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THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. ' ax NIMPENDENT FAJIILV PAPKK, I'Uhi.isiikit nv -Ton iv i\. 151J sir^v \v. SPDSPlSliTlOX K AT ICS One your, in advance S2 "?0 Six months 1 "?(> Tlist months 7o Itfry Transient Advertisements must he paid for in advance. (From thel'Ii.uleslonNews.) The Hon. James L. Crr and the ' Hayno Family.'' A hki'i.v kkom tilk IloX. i. \\\ havxk. r ' ' I''-1 infoi'viovi' with VOT,. XXXI. CAirnEN, S. TIHT1!ST>AY, .TITJA' 35, 1872. NO.47 ?J UllgC WH..II1 y.oir reporter. after full notice that all lie uttered was intended for publication, has seen fit to single out (lie "llayne family," and represent it a ?,/><!/ r.mVAvi'v, a family of / /!tire ho/if< r.<. li' there was no malice. in this selection of Judge (:l"d I cannot con ccive why there should be) he is singularly unfortunate in his choice of the solitary example put forward to give point to his apologetic argument in favor of (?rant's nej.o tism. ,) udgo Orr says: The llayne family, l'.?r instance, 1 think seldom had less than twelve or fifteen of it.- branches in positions of power and trust." Why, the fat knight immortalized by Shakspcare, did not more cgrogiously multiply the ' men in huckram" than does .1 udoe Orr the llayuc family in this astounding amiouiiccinent. There were but two branches" of the I lay no family under the old regime. One ' branch" were descendants of my grandfather, Colonel Isaac Iftiync. hung by the I British in 17S1 as a rebel and secessionist; the other, the descendants of Abram llayne. who died about the same time in a British prison ship, lie, too, like his kinsman, being charged with disloyalty and (reason by those who were then in pnver. These, two were the only male adult Ilnyncs of their day. For more than a quarter of a century after their death, there was 110 llayne in olflcc in South Carolina ; and during ..liiftivr lid,] ve:irs which have elapsed ...t, since the death of those two, the llayues who have held office, State and Federal, all tuhl, do not number lift eon. Instead of twelve or fifteen at all times in olKec, we have, all told, less than that number in a period of ninety years. The "llaync family" have, at all events, left room enough for Judge Orr. That gentleman, though considerably my junior, has himself been a member of the State Legislature, a member of the ITiited States Congfress, speaker of the House of Kcprcscutatives of that body, member of the Secession (invention, commissioner from seceded South Carolina to the government at Wash ington, Confederate Colonel of the finest regiment I ever saw, (which, however, lie never led into battle.) Senator from South Carolina to the Congress of the Confederate States, delegate to tlie National Democratic Convention at Philadelphia, head center of Andy Johson's llcconstruction Convention, first tSoveruor und the (.'onstitution then adopted, holding on by tolerance of (leneral Sickles after the ant!-Johnson Ilcconstruction Act. helping in the formation of the Constitution now of force, and now a judge under it. 1 am surprised that a gentleman so various and so versatile?as the Hermans say, so uinany_ sided"?and successful in every change?a man so eminently a fire man as wl.rtiil/l |..,L ii,(r Mllinmr fussils tiuwjiv; WI1 CHUUIU MV v..n ami dead men's bones. It' the "Ilayne family" alluded to by Judge Orr were ever a power in the State, they certainly are not so now, aud it woul.d have been kinder of Judge Orr to have let them alone. Though hr niay have cut. loose from all memories of the past, it affords no good excuse for needlessly and unprovoked!)' pitching into those who have only these memoriesleft t?cherish. At all events, he should have been '-.sure lie \yas right" before lie "went ahead." Judge Orr says that he is surfeited with office, and will never more submit to the in tliction of holding one. 1 heard him say the same thing eleven years ago to the interesting regiment he then commanded, and whose fate was soon after so niclacholy. lie told them that he was more than satisfied with public honors, and had uit.'/irtuf ambit inn. His only care, he said, was to do his </?.'