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Copyrighted by the Author, find published by arrangement "wit) L him. CCONT?XCTEDJ CHAPTER IV.. CRYING FOR THE MOON", The strident voices of 400 looms -would seem to be too much for human nerves, but the walls of the weave room Number Two of the Breton mills are hung with soiled plaid shawls and chip hats, the livery of the fac? tory girl. Their restless forms arc busy among .the rattling machinery, their swift cunning fingers moving harmlessly where mutilation would seem certain. It is a mere matter of habit; one look at most of "the set pale faces would show there was no brain force in-exercise. Why. the overseer will tell you those girls are as much machines as j the frames and belting: though they un? doubtedly have one advantage for the em? ployers, the girls are cheaper. -The worider ful mechanism of those looms, the skillful I system of belts and pulleys and the enor? mous water wheel cost a fortune. Girls can be bought in the market any day for a crust of bread. Is not that figure familiar-the one that stands this moment leaning against a dingy white pillar, while the rushing belts and slid? ing frames seem hurrying the faster all about h?r? Yes, on the piece of wall between the two jail like windows nearest to her hangs the plaid shawl Philip Breton had for a coun? terpane only last night. Her dress is soiled and ill made, and her hair tied up in the closest and ugliest coil to escape the greedy machinery, ever reaching out for new vic? tims. But the warm, soft tint of her cheeks and the moist sheen in her black eyes were always the same, and many a young man would rather look at her this minute than turn off an extra cut, they call it, of cloth at twenty cents. Her days used to be more terrible to her even than-now. She had wished every morn? ing that she might die before night, and afc night that God would take her before morn? ing; take her, she cared not where; no place could bo worse, certain But sae was slowly growing, she thought, into the dead calm that all the rest had learned; and yet how she hated the great massive mills, irresistible giants that held her with deathless grasp, grimly contemptuous of her writhings and foolish struggles. The overseers, too, how she hated, them; their sharp words stung her bike the lash of so many taskmaster?, and the paymaster who doled out to her the few dol? lars, the wages of her blood and life, as if that could be paid for. She bad longed so many times to throw back his money in the smiling, patronizing face; but the poor can? not afford the dearest of aH luxuries, pride. Suddenly the mill bell rang out above the roar of the wheels, and at its voice the looms stopped, the breath of their life taken away, and the belts ceased from their endless race. Another clay's work was closed, and the poor girls hurried on their shawls and hats as if at last something pleasant awaited them and went out in chattering groups. "What is it, Tommie?*' A -broad shoul? dered young fellow had left the crowd and followed her shyly up the hill. "Nothin much, only may I walk home with you?' "Will that do'you any good? Hurry up then.** He was an honest faced young fellow, and ! a little better dre. # cd than most of the group ? that waited about the juill yard gate. "What you want to walk round here with me for I cant see. They can't work you very hard, Tommie, if you want so much extra exercise.*' It was rather a contemptuous laugh she had for him, but she showed a row of small white teeth that poor Tommie thought were very beautiful. "I wanted to say somethin* particular, Jennie." And he reached down his big dingy hand for a stalk of gras.-, and began pulling it nervously to pieces, as he kept up with her quick feet. They were just passing Mr. Ellingsworth's house, and father ? and daugh? ter stood in the doorway.' No doubt Mr. Ellingsworth had just come home to tea. He held his tall hat in his hand, while bc waited with his beautiful daughter to enjoy the soft spring mildness. Jane Graves could see in behind them. How could, tbjey bear to stay outside? She saw a white spread tea table glis? tening with silverband rare china, soft tinted carpets and pictrttres in rich gilded frames, far prettier, she was sure, than anything nature had to show. The girl's face, as she stood resting her white hand on her father's shoulder, was as calm as the twilight itself. . .'How has she deserved it ail more than Ii She was never tired in her life, and I never lie down at night but my bauds and feet ache. See what she gets for being idle; see what I get for my ten hours" work, ever}* day since I was a child." .?We've known each other pretty long, Jen? nie, and-and"'-he had pulled tho grass all all to pieces-"and I s'pose you know how I've -I mean how I've felt. I am doing a little better now.