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How HENRY CLAY WAS Sold

How HENRY CLAY WAS Sold
Some time before the introduction of
railroads, Governor Metcalfe represented
in Congress district of which Nicholas
county was part. Mr. Clay was Secre-
tarv of State under President Quincy
Adams. The two distinguished politi.
clans agreed to travel to Washington in
Gov. Metcalfs's carriage. While passing
through the State of Pennsylvania, Clay
told Gov. Metcalfe that he had received
intimations that in certain town they
were approaching he would be honored
with an ovation BY the citizens. Just before
coming to the town, Gov. Metcalfe, who
had ali along been driving, suggested to
Mr.. Clay that he take the lines and drive,
as he himself was tired. Mr.. Clay read.
ily consented, whereupon the Governor
tool: the back seat in the carriage. Mr..
Clay. drove the team successfully into the
town, and they were met by large con-
course of people. Gov. Metcalfe alight.
ed from the carriage, and being asked
whether he was Mr.. Clay, answered yes,
that he was glad to meet them, &C., and
at this the crowd fairly hoistcd him
upon their shoulders and triumphantly
started with him to the place of recep-
ton. Looking back at Mr.. Clay,
who still sat in the carriage somewhat
nonplussed, the Gorernorcried: "Driver,
take those horses to the stable and feed
them" The merriment of the crowd,
when the joke was discovered, can better
be imagined than described-Mr. Clay
himself as heartily entering into it as the
rest Carlisle Mercury.
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BonEs.-An unavoidable, and by no
means agreeable responsibility, which ac-
companies the editorship OF a paper, is
the certainty of being bored occasionally
by well-meaning but garrulous friends,
who "drop in," at all unreasonable
times, and on no business in particular
save to advise, criticise, inquire for the
latest news, or relate some stale gossip
which they have just got knowledge of,
and which (thcy say would be $50 inter
esting" to the readers in general. In
fact the editor would seem to have been
made, by some dispensation of provi-
dence, target for the thousand and one
nuisances whom this great country pro-
duces. Intruders and bores of all kinds,
from the poic' who informs you that has
"writ potry" and wishes publication and
pay for his eff'usions to Jinks who is run
ming for the office of constable; the
member of "Dcluge, No. l." who wish
es note on the great "throw" matle by
the said Deluge In their contest with the
fire company of the next town; jenkins
who has discovered the secret of sluar-
ing the circle, or perpetual motion, or
the the Keely motor, and who wishes u col
lumn-notice of his discovery in your naSt
issue; and, last in the list, but first in
number. the pedestrian disciple of Faust,
more commonly known as the tramp;
All these AMI many more OF the KIND
afflict the editor with their presence at
different periods, bringing him informa..
tion in abundance, and but little hard
cash or its grcen-backcd cquivalcnt.--Er-
change.
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The Outsidc Passenger.

It was in the old days of stage-coaches,
and one of those huge, numbering vc-
hickles was ploughing its way between
Boston and Salem in q driving rain-storm,
filled inside and outside with jolly set
of passengers.
Among the number the more fortunate
insiders was respectable baldheaded
old gentleman, who seemed 10 be very
solicitous about lady riding on the roof.
Every few minutes he popped out his
head, regardless of the rain, and shouted
to some one above, "Well how is she
now?" And the answer came, "All
right"
man. t%'..
"No, not much," Is the reply.
"Well, can't you put something round
her? Twill never do to have her get vet,
you know"
"We've got everything around her we
can get" ..a
Haven't you got an old coat or
rugg"
mo, not rag more"
A sympathetic young man hearing all
this, and feeling alarmed for the poor lady
out in the storm, inquired OF the old
gentlemap why they didn't have her ride
inside, and not out on the roof?
"Bless you, there amt roou!" ex-
claimed the old man.
""Not room? Why, I'd give her my
place it's too bad"
mot at all, sir-not at all. We
couldn't get her into this stage any
howw .r
Amazed at her prodigious dimensions,
the kind young man said:
}. "Well, sir, if my coat would be of any.
service to you, she may have it; and,
suidng the action to the, word, he took
the garment and handed it to the old gen.
tleman.
a"Its almost a pity, sir, to get your
0yercoat wet, but" .... 80, 'a.
