Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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lewis >1. grist, Proprietor. Hit $nbtpmbent Jfamilg jtttospagtr: jfor i|e |jrgmofiim of feJoMtal, ffotial, ^gritntot anb (tommertial Interests of % gmd|. A TEAB, Ef ABTMCE. VOT, 16. YOEKVILLE, 8. C., TOTBSDAY, OCTOBER 97, 1870. N0.4S. -? 7 ' , !- - i my.. , i T i.1 |i,: 1 .. JTtbrtel fuetrg. 'j ~GIVE MB A LOVING HEART? Give me a loving heart! 'Tie better far than fame; ! v Which is at best a fleeting thing, : ii The breathing of a name. j . For laurels gathered fresh and green, 11 Where flowers in beauty bloom? 1 n When bound around a mortal brow, Soon wither in the tomb. ; & Oive me a loving heart! ; 11 More precious far than gold; , o Or all the wealth that India boasts, Or all that's bought and sold. . n For what are gold and pearls, j e Or kingly diadems? , Compared with one true loving heart, !11 The purest of earth's gems ? ^ Give me a loving heart! d To cheer me on my way, Through this dark world of sin and pain, " To one of endless day. fj For naught can calm the troubled breast, . Or holier balm impart, To the life-weary pilgrim here? 1 a Than one true loving heart! . Jfotg IcHff. j? . > n SOUTH-WESTERN CHIVAlSL'fi , 81 A TRUE STORY. U it A few years before the death of Theodore ^ Parker, that eminent preacher visited Europe, M and, haying a letter of introduction for that ^ purpose, he called on Thomas Carlyle. The j English solitaire plied the American with in- w numerable questions, relating to our customs ^ and habits of social existence on this side of ^ the great waters, but manifested the keenest t, curiosity concerning the people of the backwoods. Parker drew for the other's amuse- y, ment a vivid sketch of the achievements of ^ Jamee Bowie, the famous arch-duelist of Tex- g, as. Carlyle listened with sparkling eyes to M the close of the narrative, and then burst into 8l exclamations of involuntary enthusiasm? ai xl "By Hercules! the man was greater man i w Ctwar or Cromwell?nay, nearly equal to f Odin or Thor. The Texans ought to build p, him an altar." n The burning sympathizer with the heroio h, in all its phases, rubbed his hands together, ^ chuckling in an ecstacy of savage glee, and made Parker repeat his story of bloody aneo- ^ dotes. Finally, he put the question?"By a what miracle could it happen that the brave ;r fellow escaped the capital penalty of the law cj after such countless violations Y' ra To this interrogatory, as he confessed, he could return no satisfactory answer; aud as 4, ten thousand readers have perhaps pondered ^ the same problem without receiving a ration- ra al solution, it may not be uninteresting to ex- c] plain it briefly, especially as a clear elucida- ;(j< tion can be detailed in a few words. ^ Let it be remembered, then, that although w the great system of common law, that "per- e( faction of human reason," for the Anglo Sax- ^ on race, prevailed at that time throughout all ^ the States of the West and Southwest, wholly ^ " * * - * ?j ??? lead or cold steel. At length, after many failures, he prevailed cl on a wealthy young merchant of Natchez to bi join him in a game of poker. They sat down j G at a small table near the bar, and were soon ' pt absorbed in that most perilous of all excite-1 bl ments, of which the two alluring ingredients bi are vanity and pride of individual skill, and ! m the uncertainty of general hazard. At first! at the stakes were small, and the run of cards ' si seemed wholly in favor of the merchant; but w presently they bet more freely, and gold ea- si gles and hundred dollar notes were showered 01 down on the board with extravagant ardor; tl and then the current of fortune changes?eb-! tl bed away from the young merchant and flow-! st ed to the professional gambler in a stream ft like the ocean's tide. As usually happens in j a such cases, his losses only piqued and mad- j dened the loser, and he sought to recover him- j ? self by venturing such desperate ventures as tl could not but deepen and confirm his ruin. > h And thus they continued during that long; summer night. The intensity of their excite- ii ment became equivalent to insanity. Every I nerve was strung ; every energy of brain was I taxed to the utmost?the teeth were set hard ; & as those of antagonists in the tug of mortal; h as to its definition 01 crimes, mm jhuu?i; ? w to the mode and measfire of punishment an- jjj nexed to each, nevertheless, in its practical M application to given cases, it was controlled-' 1 aj cnrr punoi ot b ibt unguuci i>n i>tre om* ^ nipotent law of public opinion; because in ^ most western courts, jurors were absolute judg- bi es of both law and the fact, and their iuter- re pretations often evinced direct antagonism 8t with the dicta of my Lord Coke and the classic comments of Blackstone. tl On the subject of homicide in particular, public opinion had passed the bonds of all fc] books of jurisprudence, and settled as an im- <j( mutable statute this extraordinary axiom? er "It is justifiable to kill in fair combat every- }j( body and anybody who ought to be killed ! cc In Bowie's numerous rencounters he always ?] kept within the prescribed limits of this lati- ^ tudinarian rule, and hence he was always acquitted by frontier juries, and frequently with ai addenda to their verdicts highly compliment- J, ary to his character as a chivalrous gentleman. | In truth, most of the desperate engagements jjj grew out of his innate and invincible disposi- re tion to espouse the cause of the weak against ai the mighty. One illustration by incident will y( present this peculiarity in the strongest light, and may, besides reveal a thorough knowl- p] edge of the heart and soul of the man. On the evening of the 4th of June, 1836, to the steamboat, Rob Roy, started from St. Louis to New Orleans, with a full crowd of jy passengers. Immediately after getting under a ? . * i % i head way,to adopt a favorite oacKwooas pnrase, fu one person attracted universal attention by the annoying eagerness with which he endeav- H ored to make up a party at cards. Indeed, h{ his oft-repeated and persevering efforts to that ^ end soon became insulting and unendurable ; and yet his appearance was such as to deter jQ the bravest on board from administering the w chastisement which he so richly deserved. He or was a huge mass of mighty bones and mus- dj clee, with swarthy features, bearing the impress of many a scar; piercing dark eyes, that hi seemed to possess the power of blasting the 0f