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in the early days of the London Times it was
the custom, in announcing marriage, to state
the amount of the dowry-f2OO0O or f30, 900,
whatever it might happen to be-and, in look
ing through the ladies' column one morning at
breakfast, Mr.. Walter threw out the sugges-
ton that if q man married all that money he
might certainly pay trifling percentage to
the printer for acquainting the world with the
little pocket money for me, my DEAR" added
Mrs. Walter, and her husband agreed to try
the experiment. The charge at first was but q
trifle, and the annual. amount probably not
much but Mrs. Walter, at her death, passed
the prescriptive right of hers to her daughter,
and when, few years ago, the right was re-
purchased by the present proprietor, it was
assessed ut $4,000 year.
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Bible War.

In his splendid weekly paper, the NeaO
York Irish Citizen, John Mitchell, whom
everyone knows is not Catholic, thusaex-
presses himself, with regard to the school
difficulties at Hunters Point, Long Island
King James still carries on the war on
Long island. The publication made by
his so.called translators, and named
"BiDle," though it is not the Bible, has
now for two hundred and fifty years given
q most excellent occasion and pretext for
exciting angry contest, and for,compelllng
those benighted Papists to support church
es and schools for us benighted Protestants.
AS an educational text book 1t Is OF no use;
but it does very well to worry Catholics,
and also to mulct them in penalties. For
ages it was also found highly useful in
other countries known to as, for the pur-
pose of getting possession OF the lands and
goods of those who did not relish it. OF
this particular use for it, there is no ques-
ton at Hunters Point, Long Island; not
for the present. Mems houses and lands
/ are not exactly confiscated at Hunters
Point for the crime of not believing in King
James but we get at the benighted Pap
| lists in another way, through the Public
Schools. There is general School Tax
payable under the laws of the State of New
York; for q system of general education,
chiefly of the children of the industrial
classes of these a very large proportion
are Catholic In faith; and these people
have always been very solicitous to secure
education for their children. Here was the
occasion for our Protestant action. King
James publication at once came into play
its usual part; for when Department Of
Education was formed at Long Island City
(of which this Hunters Point forms a part,
r the Commissioners had only to adopt the
) bylaws of the Now York Education De-
partment, including that By lay requiring
Q was secured. 1t was known that in New
York and Brooklyn cities great and con
+ tinual mass of the Catholic parents de
!, clined to send their children to the publ
o schools solely on account of this offensiv
). publication, and maintained schools TO
themselves, while they had to pay for tn
= public ones too. This was excellent;
d Was precisely in the spirit of all our Pro r
t. testant dealings with those benighted Pa
n pists wherever we had the power. And
n was and is the law; good Albany law; fc
10 this, as they say, is Protestant country
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of Eyangeiical clergymen turning the tables
upon their diocesan, certain well-known
courtly prelate. On the occasion of laying q
foundation-stone, dediceting church, we
forget which, the Bishop had desired his clergy
who were to take part in the ceremony to ap-
pear in their SUPPLIES. To this they demurred,
preferring to wear the, as they thought, more
Iordship, however, insisted upon the surplice,
and he was obeyed, but, to his surprise and
horror, each parson- brought with him either
his wife, sister, or some female relative, and
the unique spectacle was presented to the out
witted prelate of procession of clergymen in
surplices, each gracefully escorting on his arm
a lady in the chignon and Dolly Warden of the
period.-Lond0N Register.
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...ine Star and Catholic MESSENGER.
o1I1ANs. SUNDAY. DECEMBER IT. 1871.
norxrr1c CATHOLIC urxLLloE,

IN, ths Cozsred People.-The Very
'Assn Xonc ban and his four reverend
fv sa To- If ST. Joseph's Society for Foreign
nie,. from their College at MIL XII,
s saon' arrived in this city, by the Berlin,
tuesday, after . long ana severe pas
70 from southampton. 1t appeate tna'
~ are the active Missioners OF society,
imposed Of clergy and laity, wh siSa. Has
|.sived q Mission, with specia! oless.ng
Ie, the Holy See, to begin its iaoors
f,onr our colored people. They oino
au,se,ves by VOW to leave Europe Tor ne
M devote themselves entirely to the COL
fsa rnce.. While they are united as
,ncreoation. they are in the fun sense OF
~ word secular priests, working nnoer
u immediate Jurisdiction and direction OF
u Ordinaries into whose dloceses they
Law be receives -Baltintore MsrToT.
