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In 1849, the principal banking institutions of the chance kind in San Francisco -were the "Bella Union," "Verandah," "Nine de Oro," and "Parker House," all situated about the "Plaza," and each employed a band of music to lessen the tedious hours of that rainy win? ter, and to drown the noise of dingling gold and silver, and the cursing ejaculations of the gamblers. Many a sad scene has taken place within these saloons that chilled the blood of the beholder, and is remembered with horror. I was once carelessly sauntering through one af these places. My attention was attracted towards a person who had large piles of gold before him. The starting eye-balls, the swollen veins upon his forehead, the cold sweat upon his face, and clenched hands told of heavy losses. Mingled exclamations of horror and contempt would escape him, and he seemed un? conscious of all that was going on around him. Bis gaze was bent upon the cards as if his life's blood was the stake at issue. In this case his last dollar was placed within the dealer's bank; then with the frenzy of a maniac, he drew a dirk-knife and plunged in up to the hilt in his own body and sunk a corpse upon the table. A few rude jeers followed this act; the body was removed, and the game went on as though nothing had happened?as though another vic? tim had not been added to the gambler's dam? ning record, or another soul had not gone to its hnal account. I learned this much of his history. He started with a large stock of goods given by his father to sell on commission, and the father's fortune depended upon a safe return of the money so invested; but, as usual with young men, he indulged in the full liberty of unbridled license, and while the ship stopped at one of the South American ports, he engen? dered the firet seeds of "play." But for a while after his arrival, the excitement of trade, and the energy necessary to accomplish a success fid issue, kept his mind busy. One day by ap pointment, he was to meet a mercantile friend at this time, and while waiting for his friend's arrival, staking a few dollars upon the turn of cards, when the latent disease sprang into life, and it carried him head-long over the precipice, and ended in the tragic manner related. The Nine de Oro was a gambling^ saloon on "Washington street, opposite of El Dorado, and in 1849 was the principal resort of the disban? ded soldiers of the California regiments, and also of the soldiers that had been engaged in the war with Mexico. Behind one of the largest money banks in the room sat a man who had won for himself honorable mention, and an officer's commission was given him for his bravery at the storming Monterey; but preferring the climate of Cali? fornia and its golden prospects to a more north? ern home, he embarked for that country at the close of the war with Mexico, and, upon arriv? ing he opened a gambling saloon. The emi? grants came in by the thousand, and, a few nights after his arrival, a young man entered the saloon and seated himself at the bank, and staked various sums upon the cards until he had lost nearly all the money he possessed. Excited by the play, and maddened by his losses, he accused the dealer of cheating; the dealer replied sharply to the accusuation; the lie passed, when the youug man struck the dealer a severe blow upon the face. Quick as thought, the sharp report of a pistol followed, and the gambler's clothing was covered with the young man's blood?he had shot him through the right breast. The room was clear? ed of the spectators present, the door closed, and medical attendance called in to aid the wounded man. The gambler sat moodily over his bank, run? ning the small monte cards through his fingers, and perhaps thinking of the deed just perpe? trated, when the wounded man gave a moan of agony as the doctor's probe reached the bottom of the wound. The doctor inquired what State he was from, and. the woundea man replied? "From Vermont." Tho gambler raised his head, for it had been a long time since he had seen a person from the home of his childhood, and Vermont being the name of his native State, the mere mention of its name interested him. The doctor next inquired the name of the place where his parents resided, if he had any. The wounded man replied? "Montpelier." The gambler sprang to his feet, his limbs trembled, and his face was as pale as death, for Montpelier was the home of his youth, and perhaps the wounded man might have been his playmate in childhood?perhaps a schoolmate ?knew his parents, his brothers and sisters. He clung to the table and with contending emotions of rapid thought and the weight of injury inflicted, he could scarcely keep upon his feet. A stimulant was given to the wounded man and he was momentarily relieved from the weakness the body is so subject to after a severe wound, when the doctor inquired if there was anv friend in the city ho wished to send for. "Yes," he replied, "my wife. She is at the City Hotel, on the Corner