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' VOL. XXXII. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, -I IJLY lO, ?873. XO. ! ">. THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY PAPEI Pl'BLISHKD BY -I Oil IV KERSHAW, H BSC II11''HON RATES Oiu? year, in !i?ivanee $2 "< Six months - 1 Three months 7< Hrg* Transient \<mTu.M.-iu?-n.-........ ..v ...... in advance. PUNISHMENT AND PREVENTION. From the Chtpvhman. Some minds seem constituted to hold bu one idea at a time. The acceptance of ain truth i> tu them the denial, apparently, o* every thin*;. They cannot have too mucli of a good thing, and but one thing at onc< ever is good in their eyes. Because quinine is good in chills and fevers, they would ad minister it for a broken limb, or to a babt in the first trouble* of dentition. It is mind.' of this class which have fallen into sucli manifest error in the matter of criminal lo ' 1 ' 1 :? * gislation. in attempting u? uim^? evils of all inflictions of legal penalty, they have lo>t sight of the object of inflicting the penalty. There is no question that there are serious difficulties in all forms of punishment, if the purpose is taken to be merely the rofl>rni of the criminal. Thus, if a man is hung, he is useless to the community, save so far as lie furnishes the anatomist with a subject. If he is imprisoned for life, ho is available only for such labor as may be done in a prison; and his labor must not be allowed to compete injuriously, with that ol those who have done nothuig to deserve imprisonment If solitary confinement is tried, it reduces most subjects of it to imbecility ? r something very like if. If associated labor. it is almost impossible to prevent the corrupting effects of prison companionship If the prison is made too comfortable, jt loses its terrors. If it it is made too uncomfortable, it brutalizes. If criminals are reformed successfully, this involves the giving of them a fresh start in life when the prison doors are opened, and the removal of every disability. The thief, the burglar, the man-slayer are to be placed at the end of their term precisely where the honest and peaceable are. Otherwise, the reform will not be lasting. This seems to us a serious consideration m those schemes of prison discipline which provide for a diminution of sentence to be ^ earned by good conduct in prison. Push 0 this to its full development, and it amounts PI? ? -nn orinui ! to something very use a picuuuu vn uma, It would certainly operate as a discourageinent to honest endeavor. If the State is too severely let alone its citizens so long as they behave themselves, leaving theui to struggle on against all trials and depressing influence, but takes up the criminal, gives him healthy treatment, instruction, a good i trade, and a remission of half his sentence; and if with this advantage he is to step forth into certainty of employment and active befriending. because he has broken the law of hod and man, the average mind will be verylikely to reason in favor of law-breaking.? To do otherwise will require a <rreater degree of moral fortitude, than is, we fear, the characteristic of the greater part of the community. What now deters men from crime!' First, the inward sense of right and wrong.?imperfect, confused, and weak, as we all know it to be in general. To reinforce this couies the dread of penalty in the shape of loss of liberty and comfort. Furthermore, there is the sense of disgrace attending these inflictions. The question then is, how far will it do to balance the first named effect of penalty by other advantages, and to remove the last named' altogether. The last is by far the most powerful preventive. Take the case of political offences under an arbitrary government. The higher a man's sense of honor and love of virtue, the more surely he will disregard the mere perils of imprison lii.'iit.or even death when these only exalt him to the plaee of the martyr and the hero in the eyes of his fellow men. The degradation of the criminal is an idea inseparable from the true idea of penalty. Remove that and punishment is nothing more than the simple risk which more or less attaches to every undertaking. Many a man undertakes a business which he is surely w ill shorten his life by a term of years, because it is profitable and attractive. I>r. .Johnson said, No man would go to