On the morning of the 26th of November
[ishop Laughlin conferred the holy 0roeI
Priesthood on Michael Kircher, e. d., In
6a church attached to the Coi'ege VI Oh
|Obn the Baptist. Brooklyn.
The Rev, Fathers Damen, Coghlan, Van
ncb. and Others Of the Jesuits, have nm.
fhed their grand Mission at st: Jonns :;
faw York. There were some zen tnousano
|au -Catholics made professions Of the
Nth but, better than all, great many
Eatholics by baptism and wanderers from
|ha faith were brought back to tho fold.
Tho cornerstone of the Now Emmanuel 'l
catholic Church, Cincinnati, was laiq Don ON
fs Si A an instance Of tho liberality Of
he Catholics in Cincinnati it is mentioned
hat the congregation alone snossrloeo
E26 $40 for the building of the church, one
6ember giving $1,000 and one family sub
|cribing Sl40O.
We are glad to learn that the Italians are
kealously enlisted in the building o. e
khurch for their people. Committees hav:
been appointed to canvass the. city, nne
hey are meeting with generous. encourage 4.r,es,
pent. The spiritual interests OF the isal na
Eity. Accustomed to have churches bull
Ind supported for them in their nati y,
and they are soon to learn the T nsse say
6ecnn now in downright earnest, and "
hay expect to see an Italian church in $,
F,onis next summer.-St. Louis Waterman
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That man who knows the world will
never be bashful, and that man who knows
himself will never be impudant.
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SEWING MACHINE SALES FOR 1870.
THE SINGER STILL TRlUMPHANTII
THE NEW sMPRovEp SINGER FAMILY SEWING
MACHINE.
Over es,.ooo Singer Machines in Daily Use!
Twenty-Five Years of Popular aud Constantly
Increasing Favor.
Tho Most Popular Durable Reliable Family Machine
in Existence.
BE SURE AND EXAMINE THE SINGER BEFo
BUYiNG ANY OTHER.
SEWING MACHINE SALES FOR 1870.



In tho year 1856, sod readers win remember
&C. ISL Machines but sold last year (670I ls7e
CONE HUNDRED AND TwENTY.SEvEN THOU. |
SAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THREE
Machines showing tho sales Of 1900 Of
over FORTY THOUSAND. and. shown by the table
below, OVER FORTY-FOUE THOUSAND Machines
moro than any other Company.
The reader may naturally AK whether this IL mere
boastng IN answer 10 which have to that thode
figures, and tho ones given below. are from SWORN
RETURNS mado by licensees to the Receiver appointed
by the owners Of tho most valuable Sewing Machine
Patents who license the Companies OF Lesser import
anco:
wheeler q Wilson Manufacturing Company sold. ZOE
aTcTsr B.ssr sold
Vice. ssr asb: ssass
Florence Sewing Machine Company soid..-.-i7.oSo
From tho above figures win be seen that rival.
trade far behind u.s. and that tho popularity Of
what is known
| NEW FAMILY MACHINE
steadily and largely Increasing We arc mot 90 vain
to suppose largo sales duo to superior
| business capacity much rs to tho merits OF QUE
Machines well the observation OF those who buy
use and personally interested In comparing the
merits Of the different Machines before making see0
ton.
l. No Family should DO Without one Of these Labor
| Saving Instruments.
| Call and examine t.,em, send for Circular and
Sample of work.
VIM E. COOPER e. CO.. Agents,
jye7l1y and Camp stree t.
| THE LATEST NOVELTY
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ms- Youth and ace have too little sym-

@D> Youth and age have too littlo SYM
pathy with each other. If the young
would remember that thoy may be old,
and the old remember that they have
been young, the world would be happier.
