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| THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. Published Every Tuesday. At CAMDEN.; s. a, I dt TRANTHAM & ALEXANDER. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. (In Advance.) One Year t? < O Six JdonlhM 1 23 DR. I. H. ALEXANDER, Dental Surgeon, COLUMBIA, 8. 0. . Office over W. D. Love's etore. The doctor will visit Camden professionally about June 15th. Nov20tf ? r? i nr DR. I. BtRWlUK LtUAflt, UEIVTIST,<T, : graduate op the baltimore college op dental surgery. OFFICE?DEKALB HOUSE. Entrance on Broad Street IBr. A. W. BURNET, ~ HATINQ LOCATED I5 CAMTtZK, 8. C., OTrKB8 HIS ^PROFESSIONAL SBRVICRS TO THE PEOPLE OF THIR PLACE AN D TICI5ITT. t&" Office, next door to that of Trial Justice DePasa. decll-Sm Wm. D. TRANTHAM, Attorney it Law, CAMDEN, S. 0. flfi^Office in the Camden Jous* nal office, Clyburn's Block. J. D. DUNLAP, TRIAL JUSTICE, broad street, CAMDEN, SO. CA. B^. Bueinesa entrusted lo bit care will receive prompt attention jnne7tf. J. T. HAY, i ATTORNEY AT LAW AND Trial Justice * Offloe over store of Messrs. Baum Bros. Special attention given to the collection of clalma. ~ J. W. DePAJSS, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND Trial Joitice. Easiness of all kinds promptly transacted. W. L. DbPASS^ ATTORNEY AT LAW, / CAMDEN, 8. C. Will practice In all the State and Federal Court*. JanWtf" T. H. CLARKE, ' ATTORNEY AT LAW, CAMDEN, 8. C. Offloe?That formerly occupied by Capt. J. M. Davis. Janffltf 9.1>. KENNEDY. T. 1!. NELSON KENNEDY & NELSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, CAMDEN, S. C. Ofloejtormely occupied by Judge J. B. Kershaw. U FREDERICK J. HAT, Architect and Builder, CAMDEN, S. C., WiTl furnish plana and estimates for all kinds of buildings. Contracts taken at moderate figures, and promptly and carefnlly attended to. Orders left at the Cannm ocskal office will receive immediate attention. Marohltf JOHN C. WOL8T, PLAIN, ORNAMENTAL, AND SIGN PAINTER, Paper Hanger ? Glazier, CAMDEN, 8. C. ?ept23.12m Be Sore to Stop at the I atham Mouse. kaMbl IMI I I m - V ww v -v i ( AMDEX, M. C. (T*A>81EXT BOAXD, $2.00 PKX DAT.) :o: Ample accommodations. Tables supplied with thebesttbe Markets afford. Etorj attention paid to the comfort of Onests. Persons stopping at the Latham House will be conveyed to and from the depot free of charge. Passengers, without heavy baggage, will be conveyed to and from any part of the town, not above De* Kalb street, at 25 cents. J?~Con neeted with the house is a first olaes Bar, which is located separately from the house, and orderly kept. J^FConveyances supplied to goests on liberal terms, either for city oreountry use. jan8-ly S. B. LATHAM, Proprietor. DeKalb House, ftY A. S. KODGERS. Most Centrally Located Hotel in Town. Terms && Per Day. Commercial Travelers wilt have every attention paid to their comfort, and be far. nished with SAMPLE BOOMS at this J House; and persons visiting Camden wHl find it h quiet and pleasant home. Special rates made for parties traveling together, and for those who wish to stay a week or more. |gr* In connection with the hcmse is a tfrst-class LIVERY STABLE, whore horses ?nd vehicles can be had at all times for town or country uat, nt the most reasonable rates. Conveyances to and from the depot at every train. deoltti % All Kinds 'Of Canned Goods, of best quality, and eararnested full nmtghl, for sale by jfttfcr KtBUrtrtftoife VOLUME XXXVI. INS ANITOUTS. [The following lines, written in a lady's album nearly a quarter of a century ago by a gentleman who has since cast his lot with us and become a prominent and respected citizen of our county, will doubtless be recognized by their author, though it is probable that he has not seen them since his hand traced them upon the rose-tinted page of his lady-lore's album. They prove that it is possible for even wise and settled old men to hare been once saaceptltle to the gentler influonees, and in some instances as completely enraptured a^-thO; young gentlemen of the present day and generation ever beoome. Our friend was "sbch an put and ooter - then;" lie ig such- a "ilraipJd-otUtr" now as one likes to see. We may incur his displeasure, and have a 'fight or a footrace' when we meet; but we make no'apology for publishing his effusion, which has found its way into our posses-, sion.?Rd.] I'm out of cash, so of