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Jntetfn Intclltgeiiar. "Home Again."?A Beautiful Sketch. This touching incident, narrated by a corres? pondent of the Capital, is said to have occurred upon a recent trip over the Boston and Albany ltailroad. Its simplicity and natural expres? sion, makes one think ol Dickeiis' style' of toil? ing these every-day incidents so charmingly : I ran across w hat first struck 1110 as a very singular genius on my road from Springfield to Boston. This was a stout, black whiskered man, who indulged, from time to time, in the most strange and unaccountable manoeuvres. Every now and then he would get up and hurry away to the narrow .'passage which leads to the door in these drawing-room cars, and when he thought himself secure from observation, would fall to laughing in the most violent manner aud continue the healthful exercise uutil he was as red in the face as a lobster. As we neared Boston these demonstrations increased in violence, save that the stranger no longer ran away to laugh, but kept his scat and chuck? led to himself, with his chin deep down in his shirt collar. But the changes that those port? manteaus underwent. He moved them here, there, everywhere; he put them behind him, in front of him, on each side of him. He was evidently getting ready to leave, but as we were yet twenty-five miles from Boston, the idea of such early preparations was ridiculous. If we had entered the city then the mystery would have remained unsolved, but the 'stran? ger at last became so much excited that he could keep his seat no longer. Some one must help him, and as I was the ucarest, he selected me. Suddenly turning, as if I had asked a question, he said, rocking himself to and fro in his chair the meantime, and slapping his legs, .and breathing hard: "Been gone three years I" "Ah 1" "Yes, been in Europe. Folks don't ex? pect mc for six months yet, but I got through and started. I telegraphed them at the last station ; they've got it by this time." As he said this he rubbed his hands and changed the portmanteau on his left to the right, and the one on the right to the left again. "Got a wife?" said I. "Yes, and three children," he returned, and he got up and folded his overcoat anew, and hung it over the back of the seat. "You are pretty nervous over the matter, ain't you?" I said, watching his fidgety movements. "Well, I should think I was," he replied ; "I hain't slept soundly tor a week. Aud do you know," he went on, glancing around at the passengers and speaking in a lower toue, "I am almost certain this train will run off the track and break my neck bet?re I get to Boston. Well, the fact is, I have had too much good luck for oue man lately. The thing can't last; 'taint natural that it should, you know; I've watched it. First it rains,.then it shines, then it rains again ; it rains so hard you think it's never going to stop; then it shines so bright you think it's always going to shine; and just as you are settled in either belief, you are knocked over by a change, to show you that you know nothing about^it." "Well, according to the philosophy," says I, "you will continue to nave sunshine because you are expecting a storm." "It's curious," he returned, after a pause, "but tWe only thing which make* mc think I'll get through sate, is because I think I won't." "Well, that is curious," said I.? "Lord, yes," he replied. "I'm a machinist? made a "discovery?nobody believed it, spent all my money trying to bring it out?mortgaged my home?all went. Everybody but my wife ?spunky little woman?said she would work her fingers off before I should give it up. Went to. England?no better there; came within an ace of jumping off London Bridge. Went into a shop to cam money enough to come home with ; there met the man I wanted. To make a long story short, I've brought thirty thonsaud pounds hoine with me." "Good for you," L exclaimed. "Yes," said he, "thirty thousand pounds; and the best of it is she doesn't know anything abomViti? 1*ve~foofcd? ? her so*oftenj and disappointed her so much that I just .con? cluded I would say nothing about this. 1 When I got my money, though, you better believe struck a bee line for home." "And now you will make her happy," said I. "Happy I", he replied, "Why you don't know anything" about it. She's worked like a dog while I have been Soue. trying to support herself and the children ecently. They paid her thirteen cents apiece for making coarso shirts ; and that's the way she lived ludf ^he, time,, She'll come, down there to the' depot to meet me in a'girfghain dress and a shawl a hundred years old, and she'll think she's dressed up. Oh, she won't have no clothes after this?oh, no, I guess not," and with these words, which implied that his wife's wardrobe would soon rival that of Queen Victoria's, the stranger tore down the passage way again, and getting in his old corner, where he thought himself out of sight, went through the strangest pantomime, laughing, putting his mouth into the drollest shapes, and then swing? ing himself backward and forward