of Clay and Kearney streets. Tell Mary to hasten, for I am badly hurt." } A man was sent to bring his wife. "Doctor," said the gambler, "save that man's life, and there's my bank, and ten thousand dollars in Burgoyne, and you shall have it all." The doctor lelt the pulse of the man, and probed' the wound anew. The gambler watch? ed him with the greatest anxiety until the in? spection was finished, when the doctor shook his head in token of impossibility. The gam? bler sat beside the wounded man, and staunched the flow of blood from his wound, until the ar? rival of his wife. She came, accompanied by a few friends, and as heroic women bear their misfortunes, she bore hers. Not a word of re? proach escaped her?words of cheerfulness only came to her lips, as tears coursed down her cheeks. To her inquiry as to the chances of her husband's recovery, the doctor assured her there was no hope, that the wound was mortal, and that in a few hours the wounded man must die. She sank down upon her knees and in? voked the mercy of a forgiving God upon her dying husband and his murderer. The gambler knelt at the side of the wounded man, and asked his forgiveness for the wrong he had committed, also that of his wife, which was readily granted. "This," said he, "is for disobeying the sacred injunction of my aged father and mother. I have faced death a thousand times and still I j have escaped, the balls of the enemy have whistled past my ears as thick as hail-stones, and the bursting bomb has exploded at my feet. Still I have lived ; O God, and for this! High above the red tide of battle, I have carried iny country's ensign, and that won for me a name among men. When not one comrade was left to rell of the battle, I escaped unscratched. Why was I not killed with the rest? All that was proud and pleasing to man I have had, and if I could recall the last act by living on car? rion, sleeping in a pauper's grave, and renoun? cing every proud act or my life, I would do it. I was born in the same village with that man; we were born beneath the Bame roof, and O God! the same mother gave' us birth! He must not die?he is my brother." And the gambler sank on the floor, in a swoon. The wounded man raised himself upon his elbows; his glared eyes wandered about the room, as if searching for some particular per? son. "Mary," said he, "is my brother William here? I?" The words choked his throat, the gurgling blood stoped his utterance and he sank back a corpse upon his pillow. The wife knelt again, but it was beside a dead body and invoked the blessing of God upon his soul and forgiveness for the murderer. The gambler awoke from his 6WOon, stagger? ed up to the window, and said? "Mary, would it were otherwise, for I have nothing to live for now; the dead and the dy? ing do not want anything in the world; take this certificate of deposit to our aged parents, and say we are both dead; but oh! do not tell them how we died I" Before the woman could reply, or any ono in? terfere, the report of the pistol*sounded again, and the fratricide had ceased to live. On the hill near Rincon Point were two graves, a few years ago, enclosed with a picket fence, and one tombstone at their head, with the simple inscription, "Brothers." A Soldier Romance. During the late war a great many articles of clothing for the use of the army wore manufac? tured in St. Louis. Nearly all the sewing was done by poor girls, huddled together in upper rooms of tall buildings with but few windows. The work was tedious, hard and the pay small. Greedy army contractors had no room in their avaricious greenback-loving hearts for pity of poor sewing girls. The city was full of soldiers gathered from all parts of the West. The pros? pects for ever marrying, to many of those girls often, no doubt, seemed small. "The temptation to exchange the needle and want for shame and a gilded palace, to many of them was great.? Few of them, however, chose to make the exchange. But this has nothing particularly to do with what we started to write. One day in 1863, a pretty girl employed in one of those cloth-making establishments, rather unthought edly stitched her name and address infdde of a gray woolen shirt, which she had just finished, in 6uch a place that when on a soldier the let? ters would come just over his Jiearl. The gar? ment was passed to the foreman, accepted as being all right, and placed in a box with hun? dreds of others to be shipped, and the fair worker of the name scarcely again thought of what she had done, until one unusually cheer? ful day, some four months afterwards, she re? ceived a letter. It was from the army, too! from a stranger in a strange regiment from a strange State. She wondered what it could mean. She didn't know who the writer was, but made up her mind no harm could result from answering his letter, and consequently did so. Manj- letters followed. The soldier was nodest and elegant in his language, and the girl had reason to respect him. The soldier's Tetters after a while became very interesting, and