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THE ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER, BY W. A.. LEE AND HUGII .WILSON. ABBEVILLE. S. C., -FRIDAY. JUNE 2, 1871. VOLUME XIX.NO.'6. I .. III 1. IIH . H II |M ..| I.I., ....mnrOTll Mif-nBBmiMBlHIIIMIIII TREASURES. . 0:ir paths when strewn with roses, Our .skies when clear nlx>ve, w-, "Willi many1>iomls tli:u love us And inauy whom wo lovg,. Are more than princely treasures To the youthful or the old ; The sun and llowors of friendship Are better far than gold. A spirit never eloude l, Conu-nhd and juisi.se; . A mind alive to music's Joyful melodies; - * Arc worth (Joleonda's diamonds. Aie mt.re than all Peru. Give mi- tlu-se rifle.' treasures And I'll leave the wealth to you. A heart that weeps with sorrow, That feels with other's-woes^, And tlirobs with kindly feeliugs, Forgiveness to its foes, Is worth an Kldorado With mines of wealth untold; Give me that {rem of Heaven And you may have the gold. NkwAi<K, May 10. * I .. ...... . WOULDN'T MARRY A FREACHER. ; BY ZILMA ZEHLK. Eleno Adair was a wild, reckless ]' girl of sixteen, caring for nothing u-or ] nobody. She had nu mother to give her kind and loving advice, and tho' ' her linker was a loving jjood man, lie did not understand the way of j ju^0 Sul-jc-ction the- wild, | .young iadvhood ; so Elene grew 'up an uncultivated and untrained bovver. ^ ller old anntsometimes remonstrated.! but the more she said the worsei , Elene seemed to be, so the old lady] * <lid as Elder Adair did, '-kept her' 'peace;" thinking surely there comos [. ;a time when the "wave of youthful k fancies of their own accord break on contending rocks, and expose the deep feeling soul within. Eleno had her sports; she hunted with her dogs and her gun, fished and { * r:tcpii her horse when tlifi monrJ sniv.txl.' lier, which was very often. She had ^ no companion when in .school, for her i j in tare was not like other children'*, Studied wdlj-Ufit tormented bothjf teachers and scholars to her hearth content. > One day in June she had roamed;0 jmd rambled alt day long, and coming "1 gaylv tripping to the hou^v passed j:l uii into tlio parlor, her dogs, Festus j. and 1*41111, closely following behind : irer hat in hand hair tailing Joosuly.i |* back, held bv a comb, and turning itself into curls at the end, a feverish v <rlow on her checks, nil-'combined'' to l< O ^ 1 make her look liko a gypsy fprite of; the woods). Oil tho tlnfeshoid cho !' BUildciiiv halted, for a handsomej V voun<i stran-jvr conversed with her O O ^ J father, who arose and introduced him as Mr. Lester. Excusing himself to ' attend to his farm duties, he left Elene to entertain him, without one i J* word as to who lie was. |. She was pleasant in conversation.^.' and a good listener, which is bettor!.' II than a good talker; so they conversed , agreeably for some time, when the i . church was spoken about, and Mr. i-u Lester asked (kt something concern-! * in;; their church i:> Slant^n. 1 ^ 'Indeed* sfr, 1 know nothing at r.ll .afcaut the church here ; it is a plan? I never go to." And she raided horb dark, restless eyes to his, and her [ { Jips curved to show the dislike she n fdt* " : v- -j It lie- looked at hor with surpriseior-t t; a few moments, then said: c "Exeuso the question, but your 0 fatner is an.'elder,' is be not?" s 'Yes, he i.s : but papa is not I, \-ou e «.T>bi know.-; V. Surprise-'-gate away to pity in his j, eyes, $0 sec one of her age and sur-; » roundings speak with such careless-: t] liens on such a subject, | v "Ann may 1 ask. Miss Adair, why v 3*oii do not-intend chui\':h?"- ; *i t "Oh,.! dtfn-laslly explain that," slie l, answered, a little amused by his inqnisiIivoness-; ^just because 1 never could sit stiil long enough to hear a } sermon, for what stirring creature;]; could sit a whole hour and listen to a preacher jumbling together words , f to tell the late of mankind? and after s ho is to.rough, pof/r old Webster feels a terrific lossj all his overgrown s words are gone, and these have been tied together by Latin* Greek and " Hebrew. And oh, such a coiiglora:J j eraiion of wisdom ! who could sit and drink it into his being] coald. you?" she asked, looking at him roguishly, y Darwin Lester Was sure then that f J^Ieno Adair di 1 not know that'he jt n-Mia flm I'.iivtr tn £st;iti_ tort, unci he answered firmly aud oui-j s phatk'AJIv. - J/; " -- r "Yos, f can listen to a sermon." p ' Can you? Do you go lor your; i 'cwn etiifieation and improvement, or v because i'thers go ? or do you like t to note the iast fashion out ?" p ' I go to preach the gospel to men," 1 answered Darwin with emphatic; j pride. : ' ! 1 For a moment only was Elcne dis-j \ .concerted: she ^avo him one hurried r glance, and the solemn firm news of - ^ his face restored her to herself ii.ud '1 sho burst into a rneriy laugh. Dar-; r win Lester not expect such a turn, t because he did not yet know her. 1 After laiighing,, she ^nonchalantly r eaid: j~ ; 4 v ** it ' lUd I Only looked at" you I might! htrvo known you were a preacher,jt V.../-.OIKO vniii' nnsfi is so lorif.'' j. r~.v ° This speech opened his eyes com- i pletcly to her nature, and the lecture t lie was framing for her ho never gave I her. ' t ' I suppose you are the new preach-1 c cr? £ heard papa Baying something ^ about some one coming. j" "I am, Miss Adair; and I hope < among my old people there .are not 1 ,jnany iffee yourself." , > ' i "I ana. the only one; papa says bo, any ho'.v. But, Mr. Lester, let m< tell you now.do not trouble me and I'll not .trouble yon; lor of ul creatures whining preachers are tin most despisahlo. flow rmrcli 1 ha|i thorn never lot mc have cause to tell you. I wish you much you much joy in your undertaking lure. Come, FVstus and Paul let us go and feed the chiekens." And oil' >-hc started whittling; then she struck into a Scottish song . "Oh whistle and I'll corac to you," my hid." A smile crossed the linos about Darwin Lester's mouth ns her voice floated back to him. ami he thought beneath that reckless exterior was u deep loving heart. Life had not been all sweetness to him ; she who should now have been his honored wife was another's bride, and the wound in his heart which her dugtcer of conquest had made was not yet healed He was called to Stanton to'jureaeh, and ho and his widowed mother would make it their home; he would stay at Elder Adair's until her coming. Hearing voice*, he voluntarily arose and went to the window, and there >tood Elene d spousing food to sin irmy o»' poultry, and ta4kin«^ to them ill the while,' wlieji lier aunt's voice >ut in> "Elene, child, did you know the minister was here?" "Yes, ma'ilia; I saw him and talked frith him ; dial, auntie, I can not help hinking how much ho resembles that ,urk«y there." Aunt Mary disappeared install tor, md Ellen, laughing, looked up to the vindow, and seeing Mr. Lester, only aid . "You, Jo not belit-vc it, do you ?" On Sunday lie asked her if she voilld attend ilinrcli. lv\f), sir." w:is her candid reply'. ' Jlmv shall you spend the day, Hiss Adair ?" f ' "You are vciy inquisitive, but. as ou are a prcaeher, 1 wilt overlook it ,nd ted I you; in reading, writing,! .iid having a good time in general,° aid t>lu', howintj to bitn and leaving lira alcne* As time passed on Darwin Lester nuM "riot *he!p~ admiring tlic tree ;r;u c of' E'enc h<-r honest frankness nd eccentric originality. lie olio rod o 1 her in her studies. 8ho at ;i\>t dot-lifted, 1mt, when t-lic consirjred it. accepted his oiler. This ro-ght them closer together; and rhen -Mrs. Lester came and they rjok possession of their beautiful cot :i^e, ^-.Wiieli Darwin had eon verted itoa miniature paradise by his many npi ovetnents, he still instrneted f )lene, and before two years passed way he found he had been conjuga- inthe verb "Awo.'' In all this time there never was ;i loment when he felt lie could tell ei' his thon^hts, for even did She >v<? him, he knew" she would say Xo," and laugh at his fully for a>k)i( her love. He had sympathy for liies Standish when Lie said : 'A HiniwlntMncf "NT a Y>r*inf lilnnlr frnm the mouth of a woman, ["hat I confess I'm afraid of, nor am I ashamed to confess it." Up to this time Elenc-'s life had Ccn a merry play, joy, mischief. and. he roguish wiles Ot* the actors; hut ow there came a change. II cr fuller fell a victim to d-sea ho, mid in a jw phorf days ])asscd away from artli. She wandered through her hi haunts in a dreamy way; nothing eemed to amus* her or arouse her! ny^ies. Now l>ar.vin Lester felt ourage to tell her, and put his fate ri her-ktepiug. lie told her of his youth's love dreain," then of his nan hood's more perfect love. Il'is rords stirred chords in her heart rhich never before had vibrated ; a brill of joy passed through her being;, nit she looked calmly into his lace nu saw: ' You forgot your position in life. Jarry a minister! 1 thought you ;new my feelings in that direction." Tiie deep palor tiiat.oyefspivacft. is iice made lie-r regret her word*, and be addeU_\vith a smile : "Certainly you do forgive me for peaking t>o-frankly,%for raying 'What I ought not to Lave said, yet now ' can never unsay it." ti T 1» A T*1 /V T l-~ ^ .... " i iurgive you, lii'.'oe, iur i khuw our way. Hut consider ir. well heure you answer so frankly my quesion." ' ' No, Mr. Lester, I am tired of myelf, oi everything; tlu-re is nothing lew, and the old haunts weary me.' 1 hall go to New York, to my uncle; ii tlie buzz of that groat city life viil seem to flow faster, and the goal oward which all arc coining. wi I oon appear. I ain" wealthy, and tave wealthy friends, which are great jassports through life. 1 shall keen )»y old home lu re to come back to vlien I have bathed in the Dead Sea >f my hopes.