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New ARRANGEMENT! NBw GooDs!-Our
stirring and enterprising friends, Messrs. L.
A. & d. NJ. HALBERT have bought out the in
terest Of Messrs. BEAN and CoTToN in the
store lately owned by the firm of Halbert,
Bean & Cotton, in Woods Block, and are
now running that popular institution on
their own hook. Those who know them,
will not be surprised that with this new
firm announcement, they also announce the
arrival of splendid stock of new goods
in six dogs from New York Seeing the bales
of new goods OF their counters, and the store
full of customers, one iorgets that these are
hard times, until we price the goods. Then
we realize that times amt as they used to
wos," for these splendid new goods are Of
fered at just Title above hal: the former
prices Of such goods. See adv.
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INSURANCE. LAND AND COLLECTION AGENCY OF
TRUE q sYAVEEs9tN.
1T tie BfHE- cf OH''cd- Ott1trd, III.
COLLECTIONS made in vicinity at usual rates
Lands purchased and sold at moderate commissions
Titles investigated and abstracts furnished
Deeds and other instruments made out and acknow-
iciret-
Policies issued in the following insurance companies:
LG S,Ue C0ftHtV Hutudl Fire Insurance o.;
Illinois WgfUaI do do
SePteHSOB County Mutual do do
National LON Fund LIZ Insurance Society,"
WIN VI. TRUE.
June by ISAAC v WATERMAN
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Splendid offers for 1856. 'j7, and '5S t..
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F1r Blbc woods Magazine, 20
For Review,
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y. B-The price in Great Britain OF the five Pcf!oli-
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shah again he likely to offer such induce
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scIJhe.
s- Remtances must in all cases be isa6e di'ect 10
TIE Publishers. for these prices commission eau 10
allowed to agents. Address -
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oAA OA4A w AOtCA 0SVuo
FISKE g. TAYLOR'S!
WE now Of enng Of the largest and best
w iected stocks Of
C-lylti.g, Geat's FhyDisbing GOods Hits aud cara,
and EOOts dhd Shoe5,
Ever offered in this any other market which in
wife the attention of those wishing = good suit
Fine Cloth Coats, black and Fancy, from 50 to Sl5
over Coats of all the different styles. from - sJy
1,n00 Vests, Of all styles and qualities;
1000 pair OF Pants, fashionable styles
Buffalo Over Coats, Gents Shawls, Hats and Caps,
Fur Plush, and Cloth, for Men and Boys Wool Under
Shirts and Drawers, Linen Shirts, Gents Scarfs, Com
Forts. aud Muler., Wool and MeTino Socks Buck and
Far Gloves oud Mitts-n fact everything a Gentleman
wishes be found at Store.
To the Ladies'.
We have large and well selected stock OF Ladies',
Eastern prices. Black Lasting Caters, for .c Iaaie'
Congress Caters and Bl-kins, 6c &c.-in fact every
thing -s.rs4be for the
TO the Gentlemen.
Our assortment i complete ia best French Calf and
Heavy Work. Best Calf sewel and pegged IS IL -.
Double solei Congress Caters, for Fan wear; Kip
Boots, from $50 -; Boys Boots and Shoes Gents
Robbers ard Sandals, best quality, 81
A. orr Goods manufactured expressly for us, We
they Will give entire satisfaction.
Thanking you for past patronage, We hope TO you
store doors east OF the City Bank. Nadi
son Street. [sep26l FIskE& TAYLOR.
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Wear Es;tI,Der..
'srIiTY hgf tribe, and are far mere csn'ari-
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adj years so Your life. Thrs ~ rysoagac your exist
ence five O.. te years 1y outlay 81 lev sirinSs al
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SzEN'S Nou,r-s and C'lIreI's Ruhbers, Of any sjz
~ and IL a.y guanti.v, cheaper shan ever for CASH
NJ. II. PRESCOTT, IN.
r,h2o No =, K3zSGcL's BlOsE.
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Groceries,

Our stock is large, comprising everything genei
found ia a frst class Gr0cery House, and a. We /
a4OFi> the
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fron1 t9e 0lb ddorlb,
EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE.
DRESDEN, Oct. 5th, 1858.