10 A nice young girl at Green Bay,
Wisconsin, was being courted by nice
young man. He was generously inclined,
and made hor presents of hair oil, which
he purchased from the store of the father
of his adored. After giving her some
twenty bottles of the oleaginous fluid, he
discovered he was working in circle
as fast as he presented them she returned
them to the store, thus dutifully making
trade for her father. No cards.
ag- The weather still continues as cold
as Egypt and resembles cheese. Now
can any one tell us why?
ag A muddy stream, flowing into
one clear and sparkling, for time runs
along by itself. A little further down
they unite and the whole is impure. So
youth untouched by sin, may for time
keep its purity in foul company, but a
little later and they mingle.
@- The romance of trade-buying on
credit, selling for cash, falling and pay
ing twenty-five cents on the dollar.
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Vsndolps Vengeance.

Major Vandolf had been daring
soldier, and he came out Of the war
with his right arm gone, and a wound
through the lungs. His wife attend
ed him in his invalid condition, with
a patience and assiduity which were
the theme Of much praise through
out the community; but the major
was a fretful and suspicious man, and
he had his reasons for believing that
his partner was anxious to be reliey-
ed Of him, that she might mate her
self with a companion whose health
and manhood were nots so marred and
manned as his were. He was jealous,
in short, OF the handsome physician
who visited him professionally al
most every day, and thus formed an
intimacy with Mrs. Vandolf that drove
the disabled soldier nearly frantic
with rage.
stairs from his patient, he paused a
while in tho parlor with Mrs; Van
dolf, and these pauses grew in length
from day to day, till at times they
were so long and 50 torturlns to the
Jealous major, that he would with MS
left hand hurl the furniture OF his
room about, thereby creating so great
a row that one or both Of the suspect
ed would have torrn up, and attempt
to compose him.
Harriet, he had said, "yqp are
tired of me, and You long for my
death, that you may marry this IN,
fernal soft-handed and sweet-tongued
doctor. l know it,
"And l" had been her cold, firm
reply, "have given you every assnr-
ance by word and deed that you do
me injustice by these vile suspicious.
What more can l do?"
"You can avoid this Doctor Cor
bett-yo,:3can cease those my :terlous,
confidential and affectionat- ;losetings
with him!"
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Brcyities and Leyities.

10 A young lady being asked by a
rich old bachelor, IF not yourself who
would you rather be?" replied sweetly
and modestly, "Yours, truly"
as- A young lady having called out
an ugly gentleman to dance with her, he
was astonished at the condescension, and
believing that she was in love with him
desired to know why she had selected
him from the rest Of the company. Be
cause, SIR replied thelady, my husband
commanded me to select such partner
as would not give him cause for jealousy
ns- Another humble imitator Of George
Washington has turned up. A Michi-
eander presented himself to the Sheriff,
weeping, and said he could not tell lie ;
he had killed his NE3 and child with his
little hatchet. The Sheriff told him he
was too good to live much longer, and
the chances are that he will not. This
Michi-gander was "goose."
Ms- An exchange tells that at /" twenty
wears of age Lehmand Stanford arrived
in California with only one shirt to his
back. Since then by close attention to
business, he has accumulated over ten
millions" What the deuce can man
want with ten million shirts2
as- One of the richest specimens of
an Irish bull which has ever fallen un-
der our notice, was perpetrated by the
clever and witty but blundeTing Irish
knight, Sir Richard Steel, when inviting
certain English noblemnn to visit him.
"If sir" said he, "you ever come with
in mile of my house, 7 hope you will
stop there"
na- 1t is cheerful to be, sitting in o
railroad car going at the rate of forty
miles an hour, and have aSrlan pass
through the train and leave u tract in
your lap entitled. "Prepare to meet your
Eod -
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Vanity.


The sun goes up, and the sun goes down,
And the day and night are the same as
The year grows green, and the year grows
brown;
And what is it aIlwhen all is done?
Grains of sombre or shining sand,
Sliding into and out of the hand.
And men 60 down in ships to the seas,
And hundred ships are the same as
one;
And backward and forward blows tho
breeze,
And what is it all when all is done?
A tide with never shore in sight,
Setting steadily on to the night.
The fisherman droppeth his net in the
stream,
And hundred streams are the same
And maiden droameth her love-lit
dream,
And what is it allwllen all is done?
The net of the fisher the burden breaks,
And after dreaming, the dreamer wakes.