in the lim? ited space, as if it were walking down Bro?J way a full rigged metropolitan swell. And so on until we rolled into the depot, and I placed myself on the other car, opposite the stranger, who, with a portmanteau iu each hand, had descended, aivd was standing on the lower step, xeady to jump to the platform. I looked from his face to the faces of the people before us, but saw no. Mgn of recognition. Suddenly he cried: "There they are," and laoghed out-right, but in a hysterical sort of a way, as he looked over the crowd. I followed his eyes, and some distance back, as if crowded out and shoulder? ed away by the well dressed and elbowing throng, a little woman in a faded dress and a well-worn hat, with a face almost painful in its intense, but hopeful expression, glancing rapid? ly from window to window as the coaches glided in. She had not yet seen the stranger, ut a moment after she caught his eye, and in another instant he had jumped to the platform with his two portmanteaus, and making a hole in the crowd, pushing one here and there, and running one of his bundles plump into the well-developed stomach of a venerable-looking old gentleman in spectacles, he rushed toward the place where she was standing. I think I never saw a face assume so many different expressions in so short a time as did that of the little woman while her husband was on his way to her. She didn't look pretty. On the contrary, she looked very plain, but someway 1 felt a big lump rise m my throat as I watched her. She was trying to laugh. God bless her, how completely she failed in the at? tempt! Her mouth got into that position, but it never moved after that, save to draw down at the corners and quiver, while she blinks her eye? so hist that I suspect she only caught oc? casional glimpses of the broad shouldered fel? low who elbowed his way so rapidly toward her. And then, as he drew close and dropped those everlasting portmanteaus, she just turned Completely around, with her back Inward him, and covered her face with her hands. And thus she was when the strong man gathered her up in his arms as if she had been a baby, and held her sobbing to his breast. There was enough gaping at them, heaven knows, and 1 turned my eyes away a moment, and then 1 saw two boys in threadbare roundabouts stand? ing near, wiping their red eyes and noses on their little coat sleeves, and bursting out anew at every fresh demonstration on the part of their mother, who seemed as if the pent up tears of n'l those weary months of waiting were streaming through her eyes. ? Mr. Buster is an opponent of free schools from "principle." He goes "agin education,'' not because of its unconstitutionally, but be? cause it's unnatual. Ignorance is "natur'," he says. We arc born ignorant, and ought to be kept so. ? To destroy ants, the best plan is, proba? bly, to catch the ant with a pair of tweezer-; and hit him wjuare on the head with a sledge? hammer. A Mag Discourses Ol" (Juccn Elizabeth. Here is the latest outbreak of eccentric hu? mor: Queen Elizabeth is dead. It doesn't make any matter how we got the information. This is none of our fight?this quarrel between tiie Associated Press and its rival. We've received the news, and that's enough. .She died two hundred and sixty-eight years ;'.go, the 21th of last month. She survived until the vital spark J had (Tod, find then she saw it was of no use re? sisting the inscrutable decree of fate, and v> her fettered soul took its flight into the mystc rious void, and settled down in that bourne from which no traveler returns, unless he has a mission to jerk chairs around and rap on ta? bles for the benefit of mediums and other long- i haired, wild-eyed lunatics. Queen Elizabeth was :i virgin?a vcrgin' on I seventy ; and yet the fire gleamed as brightly i as ever in her cream-colored eye, and the doli- j I catc sheen of her finely-tinted maroon nose j contrasted as forcibly as in her youth with the ' alabaster of her brow; and the plugs in her teeth were just as valuable as vvhen gold wa3 at 15G. She had no small vices. She did not smoke or chew, or belong to the society for promo? tion of cruelty to animals. And when sho swore she never descended to the vulgarity of Horace Grceley?Queen Elizabeth didn't? When she used profanity she gave it with a finish, an elegance, a delicate, airy grace, and infused into it a luxurious abandon, and rounded it off carefully at the corners, and dressed it up with well selected poetical adjec? tives, so that it sounded like a strain from some sweet singer, like some sweet singer straining himself, in fact. And she had red hair. Her chignon was burglar proof. And often, in the dim twilight of evening, when the sun had sunk to rest, when the western sky was filled with tender radiance and lambent light, and the bulbul wooed the rose in the back? yard, sho would play a few notes upon her harpsichord or write a" Latin hymn or an essay upon the Harrison boiler. She was supposed to be the author of "Rock Me to Sleep, Moth? er," and "Beautiful Snow," and "Five O'clock in the