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HOYT & CO., Proprietors. VOLUME X.?NO. 16. A TOUCHING ROMANCE IS REAL LIFE. Not loDg ago, in passing through Macon, Hon. T. J. Ferry, of Arlington, Ga., and Sena? tor elect from his district to the Legislature, met with a terrible accident under the most distressing circumstances, as follows: Mr. Per? ry was on his way to Savannah to claim as his bride, on the next Thursday, Miss Anna Har? rison, the charming daughter of Gen. George P. Harrison, one of the best and most influen? tial citizens of Chatham county. At the time the accident occurred, he was engaged in ear? nest conversation with a friend at the depot, when suddenly the Savannah train moved off. He followed as fast as possible in the hope of overtaking it, and when running rapidly, and blinded by the glare of the lights, encountered the locomotive of the Augusta train as it en? tered the depot. When too late to escape, he had the presence of mind to throw his body as far as possible from the track; but, alas! one leg was caught beneath the ponderous wheels and crushed almost to atoms. Mr. S. A. Por? ter and several other gentlemen rushed to his assistance, and the mutilated sufferer was ten? derly borne to the Brown House, and medical aid summoned. Mr. Brown and his estimable wife and many other ladies and citizens were unremitting in their attentions to the wounded man, and nothing was omitted that could pos? sibly be done for his comfort. The physicians decided that immediate amputation was neces? sary, and the operation was speedily and skill? fully performed. Now for the sequel, which-is graphically de? scribed by the Macon Telegraph, in giving an account of the marriage ceremony, which took place at the house originally designated, but under far different circumstances than was im? agined by the contracting parties: It was the writers' privilege yesterday, at 4? S. m., to witness the union of two loving and evoted hearts, under circumstances of the most trying and distressing character. The dramatis persona on this unique and in? teresting occasion, were Senator T. J. Perry, of Arlington, Ga., and Miss Anna A., the daugh? ter of Gen. George P. Harrison, of Chatham county. The former, it will be remembered, only three days since had his leg terribly crushed by a locomotive in the car shed, rendering am? putation necessary. The intelligence was telegraphed to his affianced In Savannah, and, like a true woman and blessed angel of mercy, accompanied by her father, she hastened to his side. In her case there was no revulsion of feeling?no seeking to recall the plighted troth?no hesi? tancy in casting in her lot with a maimed and bleeding lover forever, come weal, come woe, in sunshine and in shade. On the contrary, he became the more endeared to her, and she re? garded him? "Even as a broken mirror, which the gloss In every fragment multiplier and makes A thousand images of one that was, The same, and still the more, the more it breaks." Anxious to minister to the comfort of the being who heaven had set apart for her com? panion through life, to his entreaty feebly utter-: ed on a couch of languishing, she at once re? plied with noble candor, and consented to as? sume the duties of the wife immediately. The nuptials were accordingly solemnized, as stated, at Brown's Hotel, yesterday after? noon, in the presence of the father of the bride, a brother of the wouuded husband, and about a dozen other ladies and gentlemen. Rev. George N. McDonnell, of this city, officiated, the bride dressed in black, and sit? ting by the bedside of her afflicted lover. Never was a wedding ceremony more im? pressively rendered, or the responsibilities of the marital relation made to appear in stronger colors. The responses of both the principals were distinctly audible, a soft light beaming from the eyes of the gentle bride as she devo? ted herself to the care and happiness of the feeble sufferer to whom her fate was now in dissolubiy linked. And if ever mortal looked serenely content and happy, albeit his sad con? dition, it was the young Senator who so recent? ly had exchanged the triumphs of the hustings for the long confinement of a sick chamber. The concluding prayer of the minister was replete with pathos and fervor, and his earnest appeals in behalf of the married pair found an echo in every bosom. The ceremony over, each guest after a word of greeting quickly retired. Who can doubt that angels' wings hovered around that sub? lime and almost weird scene? The love of woman is indeed beautiful .and. fathomless. May long years of blissful peace reward the fidelity and constancy of these hearts now by the alchemy of Cupid transformed into one. A Letter From Db. J. P. Boyce.?The Charleston News and Courier is permitted to publish the following letter from the Rev. Dr. Boyce, who had been accused of joiniug Mr. Reed, of Anderson, in the belief that the Con? servatives should, as a choice of evils, vote for the Ring nominees: Louisville, Ky., Oct. 15,1874. