Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

-fk ff fl tM&Ll lill f%k%Mk? f Vi t% H f * tti^iiM* BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY. JANUARY 2, 187?. VOL7XIV-NO. 25." .*4T*? OF 3UBftCRtPT)OS.-Ovc POLLAS and Firrr i'tisw p<?r i.iinitin, lu ?advaneo. Tiro Po U.A. BS ?t end of mar. HUYKNTY-KIVE CK S TS for ils mouths. Subtcrin?!/.-;. ar? not taken foi * period ' li in ?lr mouths. BATE* OF AliVRltM/SG.-On? Po|lar per .qua-o ?I one Inch for the trst Insertion,and Fifi jr Conta per square ioi subsequent tnseritounrsiinan three mouths. So advertisements count? lana than a square Liberal conti '.els -rill tm made with those wishing to advertise for throe, six or twelve mouths. Ad vertising 07 contract must ba confined to the im tn? Hate business ut th* firm or ludlvldual contrac ting. Obituary Notice:, exceeding five linea, Tribales of Heipret. and all personal communications or mitlers of indi? Muai Interest, will bc charged for at advertising rates. Announcements of marriages and deaths, and notices of a religious character, are espoelfullr solicited, and will be tnstrlcd gratis Siifferens of Natiieii Spooner. nv JOSIAH ALLEN'S WIFK. Says I, "Josiah Allen, if there wus a heavy fine to p?y for tdicttin' up doors, you wouldn't never lose u cent of your .iroperty in that way," and says I, clutchin' my Inj) ful! of carpet rags with it firmer grip, for truly, they wus flutter ill' like hauliers in tho cold breeze, "if you don't want me to blow away, Josiah Allen, sliet up that door." "Oh, shaw! Samantha, you won't blow away, you arc too hefty. It would take a Hurrycane, mid a Simon, too, to tackle you, and lilt you." ''Simon wlm?" says I, in cold axents, c.uzcd partly by my frigid emotions anti partly by the chilly' blast, and partly by Iiis darin' lo say any mau could take me up and carry me away. "Oh ! tho Simons they have on tlie desert. I've heurn Thomas J. read about 'em. They'll blow camels away, and everything." "Says I, dreamily, "who'd have thought twenty years ago, to have heard tl At man a-courtin' me, und callin' me a zc ?hire, and a pink posy, and a angel, that he'd ever live to bee the day he'd call me a camel." "I han't called you a camel ! I only meant that you was hefty, and camels wus hefty. And it would take a Simon m two to lift you 'round, either on you." "Wall," says I, in frigid tones, "'what I want lt, know is, arc you n-goin' lochet that tioor ?" "Yes, I be, j ist as quick as I change my clothes. I don't want to fodder in these new bricUes." I rose with dignity, or ns much dignity ns 1 could lay holt "of-half bent, try iii* to keep ten or twelve quarts of carpel rags from spillin' over llie floor-and went and sl ot the door myself, w hich I might hnv" known enough to done in the first place, and saved time and breath. Fur shettin' of doors is truly a accom plishment that Josiah Allen never will master. I have touched him up in lots of things, sense we wus married, but in thal branch of education he luis been too much for me; I have about gin up. In the course of ten or fifteen minutes Josiah came out of the bcd-[oom look i ll' ns peaceful and pleasant as you may ple.ue, with his bands in his pantaloons pockets, scnrcllin1 their remote depths, and says he, in a off-hand, careless way: "I'll be hanged if lhere han't a letter for you, Samantha." "How mn.:y weeks have you carried it 'rouud, Josiah Allen?" says I. "It would scare me if you should give me a letter before you hail carried it 'round in "Oh ! I guess I only got this two or three days ago. I meant to bnnded it to you thu first thing when ? got home. Bul 1 hain't had on these old breeches souse that day I went to mill." "Three weeks ugo, to day," K?.ys I, in almost frosty axents, as I opened my letter. "Wall," says Josiah, cheerfully, "I knew it wuzn't long, anyway." "I glancec! my gray eye down my let ter, and says I, in agitated tones: "She that wus Alzina Ann Allen ia con-in' here a-visitin'. She wrote mc three weeks ahead, so's to have nie pre pared. And here she is liable to come in on us any minuto, now, and ketch us all unprepared," says I. "I wouldn't have lind it happened for a ten-cent bill, to had one of the relation, on your side, come and keleh mc in such n condition. Then, ihe curtains are nil down in the ?pare ro..:ii ; I washed "em yesterday, and they hain't ironed. And the carpet in the settin'-room up to mend ; and not a mite ol fruit cake ni thc house, mid she a-com in' herc to-day. I am mortified 'most to death, Josiah Allen. And if you'll give me thi.t letter, I should have hired help, and got everything done. I should think your conscience would smart like n burn, if you have got n con science, Josiah A Hen." "Wah, less have a little stinthin' to eat, Samantha, and I'll help 'round." "Help! Whal'll you do, Josiah Al len?" "Oh ! I'll do the barn chores, and help all I eau. I guess you'd better cook a lillie of tliiit canned nammon, I got Iq Janesville." Sa vs I, coldly, "I believe, Josiah Al len, if you w us on your way tothegnllus, you'd make 'em stop and get vittles for you, meat vittles, if you could.'' I didn't say no thin' more, for, as the greatest poets baa sung, "tho least said, the soonest mended." But I rose, and with outward calmness, put on the tea kettle and potatoes, and opened the can of salmon, and jist as 1 put that over the stove, with some sweet cream nnd butter, if you'll believe it, that very minute, she that wns Alzina Ann Allen drove right up to thc door, und come in. You could have knocked me down with a hen's fenther (as it were), my feelin'fl wus such ; but I concealed 'em ns well ns I multi, and advanced to the door, and nays I : "How do you do, Miss Richerson?" she is married to Jenothcn Richerson, nhl Daniel Bichcrson's oldest boy. 8hc is n tall, spindlin' lookiu' wemen, light complected, snndy-hnired, und with big, light blue eyes. I hadn't seen her fur nineteen yeera, but she seemed dred ful tickled to see me, nnd she says: "You look younger, Samantha, than yon did the first time I ever seen you." "Oh, no!" Rays I, "that can't be, Alzinn Ann, for that is in thc neighbor hood of thirty veers ago." Says she, "It ia true na I live nnd breathe, you look younger and band 80 ncr than I ever Been you look." "I didn't believe it, but I thought it wouldn't look well to dispute her any more, so let st go ; and mehby she thought she lind convinced mc that I did look younger than I did, when I was eighteen or twenty. But I only said, "Thai s ditln't feel BO young anyway. I lind spells of feelin' m auster." She took off her things, she wus dress ed up awful slick, ?nd Josiah helped b.ing in her trunk. And I told her just how mortified I w us about Josiah's for geltin* her letter, and her kctchin' inc unprepared. But, good I.