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The Democratic Watchman.
BELLEFONTE, PA
THE SKEIN
Slip, yes, fillp your skein, my laity,
Over my hands, and wind and n ind
All the while with little pity,
Tangling, tangling heart i. 1 ,1
Kitty! (.yea upon the wool'
Not on ins, my beautifal '
Now you droop your oyes COMpletelY,
Winding, winding titeitiily;
herefore, wherefore %nide au aweelly
On it thing that cannot See
If you mostrinile, smile thin way—
will hear It an I may,
'tit? the reinitool finger% ttittinti
about the colored hell. -
flow my heertjiesei. tone while tintiog!
EOM I try to Fear ft MI
Kitty, do yen knew or ear. ,
Ifs toy heart yottee wind
K Illy, I mn Inn IliPloll'
All the world to mint loth Ily,
tlnly in smith. Elysian,
tittle fairy finger. tly, ,
`Aurely, If they Iht too neat,
I rhutil catch and it Is. , theist. dear
'fongled To
put tint, fret not, K '
'Though Kindly heOr the pout!
For your huger so pretty,
I t make me sin upon
iblgro Mot sell
. Nory. uttpl
T g (natter !Wort ilitti
- . .
Now, 41..1 , me last thread holier+
Sadly room mdalna to
anal thOil .1 . 1/ OW to Illy bawdy
I am bedding llp toy heard
Wind And ado,, I do not etIll•
Hndlo or Goan—mid I null IR at
\h! no (041 /Old .nitek 101 l Nlll.l If
I nn bourn ern kvey 11.1111410 . ,
De you nutter shut poll find It
'lltrobblint non el.,' Ilti.n.'
Tntnile.l. tangle I PIP OW IN:1111
RIMS them free ttgoi
I lent), r/ Ft
(Inc the Drum ICATIL 1111% , ),
RUTTY--A SACKCLOTH AND ASH-
ES FAIR
I ow in thi. nnichlltt,
lieVvr viiefillorietl It befori. I i“11,),
it I ran t get out Of it Th., ...wing
mnrhinr Lu.n u •.v is lily Rat—and then;
Dal you Over !noel• the
l almovt liner impossibility of gol
fing out of a Rut after you have run' in
it for a length of tune You. irrtaiul)
have, if you ever had a decent regard for
the opinions of Mherh—and how easy we
get into almost any Rut I We are sub
a rapid people that we don't stop to take
.fight We are to anxious to get un - il4l
mallet how and we are not particu
lar about the other end. ISie ba,e s o
little time, after wu have arrived at the
mature conclusion that the world is n
clam, to look about UP And not umil
late In tfur day do vie f illy realize the
fact that some how or other we haven't
gone and done it as we proposed
Some, though, more happily constituted
than other, never arrive at that knowl
,'dGe We hoe the different Ruts lying
stretched out before us, all r , turti ng
from the saute station, and running
away, WO louppoie, in the din•, 1.11.1 i w 1•
want to go. And wo never ',op to Ii t"
ourselves properly into any pm tieitltir
one,blit with at whizz—buzz whap4,w4.
run into the moot e.nvenient olio -and
we scarcely ever c back again to the
•terting place Dul you ever observe it?
If it don't Inqiet' to he t h e right Rut,
and it seldom duaw, we go weaving, and
sawing, and twisting, and o r s'iing
like a TVILBS violin out of tube An
the fact that we [burly wear the Rut
tolerably smooth, don't prove that we
were even originally adapted to the
Rut next to it. Not now But there
we are. The more we run in the recur
Rut, the more we can't run in any oth
er. When we get fairly under any
it is hard to reverse. We may he run
into—tun against —and 11111 , 1111 ,, th WhOHIS
knocked out; and our wobbling back
into the same Rut is only a que.tion of
time This hitting the wrong Rut pro
duces wine queer things. We see SUMO
sights that make us laugh very seriously,
and it is a wise provision of Providence
that the more we look about us the more
we see Not applicable . to evert body,
of course Shove over the bolting and .
look : A man good for anything else is
• very poor Leader in Israel's Rut, run
ning easy and with plenty of " play.'
