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WINNSBORO, S. C.. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12, 1876. THMlE ; F ruItI1snED wnr AEs w WUDU IFD WI KLY 6 811 ' ..,,n..-The llER.4LD it publishe 1 in the Town of Winneboro, at t. uariably in iduance. ed - All trantient mavertiseieote to *b 1'.! 11) IN AD UVANCE. OII>itiy Notioes and Tributes $1.00 0 per , quare. TIlE MISSING WIFE. -0 A CLIElOYMANs STOnY. -0 Helen Hunter was the prettiest and sweetest girl, to my thinking, that I have ever seen, and she re turned my love with an equal en d erness. I had not known for many months when 1 put rny en gagemenot ring upon her finger, and she promised to marry me as soon as I was settled. More fortu nate than most young clergymen, I had not long to wait ; and the day I became pastor at M.. I urged her to set the day for our nuptials, and we were married within a month. Never shall I forget the day upon which I brought her home, the do light she expressed at the sight of our picturesque garden, with its great trees, and the old disused well picturesque sun dial, and the great ivy which overran the sides of the house, and the low brick wall which surrounded the enclosure. Nothing should be disturbed, she said. A few bright flowe-s should glow in the beds, but otherwise the old garden should remain intact. We had been married a week when we went out into the garden about twilight to plant the seeds she had brought from her home. She knelt down beside the box-edged borders and turned up the darl mould with a dainty little trowel had given her for the purp . remember her dress. It was rio dark silk, with a gleam oi' garne through its prevailing shadow an at her throat and in her ears sh wore a set of rubies that wer an heir-loom in her family. Ti costume accorded well with her daw beauty, her velvet eyes and erynst cheeks. No one could have looke more charming. We crouch ale together on the gravel. I f t we must look like a pair all children to the grim old va who came to me with the a unm ment that "Donald Black, 1-01 bad indeed, and wanted me. I am afraid I obeyed the s nmc "I shall wait tea for you, are ever so late, Edward," she as I left her to go into the hout Having secured my hat and ci returned to the garden v Helen was gathering some fl( from one of the borders. "I will not be gone long," ". be back to tea," and then with o I left her. Doaald kept me wel enpk'yt three hours. However, the ohl was by no means dange'"ausl As I hurried home, I recalled pleasu-e the sight of his wife ing over him, and thought love lived on through care change, and how this aged wt had once been a girlish brid< Donald a gay bridegroom, and it was plain to see that he < Anever be to her the uninterei old creature he was to others, because of the old Jovo bet them. And then it came to mx impplily, so sweetly, that if hearts were so true, that of like my Helen could be truer -and that all life's ills would harmlessly up~on mue if I were. lovedt as she loved me now thr< out my life. I had dreaded ok a little, but if we were spare< each other, what was there fa to featr She would always bel tiful to me ; I always to her. golden glasses of love would tl a glory over everything, and ha life for us. With these thoughts I passei threshold and looked into the pt The tea-table was spread there. chair and mine faced each oth, usual, but both were empty. ' was no one in the room. I wai moment, standing before the which, in this spring weather .oceptible, and theon, surpised my wifo did not come to meet went up stairs in search of her, wvas not in her room, nor in other. .Perhaps she was stilli garden. I hurried down stairs again, passed out at thme back door. "Helen I" I called ; "Helen r' No voice replied. Was I fe enough to be alarmedi It sea so. I laughed at myself, and c still louder, "Helen I Helen! IIl but still no answer. "I know where you are, Hele cried. "Come out of your con come, Helen." Still there was no answer. "She is in the kitchen," I 68 myself- "I'll find her there." I hurried up thme path. M~ struck something. I stoope