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GECarroD i|? * / lewis m. grist, proprietor. J |nbqpbtitt Jfaimlg HUtosgagtr: jfar tj}t |jnrmirtKnt of t|t, ^jglitiral, Social, ^gricgltiiral mtb Commercial Interests of % ffontff. teems?$3.00 a tear, in adyance. VOL. 17. YORKVILLE, S. C., TH?B3DAY, OCTOBER 26, 1871. . JSTQ.43. Jto Original frige ftorw. Written for the Yorkville Enquirer. sssmi. A TALE OF BEFORE THE WAR. BY ALICE ARNOLD. CHAPTER XVII. Some days after her sister's departure, Rose sat in herown room, fixing a head-dress which she expected to wear to a dinner party on the morrow, and thinking, very sadly, about Beatrix' isolated life?brilliant, though it might be?when Nellie entered with a letter which vi she said had just been left at the door. The handwriting was quite unfamiliar to Rose, MOpened it wonderingly and read. It ran Hows: "Mrs. Vblmonte ; Madam?In this instance, you must pardon a stranger,NvbiTfeels toocQuch interest in the^career of a yoopg-jgd some neoessaryadvice. Your conduct, ofla^ has been such as to infect our society with very grave (and /believe, most unjust) suspicions regarding your character. But what I set down to thoughtlessness and inexperience, others view in a very different light; and there are those malicious enough, and envious of your brilliant reputation, to eagerly grasp any occasion for casting a slur upon it. Your great intimacy?during your husband's absence?with a certain gentleman (whose wellknown liberal principles, you, doubtless, are not aware of) is greatly to your disadvantage i in the eyes of the world; and it has also been j alleged against you, that in company with j this gentleman, you. frequent the society of j actors and actresses; all of which, Mrs. Grundy asserts with unblushing confidence. Now, your correspondent, of course, my dear young lady, doCs not believe any of these charges ; j jL but you, yourself, must have lived long enough p* to appreciate the importance of not despising such on diU. What I would then counsel, is to show yourself no more in public with the person I have referred to, and at once seek the protection of your husband. I am, most sincerely, A Friend." "This person is certainly demented," was Rose's comment, after having read and reread the letter several times and receiving but a vague idea of its purport; and with a contemptuous curl of her lip, she tossed it into the grate. " 'Seek the protection of my husband,' indeed J" she exclaimed; "I suppose by that, the friendly correspondent wishes me to go and bury myself in the country. She (it is a woman, evidently, from the hand-writing) may have good reasons for so doing. Who knows but what it may be Linda Witherton, or Claudia Velmonte, or . Ha! ha! I take fright and immure myself, indeed. I shall go out this very day." But when two o'clock came, and she was arrayed in her most becoming walking-suit, in spite of herself, she felt a little nervous trepidation. - ?The ftfft place Thai she ctUledntrsEe~wair - kept waiting on the door step such a length of time that she was just about leaving the house, when a servant man appeared, who putting his head out, waited to take her message. On her enquiring if the ladies were at home, j he hesitated a while; then saying that he would go and see, Rose, through the open door, distinctly heard the voice of the mis-1 tress, whom she was well acquainted with, say i over the balusters, "No, James, we are not j * 1 - - * - If? T ...!. TT. 1 99 at Dome to iurs. xjouis v eimum*:. She was greatly shocked, and felt something very hot and hard rising in her throat, but said nothing, as she gave her card to the man and went away. The next call that she made, the lady of the house was standing at the street door, talking with a beggar-woman, and could not help asking her in ; but her manner was so very cold and distant that Rose, chilled and indignant, cut her visit short, and went no where else that day. As she was walking home, she met several fashionable acquaintances, who suffered her bow to pass unnoticed; and one lady, with whom she had been on really intimate terms, I most perceptibly crossed the street to avoid her; fGood God!" exclaimed Rose, to herself. "Can it be possible? Is there really any reason in that miserable letter?" She went home and had a heaVty cry, and taking little Louis upon her lap, told him that she was going to send him out with a pistol to shoot everybody who had insulted her. And the little one, babbling aud patting her cheek with his little hand, seemed to-assure her of his protection. 4 She went to the dinner party the following day; but finding herself neglected, and actually shunned by the lady portion of the company, returned home in a fit of bitter indignation and despair, and wrote immediately to Louis, begging him to come down and move them up to the place. She reminded him L t^-t]l^*ijred house by the month, and jg- red of town, that her society, and that she was piAnd when Louis .arrived, two days later, she looked quite ill enough to justify any representations. He made no demur about giving up the house; for in fact, it was a great expense, and he had, he said, been very lonesome at the plantation witnout ner. They accordingly went up to Woodstock the following day, and Rose, sick of heartlessness and insincerity, and, in fact, weary of all the world, resolved to devote the remainder of her days to study. Louis did not appear to know or suspect anything of the scandal that was afloat concerning her; he seemed very much engrossed in his planting, and for this > Rose felt very thankful. For what good could his knowing it do ? 'Twould only goad him almost to madness, and he would find it impossible to lay hands on the originator of the reports. Rose tried to work very hard, but somehow could not do it with the same heart as formerly. She did not write with the same spice and vigor, nor did she derive as much pleasure from it as she had used to do. Her sensitive nature, galled and bleeding, seemed continually to writhe under the sting of the great m injustice that had been done her. It was very hard, very bitter. Was this the inevitable fate of genius ? An ordinary nature would have remained in L -,and lived down the calumnies which had been circulating about her; but Rose was ! too deeply wounded ever to wish to see the city again. She did go down in March; but it was to her father's funeral, and both her mother and Helen were shocked at her altered appearance. Mr. Seaton, also, who had gained his case and come home, prepared to be speedily married, told Helen that he never would have recognized her sister, whom he had last seen as a beautiful, blooming bride. Helen's wedding was to be very private on account of their recent affliction ; but Rose could not be induced to stay for it. She had left the baby, and would, she said, be miserable if kept from him any longer. Helen felt very sad at parting from her, but Rose assured her that all she wanted was rest and retirement. Rest and retirement she did not have, however, at Woodstock, for Louis had taken a fancy, of late, to give dinner parties and [ grand hunts; and she, not liking to cross him in /anything, exerted herself more than she was physically able to do?two or three days gut of every weak, making