beholder?oold, gleaming eyes, such as haunt p< the memory painfully; a rank luxuriance of cold-black hair, immense whiskers and mous- ui tache. This savage looking figure was habit- ai ed in the costliest clothing, and adorned with qi a profusion of jewelry, while the outlines of hi several murderous weapons were plainly dis- pi tinguishable beneath his gaudy vest and su- ? perfine coat. Nor did he need this to render tr him an object of terror. A connoisseur in- the science of belligerent gymnastics would have t? confidently pronounced him a match for any tfa five men on the deck, without any aid from st trife?the sweat rolled from their brows like ; ;reat drops of rain. t The passengers formed a circle around the < layers and looked on with chat interest ' rhich such extraordinary concentration of ; ntellect and passion never fails to inspire even < a bosom8 that shudder at its excess. The lerchant and the gambler attracted all eyes i nd kept many awake and gazing till morn- j ag. Among the latter was one presenting a < ountenance so piteous that it might have j lelted hearts of marble to tears. A pale and j xquisitely beautiful face peeped incessantly t rom the half open door of the ladies' cabin, reeping all the while as if oppressed by some t readful sensation of immediate sorrow. It ( ras the merchant's lovely wife, weeping her | irewell to departed hope. j There was one speaker also, whose appear- j nee and actions excited almost as much cuiosity as the players did themselves. He was e tall, spare man of about thirty, with hand- r >me features, golden hair, keen blue eyes of i thin ? pe wore a perpetual smile?a mysterious j nile of the strangest, the most inscrutable e tannine With thft ArceDtion of his red cal- e "'"6" " ?' io shirt, this person was dressed wholly in 1 uckskin, ornamented with long swailing tas- t sis, and wild figures wrought of variegated c eads after the fashion of some western In- i iana He stood close beside the card table, f ad held in his left hand a sheet of paper, in t is right a large pencil, with which ever and I aon he dashed off a word, as if engaged in t acing the progress of the game. c Still the merchant and the gambler perse- t ered in their physical and mental toil. The ial of the stars, with its thousand fingers of 3 olden fire, pointed to the word shadows of \ tidnight; but still they did not pause. It ill was "shuffle and cut, and pass, ante up, ad I call you, and rake down the pile." Toard the morning a tremendous storm arose, s he red lightning flashed awfully?the hail s oured like a frozen cataract?the great river tared till it rivaled the loudest thunders of 1 javen; and the very pilot at the wheel was ^ armed. But the mad players heard it not u rhat was the tumult of raging elements to d lem whose destiny hung on the turning of I card? And the smiling blue eyed stranger & i buckskin still stood by them with his pen- ( 1 and paper, calmly noticing the develop- v ents of the game. s Finally the storm passed, as the beautiful J >v.v>ro?i pump nut like a thiner of elory in ^ te great gray east Then the infatuated h erchant, distracted with the losses, dared the v imax of folly. He staked five thousand 8 >llars, comprising his last cent of money in le world, "on two pairs of King." The e hiskered gambler "called" him; they show- u I hands; the blackleg "had two pairs of 11 5es," and "raked the board." The merchant 0 ropped to the floor as if he had been shot t< trough the brain, aud that beautiful young a ife flew to his side and fell shrieking upon r is bosom. They were both borne away in- ^ nsible to the ladies cabin. * ( As he deposited the winnings In his pocket, ie gambler emitted anoarsb Iaugirtnarr0 unded frightful as the chuckle of a fieud; C it he instantly lost color as a low, calm voice c imarked in his ear?"Villian, you play a d rong haud at many different games, but f< ire stands one who can beat you at all of ? tern!" li He turned, met the glance of those keen 8j lue eyes so preternaturally bright, and shud- f< nred. But he immediately regained his pres-1 P ice of mind, for he was no coward, and then j1 ; frowned till his shaggy bcows met like the I iil of a serpent, and demanded sternly? ? Beggar, who are you to banter a gentleman t< ius rudely?" I "I am James Bowie, of Texas," the other ^ iswered with a careless laugh ; "and you are c >hc Lafitte, a bastard of the old pirate!" 8' The gambler reeled in his chair as if he ^ id been struck with a thunderbolt, but he covered again from the shock in a moment, 84 i 1 J - C x ?WL,t /i~ t] id asaeu iu a uriu wuc? ??imi gutuc mv i m wish with mef a "Poker first, and pistols afterwards if you o ay foul!" replied Bowie. e "Very well," rejoined the other, and they 0 ok their seats at the table. b For a time the success seemed about equal- e balanced, the gain and loss being alternate. w t last, the gambler ventured one of his skill- v 1 manoeuvres in dealing. Bowie smiled h rangely as his bright eye detected the trick. e e said nothing, however, but looked at his I ind, and bet five thousand dollars, staking P e money in large bills. The gambler went P ce thousand dollars, higher, which resulted w a "call." Bowie held "four jacks ;" but, 8' ith his habitual fiendish chuckle, his antag- ^ list showed "four queens," exclaiming as he n d so?"By heaven, the pile is mine!" " "Not yet," shouted Bowie, as with both M inds he raked the heap of notes, to the tune 0 twenty thousand dollars, into hu own a >cket. 81 The foiled blackleg made a sudden, invol- o itary movements as if to grapple with his C itagonist, but the quietly raised hand and h lick glance of the calm blue eye withheld n m. Presently, however, choking and pur- tl e with rage and shame the gambler roared n -"To the hurricane deck, and let pistols be tl umps this turn !" o "Good as gold!" replied Bowie, and the h co hastily ascended the stairs and assumed | 1 q5?> oanoratonncilinne flip (mmhlflr OVftP ! b IV?* UV I M W |/VUib?VUU WMV ^ ? ern and Bowie over the prow. v At that instant the sun was just rising in a A oudless sky. Nature looked sublime?a ride worthy of her Almighty Husband and tl od. The woods and waters appeared as c irts of one divine picture, with the boundless 2 ue of heaven for its background. The 1 oad bosomed river rolled away like an im- si ense sheet of burnished silver, speckled here g id there with the flash of golden bubbles ; ! t lining flashes gamboled in the sparkling t ave; and all the bright birds?those sweet h ngers, whose life is a dream, and that dream b ily music?chaunted their wild anthems to v le new day; while the two great duellists, I \e most deadly ever known in the southwest, 1 ood with cocked pistols, eye to eye, and their j hgers fixed on the hair triggers, prepared I T ad waiting to slay and be slain. "I am ready. You give the word," cried 11 lowie, in his clear ringing voice, and with e lat inseperable smile of strange meaning on 1 is lips. r "I am ready. Fire !" shouted the gambler, s i tones as murderous as death. ! > The two pistols roared simultaneously. 