sea j wh ' had the wit to get into jail;" and if go- i ing to jail were no more disreputable than J going to sea. w e should find many agreeing with the doctor Rut if the di-reputo is to ... n _ i i erase wit li the imprisonment, u wju mui fail to eover the imprisonment Ami we rotifers that we do not sec how tin e plan- ol prison reformat ion are to succeed, unless the disrepnte is to cease when the prisoner is distdiarged. He is either a marked man. because he hits been in prison, or lie is n >t It' lie is, then lias riot tlie chance of future SMcee-- If lie is n<>t. then crime is no di? ?ri;?? ?? I In re was a time in Scotland when it was held that ante-nuptial frailty waatoned for by marriage. The consequence was that yielding to teinptation wa> very common. Nothing but the stri.-t rule ofecclesiastieal discipline kept license within bounds. The advocates of pri-on reform, it seems to us. are often overlooking the fact that legal penalty is the outward and visible sign <>t the moral sense i the publie against crime. In the case of the young it is different There is the natural ami. on the whole, salutary feeling fh it the very young may be lc<l into the outward firms of crime without a corruption of the n.oral -nature ; in other words, that the; do not commit the offence. ? that is. commit it in hotly and soul, but only in body ; ami, again, that very often, by reason of iinmaturitv, assisted by vicious training, they are not wholly responsible. A child may kill another child without being guilty of murder. u-?? it is too voting to kii"\v what it has '1 inc In sueh eases tlie iiiflietion of life Ion j.' sorrow and shame woiiM l?e not only unwise, but wrong. Hut with tho responsible a<lult the ease is different The law of the laud is the expression of God's law. It impartial, imperfeet became limited by the opportunity of human judgment; hut. in the state of faets t.i which it applies, it does. and ought to, rpt forth the displeasure of find against sin ^t is not mere restraint of the criminal from doing further injury. Here is where the error of our friends seems to be found, t Now. it is often argued with great plaus, ihility that punishment does not prevent f crime. We hold this argument fallacious, i for this reason : The causes which lead to ? crime operate often in spite of punishment, > but not of necessity. * One of these is the - low moral sense which makes the disgrace of ; the penalty unfelt. Another is, the want of opportunity in the classes which furnish i criminals of being any better. Hut to make the argument good, all laws ought to be rci pealed. Men who know better often commit acts of dishonesty; but this is not because -? "? /' 1 - X lxl tney ao not iear pumsnment, dui uecausc they hope, not without reasou, to escape detection. But no mercantile community would ever, in its senses, think of repealing all statutes against forgery and swindling. The fact is, that all this discussion arises out of partial consideration of classes of crime and the study of individual criminals. Whether in certain kinds of offences discrimination might not be allowed is a question pen to debate. But we do not believe in throwing down all barriers, and treating the criminal only as a sul^cct for philanthropic experiment. That good behavior in prison should inevitably shorten terms of imprisonment?and we can sec how a rule should be made not universal and inevitable, save by discriminating among offences?would, wthold, fatally increase the temptation to crime. The acute rascal would bo the one quickest to take advantage of it. t^ood behavior under the forced abstinence of a prison is not good behavior in the world, and the effect of this system would be that men would calculate upon it beforehand. The cerlanty of penalty is half its force; and the worst effect of all is that this reduction of imprisonment carries with it the idea that the AMitnitift) hna A^AnA/1 ^ah 1% I a /ii-rnn T f tliu lIILIJllliU 1JU3 illUIIVU AVI 11IO 11UIV. X* HMO idea is to prevail, let all prisons be levelled, and let thcr5 be revived the old Saxon sysof compounding every offence by the payment of a fine. The Washington Republican of 12th ult. repeats its recouimcudation that the Government shall acquire a valid title to Arlington, by making a proper remuneration to Mrs. Lee. A reporter of the 11 >publican in an interview with