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itain |ntc!ligcnxer. Senf the Little Ones Happy to Bed* Send the little ones happy to bed, "When, closes the troublesome day Let no harsh invective be said. To ruffle their mind while they pray. Sore trials and troubles so soon The sweet sleep of childhood will ban; And let them lie joyfully down And cherish bright dreams while they can, Send the little ones happy to bed, Though they may be mischievous and wild; Nature seldom bestows a wise head v ? Oil a rosy-cheeked, light-hearted child. Then let their glad spirits have play, And brighter and stronger they'll grow, Liko a stream that runs free on its way, And suffers no check in its flow. Send the little ones happy to bed, ' You know not what ill may be near? Ere the morning your pets may be dead Then vain the regret or the tear. So let them lie down- with delight, And fail not to give or to take A kiss when they prattle "good-night," And kiss in che morn when they wake. An Exhausted Husband. The following bit of cbarming unsophistica tion, purporting to have been written by a young wife in New York to her prime and spectacled maiden aunt in Boston, will be read with carious interest by the more enlightened reader:? My Dear Aunt.?Although you told me, when I invited you to my wedding, that I was too young to marry, and not capable of choos? ing a mate for life properly, and with due con? sideration, I know that you may now feel that I was wiser than you thought. In selecting dear Orlando I have gained a most affectionate and attentive husband, and one who has neith? er a fault nor a vice. Heavens! What must a girl suffer who finds herself united to a dissi? pated person, neglectful to her, and disposed to seek the society of unworthy persons, who drink, smoke, and do all sorts of dreadful things! Thank Heaven, Orlando is perfection I To-day is mj eighteenth, birthday, and we have been married- a year. We keep house now, and I can make pretty good pie, only the under crust will be damp. However, I think that must be in the oveu. Once I put peppermint is the pudding instead of lemon flavoring; but then Orlando was trying to kiss me, right be? fore the girl, who didn't much like either of us going into the kitchen at all. The flowers are coming up beautfully in the back garden. We sowed a great many seed, but hardly expected bo many plants. Among the most numerous is one variety with a very large leaf, that scratches one's fingers, and don't smell nice. I wonder what it is. Orlando frightens me by talking about weeds; but weeds always come up, don't they ? ?Dear Orlando I I come back to him again? so excellent, temperate, and true. Tell all the Sirls to marry as soon as they can, if they can nd a hnsbaud like mine. I have but one trial?business takes him so much from me. A lawyer must attend to busi? ness, you know; and sometimes they carry on the case until two at uigut. Ofteu and often be has examined witnesses until half-past twelve, and comes home perfectly exhausted. And the nasty things will smoke, so that his dear coat quite smells of it. And as it makes him as ill as it does me, I have to air it, and sprinkle the lining with cologne water before he dares to put it on again. I bad a terrible fright the other night?dread? ful. Orlando had told me I hat business?I think be said it was a case of life and death would detain him late. So I sat up as usual, with a book, and did not worry until one o'clock. After that I was a little anxious, I confess, and caught a cold in my head peeping through the up-stairs window blinds ; for, dear aunt, it was not until three o'clock that I heard a cab driving up the street and saw it stop at our door: then I thought I should faint, for I was sure some dreadful accideut bad happened to Orlando. I ran down to open the door; a friend of Or? lando's who is not I confess very much to my taste?such a red faced, noisy man?was just supporting my dear boy up the steps. "Oh, what has happened ?" cried I. "Don't be frightened, Mm. White!" said Mr. Smith. "Nothing at all; only White is a little exhausted. Application to business will ex? haust a man, and I thought I would bring him borne." "All right Belle," said Orlando, "Smith tells the truth?Fm exhausted." And, dearest aunt, he was so much so that he spoke quite thick, and couldn't stand up with oat tottering. Mr. Smith was kind enough to help' him op-stairs; and he lay upon the bed so prostrated: that I thought he was going to die. Then I remembered the French brandy you gave me in case of sickness. I ran to get it out "Have a little brandy and water, dear?" I ? said. "The very thing. Smith" is exhausted, too. Give some to Smith," said he. And so I reproach myself for not having thought of it before Mr. Smith was gone. But I gave a glass to Orlaudo, and, under Provi? dence, I