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\ V lewis m. grist, Proprietor.J ^it Jjitfrcpcittat Jamilg fjtetospaper: Jor tljt promotion of fjjt political, Social, Agricultural attb Cffmmercial Interests of tjje j$ont{i. jfERMS?$3.00 A TEAR, IN ADVANCE. "VOL. 21. YORKVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1875. iN"0. 37. j|tj ? right al Jfotg. Written for the Yorkville Enquirer. "" THE SEVEN SISTERS OF YORK. CHAPTER XVIII. The would-be assassin lay upon the floor, writhing in what appeared to be a death-agony, and Hugh Thornton held him down with an iron grasp. There was blood scattered about the floor, and on the white bed-clothes, and Hugh's left arm was bleeding profusely from a deep cut made by the knife in its erring quest for a more vital part. "I call you all to witness," said Hugh, looking up to those around him as he held his struggling foe, "that I have not injured this man, and have not touched him but in self-defence. He came to seek my life." "What's the matter with him now?" asked the landlord, who, with two others, advanced j to relieve Hugh, already weakened from his j wound, and secured the prostrate wretch. I "He don't seem to have much breath in him." I "It looks like a fit," said another. "See j how his eyes roll, and look how black his lips | are." It was, indeed, a sort of convulsion or i ** spasm which had seized their prisoner, who, j with set teeth, and eyeballs glaring frightful- j ly in their sockets, flung himself from side to | side, with a violence that made it requisite for the utmost strength to be exerted to keep him ^ from dashing his brains out against the wall or floor. In a few moments, however, the attack passed off. He became quiet, his distorted features resumed their wonted form, and bis eyes glared with conscious hate and i baffled revenge, at his escaped victim, who, steadfastly regarding him, had sunk upon a chair close by. "I missed my aim," he hissed out savagely, i in a thick, broken voice, quivering with impotent rage. "It was the devil's own luck that lost me that chance?" "It was the devil that had the bad luck this time, I'm thinking," said the landlord. "Give p- an account of yourself, you villain! What is yonr bloody name ?" "He knows me," was the gasping reply,; with a look toward Hugh. "I'll answer no questions now. Take me away from here." | "Ay, ay?we'll take you away quick enough," said the landlord. "There's a coach and pair coming along directly to give you a ride; and when you are safe behind the bars you'll answer all the questions that are put to you, I'm thinking." "Hugh Thornton," said the prisoner, raising himself on his elbow, "you did me an evil turn once, which I have never forgotten. I swore to revenge myself on you as soon as j fate threw an opportunity in my way. I have sought to fulfill this vow, and failed. I accept my destiny. But the star of your doom is fixed in the horizon, and shines there urith a blood-red gleam. It shines mockingly upon the ruin of all your earthly hopes !" "Fanatic 1" cried Hugh. "Even in your i HiftariiiRe T rerncrnized a familiar face, which ' ~"WB "I D ? "** years had not obliterated from my memory. \ It is time that you should be called to account for all the crimes of your miserable life !" "Called to account by no human tribunal? ' before no earthly bar?" The hoarse voice died away in a rattling whisper. Again a fearful spasm convulsed j the face of the guilty man ; and writhing and struggling, he was borne from the room, while , Hugh, sinking back exhausted, suffered his j injured arm to be attended to by the just-ar- j rived physician, for whom the landlord had j considerately sent. His account of the feud existing between ; himself and the prisoner was briefly given. Marcus Janin, an Englishman by birth, but of French parentage, was a mere adventurer,1 who had lived a reckless life, and had managed to gain a livelihood by almost every ' . other means but an honest one. It had fallen once in Hugh's way to help him, soou after ; his arrival in Italy, which he had done to the I best of his ability ; but some mouths later, ! becoming cognizant of a fraudulent act committed by Janin, he had deemed it proper to make it known, thereby losing him an appointment he was on the eve of obtaining to \ a position of high trust and honor in the ser- ! vice of a Neapolitan prince. Janin escaped ( arrest and fled, but vowed vengeance on the i author of his disgrace. Hugh, notwithstand-; ing his discovery of his guilt, had been dispos- i ed to pity him. He was an eccentric, flighty 1 creature, with a wild and unbalanced mind, full of superstitious fancies, and apparently 1 without moral restraiut; yet with an intel- j lect, in some respects, singularly acute, and a marvelous cleverness in adapting himself to almost any position he was called on to 611.j He had lost sight of him from that time until j the present, and little imagined the deep thirst , for vengeance which his act of justice had ex- j cited in the breast of his foe, who hated him all the more, because he had once received a beneSt at his hauds. * - L* ___ !_x ! !iL T .anxious 10 ODiaiu an interview wun oauiu in the prison whither he had been conveyed, in order to arrive at a clearer understanding of the motives which had prompted his mur- i derous assault, Hugh, notwithstanding his weakened couditiou, would have visited him the next morning, but his physician forbade.! He was, therefore, obliged to content himself with sending a trustworthy messenger in his ] stead; but when the latter arrived at the prison, he found that Janin had put himself out of reach of the penalty of the law?he had perished by his own hand. The gaoler, enter-1 ing his cell at eight o'clock, had discovered the miserable man hanging to a rail behind the door, by a noose made of one of his gar- j raents, which he had torn into strips for the / purpose. Pinned to his clothing was a half sheet of paper, apparently the back of an old j letter, on which was scrawled in pencil a note addressed to H. Thornton. It ran thus: "I said I would he judged by no human tribunal, and I keep my word. I am tired of life under any circumstances. The only object of interest I bad?which was to destroy you, and blot your name out from the face of the earth?is taken from me. I have done you as much harm as I could, but it was only in'pavmentofa debt I owed i 1??, IIUIMD I liuvn I you. xou uiiwiiosHuiou ...vt ~ | .succeeded at least in tarnishing yours; you rob bed me of tho love of the woman who would have ; been my guardian angel?