were looked for anxiously by the sewing girl. Ditto with the soldier. He whiled away many an otherwise monotonous hour writing to her. Many an otherwise sad and lonely even? ing she pleasantly passed in scribbling to him. One evening, in 1864, while on his way home on re-enlistment furlough, the unknown writer called at the humble home of the girl on Morgan street, and introduced himself. It would sound story-like to say they both came to the conclu? sion at the first meeting that they loved each other, but such is the truth. He stayed in St. Louis several days longer than he intended.? He came near forgetting that he had a mother, father, brothers and sisters, with prior claims upon his society. He finally went home, but when he returned to the field he returned via St. Louis, and while there called again at the little house away out on Morgan street. He returned to his regiment at the proper time. The girl's letters then were the joys of his life. Without them camp life would have been unendurable. She was quite as deeply interested in his effusions. She would sit and sew for hours, and wonder if he would not wear some of the garments she was making? and think if she were certain he would know, how nice she would make them. No use of lengthening out a short story. Some such state of affairs as described existed until the final disbanding of the army. At that time he did not return via the city so dear to him, for the treasure it held. He went home first, and when he did go down, he brought away the sewing girl as his wife. Shortly after the ending of the ceremony he explained to his blushing bride how he procured her address by showing her a piece of coarse gray flannel with "Julia -, St. Louis, Mo.," upon it. He was an Iowa editor, and now lives in Polk County.? The same girl makes shirts for him yet, and also for a five-year-old boy, who calls the two of them pa and ma.?Des Moines (Iowa) State Register. Hint to Lovers.?There is a good joke go? ing the rounds of a young lady and gentlemen at a fashionable party in this city a few eve? nings since. The young man was handsome and happy, the young lady arrayed in all the exquisite taste of lavender, rose, etc., with gold powdered hair flowing over her swan like neck. Finding the heat of the room too much for them, they sought the cool shade of an arbor, where they might listen to the fountain's fall. The music rose and fell, time flew on silver inions, and after an absence of about three ours our young friends entered t'ae brilliantly illuminated parlors. The lady passed on in the dance, but the young man was slightly taken aback by his next neighbor informing him that round his neck was the unmistaken print of two arms, all in chalk and diamond dust, on one shoulder a large pile of yellow powder, and on his upper lip and cheek diamond dust, bloom and youth and yellow powder mixed up gener? ally. The young lady's hair was observed to be several shades paler. Moral: Carry a dus? ting-broom in your pocket.?Nashville Banner. Northern Civilization as Illustrated by the Forty-First Congress.?The tele? grams from Washington inform us that the an? nouncement of war between France and Prus? sia, when made in the United States House of Representatives, was received "with demonstra? tion of applause." It is not our purpose to di? late on this extraordinary circumstance, and we refer to it now, says the Savannah Republican, first, to enter oar protest, in the name of Chris? tianity and civilization, against the disgraceful manifestation ; and, secondly, to note the fact that it was a House in which theSouthern peo? ple had no representatives. To glorify over a prospect of death and carnage, of devastation and human woe, can only be the work of a peo? ple lost to every moral sentiment that ennobles humanity. Wc wish it to be borne in mind that it was, emphatically and exclusively a Northern rejoicing, and that the Southern peo? ple have no sympathy, share, or responsibility in the matter. None but brutal and cowardly natures could exult at such a dreadful consum? mation, and to the radical portion of Congress should be ascribed all the glory of the shame. ? The New York Sun suggest** to persons who are called upon to pay income tax to ac? company their payment with a protest against the nnconstitutionality of the law requiring it. "as there is no doubt that the Act will be set aside sooner or later by the Supreme Court, and then whatever taxes have been paid under it with a protest will have to be refunded, where? as, if no protest is made, the prayer is without a remedy." Mark Twain's Panorama Story. The -following "entertaining history of a scriptural panorama" is one of Mark Twain's best contributions to humorous literature: There was a fellow traveling around in that country, said Mr. Nickerson, with a moral re? ligious show?a sort of scriptural panorama? and he hired a wooden-headed old slab to play the piano for him. After the first night's per? formance the showman says: "My friend, you seem to know pretty