"Not at all, sir, by no means-pass it
up to her." -,
The coat was accordingly passed up.
How'll that do for herH" asked the
old gentleman.
"fip-topl Just the ticket All right
now"
Thus relieved, no further anxiety was
manifested about the outside passenger
till the stage arrived at the inn, when
what was the sympathetic, and the gal
liant young mans surprise and indigna-
ton to find that his nice coat had bsehi
wrapped around-iot q fair young lady
of unusual proportions, but-a double
bass violin !-Boston Commercial Bul1e-
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The HABIT OF READING.-The fol-
lowing from Scribner's Monthly, contains
some very suggestive thoughts: 81 have
no time to read" is the common COM
plant, and especially of women whose
occupations are such as to prevent COLI
tinuous book perusal. They seem to
think because they cannot devote as
much attention to books as they. are COM
pelled to devote to their avocation, that
they cannot read anything. But this is
q great mistake. It isn't the books we
finish at sitting which always do US the
most good. Those we deyour in the odd
moments, half dozen pages at q time,
often give us more satisfaction, and ars
more thoroughly digested than those We
make particular effort to read: The
men who have made their. mark in the
world have generally been the men, who
have in boyhood formed the habit of
reading at every available moment,
whether for five minutes or five hours.
1t is the habit of reading rather than
the time at our command that helps us
on the road to learning: Many of tho
cultivated persons, whose names have
been famous as students, have given only
two or three hours day to their books.
If we make use of spare moments in tho
midst of our work, and read little, ii
but q page, or a paragraph, we shall fncl
our brain quickened and our toll tighten
cd by Just so much increased satisfaction
Ms the book gives us. Nothing helps us
along the monotonous daily round Sc
much as fresh and striking thoughts, to-
be considered while cur hands are busy
A new idea from q volume is like oil
which reduces the friction of the ma.
chinery of life. What we remember
from brief glimpses into books often
serves as a stimulus to action, and be.
comes one of the most precious deposits
in the treasury of our recollection. ALI
knowledge is made up of small parts,
which would seem insignificant in them
selves, but which, taken together, are
very valuable weapons for the mind and
substantial armor for the soul. "Read
anything continuously" says DR.. john
son, "and you will be learned" The
odd minutes which VIC are inclined to
waste, if carefully availed of, will, in the
long run, make golden hours and golden
days that we shall ever be thankful for.
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Democratic Duty in South Carolina.

The New York World reads us good
lesson on this all-absorbing topic. 1t be-
gins by reference to the whites of Missis-
sippi, who only discovered the full meas.
ure of their courage and wisdom after the
iron of bayonet and negro rule had en-
tered deep into their souls. Their ex-
tremity was their opportunity. 1t re-
CARDS our extremity sufficient to rouse
us to grasp similar opportunity. 1t
says:
"Of all the Southern States but one
other can be classcd with Mississippi, for
Louisiana we can safely count as ours in
fact as we'll as of right; and North Caro-
lima, though the contest will be close,
should with proper care array herself
once more under the Democratic flag in
1876. That unhappy State is South Car
olina. Like Mississippi, cursed with an
overwhelmingly largo population of ne.
groes, ,wayed by band of infamous and
clever renegadcs and carpet-baggers, the
burdens laid on property have been in
creased to the limit of confiscation the
State has been plundered by robbers
without even the decency to attempt to
conceal their crimes, and injustice has
bought and sold in open court"
Referring then to the election of
Whipper and Moses, it urges that Gov.
Chamberlain is proved to be wholly with
out power to bring about reforms, and
that the Black League of South Carolina,
taking alarm at the redemption of Ala
bama and Mississippi, has deemed wise
the bolder course of plundering and
prostituting while there yet remain a
treasury to rob and function of govern
.ment to outrage. Strong in numbers
and united under able and unscrupulous
leaders, while their opponents are doubt
ing and divided, they have improved
their opportunity. 1t useless to appeal
to their sense of duty and decency.-
Equally hopeless is it to trust to the in
dependent Republican broom to keep out
the tide of knavery. For the past six
years the Democrats and honest Republi-
cans have surrendered their convictions
in the vain hope that by not aggravating
their rulers 'heir burdens would be made
more tolerab. :. @ |r -
1t concludes with the following spirit
ed words, which We send along the line
to our courageous .and devoted men,"
1t is call of d character and from q
source which they are bound to respect:
"What have the Democrats in South
Carolina or anywhere else gained by fur
ling their flag and selecting deserter as
their general? Are the honest people Of
South Carolina less desirous of reform
than were their! brethren of Mississippi?
