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Year: 1860

A child was playing with some build
ing blocks, and as the mimic castle rose
before his eyes in graceful proportions,
a new pleasure swelled in his, heart.
He felt himself to be the creator of a
"thing of beauty" and was conscious
of new born power. Arch, wall, but
tress, gateway, draw-bridge, lofty-tow-
er and battlement, were all the work of
his hands. He was in wonder at his
own skill in thus creating, from an un-
seemly pile of blocks, structure of
such rare design.


Silently he stood and gazed upon his
castle with something of the pride Of
an architect who sees, after months
and years of skillfully applied labor,
some grand conception in his art, en-
bodied in his imperishable stone. Then
he moved around, viewing it on every
side. 1t did not seem to him toy,
reaching only few inches in height,
and covering but square Moot of
ground, but a real castle, itself hun
dreds of feet upwards to the blue sky,
and spreading wide upon the earth its
ample foundations. AS the idea grew
more and more perfect, his strange
pleasure increased. Now he stood
with folded arms, wrapped in the over
mastering ilusion-now walked slowly
around, viewing the structure on all
sides, and noting every minute particu-
lar, and now sat down and bent over it
with the fondness of mother bending
over her child. Again he arose, pur-
posing to obtain another and more dis
tinctive view of his work. But his
foot struck against one of the buttress-
es, and instantly, with crash, wall,
tower, and battlement fell in hopeless
ruin.


In the room, with the boy, sat his
father, reading. The crash disturbed
him; and he uttered sharp, angry re-
buke; glancing for moment toward
the startled child, and then returning
his eyes to the attractive pages before
him, unconscious of the shadow he had
cast upon the heart of his child. Tears
came into those fair blue orbs dancing
i'm light a moment before. From the
frowning face of his father to which his
glance was suddenly turned, the child
looked back to the shapeless ruins OF


his castle. Is it any wonder that he


bowed his face in silence upon them and


wet them with his tears?


For more than FIVE minutes he sal
still, as if sleeping then in mournfu
kind of way, yet almost noiselessly, he
commenced restoring to the box, from
, which he had taken them, the many


shaped pieces that, ftly joined togeth


er, had grown into a noble building


After the box was filed, he replaced
. the cover, and laid it carefully upon ;
shelf in the closet


Poor child The shadow was deer
one, and long in passing away. Hi
,. mother found him half an hour after
: wards asleep on the floor with cheeks
+ f1ushed to an unusual brightness. Sh'
t knew nothing of that troubled passag,
, in his young life; and the father hat


forgotten, in the attraction of the bool


he had read, the momentary annoyance


expressed in the words and tone, witt
: power in them to shadow the hear
, of his child.


E E A young wife had busted herself TO
n many days in preparing pleasant SUI
+ prise for her husband. The work wa
finished at last, and now she awaite


his return, with a heart full of war;


emotions. A dressing gown, a pair 9
Year: 1860

A young wife had busted herself for
many days in preparing pleasant sur
prise for her husband. The work was
finished at last, and now she awaited
his return, with a heart full Of warm
emotions. A dressing gown, pair of
Year: 1860

sNew IN sosfH GaHeIfsA.-fn the early part OF
the present month snow fell 10 the depth Of three
inches in nearly every part Of South Carolina. and
ponds were frozen over sufficiently strong to bear
mans weight.
Year: 1860

Sec. /. 1t shall be the duty of the
supervisors of each township in said
county, and of all the overseers of high
ways in each and every township in said
county, TO cause all the Canada Thistles
in their respective townships to be de-
stroyed, as hereinafter provided.


Sec. 2. Whenever any supervisor
shall know that Canada Thistles are
growing within his township, or he shall
be notified of the fact, by any freeholder
making the complaint verified by his
oath, it shall be his duty to 60 forthwith
to the place and notify the owner or oc-
cupant (if known and to be found with
in the county,) to destroy the same, by
cutting them off at least two inches be-
low the surface of the ground on which
they are growing, once in every two
weeks, from the first day of March TO
the first day of November, in each year.


Sec. 8. In case tho owner or occn-
pant of the land upon which the Canada
Thistles are growing shall neglect to de-
stroy the same within six days after be-
ing notified by the supervisor, or in case
said Thistles shall be growing in the pub
lie highway, or on nonresident govern
ment lands, it shall be the duty of the
supervisor to destroy the same in the
manner specified in section two, at the
expense of the township.


