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?gas* ttccr. k JUMER'S 'LOTH STOETr VXeliv Glover was tbavprettiest lass in tho pit village. Her eyes were of the " awecte'st blue y hercheeks were like a rose; ?nd you might have thought her brown hair was the 'finest site... -Ebon she had a figure like a fairy, it wa9 80 trim > and with a waist you c?uld-almost span. I loved Nelly, but as- for that, . all the young chaps of the village were of tfie same mind,, and; she. rjiigl.it have had her pick of ufertlw'jpo^s'tvof. i t _was she treat ed us all'alike, and.wpuldn't look at one mom than another. She had a smile, tor overyb?dy, find was alwayV good!tomipei' edj_but. there it. ended.^and somehow, ^ppo,'6f 'usVeo/uid serew.up' eburageHo try her!furtheiv ? V. doV t-'k npw" hpw often,i thought itr?ver; It came into ray head* the-first- thingriij; the -morning, -and there it i^i^i^'d1ra|^U|t thing at flight, when it either'kopt hie ^wake; or-haunted my drearns* ;>: "-? '-" . .' * "At ia'strit qnite took possession' of me. matter where J urat digging; or. Mast? ing, or tuunefiiig;j above ground,* or down in pfrpmyth?ught?tum^n|^eilv:, and froui being the merriest fellow in the vi 1 l^go;:t just 'cpm? to bo th? dullest.One ?OTni|ig;there..waS'Jw wirken tbe.jbit Jpr my gang', because the viewer wan ted that part of the se^shprea^p^and it struck ?me. alj at once, th?t^^ou^^?ve it out with Nelly ^sirI made jmyself/fflnart, and' -set off, walKrt^V-^b^i^->?^fit -was a wager. Too rrfay,think it-i^eeit fn me, But Jean say 'tnWX^.theifit?''<?lever a chap to look atasy?urw?uld-often see? ?nd I knew'it! " For alBhat, I began to walk' a bit stow when;l canglit sight, of "Mrs^txrover's 6ott'ago; ftr 1 felt"aliread in my. heart. But I went on, and.I just.^ot put but'Nelly herself She neyor looked prettier than at that'minute; but, appear ?ing 60 suddenly, shedashed my-spirit; and i^hadn't ? word to say to her. ? ? ^3^W-PKarley, ."whafris _ tho - matter?" i^^ened^in?-triglt.tened s?rt of.way. ? Wei^ft'is just this,"T.said.VAnd -there "I stogped:'" ; ' ? -??'"? ?" ?'? r ' ?? ^"-<*1V ahytfoi^-wrong with Jack1?" sho cried, "g.uiokly.-r. ' .." ."JuW!*" " ^ ""Yes, he is down in tbe~pit,-and they , say;.1tTsVfoul, 'whfch';;m?kes;motlicr and tnV ^uneasy. Yen - haven't beard' any th.ing.r._ ? / And "siiV looked- in my v eyes as if sho wpaldSearch me throngh. "No, no?' I answered, steadying, now thafcI{tboughf/I'COuld comforUier.^ fiHe is^Irr%h?*^You '?j^s'h-'t-'?rimd^i?tHhe old women of the.village sayror you'll be -looking??for a'Bfow up every day in the - year," when there is nothing more than tsonfmon. 1 haven't comer to-you about Jfi.ck, Nelly; it is about myself." She gave me another Jook no*vv j then ^ercfeeek-"flushed up liko aflame, and her orascturned away. "JJo you know* what' levan t to say; Nel-; 'wTiwont on. "I wish you did. for 1 ?aartteU itVit is* more, than I have got words for.. How. I love you, how you are always before me,-how I am crazed, and "in?d tibbut y?ut -But though I can't say alt 1 watt to| here I*?tandVa-nd? wouldn't change jwitfcr a king if you'll take me ?s I iw, \; "Ah,- Charley! you doh'ttnov* how you pauEh me," slie answered. - "Don't say.that, Nelly. I doubted about Speaking-to"you, but nowthat I ha-vedone ;tt,-irowthat I" can't go- on deceiving my ieeifrifyoujbaye any' pity in'your heart. .shW .it:t&.Baer.a.Fid I will cherish yo?.to ' -the day of ray deaths ... ? "It is najise," she replied; "I can nover "marry a. pit man. ' I gave tlie^promise. to towtheranfr Jack, wben lie waiked-up the ' -village at the: funeral of my. poor father "and brothers, all three killed in tho mine ?our .greiit-sorrow, which I can never ^inVwVwith,out crying.": c '.. -?.nd'.tljo tears, It is true, w ere run tiing . .down .&er.;ch*eeks, though; for the minute, ?she seemed to.be harder than stone. And I,8eomed:t?nied to- st<me: mynelf. I had jrVo' recoirectioh, ho feeling, au<l no sense, and J cpald not have moved a's'tep tdsave my life. Then it all flashed upon me like lightning. T took aTlasttlook iit Nelly. ; dr<*ppod ray he':id an my .breast, and, . Without-?