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lewis m:. grist, proprietor, j |nbepenticnt Jamiljj ^ttfeospHptr: Jfor tjje promotion of % political, Social, Agricultural anb Commercial Interests of % Sootji. |TERMS?$3.00 A TEAR, IX ADVANCE. YOL. SO. YOEKVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, AUG-TJST 13, 1874. NO. 33. Ihe Jtomr Seller. si TAKEN INTO PARTNERSHIP. I Juliet Wayne felt desolate and down-heart- :,r ed enough. Her boots leaked, and her feet j were wet, and she had not money enough in ? the world to buy a pair of rubbers. If she . only had some rubbers, the old boots could j ^ be made to answer a while; but the shoe stores had raised the price of their articles astonishingly. It was all on account of Goodyear's pateut; but the precise why and wherefore of the case, Juliet did not understand. She put up her feet on the hearth of the j stove, and contemplated them with a woeful countenance. It was so strange, she thought, ^ that number two boots could not be'sold any , cheaper than number seven. She did not see j the philosophy of the thing. One might as well have big feet as little ones, as far as | keeping shod was concerned. ! It was raining dismally, and Juliet had a j. cold in her head, and her eyes were pink, and j her nose felt swelled, and her throat drv, as t if it had been made into toast. Then she had ; c. ^ broken the little ruby brooch which had been j her mother's, and been obliged to pin her . ^ scarf with a brass scarf-pin that had fallen to ! "" her in some kind of a lottery which she had been foolish enough to invest* in ; and to crown jt the whole, her land-lady, a Mrs. Smith, had j. just called on hor for her week's rent of her room. She wanted the money to buy a new , dress for Jane Matilda, her promising daugh- ^ ter. Jane Matilda was taking lessons on the , piano, and had taken to wrapping her hands . up in cold cream and kid gloves by night, . , and spent half the forenoon with an old pair of curling tongs, getting her hair into natural ringlets. The grocer's son, around the corner, had ^ been making errands to Mrs. S.'s lately, and once he had asked Jane Matilda to go to the J ^ Museum with him; and as he was 'well to j do,' of course it was perfectly proper for Jaue Matilda to have a new dress. ! Juliet was willing she should have it, only it was entirely out of her power to furnish the ^ meausjustat present; and when she told Mrs. Smith so, the good lady flounced out of j ^ the room in a pet, and slammed the door be- wj hind her. So you see, Juliet had enough I trials to make her feel quite down-hearted. For some years she had been employed in i ?0 the millinery establishment of Madame Le jn Baron, and had received very fair wages?for fjt her taste was exquisite, and madarae was fully jyj alive to that fact. But suddeuly madarae had f0 concluded to marry, and Mr. Shoddy, her ua husband, could not think of allowing her to continue the business. So she closed her ge store, and she and Mr. Shoddy departed for yC Europe, fully expecting to astonish all the crowned heads in that locality by theirspleuj uui. a Juliet had been out of work for three weeks, | pa the greater part of which time she had spent j aD in seeking another situation. But it was j jjr such a dull time, that nobody wanted to em- p0 ploy additional help. The fashionables were ca all out of town, for it was the middle of July, ve and it was too early, as yet, to begin to think ; gt much about the fall opening. For herself, Juliet would not have cared j tw so much, because she could have worked nj. somewhere for her own board ; but she had i pa an old grandmother in the country, who de-1 pa pended entirely upon her. Juliet's uncle, | a i who was a rich farmer, had sent the poor old lady to the almshouse, alleging, as an excuse su fi"1 mooniiMS cVlf> ll'IN nnlv tllS fjlthpr's second wife, and therefore no relation. But Juliet could not bear to thiuk of the kind old pr soul in that ungenial place, and so she paid her an board with a nice family, near where Mrs. th Barrett had lived all her lifetime, so she was te; quite at home. And for her sake Juliet felt br as if she must be earniug money. th She sat still awhile, as wretched and un- in comfortable as she could be, and then she th thought she would make a little fire and dry her feet. She took a piece of newspaper from fo thewoodbox, and lighted a match ; but just ed as she was goiug to hold it to the paper, the word in large letters?'Wanted'?caught her th eye. is* We all have a weakness for this reading of! dr personal columns. I confess to it myself, wl Xot that I ever find anything there to ray advantage, but I like to know what other peo- ci pie want, supposing they can get it. ce Juliet read the notice: ; lo "Wanted.?A smart, active woman, who pos- to sesses undeniable good taste, as a partner in a ; a well-known millinery establishment. A month's trial required, and if she be found suitable, her . capacities will be considered an equivalent for th capital, and she will be taken into partnership, ae with one-third of the profits by way of remit nera fi( tion. Call on Mrs. l.a Rue, 118 S street." It was rather a peculiar advertisement, but w] then Juliet had heard of such things. She un- co derstood well enough that Mrs. La Rue in- i ^ tended that the taste and business capacity of1 ju the person required should be such that her jn attachment to the establishment would be equivalent to one-third of the iucome. "A smart, active woman," said Juliet, i thoughtfully, quoting from the advertisement. "Undeniable good taste." I wonder if I can claim as much. Anyway, I meau to make application for the place. The worst she can i gj( say is no. I'd like to know if Mrs. La Rue will object st, to me on account of my shoes. Dress goes a j great way with some people. And there is a | ?] darn in the side breadth of my dress, but I j> can manage to keep that out of sight under : ov my shawl. p, Juliet got up, smoothed back her hair^.nd , held some cold water to her eyes; thp^ she ju put on her little round straw h^t""with its black trimmings and the bunch of forget-menots, just the color of her eyes ; and her carefully kept stella shawl, with the salmon and yj blue border. The little hat was wonderfully becoming, 0f and Juliet Wavne was fresh and nrettv as a M daisy, notwithstanding her wet feet and the y( cold in her head. She had one of those clear complexions that tli nothing ever mars or injures, flushed with te pink in the cheeks and lips, and her blue eyes were the sweetest eyes you ever looked w into; clear, calm and truthful, and not afraid ! m to meet jour most searching gaze. Then her se hair was light brown, and it had away of cti breaking all up into ripples and curls, espe- n< cially on wet days; and by the time she had t I,, reached S street, it would have made a th hair-dresser mad with envy, to see how delec- p< tably it had curled and twisted over her hi white temples. J$o. 118 was a large, marble front building, to tfk with plate glass windows, and a broad arched V( jp$- doorway, over which hung the sign, in great, h< gilt letters : "G. La. Rue, Millinery." fa Considerably impressed by the splendor of the establishment, Juliet stepped inside the dunr hfluinniny to feel verv much like a crim- n< MVM,i ?e?