/ have robbed you of your betrothed wife. I accept my destiny?we , cannot vanquish Fate. My star has set forever, and is lost in oblivion and darkness. Beyond the grave is nothing; into that nothing I too shall | soon be absorbed, "C. V. is?or was?in Columbia. I suppose she will soon return home. I left her in very good hands. P* "It was I who stirred up the aftair about the * forged cheque. Risely and I had u good ileal of intercourse at one time, and I got it from him. He found it by accident among some ofhis papers and had no intention of harming you. I can afford to acknowledge this now, as I have no farther interest in making you sutler; and, besides, I owe you my thanks for the cheque, which was really very uselul to me. "Time and space are limited, else I might enterI tain you with a full and lengthy account of my . past adventures, some of which are really amus ing, and would furnish good readable matter in ! the newspapers. As it is, I am constrained to ! deny the public that pleasure. Adieu. Marcus Janin." Hugh perused this singular and flighty document, with a mixture of pity and disgust; but his mind caught eagerly at two benefits which would accrue to him from it?the re! covery of Claribel, and the restoration of his I own good name. Half bewildered with the | sudden joy and relief, yet scarcely comprehending that his troubles were indeed so near ; an end, he took counsel of a trusty friend, I who undertook to do for him all that his own enfeebled condition prevented him from ac complishing in person. The first result of these operations was a visit to Hugh from the Presideut of the Bank, who, in a very handsome manner, acknowledged his Regret, and that of all concerned, for the unfortunate error into which they had been led by the misrepresentations of his enemies, or rather enemy ; for it was Janin alone, who had stirred up the slander, using Hendricks merely as a tool. Cleared from this foul aspersion, Hugh again breathed freely. But still he could know no peace or rest, until his lost love should be restored him. Claribel wasin Columbia, or else had returned home. He could not pause now to investigate the manner of her abduction. All that could be afterward explained. He resolved at once to return to Brierly Farm. His physician, fearing worse consequences from the effect of suspense and anxiety than from fatigue, gave . his consent to his starting that evening, only stipulating that a friend should accompany | him, at least, a part of the way. ***** It was a lovely starlight night, as Hugh rode up the avenue leading to the entrance of Brierly Farm. The dry grass aud dead leaves rustled beneath his horse's feet, and the cold wind blew sharply in his face; but a heavy Spanish cloak protected him from the cold, and his heart was warm with the anticiI pation of the joy in store for hira?the joy of a reunion with Claribel. Before leaving Wilmington he had received a telegram with the 1 brief notice, "Claribel is found." He did not doubt, therefore, but that she would reach home before he could, and would be there to welcome him on his arrival. When he reached the house, he looked up eagerly at it before alighting. The shutters were closed. One solitary light shone through the parlor blinds, and a strange air of gloom seemed to reign over everything. He knocked with an impatient hand. There was no reply. Surely this was not the welcome he had looked for. * He knocked again, and presently the door was opened, and Edna, pale and silent as a spirit, placed her cold hand in his and J led him in. He looked in her face, and his 1 1 - ' J.'.J l:_ I: I nair-uuerea greenug meu upuu uis nyo. "Claribel!" he murmured, faintly. "Oh! Hugh, Oh ! Hugh!" she moaned, in reply, and turning from him hid her face against the wall. For a moment he stood motionless, trans6xed by a sharp agony of fear; then, without another word, he pushed past her and entered the library. Two candles burned upon the marble mantelpiece, casting a pale light over the room. In the centre, upon a flower-strewn bier, lay the silent form of his idolized Claribel, snatched from his embrace by the inexorable hand of Death. CHAPTER XIX. A few words will explain the mystery of this swift and fatal termination of his hopes. 1 rv_ *i ?c i I V_/U llltJ receipt Ui net SIOICI O icttei , uuuft tiau j * herself started for Columbia, and hastening to the house designated as her temporary asy- j lura, received the poor girl from the hands of j Madam Bernstein and her daughter, whose j kind hearts overflowed with happiness at be- j ing the instruments of restoring her to her ' friends. j On the journey home Claribel talked and 1 laughed with feverish excitement, closely j clasping her sister's hand, which she would not relinquish for an instant. Edna attributed this to the natural agitation of her nerves, j resultiug from the situation from which she had been rescued, and trusted that the quiet of home would restore her to her usual tranquility. They reached Brierly Farm in safety ; but scarcely had her sisters, in turn, embraced their darling, when, iu answer to some . remark of Jennie's, who still had her arm ) around her, she uttered some words in an in-1 coherent manner, and with a certain wildness ; of look which they all remarked. And the j next instant she sank on Jeunie's shoulder, i apparently in a swoon. Dr. Curtis was sum- J moned, but ere he could arrive all help was vain?the spark of life had fled. Disease of ?u_ i 1 i_,i i.:_i_ i j i u 1 i nit; ueati?a iiiumuj which ubu iuug uccii apprehended?had been hastened by the pressureof unwonted mental excitement, aided by the injurious effect of the drugs which had been administered to her, and thus with light- , ning suddenness brought her lovely life to a , close. Hugh, as lie stood beside her