- word more, walked out ot the , Q?v village seldom looked bright, no matter how the sun shone, and now I felt' as If the sun would never shine iigain for inej sp;,as.niy eye fell on the Hne of cot? tages, with the* clouds hanging down from above, and nothing round but a waste, I thought I might as well bu in my grave um "contintio to live there. Besides, I, should be always meeting Ne^lly, perhapi} lurk ^"ng.about her mother's cottage,;and mak? ing her ,as: miserable as myself. \Vhy ?shouldn't I.go away to Yorkshire, or L>ur "byshire, or to the diggings in Australia, for that matter? ? The notidn. if it was good for"nothing more, gave me a little spirit. It turned my thoughts, and I Btepped on brisker, going straight home. I hadn't much to settle there, only to bid good-bye to.the.folks I lived with, and I soon came out, pack .on hack, and be?-an my tramp. . I8tppped at the moor,and looked back, remembering I might never see the place again, and, dismal as I now thought it. with its gaping walls and shaken roofs encumbering tho blackened irround, I had been happy there. Not one of those tum? bling cottages but would open its door to "me; not one where I wouldn't meet a iriend. And there I had been born: it was the spot on earth that, even in that hour of bitterness. I loved- best, and I didn't turn .away, without- dashing my hand over ray eyes. I was walking on, when suddenly the air rang with a crash which shook tho "ground. I knew what it signified : such sounds denote but one result in the black . country, and, tlirowing.down my pack, I darted off to the pit, with tfio feelings that animate every miner on such occa sions. It didn't seem a minute before I came to the dust-heap*, round the pit's mouth, ,. \l>ut.8ome were tbere before me, and "the ? ttf-men and Women were rushing up from h-itb;e village in a stream. The smell from I j the. pit Almost knocked me down as I came i ?;np, andVI had to get my breath a. little. I when three or four ot us crept on to the mouth, and- looked down. The. explosion had (destroyed the cage, not leaving a I stielt of itj/buti it hadn't injured "tire Sig? nal ropej. hence a means of communica? tion remained for any 'one^ immediately below.. .-. As^BOon; as. I saw this,. I set to work to vi^a;cro8s^aivand;pre hftidi it ready. ? . . ?. . "Just^lower me gently," .1 said , to two banksmen. "I may" pick up one or two, if there^MHiy near." - "Yoii' can't' go down yet!" cnVdnhe viewer: "How" many are in the pit f ? ^ ?'Half at hour ago there we?o fifty,' replied trie time-keeper; but 1 am thank^ ful to sav tbey all came op but ten." ~ u&h<l tKey are all lost," said the view? er, "for there, will be another explosion directly." . ?t .j . j '?I'll go down, .anyhow," I said, dogged? ly ?"and if nobody will lower , me,. I'll jump-down." - A good many were on tho hcapfi now? men a"nd\ women?some of the worne? crying, and some praying ; but when I spoke out that way', there was a dead, si? lence.- -Two or three called out, "Good bvc, Charley; God bless yon, brave lad." The blihkamen lowered mo down, and I Batik through the pit's mouth: A Davy lam'p was tied around my,..waisl;, and I held a rope ia my hand, so that: I might Sign af to be hwisted .up if the air became to? foul.<" Bot I bad no intention of going back tiM 1 bad searched the pit, and seen if there1 were any alive. One thing, I didn't car.o.about my life; and another, I would -ha-ve.-been ashamed, to face the folks "above"without doing something, so I felt impatient that they lowered me at ?menu srOiil's pace, and i'kept looking lip aifd^doxvn to ?hiWsrtre the drstanc? yet1 to be'traversed. The shaft had never seemed ao'deep to mo before. .1 strained my eyes into tno darkness below, and?aw no bot? tom j r. glanced up,, and the gleam of light grew smaller and fainter. I scanned the walls of .-the shaft,- and rmarked only thoir black bonird; But my progress; was notified by the increasing density of the air, which began to affect; my breathing ; and-, as l went on, I had to shift my face from side to side to make a little current. At last myjfeet touched the ground. - I- looked j*ound: .as; I jumped >ff the-1 straddle, and saw the iurnace was out, which put a stop to the ventilation of the -mine, as far as it depended on the bratti "ces, and no air entered but by the shaft. The stench was overpowering, and; from this and the silence. I guessed the worst. It was plain that the explosion had killed the hordes; for not a sound came from the stables, which were close to the shaft; and. what hope could there bo lor human beings in ? distant part of the.pit? _You may be Sure Jf didn't stand to mako these1 reflections; they floated across me, and I was working forward before they