Morning." But, nevertheless, she was a very estimable woman, and with all her faults we love her still?better, indeed, than if she were still fooling around. Queen Elizabeth was not proud. She al? ways insisted upon cleaning her own teeth, even if she was a queen ; and she always did it once a week, every Sunday morning, with her own tooth brush. What a lesson does it toach to those who are haughty and vain, and belong to the bon ton ! She never forgot that she was perishable dust, and that the sheep and the sill: worm wore her fine clothes long before she got them. She read every Sunday school book that taught these facts; and once she trod on Sir Walter Raleigh's cloak to re? mind him of them, because he was so set up with his new fancy cassimeres. She said upon her death bed, that Lydia Thompson need not learn this lesson, because it had no moral for those who browsed around in nature's simple garb. Queen Elizabeth was not sorry to die. She saw that George ?. Train was coming to Eng? land, and said to her physician that she would prefer the enduring peace of the cold and si? lent grave to three weeks of George and the Alabama claim's controversy and the Schleswig Holstein question all at the same time. Her last words were, "Kill Horace Grceley before he has a chance to write 'What I Know About Fanning.' " There was not a dry eye in that second story front room. Everybody Wlfcs thinking how impossible to fullfil her request and to escape so much misery. But she has now gone ; sho hns left us; we shall see her no more. Perhaps it is for the best She was a vigorous woman, and if she had lived she might have come to America, and we might have given her an olfcncc, ami sh?; might have pranced around here and Hogged us iike the very nation. For she was a woman who followed closely in all the prevailing fash? ions. And so wc are glaiinhe-is "dead, nnd-rras four, tons of marble to hold her down. Rest in peace, old girl! Rest in pieces ! A True Woman's Love.?Ah ! Tom Twin? kle, is there a cracking among the dry ?bones, and arc you, in behalf of your sex, awakened to the necessity of love beyond all earthly goods? Then let me give you, for the benefit of all, a few good hints as to the best way of securing this inestimable boon. Firstly, my dear friend, mako yourselves worthy of it Believe me, ev? ery womanly woman desires to be looked up to with pride?depended upon, with perfect reli? ance?by the man who is her husband. But do young men nowadays think half as much of the shaping their own characters, with refer? ence to the inspiring the sincere respect and af? fection which is the foundation of abiding love, as of the shape of their coats, boots and gloves? Arc many of them worthy of such love as you crave ? And do not expect such love from girls who arc devoted to chignons, panicrs, etc.? Don't expect love from an unloving nature But if you are the least bit of a physiognomist, you will find somewhere sincere, true eyes; a frank, sweet mouth ; a face of genuine sincer? ity of expression. Be very thankful to find it, and don't ask for every thing else?paincrs, puffs, and a father with a brown-stone mansion. You must decend a little, perhaps, from your so-called level, and you will find working girls ?girls who have minds enough to employ whatever talent they may possess, and who aro independent enough to work, rather than mar? ry for mere subsistence?girls with an idol in their hearts?and you have no idea of how much ideality they will lavish upon you, if you arc in any way worthy of it. Iherc arc true, warm-hearted, sincere women in the world yet, but how are they (generally) so badly mated ? Why cannot somo one invent a patent process for acquainting the right people with each oth? er? I believe in loving a man well enough to goto Kamschatka with him, if necessary? to wear calico dresses and linen collars all ono's life, if ho cannot afford silk (although private? ly I have a nice appreciation of dainty cloth? ing ;) and to take as much pains to look pretty in callico for him as if it were velvet. Your having given such love to a man, should he not endeavor to keep it ? There's the trouble, too ?you value it in the abstract, but life is like a mosaic, made up of such little bites; if it is only a warm, kind '/lance from the eyes wc love, a pressure of the hand, a word of appre? ciation now and then, they make up the beau? tiful whole. Tin: Girls.?Ule-s the dear girls! I love them all; (I couldn't help it if I would;) 1 love the short, I love the tall ; (1 wouldn't help it if I coidd.) I love the girls with sunny hair, with the bright or laughing clear blue eyes, with skin transparent, white and fair, and cheeks that with the red rose vies. And then I love ihc dark brunette, with glos? sy curls like raven's wing; with teeth like jot ? I love to hear their laughter ring. Oh ! yes, the roguish dark brunettes will bring our hearts into our throats, they laugh at all our woes; but yet I say?bless all the petticoats. Oh ! Woman, what would this world be with? out thy kind and gentle -way? for till we have we owe to thee ; how can wc e'er thy love re? pay? for don't you sew our buttons on? and darn our socks and mend our clothes and spend our stamps 'liil they're all gone ? but can't tell how the money goes. Oh ! yes, I love all womankind ; they're gen? tle, loving, good, and true; some may not quite just suit my mind, but what is that to me or you? I love the darling, loving girls; love them as hard as e'er 1 can ; that is, in a gener? al way, you know?for, bless you?I'm a mar? ried man ! ? The cowardly and the inactive lie in the ditch where they fall, or under the ruins that crush them. But the hopeful and energetic me upon their feet again, moving once more toward the goal of success, and more cautiously than before Absence of Mind. Macaulay remarks that absent-mindedness is the mark of cither a genius or a fool. Wo think that Lord Maeualay was a little on one of its sides. A man's mind may be so intense? ly occupied with lofty intuitions and inspira? tions, that his senses,' seemingly, arc scarcely [ awake to the realities of the tangible world. A certain Scottish professor was not more rc J markablc for his writing on political economy I than Iiis frequent unconsciousness of what passed before him. His absence of mind was j so remarkable that his wife once wagered that she would accost him in the street, inquire af? ter the health of herself and family, and he would not recognize her. She actually won the the wager.- The professor once took a solitary walk on the banks of a canal, into which, in his abstraction, he walked. When within a a yard of the centre, an honest woman, wash? ing clothes behind him, bawled out, "Conic oot, come oot, fule body, or ye'll be droont't." These warning sounds, invading the tympanum of his professional ear, had the effect of mak? ing him turn right about, and forthwith recov? er the dry land. The good woman, concluding he was an idiot, sympathetically exclaimed, "Puir body, atweel they hao muckle to answer for that lets ye gang yer lane." A young fellow employed in a store on River street, was one day sent into the collar to draw a gallon of sperm oil. While waiting he snatched up a piece of chalk, and in a minute was absorbed in sketching the proprietor's pro? file. The profile on the hogshead was capital, but while the young artist was absorbed in its pursuit, the oil pursued its way over the cellar floor. He was informed he would not do for a merchant, but just now he is a first-rate New York artist. It is said of Sir Isaac Newton that he often forgot to eat his dinner, which his housekeeper was accustomed to leave in a closet near his study door. His head was too much in the heavens to mind the earth ; so a friend know? ing his peculiarity, one day slipped his dinner out of the basket and ate it up. When at last the philosopher came out and greeted his friend, he asked to be excused till he tool: his lunch. On looking into the basket and find? ing it gone, he simply exclaimed, mtida to his friend's amusement, "Uh, I forgot I had eaten my dinner." An absent-minded man, Mr. A-, of Troy, receives a letter; he know? the handwriting; he strikes a light, tears a paper and lights a lamp ; but the ietter is gone?he has used it to light the lamp. There is a late striking instance given of] Pere Gratry, who had just been nominated Di? rector of the Academy in Paris. One day when going to Sorbonne, where he lectured on the? ology, he imagined he had forgotten his watch, and took it out of his pocket to see if he had time to go home and fetch it. It is said of Neader, the lecturer and eccle? siastical historian of Germany, that his sister had to watch him daily to see that he did not start to the University with his night-cap on, or with his study-gown and slippers, and it was not uncommon for him when moving aside from the jostling crowd in the street, to step into the gutter, where he walked on and on, seeiniugly uuconsciotis where he was stepping. Swedish Immigration.?The Savannah Kcic? has an article on this subject from which we extract the following: The Swede possesses traits which neither. Cuf fce nor the heathen Chinee can rival. He is modest, industrious and easily satisfied. He is quite gentlemanly and honest. He is frugal, careful and vigilant. He is hearty, strong and willing. He is sober, steady and quick witted. He is intelligent, thoughtful and educated.? Above all he is a Christian. He brings to? his work that aptitude and intelligence which are quite equal to the most pains-taking appren? ticeship?and he is no politician. This estimate of the character of the Swede we have from the general verdict of those who haye given him a trial. Iu several counties of | Florida, he has passed through a patient pro? bation of more than twelve months, and those who have seen the result, arc enthusiastic in his favor. A general movement has been inaugu? rated in that State for the purpose of inviting Swedish immigration. Agricultural associa? tion have resolved themselves, for the time be? ing, into immigration societies; subscription hooks have boon opened, in which planters who desire