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of 10th, enclosing a report of the resolutions by Col. J. P. Reed at a meeting at Anderson, and of his remarks thereon, and also of a state? ment by the editor of the Charleston Sun "that from private sources they had heard that the Rev. Dr. James P. Boyce, or Greenville, had taken the position with Mr. Reed." If I haa been in South Carolina lately, or if I had written or spoken to any person about the present canvass for Governor, I might be puzzled to imagine what, with my views on the subject, I could have said or written which has been misconstrued. But as it is, there is not eveu this shadow of foundation for the state? ment made by the Sun. There is not a senti? ment in the reported views of Mr. Reed with which I concur. I have never for a moment entertained the opinion that South Carolina could be redeemed through the party which has nominated Mr. Chamberlain for Governor. I do not believe that the State can ever secure from it an honest administration. Its own ac? tions forbid any confidence in its promises of amendment, or any hopes that, even for policy sake, it will abandon the corruption which has so constantly marked it. I have not said these things lately, but only because I have been far away from the State, and have not written or spoken about politics at all, but I trust that my old friends in South Carolina will ever hesitate to give credence to Srivate advices which represent me as aban oning principles which I nave so persisteutly maintained, and to which I have so frequently given utterance. Yours truly, James P. Boyce. ? Hon. A. H. Stephens, with great beauty and force, says: "The true principle which lies at the foundation of right, for which the mas? ses have ever been struggling, was first announ? ced by Him who spake as never man spake: "Do upto other* as ye would have them do un? to you." In that sublime utterance from the Mount, first and only promulgated there, we find the perfection of human justice rightly un? derstood j.nd consciously practiced. It covers all the reciprocal rights, duties and obligations of every member of society." Practical Advantages cf the "No Fence" Law. The "no fence law" is in operation in four townships in this (Mecklenburg) county. The law went into effect in March, when the people were busy preparing to plant the present crop. Nearly all succeeded in getting sufficient pas? ture fenced for the stock kept on their prem? ises. The law works admirably. The thought of never again having to scratch our hands with briars and thorns, and tangle our feet with grape vines while mending our old dilapidated fences, is too good to entertain one moment without almost shouting for joy. While those who work on the old plau of fencing up their fields, will be busy this winter making rails, hauling and building them on their crazy fen? ces, we will be clearing up our rich fence rows for a luxuriant crop another year. And while they are paying out their money for these re? pairs, we are spending the same in compost heaps, clover lots, and fall and winter plough? ing. Instead of being a disadvantage to croppers, it has proved the very reverse. The land owner sees it is to his advantage to provide his croppers with a sufficient amount of pasture for all their stock. If, however, any one should fail to do this, his more just and wise neighbor will have the refusal of his hands. When this law first went into effect, many of the freedmen threatened to leave the township; but they are here yet, and until it can be clear? ly shown that the negro has an unconquerable desire to maui, haul and build rails, we think he will very likely remain where he is. Nearly all the trouble we had was on the line. Some said the fence would be burned down ; others that it would be thrown down and not allowed to stand; but, as far as we know, not a single trespass on it has been made. Outsiders keep up the fence to save their stock from tho pen? alties of the inside law. Insiders keep it up to save their crops from the depredations of outside stock. Many persons feared that in fencing up pas? tures, country roads would be obstructed by gates; but, on the contrary, it has almost to? tally annihilated the gate system. No wise man will make his pasture on both sides of the road, knowing that the first careless traveler may cause stock to run at large on his own farm. County roads can be so arranged by the gen? erosity of land owners, as to shorten the former routes of travel at least one-third. When a farmer wishes to drive his wagon over his premises, he is not troubled with the old sys? tem of laying down and putting up fences. By cutting a few bushes along some of those places we call glades (which before were not worth fencing up,) he can mow loads of hay. Hundreds of acres can now be cultivated, which before could not be profitably fenced. A poor man can now buy a piece of land and live com? fortably on it, although there may not be a rail tree upon it.?Charlotte {N. C.) Democrat. Activity and Individual Effort.?The ' Chester Reporter makes the following sensible observations upon the duty of every man to vote and work for success in this campaign: It is not very surprising that good men should be disgusted with politics when there is so much