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A correspondent of the New York World gives the following summary of his experience in the Court of General Sessions as a juror, which will prove interesting to such as are familiar with the duties of that onerous posi? tion : Several weeks ago I received a notice from the Commissioner informing me that I had been drawn as petty juror iu the Court of Gen? eral Sessions, and would be required to there present myself on the first day of the ensuing month. Being desirous to personally partici 1>ate in an experience of criminal life, I sedu ously refrained from seeking any excuse, and resolved to do my duty as a man and as an American citizen. So, arriving in the court room at arr^barly hour, I took my seat within the inner railing, and improved the time by studying the situation and surroundings. Out? side, in that portion of the room devoted to male witnesses and spectators?the seats on an ascending plane, as in a theatre?was as mot? ley a collection of individuals as could well bo found. People well-dressed, ill-dressed, and only partially dressed, were jumbled together in a most variegated confusion, nor were want? ing faces well befitting this variety in costume. It was comparatively easy for even an inexpe? rienced physiognomist to distinguish between the witnesses and the friends of the prisoners, come to testify on their behalf cr to sympa? thize with, their fate?be it acquittal or convic The study of these countenances is inter? rupted by the opening of a door at the further end of the apartment, and a stir in that neigh? borhood. Heads are turned and bodies bent curiously around-to see the cause of this com? motion. It is the arrival of the day's batch of criminals, marching in from the van which has brought them from the Tombs. A queer-look? ing lot, but the greater number owning that vicious type of face which is as unmistakable an index of its possessor's character as if it were written upon his forehead in legible words. Then com? the rattle of clanking handcuffe, and one by one they are swallowed by the prisoners' box, only to emerge on the call of the District Attorney. All this time my fellow-jurors have been ar? riving, and I now take the opportunity to no? tice those with whom I am associated. Two circumstances first attract my attention?the large proportion of Germans, and next, how many of them are young men?that is, men who* cannot have voted at more than one Presidential election. A very great majority are apparently men of intelligence, competent to think clearly and judge fairly. Two or three, however, are undoubtedly of that obsti? nate, chuckle-headed race who, having imbibed one poverty-stricken idea into that odd com? pound "which they are pleased to call their minds," are immovable as the everlasting hills, to which class belonged tbe celebrated Judge who wanted to hear only one side of a case, because when both had spoken they confused him so that he was unable to decide. Most of the cases are for larcenies, either grand or petty ; the former when the property stolen is above the value of $25, and the latter when under. These are often uninteresting, though now and then some droll incident will enliven the proceedings. In one of the last cases of the term two small boys were arraign? ed for petty larceny?stealing some chickens, I think, was their offense. They pleaded guilty, and, as it was the first time they had ever been in trouble, the Judge, as he usually does in such instances when good character is proven, suspended judgment, the more particularly that the mother of one of the boys interceded for himT and testified to the strength of her affec? tion for him, which, I trust, exceeded that of her arm. No sooner were the boys told that they were free than, following her unfortunate offspring, she swung her ha'nd around and dealt him a most lusty cuff on the side of the head that made him stagger; then, as he start? ed to run, she gave him a tremendous thump on the back. Perceiving this eflusion of ma? ternal feeling, he incontinently bolted, she after him. It is feared that the boy did not enjoy himself when he arrived home. Au extremely odd instance of circumstan? tial evidence occurred in one trial which is worthy uf being recorded. Workmen, going in the-moroing to the building at the corner of Broadway and Leonard street, found there a man who, not being able to give any good ac? count of himself or what he was doing in that place, was banded over to the police, taken to the station-house, and detained for examina? tion. He was previously searched and a bro ken-Waded knife taken from him. Hardly had this been done than a porter, belonging to a store in Leonard street, about eight buildings from the corner, came in to announce that the store had been broken into during the night. It had been entered from the scuttle, boxes ransacked and several drawers forced open, in one of which he had found about three-quar? ters of an inch of a knife-blade. The ser feant