have made lately a visit to the ancient town
of Meissen, from whence comes all our pretty
porcelain and china. saw great deal and As
usual am anxious to tell it.
Mcisscn lies on the Elbc, not more than
twelve or fifteen miles from Dresden. 1t is ex-
trcmely old and identified with the, history of
saxony, indeed of all Germany; from the ear
liest TIMES. A royal Castle, gothic Cathedral
and the Porcelain Factory form its present OBJ
iects of interest Travellers and sightseeing
people leave Dresden in the morning i'll the
Elbe Steamer, reach Nielsen in two hours, and
after spending the day in rummaging among
the antiquities, return by the same means late
in the afternoon. In summer and fall it makes
very delightful trip. The banks of tho stream
are lined with lofty vineyards, and just now is
the vintage time. The peasants are as busy as
bees, some cutting the grapes, some piling them
into broad trays and others shouldering and
making of with tLcm. Each vine consists Of q
single shoot and is trained to slight pole about
six feet high, the poles stand apart from each
other pretty much like corn stalks. The bunches
hang from within an inch Of the ground to the
top of the shoot. The principal sorts here are
a large white grape, growing in enormous clus-
tiers, and resembling in flavor and appearance
the Malaga, and the small blue species common
among us. These vineyards are upon the sides
of tue lills and mountains and are regularly
terraced to prevent the soil washing away from
the roots of the vines. At little distance a
vineyard looks like great plantation of Lima
beans. Among the vines arc countless pump
kins, and the great yellow globes enliven the
scene wonderfully. A very gifted divine told
me once that be always regarded the vine, wine
of course included, with peculiar interest, for it
was the first thing Noah planted after he left
the Ark.
The boat reaches Meissen, and the tourist
lands and makes ready for the days campaign
The town is built under mountain, upon the
top of which stand the Castle and the Cattle.
dral. The ascent is as difficult as that to heaven
In this case however, most people reach the
top by hard tugging, in the other, how few sue
ceed let them tug as they will!
Tue Cathedral is fine specimen of gothic
| architecture, founded in the eleventh century
by Otho l, Emperor of Germany, aud Edith hi:
wife, portraits of whom ornament, or rather dis
figure, the walls of the Sachrister. In one o
the chapels, under great da.k, frowning monu
ments, lie the bones Of saxony's earlier kings
1t is infinitely amusing to hear the woman wh'
shows the cdi6ce 90 through with the role
She informs you that here lie the bones o
civilian the quarrelseme, now immortal il
heaven" "a polite fiction always used here wher
speaking Of kings, queens and princes who have
shutfled off the mortal coil), and here the bone
! of "Augus,us the one-eyed," and hore thu
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EDGEFIELD, S. c., NOVEMBER "a, 1853.

solemn tones checked the: tears of her friend
! &" know of sorrow. with whose bitterness
yours bears iu culnparison and il has come into
our family, unto my. own and u ly sister, for
her pride, her idol, her Herbert is III prison %
ooh, Helen !" cried Mrs. Spraeue, springing
up from her chair while she nukcd at the pale,
working features of her friend, how You hor-
rify mel"
81 cannot talk of it, Mary or it will drive
me, as it has his mother, frantic. You saw him
in his childhood, and can you remember what a
beautiful promising boy he was; but he was
impetuouS, and fond of society, and all sorts OF
fun, and his mother was doting and indulgent
and so lie grew up to his seventeenth birthday,
reckless and self-wiled, though he was too kind
hearted TO be ever malicious.
81 must make my story short-le fell into
bad company, and bad habits and one night;
when intoxicated, he was persuaded to join
some incendiaries. The rineleadera were delec-
ted, and the boy was sentenced to a year in the
penitcntiary, which might have been ten, only
his youth plead hard with the kind-hearted
Judge; and now he lies down ut night in frl-
on's cell, while his poor bIoken-llearIed mother
PAGES her. room, with the tears streaming down
her wasted Checks Us she means over and over
LuCoS " vi I'd. IL AS utI ukCo NilCh iiS W IL, q
baby if he had but died then ="
And Mrs, Sprague listened to this story with
mingled horror and sympathy, which made her
forget her own grief, and ut its close she said
solemaly: "Yes, Helen, her sorrow is greater
than mine. had ten thousand times rather
Hurry had died than lived for this"
And for yon, oh, stricken mother, who have
laid down, with such heart-aches az God best
knoweth, the child of your love, do I write this
history.
