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Til CAMDIM JWMfc-H * XU? 8TOfflffia NDEPJiXBEJST FAMILY PAPEB, ?HA'> H ;i>uai&sinjD fefr * * ' J JOHN KEttSHA.W. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, in alliance L $2 SO Six months j- 1 50 Three months... 75 toajT Transient Advertisements must t|e paid or in advance. OFFICE G. W. P., G. D. of S. fc. Camden, S. C., Oct. 2G, 1*72. ; To flw. D. G. W. Pa., Officers ami Members of our Order in S. C. j The Grand Division at its recent annual session elected me ,to this high position, to succeed ? most cfficiqnt bruthor, who; j\i|lv pcffbrMWd Ids duttw H?d through [whose ?...V. ivu Ain? in iiniharalcfi of / V . - . ; 1 1 VOL,. XXXII, CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1872. IVoJ.lt,* . i * . : - WWW NI14OW n? ... our aim during the past yosr. T desike, by the Mesmpg'of Qnd; to accomplish still luor? j ?ii4 iiutt.u atop until uufU unfurled iti every county, and the influence of oiur noble Order be felt in every village, toran end city in cur Common wealth. Brethren; this can bo done if wc go to work energetically. The harvest >? great; the labovflFK nrp few. The oud to bo attained Is worthy of "every effort, t Let every Deputy Grand worthy Patriarch, Worthy Patriarch and member Tool his responsib'lity and put on his armour determined to win the prize of reclaiming our beloved ?tato frfUM the debasing,} scub J dostpoying habits of iDtpmppvanffe, anil espooially onll?t flirt influence of woman, the ministering angel in every work of. Mercy, who moulds the character of the young, and , Miitfpl. to n grpr.t ostput tlio njn#?l iutfuour oes In ovury oommunity and neighborhood. Direct your efforts to the young; oh ! try to save the youth of the land. Work |ivbilc ,the day lasts.. Jty concerted, unitod action, _ tbfl good seed sown will spring up w?<j benr iVujf. to bless OUF children, and hplp w ps|l?F ! i.,nrr.lnnkn/f?frip dav of millsiiia) tlopy, ( IU Htw ^ ^ when this earth shaM be filjed with the glory j of God, as the waters cover the face of the % deep. -Rcantfnber tfcatb'quor <Wnker? and J dmut-sh?)p?, however ggrgcowty, dwefrated , - and fohfonubto, art wtfl dc3troy% nnfl He j at the foundation of crime and misery. Bo . wise as the serpent, but full of zeal, .always ( striving to do good. V j j To this end be punctual in attending the weekly mooting! uf yrtW- diyjjnqR. ppjpnpss j ' and ftrdlffoyeneo begins by fbiflnji to , meet with your brethren. Very few tiola- ( tions of the pledge will be found among th$ ^ punctual. I Make your division room attract* Jyp. B^pjoiw willing: to spend fi*nej and piopey* tofurtho? vlptqa antf sqfcrUtjr jMlUjl, t) the votaries of drink and liquor filing nVa' to secure pn imaginary good, but jfliloli is , by the great majority of those who use Intoxicating drinks an acknowledged eyi!.?'J'py to pl^ngp thu -Volume of currency from ' * oricjd boil vis? io den our cartli and make It bud and blossom as the rose of Sharon. Oh, that efo?y valley, hill and mountain in South Carolina j was free from the contaminating influences of alcohol! Thfln, indeed-would W?, ilndfif t-hfl lenigu influences of Glirist:f|ijUy, bo thiii j ? happy people whoso God i* tin) Lord. Yours, in Love, Purity and Fidelity, I - 4 U'A. M. KfcNNtfnf, G. W. P. ? . < -7^ %Tt; 4 - i , JFbe Mys.tsr y Qf i i . v? ' vi' _ 1 v.l A '* STRANGE EXPERIMENTS IN SUSPENSION . : .. OF ANIMATION. j S A Paris World correspondent thus de-, scribes Proof, Mullers expriuienta on some | Communist prisoners in ppof of bin theory 1 of suspended animation i ? > I Professor Muller, of Weissnieht, in experi. , menting upon the muscles of the higher , quadrupeds, dogs, rabbits, 4c., found that ; muscles separated from the body of the aoi- ] inn) might be kept fop Jong periods in a styte ] of suspended vitality and bo restored to thai* , contractile state so as to respond to oloctrical currents or even to irritattion of their nerves. As the musclo of a dog, rabbit or ox passed | into the dry state it contracted more slowly. , like tl?ut of a reptile, an eel or tqrtle, for iq? | itanco, and dually lost the fliPwlty ot uontraPr ' tion altogether. From this dead stats hn was ablo to bring it back after Jofig periods , of inaction to its originial active and living condition by a method which he had discov- ' erod. He reasoned that if he oould secure I this result on tho muscles of au unm'uiiktod animal, at tho same time preventing the ' . coagulation