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[Original.
THE WORK OF Il NIGHT. 3
BY E. b. CHEEsBoRoUGH
lCONTINUED. |

Enclosed in a black velvet case was
a closely-written manuscript, which L
eagerly seized upon, with vague
hope that it would give me some clue
to the past life of the dead lady be-
fore me. There was no heading to
it--no name; there was no preparing
you for story Of any kind; but it
was written with feeling cloquence,
when the blood was all aglow. 1t
commenced thus:
''What a glorious night! How the
moon floods the earth with her glory
How sweet the cool air of this lonely
balcony after the warm, sitting
atmosphere of the ballroom! Thus
thought, as, wearied with the plea
sures of the ball, [ stole out from the
glittering scene. [ heard a voice be-
side me, Geraldine, and my hand
was passionately kissed. L drew it
back. Who was the bold intruder?
drew myself up proudly, and tried
to snatch away my hand, as 1 said.
coldly,
"'You forget, sir, that you are a
married man.
Forget it! No, by heaven he
said, passionately; the serpent, me-
mory, stings to madness, Geraldine.
The love ] swore to you one year ago
IS stronger to-day than ever.
"'You are deranged, Edouard.
Leave me this instant. Let go my
hand. Do you not hear mc?'
"He threw my hand away from him
angrily
There, he said, you never did
have any heart. 1t is only heartless
women who tramplc on affection like
mine
"The color rose in a burning hectic
to my cheek, as L said
One year ago, even while you
.old me you loved me, you declared
that you were about to marry another.
forgave you all yonr perjured vows,
for / knew how much mans love de-
pends 'on fortunes shining | was
poor--Natalic was rich; her gold was
more to you than my love. Well,
you live i'll fine old ancestral cha
teau, my lord; you have livcried ser
wants, plenty Of gold and a lovely
vile; what more can man want?' and
lauSned bitterly.
Heaven forgive you, Geraldine.
your bitterness; tramplc on my heart.
'''As you did on mine. Edouard
De Foe, insult me not with the love
of married man. Bestow it where
it belongs
1t belongs to you, and only to
you,' he said, in broken tones, as he
drew nearer, and again took my hand.
Forgive me, oh! my only love, the
wrongs of the past, for the sake Of
the misery of the present
"Oh! merciful Father, thou alone
knowest all my misery-all my love.
Why did [ listen to him? Why did
/ let him pour out his burning words
of loye-still holding my trembling
hand in his? Why did not stand
like rock, to resist the surging
waves of passion that were dashing
over me? Alas! how weak we women
are, when man, tenderly beloved,
tells US he loves! Duty, honor, JUS
tlce, were trampled out of being by
the lmpetuous footstep of an over
nowerlng love; and permitted nay,
1 joyed-in hearing the sweetest of
all music to a woman's ear-that of
love. Poor Natalie! l knew that he
never loved her. Good heavens! that
horrld shrek! I have just heard it
again. Mercy! mercy! oh! my Hea-
yenly Father, mercy! did wrong
slnned. Forgive me. L can write
no more. Pity me! pity
Last night, l tainted beside my
desk. That horrid shrek will kill me.
.CONCLUDEIl IL OK ArNr
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TO WOOD CONTRACTORS,
CITY CLERK'S OFFICT

COLUMBIA, March %, 1867.
DROPOSALS will be received by the CITY
Il Council for furnishing 200 CORDS
best quality Long Leaf PINE WOOD, to be
delivered and corded at the Water Works.
Bids Will be left at this office on or before
Tuesday, April 2. BY order Of the Council.
March "a
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SARDINES! SARDINEs,,

hNE THOUSAND boxes Sardines, inst
~ received, and for sale at TWENTY
CENTS per box.
March j. & II. r. AGNEW
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READY-MADE CLOTHING

