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LEWIfJS;,^"^'} ^^'i^fpfnient |awib $tta^mptr: jar % |r0B?otioit <rf % |alitita(, Serial, |;ricnlfatral sift tfan^rrnai jjntrrets ofibc ?roth. VOL. 15. YOEKVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1869. ----- NO. 46. : :ii ''i f i i i ,--1^ fgteccUatteousi Reading. IN THE MOUNTAINS. In the fall of 18661 was traveling eastwait I in a stage-coach from Pittsburg, over th< mountains. My fellow travelers were two gen tlemen and a lady. The oldest gentleman') appearance interested me exceedingly. Ii years he seemed about fifty; in air and man ner he was calm, dignified and polished, anc the contour of his features was singularly in tellectual. He conversed freely on differen topics, until the road became more abrupt an< precipitous; but on my directing bis attentior to the great altitude of a precipice, on th< verge of which our coach wheels were leisure ly rolling, there came a marked change in hi countenance. His eyes lately filled with th< light of intelligence, became wild, restless anc anxious?-the mouth twitched spasmodically nn/1 flm wo a unfit a r?nl/l TtPr spiration. With a sharp, court)taive shudder he turned his gaze from the giddy height, and clutching my arms tightly with both hands, h< clung to me like a drowning man. "Use this cologne," said the lady, handing me a bottle with the instinctive goodness ol her sex. I sprinkled a little on his face, and he be came more composed ; but it was not until w< had entirely traversed the mountain, and de scended into the country beneath, that his fine features relaxed from their perturbed look and assumed the placid, quiet dignity that 1 had at first noticed. "I owe au apology to the lady," said he, with a blaud smile and a gentle inclination ol the head to our fair companion, "and some ex planation to my fellow-traveler also; and perhaps I cannot better acquit myself of the double debt than by recounting the cause ol my recent agitation." "It may pain your feelings," delicately urged the lady. "On the contrary it will relieve them," was the respectful reply. Having signified our several desires to hear more, the traveler proceeded: "At the age of eighteen I was light of hearl and I fear (he smiled) light of head. A fine mi tkn K? nlro ftt' rtWft ar?Vnr*\vl. 1^1 UpVl IJ V/U IUV UMUIU9 VI VUV vu*v HVAuvtf* edged me sole owner. I was hastening home to enioy it, and delighted to get free from college life. The month was October, the aii bracing, and the mode of conveyance, a stage like this, only more cumbrous. Hie othei passengers were few?only three in all?one old, gray-headed planter of Louisiana, hie . daughter, a joyous, bewitching creature, aboul | seventeen, and his son, about ten years of age. "They had just returned from France, oi which country the young lady discoursed in terms so eloquent as to absorb my entire attention. "The father was taciturn, but the daughter was vivacious by nature, and we soon became so mutually pleased with each other that it was not until a sudden flash of lightning and a heavy dash of rain against the windows elicited an exclamation from ray charming companion, that I knew how the night passed. Presently there came a low rumbling sound, and then several tremendous peals of thunder, accompanied by successive flashes of lightning. The rain descended in torrents, and an angry wind began to howl and moan through the forest trees. "I looked from the window of our vehicle. The nig./ vas dark as ebony, but the lightning showed the danger of our road. We were on the edge of a fearful precipice. I could see, at intervals, huge, jutting rocks, far away down its side, the sight of which made me so licitous for my fair companion. 1 thought ot the mere hair breadths that were between us and eternity ; a single little rock in the track of our coach wheels, a tiny billet of wood, a strayroot of a tempest torn tree, restive horses, I or a careless driver?any of these might hurl - us from our sublunary existence with the speed of thought "'Tis a perfect tempest," observed the lady, as I withdrew my head from the window, "How I do love a sudden storm ! There is something grand about the winds when fairly loose among the hills. I never encountered a night like this, but Byron's magnificent description of a thunder storm in the Jura recurs to my mind. But we are on the mountain yet ? "Yes; we have begun the ascent" "Is it not said to be dangerous ?" "By no means," I replied, in as easy a tone as I could assume. "I only wish it was daylight, so that w( might enjoy the mountain scenery. But whal is that?" and she covered her eyes from a sheel uf lightning that illuminated the rugged moun tain with brilliant intensity. "Peal after peal of thunder instantly sue ceeded; there was a very volume of rain com ing down at each thunder burst, and with f deep moauing of an anim&l in dreadful agony breaking upon our fears, I found that the coact had come to a dead halt. ^ Louise, my beautiful fellow-traveler, be came as pale as ashes. She fixed her eyes or mine with a look of anxious dread, and turn ing to her father, she hurriedly remarked: "We are on the mountains. "I reckon we are," was the unconcerned re ply "With ia^tiuctive activitv, I put my heac through the window and called to the driver but the only answer was the moauing of ai animal, borne past me by the swift winds o the tempest. 1 seized the handle of the doo and strained in vain?it would not yield. A that instant I felt a cold hand in mine, an< heard Louise faintly articulate in my ear th< following appalling words; "^"'he coach is moving backwards." Never shall I forget tho fierce agony witl which I tugged at the coach door, and callei on the driver in tones that rivaled the fiero blast of the tempest, whilst the conviction wa burning in my brain that the coach was beinj slowly moved backward. "What followed was of such swift occur rence, that it seemed to me like a fearfu dream. ^ "I rushed against the door with all my fore 1 '* '* ?