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Capt. John Watson died at his resi-.
dencc, near Gourdin's, in Williamsburg
County, Inst week. He had @ severe at
tack of pneumonia several weeks ago,
but had 80 far recovered as to be able to
sit up in his chair. At the time of his
death he was in this posture conversing,
and died instantly.
A fire occurred on Thursday morning,
in Wilmington, which destroyed spirits
of turpeutine, rosin, and the sheds be.
meath which these articles were stored,
to tho value of Sl5,00 a furious gale
prevailed at the time, and GOALS of fire
were carried the distance of half O mile.
Iucendiarism.
It is stated rs fact that every govern.
or, every United States attorney, and
about three-quarters of all the judges
that are sent to Utah by the Washington
Government. are shortly afterward ac-
cused of affiliations with the Nor.
mons.'
A LARGE YIELD.-Mr. Zacharinh Pow
or raised on his farm, in Oconee County,
during tho last year. $500 pounds Of
seed cotton on = acres; worth. at four
cents per pound, 1852. Aud this with
out any gnano.
DEATH.-Col. Samuel j. Watson, who
has SO long filled on honorable place
among Edgeflsld's best citizens. depart
ed this life on Saturday night last, after
two days illness. of congestive ohills.
Mrs. Josiah Tattnall, widow of the late
Commodore Tnttnall, died very suddenly
in Savannah, on Wednesday morning
last. Sho WAS i'll bnt half hour.
The farmors of Live Oak, Florida, are
having trouble in procuring labor, owing
to the opening up Of turpentine farms
and log yards.
Moses Sanders. an old and highly es-
teemed citizen, died at his residence,
near Barnwell village. on tho evening OF
Saturday last
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IF YOU FEEL dull, despondent. drowsy,
debiltated, have frequent headaches,
mouth tastes badly. poor appetite and
tongue coated, you are suffering from
torpid liver, or "Biliousness. Nothing
will cnre you SO speedily and perma-
nently as DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery.
CANT Do WITHOUT Ir."-This is
what the stage nud horse-car companies,
livery stable keepers, members OF the
turf. and all grooms and trainers say of
the MUSTANG L1NIMeNT. They ''can t do
without it," And why? Because it in.
fallibly reduces the external swellings.
&C., which. under various names, impair
tho usefulness and value of the king of
quadrupeds, and also because, for sprains,
strains, gals and other injuries to which
horse flesh is liable, it is the most trust
worthy preparation in the market. Yet
these recommendations comprise only a
portion OF its claims to public confidence.
During period of more than sixteen
years, it has been recognized as specific
for many of the most agonizing disor-
ders which afllict the human family
such as rheumatism, gont, neuralgia,
lumEago, tiodoloreux. sore throat, ear
ache, tooth-ache; and, likewise, as q
peerless application for cuts, bruises,
burns and scalds. JlS 80
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AS much ironical as blasphemous. aud
moro maudlin, if possible, than either
the angry declaration Of drunken Durell
in the United States Court, the other
morning: II am the vicegerent Of AL
mighty God, sitting here to dispense
Justice, and as his agent intend to sec
justice done"
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LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENT.
E. H. Heinitsh-Garden Seed.
r. s. w. O. Swaffield--For Sale.
D. O. Peixotto & Sons-Auction.
J. &. Leahy-Notifioation.
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copies of the PHaNu is Eve cents.
The latest styles wedding and visiting
cards and envelopes; tastily printed, can
be obtained at the PHOENIX Office.
Old newspapers for sale at PHGElx
office, at fifty cents hundred. q,
See advertisements of valuable pro:
pefty for sale. Some Of It's very de-
sirable. -.!' RI, u N,1,..t
The Governor has approved the cirou-
lar issued by the Oomptroller. General.
extending for twenty days the time
for the collection of taxes before the
penalty attaches. p'f
The Governor has appointed John H.
Lowry. Deputy Surveyor for Chesterfield
County; r. Y. Harris and T. g. Bobo,
Notaries Public for Union, and J. G. F..
Metcalf, Com missioner Of Deeds in New
York city.
Both branches OF the Legislature have
adjourned until Monday evening, at 7
o'clock. ~.
Persons in want OF oil paintings are
directed to the advertisement OF Messssfz.
D. G. Peixotto & Sons, il another CO.
lumn. These pictures, they. assure us,
are particularly fine. s.' ns..
The weather took another turn. ves.
terday, and by dark it had become quite
cold. -,
Superintendent James Anderson will
accept our thanks for a .spAss" over the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Rail-
road. e.. .s,.-,,.