*" The young man's eyes bright? ened, "i've got a little money left mc, and you know I'm just made second hand."1 ''What is that to nie, Tommie:'" she said, impatiently. Her woman's soul was longing for the beautiful life of the rich, whose house she wa? passing, and she felt, too, the admir? ing glance Mr. Ellingsworth had given to her gjaceful figure. Why was this awkward boy Oy her side to spoil thc effect? ? Tommie Bowler winced, but' ducking hil round head to avoid the sharp look he feared was in the beautiful eyes, he went on dog? gedly. ''I sposed we'd been agoing together quite a while, Jennie, and I was gain* to ask you when you was will in* to be married." '.Married-to you'?'1 Ah, Tommie Bowler, what were you think? ing <>f to want to marry a girl who had - such a tone as that for you* l cars of shame started into his eyes. "I amt so ITV: { never thought but what you would before." She gave him a look half curious arid half pitiful Ile intght a?? well have cried for the moon. Could :: bc tho lad thought M;-it just because she was pretty she could make his home happy for him-hi.;? .-?'.a m?: goingto have?.hand at making an. ?thor poor man's-homo. People li ko us hud belier be si:-:'': Th'r.-'s o:?y koli tho j tron??l" tin: way, Tommie.** Ti: I rond slionM'-re ! young rnny?. who ?lid | not Jtuow v.l.a* ;vas i for him. ?'"il back from the v -vi.-Ki li; . heari hungered forjas if J he was f.':.*. And she w:dlc;-:I^5j. wi;h hard-1 ly ;i:i: her -Vii tor til?* locer woo 1 imagined \l two Coal-.] !... h:;p;?y fc^tiV?r. j Why co!?!d>'t she \~- ri-'a? They had ul- ' ways told ber she Iicautrful. If she only | bad a chance. They say men aro "fools over j pretty women, and that is the only hopo a ! woman has of winning lier wav. If she-Only. ! had avance, A ue'Lcate gray mist floate 1 over ihn river ! lol->..-.. :!;.. \ iii ige, and I'.o greco forests:and | fresh ri-:-::iiov."s co the "'.lier side smiled | through ".v_]iko ^ fair v.-..?;aan through lier i tern's. A tired soul rai;;' : nave draiik in its j beauty and been res:?-d, :.;?t Jan--<'raves east | her eyes down on the dusty rna-1 before her i and walked a long: with a, set lutter earl on i ber bright red lips, and did not once look at \ thc gift of God's inercy'to thc poorest of his ? aval un-s. J-'nr her part sho despised the j poor; she didn't pity them; great strong men ? who submitted to l>o trodden on and ground nuder the feet of the rich: whose Mood and muscles and quivering flesh were weighed in the balance against a few dollars of the spec? ulators. It was go<xl enough for them ns . long as they submitted to it. She didn't blame the rich; they were tho only wise peo? ple; she only envied them. They did well to take all they could get and wal!; over as many thousands as would fail d< vu before them. Oh, if she could only win her way to . their rankt But thc rich men do not c into tho weave room for their enslavers. Suddenly she beard a stop behind he stop she liner.- from all others in the wc and tho whole nir : ?erned to tremble wi? new, strange, heavenly impuls?. "Good evening, Jane." She turned wish, a new, sweet shyness, was Curran, the agitator, who was be her. A r;oi't Hush was on her chocks, a w: light in her eyes that- had grown larger him in delicious surprise. "Who is that young fellow who just your" ''Ol'., ono of my lovers," she answc coquettishly, dropping her eyes before hi: "Ile your lover!" repeated Curran in imperious fashion. " Yov.ro not for encl ho, Jennie." Hoi* heart f. uttered in sweet fear at meaning she thought in his words. She1 trying to walk very slowly, but how j they scorned to pass the houses. "So I told him," she said. "You did well, then," and he looked dc admiringly on the girl. "You are a fine . man. I don't suppose you know it." Jane Craves tried to look as if it was m to her, and Curran went on. "Few wot: are prettier. There arc fine prizes for sue! you in th:* world if you will