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} mhhi rwrA REFLEX OF POPULAR EVENTS. - ' - - ....... - ,-...- ? * JOHN C. BAILKY; rttO'R. CKKKNVII.I.K. SOUTH CAROLINA. JULY 14. 1869. VftL. YVr^liW1.-. -' ?????LL-?~-l'r - 'ir-" ' * '' y "' '" "~r_ - - ~ y > ~ ' * " ' O. F. TOWNES. 1 kiutob: Jk. , BaMOgll'11 hi Two Dollar* por innnm. t 'iwjWt^/t.tho rale* of OMS poller per square of twelve Minion line* (thlt nWnd typo) oiM*rf? fhr tbo flret insertion, I Cftj Nth fcl^h. fqr the second end third inter- e tloar, and td^ht/-B>0 centt for subsequent i Insertion#. TBeffy contracts will ho tnndo. * All adverti?eme?*t mnt hare (tie twanbcr | if. Intertwine marked on then, or the? will bo f inserted till ordered oat, eOd charged for*. Union ordered otherwise, Adrertis'ement* I will invariably be " dlsplsyed." J Obituary notice*. and nil matters fonrin* to . to the beuedt of otajr one, are regarded at ' Advertisement*. . ( 1- 1 - ' ' I -ftcteta&soenoes of a Remarkable it Man. I The New York Express says: n Joseph Dixrto* who died in Jersey e City on Moodily, aged 71, was a li inos1 remarkable, m>t to say extra- li ordinary, man. lFo made a ma- t< chino to cut files before he attain r cd his majority, loarncd the print- \ er's trade, attewards tlmt of wood 8 engraving, then lithography, and tl afterwards studied medicine, and tl in that connection became interest- s cd iii chemistry, becoming finally a one of the moat accomplished and g comprehensive chemist* it) the cmntry. He was a tliorougli op- e 'rtcian, and Iiad no equal in his S knowledge of photography. He h took the experiments of Da- h guerre in 1830, and was probably v the first person to take a j?ortrait n by the camera. lie showed Pr?f. p Morse bow to take portraits by f< 'means of a reflector, so that the n subjects fhoukl not appear reversed, w Morse tried to get the plan pat- v cnted in Europe. -Mr.Dixon bu It tl the first locomotive, with wrK>de:i a wheels, but wifh the same'double o crank now used; it eaused a sneer t< at the time, bat when it became ii demonstrated thai a steam 'engine d could run on wheels and perform f< the services dt beasts of burden, a his double crank was adopted. He s< originated the process of transfer-' > ring on stone, now used the world oyer by lithographers, lie origi- t( natcd the process of photolithogra- v phy, and published it years before h it was believed to bo useful. By p lire process of transferring, the old t< bank notes woro easily <?owiterfeit- a ?d, and it was to guard against the h abuso of bis own process that he fi brought otottbeaVsVem of printing e In color? ow tlfo bills, and bad tlie m method patented, but never re- tl ceived any benefit from tl>o patent, y fill the banks having used it without pay. Many of our read rs n will remember the original red v dog1' money aYid the present pro- v cess used by the Government, l(?r c printing in colors, tor which a k large amount* is |>ntd to patentees, t is the old prwese of. Mr. Dixoh, li lor which his patent had expired h lofcg before, and the present patents are, therefore, untenable. He t perfected the aystem of making t collodion for the photographers, i and assisted Mr. Harrison in get- v ling a true system for grinding the c lenses for eamera tubes Heorig- 6 inated the anti-friction metal* that, t has been for a great many years Y known as " Babbit metal," and he t is the father of the steel melting business In this country. He orig- t Inated a vast number of machines 1 and processes that do not occur to c us at this moment, but he is most t widely. known among manuhiclur- t ers as the originator of the plum- f bag?> crucible as now made?