greak preparations to receive-all the genllemen in dinner; and, as'hef husband contajroWW usual cmk>m, wished her to presides these occasioriflBhe had to make the additional effort offlwearing in high spirits. It neveF seemed to strike Louis that these pleasures of his might possibly be attended with discomfort or inconvenience to his wife; and as she never complained, the possibility of her being out of health never presented itself to his mind. Helen was married in April, and about a week before the appointed day, Rose sat one night in her dressing.room, inditing a very sweet and affectionate little poem to the happy couple. As she turned over various papers in her desk, her fingers lit upon the verses she had composed just after Beatrix' departure, seven years before. Until now, she had not looked at it since that time, and the ro-perusal of it filled her with a strange melancholy. Her eldest sister seemed dearer to her that instant than she had ever been before, and Rose sat with the paper in her hand, sheddiug silent tears over it until the clock struck twelve, when she started up and began to prepare for bed. As she was crossing the hall to go to her sleeping apartment, Rose suddenly paused in the middle of the room. There was no light, save that which radiated from the la9t of some pine torches which had been burning in ? j? ?a tne cnimney during tat: evening, mm iu mc flickering glow she beheld a figure standing on the hearth rug. Mrs. Velmonte felt the blood rush to her heart, and her hands grew icy cold, as it turned, and regarding her with a mournful, steadfast gaze, she distinguished the features of her sister Beatrix. She uttered a low cry and sprang forward, but e'er she could clasp it, the phantom receded before her approach and seemed to vanish through the wall.' Hose quivered all over with excitement, and called her sister's name in beseeching ao oontoj but there mm aw ylf; and weeping, she sought her chamber, where her husband and child were both locked in the embrace of' healthful slumber. It may havfe been the phantasm of an over-wrought brain, but Rose felt a firm conviction that she had seen her sister; and from that night, it was perceptible to herself that her health rapidly declined. * * * * * A week later, standing at the window one morning, Mrs. Velmonte read the announcement of her sister Helen's marriage in the daily paper from L .. She smiled, a gentle, contented smile. "Helen is certain to be happy," she said softly. "She has always been so dutiful and affectionate to pooi|> manittid." As her eye wandered languidly down another column, it was suddenly arrested by the following paragraph under the heading of "News of the Day." "Jane Alverly, the brilliant and popular American actress, who forthe past two months has been delighting a London public, died suddenly, last Thursday night, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. She fell down upon the stage, while in the midst of a very thrilling passage in the'Lady of Lyons,' and died almost immediately. Post mortem examinations of the body pronounce it to have been heart disease, which must, sooner or later, 1 a ? x-J 99 nave tenmuaieu iuuuij. NThe paper fell from Rose's nerveless hands, her knees gave way under her, and she sank a helpless, senseless weight upon the floor. Old Robert, who was in the butler's pantry, having a call to come into the hall, and-seeing his mistress' condition, availed himself of the occasion, after the manner of his race, to set up a prodigious howl, which brought all the servants from the kitchen and their master up from the barn-yard. Rose was taken to her bed and remained very ill all the rest of the day. The doctor, when summoned, pronounced it to be nervous fever, the result of too intense mental application; and Louis, who seemed now fully aroused to a sense of her condition, seldom left her bedside, night or day, and looked the most entirely miserable being alive. On tbe third day, the disease took the form of typhus fever; and on the fourth, she was so Iylll fcharbeFraother and sister were sent for. . Poor Mrs. Livingston, who was already bowed down by the news of Beatrix' untimely end, only arrived at Woodstock to learn that the doctor had giyen up all hope of Rose's recovery. They were at once shown to her apartment. She had fallen into a light doze, but the ravages of illness and suffering were so legible on her once beautiful face, that Helen shuddered to behold it. Beside the bed sat Louis, in an attitude of profound dejection, with his face buried in his handkerchief. He did not rise or show aily consciousness of their presence ; and the mother and sister placed themselves softly on the other side of the bed. After a little while Rose awoke, and looking toward them with a faint ' ? -1- ~ ^ ^<MX\A nlin/4 Alii 1\nn Vtnn/^ smut; ui reeujjuiiiuu, icavucu uui?. uc& uauu. I They both pressed it, and kissed her gently; ; then she asked, in a feeble, scarce articulate tone, for her child, who was immediately brought out of an adjoining room. As she feebly caressed and kissed him, large tears fell upon his little hands, and his father, who h&d risen and was bending over them both, ob served a sudden change pass over her face. He immediately held a glass of stiraulous to her lips; and as Helen took the child in her arms, Louis, unmindful of all about him, exi claimed in an anguished voice, "Oh ! Rose, my precious, my angelic wife, you have been far too good for me! Only speak, and say that you forgive ray selfishness, and that my cruel, ungrateful conduct has not made you cease to love me." But the power of speech was gone from her. | She only turned her dying eyes full upon him, with a look of intense, imperishable love; and, : so looking, and so loving, her spirit passed from earth. Louis sank upon his knees by the bedside ; and Helen, still holding the child, drew their stricken mother from the room, and placed her pu the sofa in the hall. Mrs. Livingston did not shed a tear, but looking upward with dry, staring eyes, murmured, "Beatrix and Rosalie, my two gifted children. Oh! my God, why were they given me that I should lose them thus?" ***** *"" 1? -wvin /umafepv rpat. Oiue uy siuc, 111 u ijuici gicui , Rosalie and Beatrix Livingston. Louis, who then knew what the actress had been to his dead wife, had her remains brought home from England, and raised two monuments, exactly alike, and upon each of which was carved a broken rose, over the sisters. Mrs. Livingston resides with Helen Scaton, in a happy, cheerful home, and little Louis is their joint-care. His father lives at 'Woocljkick, almost as great a recluse Sahwfoct'enl^ic predecessor, and continually haunted by dreams of the beautiful and gifted girl, who gave to him, in all its freshness and purity, first love of her young heart; and over whose grave the violets are blooming. THE END. Ipsfritaiwimsi gfradiug. THE "KU-KLUX" ACT. AN ACT to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person who, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage of any State, shall subject, or cause to be subjected, any person within the jurisdiction of the United States to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution of the United States, shall, any such