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VOLUME XXXVII. CAMDEN, S. 0., SEPTEMBER 12,1878. NUMBER 9. >! i THE CAMDEN JOURNAL . " i Published Every Thursday At CAMDEN.; S. C., 'by G. G. ALEXANDER SUBSCRIPTION RATES. (In Advanct.) One Year Six Months ISO DR. I. H. ALEXANDER, Dental Surgeon^ colu bia, s: o.r" Office over W. D. Love's store. The doctor is now on a professional visit to Oavnden, and will remain here for a few weeks. Nov20tf DR. T. BERWICK LEGARE, DEJfpST.1 GRADUATE OP TUB BALTIMORE COLLEGE . OP DSNTAt SURGERY. OFFICE^DBCAEB HOUSE. Entrant on Broad Street} Attorney at Law, OAMDEN, S. 0. IJg^Office in the Camdeu Jour* naL office, Cljbum's Block. J. D. DUNLAP, j TRIAL JTTSTICE,| BROAD STREET, OAMDEN, SO. CA. Business entrusted to his care will receive prompt attention june7tf. J. T. HAY, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND Trial Justice Office over store of Messrs. BaumBros. Special attention given to tbe collection of claims. j J. W. DEPASS, ? * m r ? TXT ATTOKNiSJI A1 L.AM AND Trial Justice. Business of all kinds promptly transacted. W. L. DEPASS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CAMDEN, g. C. . Will practice In all tfce State and Federal J Courts. JanWtf j T. H. CLARKE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CAMDEN, S. C. omce?Ttiat formerly occupied by Capt. J. M. Davis. janSvtf J. D. KENNEDY. ; f P. H. NELSON KENNEDY & NELSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, CAMDEN, S. C. A?ca forme it occupied by Judge J. B. Kersbaw. FREDERICK J. HAY, | Architect and Builder, OAMDEN, 8. 0., ;i Will furnish plan3 and estimates for all 11 kinds of buildings. Contracts taken at li moderate figures, and promptly and carefully attended to. , . ^-'1 ! * 1 Orders left at the Crude* ocrxal office will receive immediate attention. March ltf 3IERONEY & REED, Auctioneers. i C/.MDES, S. C. Orders solicited and satisfaction guaranteed. febl2tf ? - nm i JOHN V, W PLAIN, ORNAMENTAL, AND SIGN PAINTER, Paper Hanger $ Glazier, CAMDEN, S. C. sept23_12m Riddle's Hotel, I LANCASTER C. H., S. C. Having purchased the Hotel formerly occupied by Mr. Jones Crockett, situated on Main street, I am prepared to receive transient and permanent boarders. Good accommodations at reasonable rates. Stables and Lota free to drovers. JanlSlf J. M. RIDDLE, Be Sore t? Stop at the | Latham House,1 CAMDEN, S. C. (Tea>bix5t Boaed, $2.00 pee dat.) :o: ffigr Ample accommodations. Tables sup* plied with the be9t the Markets afford. Every attention paid to the comfort of Quests. Persons stopping at the Latham House will be conveyed to and irom me depot free of charge. Passengers, without heavy baggage, will be conveyed to and from any part of the town, not above D.eKalb street, at 25 cents. ? j?9*Connected with the house is & first class Bar, which is located separately from /he house, and orderly fcept. jpgTConveyances supplied to guests on liberal terms, either for city or country use. jan8-ly S. B. LATHAM, Proprietor. DeKalb House, BY A. S. RODGERS. rtan+raiiv T.neated Hotel IUWOIi in Town. Terms Per Day, Commercial Travelers will have everj attention paid to their comfort, and be fur rushed with SAMPLE ROOMS at thii -v House; and perfoaa visifipj Camden wil find it a quiet and pleasant home. Special rates made for parties travelinj together, and for those who wish to stay i week or more. In counection with the home is i 'first-class LIVERY STABLE, where horse and vehicles can be had at all times fo town or country use, at the mo3t reasons :ble rates. Conveyances to and from th .depot at every train. decl8ti 411 Kinds Of Canned floods, of best quality, an *?ai-ranted full wtij&t, for sale by foWff ?imET * S JTH.' j j . . NO HOME. j "flo home, no home," plead a little girl; At the door of a princely hall, I As she trembling stood on the polished ' steps, And leaned on the marble wall. Herclothea were thin, her feet were bare, I But the snow had covered her head; I "0 give me a home !" she feebly cried? "A home and & bit of bread 1" I' i&i&s? ! "My father, *las/ I never knew"? I A ad a tear dimmed ier eye so bright? | "My mother aleeps ^n. new made grave; 'TU an orphan begs to-night." 'Twas cold and dark, and the snow fell "fast, But the rich man shut his door; * ''' ?? Ka | And bis proud lips curled wuu sc?ru ?