\\ hieh may never be. A'c are pot suited to each other, 'hinl; <>f wedding the "dashing cataact that Hied from rock to ruck lo he gentle, purling stream!" She yoked up at him, with one of her oguish laughs, and said; "Not a >ad sermonizer, atu I?" Without answering her question ho ook both her hands in Lie saying. "Klene, you aro young, and bmldng air-castles, and "asking blindly of lie 1'uLure what it cannot give you,' >ut when )*ou huve road this iiiRpripion, Omnia vanit'is, on ev ry portal, some back; and ere long Elene Adair .vas whirling in the majlstrom of NTuw York. She dressed, danced and :-oquetted to her heart's desire. Before long she I egan to weary of it: Lh6 gilding of her contentment was again wearing off. She kaew then 5 thut she loved Darwin Lester, and , loved him yet Hot ween her and all I her admirers, his dark, pleading gray s eyes would thrust them wives. His * words 4 I'll wait ibr you." were ever ringing in her ears, but "I'll never go ' back," she said ; "I will aoeept Frank ,' Houghton, and spend my life in trailI ing velvet robes over marble liali and velvet carpets." j When Frank Houghton eamo again they parted betrothed. The news spread fast and far. Away in Stan-1 ton they heard flic story of the! wealthy and handsome man Elene Adair was to marry, and one in that town felt a heavier load on his heart than ever helore. Almost three years had gone, when {on*' day in early sjiririElene Elene I Adair came back to her old home. Her health could not endure the labors of lashiwn, and a canker was in her heart. Anger separated her and Frank Houghton, and as her love for him was very shallow a slight cause thrx'W back the glittering soltalro to the donor, with the words: "Take lack your bundle, and with it your unrequited lo»*e. llni* /I » »»lr ltiirirtnno /m» Af< c-AAmftfl 114 V I \4 II I MI1II lll\MI(7 V13 PV'VIIIVU the only unchanged featnro in Elene so frail and delicate had she become. Darwin Lester wept over her as lie folded her in his arms and kissed her pale lips. But love euros all diseases and in a short time there was a wedding in Stanton, and the rosy Elene of old wedded a minister! And her hushand, looking down into the depths of her dark, loving eyes, could not help saying, ' Elene, how much do you hate preaehers?" A tender hand covered liis lips, und a pleading "Don't," was his answer HOW TO WIN IN 1872. True Course of the Democracy in the; Uiir.cnnt Pitit'io nf +1m Pnimtmr rPlir. jlicoljju viioxo \Ji tug \J\juui-LJ J U\J Constitution as it is.A Letter from Jolin Quincy Adams. The following letter from John Qu.ti'.'.y Adams, late the Demo-1 eratic candidate tor Governor of: Massaehusa'.ts, to a citizen of Mis- souri, has been pven to the world through the columns ot the St. ijoins licpublicau: n.ttx-/-,,. n ic7i V£ I ii> v ) | ;>!«!> U, iUlli A. Warren Julsey, Esq.: Dear Sir.1 have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a coin-; mutiioation from you enclosing two extracts from newspapers upon which you request my criticism; ana I in for from your letter that you wished to learn my opinion upon the public questions discussed in those articles. You are quite welcome to know them, if you are willing to accept them as simply the speculation if an individual. I represent nobody, and do not boast a follower in the world; nor do I hnow that my no-j tions are. shared by any consideraj bio portion of any party. The people of the United States feel instinctively that they are go- ling wrong, but they are told that it! will be dangerous to retrace their steps. Tiiey know that the path upon which they have entered is beset with pitfalls; but even a bad pass is better than the piecipiee The sweet) of reaction is stayed by tlie dread, of revolution. The policy of shrewd Democrats, and the duty of good citizens, is to dispel this apprehension, no matter how foolish it may seem to them. Short of honor and good faith, no sacrilioe should be deemed severe which would sulllce to lay that haunting spectre. For that-rear on I deplore the halting, hesitating step with which the Democracy is, sneaking up to its inevitable posi-1 tion. For this cause I share your, regret at the studious ambiguity which seems to search for a silly: port through which to dodge its 'destiny. And while I better liketli(« siiii'it- T cnndiMnn tlif» policy or those who only proclaim-1 cd their purpose of revolution. Such indications of sentiment annoy me, simply because they prolong a s'tuation fraught with great J ! danger to the dearest interests of1 lis all. The dominant party can re- tain a power which has-grown too: great for the public welfare only by an indctinitt extension of the moral conditions of the civil war. The Republican organization can rally to no cry but a slogan and conquer under no standard but a spear That lurty needs strife to insure :ts success, but good lceling is neces, sary tor good govern meut. No»v, the hostility to the fifth* teenth amendment is the stock-intrade of the fomenters of strife; is it worth gratifying ut the risk of permanent subjection ? The South is galled to-day not by the .presence of that amendment to the constitui tion, but by the utter absence ot the constitution itself. They feel a Congress which assaults them, but they iind no constitution to pro- | tect them. .8 it not silly, then, to squabble about an amendment which would cease to be obnoxious il it was not detached from its context? » It is quibbing upon a technical? of law and relinquishing the substance of liberty. The constitution was Rtrnrlc- flown hv the* n*. sault upon Sumter, and all constitutions must necessarily fall before the lace of the supreme arbitraI ment of war. It can never be liftj eel up while war is flagrant. The people will never resign the attitude of hostile vigilance, which is the real significance ot the present administration, until they know tlin' Hit niin /if' tlifjip iviip tq longer disputed. Then they will gladly resume the habits which they love and the good nature which they repress. What, then, is the meaning of the grotesque contortions of those who profess a fondness for camels and yet strain so fantastically at this gnat? for the essence ofnil Democracy is equality .nothing but the equality of all men before the law.equal and exact justice to every man, and each to sliare in the government at' all. That is the only genuine Democratic doctrine- lint who dares face an intelligent people, with that testimony upon his lips, and denounce a measure which is too Democratic for Democrats, only because the enfranchised are bhfcks? Surely, the Northern Democracy should not be forced into such stupidities by the eonseien 1 x* x i ri ..*1 lions scrupies 01 ineir oouinern brethren. Deference is doubtless due to their constitutional qualms and yet some lenity towards revolutionary processes or* amendment might he reasonably expected from supporters of secession. If we can condone the fault, is it too much to ask paroled prisoners of war to pardon it ? No! You have given our cry "Universal amnesty and universal suffrage." I would only add, the constitutional Union of the States. ror uie oia constitution is just as good as ever it was, for South as well as North, in spite of the marks ol the mailed hand which must remain upon it for a wurningto those that come after us. There is nothing in it now which is not perfectly compatible with the happiness, welfare and liberty of allthe people of .ill States. It is only the administration that is at fault, it is the interpretation which is violent. Do you imagine that Thomas Jefferson, do you think that James Aladi^on, would say their old organic frame permits a protective tariff or paper money; authorizes national banks or Presidential diplomacy; countenances military tribunals, centralization, and the crowning and perfect infamy of the Ku-Klux bill? It never was the* constitution which invaded or conquered a State it is not the constitution which op <!.. T* juu.nmcm uie. oiiin;>. xi was »>m, civil »var. Close the war, and you restore 8elf goverume..t to the j:eo- ]»lt; of the States. If they cannotj secure their own peace and happi-! jiess. lot us look around next year, not for the next President, but the first dictator. Now. if you or any other in fin doubts the soundness of my jndg-j merit in this matter, all I ask is aj true Democratic administration, and von shall see it tor yourself. Yours, very respectfully, John Q. Adams. "LETTERS FROM THE SOUTH." The Place- for Invalids.Interminable Swamps. One of the best places in the' Rnnth \Tni'tlihru iiur-ili/lo in inn. tor, is Aiken, in South Carolina.:, It is sortie six hundred feet above;! the sea, in the midst ot the dry, 11 sandy region, and the village i-< in the pine woods, or the pine woods in the village, it does not matter, which. In years past strangers have had reason to complain bit-;! terly of the want of good houses in which to live or did when thejr come South for their health. They do not know how to keep', hotels in the South. The people themselves are so hospitable ami make tliir friends so comfortable, j that in old times nobody went to aj hotel if he could help it. Butlj k > . rt 11*111 f A 1*. >11 il I .f t .tn .. l-v 1 il. am iu »>ruc4>wu u iuuci auum iutJ hotels, and will not spoil it by bo-! ginning now. At Aiken a good house lias been erected within the last year, well supplied with all that is needful to make guests comfortable, terms! moderate and satisfaction warrante«l. There i3 no malaria about' Aiken. That is the groat danger, in the South Hundreds of miles by rail you go alftng the Atlantic coasts, and the trees stand in the water and out of the water, swamps to the right of you and swamps to j the left of you, swamps before you aim swamps wyijiiiu yyu, swamps everywhere and always; by name dismal, in fact worse; boundless in dreariness, and irremediable by! drain ; with a capacity incalculable for the production of fevers and frogs. But as God tempers the wind to the shorn sheep, so he-adapts the people to the clime. A traveler asked a native hereabouts,. "Is there not a great deal of sick ncsB in this region?" "0 no," he answered, "we have the shakin' ager some, but then we have a powerful undertow of health." Now at Aiken it is dry And sandy and I'iny, and the