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BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1866. VOLUME XIV. NO. 30. 9
SOW AHP TO-DAY,1
Our to days?hov. inadequately aro they
appreciated ! Now?in which all thebles,sings
of life are alone included?with what
fitrange indifference do we tnrn from its rich
offerings, to feast our eyos on gardens of
delight, that spread away, temptingly, iDa
future that forever mocks us with the unatjtained
! Thero are pearls and diamonds
.scattered all along the paths we are treading,
but wo cannot stop to gather them
for looking at the mountains of gold that
gleam agninst the far horizon. All of our
jinhappinesa BpringB from neglected or
misspent hours and to-days. Tho present
moment is God's loving gift to man. In
it wo weave tho web of our future, and
make its threads bright with .suusbioc, or
dark with evil and suffering.
'Come and kiss rat-, pnpa,' cried a voico
full of tnusic and lore.
But papa was iu tho passngo below, with
coat, hat, and gloves on, all reudy to go
foith to the day's business, and little pel
Louis was up iu bis mother's chamber, only
half dressed.
'Haven't tune now; I'll kiss you when I
come home,' papa answers baek3 ami (
then starts from the houso in a hurried man- j
ner.
A pearl lay at his feet, and Mr. Edwards
bad failed to lilt tho precious tiling. He
would have been no much ll?e richer for
life.
Dear Lu !'he said to himself as be uiov-1
ed along the ttroet, 'that kiss would have .
.done us both good, and consumed but liulf
& minute of time; and I hardly think I
shall find another ininutc so richly freighted
with blessing to-day.'
At tbe corner of the next ErjUare, Mr.
J wards wailed four minutes for an omnibus.
It was lost time. Four minutes spent
with dear pel Louis, how full ot pleasure
thoy would have been?how fragrant their ^
memory through all the day !
When Mr. Edwards arrived at Ins office,
|i?ither his morning newspaper nor his '
bookkeeper weio there. S?>, lie could
neither get nt bis book*, which were in the
firo safe, nor glean from hU Express the
commercial news or state of the markets. J
No customers were in at bo early an hour
A 1 ' If T7 1 J. 1 .1... - i i 1
^vuu so air. tawaras pasteu me ne.\i iweaAy
minutes in comparative idleness, his
.mind burdened just enough to make liim
feel uncomfortable, with the thought of lit.-tie
Louis quivering over the coveted parting
kiss.
At ihe end of twenty minutes, the book J
Veeper arrived. The bouey of Louis's '
parting kiss would have sweetened the tern- j
per of Mr. Edwards for the day. Without j
it, under slight annoyances, his s-pirit grew
sour. He spoke to the book-keeper with
light impatience, and in words of rejirouf
for being late. A Bick child whs the excuse
; and fjs he looked into the clerk's
face he saw that it was pale with troublo
and watchinf.
Q
Mr. Edwards feighed. The pressure on
his feeling was heavier. Every tbinge, daring
that day seeroed to po3feaa a strange
power of annoyance ; and totbo failure to
lift a pearl from hip feet in the morning,
was added many failures of a like charac.
ttr. '
Will you plpaee to Jbuy an almanac !'
said a childish voice nefir him.
No, I do uot please/ waa the gruff reply
,of Mr. Edwarda. He
tpoke, as lip looked np, on tbe moment's
impulse. Tbe timid, half-frightened
face of a tender child, ecarcely a year older
(llttn K10 /I Q i?l I n /V o f li/\mn /vl . n nAri ivrv All I i ry\
m ^>un>? 1119 uauill^ OV UVUIV^IUIJIDU UJSWLf Ullll
for an instant, and then ho saw only the re- }
ii treatiDg form of a little girl. Before his. \
v better feelings prompted a recall of his rp.
pulsiye words, she was in tlje street auf) '
ou t of sight.
* Tim watf a little thing jp ilself, but it '
fold ebarply on the fceliDgs of Mr. Ed- 1
. ^ wards, who was naturally a kind-hearted 1
T man.- lie ent very still fpr a ,littlp while, 1
then sighing, again, vyont on with thu letter '
he was writing, wlipn the iittlp alrnanao- '
eellpf distprhgd hinj his .. work.
Another 'now' hadpafsed, leafing ?i?hndow
ibstead of the Bumhino it might have
pestoweft, >. . .