remains, | recalled the presentment she had confessed to | him, which he had jestingly reproved, but j which was now so fatally accomplished ; and I the wild wordsof Janiu recurred to his mind? ' "The star of your doom shines mockingly upon the ruin of all your earthly hopes." ! He pressed the pale brow with his lips, and turned away, a heart-broken man. He could not look upon her face again. * * * * | Brierly Farm has long since passed into j alien hands, and its once happy inmates are dispersed. | Virgilia was for many years the occupant | of an Insane Asylum, where, with hopelessly ; shattered intellect, she spent her days in mcl- ' ancholv brooding, alternated by fits of acute 1 sorrow and self-reproach. She fancied that j' Claribel's spirit was constantly before her, 1 and never looked up without seeming to en-, i counter the sad gaze of that phantom face, < mutely upbraiding her as the author of her I early doom?until death came, and merciful- (1 ly closed her eyes upon the haunting vision 1 that pierced her heart. .! Edna joined a pious sisterhood, who 6till j 1 spend their days in ministering to the sick and i poor; and finds some consolation in the per- (1 formauce of good deeds for the sorrows of the , i past. She is elderly now, and her hair is as , < white as suow, but she is fair and gracious , i looking still; and her old quiet precision of { : manner is more remarkable than ever, as she j moves about in her suit of Quaker gray, dis- ^ pensing charity and the blessing of kindly j words. I Jennie and her twin sisters are married The former has gone abroad ; the two lattei live in Charleston, paying occasional visits ti Dorothea, who is a fixture in her up-countrj home, and placidly rules her large family o! sons and daughters, looking as fair and amia ble as of yore. Every Sunday, when my parish duties ar< over, I seek, unobserved, a spot in the churcl yard where my buried treasure lies. No on< knows that I ever poured out upon her th< secret devotion of my heart, or that I hav< lived a lonely life for her sake. But so it is The old clergyman, with stooping shoulders grizzled locks and awkward gait, will nevei be suspected of cherishing a romance of un requited love; nor, if a chance passer-bj should see him gather a blossom from Clari bel's grave, will it be thought that he doessc with an unspoken prayer to be reunited soor to that fair flower, so early plucked from iti earthly stem, in a land where she may recog nize and return his pure love, as the angels do [the end.] psitsrg of fesliua. Written for the Yorkville Enquirer. HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THK Early Settlement of South Carolina, BY BEV. BOBEBT LATHAN. frnvTr-WTTF.n FROM T.AST WEEK.") History teaches, and experience conBrmi its testimony, that troubles rarely come alone and single-handed. The cares of to-day are but the prelude of the calamities of to-morrow. The war with the Tuscaroras in Nortl Carolina, in which the South Carolinians were so actively engaged, and by whose aid it was so successfully, to the province, conducted and concluded, was followed by another war, of far greater magnitude, against the Yaraassees. The war against the Tuscaroras was ended in 1713, and that agtfinst the Yamas 3ees commenced in 1715. So great was the magnitued of this war, and 30 wide-spread was it in its operations, thai the very existence of the colonies planted in Carolina was threatened. The bloody stick was sent throughout the various tribes living in the adjacent territory, and a grand upris ing wa9 planned. All this was done with ll. 1 nnAMAAi* Tn taw/IAO ran UTlfK f tlieir U3UA1 OCUICU^I nibuwuiov^ If mil i/iiv members of the various tribes and the settlers continued as heretofore. Nothing was sus pected until the war-whoop was raised and the carnage commenced. The Yaraassees, who seem to have been the prime movers in this war, lived in the region back of Port Royal, on the north-ea3t aide o! the Savannah river. At one time they lived in Florida and were the confederates of the Spaniards; but some of their chiefs having been executed by this nation, they deserted the Spaniards and came and settled in South Carolina. Their principal town was Pocotaligo. During the whole of Queen Anne's war the Yamassees were the faithful allies of the colonists. They, at that time, cherished an inveterate hatred for the Spaniards. Several traders connected with the colony had settled amongst this tribe, and on several occasions the Yamassees had rendered valuable aid tc the settlers in and around Charles Town fheir hostility to the Spaniards prompted them to ravage the Spanish territory and tc keep up almost a constant war with the Indian allies of that nation. So closely did they watch the inhabitants of St. Augustine, that it was dangerous for them to leave the TO I'lcAII Tli a uinrwla tt'p rp onmi rpf] H M (1 PVftPV ^C*l 1 lOV/iil X t ( U ?? VUMU ?IV? V WWV??* ? J Spaniard that was seen, was captured and Drought away as a prisoner. These prisoners ;he Yaraassees treated in the most inhuman way. Sometimes the cruel savages satiated ;heir brutal hatred by cutting the poor prisoner into pieces, joint by joint, with their knives and tomahawks. Sometimes the prisoner was buried in the ground, all except his lead, and then they shot at the head as at a ;arget. That method of putting a prisoner to leath was always chosen which was thought ;o be the most painful. To prevent this cruel ;reatment, the Indians were given, by the colony, twenty dollars for every live Spaniard ;hey would bring to Charles Town. The irisonera brought were sent by the Governuent to St. Augustiue, and the expenses oharged to the Spanish Government. The Yamassees, cherishing so much hatred ;oward the Spaniards, and being on friendly ;erras with the English settlers, no fears were jntertained of any hostilities. The cause of lissatisfaction among the Indians seems to lave beeu the manner in which they were ;reated by the traders. The truth is, the 1 11 mltn /rimers jjeueriuiy were uujji uiuijjicu iiiuu, nuu nade no 6cruples to cheat and defraud the :roor savages out of every thing they possessid. There is another thiug which should not ue lost sight of. Near two thousand Indians md been, in one way and another, reduced to jondage; besides, vast numbers had been sent off to other colonies and sold. This fact stirred the spirit of reveuge in the bosoms of the sons of the forest. The Indians must tiave seen that their tribes were fast melting iway before their English neighbors. All these things, together with the intrigues of ;he Spaniards, aroused the Indians, from the mountaius to the sea-board, to wreak their yengeauce upon the settlers of South Carolina. Although, by nature cruel and unforgiving, the Indian is not reckless. Karely does he ?nter upon any enterprise until it has been leliberated upon. For a period of more than i year previous to the Yamassee outbreak, the traders settled amongst them discovered *l?" tli ait mum kurn t a. LIlflL lliu Ui 1/lCl note n ii leu tnuj uuv/v ??