course I've puoket reom to let; 1 in uui ui pnutuvc, juo* I'm never cut of debt. Besides, I'm dreadfully io love. And more than half in doubt Which is (he greater evil?that Of laiog la or out. I'm deeply in my tailor's books, Bat I don't mind a dun : But, if I wasn't out of funds, I'd pay bim out of fun. He always gave me fits he said, > But Leaven bless his eyes, 'Twould put him in a fit I guess, He d be in such surprise. I'm out at. elbows, in distress ? In sooth a sorry tale ; I'm out of favor, oat of sorts, But then I'm oat of jail. Hj landlord ssyl my tfme is oat, And thinks I'd better ihint ; I'm such an out and outer ho Wont have me in his inn. I'm out of office, but in hope. To get put in seme day; If 1 d-jn't run for something soon, I'll have to run awsy. I'm out of spirits, and am out Of more that I can think; I'm out of temper; bang me pen, Ye Qoda ! I'm out of ink. L. ROSAMOND GIFFORD. 'Good-bye, mamma, and wish me pood lack, please!' 'Good bye. Rosamond ; but, as for my wishes, they can't signify one way or the other. I'm nothing but a forlorn remnant of the olden time ' Rosamond Gifford tamed away from the cracked mirror in its frame of stained wood, and went smillingly out in the nipping November nir?a tall, blooming dnmsel, with deep lyown eyes, and * lovely pink and whitecomplexion whose simple black alpaca dress set off ht-r fresh beauty, as an antique vase might relieve a cluster of full-blossomed roses. 'Mamma.'said little Helen Gifford, aha put another shovelful of coals ot>; the carefully husbanded fire, 'do y?u feel sorry that Rosa is going to work the sewing machine at the Exhibi* tion ?' Mrs. Gifford withdrew behind ber pocket handkerchief. 'Ah; child, it is well for you that you haven't my sensitive feelings !' 'But, mamma, why sbooldn't Rosa sew at the Exhibition fair, just the same as in the sewing machine room in Oxford street? Where's the difference, so L.?i? n* tbi?v nav her for it f "v -~j r v Mrs. Gifford shook hor cap borders hysterically. *1 never thought to see the day when a Gifford should be compelled to work fryr a living?and to work in public, tdo ! I only wish I bad been d%ad and buried first /' 'Mamma, don't!' pleaded poor little Helen. 'It would have been a great deal better !' groaned Mrs. Gilford, '^shouldn't have been in the way, with my oldfashioned ideas and notions, then ! I hope Sir Walter Morton sleeps peace, fully in his bed that is all ! I know I couldn't, if I cheated my cousin's cbil* dren out of their inheritance 1' 'But, mamma, how was it Cousin Walter's fault, if the law gave him the estate, instead of us V Law, indeed I Nonsense! When your poor dear papa always brought rnc up in expectation that some day Morton Place would be ours. And for him to j?: ? Step ID-?A BeiUHU, UUUIIKCIiug, umrless?' t 'But, mamma, darling, you hare never aeen him.' If he had had a solitary instinct of the gentleman about him, he would hare invited us all to make our home at Morton Place for the rest of oar days.' Helen lifted her eyebrows ahrewly. 'If we had gained the lawsuit, mamma, I don't think you would have invited Cousin Walter to make it hia home at Morton.' Go and get your -Emitting, Helen,' said Mrs. Gilford, petulanUgr. And Helen silcnly obeyed. Pretty Rosamond Gilford cried a little uuder her veil, as she hurried along the atroct*. beeau?e her earnest efforts to gain a livelihood were so little appreciated by her mother ; but it was uoth. iog more serious than the sparkle of a summer -how?r. sod when she entered the railed off compartment at the Exhibition, where her sewing machine stood, the sweet dimpling smile had ootne back to her. lips once again. 'You're a little late this morning, Miss Gilford,' was the comment of her employer. 'Two or three people have inquired about the new patent attachment already.' So Rosamond aat down, heart and hands alike occupied with the business of the bour, entirely uuoonscioua that ho horself was the prettiest object in the place. Suddenly, the sound of a gentleman's voiee close to bcr esr made her start. 'See here. Morton; 509 are interested to thft n Vw fajfcAta&rt u jtn art go* 7^'Zj r-T.' >> r; ;.?*?