- ? ? . inal, as she glanced down the long room and ar saw the half dozen elegantly dressed girls who jr * were attending on the customers. To one of oi them Juliet managed to say : i "I wish to see Mrs. La Rue." R "Go down the passage to the left?first lii right hand door," said the girl, glancing at fn * Juliet's dress, and fixing her sharp eyes ex- di actly on that darn, which Juliet hud forgotten w to keep covered with her shawl. { tl L Juliet blushed and turned away quickly, ; a; feft She read the'girl's thoughts correctly enough, !v she was wondering what a person with a dress si like that, could want with Mrs. La Rue. I id Mrs. La Rue was an elderly lady, with a | keen, shrewd face, and a thoroughly business si ir. She was seated in the midst of lace and bbons, and selecting for a girl in the back lop to make up for customers. "You advertised," began Juliet. "O?ah! And you want the position, do )U?" running her eye over Juliet in a flash, rhe advertisement did not say we wanted a . rl not out of her teens." "I beg your pardon, madam. I am twen-four." "You are, eh ? Well, what can you do ?" "I am willing to show you." "Where have you worked ?" "For Madame Le Baron." . | "And she has married and closed her ( >op?" "Yes, madam." "Take off your hat and shawl, and make a >nnet out of this mauve silk." "Is it for a blonde or a brunette ?" "A brunette, sallow as a Spaniard." "How shall I make it?" "I give no advice. Use your own judg- j ent. Expense is no object. The lady wants i pretty and becoming." Juliet understood that Mrs. La Rue was ! centric, and fell in with her. mood at once, i le laid aside her things and went to work, i M rs. La Rue went off, and was gone two >urs or more. When she returned Juliet ive her the bonnet all completed. The lady looked it over with a critical eye. was a beautiful creation, and no one could il to be pleased with it. "You will do," said Mrs. La Rue, coucise. "I will take you. You understand the rius? You are to remain on a salary for te mouth, in order that we may decide hetheryou will meet our requirements, and j , the end of that time, if everything is satFactory, you will be received to a third part:rship. Will that please you?" "Yes, madam." "Well, you can go home now, and rest to- j ty ; and to-morrow get on a decent dress, id come here by ten o'clock prepared to go work." "Excuse me," said Juliet, with dignity, j his is the best dress I have. I am sorry if will not ?" "Good gracious!" cried the lady, in evimt surprise. "What have you done with mr wages ?" "I have an old grandmother, madam, hose wants I supply ; and after paying my ?n board, there is not much left for finery." "No, I should think not. Here?" she ok out her porte monnaie, and began countg over bills?"here are fifty dollars, the 3t two weeks of your salary. We paid , iss Burley a hundred a month for being j rewomaD, and the jade got married and left j . I will pay you the same. Get yon a ess and come as soon after as possible. You e I trust you to be honest. And don't pin j ?ur collar again with that wretched little ass pin. Juliet took the money which seemed such j fortuue to her, thanked the lady and de* . irted. She went direct to a dry goods store,! id purchased two dresses. One a bulf inus-, i for warm days, the other a blue merino 1 r days when it was cold and rainy. She rried the cloth to Miss Bastings, who was a ry expert dressmaker, and Miss Bastings ted her, and agreed to have the merino me the next day at ten o'clock. She had o assistants, and she guessed she could j anage it. Then Juliet went and bought a j ir of boots, got her ruby .brooch mended, id Mrs Smith, curled her hair, ana ieit nice , new creature. Where is the use of slandering money to eh a degree as some people do? See how tppy fifty dollars made our heroine. The ensuing day the blue merino came omptly. It was trimmed with black velvet, j id was a perfect fit, and so very becoming at Juliet looked twice in the glass after fas- i ning her collar?ostensibly to see if the i ooeh was in straight, but we all know thatj e little witch was only admiring the charmg contrast between the gold of her hair and e azure of the new dress. Mrs. La Rue scanned her critically, but luid no fault, pnd forthwith she was present- j : to the shop girls as the forewoman. After that, Airs. La Rue was absent for e most part, and Juliet gave her orders and ' >ued her commands, without let or hin- j ance. She was the real mistress of the hole establishment. In three weeks it was known all over the ty that Mrs. La Rue had secured the servi-' s of a lady just from Paris?a story never ? ? . p i sesanytnmg oy traveling irom one person another?and Juliet was transformed into j lady just from Paris in this way. The most larmingly delightful things were created 1 ere, the ladies said, and forthwith all the ; lar creatures rushed to La Rue's, and orders >wed in faster than they could be filled. ' Juliet's mouth of probation was just out hen one morning Mrs. La Rue came in, acmpanied by a tall, handsome man of about irty. She took him to the work-room, and j st as the door closed upon them, Juliet came from the street. "Well," said Mary Giles, one of the girls, r. La Rue has arrived at last." "Mr. La Rue?" said Juliet inquiringly. I ought madam was a widow. "So, she is," said Mary. "This young gen- j iraan is her nephew, the proprietor of the ore." "The proprietor? Really I do not under- , and." "You are to be his partner," laughed Mary, s it possible you did not know that Mrs. La ue was only here while her nephew, the, vner of the establishment was absent in aris ?" "Certainly I did not," said Julia, with a lightened color, and wondering if Mr. La ; ue had sanctioned his aunt in the getting up that advertisement. "The door of the workroom opened and rs. La