was a little saucer that hl seeds. Farther on was the ta Sshe had been using when I lefg -It was contrary to Helen's to leave anything lying na about, and a vague alarm pose .me as I entered the kitchen. "Your mistress t" I began. '1 ; 1id woman, and hea looked up at me in 1 with you, didn't TAnn. No !" I said. Thei ous," said Jane. Thdt ~ it she must." said Ann, It( the girl's eyes distend id '4 terror. wiybl avo mercy on us -all 1" 'it d vomlan. [te ?' >u i say that now? My * ? * about the place. mye happened. Noth ercd edepaused and stag . he. wall. . Old Jane 1et las of water. eide But I no longer Cs; I know some hada my wife, and rol; o was that it was th ough o to o oked ants, I went 01 t ss . o garden. We here t e . Q and every 11 grt $ '? t e bah and tree, Sel vo 11, where the 0 dwel tohM , .We woent to the a-o5s als Z )Aeat stone lay cod n ana Says b i my ii conl at, ai cote fallen in, she sai ai He- 92pant bahe stone back," the gen In nd, se i 'surdity of the ldfhnLht ied my mmdit(. w ad ,1i. r s k td, her form, tliiiyli eor or-i nly i wa oes and ran for oi a ti t th- oh ame it. It was h'ic wo of wha o aisacheown from it .na ther. 'Tr y ,etaucismug moons, n a he hnl acy- f ftranugurcil. tase is r sea y(, a as fruitless cls at M. rth13 e, s orhood, in wane fbla p, -d im t gttrrounding W M sum o cameo tb63ny aid. All eed fro of thejirjsond be done. Thd y ch couple of ne, vanished. as it tiof the 1e is de he face of the earth. [I Itla c. I '' 0% 'e had was the asser -f ,oned i L . er servant that she i r iw < of the garden that k de~ l oy lShe had told her a tused a a eold wom u's hear e th won-' d sh heard not hing". , Hrl - is I knew, to suspec fie dearai of havg yuire, kd by i g anytmg of her Sed an(i er . but they were ss d hn a o s-not by me-ex .lienfu, uit'ied1. ti u a and darkly suspicion il l n r ,L m". I kuew it was t+ 3 nW- . wea-ried of my wife, .h a a J03 t; Lf her. epated' i it last, nd the story haroy ti ed vaigt..r c'herd wa , thi wt I k fr Ail le'tt me for nuother ige, it her to be puate ai an sr fsnot Idnot blame a stran J_"l , hig ber ats well. said, mrow to r to 1me what i?. o y nai -'hogo w y tempiU ale, I of its joy ; f'home .s deti 1 here continued ie vain seare . I adve wers tised ; I employed de r n'es ; and this went on for yeau wi bouit 1rint [ will an me even the sad relief ofktowmng i kiss some terrible te f. I grow to be an old mau very ear at ior l; ry hair lay white upon my tun o pies bo forder. Horty. I kept in is o little churebh, for if Helen Wore sucw1 or living, she ioulda nd me there bet Jend. ter than elsewhere. If she were how e Ia, traeed to may theat som andg voen~r of helfats distppeanice. mage Thstl Tpweng eahdrpwssrd eand land grllere wan and us were om 'ould Thetrees a th s oe fivebshs js stirng mils fo th, da wray Ianokd bloom IIO Pace. sa an wasmilio at over"t he, so de erech but sherkel wasiall tho such re eed he piiigtual md; nd the l oneprso thaan being hoe. Hsgil th falIwno e cenblshea i ae1( t e Id~t ws g to deyi.Ay, tihe ani mgh v riof oHercn' thapearc. agte he am sprieate-wr tThoon coas at ight an itheassi sli me waspingn wn he egardens rosh beau-an "Teen Goa d h o ud tere ofny forge tharaes can'tiacbshs jsv tOiroa ni Ithe donay1 hng inke backif Illod tat cant mygo wifer.iln Tat meover ergm dhoulder, al the ngelsd the dniy ade meds. ct" rn hefoe H0.. er huh falti evernic.Nw fIas toen ls eok eher y p souldaer, and se itl teieothe doomed thin tha onfeshin, a tow does oneat good near, toll yomI rett hthan hd Ihopded eais gilta fvat teptdlisherdwl and she a n a t alone in aden iAnda quet plae e, tiko jmd thm foeie, and wopbe, he inravl, andIstbe her. h when Ido i~ia the e esrubyoer-ries they r "654aThld well an fiht, and wthe abman ild be a hn he teaer hspcom nowshm it didnwhn in rope her life [jdta a'th o vr.Ta ol and the sound of a girl singing in her house. I can see the blood on my hands, and hear the gravel under my foot as I ran away. I got some money by the job, but I took no comfort in it. I've never taken any since. A woman, young and pretty, and doing no harm to me." "What is the m:Ltter ? Help ! 