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Announcements of marriages and deaths, and notices of a religious character, are respect fully solicited, and will be inserted gratis A STOSY FOR THE SEW YEAB. .. -...V-.Cf. .? -"7 w tll?tte.try ?"a ? -. ? .^eTsitiging cry of neigbhoringlocusts c*me in onvt?e heafed "air and brought new .diawmforts to the' weflry.bram ^ahd' tired nerves of poor little Marion Mason, 88,sitn&Alini||ibflAr daWbiJ|jsfll(.h we m?^oJ^a?i&?jjRe, sab Iis Hier para???* *hl*?5trea<wftltt?n ty or thirty boys andjjjirls. The dunce of the town is Andy Bruce, and from his peculiar domain, the dunce' block, he ~ looks down' ^h?- dusty, sunny road, and seesthe.^vyell-^npwnr form, of. the postman toiling towards'the school house. ? Andy knows he will be forgiven so.unbidden "he vaults from his, reign of vantage,"and meets the agent of Uncle Sam. half way.. A second more, and be, is breathless, beside the little school-marm withW?Tetters.''There is a faint' gVo*; on the womau's .faded cheek as she no? ticed the stamped envelop bearing the names of the celebrated law firm in the far off city whence it came, and tbe thin fingers tremble over the bulky missive that it contains?she feels?some disap Sointed^en^ences bejonging to the law's elhys." r n>a '" *?''' " A year before, Marion was in.a.com? fortable home, the one child of ber fath? er, and tha'. father a prosperous merchant; but business reverses first ruined him in fortune, aud afterward in health, so that, With ^h'6 s'p^ng'flowers, there'came *to be! seen along the. roadside -a little figure j clothed in black, whose frail form'and pale face looked utterly unfitted to toil' day in and day .out. with rough count ry children in' this out-of-the-way place. It was not the less of futlier or fortune that had bowed Marion 90 far earthward. That wpr^e than IoSs-^-change?had join? ed issue with her other misfortunes; and the girl now, to-day, after months whveh would otherwise have lightened * her clouds, thinks sadly of the man to whom she was betrothed, who fell away in her poverty, and left her alone to bear her grief. She had instituted some legal proceed? ings to recover if possible, a mere shred of her father's dues, but the summer had nearly burnt itself out, and the hope in her heart was going with it, when this letter lay unopened in her baud. The anxious school-mistress gave her '-.IT* -ups granuenffuiumf a*tr*sziast feeble nope would occasion her. So turn? ing it ovof ft&pYGf- Of her deakJbefore her till th??a|t^kJa8s|djfcr9o|h the door, she sat quietly on the step before her with the second letter in his hand. Then Marion addressed herself to the lawyer's communication. As she read on, the color- came-and went in her thin cheek??A?BnishijDg itt sherdud *-her head'iWeT Wlded^an'dfr, ahf! Mtr on desk^'?*yin? %ery softly, indeed; -butf tears of gratitude all the same ; for the letter brought certain assurance of what seemed to the poor orphan a fortune. A mere S. it^ja^tu^ bu^gpjigh to ai^ffrpWvtfelfor An old and forgotten lawsuit of her iather's had terminated favorably, and his partner in its prosecution, had;given one-naif the proceeds to the orphan. So Marion, for the first time iu many long, long months, cried at last for joy. ? But how did Andy-Bruce k'now the difference, between tears for sadness or 'eUdne^y'';To'l^m^eeping was an evi? dence of grief?usually of pain, . So. his fond", stupid heart, prompted him to rise and sneakingly wind his dirty little hand under the bright hair aud round the neck of the school-marm, who started, think? ing herself alone. "Please don't cry," said sympathetic Andy. "Here's another letter. Here's another letter. P'raps it'll make you feet better than t'other one," he sugges? ted. And Marion opened the offered conso- [ latiggan^frffffit algid, ftebsjrfJ np{*W>in /Ww W"VroP?be VIIafvU "Miss MAira&^d^&jm^ruce.'the father of Andy,>hmr%9?swTOed of a sun* stroke^my ^nrifo, UH9m f-^ffJff ?tte 1 ^ shouldn't come back here, with no one to look after-hi ra. -His .body has.heen.seliKj to-&e to^tff?r burial ^*ndy?-as he^ll -fee'-j hereWfterthe parish properly, he'inay as well go right over to. Mr?.. P?rtlocl:'3, where hell qe kept Tiereafler. ' ,t > Ypqrsj ctc^V-'., .-,;'. . if* JOHK HtAffHNGS.v Perhaps the sudden orphanage of Andy gave some "distress, but the mention of Mother Portlocb's name completely, pen? etrated" him with grief. Portlock was and his fathe^had?Kt fipme to the little town, their bonrrmcrbcen, trntil the elder Bruce had found work on Hasting's farml-l attfce^fowh home,: kept, by Mother Port* locJ?r~To gjor.back to the;!bard, fiery-1 faced, old virago, w?.s worse tiian all,to' the friendless boy, and bis expressions of j woe touched the tender heart of-the suf? fering, school-marm.-. - She cheered and comforted the poor child ; and for that night, at least, took it home to her boarding place, with her. Andy was not'a prepossessing child. pooUic rv "neTHun Tiay ?reiiTOe?*-riro -fiaffr a shade or two lighter than his skin. He was awkward and Shambling, with W and he .possessed no charro-but a voice which was music itself. ' < Andy's father bad not been much of a man. He was a farm hand during the j suramer,Abutiu winter, he hung around the tavern, and picked up a- precarious penny as he could find it. A tfdtf]if83npBfgAtada flp>r tfttjarffergone of the J^ingWfcrM^e. *rntW Vre ceec^ng,"nVroOTe^^ so^?Mpli provision ifS&Ad weather"; evei' came^ agaiu...'.BuC here bq'.'waa the,'portala^'pf: Portlock alone open to him?and as the m elaucholy slat e roof of the awful build? ing loomed up over the trees, he lifted bis voice again and fairly startled the echoes with the violence of his emotion. Marion gently squeezed the wary little band and TtMR&&?^tartfte bated to' biw^uoomv im9 feeing other views- -for his disposition therein, incontinently fell on his knees amid the dusky burdocks of the roadside and thanked , bis preserver, ^^herless. was ,tb$ argumenta used to prevent Miss Marion's foolish adoption of thi1 wretched Andyt But. the friendless woman felt a comfort in the clinging love of the-"boy. So'back and forth, hand in hand,- to the village school till the quar? ter was w^wanJ-teact It was?*Jy-'iH -the JvmijMqjgr the rod school-House'i was closed, one afier*" noo?ff;thkt Marion and Andy wandered off among the changing leave*, and late in the day strolled home to find the maid of?qU-work red in the face from blowing the first fire of the season. "Jt be^the chimney as needs cleaning." explaineoTfhV irate damsel, who looked, in her dixtresf, as if she shared the needs of tl^-iojfrrirriey. But?ueeei?'had crowned trresootyinm'den'h efforts, and a riiaring* fire^Vs&i bjailng on the3, hearth. .This syas Marion's last day in the farm house, fir^n'thet morrow, she wa? g?"?ing to-be city in ftAj^b-she.-had known co ttOcb y>y shd soritjw.