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1 I. ? mmmmaaaaaeesta nsgg a b? eea ? t ggafljateaeai wsmssaBses* i?-j?? ^ ^111^ j?? m mm \ a i ? ?hmb???mmm? I, r h ?.?m? v VOL. XXXIII- CAMDEN, S. C., DECEMBER 4, 1873. NO. 14, _ ^ ! ' || THE CAIM JOUBNAL. * - ? '* A* INDEPENDENT FAMILY PAPIR FUBLISHXD WKEKLT BT fBAWrmi St HAY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. On year, ia advance $2 50 91* month* 1 50 Thraa months... 75 $&* Transient Adrartistmsnts must bs paid % adTtSfi*. ! ADVERTISING RATES. SfACi 1 M. 12 M. S XI. 6 M. | 1 T. I 1 squire f 00| 6 00 8 00 12 00 16100 I aquarsi 6 Ott 9 00 12 00 18 00 26 00 t aaaarac I OOMI 00 16 00 24 OQ 85 00 ?a nrj u nrt Oil O/V JM ftnf AS IV} 4 lauru u vw w wri ?v ?. I eolumn 15 00 19 00 24 00 84 00 60 00 I column 20 00 SO 00 40 00) 65 00 80 00 f column SO OQJ 60 OQi 60 00, 90 00|160 <00 All Tmnslent AdT?rtue?*?t? will be eknrjed Osn Doliab per Squire for tke tret ud Sbtsxtt-*iti Cists per 8qanr# for each subsequent ins art is n Single Insertion, $1 60 per square. ,^I H JTCAJUL, as? ; Winter Goods! A.T jr. * t. i. jrojTES' | ' CHEAP CASH STORE. 0?r8t?ktf * ?! lff*?Al?nii^i rtCk vriiDrai aoiviuuMiuiv) | l e tl? Consisting in part, of / k IDR/IT OOOIDSi , Groceries, Hardware, Cutlery, Boots, and Shoes, Notions, Hats, &c, WiU b? soM at the tory lowest prices for ( cash or its eqairalent in barter. AllQeeds soli by us are warranted as represented. ] We here a large and well selected stook of North Carolina ?hoes, Whieh we offer at low figures. * U t, . We pay the higheet Market prioea for Cot ton and other Country Produce. Agent Cor Neblett ft Goodrich's Cotton Gins, whic we offer at Manufacturer's prices. 19* All Goods purchased by parties re si dieg withia the corporate limits of the town, , will be delivered by ue free of charge. ' J. & T. I. JOKES. Fall and Winter. t ... I i e ? .. ? . o M Dry Goods, W i. Clothing; Ii( . . Boots and Shoes. Hate, yx Groceries, Crockery and Hardware, AT W. I ARTHUR S I am offering extra iadaoemeuta to pur ekaaart from ay ... . | ? LABtiE STOCK, .LT--1. i H Ji. _??.< and would reapectfully solicit a call, W. L ARTHUR. September 26. BININCER'S 01J) LONBON M GIN Especially deairaed for the ua< of the Mtdical Fro/anon and the Famitu, possessing tboaa in frtmtte medicinal propartiaa wbioh belong to an ' Old nad Pun Out. ladispeneable to Femolea. Good for Ktdmy 3*plwmta. A dtlieiooa Tonic. Put up in oases toiiKg too doit* bottloo 1Mb, and sod by nil druggiata, grooera. Ac. A. M. Binninger A Co., established is 1771, Ko. 16, Bearer etieet, Mow York. October 28?9m Floor! Floor!! 100 Urriib of diffmntjmuUg. _ PHOTOGRAPHS, The undersigned having returned and opened a gallery will be pleased to see his friends. With more experience and IM- 1 PROVED APPARATUS he feele more capable than ever before of pleasing the people. , Come and have your pictures f made before grim winter with his * frost and snowq pounces upon us. 1 Gallery in Workman House. ( A. B. TjTJ K. Camden, S. C., Sept. 11,1873. FALL AND WINTER MILLINERY 1 * ?Aire? ( FANCY GOODS. , ?J t MRS. T. B. WALKER Las opened at her. t establishm. nt ou Broad Street, a handtome assortmen* of a Millinerv and Fancv Goods, B -Of the latest styles, selected with great care, z o suit the taste* of her customers and the pub- t io generally. c The Ladies are respestfully invited to call 0 ,nd examine her stock of Straw Hats, SasLaarMlRloiis. ? Together with every article to be found in q --11 ?1 - - '1 kf!'.U?A?w AotoLlinlimont n roil BUppmru .uuuuci; October 23. tf 1 THE LATEST! i n p w i* I HAVE OPENED THE li tl ot Most Complete Stock of lj' BG DRT GOODS, ; N READY Mil)E ? CLOTHING, r u! SOOTS and SHOES, I oi Tr. I rriv<? mv uncial attention, r>- j -r Y Hats and Caps, ?' ri Saddles, &c., I I iver offered in this Market. si U d ti a: |Special care and attention having g< ten given to the selection and manufac- P uring of fabric* for my tales, of the pre*- ^ nt teuton, ciutomers will find an unutu- p illy full, choice, and attractive astort- c nent purchase I since the decline inp rices. J, JOS. S. CLOUD. October 9. tf. p NEW ; AND , ATTRACTIVE!!; \ ! TU# attention of customers is called to my ( LtAHUK I AND 1 Carefully Selected Ntock of 1 DRY GOODS, J CLOTHTNG, 1 BOOTS and SHOES, : HATS and CAPS, 1 HARDWARE, j CROCKERY. A Large Stock of GROCERIES. I have also on hand, an assortment of Furniture, With a variety of other articles. All of whioh are offered upon the most reasonable terns. J. I. MM, Aleut. Oetobir 9. tf M AN INVITATION PROM THE SOUTH. From The