think it saved his life ; for, oh, how bad he was 1 "Belle," said he, quite faltering in his speech, uthe room is going round so fast that I can't catch your eye. And besides there's two of you, and I don't know which is which." I knew these were dreadful svmptoms. "Take a drink, dear." said L "and I'll try to wake Mary, and send her for tue doctor." "No," said he, "I'll be all right in the morn? ing. I'm all right now. Here's your health. You're a brick. I-" And over he fell, fast asleep. Oh, why do men think so much of money making? Is not health better than anything ?it*. Of course he had laid down in his hat, I took that off first. And I managed to divest him of his coat. But when it came to bis boots?dear? est aunt did you ever take off a gentleman's boots ? probably not, as you are a single lady j ?what a task 1 How do they ever get on 1 11 pulled and pulled, and shook and wriggled, and gave it up. But it would not do to leave them cm all night;; so-1 went at it again, and at hist one came off so suddenly,, ana over I went on the floor, and into his hat, which I had put down there for a minute. I could have cried. And the other came off in the same way, just as hard and just as sudden at last Then I put a soft blanket over Orlando, and sat in my sew? ing chair all night Oh, how heavily he breathed! And I had, as you may fancy, the most dreadful fears. He might have killed himself by his over-application to business, for all that I knew. The perfect ones go first, it is said. Oh, how differently should I have felt had anything happened to my beloved Orlando. He has not had so exhausting a day since, and I think he sees the folly of overwork; though if | courts will keep, open so late, what can poor lawyers do? I think it is very inconsiderate of the judge. I wonder w.hethec he-hu? a wife ?the mean old thing I ? "I once dreamed," said; Patv "that I called upon the President, and he axed me wud I drink. I tottld him I didn't care if I tok a drop of punch. 'Could or hot ?' axed the Pres? ident 'Hot, yer excellency,' said I; and he stepped dpwn in the kitchen for some bilin' water; and before he got back, I woke strate i ; and now its distressin' mc that I didn't t*h*> it ?*?/</." I Stick to one Thing. "Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel," is the language of the Bible. Whoever expects to succeed in any undertaking, must enter into it with a hearty and earnest will to do his best. When a trade or profession is chosen, obstacles, be they large or small, must not be allowed to stand in the way of mastering that trade or profession. However much we may deprecate the old time custom of indenturing apprentice*,, the system in its practical results operated almost always for the lasting good of the apprentice. Generally it insured to him a good trade and a wholesome discipline that fitted him for success in business. At the present time, very many young men undertake to acquire a trade, and after a brief time abandon it, because there are unpleasant duties to be performed and obstacles to be over? come. They consider themselves accountable to no one and go and come at the bidding of caprice, or an unsettled, uneasy mind. The result of this is to send out into the world young men who have not ? half learned their trades, of unstable character, who drift from pillar to post, and who succeed in nothing, but strolling along the highways of life melancholy wrecks. We would earnestly entreat every young man, after be has chosen his vocation, to stick to it; don't leave it because bard blows are to be struck or disagreeable work performed. The men who have worked their way up to wealth and usefulness do not belong to the shiftless and unstable class, but may be reckoned among those who took off their coats, roiled up their sleeves, conquered their prejudices against la? bor, and manfully bore the heat and burden of the day. Whether upon the old, worn-out farm where our fathers toiled, diligently striving to bring back the soil to productiveness; in the machine shop or factory, or in the thousand other busi? ness places that invite honest toil and skill, let the motto ever be: Perseverance and industry. The baby training of the nursery was good in its place, but won't answer all the demands of an active life. This is not a baby world. We must expect to be jostled and knocked about in stern con? flict, and get run over, if we are not on the lookout and be prepared to meet the duties of life with a purpose not to shirk them, but to fulfill them. A young man with a good trade or honorable profession, as he goes forth into the world with his mind made up to stick to his trade or pro? fession is not obliged to ask for many favors. He will hew his way to success, while the un? stable and shiftless will grow tired, despair and fail. The Teller Dog. From the