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TlIK OVKl'.l.ANO MAIL AfJU Tlin PACIFIC
llAILROAI^'
The \\ a*liiiii{iy? |?:i|?ot/* have recently
linlili: liffii a lone; ailii'lo, efltHuly |?ic|?aieil
ill l'n; I'osl Oflice I h'jmtiiHMit, in ex|>hiuatiuii
?>f llio grounds of Iho selection l?y tie;
I'osl master General of the loule, r/n I'll
I'jiso, fur llie overland mall to California.
The article is loo long for insertion in our
columns. li>; importance, however, leads
us lo fiitni-.Ii a coudenscd statement of its
furls ami conclusion*, as of'particular interest
(o ns here, who have ctmccrned ourselves
so mueli in favor of the S<>ulhern
Pacific Hail road. The consid<}inlions whieh
li.vvo decided in favor ol (lie j'nnil ro:i<l mr. !
<'<iwilly decisive iu favor of a railroad
i lirough llic same piincip-il points and along
the same parallels of latitude. The
subject is introduced bv a general
\ lew of the geography, meteorology and
physical character of iho interior portions
of the country westward of the limits of
the present population with the conclusion
thai the extension of population, and the
"inarch of em pi re" must bo southwcslwar.l
I loin t ho Mississippi river. This direction
is aflirmed to be inevitable and demonstrable
from the relations between tho "moisture-laden
winds of the (Julf of Mexico"
and the cold and killing blasts from the
north, which meet, as tho north and the
south winds prevail on a fluctii.itijig line,
and sometimes bring, as for Ujo bwl two
months, hard and cold weather in Northern
Texas, and sometimes allow luxuriant grasses
011 the plains of the Arkansas jpUl tho
Kansas rivers.
The conditions of climate are decisive
jigainsi any oi the northern routes. "That
by the Soulh l'ass and tin: Salt Lake is
dismissed as not to bo considered at jlfl.?
Tli? floors of winter may lit1 .estimated
from tin: fact tliat there lias bcu'n frost-ami
i- e there on the Olst of .Inly. Il is, therefore,
clearly impracticable fur the mails...
Two other routes further Routh were left
for consideration. They arc rcspoetiyjcly
called the Albuquerque and I he 101 I'as'>
routes, those being the names of the several
points at which the Fpper llio (IrandtMs
passed. El I'aso is near the 22d parallel,
and Albuquerque near the, y.jth parallel of
nortl. latitude. li' i converge at Little
Mock, in Arkansas, pursuing one line I hence
to Memphis. The upper route proceeds
directly west from Little Luck to l'ort
Smith, on the western boumhuy of Arkansas,
and thence through the Indian Territory
and New Mexico, and across the Rio
Grande at Albuquerque, and through William's
Fork, to Los Angdos. The other
deflects southwardly to Fulton, in Southwestern
Arkanas, whence it takes a route
across Texas to lit l'aso, and tlience through
New Mexico and the Valley of the Gila to
Sail Diego. Our readers know how short a
connection opens Fulton to Marshall, in
Texa>, the initial point of the Southern
Pacific road, and thus opens the wholo line
to l he Mississippi at New OiU-ans. Between
these two routes the Postmaster General
was called upon to decide, after excluding
i lie nothern routes generally, and the South
Pass and Salt Lake lines as impracticable.
The first point was that of comparative
length. In this the difference is too slight
to he considered. ]">> the upper route, the
distance from San Francisco to Memphis is
estimated at 2,202 miles ; by tho lower
_ route, at 2,222. i
The subject of climate is the next topic.
That of the Albuquerque route is affected
1 y the gicater height of the mountainous
plateau in which it runs, which is nearly
3,000 feet higher than that of the El Paso
line./ The result is that in the former
there is often extremely sevcrt weather in
winter. The thermometer often falls many
Agrees below zero, and men on detached
yduty are often badly frozen there. The
/ snow in the mountain psisses has laid two
/ f..~l \f 1- ? ! -
j iwfc y 111 ihiucu> xiic temperature ai
' El Paso >3 compa atively mild ; the snow
j never lies 011 tlio plains, and the thermometer
never falls to zero.
t In addition to this superiority of climate,
/ i'V.*.-" the I'll Paso route was asserted to have the
preference from the greater range of well
/ - ? watered and eullivatahle country through
which it passes. Of this, testimony is quo
. to I from the reports of exploring oflicers?
.' . * more particularly that of Captain John
Pope, who, speaking of the immense region
of desert which stretches down the interior
of tliis continent, remarks that between the
32? and 33? of north latitude its continuity
is broken, and that a broad belt of well
watered and well timbered country projects
into the " parched and treeless waste o' the
, * plains," and approaches to within three hun?
died miles of the Rio Grande, at El Paso.
* The same fact is corametiled upon by Capt,
Marcy.
Of the country beyond the Rio Grande,
lliA coma f?iunrtil\!o ' 4?*!
I.MU ? ???/ mivMiviv wiivuiiCIIW Ml IVSUIIJUny
is quoted to show that tlie El Paso is
best iu every important particular?tlint it
is veil watered for hundreds of miles, lias
fine timber, and. a! ounds in game and cattle.
On some of the stations ono or two
aitesian^ifells may bo required in the diy
season. It is the ordinary track selected
for the principal herds which are driven
across the contiuent, as the only well water
?-ed. route.
Too general distinction is that the uncultivatable
belt of the desert is from 350 to
400 miles shorter on tho line of the 23d
p.uatyel tljan Qit the lino o{ the 26th par*
? e - . .