had got. through my.mind. I knew the old mine blindfolded; but what with the . gloom,, and my shortness of breath, I was some minutes scrambling to the top of tho.in cliue-keeping my ai'ms Stretched out, as I went along, to feel.for anj'thing. in .the way. And it. was lucky I did, or I should have dashed my head against some empty trucks, and, in the state I . was in, that Would ba-ye .fi nisbed me. Thus I reached the first gallery, which* you could only enter stooping. I pushed open the trap, and went on a few steps, though my I)avylamp was what pitmen call "afire"?the flame being all blue?. and I knew that the atmosphere was so much gunpowder. But I stumbled along; if 1 wasn't to save any one, it didn't mat? ter what became of myself, und I pleased myself with the thought that Nelly would hear that I had died in the attempt. And then, all at once, it came into my head what she had said about her brother Jack being in the pit. This gave my heart such a turn that I quite staggerod, and the persperation . poured from my lorehead like water. I rushed forward as if I was mad ; my foot struck something; I bent down over what seemed a corpse, and the' gleam of the lamp fell on its face. It was Jack Glover. I didn't know wheth? er he was alive or dead, but I caught hilf. ,in. my arms, and with: tho strength of a giant, and the speed of a deer?hardly conscious, hardly breathing:?I made a dash for the shaft. It was easier work, going back, when you were once in the'main .or horse road, for now the shaft was before you instead of behind, and, though you wouldn't think it, this made a wonderful difference in the light. Dark as pitch it still was, though not to a pitman's eyes, and I had found ont that Jack breathed when I reached the shaft. The discovery nerved tue afresh, and kept all my senses at work, without my seeming to know it.. I only felt that there would soon be an? other explosion, so I placed Jack on the straddle, and, taking the cord from my Davylarnp. tied him hand and foot, then pulled the signal rope, and as the people above hauled the tackle," and lifted the straddle from tho ground, I hung on by my ann6; thus we began to mount tho shaft. It wasn't till wo had got twenty feet up that I felt the strain of standing on noth? ing, but, from that moment, it became just terrible. My hands.seemed ready to: snap; tho ache in my arms spread through every muscle; my head spun round; and my feet kicked about in an agony. 1 watched .the mouth of the pit till my eyes; swam, and as I reckoned the space be? tween, my strength waned, and my mise? ry deepened, I thought I must drop be? fore! reached the top. Then they began to hoist taster. I ?nustered all my Stren^th ; 1 tightened my grip of tho straddle, though my finders wero grow? ing numb; I steadied my feet, and hardly trusted myself to breathe. I could see the walls of the shaft; I could feel tho purer air ; I heard voices ; and presently the tackle swung; strong arms cauffhl; me round, and I was landed on tho bank. They had Jack Glover off the straddle beforo you could look round, and bo was carried away, while they raised my head and poured a little brandy in my mouth! I called out for the viewer. "What is it. Charley Batsoo. ?" ho ask ed, bending over me. "Everybody away from the pit, sir," I said. "You are right," he answered; "it will, como in a minute or two." They got me to the top of tho bank, when I heard a scream, and there was Nelly, trying to throw herself on hor brother Jack, but kept back by the other womenfolk. She never glanced round at me I I wished then that I had- stopped in the pit. or let mj'solf drop from the bar, an I came up,-and so escaped aceing her i- ? ?again. ' But'*! made up my mihd"7that'I had looked' on her for the last tinio. I told my helpers that I could walk now, and when they let go my arms, I turned toward tho moor, intending to pick up my pack,, and drag on at least to the n*xt village. But I could" no- more walk five miles than . I could .fly. _ When. I camo to my pack I sank down by it, and felt that I must give up. I was so beat, that though there was now another explosion at the pittas 1 had"expected, and though it shook the ground under mo, I didn't lift my head. All I thought of was stretching out my arms and legs, and lying quiet. How long I lay there I never knew. But by degrees! reeovercd a little strength, and my thoughts took more shape, when I decided to