>/i v ward the Spaniards had been changed to friendly intercourse. The chiefs frequently visited St. Augustine, and returned loaded with presents. Amongst the Yamassees there resided a Highland Scotchman, by the name of .John Fraser. This man was respected by the Indians for his honesty, and the savages bad no disposition to conceal any thing from him. Frequently, after their return from southern expeditious, they would enumerate the presents they had received from the Governor of St. Augustine. One had received a bat, another a suit of clothes trimmed with 3ilver lace, and another a hatchet. Among other things they had received, were guns and implements of war. As an evidence of the friendly state of feeling existing between them and the Governor of St. Augustine, they related that they had dined with him and wash his face. This custom among the Indians, ol washing the face, was a kind of pledge ol . friendship. Still, the English settlers i r not alarmed. , It was a general custom amongst the r j ders to make a friend of a leading ma f i chief amongst the Indians. John Fr . j found such a friend in a leading India i the Yamassee tribe, by the name of Sar 31 Between these two individuals very grea , j tiraacy existed. Sanute, together with 3, warriors, was accustomed to make expedil 31 into Florida. These expeditions someti 3! lasted for more than a year. At this t . | during one of Sanute's Southern strolls, J t Fraser married. So soon as Sanute retur r he came to the house of his friend. No s . er had he entered, than he called for a b j of water. This being brought, he took s . aromatic herbs which he said he had rece p ci. a ? ?j i , ) | irom Ol. /i.llguaiiuc, auu ucgau lkj uiuino l i j in the water. Thi9 accomplished, he as 3 for the privilege of washing the face of ' . Fraser. After performing this cerem . Sanute placed his hands upon his breast declared that all thatwasin his bosom shi ; be revealed to her. No doubt this stn conduct excited some misgivings in the bi * ofFraser. Mrs. Fraser ceremoniously thar the chief for his kindness and proffered fri ship, and gave him some presents. He parted, and in about ten days, before savage war-whoop was raised, he retur True to his promise, he revealed the fact a grand confederacy had been formed for utter extermination of the English Sett The bloody stick, he said, had been sent to various tribes, in the adjacent region, an soon as it returned, the work would be The English, he said, were all heretics ; Governor at Charles Town was no longer t King ; and that the Governor of St. Angus was their King. Sanute revealed the that the design of exterminating the Eng had been formed more than a year before tilities actually commenced. The Spa had selected a warrior, by the name of Is gaska, to visit the Creeks and inflame t against the English. Fraser was urgec make all haste to leave the region in wl he was, and make sure of his escape to Chs ' Town. Sanute promised to assist him in t i.: j L:_ u? i?u;.r, mug goon ilia eaonpe ujr icuumg unu uk 1 noe. Fraser hesitated, but his wife bee dreadfully alarmed, and he put his wife child, together with the most of his effects, the canoe and set out for Charles Town. 1 For some reason, Fraser failed to com ! nicate the facts, which he had learned f ! Sanute, to any one else of the settlers. 1 as the sequel will show, was a most unfu nate neglect. It may be that Fraser did lay much stress upon the information ret ! ed, and that he set out to Charles Town < 1 at the urgent request of his wife. The re of Fraser was, perhaps, the first intima ' that Governor Craven and the citizen ! Charles Town had of the intended hostil ' of the Indians. Notwithstanding this I ' the settlers in the regions adjacent to Poc< igo, had, for a loug time, seen many th amongst the tribes which were mysteri So soon as the Governor heard of the ho > designs of the Indians, he sent Capt. N ! and John Cochran, in company with sev 1 other individuals well known to the Indi ' to make inquiries respecting the difficul ' The Indians were discovered to be 1 1 1 r\ . * 1.IJ i.1 :c *L... ' gloomy, i^api. ixairu ioiu wieuj ji wiey 1 been injured in any particular that he c for the purpose of making amends for anj justice which they had suffered. They 1 plied that no one had injured them, and ' mated that the cause of their gloominess the fact that on the next morning, at an e 1 hour, they designed setting out on a g ; hunting expedition. On the night of the 24th of April, 171f a manifestation of friendship, the chief i 1 riors gave the English a supper. The n was spent as such occasions are usually sp The supper over, the warriors retired to t tents and Capt. Nairn and his party retire sleep. At the break of day on the mori ' of the 15th of April, 1715, the warw-h 1 was raised. The council room in which Euglish, the Yamassee King aud war-ch 1 had spent the night, was surrounded. C Nairn, Thomas Ruffiy and John Wright \ I instantly murdered. John Cochran, toge ' I mifli Viia toifo onrl f/uir nhilrlrpil wprp tfl I prisoners, but afterward they wereputto de 1 An athletic man by the name of Seai | Burroughs beat his way through the sava 1 i and although severely wounded in the ch j he, together with a little boy, swam the r | and ran with all possible speed and wai j the settlersin the