Mrs. Lee, has gathered some facts which will be of public interest. The Arlington estate was bequeathed by her father to Mrs. Lee only during her lifetime. Gen. , Lee has not the slightest share or lot in it. and always invariably refused to exercise the least control over it, except in the performance of his duties as executor by the will of Mr. Custis Mr. G. provided that five years after his death his laves should be sot free. The time arrived in 1SG3. in the midst of , the war, and Gen. Lee summoned all the , slaves together and gave them their free papers, and passes through the Confederate , lines to go whither they would. , At the time of the nominal purchase by , the I nited States of Arlington. Mrs. Lee's ( mends ottered to pay trie taxes ior ner, ior , the payment of which it was put up; but , they were not allowed the opportunity. The Republican reporter says Mrs. Lee ( has no odea of asking that the estate be , restored to her. but does expect a reasonable remuneration for it. She sooke of the Pros- | ideut and of his administration with the highest respeet. and recognises the necessity for no other state of affairs between the North and South than that of profound ' peace, amity and concord. Mrs. Lee is ' now advanced in years, and has been for a 1 long time a sufferer from inflauiatory rhcuma- ! tisin. She is a lady of noble appearance. 1 and her conversation is most interesting. } The Republican says : "No one can see her 1 and hear her talk without being convinced 1 .that the government will add to its honor 1 for just and honorable dealing by making a ju^t and legal settlement with her." 1 _ ! Mr. Jefferson I>avis is said to he writing 1 a history of the war. Such a hook from such ' i a man would be valuable, lie is reported as >a\ing that lie feared tin untry was be- i ^ V'ond " the r< deeming clliea< y of moral worth i <>r elevutad intelligence." and the memories j of the t'rodit Mobillicrand the V ienna scan- I dais give a painful point to the observation. , As this demoralization has been entirely 1 1 ' brought about by the party that has control! led the governmeut since war, it is well that ] the most capable and cunning band is to j write a history <>i tne pivotal pcrmu wnerc j the decade ??1* honesty and virtue ended and the decade of corruption and dishonor com- 1 inenccd. If Mr. Davis will prepare his work ! with - kill and judgment, as well as with the J ability any acknowledge lie possesses, he may ' walk down to posterity with it in his hand ('ourii r Jo it ma f. I 'I'llK NF.W1*IKI. ANI? 1 I.I.I MINATOH.? Applied science has recently added to the ' i great inventions of the day a process for extracting fuel from water. The author of this i process*, Mr ltuck.au Knglish practical chcini sit has realized the old dream uf scientists that the exhaustles.s heating power stored in i water may be actually employed for median- ' ieal and domestic purposes. This brilliant j I nica, wiitcn, it is ciaitiH'U. enawcsine invent- , or to set Ilie Thames on fire, has been sue- | : eessf'ully tested and developed in a largo work on the bnnksofthc river near liutter! sea 1'ark, and the process which it originated is extremely simple and easily put intopraetice. Ordinary steam is brought through a pipe from one of the boilers of an. engine, and is allowed to pass through a red-hot horseshoe-shaped tube, reposing in a fiercely burning furnace. While in this tube the steam is superheated. so that its oxygen and hydrogen are ready to dissolve their alliance, and after-wards it is forced into a retort till, od with incandescent coke and iron fmgments The oxygen i< left behind and forms j with the iron scales of black rust, the hydrogen passes through tho red retort, and when certain sulphurous vapors have been disengaged from the residual gas there comes forth the '-heating gassupereminently suited for all calorific purposes, where heat without light is demanded. It is admirably adapted for all kind of stores and steam engine boilers. The cost of the gas at the works is found to be only seven pence for a thousand cubic feet, and this quantity would boil about fifty gal.ons of col i water. This cost, it is'said, caube reduced by using the waste heat of the retort furnace to supply the steam, which is now supplied by an independent boiler. 