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lewis >i. (?-nisst, proprietor. J An Jnbcpcnbcnf Jfamilg Itctosppcr: Jfor tfje ^romofion of % political, Social, Agricultural anb Commercial Jnlcrcsts of % Soutjj. |terms---$3.00 a tear, in advance. VOL. 20. YOEKVILLE, S. C., THUESDAY, JIHSTE 11, 1874. ^TO. |U Original Written for the Yorkville Enquirer. HOLLINGWOOD HOUSE. BY MRS. HENRY PEAS. CHAPTER XL The stupor which for some time held Sydney's faculties in a bondage closely resembling that of death, merged into brain fever, and for many days and nights he lay tossing in delirium. By the advice of the physician his relatives, in Columbia, were apprised of his condition, and two days after the accident, his uncle and aunt, who had supplied the place of his parents since he had lost the latter by death, arrived in Greenville, and were immediately installed as inmates of Hollingwood House. Russell finding tliat among so many, nis services were not required, and not being fitted either by disposition or practice to play the : part of sick-nurse successfully, soon after j took his leave, and returned to Columbia, in a very discontented frame of mind. Of course it was quite impossible for him to discover, at tbis time, wbat was the state of affairs between Ellinor and Sydney, and equally impossible for him, while his friend was in so critical a state, to take any steps in regard to securing the money he was desirous cf having advanced to him. He had recourse to a means which he had sometimes before em-1 ployed, successfully, when his fortuues were at a low ebb?the gaming table ; and for some time luck ran so far in his favor as to enable him to stave off a portion of the difficulties which were pressing heavily upon him. After a long period of anxious suspense to j those around him, Sydney began at last slow- j ly to recover. The fever left him very weak j and helpless, in addition to which he had the annoyance of his injured arm to contend with ; and in the first stages of his convalescence he I * 1 * ''' ?Oi.fiVi rtf /tlDQQCQ ! JooKea more in man wueu mc uuou u> uuwv : was on hiin. The doctor declared that it | would be several weeks before it would be practicable to remove him, and Col. Holliug- i wood courteously entreated Mr. and Mrs. Syd-1 ney to consider his house their home as long j as their nephew remained there. Mr. Sydney j however, when once assured of the patient's j safety, found it necessary to return to Columbia ! to attend to his business affairs, promising to j run up once in a way to see how Sydney was J getting on; and he had been gone scarcely a j week, wheu his wife received a letter announ-! cing the serious illness of her only sister, and j requesting her presence without delay. She was divided between her anxiety to i leave, and her unwillingness to throw the care of her nephew, in his still helpless state, upon others. Col. Hollingwood, however, begged Viop t-n dismiss all uneasiness on that score, as suringher that every possible attention would j be paid to his comfort, and when she spoke of seuding up a hired nurse, proposed instead, j that an experienced and trustworthy servant I of his own should assume the office, and do all that was required under the doctor's direction. | "You are too kind," she replied, "and I am i most grateful to you for all you have done for j my dear boy ; but I cannot bear that such a ; burden should he laid upon you." "It is not in the least a burdeu, my dear ! madam; so far from it, I feel that I am making a very poor compensation for the inju-j ries your nephew has received ; remember that j it was my rascally horse that caused all the ' mischief." "Hut you arc not respousible for that, you j know, sir; besides, I am inclined to attribute ' Sydney's accident entirely to his own rashness.1 Be that as it may, I am not the less indebted to you for your goodness. I am glad, at all events, that I have been able to remain uutil the danger is over." Mrs. Sydney went, and Charity, a respecta- J ble colored domestic, who often officiated at the bedside of invalids, and was noted for her intelligence and capability, was installed as i nurse in the sick-room, with the promise of such assistauce as she might need at various times from the members of the household. For some time everything went on favorably, aud Sydney was well satisfied with his new attendant, whom he found as careful and efficient as he could desire. But one day,' Charity complained of feeling sick, and asked Ellinor if she did not think somebody might take her place for that night, as she wa3 afraid she would be of very little use if she were to stay. | "'Tisn't but what the work is light enough, j ma'am, for young Mr. Temple is a very easy,; uncomplaining sort of gentleman to deal with, j o.,^ PMnirp miwh. nnlv to have his ined icine given him, and his pillows shaken up, and maybe to be fanned a little now and then j when it's warm,and such like; but my head ' does ache that bad, Miss Ellinor, that I can ' hardly lift it up, and I think maybe a good | night's rest would set mc all right again." ! "Of course, Charity, I don't waut you to ' stay up if you arc not well; and besides, it is j right that you should rest sometimes," said , Ellinor, kindly. "I dare say Mrs. Norton j would'nt mind taking your place for to-night; j she has offered her assistance if it should be i needed, and no doubt she will be willing to give it now." "Well, ma'am, I hope so ; I shouldn't like Mr. Temple to suffer by my absence," said Charity, a little consequentially, for she had no mean opinion of her own importance. "He shall not suffer, I assure you ; and you may as well go to your house at once, and go to bed. I'll see that everything goes right." "Thank you, ma'am. The medicine has all the directions on it; and anything he wants, he can say for himself." voir I.1, P XjilllJOr UClUUa UCIJCU Ul UUV,C IU 1,111/ I1UUOV,keeper's room, and preferred her request that she would be kind enough to sit up with Mr. Temple that night. As she had expected, she found Mrs. Norton quite willing to comply; though she remarked diffidently that she had not been much used to sickness, and was afraid she might be awkward about it. Ellinor assured her that the attentions required of her would be of a very simple nature ; adding, that she would have the lounge in the dressing-room adjoining the invalid's chamber prepared for her to rest upon during