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ROIMjiKIiS, PROPRIETRESS. Regular and Transient Board furnished upon accommodating terms. September 80. CHARLESTON HOTEL I CHARLESTON, S. C., E. II. JACKSON & CO., Proprietors.' The Charleston Hotel, well known as one of the lcailiug first class Hotels of the i South, offers to the traveling public special , J .1.8. l.,,I?l'| XI, I inducement:* iu?* ?riw?"n ? * t wi v w.io i KATES?$2.50, $3 nnd $4 per day, nc-' curding to location of room. novt?-6t W. H. EULIS |i B?gs leave to inform It is friends nnd the Lnblic generally that he is now receiving n irgc and complete stock of WINES, LIQUORS, SEGARS, TOBACCO, WLich he proposes to sell at LOWJI? FOR THE CASH; Lower thnn the same goodi can be sold fcT in Camden, prices ranging from $1.75 to $'i per gallon. 1'erson* wishing to purchase will do well to call and examine his tuck before purchasing elsewhere. oet23-tf Seed Rye, For tale, in quantities to suit, ly 8if BAUM BUGS, I VOLUME XXXVI. RETROSPECTIVE. Bf T. STEPHENS. How lonely and cheerless this waiting, Impatiently, treading the floor, W th nou.ht but the clock's solemn ti.hing To breuk the dull stillness all o'er. My thoughts, they stray tackwards. far backwards, To years that are long past and o'er. Then, as to night, I was anxious, And impatiently treading the floor. Then 1 v as boyish nnd impulsive, I loved lor to wander and roam, Far from all kind oues who love me, Far from all dear ones and home. Though, before going, I faltered, I was wrong, and iny heart rebelled sore, With those thoughts iu my mind still conflicting, I was anxiously treading the floor. And, fo-night, oh ! so plain o'er the shadows, O'ercast by Ihc long tedious years. The dear ones and home far behind me, Distinctly and Tivid appears. Are they still living and happy As t hat night when I left iliuu of yore? I would that to-night 1 could think so, Impatiently treading the floor. SPEECH Delivered at Providence, Stjjtfb County, S. C., Rkfork iue Claremont Mounted Riflemen?P. P. Gailleud, Captain?and the Magnolia Guards?C S. Rritton, ... / v?? r to**? am U/AITA1.N?VCiUJJMl U, IOI l , va i u r. Duties and Ublioations of the Citizen, by Dr. E. J. REMRERT. My FrJljiP Citizens: We have reasons to.dny to lift our voices, in pro* found gratitude and praise to that Doing who directs and overlooks the destiuies of nations, us well as of individuals. When I look around rue upon this assemblage of my fellow citizens, I can tut iceall to mind the fact that but a short period ago when our calls were made for our citizens to assemble, in order to take counsel upon public affaire, it was with slow and solemn j tread that wo wound oor way to our! places of res-ort: a sadness and a glooui hung like a funeral pall over our heads. ; while with bated breath we counseled together. The very winds that blew around us chanted a mournful dirge, and our noble pines, that waved in grace and dignity above us, in their sighs, suDg cut a requiem aud a syui- i pathy lor a proud aud gallant people who lay powerless arid prostrate under the heel of oppression and wrong. The j /.f I itarlv 111 wlliwi> altnrfi filir ! UVUWV'O * u Jiti-V I.J, ?? n ?-V. sires had worshipped, s-?t in manacles and chains, with eyes uplifted in agony acd in despair t<? heaven, ai.d the proud eugle, our national liid, lav wounded and piuioned at her feet. The very stars of heaven, that were a wonder and a mystery to our revolutionary mccsto's, looked down upon us froui above, and " in their bright leaves " wc sometimes thought we could read a les- , son which held out a hope for the fu- | turo. Through all these long and dreary years of suffering we have shown ! to the world n forbearance under trials, and a moral heroism of character not excelled in the palmiest nays of Greece slid Home. It is to this fact that is due this assemblage to-day, where we I can worship as our hires have done "under our own vino and lig tree, with none to molest or make us afraid." The chaius aro struck from the limbs of the Goddess of Liberty and our eagle is on his wings again. These preparations that I sec nrouud inc are emblems of peace?not of war. Through the manifestations of the1 highest qualities known to the human 1 family wo have boldly fought and peacefully won a battle and a victory, ' more honorable than Austcrlitz, more illustrious than Trafalgar. In order to secure in tlia future the right use and exercise of this victory, it is necessary that we should bo fully impressed with the duties and the obligations of the citizen. You will re mem' bcr that in the teachings oh history the j flush of victory oflcD entails final defeat i by engendering that listlcssne:>9 and | luxurious repos** which resulted in the final ruin and destruction of Hannibal and his bravo Carthaginians at Capua ; which lost Athens her identity as a State, and