Is the necessity for revolution less ur-
gent? Are they less courageous and de-
7oted2 If not, let them by similar
course achieve the same success. South
Carolina dwells fondly upon the heroism
of her sons during the revolution of 8
century ago, aud proposes to invite all
who honor courage and patriotism to
meet her people at historic Moultrie. A
better centennial celebration than this
will be the redemption of the State. The
tyranny against which the free-born
men of South Carolina rose in 1776 was
far less oppressive, far less disgraceful,
than that under which their descendants
proan to-day" .t''
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Punctnality in all Things.

1t is astonishing how many people
there are who neglect punctuality.--
Thousands have failed in this life from
this cause alone. It is not only serious
vice in itself but it is the fruitful parent
of many other vices, so that he who be-
comes the victim of it gets involved in
tolls from which it is almost impossible
to escape. 1t makes the merchant waste
full of time; itsaps the business reputa-
tion of the lawyer, and it Injuries the
prospects of the mechanics who might
otherwise rise to fortune; in word,
there is not profession, nor station in
life, which is not liable to the canker Of
this destructive habit. .;-.,
In mercantile affairs, punctuality is as
important as in military. Many are the
instances in which the neglect to renew
an insurance punctually has led to q
serious loss. Hundreds of city merchants
are now suffering in consequence of the
want of punctuality among their western
customers in paying up accounts. With
sound policy do the banks exist, under
the penalty of a protest, on the punctual
payment of notes for were they to do
otherwise, commercial transactions would
fall into inextricable confusion Many
and many time has the failure of one
man to meet his obligations brought OH
the ruin of score of others, just as the
itoppling down, in a line of bricks, of the
master brick causes the fall of all the
rest.
Perhaps there is no class of men less
punctual than mechanics. Do you want
an upholsterer He rarely comes when
he agrees. So with carpenters, painters,
and nearly all others. Tailors and shoe
makers often do not have their articles
home in time. The consequence is that
thousands remain poor all their lives,
who, if they we're more faithful to their
word, would secure a large run of Gus
tom, and 80 make their fortunes. What
would become of the Anderson Intelh-
gencer were it not punctual in going to
press or if our paper makers were not
punctual in delivering paper? or if our
compositors were not punctual in coming
to work? Be punctual, if you would sue
ceed.
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A MANS NEIaHBoRs.-The Raleigh
Ae,cs reports that Rev. DR.. Pritchard, OF
that city, referred in his Thanksgiving
sermon to conversation held some years
ago between DR.. Thomas E. Skinner,
formerly of Raleigh, now of Georgia, and
All anti-missionaryist. DR.. Skinner, he
said, was soliciting aid for foreign mis-
sions, and applied to this gentleman, who
promptly repulsed him with the reply,
II don't believe in foreign missions. !
want what give to benefit my neigh
bcrs."
"Wcll," replied DR.. Skinner, "whom
do you regard rs your ncighbors 7"
"Why, those around me" replied the
brother.
"Do you mean those whose lands joins
yours?" inquired DR.. Skinner.
eyes"
"Well," said DR.. Skinner, chow much
land do you own?''
about 500 acres"
''How far down do you own?" inquired
Dr.. Skinner.
"Why, 1 never thought of it before,
but suppose I own half way through"
Exactly" said DR.. Skinner. 81 sup
pose you do, and l want this money for
the Chinese men whose land joins
yours ON the bottom"
The hardened brother had never
thought of that, and give a good sum for
foreign missions.
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A WAR SECRET REvEALED.-Among
some personal "reminiscences recently re-
lated by the Hon. A. H. Fl. Stuart, of
Virginia, in a political speech, was one
connected with the peace negotiations of
the late Confederacy that has never been
made public. He read a note from Hon.