much all the tunes there are, and you worry along first rate. But then, don't you notice that some times last night the piece you happened to be playing was a little rough on the proprieties, so to speak?didn't seem to jibe with the general gait of the picture that was passing at the time, as it were?was a little foreign to the sub? ject, you know?as if you didn't either trump or follow suit, you understand ?" "Well, no," the fellow said; "he hadn't no? ticed, but it might be ;' he had played along just as it came handy." So they put it up that the simple old dummy was to keep his eye on the panorama after that, and as soon as a stunning picture was reeled out, he was to fit it to a dot with a piece of music that would help the audience to get the idea of the subject, and warm them up like a camp-meeting revival. That sort of thing would corral their sympathies, the showman said. There was a big audience that night?mostly middle-aged and old people who helonged to the church and took a strong interest in Bible matters, and the balance were pretty much young bucks and heifere?they always come out strong on panoramas, you know, because itgives them a chance to taste one another's mug in the dark. Well, the showman began to swell himself up for his lecture, and the old mud-dobber tackled the piano and run his fingers up and down once or twice to see that she was all right, and the fellows behind the curtain commenced to grind out the panorama. The showman balanced his weight on his right foot, and propped his hands over his hips, aud flung his eyes over his shoulder at the scenery, and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the painting now before you illustrates the beautiful and touch? ing parable of the Prodigal Son. Observe the happy expression just breaking over the fea? tures of the poor, suffering youth?so worn and weary with his long march ; note also the ec? stasy beaming from the uplifted countenance of the aged father, and the joy that sparkles in the eyes of the excited group of youths and maidens, and seems ready to burst in a welcom? ing chorus from their lips. The lesson, my friends, is as solemn and instructive as the sto? ry is tender and beautiful." The mud-dobber was all ready, and when the second speech was finished, he struck up : "Oh, we'll all get blind drunk, When Johnny comes marching home!" Some of the people giggled, and some groaned a little. The showman couldn't say a word. He looked at the pianist sharp, but he was all lovely and serene?he didn't know there was anything out of gear. The panorama moved on, and the showman drummed up his grit and started in fresh: "Ladies and gentlemen, the fine picture now unfolding itself to your gaze exhibits one of the most notable events in Bible history?our Saviour and his disciples upon the sea of Gal? ilee. How grand, how awe-inspiring are the reflections which the subject invokes ! What sublimity of faith is revealed to us in this les? son from the sacred writings! The Saviour re? bukes the angry waves, and walks securely upon the bosom of the deep I" All around the house they were whispering : "Oh, how lovely, how beautiful!" and the or? chestra let himself out again : "Oh, life on the ocean wave, And a home on the rolling deep!" There was a good deal of honest snickering turned on this time, and considerable groaning, and one or two old deacons got up and went out. The showman grated his teeth and cursed the piano man to himself, but the fellow sat there like a knot.on a leg, and seemed to think he was doing first rate. After things got quiet, the showman thought he would make one more stagger at it, anyhow, though his confidence was ^beginning to get mighty shaky. The supes started the pano? rama to grinding along again, and he says: "Ladies and geutlemen, this exquisite paint? ing illustrates the raising of Lazarus from the dead by our Saviour. The subject has been 1 handled with rare ability by the artist, and such touching sweetness and tenderness of expres? sion has he thrown into it, that I have known peculiarly sensitive persons to be even affected to tears by looking at it. Observe the half confused, half inquiring look upon the coun? tenance of the awakened Lazarus. Observe, also, the attitude and expression of the Saviour, who takes him gently by the sleeve of his shroud with one hand, while he points with the other toward the distant city." Before anybody could get off ah opinion in : the case, the innocent old ass at the piano struck up: "Come, ri?e up, William Ri-i-i-Iey, And go along with me!" It was rough on the audience, you bet. All the solemn old flats got up in a huff to go, and everybody else laughed till the windows rat? tled. The showman went down and grabbed the orchestra and shook him up, and says: "That lets you out, you know,,you chowder headed old clam 1 Go to the door-keeper and get your money, and cut your stick?vamose the ranch! Ladies and gentlemen, circum? stances, over which I have no control, compel me prematurely to dismiss." Newspaper