Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Tuesday Morning, October 9, 1866. Fashions tor thc South. We wee many of' our exchangee copviug- and that to the extent of one or two columns-the fashions from Paris and New York. We have occasionally inserted an article of this kind, but it was more as an item that might possibly interest our lady readers, than from the idea that the women of the South, at this time, would seek to follow all the vagaries of fashion, which may emanate from the rich and extravagant centre in this country or from Paris. A young lady, the other day, in New York, had her wardrobe de? stroyed, and claimed from the Com? pany in which it was insured, about as well as we can remember, some 824,000-about two-thirds of its ori? ginal cost. The "opening day" in New York was blazoned forth in the journals of that city, and extensively copied throughout the South. While some fair readers may have looked upon it as a mere article of news, we believe very few of the true women of the South eave much for such matters at the present time. We quote a paragraph on this subject from the Nashville Union and Ameri? can: "Whatever propriety* there may have beeu heretofore in conforming to the arbitrary laws of fashion, which have their rise, not so much in a correct standard of taste as in the pecuniary interests of mantua makers and shop-keepers, the reason does not apply with us now as then. As a people, we have experienced a very great change in our condition, and good sense, as well as good mo? rals, requires that ourliabits should, in a great measure, change with them. In this respect, then, that which is likely to prove interesting to Northern women ought not to interest South? ern women. There is scarcely a wife or j? daughter in this bereaved and desolated land whose husband or father has not suffered in estate ma? terially by the war, whilst many are hopelessly ruined. Even the few who are so fortunate as to have a compe? tency left, have kindred and friends on every hand in constant need of their assistance. The South may be aptly termed a land of widows and orphans. Thousands, who, a few years since, were esteemed wealthy, are now poor. Feeble women are without tho means of support-help? less orphans are without the means of education. Added to this, is the discouraging prospect before us short crops, heavy taxes, and an op? pressive Government." And this Ls true-mournfully true to au extent that never was antici? pated by our people. The wealth of New York, which enables its posses? sors to bask in the magnificent folly and tinsel splendor of ever varying fashions, it must be remembered, has, to a large extent, been built upon our impoverishment; it is not meet, therefore, that we should ape their fashions or their ways. This Southern land of ours is in deep affliction, as the sable dress of every other lady one meets in the street tes? tifies; the poor we have always with us, but how largely increased is thal cliiss by the widows and orphans now scattered throughout avery Southern community. Splendor in dress oi gayety of fashion is out of place in these communities, and as it ha.c been generally, thus far, so let il continue, until peace shall be per? fected, prosperity fully restored tc our stricken and suffering section, and until our mourning robes shat be laid aside, after they have, for s deeent term of years, testified to the respect we entertained for the gallant dead. We feel assured that oui Southern women know their duty toe well in this respect to follow after th? giddy fashions of the shoddy aristo cracy of New York. ELECTIONS TO-DAY. - -Elections take place to-day in Pennsylvania, Ohi( and Indiana, for members of Con gress and other officers. Much o the future peace and wei nye of tin republic depends upon the result o to-day's balloting, and to-morrow, b^ telegraph, we may be enabled to in dicate the result. BUSINESS CARDS ON ENVELOPES. The Postmaster-General has recentb issued instructions making a provi sion for the printing of business card on envelopes in any desired form o design, with request to return letters provided that not less than 500 en velopes are ordered. The person wanting them furnish the cuts o plates prepared for the press fron which to havo printing done. Post masters are to receive the orders ii the usual terms, the cost being abon the value of the plain envelopes wit] the addition of tho amount of the re quired stamp. Progress und Purposes of tin* Rn<ll cal*. Tho National Intelligencer hos a three-column able and truthful re? view of.the progress and purposes of the radical party. Coining from a journal that never steps beyond the boundaries of conservative journal? ism to servi; party purposes, the solemn warnings it proclaims in the avticle before us cannot fail to attract attention, and we earnestly hope will exercise a wide-spread influence on the mass of the people of the North? ern and Western States, where the Congressional ('lections commence to? day. In one