invalids find it sunny and cheery and balmy, and tlifiv P.i>ir»\r if find tliriro T-Ti<rh- land Park is the name of the new hotel I speak of^ and speak well of. About six miles from the village,' through the woods, is Montmorenci where Dr. Jewel, formerly of New Haven, has opened a nice house for hoarders, and especially for invalids, and a more desirable place spot for rest and recuperation, cannot be found in the South, I presume. Capt. Kuckson, an English gentleman, has bought two or three thousrnd acres of land here, and has gone into the oultiviiiion of crmiif's and manufacture of wine and brandy. lie employsa hundred negroes, and these, with their families, make a large colored poplation on his estates. Now and then the hospitable English -proprietor gives a lunch to the whole country side, inviting the strangers nnd residents from miles around, to spend the day at his mansion. A Southern Load of Wood. r r* 1 1 n n /-i c li n* l: H;oiumoia,^. u., uor. or mc Cincinnati Commercial.] I walked out to the east of the city and having i.o objective point in view, except to get into the country. In the suburbs of the city I met a concern that always attracts the attention ot a stranger. It was a South Carolina load of wood. This load of wood was on a rickctty wagon, the wheels of which wabbled ai.d bobbed about over the road in as unsteady a manner as so man}' drunken men. The tracks that it made wore fearful to see. On this wagon was a rack, and in this rack were four pins, each about two feet high. They were distant apart from each other some fourteen inchcs one way, and four feet the other. Within these standards gen- tie reader, was tho loud of wood. Honestly, there was not enough of it to make one good fire in a fireplace of even moderate dimensions. One of the old-fu.'hioned sort would swallow wagon, wood and all, and then cull for more. Il.tched to this wagon was an animal, which, in the better duys of the .Republic, might have been a horse. Now it was a portion of a horse's skin filled with bones. Tho horse himself (lid not seem to he there. This bundle of some skin and considerable bones was hitched to the "wa«j011*' by means of a cloth-line rope, and an armful of straw tied into something that ini^ht puss for a villainous burlesque on a lmrse-collar, by means 01 a straw eut from the old boot-L'g. The bridle was made, out of scrap from thti same boot-leg that hud entered so largely into t he construction of the "collar." There wore only two pieces of' it and the bit. This last was a big (ami}' affair, and not having shrunk away with the horse, it looked, by the side of his vanquished jaws, like a lightning-rod t wist id into fantastic shapes. The reins were on a scale commensurate with the r.st of the turnout, one of them being madt: out of what appeared to be old shoe-strings, and the other of several articles, starting out with a small chain next the bit. or twisted lightping rod, then a short piece of tishimc line, then a few feet of something apparently cut from the edge of a piece of cotton bagging, and ended with a bit of clothes-line that was left over from the traces. The driver and apparent owner of this turn-out was a tall, thin, lean, callow, spindle- shanked, leaned-jaw- ed. cadaverous-looking Cuss, who looked as if he * hud not had a square meal since 1SG0, and could cat up the weight of his wood and horse, if presented in the shape of meat and bread, at a single .sitting I looked at this moving panorama of loverly so intently that the proprietor thought I wanted to buy, and brought his animal to a halt. It was no trouble to do that as the bones in the dried skin suddenly stopped wuddling even before the word of command was fairly out of the driver's mouth, or there had been tho slightest jerk on the twisfed lightningrod. "Do yer want ter buy this 'ere .1 ' l.. WU'Hi I iiv a^utu, What's it worth ?" "Wall, seeing that I'm in a hurry, and hits a good bit back home, and I'm a needin' some money powerfully bad, I'll just take eighty cents for tho load" "Is that the neual pi ico for loads of that size ?" 'Wall, can't say for ce.fain 'tis or 'taint. Jlit's cheaper 'an »iost load* for tho money, for it's bigger. The price of wood in Columbia depends upon things; you* know; that is, sometimes hii'u ncarce, and then agin a good hit will come'in, air' then you «ee we can't a I ways understand how things will work and eome about concerning of the supply of such needs uh city people has to contend with, which is ditto rent from the way we do in the country about things of the uort, you know. Uuvo you got any tobacky ?" I did not use the weed. ''Wall, talk tip pairt 'bout this 'ere wood My old na^Vbout to lay down, and ef I don't bo a movin' on he'll lay down in hpite of the (level, and --I. i. a :» «.,! Will 11 1IU gUl?J UUWII 1L LU1VC «Ul iV for to get him up, and I've fouud that the unrest vt&y to understand these little way this horse does is to keep Lira on the move, for when he's on the movo the fact of the business is, you see, he can't lay down, for he's all the time goin' ahead" I told him I did not care to buy. his wood, at which he raised a whoop behind ins horse that would have caused any animal half-way fed to -I have rnn away, then pushed his wagon at hi in as a father incentive to get along, and the* panorama of poverty 1 slowly moved on toward the city. <» Feeding Poultry. Onions rrc said to be an admirablo food for fowls, or rather adjunct to the ordinary food. If given regular-1 ly, it is said they will prevent the attacks of moro more ordinary diseases of poultry. Meat is said by authorities to be an essential food for poultry, especially in the winter, when they eannot get the worms they pick up in the summer. Others, again, main aiti that the habit of giving meat to poultry is productive of grave cvns.mo cause 01 many 011 the worst forms ot' disease which affects them. By those authorities it is called an unnatural food, i'rias^ much as the digestive organs of the birds are r.ot fitted to assimilate it. There must, we think, be. some mis-1 tako in all this; for we know of a surety that fowls-do eat, when they can get it, and entirely of their own accord, an cnormona quantity of animal food Here it is not cooked; the game found in nature's garden is raw. If meat is an unnatural for poultry, they certainly have a most unnatural appetite for it. Throw in one lump of meat amongst a lot of fowls; if not litterally a bone of contention, it is something vastly like it, so eager are all to get a grap at it. Wo believo the habit of giving much food in a short space of time to poultry is a bad one. Il you notice their habits, you will see that the process of picking up their food u^der the ordinary, or what we call the natural condition, is a very slow one. Grain by grain does the meal get taken, and with the aggregate no small amount of sand, small pepblcs, and the like, nil nT tinkiiK *-\n uu! ii ** ia-it/% ilia Mtrtn IUii ui >> 1 iiv-11 »*»£ nnu viiv vi v>J^j assist digestion greatly. But in the "hen" mode of feeding poultry, a great heap is thrown down, and the birds allowed to "peg away at such a rate that their crop is filled far too rapidly, and tho process of assimilation is slow, painful and incomplete No wonder that so many cases of choked are met with under this treatment. How we go to Sleep. The immediate antecedents of sloop.a lauguor, a sensation of weight in the upper eye-lids, partial tempof rary relaxation of certain must-let*, as shown by the nodding aiu-l dropping of the head upon the breast, compar| alivo obtuseness to external imprees| ions, yawning, etc., call for no special remark. Tbe order in which the ! muscles lose their power ia, however, deserving of a passing notice. The rnuseles winch move the arms and legs usually becvnie relaxed before thoso whiih support the head, and the latter before those which maintain the body in an erect position. There are, however, many exceptions to this rule, ua may be seen in achurch fin >1 lifit ^11 twl n t* ii* K an umviii a!' 1 ka \j ii it u\/v uununj , >» liCii cuuit v/j. me congregation are almost certain to be Keen with their chins quietly resting on their chests, but yet quietly graspi ir.g their prayer-books. Moreover, in relation to the special senses, that of Bight is first lost, the closing of the eye-lids setting up a barrier be| tween the retina and the external world; but, independently of the | eyelids.if they have been removed by the surgeon, or cannot be closed through disease.tho light js 'still the first sense whose sense is abolished. Some animals, as the hare do not shut their eyes when asleep ; and in cases of somnambulism, their eyes remain open although the sense of sight is temporarily lost. The other senses, as l>r. Hammond tells us, are not altogether abolished, but their acute- ncss is much lessened, Tasto is first to disappear, and then smell; bearing J follows; and touch is tlio most per1 sistcnt of the senses. So, conversely a person is most easily awakened by touch; next in order by sound, and then by smell. j Remedy for Cancer..A Wash| ingioti correspondent of the Balti-' more Gazette says: Some months ago Col Capron, Commissioner of Agriculture, received from Ecaudor a package of roots ami bark shrub or tree, culled "cundcrango," which is tounu growing in aounuance in rxau. dsi, arid, it is believed, in other South American States. Cunderango was represented as a Hpecifio i'or that heretofore supposed to be incurablu and m deadly disease, cancer. The Commissioner distributed this plant among our leading medical professors and physiciand, One of these has beeu applying cunderango with extraordinary and unlooked-for stic, cess, and in twenty days has almost entirely cured the mother of VicePresident Colfax and other patieuts who are ufllicthd with Cancer. ~ ~ . The >>avannan Advertiser.say8: ict. Rev. Ignatius Persisco, Catholic Bishop of thm Diocese, has already received *12,105,31, proceeds of the recent fair, held in this city, for purp>:so of raising funds for the building of a Cathedral. This is by far the largest sum ever raised in this city at ny one tioio by a fair. The Ethics of Dress. Imprimis* The first instinct about a new fashion is a true one. Don't wait till yonr eye has lost its accuracy and your judgment its edge. Subject the thing at once to its general rule, . .and bow to the decision. 