The man who could have learned to con
struct a good covering for your body out
of Jamestown cassimere, is the Rut of a
man whose bustuess it is to regulate the
machinery of a body itself A •wind.
ling, canting hypocrite in the Chrktiaii',-
Rut. The truly good man jostbsi about,
and not in any Rut to speak of A man
pleading for a fellow In the Dock with
whom be should vie. versa Ruts The
intrinsic blackguard in the gentleman's
Rut. The robber and plunderer in the
patriot's Rut. Lust In virtue's Rut,
running free, and the world approving.
And so on, ad injimihsm. Why not ?
Don't you like It? No. Gut botio
Let them Rut.
Carry
• A Legislative Body somewhere, I un
denttand, la about to do a , becoming
thing--for • .I.egislative Body. These
Bodies always do--when they do any
thing for No Body. They very seldom
getout of their Bet. An individual
covered himself all over with well-de,
served odium eighteen or nineteen bun=
fired years ago. The end of his name
next to himself has been used nearly ever
since as a term of reproach. But things
have changed since he last resumed
specie PILVIVOt.....Tho world has become
more uljlin' so ark la he views. Old
tidily have peasonesray, and now
things have got' lane distance in ad
vance of their-nsiliont age. We bale
throWn off all allegiance to the Errtine.
hits Pest. We have emergen from the
miters of ignorance !laid superstition
wsth ssfvne end unruffled phunnge. And
with\such n lovely opinion of ourselves I
S:wve I We know heyPoran doubt taint
all who had the impertinence to cools
into the world before we were ready,
were fools. And we know positivkly,
world does net rest on the backs of four
elephants and a big tortoise 'We know
moil , than tlint, too. lint we won 't
toll. Which , 111 , W8 the 111 . 1W.I'V.1 1 i ir t
Mardi of the lnumin intelfact
This Legislative Body proposes
to pass nn " Enabling Act" In recon
str.ict the memory of this 041511 odious iq l
dividnal. Referred to ab. , Yo As I men
tioned before The Act will be mile
a Supplement to the (inti'm Laws Ow
ing to the tact that the gefil lonian whose
memory it pr0p....e4 toNinth/A. died
game. And, therefore, liNnifter, it
will be n 1110 i Mi , deniennor to speak er
write of the gentleman ill quidion ns
anybody else than phut) .1. i i AnioT
Very well .Ain't we ‘• progre,ive?
1 T idauht,rdli Wo have not loose Wr
fire vit Kr. I 1),, hour 7 We propose
In 5414.1// thing , 1 2;enertilly Or din in
the attempt Why will
Warr v
All suet• or Fiore are prex lONA this
year Ex, ept fair weather
Fair , het r gerierelli re , -nined tie Jl,e 3
generated Born 4gmn Melignant ferm i
\Vhen• they hat e 11/111
loved out of my Rut for a •hurt time
the other night ill it Ft' ighletrhood IS here
Iln•v Ito litinkon time ,pontiine
"*, ",,,I went, to n Saek, loth and
A :hes fair for the le•t cult of a weak lus
ter in ri . 110 1 ;
got 111111, ruin t h ey wanted to her
on my entrance 1 wag greeted with
much sounding, brass and tinkling cym
bals I wa . ,ti l ened I thought, it was
good to In• either a Silent:loth Follower
or a Week Fidel If you It ed In
Pl./ ri lit It W era y. I bid n't know
whore. The whole affair was
111 , 1111 P, in an earthly sense A tlxs
Polyglot showed me around And I
looked around as meth us I could see
fur the 11Q1,0 iind confi.ten I sew
above the end of Ft long table these %lg..
ge.tive word. Ile feedeth the young
Ravens " And right under it Oys
ter supper fat cents." I gut my Ideas
mixed Si) that I couldn't di,tinguish one
from another I Sit Win another place
something about part:eking of the waters
of something freely , without money and
without price I paid Ilfteen cents for
glues id the immediate vicinity And
It wasn't water I wanted at all. lint I
don't coot phtm 1 was directed to a
Post Ofllee It was pre.ided aver by an
angel in front of a large waterfall And
IL wasn't a wet night, either. Over the
office I waived --" Love one another "
Just what I wanted to do Arid I told
her so So I got a letter It wa , n't
franked If it was, silt• forgot to men
tion it. In the letter was written, in
very high key—" Bill t yew glad,l yew
cum a butt--yew won-ide old Plug
Anr4eelinn " I continued •S l ni xed. But
if A oleel inn will let rue know whore
she puts up, I will send her something
to relieve her orthrigraphy No cure—
nu pay She can't go and be a reel an
gel with that kind of a oirrr in her
teeth In another place I notietal above
a group or it sorts of 1 101 1 do -•' What
' shall we do be III) " - something
I couldn't drake it out
And just on the spur of the moment'
without ever thinking, I said to at Sec
ond Birth gentleman who ieeniod to
have it in cluirge, that I didn't know.