Rue looked out. "Ah, here you are!" she exclaimed, at sight 'Juliet. "Come in at ouce, if you please,! Jss Wayne. Allow me to present to you >ur partner, Mr. La Rue." Mr. La Rue extended his hand and took le fingers Miss Wayne mechanically exuded. "I trust your relations will be amicable," eut ou Mrs. La Rue, "and I regret that I ust leave you to get acquainted by yourlves, but I have received a summons which ills me home at ouce. It is so fortunate my jphew arrived just as he did ! AY ell, goodf ; the train leaves.at eleven, and it is nearly lat now. I have just time to get to the de>t. Good-by, Gerard." She kissed him .irriedly, shook hands with Juliet and was off. Juliet did not know whether to laugh or cry, and Mr. La line appeared to be in ;ry nearly the same state of mind. Finally ; seemed to recover himself, and awake to the ct that it was necessary to say something. "My excelleutaunt is a little eccentric, Miss Tayne, but I trust we shall he amicable. I ;eded very much an assistant in my business, id I left the selection to her; and I am hap f in believing that her choice is a judicious ' 10." And after making this fine speech, Mr. La ue produced a paper which he read to .Tuet; but she did not gather its meaning very illy, I am afraid. However, lie condescen?d to explain to her that it was the paper hich gave her a right to a partnership in le business, which would henceforth be manned under the name of La Hue tfc C.'o. Her signature was necessary, he said. And le wrote her name without having any clear lea why she was doing so. Then Mr. La Hue went off and left her, and 1 ic took to thinking over what a kind of a ' looking man he was, and wondering what on earth had induced him to trust his aunt to get him a partner. Decidedly he was fine looking. Tall and j well made, with a dark face lighted by great luminous brown eyes and framed in jet black hair. He would have made a sensation almost anywhere. He did not stay a great deal at the store. He had some other business which occupied much of his time, audit was evident he trust- j ed his partner perfectly. At the close of six i months of partnership Juliet received her 1 share of the profits?and it was a larger sura than ever the girl had set her eyes on in all J her life before. Why, she felt as rich as a j queen. One morning a new customer appeared,:1 Miss Howardson, Mary Giles informed Ju- j liet, the woman Mr. La Rue was to marry, j "He has been engaged to her for two years,! they say," remarked the girl in a low tone. :1 Juliet was adding up a column of figures,! and she went back and added them over again 11 before she looked up. [ Such a superb woman she had never seen, i Tall, fine developed, with one of those rarely ; brilliant faces one so rarely sees out of a pic-j1 ture. The great black eyes were soft as a summer moonlight, and red lips ripe and de-! 1 licious as meadow strawberries. [.' She ordered a bonnet?she had been told ;1 that Miss Wayne had the best taste of any ; ' artiste in the city. ! Miss Wayne bowed and hoped she should 1 be able to please her. j! And then Miss Howardson drew on her buff gloves, aud was at the door just as Mr. ; 1 La Rue arrived with his fine pair of grays, 1 and they went off riding together. "A handsome couple," said Miss Giles. "0 dear! I wish I had been born rich. ' Don't you wish the same thing yourself, Miss Wayne?" ' "0, I do not know," said Juliet. "Riches bring care, they say." "I wouldn't mind the care," said Mary. A few nights afterward, Mr. La Rue came in quite late?in fact only just before the establishment was to be closed. He came into ; the work-room where Juliet was putting the j finishing touches to a bonnet. He had a 1 package in his hand, and as he passed into the little apartment beyond where the great j , safe was, he said : "There is the sum of ten thousand dollars j which I have drawn from the bank to send to j my agent in Paris to morrow. And I am going to leave it here in the safe, so that I can get it early in the morning. Mind you are ! not tempted to play burglar, Miss Wayne," j1 he added, laughingly. 1 He went away soon, and Juliet thought no more of the money. i ( She had several bonnets on hand which 1 were promised for the next forenoon, and she j ( ratist work far into the night or not get them j done. And it was part of her creed never to j fail in any engagement she made. If she j j promised anything for a certain time, her ; customers were sure of findiugit ready. So she decided to stay all night at the store, i j work until she had got things so that they j t could be completed on the morrow, and sleep j' on the lounges the remainder of the night. She had often slept there of nights, but Mary j Giles, her assistant, had stayed there too. I: Tnliof lnrvl-o/t nt hpr wntph?it. was almost. eleven, and just then the porter went around jt closing the shutters and locking up. She told him she would remain, and asked him to leave her the key of the back door. 1 After he was gone she settled herself to . j work, feeling a little lonely and wondering if j she should be afraid. < Everything was quiet. She worked until j j one and then turned off the gas. j Just as she was wrapping a shawl around i her to liedown, she thought she heard a noise, ' j as of some one raising a window in the next j room. She listened intently, and was sure | she was not deceived. ( Instantly she thought of Mr. La Iiue's ] money, and decided that there was a burglar j j - ** r%. 1 1 _ J! j . in tne ouuaing. oirangeiy enougn sne uiu , ( not feel afraid?she inspired only by the desire to save her partner's property. ' I She opened her door a crack and peered i through, and by the light of a dim lantern, j carried by the burglar himself, she saw a stout, ! ruffianly-looking fellow standing in the cen-; treofthe room, evidently taking au examination of the room. i Suddenly his face lighted, as he caught a ^ glimpse of the great safe. He darted toward it, examined the lock, and taking a key from the bunch he carried, fitted it to the lock. Immediately the door flew open and he step- ( ped inside. The safe was built into the wall like a cupboard, and the man began carefully inspecting the different packages on the shelves. A sudden thought shot through Juliet's brain, and quick as lightning she sprang for- i ward, crashed together the iron doors of the j safe, and slid the bolt! Then rushing to the j open window by which he Jiad entered, she put it down, lifted the heavy shutters on the i inside, and dropped the strong bar across i them. j The