immediately thought of tbe broken laded knife taken from the suspicious man, and compared the two?they fitted together ex? actly. Upon this a detective was Bent to ex? amine the new building, and discovered from the roof a rope hanging down about twenty feet to the adjoining building, whence was a clear level to the store entered. Around the open drawers were noticed drops of candle grease, and the end of a candle was found in a pocket of the suspicious man's trousers. Af? ter the verdict, the prisoner was identified as one convicted of burglary several years ago, but whose sentence bad been postponed on condition that he would leave the country. This he never did, and so, being adjudged guilty, thai overlooked bit of the knife-blade cost him five years at hard labor in Sing Sing prison. One of the mysteries of a large city came out in a trial for manslaughter. The defen? dant was standing at the door of a saloon when he saw a tipsy man coming down the street, followed by a jeering, buzzing crowd of boys and girls. The man picked up a large piece of paving-stone and was about to throw it at two ?f the children, who were running away from him, screaming, when the prisoner knocked it from his hand. Upon this, the man struck him; they clinched and the assailant was thrown down. Rising to his feet, he staggered on a few paces and again fell. Being picked up, he was found to be dead from* concussion of the brain. The prisouer was acquitted, but it came out that nothing had ever been discov ed concerning the identity of the dead man. He was advertised, his body exposed at the Morgue, and every means taken to secure pub? licity; but all to no purpose. No trace?not even the slightest clue?was ever found as to who he wa3 or whence he came. Conjecture can exhaust itself in vain ; he may have been utterly friendless and alone, or he may have left a mourning family in some distant quarter. He is buried in Potter's Field aud has vanish? ed as thoroughly from the earth as though he had never here appeared. It invested the case with a certain weirtl interest; tto specta?: cle of a man coming from nowhere to die and vanish in oblivion. It is not my intention to give a resnme of the month's proceedings, or I might easily ex? pand this article to an inordinate length. But if any of my readers wish to have an experi? ence?startling in the sense of being brought face to face with this vast mass, which lives by crime, seething beneath our feet?which will give him a wider range of knowledge and a more intimate acquaintance with the hidden workings of our intricate, complex life, let him serve on a petty jury at General Sessions. Who Wrote the Constitution 1 The following communication, which we copy from the May number of the "Southern Maga? zine," will be read with deep interest by every South Carolinian: To the Editor of the Southern Magazine: Sir?Having read with much interest a re? cent communication in a daily paper on the subject of the authorship of the United States Constitution, I have carefully examined the journals of the great convention which framed and adopted that illustrious contract and form of government, and have verified tho correct? ness of the statements adduced in that article, viz: 1st, that the original brief draft or plan of a federal constitutiou was; on 29th May, 1787, presented to the convention by that distin? guished lawyer, Charles Pinckney, of South Carolina; 2d, that the complete report of the present Constitution of the United States was written, and on bth August, 1787, submitted to the convention by tho chairman of a special committee, the eminent statesman and jurist, John Rutledge, of South Carolina, who had been chief justice under the old Confederation, and who had, in the first convention of the Colonies (held in New York in October, 1765, and called the "Stamp Act Congress") written the celebrated memorial to Parliament, and afterwards the Constitution of South Carolina, of which separate sovereign State he was Pres? ident from 1773 to 1778, and was afterwards, in 1795, chief justice of the United States. The descendants of those two distinguished states? men have claimed for South Carolina, that her well-known interpretation (being that of its au? thor,) as well as that of the great statesmen Calhoun, McDuffie, Preston, Hamilton and others of South Carolina's ablest men, is to be considered (like that also of Jefferson and Madison) and to be accepted as the true con? struction. This is a matter of great impor? tance to the South, and particularly to South Carolina, where it has always been contended that the author of the constitution must have known more of the true meaning of his own production than any other man, and where his friends and descendants well know that he al? ways claimed the perfect right of any State of this confederacy of republics to leave the part? nership in the same manner as each had en? tered it, viz: by the action of the primordial organic convention of the people of each sep? arate State, (wherein