=> said, . "No room, no bread for Ihe poor." ' "I mu9t freeze," she said, as she sank on ' the step, And strove to wrap her feet In her'tit'ered dress, all covered now? Yes, covered with snow and sleet. The hours passed on, and the mid night ehime Rolled out like a funeral knell; The earth seemed wrapped in a winding, sheet, And the drifting snow still fell. The rich man slept on bis velvet conch, And dreamed of bis silver and gold; The little girl lay in a bed of snow, And murmured, "so cold ! so cold !" I The morning dawned, and the orphan child Still lay at the rich man's door; But her soul bad fled to a home above, 1 Where there's room and bread for the 1 poor. 1 I IDA MITCHELL?AN INCI- 1 DENT OF THE WAR. j BY CAPTAIN JOHN TYLER CAMACELL. I Immediately after the fall of Vicks- ' bar?, in 1863, a portion of the Federal army under General Sherman marched in pursuit of the Confederates under , General Joe Johnston to Jacksou, the capital of Mississippi. After a sei?e of p:obably a week's duration, Johnston evacuated that city; and it was im- ' mediately occupied by the Federal ' " n,L- namniiffn Wn* " iorces.' 1UH > KMvui^ vu.r.>(,_ then over, and the tired army at Jackson returned to the Big Black River, .l over to the west bank and went into 1 camp about twelve miles from Vieksburg, and the lines were arranged so" as t. to guard the passage of the Big Black J River, and prevent the Confederates p from-attacking that cits I tbink the soldiers of the fifteenth army . corps ever had had more pleasant quar.? rn-orj more sumntuously. It P icrs vi iuivu was to them a harvest of rest and res " creation, and they spent their time beneath the shades of the magnolias that jj blossomed around, in writing letters, 7 reading books of fiction and in the ^ social converse of the camp; One * evening while I was officiating as officer of the day, an incident occurred which * I shall now relate: - > x > While at the guurd post, about a quarter of mile in the rear of the pontoon bridge over the Big Black, the sentinel 1 at the bridge reported that he had cap- 8 tured a spy. He said the person 1 whom be had halted had tried to give 1 him the slip and get to the enemy be- 1 yond the river. In company with 1 Sergeant Northfleet, who had charge of 1 -? L?J ( the guard, I went down to me unuge to see about the matter. The night was exceedingly pleasant. The moon ' did not shine, but the million Etare ' sparkled in the heavens and mirrored ' themselves in the clear, winding river ' at our feet. The prisoner said not a 1 word. I could not help guxing into ' his face; it seemed to me that I had 1 never seen a face so handsome or ejes so beautiful. And with long golden hair partially covered up with a felt hat, at least two sizes too large, he stood before us the picture of Absolum. He wore a soldier's blue blouse and black Dants. I 'Where are you going?7 i asked. I 'I want to go to Jackson to eee a friend near and dear to me,' he repled. 'Didn't you know that you must have a pass to get through the lines ?' 'Yes, but I was afraid they would refuse to gi?e me a pass and I wanted to : go so bad. I am a stranger to the officers at headquarters, and I did not have the courage to ask for the pass/ The young man began to cry and > begged us to let him pass through, assuring us that no harm could come of it, and that Qod would bless us all for it. Sergeant Northfleet called me aside and told me that he bad suspicions ? T about that young man, i toia aim x thought the yonng man was a spy. "No, sir; you are mistaken/ replied the sergeant. I then called the young man aside, and after being seated upon a log, on the roadside, he asked me if I would promise upon the honor of a gentleman j ' to keep the secreet ho proposed to re-1 veal. I told bitn I would to the death. Thereupon the prisoner said : 'Although you behold me here as a man, I am a woman; my name is Ida r Mitchell. My father is a Colonel in 3 j the Union army; my mother, brothers " su tsiuM. where 1 *T5d ancers art UW .? we have resided for the past year. I I ran off from home last week and arrived a at Vicksburg yesterday on the steama boat Belle Memphis/ s She began weeping agaio. r 'Well, where wero you goiog V I l* asked. e She replied ; 'I have a friend whom I . love better than life. His name is Harry Deering. and he is a Lieutenant d ia Wing's division of the Confederate army. I heard he was