CJao you kelp, me oat to-day I- -I tmye
alargenote falliBgdue,' s\ \
V 'Ipsannot/ replied lir.'Edfmrji. i *
^T^baijgbbor looked disappointed, ajidv.
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?, * that neighbor bad many times ob
? jlcppdMr. KdwardAjo ^sltfiilar ifeay. Our
. *$?? back..
^^jpaay. ffigrijL pf b^i/. Bo^ bo bad
money pnyable^n <^mabtl, afid conH, with- i
. out inconyonieneo, have helped bis neighbor
? yM^mcmbored tbii^ftar H vu top iato?
Ppoa- 1
. - Hlio'momoij another buedpa, .of qoqujet
crv -r
:Xr y < Aa$ ao ofclut <fr*yeaob?
* jraiaT 1cjitrih>??rtoe 'novi* >ltiimnrovod^r-??me '
if .
~ . M*' J* bl^ifi^^tOttohej ; and' -ft? iMfc <
. / ; W tbau uwd, ?r? fcjr .
:
Pear LowaJ Aff*ytait?r tiuuj hta fat'
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would carry him, went the heart of Ed*
w^rds toward hi? darling boy. Somehow^
tbo father's imagination would present no
other imago of the child, except one that
allowed him iu grief for the kiss denied that
morning,
'Where is Louis V were the first words
spoken by Mr. Edwnrdc, as ho entered tbo
room where his wife was sitting. It was
at loast an hour after dark.
'In bed and asleep,' was the answer.
Mr. Edwards wont to the chamber where
Louis lay iu his little bod. Tho gas hum
ing low ; ho turned it uj> so that the light
r..n r.? it? i ?:r., 1
nuvuiu toil UJ'UIJ ?MO inuc, AJ.VMV UCilUlliUl
it was in its childish innocence! liow
placid ! And yet the father's eyes saw,
looking as they did through tho medium of
a troubled state, a touch of grief upon the
lip?, and a shade of rebuking saducss on the
brow of bis dar'ing.
Precious one,' he Baid, ns ho beut to kiss
tbo pure forehead. 'I wronged both your
bvart and mine,'
It seemed to him, after tbi> kiss and confusion,
that tiie sleeper's face bad a more
peaceful, loving aspeot. For many miuI...
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uiuo iiu ciuuu on/<II,i3 uu>> 11 i>|'uu u?a uljconscious
boy : then rrurmutingto himself
'It shall not he so Again, sweet one i'?lowered
the gna to a taper flume, and went with
nuiudehs footsteps from the room.
From the gain of half a minute to business,
in the morning, what a loss hod ther^
bten to love and peace and comfort for the !
space of houre. Let us take care of nosvp,
and olu to-days ; for therein iios the true
secret of happiness, and the true philosophy
of life.
From the Richmond Examiner.
A ROKANCE--TIIUTH 8TRANGEtt THAN
FICTION.
It occasionally happens that an event oc i
3urs in real life as romantic as if produced j
by the conception of a writer of fiction.
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y/liu VI VIICOC 19 W1 UlSnfJII IlliJ UUT 1(1 11J 1?> |
lily. Eighteen years ago, in the city of j
London when the parties were both young, j
a genUeman addressed a l.<dy. For Mime ,
reason his suit was rejected, and in a thort j
L'yiio the lady married another gentleman. !
1'hey emigrated to America and settled
in this city. A few days eiuce the bus- I
band died and left hid wife a widow. Since j
that limo she has been engaged in ao hon? j
3st vocation, l>y which she had supported;
lieiself, and won the re.-pest of a large cir- I
:le of friends and acquaintances. After j
i?r marriage the gentleman who flr?t ad- ;
liessed her al*o married, Ije remained in ,
London. So mo twelve mpn'.s since, hie
wife died anil lie became a widower.
ft HtUUMir-l lllfll lia litwl n? < ? -?-t? ? ' - -
v?.w ..iM? MV MIIU iiUlt tvil^uiu u U|9
ijtt love, and a letter, with a foreign post?