1 lowie did not move, though he had barely |1 scaped with his life, for the bullet of his foe j i ad cut away one of the golden locks of his 1 yellow hair. The gambler was shot through the heart and dropping on the brink of the leek, had almost tumbled into the river. He was buried by the squatters at the next wood jrard. And thus perished justly a bastard son if the great pirate Lafitte. There never was a jury empannolled in the vest which would have brought in a verdict igainst any man for killing him, and more specially under the circumstances, because jublic opinion pronounced that "he ought to >e killed." And such were the desperadoes hat Bowie commonly exterminated. The generous victor immediately proceeded 0 the ladies's cabin and restored the winnings >f the gambler Ijo the young merchant and his >eautiful wife, who both received the boon as 1 gift from heaven, with as much gratitude ind joy. If we should write a volume concerning the exploits of James Bowie, his character could lot be rendered more transparent than it is ' " -1 " * *r? eveaieo in roe zoregoiug nuauuic. ??*<> Jw&ye Abe aame-^the friend of die feeble, the >rotector of the oppressed, and the sworn inemy of tyrants. He was bra ye without fear ind generous beyond precedent; and though le had faults, gigantic ones too, he atoned for ill the errors of a stormy life by the splendor if his magnificent death. His tomb. is the Uarao, his epitaph the word "Texas," and his arae will fill an humble though safe niche in he Temple of Freedom through all time. 3e can never be forgotten till the bowels of he earth cease to farnish metal for the fabrication of those bright blades of steel which >ear his imperishable name. Heading. GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE. The Richmond Dispatch, of the 13th intant, contained the following biographical ketch of our immortal Lee: "Robert E. Lee was born at Stratford, in 806. His family has been distinguished in Virginia for 200 years. Two of his grand mcles were signers of the Declaration of In[ependence. His father was the famous 'Light lorse Harry' of revolutionary fame, who erved terms in the Federal Congress and as xovernor of Virginia, and whose first wife Fas also a Lee. Robert E. Lee was of the is e of a second marriage?the second son of lenry Lee and his wife Aune, daughter of Charles Carter, of Shirley. As, however, he orrows no greatness from his ancestry, but /as himself the 'greatest of a great line,' we ball say no more as to his family. "Robert E. Lee enterd West Point Acadmy in 1825, and graduated at the end of the sual term without having had a demerit nark. In 1829 he was appointed brevet secnd lieutenant, and assigned to the corps of apographical engineers. He served for 6ever1 years in this corps. In 1832 he was maried to Miss Custis, the daughter of George Vashington Parke Custis, the adopted son of leneral Washington. In 1836 he was made ret lieutenant, and in 1838 captain. During... iHTinrxican war ne wnS xm ttre -mmr'nrerur" ieneral Wool, and then General Scott as hief engineer. At the battle of Cerro Goro, April 18, 1847, he was brevetted major >r gallantry. At Chapultepec he was woundd, September 13, 1847, and was brevetted ieutenant-colonel. General Scott frequently poke of him in his dispatches as remarkable jr his gallantry. Colonel Lee was next apointed a member of the Boa<rd of Engineers. n 1852 he became superintendent of West 'oint Academy. In 1855 he was assigned to srvice in a cavalry regiment, which took him 5 the West. In 1859 he was sent to Harper's 'erry to put down the John Brown raid. larch 16, 1861, he was made colonel of avalry in the United States army. His reignation of his office in that army was dated kpril 20,1861. "Early in 1861, the convention of Virginia sleeted Gen. Lee as Commander-in-Chief of be forces of this State, her fortunes not having t the time been formally united with those f her Southern sisters. When the State joind the Confederacy, he became a Confederate fficer. After the defeat of General Garnett y McClellan, and his subsequent death, Genral Lee was sent to North-west Virginia, rhere he did not distinguish himself. He ras recalled by Mr. Davis, and on account of is great skill as an engineer, he was sent to xnmine the defences on the Atlantic coast, n May, 1852, McClellan marched up the eninsula. The battle of Seven Pines took lace, in which General Jos. E. Johnston was rounded, and General Lee was put in his tead in command of the Confederate forces, oon followed the great battles before Richlond, from Mechanicsville to Malvern Hill, i which Gen. Lee's name became famous the rorld over. In these battles, more than 10,00 prisoners were taken, fifty-two pieces of rtillery, and upwards of 35,000 stand of mall arms. From this time forth, the hopes f the people of the South were centred in feneral Lee. The whole array was placed in is hands. He it was that ordered all its iovement8 and was entitled to the credit for tie strategy employed. He ordered the movelents which resulted in the famous battles of he following August?Cedar Mountain, Secnd Manassas, &c. On the 3d of September, is army crossed the Potomac, and on the 7th was fought the grand battle of Sharpsurg. General Lee always claimed this as a ictory. His army, however, returned to Virginia at once. "On the 13th of December, 1852, occurred he battle of Fredericksburg, one of the most omplete successes of the war. In 18G3, May !, the battle of the Wilderness was fought, 'he success here, too, was complete, but Jackon fell. Here, too, General Lee showed the reatness of his heart in that celebrated leter to the dying chieftain, in which he said hat for his country's sake he could wish it iad been himself instead of Jackson that had >een wounded. On the 4th of May the battle /as renewed, and resulted in the defeat of the federal army and its retreat, with a loss of 7,000 killed, wounded and prisoners, fourteen >ieces of artillery, and 30,000 stand of