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Christianity Applied to Some of Yoong Man? Get a Home; or, Problem of the Clerk. "Go to thy boase onto thy friends."-? T: 1?. We may justly infer then tbct Gadarene demoniac had a borne,, this is the firs; pleasing thought ia the horrible picture. While be oat in the rocks among the graves i skeletons, bis family were not left wander about to want, seeking fbi borne, bat bsd a plaee that she!t3 them, an asylum under their c roof-tree. To be the wife of a mani or of a drunkard, er to be a solit * widow, is grief enoogh of itself ; to be thus and homeless also is a g? the conctittoo in which we find mi are left, who, io other days, went from tb? bridal altar with so much ht ja th^dwawta tkat aft aatoanted aim to a hallelujah of rejoicing. Que of tba jreat Role paradox? wrapped ap in the fact that Jeans I no home. When . he . was ask? "Where abliest thouT* He i almost at a bsa for sn answer. "1 foxes baas boles,- and the birds of 1 air haw nea? ; bat the Son of M hath not where , to lay His hea< Poob?ess, in the nome of John Cspernantn, or in the home of 1 sisters at Bethany, He found a pW welcome sada safe retreat ; bat hoi and al! tber blowings, pf home-life,] never knew in this world. Every msn cogat to have a borne bis own, if aocb a ??w&^hM wise, possible. r*To Ao>?^ partid was^,^^ta^aa *f9?* g*** ? ?^w?^oUa^hpme-is;a paradise. your feelings, st least., for all I want aa#j|e^^ of borne. At this very word, o minds have gone away from ns, and j wish that some one would come singing that good old song. "Ht dear to my heart are , the seen of my childhood.'* A man mav g entirely away from a thousand otb thoughts, bat never from the memori of the cid borne where he played wb< be was ahoy. It will rise up at tim in memory like a palace from sos orient, and he is led through its chat hers, holding to some mystic bam whose grasp is fall of warmth and lov He will see there the corner abe father used to sit?, long, bog ago, an he will sigh to bear again the "soox of a voice that is still." And tl vines that clung to the porch, they wi grow again, and the old well an the trees ander wblob be an brother played, will ail come bael and stand in the silent places < memory. These thoughts will all I sweet sod refining to him, aod he wi say? "Let me go farther, I want 1 visit once more tbe room where moth? died and tbe little bouse in the yar where mauma lived who nursed me.5" It ia no wonder that men grow int ecstacy over the mere thought of h o mt sad that the bands, io time of wat, ar ik%mjmkiM^ ?"??illff>Tlif?l,A i,fW were.encamped along the opposite bank of the Bappabannock, the Union ban? played, some pf the national airs, sue! as "The Star-spangled Banner," am "Hall Columbia ;" the Confederate answered wita "Dixie" and - other air bora ia the bod. of the Southern san By and by, one of tbe bands strucl up the forbidden sir, "Home, S wee Home," and the two great armies stoot listening in silence, while "Something on tba soldiers' cheek Washed off the stain of powder.'' There ts a story of a mao to whoa money waa given that be might travel aad see the old world across tbe sea. He packed his few goods, left his bumble little borne, sud went forth over the gresi ocean. From city to city be journeyed, seeing wonders snd glories of which nc man could adeqaately tell him. He came at length to a palace of marble, through whose bulb a multitude walked, elad m the habiliments of a ?ostal day. Music soft and low went trembling along the echoing corridors, and all the air was heavy with fragrance. Among the atetares on the walls, be found one representing a little home among the tfees. The door was open, the smoke was cur ling ap tbe chimney, end a tiny brook sowed past the front yard. It reminded th? traveler of home. He weat oat from tbe gorgeous palace, sod, taking a seat on the marble steps, he commenced to bum a tune which was but the echo of bis thoughts, "Take me home to the place where I first . saw the light, To my sweet, sonny Sooth take me home." Thus then, we see that thoughts of home make np a large part of our lit? tle human life, and yet to the mao who bas never bad a home these thongs ss are never known, and one of life's chief luxuries is lost. II. THE USES OF A HOME 1. It is the rallying place for the family. The old English law pot it right when H declared that a mao's borne was his castle. It might be poor and frail, and its roof might leak or shake ; bat the king could not enter it unbidden. The strongest arm cannot lawfully violate the honor even of a rained, half-tumbled cottage. A man's borne is bis castle. It is the one plaee in this world where hearts ought to be sure of each other, where there is no deception, no ?ait of confidence. Tie footfall opon the threshold need net be boisterous, bat should never be uncer? tain. 2. It is an asylum from the that infest the day of work. The mac carries his ravings to his as; but a wise and sensible man never Wheo the father and husband ent< the front dcor^ the child .ought jua look for a bundle of sweeps rn his coat pocket ; but wo, to the wife first has to read the knots on his 1 in order to find out how much g and crabidness and discontent she expect from that return. I think it was Mr. Beecher who s man's home should be on the hil of cheerfulness, where no shadows upon it, where the morn m g comes ? land the evening tarries late, and I day has twice as many golden hom ? the days of other men. fie ia t j pitied whose house is in some valli j grief between the hills, with the jot j night and the shortest day. If j any cause, from discord or bad tempi j ignorance, a home be not an asylo rest to him who dwells there, '. nothing in store but misery, debauc or the madman's cell. And do we ever properly thin what home should be made for the i dren ? I am sorry for the boy w home is a prison, or the cell of a of galley slave-a home with all windows down, with carpets too ? and new to be trampled upon, w the only order ever heard is "Don We do some valiant fighting ags the saloon through the church and ! temperance societies ; but a day come when we are to awake sudd< to find that the home is the place f which the most effective figbjijfffcgp done. The idea of being aowifoaS a child to the door-post of home, wi there is little more than a door-p and so keep him from the saloon going to be exploded one of these g days to come. To keep bim in, tl must be some attraction there-bc and games and means of pleasant p time. Those old magazines on table have been thumbed to death the pictures are threadbare.. I do think that parents are al ways too s ti i to do better, but they are thought! Some seem to think that If a boy hi table at which to eat and a bed with slats and an old blanket on which sleep, that is enough for him. 1 comes from the too common notion, t anything will do for a boy. And t is the reason why so many rathers.' lamenting the downfall of their c dren, ?and so many mothers are bear; about a perpetual grief. And law applies, in great measure, to girl. She bas no books, except w! she borrows, and she borrows any ti she ca'J find-books that are i annora 1 too ful! of excitement and impuriti These she reads with delight, satisfy] a low-born greed that seems to co with us into the world. By and by I excitement, 4be latelo?re^the race w the giddy world t?ng on ill health, take the falr^erea^ure to an asylum 1 the insane, where she cries, "My brai my brain ! Oh ! Tai afire !" until t good aogel comes, and closes ber ej to the visions of the maniac, home, the pare nts sit and ask, "W d^es^S?ol^St^i^^^^Se answer*1 "It was you that sowed the wbirlwin I and the decree of high heaven is, tb whatsoever a maa ?oweti, that shalt I If?tyfftjg* iSfMI < ! 3. A home is to be an ioheritao passed down from sire to soo. All the bo< of Joshua is buta story of a nation inheritance, with instructions what do with the heaven-sent gift. \ To pr vide for one's self is perfectly propel but a man should strive to look into tl coming years, tee years tba ; reach ix beyond, his little day, and leave tl children a borne. . A home will kee the family together. When: the ol roof-tree goes down under the sheriff hanmer, and the children are scatteret the last family bond is broken, and th flock goes out, God only knows whert It is a benediction to live in the boue where ooe was born, from whose ope door the dead were borne, whose ball and walls are redolent with stories c love and undying affection. O ye pee pie, in the midst of all your labors, beg you. seek to provide and leave home for the children. III. LET US PASS ON NOW TO TAU ABOUT THE UNIVERSAL NEED OF A HOME You have noticed, doubtless, tba dogs are 'attached to people and cats ii places. Man is attached to both, ao< hence has a superior endowment Local attachment is almost aa strong ai personal attachment, and both should bi cultivated. Without a home, tb< former must go unnoticed. Of all those who suffer btrd^hips, ] am sure the man who lives io a hired house is put to most discomfort. Tnt annual move, the everlasting call rot reot, the leaking roof, are enough to drive one mad. Superadded to all this, is the fact that ali improvements made belong to another. There is no en? couragement to have flowers at the door or paint upon the walis. ? can see the propriety io renting a horse or even a piece of ground ; but there is some? thing incongruous in renting a home. A man ought to own hts home, and I believe that every one who works and ts honest, who lives under the blessings of these years, can owo a house after ten years of labor, if be will devoutly try. The marriage rite presupposes a home. The mao who owns a bird should also own a cage. But some one asks, "Must a man never marry until he owns a home ?" To this there are several answers The first is. Get your cage and then your bird. But in some cases, a man never looks upon the sober and real side of life until he marries, and consequently a wife is necessary before he can learn how to labor and save his earnings. So, then, the question is one that is to be settled first in one way and then in another, accordiog to the character we have to deal with. Bat of