the night, so that she would be within call, without the fatigue of sitting up. Now it happened, oddly enough, that Mrs. Norton had never seen either of the young gentlemen who had been staying at Hollingwood, except catching an occasional glimpse of them at a distance as she sat at her window. With both of the elderly guests she had be 1 come acquainted, for Mrs. Sydney, in partic | ular, had been introduced into her depar ; raent, on account of assisting in preparing vi rious little delicacies for the patient, and M Sydney had occasionally roamed about ht pantry and closets and admired the beautifi order in which they were kept. She hersel | according to her usual habits, never set he 1 foot in any quarter where she was likely t encounter straugers; so, after all, it was notl ' ing wonderful that Sydney Temple should b known to her only by name?and his friend j name she had never eveu heard. Unlike mo! housekeepers, she never gossiped with the sei vants, and so was deprived of many valuabl pieces of information which they would hav been willingenough to impart. As silent an I retiring as ever, she moved quietly about i : her little sphere, accomplishing her allotte tasks with fidelity and exactness, and wiie they were done, withdrawing into her self-in posed solitude, in which no one cared to dii turb her. It was nearly dusk when she entered Syc i ney's room, piloted by a chambermaid, Chai I ity's niece, who was to introduce her to he patient. The latter, however, was asleep, an Mrs. Norton, telliug the girl she need not r< main, sat quietly down, at some distance fror the bed, where she could notsee Sydney's fac< which was turned toward the wall as he laj Everything was silent,save the monotonou j ticking of the clock on the mantelpiece. Th ; pale, sad woman sat in the gathering dart I ness, with her hands folded on her lap, he , eyes bent down, her thoughts wandering?ah | whither? Who could tell what mournfu % 1 memories, wrought out of the twilight horn wheu fancy and remembrance most love t hold their sway, were thronging into he brain ? Often did she sit thus, in the solitud of her own chamber, pondering on the pasl trying to peuetrate the future, weaving will conjectures and forming impossible plans ; fo in spile of her outward stillness, a restless se of thought, of troubled yearning and longing was forever surging within her most untran quil mind. Presently a movement in the bed attractei her attention, she roused herself from her rev erie, and turned expectantly toward the in valid. "Charity!" presently said a weak voice ou of the darkness. "Isn't it very late?" Mrs. Norton immediately rose and cam forward. "Charity is not here, sir," she quietly re plied. "Sheis not well, aud lam taking he place. I am Colonel Hollingwood's house keeper." "Are you ? You are very kind, I am sure Would you be good enough to fetch a light It makes me nervous to lie in the dark." "I will bring one directly." Something in the tone struck on Sydney' ear, like the echo of a familiar sound, famil iar, yet unrecognized except iu a vague, inex plicable way. He looked curiously towar< her, but could see nothing except the slight sombrely clad figure of the house-keeper, an< the outline of her white cap, showing dimly in the uncertain light, as she stood by th M_. _ l. \. CM. Cluiuney preparing 10 striae a nuucn. on had some little difficulty iu finding the candle not knowing where it was usually kept, bu finally succeeded iu doing so, and when it wa lit, placed it where it could not shine in hi eyes, at the same time affording him (thougl unintentionally) a plain view of herself. H looked at her eagerly, but the inspection, will whatever motive it was made, did not appea to afford him auy special satisfaction ; hi momentary interest seemed to subside, am with a weary sigh, he turned again on hi pillow. "Can I do anything for you, sir ?" sh asked. "It must be time for my dose; will yoi look at my watch, please ? I was to take it?1 "At half past seven," quietly interrupts the new nurse. "I was careful in getting th necessary directions. It is now just time fo you to have it." She found the medicine, poured it out ii her usual noiseless way ami brought it to tlv bedside. Sydney stretched out his hand to take it and as she partly drew back the curtain to al low him more freedom for the movement, th light full upon his face. And now a most singular thing occurred Instead of giving him the glass of medicine Mrs. Norton drew hack a step or two, recoil ing as suddenly as if she had received a blow and the glass fell upon the floor, scattering it contents upon the skirt of her dress and upoi the clean, dainty white matting at her feel Sydney, whose nerves were still in a very un steady condition, could not forbear a sharj exclamation of annoyauce. There was a momentary silence ; then th housekeeper, trembling in every limb, am with her face working with suppressed emo tion, went down on her knees and commence! hurriedly picking up the pieces of brokei glass, at the same time wiping up the spilt li <juid with her handkerchief. "Pray, forgive me," she murmured in j tremulous voice. "I was very awkward?! am afraid I startled you." "Oh! no matter," groaned Sydney, in i tone that said it did matter very much. "I'll get another glass directly. Oh ! deai I knew I wasn't fit?what would Miss Ilolling wood think?" muttered the housekeeper in ai incoherent way as she went on gathering u ai. - r um i ragmen 13. "Pray don't do that," said Sydney speakin: ' more gently, for he felt sorry for her cmbai rassrnent. "Cannot you call a servant ? Yo will tire yourself stooping in that way." Mrs. Norton made no reply, hut went o: silently with her task until all vestige of th accident had been removed ; then left th apartment to obtain another wineglass. Wit! | this she presently returned, and in a nervous ' hurried manner, but without displaying an further awkwardness, prepared a second dos and administered it with success. This don< she asked in a low tone if there was auythin else he wanted ; and being answered in th negative, withdrew to a seat in a distant pai of the room, where she was quite conceale from his view, and sat down, pressing he hands tightly upon her heart, trying vainly t still its painful throbs. Meantime Sydney was viewing with dii content the prospect of enduring for a who! night the ministrations of this nervous, awl ward new attendant. What