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June 18. 1873 18 ly COTTON GINS. rpilE UNDERSrONFI) IS AGENT FOR* JL the celebrated Prize-Medal Taylor Gin, of which he has sold 25 in this county. Also, the Neblctt A Goodrich Gin, highly recommended by Col. I). W. Aiken and otherK. On hand. One 50 Saw, and One 45 Saw TAYLOR GIN. A One 42 Saw, NEHLETT A "GOODRICH GIN. RU BRIOR BKI,TI IV?r furnished at Agent's juices. J. A. HAMILTON. July 10, 1873 21 tf TO THE PUBLIC. THE undersigned, having assumed the Gen eral Agency of the. SOUTHERN LIFE IN SURANCE COM PA NY for the State of South Carolina,1 beg leave to inform their friends and the public generally, that they have opened their office on Main street, in the city of Colum bia, where they will be pleased at all times to , meet their friends, and give such information as may be desired, and to write life polices on the most approved plans, as well as at the lowest stock rates. The very satisfactory and substan tial condition of this great Southern institution, with the prompt and liberal manner which has characterized it in the adjustment of its losses, should coiiiincnd.it to the highest consideration respect and patronage of the citizens of South Carolina. Respect fullv, HAOOODA TREUTLEN, Mar. 2f> 3ui General Agents for S.C. POETRY. HER BURDEN. Day after day bIio bore it, not repining? 1 ?' Day after day bIic Fought the narrow way, From morn till night, fro art night till morning shining, She loitered not, nor went from it astray, But oncCj at last, her heart within her burning, Thus made the moan unto the silent stars?' My fetters hind mc?is the no returning, And shall 1 never hrcak my prison bars? Sad henrt, be patient for a little longer; Who knows what may not he in store for you? Brave heart I beat for a time a little stronger? ' Still hope?still wait?still Bteadfast be and true. There camu a time, before the sweet white drawing, 'J* I? Krc yei the starry night let fall her brown, When in that hour betwixt the nightandinorn She, being weary, laid her burden down. NOTHING BUT CLARET. MKS. NELLIE AMES. "It never hurt mc!" There was defiance and decision in the tone of Walter Uxbridge, Esq., a? he looked in'o the handsome, motherly face or. tho opposite side of the dining tnble. "No, Walter, I don't think it ever did; in fact, I am.positive it never did; but then, my dear, there arc very lew of us in this world who can do exactly as \vc please. Don't, you know what St. Paul says about putting stumbling blocks in our brother's way "Don't quote St. Pant!, for goodness sake. What don't he say. A sensible conservative one minute, recommending u little wine for the stomach's sake, and the next an out nod out teetotaler for bidding meat and fish us well as strong drink." '?.But you know, well enough, what he means, whatever he has stud. You ere only talking that way to 'ease me. St. Paul thought it. proper for a man who was master of his own spririt, to take a little wine if r.e needed it: but not to do this in a place where be could influence others wenkers than he, or where it-would be likely to hurt anothers feelings." "That i-, he approved of drinking be hind the di.or; something I shall never be guilty of Mary, nil the world is welcome to know what I do, and comment on my doings if it sees fit. This claret is cvcel lenr. I never heard of any body getting drunk on claret, did you?" "I have no fear of Frank, that I know of," said Mr. Uxbridge thoughtfull. "Perhaps it is Mildred, then," inter rupted her husband. "No, hbr Mildred"? "Strange that you should have no fears of your daughter becoming u drunkard," interrupted Mr. Uxbridge again. The irony of this remark had not the effect intended ; for the lady went on thoughtfully, almost as if she had not heard. "No, nor Mildred, although intemper ance is not unknown among women"? "Well, then, who in the world arc you worrying about?" broke in the gentle man again. "You feel confident, that Frank is beyond temptation, and there isn't any one else as 1 can see. Perhaps you arc afraid that I shall lose my equil ibrim some time!" and Mr. Uxbridge dropped another piece of ice in his glass, and surveyed the ruby liquid with the expression of an amateur. "It is no especial credit to you that you arc not a drunkard," continued the wife in a firmer tone. "Strong drink docs not tempt you in every wty, save in on epi curean sort of a fashion, tbnt leads you to desire all good things, wine, no more than others. You do not drink to excess for the best of reasons, your appetite does not lead you so far, if it did, you would be like other drunkards. The question seems to be now, have we no duties out side of our own especial family? Oughtn't we to be as particular in regard to our neighbor's children ns our own. To love our neighbor ns oursolf, requires great watchfulness, because it isn't so easy. I don't believe, Walter, that it is right to have wine on our dinner table, or to offer it to our friends, unless we are inorrnlly sure it can do no harm. I am very much stirred up on this subject." "I should think so," laughed Mr. Ux bridge, with most iinpcrturablo good humor. "You women are strnuge crea tures. After going along ensy for a nmn ber of years, all of a sudden you fly offon a tangent, get your backs up, quarrel