'I'lirt <lictinptiv/> nf flip Hllfk >iroe0.v< AUVUWV.MV??fV ~ ^ I for making the new fuel gas is in the decomposition of the supherhcatcd flame by means | of eoke and iron, which remain for long periods in the retort without requiring change. Combined with this is also an arrangement for earoonizing the heating gas for purposes of illumination. This is done by making it pass through oil, from which its carbon isrccicvcd, and whence it issues an excellent gas, equal'in illuminating power to sixteen ca?-~ dles for a consumption of five cubic feet per hour in an Argand burner. The cost of the gas, as used for liih., is a trifle los than fifty | cents per thousand cubic feet. This invention, if fully developed, will set at rest the uneasiness on the coal question and work a world-wide revolution in the cost of fuel and light for all purposes. What is a Graxok.?It is an organization of farmers. It has for its object improvement. ltd design is to elevate and enlighten the farmer. It would better qualify him lbr his God given profession. It aitn.to bring about these objects by association. It unites those of the same calling into one : rr.mil l?roflinrlioml for tlirs lirotf'PIion of all. ! It establishes in every neighborhood a Iceture room?which is the grange itself?in which the most important truths arc unfolded. It disseminates valuable information that all may be benefited. It collects as well its disseminates. It receives knowledge as well as dispenses it. It is an intellectual institution. It calls fir an exer- j eisc of the mind. It brings mind in con-j tact with mind, and. by the contact, other ! minds arc illuminated by the friction. It draws out latent talent. It makes active j and tangible what has been before dormant and unseen. It shows the importance of: cultivating brains a.? well as soil. It demon-1 stratcs the fact that as rich harvests arc developed by brain culture as by soil culture? j that a great erop of weeds has grown up ana i smothered out the useful plants, by the i neglect of brain'culturc The grange is a social institution. It makes a grand brother . and sisterhood. It unites by strong ties ; those that have before been strangers. It ! makes each feel an interest in all. and all in each. It heals up the wounds of the unfortu- j nate. It administers comforts to the sick j md alleviates the sufferings of the distress- , ,'d. It is a husband to the widow and aj father to the orphan. It makes every ( neighborhood one kind, affectionate family, j It is a financial institution. It seeks toob- j tain for its members the highest price for their products. It looks to tuc goou 01 an. 1 It learns how ami when the best prices can ! be obtained. |, Trouble is anticipated in Administration lirclos between the I nited States and Spain, iii the (juestion of the emancipation ui slaves in the Spanish colonies. It appears that the Wrongest party in t'nha. because the wealth- 1! iest, is opposed to emancipation, while in ryuipathy it is against the republic of Spain, i: jr making Cuba a dependent State. This j makes emancipation in Cuba a far distant 1 reality, unless the I nited States intervenes. , ivhieh it has pledged itself to do, not only in I published correspondence, but in what has j ( passed between the Secretary of State audi jur Minister at Madrid. The preleuded imancipat ioii of slaves in Porto Kieo served >n!y t<i intensify the President's disgust with Spanish rule and Spanish diplomacy. It will be remembered that our Minister at Madrid heralded this concession as a great diploma I if triumph for the Cnitcd States, it now i|i]iear> that bo lure the edict of oinaiicipa- | lion in I'orto Kico went into effect. every i slave bad been sold and sent t<> Cuba.? Cajitain-tiuneral detain finds himself seriously embarrassed, and has of late complained to the Spanish Minister in Washington of tlie difficulties that beset him in his , efforts to represent the new Ibrin of uovorii- j iiiont of Spain in Havana, lie is coinpara-j lively powerless to enforce the republican sentiments, for be finds the situation Jar dif ferent to-day than when his predecessors had ! the support of the monarchist and was in accord with the Casino. Those who claim to speak advisedly say that the 1'resident's I policy towards Spain, or as far as her Aincri- ' can possessions arc concerned, is as definitely ajfgrc.