on earth ha possessed Charity to go and get sick, just whe lie needed her! She was so handy, so can I ful; never broke or spilled anything, and a I ways knew exactly what he wanted, and ho1 I to do it for him. His shoulder was achin ' him badly now, as it sometimes did, and he ' t- wanted to have it rubbed, but was afraid to i i- run the risk of unskillful handling, lest his in- j ~r. ju red arm, which still required great care,; ;r might suffer in consequence. At last, howev- Til il er, his discomfort got the better of his fears, j ^ f, and with a sort of impatient groan he ex- i ^.or !r : claimed? i h,s j : gen o j "My shoulder pains me horribly ! Could l-' you rub it a little for me, Mrs. ?" j bod ie | "Mrs. Norton," said tho house-keeper, start- wit! s ing up directly, at the sound of his voice. , pro st She came forward with a curious mixture of,111 ^ I | r- shrinking aud eagerness in her manner, and , e | seating herself by the bedside commenced ! j* e at once to perform the desired duty. Light-, d ly and deftly her soft hands glided over his ; Un n . shoulder; they seemed to possess a soothing j pos d ; charm, that even Charity's broad strong "I ? n ! palms had failed to impart, for they had never ; ^ie l-, brought him such a speedy sense of relief as j 3-1 he experienced now. He was agreeably sur-1 l prised, and thanked her very gratefully when \ rj I- the numb, wearying pain was removed. All' is t( r-1 the time she sat there, her eyes dwelt search-1 ing x ingly on his face, save when he turned it to- an^ d | ward her, and then she instantly looked ^ J 1 ;- ; away; her fluttering breath, her varying color,; n ; her rapt devouring gaze, would nave Deirayea j tjie i, r to him the secret stirring of some powerful j fajr r. I emotion, had he noted them ; but he did not, j trer 8 for he was only thinking of the comfort she j wer e j had just afforded liira, and congratulating j a re :-1 himself on the discovery that she could be ; r i useful and efficient after all. I aQy ! ! "Poor thing," he reflected, "I suppose she j ficj? il j was frightened and timid at first; and per- j bon r,! haps I was rather cross to her. But when a i gen o fellow's nerves are in such a state as mine, it is J 'ow r | enough to shake them to have any one jump ; to 2 e i back and smash a glass in that way. What ( t, i was the matter, I wonderf anyhow ? I can't1 utte d , make it out yet." I tabl r | Severn! times afterward he caught himself i The a speculating on this question, but he could find I whi j no elucidation to the puzzle. Something in ' P'es i- the behavior of his attendant struck him still : ! as being peculiar, and at times a little annoy-1 j)ag( J , ing; she had the oddest way, when he called | a ra ' [ on her for anything, of keeping as much out! long i- i of his sight as possible while she waited on hav j him, contriving either to stand in the shadow j 11 of the curtains, or to interpose some other i | screen between her face and him ; yet she e found various pretexts for hovering constantly I uec) : rouud the bed, now smoothing the covering, he ii j now laying her handkerchief down on it and , mis.' r ' then returning to remove it, now offering to 1 aQd ! j shake up his pillow, or bathe his head, until ; . ' j he was obliged to say he would rather be quiet, | i. j when she retreated precipitately out of sight, jarg ? : and sat so quiet in a distant corner that he j thei ] half thought he must have offended her. ! the "Do go and lie down," he said at last, when j ^ s i the clock had struck.eleveu, and he needed j - j nothing more for several hours. "I can't i j3^' - sleep while you are sitting there without any j,j 11 rest.'' pan , | Without a word, Mrs. Norton rose, and to si 1 j obediently glided into the adjoining room. 1 this > "She moves likes a ghost," muttered Syd-' e uey. "I'd rather hear Charity snoring any ; . e t;me ? ' j lenc nine. ... I pers !? i The housekeeper felt no inclination to close Cert her eyes in sleep. She sat, without stirring, on recc s the edge of the lounge that had been arranged j othc s , for her accommodation, until she became ; | aware, from Sydney's deep, regular breathing ^ ?j e that he lost, for the present, all consciousness of jjna 1 i outward things ; then, with slipperless feet, she j seen r I crept back into his chamber, aud standing at j hist s j the foot of his bed, where she could distinctly I this ^ i see him, yet could without difficulty retire out J ^av s ; of sight should he give indications of awaken- j ^or j iug, she scrutinized his features with the in- j e ; tent look one sometimes bestows on the face j c i of the dead, soon to be removed out of the j 0ugl J : reach of human eyes, as if in that fixed gaze j and J to imprint his lineaments indelibly on her j hav< 1 memory. Motionless she stood, at first, as a i I1|a? e I marble statue, her pale face rigidly set, her ' * ^ r ; hands clasped, her large dark eyes never stir- j ,i ; ring from the sick man ; but presently a ' (jon 1, change came over her; her lips parted, and j Stat e j quivered as if with a voiceless prayer; a look 1 W of agony swept over her face, her whole frame conl '? bowed, and sank, trembling, to the floor, while *; her hands were raised supplicatingly above ure? e j her drooping head ; it was as if a storm of an-' tjie guish, irresistible in its might, was crushing ' Stev ' ; and quelling her. For more than an hour | dcr > J she sat thus, swaying silently to and fro, rock- j bmg " j ing the misery cradled at her hoart. Then a . '? j fancied movement of the sleeper startled her ; j ^ 1 s she rose, and moving as lightly as before, J ^ett 3 | quickly retreated to the dressing-room again. I cjea ' , Back and forth, many times during the night,' der " she glided thus, never daring again to stay be si P j very long for fear of detection, but unable | S1PP i apparently to resist the desire of watching him 't0 sl t;uDsecD- . . i ?oS 1 j To Sydney's disappointment, Charity was | not well enough the next day to resume her 1 ma> ^ j office of nurse ; she had a cold and fever, and j if th 1 would probably be laid aside for several days. see 1 , When Mrs. Norton heard of it, she went di- j n?ss | rectly to Ellinor, and offered to give up all j n , . a { her time, outside of her house keeping duties, i 0f_ ^ I to attend upon the patient. j 0f a j "You are very good," said Ellinor, "but I ! is in a | am afraid" it will be rather a heavy responsibil- i be 1 ' v... 1 well I liy upon you. 10U uou t iuuk. siruug, uiiu ! '?' the duties of a sick-nurse are very fatiguing." ! '' i "Oh ! I am quite strong?I assure you I j' 11 am !" said the house-keeper, eagerly. "I have out P often sat up for several nights together, and to h ; not minded it at all. I can very easily do it, vasl o if you will allow me." , CU(1' * I "Well, of course, it will be a great kiud-1 11 , ness," said Ellinor, "and you need not trouble mcil f yourself about the house-keeping, for I will . whi n i take all that off your hands while you arc of p I otherwise engaged. But pray, as soon as you 1 to ri ? 