Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TEE CAMDEN JOOEML. AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY PAPEfc, f I PUBLISHED BY JOHN KERSHAW. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Oat year, in advance.... ....$2 60 Six months kl 50 Three months 76 Iff' Transient Advertisements must be paid f?r in advance. JUNIUS DAVIS, Attorney at Law and Trial Justice. VOL. XXXI. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH A21, 1872. NO. 20 feb 8 m3 CAMDEN, S. C. C. H. DcLORME WITH Furchgott, Benedict & Co., 244 King St., Charleston, Importers and Dealers in Foreign and Domestic JOZR/Y" GOODS, 'Cloaks, Shawls, Hosiery, Sot ions <fc Ribbons Also, Ladies' and Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods. A special department for Carpets, Rugs, Mats. Oil Cloth and Mattftig. BRANCHES OF BUSINESS. furchgott, Benedict & Co., cor. King and Calhoun sts., Charleston. Furchgott, Benedict & Co., 22 White street, NewYork. Furchgott, Benedict & Co., Jacksonville, Fla. dec 7-3m GEORGE TUPPER, BROKER, Eeal Estate ai Insnrance Apt, OFFICE OVER W. C. FISUER's DRCO 8TORE, ^OPPOSITE COLUMBIA HOTEL? MAIN ST., COLUMBIA, S. C. aug 1?ly GBIFFINrGKREEN & CO., Cotton Factors, ' '" AND General Commission Merchants, No. 123 Pearl Street, N. Y. P. 0. Box 6813. Advances made on Cotton, Naval Stores, ic. Two-tliirds of value advanced on cotton to be held, and only 7 per cent, interest charged. No charge for purchasing goods for shippers, nov 23-4mos. ALEXANDER SPRCXT, JXO. W. HINRON, British Vice Consul. james sfkuxt. onr>TT\Tm XTTAT?n"M jOX~ X\S U ?M 1 U/ JLL111KJV/X1. "t" COTTOX FACTORS AND Naval Store Com's'n Merchants, ? WILMINGTON. N. ('. DAMiEL A. SMITH" DCAI.LIl IN ' < : FU'B1TITLTBE; Bedding, Window $l)ude.sr(?ui,iKkis.tV;<> IS now located in his new building on North j Front street, V1LM LSGTOJi, N. C. Parties in want of goods in his line will save money by purchasing of him. feb 8 liu J OS. B. Bt'SSKLT,, _ W. H. BF.TH3A, Of Wilmington, N.*C. Of Marion, S. C. JOS. B. RUSSELL & CO. fbxnoroi nrvmmission Merchants, VIVUVAWW -ww. WILMINGTON, N. C. *6T Particular attention paid to the sale and purchase of Naval Stores, Cotton, "Bacon and ether Country Produce. feb 8 3in "mjbissell, dentist. Broad Street, Camden, So. Ca. j. i. middleton & co., r. FACTORS i\v c AND * COMMISSION MERCHANTS, r- / BALTIMORE, MB., x /. _ j. Having purchased the entire STOCK OF $OODS of Messrs. D. L. DeSausstjre & Co., we will sell the same at fcOOST for CASH, and for that purpose heicb}' constitute the . .? nnr pffpfit. Sllfih iiiCilll/CI O VS1 VUUV Ut Ui VUl u^vuvw w - - v. sale. J. I. MIDDLETON & CO. Jnneg tf SOUTH CAROLINA RaIL ROAD. On and after Monday, Dec. the 25th., 1871 the Schedule of the Camden train will be as follows; Leave Camden at* C 15 A. M. Arrive at Columbia at 10 40 A. M. Leave Columbia at 1 45 P. M. 1 1 " ? /> or n ir Arrive ai oamuen o ~o m. By order of the Vice-President. A. B. DeSAUSSURE Agent. | Camden Dec. 23d, 1871. PERUVIAN GUANO -ZELL'S PHOSPHATE ! PHCENIX GUANO f t' ' i ' 'J AND .1. WILCOX & GIBBE'S " manipulated compound .OP . Guano, Salt and Plaster! For Bale by G^O. ALDEN, febl5tf . Agent. MB Extensive Arrivals ! rjMIE UNDERSIGNED is now receiving bis FALL STOCK OF GOODS, Fresh from the Great Markets of the East, consisting in part of Calicos, Ginghams, Delaines, J3UUTS, SHUUS, J1ATSS. Notions and Fancy- Goods, Full Li of each, In Groceries lie is prepared to show a well-selected stock of Family and Fancy Groceries, Bacon, Lard, &c., &c. To Planters lie is offering Cheap Bagging, Ties and Rope. Buys Cotton, At the higest market rates, and makes liberal advances on consignments. Having bought for CASH, he is prepared to sell CHEAP for the sameGive me a call. No charge for showing rrnrifl.s. c Tailoring Done in fashionable style and at [reasonable prices by Mr. C* A. McDONALD. J. w. McCURRY, Agent oct2C-Iy NEW GOODS! AT the store occupied by A. M. Kennedy, a few doors north of the Market, will be found a stock, consisting of STAPLE DRY GOODS. Hardware, Nails, Iron, Steel. Spades, Shovels, Garden Hoes, Brudy & Elwell Iloes, Plow Moulds, &c., &c. &c. GBOCEBIES Crushed, Coffee and Brown sugars, Bio Laguira and .Tuva Coffices, Green and Hyson Teas, flunked and. 