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)' ' T : ' ' ' r ' 1 r r4 I I i f &n Inbepcnbent Jamil]) fUtospper: Jor tjie IJromotion of t|c political, Social, ^jritnllnral anb Commercial Interests of tjje Sontji. j TERMS?$3.00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. VOL. 24. YORKYILLE, S. O., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1878. NO. 48. ? 1 } T. ' .1/ , , I?? i j?<if t*r? a -ii jftf>l>t t i h.2 I ? ? ' a Jtlfrted fflrttg. SMILE WHENEVER YOU CAN. When things don't go to suit you, And the world seems upside down, Don't waste your tiuie in fretting, But drive away that frown; Since life is oft perplexing, 'Tis much the wisest plan To bear all trials bravely. And smile whene'er you can. Why should you dread to-morrow And thus despoil to-day ? For when you borrow trouble, You always have to pay. . f i It is a good old maxim, Which should be often preached? Don't cross the bridge before you Until the bridge is reached. < I&f Jtotg Idler. THE MURDERER'S ORDEAL A CALIFORNIA 8KETCH. I was food of the science of physiognomy. From my youth up, I was noted for my proclivity for reading the character of a man from his face; and I finally became such an adept in t^e art that 1 could occasionally guess the very thoughts of an individual whose countenance I was studying. Soon after the gold fever broke out, I came to California; and here I must confess, that among what else there was to interest me, I had a grand opportunity for exercising my skill upon all sorts of faces, seen under all sorts of circumstances, from the highest triumph of success to the deepest despair of failure. I first tried my luek at digging gold myself, but soon tired of that, and, believing I could get money faster and with less labor, I opened a kind of grocery and provision store, and went regularly into the business of trade, buying most of my articles at Sacramento, and disposing of them at a fair advance to the miners and others. Of course I had a chance to study all sorts of faces to my heart's content, but navmg as I have said, become an adept in the art, an ordinary countenance, or a man govenred by ordinary passion, whether gentle or brutish, did not interest me. I wanted to get hold of what is termed a character, 0? one whose external would give no indication of his internal to any but a connoisseur; or one that would really puzzle you to tell what to think of him. Among the many, such I at length found. At first I did not notice him?did uot think of him. At a casual glance there was nothing to distingush him from the herd. He came io quietly, unobtrusively, purchased a quantity of flour, pork and tea, paid for the same in gold dust, and went out about his business. He repeated bis visits at different intervals, perhaps some half a dozen times, before be attracted my attention by anything peculiar in his appearance, and then I should have been at loss to say what I saw more in him at last than at first. He was apparently about twenty-five years of age, of medium height and slender figure, a dark complexion, regular features, with dark, straight hair, dark eyes, and a beard that covered the lower part of his face?in all of which there was nothing remarkable? nothing striking. He was quiet?not talkative ; had nothing to say except about the business he came on, got what he wanted when I was disengaged, paid for what he got like a gentleman, and generally retired with an ordinary "Good-day," or some similar civility. And yet, as I have said, he began to attract my attention at last, and I began to wonder why. Was it because he was so quiet, reserved and gentlemanly, and did not purchase whisky like the rest, and occasionally get excited and boisterous. At all events, he had begun to interest me in some way ; and the very fact, perhaps that I could Dot tell how or why, led me into closer scrutiny, ' a deeper study of the man. After this I prolonged his visits as much as I could, without causing him to suspect I did so intentionally. The things he wanted I generally had some trouble in getting, and filled up the interval by remarks about the weather, the country, the mines, the success of some and the failure of others?in a word, anything I could thiuk of to induce conversation, watching him furtively all the while. He answered easily and readily, and yet with that peculiar kind of reserve that was not suggestive of tending towards familiarity. His replies, however, evinced a man of mind and educution, and I began to give him credit for being a thinker?perhaps a practical and selfish dreamer, if I may use a paradoxical term that best expresses my idea. One day, I scarcely know how, I touched upon the general superstitions of mankiud, and, to my surprise, I saw that at last he was much interested. His eyes changed expressiou, and brightened, and emitted a strange and peculiar gleam ; aud my attention being thus directed to his eye, I now bethought me that I had never seen one exactly like it?one capable of being so ap^ parently open down to the soul, while conceal& ingso much. It was off its guard now; the R door was really open to the soul of the man ; aa and I looked in at the door of that opening, R and saw that the soul of that man was really a B dark one. W A nameless fear came over me ; a strange f thrill passed through me?like an electric r shock, I felt an electric shudder of dread. ' No wonder I had not been able to read him before; the man had been wearing an impenetrable mask. It chanced that no other person was present when this conversation occurred about the superstitious fancies of men, and as soon as we were interrupted by the entrance of another customer, my dark visitor left somewhat abruptly. After that he did not come so often as he did before, and never renewed the conversation which had so agitated him, and never, in fact, entered into any other that be could possibly avoid. I kept my thoughts to myself, but made some causual inquiries about him, and learned that he had been so fortunate as to secure a capital "lead," from which, with his partner, another young man, be was taking out gold in quantities which promised to enrich both, and that both of them had the good will and esteem of all who knew them. One dark night, about three or four weeks after this, I was startled from my sleep by wild, prolonged shrieks, and cries of "Murder ! murder ! help ! help!" I jumped, seized my revolver, and darted out into the open air. The cries and screams still continued, coming from a bend of the river about a hundred rods below. In a minute I was joined by five others, all well armed, and together we ran, as hard as we could, to the place from which the alarm proceeded. When we arrived there at least thirty men were collected in and around the tent of the dark man I have been describing, and he himself it was who had given the alarm. His partner and companion bad been murdered and robbed, and he himself had been slightly cut across the face and gashed on the left arm, and he was all excitement, lamenting his dearest friend, and vowing vengeance against the assassin. L It was some time before we could get at * the particulars, and then we learned that both had been sleeping side by side, when an ^ unknown robber had crawled under the light m canvas, stabbed one to the heart, and taken a " large bag of gold from under his head. With - ' " " thia be was escaping, when the present narrator awoke and seized him and, received the 1 wound which bad compelled him to relinquish t hie hold. Lights were brought, and,: there, sure enough, was the bloody confirmation of i all that bad been related. > I shall make no attempt to portray the intense excitement, the wild rage and conster- 1 nation, which this daring murder occasioned. ( Every man felt that if the assassin escaped ( without his just punishment, there would no longer he security for any one in our hither- i to quiet and peaceful valley, and solemn 1 oaths were taken to hang the wretch, if fqund, 1 on the nearest tree. ( A large reward was offered for bis detec- ( tion, and every gambler that had ever been ( seen about there, Was more or less suspected, < and I believe that, had any man been arrest- 1 ed on the following day, he would have been t hung first and tried afterwards. < I said less than any, for I bad my own suspicions, and I contrived my plot in secret and < - i made a confidant or no one. < The murdered young man was as decently i buried as surrounding circumstances would i permit, and his companion, my superstitious i friend, grew more moody with grief, refused lo work his "lead" anymore, and proposed < selling off his rocker and tools, aDd quitting i the country altogether. < I think he would have gone at once, only j that I told him that would not look well to I leave without an effort to discover the murder- t er, as some people might be malicious enough i to say he knew something of the matter, and i so get him into trouble. > >-> 1 He turned very pale, and declared that he 1 would stay a year if be thought by that means he could possibly discover the assassin of his J very dear, dear friend. < On the second afternoon following the f tragedy, almost every individual in the vi- e cinity, the friend of the murdered man among the rest, assembled at my store, at my partic- g ular request. I had told them I had some- t thing to communicate concerning the foul t deed, and I thought it not unlikely I should give them some clue to the assassin. c When all had collected, and arranged \ themselves, as I had directed, in a seraicrcle s before my door?eager, expectant, excited? t I came forward holding in my band an egg. r Then I made them a short speech on the su- r peretitions of mankind, which, I contended v had their origin in mysterious facts revealed e from the other world by God's good provi- I dence for the protection of the innocent and u the punishment of the guilty, and among a fhincrs T mentioned how the ehosts of t the victims would often haunt the murderers, h compelling them to reveal their crimes?how land and sea had been known to give up t their awful secrets?and how it had been as- b serted that if the guilty wretch should place f his handsupon the body of the man wh9m be I had secretly slain, the wounds would bleed c afresh. d "And now gentlemen," I continued, "I v hold in my hand as sure a test as any I have named. This simple egg, so fair to the view, 8 contains the murderer's secret. Let him but 0 take it in bis hand, and the frail shell will a crumble to pieces and show to all that it is t filled with the blood of his victim. You must fa excuse roe, gentlemen, for putting you all to u thetest. We do not know each other's se- y crets?the murderer of the young man may be among us; but only the guilty need fear the a trial ; the innocent will surely pass the ordeal 0 unharmed." d As I 9aid this, I fixed my gaze upon the e dark visitor, my suspected man ; I never saw u a more wretched and ghastly countenance, J nor a greater struggle in any living being, to 8 keep a calm and unmoved exterior. c The egg began its round. Some took it ], gravely, some lightly, soon turned slightly fa pale, and some laughed outright. But on it 8 went, and came nearer and nearer to the man d for whom it was intended. I could see that f he was trembling?that his very lips were get- fa ting white. "It is your turn now !" I said at length, v in a cold, stern tone. fa "Mine!" he answered, with a ghastly at- c tempt at a smile. "Why?why?should I? fa I take it? Poor Wilson was ray?my friend." f "Let him prove so now!" I said. "All eyes are upon you. Take the ordeal sent by 8 I Heaven, and prove your innocence?if you a I ???? Ml#*. f He glanced hurriedly around. All eyes v were indeed upon him, and with a look of f awakened suspicion. He made one desperate fc effort to be calm?then seized the fatal egg t with trembling hands, ' o The next moment it was crushed to atoms, and his hands were wet and stained as if with t human gore. t A wild yell burst from the crowd. f A despairing shriek came from the lips of t the guilty wretch ; and falling, rather than , sinking, down upon his knees, he cried out: 8 "God of mercy, forgive me! I did kill him 1 I did kill him ! for his gold 1 his gold 1 Oh ! t cursed gold! Oh! God of Heaveo, forgive i. me!" 8 "And how many before him ?" demanded r L ' t "Three! three! Oh! God of mercy forgive me!" s There was another wild yell, or rather ^ howl of fury?a rush like wolves on their j, prey?and the poor wretch was seized, al- g most torn limb from limb, and dragged furi- t ously away. ^ In less than ten minutes from his confession, g he was dangling to a neighboring tree, swiDg- ? ing by his neck. So died the murderer, whose name I have ^ suppressed, because he had respectable friends who are still living. ~ I will ouly add, that believing him guilty, j I had previously prepared the egg, putting red coloring matter in it. 8 HOW MIMPBLEUFKEPT HOUSE. t "Not much to do, did you say, my dear ?" 