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BY E. B. MURKAY & CO. ANDERSON, S.O., THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20, 1881 TT HIM,,. ? ... ? VOLUME XVI.w-NO. 28. THE LAWS Ol' TUE STATE. Important Act? of Ute Last General As sembly. AN ACT to collato into ono Ac*. Ute modes prescribed for tho Probato of Deeds and other instrument tn writing, which aro by law required to be Re corded. Be il maded by tho Senate and House of Representa ti ves of the,State Of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, aud by the authority of the same : That before any deed or instrument in writing can be recorded in tho proper outee within the State tho execution thereof shall first bo proved by the alli davit in writing of a subscribing witness to such instrument, taken before some officer within this State competent to ad minister au oath, or before a commis nioner or commissioners appointed' hy dedimus, issued from the Court of Com mon Pleas of tho county in which the instrument is to be recorded ; or, if taken without, the limits of this Suite, and within the United Staten before a Com missioner of Deeds of luis State, or be foro a Clerk of a Court of Record, who shall certify the nam'; under his official leal, or before a NoU.-y Public, who shall affix thereto his official seal, and accom pany tho same with a certif ?ate ns to his official character from a Clerk of a Court of Record of the county in which the affidavit is taken; or, if taken without tho United Staten, before n consul or vice-consul of the United States of America. Nothing herein contained shall be con strued to alie cr, tho law in relation to tho mode of proving deeds provided for in Chapter XXIII. Section 6, Title Vi, Part I of tho General Statutes, in. cases tvbnr? the affidavit of a subscribing wit ness cannot be had, by reason of death, absence or removal from thc Stato of such a witness. Approved Decombor 13, 1880. AN ACT to repeal Sections 2 and 3 of Chapter CV, Title I, Part III, of the Revised Statutes of thia State, in re gard to vacating Erroneous Judgments. Be il enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and hythe authority of tho same : SECTION 1. That Sections two (2) and threo (3) of Chapter CV, Title I, Part II?, o? tho Reviled Statutes of this State Ero vidi ng that erroneous judgment* may e vacated at any timo within two yearn from tho entry "thereof and .prescribing tho mode in which this may be done, bc. and the same aro hereby, repealed una abrogated : Provided, however, That this Act shall not apply to existing judg ments or affect cases now in suit. SEC. 2. That thia Act shall take effect on the first day of January, 1881. Approved December 21, 1880. AN ACT to provide for tho Redemption of Forfeited Lands. Pc it enacted by the Senate and Houce of Representatives of the State of South Cand?na, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of thu same : That all lands now on thc list of de linquent lands, and all lands heretofore forfeited to the State for the non-payment of taxes, and which havo not been sold for taxes or reclaimed, may bo redeemed, by the owners of nucb lands, or those having a legal or equitable right or in terest therein, on the payment of the taxes winch may bo aue and unpaid thereon, with costs, but without penal ties : Provided, That said payment shall bo made on or before the 31st dav of May, 1881, in gold or silver coin. United States treasury notes or national bank notes : And provided, further, That this Act shall not apply to auy lands which by virtue of any Act of the General As sembly have already become assets of the State in charge of the Sinking Fund Commission. Approved December 24, 1880. AN ACT to require all Railroad Compa nies iu this State lo construct and keep in repair an adequate Stock-guard or Cattle-gap at every point where the lino of Railroad of nny such Company crosses tho linc cf any Fence in this State. Be it enacted by tho Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, no ; met and sitting iu General Assembly, and by the authority of the same : SECTION 1. That the several railroad compauies whose line of rfr&d lies wholly or partly in this State "be, And they are hereby, required to construct and keep in repair an adequate stoc* guard or- cattle gap at every point where tho line of ?aid railroad of any such company crosses the line of any fence in thia Stute. 8FC. 2. That for every violation of this Act the railroad company so violating it shall pay to thc owner or owners of tho fence upon the lino of which such stock fence-guard or cattle-gap should have been constructed and kept in repair tho sum of $100, to bo recovered by action in the Court of Common Pleas for the county in. which such stock-guard or cuttle, (jap bhould have heen constructed and kept in renair. SEC 8. That all Aots nod parti of Act? inconsistent with this Act aro hereby re pealed. Approved December 21, 1880. AN ACT to artiontj Section 4 of an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act for tho PiOtwviOH and Preservation o?n?w^ ful Au?mu?s," approved Febinary ??, 1880. '. VStji^w Be il enacted by tho Senate and House of Representatives of lim Stato of South Carolina, now met and sliting iu General Assembly, and by* tho- auUiorliy bf tho same : SECTION 1. That 8cctiou 4 of an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act enti tled an Act for the protection 'and pres ervation of useful'Ultim?is," approved February 20, 1880, bo, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out of said Section the words ' ?bc fifteenth day of September, and putting in place and lieu thereof "the first day of October." SEC. 2. That so much of any Acts or parts of Acts as is inconsistent or repug nant to this Act is hereby repealed*.: Approved December 21, I860. AN ACT to amend Chapter CXXVHI-rJHf the General Statutes, and to pr?vido for tho trial and punishment nf persons guilty of Homicide and their Acceso rica when tho deceased may bo wound ed, poisoned or otherwise injured in one County and dio in another. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Stale of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by tho Authority of the same : SECTION 1. That Chapter OXXVIII of the General Statutes be, and the unie is.herebv, amended by adding the follow ing a? Section 2 : SEC. 2. That when any person Bhall be .druck, wounded, poisoned or otherwise Injured in one county and die thereof In another, any inquisition or indictment thoro-found by juron ot either county : shall be aa good and effectual lu law as if j the stroke, wound, poisoning or other in j jury had been committed and done ia the same county wheo the party chal? die. And tho person or persons guilty of such striking, wounding, poisoning or other injury, and every accessory thereto, either before or after the fact, snail bo tried in tho county where such indictment shall be found, and if convicted, punished in ; the santo mode, manner and form as if ; the deceased had suffered such striking, : wounding, poisoning or other injury and dentb in the county where euch indict ment shall bo found. Approved December 21,1880. AN ACT to regulato Appeals from Trial Justices' Courts in Criminal Causes. lie it enacted by tho Senate and ?louee I of Repr?sentatives of rhe State of South Carolina, now met and bitting in General Assembly, and bj the authority of the same : SECTION 1. That from end after tho SftKxago of thia Act ali appeals from Trial usticcs' Courts in criminal cases shall bo tfiken and prosecuted as follows : SEC. 2. The appellant shall, within five days after sentence, serve a notice of appeal upou the trial justice who tries the case, stating the grounds upon which the appeal is founded. SEC. 8. Within ten days after said ser vice the said trial justice shall file in the office Of the Clerk of Court the said no lice, together with the record and state ment of all tho proceedings in the case, and the testimony in writing, taken at the trial, and signed by the witnesses. SEC. 4. That upon service of tb??. said notice tho said trial justice shall, on do mand of tho defendant, admit him to bail, in such reasonnblo Rum, and with good sureties, as said trial justice may require, with conditiou to appear at tho Court appealed to, and at any subsequent term to which the cane may bo continued, if not previously surrendered, and so, from term to term, until tbo final decree, sentence or order of the Court thereon, und to abide auch final seuteoce, order or decree, and not depart without leave, and in tho meantime to keep the peuco and be of good behavior. SEC. 5. That the Clerk of Court, upon receipt of said case, chal? place the same upon tho proper docket jf the Court of General Sessions for trim or other dispo sition at tho next ensuing term of said court. SEC. G. That the said appeal shall ho heard by tho Court of General Sessions upon Ibo grounds of exceptions made, and upon tho papers hereinbefore re quired, ami without the examination of witnesses in said Court. And tho said Court may either confirm the sentence appealed from, reverse or modify tho same, or grant a new trial, as lo the said Court may seem meet and conformable to law. Approved December 24, 1880. AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "An Act to prohibit persons living together in Adultery," approved December 20, 1878, and to detiae the crimes of Adul tery and Fornication. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and silting in General Amenably, and by the authority of the sume : That an Act entitled "An Act to pro hibit persons living together in adultery," approved December 20,1878, be amended so as to read as follows, to wit : SECTION I. That any man and woman who .shall be guilty of the crime of adul tery or fornication shall be liable to in dictment, und, on conviction, shall bo severely punished by a lino of not less than one Hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not leds thun six months nor moro than one year, or by both fine and imprison ment, at the discretion of tho Court. SEC. 2. That adultery is tho living to gether and carnal intercourse with each other, or habitual carnal intercourse with each other, without living together, of a man and woman, when either is lawfully married to some other person. SEC. 3. That fornication is tho living together and carnal intercourse with each other, or habitual carnal intercourse with each other, without living together, of a man and woman, both being unmarried. Approved December 21, 1880. DENOMINATIONAL OXEN IN TEXAS. Texas, auya the True Wiinett, it a great State. It baa not only a large, growing, mixed population-every variety of ell mate and soil, game and stock-but its very oxen become denominational, if not sectarh.n, in came chancier and spirit, in proof ol'thia, wo give the following incident, although rather hard on tho Methodists : A stranger traveling along the road met a Btrangcr driving a wagon, which was pulled by finir oxen. As ho ap proached, be heard the driver say : "Get up, Presbyterian I Gee, C?mp bcllile! li aw Baptist! What are you doing Methodist 1" Thc tra - ?1er, struck with thesigularity of such ri1 mes being giten to oxen re marked : "Stranger, you have strange nam?s for your oxen, and I wish to know why they had such names given them." The driver replied ; "I call that lead ox iu front Presbyterian, because he is truo blue and never fails-he believes in Ullllim? through ?ynru difKoidt place, pen>evoring to the end, and then ho lenows more thun all tho rest. The ono by his .sido I call Campbeliitc; he does very well when you let him go his own way, Until Ju- m??'* ntfltar ? niirl thar, oil Ilia 'World, can'tfcisj'- S?? foi il, and there Bc Stauda a* if his journey, was ended. 'This off bx, Ufchi?d, i?(% Teal Baptist, for ha is all the time after water, and will not eat with the otho?f but >qcontinually looking first oh one sido and then tho other, and at'everything that comes near him. Tho other, wheoh I call Methodist makes a great to do, and you would think that bo-was pulling all creation but he don't pull a nouna." The traveller, having bis curiosity gratified with the explanation, rodo on, wondering what bo should next hear in Texas. This is no dream, but real fact, as wo havo heard it; ooraro we influ enced by the dyspeptic feeling io telling our readers the ecclesiastical relation of Texas ox#n, , - According to the now census, tho Southern States will have a population of 13,000.000. One whito r.nd two colored citizens of Newberry aro in trouble nndor the new concealed weapon law. - Tho United 8tntes Government will soon issue a work, "Records of tho War," filling nearly 77,000 octavo pages. - Mrs. O'Connor, the?woman who cat .Ju throat of her three young children, j is on trial at Jersey City. She ie proba bly insane. - 'Tho debt of Louisiana, when fund 1 cd, will ?mount to $12,171,940.90. Her gross income laut year wan $1,1(13,438.21, j and her expenditures $1,059,001.24. ; - Churlcrttnu ia excited over the re* ported attempted bribery of two colored Aldermen by the Water Works Com pany. The Aldermou refused tho bribes i ?ml reported th? matter. GARFIELD AS A PREACHER. But II? Never Designed to Become a Minis ter-Hl? Study of th? La/vr A Secret at th? Tl mo-ills VonterraUim.' Cbrrr*pon?ff7tci of the