-1 Andy was to ? main behind the family having consent? ed to receive him as a sort of half-pay, half-work border. Late in the evening, Marion was at work in her little room under the eves, gathering her clothes and trinkets for the the coming flitting. Andy crept in at nine to say good? night, decorated like a Pawnee Indian, with tear stains and smut, since be bad indulged his grief while assisting as stoker s, . ?? "You'll be forgetting me, Miss Mari? on !" sobbed tbe boy "there'll be so many things to look at in a beautiful city, J'ou'Tl r.;'ver think how the green tubs ooks wkh the sentry plant iu it, and me sitting on the edge, thinking all the time of. you." "You'll be very uncomfortable on tbe edge of the tub, and I beg of you, Andy, to keep away from l,;e century plant.? I .shall always, remember you, my dear boy, and never see one of those sentry plants, as you call them, but my little Andy's dirtv face will spring like flowers from it." .-Thus comforting her protegee, Marien continued her preparations; so it was long after every soul in tbe farm-house slumbered, that, tired with her protracted labors, tbe little school mistress went herself to bed. . Again she was in her olden home, and with a happy heart realized some festive scene of girl hood. How plainly she heard of the dear familiar voice of her father, calling her name. In no dream, does she bear, the crying of her name, but afar off dimly heard, through a clinging, suffocating blanket of smoke, her name is shouted in tones of affright I i Marion jumps to her fact. She strug gl es, -gasping and staggering to reach a window, but the stifling cloud rolls in around her, it rushes in from tbe loose fitting door, it lies in a pall close against the rafters and closes down upon her and beats her senseless to the floor. I vOutside, the horror-stricken neigh? bors flit here and there the light of the flames that, bursting from tbe windows and doors of the first floor, Rresent a gleaming barrier against their jpeated attempts to save the little school mistress. ^ ?'If I could only reach tbe L window," shouted the farmer wildly, "I could break through the shed-room." "That's easily done," cried a neighbor; I'can,reach the L from a cherry-tree in the kitchen garden.'" "But tbe shutter is barred on the in? ner side," groaned the farmer. ' There is no hope; no one could find bis way] through the flames and live.'" Even as the despairing words fell from his lips, a little terrific figure, shuddering in .the .chilly air starts, madly forward j darts through the surrounding group, gains the threshold through which the smoke rolls out in torrents, tipped with snake like tongues of flame, that shoot in and out of their sullen depths. A cry of horror-and warning pursues tbe flying figures, but into the furnace-like door it plunges, and Andy the poor waif, has I gone to his death. A silence fitlls on the paralyzed group. The crackling flames mount higher, and the old farm-house begins to roar, as if it relished its awful feast. -t, I But above the noise of the fire comes a childish scream of joy, as Andy black* ened, burnt, but triumphant, bangs opened the shutter of the L window, and shrieks for the aid he had heard might reach Marion through that source, i [Inspired by the success of the boy, ready hands and willing hearts assail the window's height, and, in a few minutes, through the shattered wail the senseless girl, end her preserver were borne to a i place of safety. When morning broke on the party, the poor old farmer and hit* family looked on a pile of smoking lumber, where, the night before stood their comfortable home; while in a chambor of a neighbor? ing house, Marion watched beside the hero Andy, who had .suffered dreadful burns in his transit through the flames. However. Andy had a miraculous con? stitution, as well as the best nurse in tbe world; and, in a month, Marion made her proposed journey, taking with her the starred-faced Andy whom, whatever befell her, she determined never to part from: n During the next five years of her life, Marion, held to this determination. But when the boy was seventeen a friend of? fered him. so good an opportunity to go abroad and see the world as companion for an invalid son, that "Mother Marion" didi not say him nay, and, full of youth? ful expectation and delight, her adopted son went off to far away lands. It was very lonely in the little apart? ments they had shared together so lone and sadly.Marion missed the beautiful silver voice of her protegee, that was one of her cheerest delights. And when months rolled on, and in his letters Andy gave no sign of return, Marion's heart sank. Then one wretched day came the news that Andy had left the invalid young man?had found new associations, and finally gone off with a foreign old professor of music to Florence. Never, since the day when her young heart was struck by her early lover's faithlessness had Marion wept such bitter tears as she shed ever Andy's ingratitude and desertion. We know that troubles, as the proverb says, very seldom come alone. The city bank in which Marion's little competence | was hoarded went the way of ali bubbles and most banks, and once more, poor, . friendless and alone, she began life. This time her health and strength did j not admit the confinement of a school; I so she secured the position of a governess and left the dear place where Andy and she bad lived so happily together, taking up her home in a large and not unfriend? ly family. For months the little govern? ess went daily to the old place for letters ?nothing came. The invalid with whom the recreant Andy went abroad returned, but he could give no further intelligence. The old man with whom the boy had gone was a mysterious person, who, from tbe hour when he beard him singing around the court of their lodging in Pari*, had shad? owed his every step, and finally spirited him away. Gradually Marion gave her boy up as lost. Time deadened the great pain in her empty heart, but some old song sung :n tbe twilight by one of her charge would awake the remembrance of Andy's silver voice and send her to bed to weep for hours. The soft brown hair on the little worn governess' head was thickly strewn with gray; the pretty figure was shrunken, and Mother Marion was getting very un? fit for wearisome lessons in tbe delicate old age that was stealing upon her. She had been a faithful servant to two broods of children in her patron's house, and had come to be looked on more as a member of the family than a salaried re? tainer. ? It was eight years since she had come among them, and the growing children had pot beyond the need of governesses, vet Marion lingered with them; but at last the trouble arrived as she feltitmust be for hor. Her patron's family were going to Europe, to be absent for* years. Though they offered to take her with them, the thought that Aody might one day seek her deterred her. She would wait for her boy. A boarding bouse was provided for the weak little woman, and Marion was spending the last night in the house that bad been her home for eight years. It was early autumn, and the sight of the first fire of the season recalled that far-off night when she looked death in the face up in the farmer's little chamber. Sit? ting thus, weaving the blaze of the cannel coal into a picture of the blazing farm bouse, the tears stole down her withered cheek, as Belle Cleaence, the best loved of all her pupils, came upon her. '1 " "Mother Marion, foolish little woman, crying here all alone by tbe fire; come that's a darling- to' please' Belle?dress yourself and go with me to-night."