law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage of the State to the contrary notwithstanding, be liable to the party injured in any action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress ; such proceedings to be prosecuted in the several district or circuit courts of the United States, with and subject to the same rights of appeal, review upon error, and other remedies provided in like cases in such courts, under the provisions of the act of the ninth of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled "An act to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and to furnish the means of their vindication and the other remedial laws of the United States which are in their nature applicable in such cases. Sec. 2. That if two or more persons within any State or Territory of the United States Bhall conspire together to overthrow, or to put down, or to destroy by force the government of the United States, or to levy war against the United States, or to oppose by force the authority of the government of the United States, or by force, intimidation, or threat to f>revent, binder- nr delay the execution of any aw of the United States, or by force to seize, take or possess any property of the United States contrary ?to the authority thereof, or by force, intimidation, or threat, to prevent any person from accepting or holding any office of trust or place of confidence under the United States, or from discharging the duties thereof, or by force, intimidation, or threat to induce any officer of the United States to leave any State, district, or place where his duties as such officer might lawfully be performed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or to injure his person while engaged in the lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official dutv. or bv force, intira idation, or threat to deter any party or witness in any coflrt of the United States from attending such court, orfrora testifying in any matter pending in such court fully, freely and truthfully, or to injure any such party or wit-* ness in his person or property on account of his having so attended or testified, or by force, intimidation, or threat to influence the yerdict, presentment, or indictment, of any juror or grand juror in any court of the United States, or to injure such juror in hiB person or property on account of any verdict, presentment, or indictment lawfully assented to by him, or on account of his being or having been such juror, or shall conspire together, or go in. disguise upon the public highway, or upon the premises of another, for the purpose, either directly or indirectly, of depriving any person or any class of persons of the equal protection of the laws, or of equal privileges or immunities under the laws, or for the purpose of preventing tor hindering the constituted authorities of any State from giving or securing to all persons within such State the equal protection of the laws, or shall conspire together for the purpose of in any manner impeding, hindering, obstructing, or defeating the due course of justice in any State or Territory, with intent to deny to any citizen of the United States the due and equal protection of the laws, or to injure any person in his person qr his property for lawfully enforcing the right of Any person or class of persons to the 'equaT protection of the laws, or by force, intimidation, or threat to prevent any citizen of the United States lawfully entitled te vote from giving his support or advocacy in a lawful manner toward or in favor of the election ~rmrny Jawtulty qualified person as an .elector of President or Vice-President of the United States, or as a member of the Congress of the United States, or to injure any such citizen in his person or property on account of such support or advocacy, each and every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a high crime, and, upon conviction thereof.in any district or circuit court of .the United States or district or supreme court of any Territory of the United States having jurisdiction of similar offenses, shall be punished ,by a fine not less than five hundred nor more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment with or without hard labor, as the court may determine, for a period of not less than six months nor more thansWc years, as the court may determine, or by both such fine and imprisonment as the court shall determine. And if any one or more persons engaged in any such conspiracy shall do, or cause to be done, any act in furtherance of the object of such conspiracy, whereby any person shall be injured in his person or property, or deprived of hav.ing and exercising any right or privilege of a citizen of the United States, the person so injured or deprived of such rights and privileges may have and maintain an action for the recovery of damages occasioned by such injury or deprivation of rights and privileges against any one or more of the persons engaged in such conspiracy, such action to be prosecuted in the proper district or circuit court of the United States, with and subject to the same rights of appeal, review upon error, and other remedies provided in like cases in such courts under the provisions of the act of April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixtysix, entitled "An act to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and to furnish the means of their vindication." Sec. 3. That in all cases where insurrection domestic violence, unlawful combinations, o conspiracies in any State shall so obstruct o J hinder the execution of the laws thereof,-an< | of the United States, as to deprive any portioi | or class of the people of such State of any o the rights, privileges, or immunities, or pro tection, named in the Constitution aHd secure* by this act, and the constituted authorities o such State shall either be unable to protect, o shall, from any cause, fail in or refuse protec tion of the people in such rights, such fact shall be deemed a denial by such State o equal protection of the laws to which they ar entitled under the Constitution of the Unitei States; and in all such cases, or whenever an' such insurrection, violence, unlawful comb] nation, or conspiracy shall oppose or obstruC the laws of the United States or the due exe cution thereof, or impede or obstruct the du course of justice under the same, it shall b lawful for the President, and it shall, be hjj duty to take such measures, by the employ meat of the militia or the land and nava forces of the United States, or -of either,? by other means, as he may deem necessary 10 the suppression of such insurrection,, domesth violence or combinations ^ and jpevvaji who shall be arrested under tlia provisions^! . tjyis and tho preceding section shall bedeliv ered to the marshal of the proper district, U be dealt with according to law. Sec. 4. That whenever in any State or par of a State the unlawful combinations narae< in the preceding section of this act shall b< organized and armed, and so numerous am powerful as to be able, by violeuce, to eithe; overthrow or set at defiance the constitutec authorities of such State, and of the Unite( States within such State, or when the constitu ted authorities are in complicity with, or shal connive at the unlawful