-1 1 ? - i.i-n./vjt affAHfa Olio ail] ^ OUl 11 MllUblUUU Illy Ulliiuot iuuiw< w>iv of our vehicle was sensibly going down, down down. The moaning of the agonized anima became deeper, and I knew from his desperat plunges that it was one of the horses. Crasl upon crash of thunder rolled over the moun tain, and vivid flashes of lightning played ove our heads. By its light I could see for a inc raent the old planter standing erect, with hi hands on his son and daughter, his eyes raise* to heaven, and his lips moving as if in prav er. I could see Louise turn her ashy cheel toward me as if imploring assistance, and could see the bold glance of the boy flashin; indignant defiance at the war of elements, an the awful danger that awaited him. Ther was a roll, a desperate plunge, a harsh, gratin jar, a sharp, piercing scream of mortal terroi and I had but time to clasp Louise firmly wit one hand around her waist, and seize the fa tenings attached to the coach roof with th other, when we were precipitated over th precipice. "I can distinctly recollect preserving con sciousness for a few seconds of time, how rap: idly my brain was being exhausted, but of that tremendous descent I soon lost all further knowledge by a concussion so violent that I 1 was instantly deprived of all sense and moe tion." The traveler paused. His features worked 3 for a minute or two as they did when we were i on the mountain ; he passed his hands across . his forehead, as if in pain, and then resumed I his thrilling narrative. "On a low couch in an humble room of a t small country heuse,. I next opened my eyes 1 in this world of light and shade, joy and sori row, mirth and madness. Gentle hands j smoothed my pillow, gentle feet glided across . my chamber, and a gentle voice for a time 3 hushed all my questionings. I was kindly 3 tended by a fair young girl of sixteen, who rei fused for a while to hold any discourse with me. At length one morning, finding myself wm/vt?AM\/l nif ti rv T i nuioto/] rm OUU1VIOIIMJ A OVU?tltu k; oiw U|/| jl auwdwu vu knowing the result of the accident. | "You were discovered," said shfc, "sitting ? on the ledge of rocks, amidst the branches or a shattered tree, clinging to the roof of your r broken coach with one hand, and the insensif ble form of* a lady with the other." "And the lady 2" I gasped, scanning the . girl's face, with an earnestness that made her i draw back and blush. "She was saved, sir, by the means that saved s you?a friendly tree." "And her father and brother!" I impatient* [ ly demanded. "We found both crushed to death at the bottom of the precipice and we buried them in one grave by the clover patch, down in our . meadow." [ "Poor Louise I poor orphan! God pity you," > I muttered in broken tones, utterly Unoon scious that I had a listener. "God pity her, indeed, sir," said she, with [ a gush of heartfelt sympathy. "Would you like to see her?" she adaed. i "I found her bathed in tears for her kindred, and she received me with sorrowful sweetness of manner. I need not detain you by describing the efforts I made to soothe her ; grief, but briefly acquaint vou that at last I , succeeded, and twelve months after the dread. ful occurrence which I have related, we stood ) at the altar as man and wife. She still lives to Vvl /\?r, 1 An kill f ko nnnivoKiAm; U1CW 1UC TTitlU iiCl OIUUCO) UUH UI& iMUi!?\M J of that terrible night she secludes herself in her j room, and devotes the hour of darkness to solitary prayer. > . "As lor me," said the traveller, while a i faint blush tinged his noble brow, "as for rae, ; that accident has reduced me to the condition , of a physical coward at the sight of a moun\ tain precipice." i "But the driver," asked the lady passenger, who had listened to the story with much attention, "what became of the driver, and did you ever learn the reason of his deserting his t post?" "His body was found on the road, within a i few steps of the place where the coach went i over. He had been struck dead by the same flash of lightning that blinded the restive horses." And thus ended this thrilling and remarkable story of life. WHAT r REMEMBER. I rcmomber a pair of blue eyes?long, sun-! ny, brown curb, and lips that would make you think of ripe cherries, as much as those cheeks would of roses. I remember a pair of dimpled arms and shoulders; a large straw hat wreathed with flowers; a crimson frock trimmed with white braid; a pair of red morocco shoes and pina fore. 1 I remember a little brown cottage among the maples, where a laughing, babbling stream meandered by, and the birds sang all day ' long; the steep hill at the right; the garden I with its wealth of marigolds, touch-me-nots, [ and evening beauties; the porch festooned with morning glories; the gravelled path, bordered with pinks, leading to the gate; the ' old well, with its iron-bound bucket, the un| wieldy sweep, and moss-lined curb; the mar, tin box, and the white curtains at the parlor , windows. I remember the blue skies and downy s clouds flecked with crimson, and starry nights when the moon shone, and winter nights when omato lotr An rvvAunr) tirlion fllPVP WflQ fl tuc OUUii levy vu buv hmvu wuvav ?imv ot chiming of bells and peals of laughter. I remember snatches of rhyme and the pat; tering of little feet, and the noise of playful chattering to dolls, and the chime of broken , dishes, and certain performances on jewsharps. k I remember a great deal more than this. I t remember a day when toys and dolls were . gathered up and put away by careful hands; when the little worn-red shoes, and crimson . frock and white pinafore were laid away, al. most sacredly, in an unused drawer up stairs? t where there was no laughter, no pattering of footsteps; when the crib was shoved back I against the wall, and the little empty chair was put back in a distant corner. I remember tears and moans?and a little t calm, dead face in the coffin. Dead! did I say dead ? No, no ; that cannot be; you are living in my heart?in my memory, darling?living where no sickness or . pain can come?no death destroy. In heaven, thank God! 1 There is a little grave out under the maples ; there are many such little graves; there j' are many broken hearts. Well there is One f who can heal them. There are many vacant r cribs and empty chairs, and desolate homes. t What should we do if He had not said, 'Sufj fer little children to come unto me V 3 Let me see the little crib