Cincinnati (Jatttte. MENTON, O., Jan. 8. Half a century ago tbo renowned Alexander Campbell founded the Chris? Lian denomination, nor/ generally known tm the Disciple churches. Twenty-five years ago these churches were becoming firmly established in North jiu Ohio. They wen? f ?rgrcMive, and enjoyed the full measure of opposition and persecu tion which is always giver to new and wideawake religious organization. The result was a very rapid growth. Thc membership of the Disciple churches in the United Status is now abuut 600,000. Gen. Garfield's parents were among the earliest of Mr. Ormpbell'a converts in Ohio, and from th ?rn he received tho religious training which established him for life in tho peculiar faith of the Dis ciples. Early in bis Behool days be showed an aptness for public speaking, and his interest in the study of thc Bible lcd' his his fiends lo believe that he would become a minister. Tho Disciples hold that every Christian should be a teacher, and do not require in their candidates for the pastoral of fice a certain course of theological train ing. They do not "license" and "ordain," at least not in tho formal manner which prevaita in most other denominations. Allb" ?gb Gen. Garfield is often spoken of as having been a preacher, ho was never a minister in the sense in which thal word is ordinarily used. Atter his graduation at Williams College he was often invited to preach iu the Disciple churches in the region about Cleveland, and many old residents tell me that ho was a remarkable speaker, earnest and fluent in speech and fresh and bright in thought, and so far superior to the un educated preachers who visited the coun try districts in those days that ho was regarded by tho people generally as a most brilliaut and accomplished religious teacher. It is not probable that ie ever entertained any serious thought of adopt inc the ministry os a profession. Ile did not enter upon any extended and thorough course of theological study, and ho refused several calls to act as pastor. [ To a friend who recently asked him for the manuscript of one of hin old cc rm o na he declared that he never wrote one. Ile preached because he loved the ex citement of the public speaking, and preaching was theos!? kind cf oratory for which there waa that time a demand within the circle in which he moved. He was a natural, irrepressible orator, and his speech naturally flowed into the first channel which opeued for it. Rut tho regular pastor work of the Disciplo churches bad few attractions for one BO capable and ambitious as he was. The denomination bad no great metropolitan churches, in whoso pulpits a widespread influence might be acquired and a na tional fame established. The churches were nearly all small and financially feeble. The salaries paid to their pastors ' were ridiculously small. There was no chance for promotion, the preachers all being of one order, and tho churches being strictly congregational or indepen dent in their ecclesiastical relations. To become a Disciple minister was to ac cept comparative obscurity and unquali fied poverty for life. It is not surprising that young Garfield disappointed bia pious admirent by seeking a larger and more promising sphere of activity. If he had held to the doctrine ot a divine cul! to the ministry, probably be would have bravely entered upon the lifo of self-sacrifice which such call is supposed to require of those to whom it comes. But he had not beeu taught to believe certain men must preach or be damned und he felt free to chooso another pro fession. With the secretiveness that is characteristic of him, he studied law privately, keeping tho fact n profound secret until his admission to the bar in I Cleveland made it public, shortly after this event he was unexpectedly nomina ted as a republican candidate for the State Senate of Ohio. This nomination prac tically ended his brief career as a preach er. Out of respect for the public preju dice which condemns the blending of religious and political work, be withdrew a.? quickly as possible from the pulpit, after his party had placed him on tho stump. To recapitulate : Mr Garfield nevor pursued a regulation courao of theologi cal study ; bo war never licensed or I ordained, or set apart in any way for the ! ministry ; be never actod as pastor of a church ; ho never wrote a sermon ; ?uti i his "sermons" delivered at various times ? and places were simply religious lectures or addresses, such na any educated and devont layman might properly deliver. Therefore it is correct to eav that he was never a minister in the ordinary sense of the term. The steady adherence of Gen. Garfield to tho religious faith of his childhood is an illustration of bis natural conserva* tistn. Ho hos no sympathy with that radical spirit of progress which is ever aeekiug for something new in religion, politics or philosophy. It he had been reared by Roman Catholic parents, he would have adhered to the Papal Church as faithfully as ho has to the Disciples. If he had been reared in the South under -l.......... :..o.- l a --iJ-. - J.1. -.ii?...^v., MW 1IUUIU IICICl have beeu known as a Republican. Af ter his college training was finished he had offers of profitable employment in the East, but his natural conservatism, hisloTS ?M ?'d.sescc?s^scss and familiar scenes .?ip?l??u bim iusciuru io ibo home of bis boyhood and accept unremuueraj? live employment arning his old friends and neighbors. In later years the same spirit has lcd him to buy a farm here and establish thereon his home-his per manent home, iu which ho hopes to spend his declining years, when tempo rary official homes at Washington or elsewhere shall have lost al.1 their attrac tions. It ia this inborn conservatism of Gen. Garfield which, more than anything else, assures those who know him that he will be eminently successful in the Presiden cy. He will havo no new and untried .beor?es to bring forward. Ho will have no peculiar and original "policy." Ho will make no hasty decisions on im portant questions. In a word, ht is ab solutely level-headed. Every Sunday morning, at a few min utes past 10 o'clock, Gen. Garfield's team of black colts is brought out, and the General, taking the lines himself, drives with his family to the little country church where they worship. It is about one mile east of tho Garfield residence, and is a plain wooden building neatly finished within and without. It has ?eats for about 100 persons. Arriving at the church door, Gen. Garfield alights, and tenderly lifts his mother ana his wife from the wagon or sleigh, and then drives toi a friend** place, near by, where he unhitches his horses and leaves them In tho barn until after tho services. Returning to the church he walks up the aisle with bowed head, and takes his seat nrar tho front, and only a few feet from the preacher's desk. Ito joins hear tily And effectually in thc service of praise, and listens attentively to-tho Ber mon, whether it bo good, hui, or indiffer ent. After the sermon, according lo the custom of the Disciples, the Lord ? Sup per is observed in tho simplest and most informal manner. After tho congrega tion is dismissed Gou. Garfield warmly graspo tho pastor's hand, speaks a kind and encouraging word in his car, and as be goes down tho aisle toward the door gives n heavy greeting to ouch of Uro con gregation ns linger a moment "lo be so ciable." Then he bitches his team and with his faintly drives homeward tn spend the afternoon and ??.??