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Year: 1868




1t is easier to be a good business
man than poor one. Half the en-
ergy displayed in keeping ahead, that
is required to catch up when behind,
will save credit, give more time TO at
tend to business, and add to the profit
and reputation Of those who work for
gain. Be to prompt keep your word.
Honor your engagements. If You
promise to meet q man Or do a certain
thing at certain moment, be ready
at the appointed time. If you have
work to do, do it at once cheerfulIy
and therefore more speedily and cor
reetly. If you 60 out on business, at
tend promptly to the matter on hand,
then as promptly 60 about you own
business. Do not stop to tell stories
in business hours.


If you have a place Of business be
found there when wanted. No man
can get rich by sitting around stores
and saloons. Never HfOOl" on busi-
ness matters. If you have to labor
for a living, remember that one hour
in the morning is better than two at
night. If you employ others, be on
hand to see that they attend to their
duties and to direct work to advan-
tage. Have order, system, regularity,
prOmptness, liberality. No not med
die with business you know nothing
Of Never buy any article simply be-
cause the man who sells will take it
out in trade. Trade is money. Time
is money. A good business habit and
reputation is always money. Make
your place of business pleasant and at
tractive, then stay there to wait On
customers.


Never use quick words or allow
yourself to make hasty and ungentle-
manly remarks to those in your en-
plOy; fOr. to do so lessons their respect
for you and your Influence over them.
Help yourself and others viii help you.
Be faithful over the Interests eUnhded
to your keeping, and IN good time
your responsibilities viii be Increased.
Do not be in t03 great haste to get rich.
Do not build until you have arranged
and laid a good foundation. Do not
as you hope or work for success
spend time in idleness. If your time IS
your own, business will surely suffer
if you do. lift is given to another
for pay it belongs to him, and you
have no more right to steal that than
to steal money. Be obllging. Strive
to avoid harsh words and personalities.
Do not kick every stone in the path
more miles can be made in day by
going steadily on than by stopping to
kick. Pay as you go. A man Of
honor respects his word as he does his
bond. Ask, but never beg. Help
others when you can. but never give
when you cannot afford to, simply be-
cause it is fashionable. Learn to say
no. No necessity of swapping it out
dog fashion, but say it firmly and re-
spectfully. Have but few cOnfdants,
and the fewer the better. Use your
own brains rather than those Of.Others.
Learn to think and act for yourself.
Be honest and vigilant. Keep ahead
rather than behind the times. Young
men, cut this out, and, if there is folly
in the argument, let Us knOW.-[U. s.
Economist.
Year: 1868

I die a wretched sinner and I leave
to the world a worthless reputation, a
wicked example, a memory that is
only fit to perish.


leave my parents sorrow and Bit
terness of soul all their lives.


1 leave to my brothers and sisters
shame and grief, and reprOach Of their
acquaintances.


IIeave my wife a widow and broken
hearted, a wife lonely struggling with
want snd suffering.


I leave my children a tainted name,
a ruined position, a pitiful Ignorance
and mOrtifying recollection Of faith
er, who, by his premature death,
joined the great company Of those
who are never to enter the kingdom
Of God.
Year: 1868

The Steam Man is no hoax. We
have seen him, steam up, legs flying,
and sfl going. A figure in human
shape, with boiler inside of him and
a FIRE blazing, has the necessary ma
chinery at his back to make his legs go
alternately, and with power sufficient
to draw as much as horse. This is a
small man. 1t may be made Of two,
three, four horse power, and move at
the rate of1O or 10 miles an hour,
with a load on a common road. This
fellow came over from Newark by the
ordinary road when the snow made
the travel Dad. The whole cost Of a
man engine, ready to draw is about
$500. It costs about fifteen cents a day
to keep him in coal, which is the only
feed he needs. If you are in Broad
way, 538, by all means step in and see
the operadon.-[N. Y. Observer.
Year: 1868

The late King of Bavaria broke off
his engagement with the Duchess
Sophia because he saw her box the
ears of her waiting maid with sau-
Ger, and judged that she had Il hasty
temper.
Year: 1868