Decision.?At a recent term of our District Court, a suit was determined at the suit of the Galveston News, involving a question of some interest to publishers of news Eaperg and their subscribers. Tbe defendant ad prepaid his subscription to the News for six months, after the expiration of which time, without any express renewal of the subscrip? tion, the publishers continued to scud the pa? per and the subscriber to receive it. When the bill was presented the subscriber refused to pay it on the ground that having subscribed and paid for a definite time, and not having authorized a continuance, it was the duty of the publishers to discontinue the paper at the end of the term. The plaintiffs conten? ted that upon the facts there was an implied contract to pay for the paper at the rates pre? viously agreed upon, and that it was the duty of the subscriber to refuse to receive the paper if he did not intend to pay for it. The verdict of the Court was for the plain? tiffs, thus confirming the correctness of the newspapers. We understand that the case will not be appealed to the Supreme Court by the defendant, and the decision of the District Court therefore stands for law.?Brcnham Ban? ner* ? An exchange says it is very pleasant for those who participate in the destruction of liquors to know of what they are composed.? Home liquors, siczed by a sheriff in Connecticut the other day, were examined by a chemist, who reports that the port wine was composed of alcohol, alum, sulphuric acid, oil of vitriol and sugar of lead. Whisky was composed of alcohol, fusel oil, oxide of lead and iron.? Gin was composed of alcohol, water, lead, sul? phuric acid, oil of juniper, oil of turpentine and sugar. The lead which is present in all these liquors is one of the most certain and subtle poisons. Unc dose of it may not prove fatal, but it is of such a nature as to accumulate in the system, and each drink adds to that pre? viously taken which has lost no strength.? These are simply interesting and pleasant facts for those to know who indulge in the luxury of much liquor. ? Played ont?base ball; because it cannot be played in doors. An Adventure with Bushwhackers. "Gris," of the Cincinnati Times, is traveling in Missouri, and recently met with a queer cus? tomer, who related his experience with hush whackers during the war, in the following sat? isfactory manner: Taking a ride in the country with a friend yesterday, we stopped at a little tavern to rest in the shade, as the weather was warm. A queer-looking old chap entered the bar-room, who soon made himself free with us in conver? sation, and he was a very profane old man, too, "full of big oaths," though not "bearded like the pard." His shoes were cut in strips, and through the long gashes in the leather his coarse woolen stocking obtruded. I asked him why he wore open-work shoes: "Well, stran? ger," said he, "I'll tell you. The darned bush? whackers was the cause of my wearin' on 'em. You see I live down on the Gravois, in a mighty lonesome place, and in a region where the tarnel bushwhackers was allers rangin' round. They knowed I wor a Union man, which as I wor always a Jackson man, I could never be a secesher. "They had a great spite agin me, and I had to keep up a peart dodgin' to keep outen their way. My house hit war out on the perrary, and about a mile from hit war a grove of trees and thick underbrush, on a rocky ridge about a mile long and mebbe 200 yards wide, whar I used to go and hide when I knowed thar war danger at home. Wall, one day I war lyin' around home, when 'bout teu o'clock in the morning I heard the dogs begin to bark, which I've got the best pack of hounds in Amcriky, and lookin' out of the back window I saw about thirty of the darndest, biggest, fiercest lookin' fellers with long beards and covered all over with knives and pistols, all mounted on fine horses, a comin' on a gallop towards the house. Wall, as soon as I seed 'em I knowed who they war, and that my time was come if they got me, and I knowed my only chance was* to get to the timber. I wasn't skeared, stranger. I ain't afeered of nobody?but you see I tliot I'd better make a good retreat rather than a bad stand, and though they were iu a hundred yards of me I started on a long run for the ridge. Wall, stranger, that war a ter? rible race. "You see I had to run a mile through the open perrary, and them devils war all mounted on fast horses, and every cussed one of 'em took after mc and fired at me at every jump from the house to the grove. They didn't hit mc, however, tho' they shot nine holes through my hat and tore my clothes all to pieces with their bullet'', and all the time they were a chasin' me they kept up the all-firedist yellin' you ever hecr'd. You might have hcer'd 'em nine miles. I got to the brush safe, though, and I thought I had done well, considering I had a mile to go and was running agin last horses, with about only a hundred yards the statt of 'em. "Well, when I took the brush them fellows rode up to the ridge, and