*; ing to snpply the industrial schools at jour place with sewing machines. It is reallj tho beat thing out.' And Rosamond glancing up through her long eyelashes, saw a tall, well made gentleman, with bright brown eyes, chestnut locks and a grave, pleasant mouth, and heard him introduced to her employer as 'Sir Walter Morton, of Morten Place, Staffordshire." The veritable Conain Walter?the mysterious wonder of her youth and childhood?and Rosamond felt her heart throbbing a pulse or two faster, aa ?kn Kmwn r>l*nr ?tM foil UDOn her face. "Mias Gifford, will you be kind enough to run a strip of cloth through tbo machine ? Then, sir, you will peroeive the manifest improvement in this latest attachment." ' But the stranger was looking, not at the little silver plate and glancing wheel, but at the fair, flushed face which bent over them. "Gifford !'' ho repeated, slowly. "I have cousins by the name of Gifford." "And <1 am one of those cousins," said Rosamond, courageously. "There ?you turn this screw a little, and it relieves the tension at once, thereby improving the stitch; for?" "Allow mo to claim relationship, then;" and Sir Walter Morton frankly held out his hand. Rosamond hesitated an instant. Her mother would bava haughtily repulsed the overtures of friendship; bot she and her mother had always held differeut theories on the subjeot of Sir Walter Morton. So she put her hand in his "I am glad to meet you," said Morton. "I should have met you before, but a letter from your mother?" 'Yes,' eaid Rosamond, coloring deeply 'I know how my mother feels. Shall I show you about those machines now /' 'Are you exhibiting them f 'Yes. I am earning my own living.' Morton's fine face lit up. 'And I honor you for it. Yes, you may show mc, if you please. I am just ordering a few for some schools I hare established.' | And when Sir Walter Morton took his leare, the man of sewing machines came gleefully to Rosamond's side. 'Your coueiu has ordered a dozen, Miss Gifiord. I wish we had a few more customers like him." Sir Walter Morton came again the next day to examine into one or two knotty points respecting the machinery and stayed until Rosamond got up to put on her shawl and bonnet. 'You are going home 7" he asked. 'Yes, Miss Morrison takes my place in the evening,' she replied. 'But it is quite dark; you must let me see you home,' 'Yes but?my mother ?' Morton laughed. 'I comprehend. I am no speoial favorite with her. Bnt I can preserve a prudent incognito. Let me be Mr. Walters.' And Rosamond, who was really a little timid concerning that long lonoly walk in the dusk, and who was beginning to iiko and trust ber new-found relative, consented. Mrs. Oifford received the new-comer with stately dignity. 'I'm sure, I'm very happy to meet you sir,' she said. 'Any friend of Rosamond's will always be welcome to me, sod I wish I could receive you in a more fitting manner. Wc have uot always been what we are?nor should we be now if law and justice wero anything bat more meaningless names.' 'Indeed !" said Morton, smiling curiously, while Rosamond felt as if her face was all on fire. "No, sir," said Mrs. Gifiord, the bows on ber lace cap quivering with the emphasis she used. 'If we had our rights we should bare been the Giffords of tho Morton Place, and my daughter Rosamond, instead of exhibiting sewing machine", would have been sitting in silks and velvets. But wc hare been deprived of our rightful inheritance by a fiend in homan shape, named Walter Morton. Perhaps you have beard of the great law suit V "I think I have a faint recollection of it," said Mr. Walters, gravely. "Mamma," interrupted Rosamond, in a voice of distress, "these?these family matters cannot be interesting to a strnnger, and?" "Excuse me!" said Mrs Cifford, drawing herself up primly. "Of course, I am in the wrong?I always am?only it isn't exactly pleasant to be told of it by my own daughter!" "Matuuia, you know I didn't mean that!" Hut Mrs. Gifford declined to be pro" pitiated on any terms, and eat stiff and prim the remainder of the evening, full of unspoken ruminisoenoo of "the great lawsuit." "He will never come to see us again," was Rosamond's regretful thought, as she luid her flushed checks on the pillow that night, with little Helen's fra* grat breath mingled with her own. Hut Rosamond was mistaken. "Mr. Walter's" did come again, the very next evoning but one ; and again, and yet aRain! , ... "Yeu are looking very pale, Miss Gifford," he said, the last time. 'It is one of the misfortunes of our -- a-* _J I reduced elation in liie,' Mr*, uinun ighod, 'that Roeamond it obliged to lead a too aedontary life !' 