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lewis m. grist, Proprietor. J |^it Jiihjjcitiicitt Jfamilji Htctosppcr: Jfor f|jD promotion of ijjc IJolitteal, Social, Agricultural anl) Commercial Interests of % Jsoutji. TERMS?$3.00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. VOT, 19. YORKVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1873. NO. 42. ?rnnTTM~?~?1*"mmTM!?? ?lic l?t0Vt) ?dlcv. ! - <? THE ONE DOLLAR BILL. ! How it did rain that November night! None of your undecided showers, with hesita-' ting intervals, as it were, between ; none of: your mild, persistent patterings on the roof, j but a regular tempest, a wild deluge, a rush of arrow drops and a thunder ofopening floods! j Squire Partlet heard the angry rattle against. the casements, and drew his snug easy chair a j little closer to the fire?a great open mass of glimmering anthracite, and gazed with a sort1 of sleepy reflective satisfaction at the crimson j moreen curtains, and the gray cat fast asleep ! on the hearth, and the canary bird rolled into a drotasy ball of yellow down on its perch. "This is snug," quoth the Squire. "I'm glad I had that leaky spot fixed in the barn ' roof last week. I don't object to a stormy j night once in a while, when a fellow's under ; cover and there's nothing particular to be I done. Mary!" "Yes," Mrs. Partlet answered. She was j flitting aboutrbetween kitchen and sitting-room : with a blue check apron tied around her waist. "I'm nearly ready to come in now, Josiah. j Now I wonder," soto voce, "if that was really a knock at the door, or just a little rush of the j wind and rain?" She went to the door, nevertheless ; and a minute or two afterward she went to her husband's chair. "Joe, dear, it's Luke Ruddilove," she said, half apprehensively. The Squire never looked up from nis paper. "Tell him he's made a mistake. The tavern is on the corner beyond." "Btithe wants to know if you will lend him a dollar!" said Mrs. Partlet. "And couldn't you have told him no, without the preliminary ceremony of coming in J here to ask me ? Is it likely that I shall lend a dollar or even a cent to Luke Ruddilove? j Why, I had a great deal better throw it among ! yonder red coals! No?of course not." Mrs. Partlet hesitated. "He looked so pinched and cold and wretch-; ed, Josiah. He says there's nobody in the world to let him have a cent." "All the better for him, if he did but know 1 it," sharply enunciated the Squire. "If it had come to that pitch half a dozen years ago, perhaps he wouldn't have been the miserable man he is now." "We used to go to school together," said Mrs. Partlet, gently. "He was the smartest boy in the class." "That's probable enough," said the Squire; "but it don't alter the fact that he's a poor drunken wretch now. Send him about his business, Polly, land if his time is of any conseouence. iust let him know that he had bet ? 1 / J f I ter not waste it coming here after dollars.' And the Squire leaned back in his chair after a positive fashion, as if the whole mat-1 ter was definitely decided. Mrs. Partlet went back to the kitchen, j where Luke Ruddilove was spreading his 1 poor thin fingers over the blaze of fire, his ! tattered garments steaming as if he were a pillar of vapor." "He won't let you have it, Luke," said she. J "I thought he wouldn't." "Then I've got to starve, like any other : dog," said Luke Ruddilove, turning away I moodily. "Aud, after all, I don't suppose it I makes much difference whether I shuffle out: of tbd world to-day or to-morrow." "Oh ! Luke, not to your wife!" "She'd be better off without rae,"said Luke, j down-heartedly. "But she ought not to be." "Ought aud is are two different things, Mrs. j Partlet. Good night, I ain't going to the ! tavern, though I'll wagersomething the Squire : thought I was." "And isn't it natural enough he should j think so, Luke ?" "Yes?yes, Mary, I don't say but what it is," murmured Luke Ruddilove, in the same dejected tone he had used throughout the interview. "Stay!" Mrs. Partlet called to him, as his hand lay on the door latch, in a low voice. Here's j a dollar, Luke, Mr. Partlet gave to me for a ! new piece of oil-cloth to place in front of the ! dining-room stove, but I'll try and make the f old one do a little while longer. Aud Luke,' for the sake of old times?for the sake of your poor wife?will you do better?" Luke Ruddilove looked vacantly first at | the fresh new bank bill in his hand, and then , at the blooming young matron who had i placed it there. "Thank you, Mary," he said, and crept out, of the warm, bright kitchen into the storm | and darkness that reigned without. Mrs. , Partlet stood looking into the kitchen fire. "I dare say I've done a very foolish tiling," she pondered ; "but indeed I could not help it. Of course he'll spend it all at the public i house, and I shall do without my oil-cloth ; that will be the end of it all." And there was a conscious flush upon her cheek, as if she had done something wrong, | when she rejoined the Squire iu the sitting- j room. "Well," said Squire Partlet, "has that ne'er-do-well gone at last ?" "Yes." "To Stokes's tavern, I suppose?" "I hope not, Josiah." "I'm afraid it's past hoping for," said the Squire, shrugging his shoulders. "And now for a pleasant evening. How it does rain, to be sure." j Mrs. Partlet kept the secret of the dollar i bill within her own heart. It was six mouths afterward that the Squire came iuto the room where his wife was prescrv-1 ing some great red apples into jelly. "Well, well," quoth he, "wonders will never tt. cease. The Kuddiloves have gone away." j "Gone where ?" "I don't know?out West somewhere with | a colony. And they say Luke hasn't touched a drop in six mouths." "I'm elad of that," said Mrs. Partlet. "It won't last long," said the Squire, des-' f pairingly. "Why not?" "Oh ! I don't know. I haven't any faith in these sudden reforms." Mrs. Partlet was silent. She thought thankfully that after all Luke had not spent the dollar bill in liquor. Six months?six years?the time sped away, in days and weeks, almost before busy little Mrs. Partlet knew that it was gone. The Ruddiloves had gone back to Sequosset. Luke had made his fortune, as the story went, in the far away El Dorado vaguely phrased "Out West" by the simple Sequosseters. "They do say," said Mrs. Buckingham,1 i? "that he bought that ere lot down opposite the court-house, and is going to build such a house as never was." "He must have