lie holed at Me as though a good joke
had escaped frotn somewhere, Liol woo
still rittining sit large. An announce
merit at the upper end of the table that
a Turkey supper could be had for fill
eolith, thanks for all good gifts, restored
me to kny usual oerellie equilibrium I
offered n $1 in currener of the some de
nomination of the Foir When the,,
said ,tbey were Il v i '4.ostry Changers 1
looked tirotrrol, helpless and bewildered
A gentleorm with a very decided Tite
Mu ion.le look, robust his eyes th the
ceiling as though he had art old grudge
at it, and obs that the .bounteous
table before him, t 50 cents a heed, re
minded him ford y of the income par
ablel
of the story of the loaves and ashes
—or Words to that effect. The light
hurt my eyes so that I didn't hear dis
tinctly. 1 asked him if his party inten
ded to run a full ticket at the next elec
tion. He looked blank. The light
seemed to affect his eyes. Aud his
thoughts were apparently (111 hie sub
ject. I excused him. I was conducted
to a Booth by a gentleman thin in flesh,
who looked at the table as though he
was afraid of sharing the fate of the
Apocrypha. I was requested to buy an
oil painting. It was • crude oil peintiog.
I told the young lady who said she
did the oiling that she was' a Model
Ateltst. She remarked, sarcastically,
that she wore clothes, if she knowect her
self, as I might use by looking closely.
And she didn't want the subject re nude.
Would I be kind enough to close up ?
I closed. I barely held my own with
bar. She couldn't beer it. I saw dye
or at; female Daft); Down Wlieye in •
Manor, doing something for the banal-
I reversed and braked up. One of thnm
was resdlitg,' le 'adieu/holy Wiet—
,, Tel, the At tress rejoins at thee, and
thr; cedars of Lebanon, saying, Sines
thou art laid down, no feller is come up
again - st us." I felt sorry for her. Says
I, does your words point to ma? She
didn't say. Says I again, what
feller ? I was ' confused. I
Who laid him down? Show mo the
feller who won't courie up. Am I, fuller
enough for any of you? r And 1 camo
up against tin host looking ono sudden
ly--and stopped. 1 remarked to her,
encouragingly--" Let us 'Nage and Maul
iamb other right away, and get some IL
\Vara Dexter who can make it in 2:171,.
under the saddle, to say for us as Kiel)
as possible 44-. 41, Father, we thank thee
for what these two have been to mull
other''' When n feller with all time
ear marks of it Changed heart -passed
between mm. I hadn't limo to wait fur
her wa s invited to take a
cilium , in a raffle for a P Funk Cane
It WAS intend.] for the most popular
man. " But he couldn't come On ne
count of time or Om young populars he.
trosalsled with too much jani eramp
The cane wits standing alone in unit cor
nea, and near it an unfinished F. Bureau
K nob reposed in fancied security True
to his ni sinnets, he hail crawled in under
the en n v Just shove their bends wal e
written "I If such is the K ingdoin of "
! thought it said —'t Plymouth
Church I ton subject to optical i (lo-
Malmo. I have them bad sometimes
I toll the nearest Sackcloth to earns,'
MO I thin I ivuut to go I took it
chance awl pot IT my ante itt the col.