-sivc as that towards Mexico, and lie only awaits a favorable opportunity to | rove it. Sinui i.Alt Cai sf.shk Dkatii ?A yoiiujr man named Turner, living near Ihmlmrv. died on last Saturday, after a lew day-' ill tiess. and it is supposed from the followmp singular cause: Sonic days previous to his attack In; assisted in the disinterment of a corpse, for the purpose of removal to ain.ili i e 1 ?!.. i tl. 11. i |. . IT "I mirii'll III*- ii.im in? n mi* ric<l Mime months, ami was exceedingly ..fli 11sive when the ^rave was opened. Youne Turner heiran to eomplain of headache ami other symptoms soon after the removal, ami in a few days heeaino -eiioii-|\ ill. ami ?|i?-.l on Saturday lie complained during hi-entire sickness of smelling and even fa-tin the horrildc eftluvia from the corpse It isupposed that this eftluvia or e\ ha la t ion pen etrated and saturated hi- entires\-teni thuI t poisoning his blood and causing death. \\*c f hoar that a brother of his is also extremely ili from the same cause, though we do not 1 know that the report is authentic. Ho.>7/ II) f/ti>)l ( (in. ) da'.rth* IIarit.?The reason why uicn never feel like work in the morning is cither that they have formed other habits or that they have spent the evening improperly. They have only to go to their work every morning and do the best they can, for a dozen mornings . in succession, to find that the disposition [ and power to work will come. It wiil cost : a severe effort < f the will. but. it will pay. ; Then the satisfaction of the task performed will sweeten all the other hours. There is ; ik darker or deadlier shadow than that cast upon a man by a deferred and waiting task. It#aunt.s him, chases, him. harries him, sprinkles bitterness in his every cup, plants thorns in his pillow, and renders him every hour uiore unfit for its performance. The difference between driving literary work and being driven by it is tho difference between heaven and hell. It is the difference J between working with the will and working 1 again-t it. It is the difference between being a master and being a slave. flood linbit i- a relief, too, from all temptation to the use of stimulants. Hy it man's j brain may become just as reliable a producer as his hand, and the cheerfulness and i hcalthfulness which it will bring to the mind will show themselves in all the issues of the mind. The writings of those contemporary geniuses Scott and Hymn, illustrate this point sufficiently. < >nc h all robust health, the result of sound habit-; the other all fever, and irregularity. What could Hoc, not have done with Mr. Longfellow's habit? i Xu: there i.- but one best way in which t<> > do literary work, and that is the way in which any other work is done?after the period dev ted to n-l. and with the regularity of the sun. WinmNil A Wifk.?The people of Hay \ Bridge, near Brooklyn, X. ^ ., are greatly ; agitated, not to say perhaps a trifle soandali/.-! ed. by a wedding thai has ju.-t taken place under tlie lullowing circumstances: The parties belong tu aristocratic households, and their aires are eighteen and seventeen. The bridegroom is an undersized lad. green and retiring. He walks regularly to school with his books under one arm and his luncheon under the other in a tin box. lie bears as little the appcaran o ol'a young uian matrimonially inclined as a ? < --el grazingoa tlie tillard. The intimacy between the two was not pleasautTTie young lad;.- family, and she was forbidden to hup eimipuny with her adorer This only inten.-ilied Uiattcrs, and led to clandestine meeting-. The young lady was scut to Kurope Tlic father of the young r man. who favored the match, sent his boy 1 aboard the steamer that sailed the day after. When the young lady ami her family reach- , cd the dock at Liwip "1 the first sight they saw was the form of the young man awaiting the arrival of the party, llis vessel was the swifter and reached Liverpool first. He quietly but persistently followed the company through their continental wanderings. lie was always honml to the same place?was ready at the exact time?never mis-cd a train, but. when he could bribe the guard, got into the -amc compartment? lodged at the same hotel, had a seat at the | same tainhle. and. by an adroit feeling of the steward, had his tea and toast >n fnhiifir. He was ignored and snubbed, and treated with disdaiu. l>ut all to no purpose. Jlc ; stood against the ear-door when the party gel out. and was in sight when the train stopped. The family hastened back, and the young man, nothing loth, f dlowed. The I clandestine interviews were renewed, and i tin lain iy gave ;i( last meir reiueiuin rim-, -t ut tn tlie tnnrriauo. The announcement contained the 111i11 11> word. ".Ni" eards " The child-wife liilluwi.il the boy-husband to his home. The youngster has h it school mul eiven tiji Mii>\v-lialliiiir, anil the [>artios will si m.i i i settle ! n t the sober business of) liiiiisekee]iiii . 