of the blood, the animal might ' I . -I X :J __.l J..J I ' l> Kept urrpiu mu uuuu iui an n>uv>?.n. period and be restored to life- and activity j by approprjttp lue^pa kpoffu iq phjMPlQ: , gW. . . ; Tho prisoners wore placed in one of the dead hong*, or directing r? onii, on wooden tables; chloroform was administered, as both eagerly craved it, and they were bled till the movements of the heart wore very faintly audible to the ear placed over it on tho chest. Tbo solution of the pal* ir?? thpn ?njc?ted into an artery in the arm, and th? wi.igl&d blood and solution was again abstracted until the heart ceased to beat. Currents of warm, dry air were then admitted into the room from the furnaces designed for heating in wintPFi tbp firep bcjne; kept in full blast for many days, This was continued until the body gradually shrivelled, the skin be u coming yellow like leather. It did uot crack or break when pinched up, but resumed its smoothness when the pressure was removed. The *yu hails Waui* ysll?V Hilt] onntjMe.=One-tnivd of the original weight of tho body was in the case of Dodu, a little over onefouth in the case of Brun. In this state ' they remained at a moderate temperaturo, the fij-es in the furnace having been.brought ?' 1 ih a fKvan rnnnflia Kdil JOW, until tin# pitpiiftHr-* niift; Mvnrus n:t~ elapsed. Nut the slightest tendanoy to putrefaction was observed, owing to the preservative virtues vof the calx. In the i ?reserve of savans mentioned and of certain yff'frjN designated by "the government, auionp wliotn wui-a the wPCppr of tjjo prjgon of La lloquette and the Fro/cct of/Foiiofl, tlic process of revivification was commenced. JtJood was drawn from the arms of two healthy laborers in an adjoining room and injected tl into the old woundj in the atn.ef Dodu. * ~ The aVtery was then* tica.' After 'the body . had recovered its natural ffwh the galvanic battery wxs applied to the region of the lifftrt- ' Strange to.relate one of tho prisoners, Brown, was restored to perfect health, and ? is now in 8witxerland. He had been "suspended" for three months. No decay was manifest. But he oomplained of sorem 4 , SHELBY'S EXPEDITION TO MEXICO AN UNWRITTEN LEAP OP OUR CIVIL WAR. Immediately after the collapse of the Southern Confederacy, one of the most prominout Confederate Generals on duty in the Trans.Mississippi Department?Gen. Joseph Shelby?went to Mexico with about two hundred and fifty armed followers, mostly MittQQriftOU, with tho avowod intention of titling with them i.i that country. That the cuterprise proved unfortunate, and that the men engaged in it met with many peril. ou3 adventures and personal mishaps, sre facts well known in general, hut not as to ( details. Que of those followers of Shelby is , now publishing In the Kansas City (Mo.) Timet a series of letters about what happen- ( od to them on the "other side of the Grande" | of great interest, bringing to light much that j was not publicly known before, am] from 1 one of the coniiminiClUiflna Mtu Mlowlng ac- j eotjqt tif an attaok by Mexican bandits some j days after the men had left Monterey for ( San Louis de Potosi. is taken ; , The column had roflRhod to within two j | dityn' Journay of Lnmpnsa. Some spurs of . tho mountain fan down to tho road, and t some clusters of palm trees grouped them- ( selves at intervals by the way side. The c paint is a pensive tree, having a voieo in the j wind that is paddor than thp pinQ-?a Sober, . iAlowh volfft Ilk* the sound of muffled oore- r ments whan tbe oorpse is given to the ooffin. Kvtsp ip the sunlight they are dark, even in T :bo tropics no vine olings to them, no bios- f mm is horn td them, no bird is housed by ? ;bem, and no fluttor of wings M15WP , b)i therg, Strang and ebapoly and ooldly ind ohasto, they aoom like human and deso- t iate belqgs, standing all alone in the midst )f luxurious nature, unblessed of the soil and unloved of the dew and the sunshine. Tn a 8 jjrove of these the po|qi?in halted for (ha j light, hlttyond thorn wa? a pans guarded j, l>y crosses. In that treacherous land these 0 $r?:VgroYth *di.eenous iti the soil They \ iourish nowhere elso in such abundance. , Wherever a.deed of violence is done a y jfowi |9 placed; wbofcycf it trawlu? is loft t Hjxyi b|s t^co In a pool of blooa a cross is ropradj yherever a grave is made wherein j, lies the mprderod one, therp is, seen a cross. ? o mattor who does the deed?whether In- y lisn or llog, or ooinmandanto; a crops