/These comparisons are supported by the
tQt^ony of such officers as.Major Emory,
.Capt^ Ca'pj^Gi^y, Gomroismoiier
Barllett. -Caflt. 'Ifttibttlnies. Lieut, lf*nrv_
And other explorers, and tfce jrecordbd opin
ion '&( die fete Secretary*^of War, who
reported after nfl. exknafonfiott of tUi the
facts acfeaiible to liito at tli^ time, hat
xvhicb have since Been forfracd by new die- i
eovcrics and further explorations* "that the ]
p -f-jl- ftn I ->--11-1 /tCVl
i* not only the tduutppl and ?t??stly route
to the I'lUMlhy' hill "Ihe v1n>it?;sl and cheap
put route to San Kiaiicisco, tlm greatest
commercial city on our Wc.lcrn coasts,"
'J he agreement, of tact * i tar clearer as to
the wisdom *?f the selct li<>n of the route for
the overland mail, and il is .still stronger for
the wisdom of carrying the railroad along
the same route, that which is designated,
and will he improved and built upon l>y the
Southern I'acilio Company in this city.?
Xcw Orleans I'icayttnc.
THE MAI) DOG.
]>rcadt'ul as hydrophobia may be to the
human being, rabies is worse to the dog.
ll makes its approach more gradually. It
lasts lunger ami is more intense wliilo it
endures. The dog that is going mad, feels
'ii well for a long lime prior to I he full development
of the disease. He is very ill,
l>ut he does not know what ails him. lie
feels nasty; dissatisfied with everything;
vexed without a reason ; very snappish.?
Keeling thus, ho longs to avoid all annoyance
by being alone. This makes him
seem strange to those who are most accustomed
to him.
Tito sensation induces him lo seek solitude.
But there is another reason which
d cides his choice of a resting place. The
light indicts upon him the most intense
agony. The sun is to him an instrument
of torture, which he therefore studies to
avoid, for his brain aches and feels as if it
were a trembling jelly. This induces the
poor brute to lind out the holes and corners
where he is least likely to be noticed,
and into which the light is unable to enter.
If his reheat is discovered and ilif>
voice bids Iiim lo come forth, the affectionate
creature's countenance brightens, liis
tail beats the ground, and lie loaves bis
biding place, anxious to o' cy the loved authority
; but before he has gone half the
distance, a kind of sensation comes over
bini, which produces an instantaneous
change in his whole nppcarancc. lie seems
to sav to himself, " Why can't you lot nie
alone? do away. I >?? go away. You
trouble, you pain me." And thereon lie
suddenly turns and darts back into his dark
corner. If let alone, there he will remain;
perhaps frothing a little at the mouth, and
drinking a great deal of water, but not issuing
from his biding placc lo seek after
food. His appetites are altered ; hair,
straw, dirt, tilth, excrement, rags, tin shaving,
stones, the most noisome and unnatural
substances are then the delicacies for which
the poor dog, changed by disease, longs
for and swallows, in liope to ease a burning
stomach. lie is now altogether
changed.
Stiil lie does not desire to bile mankind ;
Jiy rather endeavors to avoid society ; he
takes long journeys of thirty or forty miles
in extent, and lengthened l?y all kinds of
accidents, to vent his restless desire for motion.
When on these journeys he docs
not walk. This would be too formal and
.measured a pace for an animal whoso whole
frame quive swith excitement. He does
liot run. That would be too great an exertion
for a animal whose body i& the abode of
a deadly sickness, lie proceeds in a slouching
manner, in a kiud of a trot ; a movejnont
ueither a run or walk, and his aspect
is dejected. His eyes do not glare, and
stare, but they are dull and ictracjcd. His
I "
appearance is very characteristic, and, if
once&en, can never afterwards be mistaken,
f.. m . ..
an una aittiu uu win iravci mo most dusty
roads, his tongue hanging dry from his
open mouth, from which, however, there
drops no foam. His course is not straight.
How could it bo, sinco it is doubtful whether
at this period he sees ft all ? His desire is
to journey unnoticed. If no one notices
him, lie gladly passes by them. He is very
'ill. Ho cannot stay lo bite. If, nevertheless,
Ylnything opposes his progress, he
will, as if by impulse, snap?as a man in a
similar stale might strike, and tell the person
to get out of his way,. He may take
his road across a Geld in which there is a
Hook of- sheep. Could these creatures only
make room for hiin, and stand motionless,
the ^log. would pass on and leave them be
hind uititijuicd. But they- begin to run,
and'at. the. sound, the dog pricks up. Ilia
entire nspcct changes. Rngo takes possession
of him. "What made that noise ! lie
pursues it with all the energy of madness,
lie Hies nt one, then at another. ILo does
not iftangle, nor is his bite, simply considered,
(terrible. lie cannot pause to tear
the creature he lias caught. He snaps and
then rushes onward, till fairly exhausted and
unable longer to follow, he sinks down, and
the skfap- pas* forward to be no more molested.
Ho may hate bitten twenty or
thirty in his mad onslaught; and would
have worried, more had his strength lasted,
for the ftiror^ madness then had possession
of him/'
He may bo slain while on these oxcur
sions; but if lio escapcs he returns home
and seeks tho darkness and quiet of his
former abode, llis thirst increases; but
with it comes tho swelling of tho throat.?
He will plunge his head into water, so
ravenous is bis"desire; but not a drop of
the liquid can he swallow, though its surface
is covered- with bubbles fn ooosequenco
of the effort he makes to gulp the smallest
quantity. The throat is enlarged to that'
extent which will.peimit nothing to pks&~v
lie is the victim of the most horrible inflammation
of the.8tomachr and tlut most
intense inflammation the bowels.'
llis state of suffering is moat pitiable.?
He has loet all self-reliance; oven feeling isgone.
He flies at and pulls to piecfe
thing thai is witlflb his reach. One anihnal
in tlTis condition, being conflnod near * fire,
flow nt the burning out the
lire coals, and in bis fury crunched lb em.
He emits the most hideous crtafc the
noise he makes is inccmritand peculiar,
ft begiiia M^lKiprk, which so being too
, r,' ? 'Jt, .A i ? |* 0 fT f?rl IT i, t,Z ..I, fjj. ,A .. .
ed to it howl, which is suddenly cut short
in the middle; and so (lie |???or wretch nt
I tint falls, fairly worn out l?y tliii terrible
disease.
