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lEIectioncrefug Iii a Back Kooni.
The parties who were engaged in the
following conversation are both candi
dates for the next Legislature, and each
con?dcnt that bo will win. For the
sake of couveuienco we shall call one
Quartz and the other Crusher. Tho
placo in which the interview took place
is n small ten by twelve room.
Quartz?r"I have been watching for a
chance to have a chat with you ior some
time, Mr. Crusher, but the Argus
?eyes of these devils around here have
been fixed so closely upon me that 1
found it next to impossible to do so
without being caught. You see these
follows about this place, hangers-on,
knowing that I am a strong man, arid
feared by the lessjr constellations which
adorn the political sky, would give
anything for the least information from
me iu regard to my propo cd plan of
campaign. They want it and would
make money out of it by imparting 'he
same to my small fry-opponents. You
understand. Now to business. I sup
pose, Mr. Crusher, you are aware of the
fact that I am a candidate for the
Legislature ?"
Crusher?"Yes, ami so am I. Certain
men have bad office long enough, and I
intend to give some of them h?II if
they dare to offer themselves "
Quartz?(Somewhat excited), "YVelli
that's just it?the very thing [ wanted
to lind out*. There are live members to
' be elected to the House, and if you an i
;.'? 1 ,ci?u ague upon i-ome plan und work
together, wc will bo t.vo of them/'"
Crusher? (In a business like manner ).
That will do very well to talk here, but
bow do 3'ou know that you und I will be
successful provided we coalesce '! Have
you caimissed the chances ?
QuXirtz?"Months ago. and I tell you,
ngain there is no doubt about the
matter."
Crusher?(Rlill unwilling to jump at
conclusions,) -'How ore Hochimo, Van
Dykts, Alphouso and Cuthbert'{ Do
you t! ink j'ou con count on the
Quartz?"Ob yes ! they will do 11113
thing in the world forme. NY by they
have proffered to spend money in my
favor." 1
Crush r? "You say you ure sureoftiiu
tnppoi t of Ynn Dydes and Cuthbert."
Quartz?"They may not support mo
ns strongly as the other two j but thuy?
will help what Llittle they can. They
hnvin't got much in llucncc you know
an}' way."
Crushir?"Well, Quartz, you must
have been successful in getting thosu
fellows in a lively mood before they
made you all these promises. They are
usually very cautious and reserved."
Quartz?"Never so with me. M\
relations with them huve been very inti
mate. I know all their secrets, and
can command them if I wuut to."
Cnnhci?"1 begin ((/understand you
now. They've done something thny,
would not like for the public to know,
and will help you along to keep your
mouth shut. Is that it?"
Quartz?"Yes. Now comp and let u.
jigrco upon some plan. ]ly coalescing
' wo will unite our forces, and thus coin
bined, wo could weed out the small frv
.of a half dozen Counties like this.
Critf-hcr?"I'll think the matter over
:nud let you know to-morrow."
Quartz?Well, if you do that rcuteni
!bcr that mum is the word.
Here those two politicans separated,
?Cithcr said to himself, as he was going
diomc, "Now bo i3 a pretty fool to think
ibo can play lu'3 gum game off on me
die wnuts my influence. He shan't
dinvo it. All the men ho mentioned
Ibtlong to my clique, and I control them
J intend to tell them too Low ho hints
iat their soercts. lie's got no iofluou jo
? and wauts other men to carry him. 1
wont do it"
Quartz was left by himself and soli
Joquized thasly?'-Woll, I've gained
-one point by talkitig with .that fool
?Crusher. He's .not on my aide, I Fee
?that. What a fool I was for saying any
?thing to him about what I know, Bit'
iif ho to'Is any body I'll deny it. My
?word is as good, ns his. To-morrow
>whon ho comes I'll tell bim I have
?changed iny mind. What use'have I
;got for bin? .any how whon IJochimc,
?VaniDykes, Alphuso und Cuthbort havo
sworn to stund by mo?"