vicinity of Port Royal i what was going on and what they might ' pect. Around Pocotaligo ninety individ > fell before the infuriated savages. Hidi | were the yells of the monsters as they rus i from house to house killing all before tb 1 The scene was rendered more hideous by ! screams of the women an^ children. It soon became ev^ent that all the tri from Florida to Cape Fear, were combi i together. Desperate was the condition of 1 inhabitants. The only place of safety in province was Charles Town. The Ind divided into two parties. One party direi , its course toward the settlement in the ne I borhood of Port Royal ; the othei toward ' j Bartholomew's. A merchant ship lay at i chor in the Port Royal river. The pe< *1 havinc been warned by Burroughs, of 11 hostilities of the Indians, at once took rei | on this ship. The Rev. Guy and about tl j hundred of the people of St. Helena were I , | providentially saved. A few families a i | from the great dispatch with which the I dians acted, uot having warning of their , proach, fell a prey to their cruel hate. , inhabitants of St. Bartholomew's fared wt The Iudians proceeded as far as St About one hundred of the inhabitants i victims to their cruelties. The missionar the parish, the Rev. Osborn, and a few of inhabitants,made good their escape toClni i Town. In their march, the Indians but i and destroyed everything within their re The property of the country was left to t i! mercy. From all sections the inhabitant.' i a state bordering on desperation, rushet i ^ Charles Town. Between eight and ten t! s sand ludiaus were in arms, and on the mu | roll of the colony there were only tw i hundred men. i j Gov. Craven acted with the prompt ;, which the occasion demanded. Trusting 11 the fortifications around Charles Town as s ficient, with a few men to protect the wo i t and children of the province, he deterini to advance boldly iuto the country and tack the invading foe. Charles Town f placed under martial law, and the Assen f passed a law authorizing the Governor to ? were arms, ammunition and provisions wherever C they could be found; to impress vessels and to < tra- arm the trusty negroes. Agents were sent to : n or Virginia and England to solicit aid. Robert aser Daniel was appointed deputy Governor, and n of. Governor Craven, like a true hero, prepared j lute.: to lead, in person, the colonial forces against t tin-1 the foe. ! k'8 j So soon as Governor Craven learned, per- c ;,on8 j haps from John Fraser, of the intended outimes | bpjajj 0f tjje Indians, he collected a company ,me?! of two hundred and forty horsemen from Colr?bn ]e{.on oounty, aud followed after Capt. Nairn , ne(*? for the purpose of learning the precise state of a ??P" the difficulties. At the same time he ordered \ tt8in j Colonel Maciay to raise all the forces he I orae I couid and proceed by water to Pocotaligo. 8 ived j Xhe Governor having arrived within sixteen ? hem | milna nf tKo T niliona' frtwn. ftllfiRnlDed for aked the ight near the Corabahee river. At \ Mrs- break of day on the next morning, he was sudony? denly attacked by five hundred Yaraassees. a?d The colonial forces were promptly placed in ould order, and after a spirited engagement of forinSe ty-five minutes the enemy was routed. The east loss to the colony by this engagement was one iked sentinel, by the name of John Snow, killed, e?d- and a few men wounded. The Indians lost de- several of their war-chiefs, and a large number the 0f their warriors were killed and wounded. ned- "Colonel Mackay, in pursuit of his orders, that gathered what force he could, and embarked lhe water, and on landing, marched to the In'ers* dian Yaraassee town ; and though he was dis1 appointed in meeting the Governor there, yet d 30 he surprised and attacked the enemy and routed them out of their town, where he got vast quantities of provisions that they had a *\e'r stored up, and what plunder they had taken c lt'ne from the English. 1 fact "Colonel Mackay kept possession of the * >'*8^ town, and soon after, heariug that the enemy 1 .?8* had got into another fort, where were upward j! of two hundred men, he detached, out of his ' ,a" camp, about one hundred and forty men to r em attack it, aud engaged them. At which time, 1 a young stripling, named Palmer, with about 1 10 sixteen men, who had been out upon a scout, * ir es came to Colonel Mackay's assistance, who at t ma* once, with his men, scaled their walls and at- c 1 ca" tacked them in their trenches, killing several; c am? but meeting with so warm a reception from t ,an the enemy that he was necessitated to make s 1Dto his retreat. Yet, on a second entry with his 8 men, he soraaufully engaged the enemy as to s >rau" make them fly from their fort. Colonel Mac- t rom kay being without, engaged them on their r k,8? flight, when he slew many of them."?Boston g ,rtu" New, of June 13th, 1715. n.ot This prompt action on the part of the Goveiv" emor and Colonel Mackey, checked the pro- 1 ^ gress of the enemy in this quarter, but a body P? of four hundred of the enemy came from the t North in the direction of Goose Creek. They c came to the plantation of John Hearne, near t ,lties the Santee. Here their wants were sup- 1 )tal' P'*6^' barbarc,U8ly rourdered Hearne. Captain Thomas Barker hearing of their apln?8 proach, collected a company of near one hunBtil ^ cavalr^ anc^ marcbe(^ *? raeet 'b'8 Party. Trusting to an Indian, as a guide, whom he a'^" regarded as faithful, he was led into the very midst of the enemy. In a thicket, with which . ' the country at that time abounded, the Indians lay concealed. At a moment when ?had ^aPta'u Barker was suspecting no danger, the Indians sprung from their hiding places and poured in a deadly fire. Capt. Barker was killed and his men were thrown into dis1*C" . . order and fled. This untoward event threw the whole of the Goose Creek section into a wa8 panic. A rush was made for Charles Town. ar ^ A fortification, in which was Beventy white men and forty negroes, frightened by the great numbers of the Indians, surrendered ' only to be inhumanly butcbered. iVftr* i(,Kf On the 13th of June, the savages, thus far gUt triumphant, were met by