2d. What suits one person docs not suit another. Know thyself. 3d Dress should supplement- good points and correct bad ones. Thick and thin, long and short, are not all to be subjected to one Procustean stylo. 4th. Colors should be harmOnioiis, should be massed.should be becoming Id est. many little points or blotches of color sprinkled over a costume produce a disagreeably pied and speckled effect, as of a monstrous robin's ejjg, or a plump pudding. One tint should prevail, relieved by a contrasting tint. No amount of fashionablo prestige can make an unbecoming color becoming. "Nile green" will turn some people in to oranges.. though twenty impresses ordain its adoption 5tli. Lines should bo continuous, graceful and feminine. It is better to look like a woman (if you happen to be one) than like anything else.even a fashion pla'e! 6th. Ornaments must be subordinate. Nature, with all here profusion never forgets fundamental law. 7th. Above all. things, be neat. Dainty precision and frcsliueso is essential to a woman as a flower. 8th. Individuality is the rarest and cheapest thing in the world, 6th, and lastly. "Stylish" is of all the words in the English languago the most deadly. It has slain its thousands..Home Society in Scribner's for Jone, o>» ... Vices of Genius. Coleridgo was such a slave to liquor that he had to bo kept an unwilling prisoner by Christopher North on an occasion when some literary performances had to be complete by a certain time; and on that very day, without taking leave of any member of the family, he ran at full speed down the avenue to Elleray and was soon hidden, not in the proves of the val- ley, but in some obscure den, where, drinking among low companions, bis magnigcent mind was soon brought to a level of the vile. When hii spree was over, he would return to the society of good men. lie Quincy was Buch a slave to the use of opium that his daily allowance was of more importance than eating An ounce of laudanum a day* prostrated animal life during the forenoon. It was no unfreqnent fight to find him asleep on the rug before the fire in his own room, his head on a book, and his arms crossed on his 1 ATt,i.:, 4. /». ii.. uicuob. it iicu 1111 tisrjjor iruui mu opium had passed away, he was ready for company until about da.ylight. In order to show him off, his friends had to arrange their supper parties eo that, sitting until three or four in the afternoon, he might be brought to that point at which, in charm and power of conversation, ho wz*s so truly wonderful. Burns was not less a drunkard than Coleridge. It was a weakness of Charles Lamb. And who can but remember the last days of Poe without repressive regret? He was on his way to Baltimore, and was found by a gentleman who knew him. in a state of beastly intoxication, uneon- scious as a log, and died that night in the raving of delirium tremens! Douglass Jerrold was a devotee of ein; so also was Bvron. Steele, the Brilliant author of the Christian Hero, was a beastly drunkard. Men wrote of him that he would dress himself, kiss his wife and children, tell them about his pressing engagements, heel it over to a groggery under tho "store" and have a revel with his bottle-cornpanioos. A Nashville woman is advertising for tho whereabouts of twenty-four of her children. She knows where tho other three aro. The Chnrchmon informs its readers that Mr Bcecher's views of the Lord's Supper "are a complete bar to any Christian union with him in such a service." An estate in Germany, valued at 81,500,000, is said to be seeking, as one of the heirs, Freduric William Keyser, who served as a Union eol- uier auring our war,-ana who, when last heard from, was a paroled prisoner, lying seriously ill at Willington, N. C. A "Western paper says: Wild Bill, the loyal, who was killed by Indians in 1869, and lynched by the Ku Klux last fall, and shot dead in a quarrel at j Christmas, is marohal of tho town of Abilono, Kansas. i "Black Eyes" Repaired..A New York artist has opened an establish- , a. 1 J . luenc w 11cre -uiul-h vo iwc muuu ^ naturaHn five minutes." Ho does a rushing business every Monday morn- iiiif, when tbo bummers esceped from the Tombs. The Now York Shir has purchased the Democrat, formerly "Brick" Ponicroy's organ, and its lust number was issued on Saturday. Mr. Lamlert, .who has conductJtl the Democrat with decided ability, retires from the field 4 ^ Mt»«49UM ^ . SCRAPS. Deaf and Dumb Clerks are said to be on trial in some of the departments in Washington. Nilsson is to favor the San Fran- N ci6caus with opera as well as concerts. Randolfi supplies Verger's placo in her troupe. v The New Yo«-k ladies wear their parasols sword fashion, at their sides, wnen not in use.a killing military style. Queen Victoria is said to have settled her favorite estate of Balmoral upon the Princess Louis. This wjck, Mr. Bowen, of feouth Carolina, has a little engagemont in W-ushington, to be tried for bigamy. Many of the young men in Paris with boardlesa, blooming laces, have . taken to female apparel to avoid %tho conscript law of the Commune. # f.' The Presbyterian General Assemqly, now in session at Chicago, adopt- A ed resolutions of fraternal greeting, £ and transmitted them to the Baptist Abbumuiy, in session at St. .Louis. jfe The Courier-Journal, in view of tlie report that Worth, the man millinp, is coming to this couutry, hopes ttiat Congress will not abolish the i£u Klux before ho gets hero. It has been said that an inch is ft cood deal in the length of n. TrmnV nose, but ft Milwaukee prodigy (is noied, who could spare an inch fromhis and still have four inches leftA Bostonian, who did -Mount Washington on foot last year, h&s in- formed the Transcript tha; he got aft ravenous as a raven among,the ravines, and sat down in one of the gorgeous gorges and gorged (himself. It was Ifadame de Stael whp re* marked of a conceited acquaintance: ., TTT » r I »" 1 "YY nencvcr 1 Bee Dim, i ieei tne same pleasure that I receive from lookipg at a fond couple.ho and his self lpvo live so happily together." * The Danbury News tell* a story of a new boy in one of the RtdgenelA Sunday Schools, who, being- asked who made the beautiful hills about them, replied that ho did not know, as bis parents only moved into town the Friday before. A gentleman in New England -recently made a dying request that a j ^ t i J t. * jrmuu biiuuiu uu a pan oearer,' out the friend almost at the name moment died and his funeral took placo the same day. At Union, Monroe County, "West Virginia, on Friday, 19th instant, William Johnson, colored, was executed for the murder of George Hi Hunter, on October 24, 1870. " "Whiskey is your greatest enemy." "But," said Mr. Jones, "don't tho Bible say, Mr. Preacher, that wei are to love our enemies?" "Oh, yes, Jones, hut it don't say we are to swallow them." The first through train from New Orleans, over the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad, reaehcd Chattanooga Wednesday night, making tho run in twenty-six hours and ten minutes. As four or five darkies were passing an agricultural implement store on Third street, the other day, one of them gointing to a cultivator, said: l,A man c-anjistsit on dat thing and ride while he's ploughing." r\ « » vne 01 our soutnern editors headed a leader the other day C,A Cut and Dried Affair," and when he came to rga J it the next morning his piety \va9 not the least increased by reading, "A Cat and Dried Apple." A live anaconda, six feet long and nine inches in circumference in the largest part of his body, has just arrived in Northampton, Mass*, from Brazil, in response to a request for au anaconda skin wherewith to construct a pair of boots. Patrick Fitzgerald undertook to climb into the house of one Corb'n. bis brother-in-law, at Detroit, on Wednesday, and, while endeavoring toforce bis entranee through a window, he was shot by Mrs. Corbin. He will probably die from the effects of the wound. The Horry News estimates $60,000 worth of crude turpentine is sold annually in that county, in seven months of each yeur, and also states that timber is also in good demand, and bringing good cash prices, both in that and Georgetown market. A turtle mailed from DeKalb, crawled out of his package at Omaha, much to the discomfiture of the postoffice clerk. The ftiuny man of tho sterling tfazetto says if Undo Sam is going into business of carrying live packages, wo have a small purp of the Fifteenth Amendment stripe to send. A company has been organized for constructing a large tunnel under the river from Detroit to Wiudsor, for connecting the Michigan Central and Great Western Railways. The work is to be completed in two years, at pa expense of. $5 000.000. It is to bo wide enoiigh for a double track, Tho distance will be over a mile. Several of the priests confined by the Commune in the Pan's prisons have di«Ml from the eflectsof tho exceptional oruelty and harshness with mtkink t KA*r Ka«*a i-. - J >Viiiwi i/wcjr UUV« UVUU UCJUCU Uy their brutal jailors.
Transcript of THE ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER, · loment when he felt lie could tell ei' his thon^hts, for even...
THE ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER,BY W. A.. LEE AND HUGII.WILSON. ABBEVILLE. S. C., -FRIDAY. JUNE 2, 1871. VOLUME XIX.NO.'6.
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TREASURES. .
0:ir paths when strewn with roses,Our .skies when clear nlx>ve, w-,
"Willi many1>iomls tli:u love usAnd inauy whom wo lovg,.
Are more than princely treasuresTo the youthful or the old ;
The sun and llowors of friendshipAre better far than gold.
A spirit never eloude l,Conu-nhd and juisi.se; .