1elp l Great heavens, how you look I" I heard him cry this out, as I lost consciousness. The truth had com to me at last. I know it had, be fore lie told the tale to others and owned that the scene of this terrible story was the parsonage at M- ; before they lifted the stone from the old well, and found in the mire at its bottom the broad wedding ring which proved that what else lay there, was all that was left of my beloved wife. "THE NEV BOY." A GraphlO Pen Picture--M. Quad in the Detroit Free Press. He made his appearance at one of the union schools the other imorning, and, arriving ahead of time, ho provented any feelig of loneliness from seizing him by Jieking thrlee yboys and riding the gate oil' its hinges. He went in with the crowd when the bell ra!g, and, finding no empty seat, he perched lhnmself on the wood box. Wien the children repeated the "Lord's Prayer" in con concert, the new boy "kept time" with his heel, and when they came to sing lie argued that variety was the spice of song, and attempted to sing one of his own-one about It gentlemni namedQ( Daniel Tucker, who dreamed that he was dead, and so forth. The teacrlic warned him to keep still, and he replied that he wouldn't come to that school ii his musical <palifications were to ba overlooked. When school finally op0ned the teacher secured his name and begani asking him questions, in order to find out how he ritould be graded. "Can you spell ?" she asked. "What kind of spelling ?" he cautiously replied. "51)011 'house,' if you please." "Frame or brick house ?" he asked. "Any kind of a house!" "With a mortgage on it ?" "You may spell -man' if you will," She said, giving him a severe look. "Man ?" "Yes." "I don't care mtucl about spelling 'mii' this morning, but I will this afternoon. I've spelled it with my eyes shut." "Do you know your alphabet ?" she tsked, changing the subject. "Nee haul any !" was the prompt reply. ")o you know anything avo. read~ing "?" "I read like lightning !" he an sweroed. She handed him a reader, and said "Let me hear you read ?" "Read right out loud ?" "Yes." "I'm afraid it would disturb the children," lhe whisp~ered. "Co onl nna( let me1 hioar' youreadt(." Hie ]ooiked carcfiully at the page, sqcowledl his browv and r'ead: "If [ was a lame hoy and diudn't get any peanuts in my stocking (Christmnas, d1um1 my13 eyes ! but I'd mailke thinigs jumpij ariounld thait house5 next morning !" He han~ded the boo0k hack and1( theO "Richar'd, how~ minany are thr'ee anid three '!" "Thr'ee and thr'oo what ?" lie in "Anything." "It's a good deal accord(ing to what it is," lie reliiedl, as lie settled back; "I know that three and thr'eo cats don't make a dog I" "Did you ever study geograiphy, Richard '!" "Yes, ma'amf1." "What is geogr'aphy ?" "It's a book." "Is thin wt rid round or' flat ?" "'Hills and hollers !" he rep1lied. "lihchaird, can you wr ite ?' "Wr'ito what '?" "Can you wvrite yourl name ? "I could, I auppose, but I've got miy Inamel withiout, witinig it.' "Catn you write a letter ?" "Who to '?" "To any one." "Yen, 1 could(, if I hlad the ml01oe to paty the postage" "Well, Richard," she said, in (1e spir "you'll have to go into the lower room if you want to colle to sehool here." "I druthler stay here." "But you can't." "TIll hot you this knife agin ton cents I can." She took him b~y the arm to r'e move him, but he laid his hand on her shoulder and said, in a warning voice : "Don't get me mad, now, or Il let myself loose." Shle call1e( the principal down1, and as lie alpproach(ed the boy, h com "Boy, what are you doing here 1" "Oitting eddicashun," replied Rlichard. "You go right downi stairs now," continuledl the principal. "WVelh, don't sass me, for I was never here before I" replied Richard, slhowly moving his legs asif hemeant to get down. The 'principal took him by the collar and jerked him around, got kicked on the shin and bitten on the wrist, and finally landed the young student on the walk. "Now, you go home 1" lie shouted as lie tried to recover his breath. "Am I educated ?" inquired