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# ' ? VOL. XXXII. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 34, 1873. NO. 34 ~ THE CAMDEN JOUBHAL AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY PAPER PUBLISHED BY JOHN KERSHAW. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, in advance $2 50 Six months ; 1 ^0 Three months. "*> Pj^? Transient Advertisements must be paid in advance. [OFFICIAL.] The Laws of South-Oarolina. Acts and Joint Resolutions passed by the General Assembly at the Session of 1872 | . -73. * * I Joint Resolution to ratify the amendment to " the Constitution of the State of South garolina, relative to the holding of elections. Whereas, Article XV of the constitution nf the State of South Carolina Drovides that an amendment or amendments may be made to tljp same; and that such amendment or amendments shall be agreed to by two-thirds of the members elected to each House, such amendment or amendments to be entered on the jonrnals, respectively, with the yeas and nays taken thereon; and that the same shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the State at the next general election thereafter for representatives; and if a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly, voting thereon, shall vote in favor'of such amendment or amendments and two-thirds of each branch of the next General Assembly shall, after such an election and before another, ratify the same amendment or amendments by yeas and nays the same shall become part of the constitution: Provided, That such amendment or amendments shall have been read three times on three several days in each House; and whereas, the G%neral Assembly, at its last session, did, in each branch, pass a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution of the State ?f South Carolina, which was agreed to by two thirds of its members, to-wit: Strike out all that portion of section 11, article II., following the words " eighteen hundred and seventy." occurring in the fourth and fifth lines and inserting tho following oAnd forever thereafter on the first n * Tuesday after the first Monday in November, in every second year, in such manner end place as the Legislature may provide;" And whereas the said proposed amendment baa been snbmitted to tho electors qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly, at the next general election following the action of the General Assembly, and a majority of the said electors have voted in favor of the same; therefore. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by authority of the same: That the amendment to the constitution of the State ot^outh Carolina, proposed and agreed to by two-thirds of the members of ach branch of the last General Assembly, and voted for by a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly at the last general election, to wit: i - P a. 2 11 ? Strike out ail tnat portion oi seuuun n, article TI., following the words -'eighteen hundred add seventy," occurring in the fourth and fifth . lines, and insert the following: "And forever thereafter, on the first Tues day following the first Monday in November, in every second year, in such manner * and in such place as the Legislature may provide," be, and the same is hereby, ratified and. made a part of the constitution of the State of Sooth Carolina. Approved January 29, 1873. An Act concerning School Funds. Be it enacted by the Senate and* house of Reprint*1'*?9 of" the State of South Carolina, now <net and sitting in Qeneral Assembly. and by tu? authority of the same : Section 1. 'T.hat the General Assembly shall levy, at each regular session thereof, an annual special tax, Jo be known and de-1 signaled as the school tax, on all taxable property throughout the State, for the support and maintainance of free common { schools, which tax shall be collected at the' same time, and in tho same manner, and by 1 *" ? iran.ral StfttG tflX. lue same u^ciiin 00 luv 6vu.... ?, and which tax shall be paid iuto the treasury of the State. See 2. That it be declared a misdemeanor on the part of the State treasurer to apply or appropriate any funds or moneys derived from, or collected, gr received on account of, said school tax, for any purpose or purposes whatsoever, except that of fiee common schools; and, on eonviction thereof, he shall Ciy a fine of not less than five thousand dolrs, ($5,000,) the same to be used for school purposes, and shall be imprisoned at the discretion of the court Sec. 3. That the State treasurer shall furnish to the State superintendent of education. annually, on or before the first Tuesday of March of each year, except the present year, which shall he the first day of April, a certified statement showing the amount of moneys collected or received by him on a?count