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From the Washitgtm Correspondence of the. Philadelphia Iress.
A. State Dinner at the White House.
The "State dining room" at the White House
is a handsome apartment. A long table, .'roun?
ded at the ends, extends through the middle of
it, at which thirty-six can be comfortably sealed.
There is plenty of room besides, for the ser?
vants to perform their duties admirably. New
mirrors and chandeliers have been added since
tite administration of President Grant, but the
carpets, upholstering and papering have de?
scended from the Johnson regime. The ex?
quisite taste of Martha Patterson is seen on the
daintily tinted walls, the figures of the carpet
bo nicely adjusted to the size of the room, the
dark green satin damask at the windows, and
the quaint chairs, under her supervision, ar?
ranged to match. A clock, as ancient as the
days of Madison, adorns one of the" marble
mantles, whilst a pair of hydraheaded candle?
sticks, grim with age, descended from nobody
knows whose. brief reign, graces the other.
With the exception of a pair of modern ma
hogany side-boards, the furniture seems to have
belonged to. the eras of Washington or Jeffer?
son, it. is- so.- ?olid and sombre. The White
House was modeled after the palace of the
Duke of Leinster, and the state dining-room,
more than any other part of the building, is
suggestive of a baronial hall. But if there is
one thing more than another from which the
state dining-room suffers, if is from a dearth of
silver. "Steward Melah," the silver-voiced
Italian whom Government employs to look af?
ter this part of its business, actually wrings his
bauds with terror and dismay when he '"gets"
the table for state occasions.
A rare work of art adorns the center of the
long table in the state dining-room. It is sev:
eralfeet long, and, perhaps, two feet wide, and
is composed of gilt and looking-glass. The
foundation is a long mirror, and this is beached
by a perpendicular shore three inches in height,
but of no appreciable thickness. Little, fern
like upheavings may be seen rising out of the
?iwdry gilt at equal distances- apart, and. these
are used as receptacles for natural flowers. But,
lest the guests should look into the mirror, and
see each other facetiously reflected, at moments,
too, when the human mouth assumes anything
but poetic proportions, large vases of flowers
are strewn on its glassy surface, and the mis
Chief of the mirror is nipped in the bud. The or?
nament is not merely ornamental; it is useful
It answers the very purpose to help out a so?
cial ambuscade, for it can be so arranged as to
hide the President from any guest from whose
presence he is suffering, whether said person
comes under the head of enemy or friend.
Conversation at a State dinner can not be
general. Each guest must depend upon his
own neighborhood. The quality of the con?
versation depends entirely upon the kind of
people who manufacture it. Mike Walsh ter?
rified Mrs. Franklin Pierce at a State dinner by
talking about his "going a fishing on Sunday."
A modern Congressman filled up- the official
time between each mouthful by telling his next
lady neighbor the exact things* which Juis pal?
ate "craved. . He didn't like "French dishes,"
but he was "fond of pork and beans, as well as
ice cream and canned peaches." No doubt the
word "Jenkins" will be flung at your corres?
pondent for these social criticisms: but gentle
mm is the highest term which con be applied
to a politician, and the people nave just as
much right to a description of an official din?
ner as any other public event, especially when
the Government employs a public functionary
in the person of Steward Melah to.see the dig?
nity of the nation carried to the perfection
point.
Once upon a time an accomplished young
American woman had the honor to dine with
the Czar of ali the Russias. During the Royal
entertainment a plate of delicious grape* was
Sassed around, it is true the young lady saw
le golden knife which rested on the side of the
hciket, but as the fruit came to her first she
had no way of learning its use ; so she did just
83 she would have done in America?she reach?
ed out her dainty fingers and lifted from the
dish a whole stem of grapes. What wits her
consternation to see the next person, as well as
all the other guests, take the golden knife and
sever a single grape each, and transfer it to
their plates. Had a young Russian lady in this
country helped herself to a whole chicken the
error would have been precisely the same. It
is true the young lady committed no crime, but
her feelings and those of her friends would
have been spared had she learned the etiquette
of royal tables before she became an Emperor's
guest.
It is the evening of the President's state din?
ner. The guests are not only invited, -but ex?
pected to l?e punctually in their places at 7
o'clock P. M. President and Mrs. Grant are
already in the bed room awaiting the company.
The ladies have disrobed themselves of outer
wrappings, and, like graceful swans, they sail
slowly into the presence. Mrs. Grant is in full
evening dress?jewels, laces, and all the et
ceteras to match. Her lady guests are attired
as handsomely as herself, and the gentlemen
are expected to wear black, swallow tail coats
and: white neck ties.
President Grant leads the way with the wife
of the oldest Senator present on his arm?not
the oldest Senator in years, but the one who
has enjoyed the longest term of office. The
President is followed by the other guests, -whilst
Mrs. Grant, assisted by the husband of the wo?
man who honors the President by her exclusive
attention, brings up the rear, and after a slight
oonfusion the guests are most comfortably set*
ted..