of the opening para? graphs, the Intelligencer makes the following explicit charge again: ' is vile party : ""We charge the class of partisan zealots, known as radical leaders, with compassing an early and vio? lent overthrow of the Government. Tltey know that this charge is trac. They know that they are sworn to re? sist the restoration of the Union to the last extremity, and with every means of violence which they can invoke. The plot is not in thc hands of those children of enthusiasm who elaborate their chimeras into imprac? ticable detail, and drop from an un? guarded hat the puerile record of their folly; but of cold-blooded, shrewd, hardened old demagogues, with no fanaticism but selfishness, no enthusiasm but in tyranny, amino faith but in power. With baleful .sa? gacity, these conspirators keep the outline free to adapt the .work, from time to time, to circumstances. The scheme is not new, and it has worked but too well. What is its motive?" The Intelligencer, after reviewing the course of the party up to the opening of the last session, takes up the blasting record, and writes as follows: "Here begins a record df debauch? ery unparalleled since Home's legs of iron bogan to totter over her crum? bling feet of clay. A caucus was held in which the diabolism of a chief, born to conspiracy and spoil, as a vampire to darkness and blood, converted the majority of both Houses into palsies, and then drubbed them into a league on the spot to abrogate the sovereignty of the peo? ple, as available in each House, in the very matter of eminence for which it was invoked by the unani? mous call of the whole people, and almost of mankind. The shameful pledge was kept. In their seats, members of either House solemnly enacted it in the form of a 'concur rect resolution,' by which each mem? ber bound himself to lock the wheels of the Legislature tiutil either through a new war to be provoked, or through an offer of irretrievable bondage, the repentant rebels should deliver over a saved Union to be the perpetual sport of their political profligacy. The sworn preserver, protector and defender of the Constitution was 'in their way and must be got out of it.' A system of legislating was inaugu? rated, almost openly acknowledged to have no other aim than to perplex and confound him. He vetoed bills, wildly reckless of all organic law, and by close majorities the vetoes vere sustained. Leaders of the opposition were marked for expulsion, and when? ever contestants could be found for their seats, they were thrust forth ? with incredible hardihood, on pre? tence of invalid election. In the case of Mr. Brooks, the person by whom he was supplanted confessed on the floor of the House facts which subject him to criminal indictment under the election laws of New York. In the Senate, tho Judiciary Commit? tee, and, without exception, every lawyer of distinction on the floor, declared a New Jersey Senator to be legally sitting. But he supported the Union. His vote completed the pre? vailing negative against them. Ho must go. A dying statesman's opinion was flatly falsified by one of the most polished of the revolutionists to re? deem the outrage. God was blasphe? mously thanked in open Senate for the sickness of an absent Senator by an? other; a pledge of honor was shame ' lessly repudiated by another, and Stockton was expelled." The Intelligencer continues this re? cord up to the present time, when the party leaders boldly avow theil determination to impeach the Presi? dent. It then utters the following strong appeal to the people of the country: "People of the Republic, do yon yet believe in free government: These artful, audacious, and tyran? nical men do not. Like the traitor.? of 1861, those of 1866 extol liberty, civil rights, the Constitution, and thc Union with ravishing eloquence, while cherishing in their secret boson: a settled despair of free governmenl in the world; a conviction that a des potism is inevitably to come ant stay, and a desperate and indomitable vow to seize the power themselves, and so employ it as to perpetuate ii to them and their successors. "We warned the people last winter, We were almost alone in our oper charge of revolutionary plots and de signs. Now, the radicals themselve throughout the land, proclaiminf their repudiation of the Constitution admit the probability of civil war Is the Constitution to rebel agaius itself? Are the confessed enemie 1 of the Constitution to bo its defend? ers against tho apprehended revolt? "The radical admission is full of fearful portent. No man or set of mea eau bo t rusted with our liberties. They aro secpre only in the parch? ment record of the authentic public will. He that hesitates to obey it is a traitor, and if a public man, is a public enemy. Ho is stricken with the lust for rule, and leads to ruin. Shrink from him. A bud ambition will light fur power, whether it deafens tho conscience of an Eng? lishman, maddens the soul of a Frenchman, <>r rots tho, heart of an American. Whether