arras. This was called the battle of Chancelloreville. "General Lee again marched Northwards, le went into Pennsylvania with his little irray, and there, on the 2d and 3d of July, .863, fought the bloody battles which, though ather drawn battles than victories for either ide, much more seriously damaged that army vhose losses could not be repaired. "In May, 1864, occurred the battles of the iVilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, &c., fee. General Grant was constantly repulsed, jut as constantly renewed his flank movement until he landed upon the banks of the Jamegjg There were many battles of more or less iqjflj portance during 1864 and the beginning jS 1865. April 2, 1865, occurred the evactjHj tion of Richmond, and began the retreat H General Lee's array from Petersburg. ApnH 9, he surrendered a skeleton of an army a overwhelming numbers.' And thn* ended hfl military career; ' ' JH "In August; 1865, General Lee was ma?y President of Washington College. His narSH and fame soon made that a popular institfl tion. He continued to hold the position til death. - "And now what shall we say of this peerfaat; man ? Language fails us. Of him as truly as of that other illustrious one wham he so much resembled might it be said, 'He was first in war, first in peace, and first in tip. hearts of his countrymen.' He was atone hero. There was nothing common about hip). As noble in soul as he was perfect in ph||| ique, he was one of those g?|0hcharacteJcflM which all the elements combine 'to give flN world assurance of a man/ "If the heathen could say that whom the gods love die young, we may say that there is in contemplating General Lee's death the sad consoling reflection that it is not nowpossible for him to do aught to diminish the esteem in which his name is held by mankind. 'The past,' as Daniel Webster said, the past at least is safeand now all his earthly life is past He is now safe for a place in the pan- j theon of his admiring countrymen." " r DISCOVERIES MADE BT ACCIDENT. Not a few discoveries in the arts and sciences have beeu made or suggested by accident. The use of the pendulum, suggested by the vibrating of a chandelier in a cathedral ; the power of steam, intimated by the occillating of the lid of a tea kettle; the utility of coal gas for light experimented upon by an ordinary tobacco pipe of white clay ; the magnifying property of the lens, stumbled upon by an optician's apprentice while holding spectacle-glasses between his thumb and. forefinger?are well known instances in proof of the fact Galvanism was discovered by accident, by Professor G&lvani, of Bologna, in Italy. He gave his name to the operation, but his wife is generally considered as entitled to the credit of the discovery. She being in bad health, some frogs were ordered for her. As they lay upon the table skinned, she noticed that their legs became strongly convulsed when near an electrical conductor. She called her husband's attention to the fact; he instituted a series of experiments, and in 1789 the galvanic battery was invented. Eleven years later, with that discovery for his basis, Professor Alessandro Volta, also an Italian, announced his discovery of "voltaic pile." The discovery of glass making was effected l "" ?1... nnnn ishi^h D fire uy BtTClIJg tuc DAUU Hbliuvu II .i.v? had been kindled. Blancort says that the making of plateorjflgH Wfl-q anyo-astcd hy the- fact nf a wnrkmaft, hsppemngto break a crucible BlefattTOW i ed glass. The fluid ran qoder one of the large flag-stones with which the floor was paved. On raising the stone to recover the glass, it was found in the form of a plate, such as could not be produced by the ordinary process of blowing. Glass pearls, though among the most beautiful, inexpensive and common ornaments worn by the ladies, are produced by a very singular process. In 1665, a Venetian, named * Jaquin, discovered that the scales of a fish, called bleak fish, possessed the property of communicating a pearly hue to the water. He found by experimenting, that beads dipped into this water assumed, when dried, the appearance of pearls. It proved, however, that the pearly coat, when placed outside, was easily rubbed off; and the next improvement was to make the beads hollow. The making of these beads is carried on to this day in Venice. The beads are all blown separately. By means of a small tube, the insides are delicately coated with the pearly liquid, and a. waxed coating is placed over that. It requires the scales of four thousand fish to produce half a pint of this liquid, to which a small quantity of sal ammonia and isinglass i are afterward added. Lundy Foot, the celebrated snuff manufacturer, originally kept a small tobacconist shop i at Limerick. On one night his house, which : was uninsured, was burned to the ground. As he contemplated the smoking ruins on the following morning, in a state bordering on despair, some of the poor neighbors, groping among the embers for what they could find, stumbled upon several canisters of unconsum- ' n/l V?i,i Kqlf'.KolrAf] onnfT vhinh t.hp.v triad and found it so pleasant to their noses that they loaded their waistcoat pockets with it Lundy Foot, aroused from his stupor, imitated their example, and took a pinch of his own 1 property, when he was struck by the superior pungency and flavor it had acquired from the ' great heat to which it had been exposed. Acting upon the hint, he took another house in a place called Black Yard, erected ovens, an^T^ set about the manufacture of that high dried ( commodity which soon became widely known' 1 as Black Yard snuff. Eventually he took a 1 larger house in Dublin, and making his customers pay, literally through the nose, amassed a great fortune for having been ruined. "A Slioht Pleasantry."