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* ? a A > W . ' v I ? * W ; , ,j" ** ' ' < i" ?-, V?? >.'' j.rt . -.. \ :' ' v ' -*?-M"?^ws. ? 1 VOLUME XV. '-JUL- - . .qui C>. ffV <1<Q \VN Erf. EDITOR. J. C. BAILEY, Pro'r. aad AiiotltU Editor. SoiicRiHiM'ffwp DolUro-Mr tnnum. AnvKHTiBRHKSTrt inserted at tilt rataa of one dollar per aquare if twelve Minion line* (till* eiacd type) or Ira* ft? the Orel insertion, fifty cent* each for tlie second and third ineortlona, and twanty.flve eetta for subsequent insertions.1 Yearly coDtmti will he made. All advertisement* must have the number of Insertions marked on them, or they will be ln*rrtod-*ill ordered out, and tbstpd for. Unless Ordered otherwise, AdvcrtisemonU will inrariahly he " displayed." Obltosry notices, and all matters inuring to to the botia&t ot any oaa, are regarded as Advertisements. The World Would Be The Bett?r For It 11 If men eated tads for wealth and fame, And let* for battle-Welds and glory ; If writ In hnman hearts, a name su ceased batter than la a?og and story ; If men instead of anrsing pride Would learn to hate it and abhor U; If moro relied on Luvs to guide, Tie scorld would be lie better/or it. If men dealt iOm da adaeka and landa, Aat more In bands and deed# fraternal; 11 Love's work had as era willing bands, To Itailt this World.to the supernal; If men stored up Lord's oil and wine, And on bnaisadbuusan hearts would pour it* If-" yours "and" mine" would wwee combine* Tit erortd wvaW Is tie belter /or it. ' t- . * - - . If more would aet the play of Ufa, And fewer rpnll it in rehearsal; If Bigotry Would sheathe Its knife Till V^eod beeamo more universal; If Csstow, gray with ages grown, How fewer blind men to adore it; If talent shone for Truth alone, The world would bo lie belter for it. If men were wise in little things? Affecting less in all tholr dealings*? If hearts bad fewer rusted strings To isolate their ktndlv fccliuirst If men, when Wrong boat* down the Right, Would strike together and rortorr it; If Light in ado Might in every fight, The world would he the belter foe it. The Last burvivor of Jackson** Cabinet a Democrat, _ All that whs necesearv, ray* AmoKi'iulall, to re*lore tlie Union and tlie t'orjernment nt (lie close of the war, was that the people of the acceding 8t?tes should reorganize iheir Stale Governments under officers sworn to support the ConMitition of the Uni'ed Siaie*. and rend Senatoie and Itepio* tentative* to C< ngr?M. The two II >osea of CongreM had aluoluie power to refuse adiniM>i<i|) to teal* in t|?ii lespectixe bodies, alt per runs who had laiten part in the rebel lion. This ten* all the rightful power Con yrcss jHMxrxned over the rtbels. What jurisdiction has Congress over crimes committed, whethei \vi;hin the Union or without f None whatever.? The Constitution pusHlvelv fuibids the passage of snv er post facto law, meaning laws affecting crimes pmvioudy committed. The President had the exclusive tight and power to pardon them. The judiciary had lite exclusive right and power to try and punish them. Had each department confined itself to its own constitutional powers and duties, we should long ago have had peace and comparative prosperity. Every step of (he reconstruction (CS illation by Congress has been *' outside of the Constitutionw and a bold usurp ation ! It in not only ouuide of the constitution, hut in some case* in direct contt-mpt of its positive prohibitions. Witness their ex post facto laws ? Witness their suspension of the writ of habeas corpus in ten pencclu! States ? The following is the language of the Constitution, via 1 "The privilege of the wiit of habeas cm pus shall not he suspended unless, vflieti, in cases of rel*llion or invasion, the public safety may require it.