Can any of our readers tell us who i*
ahead 7 nnd who Bochiuo, Van Dykes
Alphonso and Outhbcrt have lied to 'i
Will friend Roarer at Branch ville solve
the problem for us ?
[For tiik "OnANiir.nnuiui News."]
' * Tito Emigrant Question.
One who has had some experience as
a laborer in the Noith, and as an Enii
grant to tho South, would like to pay u
few words iu connection with the sub
ject of tho communication o( the Hoard
of Directors in your last. Tho writ r
supposes froin tho information given in
that paper, that matters iu England nod
the North are about tho same, with the
diU'ernec, that the litter lias i longer
working season, and higher wages arc
given there. In an extract of a letter
from N. Y., inserted a f?w weeks since
the prices were set down at 1 2 to 81 ."> nor
mouth. Could that price b.; offered
here, except to an expert lab irer under
the mobt lavorablo circumstance* V
Tt is stated in thu iu formation l'ivei
by the Board, that the farm hand-? take
their meals in the kitchens. There in <y
jbo gross misconception here if things
be as at the North. Our idei of a
kitclien here, is, a rickety "board or
pole out house, with na^ol smoky
sides and festoons of web and sop t hang
ing from the rafters. At the North
(and no doubt in Europe) tho kitoli
en is a nicely liuished part of l.hc
dwelling itself j adjoining, or under
ncath tho family room ; a id i< pre
frrcd sometimes by lab irers because
of its unrestrained comfort and hilarity
The advantage of, perhaps higher
wages, with tho current of liuiigritiuu
(offering even on tho route the
Society of fatherland) that is sotting So
strongly all uro in 1 u;> u >rth ol us,
will bo difficult to oyorojma, ova.)
if greater in lucotnents be offjrijJ here;'
at every stopping point Emigrants are
liable to bo switched off on to this
beaten track.
Another question is tho fare. Fro i)
all ncooun's, the Oer mm and Ii iglisli
lab ir. r live well, if not 1 ixu: i,>n!y
Tlie article referred to gives when
bread, cheese, bonus, Irish pptatoei (Tin
most important) and meat, r/ith b:or
and cider". Will hot most of us who
live out of town acknowledge this (?>!>:
pretty good living 7 Ye-;! Well. .Whit
have we to offer Hi suhs itut.-s ! Wheit
a very uncertain crop; clnosa titJ2"lots.,
p.^r lb?mark it out?boa us at 85 per
bushel?mark it out, but suYuitute
(fold) cow peas, at which many, to tho
piny words born, turn up their noses.
Metit enn bo purchased, like ckecso tin I
flour, though at a very uncertain price;
certainly not much will bo raised on
the farms for some time, Beer and
cider mark out. Iu tho spring, if he
follow tho usage hero, the Inlf famish
cd Emigrant, as we do, gets a few
little baby potatoes, a half do/.c i to tli ?
Sjoonful, eating as potatoes, m ich as :i
calf a mouth old would oat lik j haul"
As for the sweet pot a too crop, during
the fall and winter, the now comer may
cat at one cud of his potatoe, but thu
rot will m.-ct him half way from the
other, and he will have to (ju;t. Then
comes tho scratch for the poor limi
grant. The little money used up j corn
bread (his ubiiorunce), very prevalent,
All this eliminated, brings his bill of
fare down to what it really is, with mo t
families for several mouth-. 'J'lie de
tested corn bread, bacon and ejil.tr Is
cow peas, and a wormy tutiip. Will this
be a happy exchange for his wheat
bread cheese iV.c. No !
No duubt there uro those who may
and will, thine the luxuries of their
tables with the unaccustomed Milligram
but will they lind it to pay '{ '1 ry, no
body ivill be hurt.
Tho Southern planters buvo boon,
previous to tho war extra hospitable.