Capt. Chicken and t jjejr the Goose Creek militia, and were defeated and r j tQ driven from this section of the colony. The c ling Indians soon found that although their num- ^ 00p bers were much greater, they were no match ^ for the English. By the prompt and united jeffl action of the people, they were driven beyond c apj the Savannah River and ultimately fled to j ffere Flori(la' tjjer This Yamassee war cost the colony four r jjen hundred men and not much less than one v hundred thousand dollars in the destruction j nan ProPerty. The whole burden of the war a g68 fell upon the colony. Governor Spotwood, t eek Virginia, furnished one hundred soldiers at t jver twenty dollars per month, but there is no evi- 1 .Qe(j dence that any engagement took place after c I or their arrival. ex. [to be continued next week.] a uals ii sous Grumblers.?The grumblers are divided f ihed into classes. There are those who are so cu- 1 ieDJi riously constituted that they caunot see others F t^g prosperous and happy without becoming en- c viou8. These, actuated by that instinct which c shapes things into the form that people would ^ "es> r like them to be, try to persuade themselves ? ned and others, that the prosperity and happiness ^ the are not so great as they appear, and in doing so ^ the apply a certain amount of balm to their ians wouuclecI feelings. The pity is that individu^ ais of this stamp form a very large portion of n . the community. Another class of grumblers 1 'S*1' ia constituted by those vain people who are v I St. ever anxious to draw attention to themselves, a an- and make it appear that they are cleverer a ople than everybody else. Such people, perhaps, 1 d t|je occasionally pursue their course with profit? a P to themselves, the next best thing to doing 8 . B good work oneself being to find fault with a 6 that done by other people. A third class of f thus grumblers is made up of men and women 8 vho, whose dispositions are naturally twisted or I( In- have become soured by reason of their having h up. suffered from misfortune or illness. Such un- h <pij0 happy wretches go about with their faces ex- 8 pressive of gloom and discontent. At home, ' they are feared by those nearest them ; abroad h 0D0, they are disliked, despised and laughed at on a Eell I account of the many infirmities of temper y of j which they display. It is simply impossible g ' the i to please them. The most accomplished Pa- i, ir]ea ' risian chef that lives would fail to satisfy their v ned I changeable and particular palates ; the keen- v , I est students of their character and those most 1 l'c." i desirous of retaining their favor, find that it a heir 1 ;a nnitu nut r,f tho nupRtion tn hone that, bv t | ,u v^.vv, ? _ ^ r -?10 | anything they can do, they escape being f i to | snarled at, and being, by insinuation, called d lioU. j everything that is stupid, unfeeling, bad. f lster J This third class is the class which gets nothelve ^ut nn3ery ^rom courae 'ts members s adopt. Their grumbling allays no wounded ii feelings, but exposes them to the stings of a r ness reproving conscience. 1 suf- SST You are but little acquainted wjifl I men women, if you thin!: that merit always Seter- b jne(j mines their choicr Deliberaticwi^nas no s j share in their engagements. Jjove is a dis- c i order of the mind by whicb they are invol* o wa8 untarily dragged and fastened to the object; 1 ^ly it is a distemper by which they are seized as s tieze dogs with madness. t WiifttHrofiM fUaflhuj. L ? al BOOTS AND SHOES. lo 81 The choice of boots and shoes is one of the " nost difficult tasks in domestic economy. From te vant of knowledge and bad taste in this par- ar icular, many a foot has been ruineci and 80 nany a life lost, not to mention the discomfort ionsequent on corns. <ji The foot in its natural state is a wonderful- p? y contrived arch, the bases of which are the leel and the joints of the toes with the foot; 0f >n the summit of this arch is placed the whole 8U veight of the body, and beneath it is a strong wj inew attached to the heel and toe, which pre- 8j| rents the arch from becoming flat when the ^ jressure from above is exerted, as in walking, je] itnnriiniy On t.Hft outer side the bones u* ?6' - in ihelve down so as to give greater support, and >n the inner side is placed the great toe, the fa jrime lever of our progressive movements. ^ The foot, in this form is seldom seen except tjj n those who do not wear shoes or boots, or in er -hose who exercise their judgment in the se- th ection. Many nations have found it convenient to fr jo without any covering or protection for the pC 'eet, but others, as the Arabs, wear sandals to irotect the sole from the heat and sand, and t0 he Indian wears his moccasin both for warmth ne ird as a protection from the brambles of his w; lative woods. Europeans and the more high- m y civilized peoples of the globe have long >ince lout sight of comfort and protection, and ^ low have cases made for the feet, which fol- bl ow some strict rule of an absurd fashion. a] A good foot-covering should be made on p| he model of the foot?a broad, flat sole, not i fraction narrower than the broadest part of ra he foot, and of moderate thickness, to protiect t from damp, heat or cold ; a heel not more han half an inch thick, in proportion to the T1 ole, to compensate for the arch, which would pe itherwise be destroyed. This heel should not th >e put on shoes at all. The uppers should m >e of soft leather, so that every movement of co he foot may take place in its natural sequence bi md without impediment; and, lastly, the th loot is better buttoned or laced. E These requirements are now entirely set at it laught by fashion. The boot?especially a ki ady's?is made as narrow as possible, and at he sole of the thinnest leather. The heel is in] nade, in many instances, four inches deep, pr Naturally, by such a practice, the toe receives ce he whole weight of the body, the joints be- w( lorae distorted and the skin hardened by ce :orns, the arch of the foot is destroyed by sti >ringing the heel into the middle of the in- 1G tep, the muscles at the back of the thighs are ha trained, an unequal strain is put upon