SEC. A. If the owner or occupant of
lands upon which Canada Thistles are
growing shall, after receiving six days no.
tice from the supervisor, neglect to de-
stroy them, he shall be liable to fine of
three dollars. In case any person shall
attempt to hinder or prevent the super
visor, or any other person under his di-
rection, from entering upon lands, or de-
stroying Thistles, in the manner specified,
he shall be liable to fine not less than
five nor moro than fifteen dollars.


Sec. 5. In case any supervisor shall
neglect the duties imposed upon him by
this act, he shall be liable 10 fine of
five dollars for each neglect, upon the
complaint of any freeholder, under oath,
to the township Treasurer.


SEC. @. All penalties incurred under
this act shall be collected by the super
visor, in behalf of the township, for the
Poor Fund, by suit before any Justice Of
the Peace in said county--but in case of
enforcing penalties against the supervisor,
the Township Treasurer shall appear in
behalf of the township.


Sec. z. This act shall take effect i'm
mediately.


Adopted by a unanimous vote.


And it is hereby ordered that the
Year: 1860

EE- The wife of one of the wealth
lest merchant Princes wore dress, at
the Great Academy of Music Ball, the
three founces of which alone cost thou
sand dollars each. The lace used upon
the dress "only two hundred and fifty
dollars a yardp
Year: 1860

The matter in dispute between the
townships of Crockery and Spring Lake,
with the decision of the Superintendents
Of the County Poor thereon, the same
having been referred back to them for a
further hearing, was again presented and,


On motion, it was


Resolued, That the amount al
lowed by the Superintendents of the
County Poor, in favor of the township
of Spring Lake, and against the town
ship of Crockery, for maintaining pau
per by said township of Spring Lake,
being in all the sum of one hundred and
sixty dollars-said sum 10 be assessed
ON the taxable property of the township
of Crockery the present year, and the
money, when collected, TO be paid TO the
County Treasurer and credited by him
to the township Of Spring Lake. 81


Adopted.


The Superintendents of the County
Poor having rendered some assistance to
James Nolan, presented their account for
the same, asking that it be assessed to
the township of Chester, when,


On motion, il was


Resolved, That no action by the Board
was necessary-as the Circuit Court had
made an order that the sons of said
James Nolan should provide for him.


Adopted.


On motion, the Board adjourned till
o'clock tomorrow morning.
Year: 1860




We observe that some of the Opposition pa
pcrs still charge that Gen. Lane, while member
of the Indiana Legislature, voted for the Wilmot
Proviso. There are several facts, which ought
to be sufficient to prove to them the utter truth
lessness of the charge. In the first place, the
Wilmot Proviso was not introduced into Con-
gress till Gen. Lane had ceased to be member
of the Indiana Legislature. In the second place,
when the resolutions, to which the Opposition
press and orators allude as the Wilmot Proviso,
were introduced into the Legislature, Gen. Lane
had resigned his seat in that body, and was with
our gallant army in Mexico, battling gloriously
to drive back the Mexican invader from the soil
of slaveholding Texas. Either of these facts, If
knorD TO the Opposition editors, would make
them ashamed of publishing a charge so stale,
and lie so often exploded. But it seems to be
the policy ofa large part of the Opposition lead
ers to ignore, as much as possible, everything
which tends to enlghten fine people as to the
true position Of the noble statesmen who arc the
candidates Of the State Rights Democracy
But such action is what might be expected from
party, which, like the dumb beggar-boy with
his printed petition, seeks 10 win sympathy by
pleading lockjaw, whenever speaking out would
injure its prospects Of success
Year: 1860

1t is related of this celebrated King of Mace
don, the most renowned man of ancient times,
that in fit of vain boasting, he undertook to
drink the wine from goblet said to have be-
ISnged to Hercules. The consequence was, he
killed himself If he had lived in thus day, he
would have protracted his life as much as posi-
bic, so as to have the pleasure, every day, oil
feasting on the good things at Reynolds confec-
tonery See advertisement
Year: 1860