nark* directed to Mrs , if living, ;
'cached shis pout-office. It was advertised
ind was received by the lady to whom it
va? addressed.; Ita-purport was to aaceraiu,
first, whether she was still living, aodf
f bo, what her condition was; whether
itill married or a widow. She replied, iu'orining
tho gentleman that she was still
dive and a widow. Ia a short time &he
received another letter, renewing the rejec
.ed suit of eighteen years, ago, and incloang
a photograph of the writer, in order
hat she might see the changes that time
bad wrought in him. She, evidently satisfied
with his porsonal appearance, and not
porgetting his eighteen years of constancy j
returned a. favorable auswer,
The gentleman immediately embarked
for America, and on reaching Now York
ivept to the WoBtto attend to. some busiBeas
jn that quarter- " At'Cbicugo he was
taken nick, not ill, but too sick to travel^
rho lady was notified of his arrival
ind - of thj) , cause that detained him
rroip coming ou immediately to the ,
sity. A correspondence is coromcnced,
ibd the lady is informed that tbe 'gentlem8n
is conyaleseing, and will be hare in a
ihort lima. Jt'is arranged that tbe mar
riage is to lake place on the geiitlemau i
arrival bore, after which the happy couple |
will depart immediately for London, thp )
borne of their childhood and early lore,
Boan Brurnmel osed to day, "Always
accept a seat io the carriage of a lady who
haa eaten rio dinner, for the obanaeb are
that, a% ;ahe has touched nothing eincd
fnuebeon,-there Sa-'a good sopper waiting
for her at hotne, which she will of course
have to ask you to share. A* dtsareat -.and
watchful man may -nearly earn his living
in this way.' r' y-W ?. --:
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Clerical > Wit,?A& old gentleman of
eiorhtVr-foaf. bavins taken to the Altar a.
? r ? ..?w . g'4 1
joung damsel pf about sixtfeen, 41)0' c|<ar$-J
foc^t ih?:
bft?r?^#?*3fcut<& *mp &?.l
waot, w ith flio (oat
mso.''" >&1l he%your pardon," sbtfc?
Q}erioa} *itT uI ?hought yoarHad ^rfyjgbfc ;
ibrt clifld hfci'to fo christened,ft- J V
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LEARNING TO WALK,
Only begining the journey,
Many a mile to go;
Little feet, how they palter,
Wandering to nud fro.
Trying agttiD, so brav?*ly.
Laughing in baby gl?*e;
Hiding its face in mother's lap,
Proud us it baby cun be.
Tulking th* oldest. language
Ever before van hetird :
But- niotlior (you'd hutdly think eo)
i
Tottering now and fulling,
Eyes that are going to cry,
and plenty of love-words,
Willing again to try.
Fuiher of nil, O! gnidc them,
The puttering little feet,
While they are trending the up-hill road,
Braving the dust and heat I
Aid them when they grow weary,
Keep theiii in path ways lilesi:
And when tho journey's ended.
Saviour, O 1 f;',ve th?-in rest.
WOMAN.
When wearied with toil, or despondent from
cnre,
Wc seek for some joy to beguile oi refresh us,
The earth in its glories, the ocean and air,
Present each in turu wljat can cljeer or is pre- '
eioim,
Nor nature Alone; tweet music's delight,
The spell of the poet in magical measure,
And color and form all their beauties unite, |
lu creation of art for our solace aud pleasure.
Vtl would we eombiue in one ccntre of light
Rotii nature and art, all that's charming or
pleasant,
The perfume of flower*, the splendors of night,
Glad dreams of the p;>6t with the blius of the
present,
The graceful in motion, a lioart warm with
love,
As true as the sun, yet in tenderness human,
As wise as t he serpent, vet irentlc an a dove.
We finil all coi>>|ilnte but in exquisite woman.
THE BACHELOK'T^OLILOQUY- * !
Ultss my soul! I'm thirty-nine to-day,
nix feet in my stoek'rg*, black eye#, curly
hair, tall and straight as a cedar of Lebanon,
and still a bachelor 1 Well, it's an!
r
independent life, at loa^t? n j it isn't, citli !