return to my old lodging, and have a day's rest before I set out on my wanderings. The day passed, and'the night, and the next-day, and I was still in bed. tho good folks tending me like a child. My limbs, which bid been racked with pain, .now felt easy, and I -was ready for a start again. But I thought there would be opposition, so I got up very quiet, and was putting on my things, when the room door opened, and, to my wonder, in came Jack Glover. "Hililoa, Charley, hero we are!" he criedj seizing my hand, and giving it a hearty squeeze. " Who would have thought ;of us two being alive to-day?" "Well, Juck," I answered, "1 am glad for you, but. I shouldn't havo cared for myself." "How's that?" he asked. " Because I have something on my mind." ? ' "You!" he said, laughing, and giving mo a.little .push. "Here, sit. down and have a pipe, and it will all go off like the smoke." "1 don't care if I never smoke a pipe again," I said savagely. "Now, I'll teil you. what it is," said Jack, "you have been having a tiff with our Nelly.". ? "I haven't," I answered, my cheek burning. '-Well, you know best about that," con? tinued Jack, "but it's what I guess, be? cause you were seen talking with her, and she had a.crying fit directly after. And when she heard from me that it was you brought me up from the pit, she fell on my neck and fainted." . "Didn't she know it before ?" T asked, relenting.. "-No." ., . "...._ . , "Then I'll- just tell you all about her and me," I said. . I was a long timo telling it, but Jack set up as if he was listening to a play, or a sermon at chapel. I gave him a de? scription of Nelly that would have done for the Hue and Cry; went into all the feelings sho had raised in my breast, told him how I had watched for her, thought of her, and dreamed of her; and, finally, recounted our last colloquy. Jack never moved a muscle, and not till I stopped for breuth did he put in a word. "Don't you think you've been a little I fast, Charley?" he then said, dubiously.. "How do you mean ?" I asked. .. "Why, in giving up so. Suppose when ! Nelljr said she couldn't have you, yon had put your arm round her waist, and said ohe must ?" This view had never struck mo, and rathe r took me aback. "But there was her promise to you and her mother never to marry a pitman," I urged. "So there was. But did you never hear that promises were made to be bro? ken ?" - "I can't say but I have." I muttered, clapping on my hat. "Where are you going?" said Jack. "You wait here a minute," I replied. With that I took two strides down the stairs into the road, and hurried off Lo Mrs. Glover's cottage. I stood outside a minute when I opened the door,'and the first thing I saw was Nelly, sitting liy her mother, and looking like a ghost?only ghosts never look pretty. She gave me one look, then started up and sprang into my arms. My heart was so f?ll I couldn't speak at first, but I thought I must do something, so I slipped my arm round her waist, as Jack recommended. Now J felt sure of her, and of all the happiness the world could give,.and as my breast swelled proudly 1 began to bear a little malice. I "Ah, Nelly ! if you had only loved me," I said. Nelly tightened her arms around my heck. "How happy we might have been !'' I continued. "Then we can bo, Charley," sho mur? mured. "How, Ncily ? Wo can never marry, you know." The little fingers unlocked, and I felt Nelly falling away, but I remembored Jack's counsel, and held hor by the waist. "There's your promise to your mother and Jack," I continued ; "how are we to get over that ?" "I forgot that," faltered Nelly, as white as a sheet. "And what do you say to it, mother?" I cried to" the old lady. Mrs. Glover got up, and took Nelly's hand and put it'in mine. "That's what I say to it," she said, heartily ; "and I know Jack is of the same mind." "??And that is what I say to it," I cried, giving Nelly a kiss. You won't bo surprised to hear that wo were married the next week. And now I am: tho viewer of the colliery; and as for. Nelly, ohe will tell you that, though she has married a pitman, and has her roughs and smooths, like othor women, there is no happier woman in the king? dom. .