trickery, chicanery and villainly, but it is strange that they should be so dishearten? ed because of a few failures and stand aloof from all participation in affairs so vitally affec? ting the interests of their homes, their State and country. Indifference and apathy on the part of substantial citizens are just what Radi? cal corruptionists want. In a country like ours and especially at a time like the present, politics is a business of supreme importance. The effects of bad government are seen on ev? ery hand, are felt in every household in the land and will continue tobe felt a tenfold great? er burden, so long as meu with arms folded des? pairingly ask what's the use of making any effort or even voting against extortion or cor? ruption. The elective franchise is not a mere form or privilege to be exercised or not accor? ding to fancy, whim or caprice, but a sacred right held in trust partly for others?a right which the man can not disregard, in times like these, without sinning against his family, so? ciety and his God. There is no remedy for the pillage, disorder, riot and ruin upon us except in the union of active, earnest, honest and true men, who, by their exertions and votes, may secure the local government and administer it in accor? dance with the principle of constitutional law and justice. This remedy will be applied when every man of character and honesty resolves himself into a working committee, when he realizes fully the great importance, the prime necessity of individual effort. The Late Democratic Victories in tite Northwest.?-The result of the late elections in Ohio and Indiana are indeed gratifying from any standpoint, but we rejoice mainly, not so much because the number of Democratic Rep? resentatives upon the floor of Congress has been increased, as we do because of the evi? dence we have thereby given to us that the people of the North no longer give credence to the lying statements circulated among them by Radical emissaries about Southern "outra? ges." The time has passed by in Ohio and In? diana, at least, when the public mind can be deceived by Radical lies, even though put forth under the auspices of so important a personage as the Attorney-General of the United States. It is this truth, now demonstrated beyond the possibility of a doubt, that gives the inestima? ble value to the victories in Ohio and Indiana. First, we had the attempt to fire the Northern heart about the so-called Trenton massacre in Tennessee, then we had the Coushatta massa? cre in Louisiana, then we had the overthrow of the Kellogg government in the same State. Then we had Senator Patterson and his budget of outrage lies from South Carolina. Then we had Charles Hays and his budget of outrage lies from Alabama, and then we had the Chattanooga Convention and its congrega? tion of budgets of lies from every Southern State, save only North Carolina. And what was the result? Was the Northern heart fired ? Not at all. On the contrary we find that in? stead of being inflamed by these stories of law? lessness and crime in the South, an it would have been at any previous election, the North? ern heart remained calm and serene, and re? sponded nobly to the appeals of the Democrat? ic party to discard passion for patriotism. Verily, we have great cause to hope that we have begun to see the beginning at least of the end of all our troubles.? Wilmington Journal. ? The Elmira (New York) Advertiser says : "Mr Henry B. Fitch, of this city, contemplates a monument to the memory of the Confederate dead to bo placed at Woodlawn Cemetery, in this city. It ifi to be of artificial stone, twen? ty feet in height, a single shaft supported by a plinth, base and subbase, not possessing much, if any, ornamentations, but being of graceful proportions and noticeable on many accounts. On one face are the inscriptions "fiequiescat in Pace;' "1874," "Erected by a Union Officer in Memory of the Confederate dead.'" ? Pickpockets are persons who take things easy. Narrow Gauge Railways. The agitation of a narrower gauge for rail? ways, which occupied so much space in indus? trial papers some two or three years ago, has not beeu without substantial fruits. Railway men in many parts of our country have paid serious attention to the subject, and though there have beeu aud are doubters iu the feasi? bility of the plan, the general voice of tbe public is in favor of them. The great deside? ratum to be obtained in tbe construction of railways is a reduction of the present great cost of their building and running. The heavy rolling stock of a company takes a serious amount from the profits of the road, and com? pels repairs in the track and at the curves, far oftcner than is consistent with good dividends. In addition to this, and perhapfi the most powerful objection to our present plan of rail? ways, is the fact, that this great demand of capital for the construction of a road must work serious harm to thinly-settled countries, whose inhabitants cannot command the requi? site wealth for the building of a road. The first notable example of a narrow gauge railway was the Festiniog road, in Wales. This road has been used entirely for the