Dark thfl snot: ?lld fifl Hi? pious wayforor ? journeys by no lays all reverently a stone at a the feet ot the saored symbols, beathing a ? pious prayer and telling a bead or two for 0 the soul's salvation. Oh the left a wooded c bluff ran down abruptly to a stroqtq, T^pT ^ ?pi} tljji near iho twin*, a -grassy t bottom spread itiolf out, soft and graceful. Hero the blunkets were spread, and here the r| horses grazed their fill. (l A joun^moon, clear and white, hung low tti tiM? f| FTfqbnl fflllafibo beams thai lovora seek, j tnd full^of the voiceless imagery which t jves passion to the songs of tbo night, and t pathos to the deserted and dejected swain. As the moon sets, the horses were gathered ( together md tothcrod in wiid the palms-? Thru a deen silence tfcl! upon the equip, for } th# sentinel# wore beyond it# oonflnes. and ill within aide slept the sleep of the tired intl hoalthy. It may have beon midnight; ? it certainly was oold and dark. Tho fires a bad gono out, and there was*a white prjat T like 8 ahrmid Qreepintf up tho stiwm and t iettling upon the frees of the sleepers n On the far right a ainglo pistol shot arose, t oioar and rfgonent. Shelby, who slumbered s lileo a night-bird, lifted himself up from his 1 blankets and spoke in an undertone to Trnij- a kill i 'Who h?s tho post ar tjie month of the > pasa]*'1 Ojou Muooy." l,Then aoniethlug Is t Jtirring. Macey never fired at a shadow in I his life." Tho two men listened. One a a j?rfm guerrilla himsolf, with the physique of r i Cossack and the bearing of a Comnnchp. \ The other baring in bio h*nd? the lives or nil the silent and inert sleepers lying still y and grotesque under the white shroud of i the mountain mist. Nothing was heard for 1 in hour. The two men went to sleep again, ! bqt pot to dremn. Qf ft ppddea, and unseen. c iho inist was lifted, and in its place a sheet ] ef flanio arose so near to tho fuiecB of the j men that it might have scorched thpm. ( Two hnndreJ ^exioHns had crept down > tho mountain and to the edge of the stream, t and had fired point blank into tho eamp. It < armpit a miracle, but not a man was touch cd. Lying flat upon tho ground ati<J WHip- ( pad wp in tijeip Uwifcate tr?o whojo volley I nioantto bo murderous hnd swept over thorn i Shelby was the first upon his feet. His voice ' rang out clear and faultless, and without a < treiuor, "Give them the revolver. Charge 1" l Men awakened from deep sleep grapple with ] SpBCtpeft Ci|0??ly* ft:.; jiJwiii-iiUS HOIU Bjicfi- !1 ties, Bovond the stream and In au.ld the i sombre shadows of the juiluis they were vis- \ iblc. Only the powder-ball was on the wa- 1 ter where thj mist had been. Fnelad. barefooted, heavy with sleep, t|ip niun wuik straight tvi the mountains, a tv volver in each hand, Shelby leading. From spectres the Mexicans had become to be bandit*. No quarter was given or asked. The - -i ii?i. ..i. ik. rush lasted until me game was uuaucu y (IIC I pursuit until the top of the mountain was I gained, tivpi ragged rook anil uaorua and dagger trees the hurricane poured. The roar of the revolvers was deafening. Men died and nmde no moan, and the wounded were recognized only by their voices. When it was over the Americans had lost in killed olevch and in womidod seventeen, most of the latter slightly, thanks to the darkness and impetuosity of the attack. In crawling upon the camp the Mexicans had tethered their horses upon the further sido of the mountain. The most of these fell into Shelby's hands, together with the bodies of the two lenders, .lijan Anschno, a renegade priest, and Antonio FJflfps, n J'Pling Cuban, who had sold his sister to a wealthy hacieudaroand turned robber, and sixty-nine of their followers. It was noon next day before the march was resumed?noon, with sun shining upon the fresh graves of eleven dauntless Americans sleeping their last sleep ' 1 I* amid the palms and the crosses until tlio resurrection day. Before the Flood Antediluvian life had its advantages; there is no denyiugjthat. With in existence of 9G0 and nine years before him, man could do much. He oouid be his own "oldest inhabitant" And "never remember any thing;' if a Shakespeare, he could celebrate his own tercentenary; he could look back with pride upon at I oast 200 constitutional crises and 900 successive fenions which brought the green pen of the spring and the fresh oyster of the fall. In those blissful ages, when time was reokeued by the months instead of by the hours, and men set their eight year clocks by the sixty-three year comets, a fellow could, if lazily inolincd. lie in bed till September, or go on a ton years' drunk. VVlien he went out to uiake a friendly call, be could say to his family: "So-long; I'm just going to drop into Methuselah's for a couple of yours; don't wait dinner for mo ;" u\ addressing his toddling infant of eighty. 