The ambrosial" soup ifc foJTowed by a French
croquet of meat. Four admirably trained ser?
vants remove the plates between each course,
and their motions are as perfect as clock work.
These servants are clad in garments of faultless
cut, which serve to heighten to the last degree
their sable complexions. White kid gloves add
the finishing touch to this part of Sie enter?
tainment. The third "course" of the dinner is
composed of a fillet of beef, flanked on each
side "by potatoes the size of a walnut, with plen?
ty, of mushrooms to keep them company. The
next course is dainty in the extreme. It is
made up-entirely of the luscious legs of par?
tridges.
It will readily be seen that a fall descrip?
tion of the twenty-nine courses would be alto?
gether too much for the healthy columns of a
newspaper to bear, so we pass to the-dessert,
not omitting to say that the meridian or noon
of the feast is marked by the guests being serv?
ed bountifully with frozen punch. As a gener?
al rule wine is served about every third course.
Six wine glasses of different sizes and a small
boquet of flowers are placed befoce each guest
at the beginning.
The dessert is inaugurated by the destruction
of a rice pudding, but not the kind which
prompts the little ooy to run away to the North
Pole because his "mother would have rice pud?
ding for dinner." After the rice pudding,
canned peaches, pears and quinces are served.
Then follow confectionery, nuts, ice cream, cpf
fee and chocolate, and with these warm, sooth?
ing drinks the Presidential ehtertainment comes
to an endr the host and his guests repair to the
Bed Room, and after fifteen minutes spent in
conversation the actors in a state dinner rapidly
disappear.
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A Subterranean Toyage.
When we were publishing a paper in Lewis
burg, West Virginia, several years ago, a very
singular accident befel a young man there,
which we narrated briefly at.the time. A few
days ago we chanced to meet him here in Mus
kegan, and he narrated his adventure at our
request. It occurred on the farm of Gen. A.
W. G. Davis,, in Greenbrier county, in 1856.
We give his story in his own words, as near as
we can recollect them:
" I was ploughing on Gen. Davis's farm in
1856," saia he, "unsuspicious of being on in?
secure ground, when suddenly the earth seemed
to fall beneath me. I saw the horses descend?
ing, but was too frightened to let go the plough
handles. The pitch of the horses with the
earth gave my fall an impetus, and somehow I
caught the mane of one of them in my fall,
and so held on instinctively. What I thought
when falling I can hardly "tell. At any rate, I
did some rapid thinking. When I landed I fell |
on the horse whose mane I had .hold of, and al?
though the horse was instantly killed, I was
merely stunned and confused. On recovering
myself I looked up, and the hole through which
I had fallen looked so small I concluded I must
have fallen 150 feet. My first thought was to
call for aid, but I instantly recalled the fact
that I was at least a mile from Gen. Davis's
house and that there was not the remotest proba?
bility that any one had seen my descent into the
earth.
" It Was then early morning, and as I had
brought out my dinner with we, no one would
miss me before nightfall. While going over
these facts in my own mind, I heard the rush of
water near at hand, and it occurred to me that
I must have fallen upon the bed of Sinking
creek, which, as you know, falls into the earth
above Frankfort, and does not come out but
once till it reaches the banks of the Greenbrier
river. To sav where I was, or to attempt try
follow the subterranean passage, was the nex^P
question. I sometimes took the team to my
own tenant stables, and therefore might not be
missed for days; so I determined to follow the
stream. I waded in it, and, judging from its
depth of from one to three feet, I concluded it
must be the identical sinking creek Spoken of.
Leaving my dead companion behind me, I fol?
lowed the stream. For the most part I had
pretty easy work of it, but sometimes I came to
a deep place, where I was forced to swim for a
considerable distance; again I was often pre?
cipitated headlong into deep water by the pre?
cipitous nature ol the rocky bed of the stream.
- " Talk about the darkness of the grave! The
frave itself could not have been more impalpa
ly dark than the passage I was following. The
occasional rippling of t?c water was an inex?
pressibly dear sound to my cars. Day and
night were the same to me. At last, wearied
with my efforts,.I laid down on a compatively
dry rock to rest, and must have slept for hours.
When I awoke again I took to the water, care?
fully ascertaining-which way it ran, so as not
to lose my labor by retracing my steps. It
seemed to me that the farther I went the more
difficult progress became. When I had gone
perhaps a mile, I came to a place where the
archway narrowed so much that I had to crawl
on my hands and knees in the water.
" Here Was a dilemma I had not looked for.