'I lie iui-cliirl is that tiie ex- [ ample is e.jnta:1 hi . and rutnor has it that halt'a duaMi voiin^ Iadio> are locked tip in ( their ehainhers t kt-> p them iVom an elopement. 9 - Wdmti.ET\n. W\tku in Tkvas.?: \\"e have a un.it deal of this wijrele fail water in tliis'erc Texas. ' I .v.i- told b\ an old settler on Trinit\ river, iinl that makes aj.du our Slate lniutliilv am mr the new-comers.'" What do you rail wiir.Lfle-tai 1 water '-' I a-ked, detcetiie. a \ in which, well worked, 111iv.!11 lead to iniii h valuable knowledge. ' ()h. water with v. 1?* I ail- in it. Witt i ?.'it Je-tails is : lit(i?* - j iirinv annum. so mh.ui that \"it can liar* 1!\ <*i- "cm. utiles* you look <lu'-c. They don't hurt water much when \"ii are real tlmr-ty. Of a tlarL nijit y 11 would never know the difference. I've drunk a many a one and they never had any iii?effect than taking a chew of tobacco. In a new country, you know, a man mnsn't he too i-unfounded parlie'lar. 1 le has to put nj. with a f<*w thine* which wouldn't be exactly regular in an old cuiintry. Tiio.se fellows that conic here f rom Kentucky and Tennessee beat the world bcin^ patio'lar. They slim: on enough sl\|c f< do cm in New \ ork city Thcv turn uj> tin ir n? -? > about water, and make mere fuss ahout a few litte harmless i w ir'Jc tails than I would about I'riv :dlij;a j l o - I will tell you a fa< t Karh la-t sumit.cr a in ui and hi- laiiiih come out oii Tritii j t\ river from Old Kentinky lie came in an o\ w iiron, and I III bet lie didn't have j -evctitv live dollars''wcen thi* w>rld and tlie next lint le- 11111 ; ii style powerful lie said he'd been lai-cl on w a I < i without ?i;- , .Jo-tails 111 it. and li?- was oniim clear hack t.? i |e Iv iifm k*\ t" ci ii it' he couldn't in f \.is Win. the -<|Uc:inii-h follow wis, 't -ie I I d in .n on ,i tin 11 iiuiv fur ! in dullard and fifty fonts aa acre. IJut lie wouldn't have it because the water had wiggle-tails in it. I told liiiu if ho was so confounded partie'lar that lie could strain the water through a rag. but ho said he didn't want any of that in his'n. and he moved on. j looking for a better country. That kind of . foolishness lias been the ruin of many a man , wlu? might have done well in Texas " I asked the old gentlemen what people wore the best sat: tied in Texas, as a general thing. "Mississippians. sir. 3lississippians every | time. They liavc'nt got any extra airs. They think what's good enough for us is ! Iivirid CtlnlHrli fm- tlinni fliiM* ilnn't iiiin.t wiggletails in water, 110 any such little matters. It's the Kentnekians that curse the I country the most. Nothing suits them, be- j cause it ain't done as it is in Kentucky. 1 have a way of drying the Kentucky spreads up when they get in a high way of talking. I say to them if they don't like our country t<? go out of it." 1 asked then what they did when given such advice. The old man laughed, ami said | some of 'em went." Very likely "some of'cm went." I meet j dissatisfied people every day. and who swear ! they will leave the State the first opportunity, but the number is not larger than is to he ' expected, considering the crowds who flock in. It is safe to say that they do not find | Texas what they hoped or what they had been led t<> believe. t>n every hand you hear men abusing the State, and other men praising if just as loud. _ _ i A Smai.l I'oi.ak 13ear.?A small polar bear i> having rjuitc a series of adventures in New York, lie was presented to Mr. llo.-s. i f Wallaek's as a "'little pet bear."