10 might give him permission to go out and day till 1S95, but insist on his coming home lien, so as not to keep his f"nd parent Kiting up for him. Life assurauoo would be sheap under such fl Kystom, and tho rate of titer est, when a man gayo notes at GOO \ Fours, ronowablo fbr 300 years more, must leocssarily have bocu proportionately low. The peculiarities of pre-Nouhic existence ruiuu uavu ui'i'ii ui:iuu ximafr 9i.riK.iii?ijf iiuuii* est had three or four of thoflo old sinners >addletl their own oanoo through tho flood, urvlvcd, increased and multiplied. "So," would observe a hale old man of 900 o his companion, a jolly, middle-aged eptcentenarain. "they arc at it again, pratng of reforms and amendment#, and contituMoimllty, to us. who remembered the feptarehy. Alfred died the yenr I was born. I nt I remember William as well as if it was j nly yoterdny. I was only a child then.! Veil, well, Bill was a good follow, Onoe*? "Yes," might interrupt hum a beardless OUth of 8&0, 1uny uncle often told me hat?" "Little boys," would interpose the senior, a tones of dignified rebuke, "must be scenf iOt heard. If you cannot keep ptill while our elders ar? ?pf:iikiu?, l$i?n. my imou, musd put you to bod. Woll. as I was nj'lng?" True, true," here wonld observe Lameeh, and, what snobbishness it is in folks to talk f their long descent and Norman of kuiok* rbockcr uuQp&tnra, Wo ruiuumbur ull that, jon't wu f Woll, wt-ll, everybody had ancesore then, only they can't nil traco them.""Parvenus, Lameeh, parvenus, all of them. Pulkofyour old families to me, whoso Teat-grand-father remembera Aduin, We've gen |.(liina.w wntury. Con inirid tho rhoumutisin; icaugnt coia sitting 11 a druffc about the end of the fifteenth cenury, and every hundred years or so I have a winge of it" ' That was about the time ChfUitopher ?oluuibus sailed tfl diwovot Auterioa. ?Tho sumo yenp, Poop C-hria! I know lint woll. You knew Smith f" "Kirby t", "No; John, the fellow that Pocahontas rot struck with. But you were only a boy tthat time." And 80 old ibgio* PWlM prattle OU, It U pdfhap* Just as well bat Noah had no spare state rooms in the rk, as a surviving antediluvian would have leen as a fly in precious ointment. A man itting at yaur iabte whose memory went >ack to 1,300 odd?who oontrottnoud hia uepdoiW by tliopalislngt "It was jmt 700 <eap*ago to-day, when I"?who had dandled he founder of one aristocratic family on his ;nee in 1712, and distinctly recalled the uthor oF anbtnet1 noble line in the jimk hu?ii? icss?with such u in^n ftMarg*. ?ioototy would ip unsafe. The manners and customs of that ace rould peculiarly impress us. Fancy a blushng and awkward girl of 2(H). in pant-lain, istcning to the avowal of n promising young ajvya? of duo, or a clever young sophomore >f 375, or an antediluvian "old family." nto what insignificance would shrink thft mrplcd centuries of NftMsAn, Hapsburg, jiuelph or Bourbon 1 And as for an antedilu, lan Susan B. Authony, the mind recoils at he thought os'of something entirely beyond jonception. The revival of thesp happy dliy<* W. how. jyup, pot yet ^oivm It, is tlio wmr, not tho hult, of many truly great and good men and A'omen that they discount the future, and tre abused for laboring under what appears :o the vulgar and unsentimental a hallueina:ion. To play the antediluvian midev " postdiluvian ili.KpniHIllU'H i? u?n:?ousc. It a'oultl ho Weill, for pcw-hwlder and preacher, reader and writer, could all remember that tliAVu 1im< :> fldMft :ii!il t)11> (1?l*:it.Seill lit'I human life is dwindled to a span.?,S7. Louir Democrat. ( lli'Ht'ii Mnsio.?