I tried either bank of the river, but found no
passage. I could swim under water for a con?
siderable distance, but the distance before me
was unknown, and I halted long before making
the dangerous- venture. At last I concluded
that my fiite was equally doubtful in returning
as in proceeding, and plunged boldly into the
current, and soon found that it was so swift in
its confined passage, that I only needed to. hold
my breath to go through. In the course of
twenty or thirty feet I again got my head above
water, and took a long breathing spell. Again
the archway above seemed to enlarge and the
bed of the stream became even. I sped along
comparatively rapidly, keeping my hands out?
stretched to prevent my running against the
jagged rocks. Wearied out, I again laid down
and slept soundly in my wet clothes.
" On awakening, I pursued my course down
the subterranean stream, and at last in the long
distance ahead, saw a glimmer that looked very
bright in the darkness I was then shut in.
Nearing this, I found that it did not increase in
brightness; and when I had gone perhaps a
mile, I came to. another place where my path
uarrowed to the very tunnel filled by the water.
My case was now becoming more desperate. I
could not possibly retrace my steps, so I sub?
mitted myself to "the current, and was immeas?
urably overjoyed to find myself swept into day?
light. Exhausted and half drowned, I crept
out upon the land and was not long in recogni?
sing the objects about me. .1 had come out in?
to the Greenbrier river, as I knew from the fa?
miliar look of Gen. Davis's mill on the bank.
On reaching home I found that I had been
over forty-eight hours in making my perilous
journey of six miles underground." Toe hole
where this man went through is now fenced
round. On listening, one can plainly hear the
rush of water below, and a stone thrown down
will sometimes be heard to splash- in the stream.
?Muskegxtn (Mich.) Enterprise.
The Noeth asv the South.?The follow?
ing are extracts from the inaugural address of
Gov. Alcorn, of Mississippi: "The North and
the South have long been distinguished by gen?
eral divergencies of mind. The Southern
thinking took the direction of a pure intellec?
tuality. That of the North followed the less
lofty, but very much safer flight of material
wisdom. Southern statesmen have ever sought
and ever found strength among this people by
achievements in political theories, while the
statesmen of the North pursued the less bril?
liant but more judicious course of achievements
in behalf of industrial greatness. The one
group of thinkers gave their section doctrines
on the theory of government, while the other
group gave their section fishing bounties, coas?
ting laws, harbor improvements, steamship sul>
sidies, navy yards, nile manufactories, railway
grants, and all those other gifts of practical
wisdom by which they had been enabled to ac?
cept triumphs of Southern theories with the
assured patience of men who had entered on
the policy of erecting a physical strength which
could, at its own good pleasure, crush those
theories into powder under their heels.
"John C. C'alhoun's genius was of the very
noblest. It has left to the Southern people the
elevating influence of brotherhood within tran?
scendent intellects But with this tribute to the
memory of a great man, what, let me ask, have
the triumphs of his wonderful mind given to
the people he loved well, if not wisely? In
tenderness for his lame, I do not ask you to
turn your eyes for an answer to his beloved
South. Look, for an indirect rcplv, to the ca?
nals, the railways, the harbors, the fishing fleets,
the coasting fleets of the North 1 If these do
not speak out to you a plain answer as to the
results accomplished by Southern devotion to
political abstractions, while the North followed
paths leading to material strenghth, look for a
more pointed summing up of all these in that
climax of the comparison of the Southern with
the Northern school of statesmanship, presen?
ted to us on an occasion of profound humilia?
tion under the apple tree of Appomattox."
? A blushing damsel called at one of the
agencies the other day to buy a sewing machine.
"Do you want a feller ?" inquired tue modest
clerk in attendance. The ingenious maid re?
plied with, some asperity i "No, sir; I have
one!"
? A little cotton batting, wet with BWeet oil
and laudanum, put in the ear, will cure ear?
ache in the beginning of it.
? A cynical bachelor suggests to us that
many of the girls of the period are less facts
than figures^ J
Wonderful Discovery.
I Many of our readers will no doubt remember
the great excitement which existed about a year
ago in this vicinity, caused by the assertion of
an old negro sorceress that a quantity of the
treasure of the once celebrated Captain Kidd
was buried at a short distance from the Nation?
al Cemetery, near what is familiarly known as
the " Devil's Punch Bowl." Quite a number
of our colored citizens, believing the stories of
this old woman, engaged in the work of digging
for the hidden treasure in a spot where, by the
aid of the black art, she had pronounced it to
be buried.
They progressed in their " labor of love " (of
gain) for a number" of weeks, without success,
and finally gave up in despair, a heavy rain
having discommoded them to a discouraging
extent. Time passed on, and the event has
perhaps escaped the minds of nearly all to
whom the mysterious affair was cognizant, and
but for the event which we are about to chron?
icle, would perliaps have never disturbed their
brains again. However, we will on to our sto?
ry, which is as strange as it is true.
* Shortly after a heavy storm, a few weeks ago,
a couple of negro boys, while hunting in the vi?
cinity of the excavations made by the discom?
fited treasure seekers of one year since, chanced
lo find a dingy, rusty old square box, which
was so bound about with metal as to almost re?
semble an iron box. It was with difficulty that
the two combined could move it, and to carry
it was out of the question.
