Court, at his olfico in Yorkville. South* Carolina, when and ) where the Creditors may attend, and shew cause if any they have, why tho prayer of the said Petition should not be granted. 3 J. P. M. EPPING, U. S. Marshal as Messenger. ? By T. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger. " May 20 20 3t : liOS ADAIAS i t PURIFIES THE BLOOD. r 1 For Sale by Druggists Everywhere. r i MUSLINS. a A FEW pieces of very pretty Styles, at remark/% ablv low prices, at S * T. M DOBSON & CO'S. I KING'S MOUNTAIN R. BOAD. THE trains over the KING'S MOUNTAIN RAILROAD, on and after this date?on Mon?. days, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays?win run as follows, making close connections on the mentioned days, with trains on the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad: Leave Yorkville, promptly, at 5 o'clock, A. MArrive at Chester at 7.20 o'clock, A. M. Leave Chester immediately after the arrival of the mail train from Columbia. Arrive at Yorkville at 8 o'clock, P. M. ? . All Freights must bo delivered at the Depot by 4 o'clock, p. m., on the evenings previous to the departure of the train. R. S. MOORE, President. January 14 2 tf C. & S. C. AND COLUMBIA A ATTGTJ8TA RAILROAD COMPANIES. SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE,) Columbia, 8. C., April 10,1869. J and after Sundly next, Passenger Trains VP will run as follows: j going nobth. Leave Graniteville, at 9.45 a. m. " Colombia, S. C., at 2.00 p. m. Arrive at Charlotte, N. C., 8.16 p. m. coming south. Leave Charlotte, N. C., at 5.45 a. m. " Columbia, S. C.. at..H..?^..v...n..1^10 ** Arrive at Granltevflle, S. 4.10 p. m. Through Tickets on sale for all principal points North and South. Baggage checked through. Close and continuous connections made North and souin. -rassengers rcacn Augusta ni *.w p. m. CALEB BOUKNIGHT, Superintendent April 29 17 2t SOUTH~CAROLIN4 R? ROAD. &8s& &sm Aa 5S5L5S^ELJ?23L4H||L * ? r.'W 'wr... '?J 'iff ?w m ,'^W.T GENERAL ?UPERINTfiNI>,BNT'S OFFICE, 1 Charleston, S. C., April 9,18fl9. J ON and after Sunday* April ilth, the Passenger Trains of the South Carolina Railroad \yiJJ tun as follows: ; for augusta. ' ' Leave Charleston, 8.80 a. m. Arrive at Augusta. .' ..4.55 p. m. Connecting with trains from Montgomery, Memphis, Nashville and Hew Orleans, via. Montgomery and Grand Jdhction. fob columbia. . jf Leave Charleston, , 8.30 a. ha. Arrive at Columbia... 0.10 p. m. Connecting with the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad, and Camden train; - for charleston. ~ Leave Augusta, .....9.00 a. m. Arrive at Charleston, 6.10 p. m. Leave Columbia,... .7.45 a. m. -Arrive at Charleston, 5,10 p. m. augusta-night mbmh Leave Charleston,.?.?.? T?8f>p. m. Arrive at a. m. Connecting with trains for Memphis, ^fashville, and New Orleans, via Grand Junction. Leave Augusta, r...........r..v.'....'..4.10 p. m. Arrive at Charleston, T. ~*.00 a. px. columbia nioht express?(sundays excepts).) Leave Charleston. 6.05 p. m. Arrive at Columhifj.......44^ri'.j. 4.45 a. m. Connecting (Sundays excepted) with Greenville and Columbia Railroad. Leave Columbia, ....5.50 p. id. Arrive at Charleston, 5.30 a. m. H. T. PEAKE. General Superintendent. April 29 " 17 " <r tf SOUTH CAROLINA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Authorized Capital $5,000,000 Present Limit .. 500,000 THE office of thjfl Company ir now opened at No. 19 Broad Street (South Western Railroad Bank) for the receipt of Deposits, Discount of riper, Purchase ana Sale of Exchange, and the transaction of a General Banking Business. Interest allowed on Deposits upon terms established by the Board of Directors. The Company is also a legal depository for moneys paid into Court, will receive Registry and transfer Books, act as agent to pay Coupons and Dividends, and as Trustee in Railroad Mortgages. DIRECTORS. W. C. Bee, of Wm. C. Bee A Co.; A. S. Johnston, of Johnston, Crews A Co.; Robt. Mure, of