-Wo like good music; we like i^ood singing, but. we like to hear the words sung. We clip the following from an exchange: A friend attended one of our churches lust Sunday, took d(,\vn ft hymn ft* he heard it, and .'liievwaids voitn'red to the hymnbook for a translation, with the following result: WIIAT IIE SAW. "Waw kaw, swaw de vaw raw, Thaw saw thaw law aw waw, Waw kaw taw thaw raw yaw vaw braw, Aw thaw, vaw law saw uw." TIIE TRANSLATION. "Welcome sweet day of rest, Tbat saw the Lord arise, Welcome to this reviving b:east, And these rejoicing eyes." Two litilu girls, uu eight und ten year old, were gravely discussing the question of wearing ear-rings. One thought it wicked. The other was sure it could not be so for so many good people wear them. Tho other replied, "Well I don't care; if it wasn't wicked. God would have made holes in oqr c^rs." The Last Moments of King Charles, of Sweden?Death-bed Scenes. i . i. [From the Lomhrn Daily Telegraph.'] Died .Charles XV., of Sweden, "as a King should die ?" We think the faithful description of His Majesty's death, which has been lately given to the world in the SydsVcnska Dagbladct, answers,this question most loachingly. Arrived at Kiel on his last joijrncy, I the King would not use the aparttnents which had been taken for bint in the hotel, but had hiinsolf tit once carried on boaftl the Vunudifc. When he reached her deck he exclaimed : "Heboid ! at last, then, thank (Jod. I "have the Swedish uiain,- if not the Swedish sgil, under my leet." Tliat yearling to get home, so characteristic of dying men, woa vory strong uponr the sinking monarch. Yltycn after lie was safe at Mtrtmo, and lajdr'in the Governor's residence, he* [ sighed. ,7^)h ! that I had wings to fly. to my 1 daar Ubfiksdal! I could die so easily there!" As thfc King was borne along in his chair through, the crowd a! the quay, the kindly Swedish/ folks manifested so much reverent pity for his sad state that it jnadc the deepest imputation on his majesty. On- coming into his apartments he exclaimed to one of those about him. "Doet thou know I have seen to?fay that I am beloved; I believe they wifl miss me when I am gone." lie well knew he must die. and held long and calm conversations about the future of the realm; buttho dud was not thought to be so near until a sudden and severe attack of pain, with numbness in the cxtremetics. This was the second similar warning, and on partial recovery the King quickly catechised his doctor. i TllO i^iigbludet saya that he asked, '.'Dost thou th&k that I have all this night before me ?" When the physician hesitated to reply. thojKing repeated the question, with a ( request"|Rir a candid answer. "As your 1 Majesty! commands candor," replied - Dr. j "1 nil. compelled to answer no; T j do not tfink your Majesty can reckon upon the nuiJrj'ow. Your physical powers arc- di oiiiiishhfo too rapidly, and should afresh at- ] tack sujjpycne. death will fallow inatautams- ? onsly."^"i)opt tl'.ou think that the pains i will bi^povoro ?" demanded the King.? < ' Your 3lirjeely must even be prepared for j, that; lwvcver. it may happen more easily, ( for dentil's work is probably in a great uiea- f sure already accomplished " t Tho King roooiVod ibis with a simple, < manly 6flniB08ui-e, and then desired to take leave of tSpse -about him. Tears?far too genuine udbc courtly?fell upon his emaciated hanc&^ns the circle of friend* and sor- ' vants fcissSl it, -bidding hla Majesty adieu at c the tBjdflal'.ol1 that mysterious voyage which 1 all luasl'^ake alone.. It is often?nay, almost. dying srho arc least affect- . te moment. Xharlte gazed | at his own hand and remarked, '-Look ! U?y 1 fingers are growinir white alroftdy," ' Your c Majesty must not anticipate; there are pro- 1 hahly paiua yet to oonic," replied the doctor. 1 Thereat tho King remained quiet with his ^ gn?o stoady, 4!a? if he himself followed with 1 his cyo the advancing steps of death." Presently he stretched out his arm and 1 asked, hat is uiy puUti Lundborg?" c "Forty, vour majesty," was the reply. "Still j 50 many/ murinurou the King; but his voice was now su feeble that it was only a broken f ?l.Ir.vl.r... Tli# vnic.c of nravcr was 1 n...or.w.. .... ... r ~ | softly raised by the Chaplain Oliti, and after- * ward the doctor moistened the kind's -brow with Cologne walor. Ho spoke once again, * daying. * ! do not feel any chill in my head 1 us yet," but then instantly sank back, and s after a low sigh passed away so tranquilly 1 that only the skillful Lundborg perceived 8 he was gone, nnd pkclaluted, ''Now is our Kina no morn." < Tnus Charles XV.. died, and wo tltink r the Swedish journal is right in ?tying that ' it was a death as calm nm] kingly in its way i as any soldier's on the battle Geld. Tt ex- I hjhitcd fhu same quiet fortitude which < prompted the Roman Emperor's address to ' his soul. Aniiivila, bbni~(aUiy \uiyn .'