it brutalized the Assyrian, intoxicated the Persian, transformed the Roman, or corrupted the Creek, the hist was everywhere tho saino, and lias never confessed it? self. And what is it? It is the father of oppression, the forger of chains, the minister of murder. Anarchy is its opportunity, cruelty its pastime, and falsehood tts genius. It is the necessary foe to fill governments, it was thc sole sin of Satan, and is tho wrong-wreaker of the world. Will the people'enthrone it here?" This is the lauguage of one of the ablest - if not the ablest political journals published in the country; a journal which has no party interests to serve, and one which, during its long career, -has had the confidence of opponents as well as ot' friends for integrity and honesty ol' purpose. The article we extract, from its abili? ty and truthfulness, and from the earnest sincerity which pervades every sentence, is evidently the re? sult of a deep conviction of the ne? cessity for arousing the people to the dangers which environ the Constitu? tion and the Union. DEATH OF THU OLDEST INHABITANT OF SOUTH CAROLINA. -On Sunday, the 16th of September, Bob Wheeler, a negro, whe had reached the agc ol 107 years, departed this life. During the Revolution, liol) was a boy be? tween sixteen and eighteen years ol age. and as his memory and mind re? mained unimpaired, he delighted t< tell of bis recollections of the oki Revolution, when the red coats wei'< the terror of every neighborhood. Ht was for some time a waiting boy foi Cen. Wade Hampton, and considerer! him the next greatest man tq_ Gen, Washington, and during his whol< life had a great veneration and r?sped for the Hampton family. When lu heard of the promotion and sue cesses of our worthy and beloyet Gen. Wade Hampton, the old man's eye would kindle, and he would stain almost on tip toe, rejoicing at Iii: achievements, saving that "the trio old blood won 1 show itself." Winn his old master (Wheeler) died, sonn forty-live or fifty years $go, Rob wa then mi elderTy man, and was left lr his master's will to help to supper his three daughters. This duty h< discharged faithfully and honestly His death occurred about four mile from Pomaria, in.Lexington District European papers are publishinj most fearful pictures of suffering ii India caused by thc famine and clio lera. Emaciated men and women - living skeletons-aro seen in -ever .road. Heads of families are struel down by cholera, and the children ile to the country only to bc- overtaken b; the famine and die by degrees. Re neath the shade trees of every high way are seen the dead and dvinj lying side by side. Old and young father and son, mother and daughter are taken by thc destroying angel o the pestilence, or cut* down by th slow and terrible agonies of hunger Dogs and jackals hold high carniva over the helpless living as well as th skeleton dead. Mothers am foum dead with living children at thei cold breasts, and the rapacious vu! tures hovering over waiting for thei prey. The misery thus begotten ha brought out all-the worse qualities c the natives, and they often leav helpless wives, mothers and childre to starve and die. Starving mother beg* for their starving children, and when successful, sit quietly by an see the little ones devour the fooc At least 1,200 die a day, and most < the bodies are left to rot by the rout" side. - .? . -. Mr. Rertali, the well known Par sian artist, was recently made th ha?py father of three girls at on birth. The Gazette, des Elragers ai nouuees that mother and children ai doing well; that the latter weigh mn kilogrammes altogether, each bein about the same size; that they are s alike that it would be impossible t distinguish them but for a silver plat on the arm of each, inscribed wit her name. DELAWARE ELECTION.-The returr of the inspectors of elections in th State on Tuesday show that the mt jority against the radicals is at lem 1,500. Under the influence of tl Philadelphia Convention, a larg number of voters have abandone the ranks of the radicals. Thc mi jority at the last Presidential electio against the radicals was 612. Th election of inspectors is always coi elusive of the result in the State. Rilli)?! ?Sill. Under this head, the New York Journal of Commerce notices the re? cent murder -on the Chicago race track : "There needs no visit to the tar distant islands ii one would seethe outburst of barbarism in human na? ture. It is unnecessary for radical philanthropists to search the South? ern States from end to end for in? stances of depravity, nor is it atall worth their while to manufacture stories to prove that there arc had men, and crowds of had men. even to mobs of bad men. in tin's country. Chicago furnishes a terrible picture of American civilization. We do nut re? member, in the books of travel which describe the most savage nations, anything more, thoroughly barbarous than the accounts we read in Chicago papers of au occurrence at a Chicago horse-race a few days ago. "The excitement had become