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m k * * > age?^?aeMB-sHBBggggi i "! i i i J ' - ' i ?i~- ' - * 1 1 egggg . \ssss=ass=ssss ?????? ? JMMIIIMBlMBM?MiiM VOL. XXXIII. CAMPEN, S. C., OCTOBER 30, 1873. NO. 9. < v i / TEE CAMDEN JODBNAL. AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY PAPER PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THANTHAM <fe HAY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, in advance $2 60 Six months . 1 60 Three months 76 J9* Transient Advertisements must be paid n advance. ADVERTISING RATES. Space 1 M. 2 M. 3 M. 0 M. J 1 Y. 1 square SOO GOO 800112 00 16 00 2 squares 6 00 9 00 12 00 18 00 26 00 g squares 9 00 13 00 16 00 24 00 86 00 4 squares 12 00< 16 00, 20 00 80 00 43 00 a column 15 00 19 OO! 24 00 34 00 50 00 I column 20 00 SO 00: 40 00 55 00 80 00 1 column 1 30 00] 50 00 60 00) 90 00|160 00 All Transient Advertisements will be charged One Dollar per Square for the first and SsyenTY-rivx Cents per Square for each subsequent insertion Single insertion, $1 50 per square. Steamer Iillington. Fast Freight, Accommodation -"" a-* * t kll T.n-mT. liift.il mw THE STEAMER LILLINGFON, Capt. Bni, will, ftrom this date, make regular trips, connecting with the filoigDB. Celubia aid Apia RAIL ROADS. Through Bills of Lading rill be issued to Charleston and the principal northern cities. The freight on cotton, including insurance per bale: To Charleston, $1 50 Baltimore S 25 . Philadelphia, 8 50 New York, . 8 75 Boston, 4 75 Parties from tho interior shipping through this line will not be charged for Drayage or Storage at this place. For further particulars, enquire of GEO. ALDEN, Agent. Camden, sept. 4. tf CONG AREE IRON WORKS Coumbia, S. C. JOHN ALEXANDER. Proprietor. SUGAR CANE MILLS LIST OF PRICES. 8 Roller* 14 inches diameter, $60 00 S " 12 " 80 00 8 " 10 ... 70 00 2 * 14 " 70 00 2 " 12 " 60 00 2 ?* 10 " 60 00 A bore prices complete with frame. Without frame, $10 less on each Mill. Steam Engines, Boilers, Portable Grist Mills, Circular and Muley Saw Mills. Mill Gearing of all hinds made to order, Iron and Brass Castings on short notice. Gin Gearing constantly on hand ef the following siios: 9 feet wheel and pinion $86 00 10 " " 40 00 11 " 46 00 12 " " 60 00 14 ? 66 00 1 --.I B-aa, P.lalinng ftf nil ili>?>rll.tiaill iruu uuu V. -g mad* to order. Anti-friction PUtes uul Btlli for Cotton Press, $15 00 and $20 par set. N. B.?Term* cash on delivery at Railroad Depot here. j^Worka Foot of Lady Street, oppoeite the Greenville Freight Dhpot. Columbia, Aug* 21. 19t THE BEST COTTON OIK. NEBLETT & GOODRICH, No. 189 Reynold* Street. Auguata, Qa., Mauufaeturera of tbc "Neblett Sl Goodrich Cotton Gin" To thia Gin was awarded a Gold Medal by the Cotton Statea M. and A. Aaaoeiation in 1871. First Premium South Carolina State Fair, 1871. We are now receiving ordera for our FIRST CLASS COTTOA' GIN, which we deaire to atate is above all competition, and is certain of unbounded success wherever tried. All the material naed ia No. 1. r The workmanship ia akilled, and the Gin guaranteed to give aatisfaction in every respect. f^~3end in your ordera early to the makers, through J. A T I. Jonea, Agents. NEBLETT & GOODRICH, Augusta. Ga. f^$~Special attention paid to all orders for Leather or Rubber Belting, which will be furnished at Lowest Price. Apply to J. A T. I. JONES, Agents for Kershaw aud surrounding Counties. Camden, August 84. it. THE undersigned offer for sals at the lowest figures for cash. Groceries, Dry Goods, Shoes, Hardware. Crockery, Saddlery, Ac., Ac, and solicit a ahare of public patronage. PHELPS A BILLINGS. P. L. Phelps and W. M. Billings are duly nu thoriied to act as our agents, and are empower ed to sign the name of the firm in purchases and settlements. H A. PHELPS, M A. BILLINGS, 8. A. HiSAl'SSURE. June 6 tf LAW CARD. WM. D. TRANTHAM, ATTORNEY AT LAW, OAMDEX, 8. O. Offlo# ityoining thit of J. M. Divii, Eaq A FAMILY ARTICLE Age?ts make$12.50 per day, $75 per weak . AH ENTIRELY NEW SEWING MACHINE For Domefltic due, ONLY FIVE DOLLARS. With the New Patent BUTTON HOLE WORKER . Patented JuneTth, 1871. AWARDED THE FIRST PREMIUM AT THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE