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I m--- CHARLESTON, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9, 1871. _ . , '; DICKENS'S GREAT SECRET. THE SPECTRE TI ' T HAUNTED HIM WAKING ANJO SLEEPING. HU Norning of Lifo Overshadowed ? Uli Hopeless Hillery-A Boy vf Ten In thc Fangs of Pate-"I Often Forget In my Dreams that I Huvu a Dear Wife and Children, and Even that I am a Mun." [From the Londoa 'UnifS-l Charles Dickens, years ago. left lo his be? loved and iut maie friend. Mr. John Fors? ter the sad but deeply interesting tusk ut giving lo the world the true story of his life. Mr. Forster was on the mest Intimate terms with the great uovel st iroiu ihe spring nfl 1837 to the day of Dickt ns's death ;n June, 1870. They were men of about the same nae, ?nd to no one, probably, did ,Dickens confide %to much of his Inmost nature as to the litera? ti companion who nov gives us this record ot ^?Is career. Tue story pf lhat caree.- is oue or the deep? est interest. To the outer world. Dickens is seen only in the light of Ul unparalleled suc? cess; but those who kuew bun better than Ihe world could know were not ignorant that all that sunshine was cht chored by many and deep shadows. Dickens suffered more tliau ordinary men, and the "othello part ol his writings was the richer for the knowledge thus acquired. Doubtless his enjoyment, too, .vas Intense; yet, on looking back over his whole life, it Is'difflcult to resist the thougla that lt was rather a sad lhan a happy one. There was a middle period In Dickens's career when he certatuly uppears to have enjoyed life, to the finger-tips, with a vivid and Hu gllng sense of pleasure, very delightful to re? call. But his cnildbood was painful, and his waning years were overshadowed. THE CLOUD. '.He was a very little and avery sickly boy," says Mr. Forster "He was subject to attacks of violent spasm, which disabled him for any active exertion. He was nevera?ood Utile cricket player. He was nev?r a first-rate hand at marbles, or peg-top. or prisoner's base." This was at Cha'ham. Alterward, when the elder Dickens removed to London, this small, sickly child-then about ten years old-had a series of experiences very unusual with the children ol middle-class pareuts, but which, while they gave him ?hw most exqui? site pain at the time, and toa great extent threw a cloud over the whole of lils subse? quent existence, were undoubtedly ihe Booree of lils marvellous knowledge of human rature, and bis familiar.ty with scenes of want ami wretchedness. It need be no secret now, for the tact will do his memory no disher vic. that the childhood ol Charles Dickens was passed in almost abject poverty. -His father, Mr. John Dickens, fell Into money ouflculties, and ww confined in the Marshal sea prison, afterward so vividly describi d In "Little Dotrit." Every small sum of ninney that could be earned by any member of ihe family became ol vital Importance; so the boy Charles, at about ten yeais of age-that is lo say, some time In the year 1822-was p'aced In a blacking warehouse, belonging to a dis? tant connection of ihe family named Lam?*ri, which establishment was opened as a rival to the famous blocking shop of Warren, In ihe Strand. SINKING IN THE DREGS. Lameros hons* was at old Iluntxerfnril stalrs and it is to be found exactly described in "David Copperfield." What many suspect? ed before is now specifically revealed, "ftim life of the boy David Copperfield ls the Hf* ot ? the boy Charles Dickens. Tri?* nu ure novel si entered the wai chouse of James Lamen tn the most menial capacity, at a malary of six or seven shillings a week. ITis work was io cover the pots of paste blacl' .ng, Hist, wit* eli paper and then with blue paper, to Ile them round with siring, lo clip the paper close and neat, and to paste on a printed label. lu the discharge of these duties his companions were boys of humble bindi und uncultured manners, and young Dickens, remembering his happier childhood at Chatham, longing for education and a start in lite, and fearing that, ii hi? present employment continued, he would sink Into the mt*te dregs ot soc ety, stiff-red a degree of anguish, the memory of which he could never shake offal the very height ol'bis prosperity. STRUCK DUMB WITU HORROR. In a fra^meut of autobiography, which Die kei.s wrote in 1847, lie sa d: "From that hour uuttl this. ai. which I write, no word of that part of my childhood, which I have now ul idly