1 remarked Mrs. Mimpbleuf, pausing before her liege lord, and gazing at him indignantly, r "Yes" growled the old gentleman ; "it's a } mystery to me what women have to grumble ! about; especially you, my love, with a small * house, and only four children to attend to. Whereas, we men have an intolerable burden e roo?inrr nnnn nup Rhnnldprs. and when we re- v I . -r I turn weary and perplexed to our homes, ex- e j pecting to find rest and quiet, we are greeted 8 I with the old, old story?'so much to do? j tired to death?children so troublesome'? I and a thousand other complaints." Mrs. Mimpbleuf turned away to hide the two pearly tears which rose to her large biue eyes and rolled slowly down the fair, round cheeks, and made no reply ; while her husband lighted his cigar and walked leisurely up to his office. He was somewhat astonished at noon by his wife's announcing her intention of leaving the house in his care, and accepting an invitation to spend a few weeks with her cousin in the country. "You need a little rest, Jeremiah, and while I am gone, you can close your office, and stay at home and bave a nice easy time, with only a few household duties to attend to," declared Belliua, kindly. Mr. Jeremiah Elija Mimpbleuf scowled. "Do you mean to say that I am to devote my whole attention to household matters f Why, madam, I can easily do what little there is to be done, and Bee to my business also." "But the children ?" suggested his wife. "Yon will take them with you, of course," he replied, indifferently. "0, no! I couldn't be bothered with them," answered Bellina, stiffly. Mr. Mimpbleof looked somewhat blank at >er declaration, but noticing the least percep ible twinkle in her eves, he hastened to say: "Very well, leave them at home; four chil en are nothing to look after, and I shall i nanage beautifully." "Now, thought our hero, the morning of lis wife's departure, "I'll begin by straightining up the dining-room and washing the lishes." Two plates, one saucer, and the china tea irn were broken in clearing off the table; hut le was not discouraged, and congratulated limself that it was no worse. The 6re had ;one out in the kitchen stove, so that he was obliged to use cold water for washing the lishes. which only hardened the grease with >ut removing it, and he was in a quandary ; for Jeremiah was a very fastidious person, md abhorred a plate that was not perfectly dean. So he rubbed and rubbed, but with no suc:ess; and to make matters more serious, he ibuod himself completely drenched in greasy irater. His handsome dressing-grown was ruined, and his new embroidered slippers wet tnd Boiled. He built a rousing fire at noon, and put ;he meat directly over it to broil; then he rummaged around for half an hour to find a rook-book, and after accomplishing this feat, oyfully announced his intention of having >iscuiis for, dinner. He accordingly got all he tinware out upon the table, and succeeded n dirtying some half dozen pans, three cups, md six or eight spoons. When they were at ast made, he referred once more to the cookjook. "It says 'bake in a quick oven,' " mused Vfr. Mimpbl'euf; "I wonder if ours is a 'quick >ven V I guess it is, for Bellina always has irst'class biscuit, so here they go," and he ihoved in the pan. A flame suddenly buret up around the gridiron, and removing it he found that ifter getting well smoked, the meat had burnt o a crisp on the side next to the fire. Now, if there waB one thing more than anther that Jeremiah was particular about, it rashis steaks being rare, and he remembered t certain occasion when he had risen from he table in disgust, and left the house in a age, because the meat was cooked a little too nuch?two of his children being ill, and his rife , without a servant. Still, there was no 1 xcuse in the auBtere eyes of Jeremiah 1 dimpbleuf, and he showed bis great displeas- 1 ire by slamming the front door forcibly iter him, and absenting himBelf from home hree days. Yet here was the same thing lappened to himself, and what should he do? He went into the dining-room to set the able, and returned juat in time to smell the liscuits burning. Hurrying to the Btove he ound them UDfit to eat, burnt to a cinder, le was in despair ; three o'clock, and no dinler; breakfast at six on account of his wife's leparttire, and himself and family on the erge of starvation. His dressing-gown was in a deplorable tate, between the grease and a thick coating f flour on the elbows; but be was too deeper,te to care for appearance, and determined o buy up a supply of bread and cakes at the lakery ; he therefore locked the children all ip in his study and started, running all the 'W' .vJ ' >, . i ' In the meantime, Sammie, aged seven, mused himself by manufacturing a kite out f a valuable manuscript which lay on the ' lesk, while Bolivy tore a beautiful steel en- ] ;raving out of one of his father's choice vol- | imes to ornament the face of said kite ; and fennie, a pretty, brown-eyed sprite of three umraers, in reaching up for the bottle of mu- j ilage, knocked off the inkstand, which broke, ( eaviug a great black stain on the handsome ilueaod drab carpet. The chair on which ' he stood slipped, and in hastening to get | lown, she dropped the bottle of paste, which ( ell in a little shattered heap at her feet, maling an additional blemish on papa's carpet. ' Mr. Mimpbleuf had always reproved his ' rife for calling the children mischievious, for te never saw anything at all wrong in their 1 onduct, and congratulated himself that he tad the best behaved and most interesting : amily in the country. ' Returning, he immediately hurried to the f tudy, and was horrified beyond expression | ,t the scene which greeted h;ra there. If his | rife bad permitted euch a thing to happen, he fould have scolded and stormed around in a earful manner, until he was quite certain he iad made her perfectly wretched, and hearily sorry for ever having married such a ;reat inconsiderate "bear" as himself. However, he viewed the disaster with anyhing but pleasure, but beiDg very much faigued with the morniog's work, he did not ell quite equal to the effort of chastising hem, and