A mind alive to music'sJoyful melodies; - *
Arc worth (Joleonda's diamonds.Aie mt.re than all Peru.Give mi- tlu-se rifle.' treasuresAnd I'll leave the wealth to you.
A heart that weeps with sorrow,That feels with other's-woes^,
And tlirobs with kindly feeliugs,Forgiveness to its foes,
Is worth an KldoradoWith mines of wealth untold;Give me that {rem of HeavenAnd you may have the gold.
NkwAi<K, May 10.* I
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WOULDN'T MARRY A FREACHER.
;BY ZILMA ZEHLK.
Eleno Adair was a wild, reckless ]'girl of sixteen, caring for nothing u-or ]nobody. She had nu mother to giveher kind and loving advice, and tho' '
her linker was a loving jjood man,lie did not understand the way of jju^0 Sul-jc-ction the- wild, |.young iadvhood ; so Elene grew 'upan uncultivated and untrained bovver. ^ller old anntsometimes remonstrated.!but the more she said the worsei ,
Elene seemed to be, so the old lady] *
<lid as Elder Adair did, '-kept her''peace;" thinking surely there comos [.;a time when the "wave of youthful kfancies of their own accord break on
contending rocks, and expose thedeep feeling soul within.Eleno had her sports; she hunted
with her dogs and her gun, fished and { *
r:tcpii her horse when tlifi monrJ sniv.txl.'lier, which was very often. She had ^no companion when in .school, for her ij in tare was not like other children'*,Studied wdlj-Ufit tormented bothjfteachers and scholars to her hearthcontent.
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One day in June she had roamed;0jmd rambled alt day long, and coming "1
gaylv tripping to the hou^v passed j:luii into tlio parlor, her dogs, Festus j.and 1*41111, closely following behind :irer hat in hand hair tailing Joosuly.i |*back, held bv a comb, and turningitself into curls at the end, a feverish v
<rlow on her checks, nil-'combined'' to l<O
^ 1make her look liko a gypsy fprite of;the woods). Oil tho tlnfeshoid cho !'BUildciiiv halted, for a handsomej Vvoun<i stran-jvr conversed with herO O
^ Jfather, who arose and introduced himas Mr. Lester. Excusing himself to '
attend to his farm duties, he leftElene to entertain him, without one i J*word as to who lie was. |.She was pleasant in conversation.^.'
and a good listener, which is bettor!.'IIthan a good talker; so they conversed ,
agreeably for some time, when the i .
church was spoken about, and Mr. i-uLester asked (kt something concern-!
* in;; their church i:> Slant^n. 1 ^'Indeed* sfr, 1 know nothing at r.ll
.afcaut the church here ; it is a plan? Inever go to." And she raided horbdark, restless eyes to his, and her [ {Jips curved to show the dislike she nfdt*
"
: v- -j Itlie- looked at hor with surpriseior-t t;
a few moments, then said: c"Exeuso the question, but your 0
fatner is an.'elder,' is be not?" s
'Yes, he i.s : but papa is not I, \-ou e
«.T>bi know.-; V.Surprise-'-gate away to pity in his j,
eyes, $0 sec one of her age and sur-; »
roundings speak with such careless-: t]liens on such a subject, | v"Ann may 1 ask. Miss Adair, why v
3*oii do not-intend chui\':h?"- ; *i t"Oh,.! dtfn-laslly explain that," slie l,
answered, a little amused by hisinqnisiIivoness-; ^just because 1 nevercould sit stiil long enough to hear a }sermon, for what stirring creature;];could sit a whole hour and listen toa preacher jumbling together words , fto tell the late of mankind? and after sho is to.rough, pof/r old Webster feelsa terrific lossj all his overgrown swords are gone, and these have beentied together by Latin* Greek and "
Hebrew. And oh, such a coiiglora:J jeraiion of wisdom ! who could sit anddrink it into his being] coald. you?"she asked, looking at him roguishly, yDarwin Lester Was sure then that f
J^Ieno Adair di 1 not know that'he jtn-Mia flm I'.iivtr tn £st;iti_
tort, unci he answered firmly aud oui-j s
phatk'AJIv. - J/; "-- r
"Yos, f can listen to a sermon." p' Can you? Do you go lor your; i
'cwn etiifieation and improvement, or v
because i'thers go ? or do you like t
to note the iast fashion out ?" p
' I go to preach the gospel to men," 1answered Darwin with emphatic; jpride. : ' ! 1
For a moment only was Elcne dis-j \
.concerted: she ^avo him one hurried r
glance, and the solemn firm news of - ^
his face restored her to herself ii.ud '1sho burst into a rneriy laugh. Dar-; r
win Lester not expect such a turn, tbecause he did not yet know her. 1After laiighing,, she ^nonchalantly r
eaid: j~ ;4
v
** it' lUd I Only looked at" you I might!
htrvo known you were a preacher,jtV.../-.OIKO vniii' nnsfi is so lorif.''
j. r~.v °
This speech opened his eyes com- ipletcly to her nature, and the lecture tlie was framing for her ho never gave Iher. ' t
' I suppose you are the new preach-1 c
cr? £ heard papa Baying something ^
about some one coming. j""I am, Miss Adair; and I hope <
among my old people there .are not 1
,jnany iffee yourself." , >' i
"I ana. the only one; papa says bo,
any ho'.v. But, Mr. Lester, let m<tell you now.do not trouble meand I'll not .trouble yon; lor of ulcreatures whining preachers are tinmost despisahlo. flow rmrcli 1 ha|ithorn never lot mc have cause to tellyou. I wish you much you much joyin your undertaking lure. Come,FVstus and Paul let us go and feedthe chiekens." And oil' >-hc startedwhittling; then she struck into aScottish song ."Oh whistle and I'll corac to you," my
hid."
A smile crossed the linos aboutDarwin Lester's mouth ns her voicefloated back to him. ami he thoughtbeneath that reckless exterior was u
deep loving heart.Life had not been all sweetness to
him ; she who should now have beenhis honored wife was another's bride,and the wound in his heart which herdugtcer of conquest had made was notyet healed He was called to Stantonto'jureaeh, and ho and his widowedmother would make it their home; hewould stay at Elder Adair's until hercoming.Hearing voice*, he voluntarily arose
and went to the window, and there>tood Elene d spousing food to sinirmy o»' poultry, and ta4kin«^ to themill the while,' wlieji lier aunt's voice>ut in>"Elene, child, did you know the
minister was here?""Yes, ma'ilia; I saw him and talked
frith him ; dial, auntie, I can not helphinking how much ho resembles that,urk«y there."Aunt Mary disappeared install tor,
md Ellen, laughing, looked up to thevindow, and seeing Mr. Lester, onlyaid ."You, Jo not belit-vc it, do you ?"On Sunday lie asked her if she
voilld attend ilinrcli.lv\f), sir." w:is her candid reply'.' Jlmv shall you spend the day,
Hiss Adair ?" f '
"You are vciy inquisitive, but. asou are a prcaeher, 1 wilt overlook it,nd ted I you; in reading, writing,!.iid having a good time in general,°aid t>lu', howintj to bitn and leavinglira alcne*As time passed on Darwin LesternuM "riot *he!p~ admiring tlic tree;r;u c of' E'enc h<-r honest franknessnd eccentric originality. lie oliorodo 1 her in her studies. 8ho at;i\>t dot-lifted, 1mt, when t-lic consirjredit. accepted his oiler. Thisro-ght them closer together; andrhen -Mrs. Lester came and theyrjok possession of their beautiful cot:i^e, ^-.Wiieli Darwin had eon verteditoa miniature paradise by his manynpi ovetnents, he still instrneted f
)lene, and before two years passedway he found he had been conjuga-inthe verb "Awo.''In all this time there never was ;iloment when he felt lie could tellei' his thon^hts, for even did She>v<? him, he knew" she would sayXo," and laugh at his fully for a>k)i(her love. He had sympathy forliies Standish when Lie said :
'A HiniwlntMncf "NTa Y>r*inf lilnnlr frnm
the mouth of a woman,["hat I confess I'm afraid of, nor am I
ashamed to confess it."
Up to this time Elenc-'s life hadCcn a merry play, joy, mischief. and.he roguish wiles Ot* the actors; hutow there came a change. II cr fullerfell a victim to d-sea ho, mid in ajw phorf days ])asscd away fromartli. She wandered through herhi haunts in a dreamy way; nothingeemed to amus* her or arouse her!ny^ies. Now l>ar.vin Lester feltourage to tell her, and put his fateri her-ktepiug. lie told her of hisyouth's love dreain," then of hisnan hood's more perfect love. Il'isrords stirred chords in her heartrhich never before had vibrated ; abrill ofjoy passed through her being;,nit she looked calmly into his lacenu saw:
' You forgot your position in life.Jarry a minister! 1 thought you;new my feelings in that direction."Tiie deep palor tiiat.oyefspivacft. is
iice made lie-r regret her word*, andbe addeU_\vith a smile :
"Certainly you do forgive me forpeaking t>o-frankly,%for raying'What I ought not to Lave said, yet
now'
can never unsay it."ti T 1» A T*1 /V T l-~ ^ ...." i iurgive you, lii'.'oe, iur i khuw
our way. Hut consider ir. well heureyou answer so frankly my quesion."'