finally delivered Koine to the power uf the Goth. The citizen finds his country and his houic only in the midst of Republican institutions and n government founded alone on the will of the people, expressed and controllid by constitutional checks and limitations. No crowned ; monarch in robes of state and power lords it over him. No orders of titled nobility moves in proud contumely above and around him. No firms and ceremonies of an unapproachable priesthood cr hierarchy fixes and settles his faith and his future. Hence he occupies towards his government and his couutiy a relationship of great moral responsibility. Great in peace as well as in war. Manly courage, love of country firifl ilin t.mr iifn nf niitrintisni have ('Vol' been with civilized uutions cultivated | and esteemed as among the cardinal virtues. The hills of Athens have rung with the burning eloquence of Demos thciifg, in his efforts to arouse the Athenians to a sense of their danger and to inspire them with that manly courage which was necessary to free tlieui from the galling yoke of the Macedonian conqueror. The forum of Homo felt the tires of Cicero, win so glowing patriotism, no doubt, helped ! to light up that inspiration in the breast of the great poet aud friend of Maecenas when lie penned the immortal lines, " Dulco ct decoium est pro patiisi uiori "? ' It is sweet aud honor ublo to dio fur oae'i country." Mo V' r: SC^v-. . .-,.. V$>,'" "TV-''..'. <V ' ' ' ? CAM] doubt, our own Henry drank dvp at the fount of this great inspiration uh< n his tougue and voice were heard to ring out the golden words, "Giveinej liberty or give me death." There are no people who have established a ;ov- ' erumenl aud a civilization but w ho i have presented in the character of some ' of their leaders striking landmarks: which stand out like Alpine summits, as modeis for their country and their nation. Mothers arouud the fireside on bleak wintry nights have rehearsed their deeds to their children. The Troubadour, the child of song and the harp, in the middle ages in his travel* from castles and lordly halls have saved many facts and deeds of during to history which would have been Ibst to alter ages. ' The blind old man of sciiv rocky isle," has pictured in noble epic \ the character and life of Greece and Troy, and held up to our gaze in those fur distant times characters from whose study we drink in inspirations of patriotism and love of country. However great may t>e the names of modern leaders, the imagination loves l<> linger around the hills of chu-ic Greece, which have been the silent witnesses of llin* J.j nrr.inf nn/1 irmillt in human "II ...... (, ... character. Few countries c.m produce a pass of Thermopyle, or exhibit a monumental inscription to which they can point with the pride of Sparta. "(Jo stranger, tell it at Laccdaenxm that wc died here in obedience to her laws " What government can place upon its role of honor a name more illustrious. Kcgulus, whi-sc devotion and sell*>uorifice, though be lived within the peri-Mi of historical data, has rendered his character ia some sort unnatural and mythicalt While England can proudly direct the traveler to Iter Westtuiusior Ab. bey, where rest for egos the ashes of her illustrious dead; and modern Europe as wvll as ancient nations tnny be fertile iu characters whose minds have served to unfold and bring to light the great 1 truths of nature. While they open the records of their great deeds, both in the field of battle and in the domain of i statesmanship, the government of tho I Uuitcd States will yieid tho palm to i none in Iter robe of honor, though the > storms and and tempest af but one bun- i drcd years have played above her. she i stands to-day stalwart and towering in i the strength of her youth; with helmet, i sword aud buckler uutattercd and uu. 1 ?avh t liPniifrh #lio prmflict and blood of I the umgt fearful civil couvuUioos ever I recorded in the annuls of history. This ' fact, ui)' follow citizens, is due to the i unswerving patriotism of her citizens, guided in their distiny by the finger of his country, in the trials of Valley Forge, as well as when ho penned his farewell words to a people whose gov- ] eminent ho had done more than any 1 other to establish, and whose liberties i he had transmitted to coming genera- j lion'. What country can invito tine attention of the historian and the phi* i losopher to a nobler cluster of citizens i than assembled at Congriss Hall, at < Philadelphia, to deliberate upon a form of Government, and to put afloat upon i the current of tio:e their declarations of Independence? The poor exiled colonies for conscience sake, froiu tlioahorcs of Great Europe, now began to build their nests over this broad continent, < and to plant the nettle and thorn ns testimonials for the protection of their i brood lor ages to erne. In tbo midst < of their careful deliberations, watered by their sterling virtues, our const itu" tiou took root, and may its tree, with our eaglo perched upon its loftiest r>.H <,w.ur nn/1 fhoiri.sh 'till tillJO ouu...... h.v.. .? shall be no more. Yet while wo houor and applaud, and venerate the memories of those illustrious heroes, statesmen and citizens whose intellect, nerve, energy and pt. trintUm built and established this treat and complicated system of (iovernment, which has showered so many blessings upon the human family. From this stand-point, at the end of a country, we can readily perceive that the states" nirn of the South, committed a great and most unfortunate mistake. The representatives of the North foresaw, that upon the successful establishment of a government, in which such liberal principles were inculcated, cherished and protected, that the emigration would set in from Kurope, and from thut source abundant labor would flow; capital would come; the values of proter'v increased and its people strength ?'iiI'd bnili f<.r offence and defence. The South on the other Xaud, wedded to her idol, ' The Institution of Slavery," insisted upon and enforced its protection in the constitution of the country; thus, the Oiiental religions, it became fastened upon the hacks of her people, identified with her future, and dovetailed into every fibre of her civilization and her life. A upas tree from the shades of which, there was no c.-enpc. Hut ?w lieu the grct?f founders of our government, clad in the simple virtues of their nature, were busily framing a government lor the protection of the j natural rights of the human race, they , failed also to u:nkc arrangements to ! protiet their country from the wily snares of the ambitious demagogue and j the slimy trad ofuior.il wrecks which! are strewn along the pathway of the past. This they may have left as the duty of the Church, the State and the School 'i he people, so as to inspire an honorable ambition, encourage a generous emulation, and to touch and inculcate that obedience to the laws, is one of the fir.-t duties of the citizen. A w ant of moral tone, nn-i that knowledge which enables u citizen to appreciate tbe duties and obligations which ho owe* to bis touutrjr, joopardiiei thu lecw.- inaafK JL-?? DEN, S. C., NOVEMBE right of 8uffragc which is the greatest | boon of a free people; and the ballot box, whicb ought to be the palladium for his protection, is at once transmuted | into the fortres of the tyrant, the breast plate of the demagogue and the shield of the villain. As an illustration of this fact, you have but to cost your ecys back. IIow incumbent it is upon the coutry. North, South, East and West, where such grand results arc in -! volved, and such dangerous sequences arc sporting upon the hazard of the die, to establish such ariangcmonts us will ensure a moral tone among over the Ocscrt waste, through which you have just passed?full of siroccos with" out an oaic.s; when alter a lout: and : bloody conflict, in which the North ! had triumphed, as it would be supposed, j had glutted their revenge by tho luanu. j mission of our slaves. In the stead, when they had given them tho right of , suffrage, leaving them and us to work our own destinies, they seut down upon i 113 n horde of laud-pirates and robbers, who seized upon the passions, prejudices and superstitions of the ignorant and j untutored African, worked hi in up into j a material of discord and ruin, arrayed liim on the side of theft, robbery and arson, encouraged hatr. d to education, culture and property, elevated ignorance above intelligence, falsehood and crime above honesty and obedience to the laws, levied ami exacted upon an impoverished people an croueoos and oppressive taxation, without representation and held us under n tyranny and a bondage more gallini; than that of the Cz.'.r <if Htijui.i nr ecpn ihn Sultan ofTurkey v* **" f""' . * And this under the free inspiration of tlie constitution, for which our fathers fought, bled and died, an j in view of the sculptured form of the UodJoss of Liberty; the lirnbsof which our fathers helped to chisel. Not satisfied with this, they ordered the armies of the nation to enforce this great wrong, and this gring outrage, with the bayouet, upon an uuaruied and defenceless people. My fellow-citizens, Con. (iranf can never take his place by the side of the great uicn of this nation. True, at an immense sacrifice of life, he led armies puccrssfully to battle. lie has shown nerve, tirmuess and resolve; but. by the sido of his great antagonist, Lee in all the lunDly virtues, he sinks into insig. nificance?whether we view them through the glasses that look deep down into the human heart and draw out the fibres of its great pulse. o.Jn tl]e strutL*gy of managing and leading armies of men to successful issues. If the picture had been reversed, what a change tiie world would have witnessed? Now, while the one is traveling across the Atlantic, feted and honored by tl.c potentate and tyrant, the other is calmly sleeping "his last sleep" beneath the willows of Lexington. 