Josh Billings Papers. Dogs hav infested this world just about az long az man haz, and will hang around it az long az thare iz enny grizzle left on a bone. We hav no reliable ackount ov the fust dog, and probably shant hav ov the final one. If Adam kept a tarrier, or Eve a poodle, the laps of ages hav washed away the fakt. If Noah had a pair ov each breed ov dogs on board ov hiz vessell, and only one pair ov fleas, he waz well out for dogs, and poor out for fleas. But history iz dumb on this subjekt. The yeller dog has no pedigree, the blood in hiz veins iz az crude az petroleum, when it fust comes pumping out of the earth, bitter thick and fiery. He iz long, and lazily put together, hiz ears flop when he shackB along the dusty thorough? fare, and hiz tale iz a burden. Thare iz no animashun in a yeller dog's tail, it is useless, the flies ain't even afraid ov it, it iz wuss than a 10 per cent, mortgage tew the rest ov hiz body. Whi the yeller dog ain't born diskounted iz a mistery tew me, but when i ask miself "Whare would yu hitch the tin pan tew," then at once the folly ov a bob-tailed yeller dog flashed on mi mind. Ever since this kontinent was found bi Chris? topher Columbus, in 1492, and for what i kno, much time previous tew that, the yeller dog haz been a vagrant, traveling bi moon lite, and hungry bi natur. Wharc he comes from nobody seems to kno, and if you speak a kind word tew him, he thinks it a kite in disguise, and straddling hiz tail with both hind legs, he goes suspicious, and sidewavs, on hiz lonesum journey. .Mankind have made him a vagabond, and life tu him iz made up ovstarvashun, and brik bats. If he cums out ov hiz lurking place in the hot ov August, he is a mad dog, and the Com-1 mon Council at once assemble, the riot act iz read, 50 dollars reward, is offered, men cum pan? ting into town crieing "mad dog," thare two horse wagon was bit that morning bi a yeller dog, the tury rages, old guns are kleancd up, the cannon iz run out on the village green, dames talk to dames ov the awful even-, men look sober and defiant, boys pocket the: i mar? bles in the midst of the game, pigs run squeal* ing tew their hovels, and the whole body poli? tic surges with horror. The poor innocent whelp haz done hiz worst, and while a whole village iz in extacys ov hy dropobia, he has passed on, and may be seen tugging away, in the suburbs, at the shin bone ov a departed omnibus boss. ? The New York Sun says the sickness of the President's colt about whose sore tail the whole office-holding world was so greatly exer? cised, was due, we learn, to the circumscribed quarters devoted to the Presidential stable. To guard against such mi?fortune jn future, Grant is erecting a new palatial structure adjoining the State Department, on Seventeenth street, for the royal stud. This edifice is to be 60 by 80 feet, and three stories high. It is to be built of pressed brick, with brown stone trimmings, while the interior will be of hard wood, oiled and finished in imperial style. The basement floor is destined for the Presidential dairy stock, the first floor for fifteen horses and equipages to match, and the upper stories for provender and residences for the liveried servants. The cost of this imposing stable will be del rayed, not from the Presidential privy purse, but from the appropriation for the erection of the new State Department. ? If the female who flirts and plays the co? quette, could realize the detriment to her repu? tation which is sure to follow upon her thought? less levity, there would be les* cause for, and less, actual repentance among the fair sex, than one meets with at this time, in everyday life! Could every lovely woman feel and believe how differently the sensible of the opposite sex en? joy the society and smile of the sound minded, well informed female, as compared with the sil? ly, giddy, heartless "belle" or the day, how dif? ferent woaJd be the deportment of"thousands in society who. are now reared only for display and coquetry. ? The following appears as a leading edi? torial in the Cleavland Herald: "We wiBh to ! give a simple remedy for chill and wish to. em? phasize it by saying that it has to our certain knowledge proved very efficacious. It is com? mon salt. A teaspoonfull taken in water, and a teasnoonfull deposited inside each stocking next the foot just as the chill is coming on. That's all there is of it; but, knowing that it has been very efficacious in breaking up the chill and perfecting a cure, we put it in our editorial columns, where no humbug remedy shall find a place, if wc know it." ? Here is a conundrum propounded by one of the leading lady fashion writers, of New York, Mn\ Croly: "What is the use of women trying to disguise themselves by bustles and busts and hips and calves that are hung at ev? ery shop window; that are