1 find your self-imposed task too heavy, give it ( up, and I can manage, in some other way, to l)res ''' supply Charity's place, for the present, at any ^ rate." tion e So Mrs. Norton was formally installed in ter ' : the position of Sydney's nuise, pro tem., and Lou ^ in spite of her peculiarities, gave sufficient sat- C0U( 61 isfaction to make Charity's absence less a j matter of regret than at first it had seemed i likely to be. | [ro 1!E CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.] A ? fore fey1* Multitudes of women lose health, and stre 3' even life every year, by busying themselves exa e until warm and weary, and then throwing men i- themselves on a bed or sofa without covering, forn d | or in a room without a fire, or by removing asto ! their outer garments after a long walk, and whc I changing their dress while iu a state of per- of o ; spiration. If you have to walk and ride his '* | both, do the riding first, and on returning go tain w to a warm room, keep on all your wraps until j swo g I your forehead is dry, I war pSttUiittWus fUMittg. | a From the New York Time*, May -J7. 1] E REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE SOUTH 1 ir. Eaton, the newly-elected Senator of j, inecticut, recently delivered an address to | ^ fellow citizens, in which he referred in a j z eral way to his political opiuions. These | j, tiions are tolerably well known to every-1 c ly who has followed the course of politics j a h any attention, and it does not seem very 1 ^ fKr** \r* T^.otnn tit ill malro nntr phnncrp 1 IJUUiU bliat I'll. "... .iiMuv W..J , n hem. lie declared that he is now, "and ! j, ays has been, and always would be, a State , ( ;hts Democrat of the old Jefiersonian i e ool." He said, also, "First, first, first the j v te of Connecticut, and then the Federal I ? ion," which, of course, is essentially the t] ition formerly taken by men like Gen. Lee. I fi ihall try," added Mr. Eaton, "to takeaway | 0 Federal bayonets from our brothers in the ! u th, so that every State in this land shall , t| re the same right of local government, and 1 tj same exercise of it, as our own State." , q .'he "regulation" '.j of answering all this ! f( ) stick a label on Mr. Eaton's back certify-! c that he is a Bourbon and a copperhead, j I to call attention to the fact that he was by i means "sound" on national issues during j war. But even after all this had been i ti e, there would still remain a question in j h back-ground which will have to be met j Q ly in the face some day or other. The ex-1 w ne length to which State Rights theories } n p nuahpd in 1 8fi0 find Iftfil. hroucllt about ! f I "" ? ' o I >(action, and that reaction has led many 11< pie to think that State Rights belong to i 0 dead-and-gone class of questions, and that; g man who talks about State Rights is suf- ji mtly answered when he is called a "Bour- ? It is unnecessary to say to any intelli- d t reader that this view is a miserably shal- v one, and that in reality the rights of States 0i ;overn themselves is as dear to tha people tl ver it was. And it ought to be dear to j t< n, for when they abandon it they will have ; w rly forsaken the system of government es- a ished under the Federal Constitution. jg y may set up something else in its place, a; ch may be called by any name that may e: ise the persons then living; and it will not b he government designed by the founders 0i he constitution. It may be a civil policy 0I ;d upon parliamentary rule, or it may be G onarchy or a despotism; but it will no S ;er be a constitutional republic such as we tr e seen here for nearly a hundred years. ai say, then, that when Mr. Eaton talks of n necessity of maintaining State Rights, p r>f rrivinrr tVio f>iti7ona nf Smith Carolina nl V" fc,' ' '"b ""v ? ? KJ same freedom which the citizens of Con- J ,icut enjoy, it is not enough to allege that ]c 3 a "Copperhead," and to fling at him the w dies which darkened the air between 1861 J 1865. If the citizens of the South are si ng in a state of oppression, Mr. Eaton is t( it in calling attention to their situation ; if d f are suffering from in justice, the nation at ei ;e will never tolerate its continuance, and, 1 efore, the sooner the injustice is redressed rr better. S l11 such questions as these should be dealt si i frankly. It is very bad policy on the ai t of the Republican party to try to sutfif ? n away in corners, and cover them with lj "battle-flag" or with any other of the war t! iphernaliu. The people will not consent n ee either a Poland or an Ireland created on h soil. It is not impossible to redress mis- J 58 when they are discovered ; but to persist rl" lose mistakes after discovered, and to pre- j h 1 that religion and morality require U3 to j I list in them?this is a course which we j h ainly shall not take the responsibility of ai immcnding to the Republican or to any I cl ;r party. The Southern States are not! oi ig under a fair or free government?so ai Eaton and many others allege. Well, j S le assertion true? Look at South Caro- j A . These facts iu reference to that State j lj ii to be about as well established as any j tc orieal facts can be, and they amount to j R ?the negroes, assisted by rascally whites, i tc e held a sort of irrand onrie in the State ' w several years past, have swallowed up j ci mg them pretty nearly all the private | t<j ierty in the State, have ruined what may j tl ailed the native citizens even more thor-1 sc hly than the war had done, have robbed I tl harried like so many highwaymen, and j e\ e reduced the State to a condition which ; in t shock every man who sees it or reads I sc at it. The very Governor of the State is j tl ief. The Legislature is a gang of thieves, j oj !iis a "republican government" such