-4J, r- At a Sabbath School "concert," held in ono of tho prettiest towns in Western New York, a portion of tho exorcises con? sisted in each scholar repeating a verso of Scripture in which should bo found tho word love. When it camo to tho turn of Miss -, a beautiful young lady of eighteen,, and "in the market," ehe was unprepared with an answor?but beforo the exorcises were concluded, she re? marked to hor touch or that she fonnd tho verso. It was?"I love thoso that love mo, and thoso who "seek mo early shall find me." Excellent girl that I ? L * '? ? ?i- ?- ? --_ How S?l Disgraced the Family. A traveler m the State of Illrnois, some years ago, came to a log hut on the prai? ries, near Caico, and there halted. He went into the house of logs. It was a wretched affair, with an empty packing box for a table, where two or"three old chairs and disabled stools graced the re? ception room,, the dark walls of which were further ornamented by s. display of tin ware, and broken delf article or two. \' The woman was crying in one comer, and the man, with tears, in his eyes and a pipe in his mouth, saton a stool, with his dirty arms resting on his krees, and his sorrowful looking bead supported by the pa?n*s of his hands. "Well,'' he said, "you pi?em to be in aw? ful trouble here. What's up ? "Oh! wc are most crazed, neighbor," said the woman; "and. we ain't got no pa tienee to see folks now." "That's all right," said the visitor, not much taken aback by this polite rebuff; "but can't I be of any se rvice Ui youinall this trouble ?" ?'W.ell,. we've lost our gal. Our Sal's gone off' and left us,": said the roan, in tones of despair. "Ah, do you know what .induced.her to leave you ?" remarked the new arrival. "Well, we can't say, stranger, as how she's so far lost to us to be induced ; hnt, then, she's gbnie and disgraced us,": re? marked the afflicted father '?Yes,, neigh bur?and as I-should say it as is her mother, but there warn't' a poor tier gal in the West than my Sal?she's gone and brought ruin on her own head now," followed the stricken mother. "Who has she gone with?'' asked the visitor. ' "Well there's the trouble. The gal could have done well; and might have married Martin Kehoe, a capital shoemak? er, who, although he's ..got but one eye, plays the flute in a lively manner, and earns a good living. ~ Then look what a home and what a life she has deserted. She was surrounded by all the luxury in the country," said the father. "Yes ! who knows what poor Sal will have to eat,'and drink, or wear how ?'' groaned the old woman. "And who is the fellow that has taken her from you, to lead her into such mise? ry ?" quoth he. "Why, she's gone off and got married to a critter called an editor, as lives in the village, and the devil knows how they arc to ear a living." -???? Registration.?As registration will doubtless soon commence in this section, we copy the following from the New Or? leans correspondent of the Louisville Cou? rier, who illustrates the intelligence of the new made citizens of African descent in that quarter. He says: "The registering of voters under the Mil itary Bill is progressing rapidly, the ne? groes registering in great numbers, and tar exceeding the whites. The scene of regis? tering is rich and funny. Two ranks are formed outside of the .Register's office, principally of darkies of every grade, in? terspersed here and there by a few white men. The following is the process of* ma? king voters, or conferring the franchise on the colored citizen of African descent: Register?What is your name? Colored citizen - My name is Caisar, boss. Register?What is your other name ? Colored citizen?Well, boss, dey didn't gib me my odder name, but old massa's name was Grandison, and I 'spo&e I must hah his name now. Register?Did you hold any office under the State of Louisiana? Colored citizen?Yah, yah; well, yes, boss. I sweeps out an a$surance olKce au' a lawyer's office. Register?Did you ever give aid or com fort to the Confederate Slates? Colored citizen?