., So whispered the bright hps on her wet face. "Go where Belle?". '..'-... "To the academy. The first night of the season. The most famous prim a donna the world ever saw debuts in Lu crezia Borgia, and the greatest tenor that ever was or "will be ia beard'to-tiigbt as' 'Gennaro.' You'll not deny nie?" pleaded tho beauty. And as Belle only gave friends an ap? pearance of choice out of courtesy, it was but a few minutes before Mother Marion found herself in the warmest corner of a snug coach listening to the' girl's enthu? siasm over the oew tenor. "Not that lever heard him, but John? ny Bauteile, who was in Paris last winter has never done lauding his. acting, .his method, and what he says is the sweetest voice this side of Heaven,"' ' , <V. Mother Marion made a vain attempt to moderate the girl's ardor, as, in the dim recesses of a proscenium box,' she looked at tbe radiant face beaming with expec? tation. *, '.r The curtain rose to a crowded bouse, and the scene was accompanied by the/ rustle of hardly-settled parties and the hum of suppressed comment. . . * ... Mother Marion studied Belle's beauti? ful face, as the assemblage hushed for the opening strain of "Gennaro's" first, song. Why does the little woman, so wearily dropped in the cushioned chair behind, spring suddenly forward? '*?*, .. -. . The voice that thrills through the house is clear and sweet aa a silver bell, aud astir of satisfied delight runs through the audience. But to her, Mother Marion, it comes bringing a wild hope, and fear that dims her eye and pales her cheek. Standing a model of grace, iu his showy Italian dress, the Gennaro of the evening sings steadily, surely, his way into tbe hearts of tbe impressible Ameri? can people. The strain is finished, and amid a tumult of applause, Signor Bruti- ' no turns to repeat the song. His eye: catches a wild, eager lace beside the beauty in.the box, and Mother Marion . sees the scar on the side of Gennaro's temple, and knowing Andy is found once more, screams and faints with prompti? tude and alacrity. . .A The audience ih^ught it a sort of tribute to the new idol's powers of song, but they grieved over toe ill-tempered way in which the idol received an encore. . , *V , , But Andy had no thought of the pub;, lie or the threshold of popularity on which he stood. He wasdashing through circuitous stage-ways to that box, where he found the beauty half wild over the fainting form of Mother Marion. . It was a long wait between the first: and second acts, for Gennaro had a scene with his mother more touching than any? thing in the opera./ ..",v &u ..... There was so much to breathlessly tp\t her?first, how the bid malestro, who bad discovered his jewel of a voice, had in? tercepted bis letters,fearing to lose him ; and then, when he learned all that du? plicity, his utter failure to trace her; But the past was swept with all its sor? rows away. The awkward boy had van? ished in the accomplished man.. There was little of the old-Andy left ; only the scarred cheek and the loving heart of the, boy were on the surface yet. And Marion knew, as she scratched her nose on his golden-jeweled, costly, stage dress, that she was safe at last where love would crown her old age. That was a year ago. The famous, tenor, Andrea Brutiao,, otherwise. Andy Bruce, has just gone abroad with his lovely wife, who once was Belle Cleaence; and, as the admiring crowd of music loving New Yorkers waved boo voyage to the artist and his bride, they wondered who the little silver-haired lady was so tenderly held between them., We know; for the beautiful woman turns and. says: "The sight of their kindness has made me cry. And I've no reason to cry when the world is so bright before me, and I have you, my darling, and?Mother Marion." '??: ?.. . ? ?.?::>'. A Yankee Boy. A tourist tells the following story: We recently met our friend, Dr. Lord, former? ly of Boston. He has been a resident of this section for about six years. He was extensively engaged in buying wool, and on one occasion, becoming bewildered in the multiplication of the roads over the broad prairies, he rode up to a small cabin' inclosed in a clump of locust trees, and addressed a white-headed boy perched on the top of a hen-coop, with: "Hello, boy!" "I reckon you're a stranger," was the response. "Look here, sonny." "I ain't your sonny." "No, not my sonny, but if you will jump down and come here, I will give yon a' dime." The* boy sprang as if alighting from a wasp's nest, and coming to the stranger, exclaimed : "Well, old hoss,Tvhat is it ?" . "I've lost my way and don't know where I am. Can you tell me ?" "Yes; on your horse." Mr. Lord laughed at the boy's wit and i handed him a dime. The boy took the money, and looking up with mingled feel? ings of wonder and delight, said: "Reckon you must have a power of money. "Why so, my boy?" "Cause you slather it away so." "What's yoar father's name ?" inquired Mr. Lord. "Bill Jenks," was the reply. "Ah 1 ye?, I know him," exclaimed Mr. Lord. "He grows wool, doesn't he?" "No, but his sheep does." "If you knew me, my lad, you would be more respectful in your replies. I am a friend of your father's; my name is Lord." "Oh! yes," exclaimed the astonished lad; "I heard pap read about vou in the j Bible." And starting off for the house on a dead run, he bawled at the topof bis lungs : "Mother, mother, the Lord is out here on horseback, and has lost his way I"? Texas Paper. ? A clergyman who was promised more than he can collect, has asked for a reduction of salary. ? "On what authority," demanded a lawver, "do you swear to this jriareV Ige?" "The best authority possible/V r. plied the witness', "I baa it from the inurc'o own mrJbtb!" HOW A STATE WAS COUNTED. The Trutll /bout the. South Carolina . Election Frauds. Washington, Feb. 18. Representative Sayler, of Ohio, Chair? man of the South Carolina investigating committee, wjll make.-his -report to-mor? row. . It says many mistakes and inaccu-. racies- were found in th'e'difrerent'returns,' and some oftheW were sighed - by one" and some bytwoTnanagers; But if-all'the returns ..affected, .by. such irregularities were rejected; ,'it .would not -change the, result. The result by ?scertaing the votes cast at all the-precmcls, 'and correcting' the mistakes made by the managers in the returns, shows that Bo wen received the smallest vote on the Republican ejec to'ral' ticket, namely, ,92,093 . votes, and 831 votes" over' McGowaU,' who received the largest vote on the Democratic ticket, 91,262 votes. The.law-of SouthCeroli.ua,, which passed in 1875^ divided the. differ? ent c??nties into precincts, and provided that all electrohs^Bh??ld be heid ?t thfe' voting precincts bo established, j -It ?est?b lishedin thp.county,of Abbeville-, seven-: te.en. voting precincts, naming the Abbe-.. v?le Court House and fifteen other places; thus; although it was 'enacted that there should be seventeen voting precincts, the names of sixteen only..were, given. The same,, mistake was,, made , in. .the. sey.er.al. statutes in some other counties. ,'.'