prisoner was cursing and swearing at a fearful rate, but Juliet had no fear of his ! i making his escape. i j She went back to her room, got a chair and ( some matches, and a shawl, to wrap herself j in. She lit the gas, took her chair up in | front of the safe, and prepared to spend the night there. It was so late she did not dare i to go out on the street, and she did not know , | as Mr. La Rue would approve of her calling j j the police; so she decided to wait there until j j he came. | ] The night wore away very slowly, and at j last the captive stopped swearing, and all | was quiet. Juliet could not sleep, and by the i time Mr. La Rue came, at five in the mom-:, ing, she had got as nervous as any other wo-11 man. ; | Tin lm/4 nnmn cr\ nu pi v linnnncp lip Wfl nfPfl t.n 1 send the money to the agent, on the first train ' ] South. At sight of Juliet, he stopped whistling and < stood still, evidently thinking the girl had i lost her senses. I "Why, Miss Wayne?" he began ; but she 1 interrupted him. < "There is a burglar in the safe?please see 1 to him. I fear he has suffocated, for he has ' i not sworn an oath for the last two hours." , i "How came he here?" < "He got in through the window, nnd I for- ; 1 tunately heard him in season to rush in ami i close the door of the safe on him." i I "But how happened it you were here ?" < "I remained to finish some work." I i Mr. La Rue opened the door and found the 1 man lying in a swoon on the floor. He bound j his feet and hands, aud sent Sam, the porter, ] - -b - ? .. .. J ? t /??? i f V A M f l\ A r\A 1 ion ! 1 wiiu arrived ui uiai uiuuicul, airci mc jjuhli.. j And by the time they came the burglar had < got his breath, and swore loud enough to ' i make up for lost time. j ] After he was disposed of, Mr. La Rue found ' Juliet in the sewing-room. "You are a very brave girl, Miss Wayne," he said, with feeling, "and I thank you for t' what you did for me. But I want you to < promise me something. Will you ?" "What is it ?" "That you will never stay here another , I night. It is not safe. I will not permit it. j Promise me?Juliet." j' "But if I had not been here last night you i would have lost your jnoney." i 1 "My money is not to be compared to your i s safety. Promise me." j ] "Certainly, if you wish it." i "That is my good girl. (Jo home now and ' i sleep?your eyes are heavy?and do not come back until you are rested. And Mr. La Rue audaciously enough, considering that he wai engaged to another woman, bent down and touched his lips to her hand. Juliet went home and laid down and kissed the white hand just where he had kissed it which was very silly of her, but then girls are silly about some things. The next day she saw him riding with Miss Howardson, and after that the beautiful sum shine seemed very dim to her and she won dered what made her feel so tired and spiritless. Miss Giles gossiped about the wedding, foi they were to be married before long, she said, Mr. La Rue was already having his handsome house refitted and furnished. Juliet wished she would not talk so much, but she did not say so, though she was glad when it was time for tea. The walk in the cool fresh air would do her good she thought. It was the last of March, but it was still sleighing, and a new snow had just fallen, Half way to Mrs. Smith's a sleigh stopped beside her, and glancing up, she saw Gerald La Rue. He threw.back the buffaloes and anrnncr out. 'I to "I have been looking for you," he said, and I am so glad that yon have come. It is such fine sleighing!" And before she could offer any objections, he had lifted her into the sleigh and was brushing the snow from hei little Polish boots?for Juliet did uot wear old things now. Then he tucked the robes around her and they were off. "I have not had a sleigh ride in four years," 3he said dreamily ; but indeed I fear I ought not to go. It may be improper?" "No, it is perfectly proper, and I am going to take you in spite of everything. Why, Juliet, I have been anticipating this all day." He put his arm around her?for they were quite in the country now, and asked gently: " A ro T7s\n tea rm ^orlinrr ",VJUU """"I . She started away from him, frightened at the passionate tones of his voice; but he held her close to his heart. "Juliet, I love you. I want you for my wife. You are my partner in business, but I must have a better claim on you than that? a stronger hold. I want you for all the time." "But Miss Howardson?" "Miss Howardson has nothing to do with it, dearest." "Then you are not going to marry her ?" "Never with my consent, Juliet. She is a fine woman, but there is too much of her for me. I want a wife just large enough to fill my arms, as she fills ray heart, and my Juliet is the only one in all the world whojust meets my requirements. Say you love me, Juliet." "I do," she said innocently. "But I never thoughtyou?" and then she stopped, confused and blushing. "But I did. I loved you the moment I saw you. And my Aunt Patty is a good fairy : I shall respect her always." And then Gerard kissed Juliet's lips, feeing sure that no other man had kissed her so. It was a very pleasant ride hack to the city; ind two months afterward, Mr. and Mrs. La Rue went to Europe on their bridal tour. IpMeltawftui ftcadiug. A FIRST-CLASS FISH STORY. hie strange adventures of a confederate dispatch rox. Paris, July 3.?Ayoung Southerner here las, for some monthsjueen enjoying himself n the most liberal but rational manner, and i ? .i- - i s, pernaps, nit; uuppiest iuau m i mutc. jrood looking, educated, rich, he has fortune it the crest of the wave, and keeps her there, [t has just begun to leak out how this happy fouth came into his estate, and if the facts be is stated, I think you will agree with me that lever did "fisherman's luck" better deserve to be largely celebrated than in his case. I lo not get the story from his own lips, though [ am slightly acquainted with him, but from in intimate friend of his who knows all the ircumstances. The young man?his name is S G H ; is a native of South Carolina, where lis father had large possessions in Colleton. 