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Squandered Idves. L BY BBEATICE. The fisherman wades in the surges; The sailor sails over the sea; The soldier stops bravely to battle; The woodman lays axe to tho tree. Thav are ?*eb the hrnml nf ibo heroes, The manhood attempered to strife 8trong hands that go lightly to lsbor, True hearts that tako comfort in life. ' lu emoh is the seed to replenish Tho world with tho vigor it needs, The centre of honest affections. The impulse to generous deeds. nt the shark drinks tho blood of tho fisher; The sailor is dropped in tho sea; Tho soldier lies cold by bis cannon; . The woodman is crushed by his tree. Each prodigal life that ia wasted In many achievements unseen, But lengthens the days of the coward, And strengthens the crafty and mean, The blood of the noblo is lavished, That tho selfish a profit may find; God sees all the lives that aro squandered, And we to His wisdom are blind. NUMBER OT,48?. IOCNTTKUKD. I Making my way into tho bar-parlor, ? recognized through a haze of to? bacco-sm ok o my roistering friend Tom, engaged in what he was wont to term cultivating the muses-in other -words, keeping up a smoking ?pd drinking intercourse with half a dozen very shady 'utility' actors. That ardent young gentleman hail . ?ed me boisterously. "Hallo, George, my pippin! Go m o to see life, eh? Sit down and have a ?pider." Declining the entomological be? verage referred to, I contented ray sell with ordering a less elaborate li? quid, and asked Tom if he had seen his friend Wylde. **What, Guglielmo ?" answered Tom. "He'll bo here presently; ho's on in the second piece to-night as a .*Gory Ruffian. He gets murdered in ibo fourth act, and will probably drop -in then." In about an hour's time he appear? ed, not so drunk as usual, for the night was comparatively early-hard? ly ll o'clock. He had only taken sufficient to produce the first of many stagos of intoxication through which that accomplished artist was nightly -wont to pass. In his first stage he was jubilant and loquacious. On recognizing us, Mr. William ' Wylde struck a dignified attitude, and burst into quotation, after the man * nor of his tribe. Eying me sternly, - and then lifting his eye-brows up to his hair, he asked, dramatically: .*Came you from Padua, from Bol 71airo?" "From both, my lord, Bellaire greets your grace," answered that imp Tom, readily. Mr. Wylde smiled loftily, and closed This eyes. "Whioh?" he inquired, "which is the merchant here, and - whioh the Jew?" I modestly replied that for mysell I inclined to mercantile pursuits in preference. Mr. Wylde waved h if hand. "Then must the Jew be merciful.' " Whereupon he took a seat and order .ed refreshment. It is unnecessary to relate by whal degrees Mr. Wylde attained his ul terior condition of intoxication, hou he passed from the jubilant to thc noisy stage, thence to the fiercely . morose stage. Suffice it to say that I kept him well supplied with his fa vorito refreshment, and we grew con fldontial. "I'll tell you what, my boy," saie Mr. Wylde, when he had reached thc depths of melancholy; "if ever yoi think of embracing our profession think well. Think twice. It's ( sickening life. Genius may starve ii it. Gin-gin-I mean genius is no patronized as it shonid. Look at me What keeps me down? I've had ex perienoe enough; I know my busi ness; there's not another man in tin oompauy that can beat me at versa tility. I've played Jeremy Diddler Romeo and Long Tom Coffin in on< bill. I'm not a fool. What, then keeps mo back? I'll tell you. It'i combinations. It's professional jea lousy. It's cliques. That's what i is, my boy." "Yot you havo done well in you: time," I urged. "For example, yoi married well." Mr. Wylde shook his head mourn folly. "I married, sir, a lady of family She was not clever, but I waived that She brightened my homo for a spell bnt she is gone. After lita's titfu fever she sleepB well." "And your wife's family-" "My wife's family, sir," broke ou "Wylde, wrathfully, ''are not to b mentioned by friends of mine. A se of curmudgeous-an ungratefu brood. Why, they aro base, com mon and popular." "Did they never recognize you abilities?" "Nover. A sot of arrogant, stnc up, conceited-but there. P?hl" "It's