.,. ' In" several other' cpunfies provisions were'"' mk'de'fbr? 'fr?nV two1 to"ibur Voting placesrihthe" county-Beat,': 'Ustfally^chHerj' the V^ttrJ-House),'i as?"Abbevii]e.Gourt H.puse," iq.fhe.oa'uuty of;thesamg. n^an^e,;.. b?t in all these instances they were*care? fully specifiedasNbsVl1,2; 3 and 4. Pre? vious to^h?'-electi?fi; the1 commissioners of. election: for fchis,:county, having no. ? manner of power, by. law in .the_ premises, , fu addition to the voting precinct proyi . ded irr Iber 'st?tiite k't AoDeyfil'e Court' House, ordered another preraflct; to 'be established in the.same town called. No. 2.. This action, was protested, against, by the , Democratic member of rapboard of commissioners, who alsb'too*tthe opinion of counsel, and presented it to" bis associ--': ates, setting forth such action to be Jlleg&k [ and unauthorized,; but the two.$epubli'): | can commissioners persisted, anctthe.vo? ting place1 wa^'"*established]i''r482 Votes' were there cast'f?r'the ?Repi&lica'S'eteC- I tors,,and 10 for- the Democratic-;electdre, giving ajaiajori^y of.:^2 to,-the Republi- | cans. The committee are.of the.?pini?n: that this P?ting pl?ce V?s"illegal'arid tin- . authori^y'snd - that' no votesTcast*tbere should be received.or.-counted-c<: in ? n .The committee show that an attempt , was made by the.'Boa.rd ?T. State Canyas-, i den to coUnt*'the vbtes aH^er| to have been given1 at Bobbins pfetiiiti:- The return, which-was-serit to'the Secretary1 of -State and prcduped^hinirampng. the. j genuine .precinct returns, was .signed .by only one of the managers' and another person never appointeof-?s 4ri?nnger?nd' by a Republican supervisor. '<? 'This return gayie-the Republican-ticket .'1,317* .votes!; and "none" Tor. the Democratic, tjqket.? The only manager signing it coutd'n'dt' be'obtained as a witness, although many efforts were made to'procure his attend? ance. . The vote cast at Bobbins in 1874 wad 366, and the supervisor"at. thkt.elec tion certified that this was'the fnll vote" of?botli parties;- If the'4;317 vVJfetf 1 claimed to have been cast at the Bobbins' poll are added to the vote of the county, there will be about 800 .more .votes cast than there were voters in th'e^county in"* 1875V 'The'colmmttee are satisfied that'1' no votes were cast as claimed," and that > no second polling place was opened, and. that the whole return .was. a.fra.ud gptten, up to insure the election of county and State candidates' on-the part-of the'lfce publicans. The committee say-: ? *? ? ?? Before South Carolina:claims through her representatives to help make laws for the people of'her sister States or 'through her electors1 to participate ih the'electioh of a President of the republic:- she ought, in justice to - be - held to comply; with the provisions of her own constitution to.se-. cure a just and honest election." Every, consideration 6f public policy/where the very existence of. ;a govern ment -like ours' must depend on prefer vi ng the purity of i the ballot, would require that any^lec-. tion held in willful yiplatiqn of a consti? tutional Provision' made bhly 'to* secure h?best Voting,'should bfe treated1 ?s Void' and of no effect. - ? iJ,.M ,.>->>.V .v..." That .the recent election in-, South, Car- . oliha was held'in violation,of the'c?nsti- \ tutiph is clear ('titat'it 'was'fso' held ttrat the: party in poweF might better retain : its hold on Urn government the committee have no doubt. That- great, frauds were committed there by reason of such refu- . sal to set up the great safeguard or regis-0 tration, the committee think'it equally' clear. ; ?? : l *:< . tn ?? ? .?.':??"...'-'. ?Under these circumstances, it is for the. House, of Representatives to consider what effect is'to be'given to an'electi?n so held. ??'- ,: " '? . ? ? The committee-add that if .troops were sent to South: Carolina without: any legal and justifiable cause, fory political pur? poses, and' to overawe a portioa'of the voters, clearly' ah election held' uuder such circumstances should nob stand for a moment. To, uphold it would, be at war with all sense of right, ? and would shock every fair mind. An election to be valid must be free. ' 1 : - 'The committee review the proceedings of the State Supreme Court in the habeas corpus and quo warranto cases. The lat? ter, in favor of the Democratic electors against the Republican electors, has re? cently been dismissed. - -i There was also a petition for a man? damus at. the relation of William Wallace, the Speaker of the Democratic House'of Representatives, against the Secretary of State, to order the delivery of the returns of votes for Governor and Lieutenant Governor to him, as provided for by the constitution, he claiming to be th? Speak? er of the only legal Housed and that the. other House was an illegal body/without1 authority as a part of the General Assem? bly. The court decided that Wallace was the Speaker of the only legal House, and that the other body was illegal, with no authority as a part of the General As? sembly; in fact usurpers.: Before the service of process, however, the votes had been delivered to the Speaker of theille fal body claiming to be the House ; that louse had counted them, rejecting the votes from two counties entirely on ex parte affidavits, and declared Ohainberlaiii elected, and on such declaration he*was inaugurated and kept in'office entirety by the authority aud power''of United States troops. ' ',r The committee think that the employ? ment of soldiers for the purpose ot sus? taining a usurping Legislature and Ex? ecutive against the judgment of-the highest court of the State 'one of the gravest crimes which can be committed ^ under a government like oiirs, and that1 it cannot be condemned in terms stiffi \ ciently strong. The committee hayel no doubt,! from,, the evidence, that a much larger, number of. .blacks were kept from ..voting the Democratic* ticket by the threatsr.violetice and intimidation of people of fheir o\vn race than were presented from V^i'tiug the /Jlepriblic?Q 'ticket by a resort , to like' i measure oh the part df the whites. [ Tire c?ft?iilitt^ ^e?I .l^j^i?r?'. trj.rg^ r ?.tjl; the conduct and bearing of the officers j and soldiers' of the United States army' were both -prudentahd wise, andaltbough j their presence"' was made available to j overawe the colored voters and prevent i them from voting against the "Republi can?, yet, as a general thing, neitheroffi-1 cers nor men did anything to give en ?coumgement to such belief. J'f ;To the People of the1 State. Editors Columbia Register:.? ? JtThe,pi>rpor.t of a few remar^addressedi byjne tp^ ttye people of Lancaster, at.a-j meel;ing"of the citizens assembled! there, on the 11th instant, has .been misrepre? sented in ^ reported, interview between Judge Mackey aqd.a, correspondent; of the New:Yorfc i/eraW, a n d as .it' has ap peered, 'ip.yo^'r columns, I beg ;tlie,.priv.-. ilegejuf/n^ ; .