intelligent labor may register their names and the number of immigrants they will employ ; agents have been appointed lo visit Sweden, and the movement seems to lack no requisite of success but final accomplishment In Georgia where th* need of honest, indus tri-'ijs and steady laborers is quite as great as in Florida, the Swedish movement is met with growing favor, and it is likely in a few months to develop into something like the ?enthusiasm which that State, feels iu the matter. The Swede has succeeded in ingratiating himself | into the good graces of the planters of Jones County, and the result is that they are prepar? ing to invite immigration on a large scale.? Putnam, Jasper, Morgan, Monroe and Butts counties have made a simultaneous move, and agents from these sections are preparing to visit Sweden at an early day. The movement, we have no doubt, will ultimately Bpread all over the whole South. Slander.?There is no man or woman who holds a more despicable position in the com? munity' than the common slanderer, and yet there is none who receives less punishment from an indignant people. They seem to en? joy a kind of immunity in their conduct and claim an intuitive right to slander all who may have incurred their ill will and hatred. Occa? sionally, a jury can be empaneled which impo? ses vindictive damages in rare cases, but the majority of these vipers escape the punish? ment they so justly deserve. And yet the crime of which they arc guilty, properly con? sidered, is one of the highest known to law. There is no offense more destructive of the best interest of society. It poisons, to a grea? ter or less extent, every fountain of public health and prosperity. It nssails everv class in the community, youth with its warm blushes and buoyant heart; manhood with its high im? pulses and bounding energies, and old age with its wrinkled brow and palsied hands. None are exempt from its malicious and vindictive at? tacks. It enters the bowels of beauty, and plucks the roses from its cheek. It looks in upon the door of innocence, and flowers which grow upon its threshold wither and die at its approach, it is sin abhorrent lo man aud con? demned or' heaven. It stands arrayed against the eternal canon of the Almighty, delivered amid the flames and thunders of Alt Sinai, "thou shalt not hear false witness against thy neighbor." Cod protect the pure and virtuous from the advances of the.se insidious fiends! It is sufficient that their poison should be ?vas ted upon the low and profligate.?Ex. Little Womex.?Three little girls were playing among the poppies and sage-brush of of the back yard. Two of them were'"making believe'' keep house, a little way apart, sis near neighbors might. At last one was overheard saying to the youngest of the lot, "There, now, Nelly, you go over to Sarah's house and stop there a little while, and talk as fast as ever you can, and then you come hack and tell mcwhat she says about mc, and then I'll talk about her; and then you will go and tell her all I say, and then we'll get as mad as hornets anil won't speak when we meet, just as our mothers do, you know; and that'll be such fun, won't it?" Hadn't these little mischiefs lived to some pur? pose; and were they not close observers ami apt scholars, charmingly trained for the chiefbusi uess o? life in a small neighborhood? ? "What are you about, my dear?" said his grandmother to a little boy who was idling about the room, and casting furtive glances at a gentleman who was paying a visit "J am try? ing to steal papa's hat out of the room without letting the gentleman see it, i'?>r |>apa wants him lo think heV out." Agriculture axd War.?The Washington Chronicle lias received I'rom the examiner of agricultural implements in the Patent Oliicc the following statement: It is not generally known that during the third year of the war, with half a million of men taken from the in? dustrial pursuits of a peaceful agricultural life, there w:is a greater number of acres of land under cultivation, and a greater harvest gath? ered in the free States than ever before known. This resulted from the use of machinery in the cultivation of the soil, and which supplied the place-of human muscle in the field. This re? markable result of the influence of machinery in cultivation, promoting in so high a degree the prosperity of the country, led me to inves? tigate the subject from another standpoint. An examination of the record of tiie patent office from 18-30 to ISoO, inclusive, shows that nearly ninety-eight per cent, of applications for patents for improvements in agricultural implements were from the free States, and but a fraction over two per cent, was from the slave States. Since the close of the war the planters of the South have been thrown upon their own resources for the cultivation of the soil, and free hired labor or machinery, or both com? bined, must be relied upon to tako the place of slave labor. But it was found, upon trial, that few of the machines for cultivating the North? ern" crops were perfectly adapted to Southern culture; for example, a