** Thia prohibition extends to all States, territories, countries and people within the Union or without, over which Congress has power to legislate at all. Yet lItey have suspended this privilege in ten States, whWe there wn? net: lier H rebellion or invasion," in palpable and flagrant violation of the Consti>niton, whether ihosg Siatte are in the Union or not.' And our drmy is ernploved in r sustaining thia palpable and flagrant usurpation J .Should not a patriotic officer ratk'T hrtak his sword t ' t Witness the whole series of measures dbfranrhising white*, enfranchising ne - groes, forcing conetiiutions on unwilling pomtnuniiiea, and trampling, not only on the constitution, hut upon the most acred principles of ftee government. The Knriieal* say thev want peAcc* and that the Democratic ascendancy pit*** war. The Democrat* abo want peace; but thera i* thi? difference? Radical peace it thfi peace of deejmtistn maintained l>* tlta *#nrd Demon hi ir peace f? the peem pf liberty. accmed by restoring In Hi ate* and people their in herent and oni)?:ii ytioprl riaht* and privilege*. 0#e of thoaa privilege* {* to live tinder eaUtlngennatitnlinn* (even thou vhieh the Radicals have forced upon them) ir mar choosk. Ojve the f Demociacy lb* uceadnucy, ami Uu I *1 BaS? ? ~ - - - < """ . . V, EEPLE --j J . g J ? i. i >-j J,? igui.'i .fins no war unlf** the Radical* make it. But give the Radical* a new leara of power, end who cen gti trgniee the peace of the country f If peace there he. it will be the pence of the rwnrd. Mm (?ollt> I ttVtian mi>I! " j j lovuf ? nivil ? ill have? Thk track or dkspotibm. * \ or Thk track or libkktt f That is thk iasua? CHOOSE YE, Mr. Spurgeon and Bishop "Wilberfoioe. The Hisliop of Oxford will we linagine, here begun to find opt, by thin time, thati; would have been as well to leate Mr. Spurgenn alone. It I* not j only flint Mr. Spuigeon lias written a letter, in which the special pleading of the Hi-hop la tdinwn to be ut'erlv fallacious, but that Mr. Spurgeon's oratical power has been tinned with impetuous force upon the ecclesiastical question, and that he lots taken up his parable against not only the Church of Ireland, but against the whole theory and prac lice of Stale Churches. No doubt this might have been anid before Or. WilIwiforceV attack on voluntaryism in the House of Lords, with express mention of Mi. Spuigeon as a champion of ecclesiastical freedom, met the eye of the Boanerges of the Tabernacle But the Biidiop'a "charge'" will quicken Mr. Spurgeon's alertness, aud make liiin the more willing and ready to enter the lists against all defenders of Slate endowments, episcopal, clerical or lay.' The-question is one with which Mr. Spurgeoti is peculiarly fitted to deal, for it is one which can bo dealt with most effectively by simple, straightforward, common sense. Mr. Spurgeon, besides is a religious man?an evangelical man ?and can enter into the feelings of thoss sincere Evangelicals who fancv that justice, whether in Ireland o* in F.tifrlutuI r'un it>* i lK<t /* ? srs,. /.f H,i.\ ?"P ? ? '"J "' v""" vl uwl' Surely it can not be maintained bv anv peicon of ordinary candor or int?lli fence, that Mr. Spurgeon would lend imself to a course of policv In promote Popery in !r?lan<l. or to tuin Great ILitain into a sncrjUgious. apo* tale, or godless nation, lie looks at facts, and acorns to be made the slave of woids. The other dnv, at Stowinarket, he applied his comiiMti sense with striking < lfect to the theory that a State Church makes a nutiuu religious.? Then," lie said, "this naiou was a godless nation alreadv, for the colonies, the in jor part of the population ruled he I lie Queen, hud no religion, lie a-k??d wet* the UniieJ Sta'es a godless nation f They were as leligious a na lion as any tinder heaven, and we ought to be proud of it. The Arnerictus maintaining their religious institutions weie as abundantly genet ou* and a* ie ligious, lie took leave to say, as this oonlry ??? ?? in the palmy days of Laud, when the dwgj had it all to ihentselvea. lie contend*d that a nation in which all the sects were com I>eiled to subscribe to lite support of one favoied sect did not look hkn a godlv nation, whilst one <>f wlticli all (ho vari out- tlenoHiinaiions conseitMiiioii-lv o'-ev ed ih? Divine Ihw, a* thev understood it, and hII clreei fullv and wit It out com puUioii gave each according to hi* means to lito c:?u*? of G>?d, mu?l be a godly nation.