#ord ! she told me that "she never, in ber hull life, see a houpe in thc order mine wus, ncvor, ami she hud seen thousnnds nnd thous ands of different houses." Says I, "I feel worked up, and almost mortified, :<bout my setlin'-rooin carpet bein' up." Hut she held up both hands (they wus white ns snow, nnd nil covered wilh rings.) And says she, "If there is one thing ihnt 1 love to see, Samantha, more than another, il is to see P. seltin'-room carpet np, it give.? such a sort of n free, noble look to a room." rtavs I. "The curtnins nre down in the spare bed-room, mid I nm almost entirely out of cookiu'." Say? she, "If I had my way, I never would have n curtain up to a wintlow ; th.- sky always looks so nure and inno cent somehow. And cookin','" says she. v.i;l. a look of complete disgust on her fa.ee, "?by, 1 fidriy despise conk in', wind's the usc of itr: says sh?, with ? sweet'smile; .'Why," wiva I, reasonably, "if it wasn't for cookin! vittles and eatin'. cm, guess wc- shouldn't ii.uni ii ugreat while, none on us." I didn't really like the way she went on. Never, never, tlirugli my whole life, wus ? praised by anybody ns I wus by bur, durin' the three Jays thnt she stayed with us. And one mornin*, when she had been goin' on drelfully, that way, I took Josiah out one side and told l?iin, "I couldn't bear to bear her go on so, andi believed there wus suthiii'wrong about it." "Oh, no," says he. "ribo means every word she says," says he. "She is one of the loveliest erectors this earth affords. She is most a angel. Oh !" says he, dreamily, "what a sound mind bbc bas got." Says I, "I beard her tellin' you this mornin' that you wits one of the hand somest men she ever laid eyes on, and didn't look a day over twenty-one." "Well," says lie, with the doggy firm ness of Iiis leet. "She thinks so," and says he, in firm axents, "I am a good lookiu' feller, Samantha. A crackin' good lookiu' cha]), but I never could make you own np to it." I didn't say notltiu', but my gray eye J wandered up, and lighted on ilia bald | head. It rested there searehively, and . very coldly, for a moment or two, and then, says J, sternly: "Bald heads and beauty don't go together worth n cent. But you wus always vain, Josiah Allen." Says be, "What if I wuz?" and says he, "She thinks different from what you do about my looks. She has got n keen eye on her head for beauty. Sue is very smart, very. And what nbc says, she means." "Wall," says I, "I am glad you are so j happy in your mind. Hut mark my ] words, yoi. won't always feel so neat 1 about it, Josiah Alien, as you do now." I Says he, in a cross, surly way : "I j guess ? know, what I do know." I hain't a yaller hair in thc hull of my foretop, but I thought to myself, I'd love to see Josiah Allen's eyes opened ; for I j knew, as well as I knew my name wus Josiah Allen's wife, that that wemen didn't think Josiah wus so pretty and beautiful. But I didn't see how I wus goin' to convince bini, for he wouldn't believe me, when I told him, she wus a makin' of it ; und I knew she would stick to what she had said, and so there it wus. Hut I held firm, and cooked good vittles, and done well by her. That very afternoon wc wits invited to tea, that wus Sylphina Allen's, Miss Na then Spooner's, us and Alzina Allen. SyIpbina didn't IMO to be the right sort of u girlj she wus a kind of helpless, im provender thing, und threw herself away on a worthless, drunken feller, that she married for her first husband, though Kathen Spooner wus odyin' for her, even | then. But wheu her drunken husband liied, and she wus left with that boy of hers, about sir years old, she up and jined the Methodist Church. I didn't usc to associate with ber at nil, and Jo siah didn't want me to, though she wus a second cousin on his father's side. But folks began to make much of ber. So I and Jo-dab did everything for her wc could lo help her do well and be likely. And last fall she wua married to Nat hen Spooner, who hadn't forgotten her in all this time. They make a likely couple, and I shouldn't wonder if they do well. Na then Spooner is bashful; he looks OB if he wanted to pink if any one speaks to him ; Imt Sylphina i? proud sperited and bolds him up. They hain't got a good deal to do with, and Sylphin?, bein' kind o' afrad of Alzina Ann, sent over and borrowed her mother-in-law's white-handled knives, and, unbeknown to Alzina Ann, I car ried lier over sonic tea-spoons and other tilings for her comfort, for if Sylphinu means to do better, and try to git ulong, and be u provider, I want to encourage her all I can, so I carried her the spoons. Wall, nc sooner had we got scated over to Mrs. .Spooner'ses, than Alzina Ann begun. "How much !-how much that beauti ful little boy looks like you, Mr. Spoon er," she cried, and she would look, first at Nathen, and then ut thc child, with that enthusiastic look of ber's. Sylphina's face wus red aa blood, for the child looked as like her first husband aa two peas, ami sheknnwed thatNtttheu almost bated the sight o? tne Doy, snd only had bim in the house for her sake. Anti truly, if Nathen Spooner could have sunk down through the floor, into the seller, right into the potato bin or pork barrel, it would have been one of the most blessed reliefs to him that bc ever enjoyed. I could see that by ilia coun tenance. If she had just Baid what she bad to say, and then left off; but Albina Ann never'll do that; she has to enlarge in her idees, and she would ask Sylphina if she didn't think her boy had tue same noble, handsome luok to him that Nathen had. A nd Sylphina would stammer, and look annoyed niorc'n ever, nnd get us red in tho face as a red woolen shirt. And then Alzina Ann, looking at thc child's pug nose, nnd thou ut Nnthen's, which was a ?.!>rt of lionutn ons and the best feetur in bis face, as Josiah says, would ask Nathen if folks hadn't tobi bim be fore how much his little boy resembled his pa. And Nnthcn would look this way and that, and kind o' frown ; and it diu seem as if we couldn't keep him out of the teller to save our lives. And there it wus. Wall, when it came supper time, moro wus in store for him. Sylphina bein' so determined tn do better, mid start right in thc married life, made a pruetic of makin' Nathen ask n blcssin'. But be, bein' so uncommon bashful, it made it awful bard for him, when they had com pany. He wusn't a pi of essor, nor nuth in', nnd it come tough on him. He hioked as if he would sink all thc while Sylphina wus settin' the table, for he knew what wuk before him. He seemed to feel worso and worse all the time, and when she wus a settin' the chairs 'round thc table, he. looked so bad, that I didn't know but he would have help to get to thc table. And he'd give the most piti ful nnd besecchin' looks to Sylphina that ever wus, but she shook her head at bim, and looked decided, and then he'd look as if he'd wilt right down again. So when we got set down to the table. Sylphina gave him a real firm look, am! he give a kind of a low groan, and shct up his eyes, and Sylphina and me, and Josiah put on a bejomin' look for thc occasion, and shet up our'n, when, all of u sudden, Alzina Ann, she never asked a blesain' in her own