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VOL. XXXII. CAMDEN. S. C-, THURSDAY, FEBRUAHTi O, 18^3. NO. 33 THE CAIDEN JOURNAL. '1 AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY PAPER PUBLISHED BY JOHN KERSHAW. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, in advance $2 50 Six month* .. 1 50 mnnthft ...................... 75 Transient Advertisements must be paid n advanc c. SAM AN A BAY. An Enormous Speculation in Land no American Live On.?A Ncics reporter had a talk on Saturday with a three years' resident of Samana. He does not give a rose-colored review of the healthiness of the climate or of the nature and character of the inhabitants. He says the population of the peninsula is not over 3,000 souls.? With few exceptions, they are all thriftless, idle negroes, or Door,' dissipated, reckless S paniards. No ordinary white emigrant can live in Samana, as the ground is low and marshy, and therefore pregnant with malarious fevers, devolutions and sectional contentions are epidemic, and protection to all peacefully disposed citizens is almost impossible. It is true that tiie mineral wealth of 1 ? :* J I the country is great, oui tying a* n, uuco iu land that has no Communication whatever 1 with the coast it is almost valueless. He thinks the cost of producing the tropical staples will outweigh the profits arising therefrom. In regard to the absolute conditions of the treaty, he has no hesitation in 1 saying it was framed for the purpose of af- ; ter consideration for the Administration to ? 11 carry out practically, the old scneme 01 annexation. Baez, the President of Dominica, has but 1 three months yet to serve as the ruler of the ' Republic, at the end of which time, knowing 1 the character of the masses, the usual revo- ; lutfoh and bldod letting will commence, "Baez, in the mean time pocketing all the money for the purchase. The company have so far refused to give ' to the public the text or substance of the ' treaty. On the evening of the 6th of January, the night of the departure of the Com- 1 misaionera from Santo Domingo, the treaty J was published in one of the Dominican pa- ' para, and re-published here yesterday. The powers are absolute, and no corporation oth- : cr than the famous East India Company had such boundless and indisputable authority. J In an interview yesterday with Burton S. ' Harrison, one of the commissioners, that gentleman said the company would bo or- ! ganized on Monday, and stock would bo im- ' mediately Issued. This is the whole amount ' of the speculation. The stock will be sold, and th-jre is every intention to create & furore, so that it will go at high prices. X. Y. Times. | I Funeral of Napoleon HI. Cni8ELHUR8i*, Jan. 15. The funeral of his late Majesty Napoleon I 111 took place this morning. The resident) of the decease J. was thronged vitlupecUtore and friends of the family, who had arrived from all parts of the continent. Crowds of < people from London arrived at an early hour to witness the final ceremomies to the illus- j .trious dead, and the road to the chapel was ( lined with spectators to view the procession ] as it passed. Matty oftho adherents of the late ex-Em- , peror were present to take part in the obsequies and pay a last tribute to their leader. The immense throng of spectators assembled j remained quiet and decorous throughout the proceedings. ( Tbo funeral processions started for the 11 "o'clock, and moved in the fol lowing orded : A oian boaring the tri-color borne on an ash stick cut at the last moment before the cortege, moved ; the deputation of workingnicn from Paris, with uncovered heads, bearing their wreaths; tho chaplain of the family, bearing aloft a golden crucifix ; the hearse drawn by eight horses? driven by a postilion, and the mourners, who nuuibered eight hundred in all, and included the Prince Imperial, who went uncovered ; Prince Jerome Napoleon. Prince Joachim, Prince Achille, M. Roucher, and many distinguished Imperialists, English noblemen, Paris priests, and others. The Prince Imperial was very pale, and exhibited traces of the anguish he has undergone. The Empress Eugen ie was too ill to i.tten(hthe luneral. The coffin was covered with immortelles and violets. There do funeral sermon at the chapel. The Bishop of Southwark sang a requiem Mass over the remains. He was a&sisted by Father Coddary. the spiritual adviser of the the Ut? ex-Eiupcror, apd all the priests who were chaplains at the Tuileries during thp reign of Napoleon. Mr. Lutr, the organist of St.