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uiy o"'i t'-J go -
their fond dalliance. exulting in the
prospect of my speedy death, which
they think will enable each to fully
possess the other. But l am resolved
to disappoint them and avenge my
self, and to this end l shall hasten my
own death by poison which ! have
had Ly me for long time; but in
doing this, I shall SO contrive the cir
cumstances as to point out my phys:-
clan as my murderer! 1 shall Lave
a dying declaration charging him
with the crime This will upset the
nice-laid plans concocted under NY
very nose. The dear doctor will b.
hanged-and 1 shall die happy in that
conviction.
"Within three years all wish will
have been accomplished, despite the
laws delay, except the publication of
the facts here revealed. desire ali
mankind to know bow I have avenged
myself, so that 'Vandolf's Vengeance
may become proverb. I solemnly
enjoin upon you that you have this
communication published to the
world"
There was no need of the injunc-
ton. Captain Brogden found that
Doctor Corbett's death sentence had
been committed to Imprisonment for
life-and SO the worst had not oc-
Cured. OF course the unlucky ply
sician was liberated as soon as the
facts were made known; but many
held that he had received no more
than he deserved. On inquiry, Cap
tain Brogden learned that Mrs. Van
dolf was dead.
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construction. Whether or not these
witnesses have learned their lesson
well, it appears as if they had tried
very hard to do 81. The scrutiny of
the counsel for the defence reached
the bottom of the matter, and in
every instance it appeared upon the
cross examination that there had ex-
listed, at the time when it is alleged a
secret organization was formed, a ter
rible state of fear and uncertainty as
to security of life and property.
1t was shown that numerous gin
houses had been burned, and in some
instances dwellings and barns had
been destroyed by the ruthless incen-
diaries. The women of the county
were living in a continued state Of
uncertainty, and when the father left
his family in the morning to pursue
his daily avocation, the feeling that
he might return to find his dwelling
in ashes. and his family homeless and
houssless, accompanied him. These
are about the facts that have been
elected to-day upon the cross-exami-
nation of the Witnesses for the prose-
cution.
It is under this state of feeling
that there might have been entered
into some kind of concert OF action,
in 1863, for mutual protection against
evils, imaginary and real, and at the
best, a very uncertain state Of socie-
ty; and it is this that the govern
ment seems inclined to twist into some
kind of conspiracy, so as in some way
to bring it within the meaning of a
vague and uncertain law. It also
appeared in the cross-examination
that threats had been made that
if the election at that time did not
go as it was desired it should by the
blacks, the rumor was prevalent there
would be a killing which would en-
brace all, as it was expressed, from
the cradle to the grave"
The prosecution closed during the
afternoon, and the defence was opened
by placing upon the stand Mrs. Julia
Rainey, who not only verified the
facts brought out on the cross exami-
nation concerning the burning Of
houses and other property, but stated
that she herself had thus lost GIN
house and twenty-five bales Of cotton
by incendiarism.
At the close Of the testimony of
Mrs. Rainey,- which produced a pro,
found sensatio /, the court adjourned
until tomorrow, at eleven o'clock.
, The defence have many more wit
nesses to testify as to the alarm, and
the cause OF the alarm, that existed
at the time the people took precau-
tionary measures for safety. Among
these witnesses are many persons OF
more than local good repute, who are
cogpizant of and perfectly familiar
gith the state of affairs that then
existed, and the old saw, that it is
long lane that has no tnrn, nov a'.a5fs
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eyE,as l can, since matters between
you have progressed so far !
MAc vnn nlcasn

ev&,as | can, since matters between
you have progressed so far!"
GAS You please.
Oftentimes these angry colloquies
were much more extended, fierce and
violent, at Last on Vandolfs pant,
and it very, naturally came to pass
that the gossips Of the town heard oi
them and the verdict of the gossips,
on a due canvass of the whole mat
ter, was that the major had reason
Tor his jealousy.
However that may be-and far be
it from me on triAing evidence to i'm
peach the honor Of a wife, or the
chastity of any woman--it is certain
that the major nursed and nouriShed
his jealousy till it became a monoma-
MIA with him. He knew that he did
not have long to live, and as he lay
on his couch, or feebly tottcred about
his apartment, he tancied that he
could hear his wife and Doctor Cor
bett downstairs making their calcu-
lations upon his death and the ar
raneements for their marriage. 1t
maddened him to an insane fury.