Robert Mure A Co.; W. B. Williams, of W. B. Williams A Son: E. H. Frost, of Frost A Adger; J. E. Adger, of J. E. Adger A Co.; Henry Gourdin, of Gourdin, Matthiessen A Cow; George L. Buist, of Buist A Buist; C. G. Memminger, Memminger, Jervey A Pinckney; T. J. Kerr, of T. J. Kerr A Co.; J. D. Aiken, of J. D. Aiken A Co.; John Campsen, of Campsen A Co.; A. P. Caldwell, of R. A A- 1?. CaldweH; W. K. Ryan, J. T. Welsmaa, B. O'Neill, J. J. Gregg, Grauiteville, S. C. For further information address GEO. S. CAMERON, President THOS. R. WARING, Cashier. Charleston, Maroh 25,1869 rt 12 < 8m TBY ? .. PMHirS MIC IITTEBS,: THEY CURE DYSPEPSIA, A.TD ALL Dll LASTS OF TH1 STOMACH AND LITER. THXT All UOOMMMMB) IT THB MEDICAL FACULTY. HEGEMAN Sc CO., AGENTS, NEW YORK. Mamrfactnred by C. F. PANKNIfl, CEBCST m APOTSZCAST, CHARLESTON, S.C. US'For Sals by Druggists Evsry tellers. February 11 6 ly P. P. TOALE, CHAHLESTON, S. C., MANUFACTURER OF DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS. NOTE.?We would call the particular attention of our friends to the above card. P. P. Toale has a large Factory, and such facilities as enable him to supply the" best work of his own make at low prices. A very large and complete assort mont always on hand at hiB Factory, Horlbeck's Wharf, near North Eastern Rail Road Depot, Charleston, S. C. N. B.?Orders from the country solicited, and strict attention paid to shipping in good order. April lo 15 ly A. C. KAUFMAN, ' BROKER, AUCTIONEER AND COMMISSION AGENT, rtf A a Tk r*m mrr A TIT THOIflAVr a n jmu. 60 ujiuaxf ox.i ^xxoaxixioxvxi, o. u. WILLbuvand sell Real Estate, Bonds,8tocks, Bank Bills, Ac. References.?Ex-Gov. B. F. Perry, Greenville, S. C.; Charles T. Lowndes, Lesesne A Miles, Hon. J. B. Campbell, W. B. Smith A Co., Crane, Boylston A Co., Pelzer, Rodgers A Co., Preesley, Lord A Inglesby, J. H. Wilson, Charleston, S. (J.; W. W. Taylor, Baltimore, Md.; Maj. C. H. Suber, Newberry, S. C.; Gen. T. M. Logan, Richmond, Virginia. April '29 16 3m ' INSURE YOUR LIFE IN the AMERICAN VFE INSURANCE COMPANY, of Philadelphia. Organized 1860. Assets over $3,000,000. Pays the largest Dividends on all its Mutual Tables. Policies issued on the RETURN PREMIUM PLAN, guaranteeing a return of all the premiums paid, with the amount of the Policy. ALL ITS POLICIES payable at the age of 80. JOHN W. FETZER, Traveling Agent. May 20 20 3t STARTLING BUT TRUE. THE Lady who operates, successfully, one of Singer's NEW FAMILY SEWING MACHINES, is not only rewarded, pecuniarily, for her labor, but is doubly rewarded in that she performs it with pleasure. M. JONES, Agent. March 25 12 tf " OTT?- ITfirW " FAMILY SEWING MACHINE. rpHE superior merits of the "Singer" Machines X over all others, for Family use or Manufaeraring purposes, are so well established and so gen- < erally admitted, that an enumeration of their relative excellencies isno longer considered necessary. I Our new Family Machine, which has been brought to perfection regardless of time, labor or expense, is now confidently presented to the public as incomparably the best Sewing Machine- fcb existence. The Machine in question is simple, compact, durable and beautiful. It is quiet, light running, and capqUe of performing* raogq and variety of work never before attempted upon a single Machine?using either SILK, TWIST, LINjBN. Oft COTTON THREAD, and sewing with equal flcility the very finest and coarsest materials, and anything between the two extremes, in the most beautiful and substantial' manner. Its attachments for hemming, braiding, cording, tucking, quilting, foiling, trimming, binding, Aei, are novel and practical, and have been invented and adtyuited especially for this machine. new designs 01 trie unique, useiai, ana popular folding tops and cabinet easei, peculiar to the machines manufactured by this Company, have beep prepared for on closing the new Machine. A faint idea, however, can at best