alone the true sovereignty resides,) being the supreme constitution-making government-making power. The separate pri? mordial conventions of tho States of New York, Virginia and Rhode Island, in adopting and ratifying the United States Constitution, expressly declared that they "reserved to them? selves the right to reassume the powers delega? ted whenever they should be perverted to the injury of their people"?in other words, the absolute right of secession, which was thus first asserted and maintained by the State of New York as her reserved and sovereign right. In regard to the authorship of the constitu? tion, it is indeed a remarkable fact that this most important question should have been so completely neglected and ignored, and that credit should never have been given to the dis? tinguished Rutledge, of South Carolina, for the composition and completion of the most admi? rable form and system of government (before its recent destruction) that was ever devised by the wisdom of man ; while the author of the Declaration of Independence has been almost deified for that mere declaration of liberty and separation from the mother country?a paper certainly far inferior to h is other great declara? tion of the sovereign rights of the States con? tained in his celebrated Kentucky resolutions of 1798-9. The authorship of the United States constitution has been usually aud with? out consideration attributed to Madison, who was styled "the father of the constitution f which designation has led to the belief that this great production had been composed and written by him, whereas the truth is that (as shown by the journals of the convention) he was not even upon the committee which framed and reported the constitution, but was (as him? self declares) bo constantly occupied in writing his own journal and commentaries that he had not time even to participate to any extent in the debates of the convention. The .title of "father of the constitution" was bestowed upon I Mr. Madison for the following reasons: 1st, because he had first proposed the calling of the convention to frame that instrument; 2nd, be cause he had so earnestly and industriously ad? vocated it in his able essays in that admirable work called the Federalist; 3d, because be had 1 so ably supported and carried its adoption in \ the Virginia Convention against the united op position of all the other most distinguished men of Virginia, amongst whom was that great orator and statesman, Patrick Henry, who with wonderful prescience and prophetic vision predicted the very infamous state of things that now exists, and declared that if the constitution as it stood should be adopted with? out further restrictions upon the general gov ernment, it would result (as it has) in a few leading aud designing demagogues inducing Congress to usurp all power, and to destroy the prerogatives of the Executive and the Judicia? ry. It may be regarded as one of the signs of the degeneracy and demoralization of the pres? ent era that the importance and value of the constitution in its original purity are so utterly disregarded, and that consequently its author? ship should be equally ignored and neglected. Still it is with a lingering hope that there may be yet some few patriotic statesmen and schol? ars who would be ashamed of being ignorant of the authorship of the greatest political pro? duction of our country, and who would wish to be able to answer the constantly repeated in? quiry of foreigners, "Who wrote the constitu? tion of your country?" Wanted a Skillet and Didn't Drink. ?The Lebanan (Ky.) Herald tells the follow? ing: Judge Greene relates that, as he was walk? ing down West Main on Monday afternoon, he met a venerable man, red at eye, unkempt of look and out at elbow, who modestly asked him for a quarter. "Stranger," said this impe? cunious patriarch, "I'm a movin' tor Arkan saw?me and the old woman, and the childun, and John (John's my oldest son,) aud his wife and his childun?and, stranger, my steers run away with the waggin jest afore we got to town, back here, find broke every bit of crockery war' we had; didn't even leave us a skillet to bake a hoecake in for the childun, when we camp to-night. And, stranger, a gentleman back here gimme a quarter, and I thought if I could fet you to gimme another quarter, maybe could go back to town and get a skillet." "You want it to buy a skillet, do you ?" asked the Judge "Oh, yes, stranger, I want to buy a skillet," he replied; and then, as if it had suddenly occurred to him that his temperance principles might be impugned, he added: "As for whisky and brandy, I haint teched a drap in forty years." "Well," said the Judge, who is always ready to listen to an appeal for char-! ity, but who was a little suspicious of the in? tended destination of the desired quarter, "go with me back to the square and I will get you a skillet." "Stranger," returned this ancient man, "I am afeared the waggin '11 get too fur ahead of me ef I go back. Good eveniu', stranger." And