and chair, and crimson dress, and the red shoes and white pinafore; don't hide them away. Strew the 1 playthings that she loved?the bits of broken 1 china, the jewsharp, the dolls and paper dresse es all around. I may shed tears over them, a but they'll not be bitter ones. The prints of y little fingers upon the furniture?don't erase them; the marks of little footstejw here and - there?don't efface them ; the little hat with 1 faded flowers twisted around it?let it hang where her little hands put it; that won't grieve e me now ; don't turn up the dog's eared leaves e of her little soiled primer; her fingers made i, them. Put a plate at the table where she I used to sit, and a high chair at its place?it e will seem the more as if she was at play or li running in the garden ; not as if we had shut her out; not as if she were dead! r I remember?ave. who does not remember'! h- Who is there on the wide earth who has not s some sacred memory hid away from the pryi ing eyes of the world?some recollection be tween which and Mammon's worshipper a veil k is forever drawn ? Who could quiet forget, il I he would ? Aye, who would quite forget if he g could ? e Salt for the Throat.?In these days, g says an exchange, when diseases of the throat r, prevail, and particularly a dry, hacking h cough, which is not only distressing to ourj selves but to those with wnom we are brought ie into business contact, those thus afflicted ma\ ie be benefitted by following remedy: Last fall we were induced to try what virtue there was in common salt. We commenced by using it 1 three times a day?morning, noon and night. 1 ' We dissolved a large tablespoonful of com- i mon salt in about a half a tumblerful of cold i water, and with this we gargled the throat < most effectually, just befere meal time. The i result has been that during the winter we were not only free from the usual coughs and colds to which, as far as our memory extends, we have always been subject, but the dry, hacking cough has disappeared. We attri- . bute it entirely to the salt gargle, and do most ] cordially recommend it to those of our readers i who are subject to diseases in the throat." < HENRY WARD BEECHER AS A FARMER, j Mark Twain, the great wag of the Buffalo ] Express, gives the following sketch of Mr. j Beecher's experiments in farming: ] "Mr. Beecher's farm consists of thirty-six j acres, and is carried on on striet scientific ] i " rr. 1_ ? L _ * 1 principles, xxe never puis m any pan. or a < crop without consulting his books. He plows and reaps und digs anu sows accoriling to the j best authorities?and the authorities cost more 1 than the other fanning implements do. As 1 soon as the library is complete, the farm will j begin to be a profitable investment. But book f farming has its drawbacks. Upon one occa- t sion, when it seemed morally , certain that the j hay ought to be cut, the hay book could not i be found?and before it was found it was too i late, and the hay was all spoiled. Mr. Beecher g raises some of the finest crops of wlieat in the ( country, but the unfavorable difference be- t tween the cost of producing it and its market c value after it is produced, has interferred con- ( siderably with its success as a commercial en- { terprise. His special weakness is hogs, how- * ever. He considers hogs the best game a farm g {iroduces. He buys the original pig for a dol- 1 ar and a half, and feeds him forty dollars' a worth of corn, and then sells hhn for about < nine dollars. This is the only crop he ever 1 makes any money on. He loses on the corn, j but he makes seven dollars and a half on the t hog. He does not mind this, because he nev- ^ er expects to make anything on the corn, any way. And any way it turns out, he has the ] excitement of raising the hog anyhow, wheth- i er he gets the worth of him or not. Hi3 straw- L berries would be a comfortable success if the j robins would eat turnips, but they won't, and t hence the difficulty. One of Mr.* Beecher's most harrassing diffi- I culties in his faming operations comes of the t close resemblance of different sorts of seeds ? and plants to each other. Two years ago his g far-sightedness warned him that there was go- > ing to be a great scarcity of watermelons, and ^ therefore he put in a crop of twenty-seven t acres of that fruit.- But when they came up f they turned out to oe puraKins, ana a aeaa j loss was the consequence. Sometimes a por- t tion of his crop goes into the ground the most c promising sweet potatoes, and comes up the most infernal est carrots?though I never have i heard him express it just in that way. When f he bought his farm, he found one egg in ev- g ery hen's nest on the place. He said that here \ was just the reason why so many farmers failed c ?they scattered their forces too much?con- e eentration was the idea. So he gathered those } eggs together and put them all under one ex- 8 perienced old hen. That hen roosted over 8 that contract night and day for eleven weeks, f under the anxious personal supervision of Mr. needier nnnseil, Dut sue couia not "pnase" those eggs. Why ? Because they where those infamous porcelain things which are used by t ingenious farmers as "nest eggs." Mr. Beech- c er's most disastrous ex-pcrience wus the time ( he tried to raise an immense crop of dried f apples. He planted fifteen hundred dollars worth, but never a one of them sprouted. He t has never been able to understand, to this day, [ what was the matter with those apples. ( Mr. Beecher's farm is not a triumph. It t would be easier on him if he worked it on shares with some one; but he cannot find any j body who is willing to stand half the expense, j and not many that are able. Still, persistence t in anv cause is bound to succeed. He was a t very inferior farmer when he first began, but t a prolonged and unflinching assault upon his j agricultural difficulties has had its effect at \ lost, and he is now fast rising from affluence to r poverty." r * 4.