FEMALE DHESH.""
Tho extravagance of female dress h outrageous.
If your lino ladies did but know
liow their fully Appears in tlic eyes of senuiblo
men lliey would surely pause in their
career. Wo will venture a word or two in
explanation of what wo mean. One cause
of extravagance is, obviously, the dread of
being supposed to wear dresses that are not
of the newest mode. Certainly the dresses
of this season could not possibly have been
furnished l>y tlioso of any preceding fasbion
of our time. Whenco the dread of being
supposed to wear tho same dress two
^cars together? Wo fear that Sovereigns
011 real thrones, as well as those of fashions,
arc chiefly answerable for this. German,
Polish, and Russian gentlemen arc not at
all obliged to tho Dowager limpress of
llussia, who exclaims, when a dress appears
a second time in Court, " Ah my dear
Countess, how well I know that brocade!
What skill you have in preserving satins!"
ller view of things has spread through too
many Courts, by way of Vicuna. One true
lady, an Arch-duchess, very nearly related
lo two thrones, w.is so much struck by this
mischief, that she appeared on one occasion,
by way of reprimand, in a dress which sho
had for fourteen years. That was long ago.
Till somo sensible woman of suflicieut rank
gives sueli rebuke lo the silly spendthrifts
in her train, tho mimicry of tlio follies of
loyally and fashion will go on, with such
couscfpieiicbs as wo have seen. Meantime,
if our fair readers could but imagine us an
Arch-duchess, whispering a friendly hint
behind a fan, we could tell them something
which they ought to hear. There is a smile
going round jut rope at the simplicity of the
line ladies of England, France, and America,
in their worship of Paris fashions. Bo
cause :i beautiful young Empress found it
convenient, giving an heir to llie throne, to
revive the fashion of full pctticoats?com
lug as near llie hoop-disguise as possible?
what must old do wages and young maidens
do but copy the dress without tho excusc !
The public of all countries are less blind ;
and they arc watching for a less or more
disguising dress ill all countries where there
is an aristocracy, according to the prospect
of a series of heirs to the French throne, or
of there being oidy one. We need say 110
more. Dowagers and high-born and highly-dressed
maidens cannot recall the past,
nor prevent the world smiling at it. They
had better take oil' their flounces and draw
iu their skirts, resolve to bo more indepenliAvt
concAn " 1 - -11 11
...... UV...1VM, Him iiuuvu mi, pity an
debts at onec for that which is gone.
CURIOUS TABLE OF FIGURE8.
Just liaix.1 this tabic to a lady and request
her to tell you in which culuinns her age
is contained.?Add together llio figures at
the top of tlie columns iu which lier age is
found, and you have tho great secret.?
Thus, suppose her ago to be seventeen.
You will find tho number seventeen only in
two columns, viz: the first and the fifth,
and tho first figures at the head of these
columns make seventeen. Here is the
inagio table:
1 2 4 8 10 32
3 3 5 9 17 33
5 G 6 10 18 34
7 7 7 11 19 36
9 10 12 12 20 30
11 11 13 13 21 37
13 It 14 14 22 38
15 15 15 15 "23 30
17 18 20 24 24 40
19 19 21 *25' 25 41
21 22 22 -26 20 42
23 23 23 21 27 43
25 20 28 28 28 44
2? 27 29 20 29 45
29 30 30 30 30 46
3*1 31 31 31 3i 47
33 34 30 40 48 48
35 35 37 41 49 49
37 38 38 ^2 50 50
39 39 39 43 51 51
it! a O a a a 1 _ _
w* t'i o'Z 52
43 43 45 45 53 53
45 46 46 54 54 54
4T 47 47 47 55 55
'10 50 52 50' 60 56
51 51 53 57 57 57
53 54 54 58 .58 58
55 . 55 55 59 59 59
57 58 00 00 60 60
59 59 01 61 61 61
01 02 02 02 02 02
03 03 63 63 63 68
? .
The Tongue.?A white far on the tongue
attends simple fever nnd inflammation.?
Yellowness of the tonguo attends a derangement
of the liver, nnd is common to bilious
and typhus fevers. A tongue vifridly red
ou tho tip and edge, or down the centre or
over tho whole surface, attends inflammation
of the mucous membrane of the &tomnch
or bowels. A white velvet toqgne attend*,
mental diseases. A tongue red at the
lips, becoming browuf and glazed, attends
typhus state.. The description of
symptoms might be^extended. indefinitely,
taking.in all tbejpropenBities-and obliquiiiqp}
of mental nnd moral condition,
tongue is a most egpresaivo as well asunxu-'
ly nieiober.?Scieiitific^Americarl. :
IIuvgAn Gbry^'jfaTumple <jf J&laa-^
lera passed away';and of ila. rofcgpificjenca
Only a few crmnWing, pil^fiin-kissed atones
re mai n. ' Th0 X^artlienon, Uie Wight^at'
gcna od the zono of tUe . earth, ? now ^
CHARACTERISTICS OF AMERICAN UIRLB.
Uiio <?l our d slant exchanges, in nti tirti
clc on American niils, gives their salient
points in some of tin; cities. Here art
HOII1I) samples :
The iioston youn<j woman is still niK
proper. I'lopurly slio dresses, ami la Ike
and walks. She is never near being car
ried away, nor subject to fits of fainting.?
She is strong on bouks and lectures, ami
critical to an overpowering extent.
Of Gotham, ho says:
The New York female is a distinct iruli
vidnality, recognizable under all circuni
<=?..? ? 11 1 ....