stranger, I reckon, onlcss you have heer'ed old Greeley swar, you never heer'd such cussiu' as they done. Thar's whar I learnt to cuss. "You see they couldn't ride into the brush, and those bushwhackers like to do their devil? ment on horseback. But the ground war open all 'round the ridge, so they concluded to keep me in thar till they starved me out. "They sent some of their fellers around on the other side, and there they kept me running from one end of the ridge to the other, back' ard and forrard to keep away from their shots. They could hear the brush crack, and they kept nearly even with me. I had a pair of new shoes on when I first started to run, but the gravel soon cut them out, so I went on bare-footed; and as I run, my tocnails struck fire outen the cussed rocks. You'd 'a' thought, to 'a' seed mc, that I had lightnin' bugs tied to my toes. Wall, I kept running baek'ards and forrarus till the bushwhackers run all their horses down and left, and, stranger, I had to run for fourteen days and fourteen nights, with? out sleepin' a wink or eatin' a bite ! Hit's a fact, stranger, and I'll swar to it on twenty Bi? bles. Wall, arter I found my inimics war gone, I sot dowu by a tree to rest a spell, and fell asleep; and thar I slept for three days, and when I woke up, I found my feet had been frozen hard, and my tocnails had been worn off by the stones till they were jes' a hangin' like. I took my knife and picked them all out by the roots, and ever since then I've had to wear my shoes jes' this way." Catching a Fly in Church.?A lady in one of our churches rested her head on the back of the pew in front, as all devout people do in the time of prayer, but in the pew before her sat a young man who neither bowed his head nor kneeled. A beautiful plume nodded and danced upon the head of the fair one be? hind him, occasionally touching the neck of the youth, who evidently considered it a fly or some other troublesome insect. For a time he bore the unpleasant sensation without a mur? mur, but at last patience ceased to be a virtue, and from the flash of his eagle eye one could plainly see that the hour of "that fly" had come. Instead of saying "shoo fly, don't bod der me," cautiously his hand moved toward the supposed offending insect; then followed a frantic clutch and a spring behind him. Im? agine the horror of the youth to find in his hand the nobby hat of the fair one, which he had torn violently from her head, sadly disar? ranging the contour of braids and chignon. The lady was indignant, of course, ana the youth could have been purchased at an im? mense sacrifice about time. Explanations and apologies followed, and the disorganized hat was put in order as soon as possible, and the devotional exercises were resumed. The Test Oath.?The House of Represen? tatives, on the last day of the session, failed to act upon the bill passed by the Senate prescri? bing an oath to be taken by persons who par? ticipated in the late war against the United States, but who are not disqualified from hold? ing office by the XlVth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. The bill was reached in its order on Thursday last, but Mr. Arnell (Rep.) objected to its- con? sideration and it went over, under the rules, to the next session of Congress. This bill provided a substitute for what is known as the Iron-clad Test Oath, and, if passed, would admit Southern men, not disqualified by the XlVth Amendment, to hold office without taking the iron-clad oath. It is much to be regretted that a single solid Republican, under the rules of the House, was enabled to defeat this really wise and important measure. The bill passed the Senate by a very large majority, and if a vote could have been had on its merits in the House, would have passed there also by a decided vote. Until sued a measure is enact? ed, the South can never be properly represented in the National Legislature, unless that body passes special acts for the admission of such members returned from the South who cannot subscribe to the test oath. Occupation.?Occupation ! What a glori? ous thing it is for the human heart! Those who work hard seldom yield themselves up to fancied or real sorrow. When grief sits down, folds its hands, and mournfully feeds upon its own tears, weaving the dim shadows that a lit? tle exertion might sweep away into a funeral pall, the strong spirit is shorn of its might, and sorrow becomes our master. When troubles flow upon you, dark and heavy, toil not with the waves?wrestle not with the torrent?rath? er seek occupation to divert waters that threat? en to overwhelm you in a thousand channels, j which the duties of life always present. Before j you dream of it, those waters will fertilize the present, and give birth to fresh flowers, that I they may brighten the future?flowers that will become pure and holy in the sunshine which penetrates the path of duty. Grief, after all, is but a selfish feeling, and most selfish is he who yields himself to the indulgence of any passion that brings