^.4 1 REMOVAL OF MAGISTRATES. About the middle of last week, the Hon. ( Lucius Wirabush, accompanied by his satel- ] lite, John C. Reister, departed for Columbia. , The community was at once filled with rumors j the most dire?not only were they going to t demolish the Magistracy, but to depose the ^ Sheriff, Judge of Probate, Clerk of the Court, , Solicitor of the Circuit, and Countv Commis- , sioners. Aud we doubt not they would if they j could. But at their instigation, this is what , they did get Governor Scott to do. On Friday last he issued an edict canceling the commissions of Magistrates Eli Cornwell, H. C. Brawley, T. M. Boulware, and Daniel G. Stinson. Only two months ago, the Grand Jury of Chester County recommended that, these four men, all appointees of Gov. Scott, be retained; they being fit and proper persons to exercise the authority of Magistrates. Why then this sudden and general decapitation ? The answer is easy. Their places are needed. Some God-forsaken specimens of humanity have recently bartered their souls for a chance at the spoils, and it is to furnish them with the wages of their iniquity that these vacancies have been made. Two of the gentlemen named above, we know were approached, and assured that if they would join the League, they would not only be allowed to retain the offices they then held, but might reasonably expect an invitation "to come up higher. Their scornful rejection of the overture has brought down upon their heads this burst of Executive displeasure. "Let us have peace." The ground alleged for the removal of Eli t Cornwell, Esq., we understand Jo be a- fol- ] lows: Some few weeks back one John ('ran- s ' ford, white, was arrested under a warrant j from John C. Reistcr, Magistrate, charging ( him with an assault and battery, with intent ( to kill, committed iqion one Jonas Clowney, ( colored. , In defaul't of bail, ('ranford was committed to jail. On the day of arrest a number of his , friends came forward to bail him. Roister ] either refused or neglected their application, and then Cornwell was applied to. lie took the bond of Cranford in the sum of 8300, con- 1 ditioned for his appearance at the Court of ; Seasons in January next, with Abner Carter, ] John Wilks, T. A. Anderson, J. M. Kirk- i patrick, Judy Cranford and G. H, Smith, 1 sureties thereto. A few days after this, Clowney 1 and Cranford came before Cornwell and an- i nounced the fact that the difficulty between ' them had been compromised. They paid the i costs, of which Renter received his portion, and so it was supposed the thing was ended. But I not so. The failure of Cornwell to exact a ! * - ? 1 111 X1 - . , a bond ot at least a tnousanu uouars is me . ; pretended ground for his removal. We think : ; if this be a just ground for the removal of a i Magistrate, Reister ought not to feel overly - safe, when he reflects upon the fact, that with- i ' in the last month, when the Marshal of the I Town was arraigned upon a false and frivolous < i charge before him, he refused to receive in their official or individual capacity the Intendant of the Town and one of the Wardens is bondsmen, when too, the Warden was, and had been the Assignee in Bankruptcy of all the tstate and effects of the person, who was accepted is bondsman, from the 12th day of May last? Chester Reporter, lltA instant. STICK TO YOUR BUSINESS. The secret of success, says the Richmond Dispatch, in this world is to stick to your business?that which you learn in early life, and which you understand. One of the greatest ivils in this country is the disposition to quit i business we know, to take up one at which ioiuebody has made a fortune. How did he nuke it? By understanding it. You go to t to serve an apprenticeship, and before you earn it you may lose all you have, and then nrvf L!iin/>nr*'l TK!c iu lilro flia Kav ivhn flrrmq lis line where another has got a bite. Who ;ver saw such a Lev catch a fish ? Pertinent to this hrief bQmily ill view of the mbject of agriculture) now uppermost in pubic interest* is the advice given by Governor Walker to the young men of the country? lot to be too ready to forsake their paternal icres and go to the large cities to seek for;unes. The same advice has been recently fiven by Governor Hoffman and ex-Governor Seymour in agricultural addresses. At best, n regard to human happiness, it is a great lacrifice to surrender the healthful and yirtu>uS occupations of rural life for the-trials, emptationa, and unnatural conventionalisms >f cities. Even with success, it may be-serimsly doubted whether a man is compensated or the exchange. He may make money, and urround himself with all tne gilded comforts md bright lights of city opulences, but what leart so circumstanced has not sighed a thouiand times for the sweet scenes of youth?the dear waters, the green fields, the buoyant lealth an,d innocent joys of rural life? Many l millionaire has set a value upon these lost reasures greater than all his wealth told iii jold. Agriculture is the true occupation of man. from that he derives his greatest forces, physcal and mental. From that society is replenshed; but for the re-invigotation that other )ursuits receive from it tney would aecune m0 apathy and imbecility. But it is uot wise in the tillers of the soil to >e discontented with their lot, and to think that here are others more happy, They will make 1 great mistake. And whenever this propenity gets too strong a foot-hold, those who vander from the country to the crushing and grinding marts of commerce, will find it little letter than charging a powerful battery. A ew may scale the wall and wave the banner rom the top, but the great bulk will pour out heir life wood, die in the struggle, and go lown unknown and uncared for to oblivion. Discontent is misery. It is a great fault of nankind; but of all the pursuits in life the armcr has least cause to be discontented. He hould cling to his many sources of happiness vitli devotion. He should study his noble tailing with enthusiastic love, be content with tnough, and, sheltered in the serenity of his lonest home and toil, pass his days in peace, rnd be gathered to the tombs of his lathers imidst the unaffected griefs of kindred and riends. A VERY SINGULAR WILL. Yesterday we heard of, and read part of, he most singular will on record. The maker >f the will is represented to be a shrewd, suc:essful business man, who has accumulated {uite a large fortune. He exhibits no other igns