Judah P. Benjamin, dated March %,
1864, asking him to come to Richmond
for an interview with President Davis on
business, the subject Of which was too
important to be committed to paper. le
went, and was informed by President
Davis that the Confederate Congress had
voted a. secret service fund of So, 1000
in gold, to be used in creating peace
sentiment at the North. After looking
over the whole country, the President"
had selected Mr.. Stuart as the man for
the mission. He was to sail for Nassau
and thence for Halifax, and there, from
the border of Canada, could operate on
prominent men. The fund of So, 600, 900
was to be at his absolute disposal, and he
was not TO be required to furnish vouch-
ers for its disbursement. Mr.. Stuart de-
clined the tender, and G. @. Clay, of Ala-
bama, and two other gentlemen were ap.
pointed. The Greeley correspondence
and the "To whom it may concern" of
President Lincoln followed this mission.
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What Ruins Cotton Gins.

Thousands of cotton gins are needless
ly injured, if not entirely ruined, by one
single cause. That cause is permitting
mote or lint cotton THAT is, cotton that
has been once ginncd, to be mixed with
cotton and passed through the saws
second time. Such lint cotton catches
in the teeth, clogs the saws, dulls the
teeth, and bends and breaks them. 1t
also bends or breaks the ribs, wears the
boxes and strains the whole gin, so as to
make it produce a bad sample and speedi
ly become almost worthless. 1t likewise
increases the draft, so as to distress the
mules propelling the gin, and creates so
much friction as often to set the gin
house on fire. Thus can be explained
the burning of many a gin house by the
supposed spontaneous combustion OF cot
ton.
Hence every owner of the gin house
should be very careful about where his
mote cotton is placed, also about permit
ting the "aying" or hanging" to fall on
his seed cotton. Above al should he be
particular in preventing the ginner or
his assistant, when returning from the
lint room after packing the cotton
back" as it is called, from having any
lint on his clothing.
The usual assistant at gin to hand
seed cotton and "pack back" lint is a
playful urchin, who delights first to wal
low in the lint room, and then, divesting
himself of the lint adhering to his clothes,
next to roll on his seed cotton. Often
times every boy, black and white, on a
large plantation, after general frolic in
the lint room, will Immediately emerge
therefrom and continue their wrestling,
rolling and romping over the seed cotton,
with perhaps half pound of lint stick
ing to each ones ragged apparel. Such
play is of course delightful to the boys,
but it is dear sport to the owners of the
gin. In many gin houses, too, while
packing cotton for the market, much lint
is mixed with seed cotton either by care.
lessncss or by the wind. :...r
A gin is costly machine, but it il not
q delicate one or easily put out of order
if previously ginned lint is kept out of
the saws. In fact, good gin,- rightly
managed, should-with but little sharp
cning and small repairs fifty bales
of lint per year, and last a planter of
average longevity his lifetime whereas
most gins become useless, or nearly so in
perhaps FIVE years, from the single cause
1 have indicated. No child ever ought
to be allowed to enter lint room where
it can we'll be prevented.
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COOKED FooD FOR SToCK.-The world
will never quite get rid of its old fogies-
those who want to be natural, but have
not studied nature. When fodder shall
be cooked so as to be softer and more
succulent than grass, which nature has
furnished for the animal, then it will
do to inquire whether nature is not vio-
lated in cooking food for cattle
Nature furnishes grass, not dried fodder.
The dried fodder is mans work of pre-
serving food while grass does not grow,
and if he cooks this soft and succulent in
imitation of grass, does he run a tilt with
nature or is he initiating her?
A farmer always looks forward to the
new growth of grass in the spring as af-
fording an opportunity for his cattle to
improve in condition and health, and
when he cooks thoroughly his winter food
his cattle are simply kept upon grass the
year round. We have kept the same
cows upon cooked food for fifteen winters,
and found them vigorous at nineteen and
and twenty years old.
Here is what Professor Wilkinson Of
Baltimore, Nd, says in relation to cooked
food ior cattle: 81 conducted an agricul-
tural school and experimental farm for
eight years and experimental with feed
ing cooked and uncooked food of every
description used for COWS, horses, swine,
working and fattening cattle and poultry,
and carefully noted the result, which was
in all cases very remunerative; SO much
so, that even with the defective, inconye-
nient and expensive apparatus used-fr
want Of better-in steaming, manlpula-
ting and feeding found there was an
average profit of fully twenty-five pc,
animals named !; but in feeding milch
cows in cold weather with warmed
steamed food of every description, there
was profit of over thirty per cent. when
the animals were kept at proper tempera-
ture, and fed with proper portions of nu-
tritiorls food."-Lipe stock Journal
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For tie anderson MtelLiqcnccr.