er! Hero's these uow gloves of (uino full J
of little rips, siring off one of rr.y most j
faultless (lie keys, nice silk handkerchief in j
my drawer wauls hemming, top ballon off i
I I... ,naUtl...n>l ?- u. i
kuv* ixuniudiiu ui iiij |/aiiia , nuuv a tu ue
done? IIow provoking it w to see tlieso
married people looking bo ?elf-aatis>fied aiu)
consequential, at lite head of their fat,iiI
us if they limj dope the Stnto a great $er
vie?. \V'hy s?s lo children, they are a* plan
ty as Hies in August, and about as trouble j
some; tvery alley, and ect;rf, and garret is |
swarming with tlietij j they're no rarity,'
and any poor miserable de? (E beg parclou
!) wretch, can get a wife, enough of
Ihem, too, such as they are. Il'b enough
to scare a man to death .to think
how much it costs to keep one. You ig
folda hnvft Jo ht?r?in now xvhf>r#? t.ln??r farI
ersand mothers left off. Silks and SAlinp,
ribbons and velvet, feathers and flowers,
cuff-pins and brncelets, gim cracks aud
there's no help for it in my eye3?for if 1
married a woman x loved, aud the dear
litllo thing should ask me for my scalp, 1
should give it to her, I know I shouldThen
there's the tapestry, carpets, and m'rrors,
and sofas, and ottomans, and damask
curtains, and picture?, and crockery, (and
you must look at the subject in all its bearings)
little jackets nqd frocks; and wooden |
horses and dolls, and pop-guns, and ginger*
bread, don't believe I can do it, by Jupiter!
Burthen, hero I pit, with the too of my
beat boot kicking the graU>, for ihe want of
something better to do ; it's coming awful
cold, dreary weather, long oveuings, can't
<jo to concerts forever} and when I go, my
room looks so much the gloomier when I
come bacjc, and it would bo so cosy to
hare a nipe little wife to chat and laugh
with. I've tried to think of something tl&e,
but 1 can't; if I look io tbo Are, I am sure
to ?ee a pair of bright oyes; even the
shadows on the wall tnke fairy shapes.
I'm on the bridle or ruin?I feel it. I 6hitll
reed fliy doojn ip the rparriage lut -before
long?=-1 know I shuH. Heaven help me,
for there's no hvipg .with a better half, 'so
they say j- npd rpay l be refused' if i - can
get a lQug withont,on?. .
. t Wjfci
A friend of oura waa Lruyelitig while
affcioted ?r}th a very, bad' ooOgb. lie " annoyed
fellow' traveler*, unrtfl one of'
them remarked, (n fr-UHte of diaDliaMiira *
T
"Sir, thjtf is ' vary- btwT^cpi^b*?? your*/* True,
$ir." replied our fr|end, "but you
will excuta me?iiV 0ie bpst 1'ye got f*
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A.o oU'gqqthjrAan who ''jiving- with
his Bppu?a9,.9a mupg ?&e<l'tb (jammurji-r
?*tabi* secret, wpUe$,*Jt^lk? rttoaplwt
jlh'vygw (^jr?^ . It i?awi
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AN ANECDOTE CHARACTERISTIC OF JOHN
VAN BO BEN.
Among thoso who have paid a tribute
to the memory of the late John Van Bhrcn
is Judge Edmonds, who presided at the
anti-rent trials in New York 6onie years
stgo, when Mr. John Van Uuroji was C<>tn
monwcalth'a attorney (as we call it.)?
Judgo Edmonds, to illustrate the magnanimity
of Mr. Van Buren, tells the following
anecdote ;
4Whi!fl tll? filial iuuu in
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posing counsel called Mr. Van. I'nreti a
liiir. When ho wat* thus grossly insulted,
I wilh tho grealetl coolness in tlio world, lio
j looked around at tho counsel, who sat behind
him, and then raising liis elbow, without
turning struck his adversary in the face.
They then rose and placed themselves in
an attitude of hostility to each other in the
court. Tho Judge (who had been invited
to dine with Mr. Van Btireu's father, it
must hero he mentioned),ordered both to
| jail for twenty tour hour.-}. Mr. Van liu"
j ren legged to be fined five hundred dolinra
j and not imprisoned. Hut the Judge was
: ut..
i mvAviauic/
Tbo next morning, tho twonty-four
! hours having expired, tliey came out nod
walked into court. Each took a feat at
the tabic. Tbo trial coutinucd until 11
o'clock, when, as those of them know who
had practiced in the county, the usual hour
had comc to adjourn for a short recess. Up
to that lime no word bad pasi-ed between
cither of the counsel and the presiding
judge, except what transpired in the course
of the trial before the audience. Then
Mr. Van liuren, stepping up to the bench j
with some nonckalaucc, loaned on his nrm, |
and in a low tone of voice tnado the re mark
than ho 'hoped llie court had slept
well last night.' 'The Judge paid, 'Yea, I
was not aware thatauvthiug had disturbed
its siuinhere.' 'I didn't know that ita conscience
would, under the circumstances,
permit it,'said he; and then ho said,'l
snppo.-e our agreement to visit the old
man is good ?' The visit was not made ;
it would not have done under the circumstances.