of insanity than may be derived from the txtrerae eccentricity of his will, although it s probable the court will, in due course, be :alled upon to determine the question whether he testator was of sound and disposing mind. The will disinherits all the natural heirs of lie maker of it, and devises the entire propery in trust for the establishment of an infirmiry for cats. A most elaborate architectural )lau for the necessary buildings is attached to ind made part of the wilL It provides areas 'or that sweet amatory converse so dear to he female heart, and rat holes of the most avishing nature to be kept well stocked, [he most ingenious contrivances are provided or securing to them a chance of escape so hat the cats may not lose the pleasures of the :hasc by finding their prey come too easily. Ff itrh walls ore to be built, with centlv-sloDiner oofs, for the moonlight promenade and other locturnal amusements of the cats. The ;rustees are directed to select the grounds for his novel infirmary, in the most populous jart of some great American city, and the derises are to be protected by a competent ibrce of lurses, from the ravages of men and dogs. No lerson of the male sex is ever to be admitted vithin the walls, and no female who has child en or is under thirty years old. There are mndreds of minute directions which we have 10 time to note. One would suppose that in the foregoing irovisions the testator had exhausted all the HJcentricities of one man, however unique his lature; but the last provision of the will leems more outrageously bizarie than any that jo before. Savs the deviser: "I have all my ife been taught to believe that every thing in uid about man was intended to be useful, and hat it was man's duty as lord of animals, to irotect all the lesser species, even as God proects and watches over him. For these two iombiued reasons?first, that my body, even ifter death, may continue to be made useful; tnd secondly, that it may be made instrunental, as far as possible, in furnishing a subititute for the protection of the bodies of my lear friends, the cats?I do hereby devise and lequeath the intestines of my body to be made lp into fiddlestrings, the proceeds to be demoted to the purchase of an accordeon, which hall be played in the auditorium of the Cat [mfirmarv by one of the regular nurses, to be selected for that purpose exclusively?the jlaying to be kept up forever and ever with)Ut cessation, dav or night, in order that the lats may have the privilege of hearing and mjoying that instrument which is the nearest ipproacii to their natural voice." If any journal can give us information of a norc singular will than this, we would like to icar it.? Columbus {Ohio) Journal. - ? Fun at Homi;.?Don't be afraid of a little :un at home, yood people. Don't shut up pour house lest the sun should fade your carpets; and your hearts; lest a hearty laugh should shake down some of the musty cobwebs there. If you waut to ruin your sons, let them think that all mirth and social enjoyment must be left on the threshold without, when they come home at night. When once a home is regarded as only a place to cat, drink, and sleep in, the work is begun that ends in gambling houses and reckless degradation. Young ]>eople must have fun and relaxation somewhere; if they do nol find it at their own hearthstones, it will be sought in other and less profitable places. Therefore let the fire burn brightly at night, and make the home-nest delightful with all those little arts that parents so perfectly understand. Don't repress the buoyant spirit of your children; half an hour of merrimeul around the lamp and firelight of home blots i out the remembrance of many a care and an! noyance during the day, and the best safe: guard they can take with them into the world ! is the unseen influence of a bright little domestic sanctum. - " i Curiosities of American History.? 1 American political history is full of curiosities i and singular incidents. For instance, three 1 of our Presidents, all of whom participated in ' the revolution, died on its great anniversary, . the fourth of July, viz i John Adams, Thomas i Jefferson and James Monroe. General Wash- i ington, when he retired from the Presidency, i was in the sixty-sixth year of his age. His * successor, John Adams, when he left, was i sixty-six years old. Alter him came Thomas Jefl'erson, James Madison and James Monroe. Mr. Jefferson was sixty-six, James Madison . had iust nassed his sixtv-sixth vear. and Mr. 1 J A, # " V J J 1 1 Monroe was in his sixty-seventh, when they respectively left the Presidential chair. Gen- } eral Harrison was sixty-seven years old when 1 he was elected, and died in the Presidential office. From 1801 to 1825 the Presidential office I was filled by Virginians. During the same interval, with the exception of four years, the 1 Vice-Presidential office was held by citizens of x. New York. John Adanls negotiated the treaty of peace that concluded the war of the ' revolution with England. His son, John * Quincy Adams, was a leading envoy, and 1 negotiated the treaty which ended the second war with England in 1814. His son, Charles ' Francis Adams, at the third great crisis of j our history, was the Minister to England during the recent war, from 1861 to 1865, the period which covers the Alabama claims: j In 1800, John Adams was on a leading x Presidential ticket. Twenty-four years after his son, John Quincy, was also a Presidential ( candidate; Twenty-four years from that time i Charles Francis Adams, John Qtrinoy's son, was an important candidate for Vice-Presi- * dent, with contingent' Presidential success sion. Of the first six Presidents, four of them I were taken from the office of Secretary of State, and the other two being the first elected, could f not perform its duties. From this feet rose ( the precedence that makes the Secretary of i State the first officer in the Cabinet, instead 1 of the Secretary of the Treasury, which b the ? case in Great Britain. A No less than five of the greatest of Auieri- ( can statesmen were born in the same year, A 1782: Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, ? Thomas H. Benton, Martin Va,a Buren and 1 Lewb Cass. From 