*.! ?t n)ay boin work that is not strictly religious. For Gen. Garfield is not a Sabbatarian. Ho has no Puritan notions in regard to the observance of what the Disciples call the ''Lord's Day." If ho can quietly serve his party, his country, or his per sonal friends, on that day, ho believes, no doubt, that the service will be accept ed "as done unto thc Lord." Ile puya little attention to religious forms and ceremonies beyond the few simple rites of bis church. Be encourages the lar gest freedom of opinion in his household, and never obtrudes his own religious views on his guests, With friendi* of bis own faith wlc ' choose to talk on religious subjects he converses on such themes with great zest, and is a delightful talker. His mind b a vast reservoir of universal knowledgo on which lie draws at will lor facts, argu ments and illustrations touching any subject, and h* ?eems to feel perfectly at home in an}' realm of thought. His pastor said to mo : "Oh you ought to bear Gen. Garfield converse on reii liuus subjects. He ie a man of profound faith. Ho believes that he is guided by Providence in every Btep of lile, and rests secure in the sense of God's abso lute sovereignty. His religious conver sation is purifying and uplifting to nil who bear it-it is an inspiration. Although Gen. Garfield is an attendant and principal supporter of tho Disciple Church iu vi.n'or, he is not enrolled as a member of this church. With charac teristic aversion to change ho retains his local membership in the church at Hiram. Preside t Hinsdale, of Hiram College, often 8} mb Sunday at Gen. Garfield's and attends church with him. Tho invariablo refusal of both on such ovc&sious to deliver any sort of public address is a matter of deep regret to tho pastor and people of Mentor. W. S. P. A Good Horse. "I can't explain what u reui good horse is," said ono of tho best natured dealers in the street. "They aro differ ent as men ; in buying a horso yoe must look first to his head and eyes for eigns of intelligence, temper, courage, and hones ty. Unless a horse has brains you can't teach him anything any more than you can teach a half-witted child. &co that tall bay there, a fine looking animal about fifteen bands high? You can't teach thal horse anything. Why? Well, I'll show you a difference in heads, but have a care of his heels. Look at the beast's head-that rounding nose, that tapering forehead, that broad, lull placo below the eyes. You can't trunt him. Ki:k? Well, I guess so. Pot him in a tee acre lot, where ho has plenty of wing, and he'll kick tho born oil thc moon." The world's treatment of man and beast has the tendency to enlarge and intb'isify bnd qualities, if they predomi na^. This good-natured phrenologist could not refrain from slapping in the ince the horse whose character had bees BO cruelly delineated, while he had bul the gentlest treatment for a slick-iimted sorrel that pricked ber ears forward and looked intelligent enough to understand all that was being said. "That's an awful good mare," he ad ded. "She's as true as the sun. You cnn see breadth and fullness between tho ears and eyes. You can't hire that mare to set mean or hurt anybody. Tho eye should be full, and hazel is a good color. I like n ?muH, thin ear, and wnnt a horse to throw his ears well forward. Lock out for the brute that wants to listen to all the conversation that ?B going on behind him. The boree that turns back his enrs till they almost meet at tho points, take my word for it, is sure to do Bomelhimg wrong. See that straight, elegant faeo? A horse with a dishing face ia cowardly. : nd a cowardly brute is always vicious, '.'hen I Hbo a square muzzle, with Ia:ge nostrils to let plenty of air to the lungs. For the under side of the head a jjood horso should bo well cut under the jowl, with jaw-bones broad end wide opart under tho throttle. "ito much for tho head," he continued. "Tba next thing to consider h thc build uf the animal. Never buy a long-legged, Btiity horne. Let bim have snort, straight back and a straight rump, and you'vo got a gentleman s horse. Tho ! withers should ne high, and the shoul ders well Bet back and broad, but don't ?-et them too deep in the chest. The ore legs should bo short. Givo mo' a ?iretty straight hind leg, with the hock nw down, short pastern joints, and a mund mulish font. There are all kiuds of horses, but the animal that bas these points is almost sure to be slightly grace ful, good-natured and serviceable. As to color, tastes differ. Bays, browns and chestnuts are the best. Roan? are very fashionable at preserrt. ' A great many grays and sorrell art hrought here for ibipui?iil lu Mexico -ind Cuba. They do well in a hot climate, under a tropic.-.1, sun, for tho samo reason that you find light-colored clothing most serviceable in summer. That circus horso behind vnti ia nliat, mnnu ru iw.tr? poll ? Cilice norse; new, ? call him a genuine pie bald. It's a freak of nature, and may happen anywhere.-Scribner's Monthly. A GHASTLY MOCKERY OF LUFK. Miss Barbara Leifipld, a young lady who died a tew days ago in the western, part of the city, arid whoae corpse wai so life like that soino people, scoing a rosy tint on her cheeks and earn, were impressed with a beliof that she was ia a trance, as a matter of precaution was not buried, but deposited IQ a vault with the coffin lid loose. Tho physician attending her, howorer, was well enough satisfied of the death of his patient, and thoso who have i investigated the causo of life-like appear ance of tho flesh have bsd revealed to them a new art, the invention of an un dertaker, who, by the use of sulphuric acid and other agents, is eunblcd to give a temporary bloom to the cheeks of the dead, instead of tho customary pallor. Baltimore Sun. - The President hus sent to the Sen ate tho nomination of Nathan Golf, Jr., of West Virginia, to be Secretary of the Navy. Ho ia a native of West Virginia, residing at Clarksburg. He was a Colo nel nf tho Third Virginia regiment in the Union army, and rase to tho rank of Urtr-adier-Genoral. During the war he earned the reputation of a gallant and able commander. He bas been United State? District Attorney of Went Vir ginia for twelve years. Four years ago ne was the Republican nominee for Gov ernor, and, it is Bald, ran ahead of bis ticket considerably, but was of course I beaten, by tho Democratic nominee, Gov* j CTncr-MsitMws. TUE LASD OF TBAfiS. 