ooo thing I am sore-society can never me made pare nor kept so, until the people bave homes. If a mao's borne ts unstable and unfixed, he is himself contaminated by the same evil. Dr. Gumming said : "There may be a mob, or there may be slaves ; but let statesmen recollect there cannot be a people unless there be a home. And he that helps to build up, sustain and sanctify the homes of a country contributes m?re to its glory, its beau? ty and permanence than all its legis 5a4ore',{ Jts laws, its literature, its .Wsenee and*' its poetry." Wherever a new borne is set up another light along man's way is kindled and these scattered lights are yet to born in a united dame to the glory of God aod the good of the great mass of God's creatures. The .church and the horneare the twin sisters from heaven, who, bandin hand, walk thc green fields of earth, and call forth the people to mee ; the regenera? ting influence of the doctrines of the skies. IV. HOW TO GET A HOME IS THE NEXT PROBLEM BEFORE CS THAT CLAMORS FOR AN ANSWER. To get more fully into the facts io the case, let us ask, Who is this man that ?ants a home? I will describe him. He is a young man ; his time is not bis own ; he is under the employ of another who is virtually his master. His only income is his salary, and that is meagre to a degree. He has no money out at interest, and is suffering u^fej^auother burden which is now ney ona all remedy-bis father was unwilling to make the sacrifice necessary to give him anything like a college education, and the boy was turned out into the world of work before be was at all prepared to meet its demands. He is now doubtful about his spelling, and writes but little outside of bis business, because be is afraid to trust his knowledge of language and ideas. It cam ot be denied--he did not hare a fair start, and now can never catch up. To tell this, man how to win a home, is no easy problem ; bot I believe I can put him in the way of accomplishing this very thing. The preacher is the only man in the world who had better not have a borne. He is the servant of all men, and can neither know nor claim any permanent local habitation ; but I aui quite sure I could follow the rulesTam now to lay down, and win a home for myself within a reasonable time. 1. He must not set bis heart upon having too fine a home. Many a man can build a shelter for his head, but not one large enough to shut in his pride. "I must have a home like my neighbor's" has kept multitudes from having. any home at all. ^ One should reme ai ber Ithat a 'nappy, comfortable home is not of:Necessity a palace. Solomon lived in a palace, and mourned all the days of his life that he was so miserable. A big house with a large mortgage for a bay window is not as good as a house with no mortgage and sweet sunlight. I think as happy a home as I ever entered was a little log cabin ia the woods, lt always seemed grb me thaf the aox. rose Hu the front indoor opin?t home every 'day, and I used to love to linger about there, until, one day, they bore its master to the grave, and thee the sun forgot to rise there any more. I saw plainly that the man makes th? home/ and tue home does not always make the man. 2. He mnst learn to lay up dimes and cents/if the dollars are beyond his ^fjgb. '^be^ripturaa tell ;-usfwe should not covet-but the right tc accumulate property is a divine right. It has been said by some that the desire to own pro? perty is une result of.our fall, in Adam ; but such a charge ia the merest bosh. The instinct of acquisition is more a mark of our divine origin than it is of a fallen osture. It is ooly tbe savage or the uncivilized who live without aoy desire to accumulate, wbile the enlight? ened bear the voice of God still speak? ing to us, as it spoke to our first parents, sayi?g "subdue the earth " Sometimes we find a mao. who pretends to toar so high that be does not care at all for things of earth, and wants nothing but heaven. But of such a man I always feel a little in doubt, and set him down for a fool or a crank or both. The man who turns away- in a sort of disgust from the full table which God bas spread in this beautiful world shows plainly j that be is diseased. I hope none of you will ever climb to that height of ' holtness It will make you unfit for j earth, and yet will but poorly fit you for beaven. A mao has a divine right to own property, aod io order to do this he must first win it by his toil, and then save it by being frugal. But in pleading with you to seek and to save what you make I speak under certain limitations which must not be ignored. It must be saved in order that it may be used, but not in order that it may be hoarded. It is avarice that gloats upon a heap of gold, and it is avarice that groans when a dollar must be spent to purchase bread. Pride, too, wants money, but only that it may have power and superiority over others. And so vanity seeks for money, but only that it may deck the poor body, and. bide Its deformity. But I am speaking of something better than all these-saving money, saving dimes and cents, in order to get a home. The first