-George's Cathedral. London, was present at the Chapel with his choir, and conductj musical portion of the services. ? The remJWOre ^?P0I'ied 'D Sacristy, , , , j." c "^"d into a mortuary chopw hi I'll baa been Fori*. .11.11 * el, until the removal of tDu . ^ rauce for final intcrmant. * ,v^ The procession was very long, and tu. ' hearse was at the chapel before the end of the cortege had left the family mansion. All the carriages and pedestrians were drawn upflthree abreast across roadway, and in that order proceeded to the chapel. The I'rince Imperial and I'rince Napoleon returned from the chapel in onu carriage. They were cheered by the crowds through which they passed. More than 25,000 persons, including Prince Christian, the I'rince of Wales and i'riuce Teok, viewed the body of the late Kuiperor Napoleon while lying iu state. Notwithstanding the presence of the immense crowd there were but few accidents, and those were of a slight character One thousand Metropolitan policemen lined >?? ?r ti.,. i.,. II1C ruuunuji aaunij; uuui lut? uuuoti n 111.1 v the ex-Emperor (lied to the chapel where the funeral services took place. Flags were displayed at half mast, and the bells kept tolling ? . Queen \ ictoria did not attend the funeral in person, but was represented on the mournful occasion by Right Hon. Viscount Sidney, Lord Chamberlain of Her Majesty's housebold. The Sheriffs of London have united with the Town Council of Edinburgh and tht Vestry of Richmond in Resolutions of condolence with the ex-Empress Eugenie. * TERRII LB SNOW STORM. St. Paul, Iinn., January 14.?The remarkable pola hurricano which swept over this State on ' uesday last has left behind it a sad record o ' casualties, but from information now rea hing the city the number of deaths will no sustain the early estimates. The history o its first appearance and lamentable const qpences may be briefly stated as follows: Ti esday was a mild, damp day' and those ha. ing occasion to leave their homes had ii tie reason to anticipate the i fierce gusts w.iich set in during the afternoon, and in many instances no adequate provisions had been made for such an unexpected situatii n. The weather continued ? 1J ?K?. t A n'Mnnlr in tV?n nffprnnnn. tillIU UUl/ll awuv -X V V1VVA iu vuv the hour whet: it* approach was first ob- i served by the residents in the frontier set- 1 tleinents in suddenly increasing cloudiness , and for a few moments the earth was swept by a tremendous wind, and the temperature Tell with wonderful rapidity. People living in the sparsely populated sections of the State were talon entirely by surprise, and many were a long distance from home, and without sufficient clothing. It is not surprising, under the circumstances, that so many fell vict ms in its path, each a struggling ice boun 1 laocoon. The storm continned with oni? temporary lulls until Thursday morning a. hen it gradually abated its fury. The vel >city of the storm is reported between New Ultn and St Peter as traveling from point to point in thirty minutes, a distance of t\ enty-eight miles. Had the degree of cold beeu 'great the number of deaths would ;ave been fearfully increased, but while it w is at its height the mercury stood from fivi to eight degress below zero, [t is entirely w thout precedent in tho history of the State and only finds a parallel in a polar storm wl ich swept over the State of Illinois in 183t, destroying many lives, and leaving an ind dlible record in the minds of i those who exf irienced its fury and terrific power. It is impossi >le to make an accurate estimate of the nui tber who have been frozen to death or scrioi sly maimed. On the line of the St. Paul an I Sioux City road, the number is variousl estimated at from 17 to 34, [ with the probal ilities in favor of the number first given. Ti e authenticated deaths thus far do not reac .17. In that section of the : ??? V.OTTA wahirnoi] lirvmn I DUUU uiauj rup lieu lUOUiatwuuni^. uxw safely. On tl ) line of the St. Paul and ' Pacific Koad tl 9 number of deaths v. ill not ' vary greatly fr in the estimates for ihe re- 1 ^ion traversed ov the Sioux City R >ad.? 1 That country a so being thinly settled, and,, > owing to the d fficulty in the way of <btain- ! iog it fctuwtioa, tin tiiimt? of-h death Are large than the facts will warrant, but