* He s started the business in 1827, in Sa- 8 lem, Mass., and bronght it to Jer- t icy City in 1847. Ills namo ltad become known in all civilized countries as a crucible umker, and < hie establishment in Jersey City is t the largest ol the kind in the world. < |le was singularly self-reliant, nev- I cr tailed in bis mechanical under- { takings, even in the last, that of i (be great orchestrion, that occupied < his time for hearly eleven years, 1 but which stood l>cfbre him per- i feet at last, and etill stands^a 1 monuqucnt of his groat skill, pa- I tieuce and perseverance. lie wus soli educated, * M X?tTTT.B Jimmy is not so well post ed in spiritual matters as he might be. The other day, during a dis- ( mission as to wlial constituted a Christian, Jimmy was a very earnest listener, and at last the remark was made that his father was a ' Christian. It came to him like a . Severe charge against his paternal; M?d, assuming.a grave air, he paid : ' MNo. my papa Isn't a Christian ; '1 he's * member of the Methodist i Obarch .m it Fery Sad?Story of a Governess in England. A correspondent ??f the London telegraph vouches for the follow* ng aa a ttuia story; . . ^ "A few days nop I stood by the iide of a dying girl, her age war e'ventefen, and this is her history! >he was the youngest child in a arjgo family. Her mother war he widow "of a Clerk in a city >auk, who died suddenly, leaving lis wife and children destitute.-*^ ler sisters went out fta governess 6; she remained at homo Until nCreasing want rendered it nodesdry for her, too, to make her own ivfjng. She fob i d employment as , daily governess. She walked nch day fonr miles to and from er work, npd received a few shil ings a week. All day long she oiled, getting no food tstttsl 6he cached home in tho evening.? Vho dt?es not rcnienilier the not utnmer of last year? Throngh lie glare of that cloudless season, liis poor child starved on. The un withered np flower and 6hrnb, ?^i t '* *? 1 ' isu wmieruu me ornin 01 itie daily ;o vertices. 44 Day by day her strength moltd away; at last she broke down. >ho could go no more the daily Bsson ; it was tod late now to give er food, kindly Smiles, or tnorc rages. Iler cry from morn to iglit, as she rocked to and flu, ressing her hands on her burning >rehead, Mas, 4Mother, mother, ty brain is gone.' One day she ras found with one hand copying erses from the Bible, and with lie other had gashed herself with knife. It was then I first heard f the case. I advised her mother > send her to an hospital for the isane. My advice was taken. I fien went to inquire attcr her. I nfnd the place full of governesses, nd aH that kindness could do, ectned To be done for them. She lx>n became a raving lunatic. 14 One day 1 took two of her sisbis to sec her. ft was their fiist isir. to the hospital, and they irought some flowers to give the atient. They were just in time a see her die. In her Cell, with n angel smile oil her young face, \y tlio littlo governess, tshe had night the fkjit of life to its hitter no, and all was over now ; and nth a look as though fehe blessed lie world which killed hor. her j oung spirit passed away to God. 44 There was a post iri&rtcm ex Vnination. Congestion ot the brain rtls the cause of her death?hard rork, they feaid^tlie cause of the ongestion. A little food, a little ,:..J .1 _? .i~i .i? - .... * .mi* m*?wgoi iiuiie^M VU (lie pare CI hoec Who employed Iter, might ihvo save I Iter I fc and the broken itmrt nf hct1 widowed mother. "The birds were singing goylv, he sun whs shining brightly, as hev laid Iter by her father's side ti a quiet country grave. Thele vera tew mounters, but 8<?tnt> noor hildren and an old cripple, whom he taught and to whotn ehc read he Bible on Sundays?her only ioli?uiyt??come some milea to see le last of the little teacher. "Sir, in telling this story, I do lot cast blame on any one, bnt I tope those who read it, if they ?mploy governesses, will remember lidl human creatures are not mere r.acldnes; and it they see them hgged and wbrnj will think of the lory af' this jioor child, whose onl now rests in a kindlier woil I ban this." Sarcastic but SuooKanvR.?A Quaker gentleman, riding in a carnage w?th a fashionable lady deckJ ?M. A?'