The father subsequently told the
Judge that he appreciated the motives that
induced him not to make the visit, hut that
ho approved of tho action of tho Judge on
VUr^L. uuuaoiuu*
Not twenty fopr lioijrs after tlie Judge
wit? informed that in pon^eqnenua of what
iiad occured Mr. VAn Buret) had tendered
to the the Governor hid resignation. The
Judge immediately wyote to the Governor >.
not to acpept it, as tiie gt iuleman h:pj been
groi?t?ly insulted and was bound to resent i|,
was a violation of order and decorum in
the court. The Governor wrote back that
he tdiould not accept the resignation. . Af
terwAvds Mr. Van Durcn replied to resolu
tiotw of a political club, ?ympatbi?ing with
him censuring the Judge for not having
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Judgo did right; that liis busiuess was
with the disturbance in which both were
actors. To show the magnanimity thus etemplified
was what he bad in view, the
.speaker said, in relating tbe circumstance.
Judge Edmonds related other incidents illustrative
of the greatness of sou! of their
deceased friend. Oihera might speak of
bis position as a lawyer, as a politician, as
an orator; he mourned bis loss hb one
whom he could not but love and respect na
a mat).
Admirable Views.?Hon. Albert Piko,
of Arkansas, recently wrote a letter to
President Johnson, asking for a pardon uu^ar
flu* aari "?
make the annexed pointed and truthful ex.
tract; '
' "The late war tfas more owing to the
dead of tbe paat,' who are honored, tban
to the t'.ving of the present, who are exp^craicd;
more to Jefferson and Madison,
than to Davis and Xiuuter more the Ken
tuck)* and Virginia resolutions than to the
argnmeuts of 180Q, fCiyil coiniuptiuna
have long roots in the past,' and their truo
authors havox>ftpn'b^n loijg and boyond
the reach of human vpngeamie, while thpse
whom hatred acuks to immolate have been
but tb? bondtnftn of necessity, the blind
iflitromenta- fatip. Why. slio\ild\ thy
onffqld 0ray4 ibe blood of tM llvtn# who
only obeyed'tbo dead 3 ? '
"I respectfully submit that it is not just
to r^giird as rebellion, at\d treason what
had b?pn,claimed by ^iat^sitq'd parties for
seventy years toj the lawfyl ejuuflha t>f, a
political right by n State.^ aijd that it
ttM^e 9Sr?^
dnn imaii ind
^^eoDTicipiri^
ibe ^beli,ve;
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FEEDING 80LDXBBS.
When wo are informed that the daily
rations of a Prussian soldier consists of a
pound of meat, a sufficient quantity of
bread and vegetables, cofFoo, a reasonable
supply of braudy and some segars, wo arc
not surprised at his fighting so well. Pluck
depends a great deal on diet, and if a soU
dier is not well fed, fighting goes agaipst
his stomach. There is little reason to
doubt that the South failed in her struggle
from the poverty of her commissary and
quartermaster departments, And had it
been possible to feed our soldiers at tho I
conclusion of tho >ar as well as at the
commencement, there is very littlo reason j
to ilouht that tho decision of that contest
woti'd have beau f^r different. Good
clothes and good food have a vast deal to
do with llwj courage and esprit de corps of
aoldiers. Our poor boys were kept ragged
and bare-footed too long and corn bread
and sorghum soon reduced their pugtiacity.
Who doos not believe that our men
II I *- * * *
woniij iihvu conquered u ihey could have
had a judicious supply of brandy and segara
all during tlio war ? Why, their
longing for these articles frequently lost
them the victory after the capture of a
Yankee camp. Ilad they been supplied
with all those "knick-knacks" which are
so irresistible 10 a soldier, who can affirm
that w* would have been bcateu ? Sardines,crackers,
cukes, cheese, whiskey, coffee,
sugar, and all these innumerable at?