with your bread and butter, abuse the, bridge that has carried you safe ovcr.and stiv up things generally. You'd make jolly rulers, you would ! Strain at a gnat and Bwallow a camel; that's just it ex-j ..??1.._o 'Oh, mamma,' interrupted a sweet voice just at this moment; and a young lady entered, followed by agontlcman evident ly very m?oh at homo. "Ob, mamma, Harry and I havo had stich a delightful ride. The horses acted splendidly, and do you believe, Harry couldn't keep up with mc to save his life;" and Miss Mil dred, the skitt *bf her long riding habit gracefully disposed on her nrm,hcrbright face flushed with excitement, hurried to her room to prepare for dinner. "Don't wait for Mildred, Harry." said Mrs. Oxbridge, "it will take her some minutes to change her dress. You must be hungry after your ride." 'As a shark,' laughingly responded the visitor, as be took bis scat at the host's right hand. "Here's some excellent claret," said Mr Uxbridge, passing tho bottle. The light faded Jrom bis wife's faco as she waited to sec what reply their visitor would make. Very deliberately the young man transferred some picocj of ice to his glass; then, as H he had weighed tho matter thoroughly, and decided not to touch it, said:' " No, I guess not. If Mrs. Uxbridge will give, me a cup ot coffee, I think J shuld like it better. I am suflicicntly warm now without any more heating." "Hut man alive, claret is ^ cooling.. There's nothing in the world that will cool a man off so quick." Mrs' Uxbridge passed the coffee, ami] tried tu change the subject , .No use. Mine host was in the minority, and that would never do. His wife was against him, his prospective son in law disagreed with him, and Walter Uxbridge, Esq. felt himself quite insulted. .Just then Mildred entered, und seated herself oppo site her lover. "Have a little claret, Mildred?'" in quired papa, bottle in hand, ready to All her glass'. "Just a little bit," she replied. "Claret makes one feel so comfortably cool. Aren't you taking any, Harry? Help him, papa, I have a toast to oiler." Mr. Uxbridge obeyed with alaceity. Mildred raised her g.'ass gracefully, and said, ns her lover followed her example. "Here's to the health of Harry Carle ton, Esq. May he never mount a worse horse than the one ho rode to-day, and may he at last conquer all fear of the noble animal, and learn tokeep pace with his companion." "A hearty laugh followed) in whth all joined but Mrs. Uxbridge. She hid her lace behind the coffee urn, and did her best to keep from breaking down. Why should she feel so sick at heart about so trilling a matter as the drinking of a little claret? she asked her.-ell. Why did she shudder and grow cold as she lifted her eyes to the radiant face of her daughter? The visitor drained his glass, and bis host promptly refilled it. Mildred sipped a little of hers. Wine evidently had no charm for this light-hearted, brilliant young lady. Tho uext day Mrs. Ux bridge tried to make her daughter un derstand how keenly she felt on this subject of wine, the drinking, and how miserable oceurrenccs of the previous evening had made her. ? "I thought something was the matter, mother," Mildred replied, "but you need have no fears about Hary. He never touched liquor of any kind, lie told mc so himself. Claret is so simple, you know; scarcely more then lemonade. I f it had been anything else, 1 should not havo thought of offering it, of course." That evening Mildred waited in vain for her lover 'Where do you you think ho is mother?' she asked, returning from the widow for the dozenth time. ?'lio never disappointed mc before. We shall be too late far the first act, even if ho should come this minute;"and Mildred removed her gloves and her tasteful opera hat, and prepared to spend the remainder of the evening at home, The next day passed, and the ncxt.nnd still no tiding. (rom lno abso?tl loveif Mr. Uxbridgc eaic<i nt bis borne I and discovered that bo baduot been seen by any of Inn relatives since ?i,0 day he I \v?vn^horseback riding with MtojC<]. It lucked oiio duy ofa week when kx0 young Indyjreceiver!the following note: vy *'i>i:An Mildhkd: I'Was taken\ory ill 1 Tie night I left your house. Stophel a! the 5th A.TC-. Hotel','; und imve bec? Iu re cveV since, Tri?a* of the time iuicon\ scions' ' Ahv1 voryrirach better, and shall' see you to-morroW.** " He came looking very ill, and Mrs. Uxbridgo took:hihi right into her heart* and nursed him like one of her children. I )utrng therttmei^rat intervened between this and thcyniarriagc^ only a little more than three, nioutjis, Mildred had several times been called upon to wonder at the strange ?bsences'of her lover. His excuse was illness on each occasion, and his hag gard face and woe-begone appearance generally, testified to its worth. Mr. Ux bridge feared the young man would be coihe a confirmed invalid; Mrs. Uxbridgc was filled with gloomy forebodings, and Mildred, bereft of her usual light-heart ncss, prepared for the wedding. "Sometimes I think Walter," said the anxious mother one evening just before the wedding, "or rather fear that Harry dissi pates at these times he is away. He will not consent to see our physician; declares there is nothing especially tho matter, \ and still I can't sec that he improves in the 'cast. I am