house, and forgot other folks did, leastways that Nathen did. Alzina Ann, I say, spoke out, in II real loud, iidmirin' tone, and says she : "There I I will say it. I never sc? such beautiful knives as them be, in my hull life. White-handled knives is sun thin' I always wanted to own, and al ways thought I would own. But nevei did I ace any thal wus so perfectly beau tiltil as these 'ere. And she held out her knife at ?rm'i length, and looked at it admiriu'ly, nm almost raptcrosly. Nathen looked bad- drelful bad, bu wc didn't none on us reply to her, am sim >icnitu lo soil u ipi ?cv ?iGVT??, 5liv Sylphina givo Nathen another look, am he bent his head, and shot up bis eye , agin, and sho ana me and Josiah shot u| i our'n. And Nnthcn was jost a-brginnin' j ngin, when Alzina Ann broke out afresh, 1 ?lill . I . "What wouldn't I give if J could own j some knives like them ? What a proud ' and happy wemen it would make mc." Thai routed us all up agin, and never did I sec-unless it was on n funeral oc casion-a face iook na Nathcn's face ! looked. Nobody could have blamed i him if he had got up, then, nnd not made j another eifert. But Sylphina, bein' BO awful determined to do jist right, and ?tart right in the married lile, she winked I to Nathen agin, a real sharp and en? CO urn gi i' wink, mid shet up ber eyes, i mid Josiah and I done as she done, mid I shet up our'n. And Nathen (feelin' ns if he mutt sink) : got nil ready to begin agin. Ile had jest got his mouth opened, when says Alzina Ann, in that rapturous way ol her'n : "Do tell me, Sylphina, how much did yon give for these knives, und where did ; you get 'em ?" Then it wus Sylphina's turn to feel as if she must sink, for being so proud- { sperited ; it wus like pullin' out a sound ; tooth to tell Alzina Ann they wus bor rowed. But bein' so set in tryin' to do j right, she would have up and told her. I , But I, feclin' sorry for her, branched j right off, and nsked* Nathen "if bc lived I out tu vote Republican, or Democtat, or Greenback." So wo bad no blessuf ; asked, nfter nil, thnt day. Sylvian sillied, and wont to pouria' out ihe ten. And Nathen brightened up, and ?aid, "if things turned out with him, as he hoped they would that fal!, bc cal culated to vote for old Peter Cooper." I could sec from his mean, that Josiah was gettin' kinder sick of Alzina Atm, and (though I hain't got a jealous hair in thc hull of my back bair foretop) I didn't caro a mite il bc wuz. But, truly, wcrsc wus to conic. After supper, Josiah and me wusa-set tin' in the spare-room, close to tho win der, a-Iookin' through Sylphina's album ; when we heered Alzina Ann and Syl phina, out under the winder, a-lonkin' at Sylphina's peary bed, and Alzina Ann was a talkin', and says she : "How pleasant it is here, to your house, Sylphina, perfectly beautiful! Seem' wc are both such friends to her, I feel free to toll you what u awful state I find Josiah Allen's wife's house in. Not a mite of carpet in ber settin'-room floor, and nothiu' gives a room such a awful look ns thnt. Sho said it wus up to mend, but, between you and mc, I don't believe a word of it. I believe it wus tip lor some other purpose. And the cur tains wus down in my room, and I lind to sleep all the first night in that condi tion. I might jest ns well have sat up, it looked so. And when BOC got Vin up the next mornin', they wusn't nothiu' but plain white muslin. I should think she could afford somethin' a little more decent than that for her spare-room. I And she hadn't a mito of fruit cake in ? the house, only two kinds of common lookilt' cake. She said Josiah forgot to give her my letter, and she didn't get werd I wits comm* lill the day I got there, but between you and mc, I never be lieved that for a minute. I believe th-y got up that story between 'em, to excuse it off, things lookiu* so. If I wusn't such a friend nf hern, and didn't think such a sight of her, I wouldn't mention it for the world. But I think everything of her, and everybody knows I do, so I leel free to talk about her. How humbly BIIC has growed ! Don't you think so ? And her mind seems to be kind o' runnin' down. For how, under the sun, she can think so much of that simple old husband of bern, is a mystery to me, unless she is growin' foolish. He wus always a poor, insignifi cent lookiu'erecter ; but now, he is the humbliest nnd meakenest lookiu' erecter I ever seen in human shape. And he looks ns old as grandfather Richcrson, every mite as old, and ho is most ninety. And he is vain as a peahen." I jest glanced round nt Josiah, and then, intentively, I looked away again. His countenance wus perfectly awful. Truly, the higher we are up the worse it hurts us to full down. Bein' lifted upon such a height of vanity and vain glory, and fnllin' down from it so sudden, it most broke bis neck (speakin' in a poet ical and figurative way.) I, mysslf, 1 feel nigh so worked up and curious, it mere sort o' madded me, it kind o' ope rated in that way on me. And so whet she begun agin to run Josiah and rac down to the very lowest notch, called Ul nil to naught, made out we wusn't hordl) fit to live, and wus most fools. Am then says ngin : "I wouldn't say a word against 'em foi the world, if I wusn't such a friend t< 'cm-" Then I rose right up, and stoud in tin open winder, and it came up in front o me, some like a pulpit, and X 'spose ni] mean looked considerable like a preach er's, when they get carried away will the subject, and almost by the side o themselves. Alzina Ann quieted the minute SIICAO ber eyes on me, ns much or more thai any minister ever made a congrcgatioi quail, and says she, in trembiin' tones "You know I do think everything ii the world of you. You know I shouldn' have said a word against you, if I wosn' such a warm friend of yourn." "Friend !" says I, in nwful axenb "Friend, Alzina Ann Richorson, yo don't know no more about that wort than if you never see a dictionary. Yo don't kuow tho true mean in' of that wort no more than a African babe know about slidin' down hill." Says I, "The Bible gives a pretty goo idee of what it means ; it speaks of man lavin' down his life for bis frieiu. Dearer to him than bis own life. D you 'spose such a friendship as tha would be a mistrust]n' round, a-tryiu' t rake up every lillie fault they could In holt of, and talk 'em over with evcrj body? Do you 'ripose it would cree round under winders, and back-bite, an slnnder a Josiah ?" I entirely forgot, for the moment, tin Bhe. had been a-tnlkin' about me, f< truly, abuse heaped upon my puni m seems ten limes ivs bard to bear up undo as if it wus heaped upun me. Josiah whispered to me, "that is rigli Samantha! Give it to ber !" and uphc by duly, and that denr mon, I went o and says I : "My friends, those I love and tho ; who lovo mc ?rc sacred to mo. Thc well-being and their interest is as dear mc rn? my own. I lovo to have otho ' praise them, praise them as I do; and 1 should jist as soon think of goin' 'rotin 1 tryin' to rake and scrape sunthin' to s; against .