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DEVOTED TO THE INTEBESTB KEBSHAW COUKTY. ' TEBMB fcSLOO r*? ajhtc*, zh ?ptajkou CAMDEN, S. C., WEDNESDjBfotMARCH 11, 1874. ; ? <??"?* NO. 23. ' i 1! BELLE OE MOHTEBEY. F Monterey of twenty-fire years i t vastly different town from the "to of to-day. The silent sreets, i ftbaost exclusive property of ? vad nomadic hogs, then ; hoofs of the gay hoi-se; the uni Engliih [ fcnd American naval rasted with the staid black of the pretty tenorita; the ?rJfaikled on moonlit nights under lattioe of the dark-eyed belle; and | anoe of Spanish life mingled I bustle and activity of a pros sea-port town. Mow, an on " harbor, a mass of half-ruined s, and fc drowsey Terence, constitute Monterey. Still, the roses eT?irls that offered them to g wooers at the garden gates ?five years ago have grown into matrons, wrinkled by family whose margin is washed by the -tides, "which kno wing no ohange, r yet as of old on the creeoent all its dreary somnolence, there ?a about the old town, sitting sad widpw kj the Asa, mourn - ?g ^ir globe* tikemselvee in' >. tad inin farmri? bot no Mil. i the bay sunk the evening ? 24th of Deosmber, 1848. the waters streamed its last ?le rays, glistening on '"tenderly * * shimmering branches of the oak that the old Spanish grave-yard, among the pines that iHl-tops in the back t Ignaoia Gomes, as the angelua MM from the Mission ohuroh, devoutly, for a moment > gOse vine that climbed to lied* roof of her low. long And as ahe stood in the gar crossed hands and large eyes uplifted, her black shawl ng from her graceful shoulders, f'her ted Hps moving in prsyer, a iter could desire no better model or an Evangeline, for had all the sweetness of the with the "resigned expression of "it waiting of,the other. A [sonr querulous looking face sp at {he aeep window. Ae here, Maria; 'tis supper I, J/odrs miaand Maria, "* **10 erratic vine to a nail in the entered the house, rs before the date of our ? '^Khris's sweet woman tilt dawn, for many a mile jOTlth of the southern ooun , a glimpse of and exchange ' **? of Monterey. A ingers was a rare preserved and worn glanoe from her i recipient back to " a happy man. on thai' calm, | found a mo tHKriA - row caine, in the Rout ahip k and dropped of Monterey. t great Hudson's was boaad north to t company on the i livers of th? valu J tD their store rgo of Che Delight, I son of the vice pulent corporation, ifcive disinr'ination " I learned \ ? possessing Of the diU'tcinfr * 5P? r?r Trtm & LJi BQlreni The of Jh? jaty t>f old satisfaction, got his fancy at the gangway, and in fitting-on of the good ? merchant Teasel dons the hill-aide r " > ^5 ** CHlMur. J * ? Yfll. you don't oitv, ?ir?the ftrst eify in ? ana if I mistake not.? continue. _ captain, " yonder st the custom-house stands the alcalde, a hospital gentle man to whom onr company is indebted for many favors." A.' few moments afterward, both speakers were heartily greeted by that official, who, as the boat's keel grated on the sand, we loo mod them to Mon terey. Among the many young and pretty Spanish girls whom Gilmour met in Monterey was Maria Ignacia. A spirit of rivalry induoed him to throw him self into the list with the Spanish gal lants who strove for the fair Maria's smiles. He was more than suooessful. The difference of his manner, his re citals of adventure in Europe, and de scriptions of the grand places of history, I were something so novel to Maria, so totally different from the stereotyped oompliments -of her woers, that she found a charm in his society which, in her innocence, she cared not to oonoeal. But the end came at last. The Delight was to proceed northward, and the supercargo prepared to take leave of all his Spanish friends. " Ana so, Msria," said Gilmour, on the evening preoeding his departure, "our pleasant visit oomes to an end. Well, I have improved my Spanish, and you, little Madonna, if ever the fates .take you to England, will reoegnixe the abbeys and the churches from my de scriptions." Maria Ignacia did not reply, but stooped to pick up an abalone shell, which, wet and sheeny, lay in the Band at her feet. "And now, Maria, I have only one request to make, whioh our charming acquaintance warrants. It has