N tOOu Law


We understand Superintendent Barney has
ordered the conductors on the Mississippi Cen
tral Railroad to allow no one to take passage for
a negro on said road, without first receiving a
voucher that all is right from some trusty ac-
quaintance. All Southern roads would do well
to follow this praiseworthy example
Year: 1860

We have received one or two copies of the
vicksburg Citizen, under the editorial control of
Col. j. P. Pryor. Col p is an able editor, and
wields both pen and scissors with the skill Of
one who knows how to please the public; but he
cannot effect much in the advocacy of so rheu-
matte, sore-headed concern as the Douglas
party of Mississippi. Pecuniarily we wish the
Citizen the utmost success.
Year: 1860

THE county candidates have been eclipsed dur
ing the past week, by the electoneering exploits
Of the University students. New students never
fail to receive all due attention from those who
are older in the cause. 1t is the good part Of
the many College Societies, that their members
take great pains to see that every new conner is
made to feel at home.
Year: 1860

I AM now offering inducements to purchase Il CTS of Ladies' Fine Summer Dress Goods, in order to reduce my over supply, having a much larger assortment than this market seems to require. which 1 purchased this Spring in the New Orleans market, of the latest and most desirable styles. I have large assortment of Staple Goods, and general assortment of everything usually found in Dry Goods store in Arkansas, all of which I am offering to sell as low as any house in this country and in- tend to sell, sooner or later, in some way, for cash or on credit, to any purchasers who are solvent in Arkansas, and can pay at the end of the year or soon thereafter.

 my26-tf J. H. QUISENBERRY.
Year: 1860

all good citizens, and enforced with
promptness and fidelity by every branch
OF the general government"


Here is the doctrine of Intervention
for the protection of slavery in terrific
res against the ''unfriendly legislation"
Of the people thereof is boldly set forth.
So boldly, indeed, that many of Nr.
Douglas warmest friends seek to deny
the binding force of the resolution on
Year: 1860

ENHE former of the Principal in making Scholars
L Notwithstanding many disadvantages justihes the
pecaton that with his present ample arrangements and
the excellent system of text books used in the School,
to apply themselves to compete for the highest honors in
any institution.


The building is commodious and handsomely furnished
with chairs and desks 1t stands upon emnence beyond
the corporate limits of the town, and near the residence Of
the Principal. Two of the for the
the Literary Society connected with the School The So
ciey already has in its Library considerable number of
we'll selected books and holds its session Friday after
noon of each week


The Scholastic year composed of two terms of twenty
weeks each The Spring term opens the first Monday in
January and the Fall term the second Monday in July of
each year The entire charge for board ard tuition $95


term Payment by cash bond, will be invariably
quired in advance


Application for admission should be made before the
opening of each Term accompanied with the statement of
the age and proficiency of the applicant And it is earnest
hoped that student will apply for admission who does
expect comply cheerul with all the regulations of
the School, and TO discharge every duty faithfully


December l3th-l6-4W.
Year: 1860

Tx AMALGAxArIoS OF There is grow


ing tendency in this age to appropriate the most express
i've words OF other languages and after while to incoI
porac them into our own thus ths word Cephalc which
Is fom the Greek, signfying "foe head is now be-
great Headache remedy, but il will soon be used in
more general way, and the word Oephnlc will become as
common as Eecirotype and many others whose distnc
ton as foreign words has been worn away by common
usage until they seem native and TO the manor born"
Year: 1860

TWENTY MILLIONS oF DOLLARS sAvID.-hr. Spaldng
has sold two millions Of bottles of his eel bratcd Pre-


ared Glue aud il estimated that each bottle at


ast ten dollars worth Of broken furniture thus making
an aggregate of twenty millions OF dollars reclaimed
from total loss by this valuable invention Having made
his Glue household word he proposes to do the
world still greater service by curing ell the aching heads
with his Cephalic Pills, and il they good his
Glue Headaches will soon vanish away like in July.
Year: 1860

GREAT DsCovrEY.-Among the most important of all
the great medical discoveries Of this age may be consd
cred the system Of vaccination for protection from Small
Pcx the Cephac Pill for relief OF Headache, and the
Of Qlnne for the prevention Of Feves, either OF
which is specific whose benefits will be experience
ed by suffering humanity long after their dscoverers are
forgotten.
Year: 1860