the real fat Jity is sufficintly deprjssing. Notwithstanding the more hopeful news , brought here o-night, but few nan.es ac- < jompany the re ported losses of life. A large ] nuuiDer of cattl j and horses must be also in- . eluded in the tatement of the destruction i which has char cterizcd this storm. I St. Paul, M inn., January 14.?Reports < received to-da^ increase the deaths by the | late storms as follows: Thirteen in tbe vi- , einity of Lake linsley. six miles from Lako ' Crystal; six sc 100I children who had been | attending school between Fort llidgwuy and j Reaver Falls; v man named Woolverton, across the rive from Alexandria, making twenty-five >n a 1. A dispatch 1 -oni Fergus Falls reports seven more bodie., and estimates that within a radius of twent -five miles tho victims will reach fifty. A German named Lenidccker, of Hastings, a id his .team, perished a few miles from this city. One of tho saddest ca- , sp.4 renorted an I one illustrating the tearful nature of the > orm comes from New Ulm. On Tuesday aft jruoon a man whose wife was sick started for New Vim for a doctor, leaving her alone a home. No doctor wo uld go out in tho storn . but one promised to go the next day. Th > uian started back bdt was frozen to death when about half way. The next day, when tho doctor reached the house he found that t ic woman had given b rth to a child, and bo h were frozen to death. A comraerci:: traveller of this city, who was caught in t he storm near New Ulm. and witnessed its U -riblo severity, gives it as his opinion that it has resulted in greater dam age to the .Stat, than did the famous Sioux massacre of IS 12. Winona, M nn., January 14.?Tin news of the innume able deaths and the excruciatiug sufferii g of porsons in the torrible storm of the 7t 1 and 8th instant is not jet received in th i city, and even now, in the the case of mai v persons who doubtle.-s perished upon tht broad prairies of Norchwastcrn Minneaot , their bodies are not yet found by their friend*. There apjwars to have been the reatcst loss of life alo ig the - ot the Sir ix City Kailroad. Several deaths are 7** tcd "eaT Medalia- Mr. Holdcrmosk, who ttcm:7d t0 wa,k fron' Sundown station t Jlcdalia. was ?*ertahen bv the storm and rozen to death. The w.'.t? ()le Lcmefaon was found on Friday morning frozen to d atli. Thero was no wood in the house, but some a short distant* > from the door. In the village of Medalii. one side of a dwei ing house was blown down, and several cl mneys hurled to the ground. Snow drifts as high as the telegraph poles aro reported. XT \fnvlrlim tniin d roach* rrom j'ir. ft v/. ~ er of the Wint in and St. Petor Kniln ad, we aro furnished vith the following latest particulars : A gr ig of eleven section man, between Mcdalii and St. .lames, started for St. James abo it three o'clock on 'I icsday afternoon wht i the storm couiuici ced. ? Finding they could not roaeh thai point, they ?heltcrc< themselves in a snow drift, where they roi ained thirty-six hours They suecocdcd in r aching St James. The body of a man froze to death was picked tp in a garden on th south side of the river, at Medalia, on T lursday. He evidently lost his way, and overcome by exhaustion and cold lay down md died. From Line >]n station, on the Si. Paul and Sioux City Koad. on Sunday, Mr. Kirk started tor the tiui ber, to procure a load of wood. His cattle were found, but he was missing. Later, Kirk was found near Garden City on Saturday dead. Along the Sioux City Road, the number frozen we9t of Mankato, foot up twenty-six. A report received at Mankato on Monday night from Minnesota Falls says that 11 persons have been found frozen to death.? Seven persons?three women, two men and two children?were found in a sleigh dead. A report from llodwood Falls says there are Bix persons frozen to death as far as heard from in that neighborhood. A party consisting of four persons, a man, his wife, child and nephew, started from Uedwood to go to Marshall on Tuesday. When within about one and a half miles of Marshall they were overtaken W the storm, and lost their way. The nephew frozo to death on Wednesday ' afternoon; the child died in its mother's1 amis on Monday morning. When found j the man's arms and legs were badly frozen. The woman had ond hand frozen. "Baby Farming.'' Convincing evideuce of a revolting crime, or rather a series of crimes, has recently been discovered in Naples, involving the wholesale murder of innocent babes by n process which taxes the credulity of human nature. The person charged with these crimes is a woman named Rose Porre, who has occupied unpretentious quarters only three doors from the little chapel of San Severo, on one of the most frequented streets of Naples. The attentiuaof the Dolice was first atirac ted by the frequent appearance in the Neapolitan journal.