Frou' all sections OF the State come
reports OF unprecedented promptness in
the payment OF taxes; and in many in
stances, the time for payment is extend
ed, in order to accommodate the County
Treasurers' clerks.
The following Executive appointments
were confirmed by the Senate, yesterday,
in executive session: Trial Justices-For
York County, G. J. Pride, R. L. Crook;
Oconee, Walter N. Woodin; Charleston,
Thos. Aston. Stephen Meloney; Union,
Wm. Jeffries. Wm. NJ. Ray, D. D.
Goings; Spartanburg, Wm. Irwin; Dar-
'ington, s. q. Presley; Sumter, NJ. B.
Moses, G. NJ. Hnrst; Anderson. G. W.
Maret; Richland, James J.. Goodwin:
Benufort, Wyley Nj. Williams. Jury
Commissioner-Union, @. McGuokin.
An afternoon paper is soon to be is.
| sued by Mr.. J. ", Delano, in Charles
ton, to be called the Erening Bulletin.
We noted in our walks about the city.
the completion of neat cosy residence
for Mr.. G. N. g. Butt. on Marion street,
opposite the University. It is very
tastily and conveniently arranged in all
respects, and reflects credit both on the
owner and builders, Messrs. Roof G.
Rawl. These gentlemen have erected
several buildings in our city, all OF which
have given great satisfaction. The work
is superintended by Mr. Rawl, whose
energy and fair dealing has enabled him
to merit share OF the public patronage.
Having mills OF their own, they can fur
nish material to great advantage to the
builder.
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F1EE.-A supposed inoendiary fire,
yesterday morning, about 4 O'Clock, do
stroyed small building filed with peas,
pea vines and oats, on the premises of
Mr.. Bearden, on Upper street. adjacent
to the fair grounds. The fremen had
q long run, but the flames had obtained
such headway, that it was useless to at
tempt to save anything. By-the.way,
the present fre alarm is very inferior,
and some arrangement should be made
which would prove moro effectual.
PhGS1xIANA.- There is chance yet
Mrs. Fair threatens to shoot anybody
that caricatures her. Now let Mast
caricature her and her shoot Mast, and
Jack Ketch dispose of her.
Agassiz says that any full grown man
can live for ten days by chewing at
pair of boots, and yet there are men who
will growl if they don't have miDoe pie
every meal.
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MAIL ARRANGEMENTS The Northern
mail opens $50 A. M. and 8. 90 P. NJ;
closes 8 P. NJ. and 11.O0 A. M. Charles
ton day mail opens 6.15 p. NJ. closes 6
A. NJ; night opens 100 A. NJ: closes
6.15 P. NJ. Greenville opens 6.45 P. NJ.
closes 6 A. NJ. Western opens $50 A.
NJ. and 1890 P. NJ. closes 8 and P. NJ.
Wilmington opens $50 F. M.: closes
1890 A. NJ. On Sunday the Office is
open from 8 to 4P. Nj.
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UNITED STATES CouRr-CHAR1EsroN
January 16.-Tn the Circuit Court, be-
fore his Honor Judge Bryan, the case of
Caroline A. Lunar was referred to Da-
MEL Horlbeck, Esq, CLERK Of the Court
as Master, to take evidence and report.
In the District Court, the jury in the
case of David A. Seabrook, indicted for
perjury, rendered verdict of not guilty.
On the petition of James P. Low, ore
ditor, the Blue Ridge Railroad Company
was ordered to show cause, on the 18th
February next, why it should not be de.
clared bankrupt; in the meantime, the
company to be restrained from disposing
OF its property; and that tho President,
John j. Patterson, ,!be served with copy
OF the order.
Frederick Sohligel, OF Lexington, was
finally discharged in bankruptcy.
Thomas Fields. indicted for retailing
liquor and tobacco without complying
with the internal revenue law, was found
guilty.
Robert ebay Avoy, of China, filed his
notice Of intention to become citizen
Of the United States.
James English, alias Monday Waters,
was found guilty of voting under age.
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Chiselhurst, where Louis Napoleon
died, is parish situated in the County
of Kent, eleven miles Southeast OF
London. The chief claims of the place
to historical distinction seem destined
to be neurological, as the gazeteers men,
tioD, as the only incident worthy of
note, the death there of Willinm Cam
den, the celebrated antiquary. This,
however, actually occurred at Camden
Place, in the same parish, but short
distance from the beautiful villa of
Chiselhurst, where tho exiled Emperor
breathed his last.
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Mr.. Allman-A bill to provide for o
system of labor for wages in the State.
