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$uMortius Ucjmrtraent. EATING CROW. AMUSING ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF THE TERM. CHAPTER I. Near the camp of the old Pennsylvania Bucktail Regiment, in Virginia, early in the war, lived an old, aristocratic, exclusive and pompous Virginian, in true baronial style. His mansion, of very old age, was made of imported brick, his chimneys were tall and massive, and the rooms were tall and pleasant. The chief attraction of the old place, V?AtwnTTni? u'O a r?rr\n n rl a th of OMppAiin/lnrl llvynvTVl) n UO gi uuixuu fiuvi; gui i uuuuuu the mansion. Large trees gave luxuriant shade, and the underbrush in portions of the grounds afforded shelter for rabbits and other small game. There were walks and orchards and arbors, and the whole bore such an air of general peacefulness and repose, that it was no wonder the wild Bucktails were charmed with the prospect, and anxious t? penetrate into a spot which gave such promise of enjoyment. The Bucktails were not the most tractable soldiers. They came from the stepping-off place?the wilderness of Pennsylvania?Mckean, Potter, Forest and Tioga counties; and they obtained their name, which clung to them during the entire war, through a fancy of Colouel Kane, a brother of the Arctic explorer, who became their commander. Ho recruited the regiment in the early days of 1 Q?1 fKftrnnninf* Art fit a /lair a P f kn ai*i*nral aP J.UV/JL, ^UC^IUUlllg V/ll LUV, uaj \Jl OlIIYAi Ui the news of the fall of Sumter,) from the back-woodsmen, who were famous marksmen. They were all deer hunters, and, as a designation, each man was furnished with the tail of a buck by Colonel Kane, and when they inarched from Camp Curtin with the bucktails in their caps it was a novel sight. Colonel Charles J. Biddle, of Philadelphia, was made the Colonel, and Colonel Kane the Lieutenant-Colonel?both men noted for their short, attenuated forms. Neither was more than five feet high, and their combined weight was less than two hundred and twenty pounds. It may readily be guessed that these soldiers had little respect for Virginia aristocracy, and the tent-poles had hardly got settled in the ground before a noted raider named? well, Smith?shouldered his deer-killer and started out on a little expedition. He was a Sergeant of immense size, named the "Big Sergeant" He made a straight march for the old Virginian's manor. Now, the old gentleman had a good many pets about the grounds, and among them a tame crow which he valued very highly. He also had tame rabbits, doves, etc, The Sergeant climbed the stone wall, and dropped himself and his gun inside of the grounds. The first thing his eye struck was the tame crow, who unconcernedly flew near him,.and alighted on a limb and began to caw at him. The Sergeant put his rifle to his shoulder and banged Mr PrAU? noma flnfforinff fn tlid U rw MJ I I'll! VI vu U*LUU UUVVVtiUg IV VUV ground. The soldier reloaded his gun, leaned it against the wall, and went to get his game. Instantly there came running from the house, in a high state of excitement, the old Virginian, ana when he saw that his pet crow had been killed his rage had no bounds. He rushed for the Sergeant's gun, and swearing that he wouldn't have given the crow for the whole Yankee army, vowed that he would blow the soldier's brains out With this he brought the piece to a cock, and glanced along the barrel. The Sergeant begged for his life, and the Virginian swore he would take it. The Virginian finally thought of a compromise, and with a look half between amazement and rage, told the Sergeant that he must eat that raw crow. In vain the other protested ; The Virginian insisted on the price of his adversary's life. So the Sergeant pulled out the feathers and hepan to cap and eat. D"0 "How do you like crow ?" hissed the Virginian through his teeth. The only answer the other gave was to beg to be let off. He was sorry he had shot the crow; didn't know that it was a tame one, and he wouldn't do such a thing again. Finally the old man took the gun from his shoulder and told the Sergeant he needn't eat any more. His heart full of joy, the soldier threw the crow upon the ground, and said: "Well, I ken eat crow, but I don't like it." The story might stop here, if it was only to show the origin of the phrase, but the rest of it is the best. CHAPTER II. The old Virginian, after surveying his dead pet for an instant, in a sorrowful manner, returned the gun and started for his mansion. The other quickly brought his piece to his nVi/Mil/lor on/1 r?o 11 o/l Anf "Hold on there, Mister." "What do yon want ?" asked the other, as he turned and beheld a bead drawn on him. "I'd like to have you eat the rest of this crow." The old man turned and swore, and tore about in a frantic manner, saying he'd be d-d if he would, and that he didn't want any of the young man's jokes. The cocking of the gun, and the assurance on the part of the soldier that he would surely put a ball through the old man's shoulder unless he complied with the demand, induced the Virginian to retrace his steps. "Now," said the Sergeant, "I want you to eat the rest of that crow, and no nonsense." A punch of the rifle on the shoulder of the old man roused him to a quick sense of his position, and picking up the crow, he endeavored to bite it He grew pale, the perspiration stood upon his face, he trembled like q forriar Vna mrtiifh woforrwl Tiio ntroo %m wv? ?xy? f m *mvwvm *? MW1 VMj llig VJ VaJ liil vvi j and it seemed a physical impossibility for him to touch the crow. The Sergeant compelled him to take a bite, and it was the only one he did take, for his breakfast came up so