the in pinal column, resulting in deformity, and a OC langer is incurred of tripping over any insig- ne lificant object, besides giving to the wearer a is nost apish And imbecile appearance, from the W ;eneral distortion of the body. pe * m Why Men Fail.?Most men fail because ac hey neglect or defy the laws of ordinary pru- at lence and honesty. When that is the cause de if their difficulties, they had better be set dc iside, tor tne longer tney are auowea to go >n, the worse will be the troubles in which hey will involve themselves and their credi- P' ,ors. It is the teaching of observation generilly that the most fruitful source of busines re embarrassment lies in the failure of business y* Tien to realize the extent to which they are w ;rustees for their creditors. Unfortunately, ac even in these close times, the business of this a8 eountry is out of all -proportion to the capital ;hat is actually employed in it. When pur- ^ :bases and sales are large and actual capital ^ imall, it follows that a man's creditors must m lepend largely on his honor, and on that of ?* hose to whom he sells. The mercantile comnunity is in this way intimately bound tojether, and the derelection of one may more >r less affect a great many. Under these cir- a? mmstances, it becomes the imperative duty of y svery business man not in any way to impair ln he security of his creditors. Especially is it 8a lis duty to confine absolutely his personal or . amily expenditures within the sura which he e,l :an afford from means that are his own. He las neither aright to spend money on himself md his family when he knows that his crediors are likely to suffer; nor a right to remain yc n ignorance as to how he stands with the 8a vorld. It is far too common for business men o think that their "living" issoraethiug which , nust be provided for, while the claims of c. xeditors are placed in the second rank, fhere may not be a definitely formed rule of :onduct of tbis sort, but tnere is a cousisteot :onforraity to it. Yet uothing ought to be ?." ilainer than that the exact opposite is the mly honorable course. It is a man's duty to >ay his debts punctually and in full, and to w< ive on what he has left. The cost of living nay be, and should be, the variable quantity vhich is made to conform to the actual re- m; ources of each man. It can be reduced very cr ow, and when it becomes necessary that it {" hould be so reduced, in order to meet busi- .c less engagements, there ought to be no hesitaion about it. If business men would only live m' ip to the requirements of strict honor, "weeling out" would take care of itself to a great W( xtent. And this would be done more than a t is if it were not for a miserable pride which JJI tands in the way. The pride in appearances ! 3 a very old and stubborn sentiment. Many P oen would rather be poor, and let their cred- ?? tors suffer, than acknowledge themselves >oor, and pay their honest debts as far as they as an. After all, the "weeding out" which the ountry really needs, and which will be most },e lenenciai to it, is that wnicn snail strip men 'pi f their credit in cases where they do not strive nj iy self-denial and honorable effort to main- m( ain it. ' th ha Sleep, a nd How to Procure It..?I have th >o hesitation in saying that the proper thing an o do is to go to sleep immediately (or at least na ery soon) after the meal of the day. All XJ niraals go to sleep, if they are not disturbed, as iter eating. This is especially noticeable in logs; and the great John Hunter showed by be ,u experiment that digestion went on during pa leep more than when the animal was awake ha nd going about. This is his experiment: an le took two dogs and gave them both the d0 ame quantity of food. One of them was al- to owed to go to sleep; the other was taken out I mnting. At the end of three or four hours ! W( e killed both of these dogs. The food in the j be tomach of the dog which had been asleep ! B[? vas quite digested; in that of the one which I lad been bunting the food was not digested ! gaj .tall. This fact, I think, shows the advisability of ;oing to sleep immediately after eating. This , inj gnored fuct always occurs to my memory ; ou vhen I see old gentlemen nodding over their j in fine. Nature says to them : "Go to bed." ! ex i'hey will go to bed ; but still nature will notIp* ,llow her law to be broken, so she sends th^igel o sleep sitting in the chairs. Peoph^flere-1 lh< ore, who feel sleepy after dinnen^tfugbt to , int line late, and go straight to b^J^nen a sleepy i if eeliug comes over them^x^ j 7? Most good folks, however, do the worst pos*; th< ible thing imagjp*<fle ; they retire altogether j Th uto the drjprfng-room, and then, to make trj natters^>*6rse, they drink tea and coffee, yo fow^fregard tea and coffee, when taken at or right, to be poison to certain constitutions, go t is very well in the morning, but it is very wa iad 8t night. The reason why tea and coffee A hould not betaken at night is that the one to ontains an alkaloid called theine, and the tw ther contains an alkaloid called caffeine, gb i'hese two alkaloids, taken into the system, lei timul'ate the brain and do not allow it to go wc o^rest. I speak of this from experience, If ch take, thoughtlessly, a cup of tea or coffee ter five o'clock in the evening, going to bed >out eleven, I cannot go to sleep, the alkaid will wake me up in about an nour or two. eeplessness, therefore, is usually caused by a or coffee, though strange to say that tea id coffee actually send some people into und slumber.?Land and Water. Danger from Malaria.?The extraornary continuance of wet weather in most irts of the country, coming at a season when e weather is warmest and the decomposition animal and vegetable matter is most rapid, ggests a danger to public health against bich people should everywhere take all pos)le precautions. There can be no doubt at malarial fevers will be unusually prevant this fall, as a result of our midsummer lat and moisture, rossibiy tms may suggest some, liberal dosing with quinine and other ugs to fortify the system against such at* cks; but it4is not everybody who believes in at method of procedure. Chlorine