said," I remarked, confider tially-"it's said in legal circles (yo know how rumors get about arnon us lawyers) that after your wife death, her father came down wit something solid." "It's a lie, then," returned by M Wylde, conoisely. "Did you ever get a remit tune from him-about a year and a ha .go?" "Ito mitt an co, egadl I'd like to s< the old screw come down with a pos ?ge stpam. It wasn't for the want < asking, though. By Jupiter I tried all I knew, but the old flint was sot to be como over." '.Thea the rumor about you get ting?OOpoonda waa faWo?" ?Tal?e as-" ?i^BWjH "I thought so," waa ruy reply; ''I never gavo it any credulence myself. Good-night, Wylde. I think you've been badly used; but never mind, your peculiar talents will find their due y ot." The eminent gentleman had a fur? ther stage, which I did not wish to await-that of blasphemy. I bade him farewell, and went my way, tho? roughly oonvinced of what I had guessed all along, that he had never received the money's worth of Num? ber 07,482. Next morning, I wrote an urgent letter to Kate, praying her to meet me in a quiet city square, at 1 o'clock; telling her briefly that I had a way by which I could probably benefit her father and herself, and on which I wished to confer with hor. This letter I despatched by hand. In the office I took no notico of either Murdou or Graham, but weut ubout my duties quietly. On their parts they were equally reserved, aud no? thing of importance transpired uutil dinner-time. Then I slipped out, and went to tho place of rendezvous to meet Kate. I found her waiting for mo, trou? bled but possessed. We took a turn round the square, and I besought her, in as few and forcible words as I could command, to tell mo tho story of ber father's implication in tho bank-note business, and the extent to which he was committed to Mur don. I told her that I had tho moans of freeing him from any pecuniary liability under which ho had fallen; bnt, before putting into operation the means at my command, I must know how he stood, and what was tho danger threatening him. I urged that my love for her gave mo tho right to ask this, and that tho snmo lovo was tho guaranty tbat I would only uso tho knowledge for her father's good. After some hesitation, and exacting many promises, sho told mo with such reluctance as was natural to a pure and loving girl forced to ac? knowledge a father's guilt. The story dated eighteen months back, from tho day on which the lotter of in? struction had arrived from Theophi lns Langbrace, Esquire, authorizing Messrs. Bustler ?fc Clarke to pay Wyldo 5'JO pounds. On that day it was a national festivity, and ilio of? fice was to bo closod early. Murdou, tho cashier, wishing to get away for ti private engagement, had handed c bank-note for 500 pounds to the old? est derk, Graham, with a memoran? dum of Wylde's address, and direc tions to pay tho money to hin: personally, and obtain his receipt foi it on a printed form which tho firs kept for payments generally; th? words being added in writing, "ii discharge of all claims." This bank note had lain on Graham's desk un ti the clerks were preparing to leave th( office. The old clerk had just reco vered from a nervous attack to whiol ho was subject, and which, os Kate said, was wont to impair his memory The bustle of preparing for the hal holiday, super-added to the feeble ness of his mental powers couse quent on his illness, had causee him utterly to forget his commis sion. Tho bank-note had beor tossed aside, and had apparently fallon into the waste-paper basket close to his desk. At 3 o'clock, tin gas was turned off, (thoro had been i den HO fog all day in the city, necessi tating lights;) and the clerks emerge* in high spirits at their relense, Gm ham accompanying tho rest. On th stuirs, one of them asked for a ligh for his pipe; but nobody had matches Old Graham good-naturedly votan teered to go back and got a bit of pa per, so that tho clerk could light hi pipe at a gas-burner on tho stair-cas lower down; and making his way bac into the office, he found in tho yelkv obscurity the waste paper basket, an twisted into a pipe-light tho first bi of tissue paper that came to his haue Tho clerk lit his pipe, and pluyfu ly tin