only wait." continued thoughtfully, "3icn have to w for distinction; a pretty face brings "it women." . "What sort of prizes?" And she trus herself-ta look up at him. How grand TUS. with his firm, strong face. If ho o: had a touch of weakness in him that mi: beni! down to her. "Position, mosey, power.77 "Iso woman cares fer those." And she lie ved it air she spoke, looking away over i river. ""?That then?" he asked, smiling. "Th things aro what ali monaro workingfc? suppose." "Women care for but one thing." Sometimes the climax of a character reached only in old ago, when storms hs wreaked their fury for a lifetime on a so Sometimes it conies in childhood, with thr scorc years of decline to come after it was at this moment that this girl's 1 rcacaed iis moral height. If she could t have kept it. "Taut is love,*' she added softly. "It their lives: they hope only for that; th dream oiJ.y of it.* Curran laughed, but gently, as he took b hands at parting, pressing them perhaps v consciously, yet no man can bo wholly caa less to such beauty ashers. "It is only because women are more fool: than raen; not because they aro more c Toted, that they arc able to make such a surd mistakes." " She smiled on him as radiantly as a r petaled roso unfolding its glowing heart the morning sun-tho sun that gives ever thing and wants nothing, and stood hi terned watching his retiring form. Thc ro: at this point passed near a deserted rai once a brick sawmill, which had shorn ti hills and valleys around of their pride, now favorite trysting place* for lovers of moo light nights tko this would bo. Curran w just entering under an arch, where once hi swung a heavy oaken door which long oj had served some skivering family for week s firewood. Ko went ia and did not once tum. Eo cruel men are. Perhaps, she told herself. 1 is to meet there some messenger of tho Gre: league ho had told her about, and they wi plan together some bold stroke. It w: oeautiful to have such power, even if it mac him forget this ono i>oor girl, whose bea; longed so eagerly for another smile. The whole world seemed glorified to ti girl as she walked on. She had loitered i long t'int the sun was now almost settin; with Iiis fi?wing robe of carmine about hin and the 'whole landscape seemed in a raptui of silent worship. Jane Graves was like or in a dream-her home, which she could te from its cheap dreary counterparts, mig! have been a palace; the path along in fror of it, beaten by so many faltering footstep: seemed only pleasant!}- familiar to hej What had she seen to envy in anybody's iif that had not her dear hope! But down the hill comes a great whit horse, tossing his mane and curveting in th pride of his strength and beauty. Its rider who held the rein, so graceful! must be young Philip, the mill owners son ho had just finished college, they said. S that was the young man Bertha Eiiingswort was engaged to; not ill looking, and he rod welL The giri smiled to herself. "Bu Bertha Ellingsworth had not seen Curran." "Did ho lift his hat to me?" She looke< inquiringly about her. "Thcro is no on else, andliis biack eyes seemed to know mc too; how odd!" thought the giri, as shi walked on moro hastily, and the boree ant its rider disappeared in a cloud of dust. "And it seems as if I had seen him some where, too." _ CHAPTER V. A POT BY MOO?XIGITT. Bertha lay back indolently in her favorifo armchair, watching tho deepening twilighi from her parlor window. Her eyes were al most closed, and Philip, affecting to be inter? ested in Hr. Ellingsworth's conversation, thought he might look at her as fondly as bc chose without discovery and rebuke, ile wai sure he was not noticed, but thc girl was ouite enjoying his silent offering-so lon:r as ?av dm no* guess she perceived it. If a gild must have a lover, Philip did very wei:. But her lover was no divinity to her; she saw all his faults as clearly as anybody: not with impatience, however; that was not her tem? perament. For example, ho was too short an-1 his shoulders were too slight. She never forgot it for an instant. But then he always did what she said, and that was very con? venient; and yet she was half provoked with him for it. A man ougbc to command a wo? man's love, not try to coax it from her. Ho thought quite too much of her for what sho returned bin-; ho ought to bo stem and cold to her sometime?, and give her a chance to