3 served in the Confederate army during die last two years of the war, though still too foung ; and when the war was over settled at Pocotaligo, poor as a church mouse. His father's estate was nearly all gone, and what ittle remained he resolved should be religiously devoted to the needs of his mother and sisters, who were now living in Barnwell in a very poor way. Young H had capacity ind industry, but these were not sufficient to jet him work in a State where all things were prostate under the negro's gizzard foot. He procured some odd jobs on the railroad, but these soon failed him, and at last, in despair, lie shipped before the mast in a trading schoon ? - ? ? l- nr I . ? r_ 1 ? ,1 ^ iT tnai oeiongeu 10 ruacnias, iue., uuu muuc irregular voyages between Boston, Beaufort, 3. C., Havaua, ami a market. In three or four years he got to he mate of the trader, and finally the owners began to promise him a vessel of his own, one now building, if he would purchase an interest in her to the extent of SI,500. His own savings amounted to nearly half that sum already, and he took s, furlough from the schooner for the purpose Df seeing his mother and some other friends, in order to try to get a temporary loan of the balance needed. Money, however, was hard to get. No one loubted the security, but they did not have the money to spare. After several futile efforts young H was about to give up the pursuit in despair, when his mother bethought ber of Col. Jacob K , her cousiu, still living near Port Royal, and thought to be rather better off than the rest of the connection. 3 H was only very slightly acquamid with Col. E , but his mother insisted that he should take a letter from her to her relative, and thus leave nothing untried in a matter which so intimately concerned the pushing of his own fortunes. When H?- arrived at his cousin's place on Port lloyal Sound, he found that the family were not very well prepared to have visitors. In fact, only two nights before, the liouse, an old brick mansion, had been burned lown to the ground, and the family were now living in a couple of tents pitched on the lawn in front of the ruins. Col. E had lost sverythiug the house contained, and was now lown with an ague ; his daughter was ill with hysterics, and everything was in confusion find disorder. In fact, as Mrs. E pitifully told H "there's actually nothing to linnco?in the tent. I mean." she saitl, with a feeble sraile, "and the Colonel is Loo ill to go fishing to-day." H did not show his letter nor mention its subject. On the contrary he tried to make himself useful, gave Mr. E his dose of quinine, taught Mrs. K how to rig her tent sails in a safer and more comfortable fashion, and then, taking a small negro boy with him, launched the boat, hoisted sail, and went fishing for the replenishing of poor Mrs. E 's exhausted larder. Well acquainted with thesound and its fishing ground, he soon caught quite a mess of fish, and was beating back again when a startled cry of the negro boy, who was by the mast, attracted his attention. The cause of the boy's alarm was a large shark between ten and twelve feet long, which swam directly in front of the boat and seemed prepared to dispute its passage. The boat, as is common in those waters, carried a unall harpoou attached to a long line, for the purpose of using upon the devil-fish frequently met there, and the chase and capture of which is a favorite and exciting sport of South Caro?: i linian8. Hastily calling the boy to the helm, ] ; and giving his lugger sheet plenty of play, ? 3 H snatched the harpoon and line, sprang i I j to the bow, tossed a large fish in the water, i and, as the shark turned up to seize it, drove t I the harpoon into his belly with so true an aim ! , and such fatal force that the huge fish only i ! ' struggled a few minutes before expiring. He j . , was not able to get his prize aboard, but de-j1 i; termined not to lose such a trophy of his arm's 11 ; strength, took it in tow behind his boat, and i I was soon able to land his cargo and tow in |: safety near the burned mansion. i I Securing his boat, H now sent the boy j "; for help to fetch away his fish, and amused 1 ! himself by disembowelling the monster. His 1 I jack-knife struck upon something hard and 1' : metallic in the viscera of the fish, and, exam-11 , | iniug more closely, he brought to light a 1 II square, flat zinc box, about the size of a one- > | pound gunpowder can, much corroded, but 1 | apparently hermetically sealed and water- ( I tight. He washed it off, dried it, and put it ^ i in his pocket for future examination ; then, 1 ' i- il:- fi-u i tne ooy naving come witn nejp, look ma uau j I and some tidbits from the shark up to the tent, much to the joy of the occupants, who \ j could not thank him enough. 1 II Col. E , to whom H showed his box, | immediately thought he recognized it as one ' of a peculiar sort of dispatch box used by the < ! Confederate Government for their messengers i " | by sea and in blockade-runners, being conven-1( ' j ieut for carrying in the pocket and for throw- j 1 i j ing overboard in case the vessel was captured. ( The box was carefully opened and was found ' ; to be precisely what Col. E suspected?a 1 dispatch box of the Confederate Government. 1 j The contents, in addition to some papers of * ; J no present importance, comprised a series of ( >; long dispatches in cipher addressed to a well i known agent in Paris of the defunct rebellion, ! 1 I and ten certificates of deposit, promising to ! I 1 pay money of Ambrose Gunter's, now on de- j I posit with the banking-house of X. Animas i; Freres, Bordeaux, to John Brown or order, 1 when properly countersigned. The amount of the certifiates in all was 896,000 francs. j "Worth nothing, of course," said H , down j on his luck as usual. ; "Not a nickel, my boy," said Col. E ; 1 "but, nevertheless, you must come with me to- ' morrow aud show them to Mr. T . To- i morrow's my well day, and I'm going up to i i Charleston to see about getting a shanty put | : up for my folks to live in." lu Charleston next day H was taken < by Col. E to Mr. T , and introduced * to that gentleman, to whom he told the story i 1 of the shark, and presented the box and its 1 | contents. Mr. T eyed him sharply, and < i asked him if the whole story had been told { ': him. Col. vouched for his kinsman, and j ! the ex-secretary opened the box, glanced at i j the cipher dispatch, and turned very pale, i j "Have either of you read this ?" he asked. ] j "No," said H , "I intended to make out 1 I .i :_i? l... u * Mf i lilt; uipner, uut niive nui jrci uau mug. u... T answered nothing, but, taking the i drafts out of the box, applied a lighted match J to the remaining papers, and watched them burn to ashes with a sigh of satisfaction. 