patent to every man ana boy who walks the streets as to wo? men themselves; that teach everybody a lesson of distrust of his own mother before he has learned to.have confidence in her?" We give if up. English Railroad Cars. The editor of the Addison Advertiser thus describes the railroad cars in England. He says: We took our seat, entering the side of the car, and then we began to inspect the vehicle in which we had been placed. It consisted of a box, (this is all we can call it) about five feet wide and seven feet long, in which were crow? ded six persons. As we sat there we could not help but compare such accommodations with the magnificent and commodious accommoda? tions for railroad travel furnished by the much abused managers of the Erie Railway, and then a longing came over us for the land of our adoption?America?and the scenes we had left behind. This railway passes throughsomc of the finest counties in England, and the pas? senger may well imagine himself as being waf? ted through a garden the entire distance? about 205 miles. This train made but three stops, landing us in London a little after 2 o'clock, running a portion of the distance at the rate of 70 miles an hour. We have made up our minds that English know nothing about comforts in railway traveling, while the Amer? icans know nothing about rapidity upon the rail, for no first-class train goes at a less rate of speed than 60 miles per hour. The cars here are about 16 feet long, and 7 feet wide, with three apartments, each apartment seating 6 or 8 persons. Every railway official *br person in in any way connected with the railway, is dressed up in a liveried suit. At each station yon have to show your ticket before taking a seat in the car, and when you leave it, before you can get out of the enclosure, you deliver your ticket to a man at the gate, and then you are allowed to pass out. The system ol tele? graphing the departure of a train from one station for the next, is very simple. The rail? way signal wire is on little stakes by the I side of the railway, which are about two I feet above the ground; the many wires on high poles, as in America, belong to the Government and are not used by the railway company. At I each station is erected a building about 12 feet I square, called a signal station, and it is to this I that notice is given that the train has left the I next station and is on its way to that. As soon I as the signal-man receives such information he opens a door to his cage and rings a bell, to I give the passengers notice that the train is I coming. At points where the road has branches I leading in other directions the same signal I houses are erected with the addition of switch I levers, so that if a train is on the main track I running at full speed, it can be switched off in I an entirely different direction without slacking J the speed a particle. It seems singular to be I riding along in a railway car at the rate of 60 j miles an hour up above the chimneys of the I tallest houses. At Clapham Junction there are I eight hundred trains leave daily. At London I Bridge and Charing Cross there are about fifty I different railway tracks, and it puzzles even the j "oldest inhabitant" to know whether he is or I he is not right. There are no such persons as I conductors; but each train is accompanied by I two guards, one on each end of the car. The j habits and customs of the people are much dif I ferent from that of America. Here every per I son either riding or walking takes the left, bo I also with the railway trains. The Gauge of Railroads. J The gauge of most of the United States I roads is on the American Standard of four feet I and eight and a half inches. The Railroad Gazette, of Chicago, one of the best authorities, I compiles some facts, showing that there are about 41,000 miles of "standard," or four feet eight and a half inch gauge in the country, and J only 2,059 miles of the six feet guage,. The standard gauge is used on all the roads center? ing in Chicago, and all the main trunk lines (with their branches) passing across the conti j nent east and west, excepting the Erie and the I Atlantic and Great Western, the Albany and j Susquehanna, and the Delaware and Lacka wanua, both of which are operated by the Erie," have the six feet guagc also; but the prospects are that all these will reduce their gauge to the I standard width before many years. There are j also causes at work to induce a reduction on the Lackawanua and the Delaware and Sus I quchanna. The change of the Great Western of Canada, J from a broad to a narrow gauge, was efTected j by degrees ; that is a third rail was laid down I to accommodate the cars of other lines, while I the rolling stock of the Great Western itself I was kept at the broad standaid. Lately, how? ever, the outside rail has been taken