// to them and to his country. Within six months after this speech his regiment was turned over to lifc brother-in-law, Colonel Marshall, who, with all the field officers, and half the regiment were killed in Virginia and the next campaign ex-Colonel Orr lived t? he Confederate Suites Senator, Coventor, J udge, itc.f and "John llrowu's soul goes marching on." His last cue is, with the aid of Corhin, liowcu, and J'resident (J rant, to scourge the money-changers from the Temple, and to send packing the thieves whom he Corhin, ihnven and 11 rant helped 11 put in office. In this work may (hid speed him. I would hcjp a good work though the devil hid, and there is no telling whom the Lord may tfhoi.se as His instruments. I. \\\ IIaynk. Fkaufui. Aooiuknt on a Fuk.wii Railway.?Juvisy, on the line from Orleans to J'aris, has recently been the scene of a catastrophe singularly resembling that which befell the Irish mail in Kugluiid three or four years ago. A luggage train was shilling, at the Juvisy Junction, when it was run into at terrific speed by tiio IJordeaux cxlo-ess. The shock, the journals say, was uwful, and the engine and leading carriage ol' (I e passenger train mounted 011 the smashed wagons, the lading of which was dried hark. Ignited hy the burning coals from t he furnace, the bark blazed furiously, and in a low moments it was impossible to give any outside aid to those in the flamc-surrounded carriages. The (ire seems to have burned itself out very fiercely and quickly ; and when it moderated a frightful spectacle --so oye-witnesses state?was to be seen; scattered limbs, horribly mutilated bodies, contorted and blackened by the heat, remains fiom which all semblance of humanity bad departe 1 in the flames, and fragments pi' clothing which suggested still more complete destruction. The first accounts may piay havo been somewhat exaggerated, but the number of dead does not seem yet tc have been assortaincd . Josh Billings says lie never knew a dot of any breed whatsuuicvor to take hyderfobj after* he bad been thoroughly vaccinatoc with buckshot. ' " ? 1 ir.ir. I I r, v-ci-i.. . . Death of Linton Stephens. The community of' Augusta has been shocked and inexpressibly pained, by the intelligence of (lie death of this eminent (Jeorgian. He died on Sunday evening, about 5 o'clock, at his home in Sparta, of congest ion of the lungs, after an illness of two days.? The news cauie without warning, and was a most sorrowful surprise to our citizens. Hut a few weeks ago Judge Stephens was here in the power and majesty of his splendid intellect. I lis appearance then will long ho remembered for it was at a public meeting of our citizens, and he displayed on that oc?: k.ih.iI viirnr. hrilliancv UU^iUll hum i; in.in 1110 ??.- ? .p -., ? , ami terseness, as a logician ami a public orator. Though a majority-difi'ored with liiiu in some of his opinions, all united in admiring his ahilities and his eloquent appeals in behalf of popular rights,- All conceded a witling homage to his high motives and zealous patriotism. As a jurist of profound auylitieal power. olTdoardiscrimination.ami<d'e.\tended le.iru ing, lie stood in the front rank and acquired an enduring fame. The .Supreme Court- lleporls of Georgia, while ho was a Judge on the bench of that high tribunal, bear witness of bis abilities and learning. This period embraced but a short portion of his brilliant proiWhmal career. He had for many years been roceguii zed as one of Georgia's most c!o pient advocates, and his memory is indiss duhly associated with leading cases in whiv.li ho had figured as counsel, in the civil and criminal annals of the State. A more detailed sketch of his professional career, and the leading part he has long borne in in the politics-of the .State, and in its legislative history, will be produced lie-e after by competent hands. lie was a graduate of the university of (ieorgia,a prominent member of the legislature for several sessions, a Judge of the Supreme Court for a number of years, anil Lieutenant Colonel during the late war of the regiment of which J udge Thouias \V. Thomas was colonel. (leorg'a has lost one of her noblest sons, the legal jriofession one of its brightest ornaments, the social circle a gentleman of < many genial (|Ualities. lie was a true man and a thorough gentleman, lie bad many warm friends an I admirers. 