in? tense in the crowd before, the hist heat. There were ominous threats from numerous voices. Darkness came oil. Thc rival horses and their i drivers disappeared in the gloom. Only one re-appeared. The other .driver was murdered o?"the course. The crowd were utterly reckless of the poor man's fate. Their bets were all they cared about. Instead of seeking tiie body, they rushed to the judges, and demanded a decision of the race. The serene is described as one only lit for Pandemonium. We shudder as we read it. Then we have a horrible account of a brutal fight between policemen and men tliey attempted to arrest in the night. The common theory seems to lie that the driver was murdered in order to ' defeat his horse in the race. Thfi whole story of this sceuo in Chicago is enough to make one sick of his very nature, when he reflects that these are men on whom our boasted civilization has laid its full effect, and that the bar? barism is that of a part of thc popu? lation of a city in which, more than in any other, are daily published false and fabulous stories designed to prove the barbarism of theil neigh? bors." RADICAL TREATMENT OF A DRUNKEN HUSBAND.- The Maine Detnocrai, of Saco, gives the following details of i the late murder of Dr. Sweat, of Ivennebuuk, by his wife: On Sunday morning last. Dr. ('. AL. Sweat, of Kenuebunk, died from the effects of morphii?e, administered by his witt*. -The doctor, mit il within a few years, has always sustained a good character, bat. in that time, he has taken to drinking, and, on Sun? day morning, ht: had a bottle of whis? key hid in the hay in Ins barn, which ! he had visited two or three times be? fore thi? family were np. Mis wife sent a little girl lo lind the bottle, which she found and handed to Airs. j'Sweat, when she poured some pow? der in the bottle, and. after shaking it, sent the girl to replace it in the hay. Shortly after, tiie doctor went to the barn for a few moments, and came in, after which he helped his wife about making the lire, and then went and sat down on the sofa, where he soon fell asleep, never to wake. His wife, after finding that he could not be awakened, took a large dose of morphine, for the purpose of kill I ing herself, bul was discovered in season to prevent death. Mrs. Sweat, we understand, had given her hus? band morphine two or three timos previously, which had made him sick, and it was for that purpose that she says the last dose was intended. The case will be brought before the grand jury at the present terni. - -? + i~ , WHAT WE FOUGHT FOR. -Was tiie war one of false pretences? We claimed that it was for the preserva? tion of the Union; yet a great party persists in excluding ten States from their rightful place in the National Legislature, though they have given every indication of willingness to continue part and parcel of the fed? eral Union. We claimed that it was for the maiiitainp.uee intact of the Constitution: yet the Constitution is trampled under foot in its essential provisions of equality in the Senate and repr?sentai ion in the House. Wc claimed that it was for the resto? ration of the Federal authority, yet the effort is made to convert that authority from a government of law into one of Congressional dictation, by methods defiant of the Constitu? tion. We claimed that it was to win back our rebellious brethren, and when they have laid down their arnd? ani! given every token of snbiu'ssion, men prate of "guarantees" and "se? curity for the future," as if any othei security was wanting from American citizens other than their good will and prompt obedience to authority. Lei us stand by our oft-repeated de? clarations. Let us keep our plighted faith, and instead of objurgation and complaint, instead of denunciation and distrust, let ns give the South the right hand of fellowship and re? store the broken links in the great brotherhood of States. j National Intelligencer. EXEMPTIONS.-The following is pub? lished for the information of the pub? lic: Articles exempt from execution foi debt, viz: To each family, two beds, with necessary bedding, two bed? steads, ono spinning wheel and two pairs cards one loom, and one cow and calf ; if a farmer, the necessary farming tools; if a mechanic, tho tools of his trade; the ordinary cook? ing utensils, and ten dollars worth of provisions. [Slaiutes of S. C., !'<-/.. <;. Hage2U. I Tho New York Herald at Tuesday, in an editorial admonishing the South to takr the constitutional amendment, says: Every day furnishes renewed in? dications that the Republicans will I at the approaching elections sweep ! tho entire North and West by tre? mendous majorities. We see this in the numbers present and the en? thusiasm manifested at their State ? conventions, at their mass meetings, I at their county and municipal primary j meetings, and in the vigor, and deter ! ruination evinced in private conver : sat ion. [f they quarrel among them? selves, it, is only because they feel themselves strong enough to do so I without endangering victory, as the I Democratic party of old once did. I That "cohesive power" which sealed i the defunct Democracy in cordial em ; brace whenever the tinal issue at the 1 ballot-box caine, now imbues the j Republicans, and it will be only I through miserable mismanagement, imbecility and .corruption,' which ! killed the Democratic party, that a j similar fate will attend tho present I dominant party. PnosPECT TN PENNSYLVANIA.