-nyself, as against them." > Agin I paused for a breath, nnd ag ' Josiah whispered : "That is right, Samantha ; give it ? her!" r Worship!n' that man as I do, his wor ? wus far more inspirln' and Btimulntin' mo than root beer. i Agin I went on, and says I : I "Maybe it hain't exactly nc cc rd in' Scripture ; there in nunthin' respectai t in open enmity, in heginniu' your 1 marka nhout anybody honestly, in t '. mi)-. (Now, ? detest nnd despise ll 1 man, and I nm goin' to try to relieve i s mind by talkin' about bim, jist as bsd f? 11 can',) and then proceed nial tear bim mecos in H straight-forward, manly way. I don't a'pose such a course would bc u?)?ield by thc 'postles. But, as I say, there is a element of boldness and cour age in it, amount!u* almost to grandeur, when compared to this kind of talk. "I think everything in the world of (hat man. I think he is jist ns good as he. can be, and he hain't got a better friend in the world than I nm." And then go on and say everything you can to injure bim. Why, a pirate runs up his.skeleton end cross-Lars, when he is goin' lo rob and pillage. I think, Alzina Ann, if I ! wus in your pince. I would make n great I effort, and try and bc as noble and mag- 1 nanimous as n pirate." Alzina Anti looked liku a white holly : hawk, that had withered by a untimely . frost, Jini Sylphina looked tickled (she hadn't forgot lier r wile re ns, ami the suf fercna of Nuihcn Spooner.) And my Josiah looked proud and triumphant in me. And he told me, in confidence, a-goin' home, "that hu hadn't seen me look so good to him, as I did when I stood there in the winder, not for up wards of thirteen yeera." Says he: "Samantha, you looked, you did, al most perfectly beautiful." That mnn worships the ground I walk j on, and 1 do his'ti.-I'eterton'i Magazine. > Public Education. The State should interfere ns little as j possible with private affairs. The only interference that is nt all justifiable is in cases w here the public good requires it, mid tlie interests of thc people nt large can thereby be promoted. We think il clearly to be the tint v of the State to pro vide for the free education of its chil dren. If the children thus educated at the public expense were thc only persons benefited, it would bc different. In that case it would be discriminating in favor of apart against the whole, lint pub lic ?ducation is a public benefit. The rich as wei! as the poor reap its advantages. It is tlie means of raising up a better class of citizens, and consequently it tends to diminish crimes. It makes life and property more secure. We believe it to bo true economy in thc long run ; that thc money it lakes to educate those who are unable to pay for their ow n education is far less than would be re quired to try, convict and imprison or hang them if allowed to grow up in igno rance of all moral, legal and political obligation. Schools are less expensive than jails mid penitentiaries, and the State has to choose between them. We do not mean to say that all thc educated are free from crime, nor that all the un educated arc criminals ; but it has been the universal experience of all nations that in proportion ns thc people arc ed ucated crimes i rj diminished. Hy public education we mean a common school educntion. This State is too poor to un dertake more, and were sho ever so pros perous it would be inexcusable extrav agance to keep up a university or other institution of high grade nt tlie public expense. Such an institution would, practically, be open only tc the wealthier youth of tho State-only to those who were able to go from home and pny board in n city-unless the State should pro vide free board as well ns free tuition, and that is not to be thought of for a mo ment. What is needed is. common school facilities within reach of every child in the State. There are thousands of chil dren who, through no fault of their own, are unable to pay for their schooling. Among them aro many diamonds in tho rough-many who, if given a chance, will in the future do tlie State good service in return. They will repay lier a hundred fold forgiving them an education, meagre though it may be. We have, on paper, nn excellent system of free school c ica tion. It devolves on Stnte Superinten tendcut of Education, the County School Commissioners and the Vustees to look well to their duties, and to see that the free schools nre managed efficiently and economically; to see that nono of the school money is wasted ; to insist rigidly upon thc employment of competent teach ers only, and ol'only so many ns nro ab solutely needed. These officers have n grent responsibility resting upon them. In their hands are placed, in p. very large I measure, thc destinies of }!!?* risln*? "ill i ?ration, ?f ffiitiiiui ti. their lrt.""ib they can make the free schools n success and a blessing to the State.-Newberry Her ald. THE MONKEY AND WHISKY.-Dr. Guthrie tells the following anecdote of n monkey : "Jnck," ns he was called, seeing his master and some of his friends drinking, with the imitative faculty for which nil monkeys are remarkable, got hold of n glass half-full of w hisky and drank itofT. Of course it flew to his head, and very soon "Jack" was drunk. Next day, when they wished for a repetitiou of the performance, he was no w here to be seen. At last he was found, curled up in n corner of his box. At his master's cnll ho reluctantly came out, but one hand applied to h\n head signified very plainly that he was ill-that "Jack" lind got n headache. So they left him for a few days to recover. Then, supposing him to be well again, they called him to join them in another jovial party, expecting to hnve "rare fun" with him. Hut he eyed the glasses with evident dread, and when his master tried to induce him to drink ho was upon the house-top in a moment. They called him to come down, but bc refused. His master shook a whip at him, but it lind no effect. A gun was then pointed at him ; be got be hind n stack of chimneys. At length, in fear of being dragged from his refuge, he actually descended the chimney, risking n scorching rather than be made to drink. "Jack" li voil twelve years nfter, but his repugnnnce to whisky remained as strong ns ever, while his master became its vic tim ! Fou ii MILES OF FAITH.