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THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH.
From the Richmond Enquirer. j
That there should have been for some time
after the close of the war a continuance of
alieuations in feeling, of the South from the
North and of the North from the South, was
neither unreasonable or unnatural. The
strife between the sections was fierce on
both aides. The men who were fighting for
the preservation of the Union believed they
were right, and the men who were fighting
f t the preservation of the rights of the
S were satisfied of the justness of their
cause. All argument bad been fruitlessly
exhausted on this side and on that; reciprocal
remonstrances had failed; there was nothing
left but to determine the great issue,
finally and forever, but an appeal to arms.
Iq the height and beat of the oonflict
when each party to the struggle is eaually
actuated by an earnest canviction or the
ligjbtffclacss of its osuse, it is well that there
Aould be strong passion, doep feeling, hot
hatred hurled from one to the other, for
otherwise neither can do justice to itself.
War means violence. It means men fighting
with men as tigers fight with tigers. It
mea*s the retirement of rerson ana the letting
leoaeof the baser elements iu the or- ,
gsniam or humanity for the settlement of I
differences hjr bodily strength, which the
mental and mocul powers of the diSputnata
have been unable to settle. The asperities
and severities, the hardships and horrors of
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war, may u?, iu hw?
by to exetoisa of mercy tod geeerosity on
the port of the oaptet to the captured, the
tmed to tfcediaanstd aeMfer; bat etvilised
warfare h t paradox?t contradictory eonneetid
of anfqGPBwtto tenqa.
The Sooth vu sorely striefcen in our seotional
struggle. Her gallant soldiery won
imperishable honors, bat the fhilare of their
etase left thousands of them who survived 1
homeless, helpless, and almost hopeless; and
the biwve men still living, who boss the
heat and harden of the day, who wero at j
the front fighting from first to last, who stood !
as long m men oould stand between the in_
voders and their own firesides, are net all 1
who have suffered, sadly suffered, since the J
cessation of hostilities. All the people of '
the Booth, men, women and children, had 1
such scenes of desolation?sometimes of j
desecration?before them when the eon test
closed, as made them feel there was a wantonness
of warfare on the part of the Union
armies, made them fear that there would be !
no magnanimity extonded to them, and
made them bitterly remember their bitter \
wrongs. It was in accordance with human J
nature that they were not eager to hold out
the hand of friendship and fellowship to the
men who hod recently borne them Jtmn in j
arms upon their own soil and at their own i
doors, while in the Northern press they j
were still reviled as "traitors" ana "rebels," <
and while the Government, to which in good
faith they had sworn allegiance, was treat*
ing them as if they were revolting subjects
subdued, instead of citizens of tbe same re*
publican country who had fought fairly and
Dravelyin a cause that had its origin in principles
proclaimed by the founders of tho
Union, and often upheld by some of tho wisest
statesmen of the North as well as of the
South.
As time has passed away; as tho sad, bitter
and burning memories of the war have
been cbkstened and softened; as the pas
sions of both sides have been calmed and
cooled; as the Northern people and tbe
Southern people have been brought together
again in business intercourse aou sucuu to- ,
lattoos, the feeling of unfriendliness be- *
tween the two sections has grown less and 1
less, until at lost we maj hope that soon, 1
very soon, it will have faded away forever. '
If it bo true, indeed, that there is a more ]
jrenerous disposition on the part of the par- '
ty ;n poser, toward the South now than has
hereto.^"9 heen shown, the Administration
has only to manifest it in acts and facts, as well
as words, to induce the people of the South
to accept the assurance of a more magnanimous
policy toward them, and in turn accord
to the Government a due degree of
praise for its milder temper and its more
national guardianship of the interests of the
country.
However we may differ, politically, from
the party in possession of the places and
power of Ihe Government, we are always
gratified to see any and every indication of
a return of fraternal feeling between the
North and the South, and always pleased to
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near mnwiiimn m m? .
policy of the "Administration" toward this
sectioa of the Union.