1 j Pon Fletar*? ot Peasant Ufo ta Ireland. Miss Charlotto G. O'Brien thus write? in the tiincUiT.th- Century : A young 1 maa stay* ip Ireland, marries st .three and-twenty, has any number of cr lldr-jn up to fourteen, without being c-raJK .ted ' upon, except as the father of "o lot;; iami ly." For a few yearn bis wages suffice ; 1 but soon children iucreaso, a rainy season, or a cold season, or a slack season sets in, then credit ls called to help, then the ; "gombeen map," the usurer; ?hen all resources being exhausted, beggary begins. The wife and youngest children tramp round tho country, or may bcaecn, as I have soon them, flecking in tin dark evening and winter's snow for th toj s of the seawravk as a supper. ''How do the people live ?" I have often asked of themselves. "How can they support lifo even in ordinary years ?" r,They do not live, they starve," is the answer I nave got. "How do they bring the!" children up?" "They bring them up '.n rags and beggary and starvation." Tnero is th? answer, and it is a true one. This io the reward of tho man who atays in Ireland, and docs his work according to his light. Now for tlo other side. A lad of nineteen, strong, vigorous, unspoilt full of intelligence, nod with a certain amount of lear ug,.n9ks himself what he shall do. H's brother or ' his uncle In some of tho colonies, or Amer* lea, answers the quotion for him, and says, "Come out to me. Hore you will carn from three to seveu or more dollars a day ; here you will have meat and cream and good clothing ; here you will find friends ar.J kinsfolk and acquain tance ; hero If ;*ou wish to marry, there arc plenty of " neighboring girls," (i. e., girls from the same neighborhood id the old country,) who are earning their thirty or forty pounds a year, who dress better than tho ladies do at home, and to whom you will bo able to give every comfort in a nico house of your very own, and per haps a pieco of land. Here you will bavo a vote, and have tho whole sphere of politics open to you, aud here you will bo free from England. This ls the real free Ireland ; como"-and he goes, aud the Nation loses him. Let us see wh > tho Nation retains. TAKE ANY LETT EB FBOM AMERICA, written from the poor to poor, what will you find in it? Aa above to the indus trious, to the young, to the strong, and the Rood; what to the worthless, the drunkards, tho idlers? "Let no mun como out iu America that wiii not work. He will he better at home." Here, be will starve; here, "If a man will not work neither let him eat," is tho practi cal rule, and the people know It. The bad stay at home. How do thev Uv? then? If fur the righteous there ip scarcely a place found, where shall tho ungodly and thc sinners appear? Strange tn say, Ireland is tho place for them. Now I will describe their lives. This man, that "will not respect him self," that cares not to live honestly, or cleanly, soberly, or chastely. He mar ries (in Ireland even tho worst will prob ably marry) at tho ago of nineteen, hav ing neither house nor mcann. He lodges probably with bis father-in-law, his wifr beiug a product of the "beggary and star vation" described above. They toss a heap of straw in some corner of .the cabin, one so they live, aa regards tboir setting ur, in married lifo. He gota a job of work when jobs are going, and sponds a good Eart iu tho public house, for be kuowi is wife has been working for him How? she-very probably trained fron infancy to tho business-is tramping thc road with au infant on her bad: aim an' other on each side, stopping at everj house, ?ich and poor. Ibo poor mar gives his three or four potatoes, hil handful of hour. He thinks it wrong t< refuse. She passes on, perhaps as ein goes by "wuipp'ng" the apron of his wilt or his child's ?bile off tho drying irdge and hiding them in uer gu, .nenia to th', rich man's houso ; t?tere she gets a bit o silver, or a lump of b.-ead, or a pot o dripping, then to the dalry farmer's; hero she poured into her can a cup o milk (milk not to bo bought for thedyinj child by those who will not beg.l Hen she bits down with or after tho laborer and has her dinner, and perhaps her bi of bacon. So thtough tho day, till sh? goes home rejoicing at night, her ba; well filled with potatoes, vt jich shs ?ell again for money ; her second bag wi tl flour for a cake; her little can full o milk for her ragged, unkempt, ur.sohoblci children. The money from the Bale o the potatoes turns into tea and whiakov aud if times are bard the whole fatal! will tramp together to some more pro porous country, or sometimes travel ii state with a donkey cart owued or hoi rowed. THE INHABITANTS OF NO BTU KEB lt' habitually invado Limerick every SUIE mer, when the potatoes fail at homi The moro worthless tho people, tin mor such a manner of living will suit then They can eat, driuk, and live togetber wbat do they want more? What ? such as they caro for cleanliness, c decency, or knowledge, or God feariof ness? There is bo country in Furor offers so easy means of life to the wort! lees scoundrel and his slattern wife t does Ireland; no country where a industrious honest roan finds it mci impossible to aavo himself anil t> children from sinking into the clai where easy beggary will provide foe honest labor can scarce secure. Tbis is the state of the "poor mat classas it is; ia it to continue BO? the farmer secure in all just rights, gi him bis most extravagant demands; y< have as yet but shinned the wouuc you have but yet cooled the lava on tl mouth of tho volcano ; tho explosli will coma? and come quickly-m twenty years ; not ten year? hence, b in a few months-it may bc in a fe dayd after you have loin aside yo healing tools and your cooling apparnti whatever it may be. And this revolutii will be a revolution of tho most dsngi ous elements ; it will be the rising a clausthal batea the .cia"? above with, an unspeakable hatred, for so t laborers bate the farmers, .n will bc rising that feels it is fighting for lil that regards murder as war; that loo upon the legal attainment of an ? injurious to a poor neighbor as a crin to be washed out with blood, that erl "Amen I" to cursed he ho that remove his neighbor's landmark. A revolutii not a political revolution, but a soc revolution, of this nature is what I government will have to deal with, a that before many days are out-whet! days of yean, or of weeks, or pf da I know not, but soon. * * * * ? If immigratora could mako for the self COM l'O BT A BLE HOM BS IN IBBJLAND I Bcenot why Ireland should not be wealthy as France, and more hapc wealthy for ' the poorer classes tl Englaud. Every island, town i country on the globe, wherein the i of Irishmen are treading, would BI the successful one? "bom,*" to the 1? they have loved-their Jerusalem, won d rather be a lamppost io Ireh feta too Pra?dcnt lc Oaaada,". aa ? -r-_-rj-T--r_~-i-j-: young nar? expressed it in a letter home. ...