'unsinoked Side and Shoulder Bacon. Hams Liinl Goskop Butter, Corn. (hits, Halt. Stone Lime, J'iue Sltpcruiid lis Ira Family Flour, Soup. Candles, Starch, l'opper, Spice,Ginger, Soda Crackers and Cheese, New Orleans Sugar House andAV. 1. Molasses Canned l'ruit, Oysters, liurly Itosc, Goodrich, l'iuk^Eye and Jackson White Planting Potatoes. Croiitery, Glassiare&c., Safe Brife Shoes. Humes &c., All of which will be sold at the lowest price for cusli, and wo request a call from all who wish to purchase. A. D. KENNEDY & CO. A. D. KENNEDY, A, M. KENNEDY. A. M Kennedy will give his attention to the purchase of cotton; is agent for the sale of Etiwan Guano, Etiwan Crop Food andEtiwan Ground Bone. ' K Feb 16 tf Marengo Mills. LUMBER! 50 000 ft' R0UGn EDGE LUMBER; 30 000 fL REFUSE LUMBER; 30 QQQ ft* SQUARE EDGE LUMBER; Seasoned and Unseasoned, Now on hand nml for sale by the undersigned at the lowest possible prices, . FOR CASH. All orders addressed to or left with Mr. C. N0ELKEN, or with the undersigned, will receive prompt attention. A Lumber Yard Has been established on the premises of the above-named gentleman in the town of Camden, where parties from the town or surrounding | country can be supplied at Camden prices by calling on him. 8. R. ADAMS, sept 14-ly Proprietor Marengo Mills. SHAWLS, HOSIERY, Gloves, &c. ?"jnHE undersigned intending to discontinue J- the Notion and Fancy Dry Goods Stock, will sell at 10 to 25 pcrccut. DELOW COST, Shawls, Gloves, Hosiery, Corsets, Ribbons, Braids, and all other articles in this line, at the abovenamed reduction, and invite the attention of .purchasers. : D. L. DcSAUSSURE & CO., COM^ AGENTS. . The Deplorable Condition of Public Af fairs as Described by a Tribune Correspondent. Washington. February 22.?The'eondition of South Carolina is deplorable, in the days of secession it was the greatest offender. In the days of reconstruction it is the greatest sufferer. The government of the State was formerly in the hands of an aristocracy. They were a body of men jea lous, willful, dogmatic, but high-toned and honorable. The roll of its representatives in Congress for near three-quarters of a century, the names of its civic and military heroes in the war of the revolution, shine with a luster that is unHimniAil hv omnnarison with the men of any ?r ? V other State. True to the souvenirs of their.former history, it precipitated the slaveholder - rebellion, and led its hosts to their doom. It sought in its passion a bloody arbitrament on the battle field, and a bloody arbitrament it has had. With 00,000 voters, it put70.000 soldiers in the field. The end came, and South Carolina was black with desolation. The 6moke and the fire of civil warfare ascended from every household, and the stain of blood was on the garments of every survivor. Its young men had swiftly gone down to bloody graves until the Jead outnumbered the living The means of support were entirely swept away as by fire und whirlwind. Ilavoe and spoil and ruin were its only gain. This is where the rebellion left South Carolina.? What has been its condition since ? What is its condition now ? The population is something under 400,000 blacks and something over 300,000 whites. The result of the war has made a yet greater disproportion in the comparative numbers of the voting population. There are estimated to be 40,000 white to 60,000 black voters, the aggregate being over 100,000. 13ut in the Legislature, out of 124 members, there arc but thirteen reprcscnta? ? i , nil i tives oi tiie wnue minority. jluujushu me assembly is black, with the exception that here and there is a white representilive of a black constituency. There are en nigh of these, along with a few intelligent colored people, to lead the great mass of ignorance and barbarism of which the main body is composed. Without going into details, it is enough to say that the men who manage and lead the Legislature and the Stato Government are thieves and miscreants. The great body of the Legislature are the ignorant and corrupt instruments with which the leaders do their work, and though the individuals composing this mass