** It in difficult to under stand bow word* like tliese can fnil to catry conviction to any; and we earn, estly recommend their consideration to tlio?e good people who write u- letter*, declating that all are Je-uitr in di-gni*e, who do not believe in Mr. Disraeli and support the Church. [Loj </o* Chritik* World. VVoMIS AH I'll Istkm8 A FaII.I'IIK. The New York World pronounce* the employment of women an printer* a f.ii lure. That establishment tiled the |tetintent and ha* been compelled to abandon it. The writer say* that, from first to Uwt, 100 giil* were employed at theca?e. Borne of them became tol(u?rble compoitur*. and are now nt <king fair wage* on book work. The grea'er proportion never reached an equal skill i When employed by the piece, their earning* fell far WIow that of the men. They have not the endurance of the tnen, seven or eight houtt per d.iy being more than aufficietit to tux their sfrenhgt. K?w of them could set clean proof, and. if possible, always shirked lit. correc (ion. Illegible manuscript llley were utterly unable to decipher. They could ever become familiar with tbe ipider tracks of the editors and reporters us male pt inters oaq. Two minuter* on n pedestrian tour went into ? country public house and ordered a gill of wlihkey. Tlie refreshment ww produced nnd duly mea-tired out in two glasses. One of the hreili eret:, reverentlv putting Id-t lund over hi* ejes, *?ked ? blessing on the grog, while the other tossed ott both gliw*et. With n look of wonder, the other in quired, Where's m\ share I" " Ah I" r,e?-p,ondyd bie eompenion, ' you should havq remembered the whole of the Scriptural injunction, that ye should both welch and prey, for, ye eea, ye wa* prayin* but yo waa ua watchia\n | t ^ ! IIIlM??? ?> < :x of ipc UlL ?L - '1 -LJ, "-Li! L- GREENVILLE. .SOUTH C David KoBae. Esq. Q, .? - - ? - 7UIUV Iiiuinin ago we flHIPtl in?l ll!l? gentleman had Comm*noMU*k* publication in the Obt-gow (Sowtland) Herald, of * series of artic'e*. descriptive of the habits, custom*, and scenery of Amnio*, as appearing lo him during hi* room! visit. Of children lie savs : " Aine.iran children are undoubtedly Itrecociou*. and I hi* precocity and ibu Jemocratic idea* that pervade society, and filler d>wn even into the mind* of the young, at, account probably for three f:*cla?1st. that American parent*, gnar diano, and teacher* do not expect the ?amo reverence and unquestioning ohe dieiiCA'hnt ia looked for ard inculcated here; 2nd, that the children dtpre a ill Hot be governed by mere aiithoiity and force; and 3rd, that, liappily, as a counterpoise, they become at an exceedingly early age amenable lo reason." About our ladies he grow* enlhti-iattic and speak* in glowing terms He cat*; "The American Indie* agreeably disappointed me. They are bv no means the dry, hard, angular, disagreeably independent, strong minded wo| men they are often described. Here and there no tloub; you find a few of I this stamp. Travelling over the country yon occasionally encounter a Jadv who lectures, or proache*, or edits a newspaper, or filU a professional chair, or has a regular practice a? a physician. But these ca?e* are very few an,l fat between ? rari nantrt in guryiU vaato. And e?en they are very often, a* a Scotch doctor in Massachusetts duscnb ed tliem, ' stitckil women.' Hut American females as a rule aie just a* gen lie, as kind, as lovely. a< agteenhle, nnd a* atfeuiionate a- our owru. Their love lines* is of a different l\po ? paler and more ethereal. A beautiful Canadian or Atneiican girl corn * neater the pop ular idea of an angel titan any bi iug I ever beheld out of dream land, l'ale fealutes of exqei-tte symmetry, a delicately [Mite complexion, eye* radiant with intelligence, a light, graceful, of.en fiagtlu fortu ? this is the vi-ion ?