rapidly to protest against crow that the soldier relented and told him to "git" and never to trouble a Bucktail again. Here would seem to be another proper place to end the story, but there is still another chapter. CHAPTER III. The next day, the old Virginian, smarting under the indignities he had suffered, in not only having his pet crow killed, but being compelled to eat a portion of it, went to the headquarters of the Bucktails and made complaint against the big Sergeant. The Colonel at once sent an Orderly for Sergeant Smith, rightly supposing that he must be the person referred to. He obeyed the summons at once. He Dushed the door of the tent aside and en tered. Snapping his heels together, and standing in the position of "attention," he brought his right hand quicky to the visor of his military cap, and gave the customary salute to his Colonel. "Sergeant," said his commander very gravely, "Do you know that man ?" pointing to the old Virginian. "Yes, sir, promptly answered the other. "How did you become acquainted with him, Sergeant?" "We dined together yesterday, sir," promptly answered the culprit. The roar of laughter which followed this reply need not be described, nor the manner in which the old Virginian joined. The Sergeant was sent back to his quarters, and the interview between the old aristocrat and the Colonel was eoded by an invitation to the latter to dine the next day at the old mansion. iSf A Parisian lady called on her milliner the other day to take up the character of a servant. The respectable appearance of the latter was beyond questioning. "But is she honest ?" asked the lady. "I am not so certain about that," replied the milliner; "I have sent her to you with my bill a dozen or so times, and she has never given me the money." I&? "What is the reason your wife and you always disagree?" asked one Irishman of another. "Because we are both of one mind; she wants to be master, and so do I." j^grtcultntal Department. From the Rur.il Carolinian. THE CREDIT SYSTEM AND ITS EFFECTS. You have in your August number, on page 603, an article headed: "The Bane and the Antidote." What your friend from Canton, Miss., says is applicable to the whole State of Mississippi and most of the cotton-raising States. The agricultural papers of the South abound in similar complaints. All writers on the subject agree that the cause of all this trouble is the credit system, as carried on, but they fail to give the true remedy. How can people expect to be prosnornna udin crn nnrl nlpdcrp and Pflt and drillk. r""w?> b" i o ' and wear out a crop before it is grown? Here is the bottom of our troubles. It is our laws inaugurated since the war, by our wise Solons, by which only the credit-giving merchant is protected. Our laws encourage the credit system, whereas, it ought to be the reverse. We all know that during the war a spirit of speculation developed itself in our people. This spirit ought to be checked at once by passing laws, which make it a legal offense to pledge any produce before nature and art have made it a marketable article. The laws throughout the South protecting the merchants for furnished supplies, have transformed most of our so-called merchants into pawn-brokers of the worst kind. Southern people, insist on your law-makers having all these bad laws revoked, and you will see in less than three years that there will be enough provisions raised in the South to supply our wants and more, and the present credit system will be broken at once. That enough corn and small grains can be raised here is 110 question at all. Did we not do it during the war and feed large bodies of 1 1 1 o invaaers oesiaes r The effects of the present credit system are really fearful. To see this in its most alarming aspect, we have to go to the County Recorder s offices, and there see how many farms have passed from the farmers into the hands of so-called merchants and speculators. Then go and see what this gentry does with the acquired farm, and you will soon find out that the white man who owned it is gradually persuaded off* from his old home with his family, and replaced by negroes; because it is easier, as they say, to trade with the negro? he is easier managed. If the present system is carried on for ten years, more than three-fourths of the land on*l forms will ho holfl nrinpinnllv hv npddlpr vv ?V... r merchants, and a system of feudalism inaugurated worse than that which the middle ages of Europe ever saw it. Now, ye law-makers of our Sunny South, did you look into these things during the last four or five years, and will you give us a radical remedy, or force us to emigration, and to leave this, the finest of all countries, to the pawn-broker merchants, and their serfs, the negroes ? The present credit system is nothing less than a high-handed game of gambling. It is selling and using what does not yet exist. Go and see now the accounts of most of the farmers with the merchants, and you will find that the incurred indebtedness at this date is, by far more than the best cotton c.vop at good prices will bring. The remedies mentioned by you in the above-recited article, are no doubt very good ; but they do not cover the whole ground, and will be of benefit to a few only, simply because the smallest class of farmers read the agricultural papers and follow their good teachings. The fact is, most of our farmers get their information over the counters of their merchants, and this is taken, as it seems, with more faith than the gospel. Pine Stump. Summit, Pike county, Miss. ? ? A NEW WAY TO PREVENT GRAPE ROT. That distinguished Pomologist, Dr. A. P. Wylie, of Chester, S. C., writes to the Reporter of that