purposes of, such pow erful and armed combinations; and whenever by reason of either or all of the causes afpre said, the conviction of such offenders and tki preservation of the public safety shall becom< in such district impracticable, iu every sucl case such combinations shall be deemed a re bellion against the government of the Unitet States, and during the continuance of sucl rebellion, and within the limits of the distric which shall be so under the sway thereof, sucl limits to be .prescribed by proclamation, it shall be lawful for the President of the Uni ted States, when in his judgment the public safety shall require it, to suspend the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus, to the end thai such rebellion may be overthrown: Provided That all the provisions of the second secfior of an act entitled "An act relating to habecu corpus, and regulating judicial proceedings ic certain cases approved March third, eigh teen hundred and sixty-three, which relate tc the discharge of prisoners other than prisoners of war, and to the penalty for refusing toobej the order of the court, shall be in fall force sc far as the same are applicable to the provisions of this section: Provided further, Thai the President shall first have made proclamation, as now provided by law, commanding such insurgents to disperse: Andprovided also That the provisions of this section shall not b< in force after the end of the next regular ses sion of Congress. Sec. 5. That no person shall be a grand 01 petit juror in any court of the United States upon any inquiry, hearing, or trial of any suit, proceeding, or prosecution based upon oi arising under the provisions of this act whc shall, in the judgment of the court, be in [complicity with any such combination or con spiracy ; and every such juror shall, before (entering upon such inquiry, hearing* or trial take and subscribe an oath in open coArt thai ^he has never,'-directly- or indirecdyi tj^unseleH advised, or voluntarily aided any sucn comW nation or conspiracy ; and each and every person who shall take this oath, and shall therein swear falsely, shall be guilty of peijury, and shall be subject to the pains and penalties declared against that crime, and the first section of the act entitled "An act defining additional causes of challenge and prescribing an additional oath for grand and petit jurors in the United States courts," approved June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be "and the same is hereby, repealed. Sec. 6. That any person or persons, having knowledge that any of the wrongs conspired to be done and mentioned in the second section of this act are about to be committed, aud having power to prevent or aid in preventing the same, shall neglect or refuse so tc do, and such wrongful act shall be committed, such person or persons shall be liable to the person injured, or his legal representatives, foi all damages caused by any such wrongful acl whibh such first named person or persons by raoonnoKL rtilirronpo pnillfl bflVA nrPVfitltftd ' IWWVUUUIU Ull.jVUVV ' ~ I 1 and euch damages may be recovered in an action on the case in the proper circuit court of the United States, and any number of persons guilty of such wrongful neglect or refusal may be joined as defendants in such action : Provided, That such action shall be commenced within one year after such cause of action shall have accrued ; and if the death of any person shall be caused by any such wrongful- act and neglect, the legal representatives of such deceased person shall have such action therefor, and may recovei not exceeding five thousand dollars damaget therein, for the benefit of the widow of such deceased person, if any there be, or if there be no widow, for the benefit of the next of kin of such deceased person. Sec. 7. ThAt nothing herein contained shall be construed to supersede or repeal any former act or law except so far as the same may be repugnant thereto; and any offences here tofore committed against the tenor of any former act shall be prosecuted, and any pro celling already commenced for the prosecution thereof shall be continued and completed the Bame as if this act had not been passed except so far as the provisions of this act may go to sustain and validate such proceedings Approved, April 20,1871. THE NEW YORjTHOHSE M[JlEKET^J On the block adjoining the Third Avenue Railroad Depot is located the horse m&ffcet where the masses congregate to swap steeds ol doubtful qualities, of uncertain age, and oftentimes of peculiar make-up and gait. The quadrupeds paraded range in price from twelve shillings to the reputable figure of seventy or eighty dollars; but when such a sum is demanded, the animal must be guaranteed to pull at least a ton on week-days and sho^\ a forty gait on Sunday over the Lane. Fred Buckley, an old New Yorker, is the lessee of the ground, and acts in the capacity of mastei of- ceremonies, in which he is most ably assist ed by the polite, handsome Billy Baldwin who is ever on the alert to see the customen receive every possible attention, and even occasionally takes a hand.in showing off the peculiar points of some high-strung animal that no one else can manage. The buyers ic the main are small farmers from Long Island - New Jersey, and Westchester, on the lookout for bargains in brood mares, licensed venders small contractors, tin-ware peddlers, with e slight sprinkling of laboring men, anxious tc take one step up the ladder, and establist themselves as proprietors of a horse and cart Each seller, as he enters the gate, marphei direct to where the proprietor stands, and de posits in his outstretched palm a ten-cent stamp for each and every animal he has thee and there on sale. A large portion of these sellers are of the class usually termed profes sional dealers, who flock to this market to die pose of uncertain stook which they become possessed of in trades with railroad companiet and other horse killing agencies?animal: which require an extra dose of ginger to in duce them to stand up long enough to shov i, what they had been in former days. Now r and then a chance one is culled from the list hy proper care can be made not only 1 (.useful but valuable. a'j-vTt is an unspeakable treat to listen as the f v.praises of a*horse are intoned. The charm i? j Would vanish if attempted by an untutored JI bungler in the art. The tone, the look, the >f L^ftrpg, the haJf-uncotft'cious smoothing of the r | coal, cannot be described. The charm which i- Niftf the kicker, the cribber, hides the splint gVOJi curb, and turns defects into beauties, can f jlonly be felt by direct contact with these muche tabaSed, but really gifted members of society, i rjjteprofessional dealer's love for the horse y taverns so deep-seated that to part with one ^jpvlBi at bis own price, appears to wring the t HDrea ot his tender neart. ine reeling ia au - general among the craft that it must be real, b $$$ doubtless is communicated in some special e?$fimier from the horse to the professional 9' jdeaJ^Jt who holds the haftter. Men devoid oi - yW&Ument rail at these exemplary traders, call 1 theojl horse thieves and other infamous names, rj should visit the gentlemen at their $ wSEor on change; and, if they have not beg.M B^o greatly prejudiced, they will soon be ^S^H^ ihe sincerity, suavity and honesty men who epen/Ltkoh nights in dJose communion with the {diirse they love so welhrr-Frank Leslie's IUustr'tied. ' <'? t Jfe. j From the Manufacturer anil Builder. ? 