'J'o his stricken * family and home the loss is irreparable and overwhelming. In this sail hour, the thoughts of a nation 1 travel in tender sympathy to that distinguished surviving brother who loved him so tenderly and who was so justly proud of him. Wc will not obtrude upon the sanctity of that grief. It is not from this world, profound and heartfelt as are its sympathies, solace and comfort can be derived in this sorrowful hour. In.the presence of this solemn event the voice of faction is hushed. The conflicts of opinion subside. Kvery heart in our broad State hows down in awe, and reverently feels 4 clisnliiu'c u'n tun1. Wlltll 'dliUUHW >J WMM lUj HilUVl7IIHVIVU? HV sue."?Auyttstu t'unslitutionulist, A Rain of Bones?A Strange Phenomenon If the .statements of some of the residents of Louisiana are to he credited. Paine Nature i has recently been playing strange pranks in that part of the country. A writer to the New York Jourir.il of Commerce, whose veracity and good standing is vouched for by the editor of that paper, gives the following particulars of a .-(range phenomenon that occurred in Carroll Parish, last month. lie says that a heavy storm visited that parish sonic days previous to the date of writing, the 21st, and during the storm fish bones fell to the ground by the million. The bones seemed to come from an exceedingly large black cloud that was passing at the time. The shower of bones was attended by a heavy fall of rain. The correspondent says that the hones rattled on the roof of his house like hailstones. This strange phenomenon extended over a belt of country ton miles in width by many miles in loti'Mli Accoiiinanviiiir the letter O -- - I J C.J were several of the h mcs, varying in length from one t > two ami one-sixteenth inches, from seven-sixteenths to twelve sixteenths of an inch in thickness. They arc of an irregular diamond shape. One side of the bones is nearly flat, having on the under side which* is worn smooth, three small apertures, as if veins or tendons had passed through* them. These specimens have been shown to experienced c6ast fishermen, and also to learned ichthyologists, but they are not aide.to ascertain what particular kind of lisli the bones belonged to. They all agree, however, in the opinion that they are veritable fish bones. Several theories have been advanced in explanation of this strange phenomenon.? It is generally conceded however, that the houes must have passed through the air for hundreds and perhaps thousands of miles.? The inhabitants of the parish believe that they were brought l?y a waterspout or a whirlwind from the western c >xst of Mexico or Lower California, across the couiinout, as dm wind was lilftwin" at the time violently from the South-east. A\ e have heard of its raining cats ami (loos, but fish-bone showers are some!hiny altogether unprecedented. An Appeal to Southern People. The Southern-Cross brotherhood of Jlichinond Yn., have issued a circular appealing to the Southern people to aid them in rais-' ing sufficient funds, (several thousand dol-' lars are needed.) to remove the bodies of Confederate soldicrs-fromdcttysburg to Hollywood Cemetery. The circular says: "Our order is composed of Con federate soldiers alone, who had an unblemished rep, utation during the war. Its objects are to perpetuate the memory and heroism of our fallen comrades, to aid the families of our for; uicr brethren in arms who need assistance, r and to try to preserve the truth and purity 1 of history. We arc now specially engaged in the sa i * "/awMagrjM. r?rr wrmM-rmmi cred duly of raising funds to assist the ilolywood Memorial Association in rcmovinir tlic remains of our noble dead from (Ictlysburg and other points, where (hey are noirleelcd and i nisi real cd In Hollywood Ceinc(ery, near t/iis city, where through the nil tiring efforts of' our ladies, an honorable resting place is provided, and an enduring nionuinent erected to their memory; and where, protected and cared for, they can yearly receive the honors received on our "Memorial lby,'' iti decorating their graves with flowers. There are yet at (icttysburg the remains of near ona thousand hi lics* they arc from nearly all the States, and when we say, in some instances, the heart less wretches in the vicinity where they fell, arc plonehinir their lcuies abuut as if ihev 1 ' i... ,1. . M? .] W'l'l'l! UOgS, It IS CUOUgu m iii.i.m; iii< ?. decent Immunity boil and I ho p ( kct of all who arc :i.?t false