so let them off with a feeble reprinand, and proceeded to distribute the bread md cakes. Providence sent an old lady friend around hat afternoon, and leaving the children in ter care, he rushed off to the intelligence office, ,nd engaged a recent importation from Ger nany, whom he brought home with him in riumph. Next morning he indulged in a cigar, and valked up street to ascertain how things were >rogressing at the office. On his way back le purchased a can of oysters, which he pre ented to Kathrina, asking "if she knew how 0 cook them," to which she replied "Yah, 'ah I poil dem in a stew J" and he seated him elf complacently to peruse a letter from his 'other self," Mrs. Mirapbleuf. "I am having such a delightful time," yrote his "affinity," "and do hope you art , jetting along nicely at home; it will do you , Torlds of good to rest from your labors, and ! know you are enjoying it wonderfully." , Bolivy had tied a rope to one of the chairs, , ind as Kathrina was coming in with the soup ( ureen, he suddenly jerked it, tripping her j ip, and she fell crash into the room. I Enraged at the boy, and scalded by the ( lot soup, she declared her intention of departngimmediately, and forthwith did so, leav- , ng Jeremiah to dish up the dinner as best le could. Providing himself with a shovelful of ashs, he spread it a carefully over the place vhere the soup had been spilled, then he pour- 1 d a quantity of soft-soap and hot water on, ' ind assuming the kneeling posture (the first 1 ime since his childhood), began to scrub. J ?our square yards were coated over with ash- 1 ?, etc., whereas only a small portion of the ! :arpet had been soiled, but he worked away 1 iravely. "What will Mrs. Mimpbleuf say ?" groaned 1 he miserable man at last, as the more ho 1 ubbed, the worse it looked. "Perhaps s. 1 >ucket of cold water dashed over will improve t," he sighed. Limping into the kitchen, and hunting for 1 tiu pail, be recollected that be had used it | o hold the milk the evening previous, all the i ians being dirty, and he could not find any lial, Jn ttiQ /-.lnoof nnm lnrnrp Pnniloh fn nnn aio it, eo all that remained to be done was to >our it into one of the washbowls, and let ir, jo. Passing the stove, his dressing gown | same in contact with a heavy skillet, which i same down maliciously upon his corns, and ' lent him prancing about the room in an agoiy of pain, gnashing his teeth and pulling his lair in a frenzy. Just then the door-bell rang and he wen t i ;o answer it. He was horrified to see Miss Roseline Summers, a young lady whom he i tad always held up to his wife as an examsle of amiability an neatness. She started in i ?8tonishment at the distressed-looking object ;hat stood before her, bowing and trying to look as agreeable aa possible under the cir- < cumslances. " ' < He blushed confusedly at her surprise, be- * ing painfully conscious that his face was bespattered with soapsuds and ashes, hissleeves I rolled up to the elbow, and altogether present- 1 ing a very ridiculous appearance. But he in- \ vited her into tho parlor, and after giving her a brief account of his troubles, she departed, 6rst bestowing a mammoth paper of candy upon the young Mhftpbleufa. I That night Sainnsie and Jennie were taken t suddenly ill from, eating too much candy, and 1 in the midst of hie sorrows, the brilliant idea ( of sending for Mrs. M. took such strong pos- i sessson of his mind that he telegraped for her i to come home immediately. < She arrived the following day, and had a 1 hearty laugh at his misfortunes ; and while \ under her skillful management household i matters soon assumed their former aspect, and 1 Mr. Mimpbleuf was . transformed into tho i " i l.!? i : most patient or nusDanas, never using kuuwu to speak a cross word afterward. flfMtam grading. From tlie Wanhlngton Star. THE PRESIDENTS POLITICAL POSITION. NO CHANGE OF POLICY. The following statement defines the position occupied by the President upon the southern question. In view of the reports that have gone out as to his teetotal change of base; his entire abandonment of his southern policy; and his reconciliation with the stalwart republicans, this exposition of his views is perhaps timely. The purport of this exposition is that he has made no change of policy ; only he is determined to protect the citisens of every part of the Union in their rights. He does not yet believe in bayonet rule. All violations of the law, he still holds, should be punished by civil process "if possible." Therefore, when it was learned, prior to the recent elections, that republican voters in certain southern states would be interfered with in the exercise of their franchise rights, the Attorney General ordered the U. ( S. District Attorneys for those states to see that all violators Df the Jaw in this respect were promptly arrdsted and brought to trial. ? And after the elections the advances for "con ciliation" from those arrested were Dot heeded, j and the Attorney General was, on last Saturday, instructed to prosecute offenders to the j utmost limits of the law. But it is urged that neither of these instructions could be regard- 3 ?d as a change of policy. We think it may ? t>6 explained that the President has not abandoned his policy of seeking to reconstruct the ^ South without the aid of the bayonet, but "i that in resolving to punish offenders to the 1 full limits of the law he has concluded, like c the old roan in the fable, to try the virtue of y i fsw (legal) stones to dislodge the rude boy c in the apple tree, in place of the ineffective tufts of grass. It is to be hoped that, as in j the fable, "the rude boy will hasten down and beg the old man's pardon." . i The following is the "statement," which F was submitted to the president and received bis approval before publication. It may | therefore be regarded as semi official: t Two positions of great importance in the ? politics of the country have, within the past 8 few days, been assigned the President. One v that be has abandoned in toto his southern polisy ; the other that he has, by giving way in t that policy, brought about a "reconciliation" t between his administration and the so-called c 'stalwart" wing of the republican party, the slements of which have been, since the inaugu- t ration of the conciliation policy, alienated g from him. Both of these statement are eitb- a 3r