of said school tax. Sec 4 . That it shall be the duty of the State superintendent of education to apportion, oa the law specifics, the free common ?1 nCtlm XtjiM miinnv thn nrcriil WJlivn IUIIVID VMV counties thereof. See. 5. That it shall he the duty of each county school commissioner to apportion, according to law, the free common school funds "of his county among the several school dis tricts thereof: ProviiM, That any school distjict believine itself wronged by such apportionment may appeal to the State superintendent of education whose decision shall be final. Sec. 6. That it shall be the doty of each county treasurer to report monthly, on the 15th day of each, month, to the county school commissioner of his county, the amount ui collections and disbursements made by him lor the month on acvuint of poll tax and all other school funds; and it shall be a misdemeanor on the part of ?ny county treasure! to neglect, fail or refuse to make such re port; and, on conviction thereof, he ahal pay n fiue of wA km Uub tfugxMticl lars, (8500.) the same to be used for schoi 1 purposes in his county. Sec. 7. That all moneys disbursed by any county treasurer on account of school funds or taxes, or poll tax. shall be paid on the order of boards of school trustees, countersigned by the county school commissioner: Pro- i vulc(t% That accounts or claims of school trus- i |te;s for enumerating school children shall i be paid on the order of the couuty school commissioners. Sec. 8. That each county treasurer shall j make out and forward to the State superini tendent of education, annually, on the 1st i day of November, a certified statement, 1 showing by school districts the amount of i poll tax and the amount of local or school i district taxes collected by him for the fiscal year ending on the 31st of October next preceding; and should any county treasurer fail, neglect or refuse to make and forward the statement as herein roquired, the State superintendent of education shall make oht a written complaint to the circuit solicitor ! for the county in which the said treasurer i resides, who shall prosecute the said county treasurer for the same, and on conviction | thereof,. he shall be subject to fine of five ; hundred dollars, ($500,) the same to be ! used for free common school purposes in his i countp. . i Approved February 20, 1873. 1 i An Act to enforce the payment of the poll i tax. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of 1 Representatives of the State of South Caro- i lina, now met and sitting in General Asscm- < blv, and by the authority of the same: < Section 1. That there shall be assesed on ] all taxable polls in the State ap annual tax i of one dollar on each poll, the proceeds of i which shall be applied to educational pur- i poses; and if any person shall refuse or neglect to pay said tax before the expiration of the time fixed for the payment of all taxes, the county treasurer shall, within twenty days thereafter, furnish a list of all delinquent polls to the county commissioners of the county; whero the persons so taxed and delinquent have no property to he distrained for the payment of said poll tax. as authorized in the act providing for the assessment and taxation of property, approved September < 15. 1868, the person or persons so dditiqent shall be subj ^et to a penalty of double the amount or their poll tax. and, on failing to i ? ?i iiiestuiJie, much iiiiiiuni mi iijc tuti, mvu fn ten days after such notice, such person or i persons shall be required to work upon the * highway or roads in their respective counties i as the county commissioners njay direct, not exceeding three days. * < Section 2. That the said county commissioners shall, after receiving the delinquent poll list, summon such delinquents to appear at their office, and then and there give them the opportunity to pay the double tax.aud on failing to do so, such delinquents . shall be required to work upon the highways and roads of their respective counties, as the county commissioners may direct ; and if said delinquents, being personally warned by the said commissioners, or by written notice, served at their place of residence, shall refuse or neglect, having had ten days' notice to attend by themselves, or substitutes equally able to perform the said duties as themselves, or to pay the double tax in lieu of paid duties, or, having had attended themselves, shall refuse to conform to the requirements of this act, or obey tho directions of the county commissioners, they shall be considered guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned for the same, in a county jail, for a term not less than ten i days. Approved February 20, A. D. 1873. An Act to require county coroners to rel port to tho governor in capital