to feeling, false to principle, false to a cause once dear, open, to remove these heroes IV mi such indignity and humanity. Lite whatever hands this appeal falls, we bog you to aid us in this cause, in which our whole soul is enlisted. Ask your friends to aid you. Do.not hesitate because you cannot give mntdi; rcn.ember, as drops make an ocean, so vany small contributions make a goodly sum. Mr. J. Lawrence Honour, Last Hay. will be most happy to receive subscriptions,, and promptly forward them to the proper partics in Richmond. Warning to Southern Men. Now that the Presidential campaign has begun in in earnest, we shall hear from the Southern States, frequent rumors of disorders and bin Klux outrages. These rumors will not be so frequent as they would have been, bad Congress adopted the i'resident's pet scheme of buying up the telegraph lines, and putting them under the management of the Post Office Department; hut even in private hands the telegraph is not infallible; operators and reporters arc subject to like passions with other inch; and the desire for a startling item, which is constant iu the repeater's bosom, wiH ludp the manufacturers of spurious news. For uio?t!is past the common testimony ot all lias declared the South as peaceful as Massachusetts. The Ku Klux organization is known to have been absolutely abandoned. The South, we know, yearns for peace, and Southern men arc doing all in their power to secure it. On all accounts we welcome the purpose and the practice, Rut do they realize how important it is that they should be on.their guard, and conduct themselves during the canvass with uncommon prudence? There will not be wauling base persons, ready and eager to in (lame old wounds, to bring on collisions between whites and blacks, or between Republicans and Democrats, and they may be certain that from now ) till next November every affair of fisticuffs in any Southern State will be magnified by the Grant papers into a new Rebellion, and every murder or wounding made to appear to the Northern public as another Ku Kltlx outrage. If a negro laborer is discharged, some one will bo found to rcprcsct this as a prescription for principle's sake; and we do not doubt that before three weeks are over the j Grant press will teem daily with reports of murderous Ku Klux assassinations and a desperate attempt will be made to alarm the Northern voters, by pictures of disorder and lawlessness in the South. The truth is, a o.-mhI. snuare. niece of lawlessness and violence I n : i * a # f in the South would just now be ;i God-send to the Grant party. If they could prove, within tlie next- two month.--, that a half d > /.. en negroes-had boon burned at the stake in Alabama; and that a number of' white women and children attended the incremation, and waved Confederate flans over the flames. Grant's fuglemen would a't once ''Thank God, and take courage." They are just now a little blue and disheartened, and stand badly in need of something of this kind, for they have no arguments to offer. Wc trust Southern Democrats will uive no occasion for evil reports. It-is their duty, as citizens of a free country. and as the more influential citizens of their States, not merely to keep the peace themselves, but. to see that it is kept. They have a right freely to vote themselves, and it is their duty to see that their opponents freely exercise the same right. They have a right peacefully to discuss the political questions at issue in the campaign; and we cannot, but believe that they can pros .ml to their own people so forcible a case as to carry with them the greater part of the independent voters of their States. Dut their opponents have the same right of peaceable discussion; and wherever rowdies or evil disposed persons may attempt :. i ?P..