off he tramped, skilletless aud quarterless. ? The man who by mistake dressed his hair with croton oil, finds his new wig very comfort? able nnd bgcumiug, j Our Oldest Inhabitants?Two of Them,, John Bascomb is now living in Coon Hollow, Raccoon co., State ov Iowa. He iz 196 years old, and kan read fine print by moon-light 33 feet oph. He remembers Gen. Washington fust rate, and once lent him 10 dollars teu buy a pair ov kaff skin boots with. He fit in the revolushun, also in the war ov 1812, likewise in the late melee, and sez he won't take sass now from enny man living. He is a hard shell baptiss by religion, and sez he will die for his religion. He was konverted 150 years ago, and thinks the hard-shell iz the tuffest religion thare iz for every day wear. He sez that one hard shell baptiss ken do more hard work on the same vittles during a hot day than ten episkopali ties. He haz always used plug tobako from a child, and sez he lernt how to cheu bi watching a cow cheu her cud. He haz never drunk enny intoxikating licker but whiskey, and sez that no other licker is healthy. He thinks 3 horns a day is euufTfor health. He haz alwus voted the dimokratik ticket for the last 170 years, and walked, last fall in sloppy weather, 18 miles, to vote for Jim Buch? anan. He haint never Been a rale-road yet, nor a wimmin'e right convenshun. His greatest desire, he tells me, iz teu see Gen. Jackson, and sez that he shal go next year down teu Tennessee teu see him. He fatted a hog last year, with his own hands, that weighed 636 pounds after it was drest and well dried out. He is very cheerful, and sez he won 7 dollars on the weight ov this hog, out ov one ov the deakons ov the hard? shell church. He deklares this teu be one ov the proudest acksidcnts ov his life, for the dea kon was known far and near as a tite kuss. He tells me that for 90 years he haz went teu bed at just 17 minutes after 9, and has arozen at precisely 6 o'clock tbe next day. The fust thing he does in the morning iz teu take a short drink, about 2 inches, and then fur an hour before breakfasst he reads the al manax. {Iwill hear state that it iz "Josh Bil? lings' Farmers' Almanax" that he reads.) I asked him hiz opinyun ov gin and milk az a fertilizer. He pronounsed it bogus, and sed that the good old hardshell drink, whiskey un? adorned, waz the only speerits that never went bak on a man. . Hiz habits are simple. For brekfast he gen? erally et four slices uv psalt pork, 3 biled per tato::e, a couple ov sassagis, 5 hot biskits, a doz? en hard boild eggs, 3 kups of rhye coffe, a small plate ov slapjax, sum phew pickles and cold cabbage ana vinegar, if thare waz enny left from yisterday's dinner. His dinner waz alwus a lite one, and he sel? dom et ennything but some biled mutton, sum korried beef, sum kold ham, and sum injun pud din teu top oph with. Hiz suppers were mere nothing, and konsis ted simply ov kold korned beef, kold biled mutton, and, once in a grate while, a phew sli? ces ov kold ham, with mustard and hoss red? dish. I examined hiz'bead and found that he had all the usual bumps in a remarkable stats ov preservashun. He haz a good ear for music, and whissclled me Yankee Doodle, with variashuns. He was born a shoemaker, but hasn't dun ennything at the trade for the last 125 years. He enjoys the best ov health, but just now he iz teething, which he tells me iz hiz 7th sett. He is a firm beleaver in the darwin theory, and sez he used teu hear his grate-grandfather tell ov a race ov men sumwhere down on the coast ov Florida, who had sum little ov the kaudle appendix still remaining. On the subjckt ov marriage hiz hed seems to be on a ded level. He sed "that he had been married 15 times, and proposed again teu Han? nah Campbell, a lady in the neighborhood, who was 28 years old. I asked him what he thought hiz chances were for obtaining the lady's hand, and he sed "it lays between him and one Theodor, Whit? ney, a traveling korn doctor," and added: "if Whitney don't look out i will enlarge his head for him." Upon mi asking him what he attributed his immense life and vigor to, he sed, in a clear and distinkt voice: "To 3 small horns ov whiskey a day, Deleav? ing in the hard shell docterin, and voting unan? imously the democratik ticket." I thankt him very much for tbe information he had given me ov himself, and asked him if he had enny objekshun to mi putting it into print, and he manifested a great desire that i should do so, not forgetting to make special meushun ov what he had sed about enlarging Whitney's Head for him, for he thought that would clear him out ov the naborhood. I left John Bascomb after a delightful visit ov four hours, and thought over teu miself, if thare was enny two rules for long life that had been thus far discovered that waz alike. The more i thought ov this, the more i wish? ed i could cum acrost Methusefer for a feu minnitts, and hear him tell how he managed. ELIZIBETH MEACHEM. Lib Meachem (as she iz familiarly called in the township whare she resides) iz one