untrue or are given an improper coloring, i AS TO THE REPORTED CHANGE OF POLICY j regarding the south, there is nothing in it. j The method of dealing with the southern states which the President has seen fit to pur- f ? _ l ' sue is the same now ar it was wnen ln.uugura- t ted. This "policy,'' was in no respect t whatever an "experiment." The President 8 considered, and still considers, it a matter of c July to see that in administering the laws of ^ the land, the constitutional rights of every citizen, in every portion of the country, equally ^ and alike should be fully respected and guardcd. It is pretty generally conceded that the j. south, under bayonet rule, was not enjoying 8 the free government vouchsafed it by the constitution. To remove that rule was a duty the President considered devolving upon him, e and it was accordingly removed. He has f gone on with the determination of securing, t as far as lay in bis power, that v EVERY CITIZEN SHALL BE PROTECTED t in the full and free exercise of all his rights and privileges. With this determination has been coupled a very strong desire not to use r the military branch of the government, except to quell insurrection and put down riots. All t violations of the law should, he has always f held and still holds, be punished by civil pro- t cess if possible. Therefore, when it was learn- I ad prior to the recent elections that republican voters in the south, notably in South a Carolina, Louisiana and Alabama, would certainly be interfered with, in the exercise cf their franchise rights, the attorney geueral crdered the attorneys for those states to see that all violators of the law in this respect J were promptly arrested and brought to trial. And after the elections, notwithstanding the advances for compromise from those arrested, the attorney general was last Saturday in- j> Jtructed to prosecute offenders to the utmost i limits of the law. Neither of these instruc- t tious could be regarded as "a change of poli- i cy." They were but the carrying out of the c President's determination to see that the laws c are enforced everywhere. F STATEMENTS ABOUT THE PRE8IDENT ABAN- r DONING HIS POLICY UNTRUE. * The statement that the President has recently said that he had tried the plan of con- 8 ciliation and found it a complete failure, is untrue. The president has never made such a ? itatement. Ii; is true that he does not think f the south has responded as it should to his j good intentions; but, nevertheless, he does f inioiiS tr> /tLanoa in ftnv manner whatever. UU? IUVVU?.?V..-U6., j . y the course of his admioistration upon this Q account. This course, as has previously been t said, is not a southern policy. It is not in f any true sense atnan policy?it is the enforceraent of the laws by civil processes. AS TO "THE ERA OF RECONCILIATION." c As to the other statement that there has 1 been a reconciliation between the adminis- r tration and the dissatisfied leaders of the re- 1 publican party, it may be stated that in order v that there might be "a reconciliation" as the I phrase is, it would be necessary that the 1 President should come at least partially to v the way of thinking held by leaders of the s party with which be is to be "reconciled." ii The President has never seen any reason why h he should cease to do his duty because some portion of his party were dissatisfied with his methods. He has always desired and still desires that the utmost harmony should exist t in the party. If leaders of the party, after c interchanging views with him, see that they c have misunderstood his course and conduct, a and think that it would be good that past dif- 8 ferences should be healed, the President is t ready to respond heartily. That suet) is the t, :ase is do doubt true, and the party which sleeted the president to office is certainly now, with few exceptions, ready, as Representative White, of Pa.} says, to look to future results ind forget the effected past with its past differences," If this is the "reconciliation," well and good. A ROMANCE ON THE RAIL, Tbey came into the car at a wayside station together. She was in the lead?a posiion she is not likely to surrender as long as they travel together. A tall brunette, with a iharp face, piercing black eyes, hair black as i raven's wing, a long, aquiline nose with a mole on the side of it, and a mouth the cut of which betokened determination and force. She bad passed the shady side of the teens, ind had climbed to the apex of a quarter-of i-century. He was a guileless youtn, over whose tow-colored bead some eighteen summers bad passed?an innocent hobbled-boy, ust released from bis mother's apronstringe. 3n him she cast loving glances ; and his face, !uffu8ed with blushes, was turned with a timid, appealing look to her. The car was crowded, and eligible seats were not easily obtainable. About the midlie of the car a sedate traveler occupied a teat to himself. Thither the irrepressible lady pressed her way. The sedate traveler rose, and, with much courtesy, invited her to take a seat next the window ; and when she was ieated be calmly ensconced himself upon the racant half of the chair. By this time the pouug man whom she was escorting had come ip. He placed bis hand on the back of the teat, looked appealingly on the face of his protectress and timidly around the car. He was evidently embarrassed, and did not know what to do with himself. The sharp-eyed irunette eyed the sedate traveler by her side with a sharpness that almost amounted to nalignity. But the traveler seemed all unjonscious of the scrutiny to which he was mbjected, and looked away over the fields ihrough the opposite window. The brunette could no longer endure to see ler callow beau standing forlorn, and thus iddressed the seda te traveler, whose thoughts were with dear oneB at home: "I say, stranger I" "Well, say on 1" responded the sedate traviler. "I say, look here, stranger!" "Well, what have you got to show me?" laid the sedate man. "Stranger 1 I want you to know that this roung gentleman, standing up there, is my el ler 1" "Oh 1 I'm glad to hear it. How long have rou had him ? Take care of him, I suppose?" "Now, you just look here, stranger! This roung man is my feller, and I'm bound to ?vo tkot nnluulv a Viol I imnnu rtfl film. Ynil lear me? Now, if you bad aDy manners, rou'd get up and let him have a seat by me." "Ob