brought to a close, hus pass ?1 my lips t) any human being. I have no ea how loug lt lasted; whether for a year, or much more, or less. From that hour until this my father and uv mother have been stricken d'imb upon lt. I have never heard the least alluslo:: to lt, however far off and re? mote, from either of them. I have never un? til I now impart ir to this paper, in any burst ot confidence wiih any one, my own wile not excepted, raised the ennuin I then dropped, thank God !" Many portions of this unfinished autoblo grapby were introduced, almost word for word, two years later into "David Copper? field," and the manuscript has now been largely drawn upon by Mr. Forster. HOW THE SECRET WAS BROUGHT TO LIGHT. That geutleman thus relates fie way lu wri?h the revela'loa was rirst made to htm: . ."he Incidents to be told now would prob? ably never have been known io tue, or indee 1 anv of the occurrences of Ids childhood and youth, but lor the accident of a question which I put tn him one dav in the March or April of 1847. I asked him if he iemembere.1 ever having 8Peu In his boyhood our iriend the elder Mr. Dilke, his father's acquaintance and contemporary, who had been a derk lu ihe same office III S>mer.-ei house to which Mr. John Dickens belonged. Yes, he said, he recollected seeing him ut a house in Gerard street, wheie his uncle Barrow lodged during _ an Hines.", and Mr. Dilke hal visited lum. ft Xever at any other time. Upon which I told him that some one e'te had been intended in the .mention made to me, for that ihe refer? ence implied not merely his being nu t acci? dentally, but lils haviug had some Juvenile employment lo a warehouse near the Strand ; at which place Mr. D ike, being with Hie elder Dickens one day, had noticed lum, and receiv? ed, in return for the gill of a half crown, a verylow bow. He was silent for several min? utes; I felt that I had unintentionally touched a painful place in his memory; and to Mr. jfjike I never ?poke of the subject again. Jt Was nut, however, men, bul some weeks later, that Dickens made immer allusion to my ihns having struck unconsciously upon a lime ol which he never lould lose ihe remembtance while he A-merabered anything, and the recol? lection of which, at intervals, haunted ruin and made him miserable, even to that hour. DICKENS'S SECRET A :OXT OF SOUL. "Very shonly afterward, I h arni lu all their detail the incidents (hut had been FO pain? ful io him; and whit then was said lome or wrilteu respecting tnem revealed the story ol his boyhood^ The idea of 'David Copper? field,' which was to lake all Hie world imo his confidence, had not at this time occurred to him; but what it had so startled me lo know, his readers were allerward told with only such change or addition as for Hie lime in gui FufflcteLtty di-g iise himself under cover of Ins hero. For Hie roov lillie lad, with good nbliity and a most centilitre nature, turned at the age of ten Into a 'laboring hind' in the ser vice ot ^Murdstoneand Qrimby,' and conscious already of wh it made it seem very strange to him that he could s i easily have been thrown away au RUCII an age, was Indeed hlmsell. His was Hie secret agony of soul at undioi: hmseif 'companion lo Mick Walker and Mealy Potatoes,'and his tears that mingled with the water in which he and they rinsed and wash rd out hollies. It had nil been writ ten as fact, belore he thought of any ether use R r il; and lt wa8 not until several months inter, when the fancy of 'David Coppetfield,' I s.-li suggested by what he had so written cf his early troubles, l eg m to take shape in h s mind, that he abaudoned his first latent lon ot writing his own life. Those warehouse . x peri-?uces lell then so apt y iuto the subj-et tie had chosen, that he could not resist ihe temp? tation of Immediately using them; und the manuscript recording (hem, which was but tufe first portion of what he had designed lo write, was embodied iu the substance ol the eleventh and earlier chapters ? f his novel. What already had been seul to ni-, however, and proof sheets of the novel Interlined at the time, enable me now to separate the fact from the fiction, and to supply to ihe story of thc authors childhood 'hose passages omitted from the book, which, apart from their trallon of ihn growth ol his character, pi to us a picture of tragical suffering, a tender as well as humorous fancy, un? sed in even the wonders of tua pub wri'itigs." TDK SPECTRE OF HIS