11 ?s great heart is broken and silent, but his memory will live forever, presenting in character ami in worth of all Americans. the nearest approach to the father | of his country. The campaign of 1STG, both national and state, will ev? r be designated as the most memorable tho world has ever witnessed. It carried within its immense bosom the nm to rials of war as well as of peace. The tendency of foreign wars is to cement a people ; but it appears as one of the inscrutable facts i of nature and of life that no nation has : Ac,i....nl1 tlw.ua intnrnnl imh vil 'si. mS ! I'VVI fVUjie U I MVOV IIMV'IIX* v ... which find their parallel only iu the: volcanic upheaving* of mother earth, j w ho'c gathering fires deep within her j womb belches forth as if all the unary j passions and maddened furies were dis*- J tilled within her. The splendid and . beautiful forms of (Jreico and Home ' were torn into bleeding and mangled carcasses by their Scry sons. Ueruiatiy draped her heavy ntid turbulent exist" ctiee through a war of thirty years. Kneland has felt the horrors of a doomsday Look and the war of the roses. Franco, revolutionary France, the land of the vine and the dance, has seen Iter terrors of blood, fan we expect to pass unscathed and unscorcKod along the dreary and bloodstaiued path ? A government whoso vitality does not lift itself superior to the throes of revolution and is wanting iu hearts laden with the fruits of patriotism, cannot live. The 7th of last November witnessed the sublime sight of the citizens of fiis 4 of tlldir j immense government u^itiuuuu^ ..i i... various election precincts to deposit tlioir votes for 1'resident und Vice President. Two great parties, Democratic and Republican, were arrayed against each other. The groat quesfion of national interference with the internal affairs of the States was then undergoing solution. The parties struggling for power, by an extraordinary incident which may not occur again in all the history of the republic, wor? so equally divided that Congress settled ibc question?big with such momentous issues to us?by the appointment of a commission whose doci-ion should he final. The Republican party, of which (Jen. Grant had been the great exponent, represented oppression and interference with the rights of the States. The commission decided in favor of Hayes and Wheeler. Whether this decision was just or not, it is not our purpose to inquire; hut the decision was made, aud it must rest the weal or woe of the republic. The inaugural in some sort brought quiet, through its patriotic breathings, to tho overtrained nerves of our oppressed people. Rut when Mr. Hayes issued the order for the withdrawal of the [ troops, which in future times will render the pngo of nis history luminous, he at oneo lifted himself above party and partisanship, aud placed himself soj R 21, 1877. curely upon the plune of the great lie. rocs, patriots and citizens of the republie. My fellow citizens, for this great and grand act of obedience to the eonstifu_ tinn and the laws, for this sublime arid practical conception of our government and the genius of our institutions I'resdetit Hayes has forever endeared himself to the hearts of the Southern people, arrested the current of feeling which was running back upon the general uovcrnraent, and filled the breach made by revolution nnd blood. Let him belong to whatever pirty he may, he his by this net alosrc rendered u service to the republic almost unparalleled in its annals, and worthy the tr.cn who sat in counsel with Adams and Jefferson, Washington and Monroe. But while these great events were transpiring upon the arena of tha nation. there was being worked out within the borders of ourowu State, under the leadership of our noble Hampton, inci dents no lc.-s thrilling and important; aud which helped to pave the way fir this national jubilee. The Democratic Convention which met in Columbia in its wisdom saw tit to select as their candidate for Governor, Generul Wade Hampton, a favorite son of South Caroliua. The Republican party, amidst the upheaval of its destructive und disordered elements, brought forward that royal carpet-bagger, D. II. Ohamberluio, ' Hyperion to a satyr." The one the flag bearer of the intelligence, honesty refinement, patriotism and property of the State. 