Florida Iwdians.?Minor Jones, of
guwaanee, Mods the Jacksonville Union the
following: '-There is a strange statement
going the rounds of the Florida press to the
effect that the Indians of this State number
not more than 60 in the aggregate. Nothing
could be more wanting of exactness. Everybody
who has had any intorcocrse with the
Indians will bear mc out in saying that there
are above four hundred souls, consisting of
Seminoles, Tallahassee* and Micoosukies,
who are scattered from the big Cypress or
everglades to Haipattee town, near the
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Kissimee prairie. iney nave lurcc vuivie |
and a score of sub-chiefs, who exercise little
or no authority, and are sometimes deposed
for faithlessness and misbehavior. The fact
is, if theso chiefs have any prerogative at all,
it is to exceed their followers in a matchless
fondness for whiskey. With a little work
and tolerably constant hunting, these poor
people provide sustenanco for themselves and
profit for a rascally class of white men, j
known as ' traders,'' who rob them without
mercy.
7 !
Gravity is no more evidence of wisdom than
a paper collar is of a shirt.
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The Reign op King Amadkus-?A short
review of the leading events in the reign of
King Amadeus cannot fail of being interesting
at the present timo.
It will be recollected that the uprising of
1868, which was headed by Princo Topete
and Marshal Serrano, drove Isabella II. from
the Spanish throne. A provisional government
was then proclaimed, and ft held power
till June, 1869, when Serrano was made regent.
This regency lasted till November 16,
1870. Then Amedeus, second son of King
Victor ?manuel, agreed to mount the Spanish
throne if the Cortes should elect him by
a two-thirds vote. To this scheme there
was great opposition on the part of the leaders
of the Republican party, then headed by
Castellar, the ablest agitator r Europe. But
he was elected by the necessary vote, and accepted
the throne December 4, 1870. He
entered Madrid January 2.1871, amid great ]
rejoicings, and entered at once upon the duties
and trials of his reign.
Iu the new elections for the Cortes, held
in March, his first Ministry had a two-thirds
majority, bnt was forced to resign in July,
becoming unpopular on account of irregularities
in managing the finances. Several attempts
followed to make a new- Cabinet, and
then Buis ZoriUt, a distinguished leader of
Ihe Progressionwts, accepted the position of
PVime Minister, and the Cabinet included,
the names of Malcampo, Buy Gomez and
Sagoata.
The new Cabinet made a most favorable
impression, and, asking for a loan of $300,000
000, more than seven times that amonnt
was tendered. In the fall of 1871, Amadeua
made a tour through the provinces, and was
everywhere handsomely and oordially received.
He was soon troubled, however,
by new complications in his Cabinet, and a i
new one was formed under the leadership of i
Sagqst*_j^ . i
Wlion A mtjLrta liMiimj Tin* Pntm woo .
in * state of revolution. He pursued the <
jame oonrte towards that island as his predesessors
had done. This last year he narrowly
escaped aasaasinatioQ. In the Northern
provinces there have been Carl is t insurrections.
After various changes in the Cabinet,
Zoritla again became Premier, but has been
[insQceesaral in keeping down tho opposition.
?he King will, of course, return to
ftaly
Isabella II. is now in Paris. She was born
Dctober 10, 1839; ascended tbe throne September
29,1863; married her cousin, Don
Francis d'Assissi, October 10, 1856. Her
ion, Alfonso, Prince of Astorias, was born
November 28, 1857. 1
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Origin op tor Modoc War.?As the J
particulars concerning the Modoc Indian
nrar come along in the.California journals,
it becomes every day more apparont that the ,
'war" had about the same origin as most
)tber "Indian wars." One of the persons (
ippointed to visit the Modoc Indians, with (
i view to a cessation of hostilities, is Elijah !
Steele, who lives in Yreka, California, on '
the border of Oregon, and in the vicinity of
the Modoc country. He is a lawyer there,
>ne of the earliest settlers and most respectable
citieens. He knows all the Indians,
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ind especially tne moaocs ana meir cuiui,
md they know and respect him: He was '
formerly a Superintendent of Indian Affairs, '
ind understands the "dark ways" of the ]
'traders" and "agents." This gentleman
soys positively that the present war is a '
"commissaries and Indian agents' war."? '
The Modocs were persuaded to give up lands
guaranteed to them by a former treaty, in 1
exchange for reservation lan s on which they !
nearly starved. And here is where the "com
missaries" and "agents" come in as advocates
for forcing the Modocs to be confined to that j
particular reservation. The less the Modocs
can find to eat, the more necessity there is <
for supplies, and with more supplies, there is
more margin for cheating both the Government
and Indians. Mr. Steele says "it is 4
not a question of how much beef is used by
the Indians there, but how much is charged
to the Government." He mentions an instance
in which a "trader" issued cattle to
the Indians, (issued them "on his books"?
that is to say, got pay for them from the Government.
and drove them off and sold them
to the miners!) The Modocs, he says, never
got so much as a hide from that lot of cattle.