HNHE ladies, gentlemen and Young peo-
4 PIE OF Columbia, who may be in want
or SOMEIHING TO WEAR" are respect
1nlly and earnestly invited by the ladies OF
the Industrial Association to call at their
Work-room, i'll the Female Academy, and
examine the articles which they have now
ready for sale. Some one will always be
found ready to exhibit the ready-made gar
ments and to receive orders from those
who may wish to have work done neatly
and promptly.
The object Of the Association is 70 fur
nlsh constant employment to those who,
navlng been impoverished by the war, now
depend on the needle for daily bread.
Does not such an object commend itself to
the hearts OF our citizens? Or must the
anxious applicants for work be told that
on, peoWe prefer Northcrn-made garments,
and that there is, therefore, no r,ore work
for them? Shall it be said that such an
ASSOCIATION as this cannot be sustained in
the capital OF South Carolina: Jan 10
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CHAltLOITE 4 $. c. RAILROAD
COLUMBIA, s. c., nIarch lG 1SiG
HNhE schedule Of the Passenger FRA.
Il over this Road is as follows:
Leave COlumbiaat.. 9oe
Arrive at Charlotte at '30 30 a. ~ ,,1
Leave Charlotte at -" a. III
Arrive at Columbia at. 1,52 ~ - ~
Close connections are made al Columns
am MtI Iharlotte VITA thc Dlail trains ON tie
roads. i'"'l'
.THEOrGHTICNETS are sold n co,,,,r
bla to Richmond, Va. Washington. ID, c.
Baltimore, Nd, philadelphia, Pa, and
New York city giving choice Of ronlc, ~,
fortsmouth or Richmond and ba.,-aa.
checked. Tickets are also soll at G%%r-
lottc for Charleston and Augusta.
An Accommodation Train. Cor rr,.i..l,, ..,.;
local passage, leaves Culuu!in at IA ~
on Tuesdays, thursdays and %4trrdaye ~
each week. and Charlotte on the SAM
days ana honr; arriving at Columbia ind
March II G. BOCkNlGnT. Sup'r.
Schedule over South Carolina f. r
RsSA5 i. AZ; /; ...s s.e.::..,.. ~, Vi,
, 1867-08-02
NUMBER 33.


All bridges are framed, the pieces Numbered and
set up where wanted without the least delay.
The bridge at Loup Fork was 6heen hundred
feet long, and as fine Howe truss as can be
found in the land. While our train was running
the sixty miles from North Platte, over q mile Of
track had been put down and one train passed
over it. From one o'clock till four In the after
noon a mile and two hundred feet were added to
this while the party were looking on. The pro-
gress was astonishing, and the more so because
tle ground was wet and the soil stiff aud hard
with alkali.
Unless driven of by Indians, which does rot
now seem probable, the road will touch the base
Of the Rocky Mountains the coming autumn.
The California end has already reached point
about hundred miles east, and is descending
the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada into the
valley of the Humboldt. 1t is confidently ex.
pected that Salt Lake viii be reached next year,
and that 1870 will see the whole line completed
While the nation has scarcely heard of what was
being done, the work has been near one.third
accomplished
, 1867-08-02

LEE AND JAcKsoE.-Mr. Swinton, the we'll
known war correspondent and author, is now
making tour of observation through the South.
Being at Lexington, Virginia, he called on Gen
Lee, whom he describes as handsome looking
gentleman, dressed in a uniform suit of pepper
and salt color-a very portly. well preserved
gentleman of some four and fety, with a fine
bronzed complexion, nobly modelled nose, COM
pact head, gray hair and beard of the same
color, closely cropped. After an hours CONVEX
sation with General Lee, the writer says:
" may say that with his friends he never re,
ours to the subject of the war nor did be to me
express any opinion on political matters.
understand, however, from those who are in
intimate daily converse with him, that he is
strongly in favor of the people of his State, and
of the South coming right up, frankly accept
ing the situation, and earnestly pursuing the
work of reconstruction
That General Lee will figure in history, when
1t comes to be written with full light and without
passion or prejudice, as very BILE commander,
skillful methodical soldier, who made several
admirable defensive campaigns, fought two or
three brilliant c--.essive actions rrotracted the
war on the limited theatre of Virginia for four
years by a careful husbaudry of bis resources
an finally succumbed only to greatly superior
numbers, may, conceive, be readily conceded
That he will figure, as the south now figures him,
10 the light of first class captain; may, be-
lieve, be fairly doubted"
Mr.. Swinton says he had met with several
pupils and neghbors of Stouewall Jackson, from
whom he derives the following.
1" As teacher be was decidedly unpopular
and it is said that he was very maladroit in his
experiments, which often resulted in ludicrous
blunders, at which be would laugh as heartily
as the lads in his class. At one time he deter
with this view he Joined the Franklin Society, a
literary association that has existed for many
years and which still exists in Lexington. He
used to take part in the debates, bnt with the
most distressing stammerings, bnltings and
break downs, and never attained any more than
a mediocre faculty of utterance. AS be came
more under the religious sentiment after the
death of his first wife, he ceased to attend the
Franklin Society, and becoming more and more
moody and eccentric, he grew more and more
unpopular. Indeed he was looked upon as n
kind of mild unatic, aud the boar d had frequent
meetings with view of displacing him from his
chair in the Academy. At length the war broke
out and the qualities that had smoldered in mere
fire damp suddenly burst into a clear and steady
flame"
, 1867-08-02
The Unwise Choice.