cases. J Be it enacted by the Senate and IIou.so of I Representatives of the Stato of South Caroj lina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: Section 1. That it shall bo the duty of each county coroner, whenever a homicid* has been committed in his county, and the party committing tuch homicide has not been arrested, or.'having been arrested, has escaped custody before bill found, to forward a report to the Governor within three days after the holding an inquest by him, or, in cases of escape, within three days after notice of such nscupe. which report shall embrace the name of tho person, if known, charged with committing such homicide, together with a copy of the evidence taken before the jury of inquest, and the verdict rendered there upon . . rrooiti.it, That, in ease of escape, it shall be 1 the duty oftheshoriff, or other officer havi ine custody of the party, to notify such coroner of the escapo promptly. Section 2. Upon the receipt of any re| port, as provided in section 1 of this act, the | Governor may, in his direction, offer such rewards as the gravity of the crime warrants, ' not exceeding five hundred dollars in any * i 1? ..V ! case, for the apprehension ana aenvcry m j the fleeing or escaped criminal, as the case ! may be, to the sheriff of the county in I which such alleged crime was committed, ) which reward shall be paid, upon the warrant of the Governor, from his contingent fund. Section 2. Any coroner who shall wil! fully neglect to make the report, ns provided ^ in section 1 of this act. shall he liable to in' dictuient us for a misdemeanor, and, upon ! conviction, shall he fined not less than $50 i nor more than 85UU, or imprisoned not less thnn thirty days nor more than six months, ; or both, at the discretion of the court. | Section 4. All acts and parts of acts in' consistent with this act be, and the same arc I hereby, repealed. Approved February 27. A. D. 18711. j An Act for the bettor protection of religious 1 worship. it by the jwuoto and Ucrut* irt' Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: Section 1. That if any person shall, wilfully and maliciously, disturb or interrupt any meeting, socltety, assembly or congregation, 1 convened for the purpose of religious worship, or shall enter such meeting while in a state of intoxication, or shall use or sell spirituous liquors or us profane language at or near the" place of meeting, such person shall be deemed cruilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than twenty or more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year or less than thirty days, or both, or either, at the discretion of the court. Approved February 20, A. D. 1S73. A.v Act to provide for an assessment of real ' property in the year 1873. Re it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by authority of the same : 1 Th?t Am Iicrrtoomnnf nPtlin VPfl 1 I UAlyl 1UH ?. J Hills an iia.-n;oomtiii/\M v.?v .?? property in this State shell be made in the rears one thousand eight hundred and *eventy-three. (1873,) at the same time that the assessment of personal property is made, and in the manner and according to the rules prescribed for the assessment of real property in chapter XII. of title III. of the general statutes. Section 2. The comptroller-general is1 horehy authorized and directed to adopt the measures necessary to carry out the intent of this act, and to exercise, for the purpose of making and completing the assessment provided for in this act. all the powers relating to the assessment of real property conferred upon him by the chapter of the general statutes hereinbefore cited. Approved Fabruary 27, A. D. 1873. An Act to provide for purchasers of lands at sales made for non payment of taxes being put into possession of the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of thp State of South Carolina. now met aad sitting in General Assembly. and by tne authority of the same: Section 1. That whenever lands are sold on account of the non-payment of taxes, the pnrchaser thereof, to whom a convevanfce is j- _i ii i 4i _ j_Li a._ ! 1*:..^ mailt*, snnii nave me rigru i?> immeuiaic possession of the game; and it shall be the duty nf the sheriff of the county whore said lands arc situate, after ten days'notice being given, upon complaint made, and exhibition of tho deed of conveyance, to eject persons unlawfully holding over, and to put said purchasers into possession ; and any person or persons who shall resist the sheriff, or refuse to vacate, ahall he deemed gnilty of r. misdemeanor. and be punished by imprisonment not less than six (6) months and no more than twelve (12) months: Provided .however. That if the person or persons holding over and claiming possession shall, within ten days from the execution by the sheriff of the summary powers conferred by this act. file in the office of the said sheriff the tax receipt, or a certificate from the county treasurer certifying that the tax or taxes were paid on the property in question, and for the year or years for which sold; thereupon the action of the sheriff shall be null and void: And provided, further, That in case of tenants holding underleases, they shall not be ejected until the expiration of the same, unless they refuse to attorn to said purchaser or purchasers. Approved February 22, A. D. 1873. An Act to amend scctiont 98. 