woanded, and ] started to go to ?ge%biffl. I must se? him before he die?; and cow, my dear, good friend/ she said beseechingly, 'won't you let me go f Please do/ I told her I was so astonished I did Dot know what to say, 'but please tell xse all about Harry, and what you propose doing/ Sho said she and Harry bad been schoolmates and wero engaged to be | married, and that her father had forbidden Hary seeing her at all, and in his desperation he had gone into the Confederate army, and that sho could have no peace of mind until she could see him, and she had resolved to go to him at the risk of her own life, for she said she had rather die than to know that she would ne'er see him again, and that if I would not let her through the lines she would end her life right there I will not worry the reader by giving all that was said, or my feelings, further than to say that I resolved, let the consequences be as they might, even at the i risk of being shot myself, to let her go through the lines to her Harry; and how i best to Accomplish it was the ques- ! tion. i Sergeant Northfleet was a young man < iy years old, and was one 01 inose mcdost, plain, straightforward young | fellow* who would at all times dare to do 3 ri^ht and speak the truth. He was ] sympathetic, warmhearted and generous. I I koew him well when we were little i boys. We had gODe to school together t at 'Goose Greek' academy; at Bowling 1 GreeD, Pike County, Mo. The older residents of that place will remember r that school. Left an orphan, aod not 1 liking tho treatment of an uncle with i trhom he Jived, he bad run off and ex- i perieoced a rough life. When the wur broke out be joined the Pike County Home Guards and participated in the oattle of Bush Creek, and several other >rell known expeditions of that regi i nent, and then entered the volunteer tervice. Northfleet listened to the story of Ida Mitchell as she related it on that still, salm night, under the shades of a C najestic eloa tree. His soul spoke t ilainly through his countenance that be ii eould gladly give up his own life to a ssist that poor girl. '1 'Wo must pas9 her over, Gap,' said b he sergeant, ''no one shall ever know h t but ourselves.' ti kftw flkr.nf rVi a cm Q wl ?' n "Ul f.M-.v. . 'I will arrange that, said Northfleet. h [ will send him back to the poat on if ome pretext; or other. hftlding Jl'a " |rr - if_l_^Wiynb ir TTSe ai ork can be done and when he returns w will tall him you have gone with the risoner to camp. You, of course, will si iave before he returns.' E The sentinel was sent baok to the f< nat under orders of Sergeant North- n eet. The fair Ida. now overcome with a oy thanked and b'essed us a thousand vt itnes; we each kissed her hand a good tl iye. and soon she was safely beyond b he running river that divided the boa- ii ile armies. r - . 1- .* - 9 o Did we do wrong in mis viasea Oated by the cold, rigid rules of war, a re did; but where is the person whose o oul is not frozen, whose emotions have o lot become callous, whose heart is not nade of flint, that will not speak out o ind say we did right in passing the girl \ vho had taken her life into her hands t ind followed her heart to tho bedside s )f the man she loved 7 ' c A year after this Sergeant Northfleet * aid down his life at the gates of At- ! tama. Often had be expressed to me ( :he hope of again meeting Ida Mitchell; ' but the dark messenger came to him in ] the heat of the terrible conflict, aod ' laid that true, warm and brave heart ' cold in death. ' # * * ? i But time flies. Fifteen years have ' passed aod gone since I met Ida Mitchell on tho banks of the Big Black in Mississippi, 1 * * * * i A short time ago, returning from Sacramento City to Sao Francisco on hoard of the Steamer Amador, sailing down the Sacramento River, I noticed in the cabin of the boat a lady with five children around her, neatlj and richly dressed. The face of that lady seemed familiar to me. It must be I had seen it before; but where f She kept looking at me, and after a time she approached me and begging my pardon, said she thought she had seen me before and would never be satisfied without learning one thing. All this time I was trying to call lier up to miod. She asked me if I were not in the war and stationed on the Big Btaoi: Hiver in Mississippi, in 1863, and if I did not remember a young lady who was captured in attempting to cross the pontoon bridge. j 'Ida Mitchell I' I almost yelled. It I is needless to say that a scene here fol1 ?