3 TOBACCO "AND PIPES. 1 Then'you wish to learn something about r tobaeco and the way people use it? Well, ^ light jour pipe, give me a match for mine, 1 and sit down here in the shade, and I will tell * you what observations I have made at home 1 and abroad; we shall have plenty of time u!?* til the one o'clock whistle sounds. ' No doubt you have wondered where the custom of smoking originated, and how the J name "tobacco" became applied to the plant. 3 I looked the question up the other day, and 1 copied this Extract out of Irving's Columbus. " In describing the first voyage of the great dis' cover, he says, "They beheld several of" the 1 natives going about with firebrands in their 1 hands, and certain dried herbs which they 1 .nllail nn in a loaf and nut in tKoir mniit.Ha IV/iiWV U|/ 4U W iWWi) WMV* J/UV au VliWia |W v ? XWJ L and continued inhaling and puffing out the smoke. A roll of this kind .they called a 'to5 bacco^' a name since transferred to the plant i of which the rolls were made, though that is ^ the name by which the cigar is known in Cu? ba. An old Spanish writer, whose work I ' -happened to sete a short time since, speaks of ' the use of tobacco as among "the evil customs 1 of the'Indians of Cuba, very pernicious, and " producing insensibility." Their mode of srao) king was by-inhalation through the nostrils, ' by means of a hollow, forked cane, the forked ' ends being inserted in the nostrils, the other ' end applied to the burning leaves of the plant. . A-ltjbough, as you see, it had been used for a longtime, Sir Walter Raleigh was the first 'r who introduced tobacco into civilized usage. ' The practice of smoking, however, seemed at ' once to fall into disrepute, particularly among the strict class of Puritans. In company with the drinking of coffee, it was made the subject of furious onslaughts from divines, who consigned to eternal punishment those who swallowed "the black liquid,' which could only have originated in hell; or made chimneys of their noses and mouths, by inhaling smoke and fire which would surely be their portion heref$er." L Among the low and onedcated classes, it-wa^ believed that fire was inhaled, 'and tba^smokingjeould be accomplish only by lhAd qi fithcraft or some other supernaturItiarda^of Sir Walter Raleigh LmQm** in a "brqftvn study," doubtless pfl^^thosSUtopian schemes which he was dhopwd: ueyer to realize, he was suddenly aidlwefl.frogl hfc reverie by the chilly application of a bucket of water thrown over his head #nd shoulders by his servant,;who, seeing smoke issue from his master's nose and mouth, imagined that his body was on fire. The kinds of tobacco used are as various as the different races that smoke it, and the means employed of consuming it are strongly ! indicative of the national characteristics. There is nothing perhaps more suggestive of j the incarnation of laziness than to watch a genuine, orthodox Turk smoking his "nar gileh." I use the word "orthodox in contra* ' distinction to the "dissenters," who affect European manners and customs. The "nar) gileh," or "hubble-bubble," as it is termed by | foreigners, consists of a glass vase filled witn \ scented water, into which runs a stem communicating with the bowl above. This stem ' endsjust beneath the surface of the water, and serves to conduct the smoke from the bowl to ' the perfumed fluid, which deprives it of its oil ! and renders it cool. From the body of the ' Vase it is drawn to the mouth of the smoker by means of a long flexible tube. The fine Turkish tobacco, generally known as "Scar| falatti,"or "Latakia," is rarely if ever smoked ' exceptin tne form of cigarettes. In the"nar gileh" a kind of Persian tobacco is consumed I which looks like dried oak-leaves, and is very mild. It is packed in the bowl iu moistened I layers, and of course will not stay lit, so that ah attendant is necessary to keep supplying it with live coals, and even then it requires considerable skill to keep it burning. One pipe1 ftil will last a Turk all day. He does not 5 smoke as we do, but inhales the fumes, but ' little smoking being visible in the vase, and I none ever exuding from his mouth. He will sit all day in a kind of dreamy stu, por, totally oblivious to all surrounding proceedings. If he be a shopkeeper, the entrance , of customers does not arouse his curiosity in the slightest; he calmly looks on while a ..' slave dops the bargaining or displays the foods. Tljey are genuine smokers, those 'ijAs, and their ideas of Mohammed's para' diseand its attendant hours were probably all ctjwured up while lazily watching the smoke curl from the bowls of their perfumed "narmake strong contrasts, and I can > tfiink of none more striking to the picture I , have just drawn than the method of enjoying f a cigar practiced by our western fellow-citi zens. Observe that representative from the s Buckeye State, lounging over there against i the fence. He has finished his dinner, and is about to begin his post-prandial smoke. Nol tice that cigar, the biggest he could find, He I rams it into his mouth as if he were about to r swallow it, and "chaws" the end for about I half its length. He lights it?a dozen sharp : wtiiffs?clouds of smoke?away goes thestump, and he is done. He can't afford the time to linger over the fragrance of a fine cigar, and , a cabbage-leaf or a full-flavored Havana are 3 the same to him. I came near forgetting our sedate friends i the Dutch. I do not mean the Germans, but I the Hollanders. Your true-bred Dutchman i and his pipe are almost inseparable, and his , long clay pipe, overflowing with strong "cani aster/' is his delight. , In almost all the gardens in Holland is i built a kind ofsumraer-house, generally painted > in bright glaring colors, looking like an imi mense flower. No matter how small the plot . of ground may be, it is sure to be laid out in 3 innumerable little beds of fanciful design, - which are filled with the most gorgeous-hued t tulips, and in the middle is placed one of these i arbors. Some quaint name, like "Abode of i Love," or "Heart's Rest," is inscribed over the door, and within it, at the cool of the even ing, may be seen its owner slowly puffing his ) pipe and gazing complacently at his flowers or 3 blinking at the reflection of the sunset in the 3 sluggish water of the omnipresent canal. Per haps you'll find two old cnaps in there,' their f portly forms dimly visible through the cloud of smoke, while their conversation will consisl of occasional monosyllables uttered between the slow whiffs. They take "solid comfort' in their way of smoking, as you may well i suppose; but we Yankees, with our go-ahead time-saving notions, would hardly appreciate it. ! The Spaniards and Cubans are great smoi kers, ana the use of tobacco is not confined tc the male sex alone. There is an indescriba ; ble grace in the way a dark-eyed senorita will roll her cigarette between her dainty fingertips. She does it so quickly that you can hardly follow her motions, placing it between i ; her lips and asking for a light in such a bewildering