prospered greatly," said the ! geutle Mrs. Partlet. J "And his wife wears a silk gown that will' stand alone with its own richness." said Mrs. ' Buckingham. "I can remember when Luke Ituddilove was nothing but a poor drunken creature." "All the more credit to him now," said Mrs. Partlet, emphatically. "It's to be all o' stun," said Mrs. Buckingham, "with marble mautels and inlaid floors. And he's put a lot of papers and things under the corner one." * "The corner what?" said Mrs. Partlet, laughing. "Floor or mantel ?" "Stun, to be sure," said Mrs. Buckingham. "Like they do in public buildings, you know." "That is natural enough." "Well, it's a kind o' queer, but Luke Ruddilove never wan't like nobody else. Folks think it's dreadful strauge he should put a one dollar bill in with the other things." Mrs. Partlet felt her checks flush scarlet; she glanced up to where the Squire was checking off a list of legal items in the bill he was making out against some client. But he never looked around, and Mrs. Buckingham went on with her never-ceasing flow of chit-chat, and so the color died away in her cheek. After all, the money had been her own to give, and the old oil cloth in front of the diningroom stove had answered very well. She met LukeRuddilove that afternoon for the first time since his return to Sequosset? Luke himself, yet not himself?the demon of intemperance crushed out of his nature, and its better, noble elements triumphing at last. He looked her brightly in the face as he held out his hand. "Mary." "I am glad to see you back here again, Luke," she said, tremulously. ? A 11 kn ? l,o ralninarl '^(1 AIIU WCll ?> Ull mnjr you remember the night you gave me the dollar bill, and begged me not to go to the tavern ?" "Yes." "That night was the pivot on which my whole destiny turned. You were kind to me when everyone spoke coldly ; you trusted me when all other faces were averted. I vowed a vow to myself to prove worthy of your confidence, and I kept it. I did not spend the money?I treasured it up?and Heaven has added mightily to ray little store. I put the dollar bill under the corner-stone of my new house, for the house has risen from it and it alone. I won'-t offer to pay you back, for I am afraid," he added, smiling, "the luck would go from nie with it; but I'll tell you what I will do, Mary; I will give money and words of trust and encouragement to some other poor wretch as you gave to me." And Squire Partlet never knew what his wife did with the dollar bill he gave her to buy a new piece of oil cloth. ? ? TRIED AND TRUE. It was the Carnival season in Paris, and Colonel Eugene Merville, an attach^ of the great Napoleon's staff, who had won his way to distinction with his own sabre, found himself at the masked ball in the French opera house. Better adapted in his tastes to the field than the boudoir, he flirts but little with the gay figures that cover the floor, and joins but seldom in the waltz. But at last, while standing thoughtfully and regarding the assembled throng with a vacant eye, his attention was suddenly aroused by the appearance of a person in a white satin domino, the universal elegance of whose figure, manner and bearing, convinced all that her face and mind must be equal to her person in grace and loveliness. Though iuso mixed au assembly, still there was a dignity and reserve in the manner of the white domino that rather repulsed the idea of a familiar address, and it was some time before the young soldier found courage to speak to her. Some alarm being given, there was a violent rush of the throng towards the door, where, unless assisted, the lady would have materially suffered. Eugene Merville offers his arm, and with his broad shoulders and stout frame wards off the danger. It was a. delightful moment; the lady spoke the purest French, was witty, fanciful and captivating. "Ah ! lady, pray raise that mask, and reveal to me the charms of feature that must accompany so sweet a voice and so graceful a form as you possess ?" "You would, perhaps, be disappointed." "No, I am sure not." "Are you so very confident ?" "Yes. I feel that you are beautiful?it cannot be otherwise." "Don't be too sure of that," said the domino. "Have you never heard of the Irish poet Moore's story of the veiled prophet of Khorassan?how, when he disclosed his countenance, its hideous aspect killed his beloved one. How do you know that I shall not turn out a veiled prpphet of Khorassan?" "Ah, lady, your every word convinces me to the contrary," replied the enraptured soldier, whose heart had begun to feel as it never felt before?he was in love. She eludes his efforts at discovery, but permits him to hand her to her carriage, which 1 * /VI ' * ' - - -1 -1 1- 1 drives on in me uarKuess, aim uiougu ue throws hiiuself upon his fleetest horse, he is unable to overtake her. The young French Colonel becomes moody, he has lost his heart, and knows not what to do. He wanders hither and thither, shuns his former places of amusements, avoids his military companions, and, in short, is miserable as a lover can well be thus disappointed. One night, just after he had left his hotel on foot, a figure, mufHed up to the very ears, stopped him. "Well, monsieur, what would you with nic?" asked the soldier. "You would know the name of the white domino ?" was the reply. "I would, indeed ?" replied the officer hastily. "How can it be done ?" "Follow me." "To the end of the earth if it will bring me to her." "But you must be blindfolded." "Very well." "Step in the vehicle." '"I am at your command." And away rattled the youthful soldier and his strange companion. "This may be a trick," reasoned Eugene Mervillc, "but I have no fear of personal violence. I am armed with this trusty sabre, and cau take care of myself' But there was no cause for fear since he soon found the vehicle stop ; and he was led, blindfolded, into the house. When the bandage was removed from his eyes, he found himself in a richly furnished boudoir, aud before him stood the white domino just as he met her at the masked ball. To fall mnr, l.It, on,l fr.ll linr bnvc ninph bp. U|WU illC I\UCkC U11V4 VVAA AIVA wvif ... ..v.. ? had thought of her since their separation, that his thoughts had never left her, that he loved her devotedly, was as natural as to breathe, and he did so gallantly and sincerely. "Shall I believe all you say ?" "Lady, let me prove it by any test you may put upon me." "Know, then, that the feelings you