>f loveliite.-s il.at meet* the eve in *lnio*S every Americ tit drawing room. I never saw during all my life la-fo e so tttaiiy fiity fttrni*, which it would have sttrpii-ed j tne less to sec tdiooling out wing* and I floating up into the empyrean." [ Wthfiington \fvrniny Slur. I . A TttRivtk<i Titsuk.?When Chief Ju-tic". VVliiteside visited llalv. h doZelt vara ago, lie was struck, lie teil* u? in lii- piiliiislied lour, with the iiinliiltide of pi tests. Mini a-ked a Unman Catholic j I i**iiii w i a HI iliev CHI) p.)B?||ilr II (? I to <1<>. | Find to dot" hi- fiend. I hey ha?e more lo do iIihii iliey can poi-sihly ?fel through." * How can tliHt be. i" wn* the r?j ?in* der, " what have they to do f * Tliey have to fay ma-re- for the dead." w i)i the leply ; " yon see. no III in in if nod circuit)-lance* like- to die without leaving nioiiev. pet Imp- h hun dred cmwnt, or men five hunched for manse* for hi- sou! ? in:i?>e> to g.M cut of piirgHtorr Or. if In* lo-e- hi- w ife, or hi- child, lie (j<ir. to th* priest ; to order one hundred ma?e- f>r the I cue fit of li?e sou I of the d-paitt-d Now for hII Italy this is such an eiiormou* demand, that the priests aie always tens of thousand- mass a in arrear.? That ?*, ihey weie pvid last yoar before, for mas-ea which they have not yet been aide to *av." " But what happen- then." said Mr. White-id*. " if, as you sav, they aie alway getting into arrcatsl" " O, lie issues a decree once in every two or three year- that to many thousand mas-ea which have not been said, shall he entered in (lie Chancery of Heaven, a- if they had been -aid ; and that you know make- all light." " Yea. of course," said Mr. Whiteside, thinking within himself that whether said masses were said, or were Dot aaid, mattered in fact, little. Roda NVatkr ?Soda water ha* no *oda in it. Ii liiw merely water charged with catbonic acid g*\ and flavored with ft nil it) tup*. Ritil extinct*. Out (tonic acid git* i? the name gas which give* ftpntkle lo wine*, or other for merited liquor*. It is sligh'lv simulating. nnd is perfectly wholexome when tnken into the fttomnch, although it cnnnot he breathed whhoul injure.? The ino?t common met hod of charging the wHter with the gas if to p di luted sulphuric acid (oil of vitriol) upon innihltf dud, in a closed vessel, which communicates by means of a tube wiib another closed vessel containing witter. A* the gas cannot a cape, it necnii.u Ii(n until great pressure U attained, tinder which the gas is forced in laige I rj'innlilie* into the eater. This pre* Mire i* the force hy which the water i? discharged into the tumbler* for drink hi5. and cause* the effervescence.? ?V/u> York Mercantile Journal. JtoitiN fh.NKK. an old tnan of eighty, ha* j?i>i been sentenced at Qiincy,. IIli n<ia, to fourteen year* in the State iVu iiwit'sry for the murder of hi* son.? ||i? m icr ae?eov years old, will have her tri I n. zt month for lOinplicity in tLe ofleoce. # ? um i - i >!PTT LAH AROLINA. OCTOBER 14. Spain?Her Present Condition and Glanous Past The prominent position accorded to Espnrtern, in the present Spanish insurrection, gives it n dignity which it does not derive Iroin the uatno of tleneral l'rim, who hss no political or military record, and who does not command tb? confldencc of the intelligent luiddlo clnsacs of Spain, tleneral Kspurtcro is now serenty-six years old, and is what is called in ear country "a self-made man," being the son of a wheeUwrigbt, and enlisting as ? common aoldier in the army in 1808. He afterward* went to a military school, and parsed through the various grades of the eorvice to the highest rank, lie has Aeon the original and most