aro bought and sold lilte^. cattle in the market, their venality in some cases is relieved of much of its criminality , by reason of the denscncss of their ignorauco. j Numbers of the blacks who hold seats in the i Legislature regard themselves simply in the lightof employees of the Government. Their"! pay is six dollars per day for the session, and special pay for their separate votes on every measure in which there is money. These votes arc bought and sold without even the pretence of hiding the flagitious tr ansaction. The negro himself is hardly conscious of criminality while making their bargains. He owns lu3 mule. lie sells it. He owns his chicken. lie sells it. lie considers his vote just as much a part of his personal ] ropcrty as his mule is hisproperty or his chicken. Why should he not sell it also? He does sell it, and naively wonders why any body should complain. Of course, the scale of pay varies, it is just according to each man's intelligence and rapacity. A few hundred dollars in special gratuities is enough to satisfy the demands of a plantation negro. Others get more, and, more, and more. One of the smart sort was accused the other day on the floor of the llouse, by a colleague, with then having ?12,000 of State Honds in his pocket. Corruptly obtained, and the charge was not denied. Hut the evidence of grrss and universal corruption is palpable in the way everybody lives who has anything to do with the Government. There is a happy, go-lucky air anmncr them all. If a black gets into the Legislature, that is enough, he works no more. lie has no occasion. lie has money enough. It is the same with the occupants of the executive offices. All are sleek and fat with their ill-gotten gains. They are like pirates who have captured a richly laden ship. They riot in the plunder, caring not at all for, nor even thinking of the owners. But the irrefragible evidence of gigantic j theft and corruption, stands like a monument, in the vast increase of the State debt, I an increase for whi h there is nothing to I show. The State may be searched in vain to find where the money has gone. It is in no public works. It is in no scheme for public improvement. It- has simply been stolen. It has gone into the pockets of the highway robbers who compose the legislative and executive government of the State. Behold -the stupendous sums ! In 18C5, the bonded debt, according to the rcportof the Congress Committee, who have lately returned from their investigations, was in round numbers, 85.058,000. In 1808 it was 80.454.000 ? On the 20th of December 1S71 it had risen to the enormous aggregate of 815,768.000. Tt, was not even certain that this sum cover ed the whole liabilities of the State. So much fraud and complicity iu corrupt practices by State officials had been developed, so much chicaYiery had been unearthed,%so much wilful concealment and apparent ignorance of the amount of the robberies and issues of State bonds was manifested, that there was no certainty that even the frightful aggregate which was established would not be augmented when all the plundering had come to light. But whether it be more or not, we have here an addition to the Sta'c debt sinee the war, of near SI 1.000,000. And this sum has been million by mill'on. dollar by dollar, deliberately stolen by tlie villians who have had possession of the State since that time, with the exception of such moderate sums as wore ncccssiatcd by the measures tof reconstruction. t . The methods of robbery have been too various and universal to be enumerated in an exposition so general as this. Suffice it to say, that they have involved everybody of any account who belongs to the majority. It is a trembling morass of corruption, that shakes under the tread of the investigation. There is nobhance to stop?or punish the flagrant crimes that have been committed, because everybody outside of a mere hand full of representatives of the tax-payers is implicated. Whatever villainy is exposed, or whatever investigation is threatened, silencers at once imposed by threatening the tbrc&oera with an examination aud exposeure oftheir own criminality. It is simply a banegj^jjbb^s threatening