1 "Perilous secrets, young man," said he, "and i happy am I to dispose of them thus. Not ] j only reputations, but lives would have been ! sacrificed had those matters become public, j Now, as to those certificates?they are very i probably worth nothing?but, you have done i ! me a real service in this matter, and more 1 : beside me, and if you can get anything out i I of them?and it is worth trying, you are per- ] . fectly welcome to it all. The money belongs \ | to nobody, strictly speaking?for I do not con- 1 : sider that the late Confederacy had any heirs? s and, if you can get hold of it, do so." < "What money is it, or was it?" asked Col. < ;e? . i "I'm going to tell you," answered T , ? j "and it is a remarkable instance of the hard ; fortune of war that seemed to pursue the I Confederacy throughout. You recollect the : sterling cotton loan we made during the last | year of the war?the loan by which ourEng- y lish brethren were made so sick ? That money t was raised to pay for ironclads, you know, i The gunboats were built?the Stonewall was i one of them?but not delivered. Diplomacy i kept us from going to sea with the Englishbuilt ones, and it was thought the same reason 1 kept the French-built steamers from going to sea, but that is not exactly the fact. We ; ] 1 would have succeeded in getting them out if i i they had been fully paid for. We made what ' I we thought were ample arrangements for com- j i j pleting the payments, but they failed through j 1 our persistent bad luck. For instance, take j . ! the case of these very certificates. It was ne- j' eessary for us to use all sorts of precautions j f i in buying this sort of goods to protect the ; i parties we dealt with, for we knew the Yan- j ( kees would throw every mother's son ot tnem j i | into court. Hence the money was deposited ; ' j in various banks in the names of private per-; i ; sons; but so that it could not be drawn unless | 1 i the certificates were endorsed in a particular j | , i way. This is a deposit, you see, of Gunter's j j money payable to Brown on certain terms? j i 1 in other words, it is a Confederate draft sent i j 'out by express messenger and payable when j endorsed by the agent to whom sent. The ' agent must endorse it in a particular way,! and would do so unless the messenger brought , certain credentials. This system .of checks and balances was necessary for our financial | security ; but in this case, and several others j like it, was fatal to our plans. , i "The messenger to whom this particular , box was entrusted?young Ricaud, I remem' ber the very morning I sent him?was instructed to go to Wilmington, cross to Bermuda in the blockade-runner Fannie, sail thence for London, report to an agent there, and from him get further orders. Ricaud, instead of going on the Fannie, took another steamer, the Gaunet, for Nassau. The Ganuet was | captured, Ricaud's dispatch-box went to feed ! the sharks, and iticaua nimseir 10 rusucuie at: j Johnson's Island. Meantime we, who knew ; , of the Fannie's safe voyage, were congratu-1 lating ourselves that our agent was on the I , road to Bordeaux, and we did not discover the truth until it was too late to provide a j ,' remedy. This sort of thing happened several | , times, and our French gunboats never got to j sea. | "Then these Bordalese still have our j | money ?" said Col. E . ; j "That remains to be seen. I was just com- i ing to that point. This particular deposit has ; never been checked out?of that I am sure, j It was quite forgotten. Ricaud never got j South again till June, 1865, and then his j ,! story was only partly credited. But whether j 11 Animus Freres will pay the money or not is ; s quite another matter, and depends upou a va- j I ' riety of circumstances, which it is unwise to j i speculate about. As I said, I want our young , t j friend here to try, and I hope he will sue- j f ceed." ; j So saying, Mr. T look pen and paper j ? and wrote hurriedly. "Here," said he, "is a ! i j check for $600. You must look upon it as j r i your reward for restoring to me those danger- j j ous papers. It will pay your expenses to , i i Bordeaux and back ; so, if you gain nothing,! c you will lose nothing. I have endorsed these f j certificates with my own name. Take them j f , and this note to London, to Mr. . He i I j will tell you what further can be done, if any-! ? thing. Do not expect much, but at least try; \ r l fortune may favor you, and I am sure you a deserve it." ] It seemed indeed as if S H 's good j r j fortune had begun. Taking leave of his ! c friends he came over to London, found Mr. : f | B , and made such a good friend of that 11 I gentleman that he undertook personally to j g I look after the matter which Mr. T had ' a , ? ..? ..ft,. _ ?. recommended to him. The ex-agent, whose 1 endorsement was needed, happened at the j time to be in Nice, and Mr. 3 went J thither with H and secured the requisite signatures. Then he accompanied him to i Bordeaux. Alas for the best laid schemes of j mice and men! The firm of M. Animas Freres was bankrupt, and all their assets and , ifl'airs in the hands of the syndic. The elder brother of the firm was dead, and there was but little hope of getting anything out of the I surviving brother, who, indeed, did not bear ! the best of names. Mr. B looked pensive, but told H not to despair. "If he's an honest man we i won't get a cent, of course; but, as he seems j x) be a slippery fellow, there's a chance for it! ret." He called on the syndicate, consulted ' i notary or two in town, and then sent M. | Ajrimas a message to call upon him that night: it his hotel. M. Animas came, a sallow little | Grascon, with purple gills and an uneasy eye. j He denied everything, of course, and said thatj myhow he was totally insolvent?couldn't pay ten centimes in the hundred. "Exactly," said Mr. B . "Your debts imount to 8,000,000 francs. You have given n assets to the amount of 3,500,000 fraoce. 