steadfast champion that Queen Iss bell a ever bad, and the sway of absolutism must have become intolerable, which alienated s*fh a friend and arrayed him against her Government. It is not, however, true, u seems to be assumed by some of the press, that Kepastero is a Republican. His regency was distinguished by hie opposition to the extremes of that party, though there is no doubt of his moderate liberal tendencies. ^Whilst It is still difllonlt to ascertain what may be the designs of tire present insurrectionary movement in Spain, there is no country of Europe whose national character combines more of the qualities which ore requisite for the success of f?"? 0.-0 1 - ?- .. ..ww *v?ou\uiiunui |uv?rn* mont. Tho intelligence and culture of her leading and upper middle rWnct, the pride and dignity of personal character, exulted courage and atom, uoyielding perseverance, common to the whole nation, give hopeful augury of her futuro. The peat history of Spain is an attcstntion ol tho sterling virtues of her people, which, however she may he depressed for the present, invests with unusual interest every struggle ?ho makes for liberal and material progress. Can England itsolf show such a reeord of vitality of race, and of stubborn and eventually successful resistance to foreign invasion s? Spain can exhibit ? Far from it. England was successively overrun by Danes, Saxons, Normans; but Spain, Invaded hy the Moors in 711, despoiled of her finest provin- | ces, her people compelled to find a refuse in the mountains of the Asturins, and her fugitive chiefs holding a council in a cavern, kept up a war ot resistance with but littlo interin is siitn till lfV2. The annals of history may lie searched in vain for a contest as long, as hitter *auil involving so ninny antagonistic eleiiien s of race, religion, temperament and interest. For seven hundred and eighty-one years the Spanish nation struggled to throw oil' the Moorish yoke, a grand consummation which was accomplished in that uingiiilicent reign of Fvrdiuard and Isnbella, resplendent with the glories of two hemispheres. Srn ran I v? li *wi 9*v?in ,.nso???.l ll"'* * j ...... ...... ,5... ....... turn I.M1R night of centuries, springing, like the tropical sun, (U'lilutilj iiii.1 full-orbed from tlio dark nor*, when she, who had for 80 long a period Wen convulsed in a life-ami-death struggle for her own existence, gave birth, through the enlightened patronage of her court to t.'hriftophur Columbus, to a new world. The nnin<8 ol her great eaptainr, l>o Leon and I)e Cordova, ami of her illustrious statesmen, Meudoxn ami Xitiiencs, are indissoluble linked witli 111ut brilliant period of her history, mid gave the impetos to that career ?.t greatness which in.i-to her for two centuries lite first country of l'iurope. Notwithstanding the snl>sei|uei)t decline of Rpain in tuateliul strengtli, her insurrection against French rule in 18tu?, wiien luilf a million of combatants iv 11 gel h fierce gu.-rillo warfare for four years against the usurpers, and illustrated their heroism by the immortal il< fence ul Ssragossu, ticronu, Cudix, Tarrogniia and Vuloucis, deuion it rated that the lofty courage and inflexible purpose of the Spanish nature had survived the doc a den ce of its political power. With n national character that lias much of the grove austerity, pride and perseverance of the Romans, modified in some degree by the pacific and practical tendencies of the age, with one of the finest climates and most fruitful countries iu Kurope, and n cvuscqacul physical development not surpassed by any raoc on the continent, it is reusonnl^o to conclude that thvie ure cleint'nts of recuperation and rescue in such a people, which not only give fair promise of their capacity to sustain a constitutional go?crninent. hut to rsssln mud. of their ?l?l military nod commercial arccniloncy in Europe.? litiltitiioi* Shu. " Wk'i.l all Mkkt Aoain in tiik Morning."