three however?a aouvonir from this . . __ talk to me across the water ; and?a kiss." Still no answer from the girl, who, with eyes cast down, strolled along bv his side. " Then I shall t&Ln it for granted that my prayers prevail, Maria r Her soft eyes were raised to his, and he was surprised to find how pale the face was, and how moist the rounded cheek. He raised her lips to his with a half-sigh, and then, as if a new thought had suddenly struck him, said, abruptly, half to himself and half her "Good God ! it can't be so, Maria ! Tell me?do you love me ?" The wonderful passion in the full brown eves, so tender and despairing told him all ? and when, liko a foolish young man, he took her in his arms and swore ail the oaths that all lovers have so often sworn and so often broken; and when they strolled back over the sands, Maria's tears were gone, and James Gilmour clasped the hand of his promised wife. This was all the romance in Maria's life. The next day the Delight sailed and for ten years neither ship nor su percargo were heard of in Monterey Bat she never married. She had a strange way of every evening walking to the hill-top where the old fort Rtood, and looking wistfully out across the water ; then sorrowfully and resignedly retnrning to her home, nursing her in valid and sour-tempered mother, and training the roses about the adobe walls. On this Christmas eve, Maria Ignacia kneeling before her old foahionod en graving of the Madonna, thought of the manger in Bethlehem oenturies ago, and wondered sorrowfully if Jaraes Gil rnour was enjoying in his English home the Christmas-tree and the mistletoe, and all those games he had told her of when they had walked on the sands ten years ago. And then her thoughts went back to that June evening when he kissed her lips and ealled her his wife. Boom I boom 1 boom I through the still night air. Maria opened her window and looked rra . ^ ?' Portuguese whalers went rapidly by, and she learned from their excited exclamations that a ship had gone ashore on the Point Pinfo rooks. " May Ood and the Virgin suoeor them I' she mnrmnred pion?ly, an she hurried to wrap her shawl around her, and mui soon im-ihe atreet. Everyone was astir. Men on home hack with ropes rode farioasly slong the beach ana toward the Point; the whalers manned their boats, set their sails, and sped before the blsst through the moonlit water. They were all too late. The cruel, pointed rooks had torn the ill-fated Teasel to fragments ; and the breakers dallied with spar and mask, now flingiaf them high up on the beach, and again drawing them baek to hoii them oaoe more against the brown eliflk. Bat not a tingle l*>dy did th? wares throw up that night. Christmas f)sy dawned, and whan Maria Ignada Oomea looked from her window down teethe orasosnt hsaoh.shs saw a crowd of men standing about something. They Mfted it np and bora it through the street, and to hap door, for hers was the nouSe nearest the hAsnh. N *' If he dead t* ah* asked, fearfully. m wa first saw him," said a wVM. Sli 4?tk . ^ 4 ?> ... beard wu full of sand and weeds, and a white froth iasned from his lips; a finely built man?handsome, no doubt, when those eyes, now staring so .blindly, had light and life, and those well-cut lips moved and smiled. .. ? " Maria?Maria, what ails yon T" blanding by the bedside, " * her breast; her _ t as the dead be fore her. M Oj^m^ beloved 1" she moaned, lay ing her white faoe on his bruised and stained breast; "at last, aQex so manr years." And then she smoothed back the tangled hair, and wiped the foam from the lirid lips, and straightened Out the limbs of him who had oome to seek' her after so long. I*or it her great consolation that he had been true even to death. * They* buried him behind the old fort,' and Maria took up the thread of her lifp again. And now the roses were doubly dear to her, for they were for his grare. Power of Kindness. A driver, belonging to the great Northern Railway goods station, had; occasion to pass np the Quadrant Road highway, New York, to deliver a pack age. On approaching one of the | houses, he was seen by a lady in the window, who immediately said to some friends staying with her : " Here ocmes the kind driver ; do oome and see what