bo conveyed through the medium of a (necessarily) limited advertisement ; and "4r# therefore nrge every person in quest of a Sewing Machine by all means to ex- A amine and test, if they can possibly do so, Ml tfe n leading rival machines before making a purchase. A selection can then be made understanding^. Branches or age doles fof Implying tho" ^Singer" Machines will be found in nearly every oity and town throughout the civilized world, where machines will be cheerfully exhibited, and any information promptly furnished. Or communications may be addressed to SINGER MANDFAjQTOflJ|JG COMPANY, 486 Broadway, New York. M. JONES, in the "Adlckes Building", Is the agent fox York County. January 28 4 tf PROSPECTS of the WORKING CHRISTIAN, . A WEEKLY RELIGIOUS HEWBPAPBB,. to be edited by REV. TILMAN R. GAINES, And published by Capt. L. M. Grist, at the OAfee of the YorkvUle Enquirer, Yorkville, 8. . C. ' TTAVING secured a working capital of TWO H THOUSAND DOLLARS, and arranged with Capt. L. M. Grist, the successful proprietor of the YorkvUle Enquirer, to publish for me, I expect to issue on the FIRST DAY OF JULY next, the first number of The Working Christian, a weekly Religious Newspaper, to be elegantly pjfin top | witn new type, oil gpoa paper, and to* contain d twenty-four wide columns. " I tmt, umiainrimfln vioa nwlmnafm) 4?* annvrlafian that such a paper is, at this time, specially needed 4 among otir churches, to stir up the "pure minds ^ of Christians" and "provoke them to love and good works." It will contain valuable reading on matters of practical importance, and will be specially devotea to the interests of the Christian Religion. Its title-WORKING CHRISTIAN-pa??ally defines the character of our paper, and suggests jj 1 i 1 .I J M.I.I WI| n-T n ' lit ti* T- _t Xuv \30pKrwIiuIH ltl WmuirWu IM/Ov Iv pally-labor.^ The epMbet J^OBKiNCfoia not to be understood as opposing or excluding the -gospel faith which we are ever to hold and contend for; but %s it yas neoessary for Paul to attend ohieflv to the mysteffes offaith, and James to the department of works, so we propose, for the most put. to leave the contending for the faith to others, ana content ourselves by saving to all, "faith without works is dead." We desire to send out our herald weekly, to sound the alarm in the ears of the churches: "Awake! Awake! put on thy strength, 0 Zlonand" to earnestly beseech every Christian in the land to "work while-It is day." The term CHRISTIAN is intended to embrace nothing more nor less than the word strictly imports, viz: a follower of Christ, such as were they, who were 'first called Christians at Antioch." It will contain the leading intelligence of the religious world as to Missions, and sympathize with every enterprisevfhio^.has-ipr lie aim the progress of the Saviour's kingdom. .It wul watch the movoinenteof the churches?seek out working churches and working men, and report their operations and successes. Its columns will contain, also, items of general Intelligence. It will take no part in politics, further than to give the latest political pews. ' Information on farming sad gardening, On education'and all the departments of ] useful industry, will be found fn our paper. J Special attention will be paid to the cause of Sabbath Schools. Indeed, we hope to make our Single*copy, one year,...'. '..r.7?..!..i 2 50 1 Five copies, 4i* ;" 1125 Ten r' fi a ; 20 00 An extra copy wflT be giypn toihefbehon setiding a club or ton names accompanied with the money. Remittances in Registered letters may issuing of this paper for one year. An necessary arrangements have been made to conduct it that I long. Should anything, howeyer.prevent us from doing 4b, every cent for unexpired flraw will - be promptly returned to the subscribers. Then | Slease forward us your name at once, or a list of t ve or ten, with the money, and let us send you the-ftfat.nnnib?V ~ c ? . , ST jfr- Specimen copies will be sent gratis, as soon no ,'ouno/l <-> oil wfin will annlv hompfl t.ho Inf. r>f CV3 ioouvajj t-v * ** rtrSJ ?w * "' v" July. ' .j^Addrese "TAe JFoeAri'ep: ChristianP Y?rkvnie,?j C.l* * - - * TILMAN R. GAINES. 