5fou still have in your possession the sum of J,000,000 francs, property of the late Confed;racy, Brown, Gunter and all that firm, rhia money you have not returned to the synlic as part of your assets, but are trying to *r a _ a ude away, now, m. Animas, ins a ljucbuuu )f arithmetic between us. My young fiiend lere, has legitimate checks for 896,000 francs, vhich he is entitled to, aud wants. You will say hira, or else you will prepare to-morrow ;o pay the syndic the three millions you are joncealing, and stand trial for fraud besides." M. Animas turned green, but he paid the noney, and that is how S G H *ot rich. Corrcnpondcncc of the Cincinnati Commercial. THINGS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Columbia, S. C., July 24. "Anything to beat Moses 1" is the cry of a faction of the Republicans and all of the Democrats who are not so dispirited as to have no concern what happens. But Moses Urt a V. n aM aaah monorrn Tn tKo vrm uc a uaiu v/iu tuvu iu umuugv. VUv first place he has possession, which is vulgarly considered nine points in law, and is certainly nine points in South Carolina politics. By virtue of the possession of the office he controls all the patronage, and wields it to suit his personal ends. He makes appointments with an eye to a "second terra" for bimself, and pardons convicts with the same 3nd in view. Taking these two classes together?the penitentiary convicts and the office-holders?he has a strong team working n his interest. Then there is no denying but what he has a stronger hold upon the colored people than any man in the State. No man, [ think, upou the ground and with opportunities for observing will deny this. A few hours igo I was talking to a colored barber about VIoses. "Who is the choice of the colored people 'or Governor ?" I asked. "The most of them wants Moses," he replied. "Why do they want Moses?" I asked. "Oh ! cause he's a friend of 'em. They are ifraid to trust many white men, but they lin't afraid of Moses. A heap of them that's leard it are powerful bothered because Grant s down on Moses. Many of 'em don't beieve a word of it, because they say Grant wouldn't go back on them that way ; but I tnnw it. is true, for I shaved a man that Grant iaid the very words to. This bothers the colored people about here mightily. They lou't know what to do. They don't want to jo agin Grant's say so, and they want to itand up for Moses." "How about the country negroes ?" "What, the common corn-field niggers?" "Yes." "0, they don't know anything about it, and when once you could get it through their ;hick heads they won't believe it. They go n the path somebody else marks out for them, ind all they know about votin' is just to put i piece of paper in a box on election day." "From what you know, who do you think will be elected ?" "Moses, sir! You can't get the colored people to endorse anybody else. They are ifraid. They fear a Democrat may in some way get in. Lots of them actually believe if i Democrat was elected Governor they would j be put back in slavery. I tell you, although I ara a colored man myself, that the most of South Carolina niggers has got mighty little sense." The Republicans who propose to act on , Srant's advice and overthrow Moses, are cast*' ng about for an available man to do it with i There is some talk of ex-Governor Scott, but i Scott won't have it. D. H. Chamberlain is j looked to, but Chamberlain has been a long j Lime connected with the rotten government, J ind there are those who say that his redord is ; not as clear as the noon-day sun. Senator j Robertson is talked of, but be has little or ; no popular strength, and is a weak man any j way you take him. No one appears as yet I jqual to the task of coping with the irrepressible Moses. How South Carolina is to escape him, I do not see. While the opposition ire uncertain what they will do, and dependng on Grant in a vague sort of way to help shem, Moses is at work, laying all his plans ;o get the nomination. His pardoned convicts and office-holders are busy in every jounty, and will appear with a large and en;husiastic delegation in the September conven,ion. Moses makes no secret of his intentions. ! tie says he is known outside of the State as , he "robber Moses," the great South Carolina J ;hief, and such like titles of honor and afiec- J ;ion, and he wants an indorsement, a "vindication" from the intelligent people of South j Carolina. To this end he is working for a : Domination, knowing very well that if he is ' Dominated, all the powers of earth and Grant j ;hrown in can not defeat him. The uegroes | vill go for "de nominee" if "de nominee" was he Prince of Darkness himself, pitchfork and j ill. So Moses works for a nomination, and Dlayshis cards so adroitly that he will be apt j ,o succeed. Meanwhile the Democrats stand off like loor boys at a frolic. There is no telling vhat they will do, for they don't know themielves. Those of them with whom I have alked express the hope that Moses will be i lominated ; that Grant and the dissatisfied Republicans will throw their strength for, iome other Republican ; that there will be a j )ig split, a row, a contest something like that; n Arkansas, and that it may all result in i hrowing the State into the hands of the prop- j erty-holders and taxpayers, or under military I jovernmeut. As you may believe, the property owners of South Carolina are well nigh lesperate, and would hail a military govern -i .1 i J ? nent witn tnanasgiving ana joy. From the Democratic party as a party noth- j ng can be expected, it is so weak. The party i >fignorance and plunder outnumber it thirty- j ive thousand. Thousands of Democrats have j; alien by the wayside in this unequal contest,: >ecome discouraged, heart-sick, and left the ! State, or joined the party of plunder, that they night share in the spoil?in other words, get ome while it was going. By this means the < Democrats have been growiug weaker and the 1 obbers stronger each year. The temptation < if week mortals to leave a hopeless and op- ] >ressed minority and join the majority, where !' hey can share the spoils of victory, is very i ;reat. Like Pickwick they think it is safest I < nd most profitable to yell with the largest' < crowd. The men of this day, who, since tne war, have abandoned their white friends and gone over to the robbers, is larger than you would suppose. But they are weak in principle, wanting in honesty, and are only actuated in their conduct by the hope or promise of spoil. The carpet-baggers, themselves a hard set, know this, and they will not trust a native South Carolina white Radical further than they can see him. One of the most prominent Northern men connected with South Carolina politics told me that he had never known a native South Carolinian to come into the Radical party unless he was rotten at the heart and "on the m '.ke." His experience with all of them was the same. On the other hand, the native white Radicals have just as poor opinion of the carpetbaggers. They are both correct in their estimates. It is dog steal from dog all around. The negroes are losing confidence in the whites of their party, whether native or im- j ported, which is the first gleam of intelligence they have manifested since emancipation. J But there is one white man whom tney snu cling to; that is Moses. They