AND MARYLAND 1N9TITUTE FAIRS, 1871. A most wonnderful and elegantly constructed Sewing Machine for Family Work. Complete in all its Parts, Uses the Straight Eye Pointec Needle, Self Threading, direct upright Po9itivi Motion, New Tension, Self Feed and Cloth Guider. Operates by Whebl and on a Table. Liyht Runniny. Smooth and noiseless, like all good high-priced machines. Has Patent Cheel * ll-? K?ol tiairn turned the wronu IU prevciu vuc nuwv. c way. Vsea the thread direct from the spool Makes the Elastic Lock Stitch, (finest and strongest gtich known;) fjrm, durable, close and rapid. Will do all kinas of work,/fat and coaree, from Cambric to heavy Cloth or Leather, and uses all descriptions of thread. This Machine is heavily constructed to give it strength; all the parts of each Machine being made alike by machinery, and beautifully finished and ornamented. It is easy to learn. Rapid, Smooth and Silent in operation. Reliable at all times, and a Practical, Scientific, Mechanical Invention, at a Greatly Re duced Price. A Good, Cheap Family Sewing Machine at last. The first and only success in producing a valuable, substantial and reliable low priced Sewing Machin-. Its extreme low price reaches all conditions. Its simplicity and strength adapts it to all capacities, while its many merits make it a universal favorite wherever used, and creates a rapid demand. IT 18 ALL IT 18 RECOMMENDED. I can cheerfully and confidently recommend its use to those who are wanting a really good Sewing Machine, a' a low price. Mrs. H. B. JAMESON, Peotone, Will County, 111. Price of each Machine. 'Class A." "One," (warranted for five years by special certificate,) with all the fixt.-ree, and everything complete belonging to it, including SkltTkrxadin Needle, packed in a strong wooden box, and delivered to any part of >he country, by express, free of farther charges, on receipt of price, oxly Five Dollars. Safx delivery guaranteed. With each Machine v.e will send, on receipt of $1 extra, the new parent BUTTON HOLE WORKER, One of the niost important and useful inventions of the age. So simple and certain, that a child can work the fii.est button hole with regularity and ease. Strong and beautiful. Spicial Ten ms, nnd Extra Inducements to Mali and Finalk Agents, Store Keepers, &e., who will establ' h agencies though the country and and keep orr New Machixbs onj Exhibition and Sale. County Riobts given to smart agents rasa. Agent's omplete outfit, furnished without any kxtra chat nr. Samples of seving, descriptive circulars containing Terms, Testimonials, Engravings, &c., ic.,' sent frek. We also supply AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. Latest Patents and Improvements for the Farm and Oarden. Mowers, Reapers, Cultivators, Feed Cutters, H trrows, Farm Mills, Planters, Harvesters, Threshers and all articles needed for Farm work. Rare Seeds in large variety. All money sent in Post Office Money Orders, Bank Drafts, or by express, will be at our risk, and arc perfectly secure. Safe delivery of all our goods guaranteed. "An old and responsible firm that sell the best goods at the lowest price, and can be relied upon by our renders."?Farmer's Journal, Ntu York. Responsible for Registered Letters. Aodbxss Ordvrs JEROME B. HUDSON & Co., Cornet Greenwich & Cortlandt Streets, N. V. Sept. 25, Cm. WANTED We will give men and women Busioess that will Pay m A J 1 J ? ? ? ?% ?? ??tia/1 in VAil ? irom 9* 10 90 por nay, vuu uo puiducm ... own neighborhood; it Is a rare chance for those out of employrai at or having leisure time; girls and boys frequently do as well as men. Par ticulars free. Address J. LATHAM & CO., 292 Washington St., Boston, Mass. Sept. 4, Gt. Hampden Sidney College. THE next ses<;on of this Seminary of learning will commence on Thursday, September 4th, 1873. Hampden Sidney is Situated in Prince Edward County, Vs., within a few hundred yards of Union Theologit.nl Seminary, aid seven miles from Farmvillet'ic nearest depot of the Atlautic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad. The locality of the College is most healthy, and the community around distinguished for intelligence and piety. There is no Qruiumer or Preparatory School connected with the College. It retains the curriculum and the great aim of its teachers is to secure thoroughness in the training and instruction of th< ir pupils and thus to pepare theui for professional studies or the activeduties of life. Tht ordinary jxpensee of a student exclusive of the cost of etching, travelling and books, are from $225 to $2'< 0 a year. For Catalogue and further information apply to RKV. J. M. P. ATKINSON, Presidtut Ilamden Sidney College, Prince Edward County, Va. August 21. 