'A little walk would bring tha roeca back to your ohatk,' ?aid Mr. Walters. It ia a lo?e!y moonlight night. Will you come?' Mm. Gifford nodded her aanctioo , i and Koiatnond put on the tarlotan shawl, Ihb Dlttk rvuntt hw with (to rttt- | ? '. -ft \ CAMDEN, S. C., MAY 1bird's wing in front, and slipped her arm through that of her cousin. Rosamond.' said Sir Walter Morton, after they had walked a little way in silence, 4 the Exhibition closes to-morrow.' i ' Y en' said she, regretfully. i 4 And with it closes your work V I ' Yes, 1 wish I could bear of some i new engagement/ I Morton drew her arm closer in his. I 'I know of one, Rosamond, but I don't know whether it would exactly suit i you' < ' What is it ?' i ' I want to engage you, Rosamond? < to bo my wife/ i * * * m * * * **? 1.Utk iin at i iuro. uiuuiu iiau iuvB?a ... .w. clock half a dozen times, true to her i instinct of always worrying about some- ' thing, before Rosamond came back. Child J" she croaked, 'do you see what time it is T Where is Mr. Walters?' "He would not oome in. He is coming to see you to-morrow, mamma/ ' To eee we ! What for V Mamma, he has asked me to marry hi*/ He is a most gentlemanly person, my dear,' said Mrs. Gilford, smiling and bridling. < I shall consent with the ereatest ploasnre/ You like him, then, mamma V ' Certainly I do/ Then, mamma, I may venture to tell you that be is our cousin, Walter Mortoo; that I shall be the mistress of Morton Place, and that you will reign, in very truth, in the halls of our ancestors, you have spoken about so often/ i And she laughed and cried, both in c one breath, upon the old lady's neck. Bless my soul!' said Mrs. Gilford, dropping her spectacle case and cracking the lense right aeroe*. ( But she made no objection to the f fiend in human shape/ Miss Rosamond , Giflord soon took to herself another local habitation and a name/ I I Hampton and Simpson?No time c to Make Changes. What little opposition there was to 1 the renomination of Governor Hampton ^ has died out, and his re-election is as t . certain as hie renomination. The hyper- ,' critical politicians who considered him > . too liberal and generous have been j silenced by the voioe of the people, i ? ' < ? L-J ? -tt i ! I Tart words ana ruae jeers nan an cucci> diametrically different from that whioh e was expected. The heart of the people ' is true, and the time has not come when political capital oan be made by carping " at Governor HaniDtoQ. They who led c the opposition have bowed to the Inevi- ! table. They'are as noisy m tboir praise as they were in their condemnation, and ^ it isiafb to presume that there is as ic much selfishness nod sincerity in the " one as in the other. No matter how it was brought about, the result is oauso c for deep congratulation. The colored e people, who form the majority of the c voters sti South Carolina, will not op- ' pose the reflection of Hampton. No 1 candidate will be placed in tbe fild by * the Republican party, in opposition to r him. In two years, Demooratic rule, c under Hampton, has worked auoh a t revolution that a Democratic Governor 1 will be elected without a dissenting voice. It is a grand triumph, a happy , omen for South Carolina and all her people. But the renomination and the ? re-election of Governor Hampton are J not enough. For the good of the Democratic party it is requisite that the whole 1 of tho State Officers be renominated, and that the ticket be not-changed in I any respect. The State officers who now surrouod Governor Hampton are those who were c elected with him, ezoepting the Attor- c ney-General, who was elected by the 1 Legislature, without opposition, to 611 ' the vacancy oaused by the resignation r of Cen. Conner. There is no reason why Mr. Youmans should not be reelected. During the trials and Strugs 1 glcs of 1876-77 he labored as hard for ' the State as any of the actual candidates, and a renomination is no more than a J proper recognition of his usefulness, 1 ability and patriotism. The State ' officers, for many months, boro a burden of anxiety aud responsibility that cannot be adequately appreciated by those who are not familiar with the secret history of the period intervening be- J twecn tho electiou of Governor Hanip ton utid the obtaining possession of the State House. During the canvass their * work was hard enough. After the canvass closed