town, the following communication, which we are sure, will interest, and which may profit grape growers: I wish to call the attention of the public to a remedy which, although not at all fully tested, promises to be of immense importance to the public. In the year of 1871,1 desired to impregnate the Herberaont Grape, also the Bland Madeira and Foreign, No. 1, a very large October grape, with the pollen from Peter Wylie, No. 1, so as to produce a Hybrid or cross progeny. Knowing that both the Herberaont, Bland and Madeira Hybrid No. 1, would surely nearly all rot as they had been invariably doing in that locality, I concluded to keep the hybridized bunches covered with paper bags, putting a small pinch of sulphur in each bag and keeping the bags on from the time they bloomed until they ripened; to my surprise not a berry rotted, when every other bunch on those vines rotted, leaving scarcely a berry. When Mr. Ravenel, of Aiken, visited me in the fall of 1871,1 called his attention to the remarkable fact. Although the experiment had been tried only on a very small scale, still I determined to give it a further trial this summer. Unfortunately I was absent from home until the latter part of June, so that I got but a few put on before the 1st of July. I am satisfied that it will more certainly succeed when put on at the earliest period. I ordered from Howlet Brothers, 204 Fulton street, New York, 2000 bags from eight to ten inches long, and about six wide; a few blue ones, but mostly white. I have put on over a thousand bags, after either blowing the bunch over with a sulphur bellows, or dropping a small quantity of sulphur into each bag, then drawing the bags over the bunches and pinning them with one or two small pins around the stem, so as to keep out rain, birds and insects. So far the experiment is entirely successful, not a rotten berry to be seen, except on one viDe, which was rotting badly at the time they were put on. The plan is simple and cheap ; half grown children can easily do it, and one person 1 V - ? AAA *1 __ _ J TV? couia put on luuu easily a oay. jtius are much more convenient than paste. By cultivating grapes on elevated beds or ridges twenty feet apart, with deep water furrows between the rows to secure drainage, using the sulphur bellows when they first start in leaf, and applying bags at the time of blooming in conjunction with the soil and modes adopted by good cultivators, I believe that there is a hope for the foreign grape to succeed without glass. There is no danger of rain wetting off the bags which Howlet can supply. ? Fence Posts.?The following experience on the mooted question whether fence posts will last longer when set in the same position in which they grew, or vice versa, is given by a writer: Some twenty-three or four years since I set a fence, inclosing house and dooryard?a rail and bauister fence. The posts were sawed from good-sized, first-growth chestnut loss. To saw them tapering, one-half of them must be sawed to set in the ground, top down, and the other half bottom down. The posts were set promiscuously, and to this day there has been no distinguishable difference in their lasting quality, unless it be where some of them had more sap on them than others, and these gave out first without regard to which end was set down. ? ? A Cure for Ear-ache.?There is hardly any ache to which children are subject so bad to bear and difficult to cure as the earache. But there is a remedy never known to fail. Take a bit of cotton batting, put on it a pinch of black pepper, gather it up and tie ! it, dip in sweet oil and insert it in the ear. Put a flannel badge over the head to keep it warm. It will give immediate relief.?Household. Toothache.?Pulverized alum and common salt put on a piece of cotton into a hollow tooth will shut up its aching so quick that you will want to thank us for telling you. fpswUflMflttS failing. SHAVING A MILLIONAIRE. Everybody who lives in New Jersey will recollect Billy Gibbons, the millionaire. He was an eccentric man, and numerous stories are told of his freaks. Here is one of them: It seems that Billy, while in a country village, in which he owned some property, stepped into a barber's shop to get shaved. The shop was full of customers, and the old gentleman quietly waited for his turn. A customer who was under the barber's hands when the old gentleman came in, asked the "knight of the razor," in an undertone, if he knew who that was ; and, on receiving a negative answer, he informed him in a whisper, it was "Old Billy Gibbons, the richest man in the State." "Gad," said the barber, "I'll charge him for his shave." Accordingly, after the old man had the opI At.of?An r?flrpA?'?nn/l Kn woe QAmniulmf cnrnriflPrl Ciaiiwu |;giiViui^U| nv? IHKJ uvuivuiittv wMi|/ii?wv> , upon asking the price, to be told "seventy-five cents." j "Seventy-five cents," said he, quietly; "isn't i that rather a high price ?" "It's my price," said he of the lather brush, independently, "and as this is the only barber's shop in the place, them as come into it, must pay what I ask." To the old man this was evidently a knock down argument, so he drew three quarters of a dollar from his pocket, paid them over to the barber, and left the shop. A short time after this he was in close conversation with the landlord of a tavern hard by, and the topic of the conversation was "barbershops." "Why is it," said lie, "there's only one barber's shop in town? There seems to be nearly enough work for two." "Well, there used to be two," said the landlord, "till last winter, when this new man came up from the city and opened a new shop, and as everything in it was fresh and new, folks