^esjn'eejtlng was caUed/to, hear Judge Mackey'*..,account p?,j hjs. visit tp|.Mr. Hayes,' and after hearing from\ him, as? surances of the most .positive, character that^r.;^ave8 would be declared elected, and that .the1, Democrats of, ??the! ,Spiith miglit'-as^q'yiemsel.yeg that his, admin? istration jyoult} be just?nd kindly to .the Sou^l''was!called out. by the meeting and addressed .them brifiy.' . /. . Impressed my pleasure, at. hearing the c?eering.^u^rancjes so solemnly given, by Judge Mackey pf the kindly purposes of Mr. Jl-Jayes^ ^nd,expressed my.cpnfidence, in those assurances. That as an. Ameri-, can,cft^ep,'l felt 'humiliated and abased . that ^e^r^erican Congress,, the great legislative council of the country, should ha,v^.fejt jjtself c^pe.liea 3p cpn-estj .be? fore, the -.wjjfl?r ?-4t. .it ,wa%. tobyjiartisan an&corrup't^^ of the Presidential, election, as requireii, by the, constitution,. but --paving so, con? fessed, th'ey.bnd perhaps dpnevthe,next best:thingi^h^'they .constituted' a^rai.s- . sion.that had received the confidence of the'epuntryj.'. That l.did n?6,d?uht .that i it would fairly decide the question, and that it must, therefoig^declafe M\. Tilden elected. I begged to assure the Bepub licans present^ that in that event the rigTBt?f afidjinferests'Of allbonesfc.citizens womd"!^ mairitairied/ arid the'glory '?cd hdribrj'thB'p^eace,''1 jprdsperjt^ ahd happi? ness' of Ihe TOuntfy'fifbmdted by his wise, fu^' dnff^beVieffCTen't' ;administration:? ; That if, 'aftefrfaii'hearing and iri'vesti-' J'^ali?n^the/commission sh?uW decide in ; aVor^oF'Kft'Haye's, I for one wbuldnC qu^esce'Tn4ne decision. 'That peacc! wds1' pf'aR ?ihgs'inbsthecessniftto bur peopley and*.war most-to'be debftcafed^a?d l.be'-' lieved civil war^aftthe''only" alternative. This fs' tKe verjr substance"and^ehse of \ my remaTrkVu'pW the 'subjection' the oc? casion referred ib;i J My'hb'pes' 'appear now tio ;have *beeii 'dis^ppmnted': and I'fihd ? myself, with: the majority of the1'Ameri- 1 can people: a' victim" of misplaced c??fi- 1 denlce,;asTbave'oft0h been:' The com m ission. Im-'n?t '? determined fairly ?tfd;.] justly*,' judicially, as'I expected.' ? *'*KX ''?' v. ? - s . . . J. B. Kershaw.' * : ! 'Wbrufrtt21,1877: "K; ?'?/"? 1 j ' Jiiflge. Brrailiey Plainly f?ti?kttC..;l' ? ' ?Jt-frimi1 >;-WABBIWtOBv Feb. -16. um The liveliest passage at; arms in the commission occurred after the several : votes on exclusion.of evidence bad been i Uiken and the commission had. gone into secret session again to pass finally on.the . vote. Morton had moved, that the vote of Louisiaua .be counted *for Hayes.? Hunton moved to ameudby.inserting.the woid-^not/'.-and' -Payne,^got :the Boor. He had been aching to relieve his mind' all daya His words ..were ? not altogether amicable, 'and' Morton uudertook to get i him ruled:off the floor... ..;.<??-. eld au>m\ ; Clifford juled that Pay ne was entitled : to: the. floor, and then he. let loose .the vials of his wrath. With a flush .on his pale face - aud his slight form straightened to its full height, lie told Morton and the. infamous eight to their teeth that their gag-law cou id work no longer, that par; ti sans hip had done its worst, and now be proposed to have his-say. Thereupon he proceeded to declare ..that, the decision;of the commission was an out rage do justice, and that while:the decision might possi? bly be acquiesced in, it would never satis? fy, the people,-end would return to plague itai inventors. - Then I turning - full- toward Bradley, : who sat cowering, across the table; Payne went on-in a reproachful voice to say that neither :he (Payne) nor the country-expected anything but parti? sanship from the-rest), but that from Bradley he ?batf*expected1 something! 'eisev' j Bradley*'p^ded*?hAt'?b^ to hold him more responsible than the other seven, but Payne told him he knew the responsibility when he accepted the posiLion, and he bad' proved recreaot to !his-great trust. :.. .':-i'LM-:i >;,a< n.:?:r>fi i>L '??!: frti ? : > . ... Ir-T-r-V f.I' Jefferson's Political Maxims, fc-iuh 1 j i...Legal'equaUty br"buhmni'jb1eiugs,,'J1J..' '2/Tbie people the ^o^^s?u^eofleglti-!' mkte*power..: , . :.-.* 'vl.,..'^"",:. ? ' .^Abfo^ate' and 'l?8tft3g-|severance'of 'Churcli ?ifd^ta^ / .. . ?,J l^Jae&^pjpi, 'sovereignty, and j'ndepeh ; dence of.'respective States. '5. The pijipn,. itytnp?fi, neither a . consolidation nor' a centralization. "'''.!. j5.' "The"C^h^jatu'twp.of ? "Union.a spe? cial wr'it'ten' grant[of power, limited arid definite. .'."" n . '.'. ' .. ' ?. 7V No Hereditary, office, nor order, fi?r title.;..:. : : .'';* ^ 1 ,v, 18! No taxation. hey.ond'.'*th'e. public want. ' " 9. No national debt, if possible. , '' ,10- Npr costly, splendor of adrainistra tion, ,A . v. . . 11. No 'proscription of opinion nor of public .discussion.,,','' 12. .No unnecessary interference .witli individual proDerty or speech. 13. The civil paramount to the milita? ry .authority. ;. 14. The representative to obey the in; structions of his constituents'. 15.* No favored classes^ .monopolies. 16. Elections free, and suffrage univer? sal. 17. No public moneys expended, ex J cept by warrant of specific appropria? tion, j 18. No mysteries in goyernment inac-'j cessible to the public eye. . . 19^ Public compensation for pnblic services, moderate salaries, and pervad? ing economy and accountability. -~- ? ??? ? ? ? -? ? ??? ? An Owl fok a Newspaper.?An ! Augasta editor says : "We have taken wood, potatoes, corn, eggs, butter, 'onions; "cabbages, chickens, stone,* lumber, sarid; calico, saur kraut, 'second-hand 'clothtng,- coon -skins'.and bug'jbice^?n sbbscriptions, in "our time, arid now'a mari'vvrites us to know if We would send the paper six mouths for a large owl. " There are few things an edi? tor would refuse on subscription/ and if we come across'irhy fellow Hvllbns'out of owls, and is in need Of one, we'll do it." ? The brekd'of life is love; the salt of life is work; the sweetness of life, poc tryj'tb^dtH of lifej faith. ' J' \ ? A minister .going tp# visit one ofnis sifttparishouers, ask'ed linn'how he rested .durjpg the'night. - '!0, woriderously. ill, i siry he^xeplicd^for my eyes hai'e riotcouie .'pgetber theae three nights."^ -'What is, th.eH?asbri of that?" said .the minister. .^Alds! -.sir/'v-satd he, .'-'because ray nose The Article for Which He is Indie!cd. The: sickening apprehension felt by. the peopled to'which we referred last week, that5 the Supreme Court" would be found as rotten as" the other powers of our unhappy governmenty has beeu real-, ized. -.????-.!. v ,.: .... ?.- sh? . ...The swift decay thai; in the last ten years has made our 'self-go'verritheht' 4. sham- and a' mnelcfery, arid in the feieCu^ tive.and legislative branches shamed us before, the world, has beensUently work-., irig Its way through the judiciary, until n?