?the ' same brave contonmhtivo assurance which ' is consnjpuona in tliu closing sentences of 1 ftoofrituM. I Nlw.sI'.viers.?Their value ia by no , mean3 appreciated, but the rapidity with , which people uro waking up to their necefwi- \ ty and usefulness in one of the significant j Signs of thu0titue. Tew families arc now ( content with a single newspaper. The thirst , for knowledge is not easily satiated, and , books, though useful?yea, absolutely uecos- . snry in their place, fail (o moot the demands . of \i?uth or ngo. The village nowspapsr is ,, eagerly sought and its contents as eagerly j devoured, Then comes the demand f >r the county news. Next to liie political ensue the literary and then t!i? scientific journals. Lastly, and above all. Come the moral and religious iom iials. The variety is demanded 1 to satisfy the (-ravings oi'the active m ud. Newspapers are also valuable to material 1 prosperity. They advertise the village, t.. 1 1.*., 'rl..,,. ei.e.Kiil 1 ir*('i il'.'i CO UN I \ Ml lUCillilJ . .1 in j Cj't Utiu wvi"i v reader a map on which may be traced eharacter, design, progress. ]f? stranger calls at a hoinl, lie Hist inquires t'.r the village news- 1 paper; ifufriend comes IV. in a distance, the very next, thing alter a family greeting, lie innurcs fur your village or county newspaper, and you feel diseoinliied if you are unable to liad a Into copy, and confounded if you are compelled to say you do not take it. The newspaper is just us necessary to fit a man for his true position in life as food or raiment. Show us a ragged, barefoot boy rather than an ignorant one. His head will cover his feet in after life if lie is well supplied with newspapers. Show us the child that is eager for uewspapcrs. He will UVlke the uian of mnrji ip gl'liU' life ii' you gratify that desire Ibr knowledge. Other things being equal it is a rule that never fails. Give the children newspapers. Young ladies are now wearing their sash j ribbons tied on the ri?lit \dd<i tlngr waist, | i^slca^ o|" lit t|ie back, as heretofore. ' r ITCH! A CtJMANCHE AND HT8,PALE-FACE LOVE? SUDDEN TERMINATION OF A 8INGULAR "LOVE AFFAIR?WHO, 18 THE INFATUATED DAMSEL? ~ The Washington correspondent of the Boston Traveler is responsible for the following story: . . ! Among the delegations of red men now Visiting tho capital for the purpose of smoking tlie pipe of peace is a youthful Comanche brave, who has attracted no little atteu- j tion from the ladies of Washington. The other day, during a visit of several ( families to the hotel where fie is stopping, he saw a protty young lady of about his own age, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men of the city, and fell so violently in love with her at first sight that when the party left Vfco It/kito/i V*n pAlfntD/i/l lint* ir\ Kon roe A'**oa vuv uvwv i4W iviivntu >iv.i iivi; icniuviivv i . For two or three days subsequently ho was observed hanging around the vicinity, 1 occasionally catching a glimpse of her; and ^ strange to say, tho young lady has conceived an equally violent passion for him. On Sat- a urday last she went out riding with him in 4 the elegant barouche belonging to the paternal mansion, and when those having charge of her strictly forbade any further c exhibitions of such bad taste on her part, 1 she frankly declared her intention of wedding tho Cmyanchc. t On thc^Rcr side, the young Indian has t been freely supplied with money, and declares that he will not return to tho luppy hunting grbumla-of the West unless the o? j, ject of his devotion should go with him. Of course such a deplorable state of affairs has necessitated some action on the part of the authorities. The Commissioner of In- c dinn Affairs has therefore been notified that 1 the susceptible Comanche must be mado to leave the city forthwith, and a thousand r. dollar draft has been tendered him by a j, brother of the misguided girl, as a bonus fur bis departure. Hut tho Comanche, ia ineor- , rigiblo, and steadily resists all overtures. ^ The delicate circumstances of the case rod the fear of their uamcs being given to publicity in the event of a denouement, have w . ? 1?... 1.