** of an advertisement the purport of which was that persons wishing to relinquish their claims upon infants ebokl find a home for them by the payment of a certain sum to Rose Porro. Two policemen were assigned recently to investigate the subject, and tho result of their vigilauce was the discovery that an extraordinary number of babies were brought to these apartments. and that they were rarely if ever brought away. A close search through every part of the house was instituted, and in various rooms infants were found sprawling about the bare floors, crying from cold and hunger. The cellar was also searcl^d. and .here the corpses of five children were found, and beneath the tiles of the floor were throe other bodies. The house was taken possession of by tho police, who will closely inspect the walls to find out the full extent of these grievous infanticides. The keeper of! the house is described as a strong, beautiful and cunning woman in appearance, with* nn i air of innocence, that would deceive the iharftflHt. rir.frfit.ivft. 1 What " Credit Mobjlier" Meanh.?A lorrespojident a^kj the meaning of the words Credit Mobiler." (Several Congressmen . have asked the same (juestion.) We pr*.-1 suuic he wishes to be informed concerning' .lie original derivation and meaning of the j term. We will endeavor to explain it. The j Credit i'oncier" lias long been the general' title iu France for associations that advance : money 011 landed or immovable securities.? flic ''Credit Mobilicr" was the name piven to a powerful corporation organized in Franco j in 1832, for advanoing money on movable property. The name was adopted evidently with the purpose of affording a ready d? fini- 1 tiun of the object of the association. The ;'Societie Generate do Credit Mobilicr," be-1 came a great and profitable enterprise. It had special privileges under its charter. It assisted considerably in the construction of | railways and the promotion of the mining 1 schemes. Among the other enterprises in ! which it was notably interested were the j Government loan ou account <?l tlie Italian ( war. the Grand Central llailway Company | and the General Omnibus Company at l*a-) ris. At one time it advanced 250.000.00i) francs, and at another time 275,000.000 franca, to the French Government. Its business was so great in 1855 that it declared a dividend of forty per cent on its capital.. While it was manifestly the means of d<>iu?| much good in France, it eventually failed. The introduction of the terms. "Credit Foncier and "Credit Mobilier'' into America is due to Mr. George Francis Train. lie established a Credit Foucicr with Omaha lands, which he hawked about the country some years ago. lie gave the name of-Credit Mobilier'' of America" to a corporation " 1 -"-1 mln'nli \r?ia nrir'ili tvitn universal privilege, ized in Pennsylvania. It was appropriated by Messrs. (lakes Ames, Jhirant L On., to serve as a party of the third part in the famous "triplicate agreement" by which the managers of tho I'nion Pacific Railroad let out the contract of building the road to themselves, in payment for which they modestly took the road itself, all the L'nitcd Slates bonds, all the first mortgage bonds, all the l'nitcd States lands, etc . at a profit of over 1,000 per cent . on an entirely fictitious capital. This is what Credit Mobilier means in the modern American and congressional use of the term. The title is not inappropriate. The transaction was literally a credit on movables?the I nited States Government furnishing the money and the credit, and Messrs. (hikes Ames A Co. taking (ho movables -that is. the securities and the flic nrofits.? ('hicay>> T.'iljutt*. From the Galxay for Frhruarv. Mkv am' Womks.?It is strange indeed that men's self condemnation of their coarseness and vices should be interpreted as delicacy and chivalry toward women. ' 'We arc so vulvar and vile," they seem to say, ' that we roust continue to bo vulgar and vile to show how tenderly wc cherish, how fully wc appreciate th? dear creatures who ?.