There is sorrow that is heavier than deaths,
the sorrow Of sin and shame; and from this the
little one, over whose bosom is SIT the green seal
of the Summer grass, is forever delivered. The
child walks in that blessed country where no
disgrace shall ever scar its soul or crimson its
check, and bitter rs i; the cup appointed you to
drink, it will not bring to your soul that sting
which sometimes causes mother to cry out
for her child: "Would he had died !"
BE comforted, you who have given up the
sweet, fragrant blossoms of your lives to adorn
the garden of your God. 1t may be, IL your
hands roll away the curtains of the future year,
so that you could behold what awaited your
beloved on earth, you would say 1t is better
God had called them."- ."-Arttu,'s Hume Magazine.
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8eabing
"NO SORROW LIKE NINE"

" 1t seems so hard SO cruelm said the young
mother, and here sob broke into her voice
she clasped her hands over her eyes, and the
tears broke through her fngers-such salt, Bit
ter tears as could only break up from mothers
heart-a mother robbed Of Ler first born!
Two weeks ago that very day lie had been
with her in the chamber where the young mother
now sat in darkness and desolation, tho little
Joyous head futtering about the room, the little
restless feet pattering along the floor, and the
little glad voice breaking up in quick shouts of
laughter, or lisping out those pretty broken
words and entreaties which are such sweet mu-
sic to a mothers heart; and now!
There stood in the corner o little crib, with
its pretty lace curtains, and over it hung the
snowy apron and embroded merino dress he
had last worn, and at the foot lay the little mo-
rocco slippers that the mother cnuldn't have
removed from her sight, though the feet that
had worn them now lay folded close together,
and down SO deep un:ler thcgrass thatno warmth
of the sunshine could ever reach them.
"Don't, Mary, don't! 1t might have been
worse. Remember there are sorrows greater
than yours" said the soft, plying voice of Mrs
Howard, the lady's most intimate friend, who
was passing tue morning with her.
The stricken woman looked up in incredulous
astonishmcnt, that checked for moment the
flow Of her tears. How can you tell me this
Helen !" she exclaimed in o voice broken with
grief and wounded feeling; she was my only
Ioy, my little Harry, with but two years and
+, five months over his golden head and loved
him so; and then, don't believe there ever
was another quite so pretty and bright child
"You know, too, how my very heart was
bound up in him; how, if ever ran out for or
hour, was never easy until got hack to him
again; and how l used to stand and watch him
after he'd got to sleep in the crib there, with
one little chubby hand wrapped up like lily
under his cheek, and the smiles. crimping up hi:
red lip; and then, just to think Of his pretty
frolicksome, teasing way, that made me stor
every other minute and hug him up to my heart
and cover his face with kisses. Oh, Harry, my
baby, my precious baby shall | never sec yor
again7 Surely, Helen, there never was sorrow
like unto my sorrow;" and the sobs broke ou
again. 80. :.
:" Yes, Mary, there was" and Mrs. Howard
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THE OLD PRINTER.

A Printer stood at his case one night,
In his Office dark and drear,
And his weary sight was dim as the light
OF the mouldy lamp hung near;
The wintry winds were bowling without
And the snow falling thick and fast
But the Printer I trow, shook his locks of snow,
And laughed at the shrieking blast;
He watched tho hands as the clock erept round,
Keeping time with its sna-like tick,
Az lie gathered the type, with weary click,
In his old rust-esten stick.
His hairs we're as white as the falling snow;
And silently, day day,
He behsld them with grief like the autumn leaf,
One by one, "psssing away"
Time had cut with his plow-furrows deep in his brow
His check was fevered and thin,
And his long Roman nose could almost repose
Its head ON his gray-bearded chin;
And with fingers long, as the hours stole on,
Keeping timo with tho clocks dull tick,
He gathered the type, with weary click,
In the old rust-eaten stick.