ov the rarest gems ov extenuated mortality that has ever been mi blessed luk teu cnkounter. She is not so old as Bascomb bi about two years, being about 194 years old. Next to Lot's wife she iz the best preserved woman the world contains. I reached her place ov residence early in the morning, and in one minute after i told her mi bizziness, her tongue had a phull hed of Bteam on, and for three hours it run like a stream of quicksilver down and inklincd plain. I asked her a thousand questions at least, but not one of them did she answer, but kept talk? ing all the time faster than Focbahontas kan pace down hill teu saddle. Az near as i could find out she had lived 194 years simply because she couldn't die without cutting short one ov her storys. I asked her teu sho me her tonguo?I wanted to Bee if that member waz badly worn ; but she couldn't stop it long enuff teu show it. Thin woman haz reached her enormous age without eny partikular habits. She haz outlived every body she haz kum akrost, so far, by out-talking them. The only subject that I could for a moment kart the flood over her language with, was the fashions; but this was a subject upon whitch i unfortunately wasn't much. As a last hope ov drawing her out upon sum fakts as teu her mode ov life, i tuched upon that all-absorbing topick teu both old and young?I refer now teu matrimony. Her fust husband it seemed, was a karpenter, and, teu Use her own words, "was too lazy teu talk, or teu listen while she talked, and so he died." Her Beckond husband was a pretty good talker but a poor listener, and, tnareiore he died. Her third husband was a deff and dum man, and, az she remarked, "either he or she had got teu die, and the man died." Her fourth husband undertook teu out-talk her, and died early. In this way she went on deskribing he.: hus? bands ; 12 in fll. Az i rose teu depart i sed teu her, sollemn ly: "Elizabeth Meachem, yu hav been much married, and mutch an inkosolate widder?at what time ov life do vu think the married state ceases teu be preferable 1" She replied : "You must ask somebody older than I am." ? The difference between a blunder and a mistake is this: When a man puts down a bad umbrella and takes up a good one he makes a mistake; but when he puts down a good one and takes np a bad one he makes a blunder. ? A New York lady has comforted herself | by constructing a bod quilt of 7,251 pieces, and a rural editor says; "It makes one sleepy just to took at iti? i An Historical Trial. In the year 1856 the British Government sent a fleet, under Admiral Byng, to relieve the Island of Minorca, then threatened by a power? ful French expedition. When Byng arrived at Port Mahon he found the British flag still fly? ing over the castle of St. Philip. The next day the French Admiral bore down with his whole force. Admiral West, the second in command, dispersed the vessels opposed to him, but Byng kept aloof, and the next day he re? treated, sailing to Gibraltar and leaving Minor? ca to its fate. For this act he was tried by court martial and acquitted of cowardice or treachery, but condemned by the twelfth arti? cle of war for not having done all in his power to relieve St. Philip and defeat the French fleet. He was shot on the quarter-deck of the "Monarque," and never, since his tragic death, did another British Admiral imitate his pusil animous conduct. j At the beginning of the French Revolution, Marshal Luckner aud Generals Custine and Hochhard lost their heads on the scaffold in fmnishment of blunders or inefficiency, and the esson was not lost upon the Generals who suc? ceeded them. It seems in the light of recent events that a similar example is needed" and is likely to be made in the case of Marshal Bazaine. When Louis Napoleon made his great Coup d' Etat in 1851, he removed from command all the Generals who were hostile to him, and many of those whom he promoted to their places had no other claim than their subserviency. Bazaine was different in one respect. He possesses very considerable military ability, but he is entirely destitute of moral rectitude. Commodore Mau ry knew him well in Mexico, in Maximilian's time, and believed him to be utterly unprinci? pled. So much so that on hearing of Bazaine's assignment to high command, the Commodore predicted that disaster would result to France if Bazaine's interest came in conflict with his duty. Every one remembers Bazaine's strange in? action in Metz?his stratagem to get rid of Bourbaki, whose integrity he feared; his secret negotiations with Bismarck, and his consulta? tion with the Empress after the Empire had been abolished by the only constituted author I ities of his country. He has been denounced ! in the most bitter terms, and numerous officers of every rank who served under him at Metz? including his own nephew?have charged him with treason to his country. It is true that the military vanity of the French has often in? duced them to attribute to treason the defeats that were due to their own blunders; but in this case there