12m NOTICE IS hereby give i that application will be made to the Legist dure at its next session for the opening and es' tblishing a Public Road, from the Black River Road three or four miles from Camdeu, to the Uishopvilla Road at or near the Big Hill July 24 8ui. SOMETHING NEW. - ? * < ?*-? r??>r. ?! A-> eicgani :.iuuiu .? wvum, R fuli oited < urda, bound in full gilt cover And sold at the low price of 25 cents, ouitable for the pocket 0' centre table. Order a onuiple ent by mail, pi <t paid on receipt of 25 centi. 3 for GO cent*, or i fo* $1. Addresa, BURROW A CO. Baltimore, Md. JQTAgentH Wanted. Catalogue* of Booki, Pictinre* Ac., tent. June 12 8 2. rft r to |20 PSK DAY ! Agent* wanted. A1 ljj ) daises ef working people, of either *ex, young or old, nake more money at work for ui I in their *pare n.omenta, or all-the time, than at anr tbimy else. Particulate free. Addreaa 0 I flflNTON A CO., Portlftod, Mailt lepietnhtft If. 12m, THE' PATHWAY TO THE POLE. PERILS AND FASCINATIONS OF AN ARCTIC WHALING CRUISE. Whaling, in its details one of the most repulsive of human industries, has associations incomparably fascinating to the imagination, apart from the terrible toil, the cour age, the endurance and danger involved in the pursuit. All these come into the picture? and underlie its. charms, enhanced by the great distance, the parting from home I and friends, the absolute silence, the com! plete isolation No news com6s to the homes f of the whalers until they bring it, with ease | and plenty, or the grim blank of failure ; no passing ships hail the voyagers to the far L north, to the region where mau's domiuinn : has never been acknowledged, where he is no : more than a persevering invader, who snatchl es, with inconceivable toil and dificulty, a 1 few victories, and then is steadily, inexorab, ly beaten back by the floating forces of the I Ice King. The giant barriers of the ice| realm are closed against him. and the mystcr, ious night of the arctic winter bids defiance ' J?:? tU 10 Ills puuv unrui^. IT lieu w.v I DARKNESS COMES DOWN ' upon the polar world, does tho strange ealui that broods over the great wastes of water within the great wastes of ice which form the Spitzbergcn islands remain untroubled, or do the winds howl over the black waves until the ice-barriers shiver, and moan, and spilt themselves into frantic fragments, careering wildly under the rushing lash of the tempests, and auon closing up for long spells of their inexorable ward ? The whole region, during the brief season for which man can look upon it and live, is ono of cnchantnieut and delight, but he leaves it with the lingering longing to learn the mysteries of its winter unfulfilled. No wonder that the good people of Hull watched with patient curiosity the ladiug of a schooner-yacht which sailed from Huli on the 11th May, 1872, with a small party of English gentlemen and an exclusively English crew, for it was bound for Spitsbergen, was to sail round the island, and was fitted with all the requirements for whaling and sealing. A large fishing licet I was sailing, but the schooner soon ouscilcd them all, and as the fisherman liauloU toward their fishing banks, atul she stood on her course alone, the talk on board her was of THE HYPERBOREAN t?KAS AHEAD, whose dread and danger the men knew and had dared; and of the great whales, whose capture is such fierce excitement and large profit. Jttgny days' iait'fpass by before (lie "tinners'* appear, but at leiigtjj* the gentlemen see them, and their ill-eonsealed ndmir ation seems uncalled ft r by the crew, to whom theso wonderful creatures arc very small