CXUIW, (Hill 111 ail piaCCS. C)IIC IS <plick
pungent, whisking, capricious ami flippant
Sho has an abhorrcnce of everything nol
" stylish," and ignores slai<l respectability
and pruilishness. Slio talks fiercely am
flirts immensely, and dresses voluminously
Tlio writer evidently has riiiludclphii
"proclivities" as the politicians say. Ilea
him :
If Philadelphia girls are not pretty, thei
where are pretty girls to he found ' W
honestly state that we begin to forget liov
?i homely girl looks. Take .1 walk u|
Chestnut street as the golden flood of th
sunset is pouring from the west, and yoi
will see such a picture as will lighten you
J. 1 .1..:.? ?-1 ? >
..on, <?iu mm?u iiieiiuiciioiv mid lliu blue
into a prolonged banishment. (!?> to tli
opera any night when there is no sacrei
concert of fifth consideration announced
AVero there ever sweeter faces to cheer tli
sovd and brighten the cyo of man ? lJi(
spring goods ever grace more graceful form
than these?
Again :
The southern girl?Baltimore, Washing
ton, and New Orleans?has lier pcculia
uliarnctertics. Sim is ;ipt to bu excessively
foml of a gentleman, dancing, and ligli
beverages. Slie dues desperate work will
her eyes and feet, and is warm hearted am
impulsive. It takes very little to rouse he
indignation, which frets angrily and dieaway
as calm and quickly as the waves 01
the sea shore sands. She is ever on th
alert for a " catch" which will pay well.?
JKxchunyc.
THRILLING SCENE AT A CAMP MEETING.
The last night of the meeting had ai
rived, the sermon was over, atul the alta
filled with penitent souls, humbly kncclinj
and seeking for the salvation of the Lori
Some two hundred person were within th.
railing intensely engaged pleading will
God for an outpouring of his Spirit, wliil
without the railing of the altar, yet withii
.1 >- p * <
liiu tuciu 01 icnis, some mice or lour linn
drcd individuals, sealed or standing, wcr
gazing with intense interest upon tli
mighty wrestling going on in the place c
prayer. Suddenly a rushing noise wa
heard, when, bursting through a vacate*
tent, came two wild and furious horses
frightened by the glare of the lights an<
the sounds of the shouts of praise an<
cries for mercy that wailed out upon tli
otherwise stillness of thoniglil; they utter
ly disregarded all efforts to arrest their pro
gross, but back and forth, over the seal
and among the crowd they galloped luri
ously onward, spreading dismay and tcrro
all around; cries for help and shrieks o
frightened women weut up from all part
of the enclosure except tho altar where tli
intensity of the seeker and the laborer a
their united cries for mercy ascended to
gather to heaven, had forbidden disturbanc
from the confusion without.
To this place tlio terror stricken animal
next beut their way. All along tho ground
some prostrate upon the earth, others kneel
itig by their side, tho people crowded to ;
perfect jam ; another moment and the hot
ses are on them. In the fury of their rage
already have they reached tlio corner of th
temporary pulpit; liorror is depicted 01
every face, when a proaoher within the desl
reached out his hand and caught the fore
most animal by the head, and his rage wa
over. As gentle as a lamb, tie horses stooi
until bridled and led away. The scene i
ended, no one is injured, tlie people repai
to their seats, the prayer meeting remain
undisturbed, and scoros of souls are convert
ed to God. Surely God was their protector
Haw to Fall Atlcep.?"The crreat noin
- ?
to be gained in order to sccuro sleep is es
cnpe from thought especially from Ilia
clinging, tenacious, imperious thoughi
which, in most cases of wakefulness, hai
possession of the mind. I always effucl
this by tho following simple process:?]
turn my eyeballs as far to tho right or left
or upward or downward, as I can without
pain, and then commence rolling them
slowly, with that divergence from a direct
lino of vision, around in their sockets, and
continue doing this until?I fall asleep;
whicht>ccqTs generally within three minutes,
and always within five at most. The iin<
mediate effect of this procedure'differs from
that of any otlier which I ever heard, to
procuie sleep. It not merely diverts
thought into a new channel, but actually
suspends it. ' "Sinc^
I became aware of this, I have
dtuleavored innumerable times, while thus
rolling my eyes, to think upon a particular
(subject, and even upon that which before
kept me aw%k*, but I could not. Atf long as
they Were moving arotind, my Wind waif a
blank. If any*0110 doubts this, Tot him try
the experiment for himself. I wish he
;j?ould; let him pause jiait here.and make
ft. I venture .to asstire him .that if he
mokes it in good faith, in manner descried,
the pvouiiso of 'n t*e y for bis
##4 MAC^n. vppn ti? tauftSPremoved,
&Wfyip ** <i*t"ratly-^ahe farm?? in
fcia chair, at! d?y fit hta fi?Jd8 "
A ITAMtLY QUARREL.
Our young (Viands who are nludyiug the
Kn^li-di (jiaiuiiier, will lie interested in the
following lilllo f;il>lo about it:
Tlio children of the ancient individual,
| h'wjlivh (irummer, wore holding a confab
i one day when their father was absent.
'Truly," said aVw??, "although wo arc
. so common, no one can say I hat we are not
| proper in our conduct; while the I'erbs are
oftener intperfect than /lerjeet iu their
ideas."
" Well," said a spruce young Verb," you
. are certainly possessive of some very sint/iil<ir
<jualiLies, and there is nothing so
(ilijcclirc in our character as iu yours."
I "All," said little Conjunction,'1 how you
f love to <(uarrel! Voii could lint live united
| .1 single day, without mc and Preposition to
show your relations to each other."
x "Alas!" oxelaime<l Interjection, "what
r stroii;/ ami suihlen emotions 1 always betray
at such conversation !"
i "The politeness of all of you," spoke up
u A'tjeetiec aiul Advert), as tlicy gazed around
v with an important look, " would be imjtcrup
tii'ily nothing without the example of such
u persons of i/autil>/ as we are, to tell you the
L, time, place, and manner of doing things'
i- Vou do not realize it, but we are a positive
s advantage to you !"
u "And you should conjecture," said little
J Article, ' that so small a child as I could
|# limit the si'/uijication of all you naughty I
u Nouns and Pronouns! Tho I'orticifilcx, !
| too, arc forever telling of their past actions .
s being so perfect, but we all know that all j
of them who are present now are v?tv in>- 1
' ? I
prc/ccl, always ending in i-n-g?just as not ft .
in;/ dues!"