avow are mutual. Nay, unloose your arm from my waist. I have something more to say." "Talk on forever, lady ! Your voice is music to my heart and ears." "Would you marry me, knowing no more of me than you now do ?" "Yes, if you were to go to the very altar masked!" he replied. "Then I will test you." "How, lady?" "For one year be faithful to the love you have professed, and I will be yours?as true as heaven shall spare my life." "Oh ! cruel suspense !" "You demur." "Nay, huly, I shall fulfill your injunctions as I promised." "If at the expiration of a year you do not hear from me, then the contract shall be null and void. Take this half ring," she contin; ued, and when I supply the broken portion I will be yours." j He kissed the little emblem, swore again and again to be faithful, and pressing her hand to his lips bade her adieu. He was conducted away as mysteriously as I he had been brought thither ; nor could he, by any means discover, where he had been, his companion rejecting all bribes, and even refusing to answer the simplest questions, j Mouths roll on. Colonel Melville is true to his vow, and happy in the anticipations of J love. Suddenly he was ordered on an embassy to Vienna, the gayest of all the European capitals, about the time that Napoleon was ! ! planning to marry the Archduchess Maria Louisa. The young colonel is handsome,! manly and already distinguished in arms, and becomes at once a great favorite at court, ev- j i ery effort being made by the women to capti-; vate him?but in vain ; he is constant and ! i true to his vow. j But his heart ia not made of stone; the j very fact that he had entertained such tender ! ! feelings for the white domino had doubtless j made him more susceptible than before. At last he met the young Baroness Caroline i ; Von WaldrofF, and in spite of his vows she | ! captivates him, and he secretly curses the en- j gagement he had so blindly made at Paris, j ; She seems to wonder at what she believes to be j j his devotion?and the distance he maintains ! j I The truth was, that his sense of honor was so j I great that, though he felt he loved the young j . baroness, and even she returned his affection, j still he had given his word and it was sacred. ! The satiu domino is no longer the ideal of his heart, but assumes the most repulsive form j i in IMS imagination, anu uecumes m piuwc ui i his good angel, his evil genius. Well, time rolls on ; he is to return in a few ' clays?it is once more the carnival.season; and ' in Vienna, too, that gay city. He joins in the festivities of the masked ball, and wonder fills his brain when, about the middle of the evening, the white domino steals before him in the same white satin dress he had seen her wear a year before at the French Opera ! House in Paris. Was it not a fancy ? j "I come, Colonel Eugene Merville, to hold i you to your promise," she said, laying her ; hand lightly upon his arm. "Is this a reality, or a dream?" asked the 1 amazed soldier. i "Come, follow me, and you shall see that it I is a reality," contiuued the mask, pleasantly. "I will." "Haveyou beeu faithful to your promise?" asked the white domino as they retired into a saloon. "Most truly in act; but, alas, I fear not in heart!" "Indeed!" "It is true, lady, that I have seen and loved another; though my vow to you has kept me i from saying so to her." "And who is it that you love ?" "I will be frank with you, and ycu will j keep ray secret?" i "Most religiously." j "It is the Baroness Von Waldroff," he said | with a sigh. "And you really love her?" "Alas f only too dearly," said the soldier, sadly. "Nevertheless, I must hold you to your ! promise. Here is the other half of the ring; can you produce its made ?" "Here it is," said Eugene Merville. ) "Then I, too, keep my promise," said the ! domino, raising her mask, and showing to his | astonished view the face of the Baroness Von Waldroff! She had seen and loved him for his manly spirit and character, and having found by inquiry that he was worthy of her love, she had managed this delicate intrigue, and had tested him, and now gave him her wealth, title and everything. They were married with great pomp, and J accompanied the Archduchess to Paris. Naj poleon, to crown the happiness of his favorite, : made him at once a general of a division. ^lisccllaufotts Heading. From tlm Anderson Inti'lligciiccr. PROFITS OF COTTON MANUFACTURING. The mere assertion that manufacturing cotton is a paying investment does not carry con! vietion with it, and we propose to adduce facts I and figures, without commeut, to show the ! ! enormous profits realized by cotton mills j | in the United States, as gathered from vari- j I ? oo? Wo not- tlio roorlor nrivn rvirp- 1 UllO OUU1 !l U MUrt bUU ? VMUV. v? ^..W v?. . I fill atteution to these well-established facts,! | which demonstrate that cotton mills in all parts : of the country have earned money and de- i j clared large dividends. The following official figures give the av-, erage annual dividends from 1862 to 1871 of; certain Eastern mills, together with their! capital, and the highest market value of their J stock during the period named : Chicopee mills, dividends, 261-2 percent.: I capital ?430,000 ; value of stock S325 on par j of 8100. Merrimac mills, dividends, 15 1-2' j per cent.; capital, 82,500,000.; value of stock, j 81,700 on par of 81,000. Middlesex mills, j | dividends, 22 1-2 per cent.; capital, 8750,000, ! value of stock, 8400 on par of 8100. Nam-1 keag mills,dividends, 19 5-8 per cent.; capital, 1 81,500,000 ; value of stock, 8167 on par of1 8100. Pacific mills, dividends, 21 1-4 per ; cent.; capital, 82,500,000, value of stock, 82,- j 240 on par of 81,000. Salisbury mills, dij vidends, 22 1-2 per cent.; capital, 82,000,000;1 value of stock, 8300 on par of 8100. j These Eastern mills have averaged about: twenty per cent, for their stockholders. Now | as the Atlanta Constitution very forcibly | says, it costs not less than ten dollars a bale 1 to transport the raw cotton to the New Eng| land mills, and bring it back in the shape ; of merchantable goods. Add this cost to the | profit of Eastern mills, and we have the j ; twenty-five to thirty per cent, that every well- j , conducted Southern mill is paying at this j time. Here are the figures : The cotton mills at Augusta, Ga, are paying over 20 per cent.; at Petersburg Va., over 25 per cent.; at Columbus, Ga., where there has been greater development since