-- -? ? ;u wmi u promsion or lewciry, ieard her complain of tno cold. Shivering in her 'lace bonnet and ibawl ae light as a cobweb, she ex dAtmod: What s'wll I do to get varm ? UI really don't know," *epli$d the Quaker, solemnly, ,vnness thee should put ou another treuatjnn /" Saiakt Two*.? A Yankee lawyer, who was pleading the cause >f a little boy, the other day, in Boston, took hint up in life arms, snd held hitn up to the jury, suffused in tears. This hna a great effect until the opposite lawyer Mked the boy, a What makes yon sry 1" " He's pinching me," said tlia boy. No Infringement of a divine rule is harmless; every such infringe ment is full clntrgod with guilt and misery and eternal rain. Instances of Success in New York. A New Y?>rk letter writer gives pcqr clerks and others In like circumstances the following encouragement ; . It was said of Lord Nelson that lie eventually became captain of the enhie ship in which be first ohterfed as midshipman. The event is so rare that it was tn ?de a matter of Spebia) note. We are reminded of this by the elect ion of Thomas 1 tick son to the Presidency of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company Thifc is on\e of the largest c??al corpora'fob's !h Ihe union, wielding a capita! of $30,000,f>00, and owning inore than two hundred tniles ot canal and railway, besides thousands of acres of coal land. More than forty years ago a poor Scotch machinist sought work in the company's shop in Cai hondale. lie was an excellent mechanic, and remained in this service until his death. His sons found employment with the company* and one of them has gradually risen in a remarkable manner.' He was made coal agent, and then elected Vice President, and last week assumed the Presidency ot that great corporation where his father served with file nnd cold chisel. Mr. Dickson is about 46; his salary will bo abofit $8,000. We have sotne other instances of a similar kind which, though ot lesser importance, carry a lesson of the value of patient application. Here is Oscar Dike, a man of very plain and unattractive appearance, avIio ehtbred Kicoil's ten warehouse as clerk twenty years a$?, and is now the chief tnun t the firm ot Townsend, Church & Dike, who succeeded Nicoll, and who are now doing an immense business. Going a little farther up street we reach Exchange Place whero we note the tall and commanding forui | of Sol. Humphreys. Twenty years ago, when tiolun Humphreys was a stripling from Hartford, he entered the service of E. D. Morgan & Co. Our next Tax Commissioner, George II. Andrews, affords I another illustration. When first wo knew him ho was a slender youth who earned a small weekly stipend in the office of the Courier and Enquirer llo eventually became the controlling mind of that journal, ana naa ne Deen i s 'entire owner it Would have had u differ ent destiny. There, too, is Jeremiah Quinlan, whom once we knew as a ragged Irish boy, employed by Andrew Rta-s, the glassware inah, to open boxes. Jerry," as be was called, became the chfcf man in the con cern, aivd has taken the business, widen be carries on in a large warehouse. The late Bernard Graham also affords a striking example. lie was a poor Irish laborer, and as such obtained a porter's situation in the great shipping house of Petel* Hurinony at Co. From this humble beginning he rose to the supremacy ol the firm, which at the time was the largest importing house in this city. William 11. Swan, Who Commenced with Grinnell, MinMtrn & Co , in 1849. is now the leader of that concern. These examples show that persevernnce and ability may hritig the humblest beginner to eminence, ami they serve to cheer the poor clerk in his hours of despondency. Our poor clerks, in deed, need some comforting thoughts, and if they were not thus afforded many of them would sink in despair. luRNira job Pigs.?A corrcs pendent of the Country Gentleman, planted a few. acres of tor mj>? which were large enough tc begin to feed the first week in Jn ly, When the> were ted to pigs mid no other teed given until the last week in Septetnb r. iCo lot ol pigs eon Id have d<>no better grow ing and keeping in good condition all the v? hile. He does not advocate cooking white turnips for pigr unoer any circumstances. Hiey are only fit for them raw i warm