" So vou are having a warm liltlc dis.
r ?
pule," said old English (trammer, entering
L at this moment. '* I think I shall lay down
j about thirty rules lor you to obey, and with
j but a few exceptions either. Seeing as you
r do, having so many advantages of laur/uui/e
it is strange you should make such a poor
|( use of them. I am sorry to see so many
of you improper and irreyular, while you !
I are in>per/vet also. l?ut it always will lie
so; a family with the best of training will
make a parent more or less trouble !"?
JJoislou Cultivator.
r 1 Vit of Jjowjlass Jtrruhl.? Tn one of
it Douglass Jeri old's play s an old sailor to
j5 snatch a kiss from a pretty girl got a box
on the car. " There," exclaimed he, " like
li '
l( my luck; always wrecked on the coral
reefs ! The manager not being able to see
|( the joke, it was cut out by the author.?
The following saying was likewise saeri^
lice by Jerrold on account of a captious
remark made by a friend, to whom the
j. inanusciipt was read. A cynic wrangling
with his better half in one of his comedies,
s _ '
j was represented as saying to her?' My no.
tions of a wife of forty is that a man should
j exchange her, like a bank note, for two
I twenties !"
e Nothing ever grows old in memory; the
- little boy that died, so long ago is an eteri.
tial child, and even as he crept over the
s threshold of God's gale nj;ir, at the beckou
ing of the Lord, so ever in the heart his
r parting look with heaven shining full upon
r l.tu 1. ?!-- > ' .....
u ui^> uiun , liic ueaiuy iiini iiic heart grew
s warm beholding, in life's forenoon, when
e dows were on the world, and played the
s truant with some angel, remains untouched
by time, even as the unrent sky that let the
e wanderer in.? Chicago Journal.
More Jersey J'curlx.?The Trenton Ga*
zetto of Friday says: " A gentleman from
' Pennington informed us yesterday that he
had some seventy pearls placed in his posa
session, by persons who had found them in
Stonvbrook. nbnilt nnn iniln frnm flint ?;i
lage. Some of them, lie says, are thought
e to bo very valuable. So it appears that
1 Mercer county is likely to become as great
f a pearl-growing locality as any of-its sisters.
j Spots on the Suiu?According to observations
made by M. I&odolphe, Director of the Observn5
tory at Bcrnc, it appear* that the number o? fpotn
r od the buii lmve their maximum and minimum
3 at the same time as the variations of the needle.
. It follows fi-om this, that the cause of tlie#o two
changes on tho sun and on the earth must bo the
same, and consequently, from this discovery, it
t will be possible to solve soveral important problems
iu connection with well-known phenomena,
the solution of which has hitherto never.
1 Dissolution.
TIIE Firm of WIER ?fc MILLER wns this
day dissolved by mutual consent, the lim.
itation of the Partnership having expired. The <
- nnme of tho Firm will be used in the closing up 1
of the business, by either ouo of us.
' All persons indebted to us by Noto or Account,
' will pleftse come forward una pay up as soon as J
t convenient, as it*ia very desirable thut the busi 1
ncss shoujid be closed as early as possible. '
' JOHN A. WIER. 1
I G. McD. MILLER. J
Angmt 'SSCj 19 tf '
a McGOWAN, 1
Attorney at Law, ,
Office in Law Range,
(Next Door to Thomson tC' Fair,)
ABBEVILLE C. H
1 Jan. 8, 1857. 87 .
PERRIN & COT H RAN,
Attorneys at I#w and Solicitors in Equity.
Ojfficr, the one formefly'iftoipied ]
BY MoGOWAN it, PERRIN, 1
LAW RANGE. j
Jas.Pkbriw, Jab. S. Cotiuian. 1
Jd\?. 7, 1857. 8T If 1
, : I
The State of South Carolina, }
ABBEyiLLE filSTRIQT, ' I
Jn the Common Pleat. B
William Wfllson, ) ??.;'
^ ?^^Tojr?jgn Attachment ' 1
is* a. 4jda#lltrvjtbotn?ofl 6c Fair, Attorneys. ~
. ."WTftEUE AS the Plaintiff did, op tffe eleventh i
' YT djwrbf April, eighteen liunaied and fiftyaeven,fife
hia declaration against the Defendant, t,
who, it is tfl absent from and without tlio
limits of, and has neither wife nor
attorney ko&Wtt within Uu> same, upon^wbom a
copy of tH* told declaration might bo served?
itt is therefore orderad, that fch* Mid Defen- _
<Jaut do appearand plead to the said declaration,
jttttor b&fatmi' twt>lfu? d?y of April, eighteen
Hhtindred and fmy-eight, otherwise Anal and ab- r
tolute judgment will then be given aud,awarded
againat hiin . e
MATTHEW McDON ALf>, c.c,r.
<?l)c OVbbctTll c Banner,
Published Kvory Thursday Morning, by
DAVI? OnKWB.
W a DAVIS ...7.7...7. ..Editor.
T. B. CREWS Publisher.
1" 23 n 3V0L IS :
Two Poi.i.ak* per unntim, if pai.l in advance ;
Two I )oi.i.\its uihI I'iki v Ckn is if not paid williin
six inontliH, uinl Tiiiiik Doi.i.mis if not pni<l before
the ?;n<l of the year. All subscription* not
liftiiu-il at tin; time of subscribing, will be considered
as indeliuilc, ami will be continued until
arrearages arc paid, or at tli? option of the Pror
!...- ui..i ? * -----
VIUU.1 liwin OlidVS iuil.1l tJtcuri
ably be ix-oom|>:mii-tl with llio C'dx/t.