no joy to his fellow men. Tuning n Fast Horse. A friend of ours, who owns a fine farm near Camp Dennison?John we will call him?is fond of horses, and has a private race-track where he puts his fast nags through a course of equine sprouts. Those residing in the vicinity who have, or think they have, fast nags fre? quently resort to this race-track for the purpose of testing the speed of their horses. Now, John is a bit of a wag, and numerous are the jokes he has played off upon his friends in "timing" their horses with his patent stop watch. Ev? ery man likes to think he has got a fast horse, and when told that his horse has made a mile in 2.30 when he has no idea he could get below the fifties, he naturally feels elated, don't you see?especially when so grave and earnest a man as our triend John holds the watch, and that watch is known the country round for its relia? bility. If anybody else were to time the speed of the nags they might question its authenticity, but John?no one thought of questioning him or his patent watch. One day last fall a neigh? boring farmer, who couldn't sleep very well nights because he had got it into his head that a colt he owned was fast, brought the 6aid colt to John's race-track to try his speed. John very accommodatingly held his patent watch while the owner of the colt drove around the track. "Two-thirty-eight!" yoJled John, as the colt passed the mile post. "What's that ?" shouted the man, in aston? ishment. "Two minutes and thirty-eight seconds ex? actly," replied John, without moving a muscle. This was so much better than the colt pro? prietor had anticipated that he couldn't believe it possible, and said so. "Hold the watch yourself, then," said John, somewhat gruffly, "if you can't believe me." "Oh," replied the man, hastening to concili? ate, "I don't question your meaning in the matter but you might have made a mistake on the watch." "Don't you know this is a patent stop watch ?" inquired John. "It can't make any mistake; there, you see, it has stopped on two minutes thirty-eight seconds. I'll drive around and you time the colt." Now the interior of the track was planted with corn, and a forest of corn-stalks reared their lofty heads there, completely obstructing more than a very limited view of the track.? The word "go" was given, and John "got." As soon as he was out of sight of the others he darted through a woods that traversed the corn field, cutting off nearly half the distance, so that when lie reached the mile-post- the owner of the colt fairly danced with joy as he roared out: "Two-thirty-onc-and-a-half, by hokey." The man was nearly wild with excitement, refused five hundred dollars John offered for his colt on the spot, and hurried home with his newly-found treasure. lie was on the lookout for some fair where he was confident of being able to "scoop 'em all," as he said. The Blan chester fair came off in a little while, and there was our hero with his wonderful colt. He put him in against the fastest trotter they had, bet his money freely, and to his own horror and the up.-oarous mirth of the crowd, his fast colt was nearly five minutes in getting round. In utter disgust, he sold the colt for a moderate sum, and is entirely cured of the fast horse com? plaint. He don't know to this day that John stopped his "stop watch" on him, and he is ig? norant of the short cut through the coin field, but he don't want any more fast horses. John has cured several embryo horsemen in the same way, and looks upon himself as a benefactor of his race if he isn't of the horse race. His treatment is expensive but effectual.?Cincin? nati Times. Small Inpustriks.?The Union Times has the following sensible remarks : The resources of the Southern States are al? most innumerable. There are a great many ways of earning an honest penny, which have never entered into the heads of our people, for the simple reason that we have always lived under the delusoin that there was no money in anything but cotton. Under the old regime this was well enough, but we may as well wake up to the truth at once?this is no longer a planting country?we must direct our attention to other resources, or come to grief. The soon? er we begin to realize the fact and act upon it the better. It is true that it is very difficult, with a sparse population, to introduce reform, but once begnn, good may come of it. Dr. Porcher has pointed out, in his admira? ble work on the resources of our Fields and Forests, a great many important features. We have roots, herbs, trees and shrubs containing valuable medicinal properties. We have fruits growing wild, capable of being converted to valuable purposes; we have barks for tanning and dying, and wood for furniture and carriage making, clay for pottery, and a thousand other small industries worth looking after. A Brave Lady.?Some weeks ago, Mrs. Delmere, who resides in Papstown, during the absence of her hnsband ana his brother from home, at a late hour of the night heard some noise as if a person was endeavoring to