While one of them remained near this queer
looking old box, the other went home for his
father. The father, his wife, and another col?
ored man, repaired to the spot, and remember?
ing the old sorceress' tale, at once concluded
they had found at least a portion of the treas?
ure. Events have proved that they were not
amiss in their conjectures. But they moved very
cautiously iD the matter, lest they should be
discovered, and so, under the cover of night,
the box was removed to their little cottage. Up
to the early part of this week they confided
their secret to no living person, but a serious
affair having occurred "between the boys, the
matter (being at first but vaguely hinted at)
came to the ears of our reporter. He repaired
to the house on Wednesday night for the pur?
pose of examining the treasure found. The
box in which it was found is about three feet
long by two feet wide, evidently made of a spe?
cies of cedar, and is firmly bound bv strips of
iron, running around laterally and diagonally,
and fastened with long nails, clinched inside.
The treasure consists principally of ancient
Spanish gold and silver coin, dated from 1450
up to 1530, and it is adjudged that there is at
least $30,000 worth of them. Besides the coin,
there are several gold buckles and various oth?
er articles, seemingly to have been worn as or?
naments. A great number of silver ornaments
were in the box, which, it appeared, were used
as some part of their sword trappings.
It is impossible to tell what metal any of the
coins or ornaments are composed of by their
looks, for all have a mouldy, green appearance,
fully attesting to the lapse of time since they
were buried. A little golden cross, with an
image of our Saviour, establishes the religion
of tile people who buried the treasure, and from
the dates on the various coins it is believed
that the treasure thus unearthed at this late day
was buried by none other than the great Her
nando Dc Soto and his followers, about the
year 1540, as it is well known that the discov?
erer of the mighty Mississippi was in this vi?
cinity about that time, and also that he was
seriously troubled by the hostile Indians.
A niece of parchment found in the box was
so old and musty that no characters could be
discerned upon it. As a whole, the discovery
of this long hidden treasure forms no inconsid?
erable event in our history, and will throw a
new light upon the adventures of the hardy
Spaniards who frequented the spot where now
stands our beautiful city, centuries ago. A
number of individuals have visited the hut, and
examined the coins, and all agree with the
views of the writer as to whom the treasure was
buried by.
A prominent gentleman has bargained for
the box and its contents, with a view of remov?
ing them to New York, where the coins will
bring a large price from antiquaries.?Natchez
New South.
The Romance of a Newsboy.
The Boston correspondent of the Chicago
Journal tells the following:
Years ago, about the time the war broke out,
one of the shrewdest newsboys that ever sung
the spng of the bulletin board or peddled the
extra, managed to go down into Virginia with
a Massachusetts regiment, and finally controlled
the exclusive sale of New York and Boston pa?
pers in the wake of a sutler. He was fifteen
years old at that time, but he had the business
capacity of a merchant's clerk. All he needed
was opportunity. Brains was his capital, for
the most part. In the course of a year the boy
had accumulated $2,700, which he invested in
tobacco and cigars, and smokers' goods gener?
ally. Being a clever, accommodating boy, he
made friends with everybody, and consequently
a thriving business. After a while he got out
of the tobacco business, and went to Wasliing
ington, where he hung out his shingle as a gro?
cer, in a small way, and having an extensive
acquaintance among the Massachusetts soldiers,
and knowing almost every officer of note, he es?
tablished a large trade in the. way of furnishing
luxuries, etc., lor officers and their friends, and
finally his place became a sort of headquarters
for the outfit for sutlers. When the war closed,
and alter Grant and Lee held that memorable
confab under a certain apple tree, our newsboy
found himself good for$30,000 or $40,000. But
he did not leave Washington with the return of
peace. He lingered there until profits were
small and trade was on the wane, and when he
did leave for Boston he brought home with him
the heart of a young heiress, which he had the
year before attacked, and which had capitulated
to him. The events which had rendered the
young lady an heiress were fraught with sor?
row. When she was but a helpless, wailing
baby, her mother fled her home and child, and
was divorced. Her only brother a wild but
high-spirited youth, shocked at his mother's
conduct, put to sea in a merchant vessel en?
gaged in the China trade. The vessel perished,
and the crew were never more heard of. Her
father, whose sole heiress she now was, sent the
young lady to a fashionable boarding school
(it was the year the rebellion commenced,)
where she remained until the completion of her
eighteenth year. She had learned to sing,
dance, play, and dress fashionably, and was
well acquainted with the names or' natures of
patriotism, beneficence, social duty or moral
responsibility ; and life seemed to her a gorge?
ous banquet. She went to Washington with
friends, hoping to captivate some young and
brave, affluent and noble man, in the career of
fashionable life, when she was met by the per?
ambulating Boston newsboy, who proved him?
self.as shrewd in love matters as he had been
in business affairs. Jt is unnecessary to add
that the intelligent glances of a pair of the
handsomest hazel eyes in the universe reached
down into the palpitating heart of the heiress,
and after a while, to mako a long story short,
the epistolary correspondence conveyed by Un?
cle Sam's mail bags between a certain quiet
town in Maryland and the Boston post office was
increased, nor was it diminished until the " two
souls with but a single thought, two hearts that
beat as one," were made man and wife. The
happy event occurred; on Washington's birth?
day, m this city. The young dh?i says he owes
his success in life thus far to a diligent atten?
tion to business, honesty, goaheadativeness, and |
a polite treatment to both friends and strangers.