Mr. Steele says, farther, that the oommissaries
and agent?and he names them who
have been most actire in stirring up this
war?had a little "Credit Mobflier" among
themselves in the way of furnishing supplies.
They had the control of the contracts, and
after the most approved style of the Pacific
railways and the "Credit Mobilier" people,
they got up an arrangement by which they
contracted with thcnuelvet. Of course, in
such a case, they were not any more part?cular
about prices, or the (juality of the supplies,
or the quantities delivered, than Ames,
Alley and their congressional confederates
were under the same circumstances. But
the Indians got tired of this, and refused to
submit to it. The cattle-men's "Credit Mobilier"
was determined they should, and now
thero is a sangunary war, which has cost the
lives of brave soldiers and a great deal of
LI*
pUDIJC UlUHt'J.
This is the old experience. Oregon has
been partcularly fruitful in it. They had a
"Rogue River" Indian war there once, which
coat the Government thousands of dollars for
every hundred honestly or actually expended.
Rut the "Rogues" were not the Indians
then, any more than they are now, says the
Philadelphia Ledger.
A Connecticut bridegroom created quito u
sensation at his nuptials recently, by appearing
in a pair of knee-breeches belonging to
his grandfather; and which, owing to the
briefness of the modern sock, left several
inches of bare veal exposed.
MENBNGITIS.
' The Savannah News publishes the following
letter on meningitis, from a well-known
physician in that city. We are sorry to say
that it will prove seasonable reading in our
State just now;
Savannah, February 16.
Dear Sir: Your note is at hand requesting
my views upon the subject of meningitis,
and asking of a post mortem examination of
a case of this disease, which you say you
have just learned I made at the. hospital.
I have no opinion about this malady,
which can, in any sense, be regarded as
peculiar?not with regard to its treatment
but in view of its somewnat wwe-spreaa
prevalence. I am willing to throw out some
well established timely hints, which you seezxr
to think may be of some good to the publio. 1
As the name (meningitis) of this disease
implies, it is an inflammation of the meningitis
(or membrane) of the brain and spinal cord
It is therefore, more properly called cerebrospinal
meningetis.
Tho communication of Dr. Knott, to
which yon call my attention, seems to dispute
the idea of its being an inflammation. 1
He says, addressing himself to physicians,
that we must " discard the idea of its being 1
an inflammation," and treat it accordingly.*
I have only had the opportunity of milking 1
an autopsy upon this one case. I openod
the brain and examined every particlo of it 1
in the presence of several of our physicians, 1
and there was. but one opinion expressed, 1
which was that it was a high grade of in- 1
datamation of certainly two of the membranes (
?the archano'd and the pia mater, which 1
are the two inner membranes lining the '
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urnin. Jiucau mu uicuiuiauca uwuu juw
the spinal column, which we also examined '
and found the same results of inflammatory 1
action there. Now there are portions of the ^
son volutions, or sulci, as .they are called,
where these membranes do not obtain, and 1
in these wo found no evidence of inflamma- 1
tion, showing that it is confined to these '
membranes, particularly to the arachnoid. '
As far as my observation goes, which has '
iot been verv large, it appears *o be a win- 1
?r disease, and more likely to prevail in told, *
lamp seasons of winter or early spring. I <
lo not remember ever seeing a case in sum- 1
ner, and am very much inclined to the opi- (
lion that a very large majority of the cases }
:an be traced to exposure. In some places ^
ibr years past, both in this country and Eu- }
ope. it has exhibited a decided epidemic '
endency, and for this reason physicians
lave assigned to it a specific cause. It may }
lave a specific causo (poison for instance,. 1
lurking in the atmosphere,) but if so, like. I
trli? vatiocs uf aiavij Ufcticr G1S6&869, W6 flflVG 1
icver found it out. Bat as remarked above, J
:be only existing causo that I have been 1
seen able to assign is exposure to cold and (
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lampness. ana meremre great curt? ouuuiu uv
;xercised in this regard, particularly to
ivoid cold, damp drafts of air while sleeping,
and after getting wet to change to dry
clothes as soon as possible.