South [We are much gratified in being ablo to present to our readers, another contribution, from the facile pen to which they, and we are indebted for "Pleasure in the South."] Editor of The South: Not only I, but those by whom I am surrounded, my associates and friends, have ever since the war, endeavored, honestly and fairly to draw nearer to us the good people jf the North. I tay honestly and fairly, and I mean this in its fullest signification. We represent all things in perfect candor; 1 BArtiotni Ann /iflTA jur buui, uur unuiai/c, uui owicvj^ vu? %>?ivtion to and reverence for the pa9t, professing no hypocritical repentance for acta, and aspirations which were the highest, and noblest )i our lives?have no affiliation with the adventurous plunderers who corrupt the igno ant, and incite the vicious to prey upon us. [f we did these things we would be unworthy he confidence of good people at the North. But the respectable people of South Caroinaj do desire the same class of peoplo from he North to come among them. We know hat cultivated, educated, moral and respecthie people are the same everywhere; form f government, and political opinions have tothing to do with the private worth of citiens. when government is honestly administered, and political views honestly entertaind. We know that Northern people are as 1 * 4 J A mnnavo) MVAf\n. 00(1, UUIIt'Sl mill Hue. aa a gcucim ition, aa the Southern people. We know liat some of the very best and purest of the Northern people are Republicans, but we do ot know any virtue among South Carolina LadieaJs. We know beyOnd question that 'ithout exception they are ignorant or icious ; no man among thorn can escape both orns of the dilemma. This much I have tid to show the fact that it is not hostility to iepublicanism, which separates all decent topic in South Carolina, from connection ith the State Government, but aversion to t ;uorance, vice and corruption. Will not good people of the North then j Jteu to us, when we invite them to share i le bounties which nature has spread out all j rer the South; when we show them the de- ' ?htg of our climate, the rich products of our i ?il? It strikes me that now is a most appropri- ] e time for the South to renew these iavita- I ons, and for the north most earnestly to j insider them. < The artificial condition of affairs at the < orth produced the financial crash, which . shaking to the very centre every interest i the North. . The cotton of tho South is redeeming, and ill redeem the finances of the country from i ter wreck and ruin. i It will do this, it is true, at a loss of four 1 ints a pound 'on every pound of cotton pro 1 iced at the South; visiting tho little patch 1 ' the poor orphan Confederate boy, and the jecy plains of lordly proprietors. And yet we suffer only to the extent of. ! irhaps, twenty per coot of income; our nsiness is not destroyed, no property is 1 recked ; not one laborer is thrown out of 1 nployment, not one suffers for the necessaes of life; and even for the privations we ndergo, we have a conviction that compenitiou is before us iu the better average rices of our produce for the next ten years, >r reasons which readily suggest thcmselvos -such as contraction of production, expenve systems, etc Now I am not disposed > argue the question of the advantages, and isadvaatagea presented by a higher civilizaon, where pursuits are to a greater degree rtiicial: ana b? slower civilisation, if it be 3 deemed, where pursuits are devoted to the roductiou of the mere natural wants of man ?food, clothing etc., but this is evident, and .ere is the lesson, that in a country where the nrsnits of a people are artificial, a financial rash crushes with terrible cruelty the poor, ho laboring and persons of moderate means or the simple reason that the demand for heir productions absolutely ceases?fond nd necessary clothing Ac., may diminish in trice, but they still have an important uiotey power ; while silks, satins, laces, wines, .rticlos of vertu Ac., and the great establishments which produce them, nrc utterly valueess, and the millions whose existence depends ipon them are thrown out of employment. Now in the South, evory honest industrious man can find employment at profitable ates; nor is this all, in societies where vealth is overgrown cither in individual or ncorporate hands, not only poof people but people of moderate means, arc at the inorcy >f the rich. The very shadow of a Stewart, r a Vanderbilt would crush the life out of a rival witli entail capital. At the North, one with