1800 to 1865, a period | spanning from the. second President to the seventeenth, only two persons filled the office r of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the TTnifpd ?.Tnhn Marshall and Ttmrpr R. . Taney. ( j alftidotes for poisoning by morphia, \ Opium, etc.?Dr. R. T. Duncan, editor of the { Medical Investigator, writes to the Chicago \ Republican of a recent date: ; Recently I have noticed very frequent ac- t counts of cases of deaths by poisoning. TTn- l der the head of "Suicidal Mania," you give, j in this morning's issue, quite a number of ] deaths by morphine, opium, and strychnine. ^ T flin not on tiinnli onrnmnn'l il.t. -1 . ' ' persons, who shirk life's burdens, should choose j so soothing u death-dealing drug as morphia, \ as I am at the ignorance displayed by many | of the physicians who figure in these reports. ] Many of them seem perfectly helpless, nppar- \ ently knowing not what to give to antiuote ( this drug. \ The most ready antidote for opium, mor- j 5hia, or any other of its preparations, is coffee, j ust ordinary drinking coffee. When such t cases come under observation (and nearly t every person knows the symptoms produced j by opium), call at once for coffee and give it , freely. The stronger the infusion the quicker < you will arrest the progress of the poison. As j soon as improvement is manifest, hold up on 5 the coffee. I could here cite, were it necessary, a number of cases, where determined per- ] sons tried to commit suicide by taking mor- . phine, opium or laudanum, but were saved by j the timely administration of coffee. The physician can prescribe caffeine, the alkalid of cof- ] fee, if he chooses to be fastidiously professional. ] Camphor is another antidote nearly always , at hand, and may be used instead of the pof- . fee, or until it is prepared. These two drugs , (iximnlmp nnrl will not. wnrlr iut Wftll . together nor follow etcli other so well us alone, j If the case has not gone too far, I consider it . an easy matter to 'save the life of a person un' der the narcotic influence of opium. The effects of strychnine are more violent ] and distressing, and it is, therefore, less used t as a suicidal drug. Its antidotes are many, i Chief among them stauds the all-powerful, 1 ever present coffee. In cases of poisoning by this drug, the coffee must be the strongest that 1 can be made, and must be given freely. Cam- i phor is here also a valuable antidote. I Arsenic produces such violent burning and { distress in the stomach that it is falling into 1 disfavor with this class of persons. They like i to die quietly, without any "fuss." Milk, ] olive oil, and sesqui oxide of iron (common iron rust), mixed with milk, should be freely t given in cases of poisoning with arsenic. t Strange as it may seem," strychnine is an t antidote to opium in a certain degree. In the t hands of non-professional or uneducated plivs- t icians, they would be apt to do more harm e than good if given as an antidote for each ( other. It should be generally known that f coffee is almost a universal antidote to vege- t table poisons, while camphor has in addition ( nearly the same power over the mineral pois- ( ons. t Secret Service in tiie Army?G'apt. E. ( P. Roc, of West Point, delivered a lecture last j evening at Odd Fellows Hall, Hoboken, un- t der the auspices of Post Wadsworth, Grand ( Army of the Republic. Subject: "The Secret Service Corps of the United States Army." t The hall was well filled. The lecturer first t gave au interesting account of the exploits of t Mosby during the early years of the war, and 1 the great service he rendered Lee in giving hint information of the slightest movement j Kv mil- nrmv. Lee's snv svstein was ? Iliuuv, ~j j. ? A J j perfect; he knew our army organization, its i numbers and positiou, while our generals were j absolutely in the dark in respect to his. -In . the third year of the war this position of affairs became intolerable, and General Hooker organized a Bureau of Military Information, i and placed Colonel Sharpe at its head. This i officer had command over all the spies, the i balloon and signal corps. He determined to j know as much about Lee's army as Lee did 1 i himself. This was a herculean tnsk, but he i accomplished it. First concentrating all his j resources upon a single division, (General j ; Heath's division of A. P. Hill's corps,) he soon i ! found out everything concerning it, its brig- i ades, regiment" and officers, and verified his j , information by sending over one of his men 1 disguised in a Confederate uniform, who, be ing strictly examined, easily passed as a merai ber of Heath's division. Colonel Sharpe pur; sued this system until he knew the numbers and commanders of every brigade and regiment in Lee's army, and could tell at any time, within a few thousand, his entire numerical force. Colonel Sharpe paid his spies well, some as high as $500 for one trip. As a natural consequence, all the reckless fellows of the army gravitated to the Secret Service Corps, ana in the end Lee coald not make a ruove without its being instantly communicated at our headquarters. Ladies acted as spies very rarely; but Miss Van Liew, now the Postmistress of Richmond, conveyed information of great value to our army. The lecturer iilso gave some very- interesting anecdotes of the spies of the secret service, and ooncluded with a warm eulogium of the great services it rendered to our country duriug the war.?N. Y. Tiibune. Mutd asd Muscle.?The Rev. J. T. Corning thus balances the account between brains and muscle. Only an editor, whose work never ends, can fully appreciate the force of it: "While I sit at my study-table, with my pen in hand, the fingers moving with tardy pace at the beckon of brain, I hear right below my window, in the adjacent field, the monotonous ring of a laborer's hoe upon the 3orn-hills. While he hoes, he whistles hour by hour till the dock strikes twelve, and then, with ravenous appetite, repairs to his bountiful yet simple moal, only to resume his task igani, and pursue it to the setting of the sun. As 1 stood at the window watching him toil, ind turned again to my pen and paper, I asked myself how it happened that the man die