-? .nr I,ctter iinircls." If wo arc not fitted u"' *""" o to bo women's eompnnions, if wo pn where wo should not, so much the worse tor os II women arc too good for us.it is our duty tr be better. Wo require reformation, and tlx best reformation will come to us by admit ting women to what we rail, eujdieinisticalb enough, our recreations and pleasures. Tha that these are unworthy and rude, it' not j gross, for the moat part, wo will not deny. ( ily making women our partial partners, our associates on occasion, wc admit our inferiority and our fear lest they should k"ao\v of us what we know of ourselves. We have not advanced so far beyond baronial barbarism and Eastern indulgences as we would fain believe, while we hold our wives and our daughters in the prison of iguorance and the seraglios of restraint. It is uot consideration for wonicn that induces us to keep them in the border land of acquaintance with our real lives. It i3 consideration for ourselves; it is supreme j selfishness; it is engrossing egotism. ? e i shrink from the thought that the gentler and purer beings who love us, and whom we love?when we have naught else to do? should have a perfect understanding, a clear revelation of what we arc. It is an article of onr social creed that they prefer pleasant illusions to disagreeable facts. This is not without its verity; but it evinces the false education of women, and one of their weaknesses that should be removed.? In this age we live, or ought to live above every thing else, for truth. Whatever leads thereto, should be followed, though the following dispel every deeoption which, from the first, has bccii oar most grateful food. The men lire precious few who would bo willing thci^ lives should be unrolled panorsm.-i-liko before their nearest and dearest friends. The tilings that they arc vain of. j even to boasting, they would hide from their wives or mothers, at imminent peril to themselves. The worship mast of us receive is a species of sentimental fetishism offered under the delusion that the idol is far more than it seems; that it possesses powers and influences linking it to the divine. Transparent as we may be to our own sex. we art eopaa u to tho opposite. Genuine to cch one, we are shams to the other, and we exercise constant care that we shall continue such. In respect, esteem, admiration, and affection, we are actually obtaincrs of goods by false pretences, and arc amenable to a spiritual law which wo alw.i\*s evade. Is il ( flattering to our manhood, to our sense of integrity, to know that to those we reverence most wc are miserable fictions and animated lies.?Junius IIemit Hrown. An Improbable Story About Mr. Seward and Napoleon III. [From the San Francisco Bulletin.] The death of the ox-Emperor Napoleon vocal Is an inoident of the great Southern rebellion which has not hitherto been made public, it \faswell known that the late more than owe? ho scHuuslTttiedftntcii material intervention in iu bolialf; that tiio invasion of Mexico and the enthronement of Maximilian in the seat of the Montczumas was a part of a deliberate plot to break up the American Union. JJut to what lengths lie proceeded?how resolutely lie was determined to carry his fell designs into cxccu- I tion?has never been fully known outside of j a narrow official circle. Tiio .-.tory of his 1 ?- ... i ? ....j [ { lirpiidu la blu'ii uiil i:, .ui?i wits told by Mr. Seward to a low personal friends at a dinner party, among wliuui was the w riter* of tins article. No one who was present will ever forget the intouso oarnestnc.ss and animation of the great statesman, as he related the momentous incident, The exact words, so pregnant with eloquent meaning-?so solemn and iiup;is*ioMcd?we can not in every instance reproduce, but the general import is given below. It was," says 31 r. Seward, ''in the darkest days of the rebellion. l>isasler upon disaster had befallen the I Hion armies. Treason was active and l?o!d fronted at Washington, in the North and in the West, itebcl emissaries and their allies were plotting against us over the Canadian border. Our foreign relations were most critical, llebel cruisers wrro being fitted out in British ports and sent to prey upon our commerce; tiermany was coldly neutral; the smaller European States were indiifcrent hpeotators of the conflict; Jtussia was the only friend we had among the powers of tin: earth. ' In