E5s~ Did you ever have the Sick Headache2 Do you
entmber the throblng temples the fevered brow, the
Oathng and digust at the sight Of food. How totally
unfit you for pleasure. conversation or study One
of the Cephaic Pills would have relieved You iiom all
the suffering which you then experienced For this and
other purposes You should always have box Of them on
b hInd TO use as occasion requires.
Year: 1860

leap, that sent him head first into snow
bank up to his shoulders. Just at that mo-
ment believe l heard the loudest string of
oaths you can imagine. did not swear. but
thought considerable. Taking off the pack


we again got him righted and went on slid
ingly for sometime. | was congratulating
myself that we would pass the summit with
out any more difficulty, when the horse that
was leading went in. Throwing myself on
the rope attached to his head and giving an
unearthly yell, he arose from the snow like
ghost from trap door. now gave veil
of triumph at my good success; and, would
you believe it. the d-n fool gave Jump
backwards and went into the snow deeper
than ever. kept down my ire, for knew
that | was to blame, first, for yelling before
got out Of the woods" second, for pur-
chasing such horse, and third, for having
any thing to do with him after he was pur-
chased Below him was steep canon in
which ran a swift stream and above was
steep hill You can imagine the danger in
which he was placed. On looking around,
to my surprise every horse was stuck, ex-
cepting one that belonged to a Dutchman


who was bringing up the rear. scrutinized
him closely to see it he showed any pleasure
at our misfortune. Nothing was pictured on
his countenance but uneasiness and impa-
tience on account of delay 1t was well it
was so, for | never in my life felt more like


fighting. | will here let the poor horses rest
so that they will be more able to come out
in my next. Irrs.
Year: 1860

TnE EFFEoTs OF Dissolution IN Ngw ORLEANS
The New Orleans Commercial Bulletin declares that
a breaking up of the Union "would not only cause
the ships TO rot at the lcyee, and bankruptcy and
ruin to follow in the train Of disasters but the real
estate of New Orleans would not be worth twenty
five cents on the dollar To what it now is; cotton
would go down TO such a figure that il would not
pay to cultivate it, aud the pail of general stagna-
ton, the wings of dreary desolation, would rest
upon the land torn by internal dissensions, and
drenched in civil and faternal blood. Mexico q
but a faint picture of what our condition would be
upon gigantic scale"
Year: 1860

II there DO any among us who would wish to
DISSOLVE THE UNION, or to change its republi-
can form, let them stand undisgused as monuments
Of the safety with which error of opinion may be
tolerated. where reason is left free to combat IT,


--JErFERsoN.
Year: 1860

tered under the provisions of this act
that they are now entitled 10 receive
when the same quantity of land is enter
ed with money, one half to be paid by the
person making the application at the
time of SO doing, and the other half on
the issue of the certificate by the person
to whom IL may be Issued Provided,
That nothing contained in this act shall
be construed as to impair or interfere in
any manner whatever with existing pre-
omption rights: And provided further
that all persons who may have filed their
applications for a pre- -emption right prior
to the passage of this act shall be entitled
to all privileges Of this act.
Year: 1860

If we knew the cares and looses


Crowded round our neighbor's way;
five knew the little losses


Surely grevious day by day
Should We then SO often chide him
For his lack of thrift and gain
Leaving on his heart shadow;


Leaving on our lives stainy
Lotus reach within our bosoms,


For he key to other lives,
And with love towards erring nature,
Cherish good that still survives
So that whom our disrobed spirits


Soar to realms of life again,
We may say, Dear Father, judge us
Aswe Judge our fellow men.
Year: 1860

Twas nothing-a mere idle word
From careless lips that fell,
Forgot perhaps, as soon as said,
And purposeless as we'll.
But yet, as on the passing wind


Is borne the the little seed,
Which blooms unheeded, as a flower,


Or as noisome weed
So often will single word,


Unknown, its end fulfill,
And bear, in seed, the flower and fruit
OF actions good or i'll.
Year: 1860




read becomes delighted with newspapers,
because he reads Of names and things
which are very familiar and will make
progress accordingly. A newspaper in one
year is worth quarters schooling TO a
child, and every father must consider that
substantial information is connected with
this advancement. The mother of FAM
ily, having more immediate charge Of a
family, should herself be instructed. A
mind so occupied becomes so fortified
against the ills of llfe, and is braced for
the emergency. Children amused by reads
ing or study, arc of course considered more
easy to manage. How many thoughtless
young men have spent their evenings in
grog shops who ought to have been at
homo reading.