LIKE. Writing lo bia own proper person, 1 fragment to which allusion has beeu i Dickens said of this period of his life : .The deep remembrance of the sense of beim: utterly neglected and hopele the si ame I felt In my position; of tho n lt was lo mv young heart to believe that by day, whit I had learned, and thought delighted in, and raised my fancy am emuaiion up by, was pushing away Iron never to bi brought back any more, ci be wm i en. My whole nature was so ?rated with the grief and humiliation of considerations, that even now, lamons, caressed and happy. I often forget li dre lins thai I have a dear wife and chili even that I am a man; and wander desol buck i thai, lime of my life. My mother my brothers and sisters (excepting Pant the Royal Academy of Music) were still camped, with a young servant ghi Chm hum workhouse, lu the two parloi the empty house in (?tower street North was it long way lo BO and rei urn within dinner hour, and, usually, I eliher carriet dinner with me, or went and bcugut some neighboring shop. lu the luiiercai was commonly a saveloy and a penny some!Imes. a four-penny plate of beet fro cook's shop; sometiims, u plate of bread cheese, and a itl-tsss of b* er, irom a miser old public house over the way-Hie .Swan, remember right, or the Swan aud somer else thal I huve forgotten. Ouce. I remen tucking my own birad (which I had broi from home in the raoruiug) under my i wrapped up in a piece ol paper like a b and going imo the best dining room inJ< son's alamode-beef house lu Charles cc Drury lane, and magnificently crdcrin small plate of alamode beef to eat witt Wnatthe waller thought of such a strn little appatliiou, coming in all aloue, I d know; but I can see him now, staring at as I ut- my dinner, and bringing np the o walter tu iook. I give him a half-penny, I wish, now, he hadn't takeu lt." A GLIMMER OF LIGHT. Iii these and oilier passages the reader recognize some of the earlier paris of "( perllekl." Mr. John Dickens being unabl make any arrangement willi his credit Mrs. Dickens wat? obliged to break up poor household lu Gower street Non h. ant imo the Marshals?.a. The autobiography l proceeds : '.The key of the house was Iben sent b to tti*> landlord, who was very g'nd to get and one (small Cain I hal I was, except'th luul never done harm tu any one) was han over as a lodger lo a reduced old lady, I? known io our lamlly, in Lil tie College stn Carah-n-iown, who took lillie children it board, ami had once done so at dighton, i who, wlih a fowalleratio s and embelli ment4, unconsciously began to aH. fur A Pinchin In 'Dombey' when she took me lt ..".she hail a little brother and sister un her care llien. st niel ody's nauual cl.ildr w ho were very Irregularly paid for, ant widow's little son. The two b< ysand I ?let t the same room. My own exclusive breaki of a penny cottage" 1; ?af und a peanj worth milk I provided for myself. I Kept anoil small lout and a quarter ol a pound of du i on a particular shell" ol a particular cupboa m make my supper un when I came back night. Tney made a hole in Hie six or SOT shillings i know well; andi was out alt blacking warehouse all day, and ha t to si port myself upon that money alli he we? [suppi s . my lodging was paid tor by i lather. 1 certainly did not pay it myself; a [certainly had no other assistance whaler [the making ol my c'olhes. I think, except?e ?om Monday morning until Saturday iilgl ?o advice, no counsel, no encouragement, i jonsolu'lm, no support froin any oue ihjj jan call to mind. so DEI P MK QOD. "Sundays Fanny aud I passed In the priso [ was at tho Academy in Tenterden si rei llanover Square, at nine o'clock In the mor lng, to lett h her, aud wo walked back Hie ogeiht r at night, I was so young and childish.>and so lilt piaJified-how contd 1 be otherwise ?-to II iiermke the whole charge of my existenc lint in going to Hungerford-Slalrs ol a mor ing I could aol re.-lst the si ale pastry put oi it half price on trays at the confection, r lotus In tottenham Court Hoad, und I oft* spent IP thal the money I should have kept f, my diu-icr. Theu I went without; my diane cr bought a roll or a slice of pudding. Ti;ei were two pudding shops between wlneh I wt dlvi'led. accorOlug io my finances. One wi lu a court dos ? to St. Martin's Church, (at Hi back ol the church,) which ls now removed a together*-The pudding at I hat shop w as mud wini curriinis, and waa ra'lier a special pia liing, but w as dear-two penn'orth not bi In larg.T than a penn'orth of more ordinary put ding. A good shop for the Inlier was in th Strand, somewhere near where the Lowilu Arcade ls now. lt was a stout hale puddin' heavy and flabby, with great raisins in li stuck In whole, ai. gnat di.