and othdisinfectanta should be freely used about e house, and a cup of coffee every morning is a good effect. Much of the danger arises om damp air at night, laden with malarial >isons, which the bright sunshine during the iy does much to dispel. It is a good plan have a brisk fire for a few moments in or iar a sleeping-room just at nightfall. This ill dry the atmosphere, and its poisonous alaria will pass through the chimney. Esicialcare should be taken at this season about e regularity of meals, and that the vegetaes used are fresh and of good quality. This one will do much to preserve health, as peo* e whose stomachs are in good tone can withmd attacks of most kinds of disease.?RuI New Yorker. Speculating on Borrowed Money.? ie usual rate of interest in the West is 10 ir cent., and it is generally believed that is is the correct measure of the value of onev. If the measure of the value of a mmodity is what it will bring, this is true; it if the true measure of the value is what e article can be made to yield, it is oot true, xperienced capitalists and businessmen give as their mature opinion that there is no nd of property as valuable as money loaned 10 per cent.?which is tantamount to sayg that the average yield of industries, enter* isea and speculations is less than 10 per nt. on the amount invested ; or, in other >rde, that money is not really worth 10 per nt. There are several considerations that rengthen this conclusion. Money loaned at l per cent, will double itself in seven and a ilf years; $10,000 will grow into $20,000 that time, and $20,000 will grow into $40,10. That the average investment in busies ventures and industries will not do this too well known to need a demonstration. rhile a hundred men who loan money at 10 r cent., compounded, will, with prudent _ anagement, double their fortunes in seven id a half years, 100 men who borrow money that rate will fail, in spite of all the pruince and foresight they may exercise, to >uble theirs. Queer Chinese Customs.?Chinese peoe like to have their coffins prepared ready r use. A dutiful son will see that his pants are thus provided, sometimes many ;ars before their death, and the old people ill invite relatives or friends to examine and ' Imire both the materials and workmanship, i if it were some beautiful picture or statue ' which they had just cause to be proud, pon the coffin is carved an inscription with e name and titlqjgrf its occupant; if a woan, the name of her husband. At the foot ' the coffin are buried two stone tablets, face face; one bears the name and titles of the sceased, and the other a short account of his !e, what year be was born in, what were his ihievements as a scholar, and how many lildren were born to him. Periods of mourng are regulated by the degrees of relationip to the dead. A son wears his white othes for three years?actually for thirty%ht months?and a wife mourns for her lsband for the same period. The death of e wife, however, calls for only a single year . grief; for, as the sacred edict points out, if iur wife dies you can marry another. The me time suffices for brother, sister, or child. 1 ? 4 Chalk.?It is odd to think that a bit of alk has to be brought all the way from the iffs of Dover, before it can make marks on ior walls; but it is wonderful to learn that t of chalk is composed of the elytra, or shells, myriads of little animals, the globigerina, at lived and died in the ocean, year after ar, and then, solidifying into compact rock, jre pushed up five hundred feet above the rface of the sea. The bed of the English lannel is supposed to be of solid chalk, any hundred feet thick, over to France, and opping up near Paris. Through this soft aterial the contemplated tunnel is to be red, the bill authorizing the work having ready passed through the House of Com* ons. There is scarcely a trade or manufacture, >rk-shop or school, that doesn't find use for bit of chalk. Great quantities are ground ) for whiting and putty, and, though it is a imhlo material, vet nothing can suddIv its w,v ~~ ? ~"rrv ? ace. There is little or none found in this untry; all that is used here being imported )m England, either kiln-dried or in blocks it is quarried, at about $10 a ton. A Child's Idea.?A mother was showing r little six-year-old Dore's "Paradise Lost." le child was greatly interested in the magficent picture, and also in the story the Dther told by way of explanation. Unlike e major portion of children, who would ,ve heard the strange, eventful story, and en turn open-mouthed to thoughts of bread d blackberry jam, the little child of our rrative pondered on what she had heard, le result of her brown study was somewhat follows: "Mamma, s'pose you and papa and me had en in the Garden of Eden, and you and pa had eaten of the forbidden fruit and I ,dn't; then you would have been turned out, d I wouldn't. Do you know what I'd have ne ? I'd a pitched flowers over the fence you." The mother told the child that the angel >uld not have permitted any communieati'** tween parents and child under any circumtnces. "Then I'd eat the fruit and gojj^ui id the child. Spend Wisely.?lopj^ost to your spendy. No matter wj^ mes in, if more goes t, you will a^fys he poor. The art is not makimJ^"ey? hut in keeping it; little pen^nTke mice iu a barn, when they are rtfy^make great waste. Hair by hair, heads t bald ; straw by straw, the thatch goes off ; cottage; and drop by drop, the water goes o your chamber. A barrel is soon empty, the tap leaks but a drop a minute. When it moon tft oaro heirin onfh vntir mnilth ? U UiVHU KW OMifV) VV^IM fiawM j f ire are many thieves down the red lane. ie ale jug is a great waste. In all things r to keep within compass. Never stretch ur legs further than the blankets will reach you will soon be cold. In clothes, choose od lasting stuff, and not fineries. To be irm is the main thing; never mind the looks, fool makes money, but it needs a wise man spend it. Remember it is easier to build o chimneys than to keep one going. If you je all to back and board, there is nothing \ for the savings bank. Fare hard and irk hard while you are young, and have a ance to rest when you are old.