99 and 100. charter 17.. of the general Statutes of South Carolina, relatiug tn holders of insurance policies. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same : Section 1. That section 98 of chapter XVII. of the general statutes be amended in the fifth'line of said section, after the words '-bonds or stocks of this State," by inserting the words "or of the United States;" also at the close of the said section, insert the following proviso: "Provided, however, That it shall be the duty, and it is hereby required of the comptroller-general, upon notice being served upon him by the agent of any said company or association, accompanied by proof sufficient to establish the fact of the insolvency of such company or association so depositing, to dispose of. at public outcry, to the highest bidder, after twenty-one days' notice of said sale, (notice to be given by publishing in one of the daily papers in the city of Columbia, and in one daily paper in the city of Charleston,) so much or so great an amount of such bonds or stocks so deposited as will enable him to reinsure the 1 11 I* I. ! 1 pulley Holders UI such insolvent company ur association, in such proper and solvent insuranee company or association as any policy holder in said insojveiit company or association may desire or elect, for the balance of the unexpired term of such insurance previously taken by him in said insolvent company or association." Suction 2 That section 99 of chapter XVII. of the general statutes he amended hy I inserting after the word "State," in the third line of said section, the words "or of the United States." Section 3. That section lUO of chapter < 1 - i.- i?.i A \ 1 1 >! 1110 general SUUUH'S i?u umciiuvu I by inserting after the word ''State in the eleventh line, tho words "oi of the I'tiitod States.'' Approved February 20. A. 1>. 1873. An Act to regulate the appointment and salary of Trial Justices in the city of Charleston. Ho it enacted by the Senate and House of lWpa'st)ui?tiYcw ui t4iu if LVrru% Una. now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by authority or' the same : Section 1. That the Governor do apppoint, by and with the advice an 1 consent of the Senate, five trial justices for the city J uf Charleston, and no more, to hold their ' offices for the term of two years, unless soon- * cr removed, according to law: Provided, i That during the recess pf the Senate the < Governor may appoint either one or all of J said trial justices, to hold their offices, unless ? removed by hiui, till the next session of the I Legislature, when the appoint merit shall t cease, unless confirmed by the Senate, If a > vacancy occurs during the next session of < ihe Legislature, it shall be filled ouly by i the advice and consent of the Senat<;. i Sec. 2. That the trial justices appointed 1 tor the city Charleston shitl! reside in said j city and keep their offices there, which shall i bo opened from day to day for tho transac- i tion of business: Provided, That the trial justices appointed shall be commissioned by the Governor, in the followin manner, to wit: Two forwards one and two; one for i wards three and four; one for wards five and six; one for wards seven and eight; and shall have their offices located in a central location, convenient to the people of the. wards for which they are appointed. Sec. 3. That, instead of the fees and fines heretofore allowed by law for the trial justices in the city of Charleston, they shall each be allowed a salary of twelve hunted dollars per annum, payable quarterly, on the first days of January, April. July and October, by tho countyrtreasnrer for Charleston .county, out of the county funds, and thit all fees taxed and recovered in criminal causes j in the courts of said trial justices shall be < forthwith turned over to the county treasurer for tho county of Charleston; and the said trial justices shall make to the judcc of the first circuit a monthly report of all fees, I fines and costs recovered or collected by them during the said month. < Sec. 4. All the appointments of trial jus- . finoi rnsidnnf. within the citv of Charleston. ? - ? heretofore made, shall cease and determine i on and ?fter