1 May 13 19 tf v * ATAfflbE rig?U$ Showing the Value of Confederate Money in United States Currency, as established by the Legislature of South Carol!mu r | * j- \ 1861. Con. U.S.' 1803. Con. U.S. Jaun'ry, I n: #?_ ?AiSept. 1st, $11,02 for $1.00 / Febru'y, ] *1,0? ror ?1* j 44 44 15th. 10.68 for. 1.00 A March; ' 1.0$ for HOOjt44 44 _$0tt* MB for LOO ^ April, 1.07 for 1.00 Octo'r 1st, 9.22 for 1.00 May, 1.08 for l.O0( " 44 15th, 8.01 lor 1.00 ^ June, 1.09 for 1.00! 44 44 31st, 8.96 for 1.00 1 July, \ ? ,? frtP , rirJNov'r 1?V -8.90 for-' 1.00 I August, f 1410 for 1,<W| 44 44 15th, 10.54 for 1.00 1 September, 1.11 for 1.00| 44 4 4 30th, 13.51 for 1.00 ' October 1st, 1.12 for LOQiUec'r 1st, 13.51 for 1.00 1.15 for too! 44 tttfa, 14.80 for 3.00 Novem 1st, 1.15 for 1.00; 44 4*" 31st, 13.90 for 1.00 44 44 30th, 1.20 for l.OOl 1864. Decern Jst, 1.20 for LOOjJan'y let, 13t90 for 1.00 44TXI9th/1.30 for1 *.00* 44 44 15th, 1290 for 1.00 44 44 31st, 1.20 for 1.00! 44 44 31st, 12.82 for 1.00 1862. Feb'y 1st, 12.7? fo> 1.00 Jan'ry 1st, l.*> for 1.00 44 44 15th, 13.12 for 1.00 44 44 31st, 1.22 for 1.00 w 44 29th, 16.35 for 1.00 Feb'ry 1st, 1.22 for 1.00 March 1st, 16.35 for 1.00 44 44 28th, 1.48 for 1.00! 44 44 15th, 11.72 for 1.00 March 1st, 1.48 for 1.00 44 44 31st, 11.51 for 1.00 44 44 31st, 1.73 for 1.00 April 1st, 11.44 for 1.00 April 1st, 1.73 for 1.00' 44 15th, 12.18 for 1.00 44 44 30th, 1.87 for l.OOl " 44 80th, 11.11 for 1.00 May 1st, 1.87 for 1.00;May 1st, 1L30 for 1.00 44 iX 31st, 1.80 for 1.00 44 iX 15th, 10.40 for 1.00 June 1st, 1.89 for 1.001 44 4 4 31st, 9.47 for 1.00 44 4 4 30th, 1.90 for 1.00.June 1st, 9.47 for 1.00 :1 July 1st, 1.90 for 1.001 44 44 30th, 7.05 for 1.00 t 44 41 30th, 1.83 for 1.00 July 1st, 7.05 for 1.00 44 44 31st, 1.90 for 1.00 41 44 15th. 8.00 for 1.00 August 1st, 1.90 for l.OOlAug't 1st, 7.84 fbr 1.00 44 " 31st, 2.17 fbr 1.00 44 ?4 15th, 8.62 for 1.00 j Septem 1st, 2.17 for l.OOj 44 44 31st, 8.54 for 1.00 j 44 4 4 30th, 2.83 for 1.00 Sept. 1st, 8.54 for 1.00 4 Octob'r 1st, 2.83 fbr 1.001 44 44 15tb, 9.86 for 1.00 M 44 44 31st, 2.30 for 1.00 4 4 4 4 30th, 14.06 for 1.00 Novem 1st, 2.30 for LOOiOcto'r 1st. 14.06 fbr 1.00 44 44 30th, 2:83 for 1.00| 44 44 15th, 11.62 fbr 1.00 J Decern 1st, 2.33 for 1.00 4 4 44 31st, 11.60 for 1.00 1 44 44 30th, 2.33 for 1.00 Nov'r 1st, 11.60 for 1.00 d 1883. 44 44 15th, 11.91 for 1.00 1 Jan'ry 1st, 2.30 for LOO 44 4 4 30th, 13.91 for 1.00 44 44 31st, 1.94 for 1.00 Dec'r 1st, 14.90 for 1.00 Feb'ry 1st, 1.94 for 1.00 44 44 15th, 14.89 for 1.00 44 44 28th, 1.89 for *1.00 44 4 4 81st, 22.22 for 1.00 March 1st, 1.89 for 1.00 1865. 44 44 31st, 3.50 fbr 1.00 Jan'y 1st, 26.00 for 1.00 April 1st, 3.50 for 1.00 4 4 44 1 5th, 29.63 for 1.00 2 44 4 4 30th, 3.80 for 1.00 44 44 31st, 24.39 fbr 1.00 i M a y 1st, 3.80 for 1.00 Feb'y 1st, 24.51 for 1.00 t 44 44 Slst, 4.48 for 1.00 4 4 44 1 5tb, 22.86 fbr 1.00 June 1st, 4.45 for 1.00 4 4 4 4 28th, 27.22 for 1.00 44 44 loth, 5.13 for 1.00 March 1st, 27.50 for 1.00 44 44 30th, 5.47 for 1.00 44 44 I5th, 82.20 for 1.00 July 1st, 5.51 for 1.00 44 44 Slst, 46.35 fbr 1.00 44 15th, 7.75 for 1.00 April 1st, 46JJ5 for 1.00 44 44 31st, 10.93 for 1.00 44 loth, 54.79 for l.OO Aug't lat, 10.85 for 1.00 44 44 20th, 68.49 for 1.00 j 44 44 15th, 12.00 for 1.00 44 44 26th 182.45 for 1.00 44 44 Slst, 11.02 for 1.00; May 1st, 833.33 for 1.00 LAW NOTICE. J THE copartnership heretofore existing between ^ C. D. MELTON, JAS. F. HART A SAM'L J MELTON, in the practice of law, having been ? dissolved by mutual consent, tho undersigned 1 will continue the practice in his own name. J Business in the State and United States Courts entrusted to him, will receive attention. JAMES F. HART. V