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Money, too, was very scarce; and its need, of course, discouraged mercantile undertakings. Moreover,; the condition of the roads were such, it was a huge undertaking to get on a small stock of goods. Still, you must not jump to a conclusion and suppose that your grand dames and great grand dames, were debarred that wellknown delight of feminine life, and were altogethj^ cut off from shopping. The peddle^^^rf^opened once or twice a J itJPpigAnient occurrence, man a promeuauo of Main street with Dobson, Adickes, Ac., to call on, once or twice a week as at present, by her descendants. The opened goods of the traveling vender offered what her cards, wheel and loom could not supply. Needles, pins, buttons and scissors were laid in as necessaries ; and if butter and cheese had sold well, out from the traditionary stocking came the silver to pay for the stuff petticoat or clockstockings, the comely dame treated herself to from the peddter's store. Or, happily, a rosy cheeked lass had "lucked" well with her poultry, and the coveted gold ear-bobs, or real silver thimble, were now possessed. Three of the first and most energetic of these traveling merchants, were James Patton, Daniel McMahon, and James Latta. They usually went on to Philadelphia?the mart at which they obtained their stock?together; as the money bags they carried were attractive'to robbers, many of which, in those early times, waylaid the road, as in their unity they found strength to resist these, attacks. For further mutual benefit and protection, each took a circuit, to which bounds he confined his peregrinations, thtfs securing large profits by monopoly. Patton's division was from Spartanburg, on through the mountainous region of Buncombe, ?T. C.; and investing his emoluments in the teeming lands of the latter section, laid the foundatioh of a large fortune. McMahon's ] rounds lay. from Spartanburg on to Union, into Newberry and Fairfield, on to York. Mr. Latta's were York, Mecklenburg, Iredell, Lincoln and Rowan. Latta was an Irishman?indeed, all of them: , were from "the gem of the sea"?and he had started forth to cross the main and seek, in the new country, a brave fortune. He had with him one little son?Robert?three years of age, and left an older one with his wife in the "ould country," While at sea, his vessel vfdk-Wfeckkl by terrific storm, and tire cou-' flict with the waves for life, for himself and ^ little boyj seemed a doubtful contest. The Controller of our destinies gave means to save, < and, strange to relate, the same day and hour he buffeted the waters so wildly, his wife's soul was launched into eternity, all unconscious of the danger of her husoand and child. Of course, months elapsed before he knew of the afflicting coincidence, but it was one frequently related. For years^Court week invariably found Mr. Latta at Yorkville. On some planks laid across benches in the public square, his varieties were spread open for the inspection of t.hp.rmwd. amon v whom of course he found 1 many purchasers. If the weather was inclement, a room at McCall's tavern furnished a shelter and convenient spot for his counter. ( I wish I could give a bill of goods and prices sold on such a day; but it is beyond my power. Old Mr. Michael Moore, one of our perambulating hotel-owners, opened the first store in the village. It was a modest assortment,' and Mr. Latta's pack still retained, unabated,! its popularity. However, the latter, too, con- f eluded to put up a store a little later. His | son Robert, now grown up to man's estate, was j in charge, and thus, in the infant back- j woods town, began the career, as store keeper, j, df the man who afterward was among the ; merchant princes of the State. Ifo man ever lived, I suppose, whose attention was more devoted to the business in which he was engaged. The large amount of property owned by his father, was greatly enhanced by the indefatig- i able efforts of the son. 4 ( At the time of Robert Latta's marriage, his father advanced him from a mere clerkship, to the dignity of a partner. This continned some years. In 1810 Robert Latta visited England, and on his return established himself independently in business. He opened a store in York, and afterward had branches ' W in Columbia and Camden. He began deal-! ing in stocks, and money seemed to grow to his order. 'I It is not my purpose to trace Robert Latta through his successful money-making career? it is too well known in your midst; but a?few. words as to the character of this man, whom I knew well from long association ai\d family connection. He was exact in business transactions to the last farthing?owing or owed it must be paid. Yet the gift to a nephew, who bore his name, of $10,000 in cash to enable him to 1 . 1 1 I/.* 1 1.1 properly esiaDiisn nimsen in Dusiness, ana uie i handsome marble pulpit of the Columbia Presbyterian Church, prove his to have been no niggard spirit. * I have always thought one great secret of his success was his indefatigability. There was, to use a slang phrase singularly applica-1 ble to him, a "never say die" spirit which car- i ried him through every crisis, either mental i or bodily. There was a period in his life! when he seemed to be in the last stage of con-! sumption ; but he would not succumb to the j jjreat debility another would not havg dreamed ! of resisting. He, throughout the entire day,; would time himself by his watch?walk five minutes and lie five minutes. Oge day, in this state of health, he rode around to my house in Yorkville,forthetrtmsaetion of some business, and during the entire time so pccu-: pied, he observed this regime, a bed having | been prepared in the room for his use. In this low state, he determined on trying ' the waters of the Virginia Spring. On his way ;to them, some physician whom he casu-1 ally consulted, recommended the. use of the uitro-muriatic acid bath to his side. He tried j it, and always attributed his remarkable improvement to its application, ijater, a trip j to France seemed entirely to restore him, but he finally died of consumption, at the advanced age of seventy-three. He was twice married. First to Miss Allison, of York, who died early with consumption. She left two sons and a daughter. Only one survived his father?the late William A. Latta, whose children are the only representatives of the much loved Dr. John A. Allison. Robert Latta's second marriage was with a lady of Philadelphia?Miss Dilworth. She survived him several years, but is now dead. His only surviving child?the daughter of this marriage?is Mrs. Johnson, of Charlotte, N. C., a "most noble lady." Robert Latta was a tall, spare man; as.dry in conversation as in appearance, having but a faint idea of a joke, and generally failing when he tried one. It was, in truth, out of his line of business. For pleasure, *as it is generally esteemed, he had po part or parcel. ,His life's objects were business and health. ? ' [TO BE.CONTINUED.] J' cm r Jtoifg If lift. w uTDOfr Axrn T.Afiw mrnfiT ILL X X' 11IO A -CLJ.1AJ Ainu A vxuvujit I don't believe in ghosts. Please accept that as a starting point I am not in the -i least an imaginative or nervous person. I entertain a profound contempt for Spiritualism and all the morbid follies which are connected with it. I have always had quite