lie something b-vides an ungrateful .vripient. But perhaps she would not like bini rtt all in that character. She suddenly opened her eyes wide und looked curiously at ber lover; there is nothing so chilling as such a look as that, and Philip winced under it. ''Well. 1 suppose you two are bursting with tender confidences." smiled "Mr. Ellingsworth, as he rose to bis feet: "I really won't stay a minute longer:" He moved toward the door, then ho smiled and looked around; he had thought of something very funny. ""Sow Philip, my dear boy, you mustn't be too sure of her just l?ecause she seems so affectionate. That is where a young men makes his worst mistake. As long as there is another man in the world, he may have hope, that is, the other man." His i laughter looked coolly after burt "Must yon go: Why we shall "die of ennui. Wc shall haye to take a walk ourselves. Ex? cuse mc. Philip, wiiile 1 get reidy." Lv-ft alone, the young man rose and went to the windo w and looked >-.;:t at thc evening sky. There was a little frown <r.i his face. "Wba! an unpleasant way of tall?ng Bertha's f-.'A her had. One wouIH think he "xm'cvcd in nothing. There was ho danger of his feeling any too sure of her: how far away s!;.-- seemed t<> him. Thc idea of marriage seemed vague and dreamlike; and yet he had ber promis.'." "Yon may ad just my shawl for mc." His vexation fled, and be smiled with tho sweet complacency of possession as ho lal 1 tko deli? cate bit of-laco about ber warm shoulders To-night would lo a good time to titra-his idea ?ni ) reality, and ask her when "Bui" voa mu>;t promise me oik* thing,*" she said, standing close to him for ono moment. *"Y>"h;iL ii that. Bertha, dear.'" ho asked with guilty uneasiness. She put her s >ft white hand in his so charmingly that l\3 was suddenly sure it could !>o nothing bani she would require. "I promise," lie assented. '.No 1-?ve making in tho ruin, if I let you tai:-'* the Chere-" "Why. Bertha!" he exclaimed so sorrow? fully that ho showed his whole plan. Tho girl laughed "You ure too canning by half, Mr. Philip, but then you know love making in the saw mill is too common. Why, it is the rendez? vous cf ail the factory hands. No, I couldn't thini; cf it for a moment." "Then I won't insist on taking von to Cao j eli ssw mill." _ J '.GIi, jcs! it is charming by mocim'ght." "Ono would think you hadn't any heart.17 Philip did not confess tho peculiar charm this woman's very coldness had for him; there teas some quality in it that was irra sistibly exciting-to his nature. Perhaps it was tho presence of an unconscious reserva of passion, never yet revealed, that he felt in her, that kept his heart ev ?r warm, and his eyes ever tender for its unveiling. . Thc round faced servant girl had como np from tho kitchen, and atood awkwardly at thc door. - . "Yes, you may light the gas now, Annlo: wc arc going out. " She laid ter hand lightly on Philip's ana as they went down the walk. "I must really have a maid. That Annie is too clumsy for mo to endure ia tho parlor or dining room. Oh, yes, I probably havo got a heart; sometime it will irakien you. per haps." They walked slowly along the street, pass? ing tho very spot where Tommie Bowler had offered his poor iittlo all to Jane Graves only an hour or two ago. Their feet trod care ;- lessly on the bits of grass the nervous lover h had scattered along the path. "But you havcnTt told me about the meet? ing. Did thc agitator have auburn curls, as I said? That is tho clearest idea I have got of a hero." As ho told her his adventure they reached the ruin and wont in. The moonlight poured through the dismantled roof, and made a white track for itself over tho uneven Hoer, leaving the rest of tho interior in thc shadow. Such as remained of the fallen-rafters mad^ convenient benches for visitors, who might easily enough imagine themselves in some cid world ruin. And tho young mill owners son and Bertha, the hem of whose garment had never touched poverty, seated themselves where many a penniless young fellow had wooed some pretty weaver maid to share his destitution, all fer lovo-soon starved out of both their lives. Philip felt all his last nights enthusiasm coming over him again, as he described the meeting ci the hopeless poor and tho life of the family that had taken him in. He seemed to be again thrilled with Currans eloquence ar? he pictured his noble