The Charleston Mercury cries out
against the new Constitution of South
Carolina because it provides no law
against the intermarriage Of white and
black. Poor chivalryl Will somebody
make the necessary law forthwith, lest
the editor of the Mercury and his white
friends should rush off to the rice
swamp and marry negro wives?
Year: 1868

A Belgian boy in London hung
himself by accident the other day,
and his father testified that the boy
had read sensation stories of suicides,
and afterward many times expert


mented on his own neck before the
fatal occasion.
Year: 1868

Established expressly to afford ths afflicted
sound and scientific Medical Aid in the treatment
and cure of all Private and Chronic Diseases, Gases
of Secrecy and all Sexual Disorders.
Year: 1868

The HUSBAND Women sometimes do not
value their husbands as they ought. They
not unfrequently learn the value of good
husband for the first time by the loss of him.


Yet the husband is the very roof tree of the
house-the corner stone IF the edifce-the
keystone of the arch called home. lie is the
bread winner of the family-ts defense and
its elory-the beginning and ending of the
golden chain of life which surrounds it-it>
consrler. its awgiver, and its king. And
yet we see how frail is that life on which 81
much depends. How frail is the life of the
husband and the father! When he is taken
away. what gloomy clouds hover over the
house ! When he is dead, what darkness


weeping agony Then poverty. like the
murdernus assassin, breaks in at the window
-starvnrion, like famishing wolf, howls
ut the door. Widowhood is too oft,n m
associate of sack cloth and ashes. Orphan


hood too often means desolation and woe.
Year: 1868

THE SISTERS or CHARITY AND TIE WATER
on TwEETY-FIFTH STREET.-In your defence Of
these ladies you say, I'm substance, that they have
deprived the public of this water with the best mo-
tives-to free the pupils of their school from the
crowd attracted by it. To this we reply:


l. That the scholars have need to go into the
street after water When the Council laid the
pipes from the spring to the street they liked hy-
cirant inside and bound the city to keep 1t in order
for the use of the family, long the water not
used privately was permitted to pass oGt to the
spout ut the curbstOne The family cannot q
hnndredth part of II.


2. If the scholars, In coming and going or any
other persons, have reason to complain Of the
crowd on the sidewalk the police Of the city Is al
ways ample to prevent abuses.


3. The water has been withheld from the public
during rdcnti0' rs well rs before.


4. Several previous tenants of the house have
had schools, and none ever kept back the water on
this account or any other. n PUBLIC OPINION.
Year: 1868

A HAPPY STATE.-Iows is clear ef
debt. Alone, of all the States, she
does not owe a dollar. This Is not the
result of meanness or dishonesty. The
people of Iowa did not shirk from their
duty during the war. They paid their
full share Of the public expenses, and
sent their quota Of men to the field;
and there were no better men in the
armies of the Union. The gallantry Of
Iowa's soldiers was conspicuous in every
battle, as their endurance and vigor
were in every march. This happy con-
dition of freedom from debt IS due to
the wise and economical administra-
ton which the people of Iowa have in
sisted on, and which their State officers
have been able to give hem. 1t is, IN
deed, an enviable situation, which
other States, groaning under debt and
taxation, may look at with an admiring
eve. Nor States only; individuals can
also appreciate the luxury of owing
nobody a cent. IL is easy to attain
The only requisite is to obey that gol-
den rule, which teaches to live within
your earnings. Let US all try it.
Year: 1868

SIR: 1 am in receipt Of your letter
of the 5th of February, calling my at
tentlon to the correspondence publish
ed in the Chronicle between the Presi-
dent and General Grant, and especially
to that part of it which refers to the
conversation between the President
and General Grant at the Cabinet meet.
ing on the l4th of January, with re-
quest that l would state what was said
in that conversation. In reply l have
the honor to state that l have read
carefully the correspondence in ques-
Year: 1868

CURE OF CRoUP.-An exchange, refer
ring to the fact of doctor in Heidel-
burg and two of his assistants having
died of Group in consequence Of suck
ing the blood flowing during success
full operation of tracheotomy, stated
that the disease is always durable by a
very simple remedy, even when the
patient is on the verge of sutfocation.
This consists, first, in applying water
to the throat by means of a sponge OF
soft cloth, so hot as to be very painful
to the hand OF the operator, instant re-
lief being usually afforded After this
has been continued fifteen to thirty
minutes, a poultice Of hnseed meal,
rolled up in a cloth, is to be applied
while very hot, and left on for some
time. The remedies are to be repeated
should the attack return; but the wri-
ter states that after long experience
he has never known them to fail.
Year: 1868