sort of deserted Bill Harlington's shop, which had been going on for nigh fourteen years." "But did this Bill do good work? Didn't he shave well, and?cheap." "Well as for that," said the landlord. "Bill did his work well enough, but his shop wasn't on the main street like the new one, and didn't have so many pictures and handsome curtains and folks got in the way of thinking the new chap was more scientific and brought more city fashion with him, though to tell the truth," said the landlord, striking a chin sown with a beard resembling screen wire, "I never want a lighter touch or a keener razor than Bill Harlington's." "City fashions?eh ?" growled the old man. "So the new man's city fashions shut up the other barber's shoD?" "Well, not exactly," said the landlord, "though things never did seem to go well with Bill after the new shop opened; first, one of his little children died of fever; then his wife was sick a long time, and Bill had a big bill to Eay at the doctor's ; then as a last misfortune is shop was burned down one night, tools, brushes, furniture and all, and no insurance." "Well," said the old man, pettishly, "why don't he start again ?" "Start again!" said the communicative landlord ; "why bless your soul, he hasn't got anything to start with." "H?m?ra! Where does this man live?" asked the old man. He was directed, and ere long was in conversation with the unfortunate tonsor, who corroborated the landlord's story. "Why, don't you take a new shop ?" said the old man ; there's a new one in the block right opposite the other barber's shop." "What," said the other, "you must be crazy. Why, that block belongs to old Billy Gibbons ; he'd never let one of those stores for a barber shop; they are a mighty sight too good; besides that, I haven't got twenty dollars in the world to fit it up with." You don't know old Billy Gibbons as well as I do," said the other. "Now listen. If you can have that shop all fitted up, rent free what will you work in it for by the month ? What is the least you can live on ?" The proposition somewhat startled the unfortunate hair-dresser, who finally found words to stammer out that twelve or "fifteen dollars per month would be about enough. "Pshaw!" said the old man, "that won't do. Now listen to me?I'll give you that store, rent free, one year, and engage your services six months, all on these conditions: You are to shave and cut hair for everybody that applies to you, and take no pay, just charge it all to me, and for your services I'll pay you twenty dollars a month, payable in advancepay to commence now," continued he placing two ten dollar notes 011 the table before the astonished barber, who, it is almost unnecessary to state, accepted the proposition, and who was still more surprised to learn that it was Billy Gibbous himself that had hired him. In a few days the inhabitants of that village were astonished by the appearance of a splendid new barber's shop, far surpassing the other in elegance of appointments, and in which, with new mugs, soaps, razors and perfumes, stood a barber and assistant ready to do duty on the heads and beards of the people. Over the door was inscribed, "WILLIAM TT A T?PTNrrTO"N" Shnvincr and TTnir Dtps I sing Saloon." The people were not long in ascertaining or slow in availing themselves of the privileges of this establishment, and it is not to be wondered that it was crowded and the other deserted. The other held out some weeks suspecting this free shaving?for Bill kept his secret well?was but a dodge to entice customers away, who would soon be charged as usual, but when at the end of six weeks he found Billy working away as usual, charging not a cent for his labor, and having money to spend, in the bargain, he came to the conclusion that he must have drawn a prize in the lottery, or stumbled upon a gold mine, and was keeping barber's shop for fun, so he closed the shop in despair and left the place. Meanwhile, "Bill Harrington" kept on busy as a bee, and one fine morning his employer stepped in, and without a word sat down and was shaved; on rising from his seat he asked to see the score for the six mouths past. The barber exhibited it, and after a careful 1 j 1 _ 1.1 ^ 1 calculation tne oia man saiu : "Plenty of customers, eh ?" "Lot's of 'em" said the barber; "never did such a business in my life ?" "Well, replied Money Bugs, "you have kept the account well. I see I've paid you one hundred and twenty dollars for your services? all right?and there are three hundred and thirty charged for shaving all that applied; now, this furniture cost one hundred and eight dollars; balance due you one hundred and two dollars. Here it is. Now you own this furniture, and are to have this shop rent free six months longer; after to-day you are to charge the regular price for work, for your pay from me stops to-day." This, ofcourse, the barber gladly assented to. "But," said the old man, on leaving, "take care you never cheat a man by charging ten i ten times the usual price for a shave; for it may be another "old Billy Gibbons." Grant's Organ on the Louisville Failure.?The N. Y. Times, of Thursday, says : i "Mr. O'Conor's positive refusal to bo the can- j didate of the Louisville Convention has seriously modified the probable active influence of the movement on the Presidential canvass. Had he accepted, and, with Mr. Adams, been represented in each State by an electoral ticket, he might have drawn a considerable "straight-out vote." But it is not likely that any one else who can be selected will do so.1 It is very difficult to organize a minority, every member of which knows the minority is a hopeless one for a national contest. To this