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? A rural New York paper urges that no?
tices of marriages and deaths si ould always be
paid fori because one is an advertisement of
copartnership,, and the other is a notict; of dis?
solution, and business is business.
? If men's faults were written on their fore?
heads, broad-brimmed hate would be fashiona?
ble.
The True System of Panning.
Trying to do much is a common error into
which the farmer often falls. His great eager?
ness in striving to be rich >" -''"btless the cause
of his error. He is amb'cious and energetic,
and forms his plans on a large scale, too often,
perhaps, without counting the cost. He buys
a large farm and wants to be called a "large
farmer," without understanding or considering
the true elements that constitute a real farmer.
He fancies the greatness of that profession, as
is too often the common estimate, to be in pro?
portion to the number of acres, not to say cul?
tivated, embraced within the boundaries of his-1
domain. The fact is now being spread abroad,
that a large farm does not make a man either
rich, contented, or happy, but on the contrary,
the reverse of all these, unless well tilled, where
his labor is rewarded by ample crops and fair
success in the various departments in which he is
engaged. No farmer can realize the full bene?
fits of his profession without adopting a thor?
ough system of culture. His success, commen?
surate to his wishes, always depends upon the
manner in which he prepares his grounds,
plants his seeds, and rears his stock. Neither
of these departments, which may be considered
the cardinal ones of his profession, will take care
of themselves. The soil may be" rich, but it
needs culture. His seed may be sown, but it
should be in due time, and always on soil well
Sreparcd, and of a suitable quality for the pro
uction of the crop desired. His stock must
be constantly cared for?it derives its thrift
from the soil, and sends again to that soil the
sustenance that it requires; but this is not done
in a loose or hap-hazard way. The farmer's
care is required, and all his better judgment
must be exercised in keeping up this system of |
reciprocal benefits that may be realized by ev?
ery intelligent and industrious farmer.
Thorough cultivation and systematic atten?
tion to ail parts of business is indispensable to
a good degree of success. The very corner?
stone to this whole system of farming, is to do
what you do thoroughly?nature will not be
cheated and never give full returns to the half
way work that is practiced by vastly too many
calling themselves farmers. If the land has
been worn, the extent of that exhaustion and
the food required must be first considered.
When ascertained, the full measure of these re?
quirements must be given, to bring out full re?
turns. If the farmer has but a small stock, and
consequently but a small amount of manure to
replenish his land, it is obvious that but a small
farm can be supplied with it; and good judg?
ment at once dictates that to cultivate properly
a large farm,' artificial mannres must be used if |
good crops arc obtained. And so with the la?
bor; two men cannot suitably till one hundred
acres of land, when the labor of two, and per?
haps four, might be profitably employed on
seventy-five.acres.
This is the great error in farming. Two men
strive to do what four can hardly do, and thus
thousands of acres are run over, half tilled, and
producing half crops. The land is run over till
worn out, sustaining year after year the annual
tax, till its energies are entirely exhausted, and
it fails to yield even a feeble crop, because its
life is worn out.
The light that is being spread abroad on this
subject is beginning to correct this practice to
some extent^but in most instances very little is
returned to the soil to keep.it alive, till after
several years of continual cropping it manifests
signs of exhaustion and ultimate barrenness.
When tillers of the soil understand their true
interests, they will cultivate no more of the
land than they can do well. Fifty acres of land
for tillage, brought to a high state of cultiva?
tion, pays better than one hundred run over in
the way that many do.
A Practical Joke axd its Result.?The
San Francisco Gulden City relates an "amusing
adventure which recently befell a resident of
the city, whom they call Jones for convenience
sake. He was an eccentric individual, and his
fellow workmen in the- manufactory where he
was employed sought to indulge in a little fun
at his expense, and succeeded in getting a let?
ter mailed at New York addressed to him, sta?
ting that, by the death of a distant relative in
England, he had fallen heir to the sum of $50,
000, and that a solicitor had come over to New
York to hunt him up. Jones received the let?
ter, and spoke of it in good faith to his fun
loving companions, who gravely urged him to
write, to a prominent lawyer in New York, sta?
ting his case, and asking the legal gentleman to
sec about it. Jonas was foolish enough to take
this advice.' In due time?much to the aston?