as the tl stitutiou expressly guarantees to all the j vi ;es ? ! p( 'e venture to say that it is not?that on the ! w :rary, it is a government of which the Re-! si lie has every reason to be ashamed. No i bi bt the system introduced as a "war meas- ri ' into the South after the war?chiefly upon "J advice of Senator Sumner and Thaddeus ] tl; 'ens?was experimental; but can we won-; tli that people everywhere begin to ask how tl ; the experiment is to last? There should J er ?ast be some signs of improvement visible ; T me goes on. Nine years have passed since : b< close of the war, and is South Carolina 1 tl: er governed than she was then ? She! ]e rly is not so well governed as she was un-1 st a purely military rule. The same must sc aid, mutatis mutandis, of Louisiana, Missis- j e\ i, Texas and Arkansas. Now, it is folly j tl jppose that the Republican party, as an I us inization, will continue much longer to ! tl : on with perfect satisfaction at this great j ei ire. The leaders of the present moment1 not pay any attention to the subject; but j ey do not, other leaders will arise who will j that justice is done. Last week we all wit- j is ed the United States Senate engaged for j cc :it twenty-four hours at a stretch in passing : e? 11 for the benefit of the negro, merely out1 ai sentimental sort of deference to the wishes ! n< deceased Senator. Respect for the dead ri icumbenton us all?but legislation should of >ased on a careful and wise regard for the 'are of tlio living, not upon "mandates," ol or fictitious, of the dead. The negro has ai a very fair amount of protection. It is ei ortant before going any further to find 1 fc ? 1- - 4 b ? Urt.i ?\ t n / ] a f l? a Am r*nrnn ^ in WIIUL USU liC litis mauoui uit ntcuuui ^i?tu to iru; in what way he has exercised the ' h ; political powers with which he has been ; p owed ; what sort of a government he has I ied to set up in States where he is most; g: crful; whether, in short, he at this mo- m it stands in need of protection from the ! ei te man, or the white man stands in need r( rotcction from him. If Mr. Eaton intends 1 w use these questions, depend upon it he will , a; tin an audience, and he cannot be sup- ? ised by howls and groans, and we, for our ; ir t, shall not join in any such attempts at i o< pression. We should like to see the qucss taken up by Republicans. Mr. Carpen- r< made a great beginning in reference to , ci lisiaua. Such a work would be far more 1 ti rlucive to the prosperity of the party, and 1 w he cause of good government, now and el ;after, than the headlong passage of senti- e' ital bills in favor of the negro. I d l SW0RD-S\VAI.I.OWEK EXAMINED.?Be- ! it a large class at Jefferson College, Tenth 1 ai et, below Chesnut, yesterday morning, an "< ruination was made of Signor lienedetti, a gi nber of the Schumann Company, now per-1 ci ningat the Arch street theatre. The most d_ nishing feats of this performer, over those ai i ordinarily swallow swords, is that instead ta ne, he places as many as six swords in throat at one time, and instead of main- m ing a perpendicular position while a thin ti rd is in hi? gullet, he bends his body for- j cl d until the hilt assumes a horizontal I st ?osition, the blade being bent in the perform-11 ,uce. In the exhibition made yesterday the | c iignor took a very heavy musket with bayo- j h et attached and ran the latter, measuring j tl ixteen inches in length, down his tesophagus J w nto his stomach, and then, without placing j ii lis hands to the musket, slowly bent his | it iody until he let the weapon assume a hori-' k ontal position, moved it around over the ' tl leads of the spectators near him, and then re- ' a overed an erect position. Several gentlemen a fterward found that they could scarcely j p old the musket out at arm's length when ! is etching it by the bayonet. During the ex- j n ibition Dr. F. F. Maury, assisted by Drs. w ilross, Wallace and Pancoast, made a close i h xamination of the performer, especially I c r'hile the latter had a Spanish sabre, twenty- j t< ine inches long and one inch wide, in his | a liroat, the end of the blade being easily felt o rom the exterior by the doctors as it pressed 1 utward on the left side of the body below the mbilicus. The opinion of the professors was bat the blade displaced the stomach partially, ilting and passing down the left side of it.'A 'he organs of Signor Benedetti's throat were i w >und to be of the ordinary formation and j haracter.?Philadelphia Enquirer. j A .... j t| "TOM COLLINS." i j, T7>r the host, two weeks neonle have been ! 01 liking about "Tom Collins," newspapers ave published mysterious hints about "Tom a !ollins," the brick piles have been placarded j p 'itli allusion to "Tom Collins/' the negro C linstrels have advertised songs about "Tom b lollins," and peripatetic venders of card pho- s( igraphs have offered to sell correct likenesses S f "Tom Collins." The words have suddenly rown into the popular slang of the streets, y, ist as "Walker," "Who's your hatter?" Here's your mule," and other absurdities ti id in their day. To the uninitiated it was tl ery provoking to hear one man say to an- e< ther, "Have you seen Tom Collins?" and c< len for both of them to explode with laugh- ]y; jr. It seemed very stupid, and, upon the S' hole, I think thai it was. I have just been : C ble to find out who is this Tom Collins, who ! C in the mouth of everybody in New York, tl nd whose reputation, I suppose, will speedily stend to other parts. He was born in the tl rain of Iiarrigau, a noted negro minstrel at oe of the minor theatres, who is the author bi f the still popular song of "The Mulligan fuards." Harrigan, emulous of the fame of tl othern, coucocted a huge practical joke to ja ike in the town. He got all the hotel clerks nd the leading barbers, barkeepers, restau- ic mt men and druggists to join him in the ^ lot. The trick was played this way : One tc f the conspirators approached his friend '' "Tl It J f.,1 I ones ana saia, "i m reany sorry, my uem ici- o; >y, to hear that your wife has ran away J3 ith Smith." Of course Jones is indignant. S1 [e demands to know who is the author of Ic ich an infamous slander. "Tom Collins ild me," says the conspirator." "Who the at ash, dash, dash, is Tom Collins ?" howls the C1 uraged husbaud. "Why, don't you know ai om Collins, the little fellow with the black tc mustache?why you'll fiud him over at the