Yet there were times when he
seemed 10 castall feelings and thoughts
of jealousy from him, treating his
wife with every appearance of afec-
ton, and the doctor with at least the
semblancc of friendly confidence.
These intervals were sometimes quite
prolonged. During one Of them, when
no had been unusually kind and con-
fding in his manner, he insisted that
Mrs. Vandolf should go East, and
visit her family and friends.
"You are worn and wearied, said
he, "and if you do not take some
holiday andrecreation from your long
attendance on me, we will be both
tumbling into the grave together, like
John Anderson, my 10, and his fond
old ladyl'
al assure you that l prefer to re-
main by you" the said. "We do
not know what may happen any
day."
But Vandolf insisted, and the doc
tor was quite confident that Mrs.
Vandolf might go for at least one
month without alarm. So she went.
The day after the departure Of his
wife. Major Vandolf wrote a letter
to Captain Alfred Brogden, which,
having carefully sealed, he endorsed
with this injunction: 2" MOTTO be open
ed until three gears after receipt" " He
enclosed this in another envelope, to-
gether with note, in which'he sol
emily en;oined Captain Brogden to
faithfully carry out the trust that
he thus committed to him. These
were all promptly sent to mail by a
servant.
A few evenings after, on the usual
call of the doctor, Major vandolf
complained greatly, protesting that
his pains were incessant and most
acute, and that he could get no sleep.
1t was unfortunate that there was no
apothecary in the town, and DR.. Cor
bett or his assistants had to compound
his own prescriptions for his patients.
Where there is an apothecary, the
physician, be his intent never so vile,
has to be exceedingly cautious in what
he presclibes for the patient whom
he has no desire to save and the up
right praetillouerh in cases where
somebody has fatally blundeled, or
criminally interfered in the treat
ment, can boldly appeal 10 bis writ
ten prescripts, on tle at the apothe-
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right to set aside jurors, and ne wou7a.
exercise it until the panel was ex-
hausted, when he would either accept
or peremptorily challenge them. In
this manner Andrew w. Birney,
white, James T. Holloway, colored,
William H. DcBerry, white and John
A. Pugh, colored, were disposed Of.
They we're the most intelligent look
ing of all the jurors called.
Before the defence had exhausted
the number of challeng they were
entitled to, a ajury-if it can be dig
niGed by such name-was formed.
Ten blacks and two white men, and
such a spectacle. The following is a
list of r..mes Of The twelve persons
who are trying Mr.. r. II. Mitchell
for having. as is charged, violated Il
constitutional right of an, as is held,
unconstitutional law, and this before
the law WAS passed, viz: January
Simpson, colored, Columbia; William
Smith, colored, Columbia Gabriel
Cooper, colorcd, Columbia; Joseph
Taylor, colored, Columbia; Isaac
Black, colored, Columbia; Philip Sal
ters, colored, Charleston; William F.
Dover, colored, Charleston County ;
Joseph Kcenc, colored, Statesburg;
james McGill, colored, Georgetown;
Ephraim Johnson, colored, George
town; William Mooney, white, Co.
lumbia; James McMacken, white,
Newberry.(O
The Ten negroes are all bitter rad
icals, and the two white men are VIM.
Mooney, member of the Radical
City Council of Columbia, and Jas.
McMacken one Of Scott's Constabu-
l., !, from Ohio.
The jury formed, witnesses were
placed upon the stand to prove the
horrible conspiracy about which the
charges have been rung until they're
stale. To do this the famous Ku-
K!ux constitution and bylaws was
read, which the man who judges of
the average gentleman Of South Car
olina tried to immortalize. Several
witnesses were put upon the stand to
prove the genuineness of the docu-
ment, and the remainder Of the af-
ternoon and evening session was occu-
pied by the examination of these wit
nesses and other testimony, with the
endeavor to show that in 1868 a con-
spiracy did exist Of the nature de-
acribed, and which the prosecution is
trying to bring down to the present
time, so as to embrace his charges and
the acts Of Congress. One witness
testified that an organization was
formed for the purpose of security
against incendiarism.