the first day of April next, and i the trial justices provided for in this act shall enter upon their duties on that day. Sec. 5. That the trial justices appointed i for the city of Charleston may each appoint two constables, and no more, to serve pro- i cesses of their respective courts, removable at pleasure; the constables so appointed shall receive a salary of five hundred dollars per annum, to be paid at the times provided for in section 3 of this Act. 1 Sec. 6 That if either of the trial justices appointed for the city of Charleston shall neglect to attend to the duties of their offices, 'tr shall be guilty of extortion or oppression 'in office, or shell fnil to p?y over, as required by this act. tlw foes and fines collected by him in his office, ho shall be liable to indictment therefor, and, on conviction, shall be liable to imprisonment for two years ai d a fine of one thousand dollars, or both, within the discretion of the court, and shall be removed from office. Sec. 7. The trial justices so appointed shall give a bond of twenty-five hundred dollars for the faithful performance of their duties, the bonds to bo approved by the judge of the first circuit. Orrirp SwRFTARY OF STATE. ) Columbia, S. C., February 21,1873.) The foregoing act having been presented to the Governor of this State for his approval, and not having been returned by him to that branch of the Geneal .Assembly in which it originated within the time prescribed by the constitution, has become a law without his approval., II. E. Hai'.ne, Secretary of State. What a Million would do.?A million of dollars would erect forty first-class cotton factories in South Carolina. To run these, from eight to ten thousand operatives would be necessary, the larger portion of whom would be brought from aboard. Estimating the operative element of population at one third, at least twenty five thousand souls would be added to the present inhabitans of the State. Concentrated, in the connection contemplated, they would constitute a city, second in sizo in the State. But merchandize, industries, churches and schools, would iuvcvitally gather up around them, adding, in a short time, ? ? .i- i ... ... a.:. prooaDiy one-uuru mure iu men uuuiun, and we would soon have a city of thirty or forty thousand iuhaditants. These factories, estimating 4,000 bales each, would spin up 1GU.000 bales of cotton, per annum, which, if we estimate at 18 cents per lb (400 lb bales) would bo worth 811.520,000.?.Supposing this cotton to be manufactured into cloth that double* the value of the raw material, and we have S11.520.U00 added to the present value of the products of the State from cotton alone. IIow long would it be, wirti these forty factories running, before South Carolina, impoverished and taxridden, would become a wealthy and populous I State ? I But. according to Co], II.unmet's calculation of tli? profits (the not earnings) of a cotton factory of the capacity upon which we base this calculation. (836.900) there would bo, of clear profit, to the projectors of these mills, S2.H7H,00U unuually. Add to all this the general iuipqjus given ta all manner of business, not foicctting the Churches. Colleges and Schools of the State, the increase of tin: value of real estate. Ac, and what would soon be the condition of our ! noble old commonwealth ??Snvitcr H'ofc/iV"/i. John Hull, who is a firm believer in nursery traditions, hus been trying to put salt on the tail of the American liable. Ilia last uttvuijrt was at Utucvu. . . The Disease and the Remedy. [From tbo South Carolinian.] The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in tlto N'ew \ork Ledger, has a short article called 'More M n/iood Wanted." He calls atten,ion to the evil of the hour?viz: The cor uption of (politics and flagrant immorality )f legislators and parties, and takes the ground that these can be corrected only Dy i c urse of general public education. To ;his all right minded men will assent with ;'nis suggestion that the education needed is more of the heart than of the head?more jf the moral and religious sense than of the merely mental faculties. 