a repu- ' tation for good common sense, and I have i never, thank God, had a secret of any kind 1 on my mind. Yet I was the person of all i others selected as the object of a ghostly man- ] ifestation, and here I am in my sedate middle 1 age, taking the public into my confidence, and ] asking for some rational explanation of the / events which I am about to relate, on the < credit of my serious, sober veracity. j Some twenty years ago, when I was a girl, < or at least quite a young woman, I went down 1 into South Carolina to visit an aunt of mine, i who had married a wealthy planter and settled ] in what we are apt to consider the backwoods. \ Another niece of her's and cousin of miue accompanied me on the journey?which was. I quite a long one in those days?and together' i we were handed about like a couple of 'diy j goods parcels, from hand to hand, from this man's care to that man's escort, until, we final- i ly reached Laurens District, and .were depos- t ited by a very creaking old stage-coach at the * gate of my aunt's abode. I don't know who was most glad to see this bourne of our trav- i els, Cecelia, who was heartily tired of the ^ journey, or I, who was heartily tired of her. * She has been a married woman these eighteen j years, and -is head of a large household now, so I sincerely hope she has gained some faint t inkling of common sense and self-reliance by i this time; but if she still remains the same 1 Cecelia Hardie, with whom I made the mem- < orable journey from Baltimore to Laurens District, why then all that I have to sjy is, i that I am heartily glad Fate did not make me i her husband. 1 Well, we arrived, and soon found that this i arrival occurred at a most inopportune time ] for our own enjoyment. My aunt's husband, c (I never could see the sense of calling people t -uncle" who areAo relation w any omr,*; waa t absent, having been summoned as a witness J in a legal examination, my aunt herself had gone to bed from the combined effect of nervousness and horror, the children were howl- ( ing as if their hearts were broken, the servants < were so badly scared that they could not obey < the plainest order, or perform the most ordi- 1 oary duty, and the cause of the whole uproar i was that Ann Blake had been murdered. Now you may be sure that I was both as- ^ tonished and shocked to hear this, for Ann Blake was an Irish girl whom I had myself < engaged for my aunt, she preferring a white to a black nurse for her children, and I remember well how much I had been pleased by her 1 bright face and pleasant manners, when she I came to answer my advertisement. This had i only been about six months before, and now I i came to the house where she had preceded me, to find the girl, who had endeared herself to ;' every one in it, lying a disfigured corpse, j ] Everybody was so brimful of the matter that j I had great difficulty in obtaining any dear ! ] idea of the events which had preceded this aw- j ful result; but at last, by dint of severe cross-11 questioning, I managed to elicit from the ava- J < lauche of hearsays and thinksos, two clear 11 facts. 1. That Ann Blake had left the house j1 on the afternoon of the day before, to take a j walk: that she had refused to let any of the ; children accompany her, and that she had last been seen crossing the fields by a foot-path to- 1 wards a clump of woods, Where she had been 1 found a few hours later, stiff and cold, with I with every proof of brutal murder. 2. That a man, who was an admirer of hers, had already been arrested on suspicion of the crime, ] and that Colonel Northrop had been summon- < ed to bear witness at this examination. More 1 than that I declined to hear, and after a fu- 1 tile attempt to quiet Cecilia, (who thought it i hea^x)unden duty to go into hysterics,) and i restore some order to the household, I sat down to await Colonel Northrop's return. He 1 came at last, in a very tired condition?not 1 too tired, however, to give us new-comers a very cordial welcome, to cheer up his wife, to f send the servants about their duties, to do justice to an excellent supper, (fortunately for our l appetites, the cook was a strong minded per- i son,) and lastl? to send the children to bed, < and tell us the result of the examination. The ( evidence, it seemed, had borne quite heavily l against the accused, Henry Watson, a hand- 1 some, dissipated young carpenter, who had < been making love to Ann Blake for some time, 1 and against whom she had been repeatedly 1 warned. She had been known to supply 1 him with money on various occasions, and < the fact that her month's wages had been paid < to her on the very morning of the murder wds in itself suspicious, especially as a pocket-book, 1 identified as hers, had been found in his pos- < session, together with a note from the murder- j ed girl, promising to meet him on that after- < noon. Watson denied the identity" of the ] first, but could give no satisfactory account of ] it, and, while he admitted the fact of the ap- i pointment, he declared that he had been una- 1 ble to keep it. "You can doubtless prove an alibi then," said the magistrate. ' * But at this suggestion the prisoner was observed to tuj-n very pale. No, he said, he was unable to prove an alibi, for he had gone some distance in the country to see a man on business, but he had found himself and his family absent, so the walk counted for nothing. "He owed me some money," said the young man despairingly, "and I wanted him to pay me, for I was in debt, and I didn't want to take any more from Aim." So it went on, every point telling | against him until the examination ended in the j magistrate refusing bail, and committing him j for trial. That was all. So after this had been told > and re-told a sufficient number'of times, after we had arranged the whole order of the murder to our own content?even determining, I remember, the exact weapon that had dealt J the ghastly blow?we began to thing that our ; eye-lids were heavy, and that even when mur-1 ders were en the tapis, there was such a thing [ as going to bed. But lo! on the very threshold of this very desirable proceeding, there arose a j sudden and unexpected difficulty. Cecilia1 protested, with a loud scream, that no earthly ' power should induce her to sleep alone. And I, quite as emphatically, if a little less noisil declined to share a tied with.her. Colon Northrop laughed, and said she had bett take refuge in the nursery, wl^ere Tom of fiv and Jack of three, could be her defendei while my aunt looked a little concerned, ar said I had better yield. " Cecilia declined the nursery,and I decline yielding. "I am frightened to death?I won't alee alone," Cecilia declared. "I am tired to death?t won't be bothere with you," I said. 80 the matter stood until my aunt hit ape a compromise. There were two rooms in. tl house which opened into one another; not v ry desirable rooms, nor nearly so comfortab as those that had been prepared for us, bi good enough, and which might almost be coi sidered one, if we left the door of communic tion open. Like most compromises, this 01 lv met with a half-reluctant assent from ther side. I wanted my quiet, undisturbc chamber to myself; and Cecilia wanted som body to startle and burrow into all night?t we. were tiph to be made uncomfortable an nefthor^KtStleil. * However, It