-., ...J#], ?l,;u vliOif firmllioi-n TOIMH.I. Id miuriuitj ?uu viiK crats ought to he the lirst and most conspicuous to interpose their protecting arm. There is but one thing, as we believe, and as inauy of the Grant managers believe, that can re elect Grant; and that is a new outbreak of violence in the .Southern Stales; or, what would answer the same purpose, such plausible lalse reports of violence iu the South as would thoroughly alarm the Northern mind. The Grant leaders and managers arc everywhere talking about "the Kcbclliou" Tbatis tlieir principal stock-in-trade. Tlicy appeal to tlie ' Union sentiment." .They curVy favor with the "Union Soldiers" as though I those had not, seven years ago, become citi| zens; they are doing their worst to preach ! up a new crusade against the South- It bci longs to the Southern Democrats to defeat this atrocious and unpatriotic plot; and the way to do it is to maintain?as they can? even better order in the South than is observed in the North. And for the rest, when a lie is reported-, let it be at once fully and authoritatively proved to he n lie. That can j and ought to he d ine. ? .V. ]r. TriLnim. Editing a paper is very much like carrying an umbrella ott a windy day : Everybody thinks be could manage better than tin one who has hold of the handle. 3 A Warxi.no.'?Some curious experiments have, according to the Murtin, been made by a doctor of Monlpcllier, to ascertain the effects of wine, brandy and absinthe on fowls. Any floubts which may have been entertained as to the disinclination of the birds to adopt intemperate habits were speedily dispelled, for they took to dram drinking with evident delight, and many an old cock in the chickcn-hansc proved himself quite capable uf consuming lii.s bottle a day. It was found necessary at last to limit the allowance of wine and * pints for each bird to six cubic c mtina tres of alcohol, or from twelve to fifteen of wine daily. The result was that they !:?( flc. h rapidly, more especially those who drank. Two months of absinthe drinking w.;s found sulfi-ient to kill the strongest cri?sk or hen. Tin fowls who indulged in* brandy alone lasted, however, four months an I a half; while the wincbibbers survived for ten months. It was not only their health which was affected by al-ohol; their personal appearance underwent an extraordinary change. An immense development of cocks' crests took plncc. The crests, it is stated, increased to four times their original size, and assumed a hue of unnatural brightness? probably on the same principle that the noses of confirmed drunkards become prematurely large and red. It is doubtful whether man is justified in trying experiments in drunkenness with the dumb creation merely with the view of ascertaining how far lie may veilto get drunk with impunity; hut, having proceeded thus far, he may as well go a step further, and, by the introduction of the teapot into the henhouse, find out whether there is any ground for the suspicion entertained in some quarters as to the innocent properties of tea. A few experiments also in "late hours" might he made with advantage at the same time. A party of carefully-selected cocks and hens might he allowed to uiingle in the festivities of the London season, returning to their roosts at the hour when thcyusually commence to cackle and crow. It would possibly he found that one week of "political re-mi ions," concerts, halls and crushes would he as disastrous in its effects, as two months of absinthe drinking. J'til/ M?H duznltr. A Fataf. Jokk.?IJcnry Taggart, a bakor at No. 8(57 Pacific stacct. Hrouklyn, was shot and mortally wounded, yesterday afternoon, in the liquor saloon of Wm. Quailly, at No. 755 Pacific street, by the sou ot" the proprietor, Thomas Quailly, aged 18. Taggart went into the bar-room and cal!ed""fur a drink, and. alter swallowing it, went into a backroom in which young Quailly was standing with an old musket in his hand. As Taggait entered. Quailly point.d the musket at him, and jokingly said, "What would you say if I was to shoot you now?" Taggart shouted. "Look out what you arc doing," and at the same time raised his hands in evident alarm. Directly afterward a hall from the musket struck him in the right eye and emerged at the back of his head. Quailly dropped the musket upon the iloor and lied from the saloon. His lather ran in from the outside apartment, and lifting the dying man from the floor, endeavored to stop th How of blood, with-.TUt success. The police !itt*.iiviiml ;iiul omivovod T.-urvart to the | City Hospital, where lie died ile resided in Twenty-first street, New York, and had been married two weeks. Qua illy escaped. ?.V. 1". Tribune. July 12. An Ait-kai. to the Humanity ok the SolJTIIKttN I'kol'i.k.?lye ('imp, Ao. 1. South' en ('/ >.;.