-tinces apart. 1 came up hot, at about noon every day; an many aud many u day did I dine off lt. ALMOST A LITTLE ROHIIER AX I) VAGABOND. "We had half an hour, I think, for les When I had money enough, I used to go to coffee-shop and huve hall a pun of cottee, an a slice of bread and bulter. When I had n money, " took a turu In Covent Garden Mar net, and stared al the pineapples. The coffee ?hops to which I most resorted were one ii M ti.i? ii lane; one iu a court (uon-existen now) close to Hungerford Market, and one ii 3t, Marlin'.- lane..ot which I only recoll?e hal. lt stood near Mle church, and i hat. in tin io.?r lhere was an oval glass plate, willi'col lee-room' painted on lr, addressed lowuid HM street. If I ever Un i myself in a difieren kind of coffee-room uow. "but where there ?? such uu inscription On g H?4, and read it back ward on the w rong side, "moor eeff <c" (us 1 ollen used lo do tuen, in a dismal reverie,) i Shock goes through my blood. "I know I donut exaggerate, unconscious!} ami ititeuiionully. Hie seaminess cf mv re. sources and Hie dillicullles of my life. 1 know that if a shilling or so were given me by any one, I spent il ls a dinner ora lea. I know Hun I worked lrom morning till night, with com? mon nu n and boys a shabby child. I know that I tried, but ineffectually, hot to anticipate my money, ami to make'It last Hie week through, by pulling it away in a draw er I had in the counting house, wrapped Into six little [larct ls, each parcel containing the same amount, and laoelled wu h a different day. I know that I have lounged about the streets, Insufficient ly and unaausiactoriiy fed. I know that, but for Hie mercy of (Sod, I might easily have beeu, for any care thai was lakea of me, ? lill!?! robber or a little vagabond. THE TOOXG UKXTI.KMAN*. "But I hell some station at the blacking warehouse, toe. Besides that myrelailveat the counting-house did what a man so reco? pied, a'jtl cealing wiih u Hiing anomalous, could, to ireat. rae as one upon a different foil? ing irom Hie iv. r. I never said, lo tuan or boy, how it Was I nit 1 came to be there, or gave the least indien1 U n of being sorry that I wns there. Tint I swTfeied lu secret, and i hat I suffi red exquisitely, no one ever knew bul I. How much 1 suffered, it ls. us I have siitl al? ready, utterly beyond my [tower to tell. No man's imagination eui overstep the reuliiy. Cur. I kept my ow n counsel, un I [ did my work. 1 knew i'.o :i the lit si 111 U if I could not do my work us well as any of Hie rest. I could not huid mytelf above slight and contempt. I soon became at le isl as expeditious amias skilful with my hands as either of Hie other boys. Tnoiigu perfectly familiar willi them, my conduct and manners were different enough from tholts lo place a space between ns. i hey und the men always spoke of me as 'the young gentleman.' A ceitain mau (a soldier once) named Thomas, who was the Foreman, and another named Harry, who waa ihe cai fi m, and wi re a red jacket, used to call me 'Cnailes' sometimes*, lu speaking lome; lint I think it was mostly when we were vt ry Confidential, und when I had made some ef? forts lo entertain Hiern over our work willi Hie results ol* some of the old readings, which were fast perkhtng out tf my riilud.*' OCT OF THE DEPTHS. Alt-ra Hine Hie lonely lillie hiv. thinking lhere was DO reason why he should bc obliged io live so far dom the Marshalsea, remonstra? ted with his father so pathetically, and wiUi so many inns, that, as Hie sen records, thu kind lumire ol the patent gave way. Mr. John Dickens appears lo have Icu n one of those g nial, kindly, eusj-tempered. Imprac? ticable human beings, wl.o, in spite of all their good and pleasant qualities, their hon? orable disposition, and even their industry, (for he had all these virtues, as his ?on be? comingly sets down) tull to make their wu y in the world, for want or the one facility of adaptation to ihe stern conditions of life. The consequences of Charles's remonstrances witta his lather on the score ol his exile, was that he was provided with a back attic at the house of an insolvent court agent, in Lant street Borough, "where," says Dickens, in his auto? biographical sketch, ""Bob Sawyer lodged many year- atterward." Here he slept on the floor; but "the window had a pleasant pros? pect of a limber jard," and the poor little lodger, feeling that he was close to his true home, the prison, thought the new sleeping room a Paradise. FAME. When his father left prison, the boy (who hud by that time been removed from the blacking establishment) was put, at about twelve years ol a??o, to school in the Hamp? stead Road, where he soon became ?'