Was imposs ble to spend the night talking it over, so I ci the matter short by wishing my aunt and tl Colonel good night, taking a candlestick i one hand, seizing Cecilia with the other, an whisking her up stairs at a rate that left hi breathless for some time after she was depos ted in her own room, and bade her to aee quiet until I chose to open the door betwee the chambers. The night passed quietly enough, barrin various hysterical calls for sympathy firoi Cecilia, to all of which I replied by a dee snore, and the next day the funeral of poor An took place. It was a day which all the daj that have passed since have failed to effaJ from my vivid recollection ; but I don't kno' that I need dwell on it here. The sorrow < high and low, whose love and respect th warm-hearted Irish girl had so closely attacl sd to her?the noisy demonstration of the n< ijroes?the overwhelming grief of the chi iren^?the deep curses against her inur&erei that even broke in upon the solemn service around the grave?formed a scene that I ai aot likely to forget, but which, if I mean t tell the story of my ghost, has no place her* The funeral was over, the grave was heapec the crime rested for God to discover, if He sai 5t, and by degrees the Northrop household b< jan to flow back into its usual channel! Several weeks passed. The shadow gradu ally left us, and perhaps even the memory a! >0, when one day at dinner Colonel Northro luddenly said: "I received a eubpcena to-day to attend s witness for the State in the trial of Watsor which comes off* next week. I wish in m iouI I knew, whether or not the fellow-is reall juilty." , j; "I am sure I don't see how you can entei tain a moment's doubt," said my aunt, wit i shudder. "I only wish I was as sure c leaven as I am sure it was he, and no on ;lse, who murdered my poor Ann." "I don't understand one thing," said Cole lei Northrop, looking at me?he did not pa much attention to my aunt's remarks as h lad probably done in the courtship?"I do nc mderstand how it is that no trace of the noU mid to the girl that morning has ever bee liscovered. We have never had even a clu ;o the knowledge of what became of them." * "Miglit-Blw uvh - have ldt boaf tT? [ askea. He shook his head. "Impossible. Everything has been thoi Highly searched, and there is no sign of poci ;t-book or money. She certainly took ther )ut with her tliat evening, and she was certair y robbed, but a serious question in my min s-rdid Watson do it?" "I thought the possession of the pocket-boo vas proved upon him." "Why, of course it was," said my aunt " lon't see how there could be a mistake in the ?even if all the rest was false witness." "And yet," answered the Colonel, "two c he most intelligent' of the house servantsSusan, the cook, and Rose, my wife's raaidissure me solemnly that this pocket-book wa wt the one used by Ann Blake." * "Then," cried Cecilia, with a little screan 'why on earth don't they go to the Coui House and give in their evidence ?" The Colonel looked at her with a man's si premely pitying smile for her ignorance. "My dear young lady, the testimony of legro cannot be received in a South Carol in lourt of law. Even if they had seen Watso nurder the girl, their evidence could not cor rict him." Cecilia's eyes opened wide. "Goodness! Why not ?" "Because," answered the planter briefly 'I have only to go and offer five dollars to or ?in half a do^en who would testify on oat hat you did it" d"Then you don't believe Susan and Rose? "Yes?why shouldn't I? They have n possible motive for falsifying themselves, jonfess they have very much shaken my b< lief in Watson's guilt, and when I remembe low pale and wretchedthe poor fellow looke hat day he was taken up, I cannot help ho{ ng he may be proved inuocent. "And I hope," said my aunt, viciously 'that he may be convicted and hanged; yes ranged as high as Haman." So, with these two expressions of divers ientiment, the conversation ended. That afternoon several visitors popped i jpon us, and as callers in the country neve nake visits of fashionable length, they wer ;asily persuaded to roraain to tea and spen ,he evening. We had cards and music, an ;he time passed so pleasantly that it was neai y eleven o'clock befire their carriages wer jrdered ior a five miles tg-ive, over roads ths ,vere anything but a credit to the Distric We stood on the piazza, watching them off i die bright moonlight, then went back into th mipty looking drawing-room, and bade eac jther good night. Cecilia was yawning, and I was snappishthe two effects which sleepiness generall caused in us1?and as we went up stairs U gether, I told her emphatically that if sh disturbed me with any of her fanciful terroi that night, I sfiould immediately shut an lock the door df conrmunication, which usuall stood.open. That threat, I thought would cei tainly kegp her quiet, so I repeated it after w were both in bed, the lights out, and the goo nights exchanged. "Do you hear me, Cecilia?" I asked. An Cecilia very meekly replied thlt she heard. I do not know how long I had been asleepit may have been fifteen minutes, or it ma have heen two hours: but. at all events. had thoroughly lost consciousness wheb was sharply wakened by Cecilia's voice, caliin my name. I was thoroughly irritated?thei is not a doubt of that?and I fear I did n< answer very patiently. "Well?" "Oh, Bachel, do get up," she said eagerl; "There is somebody knocking at the tloo and I?I am afraid to answer it." "Somebody knocking at the door ? Wh I don't?" Hear it, I was about to say, but at that m ment I did hear it?a loud, distinct knock c my door. "Who's there ?" I asked, thinking ray am had sent a message of some sort. But there was no answer. So, after a ni ment, I spoke again. "Who is that knocking ?" No reply. "Open the door, if vou want to speak i _ _ yy me. Neither answer nor movement. \ f I confess I felt very foolish as I 'sat up el bed, making these remarks in the utter darkv er ness, and was met by this profound silence ? e, so I began to think uy ears deceived me,ind is, according to the; impulse of human nature, In id turned upon Cecilia. J j "I am going to get up this moment and shot d ! the door, I said. "I gave you fair warning, i Cecilia, and here I have scarcely got to sleep. >p i before you wake me with this award story." "Oh, indeed, Rachel, somebody knocked," d she cried. "You heard them yourself?you did." ^ j! in "I heard a noise made by some rat." je "It was not a rat?it couldn't have been a e- rat Oh, Rachel, I am so scared. Please let | le me come and get in bed with you." ' ; it; "In bed with me I Indeed I shall do nothing q- j of the kind. If I hear any more of this nona-1 sense I shall?" a- Rap, rap, rap. si- Not a timid, hesitating series of taps, eith^ sd er, but a knock loud enough and imperioue e- enough to hav# been given by tjieetrongejjrcj ii man alive. There came a fajnt scream ftmM idf Gooilia'sroriTTi, miri that ^aaur all until I ii- mandecfTin no very moderate tone: it "Who are you ? If you don't answer, I will ie call Colonel Northrop, n Only silence answered me?profound, imd. penetrable silence. ir j Then indignation grew very strong within,,] i- me. Somebody was evidently trying a very p stupid trick to frighten us, and I, for one, den termined to prove that I was not easily betrayed into fear. I put out my hand, and felt g for the match box as quietly as possible. , n Meanwhile, a frightened cry was coming froifcg p Cecilia. j n "Oh, Rachel, what can it be? What?" '8 "Hold ycrar tongue," I answered shortlyi <i ;e "It is nothing at all." > . iv At that moment I laid my hand on the' < >f matches, and knew that it would not take; te more than an instant to strike a light, so I re- ; i- peated my words more loudly?"It is nothing* i s- whatever." Rap, rap, rap. ? 