manner that, if you are at all sua i ceptible, you are desperately in love at once > Everybody smokes in Spain, and on all occa , sions. Bull-fighters in the vena will coollj light a cigarette while watching the motion* I of their infuriated antagonist. The Arabs and Moon favor the "chibouque," which consists simply of a bowl of red clay, with a long stem made .of jasmine, cherry, or other scented wood, tipped with a handsomely jeweled amber mouth-piece. They use i a poor quality of tobacco of their own raising, or else the ordinary Turkish. Our English cousin* almost in variably yrfr i fer the sWort, straight-stemmed wooden pipe, smoking either American tobacco, or what if known as "English shagand the "dhudeen" of the sons of the Emerald Isle is too well known to you to need any description. With the Indians, smoking is almost a religious ceremony, and a solemn fumigation from the pipe of peace is more binding in their minds than any amount of promises or treaties. Their "calumets" are usually cut from red sandstone, gayly decorated with feathers, and often with portions of the scalps of their enemies. There is a body of people that can hardly be termed a nation who use a pipe which surpasses anything I have heretofore mentioned in uniqueness and magnitude. It is larger than anything on the earth. You look incredulous, and may well do so. The fact is, they use this terrestrial globe for a bowl, without needing a planet or a fixed star for a resting-place, or the giant trees of California for stems. The people are a tribe of Hindoos, and they arrange their pipe by digging a small cavity into the ground big enough to hold sufficient tobacco, at an angle with w1,"oh they bore another and smaller hole communicating with it. Into the latter they insert a reed stem, and their pipe is complete. Ingenious idea, though rather'primitive; but they are spared the necessity of carrying their pipes about them. ?< Hallo! there goes the whistle, my pipe is oqt, and I see yours has been empty for some time. I shall have to defer the balahce of my lecture until some other opportunity. One might spin quite a yarn on tobacco in general, and wonder on the immense quantities consumed. In fact, I once heard of a visionary individual, of a statiscal frame of mind, who set to work to see how many different kinds of cigars the world smoked in a day; but his plans unfortunately never succeeded, and so, like the material which was the subject of his inquiry, they "ended in smoke.". , ? ;? A High Compliment from a Radical Source.?The Cincinnati Commercial's Nashville correspondent, (H. V. Redfield,) in a late letter pays the "traitors" and rebels" o? I the South the following compliment; "The Southern people lgathe a man wha Juses a public office to enrich hims?}? Whafi ever may be their ijfffts, they'iYe honest They do not worship tne almighty.dollar to the extent of bartering away ?ne?r dionor for ! it The old Sonthern fire-eating Democrats, we are^aught, were wicked men, and wicked they were, about some things, but they did not use their offices to fill their pockets. They did not form ritfgs to make money, or establish gift enterprises. This old-fashioned honesty, this abhorrence of anything that looks like prostituting public office to private gain, is as abhorrent to the Southern peoplenow as it ever was, and probably more, for they have been called upon since the war to have considerable experience with that sort of thing, and to know it is not to love it, especially when it is done at their expense. For the past six years the Southern States have been converted into an arena of robbery, presenting a spectacle of fraud and corruption perhaps unexampled in the history of tne world ; yet Southern-born men have had little to.do with it Your true Southerner, if he has sense enough to get an office, has too much honor to steal. In all my experience as correspondent of the Commercial in the different Southern States, I have found the worst thieves, the most insatiate robbers, to be Northern men.. There has been moce stolen in South Carolina, or in Louisiana, since the war, than in all the Southern States put together, from the revolution to 1860. And the strangest thing about this whole business is that the greater the rogue the more intensely "loyal" he is, and for that, or the other reason, the higher in favor at Washington. If Hodge had been stationed down South and had gotten up two or three ku-klux scares just on the eve of some election where the Radioals were sore pressed and thereby enabled them to carry the day, he would have been canonized instead of caged?thqugh he had stolen four millions instead of four hundred thousand dollars of the people's money. And yet these chaps are rolling their red eyes over the corruption of the Tammany Democracy. It is very much as if the "Heathen Chineei'had expressed himself shocked at the state or Bill Nye's sleeve. 4 4 How to Acquire and Keep Property. Every, young man ought to become familiar with, and, if possible, master of the trade most nearly allied to the occupation he intends to pursue. Foe instance, if I thought of dealing in cloths or ready-made clothing, I would learn the tailor's trade; if I thought of spending my life in a shoe-store, I would learn the shoe-make's trade; and if I intended to devote myself to farming?the best and noblest occupation of all, as it is the base upon which all other trades and professions re?t? I would rather learn the carpenter's and joiner's trade than anv other, as it will oftener come into, use on the form. The farmer who understands this trade has many advantages over one who does not, and has to run to ? mechanic for ever little job required to be done on the farm. L. .a if you work but a^hort time at the trade, say onejseason only, under a good master, you will find the Knowledge or great benefit to you many times. If ayoong man Is robust and healthy, this trade, in connection with a good practical education, sufficient to qualify Him as a .teacher of a district school in the winter season, with the judicious use of his time in summer, devoted to his trade, is about as good a start in life as any young man can have, who is not furnished with capetal ready to his hand, and the rare faculty to know how to use it. Whether he learns the trade or not, let him, by all means, be sure to acquire a good practical school education, sufficient, at least, to fit him for a fisst-class common school teacher; for in no other way can a voung man who has to lav the foundation of his own fortune do so well, learn so much of human nature, which will be of the greatest use to him in after life, as to follow for a few seasons the occupation of a district school teacher. + 465?' A school-teacher read: "Let your loins be girded, and your light burning," and asked the question, "Why are we commanded to gird our loins ?" One little shaver sang out, "To keep your breeches up." i A Lawyer's Knowledge.?All good law i yen know the value, in the practice of their ' profession, of generaJ knowledge or informa1 tion tD be obtained by practical intercourse , with the world, and studies outside, of the law ) library. In a book just published T>y. the daughter of an English advocate, Mr. John Adolphus, the following; is told, which