heavi? est freight, and can be run at a speed of from forty to fifty miles an hour. In the section of country it drains, it would be an absolute im? possibility to construct a broad-gauge railway without the expenditure of millions of dollars, yet the Festiniog Railway, built at a compara? tively trifling cost, serves the purposes of the country and moves freight profitably, when the construction of a line of railroad with a broad? er gauge would not only be unprofitable but impracticable. Probably the most important narrow-gauge railroad in this country is the Denver and Rio Grande. This road has a gauge of but three feet, and the results of their working have beeu eminently satisfactory. The company has saved about 37? per cent, in the first cost of the construction and equipment of its road, by reason of the adoption of a cheaper gauge. It has the same capacity &9 it would have with the regular width of track, and runs its trains at the same rate of speed at which the trains west of the Missouri river are run. We quote from its last annual report: "The trains?passenger and freight?have been run at the same rates of speed which have prevailed on the Pacific lines, and on all the other broad-gauge roads west of the Mis? souri river, and when required on special occa? sions have run with steadiness at 30 and 40 miles per hour. The passenger cars have proven comfortable, and at least as steady in riding as those on the wider roads, and the freight cars have carried satisfactorily all classes of traffic, bulky and concentrated. There has been no accident on the road, and the centre of gravity of the cars is so much lowered that one could hardly occur that would be traceable to the gauge. In addition to first and second-class passengers, the road has car? ried during the past year freight of a great va? riety in character. Besides heavy articles? coal, ores, stone, lumber, iron, hardware, grain, etc.?it has carried wool, furniture, hay, wag? ons, and other freight of the most bulky and lightest nature; while, of course, on this last class, the benefit derived from the gauge by the saving in dead car weight has not been so great, yet there is no class of freight upon which the proportion of paying to non-paying weight has not been in favor of the narrow gauge as com? pared with the wide." What more testimony is required? The fi? nancial system of the country is in such a chaos to-day, that it would be impossible for any, but a road with remarkable promise to obtain mon? ey sufficient to construct its line on the regular plan. To the South these facts are especially interesting. Her great need is better railway communication, and narrow gauge roads arc what she needs. Tributary branches can be ruu from every county to connect with the leading roads of the country. Every section can bring its productions into market without the payment of exorbitant freights. Railroads will be run with fewer complications, and the smaller the expenditures the more the profit. We shall refer to this subject again, and hope to prove clearly and conclusively the great ad? vantages of a narrow gauge. Don't?Please Don't. Don't tell the little one, who may be slightly willful, that "'.he black man will come out of the dark cellar and carry it off if it does not mind." Don't create a needless fear to go with the child through all the stages of its exis? tence. Don't tell the little five-year old Jimmy "the school ma'am will cut off his ears"?"pull out his teeth"?"tie him up"?or any of the hor? rible stories that are commonly presented to the childish imagination. Think you the little one will believe anything you tell him after he becomes acquainted with the gentle teacher who has not the least idea of putting those ter? rible threats into execution? Don't tell the children they must not drink tea because it will make them black, while you continue the use of it daily. Your example is more to them than precept; and while your face is as fair as a June morning they will scarcely credit the oft-told tale. Either give up drinking the pleasant beverage or give, your children a netter reason for its non-use. Don't tell them they must not eat sugar or sweetmeats, because it will rot their teeth. Pure sugar does not cause the teeth to decay ; and sugar with fruits is nutritious and healthy, notwithstanding the "old saw" to the contrary. The case of city children is often cited as if the cause of their pale faces and slight constitution were an over amount of sweetmeats with their diet, when the actual cause is want of pure air and proper exercise. Don't tell the sick one that the medicine is not bad to take, when you can hardly keep your own stomach from turning "inside out" at the smell of it. Better by far to tell him the sim? ple truth, that it is disagreeable, but necessary for his health, and you desire him to take it at once. Ten to one he will swallow it with half the trouble of coaxing and worry of words, and love you better for your firm, decided manner. Don't teach the children by example to tell white lies to each other and to their neighbors. Guard lips and bridle your tongue if you desire to have the coming