As regards the treatment of this disease,
ny impressions are that .most of the remedies
.hat have suggested, and the plans of trcatnent
laid down ''sure cures" have thus far
proved very unsatisfactory. All the cases
certainly cannot be treated alike with any
probability of success. The physician must
be governed by the circumstances of each
case as he. is called to them. What would
Jo one good, would kill another, and therefore
no routine of treatment can be laid
down, but the good judgment of the physician
must guide him and if he has not good
judgement, he has no business attempting
the management of a case of cerebrospinal
meningitis. Young persons are supposed to
be more liable to it than others, particularly
young men from fifteen to twenty-five years. !
I am yours, respectfully,
J. G. Thomas, M. D.
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American Wonders'.?The greatest
cataract in the world is the falls of Niagara,
where the water from the great upper lakes
forms a river three-fourths of a mile in
width, and then being suddenly contracted
plunges over the rocks in two columns to
the depth of one hundred and seventy feet
each.
Tho greatest cave in the world is the
Mammoth cave in Kentucky, where one can
make a voyage in the waters of a subterranean
river, and catch fish without eyes.
The greatest river in tho world is the
Mississippi, four thousand one hundred miles
long.
The largest valley in the world is the valley
of the Mississippi. It contains five hundred
thousand square miles and is one of tho
most fcrtile regions of the globe.
The larppst lake in tho world is Lake
a ?
Superior, which istruly an island sea, being
four hundred and thirty miles long and very
deep.
Thn longest railroad in the world is the
Pacific Rail Road, over thrco thousand miles
in length.
The greatest natural bridge in the world
is the natural bridge over Cedar Creek in
Virginia. It extends across a chasm eighty
eet in width and two hundred and fifty fifty
in depth, at the bottom of which the creek
flows.
The greatest mass of solid iron in tho
world is thn great Red Mountain, near
Birmingham, Alabama. It is three hundred
and fifty feet high and htty tniies in jengin,
of almost solid iron ore, the largest and
richest deposit known in the world.
The largest deposit of authracitc eoal in
tho world is in Pennsylvania, the mines of
which supply the market with millions of
tons annually.
A Terrc Haute girl exclaimed, when she
saw a Thomas Cat elevate his back : "Oh !
wouldn't he make a lovely bustle f"
A ROMANCE OF THE 6EA.
THIS 8T0RY OF A FEMALE SAILOR.
The new steamer Victoria of tho Anchor
line, which arrived at New York from Glasgow.
brought back to her native shores Maggie
alias Billy Armstrong. She has served
before tbe mast in several British ships.?
Her sex having been at last discovered, she
found herself at Glasgow, and in petticoats
Again, about the time the Victoria was to
As an old sailor she had gone to the
hipping master of the port and brought her
ease before the managers of the Anchor line
who gave her a free passage home.
Duruing the passage I have had many
lUmtAMiitinna n-ifn nnr mmintic tV?llr>w frn.
VUII VV1 OHVIUIIO n?v?? VMI --..w ? - - ?
ycler, and I subjoin an account of her story
ps nearly as possible in her o\m words. She
is nineteen years old, inodiuui size, with a
play of humor about her eyes that partially
ndeems the plainnessof her determined masculine
face. So-high has she held female
virtue through all her vicissitudes that when
a ate rage passenger of the Viotoria insulted
woman in her presence, two or three days
ago, she very calmly struck out from the
Bhouldcr and knocked him down.
"My name," she says, "is Maggie Armstrong,
though I call myself Billy when I
put on pantaloons. I was born in the State
of New Jersey, America. My father is a
farmer, five miles from Trenton, and he has
told me hundreds of times that I could do
more work than any man. I was alwnysgpf
a wild, passionate nature. I used to hate
men when I was at homo. I thought they
ought not to get more wages than women,
ind I often wished that I was a man. My
mpthcr died eight years ago, and lcflfnnothtr
little sister and me. Father kept a house
keeper until I was able to do his work,
trhich I did till the first of last April, when
be took a notion to get married.
"This new wife he got in New York.?