.?led for his vivacity aud fun. A favorite nick of his was heading a number ot his schoolfellows io the streets in pretending to be beggars. When the old ladles of whom they begged answered Witta tart speeches, Char es would explode with laughter, ard take to his heels. By and by came the stait In life- first os a lawyer's Clerk, then asa newspaper reporter, and'then asa successful auihor. Hh old pov? erty became a mine of riches to him, and the rough material ol his fame. He never lost the habit, ol'coining his life into enduring fiction. The Dora ol "David Copperfield" wap, it seems, his first love, the memory of whom al ways dwelt willi him; anti the Flora of "Little Dor? rit" was the same lady, not dead Inflict, but somewhat altered by the l;ipse ol a quail er ol a century (as thai same quarter of a century will change us all,) to whom, one day, Dickens and his wife paid a lormal visit, and lound the Stuffed favorite, Jip, In the passage. Pianos, CDrgarts, #c. JDABENTS G >N DO NOTHING BETTER to remind their children of thc hirth of their Sa? viour, ami to let them express th lr joy and happi? ness on this great and glorious event, than to huy of FR. DAUEIt'S Il.ie stock of Musical Instru? ments, a Violin, Flute, Quit ir. Accord?on, Music Box, Tiumpc, or even a Druci. Oo and see that Prussian Militaire Drum, ?t Flt DAUEIt'S Mus.c Store, No. 377 Klug streer. dccll-mwr7 JEWELRY, DIAMONDS, ?fcc. F. 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Elegant Overcoats, Pea Jacke'?, D%;rby ami nam Sack Milts, Fine EmtlUh Wa.kmc Coats nud Suits of all culors, simile find Double Breaate<i Black F rock Coots, BlHck Doeskin ami Fancy Cas si in ere Dress P nt*, Velvets, s Iks, Cloth, Castor Heave' and Cassim.re Vests, manufacture.! utnler our om ol wei vat'on. we are therefore burc of a good Ut and durable work. OUR TAILORING DEPARTMENT Is sir piled with thc flne<t selection of BitOAD CLOTII8, Doeskins, Castor BcavcrB. Chinchilla Diagonals, M> lions, ami oil r.tyles of Casslin-res for Hus Ines Suits. Velvets, Si?s, Plusii ind cash? mere Vestings. And a vatlety of Iniinls nie Pau taioon Patten 8. which we make up to order dy uit'iLsure at Un* shortest, untie*, und guarantee hist class and primer workmanship. FURNISHING GOODS. This Department ls supplied with thc celebrated STAK MI I IMS. Imported and Domestic Merino Shaker Flannel, A.l-W'ol Underwear doods, Half Hose, sui penders. Ilandkerciilefa, Linen wd Pape"Culls and Co lars, Imperial, Alexander ami Courvolsur's Kid Gloves Ami a fu 1 assortment of Buckskin, Dogskin. Heaver and Cass. Gloves. And a very large assortment of Silk, Alpaca and scotch Glu.ham Water-Proof [140] Umbrellas. Our stock has iiecn selected with the greatest care, and price- in irked very low In plain ll gu res. Our motto ls tju-.ck sales and small profits, fair dealings. (Jrods may he returned If not satisfac? tory. Buyers In our Hue will Dad lt to their ad? vantage to give us a call. ' nctl9-Smos S iv'cu) publications. I M~ M S MS W~?~R~K~ S ROMANCE AND HIsTORY BLENDED. JUST KEPUDLISflBD, THE LILY AND THE TOTEM, on, THE HUGUENOT IN FLOR.DA, BY WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS IN CLOTII-PtflOB $1 60. ri'DI.ISIIEO AND VOR SALK HY WALKER, EVANS A COGSWELL Nos. 3 BliOAD AND 109 EAST BAY STREETS, ClIAltl.KSTON, S., (J. decl8 mwfl2 T^OGAllTIE'S BOOK DEPOSITORY. HOLIDAY BULLETIN. We arc now displaying an unrivalled stork or ELEGANT BOOKS lu every department of Lite? rature. * All the New and Standard Pr?ts, Illustrated; Standard Literature and Theo ogy, the best edi? tions, Insets. JUVENILE BOOKS. E?p dal care has been taken to mave this de? partment attractive hy the selection of Good Hooks, combining entertainment as wrll as In? struction to tue young. Tue little folks li ive nad especial attention irlven io their wants this sea? son by the publishers generally. Books for the young of all ag. s are amongst the most beautiful publlcatlous of the scacon, und much lower lu pi ices