generation truthful. Truth? fulness is one of the foundation stones of heav? en. Remember the old, old Book says, "no liar" shall enter within the gates of the beauti? ful city. There is no distinction between white lies and those of a dark hue. The falsehood is an untruth, whether the matter be great or small.?Rural New Yorker. ? A youth asked permission of his mother to go to a ball. Siie told him it was a bad place for little boys. "Why, mother, didn't you and father go to halls when you were young?" "Yes, but we have seen the folly of it," said the mother. "Well, mother," exclaim? ed the son, "1 want to see the folly of it, too." ? An exchange has an acquaintance whore marks that he has often heard the proverb, "A friend in need is a friend indeed," but he says he can't see where the laugh comes in. He has a friend iu need who is always borrow? ing money of him. Important Proclamation by the Governor. Executive Department, ) Columbia, S. C, October 22, 1874. J Whereas, Numerous complaints have reached me from various quarters of the State that the several political parties are not ade? quately represented in the Boards of Commis? sioners of Election, as at preseut constituted ; and whereas, this lack of representation has iven rise, in many instances, to grave appre 3nsions of trouble in the conduct of the ap? proaching election ; and whereas, it is the duty of the Executive to give the whole people of the State all proper and reasonable guaran? tees for the sanctity of the ballot-box, and a full and fair expression of the popular will through its instrumentality: New, therefore, I, F. J. Moses, jr., Governor in and over the State of South Carolina, do issue this, my proclamation, making the fol? lowing changes in the Boards of Commissioners of Election in the several Counties of the State: Aiken?A. D. Atwood and D. S. Henderson, vice S. J. Lee and L. L. Spencer, hereby re? moved. Abbeville?J. R. Tolbert and J. W. Perrin, vice H. H. Ellison and T. N. Tolbert, hereby removed. Anderson?John R. Cochran and J. S. Murray, vice T. J. Webb and James Gilmer, hereby removed. Barn well?T. J. Counts, vice W. A. Ner laud, hereby removed. Beaufort?L. S. Langlev, T. Hamilton and Wm. Elliott, vice E. F. English, E. J. Raven? nah and J. J. Cohen, hereby removed. Charleston? R. H. Willoughby, John A. Mushington and C. Richardson Miles, vice C. C. Bowen, T. G. Boag and R. M. Gregorie, hereby removed. Chester?John McDaniel, vice Dublin J. Walker, hereby removed. Chesterfield?G. W. Du vail, vice G. W. Brewer, hereby removed. Clarendon?J. F. Rhame and Jared War ley, vice Augustus Collins and W. R. Burgess, Sr., hereby removed. Colleton?S. A. Jacoby and J. C. Harrison, vice David Sanders and J. K. Terry, hereby removed. Darlington?J. B. Middleton and F. F. Warley, vice John Lunney and Jonathan Wright, hereby removed. Edgefield?John L. Addison, vice L. Cain, hereby removed. . Fairfield?George Holly and J. H. Rion, vice W. M. Nelson and Moses Martin, hereby removed. Georgetown?Bruce Williams and B. H. Wilson, vice R. 0. Bush and S. P. Gibson, hereby removed. Greenville?J. P. Latimer and John W. Stokes, vice Thomas Brier and James E. Scho field, hereby removed. Horry?Charles Johnson and Thomas F. Gillespie, vice J. H. Derham and H. W. Jones, hereby removed. Kershaw?Frank Carter, E. M. Pinckney and W. M. Shannon, vice R. E. Wall, Ammon Reynolds and J. F. Sutherland, hereby re? moved. Lancaster?F. A. Clinton, B. J. Wither spoon and J. F. G. Mittag, vice John G. Marks, Benjamin Montgomery and Thomas S. Riddle, hereby removed. Laurens?N. J. Holmes, vice John Evins, hereby removed. Lexington?S. Corley and H. A. Meetze, vice John A. Williams and Shadrach Harris, hereby removed. Marion?J. M. Johnson and W. A. Hayne, vice W. H. Collier and L. F. Spencer, hereby removed. Marlboro?C. W. Dudley and n. Coving ton, vice J. L. Breeden and Thoraas \V. Allen, hereby removed. Newberry?H. C. Mosesand W. H. Thom? as, vice H. B. Scott and Simeon Young, hereby removed. Oconee?Alexander Bryce, Jr., and W. C. Keith, vice Elias Jenkins and Johnson Wright, hereby removed. Orangeburg?T. C. Hubbcll and S. Dibble, vice J. P. Mayes and J. H. Fordham, hereby removed. Pickens?R. E. Bowen, vice W. A. Lesley, hereby removed. Richland?John Agnew, Sr(> vice Josephus Whetstone, hereby removed. Spartanburg?J. H. Evins and D. R. Duncan, vice Daniel Twinney and Alfred Tol leson, hereby removed. Union?Vincent Farr and W. H. Wallace, viceJ. W. Defaur and S. A. Hawkins, hereby removed. Williamsburg?W. W. Ward, S. A. Swails and S. W. Maurice, vicebl. J. Hirsch, Philip Heller aud Benjamin Mouzon, hereby re? moved. York?W. B. Wilson, viceJ. G. Enloe, here? by removed. The warrents of appointment, together with the oaths of office, will be forwarded immedi? ately to the above named appointees, who, after having filed their oaths in accordance with law, will at once enter upon the discharge of the du? ties of their office. Their attention is hereby called to Chapter VIII, Title II of the "Revised Statues of South Carolina." F. J. MOSES, Jr., Governor S. C. Gerrymandering.?When Elbridge Gerry, after being twice defeated, became governor of Massachusetts