1 It was a knock which fairly shook the door, r, and made ^ rattle on its hinges. Simultauess ously I struck a match. Tne next instant^ n the candle was lighted, and I sprang to the o door. Cecilia cried out at me, but I flung it. i J. wide open add faced? 1, Nothing. j" n i Then it was. when I stood there with the I 5- candle in ray hand, the empty passage before ' me, and not a human figure in sight, that I / i- felt my first thrill of superstitious terror. ; I- Sitting here, now with the bright daylight all j p around me, and the sober pulse of fo'rty-five * beating in my veins, I feel it again?that cold ? shiver, that vague sense of the Unseeq, which ; ?, flesh and blood are so little able to resist. I y was never a coward, however, and I rallied ' y almost immediately. I came back to the room, i where Cecilia met me, pallid and trembling, r- and closed the door. h "It is very strange," I said, "but there's no J need for hysterics, Cecilia. We'll see the end e of it." j "Oh ! Rachel," she gasped, "go?go to Col. i h j Northrop." i )' "Indeed, I shall do nothing of the sort," I e answered coolly. "It would be a fine story i that we went to Col. Northrop, because we ? were startled by a noise we could not explain. '< 13 You may go, if you choose. I shall not." e But, as I knew beforehand, she had not the j, courage for this, ft) the patter ended by.friyk j boTfihg the two outer aoore, an<I tfien givingT 1 Cecilia leave to get into my bed. "You sureI ly wont put out the candle," she pleaded, as I [' i placed it on the stand close by the bed, and it ' evidently was such a comfort to her, that I ren plied in the negative. I shaded it, however, K and then got in bed myself." f Half an hour, at least, must have passed J , before I felt Cecilia give a quick, convulsive 1 start. | T "What is the matter?" I asked immediateit ly> r . 1 "I?I thought I heard a noise in the pas- 1 * sage. A something like a faint rustling." ' "Whoever it is must be coming back, then," I said, "or else you have fancied it." j "There?now again." 1 18 I listened intently, but I could hear noth- ] ing, until suddenly the knock fell on my ear < J' louder, if anything, than ever. 1 "This is bevond patience," I cried; and,] with one bound I reached the door, and flung j 1 l* j it open again. ! Again it was only to find silence and va- j i a j cancy. j R | Then,, while I stood there gazing stupidly j i u | and wonderingly around me, occurred the sec- < l" | ond memorable event of that memorable^ night: The candle was in my hand. Cecilia, : | who had followed me because she dared not^j | stay behind, was at my side, when a sudden * r' I tight grasp encircled my left wrist, and I felt 1 - myself drawn, or rather jerked, into the mid- ( 1 | die of the'passage. There the grasp relaxed^ j ? i and I heard distinctly a sound as of garments j | rustling past me. j Before I conld think or speak, Cecilia gave i i a loud scream, and rushed down stairs; my 1 j aunt's door opened ; Colonel Northrop's voice ; T I was heard, and the next moment tne whole } house was in commotion. j I have little further recollection of that i j night. Uproar and discomfort embody the ! * most of it. The house was searched fromiop i ' to bottom, but nobody was foond noranycke e to the disturbance. Cecilia took refuge in we ' nursery, and I was inducted, whether I would I n or no, into my aunt's dressing closet?sq I i T think we were equally uncomfortable, tfod i ,e equally glad to welcome morning. Only, is I i ^ thought with a sigh of resignation while dress- i j ing, what an immense amount of talkibg j r.! there was to be done. Immense it certafnly* i ^ j Was, for it began before breakfast an4JJ|MP j without intermission, until bedtime, wfienlP < fc L broke into a perfect storm of expostulation ; I over my resolution to sleep in my own room. ej Alone? Yes, alone. But, good heavens,was | ^ 11 not afraid ? Afraid of what ? Oh ! it was j all very fine.to take that tone, but I knew 3 _ something had happened out of the common 1 'y way. Thank God, ghosts didn't knock atlthe J. | doors every nignt, ana jera people aown stairs [ < e ! by their wrists, whether they would or no. :g j "Who says it was a ghost ? I, for one,1 do j d J not believe it was anything but ?" y i "But what ?" demanded my aunt and Ceci- [ 1 p.! lia, triumphantly. ,e j "But whatever I find it to be to-night," If i d ! answered. "If it is a trick, I mean to discov-1 ! er it, and if it be a ghost?why I have never j pf harmed any'of God's creatures, so I don't know.' ( ! tfiat I need be afraid to meet any of them." j; _i "That's right, Rachel," said the Colonel, |' ,y who was my sole supporter. "That's sensible j. I! as well as brave. But I tell yon what, my girl, j; 11 there have been cases of people losing theav g | senses from sheer fright, so it may be as well re ; if you let me take vour place to-night 111 j )t! warrant you I will ferret out the mystery." i "And I warrant you that I mean to win !; | and wear my own laurels," I answered, gaily.Syr. i "I am not afraid of losing my senses, and as 11 r> was the person selected, I don't mean to show ! the white feather, and run away from whatev- j yti er it is. I shall sleep in my own room to-night.! Cecilia may come hf she wants to ?" o-1 "She don't want to," put in Cecilia hastily, i in | "But I mean to sleep there all the same.! 1 Aunt Mary you need not look s? disturbed. I j at | am sure it will be better to setae the matter, i than to give your house the reputation of be- j o- (ing haunted." "It has that already, as far as the children ! J and servants are concerned," she said with a ! j sigh. "I declare, I thought they would all go | to ' crazy to-day. The servants' eyes nearly rolled [ j out of their heads, and the children, poor lit-1 i tie things, were afraid to look over their shoul-1 ; : W?s. They think it was the ghost of poor jfcifl, calling for vengeance on her mUrderer." "I shall see that an end is put to all this lolly/' said the Colonel, severely. "I wonder jfou would, allow it, Mary. I shall issue my (orders to-morrow, but to-night I had better investigate the mat&r. Rachel, I shall share your watch." ' ft "Very well, sir. Where will you go ?" ?. "Into Cecilia's room, while she and my wife can make each other miserable down stairs." K So the matter was settled; and after awhile 'we all separated, too full of the one subject to talk anything else, and yet rather shy of that, just as we were-about to dare the dark passages and dimly lighted chambers. As I remarked once before, I am not a cowan), but in my opinion cowardice and the tera jror that we feel whenever we are' brought into pmtact with the super natural, are two differ eat tilings, l telt none of tbe first; out i ieit a great deal of the last, when I bolted the 1 door behind m'e on that night, and put my fafctfle-stick down on the toilet table. All the| j tfaatu^oughts