Richard. "You sr'em to be!" "Gimme a diplomy, then." "You clear out or I'll have you ar rested." "Hain't I a scholar in the school no lore ?" "No, Hir." "Who owns this school house ?" demanded the boy. "No matter ; you clear out." ."Will you comao out in the yard here, where you can't b;ng to ally thing ?" a3ked the boy. "I egome, I say." "Don't draw no darringor on me," warned the boy, rui hi. backed oft'; "nor don't you thik yov. cum scaro mie with a;iy of your bowio knives." The principal walked in and shut the door, and after the new boy had stood there long e;nough to show that lie wasn't afraid, he turned and walked off, growling to himself : "I'll get the foreman of No. G to pound that feller afore ho'a a wo e: oiler. The Donocr atic Central QAm mittee. Hen. T. Y. Simons, nember for South Carolina of the nationaul exc cutive committee of the democratic party, has called a r.eting of the state central committee to meet in this city on the 6th of January. A paragraph in a Northern paper states perhaps the motive for this early call. Thli' national committee 1 of the democratic party which met i recently in Now Yerk, after a full i discussion of the situation, decided < that it was necessary to concentrate the aid to be given in 1876 to the ] South upon Louisiana and South Carolina. Tha other et. .s of the South, it was concluded, could take 1 Care cf themselves. It was con'eded< that Mississippi had been made comnpletely safe for the democratic electoral ticket, or that any onis sions would be fully supplied by the session of the 'esinathure, which as semubles in February next, with a three-fourths majority for thedemo cratic party. It was, therefore, de cided to secure Louisinna and Soutn Carolina. In both s'ates, but espc cially in the hatter, a la"ge campaign fund was deemed absolutely neces sary. An agreement was made that the of $100,000 should be recured to South Carolina, on condition that $50,0.iO was raised by the people of the stat. With $150,000 it was dcend certain that the seven 'totes of the state could be ocured to the c W sihand idata. W elassu,... ~. f1h duty of col lecting the lona -'i,.. . -, this fund devolvesi upon the state con tral conmittee, nad that measures will be taken to secure a thorough canvass of tho state for that pur pose. Our correspondents in Char leston ray that previous to the judi cial elections, the resident iembers of the centra~l committee wcre quite dloubtiail of their ability to collet so large, a sum. The camp)aign for Green was lost through the apathy of the democrats on the money ques tion. Then, too, it is now conceded that it was a great mnistak~e to buy Moses up to change the election commlfissioners. The fi fteen thou sumd dollars spent judiciously in the c'ounjies of ]Jcaffort, Blarnwell, Oraongeb lurg, Newberry, Abbeville and Aiken to Organize and encour agc the b~olt would have priodulced results in votes which would have given the Green ticket the state. Un ion-Hfer'ad. The meeting in Siumter to give e'xpress5ion to pub)iOMlicoi i uon the election of Moes and Whlipper, was a rousing affair. It was large ly attended by the best people of tl-e county anid wvas characterized by great enthusiasm and unanimity. Several of theo leading men made speeches, the burden of all being that Gov. Chamberlain must be en dOrsedl and sustained in what lhe has do nI iout the judges' codemissionis .ind that Mosoenimust b)e preventedl frmever dlesecraLting with his foul presenlce the court house of S umte--pea~ceably if poss5ible, forcibly if necessary. Though there must have b)een 2,000 negroes in the town, nothing was saidl or done by them to justify the whites in using force to protect their meet ing-for which the latter were fully prepared. Hlurrah for the Game Cock County I During Gov. Kellogg's administra tien nime criminals have been hanged in Louisiana, while only five were executed in fifteen previous years. Consolation for old maids-"mis fortunes never come singly." A San Francisco grand jury has refused to indict a girl for killing the mgn who had disgraced her. Because