n9.A passer-by asked an i,ishmna
gazing upon fu1eral procession, who was
dead. al can't exactly say" taid he but
/ behave its the jiuileman in the coffin"
Year: 1860

bright CLEANS might already be turned
upon another. This | knew before, and
between the deceittuness of woman, and
the dangers Of war, choose the latter.


hear many Of the volunteers grum.
bling and wishing they were at home
again, and promising themselves that if
they are ever so fortunate as to get back,
thev will never again leave the peaceful
hreslde OF home and friends, to trust their
all to the treacherous waves or the hos
tile foe. But find il different with nv.
self: there is such thing AS "the pleas
ures Of suffering" and have enjoyed it
to some extent. like the excitement of
the camp, and the pleasant perils of the
sea. There is something in it to feed tue
cravings of spirit that longs for adveu,
ture, and lives upon excitement


have never yet regretted leaving the
home of my childhood, and the land of
my birth, to contend with the turmoils
and prvations Of the camp. Although it
seems like hard lot to leave all that
one holds dear in the recolections of the
past, and cast ones self into the midst OF
disease, danger and death. But still there
is latent, undefinable pleasure in it
which can be felt but not expressed.


TO BE CONTINUED.
Year: 1860

AS a weary traveller was vending his
way through the mud, in far West re-.
gion of county, lie discovered young
maiden seated in the door Of small log
house He rode up in front of the house
and asked the girl for drink of water /;
he drank it and she being the first wo.
man he had seen for several days offered
her dime for kiss. The young maid
en- accepted the offer, and received both
the kiss and the dime.


The traveller was about 10 iesume his
journey, but the maid never before hav.
ing seen dime, asked /:


What am ] to do with the dime2


you may use it in any way you wish,
he replied, it is yours


III that's the case, I'll give back the
dime and take another kiss
Year: 1860

A time for all things. The time to leave is when
young lady asks you how the walking is-Erchangc;


When that question is put to us, we always unoeI
with u.s. and offer our arm at once.-Prentsce.
Year: 1860

MARVELLOUS NARRATIvE-A frghtul story, reminding
one of the fabulous history of the three sanards is told
paper published at Colema, Mexico. When Gen. Pue
ba entered the town Of Ago. in September last he
ed forced loan from the people, and share of fell
the curate of the place. party of men went to his dwell


ing and knoc hed at the door there and
they broke n They found in the house, and
about to leave when they heard fghtul proceed
ing from the ground saying " am hungry" After
ful examination, they found movable stone in the floor
and under this stairway leading down to vault,
which entirely dark and had connection with the
air by the staircase and hole that served Ven


atOr In this vault books few articles ct fur


ure, and woman, who had been shut there for egh
When brought into the light she tainted After she had


turned to her sanse thousand questions asked OF
her, to which she replied only that she had been buried in
that vault for eighteen years without gong out lor mo-
menU she had been married and had children by her
husband she knew nothing OF their fate that while i'm
prsoned in the vault she had children by curate
but she knew nothing of what had become Of these Children
and after saying this much became obtnaely silent While
this passing, sergeant of the Peubta Brigade then
present. discovered that this his mother, and
she recognized him as her son. and embraced him. The son
then for his father, who and recognized his wife.
The husband fifteen years ago. imprisoned three years
under the charge of having murdered his Wife, this woman


A SINGULAR CAsE.-The illness of fTheodore Rougeot,
who died in Rome, n. Y, the 24th ult., says the
Utica Telegraph was the most singular we ever heard
Of When thirteen years of age he was taken with in
fammatory rheumatism aud was almost helpless for two
years he then recovered but in two years thereafter ne
was attacked again, and continued entirely helpless and
confined to his bed for eighteen years. There was but
one Joint THAT of one thumb) that he could move
He was obliged to be bosered up in bed il position,
partly in sitting posture for the eighteen years he
could talk and read WELL but could not otherwise stir or
move; his food made very fine and sucked up or
mumbed over in his mouth as his jaws immovea-
BILE he was nothing but skin and bone, yet his appetite
and general health were good. His mind was Clear, his
memory good, and he person OF considerable
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