task, Mr. O'Conor would have lent the assistance of a national reputation, and, had he taken an active part in the canvass, of brilliant and original abilities. These are not; likely to be found elsewhere, and a movement j for a third party may be regarded as having j come to an end." I luring the fahhath. CONDUCTED BY REV. ROBERT LATHAN. THE CLEANSING BLOOI). A visitor among the poor was one day climbing the broken staircase which led to a garret in one of the worst parts of London, when his attention was arrested by a man of peculiarly serious and repulsive countenance, who stood upon the landing-place, leaning with folded arms against the wall. There was somethiug about the man's appearance which made the visitor shudder, and his first impulse was to go bhck. He made an effort, however, to get into conversation with him, and told j him that he came there with the desire to do rum good ana to see mm nappy, ana that the book he held in his hand contained the secret of all happiness. The ruffian shook him off as if he had been a viper, and bade him begone with his nonsense, or he would kick him down stairs. While the visitor was endeavoring with gentleness and patience to argue the point with hiin, he was startled by hearing a feeble voice, which appeared to come from behind one of the broken doors that opened upon the landing, saying: "Does your book tell of the blood which cleanseth from all sin?" For the moment the visitor was too absorbed in the case of the hardened sinner before him to answer the inquiry, and it was repeated in urgent and thrilling tones : "Tell me, oh ! tell me does your book tell of the blood that cleanseth from all sin?" The visitor pushed open the door, and entered the room. It was a wretched place wholly destitute of furniture except a three-legged stool, and a bundle of straw in a corner, upon which was stretched the wasted limbs of an aged woman. When the visitor entered, she raised herself upon one elbow, fixed her eyes eagerly upon him, and repeated her former question: "Does your book tell of the blood which cleanseth from all sin?" He sat down upon the stool beside her, and inquired : "My poor frrend, what do irrvti innrtf a It n a itt fli a f nl ao norttk yuu naut tu xviiuh \ji hil uiuuu twai v/icauocbu from all sin ?" There was something fearful in the energy of her voice and manner as she replied: "What do I want to know of it! Mau, I am dying; I am going to stand naked before God. I have been a wicked woman, a very wicked woman, all my life. I shall have to answer for everything I have done;" and she groaned bitterly as the thought of a lifetime's iniquity seemed to cross her soul. "But once," she continued, "once, years ago, I came by the door of a church, and I went in, I don't know what for; I was soon out again; but one word I heard there I have never forgot. It was something about blood that cleanseth from all sin. Oh! if I could hear of it now! Tell me, tell me, if there is anything about that blood in your book!" The visitor answered by opening his Bible and reading the 1st chapter of the First Epistle of John. The poor creature seemed to devour the words, and when he paused she exclaimed: "Read more, read more." He read the 2nd chapter?a slight noise made him look round ; the savage ruffian had followed him into his mother's room, and, and though his face was partly turned away, the visitor could perceive tears rolling down his cheeks. The visitor read the 3d, 4th, and 5th chapters before he could get his poor listener to consent that he should stop, and then she would not let him go till he promised to come again the noxt day. He never from that time missed a day reading to her until she died six weeks afterward ; and very blessed was it too see how, almost from the first, she seemed to find peace by believiug in Jesus. Every day the son followed the visitor into his mother's room, and listened in silence but not in indifference. On the day of her funeral, he beckoned him to one side, as they were filling up the grave, and said: "Sir, I have been thinking that there is nothing I should so much like as to spend the rest of ray life in telling others of the blood which cleanseth from all sin." Thus the great truth of free pardon through the blood of Christ sinks into the soul and saves it. Thus grasped, when all else is gone, it has power to sustain the drowning spirit, and lift it up above the floods that are going over it. Thus it breaks the heart of stone, which nothing else could touch, and turns the abandoned persecutor into the zealous teacher of Christianity. SABBATH IN SCOTLAND. The intensity of the religious feelings of the people of Scotland, as well as the honesty of its expression, is well illustrated by the following incident, which is strictly true. A young American, who afterwards became a distinguished member of the Senate of the United States, after graduating at an Ameri /~1 - 1 1 A. \ 1_ A_ A .. - can ^onege, was sent oy nis parenis ior a year to the University of Edinburgh. Like other young men sojourning in that interesting city, he took lodgings?which simply means that he hired a suite of rooms in a private house, and had his meals provided by the landlady. She was an excellent woman, and he was a good specimen of the young American, so the two got on most harmoniously together. But by-and-by he began to see a shade of trouble on the old lady's countenance. Day by day it grew darker and deeper. He could not help observing this, and was quite at a loss to account for it. Sometimes he thought she might be in want of means; perhaps she was behindhand with her rent, and the landlord pressing her for the money. His first thought was