to tell on one anowrer. "Was there ever such a burlesque on free government? The State is mired, and there seems to bo no standing ground for an effort at extrication. And yet it must be extricated, or government is a failure. As has been already stated, there are but 13 representatives out of 124 members of the Legislature, who are regarded as representatives of the tax-payers of the State. Of these, eight come from two upper counties, adjoining Georgia. These representatives are tired of*thc hopeless struggle against the theives who have plunged the State into hopeless bankruptcy, and threaten general confiscation. These two counties have petitioned to be set off to Georgia. As their excision would just about extinguish the trifling minority of the Legislature, and leave it a uuit in its corruption, it is supposed the majority will grant the prayesr. So that the last remnant of holding ground of the tax-payers, seems to be slipping away. It is thus that 300,000 white people, more or less, composing the intelligence and property-holders of the State, are put under the heel of 400,000 pauper blacks, fresh from a state of slavery and ignorance most dense.? Guided by unprincipled adventurers from other States, who make use of these freedmen a3 their agents for the most nefarious acts which were over committed under the shelter.o^ a republican form of government, this blind and unintelligent mass is precipitated upon the intelligence and wealth of the State until they are buried out of sight. It is some times asked why the white people of the State do not endeavor to influence the blacks by kind treatment and persuasion as to their true interests. The answer is, that the jeajousy of the black of his old master is profound, unyieldiug and universal.? Where the kindest personal relations prevail, where tho. freedmen remain on the old place, the lan d on shares with contentment aud harmony with the proprietor, the testimony is that, so far as voting is concerned, the old master is utterly without influence. lie can not obtain a vote, nor the promise of a vote. In this matter the colored man will listen only to the unprincipled adventurer who rides through the country claiming to be one of those who gave freedom to the slaves. Conscious of thpir present liberty, the freedman's dread of its possible loss makes him the most suspicious and i - - n A T j._ J apprcnensivc 01 creurures. jd poverty sickness, in trials and troubles, he resorts to his old master, and seeks his aid and counsel with a childlike confidence. Rut in voting, he is steeled to his advice, and will die before he will take it. Thus overwhelmed and helpless, what is the average property-holder to do ? He aims faithfully to get upon his legs, and keep up, but the grinding taxation actually imposed, and still more that which is threatened, makes hini dispair of escaping virtual confiscation. lie would get out of the State if he could, but he can find nobody to buy his property. On a visit to South Carolina a few years ago, Senator Sprague of .Rhode Island, attracted by the great natural advantages of a water power at the cupital of the State, purchased it, and spent a considerabl suui of money on it, preparatory to establishing manufactories there. The developments, soon after, of the corruption and measureless robberies of the State Government, brought his operations te a dead stand, and now he onlv awaits the forlorn hone of an opportuni ty to extricate liis venture from the clutches oi'the thieves and villains who have the State by the throat and are sucking its life blood away. ' Why don't you rebel again ?" asked a Boston man whowaslately traveling through the State. "This time, you would have a reason."' Alas, why? Subjected to oppression such as it may safely be said no State community in the civilized world is to-day enduring, tho white minority in South Carolina are quiet and duuib. They have uo life. Their spirit has gone out. ' Their inertia amounts to demoralization. The fires of war licked up all their avilable substance. The grave covers a generation of their fighting men. Until time repairs the waste of blood and sinew lost by war, there is no material