ust tho extinguished bit of pr per into Graham's face. Tho ol clerk received it into his hand, ni consciously retained it, walking a fe yards homeward still holding it, an then, wondering what ho was carn tag, opened out tho folds. To h dismay, ho found in tho charre fragments cf tissue paper a corner ( tho bank-note which he now remen bered he ought to have paid away t William Wylde! Tho shock of tho discovery par lyzed him, and when sense rcturnci ho saw himselE in imagination a ruii ed man, discharged from hissituatk if not prosecuted by his employer aud turned with his daughter Ka into the streets for a triflo of rent 1 owed. Ho had always been a ne vous man, a moral coward; and h fear of consequences made him blini ly accept tho one dangerous loop-ho of escape offered to him. Ho hf not tho courage to confess his neg] genco, and throw himself on tl mercy of tho firm; ho took a flu step, and from carelessness pans? into crime. After muoh bewilder? cogitation with himself, (for Ka I know nothing of his misfortune t long after,) he decided upon proton iog to have paid tho money to W 1 liam Wylde, and producing a flo , tious receint from that worthy. 1 Bat forgery belongs to tho fino arts, and old Graham was a sad blun-1 defer, being only a novice in the ac? complishment. Perhaps it tras this inexp?rience that betrayed him perhaps Mnrdon discovered tho trne nature of tho oaso from subsequent application for money mudo by Wylde At all events, the wretohod old man was soon found oat, and tho cashier's sharp questioning wrung the trnth out of him. The know? ledge Murdon kept for his own use. Affecting to discredit the story of the accidental discovery of the note, he persisted in regarding Graham a thief as well as a forger. Thus playing on his terror and misery, and intensify? ing the self-reproaches of tho old clerk with the cruelest sarcasm, he brought him into a stato of abjectness which left the miserable man an easy prey in his hands. Then Morden struck a keen and very bitter bargain. Ho would keep the defalcation a Be? eret from the firm on ono condition. Tho condition wes tho possession of Kate. How soon tho bargain was ratified by tho unhappy girl herself, I had to supply out of my own knowledge, for hero hor story broke down in utter grief; but I knew her gentle, winning ways, her absorbing love for her father, and her self-sacrifices on all occasions whero he was concerned. 1 could understand the sharpness of tho struggle before she yielded. Not until her father had told her how fol? ly he was compromised did she eon sent to part with her own happiness, in order to savo him from a felon's doom. Then she gavo up all hope in a fair future, and accepted tho man she hated, her father's enemy and tyrant, as her promised husband. Hero her pitiful tale ended. How was I to comfort her? I could not tell her that tho noto was not, destroy? ed, as her father thought; that I held it, though by what means it had es? caped, or what had been burnt in its place, I failed to guess. For though tho money itself was safe, the receipl yet remained in Murdon's hands, and any attempt at an eclaircissemen, would only bring down detection oe her father's bend. I could only mur mur some common-places of sympnthj and consolation, assure her that J boped yet to foil Murdon, and re-es tablish her father's peaco of mind And so I left her. That evening I again sought on Wylde, and found him at his usua ? haunt, and in his usual state. Diplo matically, and with much ciroumlo cution, I worked the conversatioi round to tho subject of money, am my gentleman's claims upon bil father-in-law. Mr. Wylde's presen mood was less violent than ordinary but moro bitterly despondent. "What's the use of trusting to tha old buffer?" ho asked, dejectedly "I was onco led to believe that h would come down with a round sun if I applied to his lawyers. I went and saw a yellow-faced scoundrel loathsome hound with a paunch. H threatened to set the bailiffs on me the menial, if I came again. I nove troubled his degraded sight again. "When was that?" "That was-let me see, thirteo months ago, on the first of thi month. Hal no matter. He kne my weak point, a malison be on hi caitiff soul. I was in difficulties t that time; I