to offer her means to meet any such difficulty, but knowing the spirit of independence possessed by the Scotch people, he hesitated to do so. But finally, one Sabbath morning, as he was eating his breakfast, the Old lady came into the room. If she had looked sad before, she was ten-fold more so to-day. He was fairly alarmed as she came in. Springing up from his chair, he said : "My dear madam, what is the matter? If the want of money troubles you, ray purse is at your service, and I beg you will avail yourself of it." "No, it is not mouey matters that ails me; it is the commandment, sir. You ken as well as me that the commandment says, 'Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.' Not only are we to do it, and our sons, and our daughters, our men servants and maid servants, and our cattle, but the stranger that is within our gate, and I am implicated in your guilt if you do not keep it holy. I do not think you mean to break the Sabbath, but these young men from college come to see you on the Lord's day, and keep you from church, as well as lead you into conversation that is not profitable or proper on the Sabbath." "What would you have me to do?" was the young man's immediate inquiry. "Go to the house of God." "Where do you go?" "0, you would not like ray man ; he is one Thomas McCrie; but would like Mr. so and so," and here she went over a list of ministers who preached the truth. But her young guest seized his hat, and insisted on going then and their with his hostess to the oldfashioned church, where the guest, Dr. McCrie, (the biographer of Knox,) held forth to an attentive audience. He could not help admiring the genius of the preacher, and du?Irir? V?in nfn .? i ?. T? A ! ., U i. ..ryk VlP O + tpnrlprl VllO iiug ilia olujt in juuiuuuigii uv u?vuvivu ...w | ministry with the utmost regularity. The dark cloud disappeared from the old lady's face, and they ever after continued the best of friends. B?" "Christians! It is your duty not only to be good, but to shine; and of all the lights which you kindle on the face joy will reach farthest out at sea, where troubled mariners are seeking the shore. Even in your deepest grief, rejoice in God. As waves phosphoresce, ; let joys flash from the swing of the sorrows , of.your soul." I?* When in the midst of fears, in the sight of dangers, and in the dread of destruction, it is our business to cease from self-confidence, ' attend to the voice of God, rely upon his 1 promises, hope in his mercy, and quietly wait ' for his great deliverance. i (TOiMtt'a gfpattmcnt. SPARE MOMENTS. A lean, awkward boy came one morning to the door of the Principal of a celebrated school, and asked to see him. The servant eyed his mean clothing, and thinking he looked more like a beggar than any tiling else, told him to go around to the kitchen. The boy did as he was bidden, and soon appeared at the back door. "You want a breakfast, more like," said the servant girl, "and I can give you that without troubling him." "Thank you," said the boy; "I should have no objection to a bite, but I should like to see Mr. , if he can see me." "Some old clothes, may be you want, remarked the servant, again eyeing the boy's patched clothing. "I gues9 ho has none to spare; he gives away a sight," and without minding the boy's request, she went away about her work. "Can I see Mr. ?" again asked the boy, after finishing the bread and butter. "Well, he is in the library; if he must be disturbed, he must, but he does like to be alone sometimes," said the girl in a peevish tone. She thought it very foolish to admit such an ill-looking fellow into her master's presence. However, she wiped her hands and bade him follow. Opening the library door, she snid : "Here's somebody, sir, who is dreadful anxious to see you, and so I let him in." I don't know how the boy introduced himself, or how he opened business, but I know that after talking awhile, the Principal put aside the volume he was studying and took up some Greek books and began to examine the new comer. The examination lasted some time. Every question which the Principal asked the boy was answered readily. "Upon my word," exclaimed the Principal, "you certainly do well," looking at the boy from head to foot over his spectacles. "Why, my boy, where did you pick up so much ?" "In my spare moments," answered the boy. Here he was; poor, hard working, with but few opportunities for schooling, yet almost fitted for college by simply improving his "spare moments." Truly are not spare moments the "gold dust of time?" How precious they should be. Look and see. This boy can tell you how very much can be laid up by improving them, and there are many other boys, I am afraid, in jail, in the house of correction, in the forecastle of a whale ship, in the tippling shop, who if you would ask them when they they began their sinful courses, might answer: "In my spare moments." "In my spare moments I gambled for marbles. In my spare moments I began to smoke and drink. It was in my spare momenta that I gathered wicked associates." Oh ! be careful how you spend your spare moments. Temptation always hunts you out in seasons like these. When you are not busy he gets into your heart, if he possibly can in such gaps. There he hides himself, planning all sort3 of mischief. Take care of your spare moments. +. ? THE FIRE-LIGHT STUDENT. TCoarltr half a /?on+nrrr arm in fchfl nnnnftf of G , in one of the Southern States, lived a poor but pious widow, whose eldest son was then about fifteen years of age. His mother's home was in the country on a small tarm, and as he was his widowed mother's sole reliance at that time, his life seemed destined to be that of a