a harder task was before them. They were deprived of their offices for many months, and, when they ^ obtained possession, they found every department of the Government in con- r fusion. To plaee the several depart- 1 merits in order they havo toiled unre- P mittiugly ; and it would bo ungenerous )! in tho extreme, to displace them, now thot they are familiar with their UUties, 7 and arc prepared to give tlie State the J full benefit of the salutary changes they F bare rnado. The condition of the pub- * lie schools^ of the public records, of the public accounts and of tho militia and ' volunteers is evidence how much can be accomplished, with small means, by in* telligoucc, leal, energy and industry. c Who can forget the courage, constancy f and dignity of Lieutenant Governor f Simpson, Presidont of the Seuato ! 1 Anu if a renomination is a proper ac- 1 knowledgmont of the efficiency of the ( State officer*, it ia likewise, In our opto- 1 ion, demanded by the highest interests c of the Democratic party. 1 They who opposed Governor Hamp* ton, ns long as it was safe, are now ap. parantly bent on striking down his ool- t leagues who have sustainod him and < wbtrm ift bus auMnhred, frota tha day i 9 I ? uifS.visiv- - - * > *_* ?. 1, 1878. of his election to the paesent time. Tho motive is the same. it is hoped that a flank movement will succeed where a direct attack must fail. And it is evident that the usefulness of Governor Hampton will be lessened, and his power for irood be impaired, if State officers be selected who are not in accord with him, and who are chosen because their views are different from his. We do not say that this is intended, [t is manifest, however, that there is nothing in the character and conduct )f the State officers that makes a change necessary. The reason for ousting any )ne of the State officers must be bought in some other direction. There is every reason to believe that, if the whole State ticket be renominated t will be elected without opposition. This will leave the Democracy free to concentrate their efforts upon the deelion of Democratic candidates for Congress, for the Legislator?, and for County office*. Io the absence of the tzcitemcnt that would be caused by a ight over the State offices, the opportunity of electing the Democratic canlidatcs for other offices will be largely nereascd. The Democracy can win in November as general and complete a victory as was won two years ago, aod n 1880 the rule of the Democratic party rill be so consolidated and confirmed, he confidence of the colored people will >e so won, that tho Democracy can then fleet any candidates whom they choose o nominate. Theu tho confidence will >e in the party, wbils now the trust of he colored people is, in a large meas. ire, reposed ia individuals, as indiviluals and not as party candidates. Grant as Soldier and Civilian. General Pabney H. Maury has con* ributed to the Southern Historical Soiety Papers an exceedingly clever ariclc upon Oen. Grant, and attempts iramrtially to fix bis place in history. )ismi*sing all extravagant estimate, on oth sides of the tra'er, Gen. Maury oncedes that Grant is the most extrardinary puppet of fortune evrr known n America, if not one of the greatest 1 f Generals. His chief distinction at Vest Point was horsemanship, no such Isring equestrian ever having appeared I icfore or sinoe at the academy. In the dexican war he was quiet, self-reliant nd sober. After the war he became ntemperate, lost his commission, litrally fell into the gutter, from which nother and a vaster war lifted him irora one honor to aoother notil ho had mthing more to win. Suoh a retrieval f destiny, Gen. Maory justly thinks, is rithout parallel. His blunders in war rom Belmont to Holly Springs are rraphically recounted, and the mystery if his not being punished for them is dverted to as among strange things of lis destiny. His subsequent operations in a grander scale are oommcnted upon, specially tho new principle introduced if "attrition," which involved a refusal o exchange prisoners, both compelling acrifices of human life disgraceful to my commander. Conscicooo aside, it equired a most capable geueral to drive in toward a given eud, at auy cost, and he broadest qualities of courage and eoaoity. , General Maury scouts the idea that }rant was led to victory by other moo's trains, and proves that he formed