break into the house. She got a revolver and fear? lessly discharged it at the supposed intruder.? When her brother-in-law and husband came home she related the circumstance, and they laughed at the idea of her being so courageous as to make a show of defence by the use of firearms. Nothing transpired to confirm her assertions of bravery till last Wednesday night, when her brother-in-law, John Delmere, pro? posed to some neighbors that, as his brother was down in town he would frighten his sister in-law so as to stop her from boasting of her ability to protect herself. He went to the house and kept pulling at the door-knob. Mrs. Delmere demanded, "who is there ?" No an? swer was given. She then said, "tell me who you are, and what yon want, and if you do not I will shoot you." John made no reply, but pushed the door open, when Mrs. D. discharged a revolver at him, the bullet taking effect in nis right side. A cry of pain followed; lights were brought out, and the affair explained. The wound, although severe, will probably not prove fatal, but it is sufficiently severe to satis? fy him that it will not do to attempt to frighten his sistcr-in-law, and that she will shoot if oc? casion requires.?St. Louis Democrat. ?A correspondent asks what are the "rentes," the daily rise and fall of which are noticed in our financial telegrams from Paris. They are the French funded debt, the holders of which arc styled rentiers. The Government issues no bonds, but accepts loans from the people, en? tering them upon its ledgers and paying a specified rate of interest. The fluctuations in the market value of this debt are noted in our dispatches.?Cincinnati Gasctte. ? There is a farmer in Yorkshire who has a mile of children. His name is Furlong and he hits four boys and four girls. -Eight fur? longs make one mile. THE CHRONICLE & SENTINEL, Published at Augusta, On. 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DARBY, M, D., Med: Adviser. JAMES A. HOYT, Local Agent for Andeisoo, and Dr. THOS. A. EVIN3, Medical Examiner. April 21, 1870 43 GEORGE W. CARPENTER'S Compound Fluid Extract of Sam* parilla. GEORGE W. CARPENTER'S Compound Fluid Extract of Bucha THESE celebrated preparations, originally id troduced by George W. Carpenter, under th* pat? ronage of the medical faculty, have been so long extensively used by Physicians and others, that they are generally known for their intrinsic value, and can be relied on as being most Valuable rem? edies in all cases where Sarsaparilla or Bucha are applicable, and cannot be too highly recommencV cd. They are prepared in a highly concentrated form, so as to render the dose small and conven? ient. Orders by mail or otherwise wilTirceiv? prompt attention. GEORGE W. CARPENTER, HENSZEY & CO*., Wholesale Chemical Warehouse, No. 737 Market street, Philadelphia. For sale by Walters & Baker and W. H. Nardi? & Co., Anderson, S. C. Dowie & Moise, Whole? sale Agents, Charleston, S. C. Oct 21, 1869 17 A. B. MULLIGAN, COTTON FACTOR - ' AND General Commisson Merchant, ACCOMMODATION WHARF, CHARLESTON, S. C Liberal Advances made on Cotton* ?57" I will, when placed in funds, purchase and tor ward all kinds of Merchandize, Machine? ry, Agricultural Implements, Manures, Seeds, ftc Sept 23, 1769 13 ly Greenville & Columbia Railroad. GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE, Y Columbia, January 15, 1870. j ON and after WEDNESDAY, January 19, the following Schedule will be run daily, Sunday ex? cepted, connecting with Night Train on South Carolina Road, up and down, and with Nigb Train on Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Road going North: L'vc Columbia 7.00 a m " Alston 8.40 a m ** Ncwb'ry 10.10 a m Arr. Abbeville 3.00 p m 1 Anderson 4.20 p m Gr'nville 5.00 p m L've Greenville 5.45 a m " Anderson 6.25 a n> " Abbeville 8.00 s m " Newb'ry 12.36 p m " Alston 2.10 p m Arr. Columbia 3.45 p m The Train will return from Belt on to Anderson on Monday and Friday mornings. JAMES O. MEREDITn, Gen. Sup'fc Jan 20, 1870 80 u. niscHOFF. r. wcxwsnx. j. a. pixpik. JOHN McFALL, WITH HENRY BIS0E0FF & CO., WHOLESALE GROCKKS, and dealers lit /INES, LIQUOR?, Cigars, Tobacco, <Sr,c, NO. 197 EAST BAY, (DIHtAIEHiEST?H, SO. CA, Nov 25, 1869 22 Schedule Blue Bidge Railroad. ON and after this date the following schedule will be observed by the Passenger Trains over this Road : up. now5. L've Anderson, 4.20 p m (L've Walhalla, 130 am " Pendleton,5.20 '* I " Perryville, 4.10 ?? " Perry ville, 6.10 Arr. Walhalla, 7.00 " ? Pendleton, 6.10 ?* Arr. Anderson, 6.10 ** In cases of detention on the G. and C. R. R-r the train on this Road will wait one hour for the train from Belton, except on Saturdays, when it will wait until the.arrival of the Belton trainu W. H. D. GA1LLARD, Sup't. March TO, 1870 37 Tutt's Vegetable Liver Pills I For Liver Complaint, Billiousness, &c. 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HAVING purchased my Goods for oash, I want it strictly understood that I must bave cash for them. M. LESSER, Agent, Maroh 24, 1870 23