corn planter could not be used for planting cotton seed, and the same was found true in regard to cultivators. This was also true of many others that might be named. These men, making virtue a necessity, set about the work of improvement in earnest, and the records of the last two years show Uie most gratifying result. The applications for patents l'rom the former slave States have risen from a fraction over two per cent, to about thirty per cent, of all the cases filed, and it is reported that the cotton crop has been greater under the improved mode of culture than ever before known. But the end is not yet. The South have only begun to reap the benefits of their new position, and with the future improve? ments of their implements of agriculture they will reap a corresponding increase of product. Dead heads.?An exchange says: "It is an extraordinary fact in this world that every man or woman that wants something done for nothing, goes straightway to the publisher of a newspaper. He is the free bridge over which merit and demerit proposes to pass over the stream of trouble. lie is the free horse that every man proposes to ride into the green pas? tures of prosperity and ease." Exactly the case. An editor is expected to please everybody and accept the suggestions of all, however contradictory they may~be. "Do you sec that mud-hole?" says one. ''Well, why don't you pitch into the authorities about it?" "Why, my dear sir," we answer, "wc don't care to bother about such matters ; but if you will write an article on the subject, and sign your name to it, we will publish it with pleasure" "Ah ! but then I am not an editor," answers our good friend. And so it is with many. . Others shake their sage heads and say, "O, if I was only the editor of a newspaper, I would wake up things." No doubt of that? no doubt of that in the world; but perhaps, gentle sirs, the awakening would not be so pleasant, cither to you or the proprietors of the journal. "Discretion is the better part of valor," remember, both in war and editing a newspaper. An editor is the vehicle of popu? lar, but not the exponent of each individual sentiment. ? A Hibernian orator, speaking of suicide, said : The only way to stop it is to make it a capital offence punishable with death. ?'Many a child sings "I want to be an an? gel," who would bo more satisfactory if he wanted to he a good boy. ? Carlyle says: " Make yourself a good man, and then you may be suro that there is ono rascal less in the world." ? He that studies books alone will know how things ought to be ; aud he that 3tudics men will know how things are. ? A Oeorgia man incurred the derision of his townsmen by shooting at his wife twenty seven limes without hitting her. ? A Wisconsin postmaster has written to Washington for "some eternal reventi stomps," saying he has "several cols for them." ? A kiss is the alma which enriches him who receives without impoverishing her who gives. jj .? It is unjust to blame a man who doesn't advertise because his prices are high. He has to make them high because his sales are so small. ? Young ladies should bear in mind that Diana, Duchess of Xalentinois, a celebrated beauty in an age of beauties, preserved her good looks by washing her face in rain water, and taking outdoor exercise in the morning be? fore the dew had left the ground. ? A remarkable preacher was that who called upon his congregation to be thankful that Providence should have placed death at the end of life and not in the middle, so that we might have all possible time to prepare for it. ? A Dutchman was relating his marvellous escape from drowning, when theirteen of his companion? were lost by the upsetting of a boat, and he alone escaped. "And how did you escape their fate ?" asked one of his hear? ers. "I did not go in te pote," was the Dutch? man's placid reply. ? A story is going the rounds of an old col? ored man who was left in charge of a telegraph oflice in New Orleans, while the operator "went out to see a man." A "call" came over the wires, and Uncle Pete shouted at the in? strument as loud as he could, "l)c operator isn't yer?" The wire ceased instanter. ? The Cincinnati Gazette thinks that the great need of the country is not schools of the fine arts, but of the mechanic arts ; schools to train boys and girls to earn a living. The great educational problem is how to direct school education to the great necessity of labor. And one of the greatest labor problems, is, how shall the rising generation learn the trades they must follow for a living? ? The Newborn (X. C.) Republican is au? thority for the statement that one Edward Brown, of Pitt County, was lately found in a settlement made by himself in a dense thicket near a river, whither he had lied during the rebellion, fearing that he would he drafted into the army. The party which caught him chased him to his hiding-place, when he showed light and swore that he would not enter the army. When told, however, that the war was over he consented to go to town with his captors, who undoubtedly were Ku Kluxof the high-handed