/>mmnHnn nn I lowed, and mere was u uummv..... __ that boat Ida Mitchell, now Mrs. Harry Peering, was again before me. Oh, how I regretted that Sergeant Northfleet could not have lived to be with ua at that unexpected but happy meeting. m?. TWrinc* fold me that she had re* gretted a thousand times that she had not takenoar names and addresses be fore leaving us at the bridge, as she often wished to communicate with us, and to know that we had survived the war. The tears rolled down her cheeks when I told her that Sergeant Northfleet had been killed. Mrs. Decring compelled me to go with her to her home in San Francisco, They had a beautiful residence on Bush i street, adorned with all the ornaments elegance and comforts that wealth com. H mauds, and are respected and loved bj all who know them. They have five children,three girls and two boys. It a happy family. Mrs. Deering told. ,me that after crossing the bridge ovefthe Big Black River, at onr firat meeting, she made her way to the Confederate lines, was conducted to the headquarters of Gen. Loring, and there learned that Lieutenant Deering was in the hospital in .Tackson; that his arm had amputated just above the elbow He was in a critical condition when she joined him, but she remained by his bedside until his recovery, when he -was transferred to Richmond and assigned to duty in the War Department. Thero they married. Her husband surrendered at Appomattox Court House with the army under Gen. Lee. After the war they< crossed the plains, taking their first child, little Ida, with them. Arriving in California, Lieutenant Decrigg secured a situation as Engineer on the Oentral pacific. Fie invested bis earnings in stocks, and like a great many men in 3an Francisco, and now'us an officer in one of the leading hanks of that jity. The eldest daughter, Ida, is the very picture of her mother, and is now 14 ^eara old. The boys ara. twins, and Mrs. Deering laughinglysaid if she sad known the names of the young nen who helped her over the bridge on he Big Black, she would .have named ler twin boys for them. She visited her home and the centenlial in 1876. and was joyfully received* 3er father did survive the war. She s now happily situated. - May heaven iless her the remainder of her days. A Wonderful Marksman. . >r. carver's astounding peats with a rifle. A New York paper says: Dr. W. E. Jarver, the man who cao put a bullet hroogh a silver quarter while the coin ? flying through the air. is an enlarged , nd revised edition of Buffalo Bill and , 'exas Jack, Being fresh from the road plains of the untrammeled West, ] e has that delightful air of unconvenf , ionality to be found only in the land . f the setting sun. A pale-face, to j im, is an object of of pity. The abor- j final inhabitant of the primej^* uW Jo'* ^ 7 1 Sane can bring TV-out5-ot a wasps ( ing at forty yards. Dr. Oarver is, no doubt, tha best j hort-range marksman in the world. , le gave his second exhibition at Deer- j M>t Park, and astonished everybody j ho saw him. He is as fine a sped- , len of folly-developed manhood as ever ( raliced on Manhattan Island. More { ban six feet high, every part of his | ody is built to correspond. His chest ( i ho deep that it would take a powerful j ifln to eend a bullet through it. His , houlders are broad and high, and , ltogether, he is exactly the man that , rdinury people wouldn't put themselves ut of the way to pick a quarrel with. ( The scene of the shooting is worthy ^ A MiMitll mnA/Inn oka/1 II UeBUnpiiUU. I\. 3UI4I1 nuuucu SUbu, yith a bar in one corner; in front of his a table, od which were four rifles, everal boxes of cartridges, and half a lozen score-books. Fifteen or twenty eet in front of this, again, a barrel and l man, the man taking the glass balls >ut of the barrel and throwing them in .he air, and Dr. Carver breaking them vith the bullets as fast as they appeared. Somebody was always at work loading i rifle. The marksman could fire them Paster than the loaders could load: And they were the most remarkable rifles? breech-loaders, of coarse. "When they were opened at ihe end one cartride was shoved in after another, till it seemed as if the first one most surely be somewhere