this desjk.'rate emergency L received an autograph letter from the Kmporor of tlie French. It was marked private and confidential. Jt began with expressions of j peranual regard for myself and pain at the , spectacle of the great republic in the throes j of dissolution. Personally,' said Napoleon, I 'I could wish the cause of the l iiiou to succeed. Hut the welfare of France, and the force of popular opinion are paramount to individual sympathies. Our commercial interests are seriously suffering from the pro| longatiou of your war. My subjects appeal to me to arrest the bloody conflict. I must obey the voice of France at whatever cost. Yuu can not put down the rebellion; embrace the earliest opportunity to make terms with the South. If you fail to do I Iris, 1 shall feel compelled, in the interests of my country?in the interest of civilization. I<> I intervene with all the power at iny command.' ' I answered Napoleon's insulting letter immediately. 1 did not waste words in compliments. 1 said : .This is a family rjunrre!. We propose to settle it in our own way and our own time. We do not wish the assistance of outsiders ; we wii! not hrook interference. 'the American 1'nion is to he pro served. It shall he preserved if takes twenty years to do it. The war is hardly commenced . ?t.? i?ut luurinnimr to warm H'l , HIV jiioj'iv uivjuti r . i t<? the work. We wisli in he nn {rood terms , with our neighbors?we w ish especially tn I bo mi good term, with France. our ancient r frieiul ami ally. But ynu must keep your i bauds off. If you presume to interfere, wo 1 will show you what a free people battling i for national existence are capable of. Ilithr crto we have conducted the war humanely > in accordance with the c< do that govern the 5 most Christian States. Interference on your - part will be signal for a war uf compiest anil i destruction. Wc will free the negroes; we will t put arms in their hands, and send them forth to ravage and plunder. We will make the South a waste mid a desolation. Kaiscahaud against us. and horrors worse than those of San Domingo will be seen from one end of the South to the ofher. ' The letter was sent by the first steamer. The same day I telegraphed to Thurlow Weed, Archbishflp Hughes and Bishop Simpson, to meet me at the Astor House on the morning following. That evening I left for New York, and explained to those eminent gentlemen the object of the conference and the now danger that threatened the Union cause. I told them they must at once go to Europe, to labor, unofficially, with the government and ruling classes of Etig laud, and on the continent to represent the wickedness, danger and folly of foreign interference. In less than a week they were on their journey, reached Europe at a mostopportune moment?(Mason and Slidell had just been seized?England was in a white heat with rage) and did much towards convincing Europe that the proper thing and the only thing to do was to leave us alone. And the mission cost the government less than seven thousand dollars. Postal Cards in England.?When the Postmaster General informed us of tho new privilege by which wo could communicate with our friends at a cost of one-half penny, instead of a penny, we were not indisposed to rejoice that we could get anything at half price. The rejoicings were considerably moderated when we were told that our communications must be written on an open card, the observed of all observers. Lt did not require a conjuror to tell us that half-pinny post cards would be liable to scandalous abuse, and that the new method of convev ing messages would bo a means of disseminating abominable libels. We venturod to point out this at the vcr^ commencement, and our words have been more than verified. From that day to this we have heard of nothing but libels. Impertinent shop girls in the Burlington arcade have gratutiously insulted ladies of title, and irritable gentlemen like Mr. Ilnmpdeu, with "a fad" concerning the rotundity of the earth, have ijscJ post cards for the worst purposes. Every miserable little tradesman .vho owes a grudge, and every scoundrel whp dare not say openly what he thinks, flics to the half-penny postcard to gratify a mean feeling of paltry revenge. Post cards having been tried, therefore, for some considerable time, and having been proved to be extremely danger mis weapons, it Deeouies a question tor tne I'ostma&tcr General to uccitle how long