<'<. !.. The emigration' nauld co on, not as how, a parting Uli dcnth from father}, mooker and home-a parting ill-omencp for Ireland and Et:gland, uhr touching word? Mrs. Knox, herself an Irishwoman and exile,-has painted the o very-Cay .13ht of Ireland : Oh Gire, lana ->f tears. The hour draws ulgh r i I tee the faces wan, I hear tho cry. The lo'fl and loving part, By hard fate driven. On earth they have no oth meeting May they meet in bea von. Must the father part tho sou ? Must ho return alone, Tophis silent cabin door, To hil cold hearthstone? Must the arced rare the house ? Mm>t they die Sion ?, Un followed botlielr burying Their gravas unknown! Not as this would tho emigration be then. It would bo the natural out pour ing of the love of chango and of success and riobes ; it would be gilt with the hopo nf a home-coming in prosperity; Iridbtnen would then go forth-to conq?er the world, that they might return to adora the mistress of their love, their country. The poor would go, the rich would return and give employment, or if working men they would bo accustomed to wages a man can live on, and refuse to work, or to allow their friends to work, for starvation - wages. Being indepen dent, they would force the wages up. It bas been proved hopeless, by the experi ence nf the lunt twenty years, to expect that wages will go up of themselves, .imply as a result of starvation and emi gration combined. Men must work for what io given them, or dio if they have ao money in their pockets. A Courting In tho Olden Days. Thirty years ago Michigan people were a frank and truthful set. Strangers could como herd and trade horses with their eyeB closed, and breach of promise eases were unknown. Folks meant what thr-y ?aid, and when they gave their word ?tuck to it. Exactly thirty years ago this month e widower from New York Stato appeared in Lansing on business. That same business carried him over to DeWitt, eight miles away. While on bis way h< stopped at a lng farmhouse to warm hit cold Unger*. He was warmly welcomed by thc pioneer ?sd h's wife, both ui whom were well along in years, ant] after somo general talk the womat queried : "Am I right in thinking you ure i widower?" "Yes." "Did you como out here to find i wife?" "Portly." "Did anybody tell you of our Susie ?' "No." "Well, we've got as bouncing a girl o twenty-two as you over set you eyes ou Sho'o good looking, healthy and goot tempered, and I think she'll like you lo;.!-"" "Where ?B she?" "Over in the woods lhere, chopplnj down a coou tree. Shall I blow the hon for her?" "No. If you'll keep ou eye on m horse I'll find her." "Well, there's nothing stuck up c affected about Susie. She'll say yes c no as Boon as ehe looks you over. I you want her don't bo afraid lo say so. Tho stranger beard tho *n?nd of hf axe and followed lt, He found lu ust aa tho trco was ready to fall. Sb was a stout, good looking girl, swiugiu the axe like a man, and in two miaute be had decided to say : "Susio, I am a widower from Nc York State. I am thirty-nine years oh have one child, own a good farm, and want a wife. Will you go back wit me?" She leaned on tho axe and looked t him for half a minuto, and then replied "Can't say for certain. Just wait ti I get these coons off my mind." She sent the tree crashing to the earl and with bis help killed five coons whic were ?towed away in a hollow. "Well, what do you say?" ho aske as tita lost coon stopped kicking. "I'myour'n," was the reply; "audi the time you get back from DeWitt I' bave these pelts off and tacked up ar be reedy for the preacher." He returned to tho home, told the o folks that he should bring back apreacl er with bim*,- and at' dusk-that eve ing tho twain were married. . Hardly ; hour had been wasted ia courtin and yet ho took home one of the be girls in the Stato of Michigan.-Detn Free Pr cu. WUAT CAUSES GRAY IIATBS.-Gr bair sometimes-cornea prematurely 1 Inheritance, troubles* or toe large use water containing lime. The sudd blanching of a head of hair is frequent caused by severe nervous shocks, ai numerous historical nnd traditional cat may-be cited in which sudden fear cverwhelmig news bc* ^irned the hi white in a few hours. Tho case of Ms Antoinette, in one of tho most tender a touching, for ja A single night her ri dark hair was changed to a silver ern A sepoy of the Bengal army w?s lok prisoner in 1858, and the fright be ceived caused his hair to become co plelcly whitened within half nu ho the change being so rapid as to cause c"".i?rs ts exci?i?n, io ro'ouisbnici "L*o is turning gray I" Under the lal ence of great fear or any great men shock tbs blood recedes from the surf of the body to the heart, and it is nt posed the esme influence may cause i coloring fluid of tho hair to retire to root bulbs where it remains thereat! Gray hair has been known to beco dark without the chemist's sid. Io 17 Nazarela, a maa 105 years old; was p sooted by nature with a new set of te? sod the restoration of the black hali b I s you th. Job n Weeks was blessed a a regeneration of the color of bis hal short time' before bis death, which cemd at the age of 114 ; and Sir 8. ? eialr, dying at 110, rejoiced in a yootl beau) of bair during the Utter years bi? life. Dr. Richards has reported case of a man who had three chang?e bia hair from black to Wblto during life, the flrat taking place when he about 85 years old. - A Newark, New Jersey, dispatcl the 6th says: Mrs. Meierhooffcr, con\ ed with Frank Lammens, her param of the' murder of ber husband, J Meierhooffcr, at Weat Orange, Oct< 18,1870, was hanged nt the County O House at 10.30 o'clock that morn She waa very palo and deeply affec but Walked to the galiana without ss aaec, ?nd met her foto without confes or uttering a word. She' died in ol niuo minute*,,her neck boing apparc Mubrbken. About 80 persons were j tnt. Including thc officers and jury sii ed by the Court under a recent law. all spectators were excluded. La mn was hung from the Barue gallows la diately afterwards, but triade no con t v- t..,*. Qrftininar.