which sometimes come to J me then. I looked into the mirror at my own ' white face, and a still whiter one seemed dim- j ly peering behind me. The shadows that hung ' aronnd the comers of the room seemed gath- 1 ering into spectral shapes, and a leaf scraping 1 against the window was enough to make me ^ start and quiver all over. When I got into ] bed, I was so far gone in this folly, that I left 1 the candle burning. It was not long howev- 11 er,.before my calmer sense re-asserted itself; < Z told myself very concisely that I would ( never be fit for the emergency when it came, if-'I gave way to thoughts like these. So, af- 1 ter toe fervent prayer?I think the veriest 1 scoffer would have prayed then?I leaned out 1 of bed to extinguish the light. Before I ! could reach it, there came a sound which made j me pause and start, for it was nothing more i it - A or xess man a eon, mourniui sign, wmcu seemed to be breathed into my very ear. I 1 Mused?you may be sure I did not-extinguish the light theU?and looked iaround. Nothing whatever was to be seen; nothing whatever j j^ibe heard, save once again that soft, wistful ( inspiration. Then, while I still waited, my eye rested on a little dog, one of the children s pets, which had followed me into the room, and ^ lay curled np on the foot of the bed. If I . had needed proof of some strange presence in the room, thac dog's behavior would have giv<- . m it to me. He was wide awake, but he lay perfectly motionless, his eyes wide open, and ^ fixed on some object to my right; his eai^ pricked forward, his whole attitude one of ^ rapt and painful intensity. Whatever was r present there, the dog saw it, while I could not . There was something terrible in this, Some- , thing which I can scarcely express in words, and I doubt if I shall ever do a braver thing, in all my life than to sit quietly there, while 8 the animal peered past me, with those strange, Q awe-struck eyes, into the gloom and shadow. What he saw, God only knows?I never did. It was some time before any other sound : came, but at last there was a faint rustling, ? another deep, mournful sigh, and then that ? which I so much dreaded?a grasp, but this f time a very gentle one, upon my wrist I had s made a resolution to do whatever seemed reqoired of me, and I now rose at once to go j wherever I was to be led. Then the hand left c wrist, and only the faint rustling, as if a. t woiian's skirts went in front of me. I fol-j, mm refr artEimr ? yff young and daring then, and I followed it | j The door seemed to open of itself and let me. , through, and it was only when I heard it soft- ? 1/ behind me, that I remembered Colonel . Northrop, and my promise to call him should | anything occur. I half turned back toward c his door, but again that light touch was laid c ou my wrist, that gentle sigh sounded on my f ear, and I suffered myself to be led forward, j Down the passage I went, following the lead ? of the rustling sound that went before me, until suddenly it paused, and I stopped at?% * closed door. The door of Artn Blake's room! Then it seemed as if I awoke from a sort of j trance, as uncontrollable horror rushed over j me with one strong shiver, and I broke into a ? cry. A cry not loud or piercing, but still it { reached the ears of tJoionei J\ortnrop, wno t had been startled by the closing of my door, c and the next moment I saw his light gle^ra- { mg rapidly down the passage. When he f reached the door of Ann Blake's room, he f found me leaning against it, looking almost f is if I were a ghost myself, and to all his c questions I had but one reply, "The key ?? the key ? Where is it?" for eversince the removal of the body the door had been locked, 8 Until at last he was obliged to go for it . It seemed to me ages nntil he came back, { bringing the key, but entirely alone, for neith- j ar ray aunt nor Cecilia could be induced to j ?ome. Then we unlocked the door and went c in. s It may be that I had been wrought up to a ^ jtate that could imagine anything, but it cer^ tainly seemed to me as if a cold blast of y#nd rushed over us as we entered; and, ah ! it ceiv. c tainly was no imagination that there, at the s farther end of the room, was to be heard the r jame rustling sound I knew so well. Colonel Northronfo eyes met mine, and no words were necessMf&tD tell me that he heard it also. \ Neither o?us said anything, but we both ad- c vanced straight to the place so indicated, and then the sound suddenly ceased. We were jtanding in a sort of recess, formed by the bed c and a large case of drawers. "What did it a mean? We looked at each other again, and E it was very evident that neither of us could e imagine. After awhile the Colonel broke the j silence, by saying impatiently: t %?lt* is all arrant folly. The best thing we! 1 can do?in my opinion, is to go back to Ded. f Nothing will come of standing here." { I could not see myself that anything was to a be done, so I answered by slowly turning s away. Before I had taken three steps, the c ^rasp suddenly fell on my arm?not so gentle c this time, but tight and constraining?and it c was not so much a sigh, as a sob that sound- f ed in my ear. ^ i "I cannot go," I cried passionately. "There j ! Ami mo *i\ oni^ lfria VlPTP tliat T r 13 BUUlCbllilJg W1 UAV, W V.V, ..W . ? must do it. There is something for me to do, ( but what can it be ?" r I asked the question in a sort of despair, but t do answer came. . ? , "To stand here and take a bad cold, probably," said Colonel Northrop, who began to re- c cover from his awe, and who had not felt, as I c had, the direct pressure of that ghostly hand, r "If the ghost does not choose to make its a wishes intelligible, you cannot be expected to r fulfill them, Rachel." s But I only looked around me and repeated 1 once more, "What can it be ?" Then, as I am t a christian woman, I felt that hand draw me c down, as if it would draw me to the floor. I c strove to resist?for horror was growing very <3 mighty?but with one strong jerk I found g myself on my knees. The sudden fall quite t took away my breath, and before I coula re- r cover it sufficiently to relieve my terror by a e scream, I became conscious that the plank on f which my weight rested was loose. Colonel c Northrop noticedit also ; he raised me up and f then said, quietly: 1 "Perhaps the clue is here." t The next moment the plank was lifted, and t we were peering into tho dark chasm which t lay between the floor and the ceiling of the t room below. Nothing but dust and cobwebs t rewarded us. I leaned over and ran my hand* i along the edge?still absolutely nothing. Then s I slowly drew it back, and in so doing, touch- t ed something half-soft, half-hard, which made 1 me start. The next moment I recovered my- < tett, and drew it forth. ' It War the1 pdeketbook of Ann Blake.1 - < >t ;r!il ? I don't know that there is much more to.be said. The object of the manifestation was accomplished, and frdnj that hour to this I have never been troubled with another. The pocket-book was undisturbed, and we found within it the whole sum that had beeri paid "Ann Blake on the morning of the murder, together with various letters from Watson, thitf to * me, at least, proved his sincere love for her, and one that went far to prove his innocence. < This was a note breaking the appointment for that fatal afternoon, ana