<v; in' its first/-trial; if offends 'with itk' stench the nostrils of all hones* citizens; '' ? -The appeal made to Judges oftbe Su? preme Court from the people,' sorely djs-. tressed and perplexed, was to save them from the wicked conspiracy of men' they had repudiated at the polls. ??Thev'saw their faithless agents for-:years robbing the ,treasury of their hard-earned taxes; they saw their highest officials indicted for thC'meanest crimes ; they saw a Presi? dent, coarse, brutal and ignorant, ap? pointing sycophantic :pimpa to the high? est .positions; .they s.aw him the associate of roughs and .the cbinmissioner pf. thieves; they saw 'carpet-baggers sus? tained "by" bayonets manipulating the polls, that ignorance'and rascality! might tyrannize over the,South ; they.saw rings organized in tne lobby control.their Con? gress;''they saw huge monopolies created by their government eating out their "sub-: stance1; they saw themselves reduced ' to want,. trade paralyzed and - labor without employ, and they tnade a " desperate . effort to 'right their' wrongs through the balldt. ? ' " ? ? ??? v With a-'subsidizedpress-againsfrtbem: with SU army of-hungry .officeholders,, that, .counting those pf the.general<gov-' ( erhmerit with those of the States',' make'a . horde of treasury eatfirjLgreater than any1 standing army j>? .Egruge-^wjtb^all the accumulated caprtaf in tHe"ha*nds of monopolies arrayed on the sid,e of their oppressbfs--they made' One despairing effort-.'and' dame'1np frbtn the'^ibTls-with1 a majority^ of ?ver half a million in their behal? : Andof wbat.ayail.? : ?u.l.^'.-u -,i j Through a dishonest returning board, made 'up o'f crim'hiais who'have escapea convietibft and 'plinishmerit Under the protecting arm of a corrupt 'government, enough votes-are thrown, out to render all their efforts, vain, and.saddle upon them the old corruption and old horde for an? other terrii^dfy?arS?perhapsrforever. " ! From thisian appeai was taken-to five i Justices of the Supreme Court?for that, no more and no.les8>pwas the .commission Created! 'It was believed that by such process' thtf'q?'estiori'?t isst/e,'"" being a* cbitrge'of conspiracy'Against certain-cor- i rupt men, could be lifted from-the politi? cal arena to a tribunal of high-toned, im? partial judges', who would'decide in ac? cordance mthJlaw and justice/ ???'?*'* ?' . To the amazement and- disgust of all thoughtful minds;.these justices, di vided,, as the partisans had, on a political line,, and threeindeceht old' men. joined with the euenries^f^e.pepplein fixing cor ruption hpon ris, und de3tfuyihg all' con? fidence in tiie'veir foundation''of our political struto Cicle tfif? tfmid ddes'not vitiate,', and be1-'' ydn'd this that they have; nothing? to de:'' Cide, arid* so' send the' question" to: the peoplei ' . : .Tf-y >L i lWe Have 'hot the' pitieftce 1 to rargue wfiaVthe peopie in. their br?kd c'?'n^n?n ! sense?''Wir not consider?the1 fine-spup legal technicalities Under" it-hich 'these aged scoundrels seek to hide their shame. Their real'brief'is to he firandl'm^the5 utterance* of one "of1 their cbmmissidnj JdmesAf Qaffield; who said^oastibgly: ??YoWhave' to-jgritf1 ftnd bear'ft;,?? we : .hold'th? Cards ?h?'intehd'tb pla^themi'r j Poor political gambler. The*stakes^' for which he plays are.the rieht? of 4ffr 000.000 people, .the peace and prosperity of the only republic known to humanity. For all.thaji freeiqeu hold roost deaf these" hands, stained with plunder, gamble, as the soldiers of Pilate severed in.divisrbn the garment of the crucified'Christ. 1 As we said a week since-, this is not law?it is revolution; and if the people: tamely su.bmi^ we may bid. a jppgVfare wellto constitutional government. Traud \ no longer vitiates. ' A corrupt' ?dtrirms J trStiou has-only, by its bayonets, to hold a State usurpation"lQng enough in power for a. f.cori;upt returning, board.'to 3?Jts vile task,' and the work is done.' \ 'If a';mau';;thus returned Vpower'cah ride in safety from the executive mansion to the capitol, to be inaugurated/ we are fitted' for th.e slavery. Jthat .vyill follow: the .inauguration. , . . We 'do' riot believe the people of tbo United States aro5 of this servile sorti Whs do not believe that they;flre prepared, ,without a b 1 ow'7 to nart with theif; -hard:. 1earned,blood-stained' possessions. .'No ;tkie is now'served on the" citizens' of Lou? isiana and ? South Carolina thut they must care-for -themselves. How soon> lamp-posts will bear fruit is for them to 'say." To the people of the'"North and West notice is given" that all the"toil to' which they ? are subjected, that bond .holders and monopolists -may. fatten se? cure, is repaid by no security...for their, .rights, arid that a shrinkage of values is [now in order.' If there is law for fraud there is reason for violence.- 'And to that I we make our~I^8t.appeaI.-trJF?^Aiii^ton1 Capital, the. 18#.... ... . * . ?-. m - little Things by Josh Billings. A lacoss word iz a little thing, but it.iz. wbafstirz up the elephant. ' ..' A kind word iz a little thing,' bnt it iz' just what soothed the sorrows ov the set ting-hen. . i An orange peel on the sidewalk iz a little thing, but it haz upset many a ?giant. 'l ' ""? ' m ' An oath iz a little thiri'g, But it iz re cordedin the grate ledger in heaven. A serpent's fang iz a little thing, but. deth iz its victory. - 'A baby'iz a wee little'thing,'but acon stable waz once a: baby, i.jj" 1 1 A h?rhefs sting'iz'a little thing; but it sends" the schoolboy hoihe howling. : A star iz a little think, but it kah hold ? this grate world in its arms. ' A tung iz a little thing, but it fills the universe with trubble. ": An egg iz aiittle thing. But the huge krok?c?ilC kreeps ihfo fife out ov it. " ? A kiss iz a very little thing, bWtt'BeV' trayed the Son ?v'(??d iritb tnetiands oy. hiz enemy. " ./" Arsprirk iz a: little thing, but it can light 'the poor man's" pipe, or set the world to burning.' Tile' acdrri' izr a' Ifttle'; thjng,'but' the black bear and his family live in'the oak that springs from it. A word iz a Tittle thing, but one word has been meriny'a man's destiny, for good or for evil. . . A penny iz! a;vb'ry little thi'ug^b?t'tfi'e interest on it iforh the days of Cain -arid Abel would buy otit the globe. A minute iz a little thing, but it iz long enough to ;pulfa dozen akirig teeth, or to get married and, hav yure own mother-in:law. '. * A lap/d6gjz.a'little'thing, bdt he ir V very silly' thitfg 'besides* ? Life iz ma^.e up pv little things. Life itself iz BCf^Tftfte^rlu^ f less, th'erii,cgm& the phunferth' ' K ? ** Plain Talk from Tilden. . Washington^ February21. The following despatch- wfts received to-day.by Senator -Kernan'Trom Mr. - Til den .. ? '?3 ' ? *'?' * ? New Yore.,''Fefrrua^ 2.1. To Son. Frbwcit Kcrnari, Wathmgtoh : ' i A telegram to the Associated Press, published this morning; states thataiia'r monious agreement has been brought about between the Senate' com mittee} of which you are a member;and. a, commit? tee of the. -House,'' bxv "whichV. it: has been decided not to go into .an examina? tion of/mV bank account on. the one hand;'or 'the account of'tne'chairman,of the" Republican national rC?m"mTtteee On the other band, I repudiate any such an agreement, and disclaim,any such,immu m?y, protection or benefit' from'it; \ I re-, ject the1 utterly'faTse imputalron^haV in^' private bank account contain? anything whatever.that-tafeeds to beleoniealfecb.' , ^ndeir.the^preteuse of Jneking /or .pay? ments in.',T)ecember, .the' demand was mrfde 'for all'payments after MaVaiid* all deposits during nine mbntbk; Ther bank was repeatedly.menaced with the removal of its officers and books tp,'Washington, A transcript of entries private business trusts' and charities containing everything but what the committee was commission? ed to investigate, but nothing which it was commissioned to investigate, because nothing of that 'sort, existed,' has .'been gkefri with my knowledge ^ Washington. 