free to confess that my I confidence is shaken, and I desire very much that this marriage shall be post-, poncd until I come to a more thorough Uriderstading of t he ease. " "If all the women were like you wife, this world Would be a purgatory," responded Mr. Uxbridge, with bis usual coarse, goodna tured laugh. I "You tonn cut yourself," be continued, I "and you try to torment me. If you had your way, Mildred would be a i old maid, I should live on bread and butter, and weak tea, and when my friends came to sec me, they would be treated to a glass of .water ami n temperance lecture. Now you've mounted a new Pegasus, atul I suppose you'll ride him till he is played out, and then bunt up something else. Let the young folks alone, and don't bother your bead any more.." Thus repulsed, .Mrs. Uxbridge knew not what to do. She dared not whisper a word of licr dreadful suspicion to her daughter,and there was noway of posses sing herself of the information she .stood so much in need of. With a heart al most paralyzed, she watched the progsess of events. Inexorable obi Time brought the wedding day at last, and with grief unutterable, the fond mother parted with her daughter fur her wedding trip. Mr. Uxbridge superintended the win 3 depart ment, and champagne had sparkled in fair hands, and far lips had pledged the newlywoded pair in numberless toasts. Harry Carleton touched not, tasted not. ".Now, my son," said Mr. Uxbridgc with great impressment, passing him a gla.-.-.s of wine with Iiis own bands,'Here's to you and yours, yours and mine! drink, man," as the young gentleman made no motion to touch bis lips to the sciantillut ing beverage. "You will please excuse me," stam hierred the new-made husband with a painful blush. "You know I am not very well, and Champagne does not agree with inc." "All right," replied Mr. Uxbridge. "You and my wife will do to go to gether; but I'm not sure but two temper* ancc advocates in one family will be too much for me." The wedding journey came t? an end, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry C'aileton went to house-keeping in their own pleasant home, and for awhile everything went on smoothly, mid the heart of the mother grew light. Six months of delightful companionship, prompt attendance to bu siness, and then the cloud descended. The young husband remained away from home for flays at a time, without giving tho least excuse. To his wife's tearful entreaties to know the cause of his absen ces, he turned a deaf car. "It wouldn't do you any good to know where I have been," ho replied, almost brutally on one occasion, after had im plored for his confidence. "Hut, Hurry, 1 can't endure it," sob bed the poor little wife. "I am worried almost to death when you stay a^ny so." "And you think you wouhd like it better if I should corce -hyfine at these times?" "Oh, Harry, how v.An you ask such a question ? of cou re/j'f should." "Very well, tb^n; I promise never to remain away jjfgnin," and 'lie was as good as his word, j "A mohtW after that; a bleared, disfig-< Ut'cd'inan ytcled into the handsome home of the Cavletous. ? "Oh, jurrry, what is the matter?" giooned-'poor Mildred, as her husband sta'^ger^d to a scat "^n?hk," he answered, with a demoni ac lat^li. "You needn't be afraid of me. I shari't hurt you," "as the' poor child drew aWay, "and before I get so. bad I can't talk, I have something to say to you. I never could drink liquor; never could touch it without just such consequences ns these. It is v. hereditary curse. I had not touched a drop of anything for five years u?tiHhal night at your fathers house, when you pledged mo in 'claret, andl didn't know bow to refuse. I have never been myself since." And he was never himself again. A few months more, and the unhappy soul was released from the Curse of inheritance, and Mildred Uarleton was a drunkard's widow. How the Indians Disposed of One of Their Unfortunate Women. It is a matter of history, every one is f^awarc, that the penal laWs of some of I the Indian tribes surpass in rigor and severity those of civilized nations, and tha ! ponalties inflicted by the breaking of these edicts, which have been handed down for centuries, nre of a siiigulrtrly cruel and fearful nature. One of the most stringent of these decrees is in ro? crenco to the chastity of their feitfalss, death being the punishment if at any time one is known to have broken the law. Job Vaturcs, an old mountaineer and trapper, gives a Nevada paper the following particulars of one of these fien dish acts of cruelty lately perpetrated by a band of Indians near Fish Spring Valley: For two weeks prior to the occurrence of the events about to be narrated, the Indians had been building signal fires on the elevated portions of the mountains for miles around the surrounding coun try. As it was their regular hunting season, much surprise was manifested as the lights appeared night after night, cal ling the absent portions of the tribe to the general rendezvous. On questioning s?.me ol their number, they were, contra ry to their usual manner, rccticcnt on the Subject, and only replied to questions put to them concerning tho unusual oc currence that "white man no sabc." Vaturcs, however, who speaks the language like a native, heard enough to satisfy himself that a