?Such the exclamation of h d?ing child. km lite red rat* of the ?un net *ti earned through the ca-etnenl : " Gond-by, papa, good l?y ! Mkidiui Itma come for me to night. Don't cry, papa, we'll all meet again in the morning." It wa? as if an angel had apoken to that father, at. I hi* heart grew light muter hia hut den ; for si mcthing as Mired him that hi* little one had gone to 11iin who said : " 8uffer little chil tlren to come onto me, for of Mich i* the Kingdom of Heaven." 'there i* Mtmcthing cheerful to all who are in trouble in thi* world: " We'll all meet again ill the morning.** It rooi-e* up the ftiniing stul like a trumpet blast, and frightens away fore??r the datk tthape* thronging ilia avenue* of tlie outer life. Cloud* may gather upon our palh.di-appointment* gather around u* like an army with baiiuei*; hut all ] :bin cannot destroy tlie hnjie within us, if we have this moito upon our lips : " All will be right in the morning." If von ?eifi lo ?iie to-r.ight, wonld 1 it be well with you in ilie morning I [ Young Reaper. ? Miciiakl A nuklo.? This celehratrd paittlei whh in many re-peels n model worthy of imitation. 11m piety and morality were of the severest tv pe. lie cured nothing for the ordinary pleas ures ot life, nud although his art brought him richs*. he never gate himself up lo a life <>f ri-u and indolence. 11 is f-?)d was of the plaiiie->t, his dry-*, though not negligent, wa**t?oj cxtrava ganl, antl his hours of sleep no longer than tinture demanded lie had not the least taint of avaiice ; for while denying himself the usual luxuries of tbe period to those of bis slat ion, he bestowed large benefactions during bia lite upon lit* servants, bis family, and f i md-. Id a court notorious for its voluj 'tious excesses, he pie-etved a chaste life without wifa or mistress except the art be loved aud honored. V jjgj EVENT? 1868. The Galaxy.i The mimb-r for Oetoher Mmo to o# i'reighled with good thing*. Some of the hesi writer* hold rnlnniunicst on with the rending pulilic tltrotigh this monthly Surg-on Oen*r*i ]lsmmond continue* his In I I erecting dissertstion on " Th* "? Itiehard Grunt White, in " WonUmn) ih?*lr ( Uses," let* ?>lf some trenchant criticism, not undeserved. on the misuse of certain word*, " known. or which shnohi he known, a* ' Drit ' ichmi." It i* *o common to hear the taunt | of " Americanism," that nnne peoplesuppose that nothing hut good English U spok.n on the other aide of the Atlantic. Mr. White 1 affirm* that the Knglidi of the period when Shakepeare wrote and the Bible wn* trana- I lated, has b'-eti kept in use among people of education, more on thi* aide of the ocean than on the other. The form* ot apeech, which tp?y he correctly called " Briii cisms," he thinks, are of later origin than the beginning of the British Umpire. Al most nil of thetn hev*sprung tip since 1776 The stiictures are entertaining as well as ( instructive. Hi* castration of "drive" atid " ride- stop " for "stay," is especially worthy of attention. ' Sick " and ( M ill " are adduced * Instances of perver- | sion In general British usage. Most Hi itiali speaker* limit the meaning of sicfc to the expression of qualndshnesand nausea, rind lay the proper burden of ' the adjective tick, upon the adverb ill? They sneer at us for not joining in the imposition. 1 ?a* present ones says Mr. ( Grant, when a Brdish merchant, receiving ( in his own house, a Yankee Toutlt, said : "Good evening 1* " We hav lit seen rou I for a long while. Have yon keen ' nrerk,' | (the m -it pi olon.jfd tlie word,) no you my in your country "No, thank you." uii) lint youth, pro?n| tly, " I've been ' kill,' ns they nay in your*." Hiltish officers have nick leave B itiah invalid* keep a nick b?il. No one of them evi r apeak* of ill leave. or an ill bed. We are reminded here of an occurrence in our own expelieiice. which i* tint It.appoalte. An catimahle Kuglifh friend, heraeif a teacher, 1i?l!y poaae**cd with the notion that good Kngliah could hardly be apt ken or taught in America, b?