am in difficulties no? If you had half a crown upon you "I have much more than half crown npon me, nud you shall hav it, if you give me an acknowledf ment," I returned. "I'll give you," said Mr. Wyld< gracefully, "my solemn I O U on an sum above a sovereign. A gentli i mnu's I O TJ, I presume, is ns sacre ! as his bond." "Exactly so. But I must bavo receipt in full." "You may have, Dr. Dnuniug, m acceptance, if you like, at three, s or nine months, presupposing th: the sum is at least a fiver." Tho magnificent air of probity wil which he delivored his conditio tickled mo. "Suppose I could accommodato y( with teu livers," I answered, "won you unte-dato tho receipt?" "I would do anythiug, sir, honor bio and accommodating. I won give you a mortgage on my person or freehold property, or a lieu on n next year's salary, which ever y< Uko. But what do you mean?" Bofore replying, I called for mo refreshments, and helped him coj uuHiy yet judiciously. "Look bei Wy Ido," I said, "I havo a reason this, of course-a motive. I wa to provo to certain parties, who sh bo nameless, that my iucomo a cc plo of years ago amounted to a ci tain sum-call it x in algebra; au ii known quantity. Now if I get receipt from you for an ad vam ?iliou!, eighteeu months buck, I hu docuinontury evidence that I can < hibit, and prove my position at tl timo. Do you see?" "I seo," chuckled Wylde. "Li the arrears of unpaid iucomo ti only more valuable, being a gent man's bona fide receipt. Sly dog. "The raouey you shall havo do wi now. Will you give me an anto di receipt?" "What's the sum?" "500 pounds." Mr. Wylde upset his glass. "Bri forth the bond," he cried, heroica! 'TU sign if it wore dated OOO ye back I" I produced the receipt, previou propared on ODO of tho firm's loose forms, and the bank-note Number .07,482. The latter Mr. Wylde eyed suspiciously, questioning its genuine? ness. But upon my Showing bim that the receipt waa. merely for his note, with the number specified, ! and that unless the note was good the acknowledgment would be value leas, he abated his distrust, merely remarking that ho should nover be? lieve bis Tuck until ho had "cashed the flimsy. " But he affixed his signature without further protest. And on my express? ing a desire to have the names of a conni? of witnesses to the document, Mr.*Wylde, relieved at the demand as corroborative of the genuineness of the note, summoned the landlord and waiter, who added their names with cheerful alaority, pleased at being called on to witness so tremen? dous a transaction. "And now," said Mr. Wylde, when it was concluded, "I shall quit au un? grateful country, and seek to plant the standard of art in the far West. When I have acquired the colossal fortune which awaits tho true artist in that more enterprising clime, 1 shall punctually discharge this debt, Mr. Dunning, which I persist in re? garding as a mero temporary obliga? tion." The possession of tho true receipt was an important step gained; the next and more difficult ono was to obtain and destroy tho forged ac? knowledgment. Toward that attain? ment I now directed my onergies. I know it could be concealed iu no drawer or desk accessiblo to the firm; it was too valuable to be allow? ed to slip out of Murdon's private keeping. It was likely enough kept under lock and key in his own desk. Watching my own opportunity, I ab? stracted his bunch of keys one day when ho was engaged in tho private room of the firm, having left them in one of his drawers. There was no titro then to rummago in his desk, but I rapidly took au impression ol all his keys-only five in number-in wax which I had kept prepared foi that purpose. Tho mould I took tc a locksmith, tho son of my landlady, a man on whom I could roly. Trump ing up some story about a fellow clerk whoso honesty I suspected, and whoso drawers I wished to search, ] got him to mako mo a set of keys ac cording to tho pattern. Tho lock smith was not a mau burdened witt conscientious scruples; besides, h< knew mo well enough not to discredi my motives in ordering the job. H< made the kej's readily and deftly Armed with these, one evening, whoi the clerks were gone. I opened tin cashier's desk, and subjected its con tents to a thorough examination. Not