up by the muzzle. Dr. Carver's costume has nothing to do with his marksmanship, and his shooting is strictly business, He seldom missefi what he fires at. Most of tho time was taken up in shooting glass balls, filled with feathers. The balls were of the thincstfilm of gloss, slightly tinted, so as to be seen easily in the air, and, when they broke, the feathers scattered in every direction. The halls were thrown about twenty feet into the air, and the marksman was not more than fifteen yards from them at aoy time. It was noticeable that the shot was invariably fired just as the upward impetus of the glass ball ceased and it was about to begin its frill. This close glHSs-ball shooting did not give the idea of remarkable skill, probably on account of the short distance, even though the average was uine hit out of ten. It looked much more wonderful when the assistant threw the glass balls as far as he could and Dr. Carver broke each ooo as it fieri, the distance being not lets than one hundred yards. Several coins were shot straight through the center, as they whirled through the air. ODe of the most astounding of Dr. Carver's feats was his hitting a bell metal ball when it was almost out of sight np in thee air. The ball is so made that when the bullJt strikes it rings like a small gong. The assistant threw this ball many times as high as he could throw it, till, sometimes, it could hardly be seen, but every time the marksman brought the sound out ol ? * ?> il . 1-1 it. He also cut in two an me icat > pencils be could induce the spectatori , to throw into the air, and he fired sue t cessfully at a large number of unustx , cartridges. When the assistant threv . two glass-balls up at the same time th r rifleman, with a double-barrel weapon first broko one and then tlie other, without making a single failure. The two requisites for good shooting are, of course, an immovable rest for the gun-stock and a steady hand and arm for the barrel. The secret of Dr. Carver's wonderful marksmanship may be in his immense and perfectly-balanced body, which stands firm as a rock. With a steady hand also, such a man may do almost iticomprehendible things with a good rifle. His body seemt able to withstand any attacks of nervousness; vet when he misses a shot he is verv likely fo miss the two or three succeed* ing ones, a sure sign that the miss flurries him. Another of his peculiarities is that he aiuis with both eyes open? so that he can keep an eye on the Iq* dians, he says, while he is firing at a buffalo. Dr. Oarvev's shooting has astonished New York. Nothing to equal it has ever been seen here before. Whether or not he would be able to cope with some of the Creedmoor marksmen on their ranges, is an interesting i question. Real Petticoat Government. To estimate the difficulty of reforming Turkey one most get an idea of what the Saltan's Court is. The magnificent Soraelio. whose buildinzs stretch : to the length of a mile e nd a half on the shore of the Bosphorus, contains i more than 3,000 inmates., and is a city in itself. Here the government of the empire is carried on chiefly by women and slaves. The Viziers and Ministers ; are but the slaves of these secluded , creatures; and although at times a states- ] man supported by a stroDg palace clique may wield real power he seldom does so for long, nor is his power very great. From themomentheenfersofEeeheisseeretly assailed by a host of enemies g whom he does not see, and whom he cannot disarm or propitiate. All that ho ? knows is while these foes are intriguing against him the women and Blaves t to "whose influence ho owed his place, . are fighting for him, and that so long as they keep the upper hand he will be {, Bafe. Bat he may bo upset at any moment by a sudden shifting of the ma- * jority in the secret parliament which 0 rales the land; and under such cjrcum- e Btances he cannot be expected to tbrow much seal into bis policy. A Turkish Minister who is advised to begin re- ? forms may promise all that an Amhwir--^ my innovffiHyfa tfcattempted would dis:urb vested interests which might hap- c pen to be defended by some Circassian favorite of the Sultan's, or by some in- p jolent baltadji, the confidential servant Q for the time being of the Snltana Val- ^ ide As for the Sultan, as a rule be is ^ is much at their mercy as his minis- ^ iers. A