?War has its jokes and merriment, but the comedies of war are often more dreadful than the tragedies of 1 peace. Frederick in his .works records the i following incident, which he calls a "slight ; pleasantry, to relieve the reader's mind The Prussians had a detached post at Smirzirz. The little garrison there was much harassed by lurking Austrians, who shot their sentries, cut off their supplies, and rendered it almost certain death to any one who ventured to emerge from the rampart Some inventive genius among the Prussians constructed a straw man, very life-like, representing a sentinel with his shouldered musket By a series of ropes, this efflgy was made to move froi# right to left, as if walking his beat A wellarmed band of Prussians then hid in a thicket near by. Ere long a company of Austrian scouts approached. From a distance they eyed the sentinel, moving to and fro as he guarded his post. A sharp-snooter crept near, ana inning deliberate aim at his supposed victim, fired. A twitch upon the rope caused the image to fall flat. The whole band of Austrians, with a shout, rushed to the spot. The Prussians, i from their ambuscade, opened upon them a deadly fire of bullets. Then, as the ground * * "grae covered with the mutilated and the dead, fee Prussians causing the welkin to ring with Hjir peals of laughter, rushed with fixed flBbnets upon their entrapped foes. Not a Ble Austrian had escaped being struck by gg^llet Those who were not killed outright BHhwounded, and were taken captive. This ^ pf the "slight pleasantries" of war. fflg A CHUTESE DOCTOR. ^9lPo Tai has been in practice in CalifcrHKays a newspaper writer from that State, Hpeveral years, and has acquired an envia reputation for the cures je is said to have vfected. That the Chinese pharmacopoeia should contain some remedies unknown to Western physicians, is not at all improbable; bat be that as it may, no reaso.iable person can doubt that he has relieved and cured quite as many of his patients as the average -tt~ white physicians do. People come from all parts of the coast to get his adrfce, and he is jtgw worth several hundred .thousand dollars. Pliffvinjg some cariosity to see the iuda, and endeavor, if possible, to learn something about his business, I went,a few daysago, in company with a lady, who believed nerseu u> oenu incipient consumptive. His office was on Washington street, near the Plazfc and a large sign oatside the door announced that the hours for gentlemen were from eight to twelve, and six to eight; for ladies, from twelve to two, and for outdoor ^patients two to four. Entering a long dirty passage, opening directly from the street, we turned into a room lettered "for ladies only," and waited for some moments, until we were informed that the doctor was at liberty. The only other occupant of the apartment was an elderly woman, and soon after we had taken our seats, a Chinese attendant brought her a small basin of tin, and handed her a straw, through which she sucked the decoction, and then left. Immediately afterwards another Chinaman opened a side door, and, without any ceremony, we entered into the presence of the Celestial healer. V j The room was almost a counterpart of the passage, very long and very narrow. At the extreme end was a large range, on which stood twenty-five or thirty small iron pots, each one containing a liquid gently simmering. Two Chinamen were busy attending to them, now skimming off the surface of one, now stirring nJ mlinnonnr fkav llflH ft fflW said to mm tie wanted mm 10 pica out a gooa swimmer in his company and send him to him. The Captain soon sent Cayanaugh. He was a tall, dark-skinned fellow who had led a fisherman's life on the eastern shore of North Carolina. "Cavanaugh," said Gen. Ransom, "we have got to cross this creek. It is too deep to wade. But on the opposite bank there is a canoe tied. If you can swim over and unloose that canoe and bring it over here we can cross the creek. There are nine chances out of ten you'll be killed in the attempt. But if you will run the risk, there is no request within my power I will not grant won And T AARiirp vnu. if vou are killed. your body shall be rescued and sent home to your friends, eveu at the risk of my own life." "I will go, General," said Cavanaugh. "What shall I do for you then?" asked General Ransom. "Give me a thirty days furlough," replied Cavanaugh. The General told him he should have the furlough at any time he applied for it. No sooner said than the bold fellow stripped and was soon in the deep, silent water gliding along like a snake. The Yankee picket paced the opposite shore about fifty yards from the band. But so snake-like and skillful was the swimmer that the Yankees didn't hear the first stroke of the water. He gently unloosed the canoe and in the blackness of the night dragged it safely to the opposite shore. In this canoe General Ransom crossed his whole command and put the force of Yankees over there into a perfect rout. But it was a long while ere the Gen eral heard from his man Cavanangh. And then, one day around Petersbmg, when nothing but an occasional booming of cannon was heard, Cavanangh sent in his fhr lough for thirty days. His Captain approved it, setting forth the circumstances under which it was promised. The Colonel endorsed it favorably, General Ransom did the same. And so it went on till it got up to Gen. Lee, and "Uncle Bob" cut it down to ten days. When the furlough came back, Gen. Ransom said nothing to a soul. But he just mounted his horse and rode to Gen. Lee's headquarters. And here he told the old General all about that "promised furloughthat while he would not make any threat to resign, yet still he had promised that man a fbrlough of thirty day*, even at the risk of his life; "and, tr^j to that promise 1" our good old Lee (bless his noblfe soul!) at once erased the ten days and granted the promise of thirty. And Cavanangh is now living a brave man and much respect* ad in diA ?MtAm nftrtjAn of tihnRtltf) Ffl/fdi vm.mmt T??r , ?rv_-7 7; <-7-7.bm Reorder. ; ' $ THE FOURTEEN SIEGES OF PARIS. A French correspondent writes from Ron en, whither he has been forced to go from Paris: The French capital is standingiis fourteenth siege, according to a paper pnblishedtin the Volontaire, under the title of "Fluduat nee Mergitur." The first of these on record was in the year 53 B. C., when Lutetia, then confined to an island in the Seine, was attacked by the Reman Consul Labienus, and the inhabitants, abandoning the defence of the town, burned their houses and retired to the neighboring hills, where they were finally vanquished by the su: perior tactics of the legions. I In A. D. 463, Childeric I, son of Meroveno, drove out the Romans, after an obstinate siege. In 845 the city was taken and pillaged by the Normans, enticed there by the riches of the capital. In 856 they again attacked Paris, which was burned by its inhabitants. Five years later there was another incur - ? * ?tl*A I*AttTATton 810D uy lilt! ireeuwwn, nuu, Iivncisi iwuuw nothing worth taking. After this the Parisians decided upon fortifying their town, but before the walls were completed 30,000 Normans encamped before them. The citizens, however, defended themselves manfully for more than a year,'and