the : war than at any other point in the South, | over 20 per cent.; the Tallassee, (Ala.) Man- j : ufacturing Company, 20 per cent.; and a j recent statement says that the cotton factory j i at Macon, which is run by steam realizes a , profit of 830,000 to 840,000 on a capital stock j ! of 8100,000, which is from 30 to 40 per cent. The shares of the Augusta Factory, at par ! j value of $100, are worth $200 per share ; j Graniteville, $155 per share; aud the Langley i ; mills, (new) $115. As an evidence of the value of cotton fac- i tories to a town or city, the Montgomery Advertiser notes the fact that a tract of land near ; : Angusta, Ga., which could have been bought! t for twenty dollars per acre four years ago, j ] sold a few weeks since for three hundred dol- j lars per acre! The tract was adapted for the 1 ' location of a cotton factory, and it was bought! by English spinners, who said that they ; could manufacture yarns here and ship them ; j to Europe for about the same outlay that the ! 1 raw cotton would cost there. Now, assum-! , ing that this statement of the English spin- j ners be true, the South can, by converting her raw cotton into yarns and shipping it, i in that form to Europe, soon render cotton ; ! raising in Asia and Africa the most unprofit-1 able business that men ever engaged in ; and instead of English capitalists endeavoring to develop the cotton production of Eastern countries, as they are now doing, they would he compelled, if they wish to continue the ; manufacture of raw cotton, to move their; machinery nearer the cotton fields of the South I or else purchase cotton yarns of the Southern , people. it is estimated that the cotton crop of the j South, in its manufactured state, is worth at least $450,000,000 every year, and of this immense sum the Southern planters now receive about one-half. By converting the entire crop ' into yarns, we have the profits on this staple j more than double, and retain a source of inexhaustible wealth in our midst, the greater por-! tion of which now goes to enrich the manufac-1 turers of Old and New England. By aggregating the capital now scattered among the farmers and planters of the South, and uni-! ting our efforts to secure a financial indepen- j dence, this great work can be accomplished ;; and when the sound of the spindle and ! loom is heard all over this beautiful land we j love, then will the world acknowledge the j facts that we are now demonstrating, and capital from abroad will seek investment in our , o.,,l mmrotiiin flnw lininfprriintedl V iuuudj auvt iiiiiuigiM?ivu 1 j I to this prosperous section. We have already mentioned the unprece-, dented development of cotton manufacturing ! at Columbus, Ga., aud will close this article by extracting a statement from the Columbus Sun, showing the history of their past management, aud indicating the brilliant prospects of the future, viz: The Columbus manufactories, during the season of 1872-3, took 6,428 bales of cotton, mi excess of 598 over the previous year, and : 2,301 more than the season before that. At 173 cent, a low price, this cotton cost $87 50 per bale, or a total of $649,950. This cotton, without our mills,would have brought this and nothing more. The shipper could have made but small commissions. The staple was passed through our manufactories, and its value enhanced three-fold?advanced from $649,950 to $1,949,850. This gives Columbus 81,289,900 above the price which she had paid the planter, and she has all the advantages of the latter's trade. This tells a truth of which Columbus can be proud, and gives a clue to the path which leads to the financial independence of the South. Other places may have huilt more houses since the war aud constructed with State aid more railroads, but what one in the State can show such a net gain from all sources as we can from one branch of industry alone ? If there be a class of men whom Columbus should thank most warmly for what prosperity we enjoy, aud to whom the greatest obligations should be felt, it is the public spirited, far-seeing citizens, who project and build these grand industries. The matter of greatest pride, too, is that the capital invested came almost exclusively from our own section. The Federal soldiers destroyed four cotton factories for us in 1865, burned 60,000 bales of cotton and ruined millions of other property, hut everything almost has been restored by Southern money and brains. Hardly any outside help has been received. The strong probability, almost certainty, is that three more mills will be built here before another year rolls around. The Eagle Phoenix Company have already contracted for the flooring for Mill No. 3. It is another pleasing fact that one of our mills is manufacturing largely the finer grades of cotton and woolen goods. Here, too, is 1" *1.^ nntfmi KlnnL-af 19 turned I1JKUC 1/llC I/Utiuu uiuunvv, ? x.v?. -w ... ? out by no other establishment in the United States. Productions are sold in all parts of the country, and are in great demand. The manufactories in Columbus now run 32,000 spindles and 900 looms. If the same progress is made in future as the last seven years have manifested, we will have in ten more falls over 70,000 spindles and 2,200 looms in operation. The power of our river is sufficient to run millions of spindles at very little cost. The prrscnt-dATO At loweet water irrtt keep "going 180,000. Lowell, herself, may yet be complimented by being called the "Columbus of the North," as it is now the pride of Columbus to have won the title of the "Lowell of the South." FI NAN CIAL* PA RAGKAPIIS. The Baltimore Sun cites several examples of the folly of hoarding, so far as the public is concerned. He who hoards money drawn from a savings bank loses his interest. In 1861, the splendid new building of a Baltimore bank was erected and paid for out of the interest lost by panicky depositors. Even now, it is said that the New York savings banks are making handsome profits in saving the August interest upon deposits. But the greatest risk of all is losing the cash thus drawn out. An old boot and a hole in the wall are poor substitutes for bank safes. Besides, the temptation to spend, even if the money be not hoarded, is very great. There isnnntherevil attached to hoarded money, and that is the opportunity given to the thief, who is perpetually on the watch. We hear of one man in Atlanta who drew $900 from the bank in the morning, and had it stolen