deer, indeed, the mere outlying -wilde fowle" of the ice realm, gliding on the surface of the calm, clear sea, with a sudden, gentle motion, and heaving a loud "p-o o !"' as they come by the ship, whenee they ate watched in strictest silence. The marvels of the Northern seas come quickly;' Van Mayen's Island lies in the ship's course, ond. as they near it, the whole air is alive with white winged armies of sea birds, the high cliffs being tenanted by another ho: t at test; two rocks staud out from the land, exactly resembling swift-sailintr ships, coming o.i with all sails set, and heeling over to the gale; and the icy peak of Hecrenberg rises above the saa-levol fi,870 feet. The beadi had A HISTORY TO TET.L full of warning, and yet of weired attraction ; for here were bits of whale boats, n duced to matchwood by the frightful action of the boisterous seas; fragments of wrecks of ships that had lought bravely against the ice, but had been beaten; bits of masts of merchant vessels; liugo piles of drift wood, once stately trees on the side of some Siberian river, now stranded on the Arctic coasi, and the little tunnels with which the sea woims had perforated in every direction tenant lev. for the wood borers connot live in the temper . ???? 'i t,? wild nture ol the awiui nnm. duck and the whit* fox have the island. to themselves, and beyond it lies the true commencement of the west ice. the surge of the heavy sea breaking upon the outer edge the huge floating masses, and the illimitable distance lndcn with heavy blocks interspersed with flat snow. Surely here is the end of all things; no ship can ever get beyond this beautiful barrier?this spray-sprinkled diadem on the brow of the awful Ice King, shining with almost unbearable lustre of rubies, diamonds, emeralds and sapphires; and the thundering sound of the disrupted masses which strew the sea is THE WAHNINU OF DISMISSAL. They heed neither, but sail toward the densest part, through a fringe of broken ice in a heaving sea, forcing the schooner at all speed, and charging the most likely place for an entrance, as the surge rises and falls with awful fury. They get through, for they have men on board wbo are accustomed t" " * " . ? .1 i dual with ice. to hit it carcioii\. anu mm .. gently from its way; and the wonderful operation succeeds, the seboinr stands out to sea in a board channel, with ice walls on cith er side, and the first terrific harrier lies he twecn thwin and all life that is less than arctic. At first it is a little difficult to prow accustomed to.the absence of darkness, then the perpetual lipht bccoiucs pleasant; but there must.be always some e<>nfusion about time, especially whun occupation is either so vcrc toil or strong excitement, when DANGER 18 NEVER AIHKN P for lone, and every object is absolutely strange and novel. To drift oft" into tlie in distinguishublo fog on an ice-lnvcr. when in I pursuit of a family of seals, wariest and ino^t tantalizing of creatures, is only an incident, i and then the sailors begin to recall dismal precedents. The whaling boats are in requisition, and the shoals of seals multiply II tho schooner sails northward under the never-setting sun, amid a scene of silent j desolation, and frequently inutiled in dense c fog; awfully insignificant, alien and alone, t Suddenly they arc "beset with ice," and find 1 themselves contemplating an aspect of nature,- c "such as the painter might imagine, or the t poet, with his lying license, might invent, c or the imagination of a sleeper could fancy j in dreams of night." A great storm is blow- a ingover the unfrozen sea far away, but the I schooner, fastened to a bit of ice, whoso two I projecting tongues keep off the pressure of a the outer ice, which has closed them up with- { I in two hundred vards. lies in deep calm. A t - J , boat is lowered, and the men sit in dead si- r lence in it, watching for the nar whal, which c arc blowing near, and throw up little jest of vap.