will illustrate the virtue of the' kind of knowledge referred to. The writer says: "A very extraordinary criminal cas'e war entirely decided by the knowledge my father had picked up of naotical affaire in his earlj voyage to and from the West Indies. Las care were on their trial for the murder of the captain of the ship.? the evidence of the mate seemed quite Conclusive. In the course of it he said, however, that at the time of the mur der there was great Confusion, as the ship wai in much peril, and requiring all the attention .of the sad ore to prevent her from striking or a rock. My father, who defended the prisoners, asked so many questions as to the number of the crew, and where each man was, and what he was engaged in daring this perilous time, that at last the Judge whispered: "] onnnnoa Mr ArinlnhntL t.VlA nOMtlAIM ATA tf purpose ? X own I do not^see itthink' , wasted. After a jlw more questions as to the t duty each man performing, the witness had ' accounted for every man on board, the capI1 tain beidg below iand the two prisoners murdering him, My father fixed his eyes steadi ly on the witness, and said, in a searching and loud voice, "Then, who was at the helm?' The wretched mate dropped down in a fit, and soon after confessed he Was himself the murderer. In his false evidence he tad given tc each man his position, and forgotten the most material, or rather left none to fill it." How to Make Mischief.?Keep iour eye on your neighbors. Take care of tnem. Do not let them stir , without watching. They may do something if you do. To be sure, you never knew them to do anything very bad, but it may be on your account they have not. Perhaps if it had not been for your kind care they might have disgraced themselves a long , time ago. Thereforefore do not relax any effort to keep them where they ought to be. Never mind your own business; that will take care of itself. There is a man passing along?he is looking over the fence?De suspicious of higa; perhaps he contemplates stealing, some of these dark nights; there is nc knowing what queer fancies be may have got into his head, i If you find any symptoms of any one passing out of the path of duty, tell every one else i what you see, and be particular to see a great i many. It is a good way to circulate such things, though it may not benefit yourself 01 i $ny one else particularly. Do keep something going?silence is a dreadful thing: though it is said there was silence in heaven *- ?i_ * 1 ior lue space ux au uuux, uu uut rot ?njr buuij i thing occur on earth; it would be too much for this mundane sphere, i If, after all your watchful care, you cannot see anything out of the way in any one, you may be sure it is not because they have not done anything bad ; perhaps in an unguarded moment you lost sight of them?throw out hints that they are not better than they should be, that you should not wonder if the people ; found out what they were after a while, then they may not carry their heads so.higb. Keep j it going, and some one may take the bint ana I .begin to help you afoncf after awhile. Then there will be music ana everything will work to a charm. A Persian Tale.?There was once a ^prince, who having b^en much displeased with one of his nobles, determined to punish him*. The prince commanded that he should be shut up in a high tower. Into this tower there was only one entrance, which was walled up immediately after the nobleman had been placed there. Thus all hope of escape seemed to be cut off, and the unhappy man was left to perish. Inside the tower was a long winding stair-case, by which the prisoner reached the top. While looking down from there he observed his wife, who had come, indulging a faint hope that she might be able, by some means or other, to aid her husband in escaping from hisplaLce of confinement On inquiring if she could be of any service to him, he ' replied: "Oh, yes, go and procure a black beetle, a little grease, a skein of silk, a skein of twine, and a long rope." The wife hastened to obtain what her husband-asked for, wondering! no doubt, at the strangeness of his request She soon returned, furnished with the things. Her husband then directed her to put the grease on the beetle's head, to fasten the silk to its hind leg, the twine to the silk, and then the rope to the twine, and then to place the beetle on the wall of the tower. On being set at liberty on the wall, the beetle, smelling the grease on its head, and not being able to discover where it was, crept up the tower in search of it, till it arrived at the top. The nobleman caught it, and taking the silk from its hind leg, carefully drew it up. When he came to the end of the silk he found the twine, and next he came to the rope. Fastening this to a crook, he let himself down, and thus made his escape. A Million Strokes in a Month.?A wager lately came off, the terras of which were as follows: "Iwiliibet any man ?100 that he cannot make a million strokes with pen and ink within a month." They were not to be mere dets and scratches, but fair down strokes, such as form the child's first lesson in writing. A gentleman accepted the challenge. The month allowed was the lunar month of only twenty-eight days, so that, for the completion of the undertaking, an average of 36,* 000 strokes per diem was required. This at . 60 per miuute, or 3,600 per hour?and neither the human intellect nor the human band can be expected to do more?would call for ten hours labor in every twenty-four. With a proper respect for the Sabbath, the gentleman determined to abstain from his work on Sundays, and by this determination diminished by . four days the period allowed him; at the same time, by so doing, he increased the daily average of his strokes to upward of 41,000. On the first day he executed 50,000; on the second day nearly as many. But at length, after many days, his hand became stiff and weary, the wrist swollen, and, without interrupting its progress ovet the paper, it required the almost constant attendance of some friend to besprinkle it with a lotion calculated to relieve and invigorate it. On the twenty-third day the million strokes, exceeded by some few thousands, "to make assurance doubly sure," were accomplished. These interesting papers are not placed in the archives of the Koyal Society, of which the gentleman is a fellow, but were claimed and received by the person who paid the wager.?London Paper. # A Keen Reply.?Legal billlies who ask women impertinent questions in the witness box, ought to get their deserts, as did the solicitor-general the other day in the celebrated Tichborne case in England. The witness was a governess, who had Formerly been employed in the Tichborne family. Governesses in England are generally regarded as beings who are made to be snubbed and insulted. So the solicitor-general snubbed and insulted this one, while sne was testifying to the identity of the claimant to the Tichborne estate with the young heir as she knew him twenty years before. At last she had a chance at nim which she did not hesitate to improve. "Was the young man always polite to laaies ?" asked the solicitor-igeneral. "He was, indeed, polite toward ladies," replied the governess ; and wim a weii-uaueniwu dui^uikw ded, "gentlemen, I believe, always