puppet in the hands of women. be never knows exactly who rules him, but is obliged for peace's sake to do as hia mother, sisters, kadines, or favorites order. More than one Sultan, c weary to death of Seraglio intrigues, 1 would have been glad to uiako n clean 1 sweep of his female Court; but any step t in this direction would have led to con- 1 spiracy and deposition. ( A Good Example. ; A poor woman in Philadelphia, who 1 supported her family by sewing, was * importuned by a sewing machine agent f to exchange her machine for a better one, which she did last May, with the ' understanding that she was to be 1 allowed 812 for her old machine and 1 hayp four months to pay the balance ' on the new one. Sbe was taken sick 1 with typhoid fever and for five wacka 1 was unable to do anything, aud when ( visited by the agent a fortnight since, 1 she informed him of her condition, and ( farther reminded him that the bargain 1 did not call for payment yet. He in- ' sieted that the company wanted the ' money, when she suggested that he 1 had better return her old machine, ] when he admitted that it had been J sold On Thursday last, while she was away from home, the house being ~ " ? - * ? - it. in charge of her Jittie uaugiuer, me agent shouldered the new machine and carried it away, with scissors, buckles and everything. The woman had the mau arrested, and he had a hearing before a magistrate on Monday. After she had stated her grievance the agent said the woman had had one machine and that it was exchanged, and that she had signed the iron-clad agreement to relinquish the machine if not paid for in a certain time by installments. He said he got his authority to take away the machine from the lease. "Well, I'll show you," said the magistrate, "that there's higher authority to protect this woman than all your leases. Your only only remedy for recovery was in a civil suit. Neither you nor anybody else had the slightest right to go into that bouse and remove the woman's property. I'll hold you in $600 bail for the larceny of the machine and its contents." A Righteous Ruling. TKa Siinrpmp fjourt of North Caro hoa has recently made a decision to which wo respectfully invite the attention of the bar and bonch of Philadelphia. In the case of Coble vs. Coble, i the conrt held that "where the Judge i permitted the plaintiff's counsel in a ! civil case to wantonly berate and vilify f a defendant in his speech to the jury 1 it was sufficient ground to give defenn dant a new trial." This is a righteous - ruling. Parties defendant will be as1 tonished to find that tbey have some v undreamed of rights whioh have been e plucked from the depths of drowned i, honor.?Philadelphia Record. The Frigate Bird. I see a small bine point in the heaven* Happy and serene region, which has rested in peace above the hurricane ! In that blue point, and at an elevation of 20,000 feet royally floats a little bird with enormous wings. A gull ? No, its wings are black. An eagle? No; the bird is too small- It i9 the little ocean eagle, first and chief of the winged race, the daring navigator who furls his sails, the lord of the tempest, the seorner of all pern?tne man-of-war the frigate bird. We have reached the culminating point of the series, commenced by the wingless bird. Here we have a bird which is virtually nothing more than wings, i scarcely any body?barely as large as that of the domestic cock?while his i prodigious pinions are fifteen feet in 1 span. The great problem of flight is ] solved and overpassed for the power of ] flight seems useles.". Such a bird, < naturally sustained by sncli support, t need not allow himself to be borne \ along. Th? storm bursts, he mounts i to lofty heights, where he finds tran- I quility. The poetic metaphor, untrno | when applied to any other bird, is no s exaggeration when applied to him; t literally, he sleeps opon the storm. When he chooses to soar his way seriously, all distance vanishes; he breakfasts at the Senegal; be dines in Awer* j tea.?Michelet. A Yankee Trick. c "What do you charge for board?" i isked a tall Green Mountain boy, as he t talked up to the bar of a eecondratc ' hotel in New York; "what do you ask ? 