'?A put your h<?r.-c in the corn crib, aud
pile a stack of fodder on him p topic, "
cau it be so now when tho mini of fifty
bales goes out to drop the cow peas, that
arc tu be his tubsisrauce, iu tho corn
Held '/ Thu warm hand shako and tho
kindly greeting arc still there but the
aflluoncc is departed.
"Ho ?fters you ids last potatoe, that a cold
one"
God grant that the Southern heart may
never boor the,pony stamp.
But all this has rcfcrcuco to family
mcu only. Wo will suppose tho planter '
lias nil unexceptionable, young man. Hu
is been in (ho habit of attending
church services regularly, but as a side
play (p drop iu to some one of bis
sweethearts, or, if destitute for tho time
to look one up. Very likely at every
stilo ho meets and banters an acquaint
auce on the same errand porhaps. If
your help* be a fruulicn, s'ie, equally
expects the dropping in. or the hunting
lip, and if this has to be done over many
miles ol piny woods road on foot, or on
the baulky sore backed mule, it wilt
surely at lastend in a liigcn. A.-; for
society in the sous and daughters of the
land?haven't they been to college ?
ain't their diplomas hinging on the
wall ? They would much prefer to
waste their sweetness on the desert air.
than to brighten the lonely life of a
foreigner, belie never'so virtuous.
All ibis may seem to be hiclovunt but
it all goes io cither make, or nut make,
a homo feel prevail.
The Writer ventures to say lli it more
workmen iiavc been driven tiWiy by the
cross-cut, vixenish, look of dainty ladies,
or the ioc-bcrg ntniosphcro of their
pattern daughters; than frotu any other
cause whatever,' "and unfortunately,
it is an element which the .em pl?y or him
self cannot, control.
Now mark, to in ike the isolated
Immigrant feel at home requires 'tlvc\
suavity, the kindness, and the I'.unilitir
ity of the employer,'the"good nature.1
interest, and proffer ol assistance in
wardrobe matters, from the mistress,
and above all the simple, sweet man
ncrcd co ivcr.-ution, and society, ojc isioti
ally of the unmarried Com lies. 1) m't
rasp him down Miss Arumitita with your
imperious, "d >u't t itioh t he he.n of* my
garments look." Don't bo afraii. It'
bruin be rough atidshigiy he don't
want to swallow you whole. Ainu.i?
rytjursplf inuociiitdy with liisiV - l>r' o'c'nj
(belter to make it not n icecssnry) 'twill
please him and 'twill riot hurt you. Lf
you have any d sire t > sosoii 1 the efforts
of your fri t ids in the emigration
scheme learn from one who knows lb it
other things being ?qual, tho far.njr
who has tho largest lamily of nmiub'i
ilaughter.s is always the most successful
in keeping work in "ti.
Tlic._ poor I*jinigr.uit like a transp'un
Lod shrub should I, - t-t.'sn <??,???/by his
employer lor a while at least. The/c
are a thousand annoyances, besides tho
breaking upui'ull old associations; which
with the addition of labor a ider a
Southern son, ? "galling and i.ui ating.
and for all whi.b the Km ploy r should
make allowance
< Irangebtirg d une 20lb 1 >->7 I.
iM. I,. II.
Wo publish the following letter from
Count v Commissioner Smoiik. It is no!
our desire to impale him upon his own
petard, but in justice to ourselves it i
but lair that weshoul Istnto that it was
at Mr. Smoakc's own instance that we
stated it lo be t lie dut) of the sub-'Com
missioticrs to repair tins bridge*. Asto
tho insufliency of tin; pay of County
Commissioners, we shall say nothing
except that it w is our op'ni mi lieYctofo o
that men were ulcotod, no! that, they
might get tbreo h in lr.-d d.dlurs p'jr
annum, but to do their duty, [f we
didn't act out four ye irs ago wh it we
"preach" to day, it was because we ha 1
our friend Kd noitd us one of our
inspectors of roads and biidgcs.
Ott VNtsniiuitti, S. C
dune 22rd, IS." I.
To (tic Kilt I or of rite "Ordni/rbiiri/ Awrs."