sort. During the eight years of his hermit life he had forgotton much of his mother tongue, hardly retaining more of it than to swear with. ? In a recent speech at the Cooper Union, in New York, Mr. L'etcr Cooper, its founder, gave expression to some sound ideas about the accumulation of property, which we com? menced to the attention of our readers, lie said that he had learned the lesson that "the hand of the diligent inakcth rich." atul pro? ceeded to ascribe the possession of the wealth he owned primarily to the habits of patient in? dustry which he had formed at the outset of his career, from Iiis early youth lie had avoid? ed, he affirmed, alcoholic liquors and the incur? ring of debt, and he had always made it a rule to endeavor to keep a little ready money on haiuL In addition he had essayed to advance himself in knowledge, and asserted that it was in the efforts that he was compel led'to make in this direction in his youth that he formed the resolution to found an instituton at which the young people of the working class could ac? quire that acquaintance with their business and with science which is absolutely indispensable to success in life, lie paid an exceedingly Mann tribute to his wife. who. he said, had been industrious, diligent, wise, faithful and afl'ec tionate ? A gentleman wits praising the beautiful hair of a lady, when one of these terrible chil? dren, whom Providence seems to have sent on earth as scourges of bypocricy and falsehood, exclaimed : "My hair would he as handsome as mamma's if she'd let me take as much care of it as she takes of hers. Mamma never sleeps in her hair, but always puts it away in the ward? robe before she goes to bed." ? The bloom of youth will fade away, the brightness of the eye will grow dim with age, but a miserable little corn will never pass away. ? ? They say now that Horace Greeley won't run for President unless he is nominated. D?NT OVERLOOK THIS. No Charge for Showim? Goods. THE subscriber has just returned from New York, and is now receiving a large and well-selected stock of Goods, which ho is confi? dent can BE SOLD LOWER Than any stock of Goods EVER BROUGHT TO THIS MARKET. His stock consists, in part, of Calicoes, Cambrics, Lawns, Percales, Muslins, Mozarabiqucs, Japanese Cloths, Moiiairs, Organdies, DcLaines, Alpaccas, Jaconcis, Swiss, Nainsook, Blea. & unblea. Shirting and Sheeting, Haid & Striped Homespuns, Led Tickings, And, in fact, everything else belonging to the Dry Goods line. I have also an unusually large ami cheap stock of Mens', Lad'cs, Boys and Misses BOOTS and SHOES. My stock of Mens', Youths' and Boys' CLOTHING and CLOTHS, Embraces everything in that line, from Cot? ton and Linen TWEEDS to the finest CLOTHS aud CASSIMERES. My Gents' Furnishing Department Is complete in everything usually kept in tJ? at line Of Fancy Goods and Yankee Notions, I have an endless variety. All of the latest styles of? * Ladies' and Misses Hat? and Bonnets, Mens', Youths' and Boys' Hats and Caps, Hosiery, Gloves, Collars, Cravats, Toilet Soaps, Eibbons, Laces. Gimps, Embroideries, &c. GROCERIES, HARDWARE, IRON, STEEL, HOLLOW-WARE, SHOVELS, FORKS, STADES, HOES, AXES, HATCHETS, HAMMERS, &c., &c, &c. Be sure and examine my stock beforo purcha? sing, for I am confident I can sell you goods. A trial is all I ask. M. LESSEE, No. 3 Granite Row, ^Vndorson C. II., S. C. April li, 1871 40 MARBLE WORKS. LOCATION, Main St., near Railroad Bridge. WE WILL FURNISH MARBLE WORK AS LOW AS CAN BE BOUGHT ELSE? WHERE. Below is our Price List: Tomb Tops, of Vermont Marble, Comm?n and ordinary, 0x3 feet...$ 35 to 40 Good Quality. 45 to 47 No. 1 and Statuary. 50 to 65 Italian, of same. 50 to 55 Head Stones, 4x1 ft. G inches. 14 to 1G Head Stones, lixl ft. 2 inches, and 3x1 feet. 8 to 9 Monuments, Monumental Head Stones at same rates. Box Tombs, plain.115 to 125 Paneled, good quality. 135 to 100 No. 1 Heavy Paneled, with posts... 175 to 100 Lettering.3 and 3$ cents a letter. At our Shop wo put up those S250 Tombs at $160, and guarantee to furnish as good ma? terial aud heavier paneled work for the same. Parties wishing Marble Work will find it to their interest to ca'J on us. T. WILDMAN & CO. May 25,1S71 47 Greenville & Columbia Railroad. Columbia, s. c, March i, 1871. ON and after this date, the following Schedule will bo run daily, Sundays excepted, connecting with Night Trains on South Carolina Road, up and down, also with Trains going North and South on Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Kail road: UP TRAIN. Leave Columbia.".no a. m 11 Alston.U.10 a. in. ' Kewberry.11.15 a.m. ' Cnkcsbury.S.OO p. in. " Helton ...".5.00 p. m. Arrive Anderson.Coo j>. in. " at Greenville.C.:>0 p. ni. DOWN TRAIN. LeaveGrecnvillo.C.15 a.m. " Anderson.fi.-l3a.rn. 1 Hol ion.S.O-I a. in. * Cukcsbury.l".u; a. m. " Abbeville. $.13 a. m. 1 Kewberry. 1.50 \>. in. " Alston..... 1.0.1 jt. in. Arrive Columbia.ii."> j?. in. M. T. RAKTUiTT. General t icket Agent. March 0,1S71 3? 