in 1810, he planned, or at least sanctioned, a law for carving the State into acute-angled districts, the majority of which could be depended upon to return democratic legislators. One of the means used to oppose the measure was the publication and circula? tion of a sketch of the long-drawn, distorted districts of eastern Massachusetts. A copy of it was posted on the wall of a Newburyport newspaper ollice. A casual visitor added head and claws to it, and said to the editor: "See this salamader." The lattder, filled with sudden inspiration, replied : "I'd call it a Gerryman? der," and Elbridge Gerry was damned to ever? lasting fame. When he died, two years later, as vice-president of the United States, he knew that gerrymandering was already a common word, and that the practice it denoted was rap? idly becoming common. The efforts of him? self and his descendant to shake off the odium of the invention, though they resulted in con? verting the later editors of Webster's Diction? ary into the belief that he was innocent (vide the Dictionary,) were of no avail with the pub? lic. Such a safe method of stealing the votes of a helpless minority was sure to be practiced. It was already named and the name stuck. All parties gerrymandered whenever they got into power. It is only very recently that pub? lic morality has reached such a high pitch that protests against the practice have had any weight. Even now it would be hard to find any politician sufficiently sinless to cast the first stono at the idea.? Chicago Tribune. ? "Somebody has noticed that nineteen out of every twenty newspaper men have straight noses," says an exchange. Now every news? paper man in the country will be breaking mirrors, trying to see if lie is the twentieth man whose nose is crooked. Washington News and fcossip* Washington, October 19. The result of the Ohio and Indiana eicclicns has aroused the administration party to the re? alization of the great peril in which the Radi? cal cause is now placed. It is impossible to conceal that the most serious misgivings are now entertained as to the success of the party next month in New York and Pennsylvania. If the Radical party should lose its hold on those two great States, it is admitted that its chances of success in the next Presidential election are worth vdy little. Conscious of this, there is a renewed activity at the head? quarters of the Radical Congressional Cam? paign Committee in this city. The indications are already very plain that the Radical mana? gers here, in New York and Pennsylvania, and indeed throughout the whole country, will work with all the energy of despair from now until the ides of November. When Attorney General Williams gave np the famous landaulet which brought his over? weening ambition to grief, it was supposed that, in due course of time, all other Govern? ment officials, who were sporting handsome equipages at the public expense, would follow his example. Since last winter, attention has been several times call to this matter, but there are a number of high officials who continue to defy public opinion by drawing money from the Treasury to keep up carriages for their families. No less a person than Senator Conk ling, of New York, has remarked that Senators have as much right to keep carriages at the public expense as any of the department offi? cials. This view seems to be rapidly coming in favor, and several members of both Houses now say that they are determined either that the department officials shall stop this practice or that Congressmen shall enjoy the same privilege. To-day the Secretary of the Treasury com? menced tbe active inauguration of his policy of having but one of a family in his depart? ment. Twenty-fire clerks, who were found to have relatives in the department, were notified that their services would be dispensed with after the first of November. In connection with this policy of the Secretary, the knotty question has come up for decision as to whether a mother-in-law is a relation. All the em? ployees who have mothers-in-law in the de? partment contend most vigorously that no re? lationship exists. The Secretary has not yet been able to make up his mind. When he ar? rives at a conclusion on this point he will then be confronted with the question as to whether a sister-in-law is a relation. The Southern Planter. There must, and will be, a radical change in the conduct of the next generation of planters. The younger men are, I think, convinced that it is a mistake to depend on Western and North? ern markets for their daily consumption, and for nearly everything which goes to make life tolerable. But the elders, grounded by a life? time of habit in the methods which served them well under a slave regime, but which are ruin? ous nowadays, will never correct themselves. They will continue to bewail the unfortunate fate to which they think themselves condemned ?or will rest assured that they can do very well in the present chaotic condition of things, provided Providence does not allow their crops to fail. They cannot be brought to see that their only safety lies in making cotton their surplus crop; that they must