#t, on one iteration, her n?unt nuiial-id y, mid exelatmerl, ' 1 didn't conic here to teach the I/atnerican Inttguago. 1 came to tench ffmgli*h." "The Hifttry 'f Tenra," i* an outpouring of besutiful thought* in beautiful expr? aeion, by Win. B. Alger. " Haat thou ever weighed a nigh. Or atudied the philosophy of tear* ? Htt-l thou descended deep into the breaat. And re-n their soutce! If not, deocend u ith me. And trace thc*e briny rivuleta to theii spring*.'' [Charletton Courier. Nkw Vokk. October 0. Democracy in A'rw York?a Miyh i ty Gathering.?The mass meeting in Ii<>n >r of (ifii. McClclhm, la*l night, whs the greatest e*er liel<1 in this cilv. An experienced |i< |ic cnpl?:n estimated 00.000 in the torch light procession.? Tlie procession wa* joined by delegations from ilio ndj dning Counties. It extended ten in ilen. The scene in Union Square whs grand. The main star.d represented ilio Tun pie of Liber v. and ivhs brilliantly illuminated by arirtvi of lights stretched to Tammany II ill. The streets in the ?icinity seem i?d literally on fite with calcium lights, rockets, Ore jHiimmjt snd balloons.? The main stand facing Broadway was I the centre of attraction, outside of Tain many llall, although there Were six other stands nl which speeches were made to immense throngs. It is roughly e-tiniated that 500,000 men, women and children were in the crowd. The I stieet was packer! down Broadway to | K'eventli street, while the cross streets were alive with citizens. General Baldv Smith presided, and said he represented hundieds of thousands of soldiers who I thought the results of (he war would he lost, without an entire change of i policy. A letter from McClellan was j read, emphatically endorsing the Ueiu .; . - ?:-? i?vintii; cnuuiuaics. Not loop since, a preen looking Ver mooter walked into the office of l>r. C. T. Jack*on, the New York chemist.? " Dr. Jackson. 1 presume ?" said he.? " Yes, sir." " Air yotl alone ?" ** Yes. sir." " May I lock I lie Joot ?" an<l he .1 i.l so ; and having looked behind the sofa ami sati?fi? d himself that no one else was in the r.iom, he placed a 'arge bundle done up in a vellow bandana on j the table and opened it. "There, l>oc j tor. look at that." *' Well," said the D dor, " I see it " " \N lint do you call that, Doctor?" "J call it iron pv rites." " What f" ?aid the man, " isn't j that stuft gold ?" " No," raid the Iha-tor, "it's goou for nothing; it's pyrites and pulling some over the Hie ill a shovel it evaporated np the chimney. " Wtl," said the poor fellow with a woe begone look, "there is n widder woman in our town who has a whole hill full of that, and i'?e been and mniried her." lxKAMOt'8.?Tlio Augiialn Clironiclo leant* iliAt the corner >lone of the new Methodist Church Ml Sardi*. llorke County. vva* broken open one night last w eek, and the leaden le x ilie*e deposited ! rilled of its content*. The coin and other valuable* were stolen, the Hible alone being left, but even this wu? vety into h injured in the Mlteinpl of the rob? bcrs to cut through the box. ' .. ? pKTKOLRt'M?After February petroleum i* not to be stored within fifty yard* of a dwelling, or to be eold for i'lumiiMibui in Kngland.?New York Mercantile Journal. * ' ^ j * ' i ? t '.b . w . J v. * ?Vi ? *?' - i i \ NO. 31. J What They Said. We a-ked a girl what ?be wanted moat. and *be replied *' a lo?er.w We asked a wife what ahe wanted moat, and (die cuid." Kind words fiom my husband, and children to bear hit name." We a-ked a boy what he wanted, snd he said, ' A sweetheart and a hap* py home." We a-ked a timer what he wanted, and he i (plied, 'Gold, more gold." We asked a gadding woman whal she wanted, and she replied, " Drew and more news to tell my neighbors." We ntdced a mother what she want* ed, and she said, " My