the invaders were about to raise the siege, when Charles the First hoisted a white flag and capitulated, signing a disgraceful peace which cost him his throne. In 1358 the Dauphin laid siege to the town, but was unsuccessful, as was the King of England in 1359. In 1420 the English took Paris by assault, and held it for sixteen years. During this time it was attacked, in 1427, hy Charles VII, who was repulsed by the garrison. In 1462 the Duke of Burgundy ravaged the country up to the very walls. In 1464 the Count of Charola,is invested the -jpity and was-defeated in seiend aaniflts., Alike unsuccessful was the army of Charles V, in 1356. Under Henry III and Henry IV the city sustained an ever-memorable siege, capitulating, however, to the soldiers of Navarre, after he had abjured Protestantism. Lastly, in 1814, it was given up after a brief but gallant defence to the allies. Then, as in every preceeding instance, treason had much to do with the surrender of the capital; and this treason seems to have been confined exclusively to the middle and upper classes, who contended with each other for the honor of paying court and homage to the conquerors. The papers of 1814 tell of the gallantry of the workmen and students at the Barriere de Clichy, and of their sad silence as the foreigners marched in triumph though the streets; but they also tell how ribbons and dowers were showered down upon them in the wealthy quarters of the town, and how the women ran forward to kiss the hussars and Cossacks. DISCOVERIES IN NEW MEXICO. Late accounts from Santa Fe, New Mexico, report some wonderful discoveries. Governor Amy, the Indian agent of that territory, has recently made a journey to the Utah Indians, w<*st of the San Juan river, and on his way dim. jred, and partly explored, some canons heretofore unknown to the whites; some of them are of great extent He explored one for twenty miles, which is called Canon de CheUy. Some of these canons were found walled in with perpendicular rocks, rising from 1000 to 2000 feet, the strata being as perfect as though laid by the hands of masons. In these valleys ruins of ancient Aztec towns were found, now utterly deserted, which once must have contained a thousand inhabitants. And even along the face of the perpendicular rocks were discovered the ruins of towns hewn out of the rock. In each of these rocky eyries there remained, in a state of good preservation, a house of stone about twenty feet square, containing one bare and gloomy room, and a single human sketeton. In the centre of the room were the evidences that fire at some time had been nsed. The only solution of this enigma is, that these solitary rooms were the altar places of the Aztec fues; that from some cause the people at a remote period were constrained to abandon their homes, .but left one faithful sentinel in each instanoe to keep alive the flame that, according to the Indian traditions, was to light the way of Montezuma again to his people?their hoped-for Messiah and their Eternal King. AMA WAMAIUAJ UA gurnc ui liiu luiuo uo icjwiicu iu wo omiic buildings seven and eight stories in height, being reached by ladders planted against the walls. Round houses, twenty feet in diameter, built in the most substantial manner, of cut stone, and plaistered inside, were also found in excellent preservation. Besides these wonderfhl and interesting discoveries, silver mines of almost nnparalled richness have been found in the Burro Mountains, near the Arizona line, and others on the Rio Dolores, which are supposed to be ancient mines, of whioh there are wonderful traditions in the territory, for they bear unmistakable marks of having been worked ages ago. Miners are flocking to these new mines by hundreds; and no less than three hundred rich claims have already been taken up. Out op the Depths.?This is from the Louisville Courier-Journal: A gentleman of this city tells a good story of how a susceptible youth from the East, who prided himself of his debonnaire appearance and the ease with which he ingratiated himself in the good opinion of the fair sex, was saved from the U|i auuLUci, auu nuvuwv>> wv; ??> ? ? momenta to spare from their duties, either Betting fresh pots on the range or adding various curious substances to others, as directed by numerous prescriptions in large Chinese characters, which were spread out on a table near. The doctor was about forty-five years of age, dressed in the ordinary garb of his countrymen,; very clean and neat in his person, and with a bright, quick eye, rather sunken face, and long moustache and goatee. Motioning my companion to a seat, he gave her a very quick glance, and pointing to me said in very good English: "Husband ?" "No.": Lui , ou nave BShy, yoiinr rrlecr 7" To both of these queries the same answer was returned. "You make plenty, cough, plenty spit, all same blood ?' My companion told him her symptoms, which did not appear to be very alarming. "Ah, I jtnow," returned the Chinaman, "four weeks, forty dollars, I cure you!" "But the lady's'friends would like to know what is the matter with her," I said, "before entering into any arrangements." "Oh me give her medicine, cure her sure in four weeks," was the reply. After some further parleying, the lady being anxious to try his treatment, it was arranged that she should become his patient for a fortnight, and receive medicine for twentyfive dollars, and that she call next day for her first dose of tea. As soon as the money was paid, Li Po Tai, rising from his seat, said to my companion : "I think you too much dance, too much eat, (with a strong emphasis,) too much fool round, (in a loud voice.) If you dance you no get better, too much eating no good, too much fooling round no good. Good bye," and saying this, he walked into an inner room, and we saw him no more. Whether it was the medicine, or advice, (I strongly suspect the latter, for it was strictly followed,) my lady friend soon recovered her health, and is, of course, now a firm believer in the medical abilities of the Chinese. A TRUE INCIDENT OF THE WAR. There is coming a time when the brave deeds of the private Confederate soldier shall be sung of by pen and tongue. Most of the "high up" officers have had their day. And now for the "soldier". Private Cavanaugh was a member of Gen. Mat Hansom's brigade of cavalry. When the General, in connection with other forces, was trying to take Plymouth, there was a creek called Connuba, which was necessary to be crossed in order to turn the Yankee's flank, who