'J'he other dragging darkly along the way the chains heated io the fiery furnace of passiou, prejudice and the diresi hate. The one with tho brow of Apollo, frank, open and beaming with patriotism; the other with the frown of Cain, whose offerings at the ^ 1- - M<A?A ?r.i A/itiw] l\t? Hilar HI His V'luillljr nvic "J genius of lior civilization The oue who by his manly bearing, liberal sentiments and love of country broko the dark clouds of prejudice and passion by which he was surrounded, and drew upon himself the admiring gaze of the nation; the other at the forgo of Vulcan was welding instruments l'or his country's ruin. My fellow citizens, shall I attempt to draw a picture to you of the condition of our poor State at the ppeuing of this eampniga ? Our people discouraged and impoverished under a long course of oppression and wrong. Upon their faces could te traced lines which, as an index to their hearts, showed that their spirits were broken, and that they felt they were standing upon the brink &f a fearful catastrophe. In the imperiled state of (affairs they had lost confidence in each other. It was almost impossible to collect together a corpornl's guard at any placo of meeting, so tho" roughly dispirited had they become. Such is hut a faint and imperfect outline of the condition of affairs when Gen. ilamptoii began his campaign. With the firm, unrjuiveriog Derve of the veteran and the warrior; with the clear and far seeing perception of the statesman ; with his great heart full to overflowing over the wrougs of his no* live State, big with patriotic emotions and love of country, bo resolved upon her redemption. Ho gathered np the smouldering ashes of her former self, and raised a fire upon her altars again He re-dedicated her fanes and her tern pies, and invited her citizeus to worship again as they were wont to do. He appealed to the uiemoriet of her great sons, whose deeds knew no death. He claimed tlie battles they fought nnd won. Ho pointed to the forums their o!oquenco had ti.kcn. With Carolina, dear Carolina, his fong begun. With Carolina, dear Carolina, his thenio did , end* Ho aroused our pcoplo from mountain to seaboard. The wells of patriotism which ho opened in the mountains dashed against the hills, overflowed the plains and expended themselves at the seaboard. OIJ ocean herself, in her derp-souuding murmurs caught the inspiration of his theme. With a Damascus blade he entered the densjof iniquity. and he broke the nngsof the robbers. My fellow citizeus, our State is redeemed and you arc safe. What meed af gratitude can we offer to our great deliverer ? I am no worshiper of heroes, but I can love a soul so gnat, so grand, ho truo. 11 A * 1' ? --1.4 ?f' sitae Aviilfuhr.n I Mil in UIH UI1U31 u I inn it behooves you to jruard carefully the future. lU'Uiembor that ''the price of liberty is eternal vigilance*" In these organizations your safety depends; not' for oppression, but for protection, liemember that you are in the midst of a race, by nature different, towards whom you should cultivate and exercise the most liberal sentiments. ]iut remember that you must caro for those rights and those liberties which have been so carefully handed down to you. i ? .L.. .1 j J no cnaiice urn iiuius mciu is wivu. lleumtnber through what seas you have passed to reach the heaven where you rest. Ail is not dono! You must hand down to posterity a burnished escutcheon, upon which is engraven the constitution of your country, set therein, ' like apples of gold in pictures of silver. Like the vestal virgius, you must keep the fires upon your alters perpetually burning, for u Hampton may not be here to rekindle them agaiu." The tobacco industry is one of tho greatest and most valuable in tho country. Its influence, therefore, on our prosperity is hard to estimate. Still, acknowledging that the national treasury is much benefitted, it is little satisfaction for a woman to find that her husband has been spitting all over the frout room o&rpct. i / T NUMBER 19 The Capture of Hyenas. The following mode of tying hyenas in their den, as practiced in Afghanistan, is given by Arthur Connelly, in his Overland Journal, in the words of nn Afghan chief, tho Shirkaroo Synd Dnond ; "When you have tracked the beast to his den you take a rope with two slip nots upon it in your right hand, and with your left holding a felt cloak before you, you go boldly but quietly in. Tho uniuial does not know the nature of the danger, and, therefore, retires to the Lack or the den, but you 6ay always tell where hie head is by the glare of his eyes. You keep moving gradually toward him on your knees, siid when you nre within distanoe throw the cloak over his head, close with him and take care be does not free himself. The beast is so frightened thst he cowers back, and though he may bite the felt, he cannot turn his neck round to hurt you, so quietly feel for bis fore legs, slip the knots over them, and then with one strong pull draw them tight up to the back of his neck and tie them there. The beast is now your own, and you can do what you like with him. We generally take those we catch home to the trail, and hunt them on the plaio with