a capital of from $50,001), to $100,000, :annot own, and keep a house, and transact business in a thriving city; at the South, j even such a capital would surround one with everything desirable, and make him relatively a millionaire,with the certainty that a fow years would make him absolutely so. To the laborer, the present rewards are -I ??.! not only high but he in at ones skviiuiu, and ennobled by tho sure hope of soon being an independent, and prosperous proprietor. Now, above all times, is an opportune season for investments in the South. Camden, S. 0., Nov. 8, 1873, A few weeks aj?o a baby wns taken into a church to be baptized, and hie little brother was present during that rito. On the following Sunday, when the baby was undergoing hit ablutions and dressing, the little brother asked mamma if she intended to earrj Willie to be christened. "Why. no." replied his mother; "don't you know, my aon, that people are not baptized twico?" "What 1" returned the young reaaoner with the utmoat astonishment, "not if it don't tftto the first tins J" "PEACE PAPERS." From The Abbeville, Medium. Rome Ga., Nov. 5th, 1873. Some time since T alluded through your columns to new book by Major Chas. II. Smith, then in press, entitled "Peace Papers, bv Bill Arp." The work has sinco been issued, and I take the liberty of sending you a few excerpts beginning with the "dedikashun "To tho unarmed, unleg'd unay'd, unpenshun'd, unwept, unhonored, and j unsung soljiers of the Confederit States, so called, I dedicate this book. Their unaffekted, un-: eomplainin patience in peace, so called, is equaled only by ttieir untarmsbsa and unteryfided valor in war. "When the patriotism and honor of our brave boys ar' reckonized by their Northern brethren, so called; when they draw the game penahuns, and receive the same bounty land; when evry dollar of back pay is voted in the bill, when tho widders and orfins of our Confoderit dead are lifted up on the same platform of a Nashun's Justice, and when the pecpul of these Unitec States , socalled, shulte hands aad make Trends over the green graves of their heroes/ then, and not tell then, will there be shore enuf lasting and unprctended peace "That blessed time is coming. Take courage and wait for it, .ye maimed, neglect ed, and pennyless boys; cheor up, and hope for it, ye widders and orfins of a noble hand. | May you all live till it happens, if it takes a thousan years. Bill Arp. "P. S.?If you don't cum soon, the compound interest on the back pay will brake the Quverment, and they know it. It is bound to cum. B. A." % "prtfass. "Gentul lieaJur;?One day, a* I was go-' ing along I heard a man grittin his teoth, and I saw his ejea fash tire, and he slap'd his fist in his baud liko poppin wagon whips,' iud he was tellin another niau about a tite be had had. His upper lip was all in a tremble, and the big vanes ou his forrerd was swelled up like maokarony. Ho was i powerful mad. Feelin' au intrust in the ' like of that, I atop'd and listened, and ij looked all over him to see if there wasn't i blood or dirt or hair on his clothes. Well,, is I didn't sec eny, sez I, "Mister, when did ill that happen ? He paused and shuttin' ' one eye like he was a think in', sea he, "Well,. ?its?now?'been?nigh?onto?27?years "We aint that man. We hope nobody 1 will presoom to think we carry our war heat that long. The fakt is. it aiut the war that our peepel is mad about uohow. It's this confounded, overlastiu , abouiinabal peace? this tail to the comet?this rubbin' the skab ! off before the sore gets well. "They've sorter let u? slip back into the j Union, but they've put tusk-masters over us,! snd sent carpet-baggers down to plunder us., They won't let us throw flowers on the graves of our poor boys who fell on their Bide of the fence. They wont give our in- | '11 J I valid soljters, or our wiauers auu oruu? uuv pensions. Thej taxd our cotton fifty millions of dollars, and thoir courts sed it was illegal; but they wont pay it back. If they haint got laws strong enough to keep what they stole, they'll go to Washington and setj and set till they hatch 'etn. "Now if our soljicrs' honor is as sakred as theirs, why dou't they p|nshun our crippics 'i Why dou't they wipe the stain of treason from off our orfius f There's Giui Wilkins, who stood up like a man in 1861,*j with a heart in him as big as a meetin-house. and when in his new soljier cloase he cuui to a "support arms," I thought ,he was as tine a pikter of an Aincric&u patriot as I ever seed. But he lost a leg aud an eye at Fredericksburg, and now, here he is goin i about hacked, and p?or, and ragged, and the great Auierikau Guverinent skorns him, and ses 'supportyourself.' you dirty booger." General Grant is disposed of as follows: "Never mind. These chicken will cum homo to roost sum of these days. I'll but llraut a thousand dollars agin the best bull terryer dog he's got. that if no lives 23 years he'll he set down in history as a rcglar aksidental bust. I'll Let there was ten thousand soljicrs iu the Yankee army who would have made a better fite, and & hundred thousand who would hav made a better President. 