dollar honestly laid aside for this purpose ought to be celebrated just as muoh as the laying of the coroer-stooe to the bouse when it is being built. I mean, then, to say that it is love-our noblest passion-which lays aside mooey wherewith to build a home for those who are dependent upon us. I 3. He must learn to pra< I economy, bot not stinginess. T two kiogdoms border opou each otl bot can be kept distinct by bim wilts to do go. The man who by iog learns to be "email" sooo beco an object of loathiog. Be con "small" io his ways, he becomes same in head aod heart, and thet hardly fit to be carted lo a Pott field. By economy I mean that thing wi is the opposite of wastefulness, have seen yoong men in our com mm who had enough given to them fe start in the world. Bot they never had any money before, bees i they had never labored for it, and t knew neither its worth nor its uses, slipped from their grasp in buggy ri? j and at card-parties, at barre counters and they never realised tl condition until the last dime was gt Practice economy. There is no to try to "carry too much style." 1 a burden grievous to be borne. "J< will never amount to much," said old Scotehmao of hts soo. "He's married to a poor girl, and they living on chnckie [chicken] every d Tbe time will come when they < want a boue. The boy's m i tb er ai commenced on the bones, and now bae chookies ao' to spare," No o has a right to spend all he earns. I) is not anxious to save it for a home, should yet remember the days of si DOSS and old age that are before h wherein bis need will cry aloud The mao who has saved a dollar got that much ahead of the world, i i s, in a sense, a rieb man. That do' is a means to bridge the chasm, asked a man at Niagara to tell me b they managed to get the suspens bridge across that yawning chas He said they first sent a kite aero with a ?tring attached, and then di a rope, and then a cable, until at la the bridge itself was erected. The fi dollar saved is the kite that carries ! string. 4. He most work according tc pian. Now. this is a very COCOON place statement, but it has a deep s nificance. Let us divide it into t parts and discuss them separately. 1. He must work. Work is t synonym of genius, and solves arl t great world-problems. The mao w refuses to work, and sits expecting ship to come io from the sea, b?sri a house for bim, will spend bis da as a pauper. Work is the so ve rei, core for pauperism. The man w g i ve s work to the needy is doing mo for them than he who gives alms. T alms will nurture indolence, the lab will inspire hope Houses do o grow on trees. Our wise men ma all sorts of laws to aid the needy ; b the result is not what men wish. 1 laws that a legislature can pass w ever build a man a bouse. Let us tl rather turn to a higher law laid do? by the great apostle. "If a mao wi oot work, neither let him eat." Tb is the secret. Labor is a fairy wi carries io her hands the keys to a beai tifol little home that may one day I yours if you so will it. All lain has its reward. The poor man i industry is happier than the rich ma io. idleness. The slave is often happi< than the master, "Let those who env tbe gay revels of the city idlers, an pioe for their masquerades, their rout I aod their operas, experience for a wee the lassitude of their satiety, the nt aroosable torper of their life when n't ! under a fiery stimulus, their despei j ate ennui and restless somnolency, an they would gladly flee from tbci haunts as from a land of curse enchantment." The lazy lounger that loafs about th corners, borrowing cigarettes and tellin large experiences that he never had, an complaining about bad luck, is destine never to know the luxury of bones toil, nor to hear the rejoicing of bi own spirit. A man ought to writ dowo among his creeds that there is o such thing as luck, but heaven help those who help themselves, Here is man who says lock has always beet against bim, and that is the cause o his poverty ; while, in fact, he ha wasted his time at a fish pond. I koei a mao who went out of business becaus be said luck was against him, while tb* truth was he had driven his customer away by a meao and crabid temper In another place you'll find a man wb< has lost his trade by attending to every thing but bis own business. Some o our people, I tbiok, are out of a job be cause they imagined they would makt magnificent politicians. Now the last one of these will cry that luck is against him, and some who hear me to-oighi will joio io the lamentation. I have ne answer to make, more than to say il I is a very strange thing that a good auc ! wise God should so habitually ignore a I people so nice aod good as you are. j 2. The secood half of this idea is j that you must work by a plan, and that j a good one. You must issue and obey I your own orders. Set up the objective j point before yon. Let it be a neat little home, embowered amoog the vices, light shining through the windows, a home where love shall hold its high carnival, a home that you may call your own. Having bnilt it in fancy, bend every energy towards bringing about the fact. The