>r from the bihw-holcs on either side of 1 the head. v THE HAHI'OONBR IS READY, V the tubs and the line ar prepared; but the 1 narwhal is difficult game; ho goes at tremcn- t dous speed, and his range of vision is wide; r so that when ho is dragged on to tho ice, i with his spotted hide and polished horn, he p is a trophy of the first class. Great hordes e of this curious mammal travel through the i Arctic seas, tusk to tusk and tail to tail, like a a regiment of cavalry thousands strong, and o thoir play in great ice-circled water-wastes is wonderful to sec. as theirdappled sides.curve 1 close to the surface; and the tilting swords are thrust above the waves in their reckless lunges; or they suddenly skim along the surface, curve their backs, and plunge headlong b down, fcdlowing the vagaries of some chosen ii leader. When the crew of the schooner had li killed their first narwhal, they made a vast i ' fireplace out of his remains, the opeuing be- c twecn the ribs serving the purpose of a grate, a packed in wood and oakum, and set fire to v the materials, in order that the odorous, f funics mlelit attract any bears that might be | o in the neighborhood. Rut neither narwhal w nor bear causes such exc temcnt as the real a "right whale," the tremendous \ OIANT OP TtlE SEAS, 0 with the likeness of a man's head and face u in the roof of his mouth, whose coming is u waitod for in speechless expectation, whose r j capture is the hardest work that men can do, o i whose value repaysfur all the labor and all e the ri^k, even men who have no eyes for the o beauty and no sense of the suuilimity of the tl I scene. They are sailing <?n a silver sea, in f< I the wonderful arctic sunlight, which is unlike s flight in any other region ; in the still, intoxi- h eating air. which fills their veins with life si i and thrills them with a strange happiness; <: past iridescent caves rising out of the pure t! ' water?they can sen far back into them, e kwliere the upper edges are festooned with a v dazzling ornament like a net-work of lace 1; composed of fine gems: the fringe gleams in d tlic prismatic light with every motion of the t waves, and the fniry-hnlls with awful sound. \ What marvelous, constant beauty and life J where man is only a brief accident. u Grant Out for Fr?o Banking. I e i Wbon wc stated last week that the New ;J I . m. . r. ? Unnl'ii ? 1 nrk />???> was OUl III limir ill u? uaimc, | it occurred to lis that, General Grant was ,l probably the man wlmee views had suggested 1: , the article in the Timet. His Washington ! organ removes all ilouht upon the subject. . Yesterday's Rqiuhfic<tn gives a report of a !( i conversation between the President and n re j porter, which discloses the former's financial 0 j opinion in full." These are important, not as P coming from Gen. Grant, but as coming a from the President of the ( nited States, and ? as indicating what the official action of the Administration is likely to be in the present 11 monetary crisis. The President pointed out a contrast be- :i ; twecn the last and former panics. The Inst happened in time of prosperity. Our exports 11 i since the fiscal year commenced havo exceed- " <? :?o a ( e?l our unpori-a. v/:ir papvi umnj i3 ou i lliat people hoarded it. He sees a sign of ( j specie payments coming near. [A false pro- 0 pliet.ssto this.] Ife really believed the cf- ? i f<;ct was going to be'beneficial in many ways ! to the country at large, though the cost to some individuals deserving of a better fate may be severe. ti "A return to a specie basis can never be g effected except by a shrinkage of values. '1 This always works hard to u largo class c of people, who keep all they are worth in o margins. This shrinkage has now taken r place. Disasters to individuals have already t overtaken them, and it is to he sincerely f Imped the advantage may be retained in order s ( ) reach a solid financial basis. Already the s . i nrroncy has appreciated to nhout par with c silver. The wonder is that silver is not now i pouring ont." a 'i'hi-t hit/t is all stuff. Ilut what he tells l' us he will tit, is important ?Hear him : 1 ' I thought muc|) upon this subject, ami if 1 I were now engaged in writing my annual ' message to Congress, I should recommend 1 |itivc authority t re issue t!