Mr.. Lilley-A bill to give n salary, in
lieu of fees, to the Sheriff of each
County, except Charleston and Rich
land Counties.
Mr.. McLaurin-A bill for the protec-
ton OF sheep, by imposing additional
tax on dogs.
MIR. Duncan-A bill to authorize and
empower the County Commissioners of
Orangeburg County to open and keep in
repair public road, running from the
Monok's Corner Road, at Lewisville, to
the Bellville Road, near Buffers Mill.
Mr. 3. b. Thompson-A bill to incor-
porate the South Carolina Agricultural
and Mechanical Society.
The judiciary Committee reported m
tavorably on bill to repeal Sections IS
and Sc, OF Chapter 100, Tito 1, of the
ACT for revising and consolidating the
general statutes; favorably on Senate
bills to change the name of Horny Hash
to Henry Flash Shiver; to extend the
time for officers to qualify; to allow VIM.
h. Wynn to change his name to VIM.
d. Brockman; to require State and
County ofioors elected by tho people to
qualify within thirty days; authorizing
the Attorney General to commence pro.
ceedings against the Sinking Fund Com.
missioners; also, favorably, on bills to
punish persons for removing or secreting
OF personal property levied on by the
sheriff or other officer; to- prevent the
carrying OF deadly weapons; to prevent
State and County officers from holding
more than one Office; to regulate the
process issuing from the Supreme Court:
also, q majority and minority report on
o bill relating to the inspection and
measurement of lumber and timber in
the city OF Charleston, tho mnjority re.
port being unfavorable; also, favorably,
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Habits of Ants.

Mr.. Darwin publishes in Nature, a
! letter received by him from Mr.. James
| D. Hague of San Francisco, giving
some new and interesting observations
| on the habits of ants. Mr. Hague,
! while confined to his room by sickness,
| was annoyed by the presence of a colony
of very strtall red ants which, issuing
from a hole in the wEll rear the ceiling,
formed an almost unbroken procession
to vase of flowers on the mantle shelf.
He frequently brushed them in great
numbers off the wall down to the floor !;
but this course had the effect only of di-
viding the colony, and now a new set
tlement was madB at the base OF the
mantle. One day he killed some OF the
marauders on the shelf at the foot of
the vase of flowers, and disabled others.
In half an hour the wall above the
shelf was cleared of ants, Che process
sion retreating from the scene of cdr-
mage with all possible haste. For an
hour or two the lower column continued
to ascend, tifttil reaching the lower bev-
eled edge of the shelf here the more
timid individuals aware of trouble
ahead and turned back, while the more
daring ones advanced hesitatingly just
TO IHo upper euSe, p6epluS CdutlOuSly
out to eutvey the field. Then they, too,
turned back, and in a short time no
more ants were to BE seen. '''A curious
and invariable feature of their beha-
vior," writes Mr.. Hague, "was that,
when an ant, returning in fright, met
another approaching, the two would al
ways communicate, but each would
pursue it's own way, the second ant con-
tinuing its Journey to the spot where
the first had turned about, and then fol-
lowing that example" No ants were
visible for several days after the disas-
ter, but at length few from the lower
colony made their appearance. They
carefully avoided the vase, ~hieh had
been to their race so fruitful a misfCr-
tune, and attacked some violets in
tumbler in the middle of the shelf. The
same experiment was repeated here,
and with the same result as before.
Occasionally, says the writer, can
ant would advance toward the tumbler
until it found itself among the dead
and dying then it seemed to loose
all self-possession, running hither and |
thither, making wide circuits about the |
scene of the trouble, stopping at !
times and elevating the antenne with a
suggestive of wringing them |
in despair, and finally taking flight. -
,JatJy GALAXY.
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RAILROADS.

There are nine railroads IN opera
ton in west Tennessee, and eleven 9th
ers either in course of construction or
in contemplation.
The Raleigh and CASTOR railroad
is being put in excellent repair. 1t u
the intention TO relay the entire track
with new iron.
In August the people Of Gaston
county vote on the proposed $4,000
county subscription 10 the narrow
guage railroad company.
Prominent capitalists in Ports
mouth, Ohio, have agreed 10 take SlOO,-
600 of the bonds of the Kentucky and
Great Eastern railroed at par, payable
as the work progresses.
The Valley Virginian says that Mr..
Garrett has concluded 10 build the work
shops of the Valley railroad company mt
Harrisburg, rather than at Staunton,
where such heavy damages are assessed
for privileges.