t. Nicholas. Now Jones goes and gets a big h ;ick and starts for the St. Nicholas. He sks the clerk, "Say, is there a fellow by the araeofTora Collins stopping here ?" "Col- tl ns,8ir? Tom Collins? Yes, sir!" responds le c]erk politely, "a little man with a black C mustache?here just a moment ago, sir. He w as stepped over to Valet's barbershop." Mr. ni ones rushes across the way to the barber's. Jo 'hat artist exclaims, "Tom Collins?know itn well?just left here?took a stage up to )elmonico's to get his dinner." Jones grasps ei is stick anew, hastens out to the sidewalk cc nd hails an omnibus. At Delmonico's the pi oft- cove tli 11 f. Mr CYillins has been in and I Si rdered a dinner to be ready an hour hence, y< nd has, in the meantime, gone around to the er pingler House to play a game of billiards, bi .t the billiard saloon Jones is told that Col- si ns thought he wouldn't play, and has gone tl: ? Brentano's to get the evening papers. n< rcntano reports that Collins was just iu and th iok a Graphic and a Post, and said that he th as going to the Fifth Avenue Hotel to get a th gar. Joucs abandons the chaseand returns 's< i Delinouico's to await the dinner hour of a$ le maligner of his family honor. He spends at itne time impatiently walking up and down bi le marble floor, thumping it with his cane at tu ,*ery step, the bland clerk informing him at a itervals that he is "sure Mr. Collins will si: ion be in." After a weary vigil, long past pi le time appointed for dinner, exhaustion be-: th us to blunt the edge of wrath, and then it is of lat a suspicion steals into the mind of the w: ictim that he has been "sold," and that fifty w; jople in the secret are at that moment th atching him and laughing at him. He dl dies for the door and attempts to sneak off; to Jt as his coat tails disappear the chorus Tl ngs in his ears, amid screams of merriment, ch [Iere comes Tom Collins at last." This is fl< le practical joke that has beeu played on pc musands of people during the past fortnight, wi le hotel clerks, barbers, newsmen, &c., being Tl nployed all day long answering inquiries for th om Collins. The secret is out, and every- bf )dy knows now that Tom is a myth ; but th le theatres and newspapers are not likely to w: t the sensation die out immediately. The in ? ' ..l 1 11 rangest thing about thejoKe is mat it couia i sp i easily deceive so many people. It has not' or ren the merit of freshness. I remember that I tv mt most incorrigible of wags, John Kenifick, b( sed to victimize Meeting street pretty much ' w le same way years ago.?N. Y. correspondit Charleston News and Courier. KEGULAKEATING. J Half of all ordinary diseases would be banlied from civilized life, and dyspepsia be- j er line almost unknown, if everybody would j it but thrice a day at regular times, and not i su 1 atom between meals, the intervals being I fr :it less than five hours, that being the time ! th iqnired to digest a full meal aud pass it out in F the stomach. If a person eats between meals, the process i a f digestion of the food already in the stom- j "J ;h is arrested, until the last which has been i ai ? ? ' ? ?1- _? 4.1. _ I il. itcn is orougnt into mo conuiuou ox mo , ?: inner meal, just as if water is boiling aud ice | put in, the whole ceases to boil until the ice 1 tli as been melted and brought to the boiling 1 su oint, and then the whole boils together. i w But it is a law of nature that all food be- i ins to decay, to rot, after exposure to heat | ta ud moisture for a certain time. If a meal is j h< iteu, and in two hours another, the whole 1 tl: miains undigested for seven hours, before j hich time the rotting process commences,: cc nd the man has his stomach full of carrion j d< -the very idea of which is horribly disgust- j b( ig ; but that such is the case the unendurable , lor of the belching demonstrates. ! sc As, then, all the food in the stomach is in a , cc itt inrr pnmHtinn. in a stnfp nf fnrmpntive de- I m ~ -- ? ly, it becomes unfit for the purpose of nutri- th on and for making good pure blood. Small onder is it that dyspeptics have such a vari-1 al :y of symptoms and aches, and complaints in | in ;ery part of the system, for there* is not one j th rop of pure blood in the whole body; hence te ic nerves, which feed on this impure and wl nperfect blood, arc not properly nourished, j wi ud, as a consequence, become diseased. They : complain" they are hungry?and like a hun- j ry man are peevish, fretful, restless. We j di ill it nervousness, and no one ever knew a ; gr yspeptic who was not restless, fretful, fidgety, | hf id essentially disagreeable, fretful and uncer- i ra iin. th The stpmach is made up of a number of wi uscles, all of which are brought into requisi- co on in the process of digestion. But no raus- lii e can work always. The busy heart is in a fa ate of perfect repose for one-third ofits time. T1 'he eye can wink twice in a second, but this ould not be continued five minutes. The ands and feet must have rest; and so with lie muscles of the stomach; they only rest dien there is no work for them to do?no food i the stomach to digest. Even at five hours' iterval, and eating thrice a day, they are ept constantly at work from breakfast until ae last meal is disposed of, usually ten o'clock t night. But multitudes eat heartily within n hour of bed time; thus, while the other ortions of the body are at rest, the stomach i kept laboring until almost daylight, and jade to begin again at breakfast time. No ronder is it that the stomach is worn out? as lost its power of action. Many girls beorne dyspeptic before they are out of their jens, in consequence of being about the house nd nibbling at everything they lay their eyes n that is good to eat.?Hall's Journal of Tealth. 