up alto I gether, and the rolling stock of the company ] and gauge of its branch roads been altered to I the medium standard. I At the South, however, there is still a gen I eral adherence to what may be denominated I the Southern standard, viz, five feet the gauge I of a majority of the roads, except some in the I Southwest, which are five feet six inches. Al I ready the standard of Northern gauge has pen? etrated well into the Southern States and con I ati- *fes the gauge of the following Virginia I railroads: Richmond and Petersburg, 46 miles; j Petersburg Railroad (Petersburg to Weldon), 82 miles; Seaboard and Roanoke (Norfolk to Weldon), 80 miles; Wilmington and Weldon, 181 miles; the Raleigh and Gascon 97 miles; I Atlantic and North Carolina (West by north to I Goldsboro), 95 miles, and the North Carolina Railroad (Goldsboro to Charlotte), 223 miles; j in fact all the roads of any consequence in the j State, except the Atlantic, Mississippi and j Ohio, running from Norfolk westward. The St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad I of Missouri has the five foot gauge, and to that I have several connecting lines in Arkansas, and one (the Cairo and Fulton, partly built) in Il? linois has been built to conform. The new roads in Missouri and Arkansas, however, have generally the standard gauge, and one impor? tant Missouri railroad (the Missouri Pacific) has been altered through all its 283 miles of the track to conform to the national standard. As to the extreme narrow gauge?by which we designate the tracks of three feet, or less, which are being laid on the Colorado and Rio Grande, and one or two less extensive lines this side of there?it is not likely to interfere seri? ously with any of the trunk lines or other roads whose economy is identified with a first class service. It will be found very useful in mountainous districts, where the curves and grades are sharp, and where the business is mostly in freight. ? The four seasons?mustard, salt, pepper and vinegar. ? Happiness can be made quite as well out of cheap materials as of dea r ones. ? What is the difference between a hungry man aud a glutton ? One longs to eat, and the other eats too long. An Illinois agricultural society offers a premium to the couple who will bring to the lair grounds the largest number of children, grand children and great ditto. ? A Brooklyn mother advised her daughter to oil her hair, and fainted flat away when that candid damsel replied, "Oh, no, ma; it spoils the geutlemen's vests." ? No one should attempt to do more than one thing at a time. When you have finished slandering your neighbors, go and say your prayers, but don't attempt to do both at once. ? A minister asked a tipsy fellow leaning up against a fence where he expected to go to 1 when he died. "If I can't get along any better than I do now," he- said, "I shan't go any where." J ? It has been decided by medical authori? ties that "if a man has a good appetite, sleeps well,.and feels buoyant in spirits after his meals, he should let his health alone, whether he is as big as a hogshead or as thin as a fence rail." ? During a fine star-light evening lately a three-year-old philosopher, after a silent and aud apparently profound scrutiny of the heav? ens, asked his mother,, abruptly, were the stars came from. Mamma replied: "I don't know, Willie; I don't know where the stars came from." Well, you bet I do. The vwon laid 'em J Hovr to Save Manure at Home. Mum. Editors Banner of the South and Planters' Journal?There is no work that pays me so well as making manure on my own plan? tation, as I make it a business, and attend to it as well as I do to chopping out my cotton, and am at it all the time, and it pays me well. See? ing the Dickson Fertilizer company of Augus? ta have offered premiums equal to a thousand dollars in cash, for upland crops made on home made manure, it may be some young farmer will care to know a good plan for saving and using all the elements of manure that go to waste on his own land, and I will give my plan, with the remark that he will do well to follow it till he finds a plan that is better. Home? made manure is the best of all kinds, and the average cost of it need not be over one dollar per ton, ten tons being more than equal to one ton of the best guano sold. I do consider, however, the Dickson Company has done well to put a premium to encourage this branch of economy on the plantations, for the more one makes at home, the more he finds, he needs, and will buy. Nine-tenths of our people don't know what rich land will do, and when they find it out all sorts of manures will be proper? ly appreciated. But to my plan. I have an old mule and dump cart, and hire an old darkey every year, whose only labor is to haul manure and stuff to make it. I never stop him to send to town for