presence, hud tried to repeat his vivid sentences. Was Bertha listening so patiently to him or only idly watching the shadows as they shifted with the moonr1 He hoped she was touched. She could help him so much to do something for the thousand souls in the mills if there was anything could be done. And then it seemed so sweet to have an earnest thought and hope ' in common-one more bond to unite thom. "Eut what can I do. Bertha? It is ali sb mined up. Do you suppose my father would listen to me? But if ho would, what can I propose? If I toil him thc people arc poor and unhappy, ho knows all that. I can't ask him to divide ail his wealth with them; that wouldn't last so many very long, and then he couldn't employ them any mero-ihey woul? be spoiled for work, and we would all starve together." "I wish I could seo him," said the girl slowly. He locked at her blankly. "Vihy:" Suddenly a double tread of feet without, and the forms of two men, one much taller than the other, blocked the doorway. '.Hush; then," whispered Philip excitedly. "There Lc- stands." Tho men carce forward till they stood di? rectly in tho path of tho moonlight, which seemed to clothe them v?th its silver sheen. No need to tell her which was he; the ?ir! bent eager] }. forward mid fixed her eyes on tho "majestic figure that stood with folded arms. "I am very late," began tho shorter man apolog?tica; ly. Curran did not reply, and the man went on ina minute more. ''What is the news? I want to report your village, you know." "There is no news. It is tho same old story. What is tho good of reporting and reporting, and then doing nothing?" The words escapeJ between his teeth like the staccato tones of a comet. "I am sick of thc word Svait;* it is tho resource of the weak." "But we are weak; Give us time." Curran unfolded his arms with a gesture of impatience. '.Tho m^ssfice has got its growth; it has fattened on our flesh and blood, and sucked out tko life of untold generations Ixtfore us." His eyes shone fiercely on rho man cf caution. "I believe tho time' has come to destroy it, and the eximio of murder lies at our con? sciences for every crushed soul sacrinced for our delay." i Philip fancied Bertha trembled. - "But," began the stranger, in the metallic voice of the objector, "tho .officers of the league think tho laborers are noi- ready." "No, nor will they ever bo; they- have sub? mitted too long. But they are always good for action if somebody will lead them. They hang on our lips, but we "do not speak." "Yes, weare spreading intelligence, send? ing out orators like you; weare arranging political campaigns. By and by capital will be more reasonable." "Do you fancy then," retorted Curran, bit? terly, "that the rich will willingly open their coffers to tho logical workman, out of whoso . earnings they have fiiled them? Isn't it too delightful fc> be able to build a palace for a home, and create another paradise for a gar? den; to marry off their sons and daughters when the first coo of love trembles on their young lins? Then will they divide," and he raised his voice with terrible emphasis, "when there is no escape from it. As long as tho people submit, if it bc till the tramp cf doom, so long the lords and masters will de? fraud them of tho price of their labor: so long their Traves and daughters will look down complacently on thc sufferings of ?ho million.-one* of whom starves for every picco of linen- they smile to wear." Philip felt Bertha tremble again, but hoi' eyes never onco wavered. " Vf hat do you propose?" "I don't know," muttered Curran, turning his head half away, "but when I seethe- silent raging in the hearts of tho poor, when I seo tho riches squeezed out of their scant, iii fed blood, I am mad with impatience. Bat 1 suppose aB great changes como moct benefi? cently if they are slow. Then there are no icart sickenmg reactions. Come out into tho open air. It seems close herc." The i-.ro men went cut and the indistinct murmur of their voices was ail that could bc hoard. "How do yon like my hero?"1 said Philip, pleased that Bertha should have achr.nre to learn from the same source whence h? had boer, so stirred. Now, she could sympathize perfectly with him, in tho new idea that ko felt must have suck a great'iailuciico over his life. "He is coming bael:," she whispered breath? lessly, "aloue." Curran 1 ?ked in astonishment at two figures starting toward bim out of thc sha? dows. J?