4 REMINISCENCE OF THE'WAR OF 1S12. The following is clipped from the National [agazine, published during or soon after the 'ar of 1812: Before the war Captain Carden and the Tacedonian were at Norfolk. Decatur was lere, too, and a warm intimacy soon joined 1 friendship, two kindred hearts. While disussing naval matters one day, Carden said: "Decatur, your ships are good enough, d you are a clever set of fellows, but what ractice have you in war? There's the rub. >ne of these days we will probably have a rush together, and if I catch your ship at ;a, I will knock her into a cocked hat, fpntipn." "Will you ?" said Decatur. "I will bet du a hat on it." The bet was agreed on, and the conversaon changed. But a few months elapsed ere le war that had been threatening coramenc3, and the two captains, by some singular incidence, met in battle; the one in the lacedonian and the other in the United tates. The results of the action are known, aptain Garden, on going on board the ship United States, was received by a lieutenant at le gangway, to whom he tendered his sword. "Not to me, sir," said the officer, "but to le captain." "And where is the captain ?" said the emirrassed Englishmen. "He is standing aft, there; that is the geneman, sir, in a tarpaulin had and round ,cket." Garden went aft, and his feelings, on meettg under such circumstances his old friend, ay be imagined. As he offered his sword ) Decatur, that officer said: "No, Garden, I never take the sword of a rave man. You have fought gallantly, ut," said he, laying his hand on the other's loulder, "I will take that hat, my dear feliw." In transferring to the United States the lite of Captain Garden, a fine band was inuded. In the afternoon, when dinner was nnounced in the cabin, Captain Carden said k l 11 ?? / x/cuaiui "These rausiciuns are very skilled, and I ave always had them on deck while at diner. "Very well," said Decatur, "we will have iem up." The band was ordered on deck to play, and omraodore Decatur was asked what air he ould like to hear. "Let them play 'Britania Rules the Waves,'" said he, with a slight tugh. Bound to be Married.?A correspondit gives the Newton (N. H.) Register an ac>unt of a recent wedding ceremony in Walick township, near Flatbrookville, in that Late, which was somewhat in this way : A Dung woman of that vicinity had become laraored with a young man of Pennsylvania xth, who has been living in Stillwater townlip for some time. Desiring to get "spliced," ley offered a certain local preacher, living >nr hv S5 tr. Hn the inh. He informed lem, with many regrets, that he was unaulorized to perform the ceremony. They ten dispatched a message to a corpulent ^uire, residing in the FJatbrook valley, who ;reed to come and marry them. Shortly 'ter he arrived, the mother of the would-be "ide, who had been absent from home, reirned and discovered the situation. Seizing piece of board three or four feet long and x inches wide, she proceeded to belabor all irties concerned. She drove her daughter to ie garret, aud her would-be son-in-law out 'doors. The 'squire began to expostulate ith the excited woman, when she sprang toard him, aud told him to leave. He obeyed e command, but when he reached the mide of the road, he told the sorrowing parties come to him and he would make them one. bis still further enraged the mother, and she larged upon the 'squire and forced him to ie homeward. Later in the day the disap)inted bride and groom were seen together seping and bewailing the state of affairs. I 1. V lie result 01 in is cuuierence wus umt cnuj e next morning they presented themselves Tore the 'squire iu his barnyard. He asked em to go to the house, but having learned isdom from experience, they declined, statg that they desired to be married on the ?ot, before the bride's mother should be out 1 the war-path. Without further delay the ?ain were made one, the only living witnesses ?ing the cattle which surrounded them, and hick stood by chewing their cuds. + ^ + The Spirit of Discontent.?The other ly we stood by a cooper who was playing a erry tune with his adz around a cask. "Ah !" said he, "mine is a hard lot?forev* trotting like a dog?driving a hoop." "Heigho!" sighed the blacksmith on a hot immer day, as he wiped the perspiration om his brow, while the red iron glowed on ie anvil; "tki3 is life with a vengeance?meltg and frying one's self over a fire." "Oh ! that I were a carpenter," ejaculated shoemaker as he bent over his lap-stone. Sere I am, day after day, wearing my soul vay making soles for others?cooped up in lis little seven-by-nine room. Hi-ho-hura 1" "I'm sick of this out door work !" exclaimed if* hrinklavfir?"boiling under a sweltering in or exposed to the inclemency of the eather." "This is too bad!" perpetually cried the ilor?"to be compelled to sit perched up are plying the needle all the time. Would iat mine were a more active life!" "Last day of grace!?banks won't dis?unt?customers won't pay?what shall I ) ?" grumbles the merchant. "I had rather i a truck horse, a dog, or anything else." "Happy fellows!" groans the lawyer as he ratches his head over some dry musty reird?"happy fellows! I had rather hauler stone all day than puzzle my head on is tedious, vexatious question." And through all the ramifications of society ' 1 are complaining of their condition?find- ] g fault with their calling. "If it were only j is, or that, or the other, I should be con-1 nt," is the universal cry?"anything but hat I am." So wags the world, so it has! agged, and so will it wag. * * Canaries.?Rather more than three hun-: ed years ago, a ship partly laden with little ! een birds captured in the Cauary Islands, I iving been wrecked near Elba, the birds i ade their escape, flew to the island, and j ere settled themselves. Numbers of them j are caught by the inhabitants, aDd on ac-1 unt of their sprightly vivacity and the brilincy of their voice, they soon became great vorites, and rapidly spread over Europe, he original color of the canary is not the [ bright yellow with which its feathers are gen; erally tinted, but a kind of dappled olive | green, black and yellow, either color pre dominating according to circumstances. By | careful management the bird-fanciers are able | to procure canaries of every tint between the j three colors, having instituted a set of rules | by which the quality and arrangement of the | coloring is reduced to a regular system. Still | th# original dappled green is always apt to j make its appearance, and even when two col' ored birds are mated, a green one is pretty I sure to be found in the nest. For my own ! part I care little for the artificial varieties ! produced by the fanciers, and to my mind an : intelligent bird and a good songster is not one ' whit the less attractive because the colors of j its plumage are not arranged precisely ac; cording to the fancier's rules. I A Tripple Bereavement.?From an aged citizen of Decatur county, Tennessee, we have the particulars of the following series of appalling accidents, by which a happy and industrious wife and mother was bereft of