ishment of his associates?he*rcceivcd a genu?
ine letter from the lawyer, who, by one of the
prettiest coincidences in the world, happened to
be at that time engaged in looking up a person
of exactly the same name as our Mr. Jones,
who was entitled, by the .will of an English
gentleman who died a few years ago, to the sum
of not ?50,000 exactly, but the sum of ?4,500
sterling, or about $20,000. Jones happened to
be the very man"himself, and he immediately
left his work in a state of high excitement, took
a trip to New York, and had no difficulty in
Eroving his identity and establishing his claim,
[e returned to San Francisco a few days since
with funds amounting to ?18,000, (expenses
having been deducted from the original sum,)
which might never have found him but for the
disposition of his comrades to practical joking.
Stanton and Taxey.?The Cincinnati En?
quirer says: " In 1830 Roger B. Taney was ap?
pointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
the United States. He held the office until
1805, when he died, a period of twenty-nine
years. Indeed, since the beginning of this cen?
tury up to 1805, there had been but two Chief
Justices, John Marshall and Roger B. Taney.
The latter died full of years and honors. Du?
ring his long administration the most important
{tolitical and judicial questions were decided.
Iis integrity was* never disputed. He died
poor. He left his family destitute. He left
two daughters, who now labor as copyists in
Washington, in order to obtain a livelihood.
His bust is not in the vacant niche provided for
ex-Supreme Court Justices. While such has
been the treatment of an illustrious Chief
Judge, who sat nearly thirty years upon the
bench, but who disagreed with the party in
power, what are the honors meted out to Ed?
win M. StantOh, who was appointed as an As?
sociate Justice, but who never entered one day
upon its duties, and never was sworn into
place? His family is to receive a year's sala?
ry, although they are not in need of it, being
left in possession of an ample estate, which has
been greatly added to by the subscription of in?
dividual friends. Mr. Stan ton's politics agree
with those of the T)arty in power. Hence the
discrimination in Iiis favor, and hence the mon?
strous injustice involved in the treatment of
him, as contrasted with Hoger B. Taney, who
was for nearly a third of a century an orna?
ment of the bench upon which Stanton never
sat. This is a remarkable instance of partisan
unfairness and injustice*.
? Holding crops for large prices is at best a
hazardous operation, and it often happens that
the very sluewdest men are egrcgiously disap?
pointed in the results of such a policy. We sec
in one of our exchanges the following from
Michigan: "A good many farmers about here
who have held their wheat for two years for
higher prices, feel rather cheap over it now.
One in this town has 1,(500 bushels now on hand,
and I can name several others within six miles
of me who have from 3 to 700 bushels." And
the same policy is pursued by some of the cot?
ton planters of the South, though to a limited
extent, for the necessities of our people, the
heavv taxes they have to pay, and old debts, d?.
not leave much chance as yet for hoarding
either cotton or cash. The true policv of the
fiirmer is to sell the crop whenever a fair prico
can be obtained, and leave speculation to the
speculators.
? A crusty old bachelor says that Adam's
wife was called Eve because when she appear?
ed man's day of happiness was drawing to a
Origin of the Ku Klux.?A word about
the Ku Klux. There is no such order now in
existence. Those who claim to represent it
are simply bandits. The genuine Ku Klux
never existed outside of Tennessee, and exist?
ed there only to a limited extent and for a1
brief period. " The Government bad withdrawn
its protection from the people, Brownlow had
organized a troop of roving militia, composed
chiefly of negroes, and officered by convicts
whom he had pardoned out of the State prison
for the purpose. Women and children were
being murdered every day and night in cold
blood. No home was secure. No life was safe.
The courts were closed against the people. The
few laws that were allowed to remain on the
statute books were denied them. The middle
portion of the State was in complete anarchy,
and self-protection was the only security within
reach of citizens. The Ku Klux Klan was a
purely defensive organization. It numbered
the oldest, best and most peaceable men. Its
spirit was judicial, its acts were orderly, and its
Eurpose was self-preservation. Through its
rief but benign influence order was restored,
legal redress was granted, the official robbers
and assassins dispersed, and society settled into
its normal state. Then the Ku'Klux Klan
vanished as mysteriously and noiselessly as it
had appeared, and we pray God it may never
again become indispensable to the peace of any
neighborhood in any part of the Union.?Louis'
ville Cmiricr-Journal.
Making Newspapers.?Every column of a
newspaper contains from five to twenty thous?
and distinct pieces of metal, according to the
size of paper and type. The displacement of |
a single one makes an error. Is it any wonder
that errors occur ? In larger offices, profession
al proof-readers are kept, whose practised eyes,
passing twice over every line or proof, detect
most of the errors; a boy also kept for that pur' |
pose at the same time reading the copy aloud.
Still mistakes are frequently found, after com?
ing from such hands, and probably no newspa?
per or book was ever published without errors
that might be detected by the merest novice.