and executed his own plans, often in contra* liction of advico he had asked for. He ind armies beaten under him, but they lever left the field. The shining virue accorded Grant is his freedom of lersonal insult or cruelty to prisoners of rar, from General Lee down to the iumblest private soldier. When Gen* xal Lee visited Washington at the end if tho war, Grant hastened to pay his espects; but Lee never returned the risit, nud we have been told that this notified and embitterod him more han aught else. At any rate, from hat moment, when civic power loomed ? - L - ~i 1 ip Dcrom Dim, ue iicuumio u vuau^cu nan. For Grant's political career }eneral Maury has only contempt. He illicd himself with tho enemies of the epublic, surronnded himself with veqal jlundcrers, became chief gift-taker of he land, and systematically proceeded o feather his nest, so that he could uercr be poor any more. General Maury draws a gloomy horoicope of tho future of the ex Preaidentjenera). IIis European honors will nly defer his ultimate destiny of being mraed by his own people. Our critic >eliov?s (h it this man's days will be 'few and evil," that ho will seek relief rom commonplace iu potent draughts if whiskcv and champagne, and that 'when the morning telegrams shall aniouoco that Grant is dead, men will lauent and wonder that capacities so food, with opportunities so great, hould reach a conclusion so impotent." Phis may be a true vision. But wo hould not wonder if the "old man" >incd the churoh, becamo a Good Tom>lar and lived to be 90 years of age. ie has disappointed the prophets boore and may do so again.?Augusta Jhronich aud Constitutionalist. When Judge Black was asked how he euld conscientiously undertake to deend the confessed delinquent Belknap, le rejoinod that he was a lawyer, that iVashinton was in his fioTcl of practice, md that there seemed to bo only two nethods of getting along in Washington me by robbing the government and the ither by defending the thieves when bey were caught. ^ The highest flamca ore the most remulous; and so the most holy and sminont Christians are more fall of WtmuHi and fhar, and humility. NUMBER 44 The Valley of Death. In the northeast corner of San Bernardino county, Cal., lying partly in Inyo county, and, by the newly surveyed line, partly also, in (lie State of Nevada, is a region paralleled by few other spots on tbe face of the earth. We say the world is instinct with death. A huee basin, whose rim is the ancient hills, stricken with the barrenness of eternal desoh^jon, whose bosom tho blasted waste of the desert?treeless, shruhlc88 and waterless, save a few b^t-' tor pools like the lye of potash water; surrounded by mountains tbat tower thousands of feet above the sea level, itself lying 3,000 feet above the sea. It is a very "Gehenna"?a place of death W/J ki??*A4i II Mr)a a xa! fl if nn/tM i# uiiu uuuvo* uuua uu uub nj utci iv. Animals do not enter it. Vegetation cannot exist in it. The broad sand absorbs the heat, the bare mountains re* fleet it, the unclouded son daily adds to it. Ninety degrees in the shade (artificial heat, there is no other) means winter; 130 and 140 degrees, that means summer. The hot air grows hotter, wavers, trembles with heat, until nature, goaded with madness, can endare no longer, and then, the burning , blast rouses itself?rouses in its might; ronses as an angry blast, with a hoarso, , ominous roar; swept mile after mile, on ever on, over the broad reach of the desert, bearing in its black, whirling boeom?black as midnight?dost, sand, , alkali and death. Sometimes murky , clouds gather upon the mountains , ? it. *i * _ u - _ aijvjvej uiou muro is ? rusu ? * n.truiug ( sigh of the wind a?a low rambling in , the air; the hills qniver. the earth treat- , hies, end a torrent, half water, half mad, ( bounds from the hills, leaps in the de*> . ert, ploughing chasms Hire river beds in , the loose sand. The elonds scatter, the | sun comes again, the eternal thirst is 1 not quenched. The raging river was j only a dream. In tne year 1849 a party , of immigrants entered the basin. Day | after day they toiled on, thirsting, t dying. The pitiless mountain walled them in, no escape. Ono by one they dropped and died. A few abandoned everything, scaled the mountain and escaped. The others lie as they felt all ' dried to mommies?no birds even to 1 devour their flc*h, no beasts to prey upon them. Wagon tires unrusted, 1 guns bright, untarnished. Such is the place. Mile after mils silence reigns, silence?and death.?Kinnetom Gazette. 