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
Tho Proprietors of tlio Abbeville H(inner and
f'fKhave established (lie to) low injl
rules of Advertising to be charged in both
papers:
Every Advertisement inserted for n less time
than three months, will l>o eharged hy the insertion
at One Dollar |>er Square (1| ineli?the
i-puee of 112 solid lines or Ickh,) for the first inser
lion, and Filly Ceiits for each subsequent insertion.
t*?/" The < 'oiumihsioner's, Sheriffs, (,'lerk's and i
Ordinary's Advertisenients will he inserted in
hoth papers, eaeli charging half priee.
Sheriff's Levies, One Collar each.
Announcing it Candidate. Pivo Dollars. '
Advertising nu Kslrav, Two Dollars, to be
[ aid by the .Magistrate.
Advertiseiiicnts inserted for three month', or
lon?cr, at the following rates:
I hipmro months ft jj.OO j
[ square 0 months S.tlo
I square i( muni lis HI.tin i
1 sipmre 12 months 1:2.0<? '
1! t'piares U mouths fc.'iu !
ii Hiuares It months ' l "(i
i! ,?i|ii:iri'.s It m??litli-* IK.mi !
2 hi|ii;iii-s la months >" I
:: s?|u:iri-s :j months 10.Ill) j
Hipiiin s >; months lo.tio j
:: 'J months 21.0't j
M|ll!l|-|-? la lllolllllS -5.I!'! (
1 squares " months I'J.O'i i
1 ai|iianw (J months iJO.ou |
I Hi|ii:in;s months 2'>."i? j
i mpiitivm l a iiihiiI lis IIO.IlK j
it si|ii:tr< s 1111'ii111s 15.nit
5 .si|nnres (i months 2.?.0'i
5 Fi|Uar>-s '.I months ?. JJl.llH j
?_ si|iiar<-a hi mouths :ir?.?)D j
c> <-i|ium s I! months 20.Un |
0 sipiari'S ii mouths H'Um
(i si|iinri;< mouths >o
(J sipiari-s 1*2 mouths -I'l.oo
7 sijiiiiri's :t iii?*ii 1 lis a.ri.'"i
7 sqimivs (i months :sr..oo
7 M|iinr< '.i inonilis *11.(1(1
7 Mjuarcs 12 mouths ).">.< hi
s sipiarivimouths ::o.nu
S si|iiaii'.s (i nioiiilis -Im.(h)
H Mill:.I.-- 'I i...
, I 11.11* I
H sipiures |-J iiioutlis &M.O0
Fractions of Squares will be charged in pioporli'tii
tn I In- nbuvi; rali-s.
?*??" IIiiHiiu-ss < 'an Is for Hi" term of one y<'?r,
will lio cliiir:r?--l in |?r?i<?n to the *pac? they
oceiipv, nl <>.! /> ,/,'itr | i* Iiiispaeo.
" l''"'' :,ll ailvcrtisriiH-iils *> ? in </ >?/./?' ? ?/iiniit,
Fifty pi.r Cent, extra will he added to tho
above rales.
DAVIS it CRM US,
/ '?> /i)imirr;
LKK it WILSON,
For Prctix.
PR.INTIMG.
rpilK Proprietors of the Aniti:vu.i.K Banvkk
1 would rcspcctlully inform llio piildic that,
they are prepared lo execute all kinds of .Bol>
Worlv with neatness and disputeli. Having
inclined considerable expense for printing materials,
they have no hesil alley in saving that they
are as well prepari-d, and can do as neat work
as any oilier establishment in the up-country of
South Carolina.
They will u!hO keep on hand a complete assortment
of
exja.3XTIS:S,
of which we have now on hand the following
I.ist, to which wo shall coutiuuo lo add until
we get a complete assortment:
Sum. Pro; Fi. Fa. on Sum. Pro.; Ca. Sa. on
Sum. Pro.; Suh. Writs; Suh. Ticket* in Law;
Sub. Tickets in Kipiity ; Fi. Fa.; Cu. Sa ; Ca. Sa.
in Cane ; Copy Writ in Case ; Deeds of Convey
anre ; Dwlaration on Nolo; Commission to Kxamiuo
Witnesses; Judgment by Confession in
Ax-sump'-it-; Jud^. on Writ of Kntpiiry, Damages
Assessed by Clerk?Debt or Assumpsit, Judg.
by Confession in Debt, on Single Hill; Jiuliruiciit
on Writ of Ktujuiry, Damages Assessed by Jury ;
.IIIdement in Assumpsit at Issiii-, I'lra Withdrawn
; I'nstu; Judgment, on Issue Tried, Vordiet
for l'luiiitifl'; .Mortgage for I'ersouul Property ;
.Mortgago of Iteal Kslate; Magistrates*Siiiniiions;
Do. Kxeoution.s ; l)u. Keeogni/.ancc ; Summons u>
Defaulting Jurors.
M ivy 28. 1857
25 WITNESSES;
OR, Till-: I'OlKiFdl CONVICTED.
One Dollar a Year?Circulation over 100,000
Copies Weekly.
JOHN {?. DYIiis (lie author, who lias lind
10 years experience as a Danker and I'ub*
lisltcr, and Autlior of a series of Lectures at the
K,.nn,l.v?v T..I.. t I.? /--.I
j .../EMiaviu, iviiuii, i<ir ieu success!vc
nights, over 50,000 pcnple greeted liim with
rounds of applause, while he exhibited I ho manner
in which Counterfeiters execute Frauds, and
the Surest and Shortest Menus of Dctcctiug
tliein!
The Rank Note Engravers all say that he is
the greatest Judge of Paper Money Living.
Greatest Discovery of the present ccutury for
Detecting Counterfeit Bank Notes,
Describing every Genuine Hill in existence, and
exhibiting, at a glauco, every Counterfeit in circulation
!!