an Indian woman is al w'ays a squaw, does it necescarily follow that an Indian baby is always a squalling ? AWestern judge has decided that dry goods are dry goods oven when soaked in water a whole week. The Address of the 8tate Demoorati Committee. At a meeting of the State Centra Executive Committee of the denic cratic party, held in Colrmjbia of Thursday, the 6th institt, the fol lowing address to the people of thi state wii unanimously adopted ant ordered to be published : THI ADDRESS. Tothe People of &>uth Carolna : The State Central Executive Coin mittee of the democratic party do not deem it necessary to publish an3 lengthy statement of the reasons which induced them to meet at tll. time. It is suffleient to say that svents with which the people of the state are painfully familiar, made it udinpensable that the organization of the democratic party in Soutl Carolina should be revived, as the meediest and most practicable inoani ,f bringing together our hitherto icattercd forces, and of concentrat ng them in'tha struggle into whicl wo are forced for the naintonance >f liberty and law in the State. Thm t has become the duty of the State Jomniittee to take such steps a :ill enable the people of the State o begin the work of party reorgnili. ration at once and make it thorough mad complete. In the contest in which we are bout to engage we must win. Do eat cannot be borne. Success, iowever, cannot be expected to rown our labors unless thiere be ab olite unity in the democratic par y, together with such discipline as ill ensure the prompt and ofli ient execution of its policy when leclarcl. From our adversaries ust we learn, at last the lesson >f organization and activity. When he agencies on which society relies or tho conservation of its varied nteres Ls meaaceo those interests with lestruction, and threaten a whole )eople with ruin, politics are no onger a matter of sentiment in vhich the citizen is free to engago >r not, according to his tastes. Jpon the nimniigemient of our politi ial affairs depends the security of >roperty, as well as the safety of usrson. By political movements lone can the purification of the state Government be accomplished. )nly through political instruinen ,alities can honesty, fidelity and ea ?ability regain a preponderating in lhence in the councils of the State. Lo politics then, for their own salva now address themselves -with -hie vigor, the persistency and the systematic endeavor which mark heoir. conduct in business life. It would not be wise to declare a poli sy before the party, which shall give affect to it, is ready for both dolib )ration and action. The ofleers nmust not be chosen until the rank tand ile of the political army shall have been mustered in and trainmd. Thcre should bo, inl line, such organ. W 6l";N,01 w-hSard, township and ounty, that when u.!, 4state Conven ion shall assemble, it A- "1l repro ent, by its delegates, the .n vishes, opinions and purposes of he organized democracy of the state. Then will its voice be the roic of the people ;its de termuin ion theirs ; its tiight their batttle. L'o such organization, searcl inig and ar-reaching, should the peoplo of lie State without delay address hemselves. Without it the State annot b)e saved I The State Convention, when it ihall assemble, will determine an ~horitatively the p)olicy of the p~arty; mdt by thme decision of that Conven ion shall we all be bound. As, owever, the democratic prirty, as mech, has had no active existence in South Carolina for some years, the itato conmmitteri desire to say emi >)hatically that, in recommending its nstamit and comnprehensi VO organi ~ation, their sole puripose is to oh. ~ain an honest and economical gov irnment in South Carolina, which ihall maintain, without abridgemnen t >r change, thme public rights and iberties of the whole people1, and ruarantee to all classes of citizens~ he blessings of freedom, justice and >eiace. And in this crisis in thoe :onstituitionail life of the State, when ivilization itself is in peril, we look or anmd confidentially expect to re civo thme