> forty Jour III iii; us nl' lot<al louder reserve : a I'ree bank- ' ing law, with the same protection to bill bold- ' :s a- now ; a repeal of the clause requiring I a reserve for the protection of deposit- i"; a ' percent aye of the other reserve to bo in gold. ' in! that increased in a regular ratio until s i In whole reserve would be in gold. This ' r, llld I e solely eft'eeli d by reijiin ing sueli ill- ' it tit t. ns to save the whole or a large ]>er- ' II'. . . 1.I <111:^0 III llle Ml llllfifM ill' ir bonds IicM l'\ ilie Treasurer ?>f the j I nili'i Stairs tor I lie prntectmu ufbill hold- ' 1 iTin; I'resident f'nrll?? r said lliat lie 4 I iv ii< >1 an alisnluti )>r<Jiiltili??ii| to the pay- 1 inoiit i.r interest on deposits. lie did not I Mend that lie would he ri?!if in tlicsfl to- * i i "inn Dilations. hut tliev oiiiljudied (lie \ie\vs u lisi-h his unaided reflections had brought (" linn There was no -ijuestioii but that I , !..ueli demoralization and injurious specula. < IIi oi and gambling va# caused by (lie aei uiiiul.ition of enpiial in forgo centres during : a portion of the year, when money is not re- i (|iiirt'd for tho moving of products, by the I >ayment of interest on deposits. This leads ' ouiitry bankers, merchants, and others to leposit in city banks, principally in New fork, to make this money earn something luring the period when they do not wish 0 use it. Bunks paying interest on deposits :aniiot afford to hold the money idle, hence, i ,rauibling in fancy stocks^ millions of which, is an investment, \Vould not support a f'auii- 1 y even in tho most economical manner; the i ntildiog of railroads that are not wantedv i ind which cannot for years pay running ex i .onscs, &c. "Such gambling and specula- I ion," continued tho President, "I trust, has eceived a blow from which it will never re- I mver." i In ogpclusion, the President said that uness his mind should undergo a' change, he ' vo'tild recommend a post olhee bank. This eonld give us an institution, in which everybody would have great confidence, within 1 1. -c -.1.- ? J IIU I Kill'11 iji v * u i y unv mi'/ i;an uj/|/iuuvii u noncy-ordor post office.?lie should rccom- f ncnd the payment of four per cent, to debitors, and the conversion of deposits eithr into outstanding United States bonds or nto new four and a half per cent, bonds, nd the taking up of a corresponding amount f those outstanding."?Richmond Dispatch. ?ho Gold Premium and Movement? Hopeful Prospect. < > Gold fell on Saturday lower than it has iccu since the calamities of the war sent it ip to a high premium?that is lower than it ins been for nearly ten years. At the openng of the market the price was 110. In the ourse of the day it rose to 1103. But with 11 the fluctuations the tendency was downrard, and the closing price was 10S4. This net is as remarkable as gratifying, for we had nly a few days ago a panic that threatened widespread financial disarrangement, and as conseauonce. a higher premium on gold. Vc liave said all along that there was no 1 ause for any general disturbance in the arkct or business and that the trouble 1 rould end with the breaking down of a few i otten ot- speculative firms. Had the panic j ccurred when imports were excessive and xports diminished, when gold was going ( ut rapidly instead of coming in and when * here was little prospect of a large demand ir the products of our soil, or inability to upply that demand, the result would havo ' eon different, Thero would have been ( erious difficulties all round. Happily the J old movement, the balance of trade, and he prospect of a great demand for our ! rops. which are abundant, proved most fa- ' orable just at the right time. Consequent- 1 j? we arc not only saved from widespread isaster, but the reaction has brought us to he lowest gold prcmitun| referred to above. Vail street speculators may attribute this ' ecline in gold to bear operations or conizations, as they arc in the habit of doing, aoording to their narrow views of financial ( tatters, but it is evident the causes are gen- 1 ral and healthy and arise from the actual r nd prospective condition of our commerce. J 'he export of specie since the 1st of January j1 mounts S 42.O50.8G2. Last year for the i y uue period it was $59,230,038, and fur 18- [' 1. $01,202,238?that is nearly $17,000,000 , . ...... i ?T-? nnd 10.000.000 I . :a? ? -1 . ' , ' ?ss than ia 1871. Better still, gold has I een coming from Europe in large amounts j | very day or so for weeks past, Last week the : reduce exports amounted to $171,368,333. :' nd in 1871 to 8178, 218.249. The imports f general merchandize were less this year' linn last year. Besides all these favorable!