rite was abort to be performed which wns of rare occur rence, and on questioning a half-bred who frequently accompanied him on his hunting excursions, he learned that a young woman, a member of one of the trides in that country, who had abandon ed her people a year or so since to live with a white man, had returned, bring ing with her a babe about three months j old. Here was the same old, old story, j so common with us now-a-days. After a short spell of happiness and pleasure, he who had brought her to her ruin became tired of his victim and abandoned her to her fate. She like thousands of others placed in the same circumstances, sought refuge at her home and among her peo ple, hoping to find a shelter for herself and child; but with the trriblc penalty of the law she had broken before her, and with the indisputable evidence of her guilt in hcra.tms, we wonder at her hardihood in placing herself in tho power of those whomc she must have known would show her no mercy. Nothing that sho could offer in palla tion of her offense would b? received by those, who only knew, that their sacred law had bean broken. Having heard that the terrible decrco would be carried out on a certain night, tho trapper secre ted himself in a position <vhero he could obtain nn unobstructed view of all they would do, and he arrived none too soon, for already the preliminaries had been arranged, and around a stake driven in the ground the warrior braves wero mar ching in a circle to the solemn,, mournful music being plnyed upon tho native in* struments of the band. Prominent among them was the eheif, who had' 'uttX as yet taken an active part in the pr<? cecdings; and as the solemn cirelr passed him, each of the brakes would let fly au arrow from bis bow at' some imaginary enemy. After the dance of death (was finished, the cheif,,by a gesture, gave some order to a braveih waiting, and from a circu lar tent emerged the woman1 of the tribe, surrounding the victim who was to bo sacrificed to offended justice. With the exception of a light covering around her waist, she was utterly devoid of clothing, and seemed unconcious as to the terrible death awaiting her. Her babe, which was carried by one of the women, uttered the most piteous cries, trying to attract the attention of its mother; but she was not allowed to touch her infant, ami with a look such as only a fond mother can bestow she gavo'ooc earnest, passionate glance at her offspring; and walked bravely on to meet her death. No time was lost; the "medicine-iiutn" quickly bound her to the stake; brush and faggots were placed around her sp thick as to render her invisible to the fiends, who were now rendring the air ?with shouts and erics. The pyre was lighted, and the flames seemed possessed of hellish:joy as they enwrapt tho form of tho woman. Thickly the.smoke i-cnrl ed spitefully around her, yet not a mur mur, not a groan escaped her lips, j She appeared a statue, meeting her fato' wiih that wonderful stoicism and bravery which characterize her rate. The fire, which at fir3t thrust out its firery darts at in?vals, was now a sheet of flame, soon burned down, leaving no thing but the charred bones of her who, but a few moments since, was a living human being; and her exectioners, who had, in their untutored minds, satisfied the wrath of the Great Spirit, and vc moved the stigma on the tribe, silently departed from the .scene of their horrible act, and seperatcJ to again seek their homes, leaving our watcher alone with the dead victim, who, as soon as be was assured of his safety; departed from the place; such was the impressiqn left on his mind that he bid farewell to that portion of the country forever. Some young men in Green Bay pre sented a preacher with a .horse and re ceived his heartfelt thanks. Two days after the presentation the hotso was ta ken away by the farmer from whom it hnd been stolen. A gentleman going up Sixth avenue, Xcw York, met a laborer, to whom ho said, "Will you tell me if I am half way to Central Park?" "Faith, an' I will," was the reply, "if you tell me where you started from." ' A Savannah paper says a negro was duried alive in a well recently. His friends dug down to him in about four hours, and found him alive and well. Ho said that be never wanted to sncezo so nau in his life, but was afraid ho would jar down some more dirt. An epicure in Vermont writes to his local newspaper, that having indulged" freely in the eating of frogs, his bauds aro now covered with what his doctor calls ['Humorous enlargements os tho vascular papilltc and indurations of the surroun ding epidermis"?that is, warts. A guardian of the peace in New York made his first essay, as a "mounted po liceman," cue day recently, by grasping the horse's tall and attempting to climb up that way. The surgeon subsequently remarked that no horso over had a liuer opportunity, or took advantage, of it with such infinite scorn of the consequences. A housekeeper, writing of poor ser vants, says that if women would study housekeeping as their husbands study jaw, nu d?nne, and book-keeping, thero would be much loss complaint of bad servants. A. Schonntati, of Milwaukee, worked hard for four yeais, did well, and then sent over the seas for his Kntrinn. When J she arrived she died from excessive joV?