--Our j friends speak hopefully of the con ; test in Pennsylvania. Enthusiastic meetings, largely attended, are l>oiug holdall over the State, and our ex? changes give the most flattering ac? counts ol the energy and determina? tion of the people. The Philadelphia Age says: "The State is being fully and tho j roughly canvassed, and from every ? election division mid district come i cheering reports of changes in our I favor, amounting in the aggregate to such a number as to preclude the j possibility of a failure at the polls. In sonic Counties, whole families, formerly active and influential in the ranks of tho opposition, are now zealously co-operating with the anti radical party, while in all the addi? tions to the Democratic and conserv? ative clubs aro challenging the won? der and chagrin of the leaders of the 'Torch and Turpentine' faction." The New York Herald, of Tuesday, has an article slightly "sarcastical" upon the Kev. Theodore Tilton, edit? or of the New York Independent, who is now acting ns leading torch-bearer of the radicals. The article, which is singnlary epithetical, mentions Tilton as thc "Rev. Twaddling Tilton," the "Rev. Toddling Tilton." the "Rev. Tattling Tilton," the "Rev. Twid? dling Tilton," tho "Rev. Throttling Tilton," the "Rev. Trotting Tilton," the "Rev. Tinkling Tilton, "the "Rev. Tonsorial Tilton," the "Rev. Tum? bling Tilton," and the "Rev. Turpen? tine Tilton. " The Hartford Courant of? Monday says: We have for some days pust been in possession of facts connected with a bold and .successful robbery of bonds to a large amount from the vaults of a city bank, which we have withheld from publication ut the re? quest of the parties interested. The amount stolen was, we learn, between ?20,000 and ?30,000. Thc Springfield (Mass.) Union says that "sensualism,, in all its more beastly and disgusting forms of licentiousness and profligacy, is on a rapid increase in all our New Eng? land cities and towns, and nobody can blink it ont of sight without doing violence to his knowledge and sincerity. " A large swindle of the Government, at New Orleans, to the amount of about half a million dollars, has been unearthend by United States detec? tives. The party implicated is J. Lpwenthal, ol' No. 207 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, who is a claim agent there. A witness has just been discharged in Fall River, Mass., who has been kept at public expense (81.25 a day and board) since July 20. The public prosecutor has just found ont that he does not want him. Thc grasshopper pest has reached St. Joseph, Missouri. So thick are they that in some parts of the city the people have to close the doors j and windows to keep them out of their houses. A lot of fine coal-cured leaf tobac- ; co, made by J. J Adcock, of Gran? ville, North Carolina, sold in Peters? burg, Thursday, for the extraordinary price of 8600 per cwt., the highest price ever paid in Virginia. A Liverpool gentleman wiio has searched the Scriptures diligently has discovered in Ezekiel a prophecy to the effect that England is to be in? vaded by the Emperor Napoleon du? ring the present year. The Herald says it is stated that the monthly report of the public debt for September will show a de? crease of about 8100,000,000 in the indebtedness, and an increase in the specie; on hand of 850,000,000. lt is said that ex-Secretary Harlan, who, ten years ago, was not worth 85,000, has accumulated a fortune of ; nearly half n million of dollars. Napoleon's manifest? states that France is to protect the Pope after ! thc retirement of the troops from ? Home. A Frenchman proposes to build a pontoon bridge, with openings for | vessels, from Calais to Dover cliffs. | He estimates thc cost at Xl6,000,000. j Ninety thorough breds have been j taken to St. Louis to dompete at the Lneleda races next week. Local Items. KEMOVAI.. We learn from an exchange that the Ursuline Community of this city, whose establishment was destroyed ou Sherman's visit to this city, have;, upon thu solicitation of the Hight Reverend Bishop of Mobile, consented t<> locate in Tusca? loosa, ami opeu an academy for thc educa? tion of yoting ladies. Their institution in this community hohl a high rank, and, while regretting their re? mus al, we take occasion to commend these faithful and accomplished laborers in thc field of education to the people of Alu bama and adjoining States. BOLO ANO DAKING ROBBERY. -OU Satur- \ day night, about 104 o'clock, one of the boldest robberies ever committed in this conimnnity or vicinity was perpetrated at the house <>f