Two young men when was poor,
Came and stood at my open door
One said to me, "I have gold to give"
And one, ~ will love you while live r.
Ny sight was daEEled; woe is the day
And sent the poor young man away;
He did not give me any signs,
But he left his picture in my eyes.
Beside the lane with hedges sweet,
Where we parted never more to meet;
He pulled flower of loves own hue,
And where it had been came out two
Still sgnilss.fheSNSrN Nue,tnnd corn
Wheat and corn that strangers bind
| reapsd as sowed, and sowed the wind.
live where splendors shine, and sigh
For the peace that splendors cannot buy /;
Sigh for the day wss rich, tho poor
And saw the young men at my door
, 1867-08-02

A few of the captured Austrian guns were
melted down for the purpose casting medals
of honor for the Prussian soldiers, when it
was discovered that instead of being made
from the usual gun metal, thay consisted of
a composition of copper and lead.
, 1867-08-02

THE CoBYER-AARoN PRIZE FIGHT.-The fight
between Sam Golyer and Barney Aaron, at Aquia
creek Virginia, on the 18th ultmo, was most
brutal affair. There was sixty-seven rounds
fought, in one hour and fifty five minutes, during
which both cOmbattants were severely punished.
Aaron adopted Doony Harris tactics of slipping
down to avoid Colyer's blows, and practiced
them to such an extent that even his own friends
cried shame, and hissed him. In round thirty
seven the suns rays beaming upon Colyer' STAGE,
made him a most revolving looking object. His
nose seemed mass of pulp. His left cheek,
covered with gashes, seemed raw in the sunshine,
and his breast and arms were bedaubed with
blood. One eye Nyas almost closed, the other
was dsrkened and bleeding. Aaron's appearance
was not much better. On the last round Colyer
tainted and then it was found be was quite blind.
Aaron was raised upon bis friends shoulders
but so much was he exhausted that he, too
tainted but revived in short time. The public
were grossly deceived, as the fight was not for
81, 500 as stated, nor had either of the combat
ants single penny of stakes up. The whole
matter was a money making arrangement,
purse of 81, 800 being deducted from the prohts
arising from the sale of tickets probably not far
short of 50, 500. The winner, Barney Aaron,
received $1,000, while Sam Colyer got the re-
naming $500.
, 1867-08-02

In the early times of Vermont, whe judges and
lawyers depended more on common sense than
learning, Ethan Allen once appeared as counsel
in case in which one of the attorneys ventured
to cite Blackstone, and turning to the rash law
yer, be thupdered out, al would have the young
gentleman know that with my logic and reason.
ing from the eternal fitness of things, can upset
his BlAckstones, bis white stones, his grave
stones and his brimstoues"
, 1867-08-02