131 (M Manufactory AT PENDl.ISTOX, S. C. ALL orders for TINWARE from country mer? chants and village stores promptly filled at low cash prices. Old lia vessels, lamps, guns, pistols, sewing machines, etc.. repaired. Rags, beeswax, Tallow, &c., taken in exchange. Any one wishing anything in (lie above line will do well to give mc an early call. PAR? LOR and COOKING STOVES always on hand. GEO. D. BARR, Pcndlelon, S. C. Feh IG, 1871 33 J. C. C. FEATHERSTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, WILL practice in the Courts of Anderson, Abbe? ville and surrounding Counties, and in the United States Courts. Office?No. S Granite Row, up stairs, over Watson & Bro's. Store, Anderson C. H. Jan 5, 1871 'J7 86*" OLD NEWSPAPE5S for calc at this OfSce by the Hundred or Thousasi Juu. 1, 1871 .} 1S71. SPRING TRADE. 1871. CROQUET. Complete sets from $3 to $20 per set; BASE BALLS. All the different kinds at reduced prices. FISHING- TACKLE. Of every description. TRAVELING BAGS. For ladies and gentlemen. FOREIGN FANCY GOOD*, GUNS AND PISTOLS OF ALL KINDS and PRICES. AMMUNITION, SPORTSMEN'S GOODS, Goods shipped to any part of the country per express. The same care'ul attention given to or? ders by mail as to personal purchases. Prices for our goods based on gold at par. POULTISEY, TRIMBLE & CO., 200 VV. Baltimore Street, BALTIMORE, hd* April 6, 1871 _40_If i3iportant notice TO CONSUMERS OF DRY GOODS. All Retail Orders amounting to $20 and Over Delivered in any Part of the Country Free ot Exr rc-^s CliarrgGSd HAMILTON EASTER & SONS, OF BALTIMORE, MD., In order the- better to meet the wants of their Retail Cus? tomers at a distance, have established a SAMPLE BUREAU, and will, upon application, j>ro?p//y tend by mail full line* of Samples "t" the Newest and most Fashionable Goods, of FRENCH, ENGLISH and DOMESTIC MANUFACTURE, guaranteeing at all times t<> .-fit at lote, if not at test priest, than any bouse in tin: country. Haying our goods from the largest and most celebrated manufacturers in the different jarts of Europe, and taw porting the same by Steamers direct to llaliimore, our DtockiV at all times promptly supplied with the noveltle* of the London and Paris markets. As we buy ami sell only v>r rush, and make no bad debit/ we are able and willing to sell our goods at kkom Ten to FlFTKKN I'kk cent. Lkss Pkokit than if we gave credit. In sending ./V samples specify tlic hind of goods desired. We keep the i?'-t grades of every class of 50003, from the lowest t i Iho noist costly. Orders umiceomiMtntt it l>i the cash will be cnt C. 0. D. PROMPT-FAYING WHOLESALE liUYERS are IbtF1 ted to inspect the Stock in our Joulring and Pttdttajr. De-r partmcnt. Address HAMILTON EASTER Jc SONS, 197, 109, 201 and 203 West Halt huore Street, Baltimore, Md. Oct 27,1S70 IS ly WAVERLY HOUSE, Anderson, S. C. JOHN A. MATES, Proprietor. npHE WAVERLY HOUSE has been repaired arid fitted up, and has no^v a magnificent ap pcaiancc. Mr Maycs is lately of Abbeville, and is well known as a good Hotel keeper. The Home has been newly famished, and has all the modern improvements and comforts, and will give the best the country affords in way of fare, which will be served up in the best of style Stop ami see us, and you will be well treated. March 23, 1871 38 II. H. SCUDDAY, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, ANDERSON C. H., S. C, ' RESPECTFULLY tenders his sendees to Iii? citizens of Anderson Village and v/eiffiiy. With an experience of sixteen years in all forms of disease peculiar to this climate, he hopes to meet the expectations of all patients committed to his care. Special attention given to Obsterics, and dis? eases of women and children. When not professionally engaged, he can usu? ally he seen at the Drug Store of Messrs. Simp? son, Hill & Co., or at the residence formerly oc? cupied by J. 13. Sloan, deceased. March 23, 1871 38 6m M. COLUSMITII. P. KIND. GOLDSMITH & KIND, FOUNDERS & MACHINISTS, (PlICEXIX IRON WOUKS,) colij3iu i a, s. c, MANUFACTURERS of Steam Engines, of all sizes : Horse. Powers, Circular and Muley Saw Mills, Flour Mills, Grist and Sugar Cane Mills. Ornamental House and Store Fronts, Cast Iren Railings of every sor', including graveyards, residence?, kc. Agricultural Implements, Brass and Iron Castings of all kinds made to order on short notice, and on the most, reasonable terra?. Also, manufacturers of Cotton Presses, &c May 18, 1871 46 It HENRY BISCHOFF & CO., Wholesale Grocers, AND DEALERS IX WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, TOBACCO, &C.> No. 19? East Bay, IT. BT.'CIIOFF,) Vu^A] Charleston, S. C, Fob 23, 1871 34 6m MCQUEEN & SIECKE, WHOLESALE Produce & Provision Dealers, Have constantly on hand and receiving, Ba? con, Dry Salted Meats, Pork, Lard, Flour, Sugar, Molasses. Sc., kc. Purchasers are requested to examine their stock %M 21 and 23 VENDUE RANGE, CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA,. Fob 23, 1S71 34 Cm> WM. HENRY TRESCOT. W. W. HOtrURETS. TItESCOT & UIjIPUREYS, Attorneys at Law,. ~WJ~ILL practice in the Courts of the Eighth Circuit, nud in the Uuited States Court Office in Uvoyles' building, opposite the Hensea llutisc. Anderson t' !! l'cb'J, 1S7J 32