1 week for board and lodging ?" n Five dollars.' h 'Five dollars! that 8 too much, but I e 1'pose you allow for the times I am ab- ii lent from dinner and supper ?' h "Certainly, thirty-seven and a half d sents each.' g Here tho conversation ended, and a he Yankee took up his quarters for a wo weeks. During this time he 'It odged and breakfasted at the hotel, h mt did not take either dinner or sap- tl >er, saying his busines detained him in g nother portion of the town. At the le xp iration of two weeks he again walked a< o the bar and said ; '8'poso we settle that account?I'm t ;oing in a few minutes.' _Thn W&u Mam frt' UEA doiJara-^i^. ollars.' o 'Here stranger/ said the Yaokee, w ;his's wrong?you've not deducted the w ime I was absent from dinner and a npper?14 days, two meals per day ; p, 8 meals at 37J cents each?$10 50. ^ f you'vo not got the fifty cents that is r< ue to me, I'll take a drink and the alance in cigar9." t, t] Ancient Times. Q Three thousand years ago Nineveh oi ontainod 216 square miles ; its walb, g .00 feet high, with towers of twice that n icight, took 140,000 men eight years si o build. Babylon was yet larger, fi rhis city, founded by Nimrod 2,233 b. c 3. had its hanging gardons, a series of t< erraces raised one above the other on p in f .Ml .1 A Hers aoout <tu ieet nigii uu tuey uvei- u opped the walls of the city. Each p errace comprised about three acres and ii i half, planted with trees and shrubs. The government was despotic, but T empered by a carious cbeelr. The ring had absolute power, but could not escind his deorees. Eagles were a rained to accompany the warriors in a heir battles to pluck out tho eyes of ;he enemy or to feast upon the. con* juered. Very great cruelties were J practised upon the captiycs. In one of 11 ;he rural scenes the king, who quaffs 1 ;be goblet in au arbor; is gratified by d ;he sight of the head of an enemy a banging upon one of the trees. The ^ royal qaarry was the lion. Parks L were kept entirely for the king to en" c ioy tho lion hunt. The Use of Affliction. ( There is a little plant, small and ' stunted, growing under the shade of a broad spreading oak; and this little plant values the shade which covers it, and greatly does it esteem the quiet rest which its noble friend affords. But a blessing is designed for the little plant. Once upon a time thcro comes along ( the woodman, and with his sharp axe ( he foils the oak. The plant weeps and cries: 'My shelter is departed; every rough wind will blow upon me, and every storm will seek to uproot me.' 'No, no,' saith the angel of that flower, 'now will the sun get at thee; *>r\tjt XV i 11 >h? showers fall on thee with | more copious abundance than before; now thy stunted form shall spring up into loveliness, and thy flower which could never have expanded itself to perfection, shall now laugh in the sunshine, and men shall say. 'How greatly hath increased ! how glorious hath becomo its beauty through the removal of that which was its and its delight. I The purest joy is unspeakable ; the most impressive prayer i9 silent; and the most solemn preacher at a funeral is the silent one whose lips are cold. I Education has no creative power ; it can merely unfold and direct the powers nature confers. It cannot make a poet of a horse, nor a writer of an ape. Hope is the only good which is common to all men; those who have nothing more posees9 hope still. I III ?? ADVERTISING* RATES. Time. 1 in". } coi. j col. 1 col. 1 week,SI 00 $5 00 $9 00 $15 00 2 * ; 175 . 7 60.. 12 25 : 20 00 3 " 2 60 9 00 . 15 25 . 24 00 4 " 3 00 10 50 18 00 27 50 5 " 8 50 11 75 20 50 31 00 6 " 4 00 12 50 22 75 34 CO 7 f 4 50 13 25 2415.,, 37 00 8 ? " '6 00 * 14 00 26 60 ' 40 00 3 mos 6 60 17 00 32 00 60 00 4 " '7 60 19 00 39 60 69 00 G " 8 50 24 00 48 00 84 00 9 " 9 50 30 00 69 00 105 00 12 " ' 10 25 25 00 ' 68 00 120 00 r?~ Transient advertisements must be accompanied with the cash to insure insertion. ' A Suit for a Penny. A case which has excited considerable comment, and no little amusement (writes a London correspondent), is the now famous suit for a Dennv. A certain Mr, Watson, traveling on the Metropolitan (underground) Raijroad, neglected to provide himself with a ticket, but tendered the fare, seven pence, on reaching his destination. This the railroad official refused to accept, on the ground that tbo company charged an extra penny for not having procured a ticket. This Mr, Watson refused to pay, denying the right of a railroad company to impose fines upon