Arranged bo admirably that rcforencc is easy
and Detection instantaneous.
ttj' No index to examine! No pages to hunt
tip! But bo simplified and arranged tlmt tho
Merchant, Hanker and Business Man can see
all at a //lance.
English, French and Gcmmaii! Thus each
may roud the same in his own Native Tongue.
J/osl Per feel Hank Note List Published! ALSO,
A LIST OF
All tho Frivato Bankers in America.
A complete Summary of tho Finance of
Europe and America will he published in oncli
edition, together with all tHc Important NEWS
OF THE DAY. Also,
A Series of Tales,
From an Old Manuscript found in the East. It
furnishes tho most completo History W OU1G1
N'AL lAFfi, describing the most perplexing positions
in which the Ladies and Gentlemen,of
Ihut couufry have been so .often found. Theso .
stories continue throughout tho wholt year, and
will prove tho most entertaiuing ever oifertd to
the Public. . .
ID* Furnished Weekly to subicribara, onljrat
Bin year. All lettere must be aadreM*<r^tp
' JOHN H. DTK Broker. *
Publisher and Proprietor, Wall S?> l/cw
fork. ? !
April 80, 1857 ,1 ly * ,
BOOfITMrflOBl!;
J FOR CASH, ^i' j
,000 rAlR MEtfS BEST KIP BBOGANS. !
1,000 pair Men's 2d quality Brogans.
. ,000 pair Men's 3d quality Brogans. J
,000 pair Women's Pegged Dooleea. 1
,000 pair Women's Pegged (2<1 quality) Bootees.
>00 pair Boy's heat Kip Brogaus
>00 pair Boy's 2d quality Brogans. I
>00 pair Youth's Brogans, various qualities. ,
100 pair Ladies' Gaiters, from $1.25 to $2.50.
>00 paii Ludien-'Slippers and Tips, fin 60c. to $1.50.
>00 pair Misses' and Children's Shoes, 50c. to $1.35. ?
00 pair ticnU* fino Calf Boot*. '
00 pair Gents' fiuc Cloth Gaiters.
00 pair Women's Goal Bootees.
,000 pair Negro Brogans.
,000 lloaie Servant's Shoes.
Togcthw with all other kinds of Shoes feu ally
5 bo found in n Sluui Hia? 11 ? 1
... _ ?,.w Mwto. vmi una Mt).
Juki roccivc,tU?nd for sale by '
. ' < S. WOOD, 11
185 Richardson Street, Columbia.
March 24, 1857. 48 1y .
PROFBaSIONAL CARD. "
rHE undersigned having; located permanently S
^ tit Greenwood, for the purpone of pructi- ng
Modiciuc, offer* his services to the public.
_ ^ M W. H. DAVIS. n
a***1 1 1 ! ' WMWWMMMM
NEW 1) RlJ(i STORE !' f
AT CrUr.KNWOOD. \
railin undersigned, and Apothccary,
H_ lim jn-t rccciv&l u very ompleto stuck of
Drugs and Medicines,
selected with llio greatest earo for till* market.
11 in stock consist* ??f (Very variety usually found
in City Apothecary <Shup*.
l Ali iM'lH of all tlio vegetable prcpnrntionii
from tlit* Ik-kI Chemists.
'I'iiM-tiircs prepared from thecrude m;..crial,
and warranted t<? be of lliu strength lain
down in tlic United Stales i'hnrniaca'pa.
I*3i t?* lit itlnliriiiVM, direct from tlio
manufactory! uu cheap as they have ever been
tjold in this place.
A very mipeiior article of ISrniMly, for
iiiuliciiiul /Htrjioxcx out;/. Fine <Jl?l Porte, Madeira,
ami rilierry WillC'*? Scheidaui Schnapps,
?fcc.. ?to.
lie will keep constantly u fine assortment of
Confectioneries, Tobacco and Segars.
It would he unnecessary to enumerate all the
arlieh-s. To lie pledges himself to
till their order* with as good Medicines aB can
he obtained elsewhere ; and to hi* friends, lie
pledges like satisfaction as to tlio Goods and
terms, (.'nil at tIn* '
? miv occupied as
lite 1'ost Ollice. ' JAS. JI. BILEY. I
(irci'iiwooil, S. Nov. 1, iy.rn). yj-tf 1
ATTENTION, PLANTERS I
Economy and Utility!
r I'M IK >iii(l**rii!iiiH*d liiivin^r purchased the Right
I of Warlicli'.s PLOW, l'atcnted April
Ib.'i'i, will sill I'luntutioii Rights, per ?
I Mow $1.00
Storks delivered ?l- f?rei*iiwood Depot, or
ri'siilvuni' of \V. J', llill 4.50
Willi Miinll Scooter 5.00
Willi Tiiriimi; Sliovol, for from ?0.00 to 6.50
This l'low, from ils siiiijilo structure, durability,
liyhtiicss of draught, easo nf management,
;nl:i]>l:ilInn t?? tlx: dificrcul Shares used ill the
ixiltiviitioii of lli.- fsirui, !iml consequent cheapness.
is coini>i<-imIilit; : Jelf to general imc as a
?Snil't'i'ji" I'lti'miiff Jmjihsii' at wherever tried.
III I.I. \ ANDREWS.
(Jrcm wood, S. (Jet. 0, IS.OIJ. 2o-ly
Wi:, ill'.* iindersiirued, having examined nnd
?i. ?? >
in-: i. .iiiick i'hiw, cuuctir in the uhovc
<:<>iii:;i<.i!tlati<>ii.4. JAMKS CKKSWELL,
JOHNSON SALE,
li. M. WHITE,
SA M'l. MrGdWAN,
I l.AUKIN UKVNOLDS,
uoii'T w. i.rrns,
I A. \Y ID F.MAX. '
; " (' i .N i -: I have list <1 I lie Plough you soul 1110
: :i11 1 :iin inii'-h pleased with il. I think it tlio
I;.-st PIohl'Ii I liiivi- ever iHiiil. It combined economy
ami ill Hit y in a high degree. It l>reakn up
tin- soil well ami t>> a good depth, with one mule.