The ABsURDITT OF DRINEING.-It has
become a sort of popular-almost na-
tional faith-that it is not possible to be
truly happy unless you drink. Among
certain classes-and they are by no
means exclusively the lowest-drink is
the beginning and end of everything.
The very name of liquor is held to be
synonymous with enjoyment, and the
dearer the liquor the more it is priced
ana coveted. Yet every man who Is
not a downright drunkard is wen
aware that the pleasures of drinking
are, beyond a certain point, a mockery,
q delusion and snare. put it to one
who has stood half the night at g bar,
or sat half the night in club room,
drinking, smoking and bandying reck-
less talk, if the enjoyment of such an
evening has been like that of a few
quiet hours spent at home with a book
or newspaper? The evil influence of
tavern pleasures on the health is too
obvious to be denied by any one, and
the ill1sory nature Of the pleasures
themselves would be undeniable also,
if the persons who indulgein them did
HO6 ucCeAf0 tAou1SSAh6S dAlu pun bAO
truth out of sight.


No one ever brought any good out of
drinking bout yet. 1t is a short,
feVerish spasm of animal enjoyment,
which leaves nothing behind but
mOroseness, regret, bad temper, self
reproach and headache. l should like
to ask you, sir, if you say your prayers
when you come home in that state ?
No-you don't. You are ashamed to
say them. You postpone them until
you have purged yourself, your mind
and your lips by more sober and ration
al behavior. Next night when you
pass the hours quietly at home with a
book or a friend, you feel that you
have had real enjoyment, and that the
time has passed pleasantly; that you
havo learned something and that you
have not injured your health. You are
not ashamed to say your prayers, and
you get up next morning with a clear
head, a good appetite, and an increased
faculty for work an enjoyment of life.
All the Year around
Year: 1868

From the Indianapolis journal, june 3.


A cattle disease of unusual virulence and
fatality has broken out in the Northeastern
part of TppecanOe county, of which, as it
seems to be contagious, and may prove
second 'rinderpest" we give the following
account from the Lafayette Journal:


A terrible and fatal epidemic has broken
out among the COWS in the Northeastern
part of this county, and they are dying off
very rapidly. About one-third Of the cows
in the neighborhood of the Wild Cat an d
North of the city, have died within ten
days past, and several have died in the city
proper. The disease is rapid in its effects
1.-The animals being apparently we'll in the
morning and before night are dead, in
many instances dropping down by the road
side, within an hour or two after milking.
The first symptom noticeable is a stiaen-
ing of the limbs and an inability to walk,
after which death speedily ensues. After
death the body swells very rapidly, and be-
comes very offensive, a green, sickeniHg-
smelling fluid Oozing from the mouth and
nostrils The same disease is also thinning
on the stock in several parts Of Illinois.
Numerous examinations have been made,
but they throw no light upon the cause Of
the disease, qnd up to this time no remedy
has been discovered.
Year: 1868

upon the central fires, to be followed, for


aught we know, by an explosion that shall


rend it apart, and send the fragments
careering through space as small planets or
meteors, each bearing of some distracted
member or members of the human family,
to make, perchance, new discoveries and
new acquaintance in other parts of the
planetary system now revolving with us.
So that the final catastrophe may, after all,
be only a boiler explosion OF magnificent
scale Of grandeur and destruction
Year: 1868

The total result, therefore, of our fnan-
cial operations for May is 10 add about
three and half millions of gold interest to
our annual indebtedness. Our cnrreney-
bearing interest debt we have reduced in
about the same proportion. The object of
the Secretary and of the Radical Congress
Is 10 take up as fast as possible all the
debt that bears no interest, and all the debt
that bears currency interest, and convert it
into gOld-bearing interest debt, which in-
terest is about forty per cent. above what
the interest would be in currency. There
is financial talent for you. IS l..as .1a.