its. customers?the traveling publia?and the company brought suit to recover. Mr; Watson's course was sustained, and the company appealed. Thoy have already been beaten twice, and the "suit for a penny" is now before the court of appeals. If, as it is expected, this court lustains Mr. Watson, the cast- will be aken before the House of Lords, when ViAWkA U mill li n /I AA ri 1 to ] i7 oaf O f TC luay uvpp ib vr 111 ww yv ?? est." Mr. Watsofi sfiys he' is fighting or a principal, and I suppose the company is doing the same, but to me it leema a vast deal of trouble and expense o go to about a penny; Another Disappointment. The other day a boy of 13, who ooked very innocent and childlike as he eposcd under a shade tree on Beech itreet, roused up when joined by anither of his own age,. and confidently nqaired: /Well, did you make obervashuns ? "I did," was the reply. 'And wo kin hook the apples and not jet kotched can wo ?" "You wait a ninutc," commanded the other, as he leld an old shingle up to the light to nable.him to read the following "notes" a pencil: "Went down in front of ouse; saw old woman with club; saw og layin' low for us; saw red beaded irl ready to ring cow bell and give larm; saw man inside breathin' hard nd achin' to kill a boy; hull family >oked me in the eyes: pressure too eavy and I backed . off; nice appals lem, but under the circumstances I uess we'd better keep on ? chewing, .ale ^ mone." "Mother disappointment^,? ?' _ Ided to our burdens," si rst, and they loafed . x?i?jppwar? aesar and Marc Antony, when all th?T orhi stood wondering and uncertain hich way fortune would incline herself poor man at Rome, in order to beprtared for making, in either evont, a ? old hit for his own advancement, had scourae to the following ingenious ex edicnt: He applied himself to the aining of two crows with such diligence iat he brought them at length to pro* ouncing with great distinctness, the ne a salutation to Antony. When Anustus returned conquerer, the man ent out to meet him with the crow aited to the occasion, perched on his st, and every now and then it kept ex* (aiming,'Salve, Caesar, Victor, Itnpera)r!' 'Ilai! Caesar, Conquerer and Em* eror!' Augustus, greatly struck aud elighted with bo novel a circumstance, nrf?hAfl?d tha bird for a sum which nmediately raised him into opulence. o ascertain the Day of your Birth. To the number representing your age t the anniversary of your birth-day, dd one-fourth of a leap year. Divide his by seven and the remainder coun* ed baok from that you are observing, rill give the exact day of birth. For DStance, at any partioular recunence of he birth date.one is 24 years old, this livided by 4 and tho quotiont G ddei to 24 gives 30. Divide this by ' and yon have 4 aDd a remainder or 5. Hence, if a birthday annireraary ccurs on Monday count back two, and Saturday is obtained as the day of birth The rule is said to be infallible. We ipine, however, that only a very few Dersons know the day of birth. Many lo not know the date. Wanted Her Body Dissected; The body of the late Annie Jackson, M. D., was brought from Conestoga, N. Y., to Jersey City yesterday. The de:eased was a graduate and member of the Faculty of the Women's Medical College, Boston. She was sick for seven find hpfnrfl dvinc* hpniift.if.hfld J"""! ,~J~7 ? . I her body for dissection in aid of science Two members of the Women's College, Boston, made a post mortem examination. While this was being carried out at the Morgue a crowd gathered in the vicinity of the place, requiring the presence of polico officers. The female doctors were about to be arrested, but speedily produced their authority from the Board of Health.? N. Y. Sturt 17th, nit. A Sad Picture. It tries meu'8 souls such a season as this. The fountains of selfishness have gashed deep in thousands of hearts* Friends have closed their doors ou friends. Warm hearts have grown childish and hard not to be touched by the tender chord of love or tie of gratitude. The presence of death, the fear of death, blocks out all else, and under the light of heaven's fires are revealed the utter selfihness, and repulsive black* nes9 ot human hearts and the hollow ness of human love ami friendship. Hourly illustrations arise where the bolt is held on fleeing sufferers; where a* , atone is given for bread, a curse for welcome.?Memphis ?ealar\che.