the mail, nor to chop cotton, nor to pick cotton even. Every day that old man hauls with his mule, and if ever I have a spare hand from the crop I send him to help in the same business. Leaves an pine straw to fill my stalls and put under my cow sheds, and the same mixed with rich dirt from the woods to cover all my lot a foot or two deep; sweepings from the yard, garbage from the garden and droppings from stock outside the lot and in the highways to put on the com? post heap ; now and then a barrel of lime or plaster from town to use in composting. All these the cart gathers in from day to day. My stables are cleaned out and littered as often as the stalls get a little foul, and all the cleanings go under the manure shed to rot "down thor? oughly, and now and then a peck of plaster thrown over it to save the ammonia. Or, if the manure shed is full, then I haul to a con? venient spot in the field where it is to be used, and there make into a neat heap and cover well with earth. If it is very damp and strong, some dry earth mixed in with the pile occasionally prevents evaporation and fire fanging. My noree lot or barn-yard is cleaned out but once a year, the litter being put in gradually, so each layer becomes well tramped. All my cattle and hogs are turned in here every night, and occasionally a little corn thrown to the hogs on the litter, to set them to rooting and turning it over, which makes it all the better. In winter I can usually haul as much as 200 to 300 cart loads from this lot alone; but in doing this all my teams and hands help, as it is the biggest job of the kind in the year. Any time after corn is gathered I begin to haul out and bank up manure in the field in convenient piles and cover over with dirt. My compost heap is made altogether from about the house and garden and wood pile. All the rotted chips, cinders, ashes, yard swteep ings and garbage go on this pile, with some? times a little lime to decompose it thoroughly, and strong soapsuds from the wash pot poured on. This makes the finest and richest of all mat*ure heaps; and while it costs least of all, being built up almost entirely by house ser? vants in cleaning about the yard and garden, it will often prove equal to one-third its weight in Peruvian Guano. The hog pen, when I am fattening my hogs, is a source of the best of all manures. My old carter throws in a load of litter every day or two, filling the pen a foot deep by the time the hogs are killed, and I find this the,most dura? ble in its effects of all the manures I have ever used. I do not know how many tons of all sorts of manure I get every year. I think with all my hauling back and forth, I get three cart loads 'on an average every day available for use, counting, of course, all the help I put on the hauling in the winter aud spring. This would give nine hundred cart loads, equal certainly to three hundred tons, and worth, at my calcu? lation, $1,508 at least. And all this is, as I may safely say, the yield from one man and liis cart, with only such help as I can throw in conveniently. I use my manure liberally as I go, sometimes putting two hundred cart loads to an acre, often one nundred, and when once such a liberal dressing is plowed in, that land will be rich for several years and works easy, and does not suffer from drought so readily. I consider the increased yield in one year, from the manure saved the year previous, pays liberally the cost of saving and applying it, and leaves me the increased yield every subse? quent year as net profits, equal to 75 per cen? tum. I find also, that on land well improved with my home-made manure, a very small applica? tion subsequently of commercial manures makes a more wonderful yield than a thousand pounds would do on land that has not had my home composts on it. The richer my lands arc with home-made manure, the better it pays me to use guano on the same land. Mr. Editor, I have had such success in the practice of my plan that I want to see every plantation doing the same way, or a better way. The secret of my success is, that I make ma? nure saving a special business, and never put it aside to do anything else. On my farm, in the fence corners, and in the woods and branch bottoms, are millions of bushels of corn and wheat, now in shape of dead leaves, rich dirt, &c. I am saving it daily and converting it into manure. It pays well. The same is true on every plantation in Georgia. Let us not ignore the fertility that lies at our door, and reach out to buy to a ruinous extent abroad. Yours truly, Old Man. ? A Virginia editor, in noticing the state? ment that tight-lacing saves the country S2, 000,000 annually in board alone, says it is a villainous and habitual lie. He knows a girl who laces so tight that his arm will go round her and lap over clear to the elbow; and one wouldn't think, to look at her, that she could eat anything but soup, but she's got an appe? tite like a cross-cut saw, and she mows a swath at a table like a self-raking reaper. ? Why are young ladies so partial to sun? set and twilight? Because they are daughters of Eve. ? Greeley advises young men not to pur? chase farms that abound in cold springs, be? cause a cold spring is apt to ruin the crops. The Temperance Advocate. -o ENLABGED, HIPBOVED AND ISSUED WEEKLY. SHOULD BE IN EVEBY FAMILY. 