* igns of specie movcbient there is the prospect 11 fan enormous demand for grain, corn, flour j ' nd other produce in excess of former years, | V'hy. then, should not gold decline ? What eeessity is there to fear the consequences j f the late punic among the shaky banks 1 nd railroad and stock speculation'( Everyliinir looks hop?Jdi, and should the prospects f trade be realized there is no reason why old should not continue to decline, , A". 1 faaltI. I 1'oxino Ears.?"Children's ears should | ever he boxed." so.writes an eminent sur- < eon in the I'ojiufur Science Monthly.? t 'hough the stnteuient will doubtless be re- t eived by many a juvenile reader in the light t f a self-evident proposition, there uiav yet i t cuiain a few parents and rural pedagogues j i o whom t ho reasons for the abolition of this ! s urtn of rebuke may be of interest. We have I ? ecu. writes Professor Ilinton, that the pas-1< age of the ear is closed by a thin membrane specially adapted to be influenced by every tnpulsc of the ^jr. and with nothing but the jf ir to support it internally. What, then. 1 an be more likely to injure this membrane I ban a sudden ami forcible compressing of I he air in front of it'! If any one designed c o break or overstretch the membrane, he 11 ould scarcely devise a more effective means t b in to bring the hand suddenly and forci- i t ily down upmi the passage of the car. thus J r itlm air violently before it. with no j ' II It mssiliility lor it* c-s^apo but by the lncm- >rano giving way. So rcnsonablcarcthc.se 1 ' inclusion* that there was not needed even -s etlio high authority of the writer tor the sub- -v Iuetit statement that many children are mad c leaf hv boxes on the ear. It is unfortunate, 1 mvvever. that this and many other rebukes ' if tlie same order precede the reason, and t icni e a safer general order may be ? ssned to the intent that no child should > ivcr receive any form of corporal punish- t nent until the parent or preceptor has stop- 1 >cd to reason?first with the child and theu ? \itli himself. < Lahor ami Kkst.?Labor during the day 1 hat you may rest during the night; labor } luring the week that you may rest on th% ' "hibbath; labor during this life, (for (Jed ! iml your own regeneration.) that yon may est in the next. '-Six dnys sbalt thou labor and do all thy work," is fts much a di- i nue command as "in it (the Sabbath,) thou shalt do no manner of worl^ Without labor there can be no genuineras^j^without rest to recuperate the exhausted energiqyjf^ the mind and body, there can be no efficient labor. Incessant labor would soon exhaust and destroy the power of laboring; constant rest would soon result in paralysis and death, or in those reactive conditions of the nervous system to which the term "unrest" Giight more properly be applied. The two must alternate with each other in order that the physical and mental systems may be preserved in a normal and healthy state, and that either the uses or enjoyments of life may be properly secured. rhc Financial Remedy for the Farmer. ' From the Augusta Constitutionalist. While wc write, we read in Northern " ournals that, to obtain currency for cotton sold in New York, the services of a broker nust be obtained and a premium of four per ? i 1 i? ?;j mi.;- i :em. must ue paiu. aiijs is asiuuiiuiug. rhe currency itself is only a loc.il promise :o pay. It possesses no'natur^ value. Its tole value is that a part is made legal tender ay a law carefully based upon a war-making power, and the remainder redeemable in an irredeemable tender engraved note. And ret, whithal, wc have a financial crash. The Government ' suspended" when it issued greenbacks. The .National banks suspended when they issued first notes redeemable 11 an irredeemable