-A good gentleman who lind just patented a new religion, deemed it necessary to quicken and confirm the faith of his proselytes by whooping them up n few miracles, and accordingly announced that bc would fly over u ravine, 0,000 feet deep and four miles ncross. A vnst multitude assembled upon the nppointed day, and them he thus nddress ed : "Dearly beloved brethren, in order that I should perform the miracle which will now be presented for your intelli gent appreciation, it is absolutely neces sary that I should be supported by your failli as well as my own. This is nu oe ension where I cannot run my fnith alone. Do you, therefore, believe thnt by miraculous agencies I cnn fly ova thia yawning abyss ?" i ' We do-HO say we nil of us." "Then, dearly beloved brethren, thert i is no need of my flying across and wast i lng a miracle." - The Grand Duchess of Hesset Princ > eas Alice of England, died cn. tne 1-iti ! December of Diphtheria. Tho Grant Duchess was the third child and secont i ] daughter of Queen Victoria. She wa t I horn April 25th. 1813. Her rather, tin t late Prince Albert, died on Saturday i December 14th, 1801, a remarkably co ) incidence. IVAVI? DICKSON. I Homo Practical Vier.: Kile!!.;', fi..... iiir G rent Farmer. j A correspondent of the Augr?ta (Ga.) ' Chronicle anti Constitutionalist lins lately ': visited Mr. David Dickson, of Hancock county, Georgia, who has long been con sidered tho first planter in the South. The following published account of tho correspondent's interview willi Mr. Dick son will bo read willi interest: Thinking a brief respite from the monotony of a dull town would be both healthful and pleasant, your correspon dent planned and executed a visit to Mr. David Dickson. Mr. Dickson has long been considered the first planter in the South. He has won bia way to thnt proud distinction, not by long spun theories, peddled out in journals und reviews, bul by the de monstration of practical success, which is, after all, thc true test ? f merit. Mr. Dickson is a remarkable man, ^considered from almost any point of view. His physical organization is tex turally line. Ll is appearance is striking and commanding. He would arrest the eye in any assemblage of men. He has the broad, honest, intellectual face of the genuino Anglo-Saxon, of which race he comes. His cast of mind is hardy and practical, as is evinced by the great prominence of the perceptivo organs, ile is, eminently, n man of ?flairs, view ing all questions in the light of reason and common sense. Mr. Dickson is one of the few planters of ihe South who has kepi up the large farming operations of ante-bellum days; ?iud notwithstanding the stringency of thc times nnd recent seasons ol drouth, bas managed to make money on every crop he has ever grown, with the single exception of thc present year. His en tire f'nrm, covering un urea of 20,000 acres, presents everywhere the appear ance of thrift and enterprise, in striking contrast to the dilapidated and effete plantations contiguous to it. His fences appear in good repair; neat and commo dious cabins dot his pince from centre to circumference. Water gins and saw mills of the most approved pattern uro whirled by every stream that waters his domains. Ponds (five in number), with fish in abundance, and constructed at a totnl cost of ?30,000, upturn their silvery faces from between thc hills, and in the expressive language of Byron, "Warm up with their stillness, to forsake carib's troubled waters for a purerspring." All of theso objects, combining tho useful and beautiful, render a ride through Mr. Dickson's farm ? most uc?giu?ui ?mi in teresting pastime. Your correspondent had thc pleasure of this jaunt in compa ny with ihe proprietor and took advan tage of the time and occasion to ply him with the following interrogatories: "Mr. Dickson, you nre thc only plan ter in thc State who bas farmed on an extensive scale that has managed to keep up. What do you attribute vour success to?" "Well, I don't know, unless it is to finnnc'ering. I make calculation.'! and Bteer clear of what don't pay." "Do you expect to make large gains now as you did years nco?" "Oh, no. is out of the question for a farmer to make money now on hired labor and the price of tho products of that labor. The price of labor and the other necessary expenr.es aggregate, in most instances, more than the entire pro duct of that labor will bring. I expect to get my rents." "What is your plan of renting?'* "Well, 1 furnish thc land, the agri cultural implements, thc horse ?nd its feed, together with two-thirds of the I guano. Tho renter furnishes tho labor [ and feeds it, and one-third of the guano. At the end of the year I take two-thirds i of all of the crops, and give the laborer one-third. In other words, I rate the land at one-third, the horse and its feed and the ngi ?cultural implements, black smithing, eve, nt one-third, and the laboi nt one-third ; ?nd rent upon this princi ple. I think this is the fairest system ol renting that eau be devised." "Who (miners the crop?" ! _ ? ~ " "TY?""." . . >'V." crmg. x calculate unit in us pun oi UK labor. Ono of my hands not long ng< gathered his third of the corn and let my two-thirds standing in thc field. A tho end of thc year, ho came back ti rent again. I told him no, he bad dui bis own grave. Yes, sir, thc lahore must perform the whole of his contract which includes the making and gather ing of tho entire crop." "What is the plan you would ndvisi the farmers to pursue another year?" "In tho first place I would advis them to increase tho capacity of thei lands. Rich land is the best labor saving machine I know of for tho prca ent genernlion and for posterity. Sec omi, pay the laborer, if he hires fo wages, in ibo products of the land, thc he shares with you the loss occasioned b low prices." "What is a band worth for nnothc year?" "Thc way to estimate that is lo cain late what an average hand will make a average year. 1 calculate it this way One hand will make three bales of col ton, fifty bushels of corn and three tboi sand pounds of oats. Now, take th third nf that and you have what ? average hand is worth." "How is it you cnn gel so much wor out of your hands? I notice you cult vate more lnnd lo the plow, and do better than anybody else?" "Well, in the first place, I try lo g< willing but active hands. I then tal especial pains to train them to be c: perta-to do everything in thc shorUu ihe best, the easiest and thc most eine clous way. Why, there is skill in fnrn ing as lhere is in everything else. 13 fore the war, when I made a special of it, my hands cut with more facil'u plowed with more accuracy, hoed mo lapidly and picked more cotton than ai hands I ever saw. I trained them to < everything the right way and on scie tifie principles. Of course I can't ma ?gc freo labor so efficiently, but you ci still sec some signs of my old method." "How is it you mnkc so much more the plow than anybody else?" "Well, if that is so, I attribute it Iwo causes: First, I cultiv?lo more la to the plow ; my system of shallow ci ; lure, with broad sweeps, allows th ' I Second, my methods of cultivation a preparation are, I think, thorougl i scientific. I break my binds deep n '? cultivate t'jctn on thc surface. In ntl ' words, my motto is deep plowing bef rdaming and shallow plowing after pla ?k." > j "But will not the lands get too lu . to cultivnto them shallow after tho pa ? ing rnins of the Spring?" "Oh, no: not if you will keen a plo . of vegetable mould in them. Rotate i crops and I will war,ant they will ne I get too hard." . II "How do you manage to control la a \ -I notice every hand seems to know B pince and everything moves on smoot , ' and harmoniously ?" -1 "Well, I don't know ns to that, great deal is owing tb what I call ti*i rem vince (he laborer that I understand farming better than he dues, nud thnt my way is right. I never neglect him, so us lo leave thc impression on his mind that 1 nm indifferent or careless. I givo llim justice and demand my rights at his hands." lint time will mit permit ti further enumeration of Mr. Dickson's views. Ile seems to he full of the strongest und most practical ?dens, and presents them ir the terrent, most original way. As a niau, he is generous and brave, an honor to his countiy mid his race. THE BUSINESS FUTURE. A I'orrltnUlui; of (iuiioml DUatter. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Ennuirer gives the following interview willi Mr. Armour, ol' Armour, Blanking ton Ck Co., the largest pork and provision dealers in the United States. Mr. ar mour lins just returned from England, and he is tilled with alarm at the distress ing financial status of Great Britain. "What is thc matter over there?" I asked. "A genera! financial ruin stares them in the face all over England, Ireland and Scotland," said Mr. Armour. "Banks and individuals are failing everywhere. The newspapers ?to not half tell the story. The English people n?0 in a dreadful condition. Manufacturers are running behind, thc tenants cannot pay their rents, real estate has shrunk in value and cannot be sold al any price, the mechanic is ?die, and the farmer is poor." "Why can't the farmers pay their rents ?" "Because their crops do not pay. Brices for farm products are so low that the farmer only makes enough to live on. The 300,000 land owners arc out in the cold. They cannot collect their rents nor si ll their land, and many seemingly rieh families are actually sullering from poverty." "What makes provisions so low?" "The splendid crops mude on this side. The fact is, the United States having no large army to take away the laboring men, is making more provisions than the whole world can eat. We are putting wheat in Liverpool at $1.08, and pork in Dublin und Glasgow, clearsides, dry salted, for ?|c. Now, how can the Eng lish farmers stand this? He pays rental on land worth $200 to $300 an acre. The lowest farm lauds rent for $10 an acre per annum. The average yield of wheat ia thirteen bushels to the ncre, worth - say $13. Now, how can that larmer pay his lent? Th MI they usc:', to sell theil pork for l?c. per pound ; and now can they sell it ut 5jc. and live?" "Then cheap American provisions arc ruining the Fnglish farmers?" "Yrs. They arc bucking their ?30C land against r.ur $20 land, and the resuli ?a the $300 land ?stumbling. The shrink age is awful already. They nre just goin{ through what we have gone through, oi rather they are fixed aa we would be fixci if some great country like China sh?uh ship wheat to Chicago and sell it for 30c per bushel and fill up Cincinnati will pork at $3 a barrel. Where would ou farmers 'ne then? They would he ruined und our land values would shrink liol within n year, and nnotlier crnsh Uki that in England would bc upon us." "What remedy do they propose for th hard limes?'' "They have no remedy. They nre bc wildered mid discouraged. A member ri Parliament told me that he was thiiikin of advocating an import duty on corr pofk and wheat, and thus put wheat n to $2 and pork up to$10. But this wou! be only enacting the odious corn law again. 1 told this member if they shoul put un import duty on wheat and pori the wages of laboring men would hav to be advanced, und then our America manufacturers would have thc ndvuntngi 'See,' I said, 'wc are already sending col ton cloth, colton thread, mid steel good and cutlery to England.' " "What do you think will ho the end t the hurd times in England?" "They will end in a dreadful depreeii lion of renl estnte, the stoppage of th manufactories, general poverty, mob vii lenee, labor insurrections, a gencr; smash-up of business and society. If had land in Fniriand to-day, I would se it any price." ' Have we got through shrinking i A me ri cn ?" "No. That is, w e have ai J wc haven' Land enstof Iowa must shrink still mo in value. Two ten for liva hogs nr twenty cents for corn doesn't mean $11 fnrm lauds. It means $20 farm lane Our dear lands must shrink more vi while our cheap lands have Btmck bc tom. Corn, pork mid wheat are the pri of lands." "How did you find things in Gc many ?" "Germany is badly off too. Her pc plo nre running away to keep out of t I army. They come to England stowed the holds of vessels, hoping to gel frc I there to America. The poor people Germany and England are all looki ! toward America. Emigration will immense next year. Every man w can pay his passage or steal it will away from Europe, cursed by its 1 armies and burdensome taxes. The f? i?>," said Mr. Armour, "real estate England, Ireland and Scotland lins . to shrink 100 per cent within n year a a half or tilt* business interest ol' 1 United Kingdom linve got to go up one mighty crash." Crin-: icm WOUNDS.-AS soon ns wound is inflicted get n little slick, knife or file handle will do,-and ci menee to tap gently on the wound, not stop for thc hurt, but continue in it bleeds freely and becomes perfec numb. When this point is reached ; nre safe-all that is necessary to proi it from thc dirt. Do not stop short of bleeding and tho numbness, and do i on any account, close the opening v plaster. Nolhiutr .nore than a li simple cerate on a clean cloth is nc sary. We have used, und seen this III on nil kinds of simplo punctures for t ly years, and never knew a single stance of a wound becoming inlhimci sore nfter treatment ns above. Am other cases : A conlrnko tooth going ??rely lino ?no imo, ? umi mic ujr a several instances of file shank through bunds, and numberless enses of r nails, awls, cel., but never knew a ure of thi? treatment.-Scientific A Villi. - The Presbyterians of North Cnn; have issued an "address to the Churcli It was prepnred hy Rev. Dr. Smitl Greensboro, The following extract I thc nddrcss should he widely circu? mid generally rend : "There aro t great and growing evils in thc 1 against which we would lift up n voi earnest and solemn warning to e church nnd every community : (trw neut, and Sabbath desecration, and / and dishonesty in business dealings. I ' nre bringing down upon our countr; displeasure of heaven, and are sprcn crime und sorrow through tho .nd.' - A bili to appropriate $10,000 t able maimed soldiers to buy arti limbs is pending in thc Alabama I I lature. GEN. GORDON AT BUABPSBUBtf. Wounded li v?