Sir:?In your last issue you hail
ocenssion to comment very severely on
the actions of the (lounty (loiniuissioncrs .
stating that "noiuplnjuts come in thick
nrid last concerning the eoadition ol the
bridges."
As the law now stands the County
Commissioners are allowed compensation
for one bundl ed days service per aim um ,
and it is impossible for us to visit all the
Bridges in the County every week for
such pay.
ifeu further say that, "the County
Commissioners must do their duty." In
reply I wi'l say that, it wo Id have been
tt benefit to the people of this County
bad you said this about lour year.: ago
and have acted out what you now
preach. The presout Board ore all in '
this Comity and try to do their duty,
and' wo" i?tend to remain here until their
term of voffice expires, and not weary of
their work until it is done.
Respectfully. E. T. lt. SM OAK,
Chairman Board Co., Cotn'rs;
P.S. 'I will regard it as an especial
favor should any one be aware of a
bridge heeding repairs to notify the
Hoard of tho fuels before complaining
olfcew Iicq\
Under tho Foam.
Scen nsi^LNi) Sketches From City
Life.
Tin' softened glow that lingers around
the memories of youth is the comfort
and harmincss of age. No life so drca
ry but has had its pleasures?none so
barren but the heart recalls some joyous?
hours fragrant with recollections of by
gone oays. The good ami pure and
virtuous feelings that are borne with us*
may have passed uwayj the heart mr.y
ha Ye grown hard and rocky; the gene
r"Us impulses stilled and subdued; yet,
somewhere back on life's dreary pith
way arc spots green in our memories;
where llpwershavc grown in sweet mom
oiial of agentler time.
And t"f. those whose lives have boon
free from wron&whn hive fought and
strilg^cd bravely with the world and
Ink! or W.oil its honors, the same senti
ments belong. There is magnetism in
recollection' No matter whether l*?e
experiences we recall ho said or ? \. \
sant, l!ic mind reviews the incidents
that cp'iue and Hit through revcry, as if
thought possessed a strange, wierd beau
ly that 110 experiences iu life Cou'd dis
pel.
Thfjs t 1 '"ile.eti ins naturally nri e in
1 leCiiTiing an incident of the lain war,
j which ma) not inappropriately bj call
< d hero.
Tin: stouY or Tin: kino.
It relates to a cireunistancc which oc
currcd when tin old Medical college was
a military prison. A party of young
men?six. I believe?halb ci arres'.ed
somewhere in the interior ul the stitc
a'td brought to the city as prisoners of
war. Months passed iu weary conflitc
incut. Kxpcctation and '?hope*dcforrcd
makes the heart sick," and these men
i t ew weary of their long imprisonment.
At last they concerted menus for escape
They walked hopefully an t waited tin
lionlly, aud the period of their delive
rahec came at last. An oxcav.i lion un
der the walls and a hribod guard was all
there was of romantic interest in the
llight. l!ut alter getting; faraway from
the prison one of the fugitives stopped
short and announced his intent ion of
! ret inning.
'?Return !' cried his companions,'why
you will be taken. The guard have
"been changed ere this, ami our escape
no doubt il iscovcred.'
??line," lie said, 'but stili I must re
turn."
So far the writer listened to the nar
rative as it was related by one of the
fugitives one night 11 ar the close of the
war iu a quiet little house nestled among
tin; Lexington hills. The narrator was
the 1 cut re 1 fa scene of gaiety aud bright
iiof-s, a village party, but one where mil
tore and icfincmont was as noticeable as
in the most brilliant gatherings in tin
city. A lady sat near him listening
eagerly to what lie said. liven after
the lapse of so many years I can con
jure now the beautiful visiion her inonio
ry recalls. A classic lace, with grca'
luminous eves, and a figure as faultless
in contour ai d outline as the Medician
\ onus. The face was sad, even in that
scene of pleasure. The shadow of some
great sorrow hung about her life, and
all the ro-y hopes of llCV youth had laded
iu their bloom.