11 c?urse there is ho itemtih' it relating to anything in Oregon, for I never made, auth,ori^e4, or! knew of anyjespenditures in relation to.^'the^^lect^ofl.^ii that.State,, or the' resulting controversies', or '.any promise, Oroblik?rTon,'ftr neg?tiaiiohsoh that subject - Mr. Ellis; the acting Presi? dent of the bank, himself a Republican, some time ago told the chairman of the committee and 'several or Its.' members that there is "nothing' iu the account capa? ble-<bf furthering any just object of the investigation., , ?j ; ;. ,. ,-rr,.... . I am also informed that a resolution was passed to summons ihe W'a witness, but nave received 'ho'' subpoena^' I h?a written before this telegram appeared, re? questing you to say to the committee that it would be more agreeable to me not to visit .Washington if the committee' would, send' a sub-c?mr?ittee or Hold a session here,- but that otherwise I'should attend under the subpcena. , -.';?.-. As to this arrangement now. reported, I have only to say that I can accept de? corum'and decency,'but hot a fictitious equivalent for a shnliar grant of-secrecy to(anybody else.- \ i: n ?. , , S. j. Tilden; A CTalr Whlcii Was ?wfoed bly "Marie ?' "' i Antoinette'.1 ; " n' i j A curious story fs being told'in Paris, about an arm-chair which has- been be? au eathed by an* old woman who has Just aied in.one oi the alms-houses there, to the Louvre for the collection known as thje^ JS?useum of Sovereigns! The.a'r?in chair was: presen ted more than a century ago to the Empress Maria Theresa, , who had it placed in her boudoir. At her death, and in compliance with her ex-, press, injunctions, it was sent to Queen; Marie Antoinette, at Versailles, and formed .part of the furniture pro vided (fir, Louis XVI, during bis imprisonment In the . Temple. After his execution.-his valet -removed it to England, where lit became the property, first of the. Prince of Wales, and then of the Duke of Cum? berland. The latter took it with him to Berlin, where it was placed in the.hands o^-an^.upholsterer to be repaired.J1yThje .workman, to whom the arm-chair was 8'i^eot. .discovered, upon femoYfUgJtlje orse-hair with which it was stuffed, .a; diamond pin, the portrait of a boy,' and 'several sheets of manuscript. He. did ? n?t-meution the discovery to the master,. but soon afterward sold the pin., to a jew? eler, giving him at the same "time.,the; portrait',' and the papers. The jeweler succeeded in making out from the papers, *i^h-were written m French', ihat^jjy;! consisted-of a series of instructions from L?uis'XVI, to his son, and tha^the por^ trait ^ftbe Dauphin. A few years'aftfjr-: .war'^the jeweler, whose name was Nau ,endpVf3Cciaiia^ed to be Louis XVII, the son of Louis XVI. and, Marie Antoinette, . membered. he imposed upon many peo .?bl^.v>"TKe workman who 'had' 'made the discovery- was -naturally 'disinclined to siiy hon Nauendorff had become possess ?ed of these documents; but.when he was; tat tWpAHKj ofTdeath he cojnmunicatea the fact to his family) by whom the arm? chair- 'Which the :Suke- of Cumberland1 had left at-Berlin, was removed) and sold to a Frenchman. He took it ,with him ?to Paris, and bjs widow^ 'was^ brought .to such poor circumatauces that it was the only article of -furniture'' rfthatning' ln"1 ' her possession ;whennsherentered the al-arsrbquse, r-in : which^ .phej died; a.few weeks ago. ..; ..,,s ..:'..?:..'} rfii, < i ? ....'; i. J. '"f i'in.i.1 id) . A' School'. Boy on CtoRNS.~-Oorns are of'two kinds?vegetable anrpanimal. Vegetable corns grow hi rows and animal cornVgrow on 'toes. ''l%ere? are several kinds of corn ; there is the Capricorn, uni 1 corn;, corn dodgers, field! corn' and1 the corn which ia the corn yon feel the most : It ? is'said;? I- 'believe ? that "gophers -lik* corn, but persons having corns-do not like to foT^iftbeyicatflbelpTdt-**' Corns have kernels- and some Colonels have corns.1 V-egetabitf conf grows on ears but animal corn grows- on. feet .at the other end "of the body. Another kind-of ; corn is the; ^acorn, 'these< grdw on Toaksjv i but there is no hoax about the corn. Ti ic \ acorn is a corn with an indefinite article indeed. Try it and see. Many a man when be has a corn wishes it was an acorn. Folks that have corns someti mes send lor the doctor, and if the doctor ! himself is corned he probably will not do so. well as if he isn't The doctors say that corns are produced by ti~ht boots " and shoes, which is probably the -reason * why, when a man is tight ?they- Bay he is I corned. If a farmer manages .well tie can can get a good deal of corn, on an acre, but I know a farmer who has one corn aud it makes the biggest acher-he has on the - whole farm. Toe -biggest crop of ' vegetable corn a man raises the better he likes it, but the bigger crop of animal corn he raises:the better-he nWt like it. Another kind of corn is the corn dodger. The way in which it is made is rery ^ira ple and is as follows?that is if yon.want to know; you go along the street and 'meet a man who you know has a rough character; then you step on- a toe that ? haaJ-al corn-on.* itjand see) iT^ou'. tlon't : have occasion to dodge. In:that way you will find out what a corn dodger is.' ? A sharper was standing at a street corner in Cincinnati. ' A man who looked .unsophisticated approached with a sealed '? package,. anT"asked the sharper tojread the address for him. On the package was written, "$1,000 government bonds," with the name "James Harper," and a number.. "Fin James EUrper^ I'll t^ike the package,** a?id, thb sh?t^fer,* thinking that he had a chande to swindle; The other handed-over the package, after aim? ult?ting hesitation, and said that; two dototweredj^e him. for^ajryig^. ,fjhe ,;P? oalJT ;-: , f r.-j ? * *rj fjif*-' " LEGAL ADVEBTISflf?.?Vfe are compelled to require cash pay meats for advertising ordered by Executors, Administrators end other fiduciaries and herewith append the rates for the ordinary notices, which will only be inserted when the money co*u?jti? the ?j&r: ^t.s.J ' _ Citations, twotnser?ftiM-tf EeUte Notices, three insertions, - - 2.0? fS^!