For many long years, through joys and thro' tears,
That old Printers time battered face,
Ghostly and lean, night and morn had been seen,
Earnestly bent DER his case
In few years moro Death will lock up his for"',
And put it to prsss in the mould,
And s,ono on the spot where they lay him to rot
Will toll ut his na,no, and how old;
And his comrades will light tuold lamp BY his ease
Aud list to the clocks dull tick
As they set up his death, with solemn click,
In his old rust.eatcn stick.
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CURING HAMs.-A correspondent, Mr.. Wm
H. Bennett, of Warwick, R. l., sends us the
following description Of method practiced with
great success by him for several years in curing
hams;
lie first takes the c.lsk in which the hams are
to be Salted, and smokes it for half III hour over
low fire made with walnut chips. lie then
makes pickle for two hundred pounds of ham
by disSolvinS fourteen pounds Of Turks Island
salt, half pound Of saltpeter, and two quarts
of molasseS in sufficient water to cover the meat
when placed in the barrel. THIS pickle is
skinned while the salt is being tlissnlved at a
scalding heat. When cooled down this brine is
poured upon the hams in the barrel, and they
are allowed to lay in it until they arc salte'l.
They are then liftc,l out, hung up to dry, and
are afterwards rubbed over with composition
Of fine salt, black and red pepper, and some
ground cloves. When thisoperatiun performed,
they are sewel in bags, and hung up with shanks
downwards \ dry, cool attic chamber Is the
best place TO keep them. Hams thus preserved
have very excellent flavor: and do not require
to 20 through the smoking process.
The simple smoking Of the cask will have the
effect of communicating mild, smoky SAVIOR to
the meat. Of this We are confident, because
we have seen it done, and can endorse Mr.. Ben
nett's experience in regard to this feature Of
the process. We believe his process is a suod
onc.-SieaiiGc dmericu1.
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MELANCHOLY ACCIDEST.-lt dcvOlves upon us
to record a serious and fatal accident that oc:
Cured to the train Of the Laurens Railroad, lust
as it left the Depot atthis place on yesterday
morning. We were an eve witness TO the occur
renee and can speak positively about the matter
The Greenvlle train had gone over one quarter
Of mile when the Laurens train followed. The
latter train had proceeded moi more than one.
hundred and fifty yards from the depot to the
middle of the high embankmert beyond, when
an explosion took place just at the dome of the
hoiler hurting the dome at least sevcnty.fve
feet in the mir and letting it fall about fifty yards
from the embankment, upon the top of which
the cars stood. None Of the passengers sustained
the slightest damage. At the time of the acci-.
dent there were upon the engine the engineer,
Mr.. Nieson; two colOrcl iirelnen, George and.
William, free negroes; and one train hand jim,
belonging. tn DR.. Simpson, of Lau.cns Mr..
Nieson was knocked down between the engine
anil tender and looked to all appearances dead.
He revived, however, and upon examination, it
was found that he had sustained a severe frac
turc of the skull was otherwise badly cut about
the face and received some serious bruises.
George was badly cut npon his forehead, legs,
arms and hands and pretty badly scalded. Jim
was covered up in the wreck and found breath
less.
Although he was regarded az simply stunned,
he expired about thrce.qnarters OF an hour after
the accident happened. William escaped with
slight cut upon one OF his temples.
We stop the press to announce that Mr.. Me
son died ar 81 o'clock this morning We are
Informed that George is doing better; but will
in all probability be blind in one or both eyes,
Nnwhrrry CnuSeryatiSt. lGih int
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Stletteb 4oetr:g.
STRIVE, WAIT AND. PRAY.

BY MISS A. A. PROCTOR.
Strive! yet do not promise
The prize you dream Of to-day,
Will not fade when you think to grasp it,
And melt in your hand away;
But another and holisr treasure,
You would now perchanco disdain,
Will come when your toll is over,
And pay you for all your pain.
Wait! yet I do not tell you
Tho hour you long for now,
Will not come with its radiance vanished,
And shadow upon its brow;
Yet far through the misty future,
With crown Of starry light,
An hour of JOY you know not
Is winging ker silent fight.
Pray though the gift you ask for
May nevor comfort your fears,
May never repay your pleading,
Yet pray with hopeful fears;
An answer. not that you long for,
But diviner, will come one day;
Yuur eyes are too dim to see it,
Yet strive, and wait and pray.