to organize into resistance. At present there seems to bo no heart for it aud no thought cf it. But do not the wild crimes of the Kc-Klux youth of the State foreshadow a possible future i'or that wretched people dema.id the earnest attention of thoughtful statesmen, ? Shall we, too, have a Poland in the South ? Can wc expect long to reg- j ulate the internal administration oi the law and justice in the State by military rule?? And, niter an, are mo nu-mui uuua6M but the expiaing embers of an old contest, or are tlioy, in manycasesthe kindlingsparks of a new? * One thing seems plain to the most ordinary apprehension. The condition of things now existing in South Carolina would not bo borne a month in any Northern Stato without a tax-payer's league being formed to resist the payment of all taxes imposed for fraudulent purposes, and without the swift establishment of a court of Lynch law. So much treason as that exists in the blood of every American citizen worthy of his birthright. Admit everything, and has not South ! Carolina suffered enough1? Admit that she i was the hot-bed of sedition. Admit that she was the cauldron in whioh was conducted A the venom that poisoned a nation. Admit anything and every tiling. Is there to be no expiation 1 Recollect that a generation is rapidly rising that had no hand in these things?a generation already more than half way-to its maturity.?Correspondent New York Tribune. The Possibilities of 1880; Scene: Railroad office in Philadelphia.? The spectator is to remember that the scheme of the postal telegraph has been consummated, and that all telegraph wires and railroad lines are in the hands of the Government.? Elegant clerk reading newspaper. Enter r. c., a portly man, puffing, puffing?has evidently been running. Flings down a disnatch. Clerk (reads): "Aunt Maria dying?hum ?mum; come right away?hum." [Having availed himselfof the information it contains ] ! "Aunt Marir dying, eh. Thats too bad, but it can't go through." Portly man.?"Why not?" Clerk (loftily): "The wires will be occu pied for seven hours yet, with Senator Brabantio's great speech last night at the Continental Hotel in defense of the Administration. It is .sent by government order to all the newspapers in the country. Portly man "suppose tho newspapers don't i want it ?" [Clerk shrugs his shoulders and whistles a bar of Tannhauser.] Portly man: "Well, I must go down there' myself, then. Give me a ticket to Cloverdale." Clerk.: "Can't do it. Tho road is filled with trains bringing delegates to the convention to morrow. They'te running on both 1 tracks " Portly man: "Oh, the presidential con- < vention ! They're going to re-nominate the 1 present incumbent, General Bourn, I suppose ?" . Clerk: "Certainly. Whom else could . they, air? His learning, his profound states- j nnnhln Via ii n i tn v\An oVt o KYn infAnrrlfr /l/\ i Ufuuail i jj, ilia uij lUij/vuvaaMiw iucv^iivjr uu j not these all?" Portly, man: "Oh, stuff!" Clcrl^(tightening his eye glasses): "Oppos- 1 posed to the Administration!" ' Portly man: "The Administration be ' hanged. Clerk: ""Excuse me one minute sir."? * [Opens a ledger.] "Friendly?No?that's not it." [Taking up another.] "Opposed , ?ah, here it is! What is your name sir ?" < Portly man (with a dangerous bulging of ( the eyes,) "That's my business." , Clerk, (quietly taking up dispatch): "Ah t yes. John W. Parker Plunkett Peabody \ Pinkney?here it goes. Any residence, John?a?a that is, Mr Plunkitt, of Philadelphia, opposed to Administration; said stuff * when General Bourn's name was mentioned; expressed a desire that the Administration 1 might suffer death from asphyxia; disposed 1 to browbeat officers of the Government; must be charged full price for telegrams and fare. ] *iotc to baggage and check masters: Always weigh baggago, and check only fifty pounds. \ Mmn?To ascertain what relations he has. , if auy." - ( "You see, John.?a?ft?Mr. Plunkett, j we're accustomed to allow the friends of the ] Administration to ride and telegraph for , half fare; but it is impossible in your Case " j [Takes up blotting paper.] "Very painful duty, sir, but we're allowed no discretion. , And then it's your own doing." [Leaning