The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
company have open topped cars at
tached to each one OF their passenger
trains, for the purpose Of allowing the
passengers 20 view the country and
beautiful mountain scenery a. they pass
along
The preliminary survey Of the
New York, Norfolk and Charleston, has
been completed from NoriDlk. Va,
south as far as Elizabeth City, n. O.,
and the surveying parties are ON tho
line from that place southwest 20 Hert-
ford and Edenton.
The ordinance providing for the
endorsement Of 600,00 Of the Mary
land Central company's first mortgage
boz DIS by the city of Baltimore came mp
in tie city council recently and was
laid over until next September. IL was
thought that this action will kill the
measure.
Track LAYING is being pushed for
ward rapidly on the Cairo and Fulton.
At last accounts the track had reached
Rockport, Ark, 43 miles southwest OF
Little Rock and 10 miles beyond Ben
ton. the late terminous. The grading
is nearly completed 20 Fulton and II is
expected there will be no delay IN the
track laying.
-Immense quantities Of railroad iron
and railroad materials generally are ar
irving at Jefferson. Track laying IL
progressing satisfactorily, but is some
what retarded for the want Of cars TO
convey the iron from the point where II
| ia delivered by the boats, 70 the place
where Il is laid down. The track i be
ing laid do N at the rate Of about half
| n mile per day.
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An AUSTRALIAN BREAD MAKER IN NEW
YoRK.-Imagine a handsome young fel-
low, an Alsatin Frenchman, with a pair
of purple velvet knee breeches, "A pair of
snow white stockings coming 20 his
knees, at which they are trimmed with
lace a pair Of low shoes with silver
buckles, white linen jacket, four
cornered hat OF white linen, and carry
ing a large light basket filled with those
delicious rolls which are made for tho
Sunday breakfast table in some OF the
towns of France. lam not describing n
circus performer, or q grotesque hum
bug perambulating the street for boys TO
laugh at. / saw him, and more thar
one of his kind, in the bright early hours
of last Sunday morning, going round
from house 10 house in the upper part
Of the town, supplying his customers
with the bread-rolls in question. This
style of thing is comparatively new here.
and has been introduced by Alsatin ex-
lies. The young mems costume looks en-
tirely appropriate in its purity, tasteful
ness, and gayety. He seems like vision
and "Reminiscences of far-gone times. HIS
fieecy rolls bring back TO ones imagina-
| ton the ages when as yet biddy was not,
! and when the various craftsmen carriei
! on their labors as though they meant %
! please and delight those whom II wai
their privilege to serve.-M y letter,
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AT THE GATE.
BY G. z. MEREDITH.


Outside the open gate spirit stood.
One called: I" Come in. Then he: " All, if could
For there within it's light and glorious,
But here all cold and darkness dwell with u.s."
HThen,n said the other, st Come. The gate is wide
But he 81 wait two angels who must guide.
cannot come unto Thee without thesei
Repentance first, and faith Z by face that sees.
weep and call they do not hear my voice;
never shall within the gates rejoice"
" o heart unWise !" the voice did answer him,
81 reign o'er all the hosts Of Seraphim.
Are not these angels also in my hand?
If they come net to thee 'tis my comman1.
The darkness chills thee, tunult vexes thee,
Are angels more than L? Come il, to RE-.
Then in the dark; and restlessness, and woe;
That spirit rose and through the gate did go,
Trembling because no angel walked before,
Yet by the voice drawn onward evermore,
SO came he weeping where the glory shone,
And fell down, crying, 81 Lord, I come alone
" And it was thee called" the voice replied,
s. Be welcome" Then love rose, mighty tide
But silence, rapt, gazed up unto that face;
Nor saw two angels from the radiance glide,
And take their place forever at his side.
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nowned in southwestern story found
himself clinging to bush in the wild
waters, lashed by the long whips of
branches, half dead with fatigue and
fear. For time the hurlyburIy blinded
and hid everything, and the 1ohg roll
rocked and tore him in desperate en-
deavor TO wrench loose his bleeding
fingers. The impulse of the wind and
storm at such time is as of a solid
body, and there is look of solidity in
the very appearance of the magnificent
force. But as it abated he thought he
heard faint cry, and looking around
he saw poor girl in the ribbons of her
night-dress clinging to a branch, and
slipping from her feeble hold. Tired
as he was, and wild and dangerous as
the attempt might be, he did not dare
to leave her 10 perish. Choosing his
time in lull, he struck out to the bush,
and reached it Just as her ebbine
strength gave way. He took her in
his sturdy arms, and, clinging with
tooth and nail, stayed them both to
their strange anchorage. Faint, half
conscious, disrobed as she was, in the
sweet, delicate features, the curve of
the lip, and the raven tfesses clothed
belle of last nights hop. He cheered
and encouraged her, pointing out that
the storm was abating, had abated. It
could not be long until search-boats
came, and while he had strength to
live she should share it. Itproved true.