! tractions of a Federal camp, always proved
more dangerous to us than the bullets
: ami h?vi>i!?*fq of tlio onnmtt 1T...1 "
? ? . w. ?... w v??VIUT ? Aiau UUf
men been well supplied wiih all these ihoy
would never have stoppeJ for them, because
llien no novelty.?Richmond. Dispatch.
Gentle Anna, Again.?Tlio lioston
correspondent of tho Louisville Courier
who went to hear Miss Anna Dickinson
lecture, and was impressed. Hear what
the gallant youth says of tho fair Yank ;
And that reminds ?ne, I ivcnt to see and I
hear Anna deliver her new iecturu, which
?he calls ' The Rejoctod Stone," but I wa
unable to discover tho relnti/in tl.n
abofp held tp itn liilo. Bqt Anna is hs
sprightly little cuss, and ban a voice that
wou]d pharm |tho birds off thp bushesFor
the benefit of yoqr fair correspondent'
?'Kentuikienne," I will describe her costume
in full. Straw colored silk, with
black laco face trimming* around her neck
and down her waist in front ; diamond on
h>ft hand finger ; hair short and bushy.
Trtk?*n as a whole she WR3 exceedingly
nice and pretty. I don't care if uho did
n^t. ItfwH. Il.ill.rlrtU vIlO ?C Kl? *?r*r?rv I
r" T-? -5 d>-r-t I'""VI"; J'"6" '
Slje hurled her rejected boul'er at ihe
audienpe as gracefully as David slung his
little smooth stono-at the giant. She wna
severe on President Johnson, comparing
hitn to all the tyrants of any standing in
ancient or modern history. She told about
Dick Tfiyloi'd making Union men
dig their own graves, and about* I3urk I
Blackburn's shooting two little Union girls
She brought up the God send for the HadiOafa,
tho New Orleans riotfr, also the Mem '
phis massacre of school marine She lied
like the devil. She vindicated Congress, '
aud pointed out the only mode of /econbixuction,
e!c. , el?\
I left wondering how a human female
oouhl bo*o b'eauliffil and bewitching, and
ten sucn voopperq.
CBN, BltECItlNIUDOK AT BaTOS ltOUOE.
?The Baton Rougo (La) Advocate, of the
8th, contains an anpedote of Geo. Breokinriilgo
whiuh we have never before
heard : When General Breckinridge was
marching on Bdton lionge, he one day,
unattended by his aids, rode up to a eo!i~
tyry pin'ey woods vidette who had' just
coiue iu frorn St. Tainmany, and was new
to the ciiipioife pf army life. Tho general
naa qoi me pass woju. ap/j iUQ viaotte. uhu
no advantage of him in that rwpeoU
>}.)?ipb to piifi9,'' eaid the gdnteraT,
*\Ve1l, dod'durn yon, pass on, who-'
cares a ;us?, I ain't cudppio' this, hero road,
afoir /' :
' \.'*fYoa don't know wJiqlLnpfc," ' BaiJ the
genWfli6Qiillng, i'vf'lJv; ' .
-'* -7?^'
are on, anylmvif.''. ^ /- * *
."lam. General i^a :oom-.
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Admiral Skmmkb on Yankee Energy.?
Admiral Bentmes t'ow editor of tbo
Mobile Gazelle, Bay a ;
"We have been beaten in all our con
testa with the Northern people by want of '
energy. While we are day dreaming or
sleeping they aro at wo?k ; at work like bo
many beavers or bees in a liive.. If they
have a railroad to build they set energy at
work, aud it is built; witness the great
an immense serpent across tho Rocky
Mountains?a work scarcely retarded by tho
war. They ure as energetic in politics
as in political economy. Wo picked up
tho Detroit Post the other day aud among
other things tho energetic woiker in the
greai one liivo of Michigan politics informed
us lb.il ho was putting "out a
campaign* paper " ?utl that ii bad received
eleven hundred subscribers lo it iu one day!
At the last census (18GG) Detroit contain ed
a population of fortv-Iivo thousand,
and was therefore, a lilllo larger than Mobile.
The Post is u republican paper of
the blackest stripe. This is the way in
which the Republican majorities are mantained,
and even increased in the North.