But this is not all. The Treasury has
nearly ST., 100000 more Of gold this month
than it had last month. Many people
would have supposed that it would have
been better to have taken this seventeen
millions, that is now lying idle in the
Treasury, drawing no interest, and em-
plOyed it in taking up fve-twenty bonds
upon which we are paying six per cent
gold interest. There would have been in
this little transaction saving of million
of dollars in gold year, in the shape of
interest on the bonds, But such an item is
not thought to amount TO anything by the
Radical fnsnciers in Congress, who con-
troll the Secretary OF the Treasury. While
we have got sixteen millions of dollars in
gold in the Treasury more than we had last
month, We have called in aud burned up
over eleven millions of dollars in currency,
that was costing the government no inter-
est whatever. But money was thought to
be too plenty now by the wiseacres in
Washington, and hence they have adopted
this policy of making it scarcer, and pro-
ducing a stringency in the times. The
points of our national financial policy may
be briefly recapitulated as follows:
]. Increase of the gold debt, and gold
interest upon it.


2. Extinguish all indebtedness that
draws no interest, or is payable in cur
rency. -...- .....


3. Accumulate an enormouns amount of
gold in the Treasury, to be kept idle, and
Tor which the government receives no in
terest.


4. Call in and destroy the greenbacks, in
order 10 make money tight, with its cor
responding correlatiYes Of depressed busi-
ness and hard times.


This, we repeat, is the policy at Wash
| ington. 1t is the policy of the Secretary
Of the Treasury, 1t is the policy OF the
Radical Congress-, which, by law, has
authorized the Secretary TO adopt it. 1t is
the policy Of the Chicago Convention which
nominated Grant. 1t is a policy to i'm
poverish the country. 1t is a policy that
is opposed to reason and common sense.
II is policy which, if it was pursued by
private individual, in the management OF
an estate, as guardian or administrator,
would justify the wards or heirs in resort
ing to legal proceedings to stop such squan-
dering of their patrimony. An individual
who would manage his own estate in this
manner would be considered ft subject
for the lunatic asylum. -.
Year: 1868

mind. As he swept her swiftly by the stoo
on which he had left the jar of liquid, she
grasped it with both hands and quick as q
flash of lightning, tearing the wax from the
cover, poured hall. the contents upon the feet
of the dwarf.


Intent upon taking her life, the demon had
failed to notice her movement. and the first
intimation he received of the fatal act, was
the burning of the liquid through the thin
texture of his stockings. With howl OF
pain. he loosened bis hold on Abilene, and
fell to the floor in terrible agony. A teaspoon
.ful of it would have caused painless death
but half-pint of it caused unutterable agony.
His slippers were filled with it, and he
writhed and groaned and at last lay quiet.


Abilene stood by, and watched the dying
agony of the dwarf, and when all was still,
she approached the body to obtain a key from
the pocket of the loose sacque. As she par
TALLY turned the body, to enable her TO reach
the pocket, she said, bitterly:


{" You spared my life to avenge those of
your victims"


The dwarf sprang up in a moment, crying:


Who says ayenge?' All, Abilene |!
Athlenel


He grssped her dress; his bony fingers
clutched her arm, and he dragged her to the
floor, and tearing from her proud head, q
handful of dark hair, he fell back dead


Abilene disengaged her dress from his
death clasp, and moved to the other side of
the room. The key of the door was yet in
the dwarf's pocket, and she feared to attempt
to obtain possession of it, lest he should again
revive upon being moved.


After awhile she ventured to make the eff
fort. First moving the body with long stick,
she found that he was really dead, and then
hastened to obtain possession of the key. She
locked the door upon the outside, aud went
to her room. until nighttall, when, incredible
as it may seem, she returned to the room, and
dragged the body to the back staircase, where
she allowed it to fall to the room below. As
there were no servants IL that part of the
house, she felt no fear of detection, and BY
great exertion, she succeeded II dragging it
to the edge of pool, a short distance from
the house, where she pushed him n.


The body was found shortly alter, but as
there were no marks of violence upon it, all
who knew anything OF the affair, suppose he
had fallen into the pond accidentally and was
drowned.