' No, Mr. Lester, I am tired of myelf,oi everything; tlu-re is nothinglew, and the old haunts weary me.' 1hall go to New York, to my uncle;ii tlie buzz of that groat city lifeviil seem to flow faster, and the goaloward which all arc coining. wi Ioon appear. I ain" wealthy, andtave wealthy friends, which are greatjassports through life. 1 shall keen)»y old home lu re to come back tovlien I have bathed in the Dead Sea>f my hopes.\\ hieh may never be.A'c are pot suited to each other,'hinl; <>f wedding the "dashing cataactthat Hied from rock to ruck lo
he gentle, purling stream!" Sheyoked up at him, with one of her
oguish laughs, and said; "Not a
>ad sermonizer, atu I?"Without answering her question ho
ook both her hands in Lie saying."Klene, you aro young, and bmldngair-castles, and "asking blindly of
lie 1'uLure what it cannot give you,'>ut when )*ou huve road this iiiRpripion,Omnia vanit'is, on ev ry portal,some back; and ere long Elene Adair.vas whirling in the majlstrom ofNTuw York. She dressed, danced and:-oquetted to her heart's desire. Beforelong she I egan to weary of it:Lh6 gilding of her contentment was
again wearing off. She kaew then
5 thut she loved Darwin Lester, and, loved him yet Hot ween her and allI her admirers, his dark, pleading grays eyes would thrust themwives. His* words 4 I'll wait ibr you." were ever
ringing in her ears, but "I'll never go' back," she said ; "I will aoeept Frank,' Houghton, and spend my life in trailIing velvet robes over marble liali and
velvet carpets."j When Frank Houghton eamo againthey parted betrothed. The news
spread fast and far. Away in Stan-1ton they heard flic story of the!wealthy and handsome man EleneAdair was to marry, and one in thattown felt a heavier load on his heartthan ever helore.
Almost three years had gone, when{on*' day in early sjiririElene EleneI Adair came back to her old home.Her health could not endure the laborsof lashiwn, and a canker was inher heart. Anger separated her andFrank Houghton, and as her love forhim was very shallow a slight causethrx'W back the glittering soltalro tothe donor, with the words:"Take lack your bundle, and with
it your unrequited lo»*e.llni* /I » »»lr ltiirirtnno /m» Af< c-AAmftfl
114 V I \4 II I MI1II lll\MI(7 V13 PV'VIIIVU
the only unchanged featnro in Eleneso frail and delicate had she become.Darwin Lester wept over her as liefolded her in his arms and kissed herpale lips. But love euros all diseasesand in a short time there was a weddingin Stanton, and the rosy Eleneof old wedded a minister! And herhushand, looking down into thedepths of her dark, loving eyes, couldnot help saying,
' Elene, how much do you hatepreaehers?" A tender hand coveredliis lips, und a pleading "Don't," washis answer
HOW TO WIN IN 1872.
True Course of the Democracy in the;Uiir.cnnt Pitit'io nf +1m Pnimtmr rPlir.jlicoljju viioxo \Ji tug \J\juui-LJ J U\J
Constitution as it is.A Letter fromJolin Quincy Adams.
The following letter from JohnQu.ti'.'.y Adams, late the Demo-1eratic candidate tor Governor of:Massaehusa'.ts, to a citizen of Mis-souri, has been pven to the worldthrough the columns ot the St.ijoins licpublicau:
n.ttx-/-,,. n ic7iV£ I ii> v ) | ;>!«!> U, iUlli
A. Warren Julsey, Esq.:Dear Sir.1 have the honor to
acknowledge the receipt of a coin-;mutiioation from you enclosing twoextracts from newspapers uponwhich you request my criticism;ana I in for from your letter thatyou wished to learn my opinionupon the public questions discussedin those articles.You are quite welcome to know
them, if you are willing to acceptthem as simply the speculation ifan individual. I represent nobody,and do not boast a follower in theworld; nor do I hnow that my no-jtions are. shared by any considerajbio portion of any party.The people of the United States
feel instinctively that they are go-ling wrong, but they are told that it!will be dangerous to retrace theirsteps. Tiiey know that the pathupon which they have entered isbeset with pitfalls; but even a badpass is better than the piecipieeThe sweet) of reaction is stayed bytlie dread, of revolution. The policyof shrewd Democrats, and theduty of good citizens, is to dispelthis apprehension, no matter howfoolish it may seem to them.Short of honor and good faith, no
sacrilioe should be deemed severewhich would sulllce to lay thathaunting spectre. For that-rearonI deplore the halting, hesitatingstep with which the Democracy is,sneaking up to its inevitable posi-1tion. For this cause I share your,regret at the studious ambiguitywhich seems to search for a silly:port through which to dodge its'destiny. And while I better liketli(«siiii'it- T cnndiMnn tlif»
policy or those who only proclaim-1cd their purpose of revolution.Such indications of sentiment annoyme, simply because they prolonga s'tuation fraught with great J
! danger to the dearest interests of1lis all. The dominant party can re-
tain a power which has-grown too:great for the public welfare onlyby an indctinitt extension of themoral conditions of the civil war.The Republican organization canrally to no cry but a slogan and conquerunder no standard but a spearThat lurty needs strife to insure :tssuccess, but good lceling is neces,sary tor good govern meut.
No»v, the hostility to the fifth*teenth amendment is the stock-intradeof the fomenters of strife;is it worth gratifying ut the risk ofpermanent subjection ? The Southis galled to-day not by the .presenceof that amendment to the constituition, but by the utter absence otthe constitution itself. They feela Congress which assaults them,but they iind no constitution to pro-
| tect them. .8 it not silly, then, tosquabble about an amendmentwhich would cease to be obnoxiousil it was not detached from its context?»
It is quibbing upon a technical?of law and relinquishing the substanceof liberty. The constitutionwas Rtrnrlc- flown hv the* n*.
sault upon Sumter, and all constitutionsmust necessarily fall beforethe lace of the supreme arbitraIment of war. It can never be liftjeel up while war is flagrant. Thepeople will never resign the attitudeof hostile vigilance, which isthe real significance ot the presentadministration, until they knowtlin' Hit niin /if' tlifjip iviip tq
longer disputed. Then they willgladly resume the habits which theylove and the good nature whichthey repress. What, then, is themeaning of the grotesque contortionsof those who profess a fondnessfor camels and yet strain so
fantastically at this gnat? for theessence ofnil Democracy is equality.nothing but the equality of allmen before the law.equal and exactjustice to every man, and eachto sliare in the government at' all.That is the only genuine Democraticdoctrine- lint who daresface an intelligent people, with thattestimony upon his lips, and denouncea measure which is tooDemocratic for Democrats, onlybecause the enfranchised arebhfcks? Surely, the Northern Democracyshould not be forced intosuch stupidities by the eonseien
1 x* x i ri ..*1lions scrupies 01 ineir oouinernbrethren. Deference is doubtlessdue to their constitutional qualmsand yet some lenity towards revolutionaryprocesses or* amendmentmight he reasonably expected fromsupporters of secession. If we cancondone the fault, is it too much toask paroled prisoners of war to pardonit ?No! You have given our cry
"Universal amnesty and universalsuffrage." I would only add, theconstitutional Union of the States.ror uie oia constitution is just as
good as ever it was, for South aswell as North, in spite of the marksol the mailed hand which must remainupon it for a wurningto thosethat come after us. There is nothingin it now which is not perfectlycompatible with the happiness, welfareand liberty of allthepeople of .ill States. It isonly the administration that is atfault, it is the interpretation whichis violent. Do you imagine thatThomas Jefferson, do you thinkthat James Aladi^on, would saytheir old organic frame permits a
protective tariff or paper money;authorizes national banks or Presidentialdiplomacy; countenancesmilitary tribunals, centralization,and the crowning and perfect infamyof the Ku-Klux bill?
It never was the* constitutionwhich invaded or conquered a Stateit is not the constitution which op
<!.. T*juu.nmcm uie. oiiin;>. xi was »>m,civil »var. Close the war, and yourestore 8elf goverume..t to the j:eo-]»lt; of the States. If they cannotjsecure their own peace and happi-!jiess. lot us look around next year,not for the next President, but thefirst dictator.Now. if you or any other in fin
doubts the soundness of my jndg-jmerit in this matter, all I ask is ajtrue Democratic administration,and von shall see it tor yourself.
Yours, very respectfully,John Q. Adams.
"LETTERS FROM THE SOUTH."
The Place- for Invalids.InterminableSwamps.
One of the best places in the'Rnnth \Tni'tlihru iiur-ili/lo in inn.
tor, is Aiken, in South Carolina.:,It is sortie six hundred feet above;!the sea, in the midst ot the dry, 11sandy region, and the village i-< inthe pine woods, or the pine woodsin the village, it does not matter,which. In years past strangershave had reason to complain bit-;!terly of the want of good housesin which to live or did when thejrcome South for their health.They do not know how to keep',hotels in the South. The peoplethemselves are so hospitable amimake tliir friends so comfortable, jthat in old times nobody went to ajhotel if he could help it. Butljk > . rt 11*111 fA 1*. >11 il I .f t .tn .. l-v 1 il.am iu »>ruc4>wu u iuuci auum iutJ
hotels, and will not spoil it by bo-!ginning now.
At Aiken a good house lias beenerected within the last year, wellsupplied with all that is needful tomake guests comfortable, terms!moderate and satisfaction warrante«l.There i3 no malaria about'Aiken. That is the groat danger,in the South Hundreds of milesby rail you go alftng the Atlanticcoasts, and the trees stand in thewater and out of the water, swampsto the right of you and swamps to jthe left of you, swamps before youaim swamps wyijiiiu yyu, swampseverywhere and always; by namedismal, in fact worse; boundless indreariness, and irremediable by!drain ; with a capacity incalculablefor the production of fevers andfrogs.