? Mr. Moss gave his coachman the order, and j the coachman supplied himself \fcith a small | soap box, and went to IS JJarclay street. Ar- ! living there, he found the animal weighing 1 three hundred pounds. When Mr. Moss reached home, he found the little pet boar destroying his flower garden, and. instead of j tarrying to play with it. he hurried to the I Sliakspeare Tavern in Twelfth street, and. meeting his iriend. Mr. .Joe Flynn, said.' Joe I have a present for you?a little pet j hoar." Mr. Flynn replied: " Theodore, my b y. uiis is so kind or you ; tno very tuingol nil others I most desire is a little pet bear, i so that my customers may feed it from the , lunch bn-.vl." lie ordered al> ttle of Moot and Chaiidon. ^ Mr. Flynu got his hear. Somewhat astonished at the size, lie ordered it put in the ! store-loom. Five minutes later Mr. Fly tin ' was aroused'troiii his reverie by a scuffle in the front of the bar. where stood the little j pet bear on bis haunches, battling with two old customers lor possession of the chops. His bearship gotf.hc best of it. the two old customers flying in the street, pursued by Mr. Flvnn. Mr. Flvnn sent the bear to the factor, Southern, who is either one of the most remarkable of practical jokers, or one of the most extraordinary victims of practical , joking?a? all jokes arc sure, sooner or later, to be laid at bis door. Sothcrn saw the joke at once, and >cnt the bear over to the Englishman that New York makes snt-h fun of?Mr. I'hilip Lev. the husband of Miss Noilsson.tlie actress. There at present he has found rest, and our story closes. What his further wanderings from post to pillar" may be. is a mystery.-Tlr. Leo. probably, is meditating what will lie do with it A Hk< Ki.t:? I'okt.?One of our poetasters oilers tbe.sc observations: iiivt- mo kisses?do not stop Measuring nectar 1 >y ihe ilrop: Though to millions tliev amount, Tliey will never 'train tin1 fount. Ki>> me then, livery moment ami again. If .-lie kissed liiin every moment she would ki-. Iti in half a mill ion times a year, ami she would have to kiss hint every minute for two years before 'to millions they amount." This would not allow time lor mc.ds. and it i> probable the poet and woman would starve. Afar a- the poet is e meerned. we do not know that it makes much difference. Perhaps the world will he happier if he docs die.? We think, upon reflection, that we may possibly be able to spare him; but it w ill be hardly lair to kill the woman at I lie same time. I pon the whole, it "will be better to have intervals of repose Suppose we say. ki--; hi in for an hour, and then pause to let him lill up with beef and cabbage. /V,IV, llo\- ami '.Pi!-, if *?'" wish t > astonish an\ member < I' the family or any coming quests by >ome da\ allowing them to discovet their initial-, neatly print.d on a pear, peach or apple, as i: hangs ?.n its braneh. \ thi> is the way to earn out your plan: >f 11-t before the fruit ripens, cut the desired letters from a sheet of thin tough paper; then paste them on the side of the fruit most ex posed to the sun. and in the eout'se ut' time you remove tin' paper iVoin the ripe surface, ami you will tin.I the letters distinctly mark-. ed up it \ jury in tleur^ia, in a cas.^u:aiti^( a Mr. Knott lor horse sttaliiiir. bmuuht in a v? i di. t as follows: M e tind the defendant K If.tr amity." ami the Hudue don't know whether the \erdiet means uuilty or ti"t Me should - u he was Knott. t M a Memphis belle it is said that words i-Mie from her lips each instant 'with a separate life and expression of their own. and tniaht almost be likened to bees leaving the ealyx ot a (lower, e o h charged wit1 it* loir* den of pollen and honey- sense ami -u.it-j ne-s." The reporter wlm wrote this i* to be e\eit-e 1. t r t hex have a cholera scare ill M. tnnhi* i * *. I ADYKKTlSIXfi HATKS. f ' I Si-ACK. | 1 M. 2 M. 2 M. ! ! 1 \ ; i I ' I * t M|iiai*<a i 3 00 r; no x do ]2 (mi 10 00 2 -.(iiarcs li 00 li no 12 (Hi IX OOl 20 (H? '# ?<juart'> , li (Hi l:{ (Hi Hi 00 24 00 35 00 I ><|iiai*C!< 12 (hi 11, (id 20 00 30 (Hi, 4:' (Hi 1 o?luinii 15 (Hi Hi mi 24 (Hi 34 OO 50 (HI column 20 (Hi 30 00 40 Ou 65 00 K> 00 | ] column 20 00 50 00 ('.0 00 00 00.150 (Hi All Transient A'lvertisoiiiciiis will be cliurge'J ?j\?. ii. \ |: jm i r?iju;irr iui mk- iiim uipi tv-kivk Cent* per Sijuan; f'ir each subsequent in.