giving the same reason that he had given to the magistrate on His examination. Whatever motive took thd unhappy girl out to her death that day, H certainly was not to meet her lover**- . ! In.. // The events I haye^mte^we^ attested j[iy too many witnesses to be doubte^ in Laurens District, and the sensation they made in favor of the prisoner' were very great.' He was tried and acquitted 1if the most honorable manner, and earne st -once to thank me for brving been instrumental in.' clearing him. t "Net bat that I- knew < H Wf hy i'Qocj Mw ? ber!" he said, with ;tears in his eyes; "but then she couldn't have found many women brave enough to do what you &d, ma'am, amd as long as I life I shall be grateful to yoti , ind thank you for it. What hurt mis mdst ; was, that I?I, who loved her the best in the ] world?should have been accused of murder- : ng her. Maybe I'll find the cursed wretch j who did it some day, get within reach.of him, ( md theu I won't be apt to wait "for the reck- j ming of the. law*." ' , He was mistaken, however. Twenty years < lave gone by since then, but it still remains i br the Judgment to show poor Ann Blake's ] nurderer. ',( { . t 1cts of the legislature! ? ^ t J AN ACT f i [*o Emulate the Fees of Probate Judges, Clerks i of Courts, Trial Justices and Magistrates, and ( other Officers herein Mentioned. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State t>f South Carolina, now met and sitting in Oeneral Asembly, and by the authority.of the same, That he fees which Probate Judges, Clerks of Courts, Trial Justices and Magistrates, and . he other officers herein mentioned, shall be luthorized to receive in the several cases heren specified, respectively, shall be as follows: Sec. 2. Trial Justices and Justices of, the i 5 ,'"lr "'oil' ' Til | reace: , . Oath and warrant in any criminal case, ifty cents; each recognizance, fiftydehft; com4 nitment and - release, each fifty cents; adminBtering and certifying oath in writihgv other ban ahnve fiftw ranta; issninc writ'nf habeas orpua to two Justices jointly, twodoUarej.isuing summons, apd copy for defendant,in :ivil casesj sixty, cents: issuing stitymonsfor fitness in ahy civil case, fifty cents^taking lamination of vfitnete itt'writing in atay case, is prescribed by law,on&- dollar; for giving udgment on bearing litigated case, fifty cents; or judgment in case not defended; fifty cents; or issuing execution, or renewal of tbe,samey J ifty cents; report of case and taking bond to j appeal, one.dollar and fifty cents; for issuing { ittachment returnable to Court or Justice, j ncluding all notices, one dollar and fifty j ;ents ; for filing return of garnishee and order < hereon, twenty-five cents; for proceedjngtfjin } sase of ejectpient, five dollars; fwapproptaf , lidentures oi appreiilicep oFsefvanls, Owe doT-'' ar; for proceedings on Coroner's inquest as irescribea by law, ten dollars; for proceedings j >n estray of horse or mule, one dollar; for ( >roceedings on all other estrays, fifty cents; 'or taking and certifying renunciation of doWsr or inheritance, two dollars; for granting >rder for special bail, one dollar; for trial of my criminal case or misdemeanor, three dol- 1 are; foradministering oath, twenty-five cents; 1 or administering oatn oh affidavit, fifty cents; : iroceedings in case of bastardy, inclusive, five ; lollars. .?i I Sec. 3. Notaries Public: .[> .1 - / For taking deposition and swearing witness, 1 >er copy sheet, twenty ^'"2 cents; for every 1 irotest, two dollars ana twenty:five cents; for , i duplicate of deposition, protest and certifi- " :ate, per copy sheet, fifteen cents; for each at- j endance on any person to prove any matter ir thing, and certifying the same, one dollar; or every notarial certificate, with seal affixed, : >ne dollar; for administering an oath, twentyive cents; for administering oath on affidavit, Ifty cents; for taking renunciation of dower ' >r inheritance, two dollars. ! ( Sec.'4. Coroners: ! iU 1 For every inquisition, ten dollars; for mile- ! ige, going and returning, per mile, five cents; or pjmh warrant issued, fift.v cents : for each ! >ody disinterred, three dollarsfbr recording >roceedings in each inquisition in his book, )er copy sheet of one hundred words, fifteen :ents ;/or performing the duties of Sheriff", the ame fees as are allowed Sheriffs for like serrices. Sec. 5. Witness: In civil cases per day, one dollar; in State lases, per day, one dollar and fifty cents, beides mileage at five.cents per mile, going and eturning. Sec. 6. Jurors: Jurors, per day, one dollar and fifty cents, >esides mileage at five cents per mile, going ind returning. Sec. 7. Constables: For summoning witness in civil case, fifty :ents; for serving summons, rule or notice in iny civil case, fifty cents ; for serving attachnent on each person, one dollar; for levying necution, posting advertisements of sale, and toying over proceeds, besides commission of r hree per cent, on amount collected, to be paid >y the department, in execution, fifty cents; or every day in search of stolen goods, to be J >aid by Complainant, two dollars; for serving 1 l warrant in any State case, one dollar; for * elling an estray, five per centum of the pro- 1 eeds, and in all cases for all actual and ne- 1 iessary travel one way, to be certified by the 1 >fficer on the back of the process, in writing, * ive cents per mile; for all necessary service ? n case of ejectment, as well before as after udgment, five dollars; for summoning Coro- 1 iers Jury, and witnesses, to be paid by the ' >)unty, three dollars ; for transportation of ? >risoners to County jail, ten cents per mile, to ? >e paid by the County. j ( oe(j. o. onerins: For entering every writ, process, warrant ^ >r execution, and making endorsements there- * in, fifty cents; for serving every writ or sum- | none, besides mileage, one dollar; for bond in ^ my case, one dollar and fifty cents; for com- f nitment and release, each fifty cents; for ! erving each venire for Grand Jury, ten dolara; for serving each venire for petit iury, \ wenty dollars; for serving each bench or ither warrant in the sessions, attachment for lontempt of Court, besides mileage, each, one < lollar and fifty cents; search for person or 3 ;oods not found aud returned on the execu- c ion non est inventus or nulla, bona, besides * nileage, one dollar; levy, attachment or other l ixecution, besides mileage, one dollar and < ifty cents; dieting persons, per day, forty ' :ents ; executing convict, including all charges ( or burial and other expenses,^enty-five dolars; bringing up prisoner under habeas corpus, ] o be paid by the prisoner, if able, (if not, by j he County,) besides mileage, two dollars ; i sonveying prisoner from one plac.?. to another, t lesides all necessary expenses, and returning, 1 en cents ; each guard for Sheriff, in convey- 1 ng prisoner, two dollars per day; commis- > lions on all moueyB collected by him, if under 1 hree hundred dollars, two per cent; if over < hat sum, two per cent, on the first three hun- < Ired dollars, and one per cent on balance; | one-half-ofdne pen oenton >UlvtnoiM^paid out of) office ob all executions lodgndf-eflrecutioD lodged to bm^ witfa drier not to' tevy, one dollar; ad vertistag'I)efimdantf?i property, in; addition to printer's bill, one dollar ; draw- ' in? deed or mortgage, three dollars ;' bill of sale, one doUar imd ^ffity cents-veaeh notree served on setofManagers' of Election; besides ' mileage, one dollar and fifty cents; in ease Of Sec. 9. Clerks of Court : cate under seal, fifty cents; issuing writ of at- ' tachmeut for^eontjenjjp^or ottar special writ, one dolfdr aba fifty cetrt8; BigWng and sealing ym^olJu&.Jw.po&fgw?,.wjojjwjg: . isimg^ay^nfo^SwyilKSDiy, under three hundred dollars, two per cent:; oyer that amount, one per cent; pn bill nol. prbs., > before given out, two dollarson bill thrown Ivw n*?rtr?