< lli<>thryhnc><ly RirhnmnJ,, If/., July, l.s72.?Our order is composed of Confederate soldiers alone, who had utt unblemished record during Hie war. lt.so)>jee(s are to perpetuate the memory and heroism of our fallen comrades, to aid the families of onr former brethren in arms who need assistance, and to try and preserve the truth and purity of history. We arc now specially engaged in the sa' * n - " 'i ' ' l ir.il 1 rrccl duty i?l raiding liinu.s io assist, Jiouywuou Mc:norial Association in removing ta remains of our noble dead from Gettysburg and other points where they arc neglected and mistreated, to Holy wood Cemetery,near this city, where, through the uiitiring'cfforts cd our ladies, an honorable resting place is provided, and an enduring monument erected to their memory; and where, protected and eared for, they can yearly receive the honor bestowed on Our ''Memorial Day in decorating their graves with flowers. There are at-Gettysburg the remains of near one thousand bodies; they arc from nearly all the States; and when we say. in some instances, the heartless wretches of the vicinity where they fell and lie arc plowing their bones about as "if they were dogs, it is enough to make the blood of decent humanity boil, and the pocket?of all who arc not fal c to feeling-?false to principle?false to a cause once dear.?open to remove these heroes from such, indignity and inhumanity. Some of these men are from your State; some of them have been your dear friends or your own kin; all of them lost their lives in your defense. You professed tu love them while living; professed t" love the cause for which they died. Shall their remains bo dishonored when they lost their life for you '{ Will you not aid us to remove them to a safe and sacred sp-it where I lie warm, noble hearts and gentle care of Virginia women eau * watch over them? Into whatever hands this appeal falls, we beg you to aid us lit this cause, in which our whole sotil is enlisted. Ask your friends to aid you. |)a not hesitate because you cannot give much; remember, as drops make an ocean, so many small cuiitriImltiktli! U?ill tli'lbn ?! ? ?'< W 11 ! V* 54 11 *11 _ Can't ymi spare a day or .so to canvass specially for tills purpose '! Tt is necessary to raise several thousand ill liars lo accomplish our purpose, hut we do not hesitate to undertake it. as we cannot think .Southern pe ?p!c will close their hearts and pockets to so sacred an appeal. Remit all iiontrihiilioiis to V/. C. (*:irrin*r(nii, care I'iciiin nit and Arlington hike Insurance Company, Richmond, Ya., he beiiijj Chairman of llift Committee. Plats.! act promptly; give as liberally as you can, hut give something, and Ictus bring our brothers away from hostile lands and Northern soil. W. Carringtrfn, W. Kllis Jones, 11. M. Arfbstrong, J. If. Patton, 'C. W. Volkman, Committee. A Cor.onKu IIkckimt.?Col. W. W. Sanap diiwiimaiia 11'lla n?no alio r\f flu* UUia, Ul I l?l ILI lllwl v/? V> lli? ?il.T "IIU ??? UI\. vimiw electors, published a letter during the sitting of'the Convention, giving his reasons for quitting the (Jrant party, and pledging his support to "that grand old veteran of equal s rights, Horace Greeley, whose record and : whose life is a sulficient guarantee that- the rights of all men will he protected under his administration." A correspondent who has ] since''interviewed" him, report/him assay- : itig that it would be a fatal policy for his race to vote as a unit for a sinking party, and. that, as most of them live in the South, they should cultivate the good will of the whites among whom "they live. A man of more pretension might utter a less sensible thing. i But his letter renouncing Grant and resigning his honorable position as elector appears to have inflamed the Radicals even more than the brilliant success of the Baltimore Convention. The Baltimore American bestows more th in a column on him. The ' Washington Cffronick, edited by the pious Senator assails him in a half dozen articles? 