>- IT 'ognized thom at once; . "We'll, I hope you may have l-em;ned some j useful truths/1 ho ?aid scornfully, looking tko j youngman full in the fa -\ Ix rtha's lip quivered, and rho came clo? to ; him in thc moonkght and laid her white j hand or? bis ar m. "Wo did not mean to e rer- j hear your secreta," che ?aid cai-nestly: "but . surely it could ?lo no harm to listen to sas: i beautiful.wori-Ia They seamed to bo wasted i on the ?ne y u meant thara for."' "TT'c did not viran tn overhear your j sccr/?s." Phillp looked! at Beribnr in startled sur? prix; ho hardly knew iier ; then ho glanced at ' Curran^ wkese curled lip softened its stern t ; lines. Tho girl's bonnet bad fallen beek on bei- neck, and her face was famed up toward bis in tho perfection of graceful entreaty, her big tino eyes showing derk in the evening. Tho agitator glanced at her sparkling dia? monds, and the rich lace shawl that lay over her shoulders, then back into tho beautiful upturned face, and af last his eyes fell before herc. His boldness was gone; his scorn and contempt for thc women of the rich changed to tim?iity before her. "Dont distress yourself, my dear lady," ho said at last; '"there is no hann done, lam sure.:' As his tenso mood relaxed, tho charra that had .s-o transicrrned the girl seemed broken, and she drew back as if in surprise at finding herself so near him. The walk home was a silent ono, till almost the end. "Do you know what I am going to do to? morrow, Bertha? I am going to put on thc old clothes again." "Don't you think it rather boyish F 'Tm in earnest this time. lam going to learn how to make cloth, and find ont -just how hard tho work is, and just hsw-why Bertha, are you yawning?" They had reached thc doorway.- She^boked very sweet, oren when smothering a yawn wim ber t>vo fingers, as she stood on the step above lum, and gazed oil on the river. His foolish heart began to beat. "Bertha, we are not at tho sawmill now, auil"-^ She smiled, "But you were not to say anything if I let you take me there,, and I have let you, haven't TP . "But aren't* you ever going to consent to" "There," she stamped her foot playfully, '"iou are almost breaking your promise:* then she looked at his reproachful face and let bim ?take her hand and kiss it "You know there is a sort of solemnity in the kind of business like talk you want so much. But I'll promise this: if you will bc patient foi ' just one month, you can say what you please to mc." Philip wont oil in great glee, and Ins horse Joe could not leap too high to suit him, for what Bertha had said was almost what he asked. One month from today-that would be a Frida;* early in thc morning. . [TO BE CONTIXrZD-1 From "the Charleston Tri:'Weekly Courier of 'May 12, I860. Glimpse of Southern Society. Io the subjoined 'Glimpse of Southern Society," which we take from the Bos? ton Courier, more than one favored son of the Palmetto will recognize the delicate etching* of an accomplished daughter cf Pilgrim-Laud : From a letter written by a young lady of Boston, and dated Charleston, S. C , we are permitted to make the following extracts ; We have been very strongly invited to make visits to the varions fine plan? tations, but have ooTy had time to go to that of Mr. Bull, whose house, called Ashley Hall, is 196 years old, and whose estate consists of some eleven hundred acres. He was very polite, and took us ali through his. fine garden on the banks of the Ashley River, which runs within ten or fifteen rods of ibo back of the house. Here, great live oaks and magnolias', red cedars and cypresses, tall pine trees and dogwood,, which here grows to" the siie of an apple tree, and is covered with large white blossoms, arc intermingled with the most beautiful flowers, which we cac only cultivate in greenhouses. . We went into the negroes' quarters, consisting of some twenty whitewashed cottages, containing generally one room, but of very good size, and on the door? steps of one of them sat a negress? cn? hundred and twenty-five years old. She looked well, but seemed to have lost whatever sense she originally had, und, as Mr. Bull told us, has for fifty years done nothing but sit in the sun as we found her. As we came to. the childrens quarters a confused scram? bling took place, and some ten or twelve little negroes vanished under one of the houses, which are raised on posts some three feet from the ground. One of the elder ones was cooking the dinner of rice and vegetables, etc., in the open air. Everything wrthin the high fence, enclosing a considerable space, and ehe cottages, belonged to the negroes, and they can sell the produce of their gar iens and poultry yards to aoy one they choose. Nowhere have I seen any in? dication of that cruel treatment which is'* charged against slaveholders. On the contrary, they show a degree of in? dulgence towards the idleness and ?