"The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all
the dwellings of fJacob."-PsALMs, sT2.
The family and the church are both
divine institutions. They are smaller
and larger things of the same kind. The
family, such as it was originally designed
to be, is little church, with the Bible
as its law, love as its bond, and the fathcr
the officiating minister. The idea came
from heaven, of whose government it is a
little earthly type-a copy taken from
that grand original above-from which
the "wholo family in heaven and earth
is named" Surely God loves this, his
own institute,-this little germinal gov
ernment where he teaches us first to love.
But he cloves the gates of Zion more )"
Zion, the embodiment Of pious families,
where love is taught to leap beyond the
precincts of home; where thought rises
to the keynote of higher discourse; and,
where the music of communing voices
swells to its chorus like the sound of
many waters. In the christian church,
more than anywhere else, we are "on the
mount" and converse with great themes.
Do you go to church? This is an age
of church-going, and we, sometimes al
most weary of what seems to be drawling
devotion, sterotyped phrases and 'long
pray ers." But we have never repaired
to christian church, mingled with its
respectful crowd, gave ear to its pulpit
voice, however uneloquent, but we have
gone: home with better heart towards
all mankind. If there is any place where
God reaches men to better their hearts
and reform their manners it is there.
He exhorts us to seek the religious assem-
bly, for the freer play of the religious
principles. You can read homilies at
home, but it is a slow sedimcntary
growth, too slow to awaken earnest
thought. You need not only to think but
to feel your great religious relations.
Go 10 church! 1t is the best school of
manners and morals. Not that these are
systematically taught there, but flow from
its themes. You cannot play truant to
reverence and decorum when you are
brought in sight of such subject as the
creation of the world or its dissolution at
the last day. You may criticise rhetoric
but You cannot criticise eternity. The
preacher may poorly sketch his subject,
the theme itself will rein you to higher
plane Of thought. The nasal twang of
one man, the puritanical cant of another,
tho sanctimony of another, even these
things tell the thoughtful that religion is
grand enough to produce an attempt to
initiate it. The shadow proves the reali-
ty. The counterfeit is taken from the
genuine.
Cto to churchl Though the deacon
who groans in the sanctuary cheats in
the store, the fate of religion is not
sealed up in his. His church groans and
his store morals both tell us that his
heavenly treasure is committed to
earthen vessels" that are easily broken.
anderson, Jan. 9Th, 1876.
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A STRANGE WEDDING FEE.-A cler-
gylnan wi was formerly located in this
city, but is now in New York, married, a
little over year ago, a couple, who Mt
once started for Europe and have recent
ly returned. The bridegroom was gen.
tleman of wealth, and before lie present.
ed himself before the bridal altar he
placed a $500 greenback in his vest
pocket to give the parson for the mar
riage fee, and did pay him as he supposed.
While crossing the ocean he discovered,
greatly to his astonishment, the bill in
the pocket where he placed it, and could
account for its presence there only on
the theory that he must have had anoth-
er bill of different denomination which
he had donated to the clergyman by mis-
take. ...
On getting back to this country he de-
tern1ined to solve the mystery, and wait.
ed upon the reverend gentleman, who did
not recognize him, and inquired if on a
certain date he did not marry certain
couple. The clergyman remembered the
occasion perfectly. II know am about
to ask an impertinent question:" said the
visitor, "but l should like to be informed
what fee you received for performing the
ceremony" The clergyman was not
prepared to make any disclosure, natur-
ally being astonished that his interviewer
should PROFOUND such question, but up
ON all explanation being made that tie
gentleman himself, whom he then rccog-
nizcd, was the one he had married, lie said
that he would, of course, crafty him,
since he was so anxious to know. II re-
ceived," he then went on to say, "a very
small quantity of fine cut chewing tobnc-
co, folded in very small piece of paper" !"
That was enough; the only thing re-
naming to be done WAS to apologize,
laugh heartily, shake hands, and make
tie Sl00 deposit good.