Generous and hardy fishers and ships
aster, and were busy picking up the few
S10o
the two olinging together and to that
ping them in ready, rough fshermen's
coats. The reader can see the end of
the story. A meeting SO appointed had
its predestined end in loVe-match. So
we leave it and them; the rest of their
lives belongs to them, not us.
The pair found by our fishing smack
were wealthy planter and his wife.
For nine days of starvation and danger
they had clung together. When think
of the husbands manly care in thus
abiding by the wife, find it hard to
reconcile it with the fact that he only
valued his life and hers at only a few
dollars, not enough to compensate the
traveller for the loss incurred as demur-
rage to the fishermen.
Now Last Island is but low sandy
reef, on which a few struggling fruit
trees try to keep the remembrance of
its by-gone beauty. It is as bare and |
desOlate as the bones of those who filed
its halls in the cataclysm of that dread
full night, bones which now waste to
whiteness on sterile shores, or are
wrought into coral in the under sea-
WiH Wallace Hdy7aey, Lippincott'S
Muqrzine.
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Tumbling Pigeons,

The behavior of the ground tumbler
or lotain of India, renders it highly
probable that in this breed the tum-
bling is due to some affection of the
brain, which has been transmitted from
before the year 1900 to the present
day. 1t is necessary gently to shake
the birds, or, in the case of the Kalmi
lotan, to touch them on the neck with a
wand, in order to make them begin
rolling over backward ON the ground.
This they continue to do with extraor-
ditary rapidity, until they are utterly
exhausted or even, as some say, until
they die, unless they are taken up, held
in the hands, and soothed, and then
they recover. It is well known that
certain LESSONS of the brain, or internal
pal asites, cause animals to turn inces-
sanity round, either to the right or left,
sometimes accompanied with a back
ward movement and I have Just read
of the somewhat analogous result which
followed from pricking the base of the
brain of pigeon with a needle. Birds
thus treated roll over backward in con-
vulsions, in exactly the same manner as
do the ground tumbIers and the same
effect is produced by giving them hy-
droeyanic with strychnine. One pigeon,
which had its brain thus pricked, recov-
cred perfectly, but continued ever af-
terward to perform summersaults like a
tumbler, though not belonging to any
tumbling breed. The movement ap-
pears to be of the nature of recurrent
spasm or convulsion, which throws the
bird backward, as in tetanus it then re-
covers its balance, and is again thrown
backward. Whether this tendency
originated from some accidental injury,
or, as seems more probable, from some
morbid affection of the brain, cannot be
told; but at the present time, the affec-
tion can hardly be called morbid in the
case of common tumblers, as these birds
are perfectly healthy, and seem to en-
Joy performing their feats, or as an old
writer expresses it, i" showing like foot
balls in the air." The habit, apparent
ly, can be controlled to certain ex-
tent by the will. But what more par
ticularly concerns us, is, that it is
strictly inherited. Young birds reared
in an aviary, which have never seen a
pigeon tumbler, take to it when first let
free. The habit also varies much in
degree in different individuals and in
different sub-breeds; and it can be great
ly augmented by continued selections,
as is seen in the house tumblers, which
can hardly rise more than foot or two
above the ground without going heels
over head in the air DGTcOi1a.
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THE BEREA WE'D.

Ny God, why hast thou stricken me?
For, weak and fallen tho I be,
NY heart has ever turned to thee,
In penitence and prayer.
Yet in my soul still burns the spark
OF faith and love, the blessed mark,
That grateful Christians wear.
I do not claim by my good deeds,
Exemption from the wound that bleeds,
Or respite from the worm that feeds
On self-reproaCh and pain.
Yet surely mine was not the hand
To spread such guilt throughout the land,
That on my brow must fall the brand
OF thrice accused Cain
And since thou has not thus condemned,
And nought Offer can defen
Ny own just share Of sin, o bend
Thy pardoning mercy still.
Thou hast already punished here,
With painful days, and nights so drear,
Each wayward word and rebel tear,
Against thy holy win,
And if I find it hard to bear,
And feel that thou vast so severe,
Forgive, o gracious Lord, and hear
My prayer for peace and rest.
Forgive each wicked. murmuring thought
Against the deed thy love has wrought,
And may I, by this grief be taught,
There's joy among the blest.
E.O.D