CHARIorEER, PAUSE PA good story is told
of certain Colonel in the late war. The Col
onel aforesaid was riding in stage coach with
several other passengers, when be accideatly
dropped his hat outside the coach. Putting his
head out of the coach window he exclaimed in
stentorian voice, " Charioteer, pause Ihave
lost my chapeau." The driver paid no heed to
the demand. Again the bombastic fellow spake,
"ChaTioteer, pause have lost my chapeau."
No attention being paid by the driver to this
last command, plain, blunt man, who had be-
come disgusted with his fellow travellers stiffness
and pomposity, put his head out of the window,
and said, Driver hold on this fool has lost his
hat" This was perfectly ineligible to the
driver, expletive and all, and the hat was
secured.
, 1867-08-02

AN English lady, on being asked if the last
thing lady did before leaving her own door
was not to look in the looking glass, replied
that she took not only one look but four good
long ones-the first for herself which was
only fair; the second for her husband, which
was but just; the third for friends whom she
wished to please; the fourth was for her
rivals, which was only human nature.
, 1867-08-02

A singular incident occurred in the Church o (
of the Messiah, in St. Louis, on Sunday, the I'd
inst. DR.. elliott, the minister, was delivering
discourse with the view of obtaining aid for the
South, and while dwelling upon the principle Of
"peace and good will" dove few in at the
window, perched for q moment upon the gallery
balustrade, then circled above the minister, and
finally seated itself upon the pulpit.
, 1867-08-02


DEMOCRATIC Mass CoNvExTIoS.-The demo-
at Umatilla, on Thursday, the 25th ult Colonel
n. II. Gates, of wasco county, was called upon
to preside. II. A. Gehr, of Umatilla, acted
as Secretary. The attendance was very large,
and embraced full delegations from all the
counties east of the mountains. From the full
report, as published in the Press, we copy the
resolutions:
Resolued, That while we renew our adherence
to the ancient principles of democracy, as enuu>
ciated from time to time in its authorized plat
forms, we do not deem it necessary for this con-
vention to reiterate those principles, for the
reason that this convention was only designated
as advisory of action tending to make the demo.
cratic organization more efficient in its working.
ResolUed, That we urge upon the attention of
the State Central Committee the necessity of de-
vising some efficient means of disseminating G
among the masses of the people of Oregon corS
rect political knowledge, and to that end suggest
that it shall Immediately place itself in CORES
poudeuce with the several County Committees
throughout the State, solicit contributions in
money, and Herewith procure such documents
as they shall deem proper to be distributed
throughout this State.
Resolved, That we urge the democracy through
out the State, and the democracy especially
in Eastern Oregon, to organize and CO operate
with said committee in the diffusion of correct
political information, and to that end we recon-
mend that County Committees appoint commit
tees in the precincts, in the absence of any such
appointment having been made OF their respec,
tive counties.
ResolUed, That putting aside all personal re-
sentiment and partizan prejudice engendered by
difference of opinion upon past issues, we corS
daily invite the cooperation, upon equal terms,
of all who are in favor of maintaining the Union
under the Constitution, with the rights, dignity
and equality of the States unimpaired.
Resolutions were also adopted recommending
liberal patronage of democratic papers and
the dissemination of democratic documents.
, 1867-08-02

A young lady being engaged to be married,
and getting sick of the bargain, applied to a
friend to help her unite the knot before it
was too late. 'Oh, certainly" be replied, dit
is easy to unite il now while it's beau"
, 1867-08-02

POLITICAL young gardner somewhere in the
South, while respondent from the effects of the
late unreasonable weather, gets of the following
mellihuous strains:
Onion garden bed reclining,
Beets youth his aching head
Caulilowers, 10 weeds confront me
Lettuce hence, be sadly said.
Carrots out the stoutest manhood,
Pease my wearied soul doth need;
Bean, o strife for me hereafter,
Else my heart will go to seed.
, 1867-08-02
DIR N. j. HOGG,

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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
, 1867-08-02