before night. Any national bank that does not refuse to redeem its notes, though declining to honor drafts or checks drawn for large amounts, except under certain circumstances, is thought to be clearly within the law, although suffering from a qualified suspension. The Chicago banks claim to have the warrant of the ' bank examiner for thus suspending. If a poor man or woman have $50 or $100 ' it is not easy for him or her to invest it in i such a way that it shall be at once entirely j safe and reasonably productive. IsTo real estate owner cares to receive so small a sum on bond and mortgage. The poor man or woman might buy a bond, Government or railroad, but might be deceived as to the real value of the bond, or the bond might be lost or stolen. In any event, there would be more or less anxiety about the money. Just j here the savings bunk offers its valuable aid. j It takes this particular $50 or $100, and many | more smaller and larger sums, and putting! them together, so invests the money on bond | and mortgage on real estate, or in the best j public stocks and bonds, that it is able to pay j the depositor a better interest tliau could be | obtained in any other perfectly safe way. But to secure this desirable end its investments j must be more or less permanent. It can-j not sell its mortgages and stocks at a few ! hours' notice without sacrificing them. If it j sacrifices them it can hope for no profits, j and there will be no interest to divide among j depositors. Yet the bank cannot give every- j body his or her moneys immediately without; sacrificing its investments. The unreasonable-! ness of a "run" is, therefore, apparent. The I runners do not want their money to use. ! They only desire to get hold of it and assure j themselves that it is safe. If they leave it in: the bank it is not only safe, but it is earning ! iiiiorncf Tf flmv tnlrr> it. rmt it etnnq nnrninrr Ill Ll/i VOW. A4 ?4?WJ tMMV .W O interest and is in daily danger of being lost; or spent. The mass of men and women of j moderate means, who deposit in savings banks,j are intelligent enough to see this. They make no "run." They are free from panic, and in this set a good example before more eminent financiers. ftaT" One of the most ingenious and daring ; thefts on record was perpetrated a short time i since at the village of Briery Hill, England. A lad entered the store of a grocer of the , place and bought a loaf of bread, which he asked the man to stufT down the back of his jacket, as his companion outside would take it away from him if he saw it. The grocer1 complied with the apparently innocent request, and having had his loaf placed in its original hiding place the boy left. Hardly' had he quitted the store when another lad rushed in, and exclaimed : "Do you know what that chap has done? he has prigged your watch!" The grocer looked, in horror, and saw his watch chain dangling and his watch gone. "There he goes!" said his informant, pointing to a figure j going down the street; and the store-keeper I immediately rushed out in pursuit, leaving the store unguarded. When he reached the corner the supposed thief had vanished, and j returning to his store he found that during i his absence the informer had emptied the 11 till and gone off with the money. The two thieves have so far escaped capture. BACKWOODS GENIUS. A caveat was recently filled in the Patent | Office at Washington for a new motive power, | which, in the opinion of experienced engineers : and scientific gentlemen, will not only supplant the present steam engines, but largely ; increase the uses to which machinery can be ; applied. Strange to say, this invention is the j product of a boy 18 years of age, who was born and reared in the backwoods of Oregon. Frank C. Crouch is the name of the young genius. His father settled on a farm iu Douglas county over twenty years ago, and the only educational advautages enjoyed by the young man were those afforded by the country school. At a very early age he de monstrateda wonderful ingenuity in the construction of wind-mills and water-wheels. I Natural philosophy and chemistry were his ( favorite studies, and not only were faith- j fully followed in school, but fairly reveled in out of school hours. Up to four years ago he had never seen a telegraphic instrument. Upon his return home he constructed au instrument, made a battery and in, a rude way could telegraph with it. He came near losing his life at this period, from the strength of a battery which he constructed, receiving a shock which laid him up for a month. In this connection it may be stated that this young man has perfected a system whereby messages may be sent and received on board a train of cars, whether standing still or moving at the rate of fifty miles an hour. This system renders collisions impossible, and greatly reduces the chances of accidents of all kinds. It has been tested ou twelve miles of road, and found to work like a charm. Another of his inventions, from which his friends and practical machinists expect great results, is a self-regulating water-feed to be applied to boilers. The great majority of explosions are caused by the water getting low through the carelessness of engineers. By this arrangement the water in the boiler will always be kept at a certain height, rendering explosions impossible, requiring no attention from the engineer, and dispensing with steam gauges. Among all the inventions to which this young man has applied his attention, the one which he is most desirous of bringing before the public is his new steam engine. The merit claimed for the new engine is that by it steam is converted into a wonderfully expansive gas, by being super-heated in combination with air, thus giving to a comparitively small engine great power. By this arrangement the main obstacle which has prevented the application of machinery to many purposes will be overcome, and the steam carriage for common roads made practical. A great saving in fuel, as well as weight is also secured by the invention of young Crouch. The engine and boiler are combined, and an engine of forty-horse power will not take up a space of six square feet. 4. ? ? THE UPSHOT OF THE PANIC. The week ended cheerfully on Saturday, and with a wondrous brightening up compared with the prospect on the previous Saturday. There were many, while pretending confidence, waiting in fear and trembling for the Tuesday when the Stock Exchange should open. Many