seems to be no doubt that Ba? zaine, in his opposition to the Republic, sacri? ficed the interest of his country to that of a dynasty under which he expected to play the first part. He did not sell his army and his fortress for Prussian gold ; but his desire and expectations were to make terms with Bis? marck, and to be allowed to march out from Metz with his array to overthrow the Republic and establish a Regency under the nominal government of the Empress, but in which he would have been the power behind the throne. His personal ambition blinded him. He de? ceived his officers and his garrison?he refused to cut his way out of Metz?he refused to co? operate with MacMahon, and finally he sur? rendered his command under the most disgrace? ful circumstances. These accusations might be supposed to be the voice of popular prejudice alone. But the Marshal has condemned himself before hand. Confident of impunity after so many months since his surrender, be has published a book in which he clearly admits having abandoned his role of commander-in-chief of an army of one hundred and seventy-five thousand men, the last hope of his country, to engage in political negotiations which, under the circumstances, were clearly treasonable. Never was a more flagrant case in so high a rank. If so many poor privates have suffered the inexorable pen? alty of military law for comparatively venial offences, the welfare of France and the future efficiency of her armies require that a solemn example be made of the Marshal who could thus betray his duty and his country. The last dispatches inform us that Bazaine has been placed under arrest. His residence is sur? rounded by sentinels to prevent all communi? cation with him, and he is guarded at sight by a Colonel. He will speedily appear before a Court Martial, and his trial will be one of in? tense interest. Another French General is also to appear before a Court Martial at bis own request. It I is General DeWimpffen, who was forced by his rank to sign the capitulation of Sedan. One hour before the surrender, he wrote to the Em? peror Napoleon in these words: "Sire, I have decided to force the lines in front of Generals Lebrun and Ducrot, rather than be taken pris? oner in the fortress of Sedan. Let your Maj? esty come and place yourself in the midst of the troops. They will make it a point of honor to force a passage for you." The only reply to this manly appeal was the order issued by Napoleon himself to raise the white flag; and in a letter dated from Chisel hurst not more than a week ago, the ex-Em? peror avows that he alone is responsible for the capitulation which will brand him forever in French history as "the man of Sedan."?? Wil? mington Journal. ? This story is going the rounds again: An Arkansas judge had his law office close to a certain doctoPs?in fact, they were separated only by a plank partition with a door in it.? The iudge was at his table busy with his briefs and bills in chancery. The doctor was writing a letter, and pausing at the word economical, called out, ''Judge, isn't e-q-u-i the way to spell equinomical ?" "Yes, I think it is," said the judge; "but here's Webster's dictionary; I can soon tell." He opened the book and turned over the leaves, repeating aloud, "e-qui nomical?e-quinomical." Finding the proper place, he ran his eye and finger up and down the column two or" three times, until he was thoroughly satisfied that the word in question was not there. Closing the book with a slam, the judge laid his specs on the table, and rising slowly, broke forth, "Well, sir, I've been a Daniel Webster man, and I voted for him for President; but any man that will write as big a dictionary as this, and not put as common a word as 'equinomical' in it, can't get my vote for anything hereafter." I ? Country bauks can take no better precau- I tion than to have a first-class safe with a lock very difficult to open; at the same time they ought to have somebody around who knows how to open it in case of necessity. A New t Hampshire bank lately obtained a valuable safe with a patent combination lock, and stowed the valuables therein, but everybody forgot the combination, and it took a brawny blacksmith j all day to get into it. ? A local minister, in announcing a lecture I by an itinerant brother, paid the following high [ compliment to the lecturer's great eloquence : I "I have often heard the most famous men in I America; but there are times when the flame I of his pathos licks the everlasting hills with a roar that moves your soul to Ihe depths fath? omed by few other men." I ? Josh Billings says: "I know of many farmers who are 6o afflicted with theory that they won't set a gate post until they have had the ground analyzed by some professor of anat? omy, to see if the earth has got tho right kind of ingredients in it for post holes. That's what I callrunning theory into the ground." ? Tho query for discussion before the Bcn ncttsville Debating Society, a short timo ago, was, in substance, as follows: Which