farmer. But from childhood he had thirsted for knowledge, and had eagerly sought for it wherever and whenever opportunity had offered. About that time a district school was established in his neighborhood and kept open for several years. He attended this regularly in winter, but when spring came, he as regularly returned to his mother's farm, and dilligently from sunrise to sunset, he toiled through spring and summer and until the close of autumn, and then, when all the grain was gathered in and the crops sown for the coming year, the farmer-student returned to his studies at the neighborhood school. He was as diligent in study as he had been on the farm; but his mother could not furnish him the means for studying at night, and in his craving for knowledge, the boy found ? i i ,1 l _ mi tne oia saying true: "wnere ineres a win there's a wayfor a neighboring forest furnished him with a substitute for the lamp his mother was unable to provide. And afterwards, when he became a great man, she, with a mother's fondness, loved to tell how, till a late hour in the night, during the winter, she was accustomed to see the fire-light from her son's room shining under the door that separated her apartment from his; for he was accustomed to study lying upon the floor before a light-wood fire. Passing over the remaining years of youth and manhood, we find the farmer-student in maturer life, one of the most prominent lawyers in the land, and on account of his wisdom and integrity, his fellow-citizens elected him Governor of his native State. But in his prosperity, he did not forget his early home nor those who still dwelt there. And among other generous acts, he placed at a school far better than any he himself had ever attended, his younger and only brother; nor did he cease from his kind efforts till the young man had finished his college course, and was likewise established in his profession. He has lived to see this same brother a brave and gallant General in the Confederate armies, and afterwards Governor, also, of his native State, elected, too, by such a vast majority as no Governor of the State had ever received before. .These, under Providence, are some of the results of the perseverance of the noble boy, whose only lamp was the winter evening's fire.?Christian Observer. A Sermon on 'Push.'?When cousin Will was at home for vacation, the boys always expected plenty of fun. The last frolic before he went back to his studies was a long tramp after hazelnuts. As they were hurrying along in high glee, they came upon a discouraged-looking man and a discouraged-looking cart. Thr cart was standing full of apples before an orchard. The man was trying to pull it up hill to his own house. The boys did not wait to be invited, but ran to help with a good will. "Push, push!" was the cry. The man brightened up; the cart trundled along as fast as rheumatism would do it, and in five minutes they all stood panting at the top of the hill. "Obliged to ye," said the man; "you just wait a minute," and hurried iuto the house, while two or three pink-aproned children peeped out of the door. "Now, boys," said cousin Will, ''this is a small thing; but I wish we could all take a motto out of it, and keep it for life, 'Push !' it is just the word for a grand, clear morning like this ; it is just the word for strong arms and young hearts ; it is just the word for a world that is as full of work as this is. If anybody is in trouble, and you see it, don't stand back ; push ! If there's anything good doing in any place where you happen to be, push ! If there's any work going on in the Sunday school, push! Don't drag back, I beg of you. You'll do one or the other. Whenever there's a kind thing, a Christian thing, a happy thing, a pleasant thing, whether it is your own or not, whether it Is at home or in the town, at church or at school, just help with all your might; push !" At that minute the farmer came out again with a dish of his wife's best doughnuts, and a dish of his own best apples; and that was an end of the little sermon.?Southern Presbyterian. ? ? -<? S&* "What time is it, my dear ?" asked a wife of her husband, whom she suspected of being drunk, but who was doing his best to look sober. "Well, darling, I can't tell, 1 'cause you see, there are two hands on ray . watch, and each points to a different figure, and I don't know which to be believe." 1 ?fee forMl* (fruqttiw. 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We.will take repair jobs there and ship them to our shop at this place. CONNER, HOBBS A DOBSON. CASH. YOU must pay us the cash for Repair Work or it will not 1)0 done. Work cannot leave the Shop until paid for. CONNER, HOBBS A DOBSON. TRIMMINGS. CARRIAGE AND BUGGY TRIMMINGS for sale, at our Shop. CONNER, HOBBS A DOBSON. HOME ENTERPRISE. IF you want to encourage home enterprise go and buy a Buggy or Carriage from CONNER, HOBBS <fe DOBSON. August 29 3.5 tf J. II. ADAMS "THE OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE" TO ITS NUMEROUS FRIENDS, Greeting. We are now receiving our new Stock of Spring and Summer Goods, just purchased in the northern cities by Col. McCorkle, who, this season, in exercising bis usual consideration as to the wants of the public, has been eminently successful in the selection of the BEST QUALITIES AND HANDSOMEST STYLES. To enumerate the ELEGANT STOCK in Store would require more spacothan the Enquirer can furnish this issue; though we cannot refrain from calling special attention to our new style Mohair Dress Goods; best-make Black Alpacas; splendid Black Silk; Trimming Silks, all colors; White Piques; Bishop and Victoria Lawns; Nainsooks ; Swiss Muslins and