1 had noticed an evident, constraint
in her manners, w hen during the even
ing she wsi3 brought in contact with .Mr.
W., 0110 of the guests. They appeared
to iiatuaily avoid each oilier; or rathsr
he refraiiicd from paying attentions that
he fen rod would be considered disagree.!
hie. Anil yet gossips said they had
once been lovers'
'Rut to return is death' I urged, upon
my friend said the narrator. * Von will
he shot if taken.'
'I know it,'he Baid, 'butstill I urn
going back.'
Tho. words were quietly spoken, but I
there was an inflexible determination in
their tone which almost appalled mo .
I reasoned and remonstrated in vain. I
showed him the certainty ofcapture and
the po siblc death that, awaited him.
It produced no impression. He listen
ed to me quiet I)-, sadly I 'thought, but
his resolve was unalterable.
"lint why," I asked, out. of patience
with his obstinacy, "will you incur this
risk Y What reason, what necessity is
there iu it'{'
'?1 am going back for my ring," be
said.
At these words the eager listening
holy started visibly, and her face flush
cd scarlet. But the narrator did not
perceive it, and went on with his sto
ry:"
1 What ring V I asked?not th it little
gold circlet 1 saw you woarjng?'
'Yes,' he said, it was the gift of a dear
friend. I laid it aside as we were work
ing under tho wall, lest I should break
it, and in the hurry of escape I left it.
We were scarcely outside of the wall
when I thought of it, but I would not
peril your escape by returning then.
Now you arc sale, and I go bick for my
ring.'
'But why peril your lit".: lor a triflo
like that ;/
'1 told you it was the gift of n dear
friend: h lady! It is the pledge of
truth to her. If I lost or gave it away,
she would bold mo foresworn jj If she
saw me without it, I should stau 1 in her
eyes a traitor. 1 look it on those coudi
t'ons and 1 must go back.'
There was no doubt of the lady's in
tcrest in the narrative now. She lean
cd forward in her chair. Her whole
soul was absorbed in listening. Not a
word, not an accent escaped her Etraiu
ed and eager senses. My iutcrcst in
Hie story bad given pluco.to my iuterast
iii the lady. I never saw such intensity
of feeling in my life
'I expostulate ! with him,' continued
the narrator, 'I ridiculed the idea:
?What value is the ring? fell the la
dy you lost it!' '.Not so he said, 'she
could lb -n say 1 loved liberty and per
sonal freedom better th in the gift she
gave me.'
' A ud be ret urncd V
It was the lady who asked tho qucs
lion. Her voice was very low, a jdthe
inquiry came with a cb iking utter
a n co.
'He did, and served for his gains nine
dreary months of "imprisonment, a soli
tary captive with bill and chain.'
'And the ring!' We all demanded
eagerly, lie di 1 tint find it'.'
Kveu as we spoke, the lady rose from
her seat and passed across the room to
where Mr W was sitting.
As quick ai thought it flashed upon
us: these were the parties.
I beard her say us she came close to
his side, "l did not expect from you im
possibilities. You should have tol 1 me
the story.'
The s;id mask bad dropped from her
face. Her eyes were full of tears but
not ?>f bitterness.
It is useless to tell of the happy wed
ding that ensued; of the joy an I merry
making of the guests. Our fair red
ors can imagine that. And so en is the
story of the ring
Tempers.