1,600 SUBSCBIBEBS WANTED. TWO DOLLARS PEE ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. -o THE cause of Temperance has advanced so rapidly in South Carolina, that it has be? come necessary that there should be a live, ac tivo and zealous oxponont of its principles. We have, therefore, determined to publish the ADVOCATE weekly, and to enlargo and im? prove it in every respect. Whilst it will be do votcd to total abstinence, it will, nevertheless,, be made acceptable toevery fireside. The-read? ing matter will bo of tho purest and most se? lect character. Arrangements have been made to get the most prominent temperance men in the State to- make contributions to its columns. It will also havo correspondents in every nor tioo.of the State, who will keep our readers fully informed as to tho progress of tho cause? we have put the price of the Aovocate so low that it way be in the roach of aLL Only a limited and select nusmber of adver? tisements, will be received. To AoknuSv?A discount of ten percent, will I be allowed on all new subscriptions. Address j P. P. BEARD, Columbia, 8. C. July 20, 187 1 3 I DON'T OVERLOOK THIS. No Charge for Showing Goods. npHE subscriber has just returned from New I York, and is now receiving a large and well-selected stock of Goods, which he is confi? dent can BE SOLD LOWER Than any stock of Goods ETEB BROUGHT TO THIS MARKET. His st eck consists, in part, of Calleoes, Cambrics, Lawns, Percales, Muslins, Mozambique), Japanese Cloths, Mohairs, Organdies, Delaines, Alpaccas, Jaconets, Swiss, Nainsook, Blea. & unblea. Shirting and Sheeting, Plaid & Striped Homespuns, Bed Tickings, And, in fact, everything else belonging to the Dry Goods line. I have also an unusually large and cheap stock of Mens', Ladies, 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 and CASSIMERES. My Gents' Furnishing Department Is complete in everything usually kept in U> at line Of Fancy Goods and Yankee Notions, I have an endless variety. All of the latest styles of? Ladies' and Misses Hats and Bonnets, Mens', Youths' and Boys' Hats and Caps, Hosiery, Gloves, Collars, Cravats, Toilet Soaps, Ribbons, Laces, Gimps, Embroideries, &c. GROCERIES, HARDWARE, IRON, STEEL, HOLLOW-WARE, SHOVELS, FORKS, SPADES, HOES, AXES, HATCHETS, HAMMERS, &c, &c, &c. Be sure and examine my stock before purcha? sing, for I am confident I can sell you goods. A trial is all I ask. M. LESSEE, No. 3 Granite Row, .Anderson C. EL, S. C. April 6, 1871 40 SHARPE & TOWERS Have lately be-sn receiving Shoes and Boots, Dry Goods, &c. Our stock in all the departments, viz: Dry Goods, Shoes and Boots, Hats, Clothing, Hardware, Crockery and Glassware, Leather, &c, Groceries and Provisions, viz: Bacon, Lard and Flour, Is complete, and we are offering BARGAIN'S to CASH BUYERS, and our old friends and customers. We wish to reduce our stock by the first of October. Please give us a call. We charge nothing for showing our Goods. Our motto is and shail be, Quick Sales and Small Profits. ?gf Call at No. 7 Granite Row, Anderson C. H., S. C. SHARPE A TOWERS. August 3, 1871 5 Greenville & ColnmMa Railroad. Columbia, 8. C, March 1,1871. ON and after thb date, the following Schedule will be 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 Bail road: UP TRAIN. Leave Columbia.7.00 a. m " Alston.0.10 a. m. " Newbcrry.?.11.15 a. m. " Cokesbury.3.00 p. m. " Belton_.- 5.00 p. m. Arrive Anderson. 6.00 p. m. " at GreonvUle..6.30 p. m. DOWN TRAIN. Leave Greenville.6.15 a.m. Anderson-....-.-6.45 a. m. Belton_............ 8.04 a. m. Cokesbury.10.07 a. m. Abbeville.-.8.15 a m. Nowberry.- 1.50 p. m. Alston.~.- 4.05 p. m. Arrive Columbia_.~.? 6.55 p. uu M. T. BARTLKTr, General Ticket Agent. Marsh 2\ I&71 3? SHARPE & TGWEHS, Agents for the Brown Cotton Gin. THESE GINS are highly recommended by a number of men throughout the Cotton States, and have taken more premiun s than any other Gin during the same period. VewiH have some of these Gins in store for exnibition and sale in a few days. We would ask all who are in want or a GOOD GIN to give us a calL SHARPE & TOWERS. July 13,1871 2 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. 