croakers predicted general desolation and wide-spread ruin. Tuesday came, the Stock Exchange did open, and a more quiet day there it would have been hard to find. The scare was over, that was evident, aud confidence?that most important feature of financial operations?had, if not wholly, at least partly, returned. Stocks went up to a figure which proved that while many fictitious values could no longer continue to reign, there was a solid foundation to our values which 110 panic would lastingly do away with. It is probably true that there will continue to be a permanent shrinkage in all values, but this will bear its fruits, a reduction of prices in every department, and the country will be just as healthy if less nominally rich. And, on the other hand, good financiers saj^ the country and the market has been rid, by the panic, of a terrible load of worthless speculative shinplasters, which have tumbled to rise no more. Again, gold has gone down, while greenbacks are still at a premium. That these last will soon be as plentiful as ever with the regularizing of things, there can be no doubt. The week has witnessed few failures, (an extraordinarily small number, when we think of the fix in which so many houses were a short time since,) while some resumptions have occurred. All this shows that this morning when the market opens and the first blow for the week is struck, there will be a general good feeling, which will make the panic seem a hideous nightmare which vanished as quickly as it came. Till-: PRODUCE EXCHANGE. The same improvement which characterized the financial mart has in an equal, if not j greater degree, made things lively at the -Produce Exchange. Operations have been brisk at good prices during the week, and shown a constant improvement. It is not safe, merchants think, to be confident at present that all the trouble consequent upon the panic is over, but it was to be hoped that it is. Men do not act as if they feared any future embarrassments. They attribute the good feeling I which exists, not so much to the improvement i in Wall street as to the fact that the real i prosperity of the country is such that the j Stock Exchange cannot permanently affect it,! and in this view all outside parties will agree, i It is true that at the Cotton Exchange the j week has been a sadly inactive one, and that | the cotton men are bewailing their "hard" luck. But this is in reality an unreasonable view to take, for at this season of the year some depression must always take place. The panic coming at the time certainly accelerated it, but is it not better to have done with two j causes of depression at once, and then start | afresh, without further fear? The scarcity of j greenbacks is affecting the cotton men as much | as anything, but with the resumption of green-1 back payments it may be hoped there will be | a iumn for the better.?W. Y. Bulletin. A Panic-Stricken Depositor?A New | York correspondent of the Toledo Blade had a j narrow escape. He was, so to speak, "in the | panic." It came within a hair's breadth of! getting into him. He says : I had a terrible j experience. Awaking Friday morning rath-! i er later than usual, I took the morning pa- j' per before I dressed. The list of failures of i banks affrighted inc. Dressing hastily, I j 1 rushed frantically to the street, and throwing j myself into a cab directed the driver to drive i < furiously, like the driver of Jehu the sou of j iSimshi, to my office. Suppose my hanker J l should fail! Howl blamed myself for sit- i ting up the night before till 11, instead of re-j1 tiring at 10, as is my custom ! "Drive," I ] < exclaimed. The driver drove. Minutes were j s dollars to me. To get the money out was now j < the point. The office reached, I hurriedly 11 directed the book-keeper to figure up the ac- j ] count and draw a check for the entire amount, j' "I will sight it," he said, "and then you go J < immediately,as fast as your attenuated legs will j carry you, and draw it. Get it in large bills, i I will carry it on my person. I dislike to do ! it, but self-preservation is the first law. Make ! haste." How slow he seemed! How I chafed un der the tortoise-like movements of his pencil!; Finally he finished. Then raising his head ! he gently sighed: "Our account was overdrawn just exactly ! sixteen dollars and ninety-three cents !" Then came over my agitated soul a sweet and balmly calm! Then did I sink back into j a state of absolute repose, and I looked out | upon the surging street with a feeling of in- i difference that was lovely to behold. It is no ! advantage to have nothing. Blessed are the 1 poor. But I did consider it my duty to I go to the president of the bank and assure I hira of my undiminished confidence in the solvency of the institution, and to say also that | in case of a run I would not join in it. This ! seemed to give him new courage. The Charlotte Observer.?The Char-! lotte Observer is out in an article against the Chester and Lenoir Railroad in general, and j the York county subscription in particular, i While we give our coteinporary credit for ! sincerity in its zeal against county subscrip-1 tion and high taxes, we think its sympathies i are wasted, and the people of York county j are abundantly able to manage their own af- J fairs without outside interfereueo IVoin any J quarter. Mecklenburg county has taxed her-j self to the tune of nearly a half of a million j of dollars in building railroads for the benefit of Charlotte and her citizens, and no doubt i some of the sympathy shown by the Observer | for York couuty might be bestowed on people j nearer home. The advice to the people of Gastou, Lincoln and Catawba would certainly be good if it was disinterested, but as county taxes are only to be considered by the people who are j to pay them, and they are the sole judges of \ their propriety, we beg leave to decide the i matter for ourselves. If the proposed road is a good thing for the "people along the route, and to the citizens of York and Chester, as ! the Observer admits, we think they should be I allowed to build it. Perhaps if the road ran ! by Charlotte we would not hear any opposi-1 tion from that quarter. They have mouopo- j lized the trade of this section so long, have bought our produce at their own price, and sold the same to the southern planters with a profit to themselves, that the citizens of the future London look on this section of the country as their