hoe will labor hi? eight or ten hours a lay with less fatigue than the man with his pen will toil three or four. Hugh Miller was 1 great worker with the shovel and pick? would have made a good hand in a slate piarry, in grading a railroad, or digging a lanaL But one night, as you know, ne shot limself hi a fit of nervous fever. What was ;he difference between the great geologist and ;he man with the -hoe,. whistling under my window ? Simply this:?The former was- a worker of muscle. Let this man with a hoe ay down his husbandry for a little while, and set himself to study one of the stalks of corn, )r the chemistry of one of those hills of soil, ind very likely he would soon learn what it s to lose one's appetite, and hear the clock strike nearly all the night hours in feverish wakefulness. And thus we get at a great >rganic law of our being, to-wit: That brainwork subtracts vitality from the fountain, while supplying streams of life ttf others. It s estimated by scientific 'observers, thai a man will use up as much vital force in working his )rains two hours, as he will in working his nuscles eight." Good fob Union.?Whilst Judge Buxton was holding Court last week, in Union A>unty, N. C., the proceedings were interrupted by a noise in the Court yard. The SherifT was ordered to arrest the offenders, md going out he promptly returned with hree men in custody. One was a large rough Qokiag ex-gray-jacket, another was a one ' irmed ditto, and the third was a middle aged nan known as a drunkard and a Radical. Before it was demanded of them why they lad been disturbing the Court, the large gray . acket, with a great deal of coolness and dig itijf etc ivin/no xn.aj- tv picoflc jvui t-unor, I was as good a Union man as ever luttered, and tried hard to keep off the war, out when it did come I went in and did my jest for the South. A little while ago, near ;he door of the Court House, I saw this man pointing to the Radical,) insulting and tearng up a picture of Gen. Lee, I couldn't stand hat, and my one armed friend, here, undertook to resent it too, but I knew he was not iWe to do it properly with one arm. So I ihoved him aside and was preparing to lick ihe man who did it when the .Sheriff arrested ne. And may it please your Honor, I hope jrod may strike mc down if I don't pitch in,o any man, anywhere, and at any time, who nsults General Bob Lee in my presence!" His Honor fined him five dollars, which he landed over to the clerk?perhaps all he had ?and walked out amid the deep but silent feeling of the crowd. Poor fellow, he had a mil! He belpngsto 10 "Ring," does not sell the best feelifigs of tiis heart for gold or office, but treasures up is something sacred, the memories of the glorious and unfortunate past, filled with its risions of heroes living and dead. What a ample fellow! Yet let us thank God that there is such simplicity left among us. It will ijrow iu Heaven's good time.?Exchange. /t ^ Seuar Etiquette.?Since the war the people of these United States have taken to smoking a great deal. In the Northern States, where one segar was smoked ten years ago, twenty are made way with just now. It is only in Havre, though, that the custom is a universal one. There, young and old n/lnlrrn froelv in thp I1XP nf tllP WCfid. dividing UVU.jjV, ..v~v . , ? ;heir attention pretty evenly between the sejar and cigarette. Even the ladies of the bet;cr class in many instances indulge, though lot to so great an extent as is commonly reported. In Havana, as throughout Cuba, there is a legar etiquette, to infringe anv of the rules of vhich is construed as an insult. It is, for instance, considered a breach of etiquette when rou are asked for a light to hand your segar vithout first knocking off the ashes. A great;r breach, however, is to pass the segar haudxl to you to obtain a light from a third party or a similar purpose; the rule is to hand back ;he segar with as graceful a wave as you can xpmmand, and then, if necessary, pass your >wn segar to the third party. The insult direct in segar etiquette is for lie party to whom you apply for a light, pass >u and leave you with the remains of his sejar, or to intimate to you, by word or action, luit he has no further use for it and that you . an throw it. away. In Cuba, where segurs are plenty, the usual .ustoni is, when you ask for a light, even if he party be a stranger, to pull out your case | ind offer him a cigar, by way of recoguuiug , lis civility in stopping to accommodate you. The Spaniards are naturally a polite people, and the stranger stepping into the Louvre, md other public places of resort in Havana, I a struck at once with the marked contrast in 1 his respect to similar gatherings elsewhere.? IVeie Orleans Picayune. j Water for Wine.?A Prussian journal relates a singular circumstance. In an Israelite community there exists a rabbi, esteemed tnd loved by all. To prove their gratitude for sendees rendered, the community decided, upon the suggestion of a rich merchant, to offer the rabbi a present of a tun of wine, and in order that all might contribute to it, it was agreed that each should bring a bottle of wine and pour into the receptable. The rabbi received with gratitude the ofTering, and deposited the precious liquor in his cellar. But, when he wished to taste it, instead of wine, he found onlv water. His honest friends had all individually thought that a bottle of water would pass unjierceived in the quantity of wine. Unhappily, each had the same idea. A Remabkable Animal?He Steals Like a Human Being.?One of the most remarkable animals of the Rocky Mountains is the Rocky Mountain Rat, the Neotoma cinerea of Beard, also known as the Neotoma Occidentals, and called in Oregon the wood rat A full grown rat is often nine inches in . length, from tip of nose to base of tail, while the tail adds about as much more to its length. Its hair is soft and gray on the back, and whitish on the belly, ears short but broad, and round tail bushy at the tip. It is the worst thief in the animal creation, not excepting man, for it always steals and does not stop to consider whether what it steals is valuable or not. Many strange stories are told concerning its stealing nails, candles, <fcc., and