1 , I A Mule's Wonderful Kiokin?. "Speaking about males," remarked a sisfooter in Arkansas, as hs cracked his whip st market, "I ve got a mole at home which knows as much as I do, and I want to hear somebody say I am a half a fool." No one said so, and he went on. 'Tve stood around here sod , heard men blow about kicking males till I've got disgusted* When you i come dowa to kicking, I want to bet , on my mule. A friend camo along tad took dinner with me the other day. and. as lie setmcd a little down-hearted, I took him out to see Thomas Jefferson, my champion tnulo. I was telling the 1 good man how that male would flop his feet around, and he said he would like ( to see a little fun. lie paseed bis whole ' life in the South, but had never seen 1 a mute lay his whole soul into a big I time at kickiug. Well," he said, after borrowing some tobacco, "I took 1 Thomas out of the stable, backed bin 1 up again a hill, gin him a cuff on the 1 ear, and we stood back to s*o the amuserneut. It was a good place to kick his durndest, and what d'ye s'po9e he 1 did? In ten minutes by the watch he was out of sight. In fivo more, be couldn't feel him with a ten-foot pole, und?and?" The crowd began to veil and sneer, and thd narrator looked around and asked, 'Does any body think I am lying? Would I lie for one mule ? llight here under my arm is a pound of tallow candles which are to light the hole for to go in after Thomas; and I got word not an hour ago that the hind feet of a mule were sticktng out of a hill thirty-nine miles as the bird flies from where my mule went in. I'm shaky on reli^on, gentlemen, but our lanuiy uever naa a uar in 11. Tho SlaterNo household is complete without a sister, She pi res the finish to tho family. A sister's love, a sister's watchful care?can anything be more hallowed ? A sister's kinduess?docs tho world show us anything purer/ Who would live without a sister ? A sister is a sort of guardian angel in the homo circle Her presence condemns vice. She is the quickener of good resolutions, the sunshine in the pathway of homo. To every brother alio is light and life. Her heart is the treasure houso of confidence, i In her ho finds a ssfo adviser, a i charitable, forgiving, tender, though i ofton sevoro friend. In her ho finds a i ready companion. Ilcr sympathy is as open as the fragrance of flowers. We pity a brother who has no sister to love. Wo feel sorry for the home which is not enlivened by a sister's presence. A sister's office is a noble and gentle one. It is hers to persuade to virtue, to win to wisdom's ways; gontly to lead where duty calls, to guard tho citadel of home with the sleepless vigilance of virtue; to gather graces and strew flowers around the home altar. A man that hoards his riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries ' bay and cats thistles. There is a groat deal of religion that is like a morning cloud ; as soon as the sun gets hot it dteappttra. # " ADVEETI8I3G BATES. ^ ? j | Tin*, 'l in. J col. J col. 1 coi. '"^tw 1 week, $100 $6 00 $9 00 $15 00 -M ^ ' 2 ?? 1 75 7 60 1226 2/100 ; 8 " 2 60 9 00 15 26 r 24 00 : 4 " 3 00 10 60 18 00 27 50 5 44 8 60 11 75 20 60 81 00 ' .6 " 4 00 12 60 22 76 34 00 ' 7 4 50 13 25 24 75 37 00 8 " 6 00 14 00 26 00 40 00 tig 8 moi 6 60 17 00 82 00 60 00 i^SlI 4 " 7 60 19 00 39 60 69 00 6 " 8 50 24 00 48 00 84 00 r?Wl 9 " 9 50 30 00 69 00 106 00 12" 10 25 35 00 68 00 120 00 .3 tw~ Transientadvertisements mnstbe nccomanlc<i with the cash to insure insertion. Mystery of Mueio. A lover of music writes; I would fain know what music is. I seek it as . a man seeks eternal wisdom Tester* lay evening I walked late io the moon* wgEA light in the beautiful avenue of litne * trees on the bank of the Khine, and I heard a tapping noise and soft singing. At the open door of a oottage under the blooming litne trees sat {a mother and * her twin babies ; the one lay on. her > breast, the other iu a cradle, which she |5 rocked with her foot, keeping time to ? her singing. Id every germ, then, / i|j0| ; when the first trace of life begins to stir music is the ourse of the soul; it * murmurs iu tho'ear, and the child sleeps; the tones are the companions of nw dreams ; they are the world in which -ks; v ho liwes. He has nothing; tho babe, ft? ^ though cradled in its mother's arms, is alone in the spirit; bat toues find ontrance into the half-conscious soul and- -lym -f nourish it as the earth nourishes tho ||j The Execution Blook. Of all the objects shown to visitors io the Tower of I*mdon, tho most impres- ' ; ive, perhaps, are the block aod axe * formerly u*wd for beheading of persons 'fzgSt? convicted of treason. The block is a V. rough mass of wood, about two feet high, two feet thick and three feet^long, " ^ with an excavation in the upper part to receive the breast of the soffefer, . .