1 editorial and communicated. i It would seem from these loyal sheets tha^ I their late friend and associate is one of the 1 most disreputable characters in the land, although lie is black. It is not denied that , he was so intelligent, so respectable, and so entirely enjoyed the confidence of liis race. s that he was selected as elector both in com- , plimcnt to him and to them. lint now they insinuate that he misappropriated the proceeds of' a pie-nic, and put in his pockets ] $20,01)0 which was raised at a meeting held 1 in honor of Emancipation. The pious liar- ( lan, in recording these naughty deeds, turns 5 up his eyes, and wonders not so much at his ^ leaving the electoral ticket as at having been ( put on it. ( The furious abuse of this poor colored man for daring to avow'his preference for his 1 lifelong friend, Greeley, over Grant, is in- , tended to deter others from following his ex- < ample. But negroes, like the officer-holders, j 'sec which way the wind is blowing, and by degrees they will muster courage to act for themselves.?Richmond Whig. . ' IIotnr. Likk in St. Louis.?I am attach- c ed to my quarters, and yet I'll have to leave. 1 It is altogether too lively for a quiet man. v There arc about 100 dining-room girls, and the corridor on my floor has, by'mutual consent, been selected as the ground for the nightly settlement ot disputes. Tli cat fight ^ begins between two, about anything or nothing, and in a short time involves the j entire force, including clerks, stewards and j I landlords. It was exciting for the lirst ten s | or a dozen nights, iml it is getting monoto- j nous. Besides this, (here is a pretty dirercod woman on the same floor, and her discarded cut throat?an ill-looking dog, with murderous grey eyes?still fancies it is his i duty to exercise a Sort of supervision over the goings and coinings, and doings and say- i ings of niadame. This meddlesome scoundrel hangs about the hotel catechising the i servants, and indulges in threats of cutting iiearts out. If he learns that his cx-wife has paid a -visit to the ice-cream saloon in com- J pany with a male friend, his ferocious appetite for hearts" is stimulated. The other i night the lady was guilty of playing a game ( or two of chess with the Doctor, and the cut-throat is hot on the trail of the medical ' heart, threatening to scoop out that noble on trail in its entirety of auricles, ventricles and pericardium. The l)oetor lias changed j his hoarding-house, and I think I'll chaige mine?not that it's anything to me ,ouly the heart-cutter is liable to make mistakes 1 in his emotional insanity, and I don't care 1 about bartering that portion of my viscera- ] for nothing. < ('nr. Giacuuutli. Convm rciul. ' Sklf-TormKxt.?More than half of this J world is solf-nfleeted, People raise evil ! spirits, indulge blue, devils?and itnagiuary 1 evils, t ill they lash themselves into bona fide 1 despair. Of this class of self tormentors ' was the good honest kitchen maid whom her | mistress found weeping bitterly in the kitchen. The heated oven had cooled, the batch ot bipad ready for baking # was filling | the pans from Uic "high estate" to which yeast had raised it, and ]>ctty was sobbing | as if her heart would break ; , What is the jnatter, ' Why (sobs) just as I Iwid got tbo oven nitc and hot," (sobs againg.) ( ' Well," said tbc mistress, frightened,{ did you bum yourself?" "Ao ma'am, 1,happened to thinjc"?(sobs.) ' Well, 1 jetty" ' That if I should ever get married"? "Von wouldn't cry at that, certainly." "And should have a nice little baby"? "Well well,"And it snail just go alone, boo-oo-o! and I shall get the ovon hot, boo-oU-o!?and should crawl in, boo-oo-o*! it would bum itself to death b w-oo-o ?" Tlu Clnvcrnirfent having g.?ne to the j springs, the seaside, and the devil, h:s excel- < I.'iioy the President" lias assigned to certain i lioail.s nfburcatis, chief clerks, ami sueli, the ( duty of earn ing u:i the departments. There ; arc t\vy seas >ns in which our :uliniiiistration ( seeks rep.isj! 1'roiu its^iiranlfb labors?one is that which precedes the holidays, and the other tliat?\vhieh lullows. There is a liorsc in California which, when he is thirsty. pulls I lie ban# out of a water barrel ami Imlps himself. I fc learned the proc-'s by wal-him: the-treatment of other hands by bis owner. ADVERTISING RATES. 