power he has over his horses." The friends aooordingly came to the window, when Benjamin Smith son, the' driver in question, was asked to "shake hands" with his horses. With great] good hamor he at onoe complied. | Standing in front of the pair of hones, he oallea out : " Tom, shake hands." ^ Instanaly the near hone lifted up hi* right foot. After a shake, the driver said : * ^ " Now, Tom, the other foot." Up went the foot- instantly. driver then went in front of the horse, when a similar scene doc Perhaps, however, the moat , inoident remain* to * Ling backwards seve horses, he oried ont. ... " Now, Tom, turn round, and oome OIL. Instantly the horses pulled away at their load, turned the van ronnd with out the slightest need of so much as' the craok of a whip, and followed the dever ; driver, as the dog would the shepherd. Such an instanoe shows clearly how much can be done with animals, but especially with the horse, simply by the power of kindness. u ? * Producing Somnambulism. Somnambulism, which is natural to some persons, may be artificially induoed in others,as by what are termed magnetic passes, or causing the person to look steadily at a small object near the eyes. The proportion of persons who can be thrown into this somnambulistic or mesmeric state is about one in fifteen. The late eminent naturalist, Agassis, was a subject in his youth. When in this condition, all directive oontrol of the will is in abeyanoe, and the subject sees, hears, tastes, feels, and believes all that is told him by the operator. If told that he is drinking something sweet he relishes if,; if told that it is nauseous he spurts it out, and if as sured that he is in the water and must swim for his life, he begins at once to make the movements of a swimmer. He is assured in a confident tone that he oan lift a heavy v eight, and at onoe raises it on a finger ; or is told in the same oonfident manner that h* can't lift his handkerchief, and fails in the attempt. He is the subject of a domi nant idea which exoludes all others from his mind. He oan think of nothing but what is suggested to him. He has no power of directing hif thoughts, and so when the operator says to him, " yon can't tell me your name," he is unuble to pronounoe it; and when told, ?'ycu don't know your name," his face assumes an expression of hopeless imbecility, and he will tell you afterward that he had actually for gotten it. In Chains. " Parley " writes to the Boston Jour nal that one of the best looking and best dreesed of the lady boarders at a first-olass hotel in Washington, who has been a regular attendant at ohuroh and taken n deep interest in several private oharitiea, has been invited to return to New York, by a gentlemanly detective of that city. She left, not with " gtves upon her wrists," but well watched by her escort, who says that aha is one of the most adroit sneak thieves on this continent. He* plan here has been to enter rooms while the lady occupants were ont, and, if surprised, to say that she hfcd found the aoor open, and so waited the lady's return. Her bOoty has probably been remunerative as nu merous articles of Jewelry, gold thim ble*, Ac,, mi???<i nor, were probably stolen by her, but she hsa been taken to New York on a graver charge. Treated DtMnrtMmly, Discourtesy, and even insult, is ex Erisnced by the women of Ohio id sir temperance movement, a letter writer lays, notwithstanding wbrfeh they fig* Joined interests wMk the dram shops, and as tksMin oh the n offering nrayeaa, theee el sought to drown the ??? Oft the Fusions. buttons, it is Mid, will re square joke ia made of laoe lor' trimming baaquea of ?aid that the old-time shovel et iacoming baok, though in form. Row* of serpen dicular trimmings on baaquea will be a oonapieuoua feature of spring ooctumee. / Tortoise-shell buttons, both plain and carrot, are annonnood at the fancy stores ?a likely to supersede the metal butftdBsnow used. Baftue back* of silk dresses have tabs eat in the aeams below the waist in the W now seen in English walking The postilion pleats are jfcew dress-ooats or swallow-tail W announced for ladiea open over with double points, like that now by gentlemen; they are both i and single breasted. Marie Stuart ruff, rery