In book printing, it is estimated that proof?
reading costs half as much as the composition.
In country offices, the editor has to be his own
foreman, job-printer, book keeper, and almost
everything else, and if the same care had to be
exercised that is deemed indispensable on the
best city sheets, a country newspaper could not
be published at all because of the expense.
-?:
? Bruises are relieved by applying warm
water.
? An actor ought to be a happy man ; his
work is to play.
? A persevering application of cold water is
the best remedy for common burns.
? "Hum', mamma," said a little innocent |
with his finger cut; "hurry, it's leaking."
? "Now, my little boys and girls," said a
teacher, "I want you to be very quiet?so quiet
that you can hear a pin drop."
In a minute all was silent; when a little boy
shrieked, "Let her drop!"
? Never count the time gained which is sub?
tracted from sleep. Ample and regular hours
of rest are necessary for hard-working persons,
and "an hour of sleep before midnight is worth
two after it."
Call and See!!
NOW IN STORE AND TO ARRIVE,
NEW GOODS,
Of every variety, including Ladies' Dress Goods,
Notions, Bleached and Unbleached Shirtings,
Flannels, etc., etc., etc. Boots und Shoes, Hard?
ware, Cutlery, Crockery ware and Groceries.
We have on hand Spices, of all kinds; Cur?
rants, Citron, Cinnamon Bark, etc. Also, n eom
pletc assortment of Flavoring Extracts, Ti>ilet
Soaps and 1'erfumery.
The ladies are particularly invited lo call and
see our stock of JEWELRY, which is composed of
the latest styles worn.
In exchange for goods we take barter of nearly
ever}' description.
Highest market prices given for cotton, an 1
liberal advances made on cotton shipped through
us lor sale in New York.
CATER k MARTIN,
No- 10 Granite Row, Anderson, S. C.
Nov 11, I8??9 20
Greenville & Columbia Railroad.
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE, \
Columbia, January 15, 1870. ]
! . ON and after WEDNESDAY, January 1?), the
following Schedule will be nm daily, Sunday ex?
cepted, connecting with Night Train on South
Carolina Road, up and down, and with Night
Train on Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Road
going North: ?
L'vc Columbia 7.00 a m
" Alston 8.40 a m,
?? Newb'ry 10.10 a m
Arr. Abbeville 3.00 p m
1 Anderson 4.20 p m
1 Gr'nvillc 5.00 p m
L've Greenville 5.45 am
" Anderson 0.25 a m
" Abbeville 8.00 a m
'* Newb'ry 12.35 p m
" Alston 2.10 p m
Arr. Columbia 8.45 p m
T.be Train will return from Belton to Anderson
on Monday and Friday mornings.
JAMES O. MEREDITH, Gen. Sup't.
Jan 20, 1870 80
r
TO THE WORKING CLASS?We arc now
prepared to furnish all classes with constant em?
ployment at home, the tsHoIo of the time or for
the spare moments. Business new, light and pro?
fitable. Persons of either sex easily earn from 50c.
to $? per evening, and a proportional sum by de?
voting their whoJe time to the business. Boys and
girls earn nearly as mach as men. That all who see
this notice may send their address, nnd test the bus?
iness, we make this unparalleled offer: To such as
are not well satisfied, we will send $1 to pay for the
trouble of writing. Full particulars, a valuable
sample, which will doto eemmen.ee work on, nnd a
copy of The People's Literary Gbmpanion?one of the
largest aad best family newspapers published?nil'
sent free by mail. Reader, if you want permanent,
profitable work.ndikes* E. C. ALLEN &CO., Au?
gusta, Maine. 32?3m
Tutt's Vegetable Liver Pills !
For Liver Complaint, Billiousness, &o.
Tutt's Sarsaparilla and Queen's Delight,
For purifying the blood.
Tutt's Expectorant,
For Cough's, Cold's, Consumption, &c, &<?
Tutt's Improved Hair Dye,
The best in the world,
Arc for sale in Anderson by Walter's Sl Baker,
Druggists, and Druggists and Merchants generally
throughout the United Stales.
July 20 1809 & lj
Schedule Blue Ridge Railroad.)
ON aud after this date the following schedule
will be observed by the Passenger Trains over
this Road i
up. nowN.
L've Anderson, 4.20 p m
? Pcndleton, 5.20 "
?i Perry ville, 6.10 "
Arr. Walhalla, 7.00
L've Walhalla, 3.30 am
u Perry ville, 4.10 "
<? Pondlctons 5.10? ?*
Arr. Anderson, 0.10 "
Iu cases of detention on the G. and C. H. R.,
the train on this Road will wait one hour for the
train Prom Belton, except on Saturdays, when it
will wait until the arrival of the Belton traia.
W. II. D. GA1LLARD, Sup'fc.
March 10, 1870 87
TlCKERSON HOUSE,
Columbia, S? C.