1 1 rotin in nf war trades iya... .. ? off three uieu fur one Hang a President who gives his Guverninent nu eurakter, who wunt run the uiasheen, who siuoaks around, a frolikiu with hosses and dogs, and reluilin old army joaks in change for uiekofuutic suiiles. ******* ' Put I don't know that its any of our business who is President. 1 suppose its none of our funeral, only we do sorter feci, suuitimes. a larger pride iu the respcktubility of the American guveruuient. When furriners cum over here and islookin around for our King, we would like to show 'em numthin better than a fiigger-hoad." In making those extracts, all of which, I must add, have been taken from the preface ?the ante-room, whose furniture is only a fortiori nu itidox to that of tho inner apartment?I have felt the full force of Hoswell's remark in relation to Johnson's Hasaelas: *'I restrain myself from quoting pasages from this excellent work, or even referring to them, because 1 should not know what to ? ?-i? _I ... D. eciuci, or, rumor, hnui vui?. 1>r Mott and tiik Sultan.?A number of (.'-onfederate officers anysa Washington letter. got employment in Kgypt at from 8250 to SfiOl), per month, in the following curious way. Qen Mott, their ranking offioer, was the son of Valontino Mott, the greet Arneriom surgeoo, who out the wert am the Sultans head when all his Turkish rhubard-wen were afraid of the Caliph's vengeance if they should hurt him. Mott took it from his head as if the Caliph was a turnip, and great was the wonder of the faithful. For this the doctor was rewarded, but he despised tho docorations which were tendered him. His son Thaddeus, however, availed himself of i the old surgeon's fame when he went over to i Turkey in Andrew Johnson's time, to inves- i tigate the complicity of our minister, Jay Morris, in the Cretan revolt. Thaddeus Morris married a Greek woman, who furnished the harem with haberdashery, and got admittance to the Sultan's bowers, which is in the East, influence. Blacque Bey, a convert to ( the faith, and afterwards Minister ot thejUni- ( ted States, married Gen. Mett's sister. The Khedive of Egypt, who is always seeking to , get influence with the sublime porte, his , sovereign, offered Gen. Mott a staff position | in his army, expecting to be a step nearer ] the ear and the mouth of the Sultan. He ( also got th^ idea that he would have a num- ] ber of American officers brought out to Egypt, for these would be detaohed from j European -diplomacy, and woald not not so , j much excite the Sultan's jealousy. Mott ( came to New York, and there he saw a great j crowd of dis charged rebels drinking arouud , the hotels, poor, ruined, and borrowing. His , *AAlr nitff nn tliom an/1 hp vnnU TT ai LU Ileal b WUA VU MV nvwaw j say to this one and that one: "Well, I'll give you a position," He was obliged to ( discharge the bills of some of those, and oth- ( ers had not even the money to rid^io a car- ( riage to the steamship. The Curse of Drink.?The appetite in \ man for strong drink has spoiled the lives of ' more women?ruined more hopes for them, 4 scattered more fortunes for them, brought to 4 theui more sorrow, shame and hardship? \ than any other evil there is. The country j numbers tens?nay, hundreds of thousands j ?who aro widows to-day because their hus- , bands have been slain by strong drink. t There are hundreds of thousands of homes f scattered over tho land in which women live t lives of torture, going through all the 8 changes of suffering that lie between the ex- e tremes of fear and despair, because those t whom they love love, wine better than they do f the women they Gave sworn to lovo. t There are women by thousands who dread t to hear at the door the step that once filled c them with pleasure, because that step has j learned to reel under the influence of the se- t ductive poison. There are women groaning s with pain, while wo'write these words, from . bruises and brutalities inflicted by