own, and anynrttempt on the part of our people to seek a nearer and more I direct road to market as an attack on their rights. But we claim the right to trade with whomsoever we please, and if South Carolina will aid us in building a railroad that will be materially beneficial to both parties, we expect to do so. While we admit the enterprise, energy and public spirit of the citizens of Charlotte, and the glorious record of Mecklenburg iu the past, we strll claim that those things do not give her the right to tell our people how they should vote on a purely county matter, or how they should expcud j their own money, or where or with whom they shall trade. The people of this county areas fearful of taxes as those of any other section of the State, and the Observer need not be afraid they will overburden themselves by county taxes, or any other kind imposed on them by their own votes. A short time ago the Observer published an article saying that Charlotte was the proper market for the Catawba valley. On the same day the price of corn in Newton and Charlotte was the same?55 and GO centi" per bushel?and in Chester it was worth 81.10 per bushel, or twice as much. If, then, it is our natural market, why this difference? Will the Observer answer??Newton, N. C\, Vindicator. ? An Emperor and his Comrades.?A droll adventure occurred to the Emperor Alexander on the eve of one of the imperial reviews. The emperor was fond of walking about unattended, and he often extended his pedestrian excursions to the distance of two or .1 i r ?i mree leagues iruui at. xetcnuuig. mt occasiou here alluded to, he had taken a very long walk, and finding himself very much fatigued, he got into one of the public sledges. "Drive to the Imperial Palace at St. Petersburgh," said he to the iswotschilk (sledge-driver). "I will take you as near to it as I can," replied the man; "but the guards will not allow us'to approach the gates." On arriving a little distance from the place the sledge stopped. "We must not go any further," said the sledge-driver. The emperor jumped from the sledge, saying, "Wait there, and I will send some one to pay you." "No, no," replied the man, "that will not do. Your comrades often make me the same promise, but they always forget to keep it. I will give no more credit. If you have not the mouey, leave something with me till you get it." The emperor smiled, and unfastening the clasp of his cloak, he threw it into the sledge. "Here," said he, "take this." On ascending to his apartments he directed his valet-de-chambre to take fifty roubles to the iswotschiik who had driven him and briug back his cloak. When the valet reached the spot where the emperor had left the sledge, he found about twenty drawn up in line. "Which of you drove the emperor?" inquired the valet. No one answered. "Who has got a cloak ?" said the valet, pursuing his inquiry. "An officer left a cloak with me," exclaimed a sledge5i?o if tn mp nnrl here is vnnr fare." i u,"u" .? ? ? J ? "Great St. Nicholas !" exclaimed the astonished driver, and, seizing his reins, he drove rapidly away amid the shouts ot'the assembled iswotschilks. This happened on the eve of one of the grand reviews. After the troops had defiled, all the commanders of corps formed a group around the emperor. "Gentlemen," said Alexander, "I am much pleased with the fine appearance and excellent discipline of your troops. But tell your officers for me, that they made mesubmit to the humiliation of leaving my cloak in pledge for my honesty." Every one stared with astonishment. "I assure you," resumed the emperor, "the sledge-driver who brought me home refused to trust me because, he said, my comrades often forgot to pay him." SOT Sing Sing is constantly adding some J new item to the curiosities of prison discipline, I but its latest edition is possibly one of the | most extraordinary on record. Its latest il-: lustration of convict ingenuity and lax dis-1 cipline was the discovery of a private still, 1 which, for several months, had been worked ! by one of the convicts, who retailed its pro- j duction to his fellows, much to his own pecu-; niary advantage. On a recent occasion, a : convict was found to be intoxicated, and, j under the threat of severe punishment, dis- 1 closed the source from whence he obtained j the liquor, which was from another convict, j named John Short, who worked in one of the marble quarries. Without informing Short a ' 3earch of the quarry was immediately instituted, where, in a secluded corner, sheltered by 1 1 n i _ 1. .LI. i lew rough Doaras, was iouna a reraarKuuie , sontrivauce for the manufacture of whisky. I A. couple of the prison tubs, holding perhaps twelve or fifteen gallons each, contained the < mash, which was composed of potatoes, scraps j i of bread, a sprinkling of tomatoes, with some ' :orn and coarse meal, collected in the prisou \ stables. An iron kettle answered the purpose [ J of a still, while a section of half-inch gas pipe artistically bent, formed the worm, thus com- I pleting an apparatus which, it is understood, I was capable of producing about five gallous of homespun spirits daily. This frightful, i liquor, Short, who constructed and owned the ! i still, retailed to his fellow-convicts in sarsapa-;: rilla bottles at the price of one dollar each.! Before Short had received a notification of I1 the seizure of his distillery, he was made to j, undergo a search, when, concealed on his per- i son, was found a belt containing over six hundred dollars, being the proceeds of sales from his illicit business. Sleep on your Cares.?Men of business, believe me, there is now and then a profitable venture in doing nothing at all. In the power to put business aside, and abiding now and then in a perfect quiet, things sometimes solve themselves, when we give them that advantage, which refuses to come clear for all our trying. We all know how, by simply taking some perplexity into the deepest silence this side of death?a good night's sleep?we can do better sometimes than if we sat up and wrought at our task all night. When Matthew Murray, of Leeds, wanted to see his way through some perplexity in his inventions, and all other effort was of no use, he rested day and night from all noise, and all effort save the effort an active man has to keep himself quiet; and then the thing he wanted would steal in and look at him, and light on him, and stay, as birds used to light on the old hermits, no more afraid