-1 didn't gib nuffin, case I didn't hab nutfih to gib. Register?Did you ei-er serve in the) Federal or the Rebel army 'i \ Colored citizen?Weil boss, I didn't serve in heifer; but the Yankees want to take me to make breast works for 'em, so I went to cook for the rebs. "Register?Then you gave them aid and comfort, didn't you ? Colored citizen?Why no, boss ; dey gib me all the aid and comfort, lor if it was not for dem 1 d been a dead nigger long ago. Register?Swear him in. Speaking Out t.v Cnuitcii. ?A mrisi amusing instance of speaking out in church oeciiried some years ugo in n Scotch parish. The minister, in preach? ing upon the story of Jonah, uttered a piece of declamatory rhetoric, to sonic thing like the following 'effect: " And what sort'of a fish was it. my brethren, that God had appointed to execute Iiis holy will. Was it a shark, my brethren? No, it could not be a shark; for God Could never h'av*' ventured the person ol his beloved prophet among the deadly teeth of that ravenous fish. What fish was it, then, my brethren i' Was it a salmon, think ye? .Ah. no?that were too narrow a lodging. There's no salmon in the deepest pule o' the Tweed could swallow a man ; besides, ye ken. it's' mair natural for men to swallow salmon, than for salmon to swallow men. What, then, was it! Was it a sea lion, or a sea horse, or a sea dog, or tho great rhinoceros ! Oh, no. Th^so are not Seripturo beasts. Ye're ns far off't as ever. Which of the monsters of the great deep was it, can ye tell mo ?" Here an old spectacled dame, who had an elevated seat on the pulpit.stair, think? ing that the minister was in a real per? plexity about the name of the fish, inter? rupted him with, '-Hoot, sir, it was a whale." "Out upon yo, yon graceless wife that you are!" cried the orator, so enraged as almost to fly out of the pulpit at her, "thus to take the word out of the mouth of God's ministor!" -?*? _Tho Nashville Banner has received information by a private letter just re? ceived from Paris, and written by a gen? tleman who has every reason to know tho facts, that Gen. John C. Brcckinridgc, who is at present in that city, will return to tho United States immediately on the releaso of Mr. Davis. If Mr. Davis is not released but .brought to.trial, Gen. B. will wait tho trial accordingly. ? . ? Washington-,-May 2GV ? The Bureau of Statistics is making pre? parations to take the .census of 1870, through the IntcrualRcvenue organs." A series of reports have been ordered to per? fect the Revenue organization for this ser? vice. -These reports sho\v an -.increase of three millions in population since 1866. The Southern States show a decrease. The Eastern States a'Slight increase. JThe Western State's^'large increase. The printing of the three per cent, loan certificates is completed. They consist of two denominations?85000 ? and ?10.000. Only -$50,000 of these certificates can re? main oin standing; The Attorney-General has been' before the JuTc'ary Committee all day. This and other pressing public buisines has post? poned the completion of his opinion on the reconstruction matters. The various statements in regard to the Attorney-Geii eral's opinion are mere speculations, and published without authority. Elaborate investigation and patient reflection are de? voted to even minor points. Washington, May 21. Secretary Stnnton has?furnished a cer? tified copy of Booth's diary to the Presi? dent, which has been published. The first entry is as i:>llows : "April 13?14.?Fri? day?The Ifh:s.?Until to-day,- nothing was ever thought of sacrificing to our country's wrongs. For six months we had worked to capture; but our cause being almost lost, something decisive and great must be done. lint its failure was owing to others, who did not strike for their country, with a heart. I struck boldly, and not the papers say. 1 walked with a firm step through a thou? sand of his friends, was stopped, but push? ed on. A colonel was at his side. I shouted "Sic semper'1 before I fired. In jumping, broke my leg. I passed all Iiis pickets, rode sixty miles that night, with the bone of my leg tearing, the flesh at every jump. I can never repent it, though we hated to kill. Our country owed all her troubles to him; and God simply made me the instrument of his punish? ment." The balance of the diary is somemhat incoherent, without any allusion to accom? plices in the assassination, except a boy who accompanied him. Certificates ac? company the document, showing that the mutilations of the diary occurred before the capture. New York, May. The case of Clarke against I. <fc E. Brooks, regarding the proprietorship of the Express newspaper, after four years litigation, has been satisfactorily adjusted. Erastus Brooks having purchased Clarke's interest, the publication will be continued by Hrooks' Brothers. There is a rumor on the street that Fr?ser & Trenholm have failed for ??4, 000,000. Gold is 37.3-4 in consequence. This evening's Csmmercial says cable de? spatches announce the failure of Eraser, Trenholm & Co., and the report is con? firmed by agents of the