weather. Steamed Sweden art gi?od mixed with plenty of rneal, ut potatoes are so much bettei that half the tneal mixed with them would feed as tost. GnKKRFCLN'Kas.?I^othimg sr adorns the face as cheerfulness When the heart is in flower, iti blootn and bounty pass to tbu feu tares. % Death of a Miser?How Ho Accumulated Wealth?His Collection of Treasures. There died id Baxter street yesday morning an old man, ?8 years 'd age, who, although he breathed hie last breath ort a heap of dirty rags and surrounded by misery And squalor, anfch As one cannot find outside of tMf abdVb dirty thoroughfarejwas worth a hatiddotau fortune. Persons who have been accustomed > to perambulate the streets on tits East aide of the city during the nasi few years are, no doubt, familiar With the sight of this old man, and hure, no doubt, often stopped And watched his movements with I l>ttvlhg interest. 'lliis odd character was a rag picker, and almost any morning during the past ton years, could bo seen busily engaged in overhauling the garbage boxes f.nd gutters along the Bowerj and adjacent streets. Dirty and dilapidated, his clothes patched and pieced in most grotesque style one would suppo.-o, upon meeting him. that he was ii man nguinai whom Dame fortune had an eter lal spite, and who w e percecnting hini unrelentingly. Yet this old mart Was worth a fortune. 'Twas Curious how he lord the foundation lor hib wealth. While raking among the filth of a gutter in Prince 6treet one morning about ten years ago, lie found in the mud a valuable diamond, which he sold to a pawnbroker for several hundred dol lars. This brilliant solitprie was the nucleus around Which many 1 subsequently clustered. Rumor had it that the old man was not honest, that tnuCli of the wealth which he had secured had been obtained by pilferitVg. tint this was only a rumor, and although it wa9 known that he possessed a valuable collection of miscellaneous jcW^lry and other * uluablcs* still ih? theft was ever traced to him, and lib was allowed to retain undisputed possess ion of his wealth. Once the police senichcd his old hovel for a stolen ring, and during the hunt they Yhufid under the floor, buried in the ground, an old co' ee-pot, containing jewelry and gold of great value, but the missing ring was not in the collection. The old man howled like a rtlahinb when his troasine* were unearth ed, and the story is that upon the departure of the officers he dis)?ot? cd of liis jewels to a Chathamstreet pawnbroker, securing for them a handsome sum which he invested in real estate. The only relative oV the old man now jiving is a little girl?his grandaughtpr?an inmate of &n orphan a*ylulh who will inherit tlie entire fortune left by the old miser. Ntw York /Sun, SUfA ult. IIow to Rf.tiyk Drowned Per, sons.?As tlie bathing season has now begun, and accidents by drbwhing are likely to sometimes happen-, we reprint from a high scientific authority the following directions, for the resuscitation ot persons, rescued From drowning before life is wholly extinct. They may possibly prove useful in sav. ing valuable lives, and should be preserved or reinouilxred: , 1. Lay the drowned man at once flat on liis stomach, with his face to the ground, and a folded coat or bundle under his chest. 2. Place your hands flat between his shoulder blades and make a firm pressure, so as to squeeze the air out of his chest} then torn the body slowly on to one side and a little beyond, lie pi ac'e him quickly cm his fate. Count four* to ins?k tour seconds of time, and then re, peat the process, commencing by squeezing tbe air out of tire chest | again. 