She cauie to our honsc and thought to rule
ne and everything, but I soon taught her
ber mistake. I left the house and went and
bired out at a neighboring farmer's. My
father came after me and took me home,
md I stayed eight days, leading a cat and
log life with my stepmother. I thought I
;ould not endure that long, so I took a strange
lotion into my head. I was up stairs one
lay along with one of my schoolmates. I
ivas engaged in cleaning and folding my
'ather's clothes, and I said to her that if I
rasto dress myself in his clothes he would
lave a job to find me.
Sho laughed, and said he would. There
tras silence between us for a few minutes,
ind without saying anything more about it
& ber. I secretly determined to try it. At 2
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uean, I went up stairs and dressed myself
n my father's clothes. I took the scissors
tnd cut my hair as short as I could, nrd
;hen went down stairs again and took $25
jut of one of the bureau drawers, for I knew
t was no use going away without money,
rhen I went to the station and took the
2:40 train for New York. I wandered about
.he city a good deal, stopping at a small ho:el
in Warren street, I think.
I hadn't begun to make up my mind what
lo do, for I had never been in New York
before, when one of those runners hailed me
ind wanted mc to shiD on a freight steamer,
which he said was going to London and back
to New York in a month. That seemed to
suit me, as I was curious to see London.?
He shipped mo as engineer's steward. I
aever was sea sick once?in fact I never was
jo well before in my life as I have been at
sea. I always used to have headaches in
the summer time at homo. No more feverishness
now. All the engineers were very
well pleased with my work.
But they informed me that tho ship was
not going back to New York, but to China,
when she left London. So I was discharged
at my own request in London, the head engineer
presenting me with ten shillings for
being a good, clean lad. With this and my
wages, fifteen shillings, and what was left
of my 825,1 was enabled to live in London
three weeks. I went all over the great city
and saw no end of things. As soon as I learned
that the steamer was going to China, I
made up my mind that I had got to get back
to America a* a sailor, if I ever got back at
an.
So I used, during my spare hour3 011 the
steamer, to practico going aloft; or if they
wore stowing sails or doing anything of the
kind, I was sore to bo on hand. I used to
go into the wheel-house, too, and learn to
steer, and before we got to the banks of Newfoundland
I knew all the compass. When,
there, I shipped on board the bark Princess,
bound for Middlcsboro', it was not as an apprentice,
but as an ordinary seaman, for two
pounds five shillings a month. I hud bought
a sailor's chest and recruited my sailor wardrobe
with a set of oil-skins.
These I had taken from the Sailor's Home
hoarding house tc the forecastle of the Princess,
and my life as a common tar began.
There wore only eight of us in the forecastle,
and, as I was always first to reef to topsails
and furl the small sails in a gale of wind, we
got along very well. 1 was discharged, finally,
with the rest at Middlcsboro, after a
three weeks' run. Then I thought 1 should
like to see Shields, which is only nix miles
distant. 1 went there and tried to ship
again; but there arose a great difficulty.
I'nfortunatcly, I had lost my discharge.
The captain of a hark, the Kskdnlc, of
Whitby, bound for Italy, would take me as
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uu apprentice, out, n?i <>- w.v........ .
?that is, not nt first, fur lie did take uie
when lie found that he could not pet any apprentices.
We left Shields loaded with coal
lor Genoa. We had head winds and had
weather in the Enplish Channel, but the
Mediterranean was 'air enough to inako up
for it. Wo wore in Genoa nine weeks in all,
and it was after we had been there six weeks
that I was found out not to bo a man. It
happened in this way :
There was a brute of a sailor in the forecastle
who was always imposing on me; when
we were shoveling coal in the hold he made
me fill two baskets to his one; I was telling
this to the rest of the crew after we were
done work; he gave m6 the lie, and the result
was a knock-down fight"between us; he
was the bigger, and he got the better of me,
and I began crying. This led to suspicions
of my sex. I stoutly maintained that I was
a man, but it was no use. The affair got to
the captain's eais.
Now the captain's wifo was on board, and
to him and her I was at last forced to confess
my whole story. I was soon habited as
a woman again, and engaged as stewardess
in tho cabin for the homeward run. Stopping
some weeks at Malaga for cargo, the
bark landed finally at Aberdeen, whence I
came by train to Glasgow.
During the passage from Glasgow to New
York the hero and heroine of the foregoing
story has conducted herself in a quiet, modest
way?except in the matter of knocking down
the steerage passenger for insulting a woman;
and, as for that, you never saw a quieter or
modestcr knock down in your life, Maggie
starts at once for New Jersey and her father.