Mr. John Davie, about 2k miles from Columbia. It seems that Mr. Davis, who had been in Columbia on Satur? day, returned home, and had retired. Mrs. Davis 'vus in the pantry, attending to ?omti culinary preparations for the morrow, (Sunday,) when four negroes rushed into the house, three of them armed with mus? kets and bayonets. Mr. Davis rose iu his bed and attempted to reach his gun, in Ivis chamber, when the assailants clubbed their muskets, and, one striking him on ono side of the head, and one ou the other, ho was rendered insensible. The miscreants then informed Mrs. Da? vis, two of them standing over her as a guard, if she would not turn to see what was going on, she and her two children on her lap would not be? injured; otherwise, she ami they should be killed. Of course she could only submit, and the wardrobe, provision^ and valuables of tho family wen; abstracted. They had even the im? pudence and daring to change their own clothes and leave their rag*, wearing off the apparel of tho family. We have not heard of a more outrageous ea.se of assault ami robbery than this. Can nothing be done? We simply recom? mend that all householders stand prepared to indict summary justice upon these mer? ciless marauders. Mr. Davis, during Sun? day, was insensible from the injuries re? ceived; yesterday be was a little better, and able to articulate some words. Some spoons, marked with his initials, have been bought from a colored man by auotbor, and a coat, thought to be the property of Mr. Davis, has bten recovered, which was also bought from a negro. It is tho duty of our people to be ot. the alort, and to bring these sable offenders either to legal justice, or to set examples that will not be disregarded. If a war of races is to be commenced, let all bc prepared for such an issue. AN HONEST COLUMBIA SERVANT. - We take great pleasure in transferring to our co? lumns, from the Petersburg index, the following, chronicling tho honest and ho? norable conduct of one of our colored townsmen, Pleasant Gregg, a personal attendant of the lamented General. "Like master like man," is an old adage, and in this ease in fully verified. Gen. Gregg was thc soul of honor, and it is almost impos? sible that any one in constant attendance upon bim could be otherwise than honor? able and honest. We commend Pleasant for this noble act, and congratulate him not only on its pecuniary reward, but on that still higher reward-the approval of his flaker and of a good conscience. Tho lader says: , "A lady of this city, who was temporarily residing in Raleigh, N. C.. at the time of Sherman's approach to that place, was greatly exercised, as the invading host drew near, to imagino what safe disposi? tion she should mako of some highly valued silver plate in her possession. To keep it would, she thought, be to tempt the bummers to violence; to bury it, would be to incur a great risk; so at last she de? termined to entrust its safety to the care of a family servant, who, with his young mistress, Miss Gregg, of South Carolina, was staying in the house. "The negro took off these and other valuable articles, and as Sherman at last came in sight, slipped off and made for his old home at Columbia, S. C. Soon after? ward, the lady returned to Petersburg, and as many months passpd away without any news from the silver, she might be excused if some doubts arose as to the fidelity of its guardian. "But, a few weeks since, a letter came from Carolina, announcing tho where abouts of the servant and tho safety of tho property entrusted to him, and asking directions as to the disposition tobe made of it; and on one day of the past week, a box arrived bj- express, bringing every article. "The servant's name is Pleasant, and he was a personal attendant of Gen. Gregg. We learn that his honesty will bo suitably rewarded by the lady he served." Pleasant still resides in Columbia, and is in the employment of fhn Messrs. Gregg. It may be proper to add to the above that he had charge of the plate and valuables belonging to bis late master's family, and took them to Raleigh when Sherman ap? proached this city. When the army got near the latter city, he returned here, bringing the family plate, together with that mentioned above. Until a few weeks ago, the latter was buried in a secure place in the neighborhood of this city. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.-Attention is cull? ed to the following advertisements, which are published this morning for the ?rst time: Ice Cream at McKenzie's, This Day. T. S. Nickerson-Planters' Hotel. C. H. Baldwin & Co.-Hams, Flour, Jr?. Jacob Levin-Gas Bills, H. & G, D. Hopo- Flour, Seed Rye, Ac. College of Charleston, ti. C. J. & T. R. Agnew-Soda, Axes, Potw&re. Fisher 4 Hoinitsh-Wine Bitters, Ac. C. P. Pelham-Scrip Lost. Alfred Tolleson-Sugars, ?V.c. A convict who was about to be sent to a house of correction, was told that they would set him to pick oakum. "Let 'nm try it, by goah," said he; "I'll tear their darned oakum all to pieces.''