After disposing of the body, Abilene re-
paired again to the room of the dwarf, and
carefully securing the remaining portion of
the mixture in the jar, bottled, and sealed it,
thinking that it might serve her at some fu-
ture time. Severing curl of the beautiful
hair OF her dead mother, she locked the doors
for. the time but shortly after had them re-
moved, and the spaces filled with masonry.
The room was thus inaccessible, and her Sc
cret was safe. In few weeks she had sold
her estates, collected her wealth, and left the
city in pursuance of her plans.


To De CONTINUED.
Year: 1868

vHyHE COURIER has entered on the sixty
4 sixth year of its publication. During this
long period of its existence, despite tho mutations
of fortune and time, it has been literally sup
ported, whilst many of its contemporaries have
been compelled to succumb to financial necessities
We gratefully record this evidence OF the appIe-
citation of our own, and the efforts of our prede-
ccssors, to make it THAT it is, and always has
been, ONE AMONG THE LEADING COM;
MERCIAL AND NEWS JOURNALS OF THE
SOUTH, and will renew our exertions to ada TO
its acceptability to tho public, as we'll as to place
it easily within the reach of all who desire
FIRST CLASS CHEAP PAPER.


In furtherance of this purpose we now issue
the Daily and Tri- Weekly Courier to our Sub
scribers, at the rate os eight and four dollars per
annum respectively.


Our purpose is to furnish n first class paper
upon the most reasonable living prices.


Charleston, ian 20 tt
Year: 1868

PendIcton and vallandigham Types Of


Western Politicians and Statesmen.


Into the head of man like Pendleton tho
spirit of the age, the IDEAS the progress, the
vital movement, the things that give the time
its peculiar character, cannot enter. He Is Q
partisan and adheres to the ideas that were
instilled by party association and were party
gospel; and though the party that lived On the
ideas be dead and gone, though the issues
from which the ideas received shape have
passed away, he holds the ideas still, and
handles them and mumbles over them, and
twaddles and twaddes with the iteration OF
fatuity-the very impersonation of the genius
who brought bit of broken stone from the
Acropolis to witness for the greatness OF
Athens-the genius, power and poetry Of
Grecian life.


Mr. Pendleton does not even understand
that great agent of the social and political
life of the time in which he lives, the press.
In the letter we recently gave in regard to
his opinions in view of his present promi
nence was well exhibited the timid awk-
wardness of the man taken outside of his
party rut. Our correspondent acting on all
the forms and amenities of Intercourse, en-
deavored to draw his opinions for publica-
tion He had no opinions. 1t was, more
over, revolving to him to speak through the
press-that is to say, revolving to speak by the
only means that can give him access to the
whole mass of the American people, and the
only means that can present his thoughts in
circumstances in which the people can con-
slider them with deliberate leisure. His
opinion, however, came by dribbes through
his friends, who were disposed to give them
freely to the tenth cousin. And what were
the opinions thus treasured They are all
summed up on one point-the fve-twenties,
simply a howl about the payment Of the five
twenties. As to the great war and it's prtn-
ciples and consequences, nothing but much
about the fve-twenties AS to the national
debt even, and its true character and tho
proper provisions, quite as little, save the part
that stands in the five-twenties. He is simply
the statesman of the five-twenties, who to any
living issue ON any point aside from his fossil
democracy can return no answer but that
financial howl


Vallandigham seems to be man of more
thought, man more in sympathy with tho
time, and he discussed the situation freely and
with acute suggestion. He is, perhaps, the
true leader Of the uncompromising school Of
peace politicians of whom Pendleton is osten-
sibly the representative, and if any Of this
school is to go in Chase's Cabinet it should
be Vallandigham.
Year: 1868

SAVING AT rHR TAP.-By the very small
majority Of four the House of Representa-
tives yesterday reconsidered the vote by
which the joint resolution was passed
giving twenty per cent additional oompensa-
tlon to the department employees at the capital,
and, on motion, laid the resolution on the
table. As this saves 10 the government be-
tween one and two millions per annum, and as
this also is the first occasion that we can
remember on which our present Congress has
been attacked with 6t of economy, we must
congratulate the country on the result Of the
vote. Considering with what sublime disre-
gard Of the taxpayers feelings leakages have
been permitted at the bung, we trust that this
latter day caution and saving at the tap will
not materially injure the health or trouble the
conscenccs Of our Representatives.