of them than of the trees under which they sat. And mothers, you may care and toil incessantly for your little onc3, never resting a moment in your devotion, and then, because you never do quit, but enter into your very closet with a little frock to mend, you shall never be quite able to take the whole sunlight and sum of your motherhood into your heart. You will be so full of care about the bread that perishes as to miss the bread that cometh down from heaven. No person in the world needs so much, now and then, to be still, and open her soul only to the silence as an earnest, energetic, whole-hearted mother. This eternal activity isalmostsure to run at last in shallows.? Robert Collyer. . The Immediate Cause of the Crash.? A New York letter says: "Almost every man lias a particular theory to account for the terrible crash. The real cause, however, is discussed only by a few, because only a few understand it. The root of all is to be found in the mischievous system on which business is conducted by the most of the torn down banks. I had occasion to look into this system about a year ago, and I said to several persons then that it would some day cause serious trouble. It is the principle of certification for brokers that lies at the bottom. Its operation may be briefly explained. In the first place, it is a rule in Wall street that all transactions in stocks shall be settled before a quarter-past two each day; that'is, all deliveries and payments must be made by that time. Well, a broker, say, has a balance of $20,000 in bank - * AAA Ti !?. and lie must pay $iuu,ui>u. n is nui jkjssiuic for him to get this money, but by an arrangement with his bank he can get checks for the whole amount certified. His honor is pledged to make his account good, by depositing either curreucy checks or securities (the latter chiefly stock) by three o'clock. This is the only protection the bank has, and, as any person may see, it is a very flimsy one. Every day during au active season brokers give checks for from three to five times the amount of their deposits, and these checks are certified just as though money were on hand to meet them. Of course such a system must some day eud with a crash. The crash has come, it is now high time to reform the abuse that led to it." An Awful Atmosphere.?-The highest of the peaks of the Sierras, Gray's Peak, may well be called the home of the thunder. Ou accou n t of its great height it attracts the clouds, whiflh almost dailv rather round its head and burst upon it, so that sometimes it tries the nerves of the boldest to run the gauntlet of these storms. At such times the whole mountain seems charged with electricity. Several who have been caught there at such a moment have told how it shot through them like needles; it buzzed through their heads like bees; they could hear it like a gale through the rigging of a ship. The guides, being more accustomed to such things, are less terrified, but tourists are sometimes paralyzed with terror, if not with shock, and fall to the ground unable to move. Even the guides sometimes think it is a matter of prudeuce to throw themselves flat upon their faces so as not to present a point for lightning to strike. The poor brutes taught by dumb instinct, turn their heads from the storm and let it beat. If a party were caught on the snmmit in a snow storm it is probable that they would perish. In the blinding snow drifts it would be impossible to find the path, and no mortal strength could hold out for many hours. Colors and Health?There are some colors that no person can be cheerful and elastic in spirit if their rooms are tinted with them. A correspondent of a scientific paper, the Builder, states that he had occasion for several years to examine rooms occupied by young women for manufacturing purposes, and has observed that while the workers in one room would be cheerful and healthy, the occupants of a similar room, who were eraployed on the same kind of business, were melancholy, and complained of a pain in the fore head and eyes, and were often ill and unable to work. The only difference he could discover in the rooms was that the one occupied by the melancholy workers was colored with yellow ochre. As soon as the difference struck him he had the yellow ochre washed off the walls and then whitened. At once an improvement took place in the spirits and health of the occupants. He pursued his observations and experiments not only in large manufactories, but also in small apartments and garrets, and he invariably found that the occupants of such apartments, when they were colored yellow or buff", were less healthy than their neighbors in whitened rooms, and that when the yellow hue disappeared the low spirits and ill-health went with it. Georgia Girls Competing as Cooks. The Atlanta Constitution, referring to the Georgia State Fair, says: "The great contest of the Rome Fair has been that between the girls for a cooking stove as a premium for the best dinner. The result of the contest has been looked to with eager interest, and the awards were delivered amid rousing excitemeut. The best cook among these contending charmers was decided to be Miss Hattie J. Johnson, to whom was awarded the first premium in the shape of the John B. Gordon cooking stove. To Miss Octavia Shropshire was given the second premium. The second premium was the R. E. Lee stove, offered by Messrs. Seavy & Walker. Iu making the third award the committee found it hard to decide. They recommended that twenty dollars be given to Miss Alice Camp, a twelve year old girl, for the very excellent dinner she concocted. They also recommended ten dollars to Miss E. J. Shropshire. The awarding of the premiums was very exciting." To Cure Toothache.?A well known dentist, who has tried the remedy on some nervous people who have old roots or broken teeth, and are too timid to permit an attempt to remove, them makes the following public, tor the benefit of all whom it may concern. Io persons having a hollow tooth, allowing the air to reach the nerve, I would advise that they get some spirits of nitre and mix with alum; saturate a little cotton with it and apply it to the cavity. If the pain extends upward toward the eye, or takes the form of neuralgia, procure some horse-radish leaves, take out the stems, wet them and apply on the face over the pain, and I think you will get relief. If you have no radish, try beet leaves ; they may answer the same purpose.