>bs'inacy of their servants which our Northern fanatics could not imitate with the first joint of their little fingers Not only arc the laws severe against maltreatment of negroes, but . public opinion, which has herc a chivalric warmth unknown to our cold climate? stands ever on the alert to chastise any instance of crucify or wrong in any shape, towards these* simple beings who by nature, as weil as social relations, are so peculiarly dependent upon their care and protection. I always take pain's, to correct, whenever I have op potraatfy, tbs idea which esi;ts hereof the universality cf Abolitionism at the North, and assure them ?hat it only nourishes it) a small body of ignoran" fanatics, whose corrupt bunds are at once thc rouse und exuuse. if there is anv, for the sour fermentation of their brain?. Nor, however, that people can mention politics in social gatherings, or that they ever allow their general opin? ion bf the North to ii-fiuence their rc ceptii'U cf individuals; they sre kind ami iii:? pi ia hie to a-(legree that makes c<n:e fe ci a.^ if aeckuaintcu for yours with them. Ar Mr BuITs place ? saw a cotton ji:. .::> .: femme?: screw pres?, such as ?s" I?st--.1 KT cotton c n the plantation, before sending to cities for export, i'herc it is again pressed. Each baie :ontaining vanoesiy from "200 to 700 prunes, is subjected to a pressure of 70a tons, by which-it :->?cs rnore than bait its original size ia about a minute. l'A this process negroes are also e.nj ploy Da ; eve shuts offend lets cn steam, iLtiOlhcr passes over thc rons, another ties them, end in this, as iu all ether tabor, of whatever kind, not ona of L!Iom c:*:!*! to compelled in any w*y to io ii:e Wi*-.:!; of another, or vary his 2" rt : they work like machines. The coi ten Sehls are all prepared, and the planting i?, 1 believe.- just about to commu?e : the rice is already planted, ind they arc begiaing the first over Sowing of (he ?elds. Now, too, thc planter's families are. cootie**' in town from their country places near Charleston, or those that have ciatsut homes in healthy localities, return io them after a winter in this cir-. Many of the wealthy families hu. J J thrco or four homes io various part? cf the State, where they ia gen? eral live very simply, though comfort? able, as must bc the case where oae j moves about from place to* place BO* ; much. (Tee day we ca'led oil Mus Placfcoey, ! a venerable lady. 84 years of age, and ! the daughter of .General Pipit ney, tbe ! patriot of the Revolution: The borne, j is 150 or more years old, and is farnish ; ed as it was fifty years ago; with Heh \ j hangings and inlaid furniture, aud^ old % \ family portraits." A black waiter' brought in cake and orgeat cordial Io ' the old style, and Miss P. invited as * very urgently to come and t?ke tea witV her, but we hado't the time. General \ Washington and' most of the leaders of tbe Revolution, have' been entertained ' in this house, and many an anxioos ' consultation'bas no doubt been held in* that ?ame ancient apartment. It* would 1 do many of our u itra-des tr action isis ' good io visit tufs ancient city scattered wit h the evidences of that great straggle " of our fore-fstbers-the statue of PRt^ mcffeted 1>y^the 'foe,' but still beodibj^ forward in undaunted exhortado*,"*!