a paper, not a memorandun could I find having reference to tin Wylde business; not a document relat ing to Number 07,482. There wer only two out of the five keys whicl fitted locks in the office-one tb desk, another a private drawer. Tin others apparently belonged to draw ers or chests at Murdon's private re 8idence; and there, in all probability the receipt lay. The next day I sent an excuse fo non-attendance at the office, pleadinj illness, and Bet about elaboratel, counterfeiting the hand-writing o Murdon, authorizing his landlad to allow me to visit his rooms for th purpose of finding a deed which h had left at homo. This forged lette Erocured mo a ready admission int is rooms, the landlady contentin herself with suffering me to go u stairs unaccompanied. Tho coas was clear, for Murdon was down r the office, and I had all the mornin and afternoon before me. I left n corner or crevice unexplored. I rai sacked his clothes, books and papen I turned every pocket inside out, peered behind the mirror on til mantle-piece, emptied his drcssinf case, tobacco-box, peered even int the cruet-stand, prodded tho stuffin of the chairs and sofa, and turned u tho corners of tho carpet. All to n purpose. My search brought to ligl other keys, which sufficed to ope every closed respectado in the plac But not a vestige of tho receipt ( clew to its hiding-place could 1 found. After a long and fruitle search, I turned away with beal heart, convinced that, if ho still bel tho receipt, it must be carried*aboi his person, or else lodged in son distant keeping which I saw no post bility of reaching. Disappointed and dejected, I tur ed my steps toward Keuningto hoping to gain strength of heart at acuteness of invention from a sig of tho beloved face. For Kate's ge tie and reliuut nature ever stimul?t* and fortified me-taught mo endu ance, taught mo to hope against hop I found her alone. Though she rei in my countenance that I had i good news to briug as yet, her p tient, uncomplaining voice nervi mo as of old, end I regained con dence. After all, fortuno had h friended us generously; for much w already done toward clearing h father's name. I did not despair accomplishing all in time. But tim Thero was tho rub. Would time accorded us? As if in answer to tho inquiry, h fut lier's kuoek was heard, and Kat looking ont of the window, saw til he was accompanied by Murdon. H terror rose. .*0; sn-" ?UC aried, excited! "there will bo a scene if he meeta y here again. He is so violent, and then he has my father in his power, and father's health is so shattered. Not for yoor own sake, but for mine, do, pray, avoid him." Unable to resist, her entreaty, I j slipped into an adjoining mum, and, aa they ascended the stairs and entered the Fitting-room, I passe i down. Murdon's top-coat, an ill-fit? ting wrap-rascal, which descended to his ankles, was hanging in the hall. Ho had divested himself of his over-coat, purposing to pass tho even? ing at that house. There was at least hope that I miglit. Hud tho receipt in one of the pockets. Quick as thought I passed my hand into tho pocket in the breast of tho coat, and found a bulky pock? et-book. It wu8 full of old letters. But there was an inner receptacle. Victory ! Tho receipt, with "William Wylde's counterfeited signature, in a shaky, ill-disguised hand! A. poor, blundering attempt at forgery, this, which would not havo taken in a charity boy. I stifled tho cry of triumph which rose to my lips, pock? eted thc forged receipt, substituted thc veritable one, and returned the pocket-book to tho wrap-rascal. Then I calmly remounted tho stairs and entered Graham's sitting-room. Murdou was was lolling on the sofa ns I entered, and looked up with his supercilious, insolent stare. .'Hallo, Mister Skulk," ho began, "I thought you were ill in bed; but it seems you're not too ill to poko your nose into places where you aro not wanted." Not noticing him directly, I turned to Kate with a look which she under? stood-a look which caused her face to brighten. Taking her hand as if to say good evening, I whispered: "Your father is safe; back me up." She smiled, and I turned to the old man. "Mr. Graham," I asked, "why do you suffer this under-bred person about your house?" The old