^1 il - - P A! _ . M mi i.u wmi kuu upon loo relatives ui tuc gin a: :hat she will ho taken hence to New York it >n the through train to-night, and, notwithstanding the lateness of the season, will j, juicily take passage for Kuropc by an early iteamcr, the distracted millionaire whose 01 laughter she is, perceiving no other way to ^ :ure her of her unhappy,predi!cction. Amusino Lesson in Grammar.?The j! Hudson Register deals Iimnorously with a jucstion of grammar, as follows: ' A searcher after truth writes to us, * iVhich is grammatically correct, to say "The loose is .building," or 'The house is being u milt,' lTKe atfeet is prtvmg,*-'<)* lTh"c 'street "b h being paved?" There is a wide diversity g' >f opinion upon this subject, but we incline tr o favor 'is being built,' for the following easons : suppose you wish to express an- fc ither kind of an idea, would you say. for p nstancc, 'Johnny is spanking,' or 'Johnny s being spanked?" The difference to you nay seen immaterial, but it is a matter of tonsiderable importance to Johnny, and it is >robable that, if any choice were given him, ?' le would suddenly select the former alternn- ?' ive. You say, again, that the 'missionary nJ s oating.' Certainly this expresses a very liffercnt and much plcasantcr idea than tho in brmer. "The missionary is being eaten,' and e< he sensation is very different for the mission- b try, too. Wc have consulted several uiisiionaries about it, an they all seem to think , hat the two things arc somehow not the ^ lame. no matter what the grammarians say. ^ "Hut it is to be confessed that there arc jj. K-casions when the difference in tho form is lot so marked. You assert, wc say, that Hannah is hugging'?-which, by the way, tl vould be a very improper thing for Hannah ? .0 do; it would be positively scandalous, in- u Iced. Precisely a similar idea is conveyed y f you say, 'Hannah is being hugged,' be*ausc it is a peculiarity of the aot that it is T 11.. ii : ..^ic?i laruijr ever uiiumuuu ; uiuro is fiu sujuaiuicps ? ibout it. And it is the same with kissing. Jane is kissing'?and her mother ought to r! ciiow about it if she is?is just exactly as if >vc say, 'Jane is being kissed"; and the sen- 11 sat ion is the same, although none of the 61 rrnmmnrs, by a single inadvertence, mention I1 he fact. It will not be necessary, howover, l' For our correspondent to attempt to prove these last-mentioned facts by practice. He must take our word for them. Unless he ^ lacs so we shall answer no more questions in v. yntax for any one else. Our duty is to con- n lerve (lie morals of the community, not to j;| tart the people to playing private games of j, Copenhagen." (!, CV?C:CN::V]IKUUKI{.?: Ilir IN TIIE "Hye." y ?the suicide of a Young girl in London who u throw herself from Waterloo bridge after a, writing a note saying that she was an Auicriran governess, who had been discharged ;l< without money in a strange country hy an ]? American lady, and the expossion of sympa- ai thv called out hv the act. have iriven a hint ? to the bejrprinir impostors, ami London is now overrun villi dcs paring Anicrican governesses who gofromoffice toullieeseeking pecuniary v assistance. One ingenious gontlcman. to ? prevent being imposed upon determined as a g test of nationally to demand of each applicant r a repetition of the Scriptural sentence, l,It c is I." In every instance tliu distressed s young Amerieaii woman plaintively said, 'Hit bis bye." which was quite enough-fttr this prudent gentleman to hear in ovd*ff to I form an intelligent opinion as to the merits h of the applicant for his charity/* f Thk L.vuokst Vinkyahd.?The largest ? vineyard in the Southern States is said to be one near Fayeltovilic, North Carolina, containing 100 acres on which there are a 7,000 vines eh icily the ?CUp|*.*rDong. i; Kv imv man when lie enters into society f gives no a part of his natural librity, ut the 1 price of so valuable a purchase. I - ? ADVERTISING--RATES. ; Space.SVEM. :2 M. 8M. 6 M. 1 Y. 1 square 3 00 ' G 0(lf 8-00 12 00 16 00 2 squares 6 00 9 00 12 00 18 00 26 00 3 squares 9 00 13 00 16 00 24 00 35 0* ' 4 squares 12 00 16 00 20 00 30 00 48 W i column 15 00 19 00 24 00 84 00 GO 00 ? column 20 00 80 00 40 00 PO 80 00 1 column 30 00 GO 00) 60 00 90 00 150 (4 All Transient Advertisements will be charged 051 Dollar per Square for the first.and Skvkrtt-pite Cbnts per Square for each subsequent insortion Single insertion, |1 50 per square. OUR CHIP BASKET. , ... * v~ ' Greeley is gone up. ^ , Joseph Ames, tho artist is dead. Augusta, Maine bad $ibv on the 3rd. "Excuse haste and bad pen " as tho pig * said when ho broke out. ' ' ' ^ * . < When is a mothor a father? When she's a . sighcr.:? . *-' Mexico has a sensation about the narrow guaee railroad. _ . Another name for the horse diseaso is Oastroerysipelatous. A man recently knocked down an elephant. He was an auctioneer. " * Some ladies havo their pot dogs dyed of a color, to correspond with their owrv^jlct. '4 . i<r It now cofite ton dollars in Now York to ^ ido a single block behind a pair, of sick 1 * lorscs. ; * '. * * . 