^ m There to magic, in.thfl sound, Row, it summons before us th? old school room, willi its lines of benches, and desl?a, ana the rows of juvenile heads above them. The black-board, white with ils aerrld columns of.."sums" ? f?nii divisions .ir? etchelon : tho desk, rough .with ita veteran scars, where wo'tesled our newly bought blades and tried'our earliest sk 111 in carv ing; the globo in tho corner, which squeaked aa it (urned upon ita exes ; th? fat hov in the spelling civs, who always settled gradually tCLtbo foot by tho law of gravitation ; 'Au-, big girls across the aisle whoso eyes laughed back tc us while their lips pouted, and whose cherished names and Minny faces wo hayo strung among the brightest gems in memory's oft counted rosary; the parsing.dasse lbe elect few in grammar-the ?Ut? of grown-up boys ana thc crane de la creme of blooming girldhood ; where the teacher relaxed his stern features and "laid his i terrors by;" when tho saucy eyes across the. broad aisle turned soft and languid ' under a nearer view, and the pouting lips smoothed dowi. to mellow smiles; when we sat and "parsed" the time away, while ''.o low sun shone in with slanting beam? and touched with atilt brighter lustre a brace of golden heads, and painted the lengthened window in checkered square* of light upon the floor. 8uch are a few of the bright spots thal Slow upon memory's canvas as our school ay scroll unfolds under tho wand oi Sammar. This was tho "first class," c "large grammar"-tho plant whose rudiments grew up from the lowei grounds iu the primary grammar. Om earliest recollections aro of a numil booti about 7x5, sewed in a calico cover pretty well thumbed and dog-earod with in, with Vltobbie St. Clair" iu overy va riety of penmnnsbip all over tho* fly leaves, and full of man, man's men. time her lt, I love, you love, Wo love, and ?mci things. We remember ono place when we might, -.could or would do soraethinj was repeated so many times that we oflet wondered why we never did it, There were three distinguished pro nouus in tho book, I hoing always th< first one of them, which naturally gav? riso to sumo suspicions of egotism. There wero verbs which told what thing did, as Tom whipped Ben. It alway appeared to us that Ben was tho verb, a be generally told what Tom had done Some of those verbs were .regular in ni their moods and manners, , while other were subject to irregularities. Ws COE sidered whipped n regular verb, us ou experience testified that it became ? pretty regular thing in our class. There were ."pronouns" also, como c them "persoual" enough to point a Cou gressional debate. Being from home, w wero glad to (ind sumo "relatives" arnon them. There wero nouns done up i "cases." Some of them wo liked quit well, especially if dono up in "calico. Others we "decline," "adjectives" an "adverbs," also os a good boy ; Jae learns rapidly. Here we couldn't seo th point, as Jack alway;-, wore the "dunc cap" four days in the week. Of the "moods" thora were soven kinds, and our teacher used to get inf some rather unpleasant ones sometime when several persona were generally pt through the "passive voice" with h ferule, and wo used to pay him back t Qualifying bira sundry select "adjective! f? the "superlative degree." The "into i'ectious" were useful os safety valves, ceep us from exploding when we got whipping. "Orthography" reminds us of the apel iog class, at the end of which we gene ally stood-wo won't say positively wbh end. We were reminded of tho big d\ tionary by "etymology andsyntax," whi< we thought it a Bin to tax us with. "Adjuncts" we nball nover forget, f we were once required to present origin examples :u this line, when Bob Jobnso who was of a very practical turu of min brought in an old cat with a tin-pan ti to her caudal extremity. You may assured that the master went Into tl "imperative mood" instanter. "Ho co jugatod" Bob toa post, and applied t upper extremities of hickory and chi quepiu in a very "active transitiv mauner. Bob came out in ibo "cbjocti case" after a transitive verb." T switches ended in tho list of "disjunct! conjunctions," while the master stood tho "nominativo caso absolute." ll dealt freelj in "interjuctions,'.' joined the cat in Bhrlll ''auxiliaries.'7 On t way home Bob applied some not vi "logical predicates? ' to the mastoi threatened to put his.viaular organs the "singular numbcr{" and to "p'unc ato" his person according to the approx rules of "prosody." Tho girls cn the' back seats used "conjugate" / love, we love, he loves in i roost agreeable of "moods" and Bweet of "voices." There was ono big boy w was almost dying to be put in the "< jective case" to these verbs, hut the gi did not put him in. Some time aft wards he ventured lo put au "intcrro live" to one of them upon a certain s ject. Her "relatives" interfered ; looked np his "antecedents." put bin the "second future te use, ' and fini ."declined" him in tho "cmphatio fo: of the "indicative mood." Having fa! to become the "possesslvo case" in i "proposition," he immediately -pla himself in - "corresponding conjunct! with a fair "substantive" who nappe to bo put by "apposition" with him at evening party. He always appeared forwards as an "adjunct" to ncr. T wero finally "conjugated" and horan "compound subject.1' iheso school-hoy ?nya li?v? glided the "past tense," our ''mood" is the r "cu'ojunctivo." and wo have become n eran "imperfect participle" in the "ac voico" of life. When we reflect whal might, could, would or should have d when strung in our "potential mo. the "interjections" flow afresh, and weep to think that, like all sublli thi'igs, our days of grammar are "f lng away."-?x-hoot Boy in Baptist Cou - Vermont, according to the ce rot'irnB, is almost nt a stand-still in elation, having gained in ten yean than 2,600 inhabitants. There apt also to be a movement of the ni Simulation ont of the State, their p ring taken by foreign born, the nui of tho latter increasing more than 6 while the increase in total popuh was only about,a third as much, sexes remain in about tho same roi proportion as tcn yeara ago. - The New York Ifciald comm tho intention of tho Republican a dates to contest all five of tho South olina seats in tho next House of R sentatives, and says ; "Tho South I lina 'solid white * may as well under that they'cannot count: ott' Nort Democrats to defend or support the claiming Congressional seats so ta With fraud." - A Boston correspondent o)? the ?York rHirald claim?, that in conscqi of its deadly Climate the Republ Liberia is a failure, and charges tba facts about this and the hostility c .natives to immigrants have been from the know ledge of tqose into] General Tf?ws Summary. - It is rumored that Fred. Dougla? will be appointed Minister to Havti. - Ono Now York firm lost 1,400 bar rel? of Irr.picA1 fruits from freezing. -*i The death Hat of tho city of New York e?f ti-* past year hr rabera 82,000. - The population of Georgia bas in creased 858,000 during the nant ten years. - A. T. Morrell, was frozen to death while intoxicated pear Butler, Ga., on tbefith. . - Legislation is called for in Arkausas for .tho suppression of qur-ck doctors in that State. - Most of the Kentuoky railroads hive reduced passenger fares to three cents per milo, - Hon. Charles M. 