syimpathy and1 aid of every itizen whose aims and desires are ike utot( our own. In et mmon with their fellow citi :ens, the State Democratic Commnit (e( have watched with anxious so ieitudol and growing confidence the ~ourse of the p)resenmt Governor of he State. They recognize and ap. >reciate the value of what he las lone, in promoting Reform and Re ~renchiment, during thme past year. I'hey app'~aud~ his wise and patriotic tonduict in exerting his whole ofli hial power and personal influence fo the undoing of thme infamous judicial election. And they - declare bheir belief that the democracy of time State, rising above party as lhe has done, will give an unfaltering support to his efforts, as Governor, for the redress of wrongs, for the re duction of taxation, to obtain a just administration of the law, and1 to make the State Government a faithful guardian of the public and privatt interests of the people. Therefore, the State Executiv< Committee earnestly advise the peo ple of the State to reorganize thor oughly the democratic party, ii preaatin fr +he f.t.to nemocata ? Convention, which will moot at a time and place to be hereafter desig natod by this committee. The fol lowing gentlemen aro charged with this organization of the party in every precimet, ward and township in their respeetivo counties : Abbeville--J. S. Cothran. Anderson--James A. Hoyt. Aiken-G. W. Croft. Barnwell-T. J. Counts. Beaufort-William Elliott. Clarondon-13. P. Barron. Chester--W- A. Walker. Chesterfield--A. McQueen. Colleton-J. J. Fox. )arlingtou F. F. Warley. Edlgeield-J. Scott Allen, F0airfield-John Blratton. Georgetown-B. H. Wilson. Groonville-T. B. Ferguson. Horry-J. T. Walsh. Kershaw- E. MA. Boykin. Lexington-Gerhard Mullor. Lancaster-J. 1) Wylie. Laurens-B. W. Bull. Marion-A. Q. Mcl)uffio Marlboro'-J. H. Hudson. Newborry-Y. J. Pope. Oconee--. A. Thompson. Orangeburg--J. 1. Izlar. Pickens-R. E. Bowen. Rtichlandl-John Mclenzie. Spartanburg-J. It. Evins. Sumter - '1'. B. Fraser. Union-Rt. W. Shaund. Williamsburg-S. W. Maurice. York-Jas. F. Hart. The organization of Charleston County is entrusted to the Conmit too of Fifteen, of which Col. Chias. H[ Simonton is chairman. In concluUion, the State Commit too earnestly sax to their follow eitizens that We are not as those without hope. ?Iho magnitudo of the task before us can hardly bo ovor-rated. ' Every stop is beset with difliculty, if not danger. But, know ing this people, the Comnmittee are confident that Lho future can be made as bright as the present is dark. This is the accepted time I By organization, labor, patience, boldness and liberality, can pe o and plenty and political security be restored to the State. MI. C. Bw'ru.:n, Chalirman. SAMUEL IcGo?WAN, WaM. WA.LACE, J S. RI'HIIARisuN, S. P. HAMILt'roN, 1u'os. Y. SIMONs, JOHNSON lACoo), W. D. Sian-soN, MI. 1'. O'CoNNER, W. W. SEumLnsI, F. W. DAWSON. THE DARK CELL. The Horrors of Prison--Physical, Men tal an'1 Mortl Pc:u1s of tho Dark Coil. In our eastern penitentiary, says a Philadelphla paler, dark cell treatment is only resorted to in the iust obstinato casos. Thu last an naal report shows twenty applica tions in a criminal population of sevon hundred and miore. "You will boar in mind that undor the laws which govern the common wealth neither the lash nor the pad dio can be applied to obdurato pris onoers," said our informant. "Does the saine mlan undergo such treatment often ?" "The Clses aire very rare of a double application. On does genk orauyJ snihgg," What i' the 1al111 effoet nieiitally, morally andl~I lriall '"' 'Mentally, I ne~ noticed any ; neither have I phlysicalIA Morally, it has c mnsiderablo. When N io or once undorleigoes such troiu.,ent he rarely desires to try it again. A man once conquered by dark-cell treatment is conquered for his full ter'm." "Is it always BO effective 7" I have never known it to fail. I remembnher that some years ago, when I was moro closely connected with our prisons, there was a mnur deoe brought from one of the into rior counties to tihe eastern peniten tiary. lHe was a colored man, of excellent