IcyUon bm z . 'Pitt, drat throw j scared
live 1 wqs encouraged. A well dress
ed Ashes sinpped me on the back and
blandly remarlied that that is its a "but
ly rising throw " 1 arose when 1)01k
his hand off foe The next two Sir.s
I completed thirtoon heads 'When I
was requested tO gis e way for It -
then threw fifteen and beat lime
for High, and went out 1 tlesief keen
ed until after wards that he shad three
pennies with heads on both sides up his
sleeve That set toi to thinking And
I concluded if it twin would dol.ble•
head three pennies - here below, and
thereby endanger his t honeys for getting
to whbre they nc,er turn tads--
Well, that he wasn t going to risk much
un narrow ;mill. I was vexed I got
more tangled then ever But I never
quit eating I couldn't ntford it I
had too eon h hrokri back grivern flint
setup invested And. when I left that
place 1 felt very !ouch like an over
grown man, with two heads, several
arms too many, and toes to spare, in
boys' clothes I baiked nt as much of
myself the ;4 , st morning its I could get
into the glass, and tny tool assembled
with very sugg,:sth eo f the fact that Inrge
quantities 01 oysters on the half shell,
tut key, 6,1.1, twnips and inde-crunitiatto
(like had gone to oily oo.tirface by (oppo
sition ;mites, without change of horse.
At lied oico mint- 1 wotoo bruiting my Root,
WIIII r 1 or) pr0,,11.4 . t of MOCee+s WIIOII
I get back I 11 ~tilt
there, and never go
niia be a Etonneh for anybody again
MEI
C A !MY FOUR
WOMEN'S NAMES
Very few persons, it Ina) be suppos
ed, know the meaning ultheir names,
and just 8,4 may also he auppos
ed, ever took the trouble of trying to
find out. tiliskspeare's inquiry, "What
la in a name ? would take cunsidera
Lible Unite ,t 0 answer 11 the person ivies
Itioneirrilionlil undertake to go over all
the ground it covers. A writer who
has been looking into this nuliject of
11111111,1 has gathered turd published the
lot low ing interesting facts about
the, ..
lii a certain occasion, two French
ambassadors were sent to the spaiiish
eoilit to negotiate a marriage between
one 01 the Castilian princesses and
Louis VIII. The names of the royal
women were ITrrtica and Blanche, the
first of whom was the elder and more
beatiful, and wag intend e d by th e
ruing lor the French King, but the our
hassattors resolutely persisted in their
preference for Blanche, on fiCeollllt of
her name, saying that Urraca. would
net er 110. T hey were Rentable men.
So Blanche wan made queen bPCLIIINe
she had a lair !MUM, arid Blanche was
always fair, if not beautiful. Is there
not something in a name/
Mary. albeit sonic etymologists
translate it Marah, (bitter) is one of
the sweetest as well as commonest
evergiven to women . I prefer to con
sider it an signifying nailed, or, as
another authority h as IL Mut of the .
sea. Maria and *strip (the latter be
ing French) are merely other forms or
the same name, anti, of course, hate
the same meaning.
Mart ha means bitterness, which,
slam! is too often significant of the lot
of.women ; but our Martha, may be
very sweet girls, in spite of the etymol
ogists. •
Anna, Annie, Hannah, and proba
bly Nina and Nancy, are all from the
same root, and signify gracious and
kind, of ahich fact the fair owners of
these cognomens will please to take no
tice and govern themselves according
ly. Jane, now generally familiarized
into Jenny, though differently derived,
has the Maine meaning as the. forego•
Ellen was originally Helen, (Latin
Helena ; French, Helene.) According
,to soine.ety mologista,, it has the mean
Ong ofalluring, while others define it
t
as one who ides. Many a Helen,
since slipot. 14,_ has proved aline ,
ieg,And SOM. 'AVG shown thil hi is
dffe'to Idid. ' ira rs Only • va riation
or•Ellinia • ' ' ' „
For Sarah,. (Hebrew, Bars, or Saris ;
and Arabic, Zara ;) we find two defini
tions—a princess and the morning
star.
Lucy signifies like light j and the
natnq was anciently given to girls born
at darbreak. (Aurora, Aureolia, and
Aurero,) (golden, the dawn or morn
ing redness;) Bertha, (bright) and
Clara,"(elear,) ma' be !grouped with
Lduisn (French, Louise) is the femi
nine of I,OIIIP, and has the meaning of
protector, or one who furnishes a place
of refuge or cif rest.
Fannie, or more formally, Frances,
in frank, or free; Elizabeth (better ns
Lizzie- Isabel and Eliza, true ; and. So
phia, wisdom.)
Cathari.w, or Katherine, derived
Iron; the Greek, Kalinin. (pure or
chaste), is one of the best of all our le
Male !Nunes. It is pretty ip its Irish
modification ; Kathleen, Stud most 'al:
irnetive as Kate.