believe in him as devoutly as the children of Israel believed in tho other Moaoo.? ?J Why the colored people should cling so closely to this man I cannot tell. Of course those whom he has pardoned out of the penitentiary and those whom he has kept from going there have reason for the love which abides within them, but why the masses should regard this Moses as the only man who can lead them to the promised land, I am at a loss to determine. Moses was an original rebel, and hauled down the stars and stripes when Fort Sumter surrendered. He was tor a long time speaker of the Senate, and was one of that distinguished den of thieves who passed the law compelling the treasurer to pay warrants signed by the speakers of the Senate and of the House. Under this law, in one session, they drew from the treasury, in cash and by certificates, over fourteen hundred thousaud dollars for legislative expenses! Such corruption in government affairs has never been seen since the world was hung in its orbit. And such stealing, too, from the poverty stricken people of South Carolina, who had so little left from the wreck and ruin of the war. It is shocking, monstrous, inhuman. Such corruption as exists here could not exist in Ohio a week; the whole gang of government officials would be swept out of thecapitol ai<d into the river. Yet the State of Ohio is just ^n times more able to support a corrupt government than South Carolina. This State lost in the war, actual cash value, three hundred and fifty millions of dollars, having left only one hundred and eighty millions. And that, from this remnant of their property they should be compelled to support the horde of thieves that has been fastened upon them, is just a little too much for human endurance. Moses lives in style here in the old Preston mansion. He is a spendthrift, and manages to spend about forty thousand dollars off of a salary of thirty-five hundred dollars. The town is full- of scandals about him, but he does not seem to care. Neither does he care ' - ' - ? 1- ? ? ~ <1??/I in a a wnai ice newspapers nave wj oojr, uuu jo ?o content to be abused as praised. He says that not one in ten of his constituents can read, so he is quite indifferent to newspaper criticism. And even should the negroes get hold of an evil report concerning their adored chief, they immediately set it down as a rebel lie, and keep firm their allegiance to the modern Moses. H. V. R. Gold Leaf.?The process of gold-beating is exceedingly interesting in its various details, and is one which requires the exercise of much judgment and mechanical skill. The pure gold from the refiner is melted and cast, into a bar (first being alloyed about one-half carat, to render it malleable,) and then rolled in hardened cast-steel rollers a9 tbin as the thinnest tissue paper and about one inch wide Fifty pennyweights of this ribbon is given to the beater, he giving a receipt therefor, and by him is cut into about 165 pieces, each one inch square. These pieces are placed in what i9 technically termed a "cutch," made of 165 pieces of a French prepared paper, about Kkao InnKoc omiora After hen finer the frnld bin 11IU1IVO OUUMI Vi A*4hva wvMvtwg v??? jj-.to the size of the "cutch," using an 18-pound hammer, the gold is taken out and quartered, This now gives 660 pieces, which are put in what is technically known as a "shoder," consisting of about 700 pieces of "gold-beaters' skin," about four inches square, prepared from the outer membrane of the intestine of the ox, and which produces, by a secret melhed, a beautiful, clear and very thin skin, over which the gold in its thinnest state passes freely, and without much tearing or breaking. When the gold, by the use of a 12-pound hammer, is beaten to the size of the "shoder," it is taken out and each sheet again quartered on a leathern cushion, using a sharpened piece of reed to cut it with. We now have 2,640 pieces, which is divided into three parts, each put in a "mould" of 900 of these same "gold-beaters" skins, only in their most perfect state, as the gold leaf now approaches its thinnest state. Each mould, when beaten five hours with a 9-pound hamraef, becomes, in the hands of the finished workman, what is known as "gold leaf," and is then sent to the Cinioln ^onapfmnnt nr miftinrr.rnnm wtiorp it. igiuaiv UVWHIVIUVUVJ Vf* vuvv*?w ftwv.Mj ?..v.v .. is cut into 3? inches square, and put iuto books containing 25 leaves each. This is an operation of great delicacy, and it is some months before a female becomes of much use in the business. A Bird's Eye View of Agriculture. When we consider that less than one third of the area of the United States, and less than a fifth of the entire domain of the United States, is mapped into farms, and remember that of this farm area only one-fourth is tilled or mowed ; and when we further reflect that the average yield per acre could be doubled if the many could be brought up to the plane of the few in the practice of intensive culture? then we begin to realize what numbers our country is capable of feeding, and what waste of toil and effort comes from neglect of economic lessons taught by the statistics of scientific agriculture. We know that our wheat occupies an area less than the surface of South Carolina, and if the yield should equal that of England, half of that aggregate should suffice. We know of our national crop, maize, which grows from Oregon to Florida, and yearly waves a broader field than all the cereals beside, that it covers a territory larger than the Old Do* * * - ? 1 J It 1 4. muuon, ana raigm prouuce its umpitm siuies within narrower limits than the present boundaries of Virginia. The potato crop could grow in the area of Delaware, though yieldine less than a hundred bushels per acre; thg barley for our brewing requires less than the area of a half dozen counties; and the weed of solace, sufficient to glut our own and also European markets, is grown on the area of a county twenty miles square. 8ST" A Georgian negro was riding a mule, and when he came to a bridge the mule stopped. "I'll bet you a quarter," said Sambo, "I'll make you go ober dis bridge," and with that struck the mule over the head, which made him nod suddenly. "You take de bet, deh ?" said the negro, and contrived to get the stubborn mule over the bridge. "I won dat quarter, anyhow," cried Sambo. "But how will you get the money?" asked a man who had been close by, unperoeived. "Tomorrow," replied Sambo, "massa gib me a * dollar to get corn for de mule, and I take the juarter out."