> Times lu Uno Battle. At Shnmsburg General (now Senator) Gordon (tuen u colonel) furnished the sublimest spectacle of euduraueo and courage that I tili ti k is furnished by the annals. Before thc battle Leo rodo down the lines und expressed doubt ns to Gordon being ublc to bold bis posi tion, and conveyed to him an idea of the importance of bini doing so. Gor don, turning so that bis men could bear Irin, buid : "General Lee, my men are determined that they will stay here I" Then the battle opened. Linc after line was thrown upon (jordon's front. Bul from that dauntless front they were thrown back as often as they wero marched against it. The slaughter was terrilic. The ground was literally blue with ihe corp-es of the enemy, while only H'IX men nf the right wing of the regiment were left. But tho line never wavered. Tho men had como there to "stay," and, dead or alive, they were de termined lo "stay." (Jordon was wounded carly in the fight. A minnie ball passed through the calf of his leg, tearing the flesh in tho most fear ful manner. The flow of blood was in cessant, bul he bad no time to staunch thc wound. In about half hour another ball plunged through the same leg, about n foot iibovo where lite other bud gone. The loss of blood from these two wounds weakened him, but bc still kept his feet and gave bi) orders calm and clear to bis men, who were lying on their fuccs. An hour later he was shot again, the bail tearing through his left arm, making a hideous wound nnd culling a small ar tery. This disabled bis arin and helped drain his weakened system, but still hag gard and bloody be staggered up nnd down thc line, encouraging his men. A fourth ball then entered bis shoulder, knocking him from bis feet. Iiis men who saw tho crimsoned uniform and pale face go down thought their heroic leuder was killed. With sublime courage, how ever, he struggled to his feet, and, though he lind hardly strength to stand, waved his sword above bis head and coiled to his men lo remain linn. Some ono ran to him hastily and said that it was rum ored up the line Unit ho was dangerously wounded and that tho men were waver ing. "Tell them that 1 nm not hurt," he said. And so through those dreadful hours of slaughter, with four unstnunch ed wounds drawing blood (rom bis body, bc stood, determined to die with his men nnd in defense of the part thnt Lee hid confided to bim. At length a fifth ball struck Gordon full in thc face, and entering his check knocked him sense less, ile fell, and for sime timo bin prostrate body was wrapped in tho smoke of the battle. We heard from Gen. Gor don's own lips a story thatin a meta physical point is exceedingly interest ing. Ho snid that when he fell he was utterly incapable of moving. He grad unlly began to think of his condition, and this is the half dream and half solil oquy that he carried on: "I have been struck in the head with a six pound solid shot, it has carried away my bend. On the left side there is n little piece of skull left. But the bruin is gone en tirely. Therefore, lam dead. And yet I nm thinking. How eau n man think with his head shot oil ? And if I nm thinking, I cannot bo dead. And yet no man can live after bis head is shot olf. I may have consciousness while dead, but not motion. If I can lift my leg, then I um alive. I will try that. Cnn I? Yes, there it is; lifted up! I'm all right !" Thc General says that every singe of this soliloquy is indelib.y stamped on his mind, and that in his exhausted state the reasoning was carried on as logically as ever man reasoned nt bis desk. Doubt succeeded argument and argument dis placed doubt just as logically as could be. He says he will never forget with what anxiety he made the test of lifting his leg-willi what agony he waited to see whether or not it would move iu re sponse to his effort, and how lie hesitat ed before trying it for fear that it might fail and his death be thereby demon strated.-//. W. Grady in the Atlanta (Jonttitution, NEURO DISFRANCHISEMENT. The MeenlriR of tba Proponed National Convention of Colored '.ttoii. Some of the leaders of the Republican party are of opinion that tue outrage business cannot be made a telling issue in the next Presidential campaign. It is a mere matter of sentiment, they say, and does not come home to the people as practical issues always do. They admit that if tho white people aro to control the Southern States, they must also, to a very large degree, control the negro vote. The votes of the ignorant and dependent classes are always more or less controlled by the wealthy and intelligent portion of tho population. Railroad corporations can and do dictnte to their employees. So du mill owners in Pennsylvania nnd Massachusetts. But there is a practical question growing out of the Southern outrages, says tbese men, which will claim the attention of the Northern pub lic mind, and that is the question of rep resentation. The South hus twenty rep resentatives based on negro votes. Il these votes are to count for nothing, save to add representation to the South, then thc North will demand that something be done. Thc North pays the great pro portion of taxes, and it will not havo itt money voted away to its disadvantage bj these twenty additional representatives which in effect give the South thecontro of the government. The reply to this by Southern men is "You amended the constitution, and im posed negro suffrage upon us, und WI nave suffered immeasurable evils there by. Now that tho advantage is to bi reaped by us, you want to uudo wha i you have done. We had no choice ii the matter, but bad to take a very largi proportion of evil to get a little good, am we mean to hold on to that little." All thc indications now point to ai . agitation nt no late doy for the disfran ; chisement of the negro,'and tho Repub Heans will deliberately propose it. 1 ...... prominent Republican said tc rn \ the oilier day, "If we. couid only get ri ' of this negro question we could whip th Democrats every time." He meant tbt the additional electoral votes which th South gets upon its increased representi tion makes the Presidential fight doub 1 ful. Get rid nf this increase of the ele< ' toral vote which the South secun f through its negro vote, nnd the Republ 1 cnn pnrty wilt bo strong enough to wi I without a very bard fight The propose 5 negro national convention w u step i . this direction. It is a political move i f tho direction of the disfranchisement < f tho negro.-Special Dispatch to the Nc . York Sun._ ^ ? - A man was boasting that ho had J e elevator in his house. "So ?io ?ins ; chi u ned in bis wi to, "and he keeps it i the cupboard in a bottle." - A courtly negro recently sent a r - ply to an invitation, in which ho "r 1 gretted that circumstances repugnant . the acquiescence would prevent his a ceptance tb the invite." LEGAL ADVERTISING.-Vio are compelled lo require cash paytaenta for advertising orJercA fc? Escc?to'.a, Adralo tatt ?tara and other sdactarie? and herewith append the rate? for the ordinary notice?, which will outr bo inserted whoa tb? c.onejr cumva with tho order: CitttiOES, two i&MritvBir - - - . **.?. Kstate Notice?, three insertions, - . 3.0? Final BeltWiifcnta, five Insertions - ? 1.04 TO CORR??PONDENTS.