clerk started, flushed and begau to stammer. "That, George-dear mc-why, that is Mr. Mardon-and-" "Ho is the worst-conditioned cur on tho face of tho earth," I answered, deliberately. "Ho is a compound of insolence aud falsehood; a tyrant within the power which ho affects; a bully, but an innocuous bully, and no companion for you or your daugh? ter. That's what Mardon is, Mr. Graham." He started from the sofa with an oath. "If you approach me," Icried, stopping him, "I'll knock you down." I knew him then for a ooward, for he stopped short in the blow which he had meditated, and turned green and yellow. He was a bigger and older mau than I, but he held back and ground his teeth, as I heaped in? sult on insnlt upon him, in my bitter? ness and my triumph. "You don't know what you are doing, you braggart young fool!" he at length uttered, livid with rage. "You are ruining your precious friends here." "You liel" I retorted; "there is nothing you can do which can harm a hair of their heads." "Isn't there?" he cried. "I can send this old man to penal servitude; I can beggar his daughter; and I irULn "An empty threat-a bragging boast, as mendacious as all you ever say." Ho shook a trembling finger at the old man, whose state of terror I can? not hope to describe. "Ho is a forger," hissed Mardon. "A thief and forger." "Pooh," I returned. "Whatbas he forged? Why do you waste words? Where are the proofs?" "I'll show you what ho has forged, if that's auy satisfaction, my young champion, and the proofs shall be laid to-morrow before other eyes than yours." Aud ho strode vindictively out of the room. ^CONTINUED IN OUR NEXT, f Change of Schedule on Spartanburg and Union Railroad. ON and after NOVEMBER 2, 1S08, the Passenger Trains will leave Spartan bnrg Court House on Monday*, Wednes? days and Fridays, at 7 A. M., and arrive at Alston at 1.20 r. M., connecting witli tho Greenville Doun Train and trains for Charlotte and Charleston. On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, tho Up Passenger Trains, connecting with tho Greenville Up Trains, will leavo Alston at !) A. M. and arrive at Upai tanbnrg Court House 3.20 P. M., as following schedule: Down Train. U?> Train. Ml*. Arv. Leav. Arv. Leav. Spartanborg, 0 700 3.20 l'aeolet, 10 7.45 7.48 2.32 2.35 Jonesville, 19 8 25 8.30 1.50 1 55 Unionvillc, 28 9.18 9.40 12.40 1.05 Ka nt ne, 37 10.10 10.21 12.03 12.08 Shelton, 48 11.10 11.12 ll.OG 11.08 LvlesFord, 52 11.8? 11.38 10 39 10 42 Strother, 5? 12.02 12.05 10.12 10.15 Alston, 68 1.20 9.00 TH08. B. JETER, President. UNIONvii.i.K, H. C., Ootohor 2G. Oct 31_ Columbia and Augusta Railroad. COLUMBIA, S. C.. October 9, 18G8. ON and.after MONDAY, the 12th instant, Passenger Trains- will be run as fol? lows-loaving Columbia on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and loaving Ridge Spring on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays: Leave Columbia.12.00 M. Arrive at Columbia.11.45 A. M. Leavo IUdgo ?pring. U.OO A. M. Arrive at Bldgo ?pring.4.10 P. M. All articles of FREIGHT to bo shipped must be deliver- d at Charlotte Railroad Depot before ll A. M. on above days. C. BOUKNIGBT, Oct 10 Superintendent. Tho.Great Inland FreigKRoute, VIA / Charlotte and So. Cf. B. B., AND / PORTSMOUTH, VIROtNIA. THIS FAVORITE ANR RELIARLE IiOUTE offere superior* dvantagcB to tho MERCHANTS of COLTMBIA and UP? COUNTRY, in transports gFBEIG HTS at low rates and quick dtspaeh to and from Raltimoro, Philadelphia, flew York nnA Boston. J SST" RateB always guaranteed as low a? tho published rates ol' nnj other line. 0* No chanco of carslor breakage of bulk, between Charlotte aid Portsmouth. 49* Marino Ineuranco from one-half to three-quarters per cent, bsa than by com? peting lines. For further inform?t ?ni, rates, clasBifi cation sheets, Ac, apply lo. or addreBs, Et Ri DORSEY, General Freight and ticket Agent, Charlotte and ?South Callina R. R. Co. July 24_. Charlotte & South Caipiina &. &. Co. SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE, COLUMDIA. 