J his elbows on desk.] "You're so unreasonable, you know. Now, General Bourn?" ' Mr. Plunkett: "You're impertinent, sir; ' I'll report you!" M Clerk (languidly): "Just ne you like, but 1 my member doesn't go out till '82." Exit Mr. Plunkett. Clcrk'tpsumes newspaper. Curtain fulls. Local PArEits.?The New York Times : puts iu the following good word for local papers : 'You might nearly as well forget your j churches, your academies and school houses, ( as to forget your local paper. It speaks to , ten times the audience that your local minis- j ter does, and if it has any ability at all, it is , read eagerly each day from beginning to , end. It reaches you all, and if it hus a low- , er spirit and less wisdom than a sermon, it . has a thousand times better chance at you. ( Laying, as it does, on every table, in almost j every house, you owe to yourself to rally t liberally to its support, and extract from it ; able, high-toned a character as you do from any educator in your midst. It is in no sense beneath notice and care?unles* your self are beneath notice and care?for it is 1 your representative. Indeed in its character 1 it is the summation of the importance, inter- i est and welfare ofyou all. It is the agregate of your own consequence, and you cannot ' ignore it without miserably depreciating your- i selves.' , Heavy Cotton Crop to be Planted.? The Columbus(Ga.) Enquirer, says: A prominent and highly intelligent planter of llussell informs us that planters in his section have determined to stake their all on cotton again this year. Lastyear they made an honest effort to make bread, but owing to the unpropitious season almost failed in both corn and cotton. As a consequence, they commence this year badly in debt and with little or nothing to eat. In this situation they ha?e resolved to make one more effort to get out of debt and better their circumstances. ^n 1 - - ** ? \ trill Ui course auvico ironi jievtajmycii. ..... amount to nothing when used to dissuade people from such a sucidal policy. But it really (Joes seem that the experience of the past five or six years ought to induce planters to so diversify crops as to at least be sure of bread and meat. With a four million cotton crop this year prices will again run low and still further tend to impoverish our section. A.Westcrn Paradise is thus described: "No income tax ; no internal revenue; no spies to sec if you treat a friend on Sunday; no special police; no dog tax, school tax, or bounty fund. And, to end with, the Indians and half-breeds can't tell one greenback from another, so all our ones are tens." 4 ADVERTISING-: RATES. Space. 1 M. 2 M. 3 M. - 6 jl Y. ? * I 1 square 3 00 6 00 8 00 12.00 T6 00 2 squares 6 00 9 00 12 00 18 00 26 00 3 squares 9 00 13 00 16 00 24 00 86 00 4 squares 12 00 16 00 20 00 30 00 48 00 1 column 15 00 19 00 24 00 34 00 60 00 ] column 20 00 30 00 40 00 56 ;O0 80 00 1 column 30 OOJ 50 00 60 00 90 00 lffi 00 All Transient Advertisements will be oharged One Dolt.ar per Square for the first and SeVentt-five Cents per Square for each subse^henfc * insertion. : ;; . PARAGRAPHS. :!:;? The French have a very significant saying ?It is always tho unexpected'which Happens. It is not uncommon for girls 10 and' 11 years of age to be married in Japan.1 California claims to be able to support thirty millions of people within her own borders. ; fy-l North Georgia anticipates the latest wheat crop ever raised in that section. Gen. Joseph T5. Johnson is to be made President of the Georgia Military Institute. It is mentioned as an astonishing ftetythat two Bibles have been found on Long Island, Now York. . Rev. Wm. Baldwin, of Great Bend,. Pa., offers SIO'OOO to any one who will pick a lock which he has invented. There is never a man so bad, says a celebrated writer, but some woman loves, him and has faith in him. A detroit bridegroom was so affcctcc/ by the marriage ceremony that he burst into' a violent fit of nose bleeding. A paper mentions a case beyond the ordinary oculists. It is that of a younglaSiy who, instead of a pupil, has a college student in her eye. - ;t Two hundred and fifty thousand francs is the value of the cigar stumps picked up annually in the streets of JParis, and sold to the tabacco manufacturers. Say, Jone3! What's the matter with your eye? 