I I am very bappy in your society, fou cannot imagine bow mucb pleasure it ias given me to furnish you a seat where you tan see through the window. Besides, I always took a special delight in being near ibarming ladies like yourself," replied the edate traveler. "But, sir, he is my feller?my beau ? Do rou understand me?" "Is that so ? Who would have thought it? iind does his mother place him under your >rotection when he goes abroad ?" "Now, you look here stranger? Me and hat young man expects to be engaged, and ve've been keeping company together; and ne and him wants to have a talk together, ind your are real mean if you don't give him i seat by me, so that we can talk?that's vhat I think." The imperturbable traveler straightened up, hen over io the direction of the sharp faced >runette, smiled most benignly and lovingly in her, and thus spoke : "Charming lady ! I would be most happy o accommodate you ; but you see I'm a pil;rira and a stranger, wayworn and weary, ind a long way from home. Beside, my heart b just now beating a tattoo of ecstatic satisaction because of your charming presence! 3eing a bachelor, and being near one so lovey and engaging, how can I forego the pleasire I now enjoy ? I have had dreams in my ime?bright dreams?as I have wandered hrough* this great big world, of some time eetingone to whom I could reveal all this ad heart of mine would fain no longer con:eal. You are the impersonation of my Ireams; and now, would you drive me from mur lovely side? Say! has no bird sung in 'our heart ? I saw you come as a star rises ibove the horizon, and the light of your eyes tas illuminated my soul. Say, beautiful tranger! will you drive me hence?" The sedate traveler ceased to speak. The fire had gone down in the brunette's \yea, the severe expression had vanished rom her face, her stern lips had relaxed heir rigidity and parted just enough to repeal the ivory structure within, aud in a tone hat was soft and low, she asked: "Did you say you was a bachelor?" "Aye, beautiful stranger 1 that's my fortutate situation." Then the brunette turned her eyes softly ipon her "feller," who stood twitching his ingers and gazing around in an abashed, iraid sort of way, and thus she addresed lim : "Tom I Iguessyou'd better hunt yourself mother seat." ? ? JUDGE MACKEI 05 THE HOG. The following is the conclusion of the re>ort of the Committee on Swine, submitted >y Judge Muckey at the recent Fair of the kate Agricultural and Mechanical Society : While your committee recognize with satsfaction the commendable effort displayed n the introduction and culture of thorough>red and high grade swine and the most mproved breeds, yielding the largest weight if meat and lard in proportion to the amount if food, which is the true economical princi>le in raising edible stock, they profoundly egret that no specimen of our native stock yas placed on exhibition. We hold it important for ethnological reaon8, that the native hog of South Carolina hould be widely cultivated. He is to our >eople the monumental hog, and around him iluster the traditions of two eventful centuies. Older than the constitution of the Jnited States, he alone seems unaffected seiously by its "amendments." Roaming at rill through our far reaching swamps and WIllo i? fka A a ttq of* 1 77fi iver uur uutucotcau umjo ju i>u? u?jo v? * w, he bold infantry of stout Cornwalis grew aint while following the fleet creature of this xtraordinary pachyderma, and he distanced rith a triumphant grunt even the enterprising lavalry of the fiery Tarleton. He is absolutey unchanged and unchangeable. He can leitber be starved nor fattened, and is real!y the only one of our domesticated animals rhich has always worked for bis living. Tor him "eternal vigilance is the price of iberty," and he cannot be taken by surprise, vhile the predatory rover who essays to purue him, soon learns in disgust that the race 3 to the swift in the case of this marvelous iog? "With his long gallop which can ire, The hound's deep hate, the hunter's sire." For his owner, he is light weight, it is true, >ut then he is sure meat. The fat hog, in the contrary, is a perpetual hazard and a lonstant provocative of larceny. He is unible to deal with the only recognized race isue in this State, of which he is the frequent, tecause the easy victim. On the other band, he native self preserving hog appreciates '.'the situation," and is a law unto himself, relying not upon statutes but ou speed for his protection. It is time, therefore, that we should return to the original principles on which the fathers founded our smoke houses, and that the fattest hog of foraign extraction should no longer be regarded a* superior for practical purposes to (the fastest swine of native growth, each one of which yields the farmer "forty pounds of meat a year/' and thus tends greatly to reduce the amount of money which we daily export from this St^te for bacon, amounting to nedfljr $7,000,000 per annum. Respectfully submitted, ,,, T. J. Mackey; Chairman. 1 1' ? An Old Relic.?The following remarkable list of articles, found in a servaut's drawer, was published in a New York, paper more than thirty years ago: Two aprons, a stocking, a brush and a comb, A piece of white string, and a dry marrow bone, A duster, two walnuts, a reel of black cotton, An old silver spoon that had long been forgotten. A bodkin, a fruit knife, a glass rolling-pin, A bottle containing a wee drop of gin. A lot of curl-papers, an old pair or stays, A trap.t tAllinir funnars to. mend their bad wavs. A paper of tea put there on the si y, Her mistress' bustle, (I cannot tell why). A thimble, some needles, an old book of songs, Three clothes-pegs, a slipper, to the household belongs. / / The claw of a lobster but recently boilpd, A new cambric handkerchief, never been soiled. A letter from a lover away in strange lands. - A pot of goose grease for chaps on the hands; Some buttons, a pencil, a bit of bath brick, A small looking-glass, and a broken toothpick. A bundle of rags, and a fortune-telling book, Were the things that were found in the drawer of the cook. 4 ? Hooker's Opinion of Grant and Sherman.?Here is what we find in the Brooklyn Eagle, being part of a long interview, in which fighting Joe Hooker gives his views of men and things,,; Here is what be thinks of Sherman and Grant: "What made General Sherman take such malicious pains, ten years after the war was over, and a sick, crippled man, to attack you in his Memoirs with such deliberation ?" "Oh ! Sherman is a bard, cruel man ; a tyrant in the small. He likes to be prodding people and persecuting the non-combatants. He bad so little discernment that he thought abuse of me would pass with the country, but the reception of it by the people mortified his crazy mind. Probably he never did anything that gave him so much selfish repentance." < "Do you ever see him, General. Hooker?";] "I visited Washington some tin?