high, _ and flaring, will continue to be Mjftrof the dreaa material. The oollar with turned-orer points ?be used, aa well aa the rounded _ embroidery will be much oaahmere and' ailks during the and on the mualin and batiste ! summer. This, it will be re 1, is the open eyelet-work ao a few yeara ago. SicOienne oloth ia used for and facings of spring mantlea [ of the turquoise silk that will ? season without fraying. A fabric of soft wool will, it jie more used for apring wraps loftg popular cashmere and gttfrVrin ? i black chip, and other soft will be made into There are to be few though some ahapee ?round like sailor branoheein front i many flow Little Children. I am fond of ohildren. I think them the poetry of the world?the fresh flowers of onr hearths and homes ; lit tle oonjurers, with their " natural magic," invoking by their spells what delights and cnriches all ranks, and equalizes the different classes of society. Often as they bring with them anxieties and cares, and live to occa sion sorrow and grief, we should get on very badly without them. Onlv think if there was never anything to be seen but grown men snd women. How we should long for the sight of a little child. Every infant comes into the world like a delighted prophet, the harbinger and hearld of good tidings, whose offloe it is to " turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and to draw the disobedient to the wisdom of the just." A child softens and purifies the heart, warming and melting it by its gentle presence ; it enriohes the sotri bv new feelings, and awakens within it what is favorable to virtne. It is a beam of light, a fountain of love, a teacher whose lessons few can resist. Infants recall us from muoh that en genders and enoourages selfishness, that freezes the affections, roaghens the manners, indurates the heart; they brighten the homes, deepen ic*?, in vigorate exertion, infnse oourage, and vivify and sustain the charities of life. It would be a terrible world, I do think, if it were not embellished by little ohil dren.?Binney't Both Worlds. Working in the Mad and Rain. A letter from-Springfield, Ohio, re /erring to the whisky war in that S?tc, j says two bands of women, each num bering 150, have been going abont all < day in the mud and rain invading sa loons with the pledge or kneeling out side praying and singing. Two saloon keepers pledged themselre* to quit. A joint stock association^ business men representing two million dollars of money is formed to back the women np with funds to carry on the campaign. Many thousand dollars have been sub scribed. In one saloon in Osbern, vis ited by a party of ladies from Boring field. powder had been sprinkled over the floor, and the proprietors threatened to fire it if the ladies entered. Thejr went in notwithstanding. The women are determined, and gain eourage and members every da v. There are but few saloons left open 'in the eounty, and from the way thej work is being prosecuted all wHl have to surrender soon. '? ' Feeding at Washington Parties. At twelve o'olock, says a correspon dent, the doors of the supper room are opened, and then the jam beggars de scription. Ton may take ronr ohoioo to M pushed or to push, and in eithe* case to aee plate * of oysters, salads, and creams, with threatening spoons and fork* VristHef in aid-sir, glancing by vow nose; of. awtmming low* your baok. I was' never sure thai ws were how a civilised people till Ioontem plated my domprtriots in the Washing ton supper-room of ''festive Oooa sion." .There X hate seen dignitaries whtptbe ptobUe he lie v* have m to eat at hmoa, pushing toward a per-tobla as * canriW -night i ?bout CIotm. Cloree are the unopened flower* of m small evergreen tree that reeembles in appeaMaee tfee laurel or bey. It is a native of the Molaooa or Spioe Islands, bnt hae been carded to all the warmer parts of the werlJ, and is now oultiva* ted in the tropical regions of America. j The (lewera are small in siae, and grow in large numbers, in clusters, to the ?err edges of the branches. The doves we "use are the flowers gathered before they are. opened, and while they are still green. After being gathered, they are smoked by * wood tire, and then dried in the sun. Each clove consists of