/l Tntrtr /x* ?rvi??ts] ntx/l haI vtBAa uu?i uj uiauu vuij) ma ivuuu^ nuu uvu |muo< abated, discontinued or struck off, three dollars; on bill found and'verdict by petit jilry, four dollars; issuing bench warrant, two dollars ; issuing scire facias, two dollars; issuing ' each execution in Sessions, two dollars i sign- , ing-and sealing writ of iwbcas corpus, three i iollare; issuing warrants, taking recognizance 1 )r other services in die Sessions, the same fees is allowed ito Trial Justices; each writ of felire feci as, including all services incident to ? iUmmdning j arora, two 'dollars and fifty cents; . preparibg and issuing certificates for grand ( md petit jurors, and Constables, and furnish ug retjirn to County Commissioners, for each { week of every term of the Court, ten dollars; iurnishing advertisement in case of escheat, ixclusive of printers bill, find recording pro- i jeedings thereon, five dollars ; for advertising . ind giving notice to Managere of* Election^ in ( ;ase of approaching or actual vacancy in ] my County office,,each ten dollars^ for li- ( jense to an attorney, all incidental services ncliided, five dollars; filing and entering no- ( ;ice of .alien's intention to becofoe a citizen, , me dollar; filing and 'recording report of alien, , ine dollar; administering oath of intention, , >he dollar; filing and entering application to , lecome a citizen and admjm&tenng'oath,&p9 , lollars; for . giving certificate of citiienship, me dollar; taking renunciation of dower or , pheritapce, t^o''dollars^'for official .record of ?tray and filing papersi one dollar and fifty sents; every search for a paper, fifteen cents; 1 ivefy searqh with certificates, fifty, cents; J !wearing Magistrate or Constable in. office, md: certificate thereof and taking bonds, two 1 Iollare; for recorakighonds ofi^opnty officere 1 md certifying the same, one dplfar and fifty { jents; granting license to peqlars, including 1 ilhservfees, five dollars; for every probate in j writing twenty-fivecents; for signing dedimus x>testatem, two dollars; for official certificate 1 ;o. exemplification of record, one. dollar; for 1 ifficial certificate in case requiring seal, fifty 1 lertts; on every trial, from theparty bringing t oni two dollars :onfilincr transcript, twenty* ( ire centai; on entering judgment, fifty cento; ?py papers, per copy sheet of; ope hundred ! .vordri, twenty-five pento; signing and sealing. iffCtOJXL .?hOT~n?ti-Tcne^W, nfly cento/for f recording and copying deeds or other1 papers,' per copy sheet-of one hundred words, twenty- \ Bve cento; for every certificate on deeds or ether papers, twenty-five cente. Sec. 10. Judges of Probate: , For petition for letters, Ac., two dollars; fpr citation, one dollar; qualifying executor, administrator or guardian, ana recording 3ame, two dollars and fifty cento; issuing warrant of appraisement, one dollar; proving will : in solemn form, ten dollatt; for recording wills and certificates, per copy sheet of one j hundred words, each figure counting a word, ' twenty-five cents; filing sndeutering renuncia- ; tion of executor, one dollar; dedimus potesta- ' tern to prove will or qualify executor, two dollars ana' fifty cento; recording inventories, ap- : prftisemenfs and' sales, per copy sheet of one , hundred words/ each figute a word, twenty- : 6ve cento:; receiving, examining and filing j annual returns, two dollars, For first and final return, each three doL- , lars and fifty cento; for recording returns, per , copy sheet of one hundred wow, twenty-five : cents; order fby sale personal property, one dollar and fifty cefote ; hearing ana filing pe- 1 titions for guardians and' fippOimmtat/fiVtfael1 ' lars ; entering caveat'and withdrawing siine, ] cue dollar; for hearing litigated ease,five dol- ; lars; issuing summons, for each witness, fifty cento; qualifying and,examination pf each, | twenty-five cento; for proceedings in partition , ef real estate worth' less than one.thousand ( dollars, fifteen dollars;'for appointing guar- j Jians ad litem, three dollars; for proceedings ( in real estate worth more than one thousand . dollars, thirty dollars; commissions on all J moneys received and paid out, two per cent ( en the first three hundred dollars* pirn one per cent, for all sums over that amount; for search : for each paper, fifteen cento ; for certificate i ind seal, fifty cents; for copying papers on : file in office, per copy sheet of one hundred \ words, twenty-five cento; for final discharge )f executor, administrator or guardian, two iollars; for proceedings in dower, inclusive if all charges, twenty dollars; for.proceedngs in lunacy, inclusive, five dollars. Approved March 1,1870. ' AN ACT ro Provide for the Appointment of Trial Justice?. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and Rouse of Representatives 'of Vie State of South Carolina, now met and tittihg in. Genital Assembly and by the authority of the same, That ;he Governor, by and with the advice and conlent of the Senate, shall, from time to time, lppoint and commission in the several coun;ies of the State, a suitable number of trial Justices. Sec. 2.' ?}uch Trial Justices shall be distriblted as the convenience of the several counies requires, and the number in commission ihall not exceed, in Abbeville, nine; Anderson, sixteen ; Barnwell, ten; Beaufort, ten; Charleston, twenty-four; Chester, eight; Clarmdon, six; Colleton, ten; Chesterfield, four; } Darlington, eight; Edgefield, eight; Fairfield," light; Georgetown, five; Greenville, eight; rforry, six ; Kershaw, six; Lancaster, four; Laurens, five; Lexington, seven; Marion, lix ; Marlboro', six; Newbefry, seven; Ocolee, five; Orapgeburg, seven; Pickens, five; Richland, eight; Spartanbuig, twelve; Burner eight; Union, eight; "Williamsburg,eight; fork, eight Sec. 3. Trial Justices shall be commissionid and hold their offices for the terra of two rears, unless sooner removed by the Govern>r. If ? Trial Justice changes his domicil, ind removes therefrom the distance of three niW his authority and Jurisdiction as such , Justice shall thereupon cease, and another ] rrial Justice may be designated and appoint- i :d in his place. , j 1 ' 1 Sec. 4. The Governor is authorized to sus- i -tend from his office, for such causes as to him 1 shall seem just, any Trial Justice, and to des- j gnate another person to perform the duties of < such suspended officer, (who, in turn, may be ; removed and another designated,) and he shall 1 report such suspension to the Senate, together ivith the name of the person designated by him to perform the duties of such suspended officer: and if the Senate confirms the person ; designated, the officer suspended shall be regarded as removed, and the vacancy duly fed; but if the Seriate retiisee to. connrm ?;the suspended bfficer Ml be restored to . Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect oh and after tWTflrsj; day of May, next, hilt the Trial Justices 'herfcm provided for may be appointed and commissioned prior t6 that time,td enter upon their dtities oh aid after that day; and oh and after the said firirt day of May the office of Magistrate is arid shall be abolished. SBC. (?''That'"daring tjje vacation of the SehatC, the GoverrioT is authorised te appoint Trial Justices, subject to the approval of the Senate, to act, unless sooner removed by him, till the end of the next session. !/ not approved by the Senate, said appointmentsshall cease at the end of the saidaefltaif * ?; j ' Approved February 28,1870. ajf ACT T .K'ifzff i' ! To Define the Criminal Jurisdiction of THal JUSSI. - J -J .-jf , Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and .Bouse of Representative! of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Atanul lot iJiA rJ ih* mntma flhot TriaTJustices stall have and exercise within their respective counties all ppjers, authority and jurisdiction, w chjnmal cases, hereinafter set forth. ^ Sec. 2. Trial Justices shall have jurisdiction of all offences which may he subject tp the penalties of either fine or forieijure;nqt exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the Jail pr "Work House not exceeding thirty days, and may impose any sentence within those limits singly or in .the alternative. Sec. 3. They may punish by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the Jail or House of Correction not exceeding thirty days, all assault and batteries, and Diner breaches of the peace, when the offence is not of a high and aggravated nature', requiring, in their judgment, greater punishment Sec. 4. They may cause to be arnwted all iffirayers, rioters, disturbers and breakers' of he peace, and all who go armed offensively, to the terror of the people, and such as utter menaces or threatening speeches, or otherwise &Bgerou8 and disorderly persons, v Persons arrested for any of said offences shall be examined by the Trial Justice before whom they are btougttt, and may be tried !fcefore him, and, if found giriHy, maybe wxjtflfred to find sureties of the peace, and be punished within the limits prescribed in Section 2, oK when the offbnce is of a high and aggravated aature, they mar W oortmrttOd or bound oTOr for trial before the Court of General Sessions. Sec. 5. They shall have jurisdiction of larcenies, by stealing of the property of andther, )f money, goods or chattels, or any bank note, bond; promissory note, bill of exchange, or ither bill, order, or certificate ,' or any book )f accounts for or concerning money or goods iue, or to become due, or to be delivered; or my deed or writing containing a conveyance )f 1' nd or any other valuable contract in foicc; or any receipt, release or defeasance; >r any writ, process or public redord, if the property stolen does not exceed twenty'dollars n value. . u: Sec. 6. They shall have jurisdiction of the jffences of buying, receiving or aiding in the loncealment. of stolen goods or other property, where they would have jurisdiction of the larceny of the same goods or property. They shall liaie jmaaliutiop-ef die offences of obtaining property oy any fitffca pretence, or by any privy or false token, or by any gacbe, device, slight of hand, pretentions to fortune telling, trick or other means, by the use of cards or other implements or instruments, where they would have jurisdiction of a larceny of the same property* and may punish said offences the same as larceny. Sec. 8. They shall cause to be arrested ail persons, found within their counties, charged with any offence, and persons who, after committing any .offence within the county, escape out of the same; examine into treasons, felonies, grand larcenies, high crimes and misdemeanors ; and commit or bind over for trial those who appear to be guilty of crimes or offences not within their jurisdiction, and punish those guilty of such offences within their jurisdiction. Sec. 9. All proceedings before Trial Justices, in criminal cases; shall be commeacedon information, under oath, plainly and substantially setting forth the offence charged, ujpon which, and only which, shall a warrant ox arrest issue. The information, may be amended at any time before Upal. , ...' All proceedings before Trial Justices shall be summary, or with only such delay as a fair ind just examination of the case requires. Sec. 10. Every person arrested ana brought before a Trial Justice charged with ag offence tiflttn li!fl aviall lus onflijafl afl niyuiu UM JUl iV/V**UMVUy WW II ^ i ^ ^ i?| i i j demand, to a trial by jury, to be selected in the manner indicated by Section 6 of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the.jtemporary appointment of Magistrates, and to define their powers and duties," ratified 24th day of September, A. D. 1868. Sec. 11. Trial Justices are authorised to issue all necessary processes to carry their powers into effect, and may exercise all the powers heretofore conferred by law upon My istrates. v Sec. 12. Eyery person convieted before a Trial Justice of any offence whatever, and sentenced, may appeal from the sentence to the next term of the Court of General" Sessions for the county. The appellant shall be committed, to abide the sentence of said Court, until he recognizes to the State in such reasonable-sum, ana with such sureties, as the Court requires, with condition to appear at the Court appealed to, and at any subsequent term to which the case is continued, if not previ)usly surrendered and discharged, and so, from terra to term, until the final decree, sentence or order of the Court thereon; and-to ibide such final sentence, order or decree, and not depart without leave; and, in the mean ;ime, to keep the peace and be of good beharior. Sec. 13. All Acts and parts of Acts inconlistent or supplied by this Act are hereby repealed. Approved Mar eft 1, io/u. The Part They LrKED.?A singular case las just been decided in Naples, by the Duke i'Ossuna, who is looked upon as "a second Daniel come to judgment." A very rich and jigoted citizen died and left his property to a :onvent of monks, with the proviso that the irotherhood should give his son, a deserving roung man, what part they liked. The monks ook possession of their legacy and offered a rery small portion of it to the rightful heir; )ut instead of accepting it the youth earned he case before Ossena. Having heard both (ides of the matter, he turned to the magisrate who admistered the will and stated nif (urprise that a man so famouB as a lawyer should have so wrongly interpreted the terms )f the testament, which oraaihed that the monks should give the testator's son the part hey liked. When they offered him forty thousand dollars and proposed to retain the two hundred and ten tnousand remaining, it if as quite plain that the greater sum was the part they liked; consequently the monks were ordered to carry out the terms of the will and pay the amount they preferred to the testator's heir. And it was so decreed. ? e A character whiCh combines the love of enjoyment with the love of duty, and the ability to perform it, is the one whose unfoldings give the greatest promise of poifecrion. * ' *?