1r : ? ? . "Boy, how did yon manage to get such .* t big string of fish?" "I liookcd theui, * , dr." # " A billiard ball in a stocking is a new kind if slung shot with which Leavenworth pco)le carom on each other. Did Byron refer to waspish yonng ladies vhen ho wroto "Our yonng affections run to o 'waist V ": i A telegraph operator in Erirf refused to oiumunicato with St. Louis because ho teard the small pox was raging there. The conversation of English society girls . ventures into the region of blasphemy," ncording to a writer in the Suturrfay ?er few. Kansas babies are soothed with rattlesnake atttleu. When an infant cries, the mother nnts the prairie with a fence rail. Why is the bridegroom worth more than ho bride ? Bcor.uso she is given away and e is sold. Indiana is excited over the birth :>f a pig rith a countenance as much like a Christian 3 any other inhabitants of the town in which s rjarents live The fools arc not all dead. Arthur Fulirton, of Grcsham, EngJaud, wants to be ae of seven who will give five hundred ounds toward, a monument to Tinion of ithcns. _ % / A Londoner burned out a cat's eye and nocked her teeth down her throat. He nows of another cat he can get to opcrato 11 as soon as his four months in prison exires. ( The Chicago Times, says: "The Comlon Council of St. Louis has passed a rcsoitfon rccfnestingthe editor of iho Globe to ' ~~ o outside the city limits whenever he wants > blow his nose." An unscrupulous paragraph is t accounts >r the fact that Peter was cheerful while aul was sad. by quoting Paul's assertion tat "Peter's wife's mother lay sick of fever.'* . A Scotch peasant girl, on arriving for the rst time at tho turnpike gate nearest Glasiw. knocked and inquired, "Is this Glas )w ?" and being answered in the affirmative, * ikeJ, uIs Fcggy in ?" A drunken man, sprawling on the ground t Decatur the other night, anxiously want1 to know if "anybody else had been struck y that earthquake." An out at-thc-elbows poet, by some freak f fortune, cauie into possession the other day f what he called a "live dollar William." [c said he was not sufficiently familiar with to take the liberty of calling it Bill. A stranger fell into the river at Detroit ic other day. . As he was being helped out )Qio one seized him by the hair and drew him p. "Where's the man who pulled my hair ?" ellod the victim, as ho reached the 'dock. Just show me the Apache who did it, and '11 mash him in a minute!" "The foliage is fast turning to plumage," uuarked a sad young man, as he gazed from 10 window upon the partially denuded ces. "How so?" inquired another and iddcr young man. "Don't you sec," re lied the tirst, "that the leaved are uearly all own V A barber in Titusrille. while cutting the air of a rural customer ran his shears against nne hard substance, which proved to bo n 'ueistone. The old firmer said he "had lissed that whetstone ever since haying tin.e ist July, ami had looked all over a ten acre .t for it, but now remembered sticking it up rcr bi.s car." A young lady, who has just returned from lurope, advises her friends not to go there, nless you are sure that you know enough to pprcciato the beauties of Europe. Iticr.ds ach a charm to Itaiy to remember that tnong these groves of olive the immortal Icethovcn sculptured the Mndiccan Venus nd .Shakspearc'eotnposed the sublime poetry f Paradise Lost." Somebody lias recently invented a verv aluable trunk. .It is made with an outside overiug of cast-iron, lined with nitrolvcerine. and when it is thrown from a aifroad car or a baggage wagon this outside ovcring is torn to pieces, and the baggagcmasher is blown into very small fragments. A wife asked her husband for a now dress. Io replied : ' Times are hard, my dear -so ard 1 can hardly keep my nose above wacr." Whereupon she retorted : "You can .ecp yonr nose above water easy enough if ou have a mind to, but the trouble is you ecp it too much above brandy." Infinite toil would not enable yon to sweep way a mist; but by ascending a little, you nay often overlook it altogether. So it is vith our moral improvements; wo wrestle ierccly with a vicious habit, which would mc no hold upon us if wc ascended into a lighcr moral atmosphere.