&jago; and General Sherman called on me. v., Said I: 'Sherman, this is indeed queer. .You, the general of the army, come to jee me who had no idea of calling on you. Why, Sherman, I'm sure we can't misunderstand each other. You have spared no pains to publish your want of appreciation of me, and I think I, -have been almost as frank about you.' Sherman was ashamed of himself; that was why he called." "Do you rank Shertnan, in ability, anywhere near his rank ?" -*vi, \ "He had more disasters than any man I know of. His character and composition are nervous and uncertain, and he is tormented by a consciousness that the American nation haa nn cnnfirlpncB in hiu indament. and would not keep him where be is id clue of general danger. I regard him as responsible for the Indian atrocities taking place this fall on the plains. He possesses none of the magisterial, assuaging, wise sense which control savages. His errors in the rebellion went the full swing of the pendulum, from gross military mistakes, such as the first expedition to Vicksburg, to gross civil blunders like the treaty with Joe Johnston. His resentments only magnify the original blunder, such as attempting to insult a great man, like Stanton, because Sherman had played the fool." "Yet, General, how do you account for Grant's preference for Sherman T* "Well, Sherman has a genius much like George Francis Train's. He can talk and write rapturously, and yet have no sense. I am disposed to think that Grant, not possessing the power of expression, was taken with Sherman's aptness at writing, and thought he had better not antagonize bis pen. Yet Sherman has never been loyal to Grant's kindness. I think Grant the abler and better of the two. As President of the United States, however, Graut was vulgar and incompetent." A SWIM OJTHORSEBACK. A novel swim look place on the Thames, the performer being a young officer in the Hungarian army, Lieutenant Von Zubovits. This gentleman has invented a saddle by means of which wide and rapid rivers can be easily crossed on horseback. The rider remains dry above the waist. Considerable interest seemed to be taken in the trial trip, a saloon steamer^ which had been chartered to accompany the swim, being omwded with visitors. Lieutenant Von Zu hovita rode a gray horse, the property of Mr. Henderson the ship owner, this horse having had previously only three trials in the water; but the Lieutenant states that when be com* manded a Circassian regiment in the late war, he had no difficulty in easily persuading horses to take to the water, and on one occasion, in the Danube, he swam one horse for eighteen hours. The start was fixed to take place at five o'clock, by which boor Westminster bridge was crowded with spectators. A cheer soon announced that the lieutenant bad commenced his swim, and in the distance, off the horseferry, could be seen what appeared to be one of those dummies used at seaside regattas, in aquatic tournaments, but as it approached the strange eight, came in view, of a man comfortably seated in a saddle?the top of which was about three inches above the water's edge?swimming down the stream on horseback, the horse, with arched neck, apparently exhibited no signs of fear beyond occasionally taking a nervous sip of the by no means too pure water. The invention consists of simply a double india-rubber saddle inflated with air, which keeps the horse afloat with ease. The saddle, when emptied, weighs between eight and ten pounds, and, it is stated, can be used for carrying water or fodder, when not required for the purpose of enabling cavalries to cross rivers. Westminster bridge was passed at twenty minutes past five o'clock, the steamer starting at the same time, considerable interest being evidently taken in the proceedings by the military attaches of the foreign Embassies, who were on board. The rider was accompanied by a little boat, in the stern of which sat Mr. Henderson, who epcouraged on the horse. ? * True Gentlemen.?"I beg your pardon," and with a smile and a touch of his cap, Harry Edmond handed to an old man, the cane which he bad accidentally knocked from his hand when he was running. "I hope I did not hurt you. We were playing entirely too rough, sir." "Not a bit!" said the old man, cheerily. "Boys will be boys, and it's best they should be. You did not harm me." "I'm glad to hear itand lifting his hat again, Harry turned to join the playmates with whom he had been frolicking at the time of the accident. "What do you raise your hat to that old fellow for ?" asked his companion, Charley Grey. "He's only the huckster." "That makes no difference," said Harry. "The question is not whether's he's a gentleman, but whether I am one; and no true gentleman will be less polite to a man because he wears a shabby coat or hawks vegetables through the city, instead of sitting in a counting-house." TjYhich do you think wAs right? " SECRET OF HAPPINESS.?MOD ana women wed each other to be happy. And why not, if they marry w^7? The man should be a little bigger than his wife, and a little older, a little braver, a little more in love with her than she is with him. The woman should always be a little yonnger, a little prettier, and a little more considerate ihan her husband. He should bestow upon her all his worldly goods, and she should take good care of them. He may owe her every care and affection that tenderness can prompt; but pecuniary indebtedness to her will become a burden. Better live On a crust he earns than on 4 fortune she has brought him. Neither must be jealous, nor give the other cause of jealousy. Neither must encourage sentimental friendship for the opposite sex. They moat have perfect conoaence in eacn other; and reticence concerning-their mutual affairs, even to members of their own families, is at first necessary. A wife should dress herself becomingly whenever she expects to meet her husband's eye. The man should not grow slovenly, even at home. Fault-finding, long arguments, or scoldings, end the happiness that begins in kisses and love-making.: Sisters and brothers may quarrel and "make up." Lovers are lovers no longer after such disturbances occur ; and married people who are not lovers, are bound by red-hot chains. If a-man admires his wife most in prints, she is silly not to wear them. If she likes him best in black cloth, be is a fool if he neglects to indulge in it. They should contrive to please each other, even if they please nobody else?for their mutual happiness can only be the result of their mutual love, and that love will never fail to exalt its object Boys Wanted.?