THE undersigned having renewed his lease up?
on the above popular House, will endeavor to
make it one of the most agreeable Hotels in the
South. A call from the public is respectfully so?
licited.
j?" Free Omnibus to and from the Hotsl.
WM. A. WRIGHT, Proprietor.
July 15,1809 3 fon
Charleston Advertisement*!.
FARMERS !
Increase Your Crops and Improve Yocur
Laud, by using
PHffiMX GUANO,
Imported by ns direct from the Phewlx Ii?*
lauds, South Pacific Ocean*
Wilcox, Gibbs & Co/s
MANIPULATED GUANO.
Prepared at Savannah, Ga., and Charles?
ton, S. ?., which baa proved la the soil the
best Manure la use.
Guano, Salt and Plaster Compound,
Also manufactured at Savannah 4c Charles?
ton. For sale for Cash or on time, by
WILCOX, GIBBS & CO,
Importers & Dealers in
94 BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, OA.,
61 EAST BAY-9T., CHARLESTON, S. C.
241 BROAD ST., AUGUSTA, OA.
For further information, address as above for*
circular, or subscribe to Southern Agrieulturutf
published by W. C. Macmurpby & Co., at August*
and Savannah, Ga., at the low price of 2?c. pe/
annum.
W, S. 8H?RFE, Ag?nt,
Anderson, S. C*
Dec 16; 1869* 25 4a( .
SOLUBLE SOUTH SEA GUANO.
Rhodes' Ground Gypsum.
JH3r Circulars with detailed statements fur
nished on application to the genera] agents,
B. S. RHETT & SON,
Charleston, S. C.
Or to BLECKLEY & EVINS,
Agents at Anderson C. H., S. C.
Jan 27, 1870 31 - 8m
GEORGE W. CARPENTER'S
Compound Fluid Extract of Sarsa
parilla.
GEORGE W. CARPENTER'S
Compound Fluid Extract of BuchuJ
THESE celebrated preparations, originally in?
troduced by George W. Carpenter, under the pat?
ronage of the medical faculty, have been so long:
extensively used by Physicians and others, that
i hey are generally known for their intrinsic value,,
and can be relied on as being most valuable rent
: cdies in aH cases where Sarsaparilla or Baeha are
applicabc, and cannot be too highly recommend
ed. They are prepared in a highly concentrated
form, so as to render the dose small and aonven
[ ient. Ordert! by mail or otherwise will receive
? prompt attention.
GEORGE W. CARPENTER, HENSZEV A CO.,
Wholesale Chemical Warehouse,
No. 737 Market street, Philadelphia.
For sale by Wallers & Baker and W. H. Nerdin
& Co., Anderson, S. C. Dowie & Moise, Whole?
sale Agents, Charleston, S. C.
Oct 21, 1809 17
HAVING the largest and most complete Facto?
ry jn the Southern Slates, and keep.ng always oBi
hand a large and most complete stock of DOORS,
SASHES, BLINDS, Sash Doors, Store Doors,.
Shutters, Mouldings, &c, &c, I t.m enabled t<>
sell low and at Manufacturers' prices.
N. B.?Strict attention paid to shipping in goo<?
order.
July 22, 1669 4 Sm
A. B. MULLIGAN,
COTTON FACTOR
m
AND
General Commisson Merchant,
ACCOMMODATION WHARF,
CHARLESTON, C
Liberal Advances made on Cotton*
?gf I will, wjpn placed in funds, purchase
and torward all kinds of Mcrchandtxe,. Machine?
ry, Agricultural Implements, Manures, Seeds,
Sept 23, 1168- 13 lj
J. f. KOBSON,
Commission Merchant.
Xos. 1 & 2 Atlantic Wharf,
CHARLESTON, SvC
HAVING ample mennsibr advances, a busin es?
experience of twenty years, and confioing himself
strictly to a Commission Business, without opera?
ting on his own account, respectfully solicits con?
signments of Cotton, Flour, Wheat! Corn, &o.
Shippers of Produce to him may, at their option,,
have their consignments sold either in Charleston,
or New York; thus having the advantage of two>
markets, without extra commission
inSRUCBsii
Bishop "W M Wight man, SC? Col Wm John?
ston*, Charlotte, N C; Rev T 0 Sommers, Tenn;
Ron John King, Augusta, Ga; Messrs George IT
Williams & Co,. Charleston; Messrs Williams?
Taylor & Co, New York.
Apr? 29, 1869. 44 lj
H. BtSCHOFF. C. Wl'LBKRN. J. H. riSFEB^
JOHN McFALL,
? WITH
HENRY BIS0H0FF & CO.,
WHOLESALE GRQCEBS,
A.VD MALKES IM
WINES, LIQUORS?
Cig-urs, Tobacco, &o.,
NO. 197 EAST BAY,
CHAKILIBSf?S?9 ?Dt CA.
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