I ,'im sti well pleased with it, that J want moro
of thrill. *?*??*
' Very respcel fully yours,
'THUS. V. PE11RIN."
LAND WARRAN f$7
An Unliniitod Number Wanted.
flMIK undersigned is still in the market for
L I and Warrant!*. Prices, howovcr, at prcs<-iit
arc miieli depressed ; though lie will pledge
hiuiM'lf to pay as inueh as nnn l>" ?"' 1
iii any market. Kemiitanccs made at their highmarlu!
value, by Sight Drafts on ITew York
?>r Charleston, lor all Warrants 6ont to mo by
mail.
Address W. C. DAVIS,
Abbeville C. II., S. C.
Kept. 8,1 S5G. 20 tf
iL. U. MILLS,
IOWA, WISCONSIN AND MINNESOTA
LAXD OFFICE,
AT DUBUQUE, IOWA.
FAllTIOIJI.AIl attention paid to the locating
of Land Warrants for persons South, ou
the finest selected Timber and Prairie I>niid8.
Warrants loaned to settlers on one year's time at
10 per cent. Interest, charging ?1.25 per Acre
for Warrant. Taxes paid. Collections made and
remitted lor in Sight Exchange. Money loaned
at high rates of Interest. Investments made.?
Unciirrent money bought, ike.
0* Kefers to Wm. C. Davis, Esq., Abbevillo
O. II., S. C.
Sept. .'1, 16"?C. 20 tf
TlIK STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
AMicrille District ?In the Common Picas.
Amos Clark, jr., i Attachment. /
,'jl. > McGoivnii A.
James A. I/uldcll. ^ rift's Att'ys.
W III-UF.A.S, the Plaintiff did, on the thirtylirst
day of Oetobcr, ltf 5t>, file liid declaration
against the Defendant, who (as it is said) is 4
absent from and without the limits of this State,
and lias neither wife nor attorney known within
tlie same, ujioii whom a copy of the said declaration
might Im served. It is therefore oidered,
that the said Defendant do appear and plead to '
tlic said declaration, oil or before the first day of IKNovember,
which will be in the year of our Lord
Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Seven, otherwiiie ftnal
and absolute Judgment will then begivon anil
awarded against, him.
MATTHEW Mt.-DONALD, c. c. r.
Clerk's Oilier, Oct. 30, 1850. 29 ly
The State of South Carolina. .
Abbeville District.?In the Common Pleas.
James T. Baskin, 1 Attachment.
vs. >- Daskin, i'l'lfa Attorney,
James A. Liddnll. )
WHKRI'AS tho Plaintiff did, on the .eightecnth
day of October, eighteen huudred and.;,- ' _
uiky-.-ii.x, me ma ueciuraiion against the LJeren- :'??
<1 nut, wiio, (ii is suit),) is absent from and without. JBF
the limits of this Stutc, ami has neither wife nor W*
attorney known within the same, npon whom a v ^
copy of the said declaration might he served: ?i
It is therefore ordered, that the said Defendant m. ,
do appear and plead 4o the said declaration! ?nv :
or before the nineteenth day of October eighteen 9L
hundred and fifty-seven, otherwise final and absolute
judgment will then bo given and awarded ? %
against him. ' .
MATTHEW MqDQNAU), p. c.> . B|
Clerk's Ollice.-Oct 18, i860 vff .Jy
WW. K. "BTiAKE, .V r ? jF
Attomey'^af Xjawf v
A A J) SOLICITOR IN. JSQyjT&'i. . *. Will
practice irr tho Courts of .AbbeVfllej^Lou- . r -
t lens and Newberry.
vjccxv# ai JJSW tyiKHY B! "?,* >
Oct. 14, 1866. ? 20" " *' ?
?T ULJSt Op iTJT^SlSSb * ' .
SIX- DOZ? ^ ?,
HCOOP
All Size# and air Price?. >4^: ; - .
March 13.
CANSlDatjBf '"OBTfTio
fr/feitf 8 BP iCr,; Jfl^OR >
ipi'c 1 frilly annotinoe jfrm ?2 ^n3fdrfte.
RAN respectTdlly *T .' ? >
ror S^Jif fi* of Abbeville ?\fticty^ag^SjaK-<= %
Hf-^b^frien^ of WaTTI^^3BK?
^ LI). announce him a Candfd<(y/o? " ,
ror Clork, at the oojoing clwtfNfe.. -r. < ' '* ' ; '
- ?> yy- ^ - jgfrj' J1.", "
tSP~ Tlia friends of C. H. AfiLE5fcaflfcoito?#
liui as a Candidate for Clerk o/tbo Coart at
lie ondtfiVg olestfoDv, ^/y ?/>
O* The friends of WlMROl} ipculfulljrnnp^oe
lfrtn as a Car.d^*t?|bf?D)?#fT
at the eusaing Election.' . * .
tS' ^ ?of cron?:M?n 4?* ^T- J, ROB- ,
JUT'S respectfully announce liira^ Candidal*
br Sl)eriffj?t the next eleotkp.. ,. V?
tsrii? ??? of vr-WntonnmiH
cspeetfolly apndunce him k GkiUMmM'MLaM^.
Of of AblMirille District, jit th? ?!e?ftfon
- / MAN? FBfrapH
Mfty5, .J886. , '
...I ., i..? . .( . * i ||*|| am imm
BF" The friends of W. W. OfOTrtf;
iectfolly anuMnuM - him as a caiidtfUte'lbr
hcriff at the ensning election. 'i
The friends of jAMKS II. COBB anounucliiui
?6a CaiiHidmc foi UlicrifTat the ciutu