A Gioantio Family.?The facts appended
appear in the London Medical Record:
Perhaps we may make no excuse for departing
from the custom of not noticing exhibitions
when we call the attention of our
readers to the most remarkable development
of adipose tissue, which has, probably, ever
been observed in Europe, a least in one family.
It is interesting, as testing the laws of
heredity, to observe the peculiarity of the
O'Neal family, of which careful examination
by a writer in the Medico-Chiritrffical
Jtcvieic leads him to vouch for the accuracy
of the extraordinary measurements we give.
They arc native of Ireland, Queeu's county,
forty-seven miles from the city of'Dublin.
They are born of respectable parents, hard
working farmers. The father stood six feet
and weighed twenty-seven stone. The mother
is forty-five years of age, stands five feet
two inches iu height, measures around her
arms twenty six inches, across her shoulders
three feet, round hor waist five feet
and six inches, and weighs the enormous
weight of twenty ono stone. Hor eldest son
is twenty five years of age. stands six feet
two inches, weighs eighteen stone five pounds
and at the present time he is a Life Guard.
All the sons and daughters were of large
dimensions. Miss Anna O'Neal, the eldest
daughter, is twenty years of age; she stands
five feet six inches in height, and measures
rnnnd arm twontv^even inch eg. across
the shoulders one yarn ana a naff founu
her waist eight feet two inches, and has the
enormous weight of thirty-nine stone. Her
youngest sister iB eighteen years of ag.-; she
stands five feet two inches in height, measures
round her arm twenty-five inches,
her shoulders three feet, round her waist six
feet, and weighs twenty-three stone.
The eldest daughter is, as may well be
imagined, on account of her ob-ssitv, scarcely
able to walk. She appears to be uneasy .on
her legs, and is compelled to lean up against
the wall for support. The vaccinationSnarks
on her arms having increased with age and
the development of artificial tissue, arc as
large as ordinary saucers. As there is no
padding or artificial methods employed to
enhance the enormous weight of the specimens,
the disproportion which strikes the
observer between the gigantic bodies and
the relative small, though absolutely large,
erania is almost startling. The hands arc
coarse and large boned. In Annie O'Neal
(affectionately and absurdly named "Lilly"
by her smaller relatives) the molar bones
arc enormous, and the mouth is much under
hung, by the forward projection of the lower
jaw. Although the mother shows much
signs of excessive alcoholic consumption.
thero is no disease noticeable or complained
of, and the subjects do not appear to suffer
froui any other affection than the inconvenience
of having to support so much fat.
Without a Parallel.?The New York
World says: " A few years since there resided
in one of the counties of South-Carolina
two respectable citizens. They were of
the samo surname; they also were cousins;
they wore members of thasame religious denomination;
their wives were sisters; they
were both nullificrs when' South Carolina
took the lead in this political adventure.?
Kach one was the father of thirteen children;
each of those men had throe sons and
ten daughters. Where can a parallel to this
be found ?
An* Arabian Curiosity.?A singular
vegetable phenomenon was discovered during
recent explorations in Arabia. It is called
the laughing plant, from the effect produced
by the seeds. When they are pulverized
and eaten in small quantities the person oating
them will soon begin to laugh loudly,
then to sing, dance and do all manner of
absurd things. This lasts for an hour, after
which he goes to sleep, and having slept another
hour, wakes up utterly unconscious of
what has occurred. It has heap suggested
that this plant might he made a substitute
for alcohol, and that it would have the advantage
of being cheaper, until the government
should seo through the trick and commence
to tax it. But it is scarcely probable
that the Arabian plant could in fact be
made popular in that capacity, for it does
not appear that it inspires the pcrsou who
nnrtakes of it with a desire to whip his wife,
I ? # # murder
bis mother or indulge in any of the
pleasantries that the alcohol of the period
moves one to perpetrate.
Sccst thou a man diligent in his business?
He shall stand before, kings; he shall not
stand before mean men.
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To Young Men '
mi ' i i f ,*
ine young mau who nas an amnition to
make a great noise in the world should learn
boiler making. He can make more!' noise
at that trade than at anything else he can
engage in *
If he believes a man should "strike for
wages" he should learn Idacksmithing?
ospeciallyif he is good at bluing."