-Men are wanted. So they are. But boys are wanted?honest manly, noble boys., Some one has declared, and truly, that these boys should possess ten Kints, which are thus given: 1. Honest 2. telligent 3. Active. 4. Industrious. 5. Obedient. 6. Steady. 7. Obliging. 8. Polite. 9. Neat 10. Truthful. One thousand first-rate places are open for one thousand boys who come up to the standard. Each boy can suit his taste as to the kind of business be would prefer. The places are ready in every kind of occupation. Many of them are already filled by boys who lack some important Doints. but they will soon be vacant Some situations will soon be vacant, because the boys have been poisoned by reading bad books, such as they would not dare show their fathers, and would be ashamed to have their ' mothers see. The impure thoughts suggested by these books will lead to vicious acts, the ( boys will be ruined, and their places must be . filled. Who will be ready for one of these vacancies? Distinguished lawyers,, useful ministers, skillful physicians, successful merchants, must all Boon leave then* places for some one else to fill. One by one, tbey are removed by death. Mind your ten points, boys; they will prepare you to step into vacancies in the front rank. Every man who is worthy to employ a boy is looking fot yon, if you have the points. Do not fear that you will be overlooked. A young person having all these qualities will shine as plainly as a star at night. Trust a Boy.?During the session of an Episcopal convention in Boston, the bishop of Louisiana, in crossing the Common, met a boy whose face he fancied, and calling to him, asked if he had anything to do just then, to which he said no. "Are you a good boy ?" The little fellow scratched his head and re* pled, "I am not a very good boy. I cuss a little sometimes.'1 That candid answer inspired the bishop with confidence, and he then said, after giving bis name and address, "I want you to go to a certain place aod get a bundle for me, and bring it to my hotel. There will be a charge of $8; here is the money to pay it, and a half dollar which you may keep for doing the errand." On his return to the hotel the bishop's friend laughed at him for bis credulity, telling him that he would never see the boy or bundle or the money again; but in half an hour the young chap returned, bringing the bundle and a receipted bill for $8.50, the bishop having made a slight mistake as to the amount that was due. "How did you manage to pay the extra half dollar?" he inquired. "I took the money you gave me for the job. I knew you would make it all right." And "all right" it was made, and no doubt the confidence that was reposed in that boy, because of his truthfulness, will do him good as long as he lives. A Novel Feat in Dentistry.?Scalpgrafting has become a quite common performance, but it will be news to many that teeth may be similarly transplanted and made to grow in other mouths than the original owner. Dr. Thomas, of Detroit, details in the Denial Cosmos a case in which, he successfully performed this operation, inserting in the mouth of a gentleman, who had lost a right superior cuspidate, a solid and healthy tooth that he had removed from a lady's mouth four weeks previously. He opened into the canal and pulp chamber of the tooth, from the apex of the tooth only, cut the end off one eighth of an inoh (it being that much too long), reduced the size somewhat in the centre of the root (it being a trifle larger than the root extracted), filled and placed in position. He states that the occlusion, shape and color were perfect, so much so that several dentists who saw the case were not able to distinguish the transplanted tooth from the others. The two features in the case that he calls particular attention to are: First, that although the tooth had been in his office four weeks, there is to-day no perceptible change in color; and, second, that the reattachment is as perfect as though it had been transplanted or replanted the same day of extraction.? Springfield Republican. What Happened to the Baby.?Frdm Vermont comes the following story of the mishaps of a baby : "Last Thursday, Mrs. W. J. Boyce, of Woodstook, placed her baby, nine months old, in a baby cab standing on the partico, to wheel it in the street. She left it for a moment, and stepped into the house, when the cab started, rolled down four steps to the driveway, across that and a piece of ground some twelve rods in width, to the bank of the Quechee river, thence down a bank some fifteen feet high into the river. The mother bad started after, but was unable to catch up. She dashed into the river and canght the child, but being in deep water, was obliged to let go of the babe to save herself. The housemaid had followed after her, and reached the river in time to save the mother. The baby was carried, by the current, about twenty-five rods, when a gentleman who had witnessed the affair, reached the stream and secured the child." * - -? Salt.?To every person whose diet consists largely of bread or its equivalent, common salt is a positive necessity. It is a universal constituent of animal bodies, so universal, that, unless an animal can acquire it, in one way or another, that animal cannot live. Widely diffused all over the world, it is taken up, too, by the roots of vegetables, and may also be found in their ashes. Dietetically regarded, salt is by no means in the same cat* egory with mustard, pepper, vinegar and other condiments. These are not to be found in blood or muscle. Salt is. In one way or another, it is, in fact, the very esseqcq of one's existence, A