8 Granite Row, up stairs, over Watson & Bro's. Store, Anderson C. U. Jan 6, 1871 27 Fresh Rock Lime! JC. C. FEATHERSON has constantly on hand a good supply of fresh ROCK LIME? will sell by the barrel or bushel?cheaper than it can be had from any one else. Apply to WAT? SON & BRO., Anderson C. H. June 1, 1871 48 3ra Fruit Cans! A NEW style of FRUIT CANS, made of Tin, and so ar ft ranged that any person can seal them hermetically at home, wiili little trouble. Price, forquart Cans, 12J-* cents each, or per dosen. Kept constantly on hand, in large quantities, at 6 DAWSON'S TIN SHOP, ? Depot Street. Jim? 8, lflrti 40 an Turnip Seed. LANDRETH'S Early Flat Dutelh, PomeraK niahi GJtobe, Large Norfolk, Yellow. Ruta Baga and Seven Top> Turnip Seed, fresh and jrenuine, for sale low by SHARPE A TOWERS. July 27. 1871 4 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, common and ordinary, 6x3 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. 6 inches. 14 to IS Head Stones, 3x1 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 160 No. 1 Heavy Paneled, with posts... 175 to 190 Lettering.3 cents a letter. At our Shop we put up those ?250 Tomb? at $160, and guarantee to furnish as good ma? terial and heavier paneled work for The same. Parties wishing Marble Work will find it to their interest to call on us. T. WILDMAN & CO. May 25,1871 47 1871. SPRING TRADE. 187L CE???ET. 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 GOODS, GUNS AND PISTOLS OF ALL KINDS and PRICES. AMMUNITION, SPORTSMEN'S GOODS. Goods shipped to any part of the country per express. The same careful attention given to or? ders by mail as to personal purchases. Price* for our goods based on gold at par. POULTNEY, TRIMBLE & CO., 2oO W, Baltimore Street, BALTIMORE, MD, April 6, 1871 40 ly IMPORTANT NOTICE TO CONSUMERS OF DRY GOODS. Al] Retail Orders amounting to $20 and Over Delivered in a ny Part of the Country JEVee ol Express Cliarg-es. HAMILTON EASTER & SONS, OF BALTIMORE, MD., In order the better to meet the wants of their Retail Cus? tomers at a distance, hare established a SAMPLE BUREAU, and will, upon application, promptly send by mrril fuIT lrhes> of Samples of the Newest and most Fashionable Goods, of FRENCH, ENGLISH and DOMESTIC MANUFACTURE, guaranteeing at all times to sell as low, if not at less prices, than any house in the country. Buying our goods from the largest and most celebrated manufacturers in the different parts of Europe, aud im? porting the same by Steamers direct to Baltimore, our stock is at all times promptly supplied with the novelties of the London and Paris markets. As we buy and sell only for cash, and make no bad debtrY we are able"and willing ?o sell our goods at fkom Tes to Fifteen Per Ckxt. Less Profit than if we gave credit. In sending for samples specify the kind of goods desired. We keep the best grades of every class of gootls, from the lowest to the most costly. Orders itnaccompanted by the cash trill be sent C. O. D. FKOMPT-PAYING WHOLESALE BUYERS are inrl ted to inspect the Stock in our Jobbing and Packing De? partment. Address HAMILTON EASTER Jb SONS, 107, KK>, 201 and 203 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Md~. Oct 2", 1S70 18 ly WAVERLY HOUSE, Anderson, S. C. -* JOHN A. MATES, Proprietor. THE WAVERLY HOUSE has been repaired and fitted up, and has now a magnificent ap peatance. Mr Mayes is lately of Abbeville, and is well known as a good Hotel keeper. The House has been newly furnished, and has all the modem improvements and com Torts, and will give the best the country affords in way of fare, which will be served up in the best of style. Slop and see us, and you will be well treated, March 23, 1S71 38 H. H. SCUDDAY, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, ANDERSON C. H., S. C, RESPECTFULLY tenders his services to thr citizens of Anderson Village and vicinity. 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 Obst erics, and dis? eases of women and children. When not professionally engaged, he can usu? ally be seen at the Drug Store of Messrs. Simp? son, Hill & Co., or at the residence formerly oc? cupied by J. B. Sloan, deceased. Marek 23, 1871 38 6m m. goldsmith. p. kind? GOLDSMITH & KIND, F0UNDEBS & MACHINISTS, (jrncEXix ibon woaxs,) COLUMBIA, S. C.? MANUFACTURERS of Steam Engines, of alt sizes -T Horse Powers, Circula? and Muley Saw Mills, Flour Mills, Grist and Sugar Can* Mills, Ornamental House and Store Fronts, Cast Iron Railings of every sort, including graveyards, residences, Ste. Agricultural Implements, Braes and Iron Castings of all kinds made to order od . short notice; and on the most reasonable terms*. Also, manufacturers of Cotton Presses, &c. May 18, 1871 46 It [Water wheesl. Mill Gearinf ,Shaftin|&PuHevs .SEND FOR A ClBCULlfC^ Sept 16,IS70 12 ly wm. nr.jiuv Tasscor. w. w. U0XFHBBT8? TRESC0T & HUMPHREYS, Attorneys at Law, WILL practice in the Courts of the Eighth Circuit, and in the United Stales Court Office in Broylos' building, opposite the Beasoa House, Anderson C. H. Fob 9, 1871 32