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Kentucky papers says: "The famouB Dr. Mary Walker, Esq., spent her youthful davs iu manufacturing compound cathartic pills in Breckinridge County. An Irish editor says ho -can see no earthly reason why women should not be allowed to become medical men. Bad cooking on the part of the wife ii held by a Texas Judge to be good ground for divorce. If this ruling obtains throughout the country the lawyers will all get rich. An enthusiastic editor, speaking of a new prima donna, say: "Her voice is as soft as \ roll of velvet and as tender as a pair of ilop shop pantaloons." . A little boy accosted his papa thttS: Papa, are you growing still ?" "No dear: vhat makes you think so ?" "Because the apofyour head is coming through your hair." "Father, why don't we ever see any-facel it the window ?" asked a son of his parent, is they were pasing an insane asylum. Because their heads are turned," was tho iffcctionate father's reply. George Francis Train he'd a !evee at Jarratt's llotel, Petersburg, Va., Saturday morn-ng between breakfast time and the leaving 3t the luChmond tram at 11 o clock. A special reporter of the Index counted the ,-isitors who rushed up to clasp hands with -he next President of America. They amounted to exactly?0 One?, during the war, BarnnmJ was at Washington exhibiting General TomfThumb md Admiral Nutt. Mr. Lincoln said: 'You have some very small generals, but I ;hink I can beat you. A Louisville (Ky.) opium eater (a wcllcnown citizon, by the way,) was supposed to lavcdicd, the other night, in a fit of intoxi' ation produced by his favorite drug, aud ireparations for his funeral wero going on vhen he returned to consciousness. He has 'sworu ofF," and. his friends rejoice. A colored preacher at Sparta, Georgia, ouic time ago was heard to say in a funeral lermon of a deceased bruddcr; "He rumin ites no longer among us; he have exonoratcd 'rom the syllogisms of this world'a discrimnation, and when he gets to de cold, dry # "1 T 1?_ it . Tr J areani 01 uc river ooruin me rveroeines anu Pcriphcns will meet him dare to row him Dver on dry land to the silvcrstering city. Walnut stumps have become an article of merchandise, and many of them are very valuable. The curly grain of tho roots is ised for veneering^ and some stumps are worth one hundred and fifty dollars after be ng properly worked into shape. Gen. D. W. Adams, who died recently at .Vow Orleans, was wounded at the battle of iShiloh, and supposed to be dead, was, with many others who were being conveyed to Oorinth, thrown out into the mad to lighten the wagon. Some stragglers passing shortly lfterwards detected signs of life in the supposed dead man, recognized him, though covered with mud and blood, earned him into Corinth, wluire good nursing brought liim round, A party of young bloods from Lexington, while on a visit to St. Louis at the Saengerlest, a few days ago were arrested by some pretended policemen and carried to a pretended station-house on the charge of carry- . ing concealed weapons. Here their arms tvcrc taken from th.'iu, and they were rejuired to deposit twenty-five dollars in cashis security fo. their appearance next morning. They appeared, but their accusers did lint; and tlicv awoke from their unhappy lroatu to find that they were good and lawibiding men?minus, however, their pistols ind their greenbacks. Great Bee Fight ?Captain Brown of this cky recently robbed three hives, and Dr. West, a neighbor robbed four. The bees thus deprived of the fruit of thoir labor became furious, and uuiting, forming an army of seven liivps, they invaded the premises of Mr. Horace Bledsoe, and making a furious uttaclc upon five of his hives. Bledsoe's bees were taken by surprise, and although outnumbered fought with desperation for their homes. The battle lasted several hours, and four of the Bledsoe hives wcro literally destroyed. The invaders were finally repulsed after being almost literally annihilated. It was the bloodiest bee battle on record, and deserves to be handed down to posterity.? liltlUWC iih^uku A college student, u? :i discussion with a professor as to whether the sense of seeing ur that of touch was the most delicate of the senses, maintained th t the sense of touch ivas. '-What proof have you of this ?" askod the professor. "Why," responded the student, "there's my chum's moustache; he's all the time feeling of it, and nobody has ever been able to see it." Scotland has a newspaper which is printcdon the road from Edinburgch to Glasgow, in a wagon belonging to the paper, which contains a printing machine, eases of type, and quick compositors. During the journey the edition for the provinces is worked off, with the addition of the news and telegrams received on. the road.