than last year. BIBLES AND PR IYER BOOKS. Oxford Editions of Family and Pocket Bibles. We have just n-celv. d a large invoice ot oxford Bib es and Prayer Hooks. The assortment embra? ces (-very variety of editions and styles Issued by the Oxfoid pn ss. which, together with a variety of othrr Knghshand American entions, make I ?ie laigcsi. and most elegant variety of Bibles and Prayer Book* ?Ter MTeied for sate lu Charleston, and at greatly i educed pi Ices. Illu-i rated Books and Sets of Standard Authors, including Scott, Couper. Dickens, Thackeray, Isaac Dlstaell Lamb, Waverly Novels, Macaulay, Chrl-topher North, foe. Hallam, Milman, tloud, 1-rnude. Mommsew. Jowell's I'laio, .vc. Ac. Our stock ls too large and varied to enumerate, but our store ls arranged wu li a view t > Hie OH venl nee of customers, and the price of each book marked lu plain ligures. FANCY ARTICLES. Desks, Work Boxes, Writing Cases, rortfoll >s, Photograph Albums, Facey luk Stands, Fancy Boxes of Note Pape sunday School Library and Books for Prizes, sunday school Cams, Illuminated Texts, Faucy Books, and a large variety of Books suitable lor present a: lon to teachers and schnlars. Persons residing in tue country will please .ear h. mind thai-by sending their orders to u' or any books published In America, they will be charged only the price of the book. Wc pay for he postage or express. ts- Address FOOARTI E'S BOOK DEPOSITORY, io. MO Kins street, (in thc Bead,) Outtrim on, 8.0 00(3!-tilths . ?o.let (?nb iFa?crj ?o;bs. FRENCH, ENGLISH AND AMERICAN EXTRACTS, SOAPS, , POMADES, HAIR OILS, &C. JEAN MARIE FARINA'S, VIOLET'S, AND AIMAR'S PREMIUM COLOGNE WATERS, AT AIMAR'S, Corner King and Vander horst streets. dec20-12 2vn Sijitti ano -tfnrmsmny I??OC.2 T IEL E^BES T~ AND CHEAPEST STOCK OF MEN'S UNDERCLOTHING IN THE SOD PH. SILK, MERINO, AND ALL-WOOL SHAKER FLANNEL SHIRTS .AND DRAWERS, WITH TUE VB RY LATEST NOVELTIES IN ELEGANT NECK WEAR, AT SCOTTS STAR SHIRT EMPORIUM, MEETING STREET, Opposite tho Market. novia fjoliban (Soobs. ~??ITA1? O~H?TB~B ? "BUT ONCE A YEAR!" TH3 KICUK3T AND TH8 NICKST MINCE PIES MINCE PIKS MINCE PIPIS lo the City, Always oa hand or made to order at short notice. " A iso, TURKEYS GAME PASTRY ICED CAKES JELLIES, Ac, AC, AT TULLY'S OLD STAND, NO. 124 KING STREET, dec?s_ N.'ar Queen strert. rjl O Y S, MILL I N E R Y AND FANCY* GOODS, AT VERY LOW PRICES, AT A. ILLING'S, decll-18 No. 233 King street. T HE HOLIDAYS. J. 0. H. CLATJSSEN'S CHRISTMAS I CHRISTMAS ! CHRISTMAS ! SUP? PLIES HAVE ARKIVtP, consisting in part of the fo iowlng Indispensable HOLIDAY GOODS: CONFECTIONERY. Sugar Plums, Sugar Almonds, Mixed Candles, Rock Dandy, Gum Drops, Cinnamon Sinngs, Cream Bo i Rons, Caraway Seed, Cream Chocolate Drop*. Sugar Almonds, Cream Almonds, humt Almonds, Cream strawberries, Corianders, P Conversation Lozenges, Fig Paste, Licorice Drops, Marshmallow mops, Cordial Drops, Jordan Almonds, Fancy Snectaltles, Cream Dates, Assorted Lozenge1, Cream Figs, Ac, Ac Christmas Sugar Toys. Surprise and Cash Boxes of all kin ts to rt tall at 5 cents to $1 per package, sud guaranteed to con? tain Cash or Prizes. Assorted Candy, Stick Candy and Fancy Kisses. BISCUIIS, CRACKERS, OAKES, AC Soda Biscuit?, Sugar Crackers, Boston Biscuits, Fancy Clackers, Cream Biscuits, Lemon Crackers, Egg Biscuits, Ginger Crackers, ; Wine Biscuits, Novelty Crackers, j Fancy Sugur Bl-cults, Oyster Crackers, Lemon Biscuits, Picnic Crack-rs, Assorted Biscuits, Reform Cracker-, Milk Biscuits, Union Crackers, Jumbles, Mixed Cakes, Tea Cakes, Christmas Cakes, Sugar aud Molasses Gungers and Sheet Cai.es. Merchants from the country will save money, time and disappointment, by calling soon or send? ing their orders, which will meet prompt and careful attention, to J. C. II. CL A USS EN, No. 10 Market street. CHRISTMAS TRUES SUPPLIED GRATIS AS USUAL. dec2mth tj?im?oio s ?nenn. MANHO O? . IN THE The vegetative powers of life are strong, but In a few j ears bow often the pallid hue, the 1 ick las? tre eye, and emaciated form, show their baneful Influence. It soon becomes evident to the observ? er that some depressing Influence ls checking the development of the body. Consumption l? inliced of, and perhaps the youth ls removed from school and sent Into the country. This is one of the worst movements. Removed from ordinary di? versions of the ever-changing scenes of the city, the powers of the body, too mnch enfeebled ts give zest to healthfnl and rural