rules you have made for your own regulation may be hard to follow ; the harder, the better. Now and then bard work bas its victim, bat I am rather inclined to believe that laziness has more victims than labor. We read fables about the salamander, a creature that could live io the fire. But the people who live in a rouod of pleasure party after party, dance after dance, for many nights, do more work by far than ' would be necessary to build them a home. It is excess that wastes oar energies sod runs down our system, and ?on oeed not fear that the rules you make will bring you to an untimely grave To all these virtues, add pluck, ener? gy and thrift and what the French call bonhomie, good humor. "It is better to laugh than be crying." The Lord deliver you all from having a soar face. Of coarse, if a man bas a case of dys? pepsia, there is some excuse for him, and he is to be pitied ; bat some per? sons seem to have inflammation of the disposition, and they do ..nothing while they live bat carry fire-brands of discord or discontent or ill-bom or over all the earth. I may be in error; bat my in? terpretation of snob a character is that he is dishonest, his conscience burts him and his face is telling on bim. Such a man should not bave a home. He ought to camp io the middle of a large field all the days of his life, where no one will have to eome uear to him. Well, by and by, the boose will be built. That will be a wonderful day. What then ? C^fl^ourifnehdi together and have a dedication service, aod let it be known that among all your guests the Lord shall always have the chiefest place. Your house shall be His Live daily as if that day were to be your last. Let life's books stand on ao even balance at every returning sunset. Never for? get that a day will come when yon will need a better bouse than that. There isa story of two wealthy brothers, one of whom was pious, the other was not. The godly man's little grandchild said to her uncle, 14Why don't you be happy like papa, 00016?" He was was getting old, and gave an honest answer. "You see, daughter, your papa is just prepar? ing to go to his treasures, while I am eoly gelling ready to leave mine." Young man, may God help you to retain this thought. Your home may be fairer than ever home was; butene day the curtains must be drawn, and the sound of falling feet will tell the story-they are carrying you. away away from the home for which you struggled; away from the old haunts, and others must take your place. Therefore, let me beg.you,?o the dying words of John B. Gough, '"Young man, keep your record clean/' Tbe Brazilian revolution ts beginning to play out. The Italian government bas declared several providences in a state of siege. Gov. O'Ferrall is determined to break up prize fights io Virginia. Mr. J. F. B Beckwiths of Savannah, Ga., has been appointed Collector for that port% John H. Gear, Rep., has been elected Senator from low?, over ex-Gov. Horace Boies. Ben. Teri!I, of Texas, is rallying the Populists of Georgia.,. Tom Watson is also at work. Senator Walthall, of Miss., has re? signed on account of ill health. The resignation has created a sensation. Small pox bas broken out id New York, Nashville and Chattanooga, Tenn., and several towna in Virginia. Gen. Robert E Lee's birthday was observed with appropriate ceremonies in Richmond, Va., last Friday, 19tb. The Kolbites of Alabama are confi? dent of success io this campaign. Kolb is running for governor again. The World's Fair Fine Arts building has been condemned-as unsafe, and the Field Museum will have to look for an? other home. Capt. A. G. Babcock, who died io Richmond, Wednesday, leaves {5,000 to each of five charitable institutions, $55.000 to relatives and tbe residue of a {125,000 estate to the Masonic Home. Attempts were made to blow up build? ings with dynamite bombs io Farming? ton, Minn , Lancaster. Pa., and Salem, 0 , on Wednesday. A bank building was wrecked in Farmington ; tn the other places the bombs failed to explode. The New York Astors bought up those {6,700,000 U. S. bonds issued to-the Cherokees for the purchase of the Cherokee Strip. We don't know what kind of a bargain they drove with the red people, bat it is said the Cherokees will bav<? cash enough to give every mother's soo aod daughter of them {300 which will buy lots of snake medicine and sich. Strong Talk From Edgefield. PARKSVILLK, EDGEFIELD COUNTY, January 13th.-There is some excite? ment hereabout over the dispensary law. Some of Tillman's most stalwart supporters are kicking, and kicking bard. By the way, allow me to show the difference between the Governor and his brother, the Hon. George D. Tillman, upon the dispensary. Three responsible men have separately in? formed your correspondent that a few days ago at Edgefield Court House Mr. Tillman said publicly, and with a good deal of emphasis, that he would obey and respect all the other laws of the Admiostratioo except the dispensary, "but," said he, "I'll be-if I don't shoot the first spy that enters my resi? dence or opens a package of my goods, j sneaking around huoting liquor. I Why," said he, (so my information ' goes), "if I bad a cannon loaded aod j one of Tillman's sneaks intrudes him j self upon my premises, by George, Td j shoot him." j Those who know Col. TiHman know that he would do it, and I venture upon my own authority to wager that Gov? ernor Tillman can't command enough money to hire the bravest of his spies to 'enter Geo. Tillman's house, or opeo a package of his daughters dry goods. What say you, constable ?