^ifer^?V^^?Lrto're^ attention, wmiinuiihartluuB muat W?MBWflHBtS by the true name and address of the writer. Re? jected manuscripts will not be returned, unless the necessary stamps are furnished to repay the postage thereon. S3" We are not responsible for the views and opinions of our correspondents. .All communications should be addressed to "Ed? itors Intelligent er," and all checks, drafts, money orders, Ac;, should be made payable to the order of HOYT & CO., Anderson, 8. C. Parson Talmage on the Doctors. Cicero said there was nothing in which men so approached the gods as in the cure of other men. God has honored this profession all the way through, from the nays when the good Samaritan work* ed kindness and health with his belle bore and politics, down to last week's autopsy. The profession is a noble one. The doctors for centuries have honored God and fought back , death with their keen scalpels. If.one would see.what the doctors have done for madmen, for one example, let us look two centuries back into dungeons, cold, clammy, rotten with prisoners chained to the walls, filthy, naked and abandoned?and ,nbw. turn to our1 Bfoomirigdale, rich as a pal? ace, curtained, carpeted and sofaed, and luxurious enough for princes. There .was. a time when Jenner was derided, and when small wits caricatured, him riding on a con- and circulated the report that as the' result'of his operations horns had actually grown-out on the foreheads of innocent people, and that other inno? cent people had become so demented as always to be obliged to chew cuds.-. And then chloroform, that heaven descended mercy of God?it was Sir James Y. Simp? son who gave us that. Blessed be God for that wet sponge or phial by means of which we may have a clinic in a nursery. Alas for battle-fields without chloroform ! The soldier-bby, after a few breathing* from the magic sponge, forgets his gun? shot wound and his shattered limbs, and dreams under the knife, of peace and home and heaven. The child wakes up from an operation which, unaided, hu? man nature could not bear, and says, "Father, what's the matter, what's Doc? tor been here for?" Doctors now in the court-room with unerring chemical analy? sis ; doctors understanding and practicing hygiene, so that now we read; a3 in a dream the tales written upon those mon? uments in ancient cities, which tell, of the plague and of^jnerciful visitors stumbling a cross the graves of those they came to save. What have the doctors not done for longevity ? From the time of ,iVdjtm:. the. span of. life, diminished until it measured thirty and forty and then fifty years. But in the sixteenth century-medical science came in,--and then the longevity rose/again, and now the, average of life is forty years, and it will b.e. fifty and sixty and seventy. The time is hot far distant when a. man will have? no right to die before ninety, and perhaps the centennial baby will not be exceptional in living to one hundred Ancient Toughened Glass.?There was an artificer in B?rne who made ves? sels of glass of so tenacious a temper that they, were as little liable .to be broken as those that are made of gold and silver. When therefore he had made a vial of the purer-sort, and such as he thought a present worthy of the Coesar alone, he was admitted into- the presence of the ,then:? Emperor;Tiberiuu3. -The-grit-was !praised, the skillful-hand of the artist :appLauded, and the donation of the giver accepted,, The artist, that he^igh^en hance the wonder of the spectators and promote himself yet further in the favor of-the emperor,- desired ttf* vial dtii'of .Ctesar'a hand, and ? threw . it with such \ force against the floor, that the most solid metal would have received some damage 'or'bruise"5thereby.* Ctesar was "not only amazed . but affrighted with the act, and the,artist, taking up the vial (which was ! not broken hut only bruised- tog ther, as if the substance of glass had put on the ?temperature ofHwass)'from the ground, drew: out an instrument from his bosom, .and beat it out into its former figure. .This done, he imagined he had conquered th e world, as believing that he had meri? ted an acquaintance with Ceesar, and ' -raised the admiration of. all the1 behoM-' 'era; but it fell out otherwise, the.Empe? ror inquired if any. other person besides !himseli was privy to the like temper-of ;glass:: "When he "had 'told' hiril no,' he -commanded his attendants to strike off 'His head, saying that Should this artifice come once to tie*'known-gold artd^silver would be of as little-value as the dirt in the street, i Long after this---ro-1610--we read that among other rare presents then sent' from the. Sophy.of. Persia., to .the King of Spain,' were six .mirrors of mal? leable giflss so exquisitely tempered; ih?t . they ?eouldnot-be broken. ; ., " 1 ?'?i?",. ? The Gee at 8no w ?p . J836.?-The fol ? lowing reminiscencei of the great snowfall of l886' from the''Syracuse Jpurnal, will be read-with interest: We chanced, to . ipeet two bid; settlers?neither.very old men, but nevertheless among those con? sidered theS oldest inhabitants in! these parts. -One of them lived 'at Auburn in wie great snow, year, 1836, %hea th,e peo i bleuere1 fairly; 'snowed intb.'tb^e^^welC lngs: He says the supply of fuel ran out, and the. men turned out, and,being;juri ableKto'!jgo",(bey'?nd 'the''viflage' bQunds.'. were obliged to cut down the ornamental trees in;thestreets?nd dpbryards^to jceep - themselves and families. from .freezing. The- other was a resident of Bj?dwms ville at that time, and he says that the supply pf fuel running out, the, fli|ejiof that place were obliged to cut down a very1 handsome 'and valuable grove. of trees, within the village limits, foprovide' means of heating their dwellings; There was then no coal used, and the depen? dence for fuel was entirely upon wood. / In the great snowfall of '36,' there was. an everage depth of snow on the ground of at least four feet, in all this part of the country. It was fully six feet.deep in vSaliua street, then the main thoroughfare.: Such a' body of snow soon draws the frost frooKthe earth underneath it, and by the heat of the ground a gradual melting takes place. ?. This is why the snow 1 set? tles when it reaches three feet or so in depth, and why, .no matter how much falls, the mass on the ground does not in-, crease in depth. \^ K ? Whiskey is like an internal furnace and an infernal turn-us. ? "If it.wasn't for hopktheheart would Break"," as the old lady said when she buried her seventh husband.' " If is estimated that the number of ladies who cannot pass a mirror'without SUncing into it, averages twelve to every, ozen. . <. .. ..... ^ Tftere is an.old German proverb to. the effect; that a "great" war leaves the country with three armies?an army' of cripples, an army of mourners and an ariny of tbieifes, >/. ? When.-the . Breton mariner puts to se-a his prayer is: ?'Keep -me, my God; my boat is so'small and Thy ocean so wide." Does not .tbjs beautiful prayer truly express the condition of each of us? ? A, ,Western newspaper., has the jbl lovvihg notice": .XjL notices "of marriage where tto bride cake Is sent Will be set up in small type and poked in an outland? ish corner of the paper- Where a hand so me piece of cake Is sent the notice, will be put conspicuously in large letters; when gloves 0? othe^jDridaUfavdr^are ? afflled a piece ?Illustrative poetry w.iil. be.given in, ?doHtion. ^Wben," fcowepe*i :' the editor at^dstW per,, son, ?J.kisses tb^bado, itwilli??f, sptcial notux,^v^. .}?Tgt^^^^r' it fhpprtoate jioetnr.'jjr"