8. C., kugUBt 8.1868. ON and after WEDNESDAY, tho 12th instant, tho Trams over this Road will run as follows, viz: Leave Columbia at.4.15 p. m. Arrive at Charlotto at.11.00 p. m. Leave Charlotte at.ll 85 p. ra. Arrive at Columbia at. 6.00 a. m. tar Closo connections, both ways, with Trains of Greenville ynd Columbia and South Carolina Roads. ?a- Passengers for tho North, taking this route, havo tho cloico of FOUR DIF? FERENT ROUTES, Tb?: From Greens? boro, either via Dnnvillo or Raleigh. From Weldon, either via Petersburg or Portsmouth: and fron: Portsmouth, either via Old Bay Line and Baltimore or Anna moBsic Line and Wilmington, Delaware. mr TIME AS QUICK and FARE AS LOW as by anv other route. BAGGAGE CHECKED THROUGH. For THROUGH T1CKET8 to Richmond, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Now York,apply at Ticket Office, foot Blan? di? K street. An Accommodation Train will he run as follows: Lcavo Columbia on Mondays, Wednes? days and Fridays at 7 A. M., arriving at Charlotte at 6.35 P. M. Returning-leave Charlotte on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at G A. M., ar? riving at Columbia at 5.05 P. M Passengers taking tho 6 A. M. Train from Charlotto can connect with Night Train of South Carolina Road for Charles? ton. Passengers from Charleston can-by leaving tho South Carolina Train ai Junc? tion-conuect with tho 7 A. M. Train from Columbia. CALEB BOUKNIGHT, August 8_Superintendent. Change of Schedule on G. & C. E. R ON and aftor WEDNESDAY, the 12th bib tant, Passenger Trains will run daily, Km days excepted, connecting with Night Train on South Carolina and Char? lotto and South Carolina Railroads: Leave Columbia at. . 7.00 a. in. n Alston at.8.40 " Newberry at.10.10 M Arrive at Abbevdle at. 3.00 p. m. " at Anderson at.4.20 " .? at Greenville at.5.00 ? Leave Greenville at. 5.45 a. m. ** Anderson at.6.25 " " Abbeville at. 8.00 " " Newberry at.12.35 p.m. " Alston at.2.15 " Arrive at Columbia at. 3.45 " Trains on the Blue Ridge RaUroad wi? also run daily, Sundays excepted. Leave Anderson at.4.30 p. m. " Pendleton at.6.80 " Arrive at Walhalla at.7.30 ?. Leave Walhalla at.8.30 a. m. ?. Pendleton at.6.80 " Arrive at Anderson at.6.20 " Tho train will return from Belton to An? derson on Monday and Friday mornings. JAMES o. MEREDITH, Aug 8 Gencr. .^unerin tondent. GENERAL BUTTS OFFICE, CHARLESTON, S. C., March 28,1868. PASSENGER TRAINS will run as fol? lows, viz: Lcavo Charleston for Columbia. 6.30 a. m. Arrive at Kingsville. 1.30 p. m. Leave Kingsville. 2.00 p. m. Arrive at Columbia. 3.60 p. m. Leave Columbia. 6.00 a. m. Arrive at Kingsville. 7.80 a.m. Leave Kingaville. 8.00 p. m. Arrive at Charleston. C.lOp. m. Tho Passenger Train on tho Camden Branch will connect with up and down Columbia Trains and Wilmington and Man? chester liailroad Trains on MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS. Night Express Freight and Passenger Accommodation Train will run as follows: Leave Charleston for Columbia. .5.40 p. m. Arrivo at Columbia.6.05 a. m. Loavo Columbia. 6.80 p. m. Arrivo at Charleston. . 5.40 a.m. March 21 H. T. PEAKE, Gen'l Sup't. Office North Carolina Railroad Co., COMPANY SHOPS, ApniL 1, 1868. ON and after thiB date, the following will bo tho schedule for PASSENGER TRAINS over this road: Leavo Charlotte daily at.11.36 p. ni " Greensboro at. 6.05 a. ni. " Raleigh at. 9.41 " Arrive at Goldahoro at.12.25 p. m. Leave Goldsboro at.12.30 " ?? Raleigh at. 3.20 " M Greensboro at. 7.17 " Arrive at Charlotte at. 11.85 p. m. Through Passengers hy this line have choice of routes cm Gref-ntboro and Dan? ville to Richmond, or r?n Haleigh and Wel? don to Pichmond or Portsmouth; arriving at all points North of Richmond at the same time by either ronte. Connection is mado at Goldsboro with Paspengcr Trains on tho Wilmington and Weldon Railroad to and from Wilmington, and by Freight Train to Weldon. Alco to Newbern. on A. A N. C. Poad. Freight TrainB will leave Charlotte at 2 a. m. and arrivo 6.20 p. m. Laurens Railroad-New Schedule. SHmMfiSBaKEBBBB OFFICE LAURENS RAILROAD, LAURENS C. H., 8. O., April 29,1868. ON end after TUESDAY, 12th of May next, tho Trains on this Road ?ill eon m?m e running to return on the same da", to connect with tho np and down Trains on tho Greenvillo and Columbia Railroad, at Helena; leaving LaurenB at 5 A. M., on TUESDAYS, THU BSD A YS and 8ATURDAY8, and leaving Helena at 1.80 P. M. Baino days. J. S. ROWERS, July 9 Superintendent Laurens R. R.