Cambrics; Tarlatans; Cambric Edgings and Insertings ; Lace Points and Sacks; Parasols, Kid Gloves, Corsets, Hosiery, Ac., Ac. Our stock of GENT'S FURNISHING GOODS is complete, embracing many new and elegant styles of Cloths, Cassimeres and Yestings; Diagonal and Figured Coatings; Scotch Worsted and Cheviots; Silk, Valentiaand Marsailles Ve3tings, Ac.; while oxit stock in every other department, including a superb line of READY-MADE CLOTHING, is perfect and complete in point of variety and excellence, in which respect, as well as the LOW PRICES at which they are offered, wo DEFY COMPETITION. JOHN H. ADAMS. April 25 17 tf APICKKS & BLACK. WITHOUT REGARD TO COST. We are selling some Goods WITHOUT REGARD TO COST, as our stock is entirely too largo. We respectfully announce to the public that our Stock of Goods is now more complete than it has been for years, consisting of DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, MEN'S AND LADIES' HATS, LOOTS AND SHOES, NOTIONS, CROCKERY AND HARDWARE. Special attention is called to our STOCK OF CLOTHING, which is now MORE COMPLETE THAN EVER. ADICKES & BLACK. ROSE'S HOTEL, (FORMERLY HUNT?S HOTEL.) COLUMBIA, S O. THIS HOUSE is in the centre of the city, convenient to all the Public Offices and Business Houses, located on the south-west corner of the State House Square, lias been recently re-opened and renovated, and will now compare favorably with any Hotel at the South. ROSE'S OMNIBUS will convey passengers to and from every train, free of charge. Also, a first-class Carriage for the accommodation of ladies. TRANSIENT BOARD *2.50 per day. W. E. ROSE, Proprietor. September 12 87' tf METALIC BURIAL CASES AND GASKETS. I HAVE just received a full supply of FISK'S METALIC BURIAL CASES, of all sizes. Also a few of those beautiful full glass BURIAL CASKETS, surpassing in beauty anything of the kind ever offered here. J. E. SMITH, Agent. WOOD COFFINS, of any quality, made to order. J. E. SMITH. March 14 11 ly Mini lift USUI] IK MEMPHIS, TENN. Branch Office, - Baltimore, Maryland. ASSETS, $1,100,000. Hon. JEFFERSON DAVIS President. Glen. WADE HAMPTON, Pres. Baltimore Board. J. D. KENNEDY, State Agent. W. B. SADLER, Yorkville, Special Agent. June 27 28 ly PALMETTO ORPHAN HOME. AN EARNEST APPEAL TO THE CITIZENS OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Dear Friends and Countrymen?Having been entrusted with the benevolent work of providing a home for the Orphans, and other equally unfortunate children or South Carolina, we thus make an earnest appeal for help in this great work. The Palmetto Orphan Home was organized last April, and is now progressing with encouraging prospects. The Board of Trustees have adopted a Constitution and By-Laws which define the nature, design and mode of operation of this Institution. Its direct management is to be by a local board consisting of nine persons, in the city of Columbia, which Board is to bo subject to the direction of a general Board consisting of two persons, from each county in the State, which is to be called to meet annually in Columbia, at such places as the local Board may appoint. In thechoice of persons to act on these Boards and of the officers ofthe Institution, no partiality is to be allowed on account of the religious sect to which persons belong; but all appointments are ? ' ^ to be made on the broad principles of humanity and charity. rue uonsuiunon aoes not nraii me ages at wmcn the children shall be received ; but leaves that at the discretion of the Board, who are to decide from the nature of each case as described in the application. The Board are desirous of purchasing suitable and valuable property .now for saleat low figures, for the location of the Home. We are, therefore, confident that our appeal to the generous people of South Carolina will at once bring many liberal donations and pledges to effect the permanent establishment of the Palmetto Orphan Home, which will be the best monument to the memory of our dead we could possibly rear in our State. The Board have appointed Tilman R. Gaines. General Agent to organize Aid-Committees ana to raise funds for the Home. And the Board will take pleasure in acknowledging all amounts paid to him or sent directly to us at Columbia. 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May 16 20 tf ESTABLISHED 1857. L. IT. MILLER, MILLER'S SAFE AND HOW WORKS, BALTIMORE, MD. SALESROOM: 265 BALTIMORE STREET, (One Door above Hanover,) FACTORY: Square bounded by Henrietta, Claret, Fremont and Warner Streets. Every variety of the Best Fife and Burglar Proo Safes, Bankers' Chests, Improved Combination Locks, Ban k Vaults and Doors. Send for Illustrated Catalogue and Price List. 12,000 IN USE-TESTED IN 200 FIRES. Near References National Bank, Chester, Smith and Melton, Chester ; John Agnevr <t Son, Columbia, S. C. September 12 37 tf THE PARKER CUM. ;SE*D STAMP FOR ClftCULAft PARKER BR(?S WEST MERIDEN.CT. KING'S MOUNTAIN R. ROAD. DAILY TRAIN. HEREAFTER the trains over the KING'S MOUNTAIN RAIL ROAD will ran daily, /u 3. ?_* ? " louuuaye cAwpwiu) ita lunows. intitting clone connection with trains on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad: Leave Yorkville, promptly, at 7 o'clock, A. M. Arrive at Chester at 9 o'clock, A. M. Leave Chester at 5 o'clock, P. M. Arrive at Yorkville at 7 o'clock, P. M. All Freights must be delivered at the Depot by 4 o'clock, P. M.. on the evenings previous to the departure of the train. GEORGE W. MELTON, President. May 2 18 tf MILLIHEET AND FANCY GOODS. TUHT received and receiving weekly, anew and tl handsome lot of BONNETS AND HATS, ojj the latest styles, which will be sold low for cash. E. DICKINSON, Agent. May 30 22 tf