3. Wet clothes should be reI' moved and dry ones Snlistituted, each bystander contributing The i body to be rubbed dry briskly, and the face kept from contact > with the ground, by an assistant. ? TV. i L ,L. ? _ C y. xru n'H mnitrw r?? mr tnit Ul i the |**t tent's chest if he is breath i ing; bnt wait and watch, merely , drying the body and changing the ' clothing. I 8osre folks are prodigiously penitent ofcr other people's sins, and > seem to ttiink they have a special . call to confess thorn before the r whole world. They will gouge | their brother's eyes out rather than leavo a single mote in them. i ' ? ? Kerosene Accident. The Wilmington (Del ) ComioQrcial records the following distressing accident, Which occurred in that city 0:1 Wednesday night: ' A young lady named Laura Cars well, a teacher in one of ottr publio. schools, was retiring at about half pa-t ten o'clock, and was all ready to get Into bed, when she turned to a coal oil lamp, it is supposed, and attempted to extinguish the light by .mowing down the'chiutncjr The flatties Were thus blown dowh into the oil and the lamp exploded, thtofring the blaz ing oil all over Miss CaravrCll's , night-dress and the "clothing she had just takon off lying near. En- , veloped in flames, she ran stream- | ing into the entry communicating i with her room, where her father i immediately afterwards touttd her.. ; lie made every effort to extin- ( gtiieh the flames, and a brother of ( the young ludy tore up a piece of stop carpet and threw it over her l ead. Thjs saved her head from LnrntnW Kisf !*??? W ?? g) um IICI n 11UIU |teiBOn, from her neck down, was horribly burned before the flames could be extinguished. By this tiine Mies Carswell's room was da fire, andit required the efforts of thb family to Btt* e the house front destruction. Mr. Carfiuell in his attempt to sftVc hifi daughter, had liis hands bitdlv burned, all .the 'j finger nnild being burned off one hand, fttid thc'ot.ior being fco much injured that it will be a long tijne j before ho again uses it, if indeed he , ever can. Medical aid was im mediately suinmotied to dres9 the ( w.ounds and alleviate the'suflferings j of the poor girl, but the physicians pronounced her Case a hopeless one from the first. She lingered until about 3 next morning, when death put an end to her sufferings. Iler body and hands wtere most severely burned, and her person, except her head and feet, was one mass ot scorched flesh. She was a young lady but eighteen or nineteen years ot age, in the full bloom of womanhood, attractive in personal appearance as well as character, Tllid leaves a large circle of , friends to tnoUrn her sad and sudden death. i i 9 v An Honest Lawyer. The Rochester Chronicle has been told a new story about General Butler. The directors ot a Bostort bank, having their suspicions tVroVised, notified their casliier thut an examination of the books and cash in his possession must be had. The cashier went to Butler and stated his case. He had misappropriated funds of the bank to the amount of $50,000. lie asked whether he had not better own up, restore what he could, and let his 1 " - uuiiubujuu iiiuku up uie aencu. Butler, after sumo consideration, directed him to attend the meeting of the directors, deny there was anything wrong, and, if they desired, to surrender the keys and go home, leaving them in poesessession. lie did as directed?gave up the keys, and the directors, upon examining the books ana cash in the vaults, found a deficit, n3 they anticipated, of $50,000. They notified the cashier and his bonusmen, who, in due time* appeared, accompanied by Butler, who, ac ting as spokesman, enquired what the matter was. The directors informed liim of the facta, ami offer ed to comprotn so the matter by the return of the missing funds. General Butler coolly replied that his client had surrendered the keys to tiicm, and that the deficit, if any, occurred after the directors were in possession. The directors now began to see the dilemma in which they were placed and sent for a lawyer, only to find that they hud made a false Step; that they had no proper evidence of the amount of oash in the bank when surrendered by the cashier, and timt in taking possession they bad loet their only remedy. As it *onkl not do to let the stockhohl era ktmw how thej had been orerreached, the directors bod to &o to work and make up the loss out of their own pockets. T or gave their defaulting cashier the certificate of character Which he