absolutely dig their sustenance, as well as their riches, out of the ground. Before the war, a planter who owned a plantation of two thousand acres, and two hundred negroes upon it, would, when he came to make his January settlement with his merchant in town, invest whatever there was to his credit ;.n more land and more negroes. Now the more land he buys the worse he is off, be? cause he finds it very hard to get it worked up to the old standard, and unless he does, he can ill afford to buy supplies from the world at the heavy prices charged for them?or if he can do that, he can accomplish little else. As most of his capital was taken from him by the series of events which liberated his slaves, he has been compelled, since the war, to undertake his planting operations on borrowed capital, or, in other words, has relied on a merchant or mid? dle man to furnish food and clothing for his laborers and all the means necessary to get his crop, baled and weighed, to the market. The failure of his crop would, of course, cover him with liabilities; but such has been his fatal persistence in this false system that he has been able to struggle through, as in Alabama, three successive crop failures. The merchant, some? what reconciled to the anomalous condition of affairs by the large profits ho can make on coarse goods brought loug distances, has himself pushed endurance and courage to an extreme point, and when he dare give credit no longer, hosts of planters are often placed in the most painful and embarrassing positions. So they gather up the wrecks of their fortunes, pack their Lares and Penates in an emigrant wagon or car, and doggedly work their way to Texas.?Scribner's Monthly,. Birth-Place of Columbus. Tradition makes Cogolcto, a small town a few miles from Genoa, the birth-place of Co? lumbus, and there is an inscription which marks the house of his reputed birth. It may bo true, and it may be false?for, in this land of tradition and superstition, it is as easy to fabricafe a tradition as an inscription, and cre? dulity is ready to believe that it is as old as Adam. The Louse of his father was in the sub? urbs of Genoa, as is shown by the deed. He himself, says, he was born in Genoa ; an expres? sion which may well moan the territory, and not the city, of Genoa. There is, therefore, some color for the tradition, and it is not worth while to dig deeper to find doubts. He was a Liguriau, and nothing could be more likely to sharpen his curiosity and suggest a life of ad? venture than to look out from these rocky highlands upon the Mediterranean washing the field at its base, and covered with the little, but daring and enterprising corsairs of the Levant, the Grecian Aachipelago, and the African coast. How time sets things right! Brought home in chains, robbed in his lifetime of his honors, and his profits, and the name of another given to his discoveries, time has written his name "with iron and lead in the rock forever." His jealous and triumphant enemies, as well as his royal patrons and enterprising followers in the path of discovery arc remembered; but when we call them up from the land of sha? dows, there is always in the midst of them, and before, them, the great Genoese, with a glory about him in the light of which they shine with a pale ray. So it will be forever. He went on, when every other would have given up in despair. Ho gave a New World to the Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon. But Castile and Aragon and all the progeny of their descendant commonwealths arc dwindling and fading away, and a race, never akin to the old Ljgurian?"the world seeking Genoese"?is, ( from year to year, devoting the New World to the great commonwealth of freedom and mutu- ? Courtship after Marriage* There was much more than a mere Witticism in the remark of the old bachelor, who had paid attentions to a maiden lad/ for twenty years, visiting her regularly every night, when rallied for not marrying: "If I were married I should have nobody to court, and no place to go at night." He had felt deeply the contrast between his own delicate and ethereal enjoyments, and the hard, discontented fretted life of too many married people; and his answer was irony? He saw there was something in courtship which too often exhales and expires after mar? riage, leaving a cold, dull, monotonous burden, where all was beauty and buoyancy before. Let us see what that something is. In court* I ship nothing is taken for granted. Both par? ties are put on their good behavior. Love keeps itself fresh and active by constant ex? pression in word and act. But, strange to say, courtship usually ends with marriage. Very soon both parties yield to the sense of possession, and the feeling of security robs gallantry of motive, and extracts the poetry from the mind. The beautiful attentions, which were so pleasing before marriage, are too often forgotten afterwards. The gifts cease or come only with the asking. The music dies out of the voice?everything is taken for grant? ed, and the love, like the silver jet of the fountain that leaped to heaven and denied its natural outlet, ceases to flow altogether. Then come