If he would embrace a profession in
which ho can rise rapidly he slould become an
aeronaut. He couldu't find anything
better "for high."
He certainly could do a staving (and perhaps
a starving) business at tire cooper
trade. '
If he believes in "measures, not men,,' he
will embark in the tailoring bukuJess/1
If the one great object of his life is to
make money he should get a position in the
United States mint.
If he is a punctual sort of a chap; and
nnYirms tn hn "nn fimf> " tin aVinnlH nnf. Viiu
hands to watchmaking.
If he believes it the chief end of man to
have his business largely "felt," why of
coarse, he will become a hatter;
If he wants to "get at the root of a thing"
he will become a dentist?although, if he
does, he will be often found "looking down
in the mouth." ,
If a man is a bungler at his best he should
become a physician, and then he will have
none of his bad work thrown upon his bands.
It is generally buried out of sight, .you
know.
Should he incline to high living, but prefer
a plain board' then the carpenter's trade
will suit him, He can plane board enough
at that
If he is needy and well-bred lie will- be
right at home as a baker.
He shouldn't become a cigar maker. If
he does all his work will end in smoke.
The young man who enjoys plenty of company,
and is ever ready to scrape acquaintance,
will find the barber business a congenial
pursuit.
The quickest way for him to ascend to the
top round of his calling is to become a hodcarrier.
.
A very "grave" young man might flourish .
as an undertaker. >
Don't learn chairmaking, for no matter
how well you please your customers, they
will sooner or later get down on * ybur
work. i.
And don't become an umbrella-maker for
their busines is "used up."
If* be would have his work touch tjhe
heads of the nation, wc know of no way ho
could sooner accomplish such an object than
by making combs.
- - people
will become an optician. The work,
being easily seen through cannot be difficult
to Jearn.
A man can always make a scent iu the
perfumery business.
If a young man is a paragon of honor,
truthfulness, sobriety, has never sworn a profane
word, and has twenty thousand dollars
that lie has no use for, then he should im
mediately start?a newspaper.?F. C., Satur'
day Night.
The Louisville Ledger tells the following
story of canine sagacity: "A little black ahd
tan terrier belonginer to Mr. Neweomb bad
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followed a member of the family to the drug
store of Dr. J. B. Barnum, corner of Fifth
and York streets, and while on the sidewalk,
a great, overgrown cur jumped upon it atift
broke one of its forelegs. The howls of
agony emitted by the poor little fellow attracted
the attention of Dr. Barnum, and
his suggestion the dog was taken into his
store, and the doctor proceeded to set the
broken leg and splinter and bandage it. The
dog resisted the operation with all his power,
and snapped and howled the whole time.?
The dog was taken home, and after an absence
of four days returned to the store of
its own accord, walked up to Dr. Barnum,
wagging its tail and whining, and held out
the broken leg for the doctor's inspection.
An examination revealed the fact that thb
bandages and splinters had become disarranged,
and were evidently causing great
pain. The doctor rearranged the dressings,
and the dog hopped away. Every day since
tnen tnc uog conies reguiariy ro mc store
and holds out its leg to the Doctor, as much'
as to say, 'Look at that, Dortor, and see how
its getting along." The examination over,
the dog goes home. His leg is nearly well,
and it remains to bo seen whether, like many
of the human race, as soon as he is well he
will forget the physician who healed him."
Shopping in Pap is.?The following'
scene, it is said took place in a Paris magaziu
: An elegantly dressed ladv asked to see
some material for paletots. The shopman
mounted the steps and took down several
pieces of striped velvet.
"The rain would spoil it." said the lady.
"Show me some swan silk." . ^ ^
Several pieces being laid upon the counter
?"Too thick," said the lady, after an examination
of ten minutes; "show'mo sorno
lady's cloth." .
Several great rolls were laid before her.
They were too thin.?Then came velvet,,
silk, satin, moire, until the counter disappeared
under piles of stuff, behind which stood
the nearly invisible and polite. At last. "L
have decided," said the customer, "in favor
of flannel, blue flannel.
Ton i r twelve pieces were laid upon tho
heap.
"That will do," she said, after a long and
minute scrutiny. "How much will it take
to make a dogs's paletot?" {ind she held up a
microscopic toy terrier. /
"A paletot?" asked the shopman, not at
i all discontented, and, appcariug to make a
mental calculation, "Will it have pockets,
| uiadame ?"