exercise, thought? are turned Inwardly upon themselves. If the patient baa female the approach of the menses ls l' oked for with anxiety as the first symptom In which naturels to show her saving power in diffusing the circulation and visiting the cheek with the bloom of health. Alas I Increase of appci it? has grown by what lt fed on. The energies of the system are prostrated, t. ." Mie whole rconomy ls deranged. The beautiful and wonderful period in which body and mind under? go so fascinating a change from child to woman ls looked for in vain. The parent's heart bleeds In anxiety, and fancies thc grave but waiting for Its victim. HELMBOLD'S EXTRACT BTJCHU, FOR WEAKNESS ARISING FROM EXCESSES OR EARLY INDISCRETION, attended with the f allowing symptoms: INDIS? POSITION TO EXERTION, LOSS OF POWER, LOSS OK MEMORY, DIFFICULTY OF BREATH? ING, General -\ eakness, Horror of DUense, Weak Nerves, Tr niblint*. Dreadful Horror of Death, Night Sweats, O M F et, Wakefulness, Dimness of VUlon, Laiigor, Universal Lassitude of the Muscu? lar Sy-teiu, often Enormous Appetite with Dys? peptic Symptoms, Hot Hands, Flasrfing of Hie body. Dryness of the Skin, Pallid Countenauccs and Eruptions on-the Face, Pain In the Rack, Heaviness of the Eyelids, Fn quern ly Black spots' flying before the Ky es, with temporary Suffusion and Loss of Sight. Want of Attention, Great Mo? bility, Restlessness, with Horror of Society. Nothing ls more desirable to snell patients i linn Solitude, and nothing they more dread, for fear of themselves; no repose of manner, no earnest ness, no speculation; but a harried traust Hon from one question lo ano'lier. THESE SYMPTOMS, IF ALLOWED TO GOON -WHICH THIS MEDICINE INVARIABLY RE? MOVES-SOON FOLLO Af L'SS OF POWER, FATUITY AND EPILEPTIC FITS, IN ONE OF WIIJCHTllE PATIENT MAY EXPIRE. During thc Superintende .cc.or Dr. WILSON at tho BLOUMlNG?aLE ASYLUM, this sad result occurred to two patients. Reason had for a time left them, and both died of" epilepsy. They were of both si xi s, and about ; wenty years of age. Who c tn ray that their execs-es aie net fre? quently followed by those dlreiul diseases, IN SAN ITY and t ONSUMPTION f Hie records of the INSANE ASYLUMS, and the melancholy deaihs by Consumption, bear ample wu near, to Hie truth of Hit se assertions. In Lunatic Adlums the most mel incholy exhibition appears. 1 ae countenance ls actually sudden and natta destitute; neither mirth nor grief ever visits lt. S lould a sound of thc volte occur lt is rarely artic jlaio. " With woful measures WP a despair Low sulleu sounds their grief beguiled." While wc regret the exigence of the above dis? tases and symptoms, we are prepared to offer aa invaluable gift of chemistry for the removal of the consequences. HELMBOLD'S EXTRACT BUCHU AND IiTOOWMEWASH Cures secret and delicate disorders in all their stages, at litte expense, Utile or no change In diet, no inconvenience, and no exposure. It ls pleasant In taste and odor, Immediate IQ Its ac? tion, free from all Injurious properties, superse? ding Copaiba aud all other nauseous compounds. HELMBOLD'S FLUID EXTRACT OF BUCHU. There ls no tonic like lt. It ls an anchor of hope to thc physician ami patient. This ls the testi? mony of all who have used or pre-cribed lt. Beware of counterfeits and thc-e cheap decoc? tions called Rocha, most of whlcfc are prepared by self styled doctors, from deleterious Ingre? dients, and ollere 1 for sale at "less price" i.nd ..larger bottles," Ac. They are unreliable and frequently Ii-jurlous. Ask for Helmbold's. Take no Other. PRICE $ I 25 PER BOTTLE. OR SIX BOTTLES FOR $6 50. Delivered to any address. Describe symptoms in un communications. 11121^1 BOL?'s? GENUINE PREPARATIONS, Established upward of twen'y years, prepared by H. T. HELMBOLD, PRACVICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMIST, No. 591 Broadway, New York, AND No. 104 Sooth Tenth Street, Philadelphia. Pa. OJ-?ol.I dy Druggist* Every ? lu re.-5a nov3-wsSmos tutuuity xiiwiijiuva. THE NEW IMPROVED WHEELER & WILSON, TI IE MOST POPULAR FMLY SEWING MINE. Between six and seven hundred thousand now in ase. Is the most simple, runs easier, and makes less noise than any other first-class Lock Stitch Machine. Does all kinds of work usually done by bann. Bas bitter attachments for Hemming, Frilling, Tucking. Cording, Quilting, Gathering, Ac, than any other Machine. These Machines are now offered for sile In this city on th? LEASE PLAN, at Ten Dollars per month, until paid foi. Thorough Instruction given, and satisfactk i guaranteed In all cases. Old Machines repalreu and adjusted by a competent machinist. A few live men can find regular and profitable employ? ment, either on salary or commission, by applying early. Parlor and Sale.