'Oh! nothin', only my wife said , this morning, you'd better get up and light the Bre, I told her to make .it herself,' that's all.' fa .V "Do you keep matches ?" asked a wag,:lof a grocer. "Oh ! yes all kinds," was the reply. "Well, I'll take a trotting match," said the wag. 'i he grocer immediately handed liiin a box of pills. "Another comical endorsement of the Administration," is the way the New York Nation speaks of South Carolina's nomination af Grant. The other "comical endorsement" was given by "bleeding Kansas." All the thieves are for Grant. . . J y. i A celebrated French preacher, in a sermon lnnn ?1ia dnt.v of wives, said. 'I see in this congregation a woman who has been guilty )f disobedience to her husband, and in drier to point her out I will fling my breviary it her hca'd/ He lifted his book/ nnd:every emale head instantly ducked. A verdant youth of West Donegal townihip, Lancaster County, sent a dollar to New fork for a method of writing without pen ind ink. Flo received the following inscrip,ion, in large letters: 'Write with a pencil.' A gentleman died recently in Buckinglam county, Virginia, who owned at the surrender of Qen. Lee twenty two negroes, rwclve of them left him, but the other ten remained with and worked for him until the lay of his death, taking for their services just as s much as he chose to give them. At iris death, to show his appreciation of their services and his gratitude, he gave them his [arm, cn which they can all live comfort bly. A Texas colored jury, were told by the judge to retire and "find a verdict." They iveut to the jury-room. The sheriff and -. Knrs st;iniliiiG> outside. heard the oncninsr ind shutting of drawers, the slamming of loors, and other sounds of unusual commotion. At last the jury came back into tho jourt, when the foreman rose and said: "Massa Judge, we have done looked everywhar in the draws and behind the do', and i^an't found no verdic.' It waru't in the room." Tho Swiss Times has created a very ingenious story, in the name of M* Plantamour, the astronomer, who is said to have determined the path of a comet to be such, that' on the twelfth of August the earth must, of necessity, be in collision with the fiery messenger. This charming bit of sensation writing grows out of the simple fact that lbout the twelfth of August our little globe rrosscs the meteoric stream, which made so fine a display in 18G0, and which has some singular relation to the orbit of the comet of 18U2. S. J. Bestor, an occcntric gentleman of Elartford, regularly stumps all letters held for postage iu that city, attaching to the envelope a printed statement of the fact. The responses he has received would fill a large volume. A resident of Elizabeth, N. J., writes that Marcus L. Ward becauie Governor of that State through that course. A A Boston burglar says: "Bestor, - you're a gentlemanj I am?no matter what; but I got a letter you stamped just in time to dodge the beaks and be off. Here's a stamp, and if I ever happen in Hartford in a profes. sional way, I shan't crack your biu if I knows myself." Another Example.?The young men have another example of shipwreck in the painful experience of the Boston Post Office clerk, who has lately been detected in purloining valuable letters and approprating their contents to his own use. For more than two years, he has gone along smoothly in liis villaiy, sporting gaily with the brood of fast young men, and keeping his misdeeds out of sight, until he had embezzled some* i did lira nnil na lip l.hnmrlif. IWUI1LJ UlWUrauu 0 y pretty safely laid away a part of it for his future requirements. But lie greatly erred. The base deeds could not always be concealcd. A bold front would not save him. Lying and deception were no protection. The detestable thing must needs come out to the full gaze of beholders, and there wasnoremcHe has been arrested and Is now awaiting the issue of the trial for his foolishness and crime. Let young men read the lesson! There is no safety but in honest and fidelity. Do you see it. young man??Ar. J. Mechanic.