bridles in their mouths, that our dogs may be taught not to fear the brutes when they meet them wild/' Hyenas are also taken alive by the Arabs by a very similar method, except that a wooden gag is used iustead of a felt cloaS. The similarity in the mode of capture io two such distant countries as Algeria and Afghanistan, and by two races so di&Vrcnt, ia remarkable. From tho fact that the Afghana con. sidcr that the fat requires great pres. crice of mind, and an instance being < given of a man having died of a bite iu a clumsy attempt, wc may infer that the Afghan hyena is more powerful or ferocious t'luu bis African congener. Cheerful Women. In marrying, men should seek happy women. They make a terrible mistake when tbey marry for beauty, or for talent, or for style; the sweetest are those who possess the magic secret of being happy under any end every cir- , cuinstance. llich or poor, liigh or , low, it makes no difference, the bright , little fountain bubbles op just as mu* | sically in their hearts. Nothing ever goes wrong with them?no trouble is , too serious for them to make the best of it. Was ever the stream of calamity so dark and so deep that the sunlight of a happy face falling across its turbid tides would not make an answeriog J gleam ? Why, then, joyous tempered people don't kuow half tho good they do. No matter how cross nnd crabbed ( you feel, no matter if yonr brain is full of meditation on "afflicting dispense* lion?/' and your stoinachc with incdi. cines, pills and tonics; just sot one of these cheery little women talking to you, and wo aro not afraid to wager ' anything she can euro you. The long , drawn line about the movth will relax ' ?the cloud of settled gloom will vanish nobody knows where, and the first thing you know,you will be laughing! ' Ah. what blessings are these happy J women ! How o!ten their little hands ! ! ' - AI? .1 ?tMsshSwA nf gUHIH Hit; puuuci UU.1 uwtmuv v< > ?) with almost an invisible touch ! How we look forward through the weary day 1 to their Gresido smiles ! No one knows, ' no one will ever know until the day of judgement reveals, how muoh we owe to these helpful, hopeful, uncompl&in- , ing, happy women ! Rich Without Money, Many a man is rich without money. , Thousands of men with nothing in their pockets, and thousands without even a pocket, arc rich. A man born with a good sound constitution, a good stomach, a good heart, and good limbs and a pretty good headpiece, is rich. Good bones are better than gold; tough muscles than silver; aud nerves that Gash fire and carry energy to every function, are belter than houses and lund. It is better than a landed estate to have the right kind of u father and mother. Good breeds and bad breeds exist atnoug men as really as among herds and horses Kducatiou may do much to check ovil tendencies or to develop good ones; but it is a great thing to ioltliit the right* proportion of faculties to start with. The man is rich who has a good disposition?-who is naturally kind, patient, cheerful, hepoful, and who has a flavor of wit and fuu in his composition. Tlio hardest thing to get on with in this life is a man's own self. A cross, selfish fellow?a desponding and complaining fellow?a timid and care bur* dened man?these are all born deformed on the insido. They do not limp, but their thoughts do. A Hunter's Prayer. An Arkansag mnn was out hunting, and having fired away all of his ammu* nit ion but one charge, he espied a large bear coming. Knowing thut it would Co hard with him if ho missed, ha took deliberate aim nnd fired, but did not hit the bear. Iu this position, not knowing what to do, he bethought himself of prayer, and ho commenced; " Oh, Lord, I've never asked anything of you before, and if you'll ooly help me out of this scrape I'll never troublo you again; now, do help me this once. I know I've been an awful sinner; I've fought and drank, aud lied and cursed; but if I've been so wicked that you can't help roe, oh, lord, don't help the bear; just hold off and keep dark, and I'll show you the d?cleat bear fight that you em beheld." 4 * * - 0 ? ' ?v <&jsRgBBQwHWi ADVERTISING RATES Staff* Ordinary transient advertisement inserted at the rute of $1 .IX) per sqnsra ^one inch) for first insertion and Tfictspir square for each subsequent insertion. SSff* Contracts f?r a period of three months or longer will be made with advcrtisers at a liberal rate. JftyObitunries and Tributes of Ilespect will be inserted free of charge, if they da net exceed sixty words in length. Otherwise, they will be charged for at tha rata of one cent per word. SSS* Transient advertisements mast be accompanied with the eath to insure insertion, except iu cases of regular adverHSwISl???? The Curiosity of a Fly. Talk about the curiosity of a woman 1 We will back a lly agaiost any woman. Just watch him as he traverses a bald rum's