-room Ko. 209 KING STREET. W. G. BRUCE, Agent. WHYTE A HARftAL, General Agents, ojee 18 THE WEED F. F. SEWING MACHINE' has not} et become such a drug In the market as to require to be hawked through the streets or left at thc residences against the wishes of the oc? cupants. But my sales have not diminished, nor bas the reputation ol these Machines suffered by competition. Call and see them and you will be convinced of their superiority. D. B. HASELTON, dec20-imo |K 307 KING STREET, tioots, SijOCS, Ut. s HOES! SHOES ! SHOES! SPECIAL BV STEAMSHIP VIRGINIA THIS DAY, DALY'S IMPROVED PATTERN OF AMERICAN GAITER, COM KO ETA I; LK. STYU81I AND GKNTBBL, bolted for the Ball ro m. Toons Gents walling for them will p ease call and procure a flt. EDWARD DALY, dec?s No. 121 Meeting street. THE NEW ' BOOT AND SHOE STORE, NO. 245 KING STREET, OPPOSIT.E WAVERLY HOUSE. I desire to Inform my friends that I am no longer to be fount at the "Big Boot S'ore." hav? ing associated myselftn business with Mr. DAVID S. OUTTiNO. We wld take great pleasure In having our friends esl1 on us at our NEW ESTABLISHMENT, No. 245 KING sri'.KET, oppos.te Waverly House, where we will keep on hands well selected steele of LADIES'. GENT-?1, MISSEJ', BOYS' and CHIL? DREN'S BOOTo AND SHOES. AL-O. TRUNKS. BAGS, VALI ES AND SATCHELS. Onr country friends wld lind lt to their advan? tage to examine our stock berore purchasing elsewhere, stock replenished weekly. P. A. CHASE. I DAVID S. OfJTTINO, Foi mei ly with Formerly with .Big Koot." I W. G. Whl id eu A Co. dPclS-mwf-3 jpACIFIG GUANO 0 OM P A N Y ' S COMPOUND ACID PHOSPHATE OF LIME, FOR COMPOSTING! WITH COTTON SEED. PRICE-125 CASH, WITH USUAL ADVANCE FOR TIME. , This article ls prepared nnder the superintend? ence of Dr. ST. JULIAN RAVENEL, expressly for Composting wIMi Cotton seed. lt was Introduced by this Company two yea-.s ago, and Its use Ins fully attested its value. 200 to 260 pounds of this article per acre, properly composted with the same weight of cotton seed, famishes the planter wltn a Fertiliser of the high? est excellence at the smallest cost. A Compost prepared with this article, as. by printed direc? tions furnished, contains ad the elements or fer? tl Pv that can enter tuto a First c a-s F?rtil zer, while ifs economy must commend its ll .eral uso to planters. For supplies and printed directions, for Composting, apply to J. N. HOBSON, ' ' Agent Pacific Gnantf Company. Nos. 63 East Bay and 1 and 2 ?.. t an v. o Wharf. Chai leston, S. C. JNO. S. REESE A CO., General Agents. nov27-3mo8D*c O L ? B L E PACIFIC GUANO. S PRICE, $45 CASH, WITH USUAL ADVANCE FOR TIME. Experience In the use of this GUANO for the past six years In this state, for Cotton and Corn, has so far established Its character for excellence as to render comment unnecessary. In accordance with the established policy of the Company to furn'sn the best concentrated Ferti? lizer at the lowest cost to consumers, this Guano ls put into market this season at thc above re? duced price, which the Company ls euabled to do by reason o its large facilities ant the reduced cost of manufacture. The supplies put luto market this season Are, as heretofore, prepared under the personal superin? tendence of Dr. St. Juhau Ravenei, Chemist of Hie Cumpanv, at Charleston. S. C.. hence planters may rest assured t- at its quality and c mposltlon ls precisely the same as that heretofore sold. At the present low price, every acre planted can l e fertilized with 200 pounds Guano ata cost uot exceeding the prese, t value of 30 pounds of cotton, while experience has shown that, under favorable condition of seasou and cultivation, the crop ls increased hy the ap heat lon from tw?> to three fold the natural caimctty of the soil, hence under no condition could tts application fall to eompensatu foT the outla/. ? Apply to J. N. ROBSON, Agent Pacific Guano C meany. Nos. 68 East Bay and 1 and 2 Atlantic Wuarf, Charleston, a. C. JOHN S. REESE ? CO., General Agents. nov27-3mospac_ BOWEN & MERCER'S SUPERPHOSPHATE OF LIME AND AGRICULTURAL SHELL LIME. 0 ALSO, WEST VIRGINIA LUBKICATLNGr OIL Of Superior Quality, for sale Cheap by P. C. TRENHOLM. n v2i mwil7