-News and Courier. STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS. A dispensary is to be opened in S partan burg with M. Carison as dispenser. ? - . Dr. Sampson Pope, of Newberry has announced himself a candidate for Governor. ?.- , ? Th? 'louse of Mrs. S. C. Campbell, of Carterville was burned on last Wednesday. W. R. Doty & Co's large stables at Winnsboro was barned by an incen? diary on the 17th. Loss ?3,500. Judge Gary held a special term of court in Lancaster last week for the trial of equity business. The appointmenti'oTCapt. fl. T. Thompson as postmaster of Darling? ton is expected by the people of Darlington. Isaac Sulzbacher and Lee Loeb have been appointed receivers of the assigned estate of Loeb Bros , of Florence. A number of turpentine hands were surrounded and fired into by a mob near Val dos ta, Ga., last week. Several were killed. Raids were made on a number of private residences in Qrangeburg last week by the police and dispen? sary constables searching for liquor. An incendiary fire was started in the store A. C. Dillard, Laurens, on .last Monday night, bot was extin? guished before much damage was done. Dispensaries have been opened at Union and Cbapin's. James F. Welsh is dispenser io th? former place and Pope A. Dicket io the latter Mr. Ellery M. Brayton has resigned the casbiership oY the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, Columbia. Mr. 'George Wadkins bas been elected in his place. Capt.-'Wm. Fincklin died in Colom? bia last Friday from the result of in? juries ieceived in an accident on the E. & D. .Road on which he was an engineer, abont two weeks ago. Francis Arnold, a $100,000 capi? talist of Greenwood, died last Wednesday, aged 83. He was a foreigner and made sis fortune by strict attention to business. Capt. Daniels of the steamer Alpha was tried at Beaufort on Friday on the charge of ejecting dispensary spies from his boat. A mistrial was the result The bond required of Mr. S. A. Townes, the newly appointed collec? tor of internal revenue for the district of South Carolina is $125,000, and it will take several days to get it in shape. Governor Tillman bas offered a re? ward of $100 for the apprehension and conviction of the party or parties who on the night of January 6, last, j set fire to and barned the storehouse of H. S. Folk, of Bamberg. Mr. G. R. McCarler, who lives near Carp, in this county, slaughtered a two year old hog last Saturday that netted 482 pounds. This is the largest hog reported to us this year. -Yorkville Enquirer. Mr. H. M. Lineberger has resigned his position as dispensary constable, for the reason that the woik is distasteful to bim. He refused a request on the part of the authorities to recommend'his successor.-York? ville Enquirer. The State Board of Health met in Charleston last Wednesday The officers elected for the ensuing year are : Chairman, Dr. John B. Bratton, of Yorkville, Vice Chairman, Dr. L. Grange Simmons, of Charleston ; Sec? retary, Dr. H. H. Fraser, of Charles? ton The dispensary constables made a raid Friday morning at the establish? ment of John Black, 517 King street . Charleston. The constables made a considerable haul. They captured several gallons of whiskey and a con? siderable quantity of other liquors. The liquor and all of the movable fixtures of the establishment were confiscated and carted off to the County Jail. The members of the Kershaw County Farmers Mutual Fire insur? ance Company who have sustained losses have agreed to accept a reduc? tion of 33 per cent on their policies. This mutual organization is a branch of the State organization, but has been forced to go out of business by a ser ?es of large losses. The first movement in the way ; ofjdirect trade with Europe from the j west is 2,000 sacks of flour which has I been booked from the Liberty mills, ? of Nashville, via Charleston The j Roeshire is now loading there for j Liverpool. This shipment is thought ?to be the pioneer of a movement j which will lead to the establishment of direct trade- The great increase of the depth of water on the bar by j means of jetties which are now rap-idly ! approaching completion, admitt ships : of heavy draught of water to enter the - i port. Steamships carrying nearly ten thousand -bales of-cotton have j loaded there and crossed the bar safely this season. It is expected that a depth of twenty-five feet will soon be attained by means of the jetties. The Disston Company has reclaimed 2,000,000 acres of Florida swamp, which it got for a song. It cost some cash to drain it, bot the company now has some of the richest and most valua? ble lands, for farming purposes, io this