he will retain them as an authorized means of communication. For private purposes they arc useless.? Courtesy and decency alike prohibits their by ?H versed in the' ordinary tlecencics of society. For what purpose, therefore, are post cards retained '! Thrifty housekeepers use them for ordering coal and candies. Secretaries of charitable societies arc not above employing them for the purposes ui iiupormm&y. rur summoning meeting? j and collecting councils they may be handy! enough; but tlicy aro a perpetual annoyance ! to editors of newspapers, who would cheer j the hour when they were abolished. Their i condemnation is pronounced in Lite recent1 libels on Lady Constance Fitzgerald and Prof. Wallace. The Woman Suffrage Convention which opened in Washington on Thursday was very |' poorly attended. The only gentleman who j took any part in the proceedings was E. W. j: Davis of Philadelphia, who brought forward | a plan for a national woman's paper, on the j basis of a stock company, to be chartered by j Congress, '."he capital to be i?lUO,UO0. In) opening. Mb* Anthony gave her views of | the claims of woman to the franchise, the! history of the cause in Kansas, and the su- j porior claim (he women have over the no-1 "roes. A series of resolutions were pre- j n . , i... ai... i i : ' ! Pt'ljvCU uy chuiiiuii, uv\i?i 1 iug? aiir.'iig other tilings, that so long :is women are denied the right of suffrage, they are politically, civilly and socially enslaved, and that i' ! is the duty of Congre.-s, by appropriate legis- i lation, to protect women in the exercise of| the right pf suffrage under the Fifteenth j Amendment to the Constitution. India Uur.bf.k.?The halt of land arouud ' the globe. 500 miles north and 500 miles j ,-outli of the equator, abounds in trees pro-' duviiig the gum of India rubber. They can ! he tapped, it is stated, for twenty successive ' seasons without injury; and they stand sol close that one man can gather the sap of1 eighty in a day. each tree yielding, on nn 1 leverage. three tahlrspnonfulff a dny. Fortythroe thousand of these trees have been ' counted in a tract of country ft mile long: l?y eight wide. There .are ia Knropa and America iimro than I.'jO manufactories of India ruhht r articles, employing .100 opera- [ fives each, and consuming more than 10.-! <>00,000 pounds <>f gum a year) and the business is considered tube sti!! in its infancy. Fut to whatever extent it may increase, there will still be plenty of rubber to supply the demand. _ A Sao Mistakk.?A young man once! pickc<l tip a gold coin that was lying in the road. Always afterward a.? bo walked along, lie kept bis eyes on the ground, b ?ping t<> find another. And i:i the course of a long' lit'- he did tuck up. at different time . a goodly tintiiber of coin--, both guid and silver. lint all these years that lie was looking fi r them be saw n ?t tliaf the Heavens were bright above biiu. He never let h;eys turn away from the filth and mnl in which he suighf his treasure ; and when be diihl?a rich eld man, lie only know uos fair earth as a dirty road in which to pick rtp motley. fi'no of?tii ;* fashionable youths donned his; (5r<t silt It- Hill fil- S:if lll'tl.l V eXCIiiie ' .... . . ...? ..... ...... ...... - "V .** Ilo ;j >t v.oll enough with tinhut ho had to give up the hat?it mad? him sick at the .stomach. ADVEIiTiSlN (i KAT.ES. Space. 1 M. 2 M. DM. fi M. 1 Y. 1 square 3 00 C 00! 8 00 42 001 16 00 2 squares 6 00 9 OO1 12 00 18 00 26 00 8 squares 9 00 13 00 10 00 24 00 35 00 4 squares liOO 10 00 20 00 30 00 43 Of I column 15 00 19 00,' 24 00 34 00! 50 nA I column 20 00 30 00, 40 00: 55 00 80iJ 1 columh 30 00. 50 Q0| 60 00| 90 00(150 00 All Transient Advertisements wiH be cbarg(#, O.ve Dom.au per Square for the first andSsvKod tv-five Cr.xth per Square for each eubseque.Nt insertion Single insertion, $1 50 per square. * OUR CHIP-BASKET. The monev svstcm?Dun or be done. */ Switzerland is having an unusually mild winter. The little Indian girls of Colorado have taken to doll pappooses. Hot sand baths arc now extensively used * as a remedy for rheumatism. Partridges in Illinois arc tame enough to * eat from the hand?when properly cooked. A literary correspondent of the Pittsburg, (Pa.) Gazette,signs himself 0. Pluddlc Styx. With all our newspapers in the U. S. we only one paper to every 5,633 inhabitants. Mrs. Partington says she gets up every morning at the shrill