phiysiEpto, but brutal in the extreme. Tihe crime be had comn mitted was muost atrocious inl its charactor, and that lhe wats not convict eel of murder in the first degree was simply owing to cowardice on tihe part of the jury. He had been in (arceratedl but a fewv hour11s whon he attempjtedl to rule the prison. He grossly insulted hlis keeper, and an noun'edl that lhe intended to (do just as ho pleased. In order to discipline himii ho ,'als p)ut on broad-anid-wyater diet, but with no good result. Then the dar'k-cll tr'eatmnent waIs resorted to. For two (lays hoebore it bravely. At the beginning of the third he sent for the chIaplinf and desired to know what such treatment meant and ho0w long 110 would be compell.. ed to undergo it. "Until you submit to the rulings of those who have you in charge and resolve to con duct yourself decently," replied theo chaplain. "Hwlong will that be ?" an swered the culprit. "That depends on yourself," an swe'ed the chaplain. "Well, nobody ever conquerod me yet," said the plrisoner, "anld nobody's going to do it now I" "Very well," said the chaplain, "perhaps you'll thlink diforontly be fore many days roll round." Forty eight hlours muore passed, when the the prisoner sent for the wvard(on. "How mutch longer am I to stay in this place ?I" he inquired. "Until you resolve to obey tile rules wvhich gover n this institution. WVhen you apologize to your keeper and promise to comply with all our1 re quirements you shall be roeleased." "Suppose I don't do that, what 7 ~ IL then ?" "Then you will remain just where you are." "How long will that be?" "You are sentenced to twelve years, and unlessi you do as I have siad you will spend every hour of thoso twelve years in this coil, unless you (di in the meantime The matter rests entirely with your courso.'j "Well, I toll you that you can't conquer mue this way." "Very well," said the warden, and the interview ended. Throo days more passed, and the warden was again sent for. "I have come to terms, said the prisoner, "and am ready to do as you desire." Ho then apologized to his keeper, promised obedience and proved a most exemplary prisoner over afterwards. This was one of the longest applications of the treat. ment that I over know of in the eastern penitentiary. Physically or mentally it had no visible ed'ect. In fact, I have never known of any case of injury resulting from the treatment. Our dark cells are different from others. In the east ern penitentiary the dark cell is formed by placing a covering over the skylight of an ordinary cell. In the Auburn (N. Y.) prison the dark cell is nothing more than a stone box. The floor is formed of a single slab, and the ceiling of a slab, and the walls of masonry. Tho coll is three foot wide, six foot high and six feet long. There tiro two doors, one of iron and the other of oak, with no openings. A sprinkling of sawdust half an inch deep covers the floor, and a jill of water and four ounces of bread form the allow ance for twenty-four hours. Such a mode of treatment may be im agined. The reports of the prison show that about one-half of the insano ses at Auburn have resulted from such treatinent. In our peni tentiary the prisoner is allowed all the water he wants and from half a po1med to a pound of bread per day. 1OUNT ZION INSTI'UTE. Till exercises of this institution will be resinel on Wednesday, J pnuary 12th. For oirenlars .containing ti'rius anl full par .NL,- dielar1, addre-:,:o W. M. DWIG H T, jain -tf Prineipst. Executors' Notice. ^ LL persons indebted to Turner '.'urkeilt, tl' audcl, are hereby re <iuestd to make pia' ment to the unuler .signed, and14 tho-o hohling; claims against theIl esat of1 said tleasedl ar e h eltrehv noti. tied to presn1t them duly attested. T. W. & J. A. TU It KETT, den 3) 1 x'2 Ex:utors: FOR SAL1. A valuable piecer of" town property on ,which is situatedi a cimonunou Iweling and oufhuildiugs helonuging to Irs. J. 1'. Menus. For particulars ad ress (AhlIhAR) & DAVI8. w14nnsbero $ C The Bet Ioucohold Oil the in World C. 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