Few n cu h ive sweet tempers, or hold
such as they possess under invariable
control, though there are mm who, with
out this sweetness of nature, however
much tried, never seem to lose their
sjlf command. No public man can get
on long who hn.? not bis temper well in
band ; but with the same amount of
inflammable particles, men differ much
on the occasions that set firo to them
Some people who are all composure
when we might reasonably expect and
justly excuse an explosion, will break
down into peevishness or passing frenzy
on slight provocations NVe have known
men, quite remarkable for a well bred
serenity, to be unreasonably and child
ishly testy at some transient annoyance
of a sort they are not usod to Highly
sensitive organizations and intellects
kept on the stretch arc always irritable
DcQtiincy, who has no heroes, says that
Wordsworth, with all his philosophy
bud fits of ill-temper, though the Uu
i sampled swoetuoEO of his wife's temper
made it impossible to quarrel with hor
The two great hymn writers and good
Christians, Newton and Toplad, met
but once, and for a few minutes, yet
something passed?a trifling jest which
upset Toplad's equanimity, and mode his
parting words, we arc told by tho friend
\y by-stander. not very courteous There
ni e times when men think they do well
to lie angry, and attri??te their display
of ill temper to a holy impulse, while
the observer sees only a common pet
exposing itself at the most uusuitablo
moment?at the failure of the efforts to
attract and impress, perhaps to shioo
Tho preacher is particularly subject to
the temptation of an angry remonstrance
uttered in '.his spirit It must be hard
to fuel your best passages lost through
the restlessness of school children or tho
infectious inattcution of the sitiirins:
galleiy, hut it seldom answers to allow
tho chafed spirit its fling The parson
may bo in a passion without knowing it,
h.ut not {without the congregation being
quite alive to it, and the remembrance of
the scene will outlive every other effect
of his discourse
A Shorkiug Suicide.
A WOMAN CUTS HER THROAT KilO.M EAR
TO EAR.
Wednesday evening just after tho
factory,whistle blew for quitting time,
our quiet town was thrown into a high
pitch of excitement by the report that
Mrs Robert Buchanan; the wife of a
factory employee, had ceded her exis
tenco by cutting her throat from car to
car with a razor. Subsequent examina
tiou proved tho report to be horribly
trU'', aud those who< hastened to the
scerlio found the unfortunate lady wol
tcring in her o,wn blood. She had boon
sick some two or three weeks with
pneumonia, during which time mor
phino had been given her to alleviate
her pain and to satisfy the appetite she
had previously forme! lor it, aud at
one time was considered out of danger,
although she was not as well oa thj
day of hor death, as sho had been a few
days previous, and on account of her
peculiarly nervous and despondent tern
pormont, and despito tho assertions of
the doctor, her husbands anl friends
that ialtc would live, she had become
firmly impressed with tho idea that sho
would never get well.
About four o'clock she asked for two
cigar boxes which were in tho room,
and they were banded her without hs.Vt
tatiou or a thought of thc'.r deadly con
tents. She apparcntlp satisfied herself
with their possession, and when hor
husband came home from his work ha
placed them iu their former positiou.
.lust as the family were preparing to
scat themselves at tho supper table, sho
requested that the door between the
dining room and her bad room be clos
od, complaining of tho heat, which was
promptly done, and a3 one of the ladies
who were attending to the household
duties was about seating herself at tho
table she I card* a strange, gurgling
noise, which caused her to turn and
open the door, little dreaming of the
blood curdling sight that would meet
her sight. There lay Mrs. Buchanan
iu the agonies of death, the blood flow
ing from several veins. The alarm was
immediately given, and a man dispatch
cd for Dr. Sander of Marble Hill, but
before he arrived she had breathed hor
last, and hor trials nud troubles woro
ended.
After the deed, her actions of tho
proceeding twenty four hours wore cast
ly interpreted, and now, for tho first
time, they woro mado awaro, of tho fact
that sho had extracted a razor from one
of the cigar boxes, and concealed it un
til the room was vacated, when she
mado the fatal stroke. The instrument
did its work weli, and in twenty min
utcs sho was a corpse.
- i P..WII I ? - ? -Lll ? ? -
llev. Mr. Tackier, a Baptist minister
of Amcricus Ga*, having preached
against Uuivcrsnlist as ."profane swear
ers, gamblers, thieves, drunkards./
Mr. L. W. F. Andrews demands a re
traction, and threatens if it is not
fjrt.Hcoiuing * mithin. a month's time,
to make it quite torrid Vor Mr. Fack
ler. N V