demanded, and he went to work in auother bank in the same city a few weeks nftcrwa d. A maw's wifo is his best lawyer, hi* be&t counsel, his l?e8t judge, his host adviser, and also the cheap eet and most reasonable. i I 1 " ' 1 ' The Cow Pea ae a Fertiliser for Wheat We have lon? been satisfied, frdth Actual experiment, that Clio common fe'dw pea of the Southern States, when properljr Managed, affords the best, and, at the sumo timh, the cheapest mediiiih for ths restoration of our exhausted cotton fields. Its effects have been as lasting and as marked upon the fertility of our soils as that of clover upon the worn stud exhausted lands of Virginia and AfarylaVld; The main reason why the cow pea has not been heretofore extensively used as a fertilizer, was owing to the fact that previous td emancipation oar. planters would not give up a sufficient pdrtlon of rhcir lands to await the rather slow effects of this most Valuable fcVtilteerC Ifow, however, wheA every planter has a large proportion at his pool-lands lying idle, there is Ao excuse why the pea should not be set in every field not absolutely necessary tor corn or cotton. HmV lb the best time td iJ -?? 1 * ' * piuub luu ami we desire to give bur agricultural frietids the rcdftilt of a Careful experiment made by a planter in Gwinnett county^ to encourage them to make similar efforts. Our, Gwinnett planter had a piece of old exhausted land, tweiity . ficrea of which had been Iving iii broom sage for a number ot years: l'his lie broke deep with a tttrxi plow in the Sii'itt infer, and in the succeeding Fall put down in wlifeat. The crop, carefully measured, was a little less than four bushels to the.i&ro. As soon as tlie wheat was cut, lie sowed peas at the rate of two bushels to the acre. Early in October the peas were turned under with A deep furrow, and a tew weeks later wheat was sown and carelully harrowed in npon the pen sod. '1 lie yield from the crop was nine bushels to the acre, a little more than double the first year's crop. lhe field was again sown iri {jeai as soon as the wheat was. harvested, and turned under as oefore irt. the Fall, and wheat sown upon the soil. The yield this year was seventeen and a oiibheU. The fourth year, with the same treatment, lie made twenty seven bVisliefd, and tills {the fifth year) the crop bids fair to niako fortybushels. Nothing has been applied to the land as a fertilizer except the cow pea &lone% the production has been increased tert1old-. This actual experiment speaks more tor the pea than any argument which we could make: We trust some of our planting friends will be induced to try the itpa ll>o nflvt *p/>n ? 11 ^* ? *' ^ f-?' v? V..V mvaw VI up V* miCftl^ auu let us know the result of their experiment? Chronicle & Sentinel: ' From acthal experiment we are satisfied that the Cdw pfea is ihe best iertilifccr, dm a green brop turned under, (not even excepting red clover.) to be found in this of any other bountry.? Watchman. A TtrKATtlEK8F:Rr.D ptipcr sayd there are more deacons In that town than in any place ia Cotinect cut. The other any a well-known deacon went to the steamboat wharf to see a friend off, and as the boat (Started the friend said, " Good-bye, deacon," whereupon twelve menj who stood upon the wharf, immediately tipped their hats &nd re* spoiided,41 Good-bye, jit." An Omaha paper haa established a department of betrothals.?The only remaining item of intelligence of tfiis character to be seized upon and published in the papers is 44 flirtations," .the pnbliOitlirin nf lifta liiiliarti-v Ko/.w monopolized bv sewing societies and quilting ptwticS. *??' Ait Indiana tnaideh of foity <Vn6 year* is, only twenty four inches high* ftixf weirflitf oATy thirty-three pounds. She looks older than she is, but in manners and education,appears like a girl ot ten years. Yovna ladies, otrr fashion gossip Says, are i? Wear " square bodies." Wifl they prevent the beaux from coming round ? - MS ' A jcax who gives his children1 habits ot industry, provides tor them better than by giving them a fbrtnne. t /