are so." The court-room burst into a loud laugh, and i the solicitor-general turned red in the1 face. I Extraordinary appetite oP a Boy.? ; Fred. Bowman, the boy who has given tho . Susquehanna Valley Home so much unpleas> ant notoriety recently, was returned to the Home at Binghampton, N. Y., on Tuesday ! evening, by Sheriff Martin. The boy has boarded with the Sheriff about three weeks, r and his capacity for devouring has been fully . tested as a matter of curiosity. His appetite . is wonderful, as well as the powers of his i stomach. He would eat at first the amount n? <lAalt mtf in fltA KMrnlfLr rfltinnn and ; ,V* 4UVU uvmv vu? ?u ?MV . , ? ? . beg from the prisoners all that was left on s their plates. The sheriff did notefcacily want i the name of starving the boy, and: gradually , increased his rations until they were nearly . doubled, but never did a scrap of victuals . come back on his plate. Sometime be would I be given three rations at one time, and weald , eat it to the last crumV but It was liable ; to make him dyspeptic if continued any great i length of time, jjiirtihe Sheriff can't quite . go clear of misore for starving the boy^for , corner of theaters' cell, and the poor lad . was actually devouring them to.sj^tam his , physical oiwanizatibn., The double rations of substantial food that he was alfowed during the day, and a panful of cookies extra at : night, pleased the. youth belter than the fare . at the Home, and for that reason be shed tears , on being transferred to his former quarters. ; He did,pot get any old bones to gnaw at the iail between meals, but he could make a lunch of old tobacco quids and was happy. What will become of him now is matter of considerable interest.?New York Star. Danger op Raising Fast Horses.?The Rural New Yorker states ;the following case, a /infnv/ia a/\ma conoiKlo ndotPA tft fftrfflAH. IV C?1VA VV OVUIU fc7VUO??S*V MW f *w fv suggested, we presume, by the display 6f horses which is fast becomihg the most attractive feature of our agricultural shows: "A well-to-do farmer of our acquaintance had the misfortune to rear a really doe horse, i The action of the animal gave him great do. light, and nothing would dobuj?atf exbibi, tion of him among the professionals. He Eut up his money add Won. This gave a . older flight to his imagination, and induced a greater operation. Buccess rewarded his n . ventures. He neglected bis /arm, impercept- f | ibly acquired habits to Which he had before f been a stranger,and spurred on by pasfrsuccess and the machinations of the crafty; whose aim L is to fleece the green and unwary, placed his / . farm in jeopardy for the purpose of raising J . money to stake on the result of a race in which i his pet horse was to contend for the prize and \ , mastery. The professionals had now got the , over-confident farmer in the precise position ^ they desired, and the .result was what they ; intended it should be,:ithe defeat of the form- < ' er's horse and the rnin of its oWher.;.Tb?. an; imal changed hands, and So. did the farm.' It was all down hill with the former after this. | His family was broken up ttpd dispersed, while he, reckless and maddened by disap, pointment and remorse, found a premature j grave." , , , A Home Educatoe,?There is nothing, says an exchange, that ^nll so soon induce children to read as a home newspaper introduced into a family. As it contains every week many items that will directly interest them, they've# naturally form a desire to take it op and peruseits columns; and it gradually but surely inculcates a disposition for information, that ho other class of reading matter does, thus laying the foundation of *n early practical education, treating as it does on the every day affairs of life. School teachers finding the tastes of their scholars improved by reading good papers have, in numerous instances, recommenaed them in every family, one of whom writes to a contemporary: "It would be for the interest of every school teacher to do the same for his district throughout the country. I teach in the same place I did last year, and coming back, I find the chil dren who have not been in the habit of reading a newspaper, backward: hence my anxiety." The newspaper can be made an important auxiliary to teachers, by introducing it into every household in the country, and thus foster and build up a desire for knowledge, . which is the groundwork for higher educational achievements. Ve hope our friends throughout the country will consider and act upon this sensible suggestion. . Night Larks.?The practice of allowing boys to spend their evenings on the streets is one of the most ruinous, dangerous and mischievous things possible. Nothing so speedily and surely marks their course downward. They acquire, under the cover of night, an unhealthy state of mind, vulgar'and profane language, obscene practices, criminal sentiments, and a lawless, riotous bearing. Indeed, it is in the streets, after nightfall, that , boys generally acquire the education and the capacity for becoming rowdy/dissolute men. Parents, do you believe it ? Will you keep your children home at nights ana see that their homes are made pleasant and profitable ? By doing so, you may save yourselves a great deal of grief and perplexity in your old age. Breathing Through the Nostrils.? We are no believers in "fussing" about our health, yet there are some simply rules which we may, with much advantage, convert into habits. One of them is this: When breathing air that is dusty, or ilhsmelliug, or otherwise inquire, draw the breath slowly through the nostrils., In this way the dust or other impurities are in part arrested in the .moist and narrow nasal passages, and are prevented from being thrown upon the lungs. When we ? ' .1 a xi Dreatne inrougn me mourn, mey are unrrxcu more directly-thither. Many would lengthen their lives by resolutely breathing through the nostrils. . , -v-' To Prevent Lamp Chimneys Breaking. Every housewife, who uses kerosene oil, knows . that it Affords the best and cheapest lights of all illuminating oils. But she also knows that the constant expense and annoyance from the breakage of lamps almost, if not quite, counterbalances the advantages of its use. Put the glass chimney in lukewarm water, heat to its boiling point, and boil it one hour, after which leave it'in the water till it cools. The chimney will be less liable to crack by sudden change of temperature. ' VST A curious observer of men, women and things in St. Louis, has made the discovery that men and boys invariably run the heels of their boots and shoes over outwardly, while women and girls always run theirs over inwardly. Out of 147 men and boys that passed the observer at a given point this feet was true in every instance; out of 67 women that passed, it was true in every instance but one. W&" A man who married a buxom Irish g?rl, greatly to the horror of his mother and sister, made the following defence: "If I married an American girl I must haye an TmoR tft toL-o p?ro nf kor otid T pflnnofc affordto support both of them." < ? - * , V3F Two married ladies chatting about their husbands: "What," says one of them, "you permit your husband to smoke in your rooms ?" "Certainly I do, but he spends his evenings with me, replied the other.