company in this city. New Orleans, May 21. The Picnyune^s special correspondence, dated Orizaba. May 3, says the City of Mexico is surrounded by 20,000 Liberals. The bombardment has commenced in earnest. Commander Marquez announced his intention to resist to the jieath. He. is impressing water carriers and porters. No officer is to receive quarter from the I Liberals. Orders have been issued that Miramon, Marquez and Maximilian are to be shot if captured. Since the sui render of Puebla, the Imperialists do not number over 16,000. The following order was issued this eve? ning: Headq'rs Post oe Mobile. May 19, 1867. General Swaye, commanding the Dis? trict of Alabama, directs the issue of the following to prevent futher violence grow? ing nut of the disturbed condition ot affairs. The undersigned assumes the maintenance of public order in the city of Mobile. The City Police and ministration is sus? pended ; special policemen or members of the old force will be employed when neces s?ry ; breaches of the city ordinance will be tried as heretofore, and violations of the public peace under the existing order to be dea't with by the military. Out? door congregations after nightfall are j prohibited, when public demonstration are > intended notice must be filed at the May ot's office in season to permit the presence of such police force as essential. Severe responsibility is a'tached to the publica? tion of articles commanding or inciting- to riot or violence to individuals, or the pub? lic use of incendiary language to the oc? currence ot disorder in rooms of public en? tertainment. (Signed) J. L. SIIEPPHAKD, Colonel commanding. Charleston, May 21. General Sickles has issued an order prohibiting the distillation of spirits from grain in the Second Military district. Offenders arc declared liable to trial and punishment by a military commission. The reasons assigned for the order are that the present scanty supply of food in the Carolinas is seriously diminished by the large quantity of grain consume^ in dis? tilleries, worked in defiance of the reve? nue laws ; that this unlawful traffic makes food dearer in places where large numbers arc depending upon public and private bounty; that the Government is defrauded of a large amount of revenue;.that the authority of its civil officers is brought into contempt, and tluv, the mischief com? plained of tends to increase poverty, mis? ery and crime. ? Gen. Ewell is fanning most success? fully near Spring Hill, Tennessee. He has a thousand head of stock, and the best wheatand grass in tho neighborhood. ? A priest asked a tipsy fell w, lean? ing against the fence, where he expected to go when he died. "If I can't get along any better than now," said ho, "I shan't go nowhere." /? The ladies residing near Bull "Run and Manassas have formed themselves into a society, to bo known by. the name of the Manassas Memorial Association, to rc-inter and collect in one spot or-ccmetc ry tho bodies ot tho Confederate dead, now scattered over many, miles. They havo identified.and had- marked -upwards of 600 graves. ? A WashingtonvdespaicKsfote^tbafc the Postmaster-General has decided to dispense with the "official publication*)? the list of letters remaining uncalled for in post offices. The regulation seems to have (existed heretofore rather, for the benefit of a few newspapers than for that of the general public. The list will here? after he posted at the" post-offices. ? The ex-Confederato.General Ripley, now in Paris, has obtained a contract from the French Government for the manufacture of 150,000 stands of breech loading arms, according to a patent of his own invention. ? An abbreviation, not' to 'be found in books, is to be found on a tombstone in Dunkirk. The mourners intended to put an old aunt to sleep, with the custom.ary phrase, "lot her rest in peace;'-'..but the space on the stone gave out at the close of the word "her." The ready-witted sculptor, however, inserted- the initials, and now the dear old lady sleeps bene?th the laconic, but inelegant, epitaph, "Let her r'i p." ". g ;?? . $$?Njjf :/ ? An old Scotch lady had an evenino party, where a young man was present) who was about to leave for an appoint? ment in China. As he.'"was'?'exceedingly extravagant in- his* conversation' about himself, the old lady- said, -wh en-hoy was leaving, "Tak* glide care a' yourself when ye are away ; for mind ye, they-eat-pup> pie* in China." ? A Riehmond paper tells the follow? ing:. "A young African wanted to get on the 'ladies car' yesteYd&y. - The conduc? tor told him it was for white people. 