is more powerful, the love of woman, or the love of jnoney ? After being discussed with the ardor that usually marks the proceedings of such bodies, it was decided that woman ftsej'to the more powerful influence, j All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? A person whom we can put up with? good hotel-keeper. ? In a game of cards, a good deal depends on good playing, and good playing on a good deal. ? Waste of wealth is sometimes retrieved; waste of health, seldom; but waste of time, never. ? An English girl, who was about to be married, preferred to steal something and be sent to jail. ? A lady, in instructing her daughter in the use of the needle, said: "As I tell you to sew, so sew; but do not merely sew so so." ? A man who had lost his eyesight by read? ing a borrowed paper, recovered it soon after subscribing for the Anderson Intelligencer. ? An old lady in Maine, whose son was caged for evil doing said they were "going to get him clear on a writ of cholera morbus." ? A dandy, with a cigar in his mouth, en? tered a menagerie, when the proprietor reques? ted him to take the weed from his mouth lest he should learn the other monkeys bad habits. ? The other day, an excited individual ac? costed a street gamin with the question, "Say, bub, which is the quickest way for me to get to the railroad depot?" "Run!" was the re? sponse. ? It is reported that there are seventy-five counties in Texas in which there is not a single Sunday school. It would spoil the paragraph to state how many of them have no white pop? ulation. ? A little boy asked a lady friend of his mother's who made her teeth. She replied, "God." "Well," remarked the young hopeful, "Dr. Freeman made mother's, and they beat yours by a darned sight." ? A lady was examining an applicant for the office of maid-of-all-work when she inter? rogated her as follows: "Well, Mary, can you scour tin-ware with alacrity?" "No ma'am, I always scour them with sand." ? Josh Billings says: "There is one thing about a hen that looks like wisdum, they don't kackle much until after they have laid their egg. Sum pholks are alwus bragging and a kackling what they are going tew do before? hand." ? If screws are warmed and dipped in mel? ted tallow it will prevent rusting, and they can always be unscrewed with ease. A large quan? tity of screws can be greased in a few minutes, and the operation is one which will ultimately result in a great saving of time and labor. ? "How many children have you ?" inquired a gentleman of one of his laborers, looking around in surprise upon the family. "Better then a dozen, sir." "I only make out eleven," said the gentleman. "Faith, an' isn't that bet? ter than a dozen, when one has to feed them ?" I exclaimed the laborer. ? A machine at New Haven performs the whole procjss of making needles without the manual labor of any person, and turns out 30, 000 to 40,003 of them. Another machine picks them up ami arranges them, heads and points together, and the third piece of mechanism puts them into paper. ? It is a good plan for all fruit-growers to apply lime freely in their orchards every two or three years. A half-bushel to each tree, or one hundred bushels broadcast to each acre, will suffice. Light, loamy lands will be the best benefited by the lime, and shell-lime is better for fruit than the usual stone-lime. SINGER SEWING- MACHINE The Best Machine in the World. THIS assertion is made by all agents selling Sewing Machines?that is, their's is tho best; but what I wish to say is this: For every person who wants a Machine at this time, ?r think they may get one at some future time, to call and see for themselves some time while in Anderson. I will take great pleasure in exhibiting this unrivaBed Sewing Machine to you. Tho Ladies are especially invited to call. It is needless for me to enumerate the long list of different kinds of work, but suffice it to say that it will do everything ever done on a Sew? ing Machine. It runs very light, makes very little noise, and the best of all, it has by far the least machinery; therefore less liable t? get out of order. Besides, I will keep the Machine in good order for Ten years. My office is in the Masonic Hall, where I always keep from twenty to thirty Machines on hand. It is worth your trouble for coming simply to see so many labor-saving machines together. ELIAS CLARKE is carrying tho Machines through the country, and will visit anv one's house wishing to see the Machine. So now is the time to get something to help the weary wife, mother, sister or friend out in their work. Respectfully, JOHN H. CLARKE, Agont, Anderson, S. C. April II, 1872 40 ' GENTS' , FURNISHING STO?E. I THE undersigned would respectfully inform the public that they are now receiving from New York a fine assortment of Goods in their I line, such as? French and English Cloths, Cassimeres and Vestings, SHIRTS, HATS, And other articles usuaUy kept in a Gentle? man's Furnishing Store. We are also prepared to CUT and make up to order in the LATEST and