< , jj $ aod s corresponding excavation on the other side for the chin. Tho marks of the axe are still plainty visible dn . ^ the block, some of them showing by^ ? . ^ their depth, the needless foroo of the* ^ i executioner's stroke. The axe is an ,.^v ancient, awkward instrument, which - wemed to me, when l handled it, to be very ill adapted to its purpose, fhere used to be shown an awrnl look- *S insr black mask, which the executioner / c^s trore when he performed hie offiee, so ' that he should not be recognized by ^ The Blaok Hills. i ^ The yirid of gold in the Black Hilla country, acoording to evidence before. . - > the Committee oa Territories, of the ^ Souse of Representatives, is eoormoos, <|j iveraging 81,000,000 per month. * . ~M Valuable silver and coal mines have P been discovered; and also oil of snob a superior quality that in its natural state it can be used in lubricating machinery. The whole region is covered with fine ^ timber. Already a population of 25, ^ 000 has settled within its limits: '|5j|9H t During the past year 20,000,000 pound? ><, *i; of freight were carried by the Bismarck. route alone to the biUs. Two rail roads * are soon to be built to the hills, one . from Bismarck to Dead vood, and the : other from Cheyenne to the same place. $ Californiaos have already iovestecT $3,- r 000,000 in the mines, The region is soon to be organized into a Territory. Destroying the Idols. Nepaul has boon swept olean of gods ^ ^Wi aod the temples are apartments to let. The Prince Rum Bahadur, whose r]uepn, finding her lovely face disfigured by small-pox, poisoned herself, cursed his kingdom, hor doctors and the gods of Nepaul. He had her doctors flogged, and the nose and right ear of eaoh cut off. He then drew up heavy artillery before the gods, and after ac- s casing them of having obtained from : Y'^. him twelve thousand Croats several ' ?8 hundred weight of sweetmeats, and two ' 7$$ thousand gallons of milk under false pretenses (njt even in retnrn saving his wife from disfigurement and death), he bad the guns opened upon them, and after six hours' cannonading, the deities of Nepaol were all reduced to faagmeots, which no horses or men could put together again. Disproportion op Laborxrs.?A Man near Pittsburgh, Pa., recently advertised for a book-keeper, and within twenty.four hours he had one hundred and thirteen applicants for the position. Subsequently he sought a man for hia farm by somo means; and had eight responses. These figures represent very fairly ibo disproportion of laborers in the various industrial pursuits. There are men uecded in abundance for agriculture and other manual labor, but when a young man can write a pretty fair hand and balance the day's transac- v ^ lions in a country store, ho feels above the farm, the atmi or tne Dencn. inn is all wrong, and is of a piece with the other inflate*] notions that have crept A good old farmer found himself one day with his hired boy at the farther end of the row, when the dinner horn sounded, Anxious to make everystepcount,ho commenced to hoo his way back, saying to the boy as ho did so. 'Thomas, do you ever think about dy'Yes,' said Tom, 'I think I shall die pretty soon, if I don't have some din'Well! well!' said the old man, drop* ping his hoe, 'I think we'll go now.' A Favobite Southern Dish.?Two negroes were in the woods splitting rails when the question of what was the best thing in the world to eat came up. A stake of "fo' bits" was deposited on n neighboring stump, to bo taken by the t JI one guessing at the most palatable dish. After throwing "head and tails"for first guess, the winner exclaimed, "Possum and sweet pcrtator !'?"S-h-oo !' ejaculated the othor, 'take de money 1 tako . ? ^ do money 1 didn't thiuk you'd guj.-s the bfeny be?t fus' thing.'