were over on the other lidei It was the dead of night. The General called up a Captain in his command and ' ? .it* j ? . _ __i toils of s scheming mchantrees. Me was traveling over one of the railways leading to this city, when there entered the car an elder* ly lady, then the matron of the Indiana State Prison at Jeffersonville, accompanied by her daughter, a beautifbl as well as accomplished, bat very mischievous young lady of eighteen. The young man immediately "took a shine to her," and? after muoh managing obtained a seat by her side, and endeavored to lead her into conversation. This she^ in her vivacity and: roguishnees, was not at aHloth.to- accept, and the youngster was fairiy.intoxicated with her brilliant repartee and the music of her low, sweet voioe, "that excellent thing in woman." After this had gone oa as long as the old hb9y thought proper, she took a seat beside the ypong Adonis and said: "Young man, you are a total stranger to me; but it is my duty to warn you. of impending evil. That vounsr woman Is just out of the State priaon> It is a*dlMMo ?ay th#4he young man wilted: ? ? 0BI9IX OF THS POST OFFICE. This invention is ascribed to Cyrus, King of Penis, who flourished nearly six hundred yean before the birth of Jesus Christ. No mention is to be found of such an establishment before his time. As the Penian empire, after its last conquests, was of vast extent, Cyrus required that his governon of provinces, and the chief commanders of his troops should write to him and give an exact account of everything that passed in their several districts and armies. In order to ftnder that correspondence the more sure and expeditious, and to put himself in a condition of receiving speedy intelligence of all occurrences and affairs, and of sending his orders thereupon with expedition, he caused post houses to be built, and messengers to be appointed in every province. Having computed how far a good hone with a brisk rider could go in a day without being spoiled, he had stables built in proportion at equal distances from each other, and had them fhcnished with grooms to take care of them. At each of these places he likewise appointed a postmaster, to receive pdbkets from the couriers as they arrived, and give them to others, and to take the horses that had performed their stage, and to find fresh ones. Thus the post went continually night and day, with extraordinary speed; nor did either rain or, * innlamanmr in tll? 0UU1T| UCib VI W1U, U1 (WJ Uivivuivuvj ?M weather, interrupt its progress. Herodotus speaks of the same sort of couriers in the reign of Xerxes. The superintendency of the posts became a considerable employment : Darius, the last King of the ancient Persians, had it before he came to the crown. Xenophon takes notice that this establishment existed in his time, which perfectly agrees with what is related in the book of Esther, concerning the edict published by Ahasuerus in favor of the Jews ; which edict was carried through that vast empire with a rapidity .that would have been: impossible without these posts established by Cyras. People are justly surprised to find that this establishment of posts and couriers, first invented in the East by Cyrus, and continued for many ages afterward by his successors, especially considering the usefulness of it to a government, should never have been imitated in the West, particularly by people so expert in politics as the Romans and Greeks. TOO CONTENTED. Contentment is a very good thing in its place, but it is said that "virtues carried to excess become vices." Some people have the vice of oontentment very bad. As Hugh Miller justly remarks of the Scottish Highlanders, their contentment was certainly no virtue, "when it had the effect of arresting all improvement. It is also perilously allied to great suffering, when the men who exemplify it are so thoroughly happy amid the mediocrities of the present that they fail to make provision for the contingencies of the future." Jo nA motnf in koin/> wtfK M. UOIO JO UV UIQIJ V IU UWUg WUbVUbVJ ni?>i an old leaky roof and patched windows; a house with loose clapboards, and a tangled door yard, whose one hinged gate gives free ingress to cows and pigs, unless all these things are positively unavoidable. "The field of the sluggard" met with no commendation from the wisest of men. The shiftless contentment of the lazy man is no akin to the resignation of the true christian, who submits humbly to the Lord's will, even when inclination is sorely crossed. The best sermon to preach to some people would seem to be the duty of discontent with their present surroundings. There is no hope of arousing them to improvement till they can be shook awake, and made to open their eyes to the wretchedness their sluggish content has brought them into; have them dissatisfied if you can with the crazy old house and broken fence, the sorrel grown fields, and garden of nettles. Show them the improvement a pound of nails and a half a day's labor would make on the house and yard, and if need be lend a helping hand to start the ball of improvement. You will never lose time by such good deeds, and it will give you satisfaction every time you recall it. When you have done your beet to improve yourself and your oondition, then is the time and place for contentment to come in. Then you may cheerfully leave theresuits to a higher power, satisfied that you will not receive the condemnation of the "slothful servant." "Ge" and "Wo."?Not only is the study of "little things" interesting and instructive, but that of common things and words in common use, even of the most humble and menial application is so too. For example, the syllables "Qe" and "Wo" which carters, carmen, and others are in the habit of addressing to their horses, are not destitute of historical and fundamental meanings. Now, the word "Ge" seems to be the imperative of gch of the^ German verb gehen, to go. In Lancashire, Yorkshire, and other northern parts of England, the term "Ge" is still used as a conversational word. Thus, if things do not suit each other, or neighbors do not agree, the expression is "They do not 'ge' well together." The term "Wo" was anciently applied to knights and combatants in armor. The word is simply a broad pronunciation of the Danish word Ho, commanding cessation or desistanoe. At tilts and tournaments, when the King or President of the combat gave the signal for discontinuance by throwing down his warden or baton, the heralds shouted Ho!?that is stop. The French have added la, and, used UQ compound JVM1 or wp Hi?rc| u wmiiihw, and which we have adopted in common language, when We call Halloo / for a person to top. The word, in its nearly nncorrupt state, till exists in nautical language. Thus, when one ship hails another, the words are Whai ship 'hoy!?that is, "stop! tell the name of your ship."