31r. Beecher himself asserts that the men who are bought and sold like meat in shambles at tlolumbia, Albany. Washington and other captuls, arc men' of intellectual culture?are intelligent enough, and yet they stumble and fall most shamefully. J.s the Rev. gladiator well expresst-s . f.an 11 a.: 4 11 ii: "inuy sen meir country ntcv sen men manhood; tliey sell their honor; they bell that trust that is put upon them by-their fellow-citizens; they are traitors !" And yet, as he remarks : "These aro the men that are among the most erudite, tried in Academies; practiced in Colleges and ^nished in the various professions." What, then, do we wilnt? Mr. Bcecher says we need a public sentiment that can be created only in a universally educated community. Hence, he says, the point is to educate, educate! But he lays no stress upen the kind of education that is needed. He says i he great object should be to bring out more manhood in the masses, and thus make it perilous for a public man to sell his State or country for a mess of pottage. We submit that the point is to diffuse among the masses a sound education, and that the influence we want is to come from the school, the college, the press, and, par excllenec, from the pulpit. We want tho highest ethics to be inculcated. Wc want principle, honor and genuine godliness to be magnified. Whatsoever things arc true, honest, just, iturc. lore.lu and of qood report, let the cdu cation of tha masses involve the?c thing*, and we shall find a public sentiment that will hold public men and government officiate to a strict account. But Mr. Beecher, in the full appreciation of the lessons of his own personal experience, will assen to the propositiou that no education is complete, is sound, is calculated to develop true manhood, which docs not purify the heart, out of which come all the issues of life. The brilliancy of intellect must be mellowed by the radiance of moral feeling, and no people can long remain prosperous and incorrupt who do not set up their banners iu tho name of Diviue truth and purity. Professor Agassiz on the Negro.? While Darwin can "evolve" the whole animal kingdom, man included, from a single low form of*life, Agassiz considers it necessary to assume separate creations for the different races of men : but we cannot see that either has yet made out*his case. Agassiz calls the Darwinian theory " a mire of assertionwhat would Darwin say of the following, which the Scientific Press, of Sail Francisco, quotes from a recent lecture by Agassiz? ' J have pointed out over a hundred specific differences between the bonal and nervous systems of the white man and the negro. Indeed, their frames arc alike in no particular. There is no bone in the negro's body which is relatively of the same shape, size, articulation, or chemically of the composition as that of the white man. The negro's bones contain a far greater proportion of calcareous salts than those of the white man. Even the negro's blood is chemically a very different fluid from that which courses in the veins of the white man. The whole physical organization of the negro differs quite as much from the white man's, as it docs from that of the champanzce?that is, in his* bones, muscles, nerves, and fibres, the champanzce has not much farther to progress to become a white man. This fact science inexorably demonstrates. Climate has no more to do with the difference between the white man and the negro than it has with that between the nccro Hnd the champanzce. or it has between the horse and the ass, or the eagle and the owl. Each is a distinct and separate creation. The negro and the whits man were created as specifically different as the owl and the eagle.-1 They were designed to fill different places in I thesyatem of nature. The negro is no more j a negro by accident or misfortune than the owl is the kind of a bird he is by accident or misfortune. The imgro is no more the white man's brother than the owl i? the sister of the eagle, or the ass the brother ofthc horse, llow stupendous, and yet how simple, is the ' doctrine that the Almighty maker of the ! universe has created different species of men, j just as He lias different species of the lower J atiitna!?, to fill dincnt places ana omces in the grand machinery of nature.' We learn that an Irishman who had been employed at tho cemetery some tiuio since, went to Washington to draw his pay. After rcceiving the amount, the paymaster discovcd a sabre cut oil the face, remarked : "You were in the army during the war?" "Yes," said he, "What command were you in?" "In (Jen. Kite Hugh Lee's command." "Hid you have the audacity to apply at a ; Federal cemetery for work when you were j in the Rebel army ?" "Yes," replied the Irishman, "I helped to : kill them, and 1 thought 1 had a right to I help bury them." A Pennsylvania woman challenges any man in her county to a wrestling mutch for ^ tho championship. ADVERTISING RATES. Ill I17' SPACE. | 1 M. . : 3 M. CM.; | i_i i I square i 3 0ft 6 0?j 8 00 12 OOUG 000 I squares G 00; 9 00( 12 00 18 Ofll 2% 00 3 squares 9 Ott 13 00' 10 00 24 OOj 85 Of i squares 12 001 16 OOj 20 00 30 00| 43 00 \ column 15 OOj 19 OOj 24 00 34 001 50 00 \ column 20 00 30 001 40 00 65 001 80 04 1 column 30 OOJ 50 OOj 60 00 90 00|l50 00 All Transient Advertisements will be charged One Dollar per Square for the first and Sktbxry-PivE Cents per Square for each subsequent insertion Single insertion, $1 50 per square. OUR CHIP-BASKET. 