carrion of the chandelier. A cynical bachelor, in speaking of ladies' ball dresses, says: "They wear but' little here below, but wear that little long." The first exclamation of an American belle on entering the cathedral at Milan, was, "Oh, what a church to get married in." A tourist who was asked in what part of Switzerland he felt the heat most, replied, 'When I was going to Berne." Anions: the items in the report of the overseer of the poor of a llhode Island town is this: "Cash paid for funeral sermons, $4." A young man who was crossed in love, attempted suicide recently by taking a dose of yeast powder. He immediately rose above # his troubles. "This is the rock of ages," said the father, after rocking two hours and the baby still awake. "Mamma, do you know what the largest species of ants are? You shake your head. Well, I'll tell you. They're eleph-ants." Who first introduced sail provisions into the navy'( Noah, for he took a Hani with hint on board the ark. V,ch Critimnet wonders why poor people are never afflicted with kleptomania- We call it stealing, then. An ingenious farmer brought a turkey to the Tloston market with eight pounds of shot in its crop. Incredible as it may seem, some of the richest planters in Jamaica live 011 the coffeegrounds. , The reigning belle at a fashionable assent bly in Wisconsin lately created a sensation by sneezing her false teeth out. A Chicago woman tried to commit suicide by swallowing two yards of shoe-strings, but had got so accustomed to Iacjng that they didn't have any'effeot upon her. A Western editor concludes an affecting appeal to delinquent subscribers as follows :. ' .May the famine-stricken gbostof an editor's baby haunt his slumbers." A youth with a turn for figures, had five ergs to hoil, and beiiig told to give thcui three minutes each, boiled them a quarter of an hour. "."kip the hard words, honey dear." said an Irish schoolmistress to one of her pupils; "they're only names of foreign countries, and you'll never be in them." The lirsf Russian newsp&pcr was publish cd in 1S03. Peter the ('rout not only took part petaonally in editorial composition, but :ii.so in correcting pruois The < 'oirrit r-Jnrrun/ says one might as soon think of-operating upon the-painted walls of the catacombs of Egypt with the ; -eihsyrs. upon a Philadelphia paper. They have tried it some tiuic down in Texas. and have QOUiO U) the conclusion that a cattle herder can't be a Christain, and that lie stands no chance of being saved. Dennis (VShannessy advertises as follows the Columbus Republican: "1 hereby give notice that my wife Bridget has left my bed and board, and that 1 will not pay her debts, as we are not married." A fond husband boasted to a friend. "Tom, the dd wnniau came hear calling me honey last night." "Did she. Hill ? What did she say?" "She said, 'Well, olu Beeswax, come to supper."' > A young man in San I'micisao found an ..1.1 <1.vir>(in in> knew "bucking the tiger'' in i ir:i'.!il>linir hell. " b hat," he exclaimed. u deacon. arc you here?' "Yes," was the reply. " I am bound to break down this eul in.-titut: ui." A fellow in Norwich was bitten by a do... As '>> '1 as he recovered from his fri-ht ho declared be would loll the auitnal. the d"^ isn't mad.*' siud the o\\ ncr. "Mad." shouted the victim, cxaspcra'.iiigly. "what in thuuder lias he j^.?t to be nud about A eitv (on was takintr mi 1 airinic iu tl. country, tried to .iuiumi himself by ptii/i'i..:; an nil firmer about his Jbald head, who solenit b. remarki 1. "youno man, when my bead _ {s;e. soil yours, I can raise hair to sell." At :i muting of a parish, a straight-lacc J and must exemplary done. ? submitted a re|h rt ia writing, <'f tho destitute widows atui others. wiic stood in need el' assistance ln.ui the j .ni h. "Ave yon t;itro. deacon, ih.it you have emlraccd all the widow.-':" Jlo said he believed be had. (*i.i > i?:tKi)irons.?;,Tiontny, my . m. v.Mu yi u going t > do with that club?" l-i i.d it to the editor, of course.'' "Thit f r wl.at arc you going t.> ?"nd it to the editor?" "Vauso lie says if anvhodv will send liiui n oluli. ho will semi them a copy of his paper The mother cauie pretty near faintim;. bat rot ihicil c ii :ei..ii-n?>s. u n; Jih : "Hut, Tommy, dear, what <1 > you u; j -so lie wants w ith a club if ' "Wei!. 1 ilon'i know," replied the hopeful uryhiti, 'unless it is to knock down subscribers as don't pay lor their paper.*'