?Educational Journal.. Why General Lee Bscims a College President.?At the Amoral services of Gen. Lee in Lexington, Va., the venerate Doctor White, Stonewall Jackson's old pastor, related the following incident, sitting in a chair because be was too feehle to stand: : "The question has been often a*|md, what ooold have induced a man like General Lee, one who had filled so high a position, in die confidence and love of such multitudes in this and other lands, to take apositipu like that .1 he held here ? Borne ascribe it to a desire to be employed. ?8och a man, they said,could not end his days in idleness. Others said his fOBbg men? of hft country in science and literature. Both of these were noble motives, and I doubt not contributed largely to the reaaUt: But it is * our good fortune to have learned fitom hie y> own lips what the ruling motive wai. This he explicitly avowed to m*Jia4he' following manner: In the good proviflehoe of God I , was permitted to serve this Inst&ite for two i J months as their chaplain daring the'first year of Gen. Lee's administration. In passing his gate one morning on my way to the chapel, he joined me. When we had nearly reached the college he stopped, and after remaining silent for a moment or two, with moistened eyes and a very earnest manner, he said ? "I shall be disappointed, sir ; I shall foil in the leading objectthat brought me here aniens ' these young men all become real Christians, and I wish you and others of your sacred profession to do all yon can to acoomplish. this result." Here, then, we have an answer in his own words to the question so often asked in reference to the motives which brofcght him here, and all who knew hhn well knew what he meant bjr "real Christians." He be* longed to one branch of the Church and i to another, yet in myintercouree with him?an intercourse rendered far more frequent and intimate by the tender sympathy; he. folt in my ill-health?the thought never occurred to me that we belonged to different '?lurchee. I J r . f. ? 111 ' 1 Rising in the World.?Bear constantly in mind that nine-tenths of us are, from the very nature and necessities of the world, born to earn our livelihood by the sweat of our brow. What reason have we, then, to presume that our children are not to do the same? If they be, as now and then one will be, endowed with eztarordinrry powers of mind, thorn powere may have an opportunity of developing themselves; and if they never have that opportunity, the harm is not very great to us or to them. Nor does it henoe follow that the descendants of laborers pre always to.be laborers. .The path upward is steep nipd long, to besur& Industry, care, skill, excellence in the present parent, lay toe foundation of a , rise under more favorable circumstances for the children. Hie children of these take an- other rise; and by and by the descendants of the present laborer become men of distinction. This is the natural progress. It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is produced in the-wbrld; and the propensity to make such attempts has been cherished and encouraged by the strange projects that we have witnessed of late yean for making the laborers virtuous and happy, by giving them what is called education. This education consists in bringing- up children to labor with steadiness, with earn, and with skill; to show them how to do as many useftil things as possible; to teach them how to do +Via.m in fVia koof manna,.. oof fVlorn nn AT. (OiViU WIV W?? kUMUUVk I W WW PMVM M? ample in industry, sobriety, cleanliness, and neatness; to make these habitual to them, so that they shall never be liable to fall into the contrary, to let them always see a good living proceeding from labor, and thus to remove from them the temptation to get at the goods of others by violentor fraudulent means, and to keep far from their minds all the inducements to hypocrisy aha deceit , How Monkeys abe Caught.?From the chapter of Menageries, in Olive Logan's "Be fore the Foot Lights and Behind the Soenes," . we make the following extract: . Monkeys are such canning creatures, one would suppose them more difficult to catch than other wild animals, Pitfalls will take a lion, and the famished monarch of the forest/ will, after a few day's starvation, dart into a cage containing food, and thus be secured. But how are monkeys caught?. The ape family resembles man. $heir vices arehuman. They love liquor and fhlL In Dufour and Sanaar the natives make figynented beer of which the monkeys are passionately fond. Aware of this, the natives go to the parts of the forests frequented by the monkeys, and set on the ground calabashes full of the enticing liquor. As soon as tbe monkey sees and tastes it, he utters loud erics of joy, that soon attract his comrades. Then aa orgie begins, and in a short time the beastB show all degrees of intoxication. Then the negroes appear. They are two far gone to distrust them, but apparently take them for larger orwnaa nf fVioir num orMltlft. The necroefl D|iWIV9 V* VMV?* V??M g vw? -v take some up, and then begin immediately to weep and cover them with kieoes. When a negro takes one by the hand to lead him ofl, the nearest monkey will cling to the one who thus finds a support, and endeavor to gooff also. Another will grasp at him, and so on, till the negro leads a staggering line ol ten or a dozen tipsy monkeys. When finally brought to the village they are securely caged, and gradually sobered down; but for two or three days, a gradually diminishing supply of liquor is given them, so as to reconcile them by degrees to their state of captivity. 19" The Alexandria Oaxtttt says that it is the opinion of many persons that the late unprecedented freshet in the James and Shenandoah riven was not caused by a continued rain, but by seething like the bursting of a waterspout. on or about their headwaters, and their sources are not a very great distance apart The flood came down in the Shenandoah in great waves, succeeding each other rapidly. *9" A Dan bury wife cured her husband of singing Shoo Fly when she waa lecturing him for befagout late of nights by letting her shoe fly/at bis head with such force as to ghrebim a headache.