crr-oiiim, halts on the eyelid, and J taking a curii?s?ty dance around him, WRltzcs over the end ol the nose, peeps up one postril, and having satisSed hia curiosoty there, curvcrttes over the other lip and takes a planco up the other. With a satisfactory smile at hauiog seen all there is to be seen there he makes a bee-line for his chin, stopping a moment to explore the cavity formed by the closed lips. Arriving at tbo chin, he takes a notion to creep down under the shirt collar, but suddenly hesitating ho turns around as if ho had forgotten something, and proceeds to an explora* tion of tho care. This cancludod, he carries oat his original intention, and disappear between the neck and shirt collar, emerging; after a lapse ef some minutes, with on air seemiug to say he performed his duty. What matters the frantic attempts to catch him, the enraged gestures, and profane language? They disturb his equanamity not a moment. Driven from one spot he alights on another; be has got a duty to perform and be docs it. A Mean Man. j V Some gentleman were talking about ifteanness, yesterday, writes "Elf Per* kins," when one said he knew a man oa Lexington avenue who wafrthe meanest man in New York. "Row mean is that?" I asked. "Why, Eli," he said, "be is so mean that he keeps a five cent piece with a string tied to it to give to beggars, and then when their backs are turned he Wjj jerks it out of their pockets. "Why, this man is so confounded mean," continued the gentleman, "that be gives his children ten cents apisoe every night for going to bed without their supper, but daring the night, ./ when they were asleep, he went up stairs, took the money out of their clothes, and then whipped them in the morning f?r losing it I" "Does he do anything else ?" "Yos, the other day I dined with him and I notiocd the poor little servant eirl whistled all the way np staus with the desert, and when I asked the* mesa rtlil scamn what made her whistle BO happily, kflMid: "Why,'Keen her whistling so she can't eat the raisios oat of the cake." - - tf?/9n29| Be Bootable. > i c. . Men who isolate themselves from society, and have no near and dear family tics, are the most nnconfortable of ha* ( man beings. Byrou says that "happi- j doss is born a twin," bat tho phrase, / though pretty and poetio, doos not go far enough. We are too gregarious, and arc intended to march through life either in single or double file. The man ^ who cares fur nobody, for whom nobody cares, has little to live for. You must have a heap of embers to make a glowing fire. Scatter them apart, and they will become dr? and cold. So to have a brisk, vigorous life, you most have a : Vj group of lives to keep each other warm, to afford mental encouragement, confidence md support. If you wish to liva the life of a man, and not of a fungus, be lociablc, be brotherly, bo charitable, bo sympathetic, and labor earnestly and patiently for the good of your kind. Singular Story of a Woatel. The following story was told to us as being a positive fact, the narrator pro? fessing to be one of the workmen who witnessed the performance of tho said weasol: A party of men were prying stone in a field, and found under a largo rock a nest containing four yoong weasels, which they captured and put to aro ai^a TTrmn fliA rat n vn aT thft aM \j iiu diuoi vpvu miv i ovyi 11 ui ?n\ viu weasel, quite a scene ensued' She became very excited and angry, and at unce set off, but soon returned, and going to the little pail containing the drinking water for the men, she spit something in it, and was about to go off a second time, when she discovered her nest and her young, all alive and unharmed. She immediately vetutnod to the pail, and continued jumpiug and pushing at it until it was overturned, thus saving the lives of the men she evidently meant to punish for the do* atruction of her offspring. The Snow Prayer. A little girl went out to play one day in the fresh, new snow, and, when ah* came in, she said : 'Mamma, I couldn't help praying when 1 was out at play." i "What did you pray for, my dear/' asked her mother. "I prayed Jthc Snow Prayer, mamma, that i beard id the baudsy school. "The Snow Prayer I what do you mean, little one ?" "I mean that beautiful Snow Prayer, in the Bible, mamma; you know it, "Wash mo, and I shall be whiter than f-AW r> 8dow . Women are formed for attachment. _ Their gratitude is unimpeachable. Their lore is an unceasing fountain of delight to the man who has once attained and knows how to deeeree it. Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it only after it baa slipped through the haods of some thousands, that some fellow by good luck holds on to it. A physician advertised that at the request of bis friends, he had removed *\ ^^B near the ohurck yard, and truatod that ^ ... . his removal would aooommodate man/ dH of his pstieota. We doubt of it.