-i rtion Sinjili* insertioii. SI oUj.it sqim LHWl-l ??????? I OUR CHIP-BASSET. Ilelativc beauty?A pretty cousiu. Prude* are coquettes srone to seed. (rravc subjects?Tomb-stones, brogue %tnus cotfle from Ireland. The present da\>?birXh dav. . belle mettle?A young.Iady's temper:. To gfofcct the chest?Put a lock on it. Church belles?The rector's daughters. The groat art of life is to play for much 1 and take little. Kvery nuc blames in his neighbor what ! the world blames in himself. In all thy quarrels leave open the door of conciliation . The hornet is beautifully defined to be the red hot child of nature. ''hove." says an amorous writer," is an internal transport." The same might be said of a canal boat A coal black negro in Georgia has one white hand and arm. which he is very murti ashamed of. He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper ; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. a (toy pressed the muzzle 01 a pistol against his body in cocking it. and tlio- bullet :*amc out at his back. Very few horses eat corned beef, hut wc saw one standing the other day before a store with a bit in his mouth. If you saw a woman trying to pick your pockets, what Roman general's name would you call out ? Caesar (seize her.) Why may carpenters believe there is no such a thing as st??ne ??Because they never saw it. "Patrick, what makes you start after that rabbit when your gun has no lock on it?" ' Hush! hush! my darlin', the rabbit don't know that." "Bridget, has that blockhead cleaned off the snow from the pavement ?" "Vis, inarm." Hid he do it with alacrity?" "No, marm? wid a shovel." A female contributor to one of the literary weeklies declares that "grayhaircd bachelors are such simply because they have never known what is to love." * A blessed old lady being asked if she over had her ears pierced by the wail of distress, said she couldn't very well remember. but she believed it was done with a fork. An exchange paper gives the following "advice for the times l.ivc temperately? go to church?love all the pretty girls? marry one of them?live like a man, and die like a christian. It is declared by an Indiana editor, who "can't stand it any longer," that the only difference between the entrance to a barn and a lounger around a newspaper office, is that the first is a barn door, and the latter a ilarIT bore. An Irishman who had just landed, said: " The first bit of mate I ever ate in this countrvjwas a roasted potato boiled yesterday. And if you don't believe it. I can show it to you. for 1 have it in my pocket." | have just met your old acquaintance, Daly" said and Irishman to his friend, "and was sorry t" see he has almost shrunk away to nothing. Von are thin, and I am thin, but lie is thinner than both of us together." An Irishman telling another who bad just arrived, of a severe spell of sickness lie bad had, said. " <Mi. me friend. I was flat of me hack and spachlcss for six weeks and fourteen days in the long month of August, and all in v cry was for wathcr. wather." A on are the dullest hoy I oversaw." i. ......I..:...,.! .. i. i.i i..,...i...i ..l.i .i.. his nephew. "Well, uncle." replied the youth. with :i glance at the old gentleman's bald head, - von can't expect me to understand things as quick as you do. because you don't have the trouble of getting 'em through your hair." IhtEAMs.? \it Iowa man. a few days ? since, dreamed that he saw his brother's head severed from hi> bodv without the loss of a.drop of blood. Ncxi day lie learned of his brother's removal from a snug p??stmastership. \ ii . ro in <' liunbus. tin . dreamed th a he I mild live dollars in a certain place in a sir, it lie went t.> the -p.-t next morning, found one dollar, and is blaming the ghost who told hin) of it. for taking the other lour. Have von noticed an icicle as it is formed? Vou have noticed how it froze one drop at a time until it wa.?ji foot long or more. It the wallt was clean. Ilu* icicle sparkled brightly in the miii; hut it I lit* water was -liulitly inttddv. Ilio icicle looked I'oiil and it> beauty was ?iH)ilfd. .Iti-t > * our characters are formini: hie lillle thought or feeliltu al a lime adds ils iutliiciice 11'each thought he pure and riirlit. I lie soul '.t ill he lovely and will sparkle with happiness; hut if impure and wrote;, there will he a final deformit\ and misery The reputation of the members of the Legislature for sohriet\ seems to be rather had in Kentucky Two of them were rather mosily drunk on a rail roa<i train the other day. and alien the e..iidu. i- r remonstrated. one ot them pompously asked; \oii not know. sir. that I am a member ot llie Legislature!' I lie i 'iiditctoi ijuietlv replied ' \ on \e oot the sympt"tii<