Every man subscribes to a newspaper and
reads ; and as the newspapers aro Republican
machines?uiue tenths of theui?run
hy the giant energy, can wo wonder that all
the people are Republicans 1 What a pity
this giant does not live among us."
How to do ui? biuut Dosoms.?We
havo often heard, says the Noifoljk Virgin- I
iatt, ladies express a desire to kuow by
what process the fine gloss observable on
new linen shirt bosom?, is produced,
and in order to gratify thorn we submit tho
following receipt for making gum Arabic
starch : Tuko two oz. fine white gum Arabic
powder; put it into a pitchqr, and pour
ou it a pint or more of boiling water?according
to the degree of strength you desire?aud
then*having oovured it, lat it sot
all night; in the morning pour carefully
from the dregs into a clean bottle, cork it,
and keep it lor use. A tablespoonful of
gum water stirred into a pint of starch
made in the usual manner, will give to
either white or printed lawns a look of
newuess when nothing el*e can restore them
after washing. Much dilu'ed, it is also
good fur thin muslin and bobiaet.
Tacking Cotton.?The press is Calling
tbe attention of planters to the necessity of
more care iu packing cotton. Bugging
weighs twp and ouo-fourth pounds per
yard, and sells on the bule at the price of
cotton. Bagging costs forty-five cents per .
yard, and, ibuteforc, sells op the bale at
about hixty-eight cents. What folly, then,
iu planters, to stint the use uf bagging in
jmijiuny jiroiecmig uie umo Of COLtOU.
AnJ jet, for tbe want of such protection,
the cotton in ihUojnrkut id actually sufior*
itig in classification . a;id price. We call
thp ^Ucoiiuu of planters aud packuid to"
this eulject, and, without fur.tber words,
trust they will see the necessity of such
liberal u*e of bagging as- w\ll protect tbe
Bbre from dirt and stain,
Verdancy.?That was rather- a verdaut
chap who went into- an apothecary's iq
WeftfU New Yo?lf? lately." 'Do you tfell
drugs her# ?' be asked of the clerk. 'Certainly,
air,' 'Well, how much do ye ax
for 'em f 'Twelvo and a half cents apieue,'
'T'll tn1?A nm>. if vnn nlp?nn ' Tli? nloit
etepjiod into a back room, did yp apie&e o(
logwood api} bonded it to Jonathan, who
paid .bis money and walked off, as proud
iiB a peacock witli bis bargain.
Anecdote gf: Franklin.-?When FrankliQ
was. ambassador to thu French 'court, a lady,
who whs about Ceing presented to the
king, noticed his exceedingly plain appearance,
apd _bk(jd who ha \vj\s. Oh be'.og
told that ho was Dr.. Benjamin Franklin,'
the American ambassador, she exolaimed,
The North American ambassador to shabily
dressedl'.'.'Husb, Madam, for Heaven's
sake,' svliispered a friend, 'lie ii tba' map
111 at bottles uptHyrjd>)r.aiwl Jighliiing.'
A Signi9cRfcVDrearn'.-~If v?ob13 do no
Ua'nu if evqry crowned h&tfdhada dre^in
tilce that o(. tjja vwtj<? JtifW'
io.a yHrtop.%the^Ie^n, itn$
ttw tijrcj iwit f>r . lebrated - mi
[ie?B4afef?tpa/f aljd jd$piand^t-a|i^e*plaQationv
'l'b^ fit r*L' aaid tlip : force ie?v
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LOST ABTS. SSj
In regard to colors wo are far behind tbo jHjg
ancients. None of tbei colors in the Egyp- flES
tian paintings of thousand of years ago are
in the least faded, except tho green. Tho BH|
Tynan purple of tho entombed city of
l\)inpoii is as fresh to diiy as it waft tbous- 4Hh
anJd of years ago. Some of tho stucco JHpe
I paiuted ages before tho Christian era, broken
up and mixed, reverted to its original ^H|
lustre. And yot we pity tho ignornnco of
tho dark skinned children of the ancient flag
Egypt. Tho colors upon tho walls of Noro*3
festal"vault aro as fresh as if painted.
yesterday. So is tho cheek of tho Egy;>- 9h
tian princes who was contemporaneua
with Suloman, and Cleopatra, at whoso. QzgB
feet Caisar laid the riches of his empire. .^Bj|
And in regard to metals. The edges of
tho statues of tho obeli&ks of Egypt, and mn
of the ancient wails of Home, aro as sharp "jsBBI
as if but hewn yesterday, Aud tho stones BK
still romirin eo closely fitted that theic Sh
seams, laid with mortar, cannot bo peno-? SEH
trated with the edge of a penknifq. And ^H|
tllftir slirfjir.o i* pvcnprl i nrrl v li n rd an lmr/l ^HEl
??r? 7 ? H
that when tlio French artists engraved two SB
lines upon the obelisk brought from Egypt t Kh
they destroyed in the tedious task, many ot fSjj
the host tools which can be manufactured.