two parts?of a round head, which is the four petals, or leaves, oc flowers rolled np, including a number of small stalks or filaments, the other part of the clove is terminated with four poi uts. and is, in fact, the flower of the unripe stted-vessel. All these parts may be seen if a few cloves are soaked for a short time in hot water, when the leaves of the flower softeD, and readily unrolL Both the taste and the smell of cloves depend on the quantity of oil they con tain. Sometime* the oil is separated from the oloves before they are sold, and the odor and taste are in conse quenoe much weakened. Idleness. Many young people tliink that an idle life rouBt be a pleasant one ; bnt there are none who enjoy bo little, and are such burdens to themselves, as thoee who hare nothing to do. Those who are obliged to work hard all day enjoy their short periods of rest ana recreation so much, that they are apt to think if their whole lires were spent in rest and recreation, it would be the moat pleasant of all. But this is a sad mistake, as they would soon find out if they madea trial of the life they think so agreeable. One who is never busy oau never enjoy rest; for rest implies a relief from previous labor ; and if our whole time were spent in amusing our selves, we should find it more wearisome than the hardest day's work. Recrea tion is only valuable as it unbends us ; theJdle oau know nothing of it Many pefcpTe leave off burinSs and settle down to a life of enjoyment; but they generally find that they are not nearly so happy as they were before, and they are oiten glad to return to their old occupations to escape the miseries of indolenoe. ?Herald of Health. No Demagogues Need Apjlj The Grand Master of Patrons of Hus bandry, says he is fully alive to the danger to which the Order is exposed from the demagogues who are anxious to join it fer their own selfish purposes. In his addresrio the Grand Lodge he remarks: "The Order has been reoog nized as one of the great powers of the land, and the gates are besieged from ooean to ooean hy hordes of speculators, demagogues, small politicians, grain buyers, cotton factors, and lawyers, who suddenly disoover that they are * inter ested in agricultural pursuits.' It is true that they are interested in ' agri cultural pursuits,' but only as a hawk pis interested in the sparrow." Unless the Grangers follow the advioo of their Grand Master and keep themselves from the presence of the professional politicians, the Order will be short lived, and will utterly fail to^coomplish any useful purpose. ' Apropos of Zero. Here is a joke going the rounds from the Boston Journal, which many per sons will read as describing rather a se rious and altogether too seasonable a reality: Citizen?" Well, yon see how it is yourself, Mr. Plumber. The girl left the laundry-room window open, ther mometer touched zero, water pipes froze, then bnrst, and an no one knew how to shut off" the plagney thing, the water run half of the night." Plumber??' Yes, I soe; very bad break; wants new plumbing through out; miserable pipes?wonder it didn't happen long sgo." Citizen?" How muoh is it going to oost to plumb up in good shape, inclu ding tenders ?" Plumber??? Well, I don't know, but I think 1 will take the house in part payment." Frkkch PoiiiaH.?Take of orange shellao, 2 onnoes ; of wood naptha, ! half a pint; of benzoin, 2 dra<!hms. Mix sna put in a warm place for s week, and keep the raftUrials from set tling by shak*?g it ?p. To apply it, after having prepared your wood by robbing some raw linseed oil into it, then wiping it off again, aiake a rubber of cotton wool, and put some old calico over the face, and till you have a good body on your wood keep the rubber | W1 saturated with polish. When your rub be* sticks, pot a very little linseed oil or and rub vour polish up.. Allow it to stand a few hours, ahd rive it another ooat, using rather more linseed ?n?yvur m to get a finer Clish. Then let it stand again, and ish off Wi U| spirits of naptha, if you, *?" 