'Cook has been elected Sp?sker of the North Carolin*? .Hriuso of Representatives. oh? Ari alarming f .minc ?3 prevailing in .two province- of Russia. It ia said that '?? 1,750,000 person? aro perishing. - RobertC. Winthrop, of Massachu setts,' bas accepted tho invitation to de liver the'Yorktown centennial oration. - The Jacksonville Union says that thc orango, trees in Florida were not very aerio'iialy hurt by the recent cold weather. - Six thousand miles of railroad were constructed in this country fast year-an increaso over the year previouo of 1,800 I miles.. ....... (vs ii - Ephraim Grindstone and Emmeline Sandstone were recently married at Lime stone, Ala., by tbe Rev. Samuel Wind stone. - A steamboat and fifty coal barges were destroyed at Cincinnati last Satur \ day by the breaking up of the ice in the I Ohio River. - Right Rev. Thoa. Atkinson, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Car olina, died in Wilmington, last Tuesday, in tho 73d year of bis age. ., - Henry Minnocker, a German, resid ing in St. Louis, drank for a wager ten glasses of beer in five minutes, and was ead in less than an hour. . -j Mr. Campbell, who succeeded John Kelly as Comptroller of Now York city, has already effected an annual saving of $50,000 by removing surplus employees. . - New Jersey Qoveruora are a long lived class. Only four have died since 1842, and when McClellan retires the State will have neven living ox-Gov ornors. - E. B. Coxe, Democratic Senator elect to the Pennsylvania State Senate, declined to tako tho oath of office, be cause he had used money io securing his election. - Texas alone could furnish all the cotton, sugar, beef and wool which the whole of the United States now supplies, and atilt have plenty of land left uncul tivated. - A waler famine prevails in Orange, N. J. Nine-tenths of tho wells ere dry. Water is hauled from a distance from running streams and sold at $2 a load to factories and families. - Four hundred and fourteen million gallons of beer were consumed in the country lost year, which is equal to 150 mugs of beer for every man, woman and child in the country. - Judge William B. Woods, the newly appointed Associate Justice of the fai tea States Supreme Court, has subscribed to the oath of office and taken his seat on the Supreme Bench. - Ex-Judgo Whittaker, wbo was once Mayor of Atlanta, nod editor of .the Daily Intcltiycncer, wes recently locked up itt the station house, in Atlanta, for stealing a bottle of whiskey. - An amendment to tho Constitution, to extend the Presideotial term to six years, making tho President ineligible to a second term, is now pending in the House Judiciary Committee of Congress. - The Secretary of the Treasury bas issued a circular proclaiming the estima tion made by the Director of the mint of the values of foreign coins. The value of the Mexican dollar is put at 89 4-10. - Anton Klofel, of Bethlehem, Pa., shot nnd killed his wife, a bride of a few months, for refusing to sing a song for him. His only explanation of the trag edy IB "that tho devil bad possession ol him." ' -Tho Louisiana laws holds an eat' plover responsible for the payment of thc poll tax of his employees, and last week the" New Orleans Times had to pay thc taxes ot forty-four of its eighty, em ployees. - Among tho rumora that have re ccntly buzzed In the ears of tho Wash ington correspondents is the story tba Mtv Garfield will offer the Attorney Generalship to Congressman Ran. Tuck or, of Virgin!."?,. - Levi Calkins, ot' Vernon, Wis. wished to marry a second wife ouo. monti after the death of his first, but no ilergy man or justice would perform the cere mony, BO Mr. Calkins read the servie himself, in presence of witnesses. - The ladies of Ottawa, Illinois, prc pose to get up a satin hanging and auta fraph album, to bo presented to Mn 'resident Hayes "as a testimonial of he high moral worth and courage ia bat ishim? the wine cup from the Whit House." - Reuben Howe, o letter carrier i Jersey City, and a member of the sect < the United Evangelical Brethren, orte < whose.regulations forbids their memhei from laking any part in worldly, affair has been discharged by the Postmaster < that city, because he refused to voto fi Garfield. - Mr. Reuben Springer, of Cinch OB??, indulged iu Christmas gifts of ?: usual size. Ile cavg A United Stat bord far a thousand dellars tc each eight charitable institutions iu his cit Each of tho faithful servants in h household also received ?1,000. - Mre. Senator Bruce, wife of thec< ored Senator from Mississippi, was amoi tho most distinguished looking ladl present at the White Houso on Ni j Year's Day. Sho woro a Worth's rece lion toilet of two shades, of violet color .ilk and satin, trimmed with white la and diamond ornaments. - When General Grant was comp mented. just beforo the adjournment I the holidays, by the two Houses of Co gross suspending their business for t purpose of paying their respects to. bi comment waa mane on the fact that ti or three prominent Republicans ta t Senate and House of Repr?sentant wcro conspicuously absent on that occ wion. Among tboso moro promincnl mentioned In this connection was Senat Blaine. It is said that the reason wi Mtv Blaine neglected to pay bia rospei to General Grant, in tho Senate Chai ber, wat, that only a few days befoi when in New York, General Grant h declined to Bee him rvb.cn ho called a Bent in his card. Mr. Blaine, it is sai waa ah?o informed that General Gm had said ho would never speak to hi again. Friends here, of General Ora alto say that ho ia incensed against Ge oral Sherman on account or thestrlctui of tho latter on the proposition to cre? General Grant Captain-General, tact, i; is a current rumor that Gene Grant is angry with every one who i not favor bis renomination at Chic? last summer, and carries his resenlmt so faros to. refuse to. hold any pean ?nteT<xrarso.wDb1 toy of them* .