dull, heavy, hard days, with two unhap? pily tied together, and wishing themselves apart, and not always content with merely wishing. This is unnatural and wrong. What married life wants to give it new tone and sweetness is more of the manner as well as the spirit of the courtship, which comes from the constant at? tentions of the parties to each other. Theif, affection voices itself in all possible ways? every sentence is edged with compliment, and spoken in tender tones. Every look is a con? fession. Every act is a new word in the ex haustless vocabulary of love. Kiss and caress - are parenthetic clauses and gestures in the dialect of love. Gifts and sacrifices are the most emphatic expressions of the spirit, no language can fully articulate and no devotion declare. And it is the fact that affection con? fesses itself continually, in look, and word, and act, making the voice musical and the fingers poetic in their touch and doing, that makes experience so beautiful, the only Eden many a [ woman ever has on earth. Love must have expression, or it will die? It can be kept forever beautiful and blessed, as at first, by giving it constant utterance in word and act. The more it is allowed to flow out in delicate attentions and noble service, the stronger, and more satisfying, and more blessed it will be. The house becomes home only when love drops its heavenly manna in it fresh every day, and the true marriage vow is made not once for all at the altar, but by loving words, and helpful service, and delicate attentions to the end. Taking a Photograph. He was a very pleasant spoken man?that photographer. He said it was a nice day, and that we needed a little rain, and that the Ar? kansas difficulty was a bad thing, and that photographs were three dollars per dozen ; no orders booked without the cash in advance. He wanted to know if I wanted full length, half length, bust, or what. I told him "or what," and he yanked his camera around, flung the big screens recklessly about, poked the skylight curtains this way and that way with a long stick, and then ordered me to sit down. "A trifle more!" he said, giving me another jerk. : Then he stepped back and closed the right eye and squinted again. "Shoulders up 1" he said, as he gave them a switch which made the blades crack. Then he went to the left and squinted and cried "ha 1" and went to the right and squinted and shouted "urn !" and he came back, seized my head and jerked it up until I saw stars. "That's better!" he said, as he walked back to the camera. But it wasn't. He came back and told me to twist the right shoulder round, hump up ray back, swell out my chest and look straight at a butterfly pinned to a corn starch box, and be as pleasant as I could. "Capital!" he cried, as he took a squint through the camera, "only ?1?" Ana he rushed back, jerked my head a little higher, pulled my ears back, brushed up my hair, and said I'd better try to smile and look natural. "How the deuce -" I began, but he waived his hand, and said I must preserve my placid demeanor. "Now sit perfectly still and don't move a hair," he whispered, as he threw a black cloth over the brass-bound end of the camera, and made a sudden dive into his little dark den. As he rattled the glass and dashed the acids about, I felt a small pain in my chest, another in my neck, another in my ribs; but I said I'd die first, and I kept my gaze on that butter? fly. "Ready, now I" he cried, as he jumped out and put in the glass. My head began to bob, and the butterfly seemed to grow as large as a horse, as he whispered, "Look out?keep per? fectly still!" I braced for a big effort, and he jerked down the cloth. I felt as if the fate of a nation rested on my shoulders, and I stuck to it. He turned away, and I heard him talkiug softly to himself. After about an hour and a half he put up the rag, jerked out the glass and ran into his den. He was out in a moment, and, as he held the negative up to the sun, he said: "Ah I you bobbed your head?have to try it again !"?M. Quad. Cash Instead of Credit.?People who can buy for cash always buy cheaper than those who buy on credit. They buy also more closely, and select more carefully. Purchases which arc paid for when they are made arc limited more exactly to the purchaser's wants. There is nothing like having to count the money out, when the article is bought, to r.;.tke people economical. The amount of indebtedness incurred is not much considered when the pay? day is far off. Persons who do all their business on a cash basis know just where they stand and what they can afford; consequently they find few occasions for regretting in a turn of times, that they have indulged in this luxury or that, which they would have foregone had they seen what, was coming. Real wants are few and can be gratified for cash; at all events they should be limited to what can be paid for in cash. How much of anxiety, how many sleepless hours, how many heart burnings, disappoint? ments, and regrets would he avoided if this rule were always strictly adhered to. ? One of the richest men in Boston teaches his boys the sure road to fortune by requiring them to go without shirts.