1 # ' 1 lil II For FhfncHtj>T fwanors , and.wton . ? ? ? Facta aid Fancies. V U One suicide in Norway to our* 182, and it isn't maoh of a suicide either. - Moderation is the silken string ran ning through the pearl chain of all vir tues. * ? r- j' A girl of 14, in Brooklyn, Iowa, Im sued a boy of 16 for breach of promise of marriage. A young lady jumped into the Ohio river to recover her muff-jus* to" keep her hand in. Rochefort proposes ?when ha gets his pardon to oome to America and start a daily paper. The narrow way of life is broad enough for men who carefully, gently, evenly walk in it. Everything in Philadelphia is " cen tennial "?except the ladies. They'll all be twenty next spring. It is estimated that a pair of healthy sparrows having a family to bring up will consume over 3,000 caterpillars a week. The bed to be avoided, next to an onion bed, is probably the bed of the river?unlees one is partial to sheets of water. A newly appointed Constable in West ern Pennsylvania recently served a no tioe'on a clergyman while he was in the pulpit. "I'm particularly * uneasy on this point," said the fly to the young gentle man who stack him on the end of a needle. "Leaf by leaf the roses fall," is the tonohing preface to the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser's aooountof a default ing postmaster. The agent of Adams Express at Granby City, on the Atlantic & Pacific railroad was robbed by a lot of masked burglars of $5,100. A bill introduced in the Maryland Legislature prohibits the attachment of wages where the sum due the em ployee is under $100. I. How to destroy wbrms?Bury the pork. And we beg to remark that it had better be done quickly, for trichina} items are multiplying. ??_ > The English Post-ofice carries annu ally abOut 70,000,000 letters, 75,000,000 postal cards, 103,000,000 book packets, and 99,000,000 newspapers. An eooentrio and rioh Englishman has bequeathed ?50 to the London Gas Co. on oondition that they burn his body in one of their retorts. There are two reasons why some peo ple don't mind their own business. One is that they haven't any business, and the other is they haven't any mind. The destruction of Taylor's fnrniture repository in Belgravia, London, by fire, is estimated at a loss of $15,000, 000. The amount of insurance is un known. An Indiana paper thus politely ex presses an opinion of a judge: "He knows just about as much of law as a mule does of mineralogy?the chanoes being in favor of the mulo." Mrs. Gussel of Oswego advertises that Ludwig Gussel, her husband, takes no advice but that presented by his own name, and that the groggeries must stop presenting him the oppor tunity. "A Smoker" sent twenty-five cents to the United States Treasury in full payment of the duty on a ten-oent cigar, whioh the oonsujner knew to have been smuggled. Chicory is said to be one of the most hurtful things that can be taken into the stoidaoh, causing inflammation and dyspepsia, and several of the Eastern States are talking of laws against its being put into coffee. Many of the Connecticut farmers will abandon the cultivation of tobaooo. Last summer's crop did not properly mature, and still remains on the han*4s of the producers, although in some cases offered at half the nstial prioo. Two cleavermen in Wilmington, O., the other day, receiving permission to ?how what they oonld do in cutting up. hogs, actually dismembered 100 KP90/ average animals in 30 minutes. Tnoy now offer to perform the same feat 25 minutes. A fourteen-year old Lafayette gitt* fell in love with a man at a hal masque,', and the next day attempted death by,: poison upon finding out that-ihe objeol of her ipfatdatipn did noi reciprocate her affection* ana would hM# nothing^ to do with her.' V ? Knitting needles are made {n*ih< United Btates only at Law^pnoovillcy Penn., where aboul fire hnndred rieties are produoed. New Oonn., is the only plac# in ihp count where common sewing needlea made entirely by machinery. ? If there be a class of^Timafi be* ings db earth who may # ^ nominated low it is thatel without earn in#, whrr< producing, ino diasiak- w.AI of their fathers or 9bUtMe% without 41 being anything in aft<^,g| theflNa^est^ Chorus of ladies (to odteeljr^fcnrate, who is ascenfflng th# folder to hang deooration^)?"On,"Sr. flwAiow, do Uko c*re! Bos't j? upl Bo .danger ous! Do *0una flown 1 Oal' Rhetor (sarcssticsllv) Z- ?*He*lly,* flweettow. don't yen tifnlr jn%IW. riod man ?U that V *'