her children and her husband in less than an hour. A man named Bennett Kyle, formerly a citizen of Wayne county, Tennessee, having lost his wife some years ago, married a second, and with her removed to Missouri, where he settled, and engaged in farming. Two children were born to them, and they were prospering and happy. A few weeks ago a letter was received from the wife, detailing her terrible bereavement. She had gone a short distance from the house to do the family washing, taking with her her infant child, leaving the other, some two years old, at the house with her husband, working upon the roof. Having occasion to be absent from her child for a few moments, when she returned she found a rattlesnake had fastened its fangs upon the wrist of her babe. She quickly dispatched the snake and freed the child, which almost immediately died. Clasping her infant in her arms, she hastened to the house, where she found her other child drowned in a tub of water. Her screams of agony upon beholding this second bereavement startled her husband, who, losing his presence of mind, fell from the roof and was instantly killed. Thus by this singular train of accidents was the poor woman rendered a widow and childless in a few brief moments. Our informant knew the parties well, and vouches for the facts above related.?Evansville (Ind.) Journal. Hints to Letter Writers.?The postmaster at New York has issued a circular which contains many valuable hints to letterwriters. Considering the fact that there are always two parties to a correspondence, these hints will be useful to persons in the city and out of it. The substance of the rules are, therefore, given for the benefit of all concerned. They are as follows: 1. All mail matter directed to numbered boxes will be delivered through those boxes. 2. Letters directed to city addresses, street and number, will, if recognized by the assorting clerks as intended for box-holders, be delivered through the boxes. If not so recognized, they will be delivered through the car ilCIOt 3. Mail matter addressed without box, number or street, will be delivered as expeditiously as possible, either through boxes, general delivery, or carrier. Correspondents should direct their letters plainly, correctly and fully, and those who rent boxes would greatly facilitate the business if they will print conspicuously on their letter-headings, circulars, bill-heads, cards and envelopes, a request to correspondents to address letters to their respective box numbers, and those who receive mail matter by carriers should direct their correspondents to include, in all cases, the proper streets and numbers in the addresses of all letters. the'mocth. The mouth is the frankest part of the face. It can the least conceal the feelings. We can neither hide ill-temper with it nor good. We may affect what we please, but affectations will not help us. In a wrong cause it will | only make our observers resent the endeavor I to impose upon them. A mouth should be I of good natural dimensions, as well as plump j in the lips. When the ancients, among their beauties, made mention of small mouths and lips, they meant small only as opposed to an excess the other way, a fault very common in the South. The sayings in favor of small i mouths, which have been the ruin of so many i pretty looks, are very absurd. If there must be an excess either way, it had better be the I liberal one. A pretty, pursed-up mouth is fit for nothing but to be left to its complacency. | Large mouths are oftener found in union with ! generous disposition than very small ones. Beauty should have neither, but a reasonable | look of openness and delicacy. It has an elegance in lips, when, instead of making sharp angles at the corner of the mouth, they retain a certain breadth to the very verge, and show the red. The corner then looks painted with a free and liberal pencil. 4 ? A Pathetic Incident.?Rev. Charles Robinson has an interesting article in Scribner's on the Women of the Arabs. He says the whole nation of the female sex in Egypt and Palestine is degrading and ignoble. Fathers rejoice if a son is given them to keep up the family name; but one of their poets has sung, what the people contentedly repeat, "The threshold weeps forty days whenever a girl is born." What a depth of meaning this state of things gives to the following incident, which Mr. Robinson relates: "One of the most pathetic instances of pure Orientalism that ever came to my knowledge is related as , a positive fact. While the children of the Abeih school were playing together one day at recess, two small girls fell into pleasant dispute as to the size of a certain object? plaything, perhaps. One said, '0, it was so very little!' And the other asked, 'How little?' Then the missionary looked out of the window, and heard her answer, 'Why, a little wee thing.' Then the other pressed her still further, 'Well, how little?' to which the girl replied, unconscious of the poetry or the pathos of her comparison, 'As little as was the joy of my father on the day I was born !'" 4 School-teachers.?E. E. White, ex-superintendent of the Ohio public schools, lately said in a speech about teachers, that "there are more failures from imperfect scholarship than from any other cause. The teacher must have a thorough and fresh knowledge of ! what he teaches, lie should nave sucn a | thorough knowledge that be would be able to I teach if the text-books were burned. Lack of preparation is agreat fault in American teachj ers. The best teachers have been the hardest j students. Dr. Arnold, one of the rhost gifted ; and successful of teachers, when asked why he studied so hard, when he was master of every thing he taught, replied that, he would rather have his boys drink from a clear stream than from a stagnant pool. Some teachers complain of their failing health, and urge it as an excuse for not studying. Three teachers fail in health for want of study where one fails with it. These pale faces are caused by a constant burden, which a thorough knowledge would remove." The Art of Swimming.?If you wish to drown yourself, kick and splash about as violently as you can, and you will soon go to the bottom. But if you remember that you are lighter than water, and if you calmly and steadily refrain from drawing your breath t" while under the water, keep your head raised, and your arms under, you will soon learn to float and swim.