currency; aud they suspend now for want of that currency: It is igrced that the volume of currency is more ban double the commereial necessities of lie country; but just at the time when it is leeded to move the crops, it unfortunately alvays happens that it is not available; and vnen currency uecomes scarce, prices gv lown, and the farmer gets less for his crop, liau the price which the natural law of sup)ly and demand would warrant. Now, it is just as well known in Liverpool ind New York that cotton growers have giv;n their obligations payable in November, to arry on their planting operations, as it is mown by the farmers themselves. It is equally well known that the cotton has to be lent forward to meet these advances. And urtlier, it is perfectly well known that the junking capital of the South is utterly inefficient when compared with the two hunIred and fifty millions requiree to pay for the ;otton crop. This is a true picture of the inaucial situation, of which cotton buyers ire thoroughly advised and of which they ?aleulute to take the advantage. Now, what remedy has the cotton planter ? There are 10 banks to couie to his relief. He is at the nercy of the money-lender, and the Manches:cr spinner and the Lowell spinner, unless * some mode of relief can be devised? Yes: Jet out of debt?keep out of debt. This is he remedy, and the only one which can bo levised in the present Condition of the ifouth. The Farmer out of debt can hold or sell, rhe farmer to be out of debt must grow his jwn corn and meat. The farmer out of debt vitli corn and meat, can hold his cotton a nueh longer period than the spinner can afbrd to let his machine lie idlo ilcrc is good work for the Oranges. It is die to talk about affecting an organization vhich will possess a money power adequate o the purchase or control of a cotton crop if the value of two or three hundred milions. But that combination, which can induce IfVVD ill'T AP HPUT Will uvwii puiubtio iv atibr vvi vi j n ... nost effectually do that which no artificial noneyed corporation could ever effect. Let the Granges adopt as their mottoes : Buy for Cash. Buy nothing that ran he raised on jjie plan at ion. Buy not/iin;/ upon credit. Death Valley.?Tho Beaver (Utah) Enterprise has the following respecting a cecnt visit to this noted valley : The Valley of Death?a spot almost at terrible as the prophet's Valley of Dry Bones . ?lies just north of tho old Mormon road so California, a region thirty miles long be hirty broad, and surrounded, except at wo points, by inaccessible mountains. It is dally devoid of water and vegetation, and ho shadow of a bird or wild beast never larkcns its white, glaring sands. The Kanas Pacific Railroad engineers discovered it, iikI also some papers, which showed the fate >f the last Montgomery train, which came s'outh from Salt Lake in 1850, guided by a dornion. When near Death Valley, some auic to the conclusion that the Mormon 1 t x a. i __ ;new tunning nuout mo cuuuuj, bu mcj up* >ointcd one of their number a leader, and >roke off from the party. The leader turnd due West; so, with the people and wag?ns and flocks, lie traveled three days, and hen descended into the broad valley, whoso rcacherous mirage promised water. They cached the centre, but only the white sand, toituded by.scorching peaks, met their gaze. Vround the valley they wandered, and one ?v one the men died, and the panting flocks tretched themselves in death under the hot tin. Then the children, crying for water, lied at their mothers' breast, and with swolen tongues and burning vitals, the helpless not hers followed. Wagon after wagon vas abandoned, and strongmen tottered and lied. After a week's wandering, a dozen survivors found souie water in the hollow ot i rook in the mountain. It lasted jut a short time, when all died but two, who 'soaped out of the valley, and followed' the trail of their former companions. Kighty:even families, with hundreds of animals perished here; and now. after twenty-three tears, the wagons stand still complete?the iron works and tires are bright, and the shrivelled skeletons lie side by side When a man "fires" with wrath, what sort of shot does he use f V