darlings to love me." We asked an affianced what she wanted, and she replied, " My chosen lo be true to roe." We ak?d Hn old man what lie want* [>d, and he replied, " Ue.it and a decent Irutial." We asked a wot king man what he wanted, and he replied, " Light taxation and a chance to make a cotnfoitable honje for u>y lc?ed one? " We a*ked a New England manufacturer what he wanted, and he replied, elation and tariff"? to make me rich at the expense of the Weat and South." We naked a aoldiar what be wanted, and he ?aid, " Peace now that the war ia over." We nuked a man who ?a< a Republican what he wanted, and he replied, " OIHce and stealage." We a-ked a Northern preacher what he wanted tnost to make h?m happy, and he replied, " P?-lit ical inftuer.ee." We asked an editor what he wanted, and he said, I would be glad just at this tiuie, to receive all due* for subset iptious and otherwise." - - - Afflictions in Qreenwood. Ou Monday of last week, a little son of Mr. James Hailey, about eight years of age, was playing about the furnace, in which theie was a boiler for the prepaiation of food for the cow*. Approaching too near the edge of the boiler, his foot slipped and he plunged into the seething cauldron, up to his wai.it. lie lingered in great stronv un v o O " * ' til the following day, when death brought him relief. None but bereaved parents know how to sympathize with his efflicted parents ur.der such agonizing citcuui* stances. On Monday of this week. Mrs. William bailey, the daughter of the late Dr. John Logan, died eery suddenly from congestion. She was in her usual health only a day or two before, the light of her husband's eyes, the joy of an only sister's heart, the beloved of a large circle of fiiends. But in an am expected hour the destroyer came and filled the beaits of many with heavy sorrow. Greenwood, though selected as a building place originally, for hs remarkable exemption fiom <IUea?e, has sufferel very murk < a i>g the past and present year from chilis and fever, and more violent forms of disease. It is very evident that sickness does not always depend upon the locality. Malaria may be wafted to a great distance. [Abbeville Banner, 1th inst. Tiik Mknkkn ?The Saturday Review, in a uotice of Adah Isaacs Menken's poem*, says: If other p*ns fail, her own has fiot ufi-n warning; il her career inspired BO other muse, at least it kindled the lytic fiies of her own, and she only dismounted the fieut steed of the arena to get astride the winged Pagasun of imrnof' tal veise. As at Astley's she loved to remind fallen msi* of therimple hahits, or absence of habits, of the primitive Eden, so in her verse all is unsophisticated, frank, unreserved. We are taken into her inmost confidence; no aspiration of the soul, no heArlyearning, no I inmost recess of the dream-chamber of the spirit reinains uurovealed, any more than of old ? a* any shapely limbed or graceful cut v9 hidden from boxes, pit or gallery. To take off the clothes of the soul for the public behoof in conventionally looked upon a* inoffensive compared with taking off the clothes of the body, so that the people who might have shrunk from going to see the late Mi s Menken's petf >m.ances at Astlev's may tuin to the book without scruple or fear. The exposure m the latter ease is strictly harmless, and absolutely without scandal. \N e are in the presence of a passionate Topper. Imagine that the dull ssge of Alburv had b?en born at New Oileans, ard had been taught to ride circus horse*, arid so had had his blood made to inn hot and awift m his reins, and you have the spiiii and the manner of In/elicia. Tilt Loui-villa Journal's WashingIon special says the condition of affi irt in that city i* truly alaiming. Gat voting. rape, arson, and suicidv. ria luon occurrence*?nil I lie lentil of bud government, or milter ik> ^ o eminent? foisted upon tbe c??v l>? t e Ui.dica) (nnjoiUy of Cu??git?-.