*** many ancient looking houses where pat* riots grew, and that blackened tower off" St. Michaels from which the alara''beflf once widlya rani?, but where now tho hours are peacefully chimed, and' the*" warchmraa c?sures the lumbering etty with tong drawn melodious cry, tb??r '.Ail is" well." A Bear Starts" a RevivaX A man from Lynch's Mill tells of a; huge bear scare in that seciion're^' j con try. It'was no imaginary _ bear either; it was a solid reality, and a' big one at that. The varmint, a Urge' black bear, walked deliberately into" the house of Mr. William Lee the oth? er day in open daylight, and went "up", to the bed where the child was sleep? ing. Mrs. Lee screamed a?id rail towards the bed tc rescue her child, and the bear left the house. After stopping at the well to quench its thirst it strolled across the field to the. fodder slack, where it made a thor? ough search. The varmint then j moved oil slowly in the direction of the river swamp and was lost hi tho distance. Shortly after nightfall cf tue sasne day Bruin put in an appearance oa the premises of Sabe Friarson, an'old colored man. The dogs tackled biol, but he soon 'cleaned them up* and sent them to the house yelling ?b a- ' style that aroused the neighbors. Old mau Sabe drew on his brogans and got a baud-torch and his gua and went out to the scene of. trouble. When the bear saw him he vacated the situation and retreated overate aa adjoining neighborhood where" the Cusaac negroes live. As Bruin strait? ed away old man Sabe yelled 'bear F at the top of his voice. The Cusaac negroes heard it and 'canght on/ and very soon yells of 'bear V 'bear V were coming from all directions, and all tba dogs iu the settlement were barking* Solomon Cusaac, a dusky widower of about thirty, was out on a scout that night and happened to get caught in the v^ry centre of the excitement lu the madness of his fright he dashed for the river swamp, filling the air with wild yells as he weut. He was found about daylight the next morn? ing a mile or two from home, in aa x exhausted condition, wet to the neck and his f?esh terribly torn with thorne. He was taken home by his family and has since been under the treatment of' Dr. Eichard Friarson, colored, who thinks that he will pull through safely if the weather keeps cool. The Cusaac negroes* have been holding prayer meetings every night since the occurrence -l?nunoMciile Farmers1 Friend. Newspaper Trials. O oe of the great trials of the news* paper profession is that its members are compelled to see more of the sham of the world than any other profession. Through every newspaper o??ce, day after day, go all the weaknesses of the world-ali the vanities that want to be puffed, all the mistakes that want to be corrected, all the du il -peaker? that want to be eloquent, all the meanness that wants to get its wares noticed gratis iu the editorial columns iu order to save the tax of the advertising column ; all the men who want to be set right who never were right ; ail the cracked brain philosophers with srories as long as their hair and as gloomy as their finger j nails in mourning because bereft of soap i-all the bores who come to stay* five i mincies but talk five boars. Through I the editorial and reportorial rooms s\k j the follies and shams of the world ard j seen, day after day, and the temptation is to believe ic God, a?an nor woman. It is co surprise io n;e that iu this pro? fession there are some skeptical ?sen X only wonder that newspaper men believe j anythiug.-Rev. T. De IViCt Tahiictfc. The Temper of tbe Scuttle palmetto Post. j L^st week we mentioned the death ia i Beaufort of a most excelled and highly I esteemed colored maa, P. E. Ezekiel, j To show how considerate the v?hite pco i pie of the South are to cobreu people ! who conduct themselves properly and ! com lanni respect- by th? ir character and J conduct, the*stores in t:ie town were all oluscd by agreement frcci IO o'clock ? until 1 o'clock, during the performance ? of the ceremonies, sud many of our j oldest and most prominent citizens to I show respect to the memory of a true, ' faithful, good man. who, although aRe I publican, and in the minority with his j race ia thc South' now, sii?l hid the ?. courage to maintain himself above rc [ proaca _?waa .-?o.^?--i-. t Tie Power cf the Press. ! Col.' W. R Aylett, of Richmond, I Va., ia a recent speech at Philadelphia, j said arnon"*! other tbiags that "we bear j in loud tones the voice of the great j American press-that power mightier' j than armies or navies, mightier that swords and the sceptres of kings, on whose supporting arm the Goddess of Liberty leans, and whose daily utter-, anees proclaim that peace, friendship and love once more bind the American ! people with golden bands of indissoluble j and perpetual union ; whose thousand i tongues none can silence ; whose cham j pious I "A ll unbribed at Freedom's altar stand, Faithful and firm, bright wardens of the 1 land." . v^t?