And yet these ancicnt monuments are tra-- ^Be
ced all over with inscriptions placed upoa
ilium in olden time.
This, with other facts of a striking cbac
acter, proved that thuy were far more skilled
in metal* than wo are. Quite roccntly In
it is recorded that when an American ves?
sel was on the shores of Africa a son of
that benightgd region cuudb from an iroa H
hoop a knife superior to rfmy on board of
the vessel, aud another made a sword of
Damascus excellence from a' pieco of Hm
iron. |yS
Fiction is very old ; Scott had his counterpart
two thousand years ago. A story
is lohl of a warrior who bad uo time to qH
wail for tlio proper forging of liis weapon, jftw
but seized it red hot, rose forward, but fifij
found to bis surprise that the cool air bad
tempered bis iron into au excolleot steel
weapon. The tempering uf steel therefore,
which was new to us a century since, jg[
was old a thousand years ago. 38
Ventilation is deemed a very modern fl|
art. But this is not the fuct, for apertures,
unquestionably madefor the purpose,of ven- &Rt
Illation, are fuuud in the pyramid tombs of
Egypt. Yet thousands of years ago the
h<..l.r,.n... ?... .Jl-.- ffl
VUI urituua x ncui ou lai ao VCUUIULU
their tombs, while we yet scarcely know
how to ventilate our housos.?Macon Ales
sen jo;. <
A countryman took an tight-gallon keg
to h store to have it filled with molasses,
the store keeper declared that he had put j
in ten gallon?, and demanded pay accordingly.
The countryman handed it over
with the remark that ho didn't mind tho
money so'much a* ha did "the itrain on
the darned old keg*.
A Proverb Changed.?The old proverb
says: 'When Poverty; eaters the door ]
Love flics out of the window.' Bat now- I
adaye, 'Love fliea in at the window whilst
Poverty is ehow'n the door.* ' ' j
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. 'What is the cause of the potato rot.'?
It is attributed to the rot-ta-tery. influence -i
of the earth/?'Dow was this ascertained V
?'By consulting a greijt maq'y commontater|i!v.'
" "' /
. A wag visiting a medical miiseatp,. was
aliown soma dwarfs aqd other speeimens
of mortality all preserved in alcohol. *'
'Well' said ho, '1 never thought the dead
could be in ?uoh spirits.1 >'
An Epicure?A gentleman fond of good
living reftiaed to start hla colt for the *{wo?
year-old staked on the ground that if he
won them they wouldoH be worth eafc>? --
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' Art- Criticism,A tavern-keeper* who
had been dlpptnginto the 'Livea of Emineut
Paintera,'thought it a pity that 80 ij|
many of them should 'die and leave xlqJ
, Among the adverijwments in * morning
paper is; one wherein we wo .informed
that'tyofistowirant washing/-^
It is said that the veasdn why I
f&fc tfie Jj&b j^ajke he^gr, sailors than
% prefer a Mam ;
'fOf* tq &'Uaki. f . .
' v Bffocta of * Flatter v.?-An nrnirtraMwfnl'
h?d g
loaibUdivioUj -/jiJa*,' flattere3
her uDtil iho got too proud tQ 8po%k tp H
Fwiftl iojt5opteipp]?j?< Jjllwfa 1* S
.work adrartiMd - Wled B3t?y - ^in u ,.B
Lawyer.' T \Ybst a. state of eociety f 3
My fipt is ftvaryibiug; my second moro 9
aI^M"lwH-ay!?o?5' Wl,?14 " ' I
i J VouH jjo /<* io toy aooond, to fetch my 9
fi&tt **& *fcfrs' i^lWiooe ^wt wilh > ?*->?&