MOST AP? PROVED STYLES, and guarantee satisfaction in every instance. Givo us a call that wo may prove to you what we say. J. B. GLARE & SON, East End Masonic Building. April 4, 1672 39 REMARKABLE! Notwithstanding The HIGH TAXES! SIMPSON, HILL & CO. ARE still on hand with an unusually largo stock of almost everything kept in our lino. We would call special attention to a very large and varied assortment of GARDEN SEED, Suited to our climato, including Onion But? tons, Setts and Irish Potatoos, fresh from tho Seed Garden. Also, PAINTS, LINSEED, TRAIN, MACHINE, VESTAL and KEROSINE OILS, Of the best brands. It Is needless to speak of MEDICINES, PERFUMERY and other articles, of which tho public am aware. CaB and see us at the Golden Mortar. SIMPSON, HILL <fc CO, ftl) 8,1*71 V SIXTY-FIVE FIBS? PBIZE MEDALS AWABDED. THE GREAT Southern Piano MANUFACTORY. Wffl. KNABE & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF GRAND, SQUARE AND UPRIGHT PIANO FOETE8, BALTIMORE, MB. TITE.SK Instruments h.ivc been before the Public for nearly Thirty Years, and upon their excellence alone attained an unpurchascd pre~ eminence, which pronounces them unequalled, in TONE, TOUCH, WORKMANSHIP and DURABILITY. ?gr All our Square Piaxos liave our New Improved Overstrung Scale and the Agraffe Treble. ??r Wo would call special attention to our late Patented Improvements in GRAND PI? ANOS and SQUARE GRANDS, found in no I other Piano, which bring the Piano nearer P?r j fection than has yet been attained. Every Piano Fully Warranted for Five Ysars. We are bv special arragement enabled to furnish PARLOR ORGANS and MELODE ONS of the most celebrated makers, Wholesale and Retail, at Lowest Factory Prices. Illustrated Catalogues and Price Lists prompt? ly furnished on application to WM. KNABE <fe CO., Baltimore, Md., Or any of our regular established agencies. Jan 4,1872 2? 6m TRAVEL BY RAIL, WHEEL AND SADDLE. LIVERY and SALE STABLES AT WALHALLA and ANDEESON, BT THOMPSON Sc STEELE. THE undersigned have formed a partnership in the above business at the points named, and have supplied themselves liberally with the best Vehicles, Horses, Drivers and Ostlers; Grain, Forage, Ac., for the accommodation of the traveling public. Hacks, Carriages, Buggies or Saddle Horses, can be had at all times, by the day or week, at reasonable rates; and wo are prepared at a mo? ment's notice to convey passengers from An? derson or Walhalla to the terminus of the Air Line Railroad, or to any other point desired. The Stables at Anderson will be under the immediate charge of T. J. Steele, and those at Walhalla under the direction of A. W. Thomp? son, each of whom will give his personal su? pervision to the business, and spare no pains to give general satisfaction. ?Sr- The patronage of the traveling publie respectfully solicited. A. W. THOMPSON, T. J. STEELE, Walhalla, S. C. Anderson, S. C. Nov SO, 1871 22 GEO. S. HACKEE, Door, Sash and Blind Factory, Charleston, S. C. THIS is as largo and complete a Factoiy aa there is in the South. We keep no Northern work to fill country orders. ?SOr Send for Price List. Address, GEO. S. HACKER, . P. 0. Box 170, Charleston, S. C. ;/S?* Factory and Warerooms. King Street, op'positc Cannon Street, on line of City Railway. Sept 7,1871 10 ly Doors, Sashes, Blinds, &c. P. P. T O A L E, . Manufacturer and Dealer. Ho. 20 Hayne Street and Ecrlbeci's Wharf, CHALESTON, S. C. jS$y THIS is tho largest and most complete Factory of the kind in the Southern States, and all articles in this line can be furnished by Mr. P. P. Toaijb at prices which defy competition. ?&- A pamphlet with full and detailed list of all sizes of Doors, Sashes and Blinds, and the prices of each, will bo seut free and post paid, on application to P. P. TOALE, Charleston, S. C. July 13, 1871_2_ly h. bischoff. c. wtlberx. j. h. pieper. HENRY BISCHOFF & CO., Wholesale Grocers, and dealers in Wines, Liquors, Segars, Tobacco, &c., 197 EAST BAT, Charleston, S. C Feb 29,1S72 34 6m M. GOLDSMITH. GOLDSMITH & KIND, FOUNDERS & MACHINISTS, (PnffiSIX IRON' WOBKS,) COLUMBIA, S. C, MANUFACTURERS of Steam Engine?, of ?11 sizes : Horse Powers, Circular and Mulcy Saw Mills, Flour Mills, Grist and Sugar Cane Mills, Ornamenial House and Store Fronts, Cast Iron Railings of every sort, including graveyards, roshlcuocs, &o. Agricultural Implements, Braes and Iron Castings of all kinds mude to order on short notice, and on the most reasonable termi. Also, manufacturers of Cotton Presses, &c. May 18, 1871 46 ly Tobacco! Tobacco! rpHE undersigned will keep constantly on hand, at w holemlo or retail, all brands of Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, at tho lowewt prices. Also, a supply of Tobacco kept at Mr, James A. Drake's. I am now located at An? derson C. IT.. west end of tho Benson House, where I will bo pleased to see my old custo? mers and friends. I have t. full stock of the hest Llqurrs and Confectioneries, which will bo sold at reasonable figures. Look out for the Blue Sign. T.J.LEA*. March 7, ?ff a ^ Sai*