Caroline, Charlotte, and Charlotta u
are all fetninimt forms of Charles
(Spanish, Carlos; German, Karl,)
which comes (iota the Seim onic Krpl,
a king; and the fair owners of
fine IlarneB SIIOIIN, therefore, be queens
--queens of hearts.
Julia, of which Julietta and didiet,
are simply' diminutives, signifies soft
haired , Harriet, mitdress of the house ;
and Alice, a princes.
Finma should be tender, allection
ate, motherly. The mime Is said lo
signify, literally, one who nurses, cares
lor, or watches over another ; but anoth
er ail - Wormy. translates It industrious.
Smarr signifies a lily, and Is a fitting
tome fir a toll, slender, llowerlike
of tau complexion, and nitti‘v
grave As cotniallinns 11Pr Iles, 1,110111
(1111 hkei and ltdatilina lahitt hie
lid) may he mentioned The last iw".ol
Indian demotion, but might oppio
priotelv gince the litirest of Augiu Sa -
"II 111111111W+
Margaret comes to us irn) Ore [Jinn
lkitirgarrta, a pearl. Hut number, and.
It possible, a still more heauttiol Plight
ham, eurroumly enough, attach
011 itsell to the name. 'l•he trertir.rn
word ;nava, and arrwhrt, which words
were Madge, and
than with Nlargaret. Dairriea Were al
-1.9 called mill/tots, marls or triargaret4,
%Ilrerree we have the French notryrrri
tcx, 11111,1(.6.
Among the beautiful name.; le, Arc
arc : Agnes, cha•le •
Agatha, lotel • Amelia anti Amy (Irmo
Ilse French verb ainier, to hovel, be
loved „k.lt Ime, of noble birth 'lean
or, all Irvulul ; tiertrittic, all ertrth
t;racc, at or , Matilda, a ',rale maid
I•nura, a laurel; radiam, or
light of life, and blith, rich.
B en t, iee wiona who blesses) iir a
sweetly significant name. It in a lit
vorite one in lolly, and Is not entirely
uukuuwn here. It should be more COW
own, and the aawe may be said ul Le
olio, joy, Irene, peace; Lois, good;
Blanche, fair; Mirauda, admirable—
see filialtaiware in the "'rent pest - ) ;
Eye and Eva, life giving or taithful ;
Until, satisfied: and Salome, peaceful
A 'mall is'ol Oriental origin, and sigiii•
lies a virgin. Alma fa Witt the la) ou
Latin, and means benign, emal or one
who nurturer or cherishes. Corn is it
maiden ; diunia, youthful (ever voting
she should lie): and Barbara, strange
or foreign.
The promise of great beauty nut be
ack now ledgeu by such a name as Ma
bel (ma 1,(11( ), my fair one, Amanda,
lovely , Itelienca, of enchanting beauty,
or. best of all, Callao., 1111010, beautiful ;
A imbel (from A nnali, or Hannah, and
;las) signifies kind and beautiful
I have mentioned nevem' floral
names. There nre others which one
might wear an she would a crown of
fragant blosnoms. For instance ; Rove
and Rhoda, a rose, Viola, a violet;
Florence. blooming; Flora, the goddess
of flowers; Olive, the olive tree (or
symbolically, peace); Althea, marsh
mallow ((;reek, 6llhaia , ailhurtno,
heal) , hence, also, very beautifully, at.
well as appropriately, the healer ; and
flowery joy.
I have room for only a tew more out
of the malty that might he offered, but
must mention Minna ; love ; Stella and
Estelle, a star ; Nora (Ilonora I, hon
or ; Evedne, well pleasing ;
{prettier as Milly), honey like; Made
line, magnificent; Theodora, gift of
God ; Pauline, little one; Amoret, lit
tle love, Winnifred (Winny), winning
race ; Una, born in the woods; and
tyna, only one
Manners and Morals
Manners easily and rapidly mature
into morale. As Chihli/00d advances
to manhood, the tralisttion from bud
manners to bad morale in almost im
perceptible. Vulgar anti obscene forms
of speech keep vulgar and obscene ob
jecta before the mind, engender impure
images in the imagination, and make
unlawful desires prurient. From the
prevalent state of the mind actions pro
ceed, as water rises. from a fountain.
fience what was origlirially only a word
or phrase, becomes a thought, is mere
triciously embellished by the imagina
Lion, is inflamed by a vicious desire,
gains strength and bo'dness by being
always made welcome, until at
under some urgent temptation, it da rfe,
for once to put on the visible form tiff
action, it is then ventured upon again
and again, until mire frequently and
less warily, and until repetition forges
the chi insof habit', and then language,
imagination, desire, and habit bind
their victim in the prison house of sin.