But as God tempers the wind tothe shorn sheep, so he-adapts thepeople to the clime. A travelerasked a native hereabouts,.
"Is there not a great deal of sickncsB in this region?"
"0 no," he answered, "we havethe shakin' ager some, but then wehave a powerful undertow ofhealth."Now at Aiken it is dry And sandy
and I'iny, and the invalids find itsunny and cheery and balmy, andtlifiv P.i>ir»\r if find tliriro T-Ti<rh-land Park is the name of the newhotel I speak of^ and speak wellof.About six miles from the village,'
through the woods, is Montmorenciwhere Dr. Jewel, formerly of NewHaven, has opened a nice housefor hoarders, and especially for invalids,and a more desirable placespot for rest and recuperation, cannotbe found in the South, I presume.Capt. Kuckson, an Englishgentleman, has bought twoor three thousrnd acres of landhere, and has gone into the oultiviiiionof crmiif's and manufactureof wine and brandy. lie employsahundred negroes, and these,with their families, make a largecolored poplation on his estates.Now and then the hospitableEnglish -proprietor gives a lunchto the whole country side, invitingthe strangers nnd residentsfrom miles around, to spend theday at his mansion.
A Southern Load of Wood.r r* 1 1 n n /-i c li n* l:
H;oiumoia,^. u., uor. or mc CincinnatiCommercial.]
I walked out to the east of the cityand having i.o objective point in view,except to get into the country. Inthe suburbs of the city I met a concernthat always attracts the attentionot a stranger. It was a SouthCarolina load of wood. This load ofwood was on a rickctty wagon, thewheels of which wabbled ai.d bobbedabout over the road in as unsteady amanner as so man}' drunken men.The tracks that it made wore fearfulto see. On this wagon was a rack,and in this rack were four pins, eachabout two feet high. They were distantapart from each other some fourteeninchcs one way, and four feet theother. Within these standards gen-tie reader, was tho loud of wood.Honestly, there was not enough of itto make one good fire in a fireplace ofeven moderate dimensions. One ofthe old-fu.'hioned sort would swallowwagon, wood and all, and then cullfor more. Il.tched to this wagon was
an animal, which, in the better duysof the .Republic, might have been a
horse. Now it was a portion of a
horse's skin filled with bones. Thohorse himself (lid not seem to he there.This bundle of some skin and considerablebones was hitched to the "wa«j011*'by means of a cloth-line rope, andan armful of straw tied into somethingthat ini^ht puss for a villainousburlesque on a lmrse-collar, by means01 a straw eut from the old boot-L'g.The bridle was made, out of scrapfrom thti same boot-leg that hud enteredso largely into t he constructionof the "collar." There wore onlytwo pieces of' it and the bit. Thislast was a big (ami}' affair, and nothaving shrunk away with the horse,it looked, by the side of his vanquishedjaws, like a lightning-rod t wist idinto fantastic shapes. The reins were
on a scale commensurate with ther.st of the turnout, one of them beingmadt: out of what appeared to beold shoe-strings, and the other of severalarticles, starting out with a smallchain next the bit. or twisted lightpingrod, then a short piece of tishimcline, then a few feet of somethingapparently cut from the edge of a
piece of cotton bagging, and endedwith a bit of clothes-line that wasleft over from the traces.The driver and apparent owner of
this turn-out was a tall, thin, lean,callow, spindle- shanked, leaned-jaw-ed. cadaverous-looking Cuss, wholooked as if he * hud not had a
square meal since 1SG0, and could cat
up the weight of his wood and horse,if presented in the shape of meat andbread, at a single .sitting
I looked at this moving panoramaof loverly so intently that the proprietorthought I wanted to buy, andbrought his animal to a halt. It wasno trouble to do that as the bones inthe dried skin suddenly stopped wuddlingeven before the word of commandwas fairly out of the driver'smouth, or there had been tho slightestjerk on the twisfed lightningrod."Do yer want ter buy this 'ere
.1 ' l..WU'Hi I iiv a^utu,
What's it worth ?""Wall, seeing that I'm in a hurry,
and hits a good bit back home, andI'm a needin' some money powerfullybad, I'll just take eighty cents for thoload"
"Is that the neual pi ico for loads ofthat size ?"
'Wall, can't say for ce.fain 'tis or
'taint. Jlit's cheaper 'an »iost load*for tho money, for it's bigger. Theprice of wood in Columbia dependsupon things; you* know; that is,sometimes hii'u ncarce, and then agina good hit will come'in, air' then you«ee we can't a I ways understand howthings will work and eome aboutconcerning of the supply of suchneeds uh city people has to contendwith, which is dittorent from the waywe do in the country about things ofthe uort, you know. Uuvo you gotany tobacky ?"
I did not use the weed.''Wall, talk tip pairt 'bout this 'ere
wood My old na^Vbout to lay down,and ef I don't bo a movin' on he'lllay down in hpite of the (level, and--I. i. a :» «.,!Will 11 1IU gUl?J UUWII 1L LU1VC «Ul iV
for to get him up, and I've fouud thatthe unrest vt&y to understand these
little way this horse does is to keepLira on the move, for when he's onthe movo the fact of the business is,you see, he can't lay down, for he's allthe time goin' ahead"
I told him I did not care to buy.his wood, at which he raised a whoopbehind ins horse that would havecaused any animal half-way fed to
-I have rnn away, then pushed his wagonat hi in as a father incentive to getalong, and the* panorama of poverty1 slowly moved on toward the city.
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Feeding Poultry.Onions rrc said to be an admirablo
food for fowls, or rather adjunct tothe ordinary food. If given regular-1ly, it is said they will prevent the attacksof moro more ordinary diseasesof poultry. Meat is said by authoritiesto be an essential food for poultry,especially in the winter, whenthey eannot get the worms they pickup in the summer. Others, again,main aiti that the habit of givingmeat to poultry is productive ofgrave cvns.mo cause 01 many 011
the worst forms ot' disease whichaffects them. By those authoritiesit is called an unnatural food, i'rias^much as the digestive organs of thebirds are r.ot fitted to assimilate it.There must, we think, be. some mis-1tako in all this; for we know of a
surety that fowls-do eat, when theycan get it, and entirely of their own
accord, an cnormona quantity of animalfood Here it is not cooked;the game found in nature's garden israw. If meat is an unnatural forpoultry, they certainly have a mostunnatural appetite for it. Throw inone lump of meat amongst a lot offowls; if not litterally a bone of contention,it is something vastly like it,so eager are all to get a grap at it.Wo believo the habit of giving muchfood in a short space of time to poultryis a bad one. Il you notice theirhabits, you will see that the processof picking up their food u^der theordinary, or what we call the naturalcondition, is a very slow one. Grainby grain does the meal get taken, andwith the aggregate no small amountof sand, small pepblcs, and the like,nil nT tinkiiK *-\n uu! ii ** ia-it/% ilia Mtrtn
IUii ui >> 1 iiv-11 »*»£ nnu viiv vi v>J^jassist digestion greatly. But in the"hen" mode of feeding poultry, a
great heap is thrown down, and thebirds allowed to "peg away at such arate that their crop is filled far too
rapidly, and tho process of assimilationis slow, painful and incompleteNo wonder that so many cases ofchoked are met with under this treatment.
How we go to Sleep.The immediate antecedents of
sloop.a lauguor, a sensation of weightin the upper eye-lids, partial tempofrary relaxation of certain must-let*,as shown by the nodding aiu-l droppingof the head upon the breast, compar|alivo obtuseness to external imprees|ions, yawning, etc., call for no specialremark. Tbe order in which the
! muscles lose their power ia, however,deserving of a passing notice. Thernuseles winch move the arms andlegs usually becvnie relaxed beforethoso whiih support the head, andthe latter before those which maintainthe body in an erect position.There are, however, many exceptionsto this rule, ua may be seen in achurchfin >1 lifit ^11 twl n t* ii* K an umviii a!' 1 ka\j ii it u\/v uununj , >» liCii cuuit v/j. me
congregation are almost certain to beKeen with their chins quietly restingon their chests, but yet quietly graspiir.g their prayer-books. Moreover,in relation to the special senses, thatof Bight is first lost, the closing ofthe eye-lids setting up a barrier be|tween the retina and the externalworld; but, independently of the
| eyelids.if they have been removedby the surgeon, or cannot be closedthrough disease.tho light js 'still thefirst sense whose sense is abolished.Some animals, as the hare do not shuttheir eyes when asleep ; and in casesof somnambulism, their eyes remainopen although the sense of sight istemporarily lost. The other senses,as l>r. Hammond tells us, are not altogetherabolished, but their acute-ncss is much lessened, Tasto is firstto disappear, and then smell; bearing
J follows; and touch is tlio most per1sistcnt of the senses. So, converselya person is most easily awakened bytouch; next in order by sound, andthen by smell.
j Remedy for Cancer..A Wash|ingioti correspondent of the Balti-'more Gazette says: Some monthsago Col Capron, Commissioner ofAgriculture, received from Ecaudora package of roots ami bark shrub or
tree, culled "cundcrango," which istounu growing in aounuance in rxau.dsi, arid, it is believed, in other SouthAmerican States. Cunderango was
represented as a Hpecifio i'or thatheretofore supposed to be incurabluand m deadly disease, cancer. TheCommissioner distributed this plantamong our leading medical professorsand physiciand, One of thesehas beeu applying cunderango withextraordinary and unlooked-for stic,cess, and in twenty days has almostentirely cured the mother of VicePresidentColfax and other patieutswho are ufllicthd with Cancer.