bringing back in return manure and all sorts of o? * ' T a. A - . L 4.1 i&i. 1X8 operations oiteu uave uw appearance more of having been the result of a desire to be employed than any thing else. On one occasion J. Alden Smith, of this office, says he had standing in his office in Clear Creek county half a keg of nails, containing three sizes, and during a single night these rats took out all the nails ana piled them up on the floor in three piles, cadi size by themselves. The same animals, night after night, brought in heaps of manure from an out-house. But even a stranger trick than this was performed in the house of Mr. Hale on Tuesday night. On- going to bed he placed his false teeth on the bureau. In the morning the teeth were gone, and a raw potatoe was left iu their dace. After a long search, and on tearingofF the weather boarding in several [daces, they Were found in the nest of one of these rats. The rat had started to carrv oft' the potato, but finding the teeth, took them and left the potato.?Central Oily (Col.) Register. The Hog CbGp.?We are indebted to Messrs. Geo. Bain & Co., for a copy of Henry Milliard & Go's circular, dated Chicago, Oct. 1st, which gives interesting information in relation to die hog crop?of the present season. . The circular is based upon letters addressed to many different points In Illinois, the answers to which establish the fact the general crop is abbut the same this year as last. Illinois reports from elc en points that the crop is the same as last year; from seven points about the same, eight points larger, and nineteen points smaller. Iowa four points about the same, four points larger, and twentyfour points smaller; in Missouri and Kansas flro rvnntfl flhnuf fhp (tAme firo rutin t* kiver and one point smaller. As to prices now offered to fanners by packers, we learn that in Illinois a few ooutracts ore lieing made at 8 to lOe. per pound; in Indiana at 7 to 10c. the latter, prioe net; in Iowa no contracts, but farmers are asking 8c. gross; in Missouri a few contracts have been made at 7 a 8c. gross, the latter price for hogs delivered at points within forty miles west of Alexandria. Messrs. Millward A Co., conclude that, with such prospects, the sole security of the packers must lie in insisting upon such price that, while they afford the farmer ample remuneration Jor his labor, they may promise the packer some profit, but unaccountably neglect to furnish a formula by which such a compromise can be effected. This is the more to be regretted, as the solviug of the question, "How can farmers and packers both get rich at the same time V' uxnidcl JLw? o. hpmnninjiL of thf Jftlutinp of the conflicting interests of producers ana aistrrbutere generally.?St. Louus Republican. Advantages of Cbyixg.?A French physician, in a long dissertation on the advantages of groaning and crying, especially during surgical operations, contends that groaning and crying are two grand operations, by which nature ullays anguish; that those patients who give way to tneir natural feelings, more speedily recover from accidents ana operaatious than tliose who suppose it unworthy a man to betray such cowardice as either to groan or to cry. He tells of a man who reduced his pulse from one hundred and twenty-eix .to sixty, in the course of a few hours, by giving full vent to his emotions. If people are at all unhappy about any thing, let them go into their rooms and comfort themselves v with a loud bohoo, and they will feel a hundred per cent. 1 letter afterward. In accordance with the above, the crying of children should not be too greatly discouraged. If it is systematically repressed, the result mav be St Vitus' dance, epileptic fits, or some other disease of the nervous system. What is natural, is nearly always useful; and nothing can be moye natural than the crying of children when anything occurs to give them either physical or mental pain. Probably most persons have experienced the effect of tears in relieving great sorrow. It is even curious how the feelings are allayed by the free indulgence to noisv bursts of grief on the part of children as well as of older persons, and regard we should the mouth ana the eyes as safety valves, through which nature discharges her surplus steam. The Lord's Prayer.?Did you ever thiuk, short though it is, how much there is in it ? Oh, His beautiftil! And, like a diamond in the crown of a queen, it unites a thousand gparkling gems in one. It teaches all of us?every one of us?to look to God as our jiarent?"Our Father." It teaches us to raise our thoughts and desires above the earth?"Who art m Heaven." It tells us that we must reverence our Heavenly Father?"Hallowed be Thy name." It breathes the saints' reward?"Thy kingdom come." And a submissive and obedient spirit? "Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." And a dependent, trusting spirit?"Give us this day our daily bread." And a forgiving spirit?"Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." And a cautious spirit?"Deliver us from evil." .And last of all an adoring spirit?"For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and thp 1 tf A ? giorv, iorcvcr. -imcn. In an ancient manuscript, said to have been sent by the Government of Judea to the Senate of Rome, is found the following description of our Saviour: There lives at this time, in Judea, a man of singular character, whose name is Jesus Christ. The barbarians esteem him as their prophet, but his followers adore him as the immediate offspring of the immortal God. He is endowed with such unparalleled virtue as to call back the dead from their graves and to heal every kind of disease with a word or a touch. His person is tall and elegantly shaped, his aspect amiable and reverend. His hair flows in those beauteous shades which no united colors can match, tailing in graceful curls below his ears and parting on the crown of his head, His dress is that of the sect and large; his cheeks without spot save that of a lovely red; his nose and mouth are formed with exquisite ovmrnotMr. liia hanivl id think and suitable to ot luiuvvijr I mo ? the hair of his head, reaching below his chin and parting in the middle; his eyes are bright and serene.