4| l'jye servants?spectacles. A press gang?Printers' devils. Unredeemable bonds?Vagabonds. The greatest bet ever made?the alphabet. A singular fact?To-day will be yesterday to-morrow. Dolly Varden noses arc tho latest?Topers wear theui. "A coffin," said an Irishman, "is the hftnse a man lives in wheu he is dead. A difficult punctuation?Puttting a stop to a gossip's tongue. A good name for the son of a Mormon?E Pluribus Unum. ? The ''latest" song out?We won't go home till morning. What word may be pronounced quicker by addiug two letters to it??Quick. What is it that has three feet and cannot walk, sixteen nails and cannot scratch ??A yard stick. Education never makes a fool wise It only furnishes him with more modes in which to exhibit his folly. A printer recently made "Be ye therefore steadfast," the text of a minister's sermon, "Be ye there for breakfast." Upon the marriage of Mrs. Wheat of Virginia, the editor hopes that her path may be flowery, and that she may never be thrashed by her husband. "Ah, Mr. Simpkins, we have not chairs enough for our company," said a gay wife to her frugal husband. "Plenty of chairs, Mrs. Simphins," he replied, "but too much company." "I am not myself at all, to-day," said a bore to a wit. "No matter," was the reply; "whoever else you may be you're a gainer by the change." The Chief of Police at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, recently received a letter asking him to look for a runaway man who has a "black mustash about five fete and teno inches in hit with a velvet cote." Guizoteays of Louis Napo.eon. He was ail his life one of three things prisoner, journalist or Carbonari?but always thoroughly a gentleman. Sydney Smith once commenced a charity sermon by saying: "Benevolence is a sentiment commou to human nature. A never sees B in distress without asking C to relieve him." "Why don't you wash the bottom of your feet John ?" asked a grandmother of a boy going to bed; to which he replied gravely, "why granny you don't think I'm going to stand up in bed, do you?" "My brudders,"said a waggish colored man _ .1 *? 11 rrt . u i to a cruwa, *;in an amtction, id an od your troubles, dar is one place you can always find sympathy." "Whar, whar ?" shouted several. *In de dictionary!" he replied, rolling his eyes skyward. A Georgia preacher, in translating the sentence, ' The harvest is over, the season is ended, and thy soul is not saved," put it: 'Do corn has been cribbed, dere ain't any more work, and de bebbil is still fooling wid dis community." t Gentility is neither in birth, manner nor fash'on but in the mind. A high sense of honor, a determination never to take a menu advantage of another, an adherence to truth, delicacy and politeness toward those with whom you have deulings, are the essential characteristics of a gentleman. The most original spelling we have ever seen is the following. It beats phonetics. ?80 you be?a tub. 80 oh! pea?a top. He 80?bat. See 80?cat. Pea 80?pat. Are 80?rat. See oh! double you?cow. See you be?cub. See a bee?cab. Be you double tea?butt. See a double el!?call. I say. Pompcy," said one freedman t<5 another,''dis chile has tried lots ob gift fairs and things for a prize, but neber could draw anything at all." "Well, Jim, I'd vise you to try a hand-cart; de chances are a thousand 4a tfAM /inn /litem Jnt " i\j unu viav j\ju VUII uiuu uavi Fun is worth more than phjsic, and whoever invents or discovers a new source of supply deserves the name of a public benefactor; and whoever can write an article the most laughter-promoting, and at the same time harmless, is worthy of our gratitude and respect. llow sweet are the affections of social kindness! how balmy the influence of that regard wnicn dwells around our fireside! Distrust and doubt darken not the brightness of its purity?the cravings of interest and jealousy mar not the harmony of that scene. Parental kindness and filial affection blossom there in all the freshness of aif eternal spring. Tt matters not if the world is cold, if we can but turn to our dear circle, and ask and receive all that our own heart claims. A Philadelphia woman who, forty years ago, at the age of sweet sixteen, married a rich old follow of three score for his money, expecting soon to be a gay and festive widow, has recently died, aged fifty-six, leaving a husband of 100 and Jour children to mourn her loss. A married m^n was recently discovered to be courting a young girl at Sheffield; Kngland. A crowd took possession him, carried him to a publie house, tattooed him, and fined him 81.45. He was ihen handed ovor to a large number of wowcu, who shaved the hair off his head, applied a huge treacle plaster, out off his whiskers, aod emptied mm1 tf frfti <wr \w<