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ing in their widespread embrace the
Great American Basin, and entering
the Pacific, their natural parent, 800
miles apart. They are remarkable for
being the only two rivers that have
burst their channels through the high
chain of the Sierras and Cascades, to
deliver up their ceaseless floods di-
rectly to the parent ocean; while all
the other rivers are compelled to de-
liver up their waters to the Unsuitable
demands of the burning sand plains
and the scorching siroccos of the
Great Desert.
The Fort depends upon buffalo for
subsistence, but it now required four
days for the hunters to go and come,
the buffalo having disappeared for the
last few years. But the mosquitoes
remained, and Judging from their fu-
rious attacks upon man and beast,
they had not had a square meal since
tho buffalo left. Our horses and mules
were compelled to stop eating and
rush into a solid gang, groaning pite-
ously and rubbing handfuls Of mus
quitocs from their heads. Tents,
blankets and smoke were no protec-
ton for man, and the next day we
left.
That fall Fort Hall-the last Amer.
lean post--passed from the hands oi
the Americans into the hands of the
English, thus leaving the entire Paci.
fic coast to the undisputed monopoly
of the Hudson Bay Go. Every at
tempt, for 80 years, of the American
Government, and American corpora.
tions and Notwithstanding the
great Astor, with his iron will-to es-
tablish an American settlement on
this coast, had failed and the English
now would have had but q short joh
to finish up the question Of this coun.
try in the Ashburton Treaty, but foI
the footsteps Of these our two women
They turned the scale at the last mo
ment, when all seemed lost, against
old England. BY their personal haz
ards and self.deuials they settled the
question that white women could
cross the Rocky Mountains-an un
dcrtaking pronounced impossible by
every mountain man and trader. 9th
or missionary mothers soon followed
and families, and fiocks, and wagon
trains and whole settlements wore moi
many years behind, and the great
Overland Emigrant Road became q
living fact, and n national acquisition
of the greatest importance.
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Artemus wards Toast.

Artemus Ward being present at cele-
bration and exhibition, was called upon
for speech, when he replied in ''toast
tn the phair sex:
Ladies, ser / turnin to the butiful phe-.
mails hoose presents was perphumip the
fare grownd, hope you ara enioyin yur-.
selves on this occasion and that leminaid
and water of which you are dEipkin, may,
not go agin you. May you alters be fare
as the son, bright as the moon, and butt
full as an armmy with Unyun fags-also
plenty of good close to ware.
Tu yure sex-commonly called the
phair sex, we are indicted for bornin, as
we'll as many other blessins in these low
crowns of sorro. Som poor speFited fools
blaim yure sex for the difficulty in the gar
din, hut | hev no dowt but Adam would
hev rugged cydeF press, and ike as not
went into big bust and bin driven OFF un-
aware. Yure 1st muther wuz q lady, and
all her dawters is ditto, and nun but q
loafn kuss win say word again yu. Ho-
pin that no waive of truble viii roll akross
yure peaceful breasts, | koonklude these
remarks with the follerin centYment:
Woman--she are good egg.
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BUSINESS CARDS.
DENTISTRY.

DR. Ell. GRIFFIN WILL VISIT PRO
fessionally the town of HaPrtsburgh
on the 18th of July, and remain for a few days.
v2n5Ow3
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The BIBLE.-Some writer gives the
following analysis of the book of books,
the Bible:
TT is book oflaws, it shows the right
and wrong. 1t is book of wisdom, and
makes the foolish wise. 1t is book of
truth, which detects all human error. It
is the book of life, and shows how TO avoid
everlasting death. It is the most authen-
tic and entertaining history ever publish
ed. It contains the most remote antiquis.
ties, the most remarkable events and Won-
derful occurrences. It is code of laws.
It is q perfect body of divinity. Il is an
unequaled narrative 1t is . book of BIZ
ography. It is book Of travels. E is.
a book Of Voyages. Its book Of the
best covenants ever made-the best deed
ever written. It is the best win ever ex-
ecuted, the best Testament ever signed.
It is the young MANS best companion. Il
is the schoolboy's instructor. Il Is the
learned mans masterpiece. It is the igs
norant mans dictionary and every mans
directory"
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NO. 4.

mure-looking, white-crayated individual
With holy ROll to his eyes. Old and
young, hes and shes, white, black and
brown, yellow and noBdeseript, all tang
led, jumbled in Kaleidoscope variety and
confusion. And oh the smells. Tho.
endless mixing and unmixing of uncon-
genial stinks, Jockey Club ADD Night
Blooming Cercus drift bewildexed into i
fog Of fermented African rancdlv.
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