husbands t made mad by drink. There can be no ex- t aorperation in anv statement in regard to this . matter, because no buinan imagination von [ create anything worse than the real picture j of the truth in all its terrible colorings. t The sorrows and horror of a wife with a j drunken husband are as near the realization ( of hell as can be reached, in this world, at ? least. The shame, the jpdignation, the sor- ( row and the sense of disgrace for herself and { her children, the poverty, and not un- ( frequently the beggary, the fear and the fact , of violence, the lingering life-long struggle j and despair of countless women with drunken . husbands, are enough to make all women , curse wine, and engage unitedly to oppose , it everywhere as the worse enemy of their ( sex.?Dr. Holland. , ' i The Hanging Gardens op Babylon.? . Our pretty hanging baskets with their suspension wires completely draped in delicate climbing ivies and standing mosses, with their masses of beautiful trailing plants, their droopiug grasses, vines, mimosas, nusksceuted aud covered with brilliant golden flowers, though liliputian in size, are literally hanging gardens. But, even should they be made a million of times larger, their plan i i /r i tliftir aaiiI^ navAP is so utterly umurcui' tuiit mwj wuiu *?v ?? suggost the fain lest notions of the hauging | gardens of Babylon, about the very naiue of , which there is a ring of poetic grandeur and , a flavor of Oriental magnificence. Thoy were literally paradise or pleasure gardens. Xenophon mentions those of Belesis, Governor of Syria; and such as he beheld thew, apparently, we find them described by | Chardin and other modern travolers. The I hanging gardens of Babylon were simply a i very costly variety of the paradiso, suoh I as only princely wealth could afford, i Their origin is attributed to Samiramis by i souio; others say that they vriro invented by a King of Syria to charm the melancholy of one of his wives, of Persian origin, who sighed to behold again th^verdant mountains j of her native land. Strabo and Diodorus lamnila j Siculqs have written noout> uivk hanging gardens, doubtless becauso of tbe I huge brandling palms and other trees over1 hauging the balustrade on tlie suuinn't oftho high walls that enclosed the paradise. These walls we are about one hundred and thirty yards long on each of the four sides, twenty two feet thick, and fifty cubis high, orovorniuety-oue feet, according to tbe Hebrew cubit: bv tbe Roman or the English cubit, a >little ices. ground tlie interior on all sides roso terraco above terraee the number of twenty, thd top one resting on tho outer walls and even with the balustrade. The terraces^ were upheld by immensely strong galleries, whose ceilings were lortificd of hewn stones sixteon feet long and four wide. Resting on these stones was a layer of rocds, mixed "with a great quantity of asphalt, and on this was a double floor of firc-driod bricks laid in more tar; finally, a floor of lead plates to prevent any uioisturo from penetrating the foundations of the terraces, the soil of which rested directly on tho leaden floor and was of sufficient depth to hold and nourish trees fifty feet high, and thousands of rare plants i culled from all parts of the known world, i All these were kept iu a perennially flour iahing condition, wa are informed, by water railed from the Euphrates through tha aid of machinery concealed from view in certain rooms made in the galleries The galleries also contained many royal apartments, variously decorated and furnished. Decent* ly lighted they could not have been; but ons can easily imagine that a walk around the upper terraces on a fine moonlight night, the senses charmed by soft music and by waves of perfume rising from the wilderness of flow* era and shrubs below, must have been en* chanting.?Marie Howland. Monkey Sagacity.?It was a Wild and dreary part of the country, in the plains of India, whilo journeying, that one day a friend and myself sat down nnder the shad* of an umbrageous banyan tree, and We were enjoying a meal of various edibles, to be trashed down by a glasa of Baas' best, when we were disturbed by the arrival and the noise of a troop of large black-faced monkey a ; the branches overhead literally swarmed with them. They looked on us aa interlopers, no doubt, and for some time their gestures appeared so menacing that we were ipprehensive they would dispute the ground with us. But after a time things seemed to lettle down, and we went on with our repast in peace. We had just risen