'I doesn't care if it am,' returned Ebo-skin, '1 ain't at all proud, and 'ud jes as leev ride wid white folks as wid some mean niggers I knows.' He didn't ride, though.. The conductor would not permit him to condescend." ? A Frenchman directing, the mixing of his brandy, told the bar-tender not to make it a fortnight. "A fortnight! What do you mean !" said he. "Oh, not a fort? night?not too weak." THE . YORKVILLE ENQ?IRE& Literary and Family Newspaper. Enlarged, and. Improvedfor 1867. NEW TYPE AND NEWATTEACTIONS* POUR ORIGINAL STORIES, AND . *' THREE VALUABLE PREMIUMS !\ \ THE ENQUIRER -will appear on Thursday, tie. 3rd day of Janury, 1867, increased in si2e, and printed on entirely new material, with (Be latest improvements in the art, presenting a more attrac? tive appearance, and containing at least five add"" tional columns of reading matter?the largest newspnper in the State outaide of Charleston. The Editorial department will be conducted by Mr. James E. Wilson, assisted by Major James P. Hart. Mr. James Wood Davidson will continue his versatile "Contributortals" from Columbia. Pour original Noveletts, written expressly for the Enquirer, will be- published, during the year The followiug arc the titles: ??The Spectre of the Fireside"?by J. Wither spoon Erwin. "The Shadow on the Walt"?by John Esten Cooke. 1 44Thc Wealth of Home"?by Mrs. M. A. Ewart. ?'Elinor Westervelt, the Tory's Niece"?by Car? oline F. Preston. TERMS?IX AD VANCE. SPEICE ccnr.Ej.-cv One copy one year, $ 2 50 -S 3 50 Two copie? one year, 4 00 6 00 Five copies oneiyear, 8 75 12 50 Ten copies one year, 17 50 ' 25 00 One copy six months, 1 25 2^00. To ihe person sending ns the largest club of subscribers, at SI 75 in specie, or S2 50 in cur? rency, wc will award a Patent Cotton Planter, which will cost in Charleston fifty dollars. To the person sending us the next largeet club, on the same terms, we will award o Patent Corn Planter, which will cost in Charleston thirty dol? lars! To the person sending us the third largest list, on the same terms, we will award one of Ames' Double Corn Shellers, cost in Charleston, twenty dollars! The premiums will be awarded to the successful competitors on the first Monday in March next, at 3 o'clock. The names should be sent in, however, as they arc obtained; additions being madVto the list up to the day of the award. No names will be counted unless paid for. E?f To persons who may make up, clubs of tan or more names, but who may fail to obtain a prize, we will send the Enquirer one year free of .charge, and n copy of either "The Land we Love." "Scott'? Monthly Magazine," or "Godcy's Lady's Book,? L. M. GRIST, Vorkville.., Schedule over S. C. Railroad. GENERAL SUP'TS OFFICE, Charleston, S. C, Nov. 3, 1866. ON and after Wednesday, November 7, 18Ut>, ihv t'ossenger Trains of this road will run the following schedule: A?O?STA TRAIN.. ? Leave Charleston, &.00 a.,m. Arriyc at Columbia, 5.20 p. m, Arrive at Augusta, 6.00 p. m . Leave Augusta, 7.00 a. m. . Leave Columbia, .6.50 a. m. . Arrive at Charleston,. 4.00 p. m. . thuough mail traix. Leave Augusta, 5.50 p. nr, 'Arrive at Kingsvillc, 1.05 a. m. Arrive at Columbia, ' 3.00 ft. m. Leave Columbia, 2.00~p. m. Arrive at Kingsville, - 3.40-p. m. Arrive at Augusta, 12.00 nighi H. T. PEAKE, GcnTSup't. Nov 15. 1866 22 Greenville & Columbia Rail Edaf. "' General Superintendent's OjEtce* olumbia,. Sept, 12, 1866. On and after Monday, 17th inst., the Passenger Trains will be run daily, (Sunday's excepted) .un? til further notice, as follows : Leave Columbia at - - 7 15 a. m? 44 Allslou, - 9 05. ? " Newberry, - - 10 35 a. n>. Arrive at Abbeville, - - 3 13 p..,m. 44 44 Anderson, - - 5 10 44 44 44 Greenville, - - 5 40 44 Leave Greenville at - - 6 00 a. m. 44 Anderson, - - - 6 30 44 44 Abbeville, - - 8 35 a, m. 44 Newberry, - 1 20 .p. m. Arrive sit Alston, - - 2-'45 ?-"'' 44 44 Columbia, - .4 40 ? " - The bridge at Alston being now completed, pas? sengers and freights will be transported without delay. The expense of freights, by the discontin? uance of the wagons and boats, will bo largely reduced. J. B. LaSALLE, Gcn'l Snpt. Sept 20, 1866 1* W. E. ARCHER'S LIVERY AND SALE STABLES, 350 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.; Dec 5, 1866 "361