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The >>avannan Advertiser.say8: ict.Rev. Ignatius Persisco, Catholic Bishopof thm Diocese, has already received*12,105,31, proceeds of the recentfair, held in this city, for purp>:soof raising funds for the buildingof a Cathedral. This is by far thelargest sum ever raised in this city atny one tioio by a fair.
The Ethics of Dress.
Imprimis* The first instinct about anew fashion is a true one. Don'twait till yonr eye has lost its accuracyand your judgment its edge. Subjectthe thing at once to its general rule, .
.and bow to the decision.2d. What suits one person docs not
suit another. Know thyself.3d Dress should supplement- good
points and correct bad ones. Thickand thin, long and short, are not allto be subjected to one Procusteanstylo.
4th. Colors should be harmOnioiis,should be massed.should be becomingId est. many little points orblotches of color sprinkled over acostume produce a disagreeably piedand speckled effect, as of a monstrousrobin's ejjg, or a plump pudding.One tint should prevail, relieved by acontrasting tint. No amount of fashionabloprestige can make an unbecomingcolor becoming. "Nile green"will turn some people in to oranges..though twenty impresses ordain itsadoption
5tli. Lines should bo continuous,graceful and feminine. It isbetter to look like a woman (if youhappen to be one) than like anythingelse.even a fashion pla'e!
6th. Ornaments must be subordinate.Nature, with all here profusionnever forgets fundamental law.
7th. Above all. things, be neat.Dainty precision and frcsliueso is essentialto a woman as a flower.
8th. Individuality is the rarest andcheapest thing in the world,
6th, and lastly. "Stylish" is of allthe words in the English languagothe most deadly. It has slain itsthousands..Home Society in Scribner'sfor Jone,
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Vices of Genius.
Coleridgo was such a slave to liquorthat he had to bo kept an unwillingprisoner by Christopher North on anoccasion when some literary performanceshad to be complete by a certaintime; and on that very day, withouttaking leave of any member ofthe family, he ran at full speed downthe avenue to Elleray and was soonhidden, not in the proves of the val-ley, but in some obscure den, where,drinking among low companions, bismagnigcent mind was soon broughtto a level of the vile. When hii spreewas over, he would return to the societyof good men.
lie Quincy was Buch a slave to theuse of opium that his daily allowancewas of more importance than eatingAn ounce of laudanum a day* prostratedanimal life during the forenoon.It was no unfreqnent fight to findhim asleep on the rug before thefire in his own room, his head on abook, and his arms crossed on his
1ATt,i.:, 4. /». ii..uicuob. it iicu 1111 tisrjjor iruui mu
opium had passed away, he was readyfor company until about da.ylight.In order to show him off, his friendshad to arrange their supper partieseo that, sitting until three or four inthe afternoon, he might be broughtto that point at which, in charm andpower of conversation, ho wz*s so trulywonderful.Burns was not less a drunkard than
Coleridge. It was a weakness ofCharles Lamb. And who can butremember the last days of Poe withoutrepressive regret? He was onhis way to Baltimore, and was foundby a gentleman who knew him. in astate of beastly intoxication, uneon-scious as a log, and died that night inthe raving of delirium tremens!Douglass Jerrold was a devotee of
ein; so also was Bvron. Steele, theBrilliant author of the Christian Hero,was a beastly drunkard. Men wroteof him that he would dress himself,kiss his wife and children, tell themabout his pressing engagements, heelit over to a groggery under tho "store"and have a revel with his bottle-cornpanioos.A Nashville woman is advertising
for tho whereabouts of twenty-fourof her children. She knows wheretho other three aro.
The Chnrchmon informs its readersthat Mr Bcecher's views of the Lord'sSupper "are a complete bar to anyChristian union with him in such aservice."
An estate in Germany, valued at81,500,000, is said to be seeking, asone of the heirs, Freduric WilliamKeyser, who served as a Union eol-uier auring our war,-ana who, whenlast heard from, was a paroled prisoner,lying seriously ill at Willington,N. C.
A "Western paper says: Wild Bill,the loyal, who was killed by Indiansin 1869, and lynched by the Ku Kluxlast fall, and shot dead in a quarrel at jChristmas, is marohal of tho town ofAbilono, Kansas. i
"Black Eyes" Repaired..A NewYork artist has opened an establish- ,
a. 1 J .
luenc w 11cre -uiul-h vo iwc muuu ^naturaHn five minutes." Ho does arushing business every Monday morn-
iiiif, when tbo bummers esceped fromthe Tombs.
The Now York Shir has purchasedthe Democrat, formerly "Brick" Ponicroy'sorgan, and its lust number wasissued on Saturday. Mr. Lamlert,.who has conductJtl the Democrat withdecided ability, retires from the field4 ^ Mt»«49UM
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. SCRAPS.Deaf and Dumb Clerks are said to
be on trial in some of the departmentsin Washington.Nilsson is to favor the San Fran- N
ci6caus with opera as well as concerts.Randolfi supplies Verger's placo inher troupe. v
The New Yo«-k ladies wear theirparasols sword fashion, at their sides,wnen not in use.a killing militarystyle.Queen Victoria is said to have settledher favorite estate of Balmoral
upon the Princess Louis.This wjck, Mr. Bowen, of feouth
Carolina, has a little engagemont inW-ushington, to be tried for bigamy.Many of the young men in Paris
with boardlesa, blooming laces, have .taken to female apparel to avoid %thoconscript law of the Commune.# f.'
The Presbyterian General Assemqly,now in session at Chicago, adopt- Aed resolutions of fraternal greeting, £and transmitted them to the BaptistAbbumuiy, in session at St. .Louis. jfeThe Courier-Journal, in view of tlie
report that Worth, the man millinp,is coming to this couutry, hopes ttiatCongress will not abolish the i£u Kluxbefore ho gets hero.
It has been said that an inch is ftcood deal in the length of n. TrmnVnose, but ft Milwaukee prodigy (isnoied, who could spare an inch fromhisand still have four inches leftA
Bostonian, who did -MountWashington on foot last year, h&s in-formed the Transcript tha; he got aftravenous as a raven among,the ravines,and sat down in one of thegorgeous gorges and gorged (himself.
It was Ifadame de Stael whp re*marked of a conceited acquaintance:., TTT » r I » " 1"YY nencvcr 1 Bee Dim, i ieei tne same
pleasure that I receive from lookipgat a fond couple.ho and his self lpvolive so happily together." *
The Danbury News tell* a story ofa new boy in one of the RtdgenelASunday Schools, who, being- askedwho made the beautiful hills aboutthem, replied that ho did not know,as bis parents only moved into townthe Friday before.A gentleman in New England -recentlymade a dying request that a
j ^ t i J t. *jrmuu biiuuiu uu a pan oearer,' outthe friend almost at the name momentdied and his funeral took placothe same day.At Union, Monroe County, "West
Virginia, on Friday, 19th instant,William Johnson, colored, was executedfor the murder of George Hi Hunter,on October 24, 1870." "Whiskey is your greatest enemy.""But," said Mr. Jones, "don't thoBible say, Mr. Preacher, that wei areto love our enemies?" "Oh, yes,Jones, hut it don't say we are toswallow them."
The first through train from NewOrleans, over the Alabama and ChattanoogaRailroad, reaehcd ChattanoogaWednesday night, making thorun in twenty-six hours and ten minutes.As four or five darkies were passingan agricultural implement store
on Third street, the other day, one ofthem gointing to a cultivator, said:l,A man c-anjistsit on dat thing andride while he's ploughing."
r\ « »vne 01 our soutnern editors headeda leader the other day C,A Cut and
Dried Affair," and when he came torga J it the next morning his piety\va9 not the least increased by reading,"A Cat and Dried Apple."A live anaconda, six feet long and
nine inches in circumference in thelargest part of his body, has just arrivedin Northampton, Mass*, fromBrazil, in response to a request for auanaconda skin wherewith to constructa pair of boots.
Patrick Fitzgerald undertook toclimb into the house of one Corb'n.bis brother-in-law, at Detroit, on Wednesday,and, while endeavoring toforcebis entranee through a window,he was shot by Mrs. Corbin. Hewill probably die from the effects ofthe wound.The Horry News estimates $60,000
worth of crude turpentine is sold annuallyin that county, in seven monthsof each yeur, and also states that timberis also in good demand, and bringinggood cash prices, both in that andGeorgetown market.
A turtle mailed from DeKalb,crawled out of his package at Omaha,much to the discomfiture of the postofficeclerk. The ftiuny man of thosterling tfazetto says if Undo Sam isgoing into business of carrying livepackages, wo have a small purp ofthe Fifteenth Amendment stripe tosend.
A company has been organized forconstructing a large tunnel under theriver from Detroit to Wiudsor, for connectingthe Michigan Central andGreat Western Railways. The workis to be completed in two years, at pa
expense of. $5 000.000. It is to bowide enoiigh for a double track, Thodistance will be over a mile.
Several of the priests confined bythe Commune in the Pan's prisonshave di«Ml from the eflectsof tho exceptionaloruelty and harshness withmtkink t KA*r Ka«*a i-. - J>Viiiwi i/wcjr UUV« UVUU UCJUCU Uytheir brutal jailors.