from our meal, ' ind were strolling forth from under the shade, when to our surprise, one of the monkeys-? \ young one?fell down from a high branch it our feet. It was quite dead. The clam)r that arose above us on the occurrence was leafening. The whole assembly of monkeys :lustored together for a confab. Long and loud were the chatterings and various the grimaces of the tribe, each individual vieing - .t. .1 ? _ a. i J iVitii iue Ubuor AU iuo IUUUUCOO %ji uio Their looks and gestures made it apparent hat- they suspected us as being the cause of he death of their juvenile comrade; and lad we had guns in our hands, or any other uurderous weapons, we should no doubt lave been set upon sad maltreated. But we vere unarmed, and the good sense of the nonkeysscemid tojtell them*that there must >e some other culprit. Having come to his conclusion, one monkey, apparently the enior and leader of the whole tribe, separatd himself from the rest, ran to the spot on he branch whence the young monkey had alien, examined it carefully, smelt the >ranch and then glided nimbly down one of he pillars or pendant-roots, and came to the torpse of the monkey, took it up, examined t minutely, particularly the shoulder, where here was a small wound. Instinct immediitely turned sus picion into cfertainty. He >laced tho corpse on the ground again and urning his gaze in every direction, endeav>red to pierce the foliage in his search for he murderer. After a little while somehing seemed to rivet nis attention, in au nstant he had mounted the tree, Bprung to he spot, and with one clutch had seized a ong whip snake, with which he hastened :o the ground. Now occurred a most curious ? ? vn. ! scene. Tbe wnoie nionsey raoojc, xuiumiug sheir leader, were on the ground almost is soon as he; then as many as could, ranged :hemselves on each side of the snake. Each uonkey put his hand oirthe reptile clutching lold of the skin of the back tightly. At a given signal, the executioners dragged the writhing snake backward a nd^ forward on :he ground, till nothing was left of the murJerer but the back bone. The awle of exe* ?ution was effectual, and in the way it was carried out, showed the clear understanding which the monkey language conveys.*? Travel* in India. Egyptian Corn.?Among the many novalties embraced in the wide range of agricultural products of the State, one which bida fair to assume prominence is the "Egyptian corn/' which has already been raised in considerable quantities in the vicinity of Sutter, and is now being introduced extensively about Vallejo. Its capabilities are not yet folly understood, but as far as its growers have got acquainted with it, it is found at least to be an excellent food for poultry and all kinds of stock?even preferable for these uses to either wheat or barley. It yields as much as seventy bushels to the acre, and, it is believed, can be relied upon for two crops per annum. The manner of planting it is similar to that employed with broom-corn, which the stock somewhat resembles, while the head in shape is more like that of the sorghum or Asiatic sugar-cane. Instead of growing straight up, ns that does, the Egyptian corn always crooks at tho head and turns down wheu maturing The grains 1 in shape and size bear some resemblance to broom-corn seed, but on crushing a grain it is found to bo more of tho nature of Indian corn than anything else. The seeds from which this corn is grown were taken from [the wrapping of Egyptian mummies; and | that they grew after beingthus laid away for two thousand years sbows tnai mis variety of cereal possesses wonderful power of reproduction. It has been suggested that it might be found to advantageously replace barley for the use of malsters and brewers. Doubtless the experiment will soon be made. San Francisco Chronicle. A Doo Story.?It is related of Sir Edwin Landseer that when once visiting Scotland he stopped at a little village which was plentifully supplied with dogs. Landseer, as was his custom, amused himself by making rapid sketches of such as pleased his fancy. The next day, as he resumed his journey, he was distressed to see dogs suspended in all directiens from the trees, or drowning in the rivers with stones round their necks. He stopped a weeping urchin who was hurry ingotf with a pet pup in his arms, and learned, to his dismay, that he was supposed to be an excise officer who was taking notes of all the dogs he saw in order to prosecute the owners for unpaid taxes, so the people had hastened to dispose of their pets to eseaye taxation.