Iry this way, profane language wears
sway the reverence for things sacred
and holy, and a child who has been
allowed to follow, and mock, and hoot
at an intemperate man in the streets,
is far more likely to become intemper
ate h I msel f than if hell(' been accus
tomed to regard him with sacred abhor
rence, as use self brtitilled or demon.
iced. So on the other hand, purity
and chasteness of language tend to pre
stave purity and ohs/tenses of thought
,and taate t they repel licentious imag
'Wings, delight ia.the upeallied and un.
triinted, and all their tendencies and
aptitudes are on the aide of virtue,
THE FALSE NOTE
UT ALIO!. CART
N T i r e nor near grew shrub nor (ree—
f bare hills stood up bleak behind
And In between the mars)) welds gray
Herne loony-erusled sand-drift lay
Opening a paths ay to the sea
The which I took to please my mind.
In full eight of the open seas
A patch of flowers I ehaneed to It ml,
As if the May being thereabout
Ilad from her apron spilled them out,
And there I lay And took my ease 4 ,
And made a song to please my mind.
Oet bed ! tf you should Into full long
A nweetet you will never (Ind,
Some flown n wore rod And POMO 111,10 while
And in their low 111111 tendon light
1 reed tinted on my .toutt,
Fitting the tomtit. to plow my mind.
Notno eon-trawls on Me sands upthrown,
And left the] e by rho %smarm wind,
With lips nil outlet] in honotewk pout
For tho old mothers Innis again
!noted une,ond to their plteou“ moan,.
set the 111111, IA please my mitpl.
llul now I would 104 cry truth
The towel K I had no; chant od to find,
Nor 1%111 Sp , Cit led teltVOM along,
Nor tint In that owl tune my tong,
Fair that which plcnrcd my cycle , . youth
11 hilleth now to plentio my mind.
And thin thing l do know for trite—
A truer yon a 111 neve. find,
No InHte stop e'er en 11g1.1.1y rung
Itid Mut Nome echo gll tog totogne
111.1 like it hound lilt lie urtioo
I s lit it the world wall lelt behind.
Life in South Caroltna---An Inside
View of Affairs---Wh'o Rule the
Roast---Pleasure• of Negro Supre
macy.
The following pa agraphs toe from it
private leper %%111101 toll ilo-Dognislied
Democrat of this city by n pm ate gen
denim), a re-olletit of South t'aroloia.
The Legudadioe nI Ihi., Sratc i. how
sitting lowing iii at rct en
tv-tire negrov , , being two thud. of the
jt hole 'number, the other thud w :Haile
of Iv oulier. loon w rui;ll
up 1 / t t
carpet htt,..geis, as Hoy lire calk.' here
!tilt down as It hoe in the catalogue,
but, if their deed• ate to mark their
true color, titer are an black an the
blitekek
...TheNe men are recent t outer. in the
State. They have not the remotest
intere.t in the South, co•ept ao Inv ae
they ('an etnieli thentselt e. hr 'Timmy°
lizing all the otneeH. 'they lir e
ally with the urgroes, dint (lots are
sent by their voter; to the Le:41,11011re, a
eeri‘iiii number tot chore?! 1111:11 being
put On the ticket with them, an many
as may be neemi‘try to pace juet such
line tie they will dictate anti? time tu
time, to enable them io carr) on their
nefltriyiin purpw , cu.
You can niell imagine how :t Chalet,
the citizen of the once proud Stale 01
South 'arolina to see se%ciity 11%e lie
(4roes, field handl+, many of them so
ignorant they can neither rind nor
write, making 'awe, under ,Imtation of
the liniheal party to govern their runner
masters, On 1 h./ ritar dieted, occupying
the smite seals that I hale ncen in
other dap, filled by Calliunii, Inm ates,
Pinckney, Mrkitlie, Harper, Preston,
Ikgare, Haytie, Hamilton; Clieves,
Rutter, Handing:id. l'etigru, Earl,
11 :s; ivl, lon, Dews and man) others ot
%%ell rcinealLered faint.
I mind give you Home ilea a the dig
nilird uor in which IMINIIII`SN in 0011
OCVLbittri ly done in our Legit.,'store.
til
Vie °the dot) a went! coin puny dented
l'olumbia. As 41 usual 11l other placee,
it paraded through the drecte in the
morning of the night fixed lor the first
performance. As the c ,valcanle ap
proached the State Ilniuse, %%Ilene "the
an , endiled nisdow of the Stale' acre
deliberating on the deetint of the grave
and ret erend ineigners, one of our noble
arid approved good 111`.stern, hearing
"the shrill trump, the spirit stirring
drum, the ear piercing file," could not
restrain binned', so rising in hie place,
addressed the Speaker thus (as a repot ,
ter tAtileti):
"1 say, tie [Mow Is coming. 1 moves
do , here remolution--,lat dit , honorable
body 'novel to the lei/ulna, to see de show
The motion wan carried of course,
nanine contrad tcente, and the members
of the Legislature of the proud State of
South Carolina, with one consent, im
mediately moved to the windows "to
nee de bliOW page Such n burlesque
on the name of government an may
daily he witnessed in •cur State, the his
tory of the world curt produce no paral
lel to.
I roust not omit to remark that so
thoroughly has the Radical party con•
trived to carry out its plans, and to
possess linen of sovereign away, that
not an office in the State worth having
is held by a South Carolinian. New
England men have appropriated all the
influential offices—the governor, lieu
tenant governor, treasurer, controller,
attorney general, the judges , senators
iii congress, and members of congress,
the collector of the port, assistant col
lector (a negro), the mayor of Charles
ton, the city attorney. and other offices,
too numerous to mention, are filled by
men who , emigrated from New England.
to profit by reconstruction after the
war, or rather, more properly
from the destruction that follow teY
peace.
The principal authorities of the State
are daily denounced loudly by the
press, and it seems they cannot deny
the charge that they are taking *dean
tage of their official stations ' to be
movers in certain iransactionsby which
they are filling their pockets at the cost
of the poor tar-payer, acting upon the
hint given by logo Roderigo, "Put
money in thy puree, honestly ifyou can,
but put money in thy purse."
In addition to this, the poor ignorant'
negro legislator by way of letting him
comb in for a s hare of the plunder, is
put up to estimate his serime higher'
than did the educated men who stopC
in their day, sewed to none In the
councils of the nation, not only having
the effrontery to vote a doubliper diem
allowance for themselves, bet to pro
vide for its payment, in gold and In itch
vance..
Thd Imposition 'of our carpetbag
itovecramentexceirdsOrdinary endure hoe
—What is to bogus end I -know mot.
°Primed
,lib• South is by aim*
we cannot eontrni, and astddened MI we
au by the memory of the past, how low
we have Nilluin from our once high 4*
tate, we cannot look with n. conti:lent
spirit from the present to .
the itunre
It is, indeed, night—ada.rk night-041;
us; so rayless, loo k Wily I „ in
I cannot discern in any direction ta r
f a i n t es t gleam of the comin g lily,
believe the only hope srmamin g for th e
South—the down•trZtldeh, Insulted
South—to mei* from the potent inth,.
cecea ofthepolitital !Mitering to whorl,
we are now so.mercilestity subjected I,
by the triumph of the Demomatie p ar.
ty.—Thero must be a strong, united el
fort, then, at the next election to achi eve
"a consiimmation so devoutly to h e
wished."—New York World.
Stick to your Bush..
Mr. Morgan was a rich and alsu a
good man. The people of the los s
respected him. sent him to Parlimtunt,
and seldom undertook anything with
out milting his advice. If n selupd
house Wati to be latirt, the plan had i„
Lie talked over with him, Wido w p
ranked him what are should plant
in her field ; Farmer
got his advice in buying cattle ;
Mrs. It consulted him shout
bringing up her boys.
When naked lrow he WITH PO 91IreP"
fill, Mr. Morgan maid : " I will tra,
how it ‘ylitt. One dav; when I
lad, it In v of hove and girla neie
Mg ton distant pilaf lire to joie', a her
tlelterriem, I wanted to go with item,
lout Was fearful that my lather in, 111,1
!iot let me. When 1 told him Tiloat
Wan going on, and he itt ()nee pave mr
permisaien Co go with them, I (mild
hanlly et,11.11111 nitarll with py :0,1
rit,4l,A 11110 the hitchen and got
a Lip
basket, and nal,e.l toothy, f,,r „ line, C.
con. I had the leial,et on ore fir111,:1,14
„a„, In Ihr gate, when an
tallier called nu' hark. Ile tool,
of my Itan4 and Haul, iii a ten gently,
"Jorrrli. afoot !Ur t 71.11
Mr, to Tile!, Lenora nr I ?
pick lierriett, " I replied "Then
aepli, 1 want to tell Noll ,The thing, Ii
is this, when %on lied a melte ceod
tonal', do not leave it to Mel n 1,411, r
one The other boygirl+Ti iii r,lll
about, picking a little here and a l itt l e
there, wasting a great 411.11 Of :Mil
not getting many la rries II %en do
am they do, you will rome hole,
Ile empty liasket. I rpm want be rr ,.
Rtich tie your busli.—
"I in ent with the party, and hat
n capital time But it uns
t her said. No sooner hail one fon d a
jpiod Welt than he called all the re L
ILlid they left dirk several H id
tanMr to the new fittinilt re:inure Vi
content more 1111111 a minute or two o,
one place, they rambled over the %%lc',
pasture, got cry tired, and at eight
had very few berries. Nly latlior.
words kept running in my ears. and I
"stuck to my bush." When I
with one I found another, and
Thal, then I took another. - 1% litil
night came I hind a large lini-kettill
berries more than all the other. put
together, and vino not ball' so tired ail
Me ) were. I went home happy. Hot
when I entered I found toy.father liail
been taken ill. He took my bashemil
of Hre hint k berries, and said
done, .loseph. Was it not just io I
told ton? Always stuck to your husk
"Ile died a few days after, and I liar
to inake my own way in the it u 1,l .i•
best I could. lint my father's lion!•
sunk deep into my mind, and 1 hoer
forgot the experience of the w !lonic
!wiry party, I "stuck to toy bush
When I hail a fair place, and was do
hug tolerably well, I did not !cone it
and spend weeks anti months laid
trig one a little better. When other
young me nil . with 1,, toot
we will mate a fortune in a few weir,
"I shook my head and "stuck to inn
bush." Presently my employers of
feted to take rue into business %nail
them. I stayed with the old bowie
until the principals died, and then I had
everything I wanted. The habit of
sticking to my business led people to
trust me, anti gave the a character I
owe all I have and ant to this motto
ritick to your bush."—Burat .N 4
Yorker.
Truthful end Obedient
"Charlie 'Charlie I" Clear and feat
as a note struck trom a silver bell, the
voice repl ed over the common
"That's mother," cried one of the
boys and he instantly threw down lee
bat and picked up hes jacket arid cap
"Don't go yet." "Have it oral"
'Finish this game l" "Try it awn"
cried the playere, is noisy chorus.
"I must go--right off—this very 111111
ute. I told her I'd come whenever she
called." "Make believe you didn't
hear I" they all exclaimed. .
"But I did hear IV
"Sbe don't know you did."
"But I know it. and—"
"Let him go," said a bystander.
"You can't do any thing with bin)
I n ie's tied to hie mother's apromstring."
. 4 *That's I" said Charlie; "and it's
to what every boy ought to be tied;
and in a hard knot too."
"But I woulthet be such a baby ent
to run the minute she called," said one.
"I don't call it babyish to keep one's
word to hie mother," answered the obe•
dient boy, a, beautiful light glowing ie
his blue era. I call et manly; and
the be, wlto don't keep his word tether
will never keep it to any one else—you
dee 'rho does I and he hurried away 1.0
his4otlagie home. Thirty years have
passed since these boys played ball Oa
the common,. Charles Grey is now a
prosperous business man in a great city,
and his mercanpile friends say to him
that "his word is as good as a bond."
We asked him onoehow he acquired
et* a reputation.
Atioording to a .414 In the Alabama
Legislatufto, arehlteitedes, except on the
pert of roettibstrithireO to be a pee•
itentir
ni44'lllA" '4 OO 'Out to hunt
eggs i th,own r i p that she did
9ot tab, as t ere were several hque
setandixig , about 1141:wilting.'