-lm oro>r to rocelro attention, communications must bo accompanied by the true natue and address of the writer. Re jected manuscripts will not be returned, unless tko necessary stamps are furnished to repay the postage thereon. *3r* We aro not responsible for tba riana aid opinions of -'-correspondents. All comnn.tuitions should be addressed to "Ed itors Intelll;;en' ir." and all checks, drafts, money orders, 4c, Ac :'.d be ?ade payable to the order of E. B. MU Ult AY A CO. Anderson.C. C. GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY. - Tampa, Florida, shipped iu three weeks, recently, 314,870 oranges. - There aro 400 coliegcs in this coun try, with un aggregato of 3,700 profes sors. - Mr. .7. Russell Young will, they say, arrange General Grant's accounts o? his travels. - Tlie number of oyster catchers, boat men and openers in Virginia is put down at 10,000. - The tide of immigration to Texas from Germany is heavier this year thau ever before. - Tho information comes from Bostou that piain mm is the only drink affected by Congressmen this season. - Jess* Pomeroy, the notorious boy murderer, of Boston, is said to bo losing his mind and falling in health. - Mr. Wr.llncc McGee, who was re cently married in Carroll county, Va., had at the time 104 grandchildren. - Rev. James Hodgson, Adventist, of Petersburg, Virginia, says thc world will come to an end on the 6th ot January. - The Norlh Carolina Legislature meets January 8. On the 22d of Jan uary they clee't a United States Senator. - A curiosity can be seen at Syracuse, N. Y. It is a live cat with six feet, each forepaw having two well formed and per fect feet. - Gen. Joo Hooker is 04 years old, well, hearty, and possessed of a supreme aversion for his army associates, Gens. Grant and Sherman. - Jefferson Davis' book of memoirs is tobe published next spring simultane ously in New York and Loudon, with a French edition in Paris. - A prisoner arraigned at the bar of the New Castle, Va., court knocked the Judge over with his fist and felled the clerk with a brick bat. - The registers show that in fifteen months tho Richmond bars have sold 1,897,305 alcoholic, and 3,093,023 malt drinks; total tax, $55,650.61. _ - There are 824 places in the good city of New Orleans where the down trodden and oppreased citizen may walk in and ta'.e "sugar in his'n." - Adam Johnson, colored Liberian apostle, has been arrested at Mallard Creek, N. C., for swindling an old negro out of $114 and the title deeds to his farm. - If George P. Marsh holds out until nexi March- ho will have Berved the country as minister t? Italy seventeen years, and will have drawu for his servi ces $204,000. - Alabama is burdened with land purchased by the State at tax sales. In one county thc State has thus got posses sion of 197,000 acres-nearly one-third of the count}'. - Mrs. J. D. Mcln'yrc, of Pender county, N. C., nged twenty-four, has just prcsr nted her lord with a son, his twenty fourth child. He is eighty, and sho is his fourth wife. - Mr. Halsted says it is no bc-cret among Grant's intimate friends that ho would rather be mado field-marshal with a salarv of $50,000, and retired on half pay, than to run for the presidency again. - Wm. Jefferson, who was bung at Warrenton, N. C., on the l3th December, admitted to the commission of eight rapes, ono murder, several attempts at murder, besides numerous houso burn ings and burglaries. - It is said that Lieut. Flipper, tho only colored cadet who has been gradua ted from West Point, has decided to write or authorize a book describing the hardships which ho had to endure there on account of his color. - . Cednr Keys ships annually 840,000 pounds of fish, bringing into the city about $16,000. In addition to those shipped on ice, immense quantities are salted and sold to parties in the interior, increasing the income to about $25,000. - A band of thirty gypsies visited Crawfordvillc, Ga., recently, and tho women drove a thriving business by tell ing fortunes to negroes. The chief at tractions held out to the negro men were that they were all told they would have white wives. - A thousand men are from the Con che to the Red River in Tr rr.- h:-.r.;:,r,s" t.'.'.ov?l T* ta />Ialmc4 iV.it tKta Hilt* army has been of great advantage to tho State in driving back tho Indians and allowing tho tide of white emigrants to follow close in their wake. - Negro slavery in the South was abolished by the war, but what will wipe out Democratic slavery in the North? Tho slaveholders lost the commercial control of thc Southern blacks, but they still retain mastery of the Northern Democrats. Thc Hills and Gordons and Whitthornes and Huntons crack their whip., in the halls of Congress, and the Voorheos and Thurmans and Woods and Coxes and Springers feel of their collara and apologize for the noise.-St. Louis Globe- Democrat. - Dnring the session at Richmond, Va., last month of the Grand Lodge of Good Templars, an interesting incident occurred. A speaker alluded to the mel ancholy end of the lamented Edgar Allen Poo, which brought out Dr. Moran, who attended Poe in his last sickness in Baltimore. He refuted and rebuked tho slander that he died under tho influence of either opium or liquor, and stated that after he becamo rational, for many days before his death, he could not bo persua ded to tako either stimulants or opiates to allay his nervous excitement. ? He died in his sober senses, a true penitent of thc past. - Baltimore is growing in importance as a grain port, the receipts of flour for tho year ending the 30th of September amounting to 778,211 barrels, and of grain to 30,639.654 bushels, nn ineiwiBA of about one-fifth in both items over the year before. The wheat traffic shows tho greatest gain, hom 2,500,000 bushels in 1877 to 9,875,233 bushels this year, while tho corn receipts were some 8,000,000 less than a year ago, owing to the refusal of the Baltimore and Ohio lino to compete with tho very low rates offered by other trunk lines, - If tho new year be not begun with fresh activity in trade and industry, tho lowest point of business depression hav ing passed and better times being at hand, it wiii not bo because we, tho citizens of tho "United States, have not encouraged o- 2 another with this belief, nor because ino belief was without apparent founda tion. Capital is gaining courage, new enterprises are projected, i. creased con sumption, better prices, and higher wages aro looked for. Tho New York Herald is printing a series of reports